Boston Globe, 28 November 1924, page 9.
MRS. EDWARD S. GREW OF BACK BAY DIES.
Was Mother of the Under Secretary of State.
Mrs. Edward S. Grew, mother of Under Secretary of State, Joseph S. Grew, died at her home at 185 Marlboro Street, yesterday. She had been ill for a few weeks. Mrs. Grew was 81 and had lived in her Marlboro Street house for the last 40 years.
Her late husband had been a member of the old Boston wholesale dry goods firm of Gowing & Grew, and just before his death in 1916 was of Lawrence & Co.
Mrs. Grew was Annie Crawford Clark before her marriage. She was born in Milton. Her father, Joseph W. Clark, was prominently identified with Northwestern mining interests two generations ago. Her mother was a Rhode Island Quaker.
Mrs. Grew was a member of the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. She had an estate known as "All Oaks" at West Manchester, where she spent her summers for many years. For much of her life she was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Newbury Street, and had latterly been attached to Trinity Church parish.
Beside the Under Secretary of State, she is survived by two other sons, Randolph C. and Henry S. Grew; by one daughter, Miss Eleanor J. Grew and a sister, Mrs. Courtland Hoppin of Pomfret, Conn.
Boston Globe, 28 November 1924, page 9.
MRS. EDWARD S. GREW OF BACK BAY DIES.
Was Mother of the Under Secretary of State.
Mrs. Edward S. Grew, mother of Under Secretary of State, Joseph S. Grew, died at her home at 185 Marlboro Street, yesterday. She had been ill for a few weeks. Mrs. Grew was 81 and had lived in her Marlboro Street house for the last 40 years.
Her late husband had been a member of the old Boston wholesale dry goods firm of Gowing & Grew, and just before his death in 1916 was of Lawrence & Co.
Mrs. Grew was Annie Crawford Clark before her marriage. She was born in Milton. Her father, Joseph W. Clark, was prominently identified with Northwestern mining interests two generations ago. Her mother was a Rhode Island Quaker.
Mrs. Grew was a member of the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. She had an estate known as "All Oaks" at West Manchester, where she spent her summers for many years. For much of her life she was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Newbury Street, and had latterly been attached to Trinity Church parish.
Beside the Under Secretary of State, she is survived by two other sons, Randolph C. and Henry S. Grew; by one daughter, Miss Eleanor J. Grew and a sister, Mrs. Courtland Hoppin of Pomfret, Conn.
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