Harry B. Whall
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Harry Bertram Whall was born in Dorchester in 1868 to Charles and Mary Whall. Charles was an expressman, a person who collects and delivers goods. Mary, was a milliner, a hat maker.
In the early 1890s, Whall lived in Lower Mills, then moved to 300 Ashmont St. for a few years and later moved to 389 Ashmont St., in the section of the street between Burgoyne Street and Adams Street.
Harry Whall worked in real estate, though starting in 1900, he was listed for a few years as the president of the U.S. Steel Company, possibly located in Everett (not the U.S. Steel that was formed by Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Charles Schwab and Elbert H. Gary in 1901).
Whall’s advertisements with houses for sale were common in the Boston newspapers of his day.
Whall was prominent in public affairs, serving two years in the Common Council of Boston, and he represented the twenty-fourth Suffolk District in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1899 and 1900.
In 1895, Whall married Fannie Longfellow Baldwin. By 1910, Harry and Fannie must have divorced, because Fannie was not listed at 389 Ashmont St. in the 1910 U.S. Census. Fannie died in 1917.
Whall married Lillian Clarry in 1914.
He died in 1920, leaving his wife and a four-year-old daughter.