Harold Jefferson Coolidge Sr.

Harold Jefferson Coolidge (January 22, 1870 – July 31, 1934)[1][2] was an American lawyer. He was the brother of Archibald Cary Coolidge[3] and father of Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr.[1]

Harold Jefferson Coolidge
Born(1870-01-22)January 22, 1870
Nice, France
DiedJuly 31, 1934(1934-07-31) (aged 64)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materHarvard College
Spouse(s)
Edith Lawrence
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(m. 1903; his death 1934)​
ChildrenHarold Jefferson Coolidge Jr.
Lawrence Coolidge
Parent(s)Joseph Randolph Coolidge
Julia Gardner
RelativesJohn G. Coolidge (brother)
Archibald Coolidge (brother)
Julian L. Coolidge (brother)

Early life

Coolidge was born in Nice, France on January 22, 1870. His parents were Harvard University Law School graduate Joseph Randolph Coolidge and Julia (née Gardner) Coolidge, both from prominent and wealthy Boston Brahmin families.[4] His siblings included U.S. Minister to Nicaragua John Gardner Coolidge, professor and diplomat Archibald Cary Coolidge, and mathematician and fellow Harvard professor Julian Lowell Coolidge.[4]

His father was a great-grandson of the 3rd United States President Thomas Jefferson, through his maternal grandparents, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha Jefferson Randolph. His paternal uncle was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, the Boston businessman and U.S. Minister to France. Harold's great-uncles were Thomas Jefferson Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Andrew Jackson Donelson, and his grandfather, Joseph Coolidge, was a distant relative of President Calvin Coolidge.[5]

Through his mother, Harold was the nephew of John Lowell Gardner II. His mother and uncle John were the grandchildren of merchant Joseph Peabody, one of the wealthiest men in the United States at the time of his death in 1844.[6]

Coolidge attended school in Boston before studying in Germany[1] and at Harvard University, where he was graduated in 1892, with an A.B. magna cum laude.[3]

Career

He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and worked as partner in the firm of Loring and Coolidge.[3]

In 1926, the future King of Sweden Gustaf VI Adolf and his wife, Lady Louise Mountbatten, were the guests of Coolidge during the visit to Boston, where Coolidge showed them The House of the Seven Gables.[7]

Personal life

On February 19, 1903, Coolidge was married to Edith Lawrence (1879–1975), the daughter of Amory Appleton Lawrence and granddaughter of abolitionist Amos Adams Lawrence.[8] Her uncle was Bishop William Lawrence and her aunt was Harriet Lawrence Hemenway, founder of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Her first cousins included Bishops William Appleton Lawrence,[9] and Frederic Cunningham Lawrence.[10] Together, they were the parents of two sons:

Harold Jefferon Coolidge Sr. died on July 31, 1934 and is buried at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After his death, his widow remarried U.S. General and Chief of the Military Intelligence Division Sherman Miles (1882–1966) in 1954.[13]

Publications
  • Archibald Cary Coolidge, Life and Letters, 1932
  • Thoughts on Thomas Jefferson, or, What Jefferson was not, 1936 (posthumous, edited by Lawrence Coolidge).

References
  1. Lawrence, Robert Means: The Descendants of Major Samuel Lawrence, Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA, 1904, p. 208. URL last accessed 2012-11-15.
  2. N.N.: Harold Jefferson Coolidge. URL last accessed 2012-11-15.
  3. Bentinck-Smith, William: "Archibald Cary Coolidge and the Harvard Library. I. The Education of a Director Archived 2019-11-16 at the Wayback Machine", pp.228–253 (here p. 230) in Harvard Library bulletin XXI(3), July 1973. URL last accessed 2012-11-15.
  4. Harvard University Archives, call no. HUG-1299: Coolidge, Archibald Cary, 1866-1928. Papers of Archibald Cary Coolidge : an inventory Archived 2018-07-03 at the Wayback Machine, with a biography. URL retrieved 2011-01-11.
  5. Wead, Doug (2004). All the Presidents' Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families. Simon and Schuster. pp. 127–129.
  6. Hunt, F. [1858]. Lives of American merchants - Vol 1. (via Google Books)
  7. Conary, Ryan; Moffat, David; Philbrook, Everett; Association, House of the Seven Gables Settlement (2017). The House of the Seven Gables. Arcadia Publishing. p. 85. ISBN 9781439662014. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  8. Foster, E. Everton (1916). Lamb's Textile Industries of the United States: Embracing Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and a Historical Resume of the Progress of Textile Manufacture from the Earliest Records to the Present Time. James H. Lamb. p. 275. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  9. "William Lawrence, Retired Bishop, 79". The New York Times. January 6, 1969. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  10. "Dr. Lawrence Dies; Bishop Emeritus". The New York Times. November 7, 1941. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  11. The New York Times, obituary: "Harold Coolidge, Expert on Exotic Mammals", February 16, 1985. URL retrieved 2011-01-21.
  12. "Harold Jefferson Coolidge Memorial Medal". www.iucn.org. IUCN. 19 July 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  13. Beer, Siegfried: "Sherman Miles – vor und nach Kärnten 1919. Anmerkungen zu einer hauptsächlich nachrichtendienstlichen Karriere in der US-Armee", pp. 309–317 in Valentin, H.; Haiden, S.; Maier, B. (eds.): Die Kärntner Volksabstimmung 1920 und die Geschichtsforschung, Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2002. ISBN 3-85366-983-2.
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