Herbert Sears
Full name: Herbert Mason Sears
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| Bio | He was born into a prominent New England family, a Mayflower descendant of the Sawyer family line. He was the son of Fredrick Sears and Albertina (Shelton) Sears, and grandson of David Sears, the developer of Longwood. His twin brother was sculptor Phillip Sears and his older brother was professional tennis player Richard Sears. He also had a brief tennis career in the 19th century. He married Caroline Bartlett (1870-1908) in 1891, and had two daughters with her, Elizabeth (b. 1892) and Phyllis (1895-1964). Sears became widowed in 1908 after his wife Caroline would tragically take her life at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. His daughter Phyllis would go on to marry Bayard Tuckerman Jr., a horseman and one of the founders of Suffolk Downs race track in East Boston. His grandson was politician Herbert Sears Tuckerman. After graduating from Harvard, he was a partner at the stockbrokers Curtis & Motley, and later would be president of Fifty Associates, vice president of Suffolk Savings Bank, and a director of the New England Trust Company and Boston and Albany Railroad. When the United States entered the war, Sears as Commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club, called the Under Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt, and offered the use of the Eastern clubhouse in Marblehead to the Navy as a base. Roosevelt accepted and the clubhouse was used as a training station for the first year of World War I, primarily for training ashore and aviation training. Sears, along with other members of the Eastern Yacht Club, sponsored and privately financed the construction of Navy patrol boats for the war effort known as "The Eastern Yacht Club 62 footers". The boats were designed by Albert Loring Swasey and Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, with the Sears-sponsored boat named the USS Commodore (SP-1425). In 1917, at the age of 50, he would volunteer and spend eight months at the front in France near Dixmude, serving as part of the American Red Cross. For his efforts he would receive the Croix de Guerre and the medal of Reconnaissance Francaise. After returning from France, his wrote of his experience in the book Journal of a Canteen Worker: A Record of Service with the American Red Cross. |
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