Wendell D. Rockwood

Wendell David Rockwood[1] was a member of the Citizen's Municipal Party and was mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, from 1916 to 1918. He is also a direct descendant of the Puritans of New England.[2][3]

Life and career

Wendell was born on April 21, 1863, in Belgrade, Maine, to Albion and Sara Jane (Ricker) Rockwood.[1][4] He had at least one child, Agnes Rockwood Griffiths.[5][6]

Rockwood was elected mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 21, 1915, beating Timothy W. Good by 283 votes.[7]

References
  1. Who's who in Massachusetts: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. A.N. Marquis Company. 1938. p. 1083.
  2. "Cambridge Elections Today The Harvard Crimson, March 10, 1914.
  3. Mahoney, Henry J. Pen Portraits of Prominent People of Cambridge. Touched with Satire. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Sentinel, 1923.
  4. Poor's Register of Directors and Executives, United States and Canada. Standard and Poor's Corporation. 1944. p. 2499.
  5. Secretary's Report. Harvard University. 1921. p. 109.
  6. Hooglund, Eric (November 2017). "November 2017 e-Newsletter" (PDF). BHS Newsletter November 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  7. "Rockwood Elected Mayor Yesterday". Harvard Crimson. 22 December 1915. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
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