Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Sr.

Harold Jefferson Coolidge (January 22, 1870, Nice, France – 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]

Life

Coolidge went to school in Boston before studying in Germany^[1] and at Harvard University, where he was graduated in 1892 A.B. magna cum laude.^[3] He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and worked as partner in the firm of Loring and Coolidge.^[3]

Harold Jefferon Coolidge, Sr. is buried at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[4]

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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Bentinck-Smith, William: "Archibald Cary Coolidge and the Harvard Library. I. The Education of a Director", pp.228–253 (here p. 230) in Harvard Library bulletin XXI(3), July 1973. URL last accessed 2012-11-15.
4. ↑ Kahn, Elana: Harold Jefferson Coolidge, June 10, 2012; Find-A-Grave memorial #91719465. URL last accessed 2012-11-15.