Wakefield’s Women: During the month of March, “Women’s History Month,” the Wakefield Historical Society will be publishing the biographies of some of Wakefield’s Women from the earliest settlers. At the end of the month, all of the biographies will be published at the Society’s website. The sixth of nine children, Harriet Flint was born and brought…
Wakefield Native rose to
Supreme Allied Commander, NATO
The single largest employer in Wakefield during the first third of the twentieth century, the Harvard Knitting Mill at one time employed 20% of the mill workers in New England. Thought to be the first company to institute an employee profit sharing plan while still paying generous wages and also providing free medical services for…
A member of the Chicago Seven, a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr., and a lifelong pacifist, David Dellinger grew up in Wakefield
by Nancy Bertrand Recognized by the Harvard Business School as one of the 20th century’s “Great American Business Owners,” Elizabeth Eaton Boit began her life in 1849 in Auburndale, Massachusetts. The second of six daughters of James and Amanda Boit, Elizabeth graduated from Lasell Seminary in Auburndale at the age of 18. Later that…
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