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- ROGERS LEWIS BARSTOW (June 25, 1921 - The Cambridge Chronicle)
Rogers Lewis Barstow, long a prominent figure in banking ana stock brokerage circles in Boston, died on Sunday at Riverbank court, at the age of seventy five years and seven months.
Mr. Barstow was born in Massachusetts and was the son of the late Rogers L. and Sarah i Willis 1 Barstow, and as a boy and young man lived in his native town, where he attended the public schools. He later took a four-year course at the Harvard Medical school, intending to practice medicine, but s severe illness caused a change in his plans and he gave up his idea of a profession and entered business life as a clerk in the Boston Five Cents Savings bank, under the late Wilinot R. Evans, from whom Mr. Barstow gained his first financial experience. He remained with the bank for several years and then formed, with Sidney Chase, the stock brokerage firm of Chase and Barstow. which became one of the leading and best known firms in the financial district of Boston.
Mr. Barstow's wife died many years ago, and he never married again. He is survived by two sons, Roger L Barstow, Jr., and Ezra Baker Barstow, and a daughter. Miss Alice Rogers Barstow. who has devoted herself to the care and comfort of her father. There also survive six grandchildren, the two sons of Ezra Barstow and the four daughters of Rogers Barstow, Jr.
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