OCCUPATION: President of Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company
Charles Francis Choate. a brother of Joseph H. Choate. ex-ambassador to Great Britain, and one of the best-known lawyers In Massachusetts, died yesterday at his home. No. 206 Beacon Street. Boston. He was born at Salem, Mass.. so he was nearly four years older than the ex-ambassador, and two years older than his other brother, ex-Judge William G. Choate of this city. He attended Harvard College and was graduated with the class of 1849, taking his master's degree In 1852 and L.L.B. in the following year. In 1872 he was also made an honorary A.M. of Dartmouth. Mr. Choate was admitted to the bar In 1856 and remained In active practice in Boston until 1878. Until 1878 he was counsel for the Old Colony Railroad Company, and In 1872 was elected a director. Later, In 1878. he was chosen president. This post he filled for nearly thirty years, until 1907, when he retired. In his seventy-ninth year. In 1901 he was elected president of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, and of the Essex Company of Lawrence, a large manufacturing concern. Both of those offices he held until his death, as well as the vice-presidency of the New England Trust Company, to which he had been elected originally In 18S7. He was a member of the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of the Boston Commercial Club, of which he was president from 1898 to 1900. In 1866 Mr. Choate married Miss Elisabeth W. Carlisle of Providence. He Is survived by two children, Mrs. Sarah Choate Sears, the portrait painter, and Charles Francis Choate, Jr., a lawyer, who has taken his father's place In business for several years.
Charles Francis Choate. a brother of Joseph H. Choate. ex-ambassador to Great Britain, and one of the best-known lawyers In Massachusetts, died yesterday at his home. No. 206 Beacon Street. Boston. He was born at Salem, Mass.. so he was nearly four years older than the ex-ambassador, and two years older than his other brother, ex-Judge William G. Choate of this city. He attended Harvard College and was graduated with the class of 1849, taking his master's degree In 1852 and L.L.B. in the following year. In 1872 he was also made an honorary A.M. of Dartmouth. Mr. Choate was admitted to the bar In 1856 and remained In active practice in Boston until 1878. Until 1878 he was counsel for the Old Colony Railroad Company, and In 1872 was elected a director. Later, In 1878. he was chosen president. This post he filled for nearly thirty years, until 1907, when he retired. In his seventy-ninth year. In 1901 he was elected president of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, and of the Essex Company of Lawrence, a large manufacturing concern. Both of those offices he held until his death, as well as the vice-presidency of the New England Trust Company, to which he had been elected originally In 18S7. He was a member of the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of the Boston Commercial Club, of which he was president from 1898 to 1900. In 1866 Mr. Choate married Miss Elisabeth W. Carlisle of Providence. He Is survived by two children, Mrs. Sarah Choate Sears, the portrait painter, and Charles Francis Choate, Jr., a lawyer, who has taken his father's place In business for several years.
OCCUPATION: President of Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company
Charles Francis Choate. a brother of Joseph H. Choate. ex-ambassador to Great Britain, and one of the best-known lawyers In Massachusetts, died yesterday at his home. No. 206 Beacon Street. Boston. He was born at Salem, Mass.. so he was nearly four years older than the ex-ambassador, and two years older than his other brother, ex-Judge William G. Choate of this city. He attended Harvard College and was graduated with the class of 1849, taking his master's degree In 1852 and L.L.B. in the following year. In 1872 he was also made an honorary A.M. of Dartmouth. Mr. Choate was admitted to the bar In 1856 and remained In active practice in Boston until 1878. Until 1878 he was counsel for the Old Colony Railroad Company, and In 1872 was elected a director. Later, In 1878. he was chosen president. This post he filled for nearly thirty years, until 1907, when he retired. In his seventy-ninth year. In 1901 he was elected president of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, and of the Essex Company of Lawrence, a large manufacturing concern. Both of those offices he held until his death, as well as the vice-presidency of the New England Trust Company, to which he had been elected originally In 18S7. He was a member of the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of the Boston Commercial Club, of which he was president from 1898 to 1900. In 1866 Mr. Choate married Miss Elisabeth W. Carlisle of Providence. He Is survived by two children, Mrs. Sarah Choate Sears, the portrait painter, and Charles Francis Choate, Jr., a lawyer, who has taken his father's place In business for several years.
Charles Francis Choate. a brother of Joseph H. Choate. ex-ambassador to Great Britain, and one of the best-known lawyers In Massachusetts, died yesterday at his home. No. 206 Beacon Street. Boston. He was born at Salem, Mass.. so he was nearly four years older than the ex-ambassador, and two years older than his other brother, ex-Judge William G. Choate of this city. He attended Harvard College and was graduated with the class of 1849, taking his master's degree In 1852 and L.L.B. in the following year. In 1872 he was also made an honorary A.M. of Dartmouth. Mr. Choate was admitted to the bar In 1856 and remained In active practice in Boston until 1878. Until 1878 he was counsel for the Old Colony Railroad Company, and In 1872 was elected a director. Later, In 1878. he was chosen president. This post he filled for nearly thirty years, until 1907, when he retired. In his seventy-ninth year. In 1901 he was elected president of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, and of the Essex Company of Lawrence, a large manufacturing concern. Both of those offices he held until his death, as well as the vice-presidency of the New England Trust Company, to which he had been elected originally In 18S7. He was a member of the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of the Boston Commercial Club, of which he was president from 1898 to 1900. In 1866 Mr. Choate married Miss Elisabeth W. Carlisle of Providence. He Is survived by two children, Mrs. Sarah Choate Sears, the portrait painter, and Charles Francis Choate, Jr., a lawyer, who has taken his father's place In business for several years.
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