Gloucester's Roger Babson
by Laurence Dahlmer
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Title
Gloucester's Roger Babson
Artist
Laurence Dahlmer
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas Panel
Description
Canvas #115 Gloucester's Roger Babson
from History of the Town of Gloucester by John J. Babson
“Probably Gloucester’s most widely known native son was Roger W. Babson, a self-taught economist, financier, business analyst and oracle, founder of the Babson Institute in Wellesley, prolific writer, patron of gravity research, student of Dogtown Common and enthusiastic benefactor of Cape Ann. Among his various philanthropies are his gift of more than a thousand acres of watershed to create the Babson Reservoir and add materially to Gloucester’s limited water supply, and her open spaces, and his major financial support of a new maternity wing at the Addisom Gilbert Hospital. He died at ninety-one on March 5, 1967.”
from Barron's financial periodical in 1929:
“ …. As an educator, philosopher, theologian, statistician, forecaster, economist, and friend of the Law of Gravity, he has sometimes been thought too spread himself too thin.”
....and yet he predicted the stock market crash in 1929.
Within the deeded land to the city he also had various sayings carved into many granite boulders, dotting the landscape of Dogtown. In the fantasy painting he stands before one, but the carver ran the words together - changing Babson's intended message. For more on the history of Gloucester see my "Timeline" on www,ladarts.com
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May 8th, 2011
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Comments (2)
Beth Babson
Nice. If Bill Hubbard says Roger was a recluse then pretty cool she would have been pregnant with me when met with Babson the couple of years before he passed to go over genealogy showing him our link between MA and Carolinas.
Bill Hubbard
That's pretty neat. Roger Babson lived on Hovey St. and my grandfather, Albert Hubbard lived on Western Avenue. Their homes back yards abutted. Roger was very much a recluse in his later years. As often as I was at my grandfather's, I can only remember meeting or even seeing Roger once. Interesting too in that you could look from Roger Babson's yard into grandpa Dahlmer's yard across Hovey street
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