Like his father before him, Bill loved Boston and sought to preserve and celebrate its rich history. He was also a trustee of various charitable foundations, including the Thomas Thompson Trust and the Ogden Codman Trust. Bill was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire, The Hamilton Club, The Country Club, The UnionĬlub, and the 1255th Combat Engineer Battalion Association.īill took an active interest in the hospitals of Boston, serving on the governing boards of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Boston Hospital for Women and the New England Deaconess Hospital. He served as the Chairman of the Board of the Pioneer Institute for Public Research and continued in this role well into his eighties. He was an active alumnus at Harvard University, Boston University Law School and served as a trustee at The Rivers School and at Camp Chewonki and the Chewonki Foundation in Maine where he spent many summers as a boy. He served as Chairman of the Volunteer Lawyers Project and as President of Greater Boston Legal Services. of Essex, MA, and Susan Monahan of Ipswich, MA, as well as 12 grandchildren: Owen Stanfield, Samuel, Chloe and Emma Rubenstein, Blakely and Anna Tyler, Jamie, Erin,Īnd Katie Monahan, and Jacob, Olivia and Nathaniel Tyler and two great-grandchildren.īill had a long, productive life of public service and gave generously of his time and energy to a great variety of non-profit organizations. He always went the extra mile to meet the needs of his clients, visiting them in their homes, wherever they lived, and treating all with respect, kindness and generous attention.īill is survived by his wife, the love of his life and best friend, Anngenette "Anngie" Groton, whom he married in 1956, and by their five children, Anngenette Stanfield of Mystic CT, Maggie Tyler Rubenstein of Wayland, MA, Roger B. He joined his father at the Boston law firm of Rackemann, Sawyer and Brewster in 1952, where he remained for over 60 years, working in real estate and then in trusts and estates. He saw active duty in Europe during the Battle of the Bulge and returned to graduate from Harvard College (1947) and Boston University Law School (1951). He grew up in Newton and attended The Rivers School and Phillips Exeter Academy (1943). Nathan Dane enlarged his farm by the purchase of about 31 acres with a dwelling on the east side of County Road, bounded by the land of Oliver Appleton, north, and Mile River, east, from the guardian of Jacob Brown, a person noncompos mentis, J(152: 33).Newton - William Blakely Tyler of Newton, Mass., died April 9, 2021. He was born in the year 1752, and he may have seen the light, as it has been affirmed, in the ancient dwelling which still stood in the early 20th Century, though the timbers of the house indicate that it (was) not the original dwelling built by John Appleton. Dane conveyed it to his son Nathan Dane, the famous Professor of Law at Harvard, on Ap(139:57). Benjamin’s widow, Elizabeth (Wade), was appointed administratrix, Ma(Pro. 315:107-9) devised his estate to his son Benjamin. “John Appleton, son of Major Samuel, died in 1724, at the age of 29, and by his will, proved J(Pro. Photo courtesy of David Thayer The Dane house The Patch-Dane house at Appleton Farms, no longer standing. Dane was a representative to the Essex Junto in Ipswich and a delegate to the Hartford Convention during the War of 1812. In his legal practice, he worked on behalf of vocational education and humane treatment of prisoners and helped establish the American Temperance Society. NathanDane was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate from 1790 to 1791 and from 1794 to 1797, and during that time served on a commission that reviewed and codified the laws of Massachusetts. His amendments to the Articles of Confederation helped lead to the adoption of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Dane’s amendment banning slavery in the Northwest Territory, which would become five new states, was accepted into the Ordinance. He was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress, where he helped draft the Northwest Ordinance, enacted in 1787. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a Federalist, where he served until 1785. He married Mary Brown and was admitted to the bar, establishing a legal practice in Beverly. Nathan Dane graduated from Harvard College in 1778. is at or near the location of the Dane home. Daniel Fuller Appleton reacquired the land, and now the Appleton Farms CSA store at 219 County Rd. Nathan worked at the family farm, which at the decease of John Appleton had passed from Appleton’s son to Benjamin Patch, and then to Daniel Dane, and then to his son Nathan Dane. Nathan Dane (1752 – 1835) was born in Ipswich to Abigail and Daniel Dane, who was a farmer and descendant of John Dane, an immigrant to Massachusetts from England in 1636.
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