A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
The New York Times, November 23, 1936. H. Ware Barnum Leaps to Death. Vice President and Counsel of Boston Elevated Road Plunges Seven Stories. Had Been in Ill Health. Went to His Office for First Visit in Six Weeks—Former Bay State Legal Aide. Special to The New York Times.
Boston, Nov. 22.—H. Ware Barnum of Canton, vice president and general counsel of the Boston Elevated Railway and a former Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, plunged to his death today from a seventh-floor window of the railway offices in the Park Square Building.
He had been in poor health several months and today made his first visit in six weeks to his office. He had been under treatment for a nervous condition at a hospital.
John Dewey, elevator operator at the building, said that Mr. Barnum arrived at 11:05 and rode to the seventh floor. At about 1:35 Clayton Ferguson, another employee of the building, heard a crash as he was on the main floor. He ran into Saint James Avenue and found Mr. Barnum's body, which had gone through a first-floor awning, breaking a heavy iron bar of the framework. Police found Mr. Barnum's hat and coat on a table near his desk. They found the window wide open and the curtain shade tied back. Medical Examiner Leary gave an official verdict of suicide.
Surviving Mr. Barnum are his widow, Mrs. Margaret H. (Currier) Barnum; three daughters, Mrs. Charles Conklin of Atlanta, Mrs. John Barker, who was in Virginia on her honeymoon, and Mrs. Samuel Adams Morse Lane of New York City, and his mother, Mrs. Marion C. Barnum of Boston.
Mr. Barnum was born in Danbury, Conn., April 12, 1879, the son of Hendrick and Charlotte Ware Barnum. He attended Saint Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y.; then went to Harvard, from which he was graduated in 1900. Three years later he was graduated from Harvard Law School.
He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1903. He became a member of the law firm of Elder, Whitman & Barnum. He served as Assistant State Attorney General from 1915 to 1918, then became associated with the law department of the Elevated.
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