Reuben Arey (1890 - 1918)

Born 6 Aug 1890 in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Died 23 Dec 1918 at age 28 in At Sea

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Biography

Reuben was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1890, the son of Edwin Everett and Alice Leona (Clark) Arey. ^[1] He grew up in Lowell^[2] and Boston.^[3]

He attended the Rindge Manual Training School in Cambridge, and then went on to study Civil Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), graduating with the class of 1913.

His registration for the war draft (June, 1917) described him as tall and slender, with blue eyes and brown hair.^[4] He was called a resident of Somerville, Massachusetts, at that time.

After graduation, he entered the service of the United States Coast and Geodetic survey and for four years he traveled to various parts of the world. When the United States entered the World War, he joined the U.S. Naval Reserve Force and obtained a commission as Lieutenant, junior grade, aboard the U.S.S. Wenonah.^[5] He saw service in the Mediterranean and Philippine Islands.^[6]

Reuben died in December of 1918, when he was washed overboard the Wenonah during a hurricane between Portugal and the Azores. All efforts to rescue him were unsuccessful and his body was never recovered.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH6D-W66 : 4 November 2017), Reuben Arey, 1890
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9T4-MMQ : accessed 21 March 2019), Reuben Arey in household of Edwin E Arey, Lowell city Ward 8, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M22Q-9ZH : accessed 21 March 2019), Rueben Arey in household of Edwin E Arey, Boston Ward 20, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
4. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZN7-YBP : 13 March 2018), Reuben Arey, 1917-1918
5. ↑ "Lieut. Reuben Arey Lost at Sea", Cambridge Chronicle, 11 Jan. 1919,
6. ↑ Report of the Commission on Massachusetts' Part in the World War", by Eben Putnam, 1928, Vol. 2, p. 339
7. ↑ Technology's War Record, M.I.T. Alumni Association, printed 1920, p. 106

• Somerville veterans who died during WWI, compiled by Arthur O'Loughlin and Leonard Poirier, Lt. James A. Logan Post VFW 6800, http://www.vfw6800.org/SomervilleWWINonCombatCompleted.pdf
• Boston Post, January 9, 1919, p. 4, "Lieutenant Arey Is Lost At Sea"