Frederick Sweet Stearns (1881 - 1951)

Born 12 Jul 1881 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

Husband of Gertrude P. (Boyer) Chase — married 21 Apr 1909 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

Died 11 May 1951 at age 69 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

Biography

Frederick was born in 1881 to Frederick Kimball Stearns and Helen Elizabeth Sweet. He married Gertrude Boyer in 1909. ^[1] Frederick died in 1951. ^[2]

Frederick was vice president and treasurer of Frederick Stearns & Company. After mastering the elementary branches of learning in the Detroit schools he became a student in the Montclair Military Academy at Montclair, New Jersey. He afterward attended the Lawrenceville school at Lawrenoeville, New Jersey, and later studied for a time in the University of Michigan. In 1901 he became associated with the firm of Frederick Stearns & Company in the manufacture of pharmaceutical goods and after a time was made manager of the New York branch of the business. In 1908 he was elected a director and assistant treasurer of the company and in January, 1913, was made vice president and treasurer. He is also a director of the firm of Frederick Stearns & Company of Canada, Limited. He has thus come into a position of executive control in connection with one of the most extensive and important manufacutring enterprises of Detroit. On the 21st of April, 1909, Mr. Stearns was married to Miss Gertrude Boyer of Detroit, and to them were born two children: Gertrude Sweet and Frederick Stearns. On the 24th of March, 1915, Mr. Stearns was married again, his second union being with Miss Therese Meyer of New York city, and they have one son: Phillip Olcot. Mr. Stearns is an Episcopalian in religious faith and a republican in his political belief. He belongs to the Detroit Board of Commerce and is much interested in tho work of that organization for the benefit and improvement of the city. He also has membership with the Psi Upeilon, a college fraternity, and is well known in elub circles, belonging to the Detroit Club, the Aero of Michigan, tho Campfiro of Michigan, the Country Club, the Grosso Pointe Riding ft Hunt Club, the Detroit Assemblies, the Players Club, the Fine Arta Club, the University of Michigan Club, the Detroit Athletic Club, and the Bankers Club and Uptown Club, both of New York. During the World war he was in the Quartermaster Corps of the United States army and is now a member of the Reserve. For sixty-five years the name of Stearns has occupied a prominent place on the list of representative business men in Detroit, and the work instituted by his grandfather and carried on by his father in being further promoted by Frederick Sweet Stearns, who, like his predecessors, is recognized as a forceful and resourceful business man. His quietude of deportment, his easy address, his ready adaptability all speak him a man who known the world, who place a correct valuatiou upon life's opportunities and activities, and on one who is justly proud to bear the name which his father and his grandfather established as one of the most honorable in Detroit.

Sources

1. ↑ Michigan Marriages, 1822-1995: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCGV-MFR
2. ↑ Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KFHN-RXM

• U.S.A. Census 1910 Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Grosse Pointe, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: T624_678; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 0288; FHL microfilm: 1374691

• Frederick S Stearns in the U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; NARA Series: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; Roll #: 213; Volume #: Roll 0213 - Certificates: 31509-32408, 25 May 1914-01 Jun 1914

• U.S.A. W.W.1 Draft Card Source Citation Registration State: Michigan; Registration County: Wayne; Roll: 2032601; Draft Board: 21

See Also

U.S.A. Census 1910

Source Information

Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.

Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.

Frederick S Stearns in the U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925

Source Information

Ancestry.com. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.

Original data: Selected Passports. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

U.S.A. W.W.1 Draft Card

Source Information

Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm.