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About CQM Frank Wigglesworth, USNRF
- During World War One, Frank served as a Chief Quartermaster in the United States Naval Reserve Force. See "United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WQXG-233Z : 26 October 2019), Frank Wigglesworth, ; citing Military Service, NARA microfilm publication 76193916 (St. Louis: National Archives and Records Administration, 1985), various roll numbers.
- Frank's death information is available in his death notice in The Boston Globe, Thursday, November 15, 1951, page twenty-eight.
- A more complete obituary noted that Frank "attended Milton Academy and was graduated from Harvard in 1915, where he played on the varsity football team. He was commissioned in Naval Aviation in World War I and subsequently was in the radio department at M.I.T. where he conducted many valuable experiments in the commercial radio field...Later he became head of the art department in the Cambridge School, Kendall Green, and more recently in the remedial school of Lesley College. Mr. Wiggleworth's interest in the problems of exceptional children made him a well-known figure in the research fields of secondary education. He was also chairman of the Nashoba Regional District Planning Committee." See The Boston Globe, Tuesday, November 13, 1951, page six.
- Frank's passport application form (dated 7 January 1919) provided his photograph and the following information ("United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDN-NT6B : 16 March 2018), Frank Wigglesworth, 1919; citing Passport Application, Massachusetts, United States, source certificate #56438, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 672, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- He was born on 7 February 1893 in Boston, Massachusetts, and that his father, George Wigglesworth, was born in Boston.
- He was currently residing in Milton, Massachusetts.
- For their current journey, he and his wife, Isabella Councilman Wigglesworth, planned to visit the British and French West Indies for reasons of health, by departing from the Port of New York aboard the S.S. Guiana on 20 February 1919.
- He was 26 years old; was 6-feet, 1 1/2-inches tall; had blue eyes and brown hair; a straight nose, oval, face, and a fair complexion.
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CQM Frank Wigglesworth, USNRF's Timeline
| 1893 |
February 7, 1893
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1916 |
November 18, 1916
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Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1918 |
March 3, 1918
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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March 3, 1918
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1951 |
November 11, 1951
Age 58
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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