Bancroft, William Amos, 1855-1922

found: Wikipedia, accessed February 6, 2015(William Amos Bancroft; born April 26, 1855 ; died March 11, 1922; Massachusetts businessman, soldier and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and on the Common Council, Board of Aldermen, and as the Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1893 to 1897; President of the Boston Elevated Railway Company; served as a brigadier general of the United States Volunteers in the Spanish American War)

found: Boston globe, March 12, 1922:page 1 (Death comes to Gen. Bancroft; died at his home at 12 Ware Street, Cambridge; president of the Boston Elevated Street Railway from 1899 to 1916; celebrated oarsman for the Harvard crew team and later served as coach; born in Groton, Massachusetts, April 26, 1855; attended Groton schools, Lawrence Academy, and Phillips Exeter Academy; graduated Harvard College in 1878; attended Harvard Law School; admitted to the bar in 1881; 1898 appointed brigadier general of the United States Volunteers, assigned to the command of the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Division of the 7th Army Corps during Spanish American War; married Mary Shaw of Peabody on January 18, 1879; fathered two sons, Hugh and Guy Bancroft)