PAST TRUSTEES:
- Charles S. Storrow, original trustee, active through 1865. (1809-1904) engineer, Boston & Lowell Railroad, water commissioner Proprietors of Locks and Canals of Merrimack River, agent, chief engineer, treasurer and general manager of Essex Company. Treasurer of the Committee for the Relief of Sufferers of the Fall of the Pemberton Mill. In his role there he wrote in 1845 family papers, “I am to do all the work, build the dam, canal, machine shop, purchase and sell land, make all the contracts and payments, to be the father of the whole enterprise.” School Committee, mayor. A school, street, and park bear his name. - Nathaniel G. White, original trustee, active through 1886. (1821-1886), lawyer, president of Boston & Maine Railroad, director of Essex Savings Bank, president of Bay State National Bank, member of Lawrence City Council.- Henry K. Oliver, original trustee, active through 1873. (1800-1885), Adjutant General, Sixth Militia Regiment of Salem, Common Council of Salem, agent Atlantic Cotton Mills in Lawrence, managed Lawrence Common for Essex Co., Lawrence School Committee, Superintendent of Lawrence Public Schools, mayor 1859, served on Committee for the Relief of Sufferers of the Fall of the Pemberton Mill, Mayor of Salem 1877-1881.- George D. Cabot, served 1865-1898. (b. 1812) cotton agent, Lawrence Machine Shop, J. C. Hoadley Co., agent for gas company., founder and president of Essex Savings Bank, director of Pemberton National Bank, member of first City Council, School Committee.- James H. Eaton, served 1873-1901. (1833-1901), master of Oliver Grammar School, lawyer and partner with White, Bell & Eaton, treasurer of Essex Savings Bank, Common Council, Board of Aldermen, mayor 1898-99.- Charles U. Bell, served 1887-1913. (1843-1922), Civil War veteran, attorney and partner with White, Bell & Eaton in Lawrence, City Solicitor, Associate Justice of Police Court, Special Justice of Superior Court, trustee of Essex Savings Bank, vice president of Essex Savings Bank.- Wilbur E. Rowell, served 1899-1946. (1862-1946) lawyer with Rowell, Clay, & Tomlinson, Justice Lawrence District Court, incorporator and president of Broadway Savings Bank, director of Merchants Trust Company, director of Pacific Mills, director of Beach Soap Co., president of Lawrence Home for Aged People, Lawrence General Hospital Advisory Board, YWCA and YMCA Advisory Board, School Committee, chairman of WWI Draft Board.- Walter E. Parker, served 1901-1924. Agent Pacific Mills, president and trustee of Essex Savings Bank, director of Merchants Trust Company.- Charles G. Saunders, served 1914-1918. (1848-1918), grandson of Lawrence founder Daniel Saunders, president of Chadwick Music Club, director of YMCA, Democratic National Committee delegate, law firm of D.C. & C.G. Saunders, trustee of Lawrence Savings Bank.- Irving W. Sargent, served 1918-1972. (1879-1973) lawyer with Sweeney, Sweeney, and Sargent, School Committee, director of Massachusetts Bar Association, vice-president of Lawrence Savings Bank, president of Lawrence Community Chest.- Arthur Sweeney, served 1925-1978. (1887-1978), lawyer with Sweeney, Sweeney, and Sargent, chairman of Bay State Merchants National Bank, president of Broadway Savings Bank, director of Lawrence General Hospital.- Louis S. Cox, served 1946-1961. (1874-1961) law firm Sweeney, Dow & Cox, State Senator, Postmaster, Essex County District Attorney, Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.- Roland H. Sherman, served 1961-1971. (1912-1971), lawyer with Eaton & Chandler and Sherman, Tavenner, & Cregg, director of Broadway Savings Bank.- Roger W. Bower, served 1971-1991. (1911-1992) Navy veteran of invasion of Okinawa, director of Lawrence General Hospital, president of Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, director of Lawrence Boys' Club, president of Lawrence Savings Bank.- Archer L. Bolton, served 1972-1990. (1918-1998), director of Merrimack Valley National Bank, trustee of Pike School in Andover, director of Lawrence Home for the Aged, president of Bolton-Emerson, Inc.- Clifford E. Elias, served 1976-1992. (1930-2012), practiced law in Lawrence from 1958-1985, professor and Assistant Dean at Suffolk Law School.- Thomas F. Caffrey, served 1990-2008. Lawrence native, practiced law in Lawrence and Andover (1963-2024), affiliate member of the Augustinian Order, director of Lawrence Cooperative Bank and Andover Bank.- Elizabeth E. Beland, served 1991-2005. (1930-2011), trust officer at Arlington Trust, Company, longtime administrative assistant at the Stevens Foundations in North Andover, founder of the Greater Lawrence Summer Fund, early backer of Essex Art Center where a gallery is named in her honor.- Robert J. Frishman, served 1993-2003. Ten-year Lawrence resident and businessman serving on the city’s Planning Board, then in home town of Andover as professional restorer, collector, seller, and scholar of antique clocks and related artwork.- James P. Dowd, serves 2003-present. Teacher and administrator at Austin Preparatory School, City Councilor District A, member of Prospect Hill Historic District Commission.- Eileen O’Connor Bernal, served 2005-2023. Attorney at Smolak & Vaughn and Dalton & Finegold, City Councilor, Chief of Staff for Mayor Daniel Rivera, Director of Support Services for Lawrence Police Department, City Clerk. - Mary O’Brien Guerrero, served 2009-2020. Teacher at Lawrence public schools, trustee of Lawrence History Center, director of Breadloaf Rising Loaves writing program, Lawrence business owner of Cafe Azteca and El Taler Cafe.
