Robert N. Anthony, L.H.D.

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• History: Robert graduated in 1938 from Colby College with an A.B. He graduated in 1940 from the Harvard Business School with a M.B.A. He was employed by the Harvard Business School between 1940 and 1965. From 1941 to 1946, he served in the Naval Reserve attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Robert graduated in 1952 from Harvard with a Doctor of Commercial Science degree. Robert was appointed as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) under President Lyndon Johnson on 01 September 1965. His obituary reads: "Robert N. Anthony '38, L.H.D. '63, a life trustee at Colby who was described by the Harvard Business School (HBS) as "a giant in field of management accounting," died December 1 in Hanover, N.H., at age 90. Anthony joined the HBS faculty in 1940 and was the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Management Controls, Emeritus, at the time of his death. He was world renowned as a scholar, author, and innovator in the field of management accounting and control. He also distinguished himself in public service as assistant secretary of defense (1965-68) and as an advisor to the Comptroller General and other government agencies. He was named to Colby's Board of Trustees in 1959 and had a long history of service and generosity to the College. He was chair of the board from 1978 to 1983 and was one of only four life trustees at the time of his death. He received the Colby Brick Award, the Marriner Distinguished Service Award, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award. He was a principal donor to the Anthony-Mitchell-Schupf Residence Hall. At Colby he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a master's degree in 1940 and a doctorate in 1952, both from Harvard, serving in the Pacific with the U.S. Navy during World War II. "He had a monumental impact, not only on his students through his teaching and textbooks, but also on the business, nonprofit, and government worlds," said Professor Regina E. Herzlinger, a former student who became Anthony's colleague on the HBS faculty. At the request of the Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB) he studied nonprofit organizations' accounting procedures and recommended that they produce the same sorts of financial reports as profit-making organizations. FASB standard number 34, on capitalizing the cost of interest, is directly traceable to his work. During the Vietnam War Anthony served as assistant secretary of defense under his former Harvard colleague Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. He was responsible for building and presenting to Congress an $80-billion budget and for managing a monumental effort to overhaul the department's accounting and control system. "He changed the way the Defense Department operated," a colleague said. He also served locally. A past president of the American Accounting Association and a member of the Accounting Hall of Fame (at Ohio State), he took pride that he was elected town auditor of Waterville Valley, N.H., where he spent much of his retirement. In 1986 he said, "I had opposition the first time, but I haven't had any since. I got 24 votes last year; that's all there were."

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Birth:
He was 90 years old when he passed away.

[Tribe of Calvin]

Robert married Gretchen Lynch [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert N. Anthony, Jr., M.D.
2. Victoria Anthony

Robert married Katherine Yeager [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: Charles and his wife,Grace Newton, were elected a members of the Peter Delvee Family Association on 23 June 1957.
• Census: 1910, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 16; Address:
  South Road

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[Tribe of Calvin]

Census:
He was living with his foster parents.

Charles married Grace Newton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: Grace and her husband, Charles Anthony,were elected a members of the Peter Delvee Family Association on 23 June 1957

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• Census: 1870, Pittsfield, Somerset County, Maine; : 19
• Census: 1880, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 29
• Census: 1900, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 49; Address:
  237 South Main Road
• Census: 1910, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 59; Address:
  South Road
• Census: 1920, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 69; Address:
  13 Howe Street
• Census: 1930, Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts; : 79; Address:
  136 Colby Street
• History: Jun 1931; In the Historian's notes for the 1931 reunion, is the following: "We miss Rob's happy smile and harty handshake to-day. He loved to attend these Reunions and was not absent from only three of the fourty-four held."

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Census:
He was recorded while living with his parents.

He worked on a railroad.

Census:
He was a carpenter.

Census:
He was a farmer.

Census:
He was a farmer.

Census:
He was a carpenter.

Census:
He was recorded while living with his foster son, and his family.

Buried:
Robinson A. Stewart
1850-1931
His wife
Betsey M. Delva
1853-1923

Robinson married Betsey Melinda Delva on 19 May 1878 in Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts. Betsey (daughter of Calvin Wilder Delva and Lucy Maria Fuller) was born on 28 Dec 1852 in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; died on 15 May 1923 in Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts; was buried est 17 May 1923 in Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts. USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1855, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 2
• Census: 1860, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 7
• Census: 1870, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 17
• Census: 1880, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 27
• Census: 1900, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 47; Address:
  237 South Main Road
• Census: 1910, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 57; Address:
  South Road
• Census: 1920, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 67; Address:
  13 Howe Street
• Last Full Review: 7 Jun 2020

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[Tribe of Calvin]

Census:
She was recorded while living with her parents.

Census:
She was recorded while living with her parents.

Census:
She was recorded while living with her parents.

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• Census: 1870, Pittsfield, Somerset County, Maine; : 62

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Census:
He was a farmer.

Abraham married Dorcas on Yes, date unknown. Dorcas was born about 1809 in Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1870, Pittsfield, Somerset County, Maine; : 61

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• Census: 1840, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts
• Occupation: 1845, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts
• Census: 1850, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 37
• Census: 1855, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 42
• Census: 1860, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 47
• History: Aug 1867, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; Some time in August, 1867, Mrs. M. A. McKim (a former resident of Warwick), Mrs. E. C. Sibley, and Miss Sarah Ball, circulated a subscription-paper for the purpose of purchasing the blacksmith-shop lot, north of Mrs. McKim's new house in Warwick Village, and Mr. Jones's lot, north of his boot-shop, to be improved and ornamented for a public park. On said subscription-paper are to be found the names of our citizens to the amount of $325, for the purpose of purchasing said pieces of land. After said facts had become known, Mr. Jones generously presented his lot, and gave a deed thereof to the town ; and the blacksmith lot was purchased of A. S. Atherton, Mrs. McKim being the original owner. They each gave $25 for the above object. The proprietors, or rather the contributors, met at the hotel, and voted to choose a committee of three persons from their number to take charge of the funds contributed, and finish off and beautify said grounds in a suitable manner for a public park. Voted and chose Hervey Barber, Calvin W. Delva, and Edward F. Mayo, said committee, who circulated another paper for subscriptions for the above purpose ; and they obtained the promise on the same of the sum of $127.50, to be paid in money, labor, and materials, as specified on said paper, to be expended under the supervision of the committee, for the purpose of levelling, fencing, the setting of trees, and otherwise ornamenting said park. The committee soon commenced their work ; and after some delays, from one cause and another, the more prominent one being the want of funds, and the county commissioners having laid a road in such a way as to necessitate the selectmen to take a part of the proprietors' lands for the continuance and extension of said road, the lot, being fenced and nearly finished, was presented to the town, and accepted, as above stated, and a deed of warranty given by Messrs. Jones and Atherton, on condition that the town ever after keep the same in good order, and continue it as a public park.
• Census: 1870, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 59
• Office Held: Abt 1870, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts
• Land/House : 1871, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts
• Will: 3 Jun 1879, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts
• Census: 1880, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 67
• Office Held: 1881, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts
• Probate: 3 Feb 1885
• Last Full Review: 23 May 2020

Notes:

Census:
1 - Free White Persons - Males - Under 5
1 - Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14
1 - Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29
1 - Free White Persons - Females - Under 5
1 - Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29
1 - Persons Employed in Agriculture
3 - Free White Persons - Under 20
2 - Free White Persons - 20 thru 49
5 - Total Free White Persons
5 - Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves

Occupation:
Calvin was operating a tannery in 1845 in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts.

He was the owner of a shingle mill on Grace Brook off Wendell Road which was destroyed by fire in 1848 in Warwick, Massachusetts.

Census:
He was a farmer.

Census:
He was a lumberman.

Office Held:
He was one of the people who helped landscape the park north of town.

Will:
He made his will.

Census:
He was a farmer.

Office Held:
Calvin served as a member of the executive committee of the Annual Fair and Cattle Show.

Calvin married Lucy Maria Fuller on 23 Apr 1837 in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts. Lucy (daughter of James Fuller and Nancy Lesure) was born on 10 Jan 1819 in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; died on 29 Mar 1900 in Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts; was buried est 31 Mar 1900 in Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts. USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 31
• Census: 1855, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 36
• Census: 1860, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 41
• Census: 1870, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 51
• Census: 1880, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; : 61
• Last Full Review: 6 Jun 2020

Notes:

Name:
In 1885, Lucy was visiting her niece, Louise, and the conversation got around to the Delvee property, which would soon have to be sold to settle the estate of Calvin Delvee. They thought that the families of Calvin and Peter should get together one more time. Soon they decided to hold a reunion of all of the available descendants of the first Peter. The first reunion was held on a Wednesday, 2 June 1886, and was attended by 126 people. It was such a success that it was decided to meet each year. By the time of the second reunion, the farm had been sold to William Shepardson. The Delvey Grove was purchased from Mr. Shepardson for $60.00.

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Married:
Lucy and Calvin were joined in marriage at Warwick by the Rev. Preserved Smith.