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Frank Waterman Stearns (born on November 8, 1856 in Boston) was an American businessman whose father, Richard H. Stearns had founded the R. H. Stearns department store and company in Boston. His mother was Louise M. Waterman.〔Cf. Who's Who in New England 1915, p.1015〕 After graduating from Amherst College in 1878, he joined his father's retail dry goods firm in Boston. He became a partner in that company in 1881 and was appointed chairman of its Board of Directors in 1919. Frank Stearns was an early supporter and close friend of his fellow Amherst College alumnus, Calvin Coolidge,〔"Dedicate Arlington World War Cross." ''Washington Post.'' November 14, 1923.〕 whose political career, culminating in the presidency following the death of president Warren G. Harding in 1923, he championed. In 1880 Stearns married Emily Williston Clark. Frank Waterman Stearns died in Boston in 1939. ==References== * ("Archival material collected by Claude M. Fuess for a biography of Stearns" ), Amherst College archives * Marquis, Albert Nelson, (''Who's Who in New England, Volume 2, 1915'' ), Chicago: A.N. Marquis. Cf. ("Biographies of Richard Hall Stearns (Jr.) and William Foster Stearns" p.1015 ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Stearns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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