Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . tions to the architecture and business ofNorth Adams by Messrs. C. Q. and W. \V. Richmond were the erectionof the New Richmond Hotel and Richmond Theater, both of whichwere conducted initially by them. Mr. Clinton Q. Richmond was espe-cially interested and assisted in securing the location of the State Nor-mal School at North Adams, and rendered service also in securing thenecessary appropriations for the Greylock Mountain Reservation. political affiliation is with the Republ
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . tions to the architecture and business ofNorth Adams by Messrs. C. Q. and W. \V. Richmond were the erectionof the New Richmond Hotel and Richmond Theater, both of whichwere conducted initially by them. Mr. Clinton Q. Richmond was espe-cially interested and assisted in securing the location of the State Nor-mal School at North Adams, and rendered service also in securing thenecessary appropriations for the Greylock Mountain Reservation. political affiliation is with the Republican party, which hascalled his services into recpiisition to numerous offices of trust and highresponsibility. He represented North Adams in the state legislature in1896 and 1897, serving efficiently on numerous important committees,is a member of the Massachusetts state board of education, to which hewas appointed in 1901 by Governor Crane to fill the unexpired term ofPresident Carter of Williams College, and reappointed by GovernorDouglas for the 1905-13 term. He was f(jr nine years a member of the. BERKSHIRE COUNTY 131 North Adams scIkkjI l):)ar(l and ad\ance:l the cause of education locahyby successfuHy championing many wise measures. He also served fora period as president of the North Adams board of trade. Mr. Richmond married Hannah AI. Bates, daughter of Ehsworth , a native of Cummington, Massachusetts, and who read law underthe preceptorship of the late Senator Henry L. Dawes, subsequently re-moving to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he practiced law. He was captainin Twentieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the civil war, and illhealth engendered at the siege of Vicksburg resulted in his demise in1863. His wife was a native of North Adams, Massachusetts. Mrs. Richmond have a son, Clinton Whitman, born October 22,1890, and a daughter, Mary Quackenbush Richmond, born November24, 1900. JOSEPH HENRY WOOD. Joseph Henry Wood, senior member of the firm of WoodBrothe
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