Person · 1940
Frederick Wain
Frederick Wain
| Died | 1940-09-17 |
| Town Auditor | |
| In Office | 1909 - 1919 |
| Surveyor of Wood and Lumber | |
| In Office | 1918 - 1921 1930 - 1940 |
Frederick Wain (about 1879 to 1940) was a North Billerica carpenter and electrician who served the town as an elected Town Auditor from 1909 to 1919 and for many years as a surveyor of wood and lumber. As auditor he signed the town's annual audit with his fellow auditors, from 1911 with George P. Greenwood, and he also served as an election officer for the North Billerica precinct, where he was one of the Precinct 2 officers in 1913.
He was active in St. Ann's Episcopal mission church on Treble Cove Road opposite Sprague Street, organized in 1886, serving as its treasurer in 1916 under the rector J. Wallace Suter of Lowell and again in 1919 under Walton H. Doggett. The jury lists of the late 1920s give his occupation as carpenter, and in 1931 the directory lists him as an electrician, living with his wife Edith M. at 17 Colson Street in North Billerica. Their son Frederick was born on April 8, 1914; a child born on December 9, 1913, did not survive. On December 9, 1918, a house he owned caught fire when someone searched a closet with a lighted match; both engine companies responded, and the damage came to $2,300.
Town Meeting chose him a surveyor of wood and lumber from 1918 to 1921 and again each year from 1930 until his death. He died on September 17, 1940, at the age of 60 years, 10 months and 23 days, according to the town's death register.