Several Norwood people are included in the third edition of Who’s Who in New England which is just out. The New England volume is published by the same firm which puts out Who’s Who in America, and it selects 12,445 names for inclusion from the 8,587,000 population of these states. Other editions appeared in 1909 and 1915.
Among those included from Norwood arc Honorable Frank G. Allen, W. Cameron Forbes, Rev. William F. English, Walter F. Tilton, Dr. Henry M. Field, Judge James A. Halloran, Dr. Leighton F. Johnson, Dr. H. B. C. Riemer, Charles J. Prescott, Mrs. Clara Berwick Walker, H. M. Plimpton, Harold E. Shaw, and Judge Clifford B. Sanborn.
(All articles were originally published in the Norwood Messenger unless otherwise noted)
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