Former Trustees


  • Marguerite Cummings, 2017-2026
  • John Hall, 2014-2026
  • Joe Greeley, 2021-2021
  • Leah O'Leary 2019-2020
  • Deborah Henry 2015-2019
  • Susan Pipes, 2010-2019
  • Cashman Kerr Prince, 2009-2019
  • Patricia Hines, 2011-2017
  • Patricia Reardon, 2012-2015
  • Patricia J. Fanning, 1993-2014
  • Stuart R. Plumer, 1979-2012
  • Arthur W. Gearty, 2002-2011
  • Susannah J. Petro, 1998-2010
  • Roger M. MacLeod, 1964-1970, 1976-2010
  • Thomas J. Cummings, 1982-2006
  • Eileen B. Sullivan, 1980-2002
  • George M. Ruboy, 1968-2001
  • Gwynne Jamieson, 1987-1993
  • Eleanor Monahan, 1971-1987
  • Esther C. Pearson, 1968-1985
  • Theodore Curtin, 1975-1980
  • Francis G. Morrill, 1969-1978 (resigned)
  • O. Hunt Bowman, 1965-1976 (deceased)
  • Eugene F. Dooley, 1967-1975
  • Olga A. Abdallah, 1967-1969
  • David F. Curley, 1966-1968
  • Theodore R. Crawford, 1961-1968
  • Robert C. Fox, 1961-1966
  • Gertrude A.Tannyhill Cuthbert, 1956-1966
  • Ada Keedy, 1966
  • John J. Flaherty, 1966 (resigned)
  • Therese A. Flaherty, 1959-1965
  • Mary L. Dunn, 1945-1965
  • Martin B. Curran, 1951-1964
  • John Torrey Kenney, 1958-1961
  • Rachel P. Martin, 1949-1961
  • Marion L. Boch, 1957-1959
  • Vern H. Richards, 1952-1958
  • Eugene A. Nelson, 1944-1957
  • Maude Shattuck, 1918-1956 (Chair 1947-1956)
  • George H. Welles, 1946-1952
  • Francis J. Doran, 1942-1950
  • A. Marion Swain, 1925-1948
  • Leighton S. Thompson, 1946
  • W.L. Hyland, 1939-1946
  • Frances L. Blanchot, 1941-1945
  • Willard W. Everett, 1920-1943 (Chair 1932-1943)
  • Francis E. Murphy, 1939-1940
  • Mary E. Williams, 1930-1940
  • Ralph W. Taylor, 1931-1938
  • Richard D. Northrup, 1932-1937
  • Arthur P. Allen, 1930-1931
  • William T. Whedon, 1899-1930
  • Julia A. McCarthy, 1925-1929
  • Walter Blair, 1912-1929
  • Grace M. Everett, 1922-1925
  • M. Agnes Mahoney, 1922-1925
  • Agnes A. Curtin, 1912-1922
  • Maria E. Colburn, 1890-1922 **
  • Dr. Irving S. Fogg, 1891-1920 **
  • Walter Berwick, 1917
  • George W. Cushing, 1911-1917
  • Mary A Nagle, 1909-1912
  • James A. Halloran, 1907-1912
  • Lewis H. Plimpton, 1897-1912 **
  • Emily C. Fisher, 1907-1909
  • Rev. James B. Troy, 1905-1907
  • Martha B. Parker, 1888-1906 **
  • J. Stearns Cushing, 1896-1905 **
  • John C. Lane, 1892-1899 **
  • Rev. C. S. Nickerson, 1891-1893
  • Horace T. Atwood, 1884-1893
  • Carrie E. Hoyle, 1889-1891
  • Rev. B.W. Barrows, 1884-1891
  • Arthur E. Pattison, 1889-1890
  • Ellis Mendell, 1882-1889
  • Rev. G.I. Keirn, 1886-1888
  • Timothy F. Guy 1881-1884, 1887-88
  • J. Warren Talbot, 1880-1886
  • Rev. Theron Brown, 1877-1880, 1882-1886
  • Charles S. MacKenzie, 1880-1882
  • David S. Fogg, 1879-1882
  • Charles E. Pond, 1879-1881
  • Stillman C. Davis, 1878-1880

Original Board of Library Trustees

Francis Tinker, 1874-1896 (Librarian until 1880)
Rev. George Hill, 1874-1884
Rev. J. P. Bixby, 1874-1879
Herbert Morse, 1874-1878
Rev. E. Bromley 1874 –1877
Ward L. Gay, 1874-1877

**Board member when building opened