No. 21572 Charles Ferris Gettemy
Gettemy wrote the following:
The True Story of Paul Revere, His Midnight Ride, His Arrest and Court Martial, His Useful Public Services. (1905)
Charles Ferris Gettemy was born in Chicago in 1868, to Robert Hood Gettemy and Mary Ellen (Ferris) Gettemy. Charles graduated from Knox College in Galesburg in 1890 and entered the senior class at Harvard that fall, graduating in the class of 1891. After graduation, he joined the staff of the Boston Daily Advertiser as a Washington correspondent and subsequently filled the same role for the Boston Record; he returned to Boston in 1899 when he became political editorof the Boston Herald.
Charles Gettemy and Hattie Brockway were married in 1897. In the 1900 census, Charles Gettemy and Hattie Brockway lived in an apartment building at 30 Magnolia Street in Dorchester, and Charles’s occupation, not surprisingly, was listed as reported.
In 1905, Curtis Guild, Jr., recently elected governor of Massachusetts, tapped Charles to be is private secretary. In 1907, Guild appointed Charles as the director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics. He headed the Massachusetts Homestead Commission from 1911 to 1919 and was director military enrollment in Massachusetts during World War I.
In 1909, Charles and Hattie moved to 43 Roslin Street. After Hattie’s death, he remarried and moved to Savin Hill Avenue.
Charles produced numerous reports in his official duties in government.