Frederick J. Brand
Published in The Dorchester Gentlemen’s Driving Club Year Book 1905. Ed. and compiled by Ernest H. Morgan.
page 90
Ex-President Frederick J. Brand was born in Connecticut, and received his education there, but came to Boston as a young man. He began as salesman for the firm of A. B. Crocker & Co., then the largest felt house in the country. On the death of the senior member he organized the Boston Felting company, of which he was the head, and which was conducted with great success until the formation of the American Felt company which merged all the leading felt interests in the country. The Boston Felting company was among others absorbed, and Mr. Brand was made manager of the Boston branch, a position he still holds with offices at 112 Beach Street. For several years he made his home at the South End, in old Ward 17, but about ten years ago bought the estate numbered 4 Meville Avenue, one of the handsomest on that aristocratic street, where he lives with his wife. Mr. Brand is a charter member of the Dorchester Gentlemen’s Driving Club, of which he was clerk for se veral years. He is a member of St. John Lodge and Dorchester Royal Arch Chapter of Masons, a charter member of the Colonial Club of Dorchester, a member of the Boot and Shoe Club, and of the Trade Club of Boston. He has always had a love for, and interest in, horses and has been and is the owner of some speedy ones. Among them may be mentioned Dr. G, pacer, 2.20 1-4; Princess Ebilo, a trotter with the same mark; Bath Belle, a trotter with a mark of 2.26 1-2; King Wilkes, a trotter with a mark of 2.26 1-4; Joe King by May King, a pacer from the celebrated Lookout farm, which as a three-year -old took second money at Brockton in 2.19 1-2; and Helvetia, a handsome brown filly by Bingen, now owned by J. M. E. Morrill. He was part owner with Mr. Linnehan of the pacer Reno K, later owned by Mr. Linnehan, with a mark of 2.17 1-4.