Background
Field, Fred Tarbell was born on December 24, 1876 in Springfield, Vermont, United States. Son of Frederic Griswold and Anna Melanie (Tarbell) Field.
justice Su preme Judicial Court
Field, Fred Tarbell was born on December 24, 1876 in Springfield, Vermont, United States. Son of Frederic Griswold and Anna Melanie (Tarbell) Field.
Educated Vermont Academy, Saxtons River. Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, 1900. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1903.
Doctor of Laws, Dartmouth, 1931, Amherst and Williams, 1939.
U. Vermont, 1940; Doctor of Civil Law, Boston University, 1942.
Montague. Admitted to Massachusetts bar, 1903, to Supreme Court of the United States Court, 1907. Assistant attorney general, Massachusetts, 1905-1912, member United States Advisory Tax Board, 1919. Member Goodwin, Proctor, Field & Hoar, 1919-1923.
Justice Supreme Judicial Court Massachusetts, 1929-1938, chief justice, 1938-1947, retired.
Lecturer Boston University Law School, 1913-1917, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1921-1923. Trustee Brown University, 1920-1926.
President American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, 1923-1925. Fellow of Brown University, since 1926.
Trustee Newton Theological Institution, 1917-1945, president of the board, 1928-1935.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Law Institute, American Massachusetts bar associations, Bar Association City of Boston (vice president 1927-1929), Colonial Society of Massachusetts (vice president), Massachusetts History Society, American Antiquarian Society, Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati (honorary), Phi Beta Kappa (president Brown U. Chapter 1940-1941). Clubs: Union, Saint Botolph (honorary), Odd Volumes (Boston).
Spouse Gertrude A. Montague, October 11, 1922, Cambridge, Massachusetts.