Background
Flattery, Maurice Douglas was born on February 6, 1870 in Dungarvan, Ireland. Son of Michael Angelo and Catherine (O’Brien) Flattery.
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Maurice Douglas Flattery
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Came to the United States, 1893. Educated in Ireland and at Centre College, Kentucky. Student Harvard Law School, 1901-1902.
Career
University, 1894, Centre College, 1895-1898. Practiced law at Boston, later devoted attention principally to business affairs President Globe Enterprises.
Now Chairman of the Board Murray & Tregurta Corporation (manufacturers marine engines), Old Colony Woolen Mills Company.
Managing director Loew’s Theatres Company, State Theatre Company, Globe Vaudeville Company, Columbia Amusement Company, State Theatre Company Endowed radium clinic at Carney Hospital, also donated Laboratory Building. Endowed fellowship in research medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Endowed fund of $500 yearly, and gold medal, Harvard, for most important discovery in any part of the world, in preservation of health, or prevention of disease. Endowed fund for Boston Theatre employees, et cetera
Achievements
Membership
Served with Leinster Regiment, British Army.
Connections
Married Georgina A. Mackie, of London, England., August 18, 1897.
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Political Party
Republican
Awards
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Awarded medal by British Humane Society, for saving life of drowning soldier off Sandgate, 1889. Medal, Massachusetts Humane Society for saving life, 1907. Volunteer manager Industrial Survey, Washington, District of Columbia, 1918, World War.tempSpaceMember Harvard Cancer Commission, 1919, established M. Douglas Flattery Foundation, for research work in preventive medicine at University of Lyons, France, 1920. Reported, for President Harding, plan to organize research workers in medicine at United States university centers. Member vocational advisory board Boston University, chairman Boston Conservation Bureau.tempSpaceChairman Special Committee on Medical Research.Awarded medal by British Humane Society, for saving life of drowning soldier off Sandgate, 1889. Medal, Massachusetts Humane Society for saving life, 1907. Volunteer manager Industrial Survey, Washington, District of Columbia, 1918, World War.tempSpaceMember Harvard Cancer Commission, 1919, established M. Douglas Flattery Foundation, for research work in preventive medicine at University of Lyons, France, 1920.
Reported, for President Harding, plan to organize research workers in medicine at United States university centers. Member vocational advisory board Boston University, chairman Boston Conservation Bureau.tempSpaceChairman Special Committee on Medical Research.