Background
Spear, Russell Bailey was born on March 13, 1889 in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Moore and Flora Cameron (Bailey) Spear.
Spear, Russell Bailey was born on March 13, 1889 in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Moore and Flora Cameron (Bailey) Spear.
Student Somerville Latin School, 1903-1906, Burdett College, 1906-1907. Certified Public Accountants, Pace Institute of Accounting, 1914.
Bank messenger, clerk, bond salesman, Estabrook & Company, 1907-1914. Assistant Federal Reserve agent of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1914-1919. Vice president Atlantic National Bank, Boston, 1919-1932.
President Atlantic Corporation, Boston, 1927-1932. Assistant vice president First National Bank of Boston, 1931-1933. Treasurer, vice-president and director Depositors Trust Company, Augusta, Maine, 1933-1937, president, from 1937, Chairman of the Board, from 1943.
President, director Depositors Trust Foundation from 1954. Incorporator Agusta Savings Bank and Kennebec Savings Bank, Certified Public Accountants, Massachusetts Chairman stockholders advising committee Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, 1946-1947. President board of trustees Augusta (Maine) General Hospital, 1945-1950.
Member American (member executive council, 1948-1951) and Maine (president 1944-1945) bankers association, Newcomen Society of England, Society Mayflower Descendants. Clubs: Ormond Beach (Florida) Golf Association.
Married Marion Genevieve Harrington, April.; married second, Rose Harrington Fuoss, May 23, 1958. Children: Genevieve Rose (Mistress Winton Stuart Bowie) (deceased), Philip H., Virginia Marion (Mistress Charles Thomas McCarthy).