Age 28. 10 Florence Street, Dover, NH. Born on 5/20/1914, in Dover, NH. Died of burns (death certificate). Clerk, South Portland, ME, shipyard. Attended the afternoon Holy Cross 55-to-12 football rout of undefeated (8 wins, 0 losses) Boston College at Fenway Park with nurse Miss Mary Grady, age 25, of Providence, RI (but lodging in Portland, ME, the previous six years), dead. "According to information received by his parents...he was rescued from the fire alive but died shortly afterwards at the Massachusetts General hospital" (Manchester Union, Manchester, NH, 12/01/1942). Graduated Dover, NH, High School in 1932. Graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 1936. Was employed at the Strand Theatre, Dover, NH, until the past summer when he became engaged in war industry work at the above shipyard. Was single. Enjoyed better luck two-and-a-half years prior: "Arnold Baer, 10 Florence street, Dover, was the winner of the $25 second prize at the Portsmouth Merchants Bureau Bargain Days..." (The Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, NH, 5/06/1940). Medium build (WWII draft registration, October '40: 5' 7," 168 lbs.). One of nine Granite State fire victims (also Mr. and Mrs. Clyde and Mabel Clark, ages 39 and 40, John Cushing, age 38, Mrs. Madeline Nyland, age 42, William Ramsay, age 36, Fred Sharby, Sr., age 43, his son Frederick, Jr., age 19, and S/Sergt. John Sullivan, U.S. Army, age 35, all patrons), the third-greatest loss of life by state after Massachusetts (406 dead) and New York (15 dead). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. and Gertrude (Severson) Baer, same address. Burial at Forest Glade Cemetery, Somersworth, NH. Middle name Maurice.

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