Age 39. 171 Court Street, Keene, NH. Born 12/31/1902, Baldwinville (Templeton), MA. Died 11/29/1942 (Sunday), of burns (death certificate). Keene branch manager, F. M. Johnson Lumber Co., of Fitchburg, MA. In a main dining room party of six with his wife Mabel, age 40, their 16-year-old daughter Anna "Ann Marie," Mr. and Mrs. Fred, Sr., and Hortense Sharby, ages 43 and 45 respectively, and their son Frederick "Fred," Jr., age 19, all of Keene, NH. All died except his daughter (Born 7/23/1926. Died as Ann Marie Gallagher on 5/24/2017, age 90. Last residence Keene, NH) and Mrs. Sharby (Born 8/20/1897. Died 3/23/1980, age 82). An adult daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sharby, Pauline, age 21 (Born 9/06/1921. Died as Pauline L. Bulman on 12/11/2020, age 99), a student at Regis College, Weston, MA, left the group to join friends at the nearby Hotel Statler shortly before the fire started. Had attended Keene schools and Christ School, Arden, SC. Attended St. Stephen's College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Was living with his wife and above daughter in North Merrick (Hempstead), NY, as of the 1930 federal census. "He was for a number of years a conductor of an orchestra in New York City" (Springfield Union, Springfield, MA, 11/30/1942). Was an organist and choir director at St. James Episcopal Church, Keene, NH. Was also survived by younger daughters Martha Jane, age 9, and Carol Elizabeth, age 3 (neither present). His survivor daughter (as Mrs. Ann Marie Gallagher) at age 87 spoke at the November 2013 public renaming of Shawmut Street ext. in Boston to "Cocoanut Grove Lane," her first return to the fire site since the disaster. With his wife, Mr. Sharby and Fred, Jr., were four of nine Grove victims lost from the Granite State. His home city of Keene was the only municipality outside Massachusetts besides New York, NY (six victims), to lose as many as four residents. Parents Mrs. Josie A. (Guile) and the late Mr. Merton G. Clark. Burial with his wife at Woodland Cemetery, Keene, NH. Middle name Clesson.

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