Architect
Centurion, 1907–1928
Born 17 May 1862 in Boston, Massachusetts
Died 8 August 1928 in Sandwich, New Hampshire
Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery
, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Proposed by John M. Carrère and John White Alexander
Elected 1 June 1907 at age forty-five
Archivist’s Note: Brother of Archibald Cary Coolidge; uncle of Archibald C. Coolidge; grandfather of J. R. Coolidge
Century Memorial
Joseph Randolph Coolidge, an elder brother of Professor Archibald Coolidge, was a useful public citizen whose career had been prepared for by a thorough education. He had taken his degree at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and had studied at the University of Berlin and the Dresden Polytechnic. He had tasted public life in the New Hampshire legislature and had served the city of his later residence as trustee for the Boston Athenæum and the Museum of Fine Arts, and as president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1929 Century Association Yearbook