Fred C. Church
| Frederic Cameron Church, Jr. | |
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| Occupation | Businessman |
| College football career | |
| Harvard Crimson | |
| Position | Running back |
| Career history | |
| College | Harvard (1916–1920) |
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Frederic Cameron "Fred" Church, Jr. was an American businessman. His father founded Fred C. Church Insurance company in 1865 as a sole proprietorship in Lowell, Massachusetts. Fred. C. Church, Inc. currently has around 130 employees, with branch offices in Andover, MA, Dracut, MA, Haverhill, MA, Tewksbury, MA, Westford, MA, and Portsmouth, NH.
In February 1882, Fred C. Church (Sr) joined about twenty other prominent young men of Lowell to form a gentleman's club called the Highland Club, later named the "Yorick Club", with, other members included architect, Frederick W. Stickney and Percy Parker.
Fred Church set up shop in down town Lowell, at 53 Central Street in the Center Block building.
His son, Fred C. Church Jr., attended Harvard in 1916, where he was very popular, elected 1920 Class President, and Captain of the Football team., He also played on the Crimson Hockey team. In 1920, F.C. Jr. was acting first marshal at the Harvard Commencement exercises. He continued his education in Graduate school, and graduated from Harvard in 1922.
Fred Jr. was poised to take over the business, as described by the July 3, 1920, article, in "The Standard" as;
"F.C.Jr," comes of first grade successful stock. Ask any company doing business with the Church Agency.
In July 1925, with 400 of societies' elite in attendance, Fred Jr. married into the wealthy Vanderbilt family, in Newport, RI, as first husband to the "Golden Girl" Muriel Vanderbilt. They resided at "Dudley Place" in Newport, which was her father's wedding present, and where she kept her show horses. They divorced four years later. According to the March 18, 1929 Time magazine article, "on grounds of nonsupport." By 1931, Ms. Vanderbilt was on her second husband.
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