Benton's BOSTON POST CANE recipient

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January 01,2009

Benton's Boston Post Cane recipient:    Marguerite Basford

For more information about the Boston Post Cane including "Origins of the Tradition," visit:  http://web.maynard.ma.us/bostonpostcane/origins-of-the-tradition

In the early 1900s, Edwin Grozier, the owner of the The Boston Post newspaper, sent the canes to various New England towns as a promotion for the newspaper. 

The following passage is from the book MORE BOSTON POST CANES:  The Pine Tree State and Little Rhody by Barbara Staples [Flemming Press, Lynn, Massachusetts, 2002]:      BENTON     First recipient: may have been Appleton W. Reed, 88, who was born July 18, 1821 and died June 1, 1911.  He was a clergyman.