Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-07-24
Brig. Gen. Lord, New
Director Of Budget
Visits NOrthpOrt


Country Club realize that it enter
tanned very distinguished guest
one day recently, for General Her.
bert M. Lord is a very unostenta-
tious man. He came end went so
quietly that not dozen people in
Northport knew that the new Di-
rector of the Budget, recently APP
pointed by President Harding. the
man who will handle the cofitry's
money for the next few years, was a
guest at luncheon. With Mrs. Lord
he was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Err
nest c. Davis of Rockland, motor
ing up from Friendship, where the
Lords are summering.
General Lord was born in Rock
land, Dec. 6. 1859, and many in this
vicinity who did not know him in
his youthful days as the Babe Ruth
Of Colby College. knew him later as
editor OF the Rockland Courier
Gazett, or as a tenor and composer.
for he was frequently heard through
out Maine. cities in concert work.
He was also a talented us.cal di-
rector and with Mrs. Lord at the
piano, staged. the first minstrel shows
given in Maine by young women,
calling them Smoked Pearls. 1t was
quite feat in those days to get
young women to appear in black
face but he accomplished it and
staged some very successful shows.
Newspaper work claimed his at
tention up to 1894, when he went to
Washington as private secretary to
Congressman Nelson Dingley, and
served from that time until 1898 as
clerk of the Ways and Means Com
mittee
In 1898 he was commissioned a
pay master of Volunteers by Pres
ident Mckinley, with the rank of Ma
jor and the following year was
raised to Chief Paymaster, for the
Division of Cuba. He then became
Chief paymaster of the Department
Of Dakota, of Visagas, Philippine. of
the New England District, of the
Missouri Department and in 1913
was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel
OF the Quartermastcr Corps.
After the awful fire in Salem, he
was placed in charge of the dis
bursement of 100000, the fire re-
lief fund. expending it go efficiently
that the thousands of sufferers We're
satisfied and some $150,000 of the
appropriation saved.
The next step upwards of this
ROckland man, who has climbed the
ladder of success round by round.
was his promotion to the rank of
colonel in the Quartermaster Corps.
in the Regular Army IN 1917. He
then became chief of the finance and
accounts division and in 1918 was
promoted to Brigadier General,
Quartermastcrs Corps. National Ar
my. For three years he was director
of finance in the U. S. Army.
Now he has been appointed by
President Harding. Director of the
Budget, succeeding Gen. Charles c..
Dawes.
General Lord was born in Rock
land, the son of Sabin Lord, a well
known contractor and builder, a di-
rect descendant of Nathan Lord, who
settled in Kittery in 1862. He was
graduated from Colby in 1884 and
has the degrees A. B., A. NJ, and
LII. d.
Gen. Lord is a member of the Ar
my and Navy Club of Washington,
and he is vice-president of the Fed
eral Club. He is a member of the
Delta Epsilon, Greek letter fratern-
ity, and president of the Washington
Delta Epsilon branch. In 1886 he
married Miss Annie Stuart Waldo,
who has kept abreast of her brilliant
husband in all his public work, a
woman of rare personality and
Charm. OF their three children, one
died in infancy and their son, Ken
meth, followed his distinguished ia
ther into the army. and their daugh-
ter. Miss Ruth, married an army
man, Frank r. Van Rannsolaer.
Like most big men, General Lord
taught school in his college days.
To his old friends and cronies in
Maine, General Lord is always Bert,
he puts on no airs. he is the same
old comrade of his boyhood days
and, by that same token, he has
never ceased to be a base ball fan.
Athletic all his life. he is COM
manding figure, and Maine is Justly
proud of him