life and public service Stearns served in the Massachusetts Legislature for two years and also on the Boston Educational Board. Stearns married Louise M. Waterman. His sons Frank Waterman Stearns and Richard Hall Stearns, Jr. (b. April 25, 1862) were members of R. H. Stearns and Company after R. H. Stearns's death. Another son, William Foster Stearns (b. April 18, 1859;) was an 1882 graduate of Amherst College and a Congregational clergyman. There was another son, Frederick R. Stearns. Stearns died in August 1909 in Poland Springs, Maine, at age 85 of natural causes. See also 1874 Massachusetts legislature 1875 Massachusetts legislature References American businesspeople in retailing Businesspeople from Boston 1824 births 1909 deaths 19th-century American businesspeople