TOWN

Official Website:
http://www.concordma.gov/

Chamber of Commerce:
http://www.concordchamberofcommerce.org/

Population:
17,668 (2010 census)

Founding Date:
1635 (settled and incorporated)

County:
Middlesex County

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
Middlesex School	1901

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Paget Brewster	Actor	10-Mar-1969		Emily Prentiss on Criminal Minds
Steve Carell	Comic	16-Aug-1962		Office manager at Dunder-Mifflin
Bob Diamond	Business	27-Jul-1951		Group CEO at Barclays, 2011-12
Tom Glavine	Baseball	25-Mar-1966		Pitcher, Atlanta Braves
George F. Hoar	Politician	29-Aug-1826	30-Sep-1904	US Senator from Massachusetts, 1877-1904
Henry David Thoreau	Author	12-Jul-1817	6-May-1862	Walden
Gordon S. Wood	Historian	27-Nov-1933		The Creation of the American Republic
Robert W. Wood	Physicist	2-May-1868	11-Aug-1955	Physical Optics

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bronson Alcott	Educator	29-Nov-1799	4-Mar-1888	Founder of Boston's Temple School
Robert Cutler	Government	12-Jun-1895	8-May-1974	1950s National Security Advisor
Walter D. Edmonds	Novelist	15-Jul-1903	24-Jan-1998	Drums Along the Mohawk
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Essayist	25-May-1803	27-Apr-1882	Essayist, wrote Nature
George Russell Harrison	Physicist	14-Jul-1898	27-Jul-1979	Echelle spectrograph
H. Gobind Khorana	Scientist	9-Jan-1922	9-Nov-2011	RNA's role in protein synthesis
Henry David Thoreau	Author	12-Jul-1817	6-May-1862	Walden
Sinclair Weeks	Government	15-Jun-1893	7-Feb-1972	US Commerce Secretary, 1953-58

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