Re: Kilvert & Forbes, Boston, USA.
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In reply to:
Kilverts in USA
William Kilvert 6/24/02
KILVERT & FORBES.
The confectionary shop Kilvert and Forbes in Boston was started off by Kilvert Dun Gifford and John Kerry(now a US Senator).
Kilvert Dun Gifford is the son of Charles Gifford and Priscilla Kilvert(b.1912). Priscilla was the daughter of Charles Alexander Kilvert(b.1874) and Anne Francis Abbott(b.1874) and married 1908. (the Dun comes from his grandmother, Elizabeth Dun, who was part of the original Dun family of the Dun and Bradstreet fame...debt collecting and finance).
Kilvert Dun Gifford graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School and served in the US Navy. He was a legislative assistant to Senator Edward F, Kennedy and National Campaign Coordinator for Senator Robert F, Kennedy. He has been an officer of Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, chairman of Common Cause/Massachusetts, National chair of the American Institute of Wine and Food. Also the chairman of the Nantucket Electric Company. He is now the founder and President of Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust, Boston.