1908 - Boston Banker's Home At Weston Is Burned

Weston, Jan. 26, Lack of water so badly handicaped (sic) the Weston firemen in fighting a blaze on the Conant road estate of George G. McCAUSLAND, vice president of the First National Bank in Boston, early this evening, that the house and barn were destroyed, entailing a loss of over $12,000. Some of the contents of the dwelling were saved. Nobody was at home but a daughter, the rest of the family being in Maine. The fire started in a rear room upstairs, but how, is not known. Mr. McCAUSLAND had laid out about $5000 on the place since he bought it last summer.