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Frank Waterman Stearns (born on November 8 1856 in Boston) was an American businessman whose father Richard H. Stearns had founded the R. H. Stearns department store and company in Boston. His mother was Louise M. Waterman.After graduating from Amherst College in 1878 he joined his father’s retail dry goods firm in Boston. He became a partner in that company in 1881 and was appointed chairman of its Board of Directors in 1919.