Joseph A. Erickson
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Joseph Austin Erickson (January 8, 1896 – March 14, 1983) was an American bank executive who served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 1948 to 1961.
Erickson was born on January 8, 1896, in Lynn, Massachusetts to Emil Svante Erickson and Anna (Jacobson) Erickson.[1][2] He graduated from Lynn Classical High School. He worked in a Lynn department store, at the General Electric River Works plant, and as a bellhop on Cape Cod in order to fund his education at Harvard College. He left Harvard in 1917 for the First Officers Training Training Camp in Plattsburgh, New York.[2] He served as a first lieutenant in the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps during World War I and then served on the repatriation section of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace.[3] He returned to Harvard after the war, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree and attended Harvard Business School for one year.[2]