[4] He then went to work for a short time in a plumber's shop, but lost his job because he went to the Massachusetts State Fair in Reading after his boss told him he would be fired if he did so.

[4] He once stepped into the lunch room at a factory and, sitting beside a group of his employees, he ate a frugal meal which did not cost more than 15 cents.

"[15] When the US Government brought a suit against United Shoe pursuant to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, it named Endicott as a defendant.

It was an accomplishment which testified to his remarkable executive ability and power as an organizer for the train left the North Station bearing a large force of doctors and nurses that was assembled in haste from all over the state, as well as supplies.

[4] He was appointed by Governor Samuel W. McCall as food administrator and the executive manager of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety during World War I.

[2][3][4][6] His activities in these two posts kept him constantly in the public eye and it was through his interest in seeing that Massachusetts and New England kept its resources unremittingly behind the government in the prosecution of the war that he first entered the industrial field as an adjuster of disputes.

[4] As executive manager of the public safety committee he first directed a general inventory of the state s resources available to aid in the war.

[4] During this time he was a dollar-a-year man, taking only $1 in salary,[11] and he tore up the lawn on the Sanderson Street side of his estate to grow potatoes and other vegetables in order to support the war effort and show the need for Victory Gardens.

When Endicott resigned from his war commission appointments, Governor McCall stated: Let me say here that nothing could exceed the patriotism and efficiency of the work you have rendered.

My sole object in doing the work I am engaged in is to render the public such service as I am capable of—a duty I feel incumbent on every citizen of this country in this crisis.

I shall feel amply repaid if I can convince myself that I have been able to contribute something in behalf of the common cause in which the United States is engaged—the defeat of Prussianism and autocracy and the triumph of democracy as we understand it in America.

"[4] Endicott enjoyed the confidence of both labor and capital, and he was called upon over and over again to adjust disputes which had engendered much bitter feeling on both sides.

[4] His reputation brought him appointment by President Woodrow Wilson as one of 15 public representatives at the National Labor Conference in Washington, D.C., in October 1919.

"[2] He cleared the ashes away and built a new homestead on the 15-acre (61,000 m2) parcel, today known as the Endicott Estate,[22] and bought a new fire truck for the Town.

[19] When a radiator burst during the construction, "causing a raging river to crash down the main stairway," he tore down one end of the house and burned a pile of beautiful wall paneling, parquet floors, and elegant woodwork, much to the dismay of his neighbors.

[2] While he was building his mansion, his distant cousins were living in the Fairbanks House just .3 miles (0.48 km) away[24] without electricity or indoor plumbing.

Vernon Street side of the property today serves as the Endicott branch of the Dedham Public Library.

[19] In January 1920, while on a hunting trip in North Carolina with other Boston men, which was meant to be a vacation from his public and business affairs, he came down with influenza.

[4] The frequent and intense headaches he suffered on the return trip caused him to take up residence at the Hotel Touraine rather than at his home in Dedham so to be closer to his doctors.

[4] The funeral services were extremely simple, and took place in the home of Clarence W. Barron at 334 Beacon Street in Boston.

"[20] President Woodrow Wilson telegrammed his condolence to Louise Endicott, saying "Permit me to express our heartfelt sympathy with you in your bereavement.

[34] In 1921 Endicott's widow Louise gave $35,000 to the American Legion to build a clubhouse nearby the family Estate on Whiting Ave.[35] His daughter Gertrude pre-deceased him.