David Tartikoff

   David Tartikoff was born in Russia in 1898, and immigrated to the United States when he was 3 years old. His father, a plumber, was a widow and remarried to Esther Kramer in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on August 19, 1904. In 1907, the Tartikoffs were living at 322a Cross St., in Malden. By 1918 they were living at 60 Linwood St.
   David joined the U.S. Marine Corps. as a private when he was 20 years old. He was killed in action; the place and date of his burial are not known. He has a headstone at Beth Israel Cemetery in North Reading, Mass.
  On September 2, 1921, the Boston Evening Globe wrote:

  Business men about Suffolk sq, whose petitions to have the name of the square changed to Tartikoff in memory of David Tartikoff, killed in action with the Fourth Marines in France, were turned down by the Street and Water Commission, and have decided to call it Tartikoff sq themselves. Today they erected a sign in the square, corner Willow and Cross sts, with gold letters reading "David Tartikoff Square" and a gold star is also on the sign.

 Later, Tartikoff Park was dedicated to the fallen hero, at the corner of Willow and Lyme Streets.

Tartikoff Park, rededicated in 2013