"In 1915, when heart disease for the first time surpassed
tuberculosis as New York City's leading cause of death... Drs. Lewis A.
Conner, Robert H. Halsey, John Wyckoff, Haven
Emerson, and a few colleagues" established the Association for the
Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, which later became the New York
Heart Association." (To the American Heart Association on its 40th
Anniversary. New York Heart Association 1963-64 Annual Report.) Conner
was president; Dr. T. Stuart Hart, Vice President; Dr. Nelson L.
Deming, Secretary; and Ray Morris, Treasurer. The Executive Committee
was Robert H. Halsey, Chairman; Health Commissioner Haven Emerson, Dr.
Hubert V. Guile, Mrs. Linzee Blagden, and Dr. Frederick Brush,
Superintendant of the Burke Foundation. (Move to Combat Heart Disease.
New York Times, Nov. 18, 1916.)
Theodore Stuart Hart was a vice president from 1916-22 and president
of the Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease from
1922-24; founder and president of the New York Heart Association
1922-24; and founder, director, and chairman of the executive committee
of the American Heart Association 1924-28. He was also a director of
the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association. (Dr. Theodore Hart, A
Heart Expert, 81. New York Times, Jan. 2, 1951; Bulletin of Yale
University. Obituary Record of Graduates of the Undergraduate Schools
Deceased during the Year 1950-1951, pp. 16-17.)
Ray Morris was a partner of White, Weld & Co. from 1911 to 1920,
and a partner of Brown Brothers and Brown Brothers Harriman from 1921
until his retirement in 1956. He was a director of numerous companies.
(Ray Morris, 82, Retired Banker. New York Times, May 20, 1951.) His
wife was Katharine Grinnell, daughter of the E. Morgan Grinnells, and
her sister married Alexander Forbes. (Miss Grinnell A Bride. New York
Times, Jun. 10, 1910.) He was a trustee of Vassar College and
Sarah Lawrence College (Barnes A Vassar Trustee. New York Times, Feb.
23, 1922; R.B. Fosdick Elected At Lawrence College. New York Times, May
29, 1930.)
The Standard Investing Corporation, of which Ray Morris was
president, held 1000 shares of P. Lorillard Company Common in 1928.
(American Investment Trusts. By John Francis Fowler. Ayer Publishing,
1975.) Directors in 1936 were Thatcher M. Brown, John Foster Dulles,
Henry R. Hayes, J.F.B. Mitchell, Ray Morris, George Murnane and W. Lane
Rehm. (Standard Investing Re-Elects Old Board. New York Times, Mar. 5,
1936.)
Mrs. Morris helped with fund raising for the Presbyterian Hospital (other fund-raisers whose husbands bore the names of Bonesmen included Mrs. Artemus L. Gates, Mrs. John Ellsworth (S&B 1905), Mrs. Stephen H. Philbin (S&B 1910), Mrs. Dean Sage (S&B 1897), Mrs. John Sloane (S&B 1905), and Mrs. Henry Sage Fennimore Cooper (S&B 1917). (Hospital to Begin Fund Drive Today. New York Times, Aug. 29, 1925), and for the American Society for the Control of Cancer (Ball to Help Medical Work. New York Times, Feb. 27, 1927.)
Ray Morris was the third son of Luzon Burritt Morris, Skull &
Bones 1854, who was Governor of Connecticut from 1893 to 1895. His
sister, Helen Harrison Morris, was the wife of Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley, S&B
1876. (Emily Morris Weds Hamilton Hadley. New York Times, Jul. 14,
1929; Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during
the Academical Year ending in June, 1896, pp. 41-42.)
Edwin Olaf Holter (1871-1964), was from a Helena, Montana dynasty of
lumber and other family enterprises, whom he assisted with stock market
investments. (Yale University. New York Times, May
29, 1893; Edwin O. Holter, Lawyer, Led Prison Association. New York
Times, Jun. 8, 1964.) He and Lewis A. Conner were ushers at the wedding
of Amos R. Eno Pinchot (S&B 1897) to Gertrude Minturn, and the
groom's brother Gifford Pinchot (S&B 1889) was best man. (The
Weddings of a Day. New York Times, Nov. 15, 1900.) Holter was engaged
to marry Sarah Sage, daughter of Mrs. Dean
Sage [Sr.], in Albany. (What is Doing in Society. New York Times,
June 4, 1903.) His daughter, Elizabeth Sage Holter, married Lawrence
Kirktland Jennings, the son of Oliver G.
Jennings, S&B 1887. It was his second marriage. (Nuptials of
Miss Holter. New York Times, Mar. 5, 1944.)
"The retirement of [Edwin's brother] Norman B. Holter brought his youngest son, Norman Jefferis (Jeff) Holter (1914-1983) into the family businesses. A chemist and physicist, Jeff Holter was a member of the Navy teams conducting atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll and hydrogen bomb tests at Eniwetok Atoll. After his return to Helena in 1946, he served as a corporate officer for Holter Hardware, Holter Company, Holter Realty, Montana Flour Mills, and Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company. In addition, he founded and worked as research director for the Holter Research Foundation, Inc. This small, non-profit research laboratory was founded in 1947 and financed by private funds and Public Health Service grants. Being involved with the field of medical physics, the foundation is credited with the discovery of several important heart monitoring devices and for the creation of 'Dynamic Electrocardiography.'" (Guide to the Holter Family papers, 1861-1968. Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives, accessed 3-22-08.)
Guide to the Holter Family papers, 1861-1968 / Northwest Digital Archives, Washington State University
Drs. Lewis A. Conner, Robert H. Halsey and Harlow Brooks took part
in a symposium on "recent studies on the effects of tobacco in man,"
held at the New York Academy of Medicine. Drs. Marion B. Sulzberger of
the Post Graduate Hospital and Joseph Harkavy of Mount Sinai Hospital
blamed hypersensitivity to tobacco for thromboangiitis obliterans.
Removal of nicotine from the extract with which they injected the
subjects did not change the effects. (Discover Cause of a Rare Disease.
New York Times, Feb. 3, 1933.)
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