Francis Delafield
M.D., Yale 1860, was a member of the faculty of Columbia University
since 1868. (Obituary Record of Yale Graduates 1915-1916, p. 36. His
father was Edward Delafield M.D. (Biographical Sketches of the
Graduates of Yale College with Annals of
the College History Vol. VI September, 1805 - September, 1815. By
Franklin Bowditch Dexter, 1912, pp. 467 and 187.) The Francis Delafield
Hospital of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center was built by the
city at a cost of $7 million. It opened in 1950 and was staffed by the
Columbia University Faculty of Medicine. (New Cancer Hospital on
Washington Heights. New York Times, Mar. 13, 1949.)
"Francis Delafield, at the time pathologist at Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, kept a special notebook with the title, 'Case reports of tumours of the lung, 1868-1888,' in which were recorded in his own handwriting protocols of cases of primary cancer of the lung." (Lung Cancer in the Nineteenth Century. By Milton B. Rosenblatt. Reprinted from Bulletin of the History of Medicine 1964 Sep-Oct;38(5):395-425.)
Lung Cancer in the Nineteenth Century, 1964 / tobacco documentHis father, Edward Delafield M.D.,
Yale 1812, was president of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons from 1858 to 1875. He founded the New York Eye
Infirmary with Dr. John Kearny Rogers (Princeton 1811). His brother,
Major Joseph Delafield, Yale
1808, a lawyer, was a Trustee of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1832 to 1875. His second
wife was Julia Floyd, sister of Augustus Floyd, Yale 1814.
(Biographical Sketches of
the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History Vol.
VI September, 1805 - September, 1815. By Franklin Bowditch Dexter,
1912, pp. 467 and 187.) Edward
C. Delafield, longtime treasurer and trustee of the Memorial
Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer, was Maj. Joseph Delafield's
grandson.
Dr. Edward Delafield's first wife, Eleanor (Elwyn), daughter of Elizabeth Langdon and Thomas Elwyn, was a Royal descendant of Henry I, King of France. His daughter, Alice, married Howard Clarkson, also a Royal descendant of Henry I, King of France. (Americans of Royal Descent. By Charles Henry Browning, 1891, p.25.)
Americans of Royal Descent, p. 25 / Google BooksThey were the descendants of John
Delafield, who immigrated to America in 1783. The
Delafield family married into the
royal desendants of Edward III, King of England, in 1563, and their
ancestor, John Delafield, was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in
1697, "with remainder of the title to his descendants, male and female,
of his name." (Americans of Royal
Descent. By Charles Henry Browning, 1891, p.65.)
George W. Lane was President of the Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Hospital at his death in 1883. He had been married to two of the sisters of Daniel Coit Gilman, Skull & Bones 1852.
Heber Reginald Bishop (1840-1902) went into business in Boston at the age of 19, then founded Bishop & Co. in Remedios, Cuba, a few years later. In 1876, he retired from this firm, but continued as a director of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, the Candler Iron Company, the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, the Lackawanna Steel Comapany, and the Metropolitan Trust Company of New York. (Death of Heber R. Bishop. New York Times, Dec. 11, 1902.) Fellow directors of the Metropolitan Trust included Collis P. Huntington, Morris K. Jesup, and Dudley Olcott. (Classified Ad 11. New York Times, Dec. 18, 1883 p. 7.) Also in 1883, Bishop hosted a reception to the managers of the Presbyterian Hospital, to which John S. Kennedy was invited (The Presbyterian Hospital; A reception to the Managers. New York Times, Dec. 19, 1883.) In 1884, he gave $10,000 to Union Theological Seminary (New Theological Buildings. New York Times, Dec. 10, 1884.) His daughter, Harriet, married James F.D. Lanier, the son of Charles Lanier of the Central Trust (Lanier-Bishop. New York Times, Nov. 25, 1885.) Another daughter, Elizabeth Templeton, married James Low Harriman, the son of Guaranty Trust director Oliver Harriman (Mrs. J.L. Harriman Dies In Baltimore. New York Times, Mar. 6, 1934.) 1,598 shares of Standard Oil stock were the principal item in equal trust estates created by Heber R. Bishop for his eight children, which had increased in value by around $1,450,000 since the dissolution of the Standard Oil trust in 1911. (Bishop Heirs to Get $500,000 As Income. New York Times, Feb. 10, 1915.) His daughter, Ellen, married Moses Taylor, Scroll & Key 1893.
Fisher was the head of the State hospital and almshouse at
Tewksbury, Mass., for eight years before moving to Presbyterian
Hospital and a higher salary. He was a graduate of Harvard Medical
School. (Dr. Fisher's Promotion. New York Times, Oct. 4, 1891.) The
hospital was expanded to 315 beds from 100, after a fire two years
before that partly destroyed it. Cornelius Vanderbilt, John S. Kennedy
and R.W. DeForest were among the visitors. (The Presbyterian Hospital.
New York Times, Dec. 20, 1891.) Mr. James Lenox was the hospital's
first president in 1872. (Our Hospitals. By Thomas D. Preston. Godey's
Magazine, Nov. 1892.) "The Presbyterian is almost the only hospital in
the city which is under medical superintendence. For some strange and
unaccountable reason the hospitals of New York City are usually placed
in charge of individuals who have had no medical training. This was at
one time the arrangement in the Presbyterian Hospital; but about five
or six years ago its management decided to change this condition of
things, and a medical officer of large experience and of high
professional attainments, Dr. C. Irving Fisher, was appointed
superintendent.... But while there is an admirable training school in
existence, there is no suitable accommodation for the nurses. These
young women, after a hard day's work, are housed in nothing more than a
barrack at the top of the building; and, in this respect, the
Presbyterian Hospital is considerably behind the other hospitals of the
city, the New York, Mount Sinai, and the German, for example, where
there are separate buildings for the accommodation of the school for
nurses." (The Conduct of a Hospital. By Thomas P. Hughes, D.D, LL.D.
The Independent, Feb. 24, 1898.) Fisher ranked coffee and tea poisoning
as a public health problem alongside typhoid, smallpox, malaria and
venereal disease. (Most of New York's Illness Is Preventable. By Edward
Marshall. New York Times, Mar. 23, 1913.) Fisher was quoted in
advertising for Postum. (Display Ad 5. Los Angeles Times, May 19,
1913.) He was superintendent of Presbyterian Hospital until 1914. (A
Suggestion; As to Heresies in the Practice of Religion. By C. Irving
Fisher. Outlook, Apr. 25, 1923.) He died at age 78. Services at Madison
Avenue Presbyterian Church. (Died. New York Times, Apr. 27, 1924.) Dr.
and Mrs. Fisher sailed to "the Mediterranean and the Orient" on the
White Star liner Arabic, along with a number of other physicians and
professionals (Ocean Travelers. New York Times, Feb. 7, 1907), and
their pictures of Jordan are on the George Eastman House website.
Railroad magnate John Stewart Kennedy (1830-1909) was the president of Presbyterian Hospital from at least 1893 until his death in 1909. He was also a trustee of the Central Trust during these years.
The Central Trust (John S. Kennedy)Kennedy was President of the Board of Managers of Presbyterian
Hospital in 1893. Heber R.Bishop was Vice President; Walter Edwards,
Recording Secretary; C. Irving Fisher, Superintendent; Elbert A.
Brinckerhoff, Treasurer; and George E. Dodge, Recording Secretary. The
hospital was financed almost entirely by the different branches of the
Presbyterian Church, along with churches of the Reformed and
Congregational denominations. (Urgently In Need of Funds. New York
Times, Dec. 14, 1893.)
George Egleston Dodge was the son of William E. Dodge Sr. and
Melissa Phelps Dodge. He was in the lumber business of Dodge, Meigs
& Co. in Jersey City. He was married to May Cossitt, daughter of Frederick H. Cossitt of
the Central Trust. (Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale, 1900-1910, p.
359.)
Cossitt left bequests to the hospital when he died in 1887.
William V.S. Thorne (1865-1920) was a manager and
treasurer of the Presbyterian Hospital from 1899 to 1920, a manager of
the
Manhattan Maternity Hospital and Dispensary, and chairman of the board
of managers of the Woman's Hospital. He graduated
from Yale in 1885, and worked nine years in the engineering department
of the Great Northern Railway. He was Vice President of the
Pennsylvania Coal Company for five years, then Director of Purchasing
for the Harriman system of railroads and a member of the boards of "a
dozen of the largest transportation corporations." (Wm. V.S. Thorne
Dies. New York Times, Feb. 7, 1920.) In 1902, he became an assistant to
E.H. Harriman; then
director of purchases of the Union and Southern
Pacific systems, the Oregon Short Line Railroad, the Oregon Railroad
and Navigation Company, the Chicago & Alton Railway, and the Kansas
City Railway, later the Northwestern Pacific. He resigned in 1913. He
was vice-president and a director of the Louisiana Western Railroad and
a director of the Union Pacific Coal Co., Union Pacific Land Co., Wells
Fargo Express Co., Railroad Securities Co., the Pacific Mail Steamship
Co., the Lackawanna Steel Co., the Fidelity and Hanover Banks of New
York, and the Morristown (N.J.) Trust Co. He left $50,000 to Yale.
(William
VanSchoonhoven Thorne, Ph.B. 1885. Obituary Record of the Graduates,
Yale University 1915-20, p. 1540.) His brother, Edwin Thorne, was a trustee of the
Central Union Trust., and a great grandfather of David Hoadley Thorne,
S&B 1966.
Henry Wheeler de Forest was the son of Henry Grant de Forest
(Amherst 1839, Yale Law School 1840-41) and Julia Mary Weeks de Forest.
He was a member of the law firm de Forest & Weeks and its
successor, de Forest Brothers, until 1932. He was a trustee (with Elihu
Root) of the majority of the capital stock of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society, and was involved in mutualizing the Equitable and
the Metropolitan Life. He was a trustee of the Bank for Savings in New
York from 1888-1938, and chairman of the executive committee since
1925; a trustee of Presbyterian Hospital since 1902; a governor of the
New York Hospital since 1890; a director, officer and member of the
executive committee of the Southern Pacific Railway 1905-1938; chairman
of the Pacific Oil Company and involved in its merger with Standard Oil
of California; a director of the National Bank of Commerce and of the
Guaranty Trust Company after their merger; a director and member of the
executive committe of the Continental Insurance Company, Maryland
Insurance Company, Texas & New Orleans Railroad, Hudson Trust
Company of New Jersey, Niagara Fire Insurance Co., Western Union
Telegraph, Wells Fargo & Co., Delaware & Hudson Railroad,
Pacific Mail Steamship Co., American railway Express Co, and other
railroad lines; a director of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Corp.,
Tidewater Oil Co., and the United States Trust
Company, and chairman of
the First Belgian Relief Committee. He married
Julia Gilman Noyes, daughter of Charles P. Noyes, whose three sons
also went to Yale. Robert W. de Forest was his brother. (Obituary
Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year
1937-1938, p. 20.)
Daniel R. Noyes,
Charles P. Noyes, and Edward H. Cutler were the partners of the
wholesale drug firm of Noyes Bros. & Cutler of St. Paul, Minn. (It
Hurt Them. St. Paul Daily News, May 18, 1892.) Charles P. Noyes' son,
Charles Reinold Noyes, Yale 1905, was an executive of Noyes Bros. &
Cutler until 1929. Since 1940, he was a director and officer of the
National Bureau of Economic Research. During World War I, he was an
officer in the Chemical Warfare Service. (C. Reinold Boyes, An
Economist, 70. New York Times, Jul. 6, 1954.)
His daughter, Julia Mary de Forest married Beverly Duer, Harvard 1915, son of the late Beverly Chew Duer and Mrs. Duer. He was with the Guaranty Trust Company in its Paris office. (Miss de Forest to Wed. New York Times, Oct. 11, 1924.) He spent a summer touring Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland with J. Pierpont Morgan's son, Junius S. Morgan. (Young Mr. Morgan on Tour Abroad. New York Times, Jun. 15, 1913.) His mother and Mrs. Vincent Smith were injured when their car went over a cliff near Turin, Italy. "Beverly Duer, Jr., and another young man in the party were not injured.... Mrs. Duer is a wealthy widow. Her husband, Beverly Chew Duer, was the cashier of the Bank of the State of New York. He died in 1900. Mrs. Smith is his sister. Beverly Duer, Jr., is 20 years old... Both Mrs. Duer and Mrs. Smith have spent a large part of the last 10 years abroad. Mrs. Smith lived for many years in China." (Auto Falls Over Precipice; 2 Hurt. Ogden Standard, Sep. 4, 1913.) The elder Mrs. Duer was Sophie Lawrence Pool. Her son lived in Leesburg, Va., and her daughter, Mrs. Evander B. Schley, in New York City. (Mrs. Beverly C. Duer. New York Times, Oct. 2, 1949.) The Duers were Royal descendants of Robert II, King of Scotland. (Americans of Royal Descent. By Charles Henry Browning, 1891, p.123.)
Americans of royal descent, p. 123 / Google BooksWalter B. James was born in Baltimore in 1858. "He was president of
the Academy of Medicine 1914-1917, member of the Council of Columbia
University from 1903, and at the time of his death Trustee of Columbia
and of the Academy of Medicine. From 1889 to 1909 he taught medicine at
Columbia University and for many years he was attending physician to
Bellevue and the Presbyterian Hospitals. He was president of the
Trudeau Sanatorium and of the Jekyl Island Club, and member of many
societies devoted to science." (Walter Belknap James. College of
Physicians and Surgeons Obituary Database, Augustus C. Long Health
Sciences Library, Columbia University.)
His father was Henry James, lumber merchant, of Henry James &
Company. "Began medical studies at Johns Hopkins and then attended
Columbia
for three years, receiving degree of M D. in 1883; on staff of
Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, for a year and a half and then
continued his studies in Europe for two years; practiced in New York
City from 1887 until his retirement in 1922; since 1889 had been
connected with Columbia as a clinical lecturer on medicine (1889-1897),
instructor in general diagnosis (1897-1900) and in medical diagnosis
(1900-1901), lecturer on practice of medicine (1901-02), professor of
same (1902-1904), Bard professor (1904-09), and professor of clinical
medicine (1909-1918); member of University Council (1903-09); in 1918
elected an alumni trustee and upon expiration of his term in 1924
elected to life membership by the board; assistant pathologist to New
York Hospital; visiting physician to Roosevelt Hospital 1901-09 and to
Presbyterian Hospital 1904-09, consulting physician to Bellevue
Hospital and to Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled." He was a
fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine since 1889, its president in
1915 and 1918 and since then a trustee. In 1918 he was a member of
the American Medical Committee of the Red Cross Hospital in Paris. He
was president of the Trudeau Sanitorium 1895-1927, and president of the
board since 1915. His wife was Helen Goodsell Jennings, daughter of
Oliver Burr Jennings and sister of Walter Jennings
(S&B 1880) and Oliver
G.
Jennings (S&B 1887), whose sister married his classmate, Hugh D. Auchincloss,
Yale 1879. His sisters were Mrs. Harry White
and Mrs. Francis Newton of New York, and Mrs. Allan McLane and Mrs.
John H. Johnson of Maryland. His nephews included Ellery Sedgwick
James, Skull & Bones 1917; Oliver Burr Jennings, Yale 1917; and B.
Brewster Jennings, Yale 1920. (Obituary Record of Yale Graduates,
1926-1927, pp. 91-93.) B. Brewster Jennings became the president of
Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Walter B. James was a patroness of a benefit
for the American Society
for the Control of Cancer at the Colony
Club, (To Aid Cancer Society. New York Times, Nov. 29, 1926), and she
was an activist at Memorial Hospital,
N.Y.C., in 1934. Dr.
James' granddaughter married Walter Coggeshall
Janney Jr. at the home of her uncle, William Sheffield Cowles,
S&B 1921. (Miss Helen James Married in Capital. New York Times,
Mar. 25, 1945.) James Stokes
was a member of Henry James & Company.
Henry Ammon James, Skull & Bones
1874, was his brother. Henry A. James studied at the University of Jena
1874-75 and at the University of Berlin 1875-76, then attended
Yale School of Law 1876-78. He "practiced law in Baltimore in office of
Luther M. Reynolds for about a year and a half after graduation from
the Law School and then spent over a year in rest and travel on account
of ill health; in 1881 became a clerk in law office of Edward Heaton
[S&B] '69, in New York City. subsequently managing clerk in law
office of Anderson & Howland, of which Henry E. Howland, '54, was a
member; from 1884 to 1901 shared an law office with Howard Mansfield
[S&B] '71." He married Laura Brevoort, the daughter of William
Ellery Sedgwick (Harvard 1846). His daughter, Dorothy, was the wife of
George G. Haven, S&B 1887 [son of G.G. Haven of the
Guaranty Trust]. One of his sisters was Mrs. John H. Johnson of Chase,
Md. (Obituary Record of Yale Graduates, 1929-1930, pp. 45-46.) Henry A.
James' son, [William] Ellery
Sedgwick James, S&B 1917, was a partner of Brothers &
Company and Brown Brothers Harriman.
Another brother was Robert Campbell James, Skull & Bones 1894,
who died in 1896. He was with their father's banking office in
Baltimore. (Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale, 1890-1900, p. 409.)
Norman James, Skull & Bones 1890, another brother, was a clerk
in the Citizens'
National Bank of Baltimore and secretary of the Baltimore Street
Railway Company in 1891, associated with the Phosphate Manufacturing
Company of South Carolina until 1895, member of N.W. James Lumber
Company since 1895 and president since 1913; director of Safe Deposit
& Trust Company, the Savings Bank of Baltimore, Consolidated Gas
& Electric Company, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, and the Atlantic Coast Line Company of Connecticut.
He was a member of the Baltimore branch of the Federal Reserve Bank for
several terms. (Bulletin of Yale Uiversity, Obituary Record of
Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year 1938-1939, pp.
72-73.)
His widow, Isabella L. Hagnat James [sic, Isabella Louisa Hagner],
was social secretary in the White House during the administrations of
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. (The Auk, July, 1944, Vol.61 No
3, p. 512.)
William Sloane Coffin Sr. (1879-1933) was a director of W. & J.
Sloane since graduation, and a trustee of the Presbyterian
Hospital since 1908. He was the father of Edmund Coffin 2d,
William Sloane Coffin Jr., and Margaret Sloane, and a brother of Rev. Henry
Sloane Coffin (S&B 1897). (Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale
University Deceased during the Year 1933-1934, pp.105-106.) His
grandfather was Edmund Coffin.
His uncle, William D. Sloane
Jr., was a
director of the Guaranty Trust.
James R. Sheffield was a
trustee of Presbyterian Hospital from 1912 to 1938. He was a member of
the advisory committee of Yale's Institute of Human Relations.
Dean Sage Jr. (1875-1943) was a partner of the law firm of Sage,
Gray,
Todd & Sims. He became President of the Presbyterian Hospital in
1922, and in 1924 announced its merger with the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Columbia University, to become the
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He was President of its board of
trustees until his death. He was also a director of the Commonwealth
Fund and the Josiah N Macy Jr. Foundation, a trustee of the New York
Trust Company, and a director of the Sage Land and Improvement Company.
(Dean Sage Is Dead; Charities Leader. New York Times, Jul. 2, 1943.) He
was with Simpson, Thacher [Thomas, S&B 1871] & Bartlett [Philip
G., '81] from 1900-05; then a partner of Sage, Kerr [Albert B., S&B
1897] and Gray; and Sage, Gray, Todd [William A., '97] & Sims from
1905 to 1943. He was chairman of the board of trustees of Atlanta
University from 1929-43, and a trustee of the New York Trust Company
from 1922-43.He was a director of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and
the Commonwealth Fund. (Bulletin of Yale University. Obituary Record of
Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year
1938-39, pages 89-91.)
Dean Sage Jr. married Anna Parker, daughter of Gen. Amasa A. Parker.
E.E. Garrison (S&B 1897) of St. Louis was his best man. G. Clymer
Brooke of Philadelphia, Gedham [sic - Graham] Sumner of New Haven,
Joseph S. Wheelwright of New York City, all Skull & Bones 1897,
were to be among the ushers. The bride's uncle, Rev. Charles H. Strong
(S&B 1870) of Atlanta, Ga., was to perform the ceremony, at All
Saints' Cathedral, in Albany. (Some Happenings in Good Society. New
York Times, June 3, 1900.)
His great-grandfather, Charles Sage, married a sister of Timothy S.
and Josiah B. Williams, who were both Senators in the New York
legislature from the district which included Ithaca. His grandfather,
Henry W. Sage (1814-1897), studied medicine briefly there. He helped
Andrew Dickson White
(S&B 1853) and Ezra Cornell get the Morrill
Land Grant for Cornell University, and established the Susan Linn Sage
School of Philosophy. He was elected a trustee of Cornell University in
1870, and was president of the board of trustees since 1875. Henry W.
Sage was a "warm friend" of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth
Church in Brooklyn. Most of the Sage fortune came from timber. Dean
Sage's father, also named Dean Sage (~1841-1902), created the Dean Sage
Fund for Christian religious education at the school. William H. Sage
was his uncle. (Two College Anniversaries. New York Times, Sep. 24,
1893; Death of Henry W. Sage. New York Times, Sep. 19, 1897.) Roswell
P. Flower succeeded Henry W. Sage as Chairman of the Board of Trustees
of Cornell University. "The event of the year, and one of the
epoch-making events in the whole history of Cornell University, was the
establishment of the Medical College" by Col. Oliver H. Payne, to be
located in New York City. (Cornell's Annual Report. New York Times,
Oct. 30, 1898; Henry Williams Sage B.A. 1895. Bulletin of Yale
University.
Obituary Record of
Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year 1938-39, page 42.)
Dean Sage Jr. was later a special partner in Emanuel, Parker & Co. with Grenville Parker. (Copartnership Notices. New York Times, Sep. 5, 1905 p. 10.) In 1912, he was with Zabriskie, Murray, Sage & Kerr, and was elected a trustee of the New York Trust Company. (Financial Notes. New York Times, May 16, 1912 p. 17.) He was an usher at the wedding of Albert B. Kerr, S&B 1897, along with Amos R.E. Pinchot, S&B 1897; Willard D. Straight; Sumner Gerard, S&B 1897; Lanier McKee, S&B 1895; and Dr. Joseph S. Wheelwright, S&B 1897. They were hitched by the Rev. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, S&B 1897. (In Lawn Bower, Miss Burr Weds. New York Times, Oct. 12, 1913.)
Dean Sage Jr.'s cousin, Andrew Gregg Curtin Sage (~1874-1952), was a
major stockholder of the American Tobacco Company in 1924. A.G.C. Sage
was a member of Scroll & Keys, 1896. (Election Day On Yale Campus.
New York Times, May 24, 1895; Andrew G.C. Sage, Breeder of Dogs. New
York Times, Feb. 5, 1952) He was with Moore & Schley in 1899.
(Bulletin of Yale University. Obituary Record of Graduates of the
Undergraduate Schools Deceased During the Year 1951-52, pages 25-26.)
A.G.C. Sage was an honorary pallbearer at
the fuineral of Guaranty Trust director Clarence H. Mackay, along
with
William C. Potter and other associates from the Guaranty Trust.
(Cathedral Service for Mackay Today. New York Times, Nov. 15, 1938.)
Andrew Gregg Curtin Sage 2d,
a great-grandson of Dean Sage Jr.'s uncle
William H. Sage of Albany, was a director of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco in
the 1970s and 1980s.
Dean Sage Jr.'s sister, Elizabeth Manning Sage, married Walter Lippinccott Goodwin of Philadelphia. His father, James Junius Goodwin, was a former partner of J.P. Morgan. Ushers included two of his Bones classmates, Grenville Parker, S&B 1898, and Joseph Stober Wheelwright, S&B 1897. The guests included Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan. (Goodwin - Sage. New York Times, Oct. 20, 1899.) They were divorced, and she married Meredith Hare, S&B 1894, whose older brother Montgomery Hare married Constance Parsons, daughter of John E. Parsons, the president of Memorial Hospital. (Mrs. Goodwin Weds Again. New York Times, Mar. 6, 1916.) From 1900 to 1909, Meredith Hare was a law partner of Edwin O. Holter, S&B 1894. (Yale University. Obituary Record of Graduates 1932-1933, p 86.) Holter was the founding treasurer of the New York Heart Association.
Obituary Record of Graduates 1932-1933 / Yale University LibraryDean Sage Jr.'s sister, Sarah Sage, married Edwin O. Holter, S&B 1894, in
Albany. He became treasurer of the New York Heart Association. (What is
Doing in Society. New York Times, June 4, 1903.) Their 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.)
Robert W. de Forest was
a member of the board of managers of Presbyterian Hospital from 1890 to
1931, and a vice president from 1910-15, when he was involved with the
Life Extension Institute.
The Presbyterian Hospital and the College of Physicians and Surgeons
decided to jointly erect a new $20,000 building. William Barclay
Parsons headed the joint administrative board, with Dr. C.C. Burlingame
as executive officer. Members of the Building Fund Committee: Thatcher
M. Brown, Cornelius R. Agnew, Rev. Dr. George Alexander, Robert W.
Carle, Henry W. de Forest, Samuel H. Fisher [Skull & Bones 1889]
and William Sloane Coffin [S&B 1900]. The architect chosen was James Gamble Rogers [Scroll
& Key 1889]. (Medical Centre Plans Announced. New York Times, Oct.
5, 1924.)
Fund-raisers for the Presbyterian Hospital whose husbands bore
the names of Bonesmen included Mrs. Artemus L.
Gates, Mrs. Ray Morris
(S&B
1901), 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.)
Thatcher Magoun Brown was on the board of managers of Presbyterian
Hospital from 1907 to 1946, and in 1925 headed campaign committee for
the hospital's share of the $10 million fund for Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical Center. He joined Brown Brothers, which his great-grandfather
founded in 1818, the same year he graduated from Yale. He was a member
of the board of directors of the Union Theological Seminary since 1908,
and its president from 1936 until 1947. He was a former director of the
Royal Liverpool Insurance Group and the Commercial Union Group, a
director and member of the finance committee of Atlantic Mutual
Indemnity Company; chairman of the New York board of the Prudential
Insurance Company of London; a trustee of the Sun Insurance Company; a
director of the Skandia Insurance Company of Stockholm, and a former
trustee of the Bank for Savings in New York. His sister was Mrs. Henry
L. de Forest, Yale 1896. (Thatcher Brown, Banker, 78, Dead. New York
Times, May 3, 1954.) Mrs. Brown was a patroness of a benefit for the
American Society for the Control of Cancer at the Colony Club in 1926.
(To Aid Cancer Society. New York Times, Nov. 29, 1926.) Thatcher M.
Brown's father-in-law was Daniel
R. Noyes.
His grandfather, James Brown, gave $200,000 to the Union Theological
Seminary, and was the oldest Elder in the Presbyterian Church
(Obituary. James Brown, of Brown Brothers, Bankers. New York Times,
Nov. 2, 1877), and left bequests to the Presbyterian Church, Princeton
Theological Seminary, Presbyterian Board for Home Missions,
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and the American Bible Society.
(The Will of James Brown. New York Times, Nov. 9, 1877.) His father was
John Crosby Brown
(1838-1909), senior partner of Brown Brothers &
Co. "Union Theological Seminary's share in Mr. Brown's life was unique,
and of late almost absorbing. His father had been a large benefactor of
the seminary, and Dr. William Adams, his father-in-law, was for seven
years the President of its faculty. John Crosby Brown became a Director
of it in 1868, before he was thirty, succeeding the late William E. Dodge, Sr., as Vice
President of its Board of Directors in 1883." (John Crosby Brown Dead.
New York Times, Jun. 26, 1909.) His cousin, James
Brown (1863-1935) was a director of the Central Trust.
Charles Proctor Cooper (1884-1966) was a director of the Guaranty
Trust from 1929 until its merger with J.P. Morgan in 1959. He was born
in Caldwell, Ohio, and received an electrical engineering degree from
Ohio State University in 1907. He taught calculus at the New Hampshire
College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts (now New Hampshire State
College), where he met his wife, Leonora Elizabeth Parsons. In 1908, he
joined the New York Telephone Company as a junior engineer. In World
War I, the Bell System sent him to the Chespeake and Potomac Telephone
Company in Washington, DC, where the government's network had to be
expanded from 2,000 to 64,000 phones. After the war, he returned to
Ohio, managing the Cleveland Telephone Company and the Ohio Bell. In
1926, he was named a vice president of finance of American Telephone
and Telegraph; in 1946, executive vice president. He retired from
AT&T in 1948 as vice chairman. He was elected to the board of
trustees of the Neurological Institute in 1930, then to the board of
managers of the Presbyterian Hospital in 1938, was president from 1943
to 1957. (Personality: Emeritus But Not Idle. New York Times, Apr. 28,
1957; Charles Cooper, A.T.&T. Aide, Dies. New York Times, Feb. 6,
1966.) In 1931, he was elected a trustee of the Mutual
Life Insurance
Company, along with John King Ottley, president of the First
National
Bank of Atlanta, and S.
Sloan Colt, vice president of the Bankers Trust
Company. (Mutual Life Elects 3 Trustees. New York Times, Jun. 6, 1931.)
The Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada was the largest stockholder in
the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (A.T. and T. Large
Holders. By the Associated Press. New York Times, Apr. 7, 1934.)
Cooper's father-in-law, Dr. Charles Lathrop Parsons (1867-1954), was a professor at New Hampshire College who became Secretary of the American Chemical Society from 1907 to 1945. In 1911, he was named chief chemist of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, but kept his ACS post during his stay in Washington. In 1913, he began promoting radium as a cure for cancer, in association with Dr. Howard A. Kelly of Johns Hopkins University and James Douglas, who had purchased mining claims for the largest known radium deposits, in Paradox Valley, Colorado. (Dr. C.L. Parsons, A Noted Chemist. New York Times, Feb. 15, 1954; America Ignores Her Radium Mines. New York Times, May 5, 1913; Radium Cure Free to All. New York Times, Oct. 24, 1913; Society Reaches 125th Birthday. Chemical & Engineering News 2001 Mar. 26;79(13).) Douglas was the benefactor of Memorial Hospital on the condition that health fascist James Ewing be its pathologist. Cooper's son, Charles Proctor Cooper Jr., graduated from Yale in 1944 and served with the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. (Mary E. Curme Wed to Charles Cooper. New York Times, Nov. 28, 1948.)
C&E News March 26, 2001 / American Chemical SocietyCooper succeeded Dean Sage, Skull & Bones 1897, as the president
of Presbyterian Hospital. (Cooper Heads Hospital. New York Times, Jul.
13, 1943.) Frederick A.O. Schwarz, of the Guaranty Trust's law firm of
Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardner & Reed was elected a trustee.
(Presbyterians Name 3 to Hospital Board. New York Times, Apr. 11,
1944.) William E.S. Griswold Sr., S&B 1899; Carll Tucker, the
father of Carll Tucker Jr., S&B 1947; and John Sloane, S&B
1905, were among the vice presidents. (Heads Merged Hospitals. New York
Times, Oct. 9, 1945.) In 1946, Artemus L. Gates,
S&B 1918; Robert
A. Lovett, S&B 1918; and Sidney J. Weinberg, a partner of Goldman,
Sachs & Co., were elected to the board of trustees. (Elected By
Hospital. New York Times, Jun. 25, 1946.) In 1947, Edward C. Bench,
S&B 1925; and Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse, S&B 1905, whose sister's
husband, Winthrop W. Aldrich,
was on the board of directors of the
American Society for the Control of Cancer. (Medical Center Speeds
Research. New York Times, Mar. 25, 1947.) Charles S. Munson Jr., son of
the Guaranty Trust director of 1939-59, was elected in 1950. (Hospital
Group Names Two. New York Times, May 9, 1950.) Officers of the
Presbyterian Hospital in 1952 were Charles P. Cooper, president;
William E.S. Griswold Sr., Carll Tucker, William Hale Harkness, John
Sloane, Henry C. Alexander,
and Frederick A.O. Schwarz, vice
presidents; Edward C. Bench, treasurer; W.E.S. Griswold Jr., secretary,
and Thatcher M. Brown Jr., assistant secretary. Eleven trustees were
re-elected and nine made honorary trustees. (Hospital Re-Elects C.P.
Cooper. New York Times, Mar. 25, 1952.) In addition to the preceding
trustees, a group of trustees who gave a dinner in his honor also
included Mrs. Henry P. Davison S&B 1920, Mrs. Yale Kneeland,
S&B 1890; Malcolm P. Aldrich, S&B
1922; and William Sheffield Cowles, S&B 1921. (Hospital to Honor
Head of Its Board. New York Times, May 4, 1952.) John A. Hartford, a
director of the Guaranty Trust from 1929-59, funded the Pauline A.
Hartford Memorial Chapel. (Chapel Dedicated At Medical Center. New York
Times, Jun. 26, 1952.) Mrs.
Albert D. Lasker was a guest at the
unveiling of a painting of Dr. George Francis Cahill. (Painting for
Presbyterian Hospital Unveiled. New York Times, Nov. 26, 1952.) In
1955, Griswold Sr., Sloane, Alexander, Schwarz, Bench, and Weinberg
were re-elected. (Presbyterian Hospital Elects. New York Times, Apr.
26, 1955.) In 1957, Frederick
R. Kappel, the president of AT&T, was
chosen to replace Cooper as a trustee (Hospital Picks Trustee. New York
Times, Feb.
26, 1957), and Frederick A.O. Schwarz was elected acting president
(Presbyterian Hospital Elects. New York Times, Apr. 24, 1957.) In
1958, Cleo Frank Craig, the former president and chairman of the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a trustee of Presbyterian
Hospital since 1951, was elected president. (Ex-Chief of A.T.&T
Heads Hospital Here. New York Times, Apr. 2, 1958.)
Cooper was elected to the board of trustees of the United Hospital Fund, which was headed by Roy E. Larsen of Time, Inc. (Hospital Goal Exceeded. New York Times, Feb. 2, 1944.) In 1947, he headed the men's division, along with Edwin C. Vogel and Gayer G. Dominick, Skull & Bones 1909. (Hospital Fund Sets Goal. New York Times, Sep. 19, 1947.) He was elected a director of the United Hospital Fund In 1954. (Hospital Fund At $958,783. New York Times, Oct. 22, 1954.)
In 1946, Cooper was a primary organizer of a Council for Heart Disease, whose aim was said to be "to stimulate research and public education in the field of heart ailments." The idea was said to originate from the New York Heart Association, and had the assistance of New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. The incorporators were Charles Proctor Cooper, vice president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Dr. A. Wilbur Duryee, Gov. Dewey's personal physician; Frank K. Houston, chairman of the board of the Chemical Bank and Trust Company; Alfred C. Howell, vice president of the Guaranty Trust; Dr. Edwin P. Maynard Jr., president of the New York Heart Association; Lowell P. Weicker, president of E.R. Squibb & Sons, a pharmaceutical firm; and Carl Whitmore, president of the New York Telephone Company. (War On Heart Ills Backed By Dewey. New York Times, May 21, 1946.) The nominating committee, consisting of Dewey, Maynard, Cooper, and Stanley J. Resor, president of the J. Walter Thompson Company, chose Eugene W. Stetson, Chairman of the Board of the Guaranty Trust, as its President. (Heads New Council Formed to Aid Heart Sufferers. New York Times, Jun. 20, 1946.) Ogden White was chairman of its fund drive, and Robert L. Levy, director of the department of cardiology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, was first vice president. (Dewey Helps Drive Against Heart Ills. New York Times, Dec. 20, 1946.) In 1947, Eugene W. Stetson directed a "special gifts" campaign for the New York Heart Association. (Stetson to Aid Drive. New York Times, Jan. 17, 1947.) Ogden White was elected to the board of directors of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company in 1968.
W. Randolph Burgess,
Ferdinand Eberstadt, and Samuel W. Meek were elected members of the
Corporation of the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York.
(Three in Hospital Corporation. New York Times, Jun. 12, 1945.)
Artemus L. Gates and Robert A. Lovett (both
S&B 1918) were re-elected to the board of trustees of
Presbyterian Hospital in 1946. Gates had been a trustee for thirteen
years before resigning in 1941, and Lovett, a partner of Brown
Brothers, Harriman & Co., had been a trustee for fourteen years.
Gates was also a director of Time, Inc. (Elected By Hospital. New York
Times, Jun. 25, 1946.)
William [Edward Schenck] Griswold was a lawyer and former president
of W. & J. Sloane, Inc., furniture store. His first wife, Evelyn
Sloane Griswold, died in 1944. His second wife was the former Ruth
Emery Ledyard. Their children were Mrs. Woodbridge Bingham, Mrs. Dana
T. Bartholomew, William E.S. Griswold Jr., and John S. Griswold.
(William Griswold, Ex-Head of Sloane's. New York Times, Jan. 21, 1964.)
His second wife was the widow of Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr.
William E.S. Griswold Jr. was president of W. & J. Sloane. (Mrs.
Ruth Ledyard Is Married in Home. New York Times, Apr. 21, 1948.) He was
a trustee and executor of the will of William G. Rockefeller,
Yale 1892. (W.G. Rockefeller Left All to Family. New York Times, Jan.
31, 1923.)
Their daughter, Adela Sloane Griswold, married Dana Treat Bartholomew [S&B 1928]. "She numbers among her ancestors five Governors of Connecticut, including Matthew Griswold, who was her great-great-grandfather, and Roger G. Griswold, her great-grandfather. She also is a great-granddaughter of the late Dr. Abraham J. Berry, first Mayor of Williamsburgh, and of the late Rev. William Schenck, a trustee of Princeton University." Her grandfathers were John Sloane, of W. & J. Sloane, and Matthew Griswold. Dana T. Bartholomew was with the firm of J. & W. Seligman. (Adele S. Griswold Engaged to Marry. New York Times, Oct. 5, 1930.)
Sidney J. Weinberg was a member of the advisory committee of the New
York City Cancer Committee in 1946. The general campaign chairman was
Gen. John Reed Kilpatrick, and James
S. Adams of the Lasker ASCC takeover group directed solicitation by
the commerce and industry committee. Other members of the advisory
committee were William J. Donovan, former
head of the O.S.S.; Eugene W.
Stetson, chairman of the board of the Guaranty Trust Company; and
Stanton Griffis, chairman of the executive committee of Paramount
Pictures. (Named to Head Division in Cancer Fund Campaign. New York
Times, Mar. 11, 1946.) Kilpatrick, Donovan, Adams, and Weinberg were
elected to the board of directors. (Cancer Unit Elects Directors. New
York Times, May 27, 1946.) Weinberg was elected a trustee of
Presbyterian Hospital in 1946. He
was a partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. He was a vice chairman of the
1950 United Hospital Fund Campaign under O. Parker McComas, the
president of Philip Morris. (Heads Unit in Hospital Drive. New York
Times, Jul 5, 1950.)
He graduated from Princeton and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. In 1951, he married Elizabeth Houghton McCord, daughter of Amory Houghton. He was with the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation in New York. (Mrs M'Cord Affianced. New York Times, May 17, 1951.)
"Bottom, Right: A $75
million check, representing a 25-year debenture issue, is presented to
John E. Cookman [right], Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Shown at the presentation are [left to right] F. Warren Hellman of
Lehman Brothers, Sidney J. Weinberg Jr., of Goldman, Sachs & Co.,
Frederick L. Ehrman of
Lehman Brothers and James W. Cozad,
Treasurer of
Philip Morris." (Philip Morris 1968 Annual Report, p. 8.)
In 1985, he was a director of Corning Glass Works, of which his
brother-in-law, Amory Houghton Jr., was Chairman of the Board. A
Corning Glass subsidiary, the Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, was
involved in asbestos litigation. (Memorandum from Jeffrey Sherman to
Francis K. Decker Jr., Dec. 10, 1981.)
His mother was Elizabeth Livingston Weinberg. (Mrs. Sidney Weinberg.
New York Times, Feb. 4, 1967.) His father, Sidney J. Weinberg, made
some of his first money by selling place in line during the rush on the
Trust Company of America. He then knocked on doors in the building
until he was hired as an assistant to the porter at Goldman, Sachs.
Samuel Sach's son, Paul, gave him $25 to take a course at New York
University, where he took the course in investment banking. In World
War I, he was enlisted as a assistant cook. "His talents as an
organizer and of 'knowing everybody' were soon recognized by his Navy
superiors. He was transferred to the Office of Naval Intelligence, as
an assistant in the customs service inspecting the cargoes of all
vessels using the port of Norfolk, Va." He returned to Goldman, Sachs
as a bond trader. He became a senior partner in 1930. At one time, he
was on the boards of up to 35 corporations, in 1967 only three - Ford
Motor, General Cigar, and Corinthian Broadcasting. "In 1952, after
helping form the 'Citizens for Eisenhower Committee,' Sidney became its
treasurer and raised $1.7-million. President John F. Kennedy is
supposed to have said that Sidney Weinberg had more influence in the
Eisenhower Administration than any other man." He supported Nixon in
1960, and formed the National Independent Committee for Johnson and
Humphrey in 1964. He was a mentor to more than 100 graduates of Harvard
Business School, including Gustave L. Levy, a partner of Goldman, Sachs
and chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. (Mr. Wall Street to Mark
His 60th Year at Goldman, Sachs. New York Times, Nov. 16, 1967.) One of
his major deals was the 1956 sale of $650 million worth of Ford Motor
stock for the Ford Foundation. In 1954, he was in charge of all the
negotiations for the Lambert Company when it was merged with
Warner-Hudnut to form Warner-Lambert Pharmaceuticals. He was also a
director of General Electric, Sears, Roebuck, National Dairy Products
(later Kraftco), B.F. Goodrich, Continental Can, General Foods,
McKesson & Robbins, and Cluett Peabody. He married Helen Livingston
in 1920. She died in 1967. He married Regina Pierce in 1968. (Sidney J.
Weinberg Dies at 77; 'Mr. Wall Street' of Finance. By Alden Whitman.
New York Times, Jul. 24, 1969.)
Sidney Weinberg Sr.'s brother, Mortimer Weinberg, an insurance broker, was also in the Office of Naval Intelligence in World War I. (M. Weinberg Dies; Insurance Man. New York Times, Jun. 24, 1956.) His brother, Emile Z. Weinberg, was also a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Their sisters were Mrs. Louis Goldstein, Mrs. Julius Klein, amd Mrs. Florentine Lieberman. (Emile Z. Weinberg. New York Times, Jun. 25, 1962.)
Weinberg was a leading fund-raiser for President Eisenhower's two campaigns. (Inner Circles of the White House. By Sidney Hyman. New York Times, Jan. 5, 1958.)
Dr. Rustin McIntosh was elected president of the Medical board of
Presbyterian Hospital, replacing Dr. George F. Cahill. Dr. Howard C.
Taylor Jr., director of obstetrics and gynecology at Sloane
Hospital
for Women and Professor of Obstetrics at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, became a vice president. (Heads the Medical Board of
Presbyterian Hospital. New York Times, Jul. 28, 1949.)
Tonio Burgos, NYPROCOA Inc., was the lobbyist for Columbia
Presbyterian Hospital in 1993, and also for Pfizer Inc. (1993 Lobbyist
Annual Report. Office of the City Clerk, The City of New York.)
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