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.
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, Superintendant; 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.)
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. Bulletin of Yale University,
Obituary Record of Yale Graduates 1919-1920, pp 221-223.) His brother, Edwin Thorne, was a trustee of the
Central Union Trust., and a great grandfather of David Hoadley Thorne,
S&B 1966.
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.)
Walter 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.)
"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. Patronesses of a benefit for the American Society
for the Control of Cancer at the Colony
Club included Mrs. Walter B. James, Mrs. Henry James, Mrs. Edward F.
Hutton, Mrs. Francis C. Huntington, Mrs. Lyman Rhoades, Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid, Mrs. Robert G. Mead, Mrs. Walter Jennings, and Mrs. Henry P.
Davison. (To Aid Cancer Society. New York Times, Nov. 29, 1926.) 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.)
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 associated
with Brown Brothers & Company since 1919, and was a partner since
1925, and a partner of Brown Brothers Harriman from 1931. "[A]mong his
partners at the time of his death were Thatcher M. Brown, '97, Moreau
Delano, '98, Ray Morris, [S&B]
'01, W. Averell Harriman, [S&B]
'13, Laurence G. Tighe, [S&B] '16, Prescott S. Bush [S&B], E.
Roland Harriman {S&B], and Knight Wooley [S&B], all 1917, and
Robert A. Lovett, [S&B] '18, director of National Shawmut Bank of
Boston 1928-1931, Union Banking Company of New York since 1931,
International European Investing Company since 1931, Holland American
Trading Corporation of New York since 1931, National Radiator Company
of New York 1927-1930, A.C. James Company (railroad development) of New
York since 1929, People's Light and Power Company of New York since
1929, General Realty & Utilities Company of New York since 1929,
Utility Equities Corporation since 1928, Swiss-American Electric
Company of Zurich since 1928, Sharpe & Dohm, Inc. of Philadelphia
1932, and Hamilton Watch Company of Lancaster, Pa., 1932." He was a
member of the council of Yale-in-China since 1923. His wife, Louise
Russell Hoadley, was the grandniece of Charles Holland Wesson, S&B
1863. (Bulletin of Yale University, Obituary Record of Graduates of
Yale University Deceased during the Year 1932-1933, pp. 133-135.)
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 University Deceased
during the Academical Year ending in June 1896, pp. 62-63.)
Norman James, Skull & Bones 1890, 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.)
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.)
Dean 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.
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.)
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.)
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.) 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.)
"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.)
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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