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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loree, younger of the two sons of Chairman Leonor Fresnel Loree of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, to be a member of the D. & H.'s board of managers. He has been a vice president since 1923. His brother, Robert Fresnel Loree, is vice president of the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan, in charge of its foreign department. Their uncle, W. C. Loree, is a director of the Kansas City Southern Railway, of which their father is chairman...
Died. George White Doane, 74, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New Amsterdam Gas Co.; of heart disease; on the 8:49 (a.m.) train from South Orange, N. J. An attempt to board the 8:33, his usual train to Manhattan, precipitated the heart attack...
Hupmobile was William Crapo Durant's. He owns, reputedly, a large block of Hupmobile shares. He controls, too, Durant Motors (Durant and Star cars), Locomobile Co. of America, and more than a year ago he formed Consolidated Motors, Inc. in Delaware, and advertised in 48 newspapers of 29 cities that "exactly as the Buick in 1908 was used as the nucleus and the Keystone of the great General Motors," he intended to use the new Star Six for his new company. Financial writers jeered at Mr. Durant as a stockjobber (TIME, April...
...grandfather, Benjamin Douglass, founded R. G. Dun & Co., business statisticians, credit raters. *His old friends of Hutchison, Kan., know him as a ready host and help when needed. Their children attend each other's weddings; the boys get jobs in Chrysler's factories-at Detroit, Dayton, Ohio, Newcastle, Ind. Mr. Chrysler has paid for an addition to the Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina, Kan. In one Kansas city he built five churches...
Draper. In 1849, when Zachary Taylor became president, Joseph Home began a store which as Joseph Home & Co. was to be Pittsburgh's oldest department store. Shortly he took on as partners C. B. Shea and A. P. Burchfield. Their business grew. Their children went into the business. Burchfields married Homes. Grandchildren of the first partners received their schooling and joined their parents in the Joseph Home Co. Joseph B. Shea, son of Joseph Home's partner, C. B. Shea, is now president of the company...