Ellery Sedgewick James (S&B 1917)
Finance. Lakewood (N. J.) and Groton (Mass.) schools. Benjamin F. Barge mathematical prize Sophomore year; scholar of the second rank and philosophical oration appointment Junior year; philosophical orationappointment Senior year; manager of Glee and Banjo and Mando-lin clubs; member Dramatic Association, Battery B, Tobyhanna,1916, Yale R.O.T.C, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Skull and Bones, and Phi Beta Kappa.[2]
Jan to Aug 1932 - Chairman of Foreign Securities Committee of Investment Bankers Association of America.[2]
Since 1932, Director Sharp & Dohme, Inc., of Philadelphia.[2]
1 Jan 1932 - Resident Partner in the Philadelphia office [Brown Brothers Harriman & Co][2]
Since 1932, Director Hamilton Watch Company of Lancaster, Pa.[2]
Since Jan 1932, Philadelphia Stock Exchange.[2]
Since Jun 1931, Member of Chicago Stock Exchange.[2]
Since 1931, Director Union Banking Company of New York.[2]
Since 1931, Director International European Investing Company.[2]
Since 1931, Director Holland American Trading Corporation of New York.[2]
Since April 1930, Academy in Rome (member of Committee on School of Classical Studies)
Since 1929, Director A. C. James Company (rail road development) of New York.[2]
Since 1929, Director People’s Light & Power Company of New York.[2]
Since 1929, Director General Realty & Utilities Company of New York.[2]
Since 1928, Director Swiss-American Electric Company of Zurich.[2]
Since 1928, Director Western Pacific Railroad Corporation of San Francisco.[2]
Since 1928, Director Utility Equities Corporation.[2]
1928 to 1931, Director of National Shawmut Bank of Boston.[2]
Since 1927, Member of Committee of Christodora House and Miss Chapin’s School, both in New York.[2]
1927 to 1930, Director National Radiator Company of New York.[2]
1921 to 1922 - Securities Salesman; Sales manager of the Boston office January, 1923 to July,1926; made a partner in the firm January 1, 1925; in the NewYork office again July, 1926 to January 1, 1932, when made resident partner in the Philadelphia office.[2]
Since 1929, Member, Dec 1931 to Aug 1932, Chairman of executive committee of Institute of International Finance, New York.[2]
Since 1928, Trustee of Century Shares Trust, Boston.[2]
Since 1923, Member of council of Yale-in-China.[2]
Feb to June 1921 - In charge of new business department. [B.B.H & Co].[2]
1919 to 1921 - Clerk in commercial credit department [B.B.H & Co].[2]
Since June, 1919, had been associated with Brown Brothers & Company (Brown Brothers Harriman & Company since January,1931). Among his partners at time of his death were Thatcher M. Brown, ‘97 (Son Thatcher Brown Jr S&B 1930), Moreau Delano, ‘98, Ray Morris (S&B 1901), W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913), Laurence G. Tighe (S&B 1916), Prescott S. Bush (S&B 1917), E. Roland Harriman (S&B 1917), and Knight Woolley (S&B 1917), and Robert A. Lovett (S&B 1918)**.[2]
WW1 - Mar 1919 - Returned to this country and received discharge April 1 at Camp Upton.[2]
WW1 - 15 Feb 1919 - Transferred to 133d Field Artillery.[2]
WW1 - 24 Sep to 11 Nov 1918 - Attended Orientation School at Coetquidan, Brittany; at the front in Meuse-Argonne offensive with 29th Division; assigned to 33d Division, Army of Occupation.[2]
WW1 - 12 Jun 1918 - Advance Detachment, 158th Field Artillery Brigade.[2]
WW1 - 1 Dec 1917 - Assigned to 324th, Heavy Field Artillery, 83d Division, at Camp Sherman.[2]
WW1 - Aug to Nov 1917 - Detailed as instructor at second Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison.[2]
WW1 - 15 Aug 1917 - Attended Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison and commissioned Captain, Field Artillery, U.S. Reserve.[2]
WW1 - Attended School of Fire, Fort Sill, Okla.[2]
25 Apr 1917 - Married Louise Russell, daughter of Russell Hotchkiss Hoadley (B.S. Columbia 1891) and Mary Eliot (Betts) Hoadley, sister of Sheldon E. Hoadley, ‘15 S., grand-daughter of Frederic H. Betts (S&K 1864), grandniece of Charles H. Wesson (S&B 1863), and Frederic Wesson, ‘68, and niece of Howland Hoadley, ‘89, Louis F. H. Betts, ‘91, and W. Rosseter Betts, ‘98. Children: Laura Louise, William Ellery Sedgwick, Jr., and Mary Eliot.
1917 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[2]
Died 25 Nov 1932, from Hodgkin’s disease. Age 37.
Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. Survived by wife, daughters, son, and a sister, Dorothy J.Haven, the widow of George G. Haven (S&B 1887).
Father, Henry Ammon James (B.A. 1874, LL.B. S&B 1878); son of Henry and Amelia Belknap (Cate) James, of Baltimore, Md. Mother, Laura Brevoort (Sedgwick) James; daughter of William Ellery Sedgwick (B.A. Harvard 1846) and Constance Irving (Brevoort) Sedgwick, of New York City. Yale relatives include: Dr. Walter B. James (S&B 1879), Norman James, (S&B 1890), and Robert C. James, (S&B 1894)(uncles); and Dr. Henry James, ‘03, Allan McLane, Jr., ‘16, and Oliver B. James, ‘18 (first cousins).[2]
Son, Dr. William E.S. James, Elihu 1942.
[4] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[[5] - Ellery Sedgewick James https://www.geni.com/people/William-James-Sr/6000000002133203347
[[6] - ELLERY S. JAMES, BANKER, DIES AT 37; Artillery Captain in France — With Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. Since War. (Nov. 26, 1932) https://www.nytimes.com/1932/11/26/archives/ellery-s-james-banker-dies-at-37-artillery-captain-in-france-with.html
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