Richard Melancthon Hurd (S&B 1888)
Pioneer real estate exonomist and political activist. St. Pauls School*. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Yale Record.
Close friend of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Member The Pilgrims, Associates in Fine Arts at Yale, and St George’s Church (Episcopal), New York City.[4]
1937 to 1941 - Vice-President and a Director Mortgage Conference of New York.[4]
About 1920 to 1929, Trustee Northern Assurance Company, Ltd (London).[4]
WW1 - Active officer of the American Defense Society, an organisation that promoted America’s entry into World War 1 and civilian initiatives to suppress dissent during the conflict.
1915 to 1918 - Member, Prison Comm NY State.[2]
1915 to 1918 - Member New York State Commission of Prisons.[4]
1913 - President, Lawyers Mortgage Co, (NYC).[2]
1913 to 1931 - Treasurer Berkshire Industrial Farm, Canaan, N.Y.[4]
1912 to 1941 - Alumni Fund agent for his Class.[4]
1905, an organizer, 1905 to 1910, President, 1910 to 1929, Vice-President, Mortgage-Bond Company of New York (now Morton Corporation of New York).[4]
1903 - Published, Principles of City Land Values, and articles on mortgage and real-estate practice.[4]
1903 to 1933 - President Lawyers Mortgage Corporation, New York City, and chairman of the board 1933 to 1941.[4]
22 Sep 1898 - Married in Mobile, Ala, Lucy, daughter of Charles Wood and Mary Goodwin (Thomas) Gazzam Children Mary, the wife of G Francklyn Lawrence, Jr, ‘18; Eleanor (Bryn Mawr ex-23), the wife of Charles Carroll Lee (B S. Harvard 1923), Richard Melancthon, Jr , ‘28, Clement Gazzam, ‘30, and Lucy Lea.
1893 to 1903 - Associated with United States Mortgage & Trust Company of New York City (agent in Seattle 1893 to 1895, in New York office 1895 to 1897, assistant secretary 1897 to 1903).[4]
1889 to 1895 - President Mechanics’ Mill & Lumber Company, Seattle, Wash.[4]
1888 - Published A History of Yale Athletics 1840 to 1888.[4]
1888 to 1889 - With Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, Mass.[4]
1892 to 1895 - Washington and Oregon agent Gay & Stanwood, bankers, Seattle.[4]
1888 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 6 Jun 1941, from infection of the gall blader. Age 75.
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
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