1954 - Special Collections

YEAR BOOK AMERICA N CLAN GREGOR SOC IETY
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CLAU DE W. OWEN HONORED
P resident Eisenhower has appointed Claude W. Owen , form er pres ident of
th e Wa shington Boar d of Trade, as a member of the Nat ional Capit al Planning
Commission for a six-y ear term. Mr. Owen is a member of the Council of the
American Clan Grego r Society.
Mr. Owen, who is president of th e E. G. Schafer & Co. plumbing supply firm,
will serve along with John A. Remon as the two District-resident members and
will bring to the planning body wide experience in plannin g and civic matters. He
was a member of the original Committee of One Hundred on the Federal City
which in the 1920s prom oted passage of legislation sett ing up the planning commission.
I n 1944, he headed a Citizens' Advi sor y Board on the Pian of the National
Capita l and Env ir ons.
President of the Board of Trade in 1933-4, he also is a form er pr esident
of the Kiwanis Club of Wa shington, the one-time Security Finance Corporation
and the Midd le Atlantic Wholesalers' Associati on, and is now president of the
American Institut e of Wholesale P lumbing and Heatin g Supply Associations.
A native of Gaithersburg, Md., Mr. Owen is a graduate of St. John' s College,
Annapolis, and he obtain ed a law degree fr om the Geor ge Wa shington University' s
Law School in 1910 and practiced law in Washington for severa l year s. In 1917
he went into business with E. G. Schafer, became th e firm's first president and
now owns it. H e lives at 4801 Colorado Avenue, N.W., W ashington, D. C.
REPORT OF THE REGISTRAR
MRS. O. O. VAN ll E ~ B ERG
1954
Your Registrar deeply regr ets the omission of the following eight names
from her report of 1953 and published in the Year Book for 1954 :
1142 Nathaniel Fugua Magruder, 504 W est Hill view Avenue, Sarasota, Florida.
Mr. Magruder is the son of our members, Nathaniel Magruder and his
wife H elen McKeneie, he son of H erman Bangs Magruder who married
Harriet Fugua. Th e line is throu gh Jam es Trueman Magruder who
married his cousin Elizabeth Ann Magr uder, he fr om the three Alexanders
in line.
1143 Miss Eli zabeth Courtney Stauffer , Box 21, Walkersville, F rederick
County, Md., daught er of Simon Theodore Stauffer and his wife Clara
Courtney Offutt. Hi s mother was Mati lda Noble Magruder, dau ghter of
James Magruder and his wife E leanor Harwood, he son of Samuel
Brewer Magr uder of "Samuel's Delight", whose first wife was Rebecca
Magruder, a cousin.
1144 Wa lter Munca ster Hi ggins, Jr., 10725 Tillamook St reet, P ortland 20,
Ore. Mr. Hi ggins' grandparents were Laura Cook Muncaster who ma r­
ried John Jam es Higgins, she daught er of Harriett Eli zabeth Magruder
who married Ot ho Zacharia Munca ster, she daughter of Zadoc Magruder,
3rd, of Dr. Zadok.
1145 A. Mr s. W alt er Muncaster, Jr., Dor othy Jane Cruickshank.