IN MEMORIAM

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J. Howland Auchincloss Born New York, NY 1886. Groton ’04. Yale A.B. ’08. Harvard ll.B. ’11. Admitted practice New York 1912; C.A. (2nd Cir.) 1916; Southern District of New York 1915. Stetson Jennings & Russell (and successor firms) since 1911 (member of firm since 1921). World War I: U.S. Army, Field Artillery Central Officers Training School, Camp Zachary Taylor, KY (1918). World War II: Selective Service, Associate Government Appeal Agent (local Board 40), New York City (1942–45). Member: American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, New York County lawyers Association, New York City Bar Association. 46
George A. Brownell Born New York, NY 1898. Pomfret ’15. Harvard A.B. ’19; A.M. ’20; ll.B. ’22. Ames Competition (winning oralist), President, Harvard legal Aid Society. Admitted practice New York 1923; U.S. Supreme Court 1932; C.A. (2nd Cir.), Southern District of New York 1922. Stetson Jennings & Russell (and successor firms) since 1922 (member of firm since 1930). World War I: U.S. Army, Field Artillery 1, Private, 2nd lieutenant World War II: Selective Service, Chair, Appeal Board No. 5, New York City (1940–42); Selective Service Medal; U.S. Army Air Force, lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier General; Executive Officer to Assistant Secretary of War for Air; Distinguished Service Medal (U.S.); Order of Southern Cross (Commander) (Brazil). Personal Representative (rank of Minister) of President of the U.S. to India and Middle East (1946), to Mexico (1948); Special Assistant to Secretary of Air Force (1950–51). Council on Foreign Relations. Trustee: Brooklyn Savings Bank 1965–73. Member: Board of Overseers of Harvard College 1960–66. (Overseers Committee to Visit the law School 1937–52, 1960–66, 1968–74.) Trustee: leake & Watts Children’s Home (Chair: 1966–74), The Seeing Eye, Inc. (1939-75), New York University Medical Center and Army Relief Society. Honorary Trustee: lenox Hill Hospital, New York University Medical Center, Community Service Society. Director and Executive Committee: New York World’s Fair I 1937–41. Fellow: American Bar Foundation. Member: American law Institute, American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association (Committee on Corporation law: 1946–67); New York County lawyers Association (Director: 1935–41; William Nelson Cromwell Medal); New York City Bar Association (Executive Committee: 1936–43; Chair, Committee on Professional Responsibility 1963–69; Vice-President: 1968–70); New York law Institute. Director: The legal Aid Society 1970– . President, Harvard law School Association of New York City 1968–69. 47
Page 1 and 2: IN MEMORIAM Davis Polk & Wardwell l
Page 3: Contents The Predecessor Firms . .
Page 7: The Predecessor Firms 1849-68 Franc
Page 11 and 12: Years of Partnership Francis Nehemi
Page 13: Years of Partnership Peter A. Bator
Page 17 and 18: Francis Nehemiah Bangs Born New Yor
Page 19 and 20: Grover Cleveland Born Caldwell, NJ
Page 21 and 22: Charles Edward Tracy Born Utica, NY
Page 23 and 24: Henry Lynde Sprague Born New York,
Page 25 and 26: Frederick B. Jennings Born Benningt
Page 27 and 28: Ogden L. Mills Born Newport, RI 188
Page 29 and 30: Edward R. Greene Born 1861. Columbi
Page 31 and 32: Charles MacVeagh Born Westchester,
Page 33 and 34: Henry Clay Alexander Born Murfreesb
Page 35 and 36: Otis T. Bradley Born New Haven, CT
Page 37 and 38: Marion N. Fisher Born Emmerton, VA
Page 39 and 40: John W. Davis Born Clarksburg, WV 1
Page 41 and 42: Thomas O’Gorman FitzGibbon Born N
Page 43 and 44: Central of Ga. Ry. 1942-48; Counsel
Page 45: Edgar G. Crossman Born lisbon, NH 1
Page 49 and 50: William C. Cannon Born Andover, NY
Page 51 and 52: Ewen Cameron MacVeagh Born Santa Ba
Page 53 and 54: Edward R. Wardwell Born lawrence, N
Page 55 and 56: Michael W. Leisure Born New York, N
Page 57 and 58: Morton L. Fearey II Born New York,
Page 59 and 60: D. Nelson Adams Born New York, NY 1
Page 61 and 62: David A. Lindsay Born New York, NY
Page 63 and 64: Andrew Y. Rogers Born Madison, NJ 1
Page 65 and 66: C.H. Willard Born Minneapolis, MN 1
Page 67 and 68: C. Payson Coleman Born Englewood, N
Page 69 and 70: Lawrence E. Walsh Born Port Maitlan
Page 71 and 72: William D. Tucker, Jr. Born New Yor
Page 73 and 74: James W.B. Benkard Born New York, N
Page 75 and 76: Peter O.A. Solbert Born Copenhagen,
Page 77 and 78: Bruce W. Nichols Born New York, NY
Page 79 and 80: Richard B. Smith Born lancaster, PA
Page 81 and 82: Charles M. Spofford Born St. louis,
Page 83 and 84: Donaldson C. Pillsbury Born Minneap
Page 85 and 86: James F. Dolan Born Orange, NJ 1930
Page 87 and 88: James P. Lawton Born Yuma, AZ 1948.
Page 89 and 90: John P. Cooney, Jr. Born Chicago, I
Page 91: David W. Ferguson Born lake Bluff,
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