PHELPS NEWBERRY, B,A, 1914 Born December 8, 1891,
Detroit, Mich , died July 8, 1949, Detroit, Mich
Father, Truman H Newberry, '85 S Mother, Harriet Josephine
(Barnes) Newberry Yale relatives include an uncle, A Victor Barnes
(Class of 1891 S )
Hotchkiss School Freshman Glee Club, College Choir, Yale University
Dramatic Association, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Alpha Delta
Phi
Treasurer Detroit Steel Casting Company and O & W Thum
Company 1915-17, assistant to president Detroit Seamless Steel Tubes
Company 1919-20, resident manager Newberry Estate, Inc , 1921-25,
president 1945-49, with Guardian Trust Company 1925-27, Union Guardian
Trust Company 1927, vice-president Guardian Detroit Bank 1927-33,
with Goodbody & Company, brokers, 1933-34 and McCann-Erickson,
Inc , advertising agency, 1934-38, manufacturers' agent 1938-45,
civilian aide for Michigan to Secretary of War 1936-47, Major Air Service
World War I, Colonel (chief of personnel and base services) Air
Corps World War II, vice-president Military Training Camps Association,
treasurer Michigan Children's Aid Society, trustee Grace Hospital
(Detroit), member Sons of the American Revolution and Grosse Pointe
memorial Church (Presbyterian)
Married January 18, 1916, Detroit, Christina Mmr, daughter of
Harry and Christina (Muir) Van Husan Children Phelps, Jr , Truman
Handy, 2d, Christina Muir (Mrs James Douglas Darling, 2d)
Death due to rupture stomach varix Buried in Elmwood Cemetery,
Grosse Pointe, MI.
PHELPS NEWBERRY, B,A, 1914 Born December 8, 1891,
Detroit, Mich , died July 8, 1949, Detroit, Mich
Father, Truman H Newberry, '85 S Mother, Harriet Josephine
(Barnes) Newberry Yale relatives include an uncle, A Victor Barnes
(Class of 1891 S )
Hotchkiss School Freshman Glee Club, College Choir, Yale University
Dramatic Association, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Alpha Delta
Phi
Treasurer Detroit Steel Casting Company and O & W Thum
Company 1915-17, assistant to president Detroit Seamless Steel Tubes
Company 1919-20, resident manager Newberry Estate, Inc , 1921-25,
president 1945-49, with Guardian Trust Company 1925-27, Union Guardian
Trust Company 1927, vice-president Guardian Detroit Bank 1927-33,
with Goodbody & Company, brokers, 1933-34 and McCann-Erickson,
Inc , advertising agency, 1934-38, manufacturers' agent 1938-45,
civilian aide for Michigan to Secretary of War 1936-47, Major Air Service
World War I, Colonel (chief of personnel and base services) Air
Corps World War II, vice-president Military Training Camps Association,
treasurer Michigan Children's Aid Society, trustee Grace Hospital
(Detroit), member Sons of the American Revolution and Grosse Pointe
memorial Church (Presbyterian)
Married January 18, 1916, Detroit, Christina Mmr, daughter of
Harry and Christina (Muir) Van Husan Children Phelps, Jr , Truman
Handy, 2d, Christina Muir (Mrs James Douglas Darling, 2d)
Death due to rupture stomach varix Buried in Elmwood Cemetery,
Grosse Pointe, MI.
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