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Born at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, January 30, 1882 and educatedatSt. Thomas, Ajaccio, Corsica, St. Barbe and Paris, France.Married toMargaret Dunlap; children, Edward John, William Charles,MargaretCecilia.
Chairman, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation.Internat,Standard Electric Company, Chairman and Presidentof the Board, CubanTelephone Company, President and Director,Port of Havana DocksCOmpany, Radio Corporation of Cuba, StandardProductsDistributing ofCuba, Interntional Telephone and Telegraph(Espana). Chairman-director,Puerto Rico Telephone Company,Radio Corporation of Puerto Rico.Director and chairman of theFinance Committee, Federal ElectricCompany. Director, AmericanCable and Radio Corporation, CapehartFarnsworth Company, theCoolerator Company, Federal TelecommunicationsLabs, FederalTelephone and Radio Company, Kellogg Switchboard andSupplyCompany, CIA Standard Electric Company (Puerto Rico andArgentina),Kellogg Credit Corporation, StandardElektrizitats-Gesellschaf,A.G., Standard Electricia,Lisbon, StandardElectricia of Madrid,the National City Bank, New York, L.M. EriccssonTelephone Company,Sweden. Delegate Representative, National Conventionof 1912,member of RepublicanNational Committee, 1912-16.
Commissioned a Captain, Signal Corps,United States Army, June19, 1917,later Major and Lieutenant Colonel. Served with theAmericanExpeditionary Force (AEF) in France in World War Iuntil February 1919.Commanded the 232nd Field Signal Battalion,Chatteau Thierry, St.Mihiel, Argonne. Awarded the DistinguishedService Medal (DSM), Medalof Merit, Commnder of the Legionof Honor of France, Grand Cross of theOrder of Isabella laCatolica of Spain, Grand Officer of the Order ofSt. Gregory.Office: 67 Broad Street, New York City.
He died in New York City in 1957 and was buried in Section 3ofArlington National Cemetery. His stone reads: "Co-founder,with hisbrother, Hernando, of the International Telephone andTelegraphCorporation.
Stefan
Eberhard
