WICKERSHAM, Cornelius Wendell^[1]

1910 - 1966  (56 years)

• Name	WICKERSHAM, Cornelius Wendell
  Birth	2 Apr 1910	Long Island City, Queens County, New York, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Oct 1966	Memorial Cemetery of Saint John's Church, Laurel Hollow, Nassau County, New York, USA   [2]
  Death	10 Oct 1966	Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, USA   [1]
  	Obituary: Ex-U.S. Attorney C. W. Wickersham, Jr. Services for Cornelius W. Wickersham Jr., a former United States attorney will be held tomorrow at noon at St. John's Episcopal Church in Cold Spring Harbor. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Wickersham, who was a Republican candidate for Huntington Town supervisor in 1963, died Monday night in Huntington Hospital after a long illness. He was 56. A grandson of the U.S. Attorney General under President William Howard Taft, Mr. Wickersham was corporate counsel for the W. R. Grace Co. at the time of his death. Mr. Wickersham served as chief assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District -- which takes in Long Island and Brooklyn -- from July 1953 to September, 1957. He served as U.S. attorney from September, 1957 to April, 1961. After his retirement from federal service, Mr. Wickersham joined the Manhattan law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton. Born in Lawrence, Mr. Wickersham attended the Lawrence School in Hewlett and St. Mary's School in South Borough, Mass. He was graduated from Harvard in 1932 and from Harvard Law School in 1935. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines with the 5th Air Force two years a combat intelligence officer and was discharged as a captain. Mr. Wickersham served three terms as president of the New York Young Republican Club and was president of the Huntington Citizens for President Eisenhower in 1952. Mr. Wickersham was active in the Boy Scouts, Red Cross, and various fund raising campaigns on Long Island. He was a member of the American Bar Association; Bar Association of the city and state; Lawyers Club of Huntington; Federal Bar Association of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut; New York District Attorney's Association; Suffolk County Bar Association and the American College of Trial Lawyers. He leaves his widow, the former Elizabeth Savage; a daughter, Barbara Wickersham and a son Cornelius III, both of Huntington; another son, Theodore, of Manhattan; his parents, retired National Guard Lieutenant General George W. and Mrs. Wickersham. Long Island Press, Long Island, New York, 10/12/1966 Davis, Sheldon, Escalante, "The Wickersham Family in America," Heritage Books, Inc. 2001 [1]
  Age	56 years
  Person ID	P2048	Dutton Ancestry
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family	SAVAGE, Elizabeth Terry           b. 1915, New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA           d. 11 Jul 1973, New York, USA (Age 58 years)  [1]
  Marriage	1936  [1]
  Age at Marriage	He : ~ 25 years and 8 months - She : ~ 21 years.
  Family ID	F5464	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 2 Apr 1910 - Long Island City, Queens County, New York, USA Burial - Oct 1966 - Memorial Cemetery of Saint John's Church, Laurel Hollow, Nassau County, New York, USA Death - 10 Oct 1966 - Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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  [S50] Findagrave.com. [S50] Findagrave.com. Created by: Barbara Chipres Added: 10 Oct 2004 Find a Grave Memorial ID# 9576066