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152 Yale University Obituary Record
member Freshman Navy Sophomore year (manager Junior year, president
Senior year); on Class hockey team and championship Class crews Sophomore and Junior years, captain Dunham Boat Club Senior year, Apollo
Glee Club Sophomore year; chairman Senior Promenade and Class Day
committees; member Whiffenpoofs, Psi Upsilon, and Wolfs Head.
Associated with Peter Henderson & Company 1912-44 (vice-president
1914-19, president 1919-39, chairman of the board 1939-44); enlisted as
private (1st class), United States Army, October 24, 1917, attended School
of Military Aeronautics, Kelly Field No 1, San Antonio, Texas, October-
December, 1917; commissioned Second Lieutenant December 29, 1917;
in organization office, Signal Corps, Kelly Field, January-July, 1918;
adjutant Squadron B, Air Service Military Aeronautics, Rockwell Field,
San Diego, Calif, July, 1918, until discharge January 6, 1919; on fifteenth
and thirtieth Class reunion committees, member Railroad Machinery
Club, St Andrew's Society of the State of New York, and Christ Church
(Episcopal), Greenwich.
Married August 2, 1918, in San Antonio, Aline, daughter of William
Reid and Julie (Edson) Manierre Children* Peter, Jr., <?#-'42, and William Manierre, ex- 45.
Death due to uremia. Buried in Putnam Cemetery, Greenwich. Survived by wife, sons, and a sister, Mrs. Walter Barnard Cowperthwake of
New York City.
Paul Leon Houston, B.A. 1913.
Born October 28, 1890, in Holyoke, Mass
Died April 14, 1944, in Springfield, Mass.
Father, Joseph Edgar Houston, a farmer and lumber dealer in Holyoke;
son of William E. and Sarah (Kimball) Houston of Haverhill, N H , and
Holyoke. Mother, Harriet Adeline (Street) Houston; daughter of Alpheus
and Sally Ann (Thorpe) Street of Northampton, Mass
Holyoke High School and The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn. Second dispute appointment Junior and Senior years; Freshman Glee Club,
Apollo Glee Club Junior year, member Beta Theta Pi
With Millers Falls (Mass.) Paper Company 1913 and George C Gill
division American Writing Paper Company, Holyoke, 1914-17; superintendent Nonotuck Paper Company, Holyoke, 1917-18; engaged in experimental work with gas mask and airplane paper, and editor technological papers, Paper Section, Bureau of Standards, Washington, 1918-23;
president and treasurer Centennial Mills, Inc., manufacturers of straw
wrapping, Valatie, N.Y, 1923-28; vice-president and assistant general
| Title | Yb 65, Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Years 1940-1945 |
| Creator | Yale University |
| Place of Publication | New Haven, Connecticut (Conn.) |
| Date | 1940-1945 |
| Call Number | Yb 65 |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Yale University -- Biography |
| Type | Periodical |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3036259 |
| Repository | Manuscripts and Archives |
| Repository URL | http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa |
| Series | Bulletin of Yale University |
| Title | Page 152 |
| Transcript | 152 Yale University Obituary Record member Freshman Navy Sophomore year (manager Junior year, president Senior year); on Class hockey team and championship Class crews Sophomore and Junior years, captain Dunham Boat Club Senior year, Apollo Glee Club Sophomore year; chairman Senior Promenade and Class Day committees; member Whiffenpoofs, Psi Upsilon, and Wolfs Head. Associated with Peter Henderson & Company 1912-44 (vice-president 1914-19, president 1919-39, chairman of the board 1939-44); enlisted as private (1st class), United States Army, October 24, 1917, attended School of Military Aeronautics, Kelly Field No 1, San Antonio, Texas, October- December, 1917; commissioned Second Lieutenant December 29, 1917; in organization office, Signal Corps, Kelly Field, January-July, 1918; adjutant Squadron B, Air Service Military Aeronautics, Rockwell Field, San Diego, Calif, July, 1918, until discharge January 6, 1919; on fifteenth and thirtieth Class reunion committees, member Railroad Machinery Club, St Andrew's Society of the State of New York, and Christ Church (Episcopal), Greenwich. Married August 2, 1918, in San Antonio, Aline, daughter of William Reid and Julie (Edson) Manierre Children* Peter, Jr., |
