John Cheever Cowdin
J. Cheever Cowdin | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 17, 1889 Universal Pictures Corp., Curtiss-Wright, Aqueduct Racetrack |
| Spouse(s) | Florence Hopkins, Katherine McCutcheon Abbott, Katherine Andrea Parker Berens |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent | John Elliot Cowdin & Gertrude Cheever |
John Cheever Cowdin (March 17, 1889 – September 16, 1960) was an American financier and polo champion who was a head of Universal Pictures, Standard Capital Corporation of New York City, and was chairman of Ideal Chemicals.[1]
Biography
Known as J. Cheever Cowdin, he was born in
In 1936, Cowdin's Standard Capital was part of the lending group who had to exercise their rights to the shares held as loan collateral of the financially strapped
Cowdin served as chairman of the Committee on Government Finance of the National Association of Manufacturers.[2]
Cowdin was married three times in the course of his life. He married his first wife, Florence Hopkins, in 1912; they divorced in 1926. Their union produced a son, John Cheever Cowdin Jr. who in 1946 committed suicide at age 33 while in Nassau, Bahamas.[3] According to the New York Times, Cowdin later married Katherine Andrea Parker Berens on December 30, 1941, in Yuma, Arizona.[4] As a prominent American, the TIME magazine reported Cowdin's 1929 marriage to Manhattan socialite divorcee, Mrs. Katherine McCutcheon Abbott, in Bristol, Maine, during a cruise on his yacht, Surf.
He died on September 16, 1960.[1]
Equine sportsman
J. Cheever Cowdin served as president of
He was termed by
References
- ^ New York Times. September 16, 1960. Retrieved 2015-10-04.
- ^ New York Times - August 14, 1942
- ^ New York Times - November 21, 1946
- ^ Diana Gale Matthiesen. "Edward Whiting HOPKINS & Georgina Caroline SMITH & Helen Maria PIERSON". Dgmweb.net. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
Further reading
- Article by the International Society for New Institutional Economics concerning Cowdin's actions as part of insider-trading history
- August 19, 1929 TIME Magazine marriage notice
- "The Art of Wearing Clothes" by George Francis Frazier, Jr., Esquire, Sept. 1960