Samuel Reading Bertron

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Samuel Reading Bertron Jr.
Bertron in 1917
Born(1865-02-26)February 26, 1865
Port Gibson, Mississippi
DiedJune 30, 1938(1938-06-30) (aged 73)
Cove Neck, New York
EducationYale University
Parent(s)Samuel Reading Bertron Sr.
Ottilie Mueler

Samuel Reading Bertron Jr. (February 26, 1865 – June 30, 1938) was an American banker.[1]

Biography

Bertron was born on February 26, 1865, in Port Gibson, Mississippi. His father was a Philadelphia-born and Princeton University-educated Presbyterian minister, Samuel Reading Bertron Sr. (1806–1878), and his mother was a German immigrant, Ottilie Mueler (1830–1903).

Rev. S.R. Berton moved to Port Gibson, Mississippi, in 1835, where he preached in a variety of churches and institutions. The senior Bertron had three wives and five children. Rev. Bertron's wives were Caroline Christie (March 25, 1818 – April 13, 1839), Catherine McRae Crane, widow of Alfred Thomas Barnes (died 1849), and Ottilie Mueler. The first two wives died in childbirth. Bertron Jr. had three sisters and a brother. Rev. Bertron's five children from the three wives were: Mary, Clara, Annie, Francis, and Samuel Jr. The last was the only child of Rev. Bertron and his third wife, whom he married in 1857. Rev. Bertron died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1878.

Bertron Jr. was educated at

to the bar
for New York. Bertron gave up his law practice and left Equitable in 1894 to work for an investment company. In time, the company became his.

Bertron met his wife, Caroline Maury Harding, in Port Gibson. They were married in 1888. Their one child, a daughter, Elizabeth Maury Bertron, married Snowden Andrews Fahnestock in 1910. She was his first wife. Two more followed after her.

While in New York, Bertron was active as a part-time diplomat. In 1912, he helped with peace negotiations between Italy and Turkey.[2] In 1917, he was appointed to join the Root commission to Russia, led by Elihu Root.[3] He appeared before the Federal Electric Railways Commission.[4]

Bertron died on June 30, 1938, in Cove Neck, New York.[5] He was buried at Wintergreen Cemetery in Port Gibson, Mississippi.

References

  1. New York Times
    . July 1, 1938. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  2. ISBN 9780977091225
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  3. ISBN 9780810862579
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  4. ^ Proceedings of the Federal Electric Railways Commission: Held in Washington, D.C., during the months of July, August, September, and October, 1919 (Report). Washington, D.C.: United States Federal Electric Railways Commission. 1920.
  5. New York Times
    . July 1, 1938. Retrieved May 31, 2015.

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