OBITUARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 75, 25 February 1938, Page 9

OBITUARY.

MR SEYMOUR GILBERT. NEW YORK, Feb. 23. The death has occured of Mr Seymour Parker Gilbert, a prominent banker. The late Mr Gilbert was born at Bloomfield, New Jersey, in 1892, and went to Rutgers, where he took his M.A. in 1916. He gained his LL.B., cum laude, at Harvard University in 1915. From 1915 to 1918 he was with Messrs Cravath and Henderson, of New York, and was a member of the war loan staff of the Secretary of the Treasury as counsel in war loan matters, from 1918 to 1920. In the middle of 1920 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of fiscal affairs, and held this post for a year. For the following two years he was Under-Secretary at the Treasury. Then lie became a member of the firm of Cravath, Henderson and de Gersdorx, New York, and in October, 1924, was appointed Agent-General for Reparation Payments in Germany, which office he held until May, 1930. In the five years of his service he' gained an international reputation, and in January, 1931, he was made a partner in the firm of J. P. Morgan and Co. He was decorated by France, Belgium, and Italy, and granted honorary degrees by a number of leading American universities. He married Miss Louise Ross Todd, of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1924, and has one son and one daughter.