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| Changed: 23 Jul 1998 |
| Burial: 06 Apr 1977 St James Church Cemetary, St James, Suffolk, NY |
Occupation: FBB was a Corporation Lawyer and dealt with Banking Law -
Hanover Bank Between 1925 and 1976 Kelly Drye Newhall and Maginnis, New York, NY |
| Christening: 1903 Trinity Church, New York, NY |
| Baptism: 1903 New York, NY |
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Individual:
Franklin Bartlett Benkard 1903 - 1977 The following was copied
from information submitted to the Harvard University 25th
Anniversary Report of the Class of 1925. It is dated Tan 3
1950. Educated: Bovee School for Boys 4 East 49th St The
Browning School Class 1921 (1916-1921) Harvard College 1925
A.B. Colombia Law School 1928 L.L.B. Wartime Posts On April 4th
1944 was appointed Associate Government Appeal Agent and on May
28th 1945 Government Appeal Agent, of Local Board No 27,
Selective Service, with headquarters in New York City. He also
served in the Coast Guard Reserve patrolling the docks in New
Jersey at night. He had a uniform made by Abocrombie and Pitch,
a sleeping bag from the same store and dinner made by my
mother; His only weapon was a nightstick. In fairness to my
father, he was over the age for the draft T¨B¨T¨) Offices held
Director and Treasurer of the Julliard School of Music
1941-1977 Director of the Midnight Mission Society (an
organization who helped 'unfortunate girls' in other words
unwed mothers. Member of: The Century Association Knickerbocker
Club Bar Associations: Association of the Bar of the City of
New York; American Bar Association; and the New York State Bar
Association. Misc. Societies: Holland Lodge No. 8 F. and A.M.;
New York State Society of the Cincinnati; The Pilgrims of the
United States; St Nicholas Society of the City of New York;
Society of the Mayflower Descendants. Essay: I went to Colombia
Law School after we graduated because I wanted to practice in
New York, which is and ( deo volente ) always will be my home.
I had been slated from the law from the beginning because my
grandfather had been a lawyer and my great u ncle a judge This
is hardly an infallible formula. Colombia is not interested in
antecedents, and I had to sweat for my degree. However I got it
finally and began to practice in the autumn of 1928. My career
at the bar can be summarized in a very few words. I took a job
with a downtown law firm and went to work. After some years I
became a member of the firm. I am still with it and plan to
stay. Incidentally our classmate Theodore Pearson was hired
with me. We are now partners but remain on excellent terms. My
actual practice has been no more spectacular, from a layman's
standpoint. It has nothing to do with espionage or crimes of
violence, and little with infidelity, alienation of affections,
or the Allied Arts. Chiefly it has been concerned with the
mechanics and intricacies of finance, high and low. But within
its scope, the work has been very varied, often exciting and
rarely dull. Years ago I spent months digging through the
Kreuger empire, and more recently played a modest part in
setting up th e legal framework for some billions of dollars of
war production loans. More than once I have been near an ulcer
diet (later he did have an ulcer J¨B¨J¨) but I have never found
time hanging heavy on my hands. In 1932, I married a Boston
girl who was spending the winter in New York and did not get
back in time. She is at my side as I write, or at any rate
somewhere around the house, if she has not gone out. We have 2
children 16 and 12 who are also quite satisfactory. Since we
were married we have lived in a succession of New York
apartments, changing sizes as the family grew. In the early
days we rented summer houses in the country, except when we
were hard up. (any New Yorker that says that the city is a good
s ummer resort is hard up.) A few years ago I bought a house in
St James Long Island where we spend the summer and most
weekends. My wife loves St James because it is like New
England, and I am content there because, although rural, it is
not far from town . My main outdoor interest is fishing, a
weakness which my wife fortunately shares. We have been as far
as Newfoundland after salmon, and have spent many vacations in
Quebec and northern Maine, trout and landlocked salmon being
the objectives. When we can do nothing else, we catch flounders
in the St Tames harbor. My travels other than vacations and
business jaunts, stopped abruptly with my wedding trip to
France and Germany. Earlier, I spent part of three summers
abroad, in a Europe, which seems fab ulous and remote. Music is
my chief mental relaxation, but I still read and have built up
a modest collection of books on ancient and mediaeval history.
I am an enthusiastic though inexpert cook, I play the piano
consistently but (by request) only in my own hearing, and I am
the unquestioned worst doubles tennis player in St James (I no
longer play singles). Besides the children, we support a brown
poodle and an aged alligator; the latter was sent to me as a
wedding present by a Florida lawyer, which I must have offended
in some way. Providentially, he (the alligator) stopped growing
when he reached thr ee feet in length. I am moderately active
in the Bar Association and similar activities and serve on the
Boards of a school of Music and one or two charities. However I
am very far from a public figure or civic leader. All in all,
the years have made of me just another New York lawyer, but it
suits me. There is a jingle in the south about the profession,
which concludes, ' Good lawyers work hard, live well, die
broke, and go to hell. ' Maybe so, but its fun while it lasts.
Note: After 1950 Franklin Benkard became active in Head of the
Harbor and did much to presence the zoning regulations. He also
went on to serve on more Boards. From Kelly Drye and Warren -
An informal History - 1836 - 1984 Copyright 1985 Two more
partners were added January 1 1941, Hovey Clark and Franklin
Benkard. Franklin Bartlett Benkard was born in 1903 (1902
J¨B¨J), the son of Harry Horton and Bertha King Bartlett
Benkard, the niece of Judge Willard Bartlett of The New York
Court of Appeals. He was born in New York City, and later in
life wrote he had alw ays lived in New York City and would
continue always to live in New York City, no matter how it
might change. After World War II, he and his wife of 30 years
spent their summers at their house in St James Long Island.
There he served as village attorney for the incorporated
village of Head of the Harbor, and as an Assistant deputy
district attorney of Suffolk County. Benkard was graduated
Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in 1925 and from Colombia Law
School in 1928, becoming a law clerk in the firm's offices
September 27 of the latter year. He came to specialize in
corporate law, particularly banking law, working mos tly on
matters relating to the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co.
During and shortly after World War 1I, he played a part in
negotiating; administrating and liquidating over a billion
dollars of government guaranteed bank loans for war production
purpose s. Benkard, like Pearson (Theodore Pearson Uncle Ted, a
life long friend and classmate at Harvard) was keenly
interested in music and was an accomplished pianist ( ???? J.B.
J.) He served as active trustee of the Julliard School of Music
for over 35 years. He was an ardent fisherman, golfer and
tennis player and a delightful raconteur, with a great fund of
literary allusions. He was an able draftsman with an easy and
gracious literary style and a gift for the mot juste. Benkard
was a member of the Knickerb ocker Club for more than 50 years,
of the Century Association for 29 years, of the Pilgrims, and a
number of Historical Societies in which he was interested,
including the Society of the Cincinnati, the St. Nicholas
Society, the Society of the Mayflower Descendants and the
Society of the War of 1812. In his city Apartment 1000 Park
Ave. incidentally, he kept a pet alligator in a tank.
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