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William Burke Belknap〔 〕 the younger (1885–1965) was the son of William Richardson Belknap and Alice Trumbull Silliman. He was an entrepreneur in the family of William Burke Belknap, the elder (1811–1884), son of Morris Burke Belknap. The Belknaps were founders, inventors of patented merchandise, and owners of the now no longer extant Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company in Louisville, Kentucky. William Burke Belknap was an economist〔http://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/economist.html〕 and a professor of economics at the University of Louisville.〔http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/phi-beta-kappa.html〕 Leading up to and during World War II, he volunteered for service with the Red Cross in Ramsay and Plymouth, England.〔https://centennialbook.afs.org/Celebrations/WWIIDrivers/226〕 He was a trustee of Berea College and a graduate of Yale and Harvard. As a Kentucky legislator, he served two terms as a representative in the Kentucky General Assembly. He was the owner of Land O'Goshen Farms, where he bred and raised sheep and American saddlebred horses, and he was the president of F.C. Co-operative Milk Producers Association.〔http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/heraldpost/id/1267/rec/20〕 ==Biography== William Burke Belknap (not to be confused with his son, William Burke Belknap, Jr.) was the son of William Richardson Belknap,〔''Belknap Family Papers, 1856-1904'', Filson Historical Society Special Collections Call Number AB432.〕 for whom the William R. Belknap School in Louisville was named and who was also former president and chairman of the board of Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company and original owner of the family mansion Lincliff. William Burke Belknap's mother, Alice Trumbull Silliman, was his father William Richardson Belknap's first wife.〔Obituary record of graduates of Yale University January 1, 1917. Entry for William Richardson Belknap in the Sheffield Scientific School, pp. 871-872. Published by University of Michigan Library. 〕 She was the daughter of Yale chemistry professor Benjamin Silliman, Jr. and Susan Huldah Forbes and granddaughter of Benjamin Silliman and Harriett Trumbull, a descendant of Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.〔Johnson, E. Polk. A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities. Chicago, Illinois: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912, Volume 3, pp. 1153-1154.〕 In addition to their son, William Burke Belknap's parents had four daughters. Belknap's sisters were Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey (1876-1964), Alice Silliman Belknap Hawkes (1878-1972), Mary Belknap Gray (1881-1974), and Christine Belknap Robinson (1890-1919). Belknap was engaged in 1920 to Doris Hewitt, "granddaughter of Abram S. Hewitt, familiarly remembered as Mayor of New York, and great-granddaughter of Peter Cooper, merchant and philanthropist." But a date was not set and she wed another.〔''Miss Hewitt Finds Romance in and out of Work'', The Sun and New York Herald, New York, Sunday Feb. 8, 1920, p. 31.〕〔''Engagement to Lucy Hewitt, granddaughter of Abram Hewitt, late Mayor of New York'', New-York Tribune, 15 February 1920, First Edition, p. 63.〕 He was married on September 14, 1922, to Helen Clark Strong.〔http://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/economist.html〕 In 1934 he filed for divorce asking for custody of their three young children, William Burke Belknap, Jr., Jonathan Trumbull Belknap, and Helen Belknap. Helen Strong counter-sued and on March 8, 1944 their financial settlement became part of a suit ''Belknap, et al. v.United States,'' in which Belknap's sheep-farming accounts, tax records, and divorce settlement were closely scrutinized. William Burke Belknap and his wife Edith Mary Clarke Belknap (whom he had married in 1937 in Hudson, Canada),〔Quebec, Canada Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection)〕 initiated the suit in order to recover money paid in an inaccurate tax assessment,〔''Belknap v. United States 55F Supp. 90 '', Kentucky Western District Court, March 8, 1944.〕 and the court granted the refund to the plaintiffs. His second wife Edith Clarke Belknap was born September 28, 1896, in Hudson Heights, Quebec, Canada, and petitioned to become a naturalized citizen on July 10, 1942. She lived at Land O'Goshen farm with William Burke Belknap until his death and died March 24, 1983 in Oldham, Kentucky. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Burke Belknap」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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