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Donald Hart Hemingway
b.1892-06-27; d.1941-12-11; New Haven, CT, US; Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, 1941-1942 (p.135)
(contributed by Scott Prentice on 2013-10-20)
Donald Hart Hemingway, B.A. 1914.
Born June 27, 1892, in New Haven, Conn.
Died December 11, 1941, in New Haven, Conn.
Father, Samuel Hemingway, president Second National Bank of New Haven; son of Samuel and Marietta (Smith) Hemingway of New Haven. Mother, Minerva Lee (Hart) Hemingway, daughter of Rev. Burdett Hart, D D (B.A 1842), and Rebecca Wheelock (Fiske) Hart Yale relatives include Jacob Heminway (B A 1704) (great-great-great-great-uncle); Harold L Hemingway, '14, and James S Hemingway, '20 (cousins), and Louis L Hemingway, Jr , '42 (nephew).
Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, and Philhps-Andover Freshman Glee Club, member Alpha Delta Phi Graduate member Wolf's Head.
With Second National Bank of New Haven 1914-41 (clerk 1914-15, assistant receiving teller 1915-16, receiving teller 1916-19, assistant cashier 1919-30, vice-president 1930-41, and a director 1935-41), entered service May 15, 1917; attended Officers Training Camp, Fort Oglethorpe, commissioned Second Lieutenant, Infantry, August 13, 1917, assigned to Company I, 323d Infantry, Camp Jackson, transferred to Company H, 51st Pioneer Infantry, Camp Wadsworth, January 22, 1918, overseas July 26, 1918 - July 3, 1919, in action St.-Mihiel Offensive, Woevre, and Meuse-Moselle operations; with Army of Occupation (Third Army) at Cochem November, 1918 - May, 1919, promoted First Lieutenant May 12, 1919, discharged July 7, 1919; on New Haven Board of Aldermen 1920-22, treasurer Connecticut Civic Association 1922-41 and United and Center Church School 1930-41; member council Neighborhood House and treasurer Neighborhood House Shop 1931-41, assistant treasurer New Haven chapter American Red Cross and chairman roll call committee, on advisory committee United Service Organizations (New Haven), director Grace Hospital; acting secretary Class of 1914 in 1921-22; chairman Class reunion committee; treasurer Dwight Hall at Yale University 1939-41, member Church of Christ in Yale University.
Married June 19, 1920, in Norwich, Conn., Elizabeth, daughter of Albert Hunt and Anna (Prentice) Chase. Children: Elizabeth Anne (B.A Mount Holyoke Coll 1942), the wife of John T. Robinson, '37, Dorothy Hart, and Mary Prentice.
Death due to hypertensive cardiovascular renal disease Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven. Survived by wife, daughters, mother, and two brothers, Professor Samuel B. Hemingway, '04, and Louis L Hemingway, '08.
Born June 27, 1892, in New Haven, Conn.
Died December 11, 1941, in New Haven, Conn.
Father, Samuel Hemingway, president Second National Bank of New Haven; son of Samuel and Marietta (Smith) Hemingway of New Haven. Mother, Minerva Lee (Hart) Hemingway, daughter of Rev. Burdett Hart, D D (B.A 1842), and Rebecca Wheelock (Fiske) Hart Yale relatives include Jacob Heminway (B A 1704) (great-great-great-great-uncle); Harold L Hemingway, '14, and James S Hemingway, '20 (cousins), and Louis L Hemingway, Jr , '42 (nephew).
Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, and Philhps-Andover Freshman Glee Club, member Alpha Delta Phi Graduate member Wolf's Head.
With Second National Bank of New Haven 1914-41 (clerk 1914-15, assistant receiving teller 1915-16, receiving teller 1916-19, assistant cashier 1919-30, vice-president 1930-41, and a director 1935-41), entered service May 15, 1917; attended Officers Training Camp, Fort Oglethorpe, commissioned Second Lieutenant, Infantry, August 13, 1917, assigned to Company I, 323d Infantry, Camp Jackson, transferred to Company H, 51st Pioneer Infantry, Camp Wadsworth, January 22, 1918, overseas July 26, 1918 - July 3, 1919, in action St.-Mihiel Offensive, Woevre, and Meuse-Moselle operations; with Army of Occupation (Third Army) at Cochem November, 1918 - May, 1919, promoted First Lieutenant May 12, 1919, discharged July 7, 1919; on New Haven Board of Aldermen 1920-22, treasurer Connecticut Civic Association 1922-41 and United and Center Church School 1930-41; member council Neighborhood House and treasurer Neighborhood House Shop 1931-41, assistant treasurer New Haven chapter American Red Cross and chairman roll call committee, on advisory committee United Service Organizations (New Haven), director Grace Hospital; acting secretary Class of 1914 in 1921-22; chairman Class reunion committee; treasurer Dwight Hall at Yale University 1939-41, member Church of Christ in Yale University.
Married June 19, 1920, in Norwich, Conn., Elizabeth, daughter of Albert Hunt and Anna (Prentice) Chase. Children: Elizabeth Anne (B.A Mount Holyoke Coll 1942), the wife of John T. Robinson, '37, Dorothy Hart, and Mary Prentice.
Death due to hypertensive cardiovascular renal disease Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven. Survived by wife, daughters, mother, and two brothers, Professor Samuel B. Hemingway, '04, and Louis L Hemingway, '08.
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