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Birth:          1912 New York, N.Y.
Death:          19 Jul 1986 Lloyd Neck, Long Island, N.Y.

Notes
1981 book (see for details)
no children
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
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Edward Townsend, Ex-Official Of First Boston Corporation 
Published: July 24, 1986
Edward Townsend, retired senior vice president and director of the First Boston 
Corporation, the investment-banking concern, died Saturday at his home in Lloyd 
Neck, L.I. He was 73 years old. 

Mr. Townsend joined First Boston in 1946, after serving as an Army ordnance major in 
Washington in World War II. 

He was elected a vice president of First Boston in 1955 and became a senior vice 
president in 1964. He retired in 1977. 

From 1978 to 1980, Mr. Townsend was president of the Metropolitan Opera Club. At 
his death was chairman of the Peoples' Symphony Concerts, one of the oldest musical 
institutions in New York. It sponsors recitals and chamber performances. 

Mr. Townsend was born in Manhattan. He was a graduate of Yale University and 
studied at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris. 

Surviving are his wife, the former Felicia Thomas; two daughters, Valoise Hodgkins of 
Lake Forest, Ill., and Victoria Roschen of Bedford, N.Y.; a stepdaughter, Lydia De 
Sanctis of Rome; a stepson, Jose Andrade of Manhattan; a sister, Adelaide Angell of 
Portland, Ore.; a brother, Barnard, of Manhattan, and eight grandchildren. 


Parents
TOWNSEND Myron ()
BARNARD Gertrude ()

Siblings
TOWNSEND Edward (1912 - 19 Jul 1986)

Marriage To THOMAS Felicia Chedsey (21 Jul 1909 - 27 Sep 2003)
    m. 26 Aug 1977 Bermuda

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Parents
THOMAS Harvey Mark (14 Oct 1870 - 2 Apr 1957)
CHEDSEY Mary Coe (13 Jul 1879 - 21 Jul 1941)

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