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BIOGRAPHIES

NELSON ALDRICH (1841-1915)

Senator from Rhode Island; head of National Monetary Commission; his 

daughter Abby Aldrich married John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; he became 

the grandfather of his namesake. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, as well as 

the present David Rockefeller and Laurence Rockefeller.

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN (1860-1925)

Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State, three times losing presidential 

candidate of the Democratic Party, in 1896, 1900, and 1908, and head 

of the Democratic Party.

ALFRED OWEN CROZIER (1863-1939)

A prominent attorney in Grand Rapids, Cincinnati, and New York, 

Crozier wrote eight books on legal and monetary problems, focussing 

on his opposition to the supplanting of Constitutional money by the 

corporation currency printed by private firms for their profit.

CLARENCE DILLON (1882-1979)

Born in San Antonio, Texas, son of Samuel Dillon and Bertha Lapowitz. 

Harvard, 1905. Married Anne Douglass of Milwaukee. His son, C. 

Douglas Dillon (later Secretary of the Treasury, 1961-65) was born in 

Geneva, Switzerland in 1909 while they were abroad. Dillon met 

William A. Read, founder of the Wall Street bond broker William A. 

Read and Company, through introduction by Harvard classmate 

William A. Phillips in 1912 and Dillon joined Read’s Chicago office in