Records of Stanhope Nixon on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Stanhope Nixon and the Nixon Family Tree

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Some Famous People called Stanhope Nixon

Stanhope Wood Nixon

Stanhope Wood Nixon (April 1, 1894 – January 12, 1958) was a vice president of the Nixon Nitration Works during the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster. He later became chairman of the board.

He was born on April 1, 1894, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a son of Lewis Nixon I. In 1902 or 1903, he was painted as a boy by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947) full-length dressed in Scottish costume (Private Collection, New Jersey).

He attended Yale University at the Sheffield Scientific School, where he was arrested for assault in 1914 after he almost killed Edward H. Evrit with a large metal bolt. He withdrew from Yale and never graduated. He married Doris Ryer in 1917; the couple had two children: Lewis Nixon III and Blanche Nixon.

He was a vice president of the Nixon Nitration Works during the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster and his father was the president. Neither of them were present on the day of the explosion.

He and his wife divorced in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1945. He later married Elizabeth Mulcahy. He died on January 12, 1958, at his home in East Brunswick Township, New Jersey.

Source: Stanhope Wood Nixon, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Nixon

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