Funeral services were held in Boston, Mass., today for Carl Canfield, 67, a native son of Ellicottville, who died Monday afternoon following a brief illness. Mr Canfield operated a store here for a short time when a young man but left soon afterward to enter the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company. At the time of his death, he was on vacation from his duties as superintendent of construction for the Western Union in New England and part of Canada.
He was the father of Congressman Gordon Canfield of Paterson, NJ, who was one of the two Republican congressmen to work their way across the Atlantic incognito as members of a tanker crew this summer to obtain information on the Merchant Marine for Congress. Another son, Charles Canfield of Nashua, NH also survives, as do two daughters, Mrs. William P Tolley, whose husband is the young chancellor of Syracuse University, and Mrs. William Billings of Arlington, Mass. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. H.M. Vanbergen of Syracuse and Mrs. A.G. Van Auken of Sea Breeze, NY.
He was the father of Congressman Gordon Canfield of Paterson, NJ, who was one of the two Republican congressmen to work their way across the Atlantic incognito as members of a tanker crew this summer to obtain information on the Merchant Marine for Congress. Another son, Charles Canfield of Nashua, NH also survives, as do two daughters, Mrs. William P Tolley, whose husband is the young chancellor of Syracuse University, and Mrs. William Billings of Arlington, Mass. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. H.M. Vanbergen of Syracuse and Mrs. A.G. Van Auken of Sea Breeze, NY.
Funeral services were held in Boston, Mass., today for Carl Canfield, 67, a native son of Ellicottville, who died Monday afternoon following a brief illness. Mr Canfield operated a store here for a short time when a young man but left soon afterward to enter the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company. At the time of his death, he was on vacation from his duties as superintendent of construction for the Western Union in New England and part of Canada.
He was the father of Congressman Gordon Canfield of Paterson, NJ, who was one of the two Republican congressmen to work their way across the Atlantic incognito as members of a tanker crew this summer to obtain information on the Merchant Marine for Congress. Another son, Charles Canfield of Nashua, NH also survives, as do two daughters, Mrs. William P Tolley, whose husband is the young chancellor of Syracuse University, and Mrs. William Billings of Arlington, Mass. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. H.M. Vanbergen of Syracuse and Mrs. A.G. Van Auken of Sea Breeze, NY.
He was the father of Congressman Gordon Canfield of Paterson, NJ, who was one of the two Republican congressmen to work their way across the Atlantic incognito as members of a tanker crew this summer to obtain information on the Merchant Marine for Congress. Another son, Charles Canfield of Nashua, NH also survives, as do two daughters, Mrs. William P Tolley, whose husband is the young chancellor of Syracuse University, and Mrs. William Billings of Arlington, Mass. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. H.M. Vanbergen of Syracuse and Mrs. A.G. Van Auken of Sea Breeze, NY.
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