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Rufus William Gaynor

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Rufus William Gaynor

Birth
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Death
14 Feb 1941 (aged 53)
Westport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Burial
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA Add to Map
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7051
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Headline: Rufus Gaynor is Dead at 53

-died at his Westport CT home on Feb 14
-son of late Mayor William J Gaynor of NY; he was a native of Brooklyn
-attended Amherst College
-employed by New York Evening Sun as a young man
-WWI veteran, serving with the French Ambulance Corp
-suffered from shell shock for a period after the war and recuperated at his home in Smithtown LI
-married his nurse, Miss Margaret Haskell
-survived by his wife, son William J Gaynor III, daughter Mrs Robert Moore, and a brother and five sisters
-burial in Green-Wood Cemetery

~source: New York Sun; Saturday, Feb 15 1941
Headline: Rufus Gaynor is Dead at 53

-died at his Westport CT home on Feb 14
-son of late Mayor William J Gaynor of NY; he was a native of Brooklyn
-attended Amherst College
-employed by New York Evening Sun as a young man
-WWI veteran, serving with the French Ambulance Corp
-suffered from shell shock for a period after the war and recuperated at his home in Smithtown LI
-married his nurse, Miss Margaret Haskell
-survived by his wife, son William J Gaynor III, daughter Mrs Robert Moore, and a brother and five sisters
-burial in Green-Wood Cemetery

~source: New York Sun; Saturday, Feb 15 1941

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