Ambassador Lester Corrin Strong (Lockwood)

Ambassador Lester Corrin Strong (Lockwood)

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Obituary published in The Evening Sun, Baltimore, Maryland on Tuesday, September 20, 1966

L. Corrin Strong, 74, Ex-Envoy To Norway

L. Corrin Strong, former Ambassador to Norway and a prominent philanthropist, civil servant and civic leader in Washington, died here yesterday.

He was a patient at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson.

Mr. Strong, 74, was U.S. Ambassador to Norway from 1953-1957. His last years were devoted to the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, of which he was Vice Chairman of the Board.

He was also president of the Hattie M. Strong Foundation, which he began in 1928 for deserving college students.

Mr. Strong was born in Tacoma, Washington, the son of Lester B. Lockwood and Hattie Lockwood. Three of his young years were spent with his mother in Alaska during the gold rush.

She married Henry Alvah Strong, co-founder and first president of the Eastman Kodak Company in 1905 and the boy was adopted, changing his name to Strong.

He graduated from Yale University and studied law at Columbia University. He was a field artillery officer with the French Foreign Legion in World War I and in World War II served with United States Army ordanance [sic], rising to the rank of colonel.

After the war, Mr. Strong joined the Economic Cooperation Administration in Washington, in charge of the loan division for the Marshall plan countries. From 1949 to 1951 Mr. Strong was deputy director of the international trade promotion division.

A skilled yachtsman, Mr. Strong was well-known in Chesapeake Bay sailing circles. He was a founder of the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association, and belonged to the Annapolis, Gibson Island and New York yacht clubs.

Surviving are his wife, Alice; three sons, Henry of Washington; Trowbridge of Philadelphia, and Peter of Greenwich, Connecticut.

A memorial service will be held at the Washington National Cathedral at 5 P.M. Friday. Burial will be private.

• Military service: Between 1917 and 1918 - Rochester City # 6, New York, United States
• Military Service: April 27, 1942, Washington DC, United States
• Immigration: 1898
• Residence: Washington, District of Columbia
• Residence: The Territories, Canada - 1901
• Residence: Canada Census, 1901 - March 31 1901 - Unorganized Territories/territoires Non-organisés, The Territories, Canada
• Residence: 1910 - San Diego Ward 9, San Diego, California, United States
• Residence: June 1917 - Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States
• Residence: Rochester Ward 12, Monroe County, New York, USA - 1920 - Rochester Ward 12, Monroe County, New York, United States
• Residence: June 1 1925 - New York City, New York County, New York, United States
• Residence: 1930 - Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Residence: Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States - Between 1930 and 1942 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Residence: 1935 - Same Place
• Residence: 1940 - Tract 4, District of Columbia, Police Precinct 8, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States