Colby Townsend

Colby Townsend

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Colby Townsend, Yale BA 1933
Born: March 16, 1911, in Pelham, Westchester County, New York
Died: May 26, 1941, in Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut.

Father, Myron Turner Townsend, '99 S (LLB Columbia 1902), member, Prentice & Townsend, lawyers, New York City, son of Edward Townsend (College of the City of New York ex-66) and Adelaide Louise (Turner) Townsend of New York City. Mother, Gertrude Colby (Barnard) Townsend (BA Vassar 1902); daughter of Henry and Eugenia (Davison) Barnard of Rochester, New York.

Yale relatives include: Edward P. Townsend, '03, and Harold Townsend, '04 S. (uncles); and Anne P. Hales (Certificate of Art 1932) and Edward Townsend Barnard, '33 (cousins).

Pelham High School and The Hotchkiss School Freshman Baseball Squad; member Beta Theta Pi; completed work for degree October, 1932, studied at École libre des sciences politiques, Paris, Attended Yale Graduate School (MA 1937) and Yale School of Law (LLB. 1938, assistant in political economy); admitted to Connecticut bar 1938, law clerk and later an associate Wiggin [Frederick H, '04] & Dana [J. Dwight, '11], New Haven; member Committee of College Men for Defense First and Episcopal church.

Unmarried

Survived by father, stepmother, a sister, Adelaide Townsend Angell (Vassar -'41), the wife of John Deforest Angell (Oberlin College ex-'40) of New York City, a stepsister, Barbara Baldwin Coleman, the wife of Lawrence Aryer Coleman, Jr. (BA Cornell 1933, LL B. Columbia 1936) of New York City and two brothers, Barnard Townsend, -'32 and Edward Townsend, '34.

Yale Obituary Record, 1940-1941

Colby Townsend Memorial Prize

Colby Townsend Memorial Prize (1942) Established by gifts from friends in memory of Colby Townsend, B.A. 1933, M.A. 1937, LL.B. 1938. For a member of the second-year class for the best individual research done for academic credit, if such work is of sufficiently high quality to justify the award.