Theron Roundell Strong

Theron Roundell Strong

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Theron Roundell Strong, B.A. 1903
Born October 30, 1881, in New York City, New York
Died May 28, 1931, at Palm Beach, Florida

Father, Theron George Strong (B.A. University of Rochester 1868); lawyer and author; trustee of New York Juvenile Asylum; son of Theron Rudd and Cornelia Wheeler (Barnes) Strong, of Salisbury, Conn. Mother, Martha Howard (Prentice) Strong; daughter of John Hill and Sarah Nicholls (Davis) Prentice, of Brooklyn Heights, New York.

Yale relatives include: John S. Turner, '30 (nephew); Arthur J. Slade, '92 S., and George T. Slade, '93, and his son, George Norman Slade, '24 S. (cousins).

St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. On Freshman and College crews and University Four Oar Crew; substitute on University Football Team and Class Hockey Team; member University Banjo and Mandolin Club two years, Apollo Banjo Club one year, and Psi Upsilon.

LL.B. New York Law School 1906; in law office of Merrill & Rogers, New York City, 1906-08; practiced law in New York from 1908 until retirement in 1929; member of firm of Strong, Smith & Strong (of which his father and Leonard B. Smith, '94, also members) 1908-1911 and again 1916-19; deputy in office of district attorney of New York County 1910-16, at first in Magistrates or Police Courts, then in Complaint Bureau and Special Sessions, and as head of Homicide Bureau 1911-16; military aide on staff of Governor Whitman January, 1915-June, 1916; member Squadron A, New York National Guard, 1903-1910; commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1st Battery, October 7, 1911; promoted First Lieutenant November 16, 1911, and Captain April 3, 1912; served on Mexican border 1916; attended second Plattsburg Camp 1917; commissioned Captain, Field Artillery, November 8, 1917; senior instructor in Field Artillery at Officers' Training School, Camp Dix, January 5 - May 19, 1918; organized 317th Trench Mortar Battery, with which he went overseas June 19, 1918; in action until November 5; promoted to Major, Coast Artillery, November 6, 1918, and assigned to staff duty with commanding officer of Artillery Corps, 1st Army; received his discharge February 7, 1919; returned to this country March 12 and resumed law practice; author: An Outline of Procedure in the Criminal Courts in New York (1916) and Thumbnail Sketch of Contract Bidding (1930); member Bar of the City of New York, New York County Lawyers' Association, Phi Delta Phi (law fraternity and Brick Presbyterian Church, New York.

Married on November 18, 1918, in Paris, Maud Robbins MeVickar, daughter of Henry Asher and Elizabeth Pelham (Bend) Robbins, of New York. No children.

Death due to lymphosarcoma. Buried in Southampton (New York) Cemetery. Survived by wife, mother, a brother, Prentice Strong, '01, and a sister, Martha S. Turner, the wife of Harold M. Turner, '05.