New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-23
CEN. ives, SOLDIER
AND BANKER, DIES
III for Many Montlls-He
Was Former President
of Stock Exchange.

General Brayton Ives, formerly pres
jdent Of the New York Stock Exchange
and an officer Of many railroads ana
eorporations. died yesterday at ms
country home, Chelsea, in Ossinlng. ne
had been in poor health for some time
and retired as president or the Melio-
politan Trust Company two years aso
on this account. t;f,
Distinction came to him early IN me,
as at the age Of twenty-tour years he
held the rank of brevet brigadier gen
eral in the United States Army. ms
was the GROWING achievement OF four
years active fighting in the civil war,
This promotion is no gltt, sara
General Phil Sheridan. you have won
il; your gallantry has earned 1t.
While at Yale Mr. Ives was known
az the strongest man in his class ana
he developed into an oarsman OF great
skill. In later years this ability STOOD
him in good stead He was on the liner
Republic when the collision with the
Florida took place in 1909. Upon the
arrival of the Baltic the work of trans
ferring the passengers began. through
out the night Mr.. Ives pulled an oar IN
one of the boats that carried the vic
tins to safety.
He was born in Pennington, Conn,
in 1910, his ancestors, originally from
England, having lived in the state
many generations. His early bent IN
clined him to finance, and after the
war he established himself as broker in
Wall Street. He was one Of the founders
of the present New York Stock Ex-
change, for thirteen wears member OF
its governing committee, in 1876 and
1877 It's president and in the two
years which followed its president. He
was the first man 10 be reelected as
head of the exchange, although he had
not then turned his fortieth year.
In 1899 he retired from the broker
age business and year later became
president of the Western National
Bank. His work attracted so much at
tention that he was chosen TO head the
Northern Pacific Railroad, which he re-
organized and helped develop. He gave
up this work to take the presidency Of
the Metropolitan Trust Company.
Mr. Ives was married in 1867 to Miss
Eleanor A. Bissell, the daughter Of a
Connecticut clergyman. He had four
children, three of whom, Winifr' l,
Frances H. and Mrs. Walter E. May
nard, are living. A son, DR.. Sherwood
Bissell Ives, was accidentally shot and
killed in New Mexico seven years ago.
General Ives's town house was at 3S
East seth ST., but he spent much of his
time at his Ossining estate, travelling
daily to New York on his yacht, the
Vitesse, until last spring.
At the time of his death General
Ives was president Of the Hecker-Jones-
Jewell Milling Company and of the
Standard Milling Company and presi-
dent and a director of the Ramona &
Prattsburg Railway Company. He was
also president of the Northwestern
Consolidated Milling Company vice.
president of the New Orleans, Mo-
bile & Chicago Railroad Company, and
a director of the National Bank of
Commerce and the Atlantic Safe De-
posit Company.
He was a member Of the Loyal Le-
gion, the Metropolitan Club, the Union
League and the Century, University,
Brook. Grolier, Turf and Field and
Lawyers clubs.