Evening star., 1933-02-09
THOMAS Ewing, JR.,
DIES IN NEW YORK
President of Carpet Company
Was Former Resident
of Washington.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, February 9.-Thomas
Ewing, jr., president and director of
the Alexander Smith g. Sons Carpet
Co, of Yonkers, N. Y, which was
founded by his great-grandfather, Alex
ander Smith, died last night at his
home, 720 Park avenue, New York,
after q brief Illness of pneumonia. He
was IS years old
Private funeral services Will be held
at Mr.. Ewing's home here at 1890
o'clock tomorrow afternoon, with the
Right Rev. DIR. James Edward Free
man, Bishop of Washington. ofnciating.
Intament will be in the family plot IN
Oakland Cemetery. Yonkers.
MIR. Ewing was the son of Thomas
Ewing, who was United States commits
sioner of patents in President Wilson S
administration and has been practfcing
patent law in New York since 1917. His
grandfather was Thomas Ewing, q Civil
War general His mother was Anna
Phillips Cochran, daughter Of the late
William F. Cochran HIS uncle was
Alexander Smith Cochran, former head
OF the carpet company, and grandson
OF its founder. Mr. Cochran died on
June 20, 1926. In his win he left his
residuary estate Of $19,166,O46 to
~
Cochran was another uncle.
Born In Ysnkcrs.
Thomas Ewing, I.. was born in Yon-
kers on June Is, 1897. He was grad
uated from st. Paul's School in Con-
cord, N. H., and entered Yale IN the
class Of 1919. In college he r0wed ON
the freshman crew and was q member
OF Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. A week
after the United States entered the
Werid War be left college and entered
the Princeton ground school. He COM
pleted his training for the Air Service
at Foggia, Italy, and Issodun, France.
He flew q single-seater pursuit plane
with the American Army vt the ffont
and LETT the service with the rank of
1926. he married Miss Lucia Hosner
Chase, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Irving
Hall Chase of Waterbury, Conn, and
Pier, r. I. The Ceremony
was performed In st. Johns Church,
Waterbury
Mrs. Ewing survives, with two infant
sons, Thomas Ewing, Sd, and Alexander
Cochran Ewing. Also surviving are
four brothers, William Francis Cochran
Ewing Of Bedford Village, N. T.; Sher-
man Ewing Of Pleasantsville, N. Y;
Clifford Cochran Ewing Of Millbrook,
N. Y, and Bayard Ewing, who is q stu
dent at st. Paul,s, and . sister, Mrs.
Newbold Noyes Of Washington. Another
sister, Mrs. Thomas A. Stone, the for
mer Ellen Cox Ewing. died on June
Is, 1881.
Active in Many Fields.
In 1925 MFR. Ewing had been ap-
pointed vice president of the carpet
company. Recently he was elected
president. He also was president and a
director Of the Hillbright Corporation,
New York: a trustee of the Central
Hanover Bank & Trust Co., and O d.
rector Of the Westchester Trust Co., the
Philipsburgh Holding Co., w. & j. Sloane
and the Sloane -Blabon Co. He was
member Of the Racquet and Tennis, the
University, the Meadowbrook, the Rid
ing, Whippany River, Turf and Field,
the River and st. Andrews Golf Clubs,
the Brook and the Yale Club. He was
an expert polo player, being ranked as
American Polo Association. He had
played at Whippany River, at Aiken
and Meadowbrook. He was chairman
of the charity organizations society
drives for funds in Yonkers for the last
two years and a trustee Of st. Johns
Hospital and Sprain Ridge Hospital,
Yonkers, and of St Paul's School. He
was chairman Of the board of the In
stitute of Carpet Manufacturers of
Arnarira