Background
Draper, Earle Sumner was born on October 19, 1893 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frederic Ward and Bertha (Sumner) Draper.
Planning and housing consultant
Draper, Earle Sumner was born on October 19, 1893 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frederic Ward and Bertha (Sumner) Draper.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts State College, 1915; D.Landscape Architecture (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1950.
Landscape architect, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1915. Charlotte, North Carolina, 1917. Planning and housing consultant.
Visiting professor Lowthorpe School Landscape Architecture, 1931-1932, Harvard University School Landscape Architecture, 1932. Director land planning and housing Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1937, director department regional planning studies, 1937-1940. Assistant administrator Federal Housing Administration, 1940-1941, deputy commissioner, 1942-1943.
Housing and planning consultant, 1945-1994. Consultant National Resources Committee and Maryland Planning Board, 1936-1937, Georgia and Alabama planning boards, 1937. Acting regional counselor for Southeast, National Resources Planning Board, 1937-1940.
Fellow American Society Landscape Architects (past vice president, board directors). Member American Institute Planners (president 1940-1942), American Society Planning Officials (past board directors), Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Sigma Phi Clubs: Cosmos (Washington). Vero Beach Country (Florida).
Lodges: Masons.
Son of Frederic Ward and Bertha (Sumner) D. M. Norma Farwell, May 26, 1917. Children: Frederic Farwell, Earle Sumner, Norman Clafin (deceased), Charles Alfred, Norma (deceased 1934).
M. Elizabeth Jordan (deceased).