Background
Betts, Edgar Hayes was born on October 23, 1877 in Lansingburg, New York, United States. Son of Edgar Ketchum and Harriet Louise (Gardner) Betts.
Betts, Edgar Hayes was born on October 23, 1877 in Lansingburg, New York, United States. Son of Edgar Ketchum and Harriet Louise (Gardner) Betts.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1898. Doctor of Humane Letters, Russell Sage College, Troy, New York, 1939.
Joined Earl & Wilson, manufacturers collars and shirts, Troy, 1898, became president, 1914, corporation dissolved. Was president Cluett, Peabody & Company, Incorporated., until July 1929 (resigned). Partner Betts & Morris.
Vice president, treasurer West. & L. East. Gurley, manufacturers surveying instruments.
Vice president Troy Record. Director Taylor Truck Company, Troy & Bennington Railroad Company.
Baptists can be referred to as the ‘people of the Book’, because the Bible gives time proven principles of living for every area of life, including marriage, child rearing, family, relationships, finances, and spiritual living.
Member Laymen’s Foreign Mission Inquiry. Russell Sage College, Brown U. Served from private to corporal Company A, 2d Retired, National Guard New New York
Clubs: Troy.
Married May Louise Gurley, May 27, 1901 (died January 2, 1941). Children: Louise Gurley (Mistress Samuel South. Stevens), Robert Gurley, Barbara (Mistress Philip Benson), Edgar Hayes.