Background
Carey, Francis James was born on March 24, 1926 in Baltimore. Son of Francis James and Marjorie (Armstrong) Carey.
Carey, Francis James was born on March 24, 1926 in Baltimore. Son of Francis James and Marjorie (Armstrong) Carey.
Student, Princeton, 1943-1944; Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Pennsylvania, 1945; Juris Doctor, University of Pennsylvania, 1949.
Law secretary to, justice Supreme Court Pennsylvania, 1950-1951;
with firm, Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, Philadelphia, 1951-1987;
counsel, Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, Philadelphia, 1987-1992. Member of faculty University of Pennsylvania, 1946-1947. Board of managers, member Executive Committee Western Savings Bank, 1970-1982.
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, board directors Carey Diversified LLC. President, board directors William Polk Carey & Company, Inc., Carey Fiduciary Advisors, Inc., Carey Corporation Property, Inc. and affiliates, Corporation Property Associations 10 Inc., Carey Institutional Properties, Inc. President, trustee William Polk Carey Foundation, since 1990.
Member business advising committee Business Council for United Nations Assm. of the United States, since 1994. Trustee Investment Program Association, since 1990, chairman, since 1998. Member Senatorial Trust, since 1992.
Member Committee of Seventy, Philadelphia, 1957-1958. Member Lower Gwynedd Township (Pennsylvania) Planning Commission, 1962-1975, secretary, 1962-1965. Trustee Germantown Academy, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, since 1961, president, 1966-1972.
Overseer School Arts and Sciences, University Pennsylvania, 1983-1990. Manager Law Alumni Society, University Pennsylvania, 1962-1966. Junior warden St. Martin's in the Field, Biddeford Pool, Maine, 2003-2004, chairman, senior warden, 2004-2007, warden-at-large, since 2007.
Trustee Maryland History Society, since 2002, vice president, since 2007. Served to lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946, PTO. Member American Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association (chairman real property, probate and trust law section 1966-1967, chairman conference group to cooperate with Pennsylvania Land Title Association 1970-1977), Philadelphia Bar Association (chairman committee on civil legislation 1962), Society Mayflower Descendants in State of New York, Fourth Street Club, St. Anthony Club (Philadelphia), Sunnybrook Golf Club (Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania), St. Anthony Club (New York ), Abenakee Club, Biddeford Pool Yacht Club (Biddeford Pool, Maine), Maryland Club (Baltimore).
Married Mary Crozer Page, 1947 (deceased). Children: Francis James III, Elizabeth Page. Married Emily Norris Large, June 8, 1956 (deceased April 1997).
Children: Henry Augustus, Emily Norris, Frances Carey MacMaster.