Background
George M. Ferris was born in Newtown, Connecticut.
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George M. Ferris was born in Newtown, Connecticut.
He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1916, where he played on the baseball team
During the First World War, he served as a Captain in the United States Army Air Forces. He started his career at South. West. Strauss. In 1932, he started Ferris & Company, an investment bank in Washington, District of Columbia lieutenant later traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
In 1988, it merged into Ferris, Baker Watts, and he retired as Chairman Emeritus.
There is said to be some distant connection between Mr. Ferris and the Ferris Acres Creamery in Newtown, Connecticut. Philanthropy He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral School and President of the National Homeopathic Hospital, the Hahnemann Hospital in Washington District of Columbia, the Bond Club of Washington and the Columbia Country Club.
He also sat on the Boards of the Sibley Memorial Hospital, the Boys Club of Washington, and his alma mater, Trinity College. He served as a fund raising Chairman for the United Givers Fund.
The Ferris Athletic Center on the Trinity College campus is named in his honor.
The Ferris Professorship at Trinity College, named for him, is currently held by William Butos, Professor of Corporation Finance and Investments. Personal life He lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He died of arteriosclerosis in 1992.