Background
Croix, Morris Felton Louisiana was born on March 15, 1888 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward Wilton and Edith Lee (Morris) L.
Croix, Morris Felton Louisiana was born on March 15, 1888 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward Wilton and Edith Lee (Morris) L.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1910. Mechanical Engineering, 1911. East.D. (honorary), Michigan College Mining and Technology, 1954.
Mining engineer with the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company, Ishpeming, Michigan, 1911-1916. Mining and investment banking since 1919, as partner firm Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis. Chairman board directors General Telephone Corporation.
President and director Copper Range Company, Big Sandy Company, White Pine Copper Company, Copper Range Railroad Vice-president, director Sunflower Petroleum Products.
Director Crown Cork International Company, International T. & T. Corporation.
Trustee Crocker, Burbank & Company, Association. Also director and trustee various other corporations and trusts. Trustee Smith College, Belmont (Mass) Hill School, Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Free Hospital for Women, Boston, Museum of Science, Boston, Sarah Sargent Paine Memorial Library, Painesdale, Michigan.
Served as major engineer, United States Army with American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1917-1919. Member American Institute Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Association Petroleum Geolgs., Society American Military Engineers, American Geography Society, American Legion. Clubs: Harvard (Boston).
Married Esther Humphrye Paine, October 4, 1919. Children: William Paine (deceased), Ruth Ward (Mistress Nelson J. Darling, Junior.