William Brooks Close + Mary Baker Paullin

1 child

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Birth: 29 December 1890 — Hampton, Middlesex, England

Census 1891: 1891 — Hampton, Middlesex, England

Census 1901: 1901

Census 1911: 1911 — Paddington, London, Middlesex, England

Marriage: about 1917 — Paddington, London, Middlesex, England

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Herbert Brooks Close

1890–

Birth: 29 December 1890 — Hampton, Middlesex, England

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Birth: 6 May 1853 — Naples, Campania, Italy

Census 1871: 1871 — Charing Cross, London, Middlesex, England

Occupation: Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 Name: William Brooks. Close College: TRINITY Entered: Michs. 1872 Born: 1870 Died: 25 Sep 1923 More Information: Adm. pens. at TRINITY, Oct. 12, 1872. S. of James, of Antibes, France. [B. May 6, 1853, at Naples, Italy.] School, Wellington College. Matric. Michs. 1872;B.A. 1876. Rowing æblue,Æ 1875, 1876, 1877; President, 1876. In business in London; founder of the City firm of Close Brothers and Co., of Moorgate. Went to America and settled in Iowa; with others developed land in Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Oklahoma. Connected with the Klondike gold rush; later acquired, with his partners, the Shipley collieries in Derbs. Of Henley-on-Thames. Died Sept. 25, 1923, at Yarmouth. Buried at Nuffield, near Henley. Brother of James B. (1870), etc. (Wellington Coll. Reg.; The Times, Sept. 27, 1923.) — about 1872 — Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Occupation: Close Brothers was founded in 1878 by William Brooks Close and his brothers Frederick Brooks Close and James Brooks Close, who started offering farm mortgages in Sioux City, Iowa. In 1897, William Brooks Close paid ú10,000 to the US government forthe right to build Alaska's first railway the White Pass and Yukon Route. The company was the subject of a management buy-out in 1978 and was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984. — 1878 — Iowa, America

Marriage: 14 September 1880 — America

Census 1880 US Fed: 1880 — Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, America

Census 1881: 1881 — Mayfair, London, Middlesex, England

Note: after 1882

Census 1891: 1891 — Hampton, Middlesex, England

Census 1901: 1901 — Westminster, London, Middlesex, England

Census 1911: 1911 — Nuffield, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Death: 25 September 1923 — Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England

Burial: after 25 September 1923 — Nuffield, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Probate: 16 November 1923 — London, Middlesex, England

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