TAYLOR BELCHER, 86, OIL-COAL FIRM HEAD
Taylor Belcher, president of the Garrison (N. Y.) Oil and Coal Company, died Sunday of a heart attack on his way to visit his son, Taylor Garrison Belcher, United States Ambassador to Peru. He was 86 years old and lived at Bear Mountain Bridge Road in Garrison.
Mr. Belcher was a veteran of three wars. He was a bugler in the Spanish-American War, a major with the Fifth Division Supply Train, Quartermasters Corps, in World War I, and a colonel in the Sixth Corps Quartermaster Area in World War II. He retired in 1945 as a colonel in the Reserve.
Mr. Belcher was treasurer of the Putnam County Historical Society; vice president and Director, of Garrison Station Plaza, Inc., a restoration; vice president and treasurer of the Highlands Public Society, and warden of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Garrison.
He was formerly superintendent of Boy Scouts for the Garrison district, president of the Garrison Board of Education and an assessor for the Town of Philipstown. He was first chief and a charter member of the Garrison Volunteer Fire Department.
Surviving also are two grandchildren.
Published in The New York Times, 17 Dec 1970, p. 50.
Taylor Belcher, president of the Garrison (N. Y.) Oil and Coal Company, died Sunday of a heart attack on his way to visit his son, Taylor Garrison Belcher, United States Ambassador to Peru. He was 86 years old and lived at Bear Mountain Bridge Road in Garrison.
Mr. Belcher was a veteran of three wars. He was a bugler in the Spanish-American War, a major with the Fifth Division Supply Train, Quartermasters Corps, in World War I, and a colonel in the Sixth Corps Quartermaster Area in World War II. He retired in 1945 as a colonel in the Reserve.
Mr. Belcher was treasurer of the Putnam County Historical Society; vice president and Director, of Garrison Station Plaza, Inc., a restoration; vice president and treasurer of the Highlands Public Society, and warden of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Garrison.
He was formerly superintendent of Boy Scouts for the Garrison district, president of the Garrison Board of Education and an assessor for the Town of Philipstown. He was first chief and a charter member of the Garrison Volunteer Fire Department.
Surviving also are two grandchildren.
Published in The New York Times, 17 Dec 1970, p. 50.
TAYLOR BELCHER, 86, OIL-COAL FIRM HEAD
Taylor Belcher, president of the Garrison (N. Y.) Oil and Coal Company, died Sunday of a heart attack on his way to visit his son, Taylor Garrison Belcher, United States Ambassador to Peru. He was 86 years old and lived at Bear Mountain Bridge Road in Garrison.
Mr. Belcher was a veteran of three wars. He was a bugler in the Spanish-American War, a major with the Fifth Division Supply Train, Quartermasters Corps, in World War I, and a colonel in the Sixth Corps Quartermaster Area in World War II. He retired in 1945 as a colonel in the Reserve.
Mr. Belcher was treasurer of the Putnam County Historical Society; vice president and Director, of Garrison Station Plaza, Inc., a restoration; vice president and treasurer of the Highlands Public Society, and warden of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Garrison.
He was formerly superintendent of Boy Scouts for the Garrison district, president of the Garrison Board of Education and an assessor for the Town of Philipstown. He was first chief and a charter member of the Garrison Volunteer Fire Department.
Surviving also are two grandchildren.
Published in The New York Times, 17 Dec 1970, p. 50.
Taylor Belcher, president of the Garrison (N. Y.) Oil and Coal Company, died Sunday of a heart attack on his way to visit his son, Taylor Garrison Belcher, United States Ambassador to Peru. He was 86 years old and lived at Bear Mountain Bridge Road in Garrison.
Mr. Belcher was a veteran of three wars. He was a bugler in the Spanish-American War, a major with the Fifth Division Supply Train, Quartermasters Corps, in World War I, and a colonel in the Sixth Corps Quartermaster Area in World War II. He retired in 1945 as a colonel in the Reserve.
Mr. Belcher was treasurer of the Putnam County Historical Society; vice president and Director, of Garrison Station Plaza, Inc., a restoration; vice president and treasurer of the Highlands Public Society, and warden of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Garrison.
He was formerly superintendent of Boy Scouts for the Garrison district, president of the Garrison Board of Education and an assessor for the Town of Philipstown. He was first chief and a charter member of the Garrison Volunteer Fire Department.
Surviving also are two grandchildren.
Published in The New York Times, 17 Dec 1970, p. 50.
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He was buried on December 19, 1970 in the St. Philips Churchyard, Garrison, Putnam Co., NY.
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