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Died. Edward Thomas Bedford, 82, president of Corn Products Refining Co., oldtime associate of Oilmen John Davison Rockefeller, Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers and Charles Pratt; of heart dis ease; in Green Farms, Conn.
Died, Edward Dean Adams, 85, retired banker; in Manhattan; of injuries received in an automobile accident near Aiken, S. C., last March while he was going to Fort Myers, Fla., to visit his friend Thomas Alva Edison. Born in Boston of a collateral branch of the presidential Adams family, he went to Manhattan in 1878 as a partner in Winslow, Lanier & Co. Reorganizer during the 1880's of many railroads, he reorganized in 1893 the $300,000,000 Northern Pacific of which he was board chairman in 1896-97. From 1890 to 1896 he was board chairman and president of American Cotton Oil Co., which he reorganized from American Cotton Oil Trust. After resigning from Winslow, Lanier & Co. he was U. S. representative of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin (1893-1914) whose subscription to one-fourth of a $100,000,000 gold loan to the U. S. Treasury helped avert panic in 1896. A backer of Edison Electric Light Co., he organized the International Niagara Commission which was headed by Lord Kelvin, famed British scientist. As president (1890-99) of Cataract Construction Co. he led the development of power at Niagara Falls; for this he was given the John Fritz Gold Medal in 1926. Philanthropist, art patron, he enjoyed listing his membership in scores of educational, artistic and charitable organizations.
Died. Mrs. Ida Brandow Young, 92, mother of Board Chairman Owen D. Young of General Electric Co.; of injuries caused by a fall last April (TIME, April 20) ; in Vanhornesville, N. Y. The First Lady of Vanhornesville, Mrs. Young was whimsical, keenminded, to her neighbors "a bit of a character." When Mr. Young had electric lights installed in the town he placed the main switch in his mother's house and for many years the townspeople went to bed when Mrs. Young decided to turn off their lights.
*Present secretary is Mrs. Frederick B. Butler, wife of one of the Assistant Directors of Public Buildings & Public Parks in Washington. *No kin to Stateman Ariste Briand