William B. Raymond (1870-1954)

RAYMOND, CLAPP, STACY

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 4/20/2019 at 15:09:44

William B. Raymond, accountant and educator, died November 3, 1954, at Ames, Iowa, following his sustaining a broken hip October 23, in a fall; born July 23, 1870, in Council Bluffs, Iowa; was graduated from Grinnell Academy in 1890, where much of his education was secured; received the AB degree from Grinnell College in 1894, and took graduate work there for the next two years; also did graduate work at the University of Chicago during the summer sessions of 1910, 1921 and 1922; was accountant and office manager in Detroit from 1896 to 1898; held positions with the Industrial School for Employees and the Nelson Manufacturing Company at Edwardsville, Illinois, from 1898 to 1905; taught in the high school at Burlington, Iowa, from 1905 to 1907, when he joined the Iowa State College staff at Ames; during World War I served for two years as director of educational work at the YMCA at San Antonio, Texas, and director of the National War Work council of the YMCA with headquarters in New York City, and since has served as professor in the department of English and speech at Iowa State College; married Helen Clapp June 16, 1896, who preceded him in death on March 12, 1953; a member of the Congregational church at Ames and other organizations; survived by two daughters, Winifred at Ames and Ruth of Evanston, Illinois; also a sister, Mrs. W. K. Stacy, Coeur d' Alene, Idaho.

Citation: "Iowa's Notable Dead …."The Annals of Iowa 32 (1955), 621-626.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.17077/0003-4827.7376