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- BULLETIN OF YALE UNIVERSITY - OBITUARY RECORD OF GRADUATES DECEASED DURING
THE YEAR ENDING JULY 1, 1945 - NUMBER 104 - NEW HAVEN, 1946
James Lindsay Luke, B.S. 1926.
Born March 30, 1905, in New York City.
Died May 20, 1945, in Bethesda, Md.
Father, David Lincoln Luke (B S. Univ. Pennsylvania 1886), a founder and president West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, New York City; son of William and Rose (Lindsay) Luke of Wilmington, Del. Mother, Bessie Carol (Anderson) Luke; daughter of William F. and Mary Ella (Menefee) Anderson of Virginia Yale relatives include- Victor S. Luke, ex-Ti S., and Adam K Luke, Jr., '30 (cousins); and David L. Luke, 3d (Class of 1947 Nov )(nephew) Hackley School, Tarrytown, N Y., and The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn General science course; Freshman Crew and swimming Team; University Swimming Team three years; Senior Promenade Committee; member The Cloister and Book and Snake and Aurehan Honor Society. Attended Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration 1926-28 (M.B.A. 1928); employed in Cleveland 1928-42; a statistician with Mitchell, Hernck & Company, brokers, 1928-29; associated with Midland Bank 1929-31; assistant vice-president Cleveland Trust Company 1932-35; treasurer and assistant secretary Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, iron ore, coal, and lake shipping, 1936-41 and treasurer 1941-42; commissioned First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces, April 15,1942; in office of Materiel Command, Washington, 1942; attached to Office of Assistant Chief of Staff for Air, Intelligence, Washington, 1942-45; promoted Captain September, 1942, Major in spring of 1944, and Lieutenant Colonel in April, 1945; on board of governors Yale Alumni Association of Cleveland 1940-43; member Episcopal church. Married October 25, 1930, in Cleveland, Parthenia, daughter of Edmund Stevenson Burke. Sons: James Lindsay, Jr., and Alexander McNaughton. Mr. and Mrs. Luke were divorced in 1944. Death due to asphyxia when his house was swept by flames Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, North Tarrytown Survived by sons, three sisters, Jean Anderson Luke (B.A Barnard Coll. 1937; MD. Columbia Univ. 1940) and Mrs. Harold Alfred Langhen, both of New York City, and Dorothy L. Hilliard, the wife of Charles Craig Hilliard (B A Princeton 1915) of Washington, and two brothers, David L Luke, Jr., '22 S, and William Luke, 2d, '24 S. Another brother, Alexander McNaughton Luke, '28 S., died in 1934.
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1905 - 1945 (40 years)
