Wayne County NcArchives Photo Document.....Louis Newton Grant Obituary 1963
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Amherst Alumni News
Summer 1963

Louis Newton Grant '01

Our fast dwindling ranks suffered another saddening loss, when that fine 
gentleman and loyal classmate, Louis Newton Grant, passed away in Greenwich 
(Conn.) Hospital, April 15, 1963, at the age of eighty-five. Late in January he 
had suffered a heart attack and, for the first time in his life, was 
hospitalized. Recovery was rapid, but a second attack and further complications 
proved fatal.

Louis was born in Goldsboro, NC, Feb. 26, 1878, son of Major Hiram L. and Lizzie 
E. (Greene). He prepared for college at Goldsboro High School and Hillhouse High 
School in New Haven. Following a period at Wake College, he joined our class in 
our sophomore year, remaining into junior year. He was a member of Alpha Delta 
Phi Fraternity.

On Nov. 10, 1910, he married Alice Thorndyke Barrett of New York City and 
Greenwich. Alice passed away Dec. 28, 1961. Surviving are their children, Mrs. 
George E. Hite III of Mead's Point in Greenwich, Mrs. Brayton Slade of Kelly 
Green in New Canaan, Conn., and John Barrett of Burying Hill Rd. in Greenwich, 
and a sister, Mrs. Daniel F. Gay in Hartford. Louis' brother, John Hiram, was 
graduated from Amherst in 1892.

Late last November, Louis left the fine old estate of Putnam Ave. in Greenwich, 
where he and Alice had lived for forty-two years, and moved into an apartment 
specially prepared for him on Mrs. Hite's estate. 

For many years Louis had been owner-manager of Grant Brick Works, started by his 
father in Goldsboro, where he and Alize resided from 1910 to 1920. Later, the 
plant was moved to Weldon, NC. Operations ceased in 1956, the plant being 
dismantled. Louis then subdivided the real estate, with sale of portions still 
in process at time of his death. Thus was fulfilled his desire never to be 
wholly retired.

He was a director of Virginia-Carolina Clays, Inc., and the Fairfield County 
Trust Co. in Greenwich. He was a former president of the Chamber of Commerce of 
Goldsboro, director of the Community Chest and Council of Greenwich; and also 
vice chairman of the budget committee of the Community Council. His clubs 
included the Amherst Club of New York City and the Sunshine Club of Greenwich.

Though he had not gone the whole route with us in college, no one could have 
shown greater class loyalty or affection for his classmates. Serving as class 
treasurer at the time of his death, it was he who managed our fortieth, when 
began our four successive winnings of the reunion trophy. He rarely missed 
attending our so frequent class gatherings.

We shall miss him sorely, carrying always in our thoughts his genial address in 
that soft, pleasing voice, his fine sense of humor and his sterling character.


Additional Comments:
Louis Newton Grant, Hiram L. Grant’s fifth and youngest child.
It was published by Amherst College in the obit section of its quarterly magazine.
The reference at the top is in my father’s (Stephen W. Grant) handwriting,.


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