Willard Dickerman Straight was an American investment banker and diplomat. An orphan, Straight was born in Oswego, New York. He attended Bordentown Military Institute in New Jersey, and in 1897 he enrolled at Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a degree in architecture. While a student at Cornell, he joined Delta Tau Delta, edited and contributed to several publications, and helped to organize Dragon Day, an annual architecture students' event. Wikipedia
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Willard Straight , like many Morgan agents, was present at the Paris Peace Conference but died there of pneumonia before it began. Six years later, in 192S, when his widow married a second time and became Lady Elmhirst of Dartington Hall, she took her th www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/morgan_left.html
Straight was born in 1880 in Oswego, New York, to adventurous parents who were teachers. After his father died in 1887 from tuberculosis, Straight and his sister accompanied their mother to Tokyo, where she taught English for two years. The family then dspace-local.library.cornell.edu/web_archive/explore.corn...
