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Record ID     5164::15109104
Name     Sophie H. Drinker
Gender     Female
Race     White
Age     79
Birth Date     24 August 1888
Birth Place     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Death Date     6 September 1967
Death Place     Springfield, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA
Father     Pemberton S. Hutchinson
Mother     Amy Hutchinson
Spouse     Henry S. Drinker
Certificate Number     89248

BIRTH     29 Aug 1888, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH     1967 (aged 78–79)
Sophie Lewis Hutchinson married Henry Sandwith Drinker on 16 May 1911 in Haverford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Family Members
Parents
     Sydney Pemberton Hutchinson 1861–1929
     Amy Lewis Hutchinson 1863–1949
Spouse
     Henry Sandwith Drinker 1880–1965 (m. 1911)
Siblings
     Agnes Wharton Hutchinson Martin 1891–1988
     Aimee Hutchinson Thayer 1896–1979
     Sydney Pemberton Hutchinson 1900–1968
Children
     Henry Sandwith Drinker
Gravesite Details , Ref: Cemetery Records
BURIAL     West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
PLOT     Summit 673
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Originally Created by: Graves
Added: 6 Jun 2012
Find a Grave Memorial 91494068.³

Record ID     62116::68132743
Name     Mr. Henry S. Drinker Jr.
Gender     Male
Residence Date     Abt 1942
Residence Place     42 Stanton Road . Brookline , Mass
Residence Place 2     Tenafly, N. J. '
Graduation Date     1941
School     Princeton
Marriage Date     28 June 1942
Marriage Place     Concord , Mass.
Father     Henry S. Drinker
Mother     Drinker
Spouse     Ruth Brooks
Siblings     Robert Moss, Pemberton H. Drinker

Name     Marriage of Brooks / Drinker
Paper     The Philadelphia Inquirer
Location     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date     29 June 1942
Page     11.^3,4

Record ID     61843::637796429
Name     Henry Sandwith Drinker
Gender     Male
Death Age     93
Birth Date     abt 1914
Residence Place     Bedford, Massachusetts
Death Date     10 November 2007
Burial Place     Concord, MA
Obituary Date     18 November 2007
Obituary Place     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Spouse     Ruth Drinker
Child     Henry Drinker, Ann Retherford
Siblings     Cecilia Saltonstall, Pemberton H. Drinker, Ernesta Drinker Ballard, Sophie Drinker

Name     Obituary for HENRY SANDWITH DRINKER (Aged 93)
Paper     The Philadelphia Inquirer
Location     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date     18 November 2007
Page     B13

Record ID     7545::16421308
Name     Digg Drinker
Gender     Male
Death Age     93
Birth Date     29 May 1914
Birth Place     Wynnewood, PA.
Marriage Date     1942
Residence Place     Concord
Death Date     10 November 2007
Death Place     Bedford
Burial Place     Concord
Obituary Date     16 November 2007
Obituary Place     Wynnewood, Montgomery, New Jersey, USA
Father     Henry S. Drinker
Mother     Sophie Drinker
Spouse     Ruth Drinker
Child     Henry Drinker, Ann Retherford
Siblings     Cecilia Saltonstall, Pemberton H. Drinker, Ernesta Drinker Ballard, Sophie Drinker
Source Citation
Concord Journal; Publication Date: 16/ Nov/ 2007; Publication Place: Concord, Massachusetts, USA; URL: http://www.wickedlocal.com/concord/news/obituaries/x1149887816

BIRTH     29 May 1914, Wynnewood, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH     10 Nov 2007 (aged 93), Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
     Henry Sandwith Drinker, 93 of Bedford, formerly of Concord & Carlisle, November 10, beloved husband of Ruth (Brooks) Drinker. Father of Dr. Henry Drinker of Holyoke & Ann Retherford of Ledyard, CT. Brother of Cecilia Saltonstall of Exeter, NH & the late Pemberton H. Drinker, Ernesta Drinker Ballard & Sophie Drinker. Also survived by 5 grandchildren & 6 great grandchildren. A memorial service will be held Saturday, December 1st at 2 P.M. at Carleton-Willard Village, Bedford. Interment Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord. In lieu of flowers contributions in his memory may be made to Carleton-Willard Village, 106 Old Billerica Rd., Bedford, MA 01730 or to Emerson Hospital, c/o Development Office, ORNAC, Concord, MA 01742. For directions, obituary or guestbook visit www.deefuneralhome.com. Dee Funeral Home of Concord (978) 369-2030 Family owned since 1868
Published in the Boston Globe from 11/17/2007 - 11/18/2007.
Henry S. Drinker
May 29, 1914 - November 10, 2007
     Henry Sandwith Drinker, 93, of Bedford, formerly of Concord and Carlisle, died Saturday, November 10, 2007 at Carleton-Willard Village in Bedford. He was the beloved husband for sixty-five years of Ruth (Brooks) Drinker.
     Born in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania on May 29, 1914 he was the son of the late Henry S. and Sophie (Hutchinson) Drinker. In 1937 he graduated from Haverford College in Pennsylvania receiving a B.S. in Engineering.
     During World War II, he served in industry for Bendix-Pioneer, a Division of Bendix Aviation Corporation and participated and managed the development of an automatic pilot for aircraft.
     In 1942, he married Ruth Brooks of Concord, Massachusetts and in 1947, they moved to Concord from New Jersey with their two children, Ann and Henry.
     Mr. Drinker served twenty six years with the technically-oriented Foxboro Company of Foxboro, Massachusetts starting in sales and later heading the company's corporate product development and engineering. He became corporate Vice President and Secretary, retiring in 1976 to a new home in Carlisle, Massachusetts.
     Retirement from business in 1976 gave him time to expand his basement machine shop and to more intensely pursue his long-standing hobby of making custom gunstocks. He was persistently independent in his thinking, rational, pragmatic and analytical.
     Mr. Drinker became associated with the Concord Community Chest during its infancy, and later became President. He served on Concord's Finance Committee, and for many years was the director and later President of Concord Family Service.
     An accomplished cellist, he was devoted to the works of Brahms. His appreciation of music was inherited from his father as well as his love of sailing. In his later years he added tennis, skiing and golf to his outdoor activities. He was introduced by his father to game bird shooting and fishing at an early age. He pursued these activities with enthusiasm throughout his life, joined often by his wife, their son and grandchildren.
     In addition to his wife, Ruth, he is survived by his son, Dr. Henry Drinker of Holyoke, his daughter, Ann Retherford of Ledyard, Connecticut, 1 sister, Cecilia Saltonstall of Exeter, New Hampshire, 5 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. He was also the brother of the late Pemberton H. Drinker, Ernesta Drinker Ballard and Sophie Drinker.
     A memorial service will be held on Saturday, December 1st at 2 PM at Carleton-Willard Village, Bedford.
Burial will be in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord.
In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory may be made to Carleton-Willard Village, 106 Old Billerica Road, Bedford, MA 01730 or to Emerson Hospital, c/o development office, ORNAC, Concord, MA 01742.
Dee Funeral Home website
Family Members
Parents
     Henry Sandwith Drinker 1880–1965
     Sophie Lewis Hutchinson Drinker 1888–1967
Spouse
     Ruth Brooks Drinker 1914–2009 (m. 1942)
BURIAL     Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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Added: 6 Dec 2007
Find a Grave Memorial 23265414.²

Record ID     62116::68132743
Name     Mr. Henry S. Drinker Jr.
Gender     Male
Residence Date     Abt 1942
Residence Place     42 Stanton Road . Brookline , Mass
Residence Place 2     Tenafly, N. J. '
Graduation Date     1941
School     Princeton
Marriage Date     28 June 1942
Marriage Place     Concord , Mass.
Father     Henry S. Drinker
Mother     Drinker
Spouse     Ruth Brooks
Siblings     Robert Moss, Pemberton H. Drinker

Name     Marriage of Brooks / Drinker
Paper     The Philadelphia Inquirer
Location     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date     29 June 1942
Page     11.^2,3

Record ID     62116::32886158
Record Page     Link
Name     Miss Cecilia B. Drinker
Gender     Female
Marriage Date     27 July 1940
Father     Henry S. Drinker
Mother     Drinker
Spouse     Henry Saltonstall

Paper     The Morning Call
Location     Allentown, Pennsylvania
Date     8 May 1940
Page     4.^5,2

Record ID     3693::84793825
Name     Cecilia Drinker Saltonstall
Social Security Number     001-36-4156
Birth Date     16 January 1917
Issue Year     1962-1963
Issue State     New Hampshire
Last Residence     03833, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire
Death Date     2 April 2009

Record ID     61843::649892696
Record Page     Link
Name     Cecilia Saltonstall
Gender     Female
Death Age     92
Birth Date     1917
Residence Place     Philadelphia
Death Date     2 April 2009
Death Place     Exeter NH
Obituary Date     4 April 2009
Obituary Place     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Paper     The Philadelphia Inquirer
Location     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date     4 April 2009
Page     B04
Name     CECILIA SALTONSTALL
Residence     Philadelphia
Death Date     2 April 2009
Death Place     Exeter NH
Age     92.^4,3

Record ID     62116::98151701
Name     Frederick L. Ballard Jr.
Gender     Male
Marriage Date     22 December 1939
Marriage Place     Bala Cynwyd
Father     Ballard
Spouse     Ernesta Drinker

Paper     The Morning Call
Location     Allentown, Pennsylvania
Date     29 November 1939
Page     23
Name     Ernesta Drinker
Spouse     Frederick L. Ballard Jr.
Marriage Date     Friday , Dec. 22
Marriage Place     Bala Cynwyd
Marriage Venue     St. Asaph 's church.³

Record ID     3693::75983072
Name     Ernesta D. Ballard
Social Security Number     209-32-9911
Birth Date     13 May 1920
Issue Year     1958-1960
Issue State     Pennsylvania
Last Residence     19128, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Last Benefit     19128, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Death Date     11 August 2005

BIRTH13 May 1920
DEATH     11 Aug 2005 (aged 85), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
     Ernesta Drinker Ballard (1920 – August 11, 2005) was an American horticulturalist and feminist. Among the founders of the National Organization for Women, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, and Women's Way, Ballard was the executive director of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society from 1963 to 1981, credited by The New York Times with bringing its annual Philadelphia Flower Show to "international prominence."
     Ernesta Drinker Ballard, who saved the Philadelphia Flower Show and transformed it from a horticultural beauty show into a spectacular international educational event, died Aug. 11 at the Cathedral Village retirement community in Philadelphia. She was 85 and formerly lived in the Chestnut Hill area of Philadelphia.
     The cause was complications of a stroke, her family said.
     For 18 years, from 1963 to 1981, she was the executive director of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Early in that period, the society's annual flower show, which began in 1829 and eventually grew into the largest indoor flower show in the United States was faltering, and a two-year suspension was discussed. Mrs. Ballard argued that a suspension might be fatal and instead changed the content of the show, bringing it to international prominence.
     An exhibitor herself, she directed the show for 17 years, until 1981. She opened it to amateur growers and used it as a teaching laboratory for a wider public. Last year's show covered more than 30 acres with flower, garden and landscape displays and competitions, and lectures, workshops and cooking demonstrations. It drew more than a quarter million visitors.
     Under Mrs. Ballard's guidance, the event began to produce a financial surplus, which she used to start the Horticultural Society's community gardening program, Philadelphia Green. That program, which turns vacant lots into vegetable gardens and flower beds, became one of the largest such urban greening projects in the nation.
     Mrs. Ballard also played a leading role in saving public monuments like the Swann Fountain on Logan Circle and restoring the buildings and grounds of Philadelphia's historic Fairmount Waterworks. She was a Fairmount Park commissioner for 21 years, until 2002.
     Ernesta Drinker was born into a distinguished Philadelphia family, a daughter of a prominent lawyer, Harry Drinker, and Sophie Hutcheson Drinker, a feminist and author. She was not encouraged to attend college but graduated as an adult from the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women (now part of Temple University) in 1954, when she started her own greenhouse business.
     Mrs. Ballard was also known as the "godmother of Philadelphia feminism." She was a founder of local chapters of groups like the National Organization for Women and campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion rights.
     "The Feminine Mystique" (1963) by Betty Friedan propelled Mrs. Ballard toward feminism, and it was Ms. Friedan who invited her to start the NOW chapter. She was also a co-founder of Women's Way, a seminal Philadelphia fund-raising group that supports an array of women's organizations and causes.
     Mrs. Ballard's husband, Frederic, a prominent lawyer and former president of the American Bonsai Association, died in 2001. She is survived by their son, Frederic L. Jr., of Bethesda, Md; three daughters, Alice W. Ballard of Philadelphia, Sophie B. Bilezikian of Scarsdale, N.Y., and Ernesta Ballard of Ketchikan, Alaska; a sister, Cecilia D. Saltonstall of Exeter, N.H; a brother, Henry Drinker of Bedford, Mass; eight grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
Family Members
Spouse
     Frederic Lyman Ballard 1917–2001
BURIAL     Saint Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Whitemarsh, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Added: 31 Jul 2015
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