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Walter Ralph Aston

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Walter Ralph Aston

Birth
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Death
5 Sep 1944 (aged 71)
Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Burial
Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.480599, Longitude: -73.214423
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2nd of 2 children of RALPH ASTON & JENNIE ROBERTSON PRESTWICK/PRESWICK
Occupation: Official and production manager of Nicholas Copper Company in New York

Married: May 29, 1925, DEBORAH ELIZABETH HALLOCK
No children

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Sep 6, 1944, New York Times:
WALTER R. ASTON
Ex-Official of Copper Firm Was Son of Aide to Adm. Farragut
SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
SOUTHBURY, Conn., Sept. 5—
Walter Ralph Aston, a former official of the Nichols Copper Company, at their refinery in Laurel Hill, Queens, N.Y., died today at his home here. His age was 61. (sic, age 71)

Born in Brooklyn, he was a son of the late Rear Admiral Ralph Aston, American naval officer, who was aboard the steamboat Cayuga when she became the first ship to pass the lower forts at the capture of New Orleans by Admiral Farragut in 1862. His mother was the late Mrs. Jennie Preswich Aston.

Mr. Aston retired from business in 1925. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Deborah Hallock Aston; a brother, Albert, and a sister, Mrs. Eugene Bennett of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.
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2nd of 2 children of RALPH ASTON & JENNIE ROBERTSON PRESTWICK/PRESWICK
Occupation: Official and production manager of Nicholas Copper Company in New York

Married: May 29, 1925, DEBORAH ELIZABETH HALLOCK
No children

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Sep 6, 1944, New York Times:
WALTER R. ASTON
Ex-Official of Copper Firm Was Son of Aide to Adm. Farragut
SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
SOUTHBURY, Conn., Sept. 5—
Walter Ralph Aston, a former official of the Nichols Copper Company, at their refinery in Laurel Hill, Queens, N.Y., died today at his home here. His age was 61. (sic, age 71)

Born in Brooklyn, he was a son of the late Rear Admiral Ralph Aston, American naval officer, who was aboard the steamboat Cayuga when she became the first ship to pass the lower forts at the capture of New Orleans by Admiral Farragut in 1862. His mother was the late Mrs. Jennie Preswich Aston.

Mr. Aston retired from business in 1925. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Deborah Hallock Aston; a brother, Albert, and a sister, Mrs. Eugene Bennett of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.
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