Name: Carleton Sturdevant Hadley
Sex: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Name of Spouse: Jane Rucker Hadley
Birth Date: Dec. 24th 1902
Place of Birth: Lowell, Mass.
Age: 42 years, 1 month, 2 days
Usual Occupation: General Council, Wabash Rail Road
Date of Death: February 16, 1945 @ 6:30 p.m.
Place of Death: St. Louis, Missouri; Barnes Hospital
Cause of Death: Myocardial Infarction due to Coronary Artery Disease.
Father: Everett Hadley b. Massachusetts
Mother Lilla Sturtevant b. Massachusetts
Informant: Mrs. Jane R. Hadley, #4 No. Kingshighway Blvs.
Married Elizabeth Jane Rucker Hadley Barkley [1911--1964] in 1931.
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Carleton S. Hadley, 42, general counsel for the Wabash Railroad Company, died late Friday night at Barnes Hospital of a heart attack he suffered Feb. 10 at his office in the Railway Exchange Building. He had been at the hospital since that time.
A native of Lowell, Mass., he came with his family to St. Louis in 1909. His father, the late Everett A. Hadley, was chief engineer of the Missouri Pacific Railroad for 17 years. Hadley was graduated from Soldan High School in 1921. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Washington University in 1925 and his bachelor of law degree there in 1928.
In August. 1928. he bacame an associate in the law firm of Carter, Jones & Turney, which at that time served as general solicitors for the St. Louis-South western Railway. He became assistant attorney for that railroad in 1929 and remained with the railroad when it organized its own law department in 1933. In 1936 Hadley was named assistant general solicitor for the railroad and appointed assistant general counsel for the trustee of the railroad.
On Sept. 1, 1939, he became general counsel for the Terminal Railroad Association and in 1941 he was elected a vice president of the association, retaining his counselor's post. He represented the association in its controversy with the city at Interstate Commerce Commission hearings on the removal of the Levee elevated tracks.
In September 1942, Hadley became general counsel for the Wabash Railroad Company. Active in the Republican party, he served in 1942 on the Republican Advisory Committee to select a slate or party nominees for the Missouri Legislature.
Surviving him are his widow, the former Elizabeth Jane Rucker, whom he married in 1931; two daughters and his mother. Hadley resided at 4 North Kingshighway-
He was a past president of the Washington University Law Alumni Association, a member of the Racquet Club, the Noonday Club, the St. Louis, Missouri and American Bar Associations and the Pilgrim Congregational Church.
Funeral services will be held at the Lupton Funeral Chapel, 7233 Delmar bl.. University City, at
2 p. m. tomorrow. Private burial will be in Valhalla Cemetery.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat
St. Louis, Missouri
Sunday, February 18, 1945, p.4∼
Name: Carleton Sturdevant Hadley
Sex: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Name of Spouse: Jane Rucker Hadley
Birth Date: Dec. 24th 1902
Place of Birth: Lowell, Mass.
Age: 42 years, 1 month, 2 days
Usual Occupation: General Council, Wabash Rail Road
Date of Death: February 16, 1945 @ 6:30 p.m.
Place of Death: St. Louis, Missouri; Barnes Hospital
Cause of Death: Myocardial Infarction due to Coronary Artery Disease.
Father: Everett Hadley b. Massachusetts
Mother Lilla Sturtevant b. Massachusetts
Informant: Mrs. Jane R. Hadley, #4 No. Kingshighway Blvs.
Married Elizabeth Jane Rucker Hadley Barkley [1911--1964] in 1931.
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Carleton S. Hadley, 42, general counsel for the Wabash Railroad Company, died late Friday night at Barnes Hospital of a heart attack he suffered Feb. 10 at his office in the Railway Exchange Building. He had been at the hospital since that time.
A native of Lowell, Mass., he came with his family to St. Louis in 1909. His father, the late Everett A. Hadley, was chief engineer of the Missouri Pacific Railroad for 17 years. Hadley was graduated from Soldan High School in 1921. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Washington University in 1925 and his bachelor of law degree there in 1928.
In August. 1928. he bacame an associate in the law firm of Carter, Jones & Turney, which at that time served as general solicitors for the St. Louis-South western Railway. He became assistant attorney for that railroad in 1929 and remained with the railroad when it organized its own law department in 1933. In 1936 Hadley was named assistant general solicitor for the railroad and appointed assistant general counsel for the trustee of the railroad.
On Sept. 1, 1939, he became general counsel for the Terminal Railroad Association and in 1941 he was elected a vice president of the association, retaining his counselor's post. He represented the association in its controversy with the city at Interstate Commerce Commission hearings on the removal of the Levee elevated tracks.
In September 1942, Hadley became general counsel for the Wabash Railroad Company. Active in the Republican party, he served in 1942 on the Republican Advisory Committee to select a slate or party nominees for the Missouri Legislature.
Surviving him are his widow, the former Elizabeth Jane Rucker, whom he married in 1931; two daughters and his mother. Hadley resided at 4 North Kingshighway-
He was a past president of the Washington University Law Alumni Association, a member of the Racquet Club, the Noonday Club, the St. Louis, Missouri and American Bar Associations and the Pilgrim Congregational Church.
Funeral services will be held at the Lupton Funeral Chapel, 7233 Delmar bl.. University City, at
2 p. m. tomorrow. Private burial will be in Valhalla Cemetery.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat
St. Louis, Missouri
Sunday, February 18, 1945, p.4∼
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