Mrs. Albert King Hiscock, 78, widow of Albert King Hiscock, for many years a banking leader in Syracuse, died at 8:15 a.m. Thursday in Syracuse Memorial Hospital. Death was attributed to shock resulting from a broken hip.
Mrs. Hiscock had been a resident of Syracuse 56 years, coming to this city following her marriage to Mr. Hiscock in San Francisco in 1892.
She made her home with her daughter and only immediate survivor, Miss Cornelia King Hiscock, at 127 Durston Ave.
Mrs. Hiscock, the former Gertrude Fassett Thorp, was born in Lawrence, Kans, in 1861, the daughter of the late Simieon and Helen Fassett Thorp.
Mr. Hiscock, who died April 7, 1908, was president of the state bank of Syracuse and vice president of Trust and Deposit Company of Onondage for a number of years. He also was identified with the numerous surburban electric railroads which operated from Syracuse at that time.
Mr. Hiscock was a son of the late U.S. Senator Frank Hiscock and a cousin of Frank M. Hiscock, former chief judge of the Court of Appeals.
Mrs. Hiscock's son, Thorp Hiscock, a widely known radio aeronautics engineer, died suddenly in Chicago on March 17, 1934. He was vice president of the United Air Lines and develoepd a ground-air radio telephonic system for planes and an automatic flying control apparatus. He also was credited with having invented the robot equipment which Wiley Post used on his solo flight around the world.
Mrs. Hiscock was a communicant of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. She served as a trustee of Syracuse Memorial Hospital from 1910 to 1911.
Besides her daughter, she is survived by a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Thorp Hiscock, and four grandchildren, Grace Potter Hiscock, Jane Hiscock, Thorp Hiscock and Frank Hiscock, all of Seattle, Wash.
Private funeral services are to be conducted at the family home Saturday afternoon.
Syracuse Herald, Thurs April 20, 1939, page 9
Mrs. Hiscock had been a resident of Syracuse 56 years, coming to this city following her marriage to Mr. Hiscock in San Francisco in 1892.
She made her home with her daughter and only immediate survivor, Miss Cornelia King Hiscock, at 127 Durston Ave.
Mrs. Hiscock, the former Gertrude Fassett Thorp, was born in Lawrence, Kans, in 1861, the daughter of the late Simieon and Helen Fassett Thorp.
Mr. Hiscock, who died April 7, 1908, was president of the state bank of Syracuse and vice president of Trust and Deposit Company of Onondage for a number of years. He also was identified with the numerous surburban electric railroads which operated from Syracuse at that time.
Mr. Hiscock was a son of the late U.S. Senator Frank Hiscock and a cousin of Frank M. Hiscock, former chief judge of the Court of Appeals.
Mrs. Hiscock's son, Thorp Hiscock, a widely known radio aeronautics engineer, died suddenly in Chicago on March 17, 1934. He was vice president of the United Air Lines and develoepd a ground-air radio telephonic system for planes and an automatic flying control apparatus. He also was credited with having invented the robot equipment which Wiley Post used on his solo flight around the world.
Mrs. Hiscock was a communicant of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. She served as a trustee of Syracuse Memorial Hospital from 1910 to 1911.
Besides her daughter, she is survived by a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Thorp Hiscock, and four grandchildren, Grace Potter Hiscock, Jane Hiscock, Thorp Hiscock and Frank Hiscock, all of Seattle, Wash.
Private funeral services are to be conducted at the family home Saturday afternoon.
Syracuse Herald, Thurs April 20, 1939, page 9
Mrs. Albert King Hiscock, 78, widow of Albert King Hiscock, for many years a banking leader in Syracuse, died at 8:15 a.m. Thursday in Syracuse Memorial Hospital. Death was attributed to shock resulting from a broken hip.
Mrs. Hiscock had been a resident of Syracuse 56 years, coming to this city following her marriage to Mr. Hiscock in San Francisco in 1892.
She made her home with her daughter and only immediate survivor, Miss Cornelia King Hiscock, at 127 Durston Ave.
Mrs. Hiscock, the former Gertrude Fassett Thorp, was born in Lawrence, Kans, in 1861, the daughter of the late Simieon and Helen Fassett Thorp.
Mr. Hiscock, who died April 7, 1908, was president of the state bank of Syracuse and vice president of Trust and Deposit Company of Onondage for a number of years. He also was identified with the numerous surburban electric railroads which operated from Syracuse at that time.
Mr. Hiscock was a son of the late U.S. Senator Frank Hiscock and a cousin of Frank M. Hiscock, former chief judge of the Court of Appeals.
Mrs. Hiscock's son, Thorp Hiscock, a widely known radio aeronautics engineer, died suddenly in Chicago on March 17, 1934. He was vice president of the United Air Lines and develoepd a ground-air radio telephonic system for planes and an automatic flying control apparatus. He also was credited with having invented the robot equipment which Wiley Post used on his solo flight around the world.
Mrs. Hiscock was a communicant of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. She served as a trustee of Syracuse Memorial Hospital from 1910 to 1911.
Besides her daughter, she is survived by a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Thorp Hiscock, and four grandchildren, Grace Potter Hiscock, Jane Hiscock, Thorp Hiscock and Frank Hiscock, all of Seattle, Wash.
Private funeral services are to be conducted at the family home Saturday afternoon.
Syracuse Herald, Thurs April 20, 1939, page 9
Mrs. Hiscock had been a resident of Syracuse 56 years, coming to this city following her marriage to Mr. Hiscock in San Francisco in 1892.
She made her home with her daughter and only immediate survivor, Miss Cornelia King Hiscock, at 127 Durston Ave.
Mrs. Hiscock, the former Gertrude Fassett Thorp, was born in Lawrence, Kans, in 1861, the daughter of the late Simieon and Helen Fassett Thorp.
Mr. Hiscock, who died April 7, 1908, was president of the state bank of Syracuse and vice president of Trust and Deposit Company of Onondage for a number of years. He also was identified with the numerous surburban electric railroads which operated from Syracuse at that time.
Mr. Hiscock was a son of the late U.S. Senator Frank Hiscock and a cousin of Frank M. Hiscock, former chief judge of the Court of Appeals.
Mrs. Hiscock's son, Thorp Hiscock, a widely known radio aeronautics engineer, died suddenly in Chicago on March 17, 1934. He was vice president of the United Air Lines and develoepd a ground-air radio telephonic system for planes and an automatic flying control apparatus. He also was credited with having invented the robot equipment which Wiley Post used on his solo flight around the world.
Mrs. Hiscock was a communicant of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. She served as a trustee of Syracuse Memorial Hospital from 1910 to 1911.
Besides her daughter, she is survived by a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Thorp Hiscock, and four grandchildren, Grace Potter Hiscock, Jane Hiscock, Thorp Hiscock and Frank Hiscock, all of Seattle, Wash.
Private funeral services are to be conducted at the family home Saturday afternoon.
Syracuse Herald, Thurs April 20, 1939, page 9
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