STRAIGHT, WILLIAM DICKER

| MAN (1880 - 1918), an_ American financier and public official; 6. in Oswego, N. Y. He graduated from Cornell University and in 1911 married the dau. of William ©. Whitney. He served; in official capacities in Korea, » Japan and Manchuria for many years. In 1905 he was consul general at Seoul and served in the same position in other | cities in Japan and China. In 1908-9: he was acting chief of the division of Far Eastern affairs. In the latter year he represented a group of American | bankers in China, remaining there until | 1914. Following this he was connected with J. P. Morgan & Co., and afterwards became vice-president of the American International Corporation. During the World War he served in the department of the Adjutant General.