Thrale history
Durward Stephen THRALL
1899 - Yes, date unknown-
Name Durward Stephen THRALL [1] Birth 20 Sep 1899 Poultney, Rutland, Vermont, USA 
[2] Gender Male Alt. Birth 30 Sep 1899 Poultney, Rutland, Vermont, USA [1] Death Yes, date unknown Notes - Steve Thrall attended Troy Conference Academy in Poultney, Vermont (now known as Green Mountain College) then Colgate University, graduating in 1922. Later he took graduate work in accounting. After trying tne lumber business, he found his real interest lay in selling. He joined the National Cash Register Company in their Rochester, New York branch in 1924. Since then, he has held many jobs with this firm during the past 38 years, salesman, agent, instructor, divisional manager, assistant sales manager and now branch manager in Boston, Mass. For thirty years, he has been either training salesmen, supervising salesmen or selecting salesmen. His keen sense of the appropriate and his remarkable ability to "sell" his ideas, are major reasons for his outstanding success as a salesman and business leader. He has served Colgate University as Chairman of the Student Selection Committee in Eastern Massachusetts, and Director. and President of the Colgate Alumni Corporation.
He is presently (1965) Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Green Mountain College, Governor of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Past President of Rotary, Vice-President of Vermont Historical Society, Member of the Board of Society of Colonial Wars and New England Genealogical and Historical Society.
Steve Thrall has spent many leisure hours during the past five years, working on this genealogy. He has written to hundreds of Thralls all over the united States, and has brought forward nany of the lines that were not previously recorded. In 1957 he compiled and edited a genealogy of his wife's family entitled "James Monroe Goodell and his wife, Emily lingsbury. Their Ancestors and Descendants."
Steve is a member of The Country Club, Veston Golf Club, Everglades Club in Florida, Essex Club in Nswark, Algonquin Club, Wianno Club. He is an Bpiscopalian, Mason and Republican. [2]
Person ID I2738 US Thrall family Last Modified 5 Mar 2005
Father Luther Gardner THRALL, b. 1 Jun 1876, Poultney, Rutland, Vermont, USA d. 13 Mar 1941, Rutland, Vermont, USA (Age 64 years) Mother Elsie May FARR, b. 28 Apr 1880, Raceville, Washington, New York, USA d. 9 Apr 1944, Rutland, Vermont, USA (Age 63 years) Marriage 26 Apr 1898 [1] Family ID F1011 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Helen Baker GOODELLE, b. 22 Aug 1902 d. Yes, date unknown Marriage 27 Sep 1924 [1] Residence 1965 [2] - They have lived in Geneva, New York. Pelham Manor. New York. Dayton, Ohio.
South Orange, New Jersey, and presently reside at 270 Boston Post Road in Weston, Massachusetts.
Children + 1. Charlotte Edith THRALL + 2. Helen Kingsbury THRALL 3. Sara Susan Farr THRALL + 4. Stephanie Sheldon THRALL Family ID F1013 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 5 Mar 2005
- Steve Thrall attended Troy Conference Academy in Poultney, Vermont (now known as Green Mountain College) then Colgate University, graduating in 1922. Later he took graduate work in accounting. After trying tne lumber business, he found his real interest lay in selling. He joined the National Cash Register Company in their Rochester, New York branch in 1924. Since then, he has held many jobs with this firm during the past 38 years, salesman, agent, instructor, divisional manager, assistant sales manager and now branch manager in Boston, Mass. For thirty years, he has been either training salesmen, supervising salesmen or selecting salesmen. His keen sense of the appropriate and his remarkable ability to "sell" his ideas, are major reasons for his outstanding success as a salesman and business leader. He has served Colgate University as Chairman of the Student Selection Committee in Eastern Massachusetts, and Director. and President of the Colgate Alumni Corporation.
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