Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1937, Page 7

‘CFNORVENTDES CAPTAL FIVANCER Was Ili Near. Four Years. Private Services on Wednesday. | Clarence F. Norment, 80, former | President of the National Bank of | Washington, also of the Norfolk & Washington Steamboal Co., and for many years one of the Capital’s most eminent financiers. died yesterday at | his residence at the Wardman Park Hotel after an illness of nearly four Years. Death was due to his ad- vanced age. Private funeral services will take Place at his late residence on Wednes- day, Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rector of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial will be in Glen- wood Cemetery Born in Washington June 10, 1856 he was the son of Samuel Norment and Mary Ellen Ward Norment. His early education was obtained at Rit- venhouse Academy in this city and At Western Maryland College, West- minster. He maintained such an in- terest in his alma mater that only last April the Western Maryland trustees held a special service in honor of his 50 vears service on the board, although ill health prevented his attendance at the tribute. Merged D. C. Banks, WHis early business and financial ca- reer in Washington began under the guidance of his father, who founded the Metropolis Bank in 1874 and was s president, later becoming president of the Ceniral National Bank. The #on was elected president of the Cen- tral Bank in 1895 and later brought about the merger of this institution with the National Bank of Washing- 1on, of which he became president During his active career Mr. Nor- ment held many high positions of honor and trust in banking and finan- eial institutions, among which were those of the presidency of the Wash- mgton Railway & Electric Co. and chairmanship of the Executive Board of the American Security & Trust Co. AT ope fime he was & member of | 1 Wishinglon Siock ¥xenange snd | 2ens of 1 as Disnict of Co- | on in 1308 For many 1T e Was 2 memocr of e lieuwopolitau Ciuo, Cnevy Chase Club and Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club, At the time of his death he was honorary chairman of the board of the National Bank of Washington, in which he had been a director until recently; chairman of the board and a director of the Norfolk & Washington Steam- boat, Co.; chairman of the hoard and a director of the Terminal Refrigerat- ing & Warehousing Corp.; president and director of the Home Mutual Building Association; vice president and director of the Mutual Protective Fire Insurance Co.; director in the | American Security & Trust Co., the Security Storage Co, and the Washing- ton Title Co., and had only recently ned as a director of the Potomac tric Power Co. | e in Church Affairs. ent was an active ehurch- man and bad aided many charitable and religious organizations. He was & | mpis A A Financier Dies CLARENCE F. NORMENT. mlember of St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, serving for many yeals as & vestryman. He was also senior warden at one time. He was 8 member of the Oldest In- habitants of the District of Columbia, Society of Natives, St. Andrew’s So- ciety, Washington Board of Trade, National Geographic Society and American Institute of Banking. Mr. Norment married Elizabeth Anne | Smith of Suffolk, Va., on March 19, |1879. Had he lived until next Friday, he would have been married 58 years. He is survived by his widow and three children, Clarence F. Norment, jr., president of the Norfolk & Washing- ton Steamboat Co.; Mrs. Charles Ash- mead Fulier and Mrs. John Alden, all | of Washington, and by several grand- children Funeral Today for Importer. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 15 (#) —Funeral services were to be held today at Miami for Charles Jacobs, 54, importer, who died suddenly at his home here Friday. Jacobs was head of the New York importing firm of Charles Jacobs & Co. and was a director of the Ex- change Buffet Restauranits of New York. He is s Meprimae Surviver, clieved 10 Be Last Of Crew, Succumbs By the Associated Press. NEWPORT NEWS, Va, March 15.—Arthur Colonna, 81, believed by relatives to have been the last surviving crew mem- ber of the Merrimac when the Confederate ironclad fought the Monitor, died yesterday at his home near Menchville, Va. Colonna, born August 15, 1845, was living in Norfolk when the war between the States began. He volunteered for duty on the Merrimac when 16 and served until the crew was discharged. He served with other troops until the end of the war. The ironclads fought iheir historic battle in Hampton Roads waters on March 9, 1862. ived by his widow |} lig, THE EVENTNG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (. MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1937. | x LAST TWO DAYS! Regularly 8.95 Men’s Shoes Main Floor S Bt € o ' s By B IR COICE OF 2 V-8 ENGINE SIZES 1 85 OR 60 HP. 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