Stamford real estate leader Henry Ashforth Jr. dead at 73.Henry Adams Henry Adams may refer to:
The hospital has 305 inpatient beds in medicine, surgery, obstetrics/gynecology, psychiatry, and medical and surgical critical care units. on Sept. 21 after a battle with cancer. He was 73. He was the former chairman and chief executive officer of The Ashforth Company, a real estate company headquartered in Stamford, Conn., and former chairman and chief executive officer of Albert B. Ashforth, Inc. Ashforth was also a director and former chairman of UNICO Properties, a Seattle-based real estate company. Ashforth's grandfather Albert B. Ashforth founded the company, which was then called Ashforth & Duryee in Manhattan in 1896. After college, Ashforth joined the company and, in 1972, became its chairman and chief executive. During his tenure, Ashforth was one of the first in the real estate business to bring companies to the suburbs in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1981, the company moved its headquarters to Stamford and began focusing on the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. suburbs but still maintained a brokerage office in Manhattan until 1991. The company is still affiliated with Ashforth Warburg. Associates, a residential brokerage firm that specializes in luxury Manhattan apartments. The Ashforth Company has about 300 employees. Among Ashforth properties are Stamford Square, which the company built with partners GE Capital in 1980, and Greenwich Plaza, 315,000 SF office complex, built in 1970. In 1989, the company was named the exclusive property managers for Stamford Harbor, a 400,000 SF, two-building waterfront complex. He also served as trustee and chairman of The Greenwich Library, Trustee of The Greenwich Boys Club, president and director of The East Side Association, director of ICD ICD International Classification of Diseases (of the World Health Organization); intrauterine contraceptive device. ICD abbr. Rehabilitation .& Research Center, chairman of the Young. Men's Real Estate Association of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , trustee of The New York Association for the Blind, trustee of The Greenwich Hospital Greenwich Hospital can refer to:
In the tradition of his great grandmother, Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, who. started the first free public library in Greenwich in 1895, Ashforth led the development of its 'recent addition. He considered this one of his greatest achievements and contributions to the library and the town of Greenwich. He served in the U.S. Army as Private First Class from October 1946 to March 1948 - Korean Occupation Force. Ashforth was born Jan. 5, 1928 in New York City, the son of Henry Adams Ashforth, Sr. and Elizabeth Anderson Ashforth of Greenwich, Conn. He attended Greenwich Country Day School The Greenwich Country Day School is a co-educational, independent day school in Greenwich, Connecticut, founded in 1926. As of 2005, it has some 840 students from nursery to 9th grade level. , graduated from Milton Academy and Yale University, Class of 1952, and was a member of Scroll and Key The Scroll and Key Society is a secret society established by John Addison Porter and others at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1841. History The society is known informally as "Keys", and was incorporated as the Kingsley Trust Association. and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was a grandson of Albert B. Ashforth of New York. He married the former Georgia McCampbell Perkins on Sept. 11, 1954 and lived in Greenwich, Conn. and Peru, Vt. He is survived by his wife; sons Henry Ashforth III of Portland, Ore., who is chief executive officer of Ashforth Pacific, Andrew B. of New Canaan who is co-chief executive of the company, and Thomas A. of Greenwich who is vice president of the Ashforth Company; sisters Eleanor A. Harvey of Stonington, Conn., and Mama A. of Santa Cruz, Calif.; three daughters, Elizabeth A. Bacon of Sutton, Mass., Katherine A. Wiener of Park City, Utah Park City is a city located in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is one of two major resort towns in Utah, the other being Moab. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back and a part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. , and Margaret M. of Keene, N.H.; and fourteen grandchildren. He is also survived by his stepmother, Elsie L. of Rye, N.Y.; his stepbrothers, Alden B. of New Orleans and Peter Madden of Manhattan; and his stepsister, Christina M. Whitman of Manhattan. A memorial service was held on Sept. 25 at Christ Church. 254 East Putnam Ave Greenwich. Conn. |
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