Alexander Davidson Hargrave ’41

Alex died Oct. 12, 2001, in Rochester, N.Y., of Alzheimer's disease. He graduated from Exeter. At Princeton, he majored in public and international affairs, joined Quadrangle, was on the swimming team, and roomed with Plumer, Livesey, Scammell, and Jim Graham.

Commissioned ensign in July 1941, he served two years as gunnery officer on the light cruiser San Diego in the Pacific. At war's end, he was in training to be a Navy pilot, separating in Sept. 1945 as a lieutenant commander.

Alex graduated from Harvard Law School in 1948 and joined the Rochester law firm Nixon Hargrave. In 1963 he was named executive vice president of the Lincoln Rochester Bank, becoming president in 1968.

In 1984, Alex merged Lincoln with Chase Manhattan, serving as chair of Chase Lincoln until his retirement in 1986, when he rejoined Nixon Hargrave.

Active in Rochester community affairs, he was chair of Rochester United Way and on the board of the Rochester Inst. of Technology, among many others.

Surviving are his wife, Marcia; sons Alexander '68 and Charles; daughters Susan Mackenzie and Margaret; stepdaughter Josephine Gumaer; stepsons Elliott Gumaer and Peter Gumaer; brothers Thomas '46 and Richard '51; sisters Jean Farnham, Catherine Sykes, and Margaret Frame; and nine grandchildren.

The Class of 1941