Houstoun McIntosh Sadler ’24

Houstoun Sadler died Dec. 5, 1995. He was born Sept. 17, 1900, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to John M. Sadler (a cotton broker) and Alice P. Horton. He had a brother and a sister.

He attended Brooklyn Poly Tech, where his skill at tennis and football earned him a Samuel J. Reid Jr. Scholarship at Princeton. He majored in history and minored in economics and played on a championship football team. He also played hockey for three years.

After graduating he joined Tidewater Oil Co. and eventually traveled to Australia to open that territory for the company. In 1935 he moved to Bombay, working for the Standard Vacuum Oil Co., where he rose to the post of general manager.

In 1955 he joined what became Exxon Corp., based in NYC. He retired in 1965 to Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., with his wife, Vivienne Morgan Peters Sadler, who died in 1989.

He is survived by three sons, John McIntosh, Houstoun Morgan, and David Bailey, six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1924