John Taylor Hamilton II ’34

Ham, former chairman of Merchants National Bank and former president of City National Bank, both in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died "unexpectedly but peacefully," according to his wife, Gloria, on Feb. 8, 2002. He was 92.

Ham, who had lived in Florida since 1974, joined Merchants National after college, "following in the footsteps of my father and grandfather." After three years in the Army Air Corps, he returned to the bank and was made president in 1946.

Ham was married in 1974 to Gloria Kelly, an expert dry-fly-fisher, and he and she tried "to get in a week or two of fly-fishing in northern Maine." Gloria survives, as do his children from a previous marriage, son John III and daughters Victoria and Helen.

The Class of 1934