John French (1863-1935)
of 140 East 38th Street, New York City & "The Hill" Woodstock, Vermont
He was born at Woodstock, Vermont, and was prepared for college at the St. Johnsbury Academy. At Dartmouth (A.B., 1886), he was elected to the Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities, and co-founded the Sphinx Senior Society. He studied law at the New York Law School and became a member of the firm of Appleton, Rice & Perrin and Whitridge, Butler & Rice. In his later years, he confined his work to his duties as President of the Billings Estate Corporation, the Woodstock Hotel Company, Woodstock Railway Company and the Woodstock Country Club. He was also a director in the South American Development Company, South American Mines Company, Turner, Inc., Cosmoclub Realty Corporation and Johnson & Faulkner, Inc. He belonged to the Society of Mayflower Descendants, Vermont Society, and Society of Colonial Wars. He was a Life Member of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society. In 1907, he married Mary, daughter of Frederick Billings, President of the Northern Pacific Railroad, through whom he inherited "The Hill" (see images) at Woodstock, and had 3-children.
