THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 



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GEORGE WILLIAM KEMP 



Born 1859 



Died 19ia 



George William Kemp, who died at his late residence, 127 East 71st Street, 

 New York City, on Tuesday, Decemher 24, 1912, was the second son of William 

 Kemp, a member of the firm of Lanman & Kemp, a continuation of the old 

 business house of Murray & Lanman, conducting an importing and exporting 

 business, embracing drugs and East Indian and West Indian and South Ameri- 

 can products, which was first established in 1808. 



Mr. Kemp was born in New York City in 1859 and received his preliminary 

 education in the Cutler School in which he was one of the first students; he 

 entered Harvard University in 1880, from which he graduated with degree of 

 A. B. in 1884, wlu'ii he at once entered the employ of the firm in which his 

 father was a partner, being himself admitted to partnership in 1894; he was 

 actively engaged in promoting the business of his firm from' the date in which 

 he entered its employ imtil a few weeks before his death. 



Mr. Kemp was a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce and 

 represented his firm at the meetings of the Drug Section of the New York 

 Roard of Trade and Transportation; he was elected Chairman of the Section 

 in 1909 and re-elected to tlic same oifice the following year, he being the first 

 of a long line of able Chairmen to receive this honor. 



