of Luman Hoyt Holmes and Anne (Hoover) Holmes of Winsted.
They were divorced in 1937 and he married, 2d, Elizabeth B.
Crowder of Clarksville, Va. He was a reporter on the Hartford
Courant several years, was in the Connecticut office of War
Information, was in charge of the Yale University News Bureau and
became publicity director of the radio station WEAF in New York
City in 1944 and Audience Promotion Director of the NBC chain in
1945.
B13,963,3.
Theodore Vaill, 3d child of Dudley L. Vaill (B13,963) and Leila S.
(Holmes) Vaill, was born September 19, 1905, at Winsted, Conn.,
and attended Exeter Academy, the Stearns School, Amherst College
and George Washington University. He married, 1st, March 15,
1927, at Albany, N.Y., Alice Griffin of Winsted. There were
divorced in 1937. He married, 2d, October 27, 1939, Evelyn
Weatherhead of Nelson, B.C., Canada. He is general manager and
treasurer of the Winsted Evening Citizen and Winsted Herald. They
reside at 58 Coe Street, Winsted. Children by first wife:
1. Theodore, Jr., b. March 11, 1928, at Washington, D.C. (B13,963,31)
By second wife:
2. Judith Belle, b. October 1, 1940, at Winsted, Conn. (B13,963,32)
3. Stephen Glenn, b. March 1, 1943, at Winsted, Conn. (B13,963,33)
B13,963,4.
Dudley Landon Vaill, Jr., 4th child of Dudley L. Vaill (B13,963) and
Leila S. (Holmes) Vaill, was born January 22, 1907, at Winsted,
Conn., graduated at Andover Academy and at Yale, Ph. B., 1931.
He joined the Army May 9, 1941, at Albany, N.Y., trained at Camp
Blanding, Fla., as metal worker; attended Officer Candidate School,
Camp Lee, Va.; commissioned 2d Lieutenant, Q.M.C.AUS; served
as senior instructor; promoted to First Lieutenant; and Captain in
1943; served in England in quartermaster base department; Assistant
Staff Officer; in office of the Chief Quartermaster, Paris; on staff of
quartermaster, Bremen Port Command; on quartermaster base
depot at Bremen, Germany; and Vegesack, Germany, as Sales
Officer; promoted to Major December, 1945; returned to United
States in April 1, 1946; discharged
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