Irving Caywood Hanners LdH
Hereditary Member, admitted 1936
Irving Caywood Hanners, LdH
18th President of the New Jersey Society 1955-1963
12th Secretary-General of the Society of the Cincinnati
In office
1956 — 1971
Preceded by
| Major Joseph Knox Fornace |
Succeeded by
| Stephen Caldwell Millett |
14th Assistant Secretary of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati
In office
1946
21st Secretary of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati
In office
1947 — 1955
18th President of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati
In office
1955 — 1963
(3) Great grandson of propositus Samuel C. Seeley. Assistant Secretary of the Society of the Cincinnati in New Jersey 1946, Secretary 1947-1955 and President 1955-1963. Secretary General of the Society of the Cincinnati 1956-1971 and Secretary General Emeritus 1971-1978. Born in Orange, NJ on 27 Aug 1903 and died in Bethlehem, PA on 24 Jan 1978. Decoration: Lgion DHonneur 4 Jun 1959. Author of The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey, 1941. President of Bethlehem News Company. Middle Atantic representative of Butterick Publishing Company. Honorary Consul General of France for Pennsylvania. Chairman of the Selective Service System for the City of Reading, PA in World War II 1941- Dec 1946. Special Attach for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. Chairman of the United Appeal for Polish Refugees 1940. Member of the Presidents Advisory Board for Selective Service. Deputy Sheriff for Berks County , PA in charge of National Defense. President of the Joseph Hester Chapter ofthe Sons of the American Revolution. Married 1st Ellen Lenoir, anoted stage, screen and television personality. Married 2nd GladysV. Seeger. Married 3rd Catherine Fuller Magnuson. [Sources: PFAH; (C); Obit. Pic: “The Society ofthe Cincinnati in New Jersey”, by Irving Hanner, 1941.]
Mr. Hanners was the great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Seeley.
Succession
Propositus
Successors