Marvelous hot day. Arose 7:30 A.M. Took walk. Called on Chamberlain. Played tennis with H.H. and Ruth at Central Park. ФNΘ picture at 1 P.M. Out with Ford with Owen Chamberlain after Witherhead's motorcycle at top of Altamont hill. Called at John and Anna's. Played tennis with Merlin at Park. To bed 11 P.M.
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Aha! Now I know who Chamberlayne Witherhead is--two people! Owen Chamberlayne, I learned, was born in Scotia April 19, 1899. In 1920 he lived in a rooming house at 201 Seward Place in Schenectady with Marjorie Chamberlayne, 8 years older than he, his sister, a public school teacher. At the time of the census, he was not working, although he served in the Army from 1917 to 1918, but never overseas. In 1915, he and Marjorie lived with their parents, Carlton and Miriam Chamberlayne, at 11 Glenwood Blvd, still a very nice middle class neighborhood. Carlton was an editor for the Union Star newspaper. In 1918 Owen was a clerk for an electrical contractor. By 1940, he was living with his Aunt, apparently his Uncle's widow, in Worcester, MA. He was still unmarried then, but by 1942 when he joined the Army for WWII, he was divorced. He died in Shrewsbury, MA in 1959.
Witherhead is undoubtedly Howard Ferris Witherhead of Ogdensburg, NY (later of Union College). He married Bessie Handy in 1928. They went to Bermuda on their honeymoon, it seems, and had a child, Betty Jane, in 1930. He died in 1974 in Florida. He also served in the Army, although it seems he was in the ROTC at the time.
