Born 8
January 1894 at Kingston, Ulster County, New York
Died 17
November 1970 at Buffalo, Erie County, New York
William was
the younger of two children born to William More Decker and Margaret Elizabeth
“Bessie” Smith Decker. He was raised at Buffalo where his
father was first a physician and later a manufacturer of a nursing bottle that
he held patents on. William studied at Yale University, probably the Sheffield
Scientific School at Yale.
William married to Annette
Catherine Coit on 21 August 1917 at Wanakah, New York. Wanakah is a hamlet in
the town of Hamburg. William and Annette were the parents of three children;
William More Decker III, Ann Decker, and Michael Coit Decker. He served with the Reserve Corp and was
vice-president of his father’s Hygeia Nursing Bottle Company when he registered
for the World War I draft. After his discharge from military service, where he had
served in France in the Motor Truck Department, he returned to the
manufacturing of nursing bottles at Buffalo. In 1930, Hygeia was sold to
Hazel-Atlas Glass Company which was purchased in 1953 by Ball Corporation.
About 1930, William relocated his family to Daytona Beach, Florida where he was
the president of a glass bottle manufacturing business. They returned to
Buffalo by 1935 where he was an executive with Hygeia.
He was a resident of Derby,
New York when he died at Buffalo General Hospital. He was buried in a Decker
family plot in Forest Lawn Cemetery at Buffalo.
William is
John More Association Jonas line cousin #44132 and my paternal third cousin twice
removed.
©2017 Cindy Coffell
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