Born: May 12, 1880

Died: February 1967

Married: Edith Bucknell (married 1902, divorced 1939, died 1969), Alice Constable Jewett (married 1941)

Children: Giles Price Wetherill (1904 - 1974), Anita Wetherill (1908 - ), Theodore Wetherill (1910 - ), Alice Bucknell Wetherill (1913 - )

Colonel Samuel Price Wetherill was the manager of an iron foundry.  He became an owner of Pine Point Camp on Upper Saranac Lake by marriage to the daughter of Emma W. Bucknell and William Bucknell.

He was active in the Boy Scouts.


Tupper Lake Herald and Free Press, August 14, 1941

Col. S. P. Wetherill And Bride Vacation At Pine Point Camp

Colonel Samuel Price Wetherill of Philadelphia, Pa. and his bride, arrived Sunday night to spend the remainder of the summer at their home, Pine Point Camp on Upper Saranae Lake.

The bride, the former Mrs. Alice Jewett of Baltimore, Md., and Col. Wetherill were married last Saturday in Massachusetts. Col. Wetherill who has summered at Pine Point camp the past 7 years is president of the Hyperhumus Fertilizer Co., and president of the Wetherill Engineering Co. of Philadelphia. 


 

New York Times, August 5, 1941

MRS.A.G.C. JEWETT TO WED

Daughter of W. P. Constables to Be Bride of Col. S. P. Wetherill

Special to The New York Times. BALTIMORE, Aug. 4—Mr. and Mrs. William Pepper Constable of this city have announced the engagement of their daughter, Mrs. Alice G. Constable Jewett, to Colonel Samuel Price Wetherill of Philadelphia. Mrs. Jewett and her son, Dickinson Jewett Jr., are staying at her parents' cottage at Nantucket, Mass.

Colonel Wetherill is an engineer and inventor and former president of the Regional Planning Federation.

The wedding was planned for this week, but has been postponed because of the illness of Mrs. Jewett, now convalescing at the Summer home of her parents at Nantucket, where Colonel Wetherill is visiting.

Mrs. Jewett, in her early thirties, is the former wife of R. W. Dickinson Jewett of Nyack, N. Y., and Washington, and a sister of Dr. Pepper Constable, one of Princeton University's football stars.

Colonel Wetherill and Mrs. Edith Bucknell Wetherill were divorced in Miami, Fla., two years ago..

Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1903, the colonel was identified with various business activities of his late father, one of the founders of the New Jersey Zinc Company.

 

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