Wayne Chatfield-Taylor

Wayne Chatfield-Taylor (December 19, 1893 – November 22, 1967) was Under Secretary of Commerce and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Early life Chatfield-Taylor was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 19, 1893 . He was one of four children born to Rose (née Farwell) Chatfield-Taylor and Hobart Chatfield-Taylor, an author and biographer who was considered a top authority on Molière. His siblings were Robert, Otis, and the eldest, Adelaide (wife of Hendricks Hallett Whitman and William Davies Sohier and grandmother of Meg Whitman). After his mother died in 1918, his father married Estelle (née Barbour) Stillman, the widow of George S. Stillman and daughter of George Harrison Barbour, in 1920. His paternal grandparents were Henry Hobart Taylor and Adelaide (née Chatfield) Taylor. His father added "Chatfield" to his surname as the stipulation of a large inheritance from his maternal uncle, Wayne Chatfield. His maternal grandparents were U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell (brother of John V. Farwell) and Mary Eveline (née Smith) Farwell. His maternal aunt Anna Farwell married the composer Reginald de Koven. Wayne was a graduate of St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts and of Yale University. During World War I, he served overseas as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.