AJuly 19 1943
Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, New York, Monday, July 19, 1943
PURSUING THE HOBBY OF CHESS PLAYING since the age of 10, STANLEY HATHAWAY CHADWICK, 72, who was the first president of the Correspondence Chess league died early yesterday morning at his home, 13 Cedar avenue. He had been ill for more than a year.
Widely Known Chess Player Dies at His Home in City
First president of the famous Correspondence Chess league, which he was instrumental in starting in 1909, Stanley Hathaway Chadwick, 73 died early yesterday morning at his home, 13 Cedar avenue. He had been in failing health for more than a year.
The Correspondence Chess league, was organized originally for people within a 100 miles of New York but grew to include all of the United States, Canada, the Philippines and other territories.
Born in Brooklyn, Dec 10, 1870, the son of the late John White and Annie Horton Hathaway Chadwick, natives of Marblehead, Mass, Mr. Chadwick took grade school, prep and college training at the Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute. Prepared for architecture, he started in the fall of 1889, with a large firm in Manhattan headed by William B, Tubby, one of the best known men in the field at that time. The first job he was given was to draft plans for the Vassar college gymnasium which has since been replaced by a new one.
Leaving this concern after 12 years, Mr. Chadwick worked as a builder and architect in several Manhattan offices. During the First World war, he was chief engineer for the H. D. Best company, large engineering and building firm and had 42 draftsmen under him on the job of building several Standard Oil plants.
An assignment in the late 20's, brought Mr Chadwick to this city to design the first foundry for the DeLaval Separator company. He handled preliminary plans and actual construction work and later built up the company foundry organization.
Since settling here, Mr. Chadwick built two buildings for Federal Bearings company and in 1938, did an addition to the Main street plant of the Hart Manufacturing company.
In a recent interview, Mr. Chadwick reported that he had built two private residences here in recent years, that he was proud of, one for Dr. John M. Coulter on Loockerman avenue and the other for William W. Smith 2nd, on New Hackensack road.
Mr. Chadwick began the hobby of chess playing at the age of ten and had been a genuine devotee of the game since early manhood. It was after he joined the Brooklyn Chess club in 1899 that he really began international tournament play. He was elected secretary of the club the first year he joined and then for five consecutive years he was instrumental in arranging matches between the best teams of Great Britain and the United States. He was a member of the American team in each match.
The game were played by cable between the Cecil hotel, London and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The Brooklyn club was considered one of the best in the world prior to 1900 and it was while a member of this club that Mr. Chadwick placed runner-up to Clarence Howell in the club championship in 1892. He had met and sometimes defeated the worlds greatest players and formed a fast friendship with Harry Pillsbury, American champion at that time.
Having carried on numerous correspondence chess games, early in the spring of 1942, Mr. Chadwick received a letter from an Army sergeant at Pearl Harbor who was one of his old friends who had formerly been stationed at Fort Knox and who “despite the rigors of war-time duties, needed some relaxation and recreation,” and in the letter had sent moves for a game of chess to be played with Mr. Chadwick.
The “Staunton” chess men often used by Mr. Chadwick were bought in 1857 by Mr. Chadwick's father in Marblehead, Mass., but it was his mother who taught him to play the game, his father having become a minister and gave up the game.
Mr. Chadwick was once Poughkeepsie champion, succeeding Charles Laister, but he was succeeded by E. Sterling Carter.
Several years ago, Mr. Chadwick had 65 games with different persons all over the world, going on at one time. He had complete cards filed in large notebooks to keep track of the way the men were standing in each match.
One of Mr. Chadwick's hobbies besides playing chess, has been painting with watercolors.
The last eight years, Mr. Chadwick had been engaged as plant engineer for Smith Brothers cough drop factory.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Imogene A. Cross Chadwick, a former resident of Jersey City, a daughter by a former marriage, Mrs. Katherine Chadwick, wife of Ted F. Gensamer, New York City; and a brother, Ernest W. Chadwick, New York.
Funeral services will be conducted at the home at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Burial will be in the Poughkeepsie Rural cemetery, under the direction of A. A Schoonmaker.
