Landon ketchum thorne jr

He graduated in in Pomfret. He graduated in in Sheffield Engineering School, Yale.

Landon Ketchum Thorne Jr., a former businessman, newspaper publisher and diplomat, died Sunday after a long illness.

He died in in New York, NY. Education class of at Pomfret. Later He was hired by Bonbright as a junior salesman. He found the partnership effectively bankrupt. Many senior partners left the firm. LKT asked several relatives including his father to provide capital to expand the activities of the firm. Only his uncle Samuel Brinkerhoff Thorne came through with money.

He ended up as president of the Company with his brother-in-law Alfred Loomis until In that year He was forced to retire from the firm so that He would not have a conflict with his banking directorships under the banking act of The firm is credited with shaping the structure of the US power industry.

Landon Ketchum Thorne was born in in Saugatuck, CN. He graduated in in Pomfret.

In they formed a company called American Superpower to improve the market for utility securities. It sold stock to buy utility stocks. He did however buy stocks in many holding companies.