Who is Ernest T. Trigg?

From New York Times article INDUSTRIAL USERS OF ALCOHOL UNITE: Form Council to Combat Rise of Adverse State Laws Due to High Court Ruling, E. T. TRIGG HEADS GROUP; Wednesday, January 25, 1939, page 28 (compliments of Janice Bennett)

Here is what Who’s Who in America has to say about him:

TRIGG, Ernest T., mfr.; b. Aurora, Ill., Aug. 12, 1877; s. Thomas and Anna M. (Anderson) T.; ed. pub. schs.; m. Alice Gibbons, June 19, 1901 (dec.); children-Helen Alice (Mrs. Charles J. Swain, Jr., dec.), Ernest T., Jr., With Heath & Milligan Mfg. Co., Chicago, 1895-1908; gen. mgr. John Lucas & Co., paints, Phila., 1908, v.p., 1912, pres. until 1933; president of the Nat. Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Assn., 1933-47, now honorary chairman for life; and was chmn. Industry Recovery Bd.; dir., Bankers Security Corporation, Lit Brother, The Warner Co. (Phila.); pres. and dir. Touraine Apts., Inc.; pres. and director Land Title Building Corporation. Dir. and v.p. Bd, of City Trusts, Philadelphia; trustee, chmn. executive com. Mercersburg (Pa.) Academy. Pres. Paint Mfrs. Assn., U.S., 1911, Phila. Paint, Oil and Varnish Club, 1918-21, Phila. C. of C., 1918-21; bd. dirs. U.S. C. of C., 1918-30; chmn. ednl. bur. Am. Paint and Varnich Mfrs. Assn. Member Pa. Commn. to San Francisco Expn., 1915; regional adviser War Industries Board; mem. President Wilson's Industrial Conf., 1919, President Harding's Unemployment Conf., 1921; chmn. Pres. Hoover's Com. on Home Ownership and Home Building; chmn. of Fed. Home Loan Bank, sd Fed. Reserve Dist. Hon. life mem. New England, New Year, Balt., Paint Varnish and Laquer assns.; bd. dirs. C. of C. of Greater Phila. Republican. Presbyterian. Mason (Shriner). Clubs: Aronimink Golf (Newton Sq., Pa.); Union League, Bachelors Barge, Radnor Hunt, Kiwanis (Phila.); Duquesne (Pitts.). Home: 1520 Spruce St., Phila. 27. Office: Land Title Bldg. Phila. 10.

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