MAJ Caleb H. Canby, Jr.
1886 – 1972
USAR
WWI
Caleb Harlan Canby, Jr. was born January 20, 1886 in Brooklyn, New York to Caleb H. and Jane Lynch Canby.
He was a great-great-grandson of Betsy Ross.
The family moved to the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago in 1890, where his father was a grain broker, and eventual President of the Chicago Board of Trade. At the age of 21, Canby, Jr. became a member of CBOT, where he was a grain broker for 61 years.
On April 16, 1914, Canby married a neighbor, Ruth Cudney, in Chicago; they raised one son.
Canby served his country in World War II in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Depot in Chicago, attaining the rank of Major before his discharge on June 30, 1919.
In 1929, he moved his family to the Barrington area.
Major Caleb H. Canby, Jr. died March 20, 1972, in Winter Park, Florida. He rests forever with his wife and other family members in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
-----
Remember. Honor. Teach.
Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.