Biography: Scott Hurtt Paradise
Transcribed by James W. Metzler, February 22, 1999.
Transcribers Note: In the biography of Scott Paradise, his middle name is given as Hurtt, but in the biography of his father-in-law, Fred H. Eaton, Scott's middle name is given as Hunt. In all other places in the book, Scott is listed as Scott H. Paradise.
SCOTT HURTT PARADISE, was born May 7, 1891 at Milford, Connecticut, the son of the Rev. Frank Ilsley Paradise and Caroline Wilder (Fellowes) Paradise. He graduated from Medford (Massachusetts) High School in 1909, from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1910, and from Yale College (Bachelor of Arts degree) in 1914. He was then appointed Rhodes Scholar from Connecticut to Balliol College, Oxford University, which he attended until June, 1917. While a member of Balliol College he spent the months from December, 1914 to April, 1915, in Belgium, working in Ghent, Hasselt, and Brussels as delegate for Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium. For this service he received King Albert's medal and Queen Elizabeth's medal. In the winter of 1915-16 he served for six weeks as a driver with the American Ambulance at Neuilly and Juilly, France. During the following summer he studied at the University of Grenoble in France. When the United States entered the war he joined the British Officers' Training Corps at Oxford. While awaiting a commission in the American Army he acted as assistant to Captain James R. Dunning, General Purchasing Agent in England for the American Army, stationed in London, and as assistant to James R. Barbour, Secretary General to the American Red Cross, in Paris. On December 13, 1917, he received his commission as second lieutenant, F. A., U. S. A., at Paris. He then attended the Field Artillery School at Saumur and the French Tractor School at Vincennes. Thereafter he was assigned to Company E, 54th C. A. C., stationed at Mailly-le-Camp, to K Siege Park, Australian Corps, at Amiens, to Organization and Training Center, No. 2, at Limoges, as instructor, and finally to Battery C, 44th C. A. C. at Essey, Sommevoire, and Brest. On March 1, 1919 he received his discharge at Camp Meade, Maryland. Oxford University awarded him the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919 and the Master of Arts degree in 1924. A few weeks after receiving his discharge he took a position as assistant in the Brick Row Print and Book Shop in New Haven, Connecticut. Three months later he entered the commercial research department of Hoyt's Service, planned advertising, in New York City. In January, 1920 he took a position with the J. Walter Thompson Company, advertising, in New York, and in February, 1921, became manager of the London office of that company. In 1924 he joined the faculty of Phillips Academy, Andover. From September, 1925 to June, 1926, he was instructor in English at the Nichols Country Day School, Buffalo, New York, and then returned to Andover, where he has been since as instructor in English. On June 24, 1925, Mr. Paradise married Alma Sherman Eaton, daughter of Attorney Fred H. Eaton and Abbey Maude (Sherman) Eaton, of Andover. Their children are: Carol, born April 20, 1927; Scott Ilsley, born April 6, 1929, and Polly Wedgewood, born September 5, 1933. Mr. Paradise has published "A History of Printing in Andover, Massachusetts," 1798-1931, and numerous articles of a historical and biographical nature. He lives at Hidden Field, Andover, Massachusetts.
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