Age 39. 210 South Ridge Road, Lake Forest, IL (lodging locally with his wife at 88 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA). Born on 2/16/1903, Chicago, IL. Died of burns (death certificate). Lieutenant (junior grade), U.S. Naval Reserve, studying at Naval Training School (Communications), Harvard University. Also known as "Jack." His wife Dorothea "Dorothy," age 39, also perished. Was described as a, "...member of a socially prominent family at suburban Lake Forest..." (Illinois State Journal, Springfield, IL, 11/30/1942). Identity of his remains were confirmed by the Navy through, "...dental verification, brother-in-law and papers on body" (First Naval District inquest transcript, 11/30/1942). One of four student officers of the Harvard Naval Training School (under the Defense and War Training program of the U.S. Office of Education) dead, all communications students, all in the last two months of training (also Ensign John Albritton, Sr., age 28, Ensign John Bauer, age 27, and Lieut. Kenneth Simpson, age 31, all U.S.N.R.). Harvard roommate Lieut. H. Bradley Moore, U.S.N.R., declined to attend the club because of the expected large football crowds but assisted in rescues. Navy enlistment the past July. Previously an efficiency engineer at his father-in-law's business, Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Co. (Comptometers), of Chicago. Illinois address above was a 39½-acre estate, purchased (with his wife) in 1938 (Chicago Daily Tribune, 8/14/1938: "The property is improved with a frame residence...It has fourteen rooms and six baths"). The Cambridge address above was the historic "Asa Gray House," built in 1810 (both addresses appear on the official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety casualty list, the latter as "temporary"). Tall frame (WWII draft registration, February '42: 6' 1," 194 lbs.). With his wife were two of three fire casualties from Illinois (also Seaman Donald Delander, U.S.C.G.R., age 19; in addition former Illinois residents Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Gladys Charles, ages 28 and 29, both dead, were relocated by an employer to Winchester, MA, 18 months earlier). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Ernest H. and Ella K. (Crutcher) Noyes. Burial with his wife at Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago. Middle name High (misreported "Hugh" in several accounts).

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