Cyrus Stokes Gentry (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Cyrus Stokes Gentry
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain ...
Cyrus Stokes Gentry (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Cyrus Stokes Gentry
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.15218
Call Number: LC-B2- 2961-3
Cyrus S. Gentry (1892-1967) was a vice-president and general counsel at Shell Oil. But in 1914 he was a Rhodes Scholar from Illinois, headed to a law degree at Oxford.
Oddly, a student named Cyrus Gentry was recently named to Cornell’s "25 Sexiest Seniors"
cornellsun.com/section/arts/content/2009/12/03/cornells-2…
"Cyrus S. Gentry, held three degrees including a law degree from Oxford University and taught constitutional law and common law actions as part of the faculty from 1925 to 1934." — South Texas College of Law
This appears to be dated January 25 1914 ("SS 1/25/14") and he looks young, so it might be the same person earlier in his life.
The Lebanon (Ill.) Advertiser, of December 13, 1913, announced that Mr. Cyrus Stokes Gentry had been named a Rhodes Scholar, with a fellowship to study at Oxford University (in England). The first Americans to win Rhodes scholarships had entered Oxford in 1904, so Mr. Gentry was in the tenth annual class of recipients.
I started an entry in Wikipedia for him:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Stokes_Gentry