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Arrangements have been made to bring the ashes of the late Elbridge Dexter Rand, whose death occurred in Los Angeles Sept. 16, 1936, to Burlington for interment in the Rand vault at Aspen Grove cemetery, where his grandparents, his father and his brother, Charles, rest. This is in accordance with the expressed wish of Mr. Rand. His mother and his sister, Miss Lillian Rand, will come to Burlington for the services, which will be private. Mr. Rand was born in Burlington July 7, `887; was educated at the Mt. Claire, N.J. military academy, and was a student at Harvard in 1907 and 1908. He served as the captain of infantry in the United States army from 1917 to 1919, and was a technical assistant in the United States intelligence section of the Paris Peace Commission. He was also military attache at Brussels, and returned to the United States to serve as drafting officer in the department of state from 1919 to 1921.
From 192 to 1923 he was secretary to the diplomatic agency in Morocco, and from 1923 to 1925 he was president of the International Sanitary Council of Morocco. He was made the secretary of the United States, assigned to the state department during 1927 and 1928, when he was sent to Geneva, Switzerland, as consul. He was an American delegate to the second and third sessions of the special commission to draft a convention on the private manufacture of arms, ammunitions and implements of war for the League of nations in 1928, and was an American delegate to the diplomatic conference on economic statistics at Geneva. He also served as an advisor to the League of Nations on the manufacture of arms. He was an alternate American delegate to the League of Nations conference on counterfeiting of currency. Mr. Rand retired from the foreign service Dec. 31, 1929, because of ill health and has since made his home near Los Angeles, Calif. Some months ago his condition became critical, and his mother and sister returned from Europe last June in order to be with him during his long illness, which finally resulted in his death, after two major stomach operations for ulcer. Besides his mother and sister, Mr. Rand is survived by his widow and five children, Francesca Rand Porter, Caroline Rand, Elbridge Nicholas Rand, Charles Christopher Rand and Margharita Rand, all residing in California. The date for the services here has not been announced.