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Harper graduated from Harvard University in 1907 , where he was a classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt . He studied law at the New York Law School and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1909 . Later in life, in 1936 , he received a LL.D . from Hobart College . In 1908 he married Georgina Farr , with whom he had six children. Sibley practiced law in New York City until 1912 , when the family moved to Rochester, New York , where he entered the office of his father, Hiram Sibley and became identified with the business interests of the family. These included the McKinley-Darragh-Savage mines in Ontario , where he was treasurer; the Provident Loan Society of Rochester, where he was president; and the Rochester Homeopathic Hospital , where he was treasurer. Sibley identified himself as an Agricultur alist because of his extensive farm and ranch operations in Illinois , California , New York state and Alberta , Canada . He pursued a business career that peaked as president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in 1935 and 1937 . After his two terms with the organization, he remained on its senior council. During his career, he was a director on many corporate boards, including Security Trust Company Of Rochester , the New York Life Insurance Company , the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Hollister Lumber Company and the Leckie Smokeless Coal Company . Sibley was involved heavily with the YMCA in Rochester, as well as on a national level. He was a member of the YMCA International Committee from 1917 to 1950 . He served on the National Council from 1924 to 1927 and from 1941 to 1959 ; he was its president in 1951 and 1952 . He served on the National Board from 1948 to 1959 ; he was its president in 1949 and 1950 and was on its Board of Trustees from 1939 to 1959 . He served as the general chairman of the Centennial International Convention in Cleveland in 1951 and was president of the USO . Also a member of the World Council and its executive committee, he chaired the Committee on Work with Refugees and Migrants after World War II . SOURCE |
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