William Frederick Dix

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New York Herald Tribune, Wednesday, September 12, 1945
William F. Dix Dies; Ex-Officer Of Mutual Life
Friend of Wilson Was an Author and Editor and Montenegro Consul Here
Special to the Herald Tribune

Westhampton Beach, L.I., Sept 11. - William Frederick Dix, seventy-seven, secretary of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York from 1906 until his retirement in 1933, died here yesterday at his summer home. He also had a home at 235 Gillou Road, South Orange, N.J.

He was a graduate of Princeton, where he formed a warm friendship for Woodrow Wilson, then president of the University. After graduation Mr. Dix went on a world tour, returning after two years to devote himself to writing. He was author of three novels, "The Face in the Girandole," "The Lost Princess" and "Daphne of the Forest," and collaborated on "Man and the Two Worlds," a book of religious philosophy.

In 1894 Mr. Dix became literary editor of "The Churchman" and in 1900 was named editor of "The Home Journal," later named "Town and Country". He resigned as editor in 1906 to become secretary of the Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Through President Wilson in 1918 Mr. Dix was appointed Consul General in New York of Montenegro, a position he held through 1921. For two years he was Charge d'Affaires of the Montenegrin Legation in Washington, until Montenegro was absorbed into Yugoslavia.

For his services to Montenegro, Mr. Dix received the Grand Cross of the Order of Danilo I, the highest order of Montenegro knighthood, from King Nicholas.

Mr. Dix is a former trustee of Adelphi College, Brooklyn; governor and deputy governor of the Society of Colonial Wars, State of New Jersey, and governor of the Order of Founders and Patriots, State of New Jersey. He was a captain in the East Orange Rifles and a colonel in the New York Police Reserves.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Alice Tennille Dix; a daughter, Mrs. Carlo Gargiulo, and a son, Norman B. Dix.

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DIX - William Frederick, of South Orange, N.J., at his summer residence, in Westhampton Beach, L.I., on Sept. 10, 1945. Beloved husband of Alice Tennille Dix and father of Mrs. Carlo Gargiulo, of Italy, and Norman B. Dix, of Westhampton Beach, L.I. Services at his late residence at Westhampton Beach, Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 2:30 p. m.

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