| 2. |  Percival Flack Brundage  (1.William1) was born on 2 Apr 1892 in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York; died on 16 Jul 1979 in Ridgewood, Bergen County, New Jersey. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: L8SC-WDR
- 1920 Census: 14 Jan 1920, Westfield, Union County, New Jersey
- 1940 Census: 16 Apr 1940, Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey
- Obituary: Aft 16 Jul 1979, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Colombia; Washington Post
Notes:
From Wikipedia:
Percival Flack Brundage (2 April 1892 – 16 July 1979) was a director of the United States Office of Management and Budget from April 2, 1956 until March 17, 1958.
Brundage was born on 2 April 1892 in Amsterdam, New York, the son of Unitarian minister the Rev. William Milton Brundage.
Before entering government service, Brundage was an accountant since 1914, and a senior partner at Price Waterhouse & Co.. Brundage was appointed as deputy director when Rowland Hughes was appointed director in May 1954. President Eisenhower appointed Brundage as director from 2 April 1956 (his 64th birthday), following Hughes' resignation. He resigned 13 March 1958 and was succeeded by Maurice H. Stans.
In 1955, Brundage was elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame.
Brundage was president of the National Bureau of Economic Research and president of the American Institute of Accountants. He was also Treasurer for the People to People Health Foundation, as well as director of the American Unitarian Association.
In 1918, Brundage married Amittai Ostrander and had a son (Robert Percival) and a daughter (Lois Ammittai), and 4 grandchildren. Brundage was an amateur artist who exhibited paintings at the Century Club in New York.
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1920 Census:
Ward 3, ED 166, sheet 17B
651 Fairfield Circle
Brundage, William Head M W 63 Md NY NY NY Clergyman - Unitarian
---, Charlotte Wife F W 58 Md NY NY NY
---, Percival Son M W 27 Md NY NY NY Senior Accountant - Accountant's Office
---, Media Dau-i-L F W 21 Md NJ NY MA
... 1 servant Ophelia King
1940 Census:
Ward 5, ED 7-278, sheet 10B
169 Christopher St.
Brundage, F Percival Head M W 44 Md New York 1935: Same House Partner - Auditor
---, S Amittai Wife F W 31 Md New Jersey "
---, P Robert Son M W 18 S New Jersey "
---, S Lois Dau F W 13 S Massachusetts "
... 2 servants
Obituary:
Percival F. Brundage, 87, Headed Budget Bureau
ercival F. Brundage, 87, a director of the old Bureau of the Budget in the Eisenhowever administration, died Monday at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J. He had a heart ailment.
Mr. Brundage joined the bureau, now the Office of Management and Budget, in 1954 as deputy director. He became director in 1956 and held that post for two years.
Before his government service, he had been a senior partner of Price Waterhouse & Co., a noted accounting firm. He joined the company in 1916, became a partner in 1930, headed its Boston office in the early 1930s and then returned to its headquarters in New York City. He was elected senior partner and head of the firm in 1944 and remained in that capacity until his retirement in 1954.
Since leaving the government, Mr. Brundage had divided his time between home in Washington and Pompano Beach, Fla. He also had acted as a financial consultant to various public and private financial institutions.
In 1970, he published a book, "The Bureau of the Budget." Although it appeared about the time that the Office of Management and Budget came into existence, it was written before that time. The book recommended that the old bureau be restructured along the lines of OMB.
In addition to his business and government work, Mr. Brundage was an active member of the Unitarian Church and took part in many of its activities. He also was active in several health and international organizations.
He was treasurer and a board member of Project Hope, which works to improve health care in developing countries, at the time of his death. He also was treasurer of the Atlantic Council of the United States, a group that works to strengthen the NATO alliance, at the time of his death.
Mr. Brundage had served as president of the Internationalk Association for Religious Freedom, honorary president of American Youth Hostels, as a director of the Unitarian Service Committee and the Unitarian Development Fund, and as a director of the Federal Union.
Mr. Brundage was born in Amsterdam, N.Y., and graduated from Harvard College in 1914.
He was a member of the Accounting Hall of Fame and a president of the American Institute of Certified Public
His wife, the former Amittai Ostrander, whom he married in 1917, died in 1977. A son, Robert, died in 1967.
Survivors include a daughter, Lois Baker, of Ridgewood, N.J., whom Mr. Brundage was visiting at the time of his death, and five grandchildren.
The family suggests that Expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to Project Hope, to the American Cancer Society, to the Federal Union, or to the Atlantic Council.
Percival married Sara Amittai Ostrander after 20 May 1918. Sara (daughter of Edwin Graham Ostrander and Sara Katherine "Sarah Kate" Spalding) was born on 18 Aug 1898 in Roseville, Essex County, New Jersey; died on 3 Jan 1977 in Washington, District of Columbia, District of Colombia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 3. Robert Percival Brundage was born on 13 Jun 1920 in Westfield, Union County, New Jersey; died in 1967.
- 4. Lois Amittai Brundage was born on 30 Aug 1926 in West Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 27 Nov 2011 in Hillsboro Beach, Broward County, Florida.
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1857 - 1921 (64 years)
Robert Percival Brundage 
