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The Boston Globe, March 30, 2014
John B. Rhinelander (Picture included)
1933-2014
John Bassett Rhinelander, 1933-2014, former U.S. government official, lawyer, businessman, and arms control expert, unexpectedly passed away on March 2, 2014. He was 80. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Jeanne Rhinelander, his four children, John Richard Rhinelander and his wife Amy, Margaret Rhinelander Rizzi and her husband Pat, Katherine Pierson Rhinelander and Thomas Bassett Rhinelander, and nine grandchildren, ages 9 through 20. He was the second of four children of Constance Templeton Rhinelander. Born in Boston in 1933, John was educated at the Dexter School and Groton School and graduated from Yale University in 1955 and the University of Virginia Law School in 1961, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. John spent one year as a clerk for Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan of the U. S. Supreme Court and worked for four years at the Davis Polk firm in New York. John moved to Virginia and served in a variety of positions in the federal government including Special Civilian Assistant to Paul Nitze the Secretary of the Navy, Legal Adviser to the U. S. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) and Under Secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. After leaving government, John was a Partner at the Washington, DC law firm of Shaw Pittman (now called Pillsbury) and taught courses on arms control at UVA Law School and Georgetown University. He was a long-term board member of the Arms Control Association and Lawyers Alliance for World Security, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. John spent his retirement years with his wife Jeanne enjoying their home on the water in Gloucester, MA, traveling and visiting his children and grandchildren while remaining engaged in issues of the day. Aside from his many accomplishments, John treasured his role as a devoted husband, father & grandfather.
The Boston Herald, Sunday, May 20, 1962
Miss Cattell To Be Bride In July
Dr. and Mrs. Richard B. Cattell of Waban and Duxbury announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Jeanne Elizabeth Cattell, to Mr. John Bassett Rhinelander of Boston and Dr. Frederic W. Rhinelander of Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Miss Cattell is a graduate of Connecticut College for Women and is completing work on a master?s degree in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
She is the granddaughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. H.G. Matzinger of Buffalo, N.Y., and the late Mr. and Mrs. William M. Cattell of Smithfield, Ohio.
Mr. Rhinelander is an alumnus of the Groton School, Yale University, and the University of Virginia Law School, where he was editor of the Virginia Law Review. He is now a law clerk to the Honorable John Marshall Harlan, Supreme Court of the United States.
He is a grandson of the late Bishop and Mrs. Philip M. Rhinelander of Washington, D.C. and Gloucester, and of the late Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Templeton of Hinsdale, Ill.
A July wedding is planned.
The Boston Herald, Sunday, July 22, 1962
Miss Jeanne Cattell Wed To Mr. John Rhinelander
(Picture of bride included)
At a candlelight ceremony at the Second Church in Newton, yesterday afternoon, Miss Jeanne Elizabeth Cattell, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Richard Bartley Cattell of Waban, became the bride of Mr. John Bassett Rhinelander. He is the son of Mrs. Templeton Rhinelander of Boston, and Dr. Frederic William Rhinelander of Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
The Rev. Dr. Daniel Bliss officiated in a setting of lilies, snapdragons and delphinium, and a reception followed at the Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton.
Given in marriage by her father, the bride?s gown of ivory gros de Londre was designed with a bateau neckline and elbow length sleeves, trimmed with heirloom point de Venise lace used in the wedding gown of her mother and grandmother, and a dome skirt which extended into a cathedral train. Her veil of imported tulle was also trimmed with heirloom lace, and she carried a long cascade of alba lilies, stephanotis, fleur d?amour and string smilax.
Mrs. Ernest C. Richards of Bronxville, N.Y., was the matron of honor. She wore a dress of Dynasty blue silk brocade, fashioned with a jewel neckline and a bell skirt, and white picture hat trimmed with a matching blue velvet ribbon. Her bouquet was a crescent of yellow and cream colored glamelias.
Identically dressed, but carrying crescents of white glamelias, the bridesmaids were Mrs. John S.C. Morgan of Cambridge, sister of the bridegroom, Mrs. Arthur C. Dunmore of Duxbury, sister of the bride, and Miss Elizabeth Peer of New York city.
Nancy Ann Dunmore of Duxbury and Cynthia Ann Cattell of Denver, Colo., both nieces of the bride, were junior bridesmaids. Their identical dresses of white embroidered organdy were accented at the waistline with blue sashes, and their hairbands matched the bridesmaid?s dresses. They carried miniature bouquets of yellow glamelias.
For her daughter?s wedding, Mrs. Cattell wore an emerald green tucked chiffon dress and a matching tulle hat. Mrs. Rhinelander, the bridgegroom?s mother, chose Delft blue chiffon and wore a small flowered hat.
The best man was Mr. Martin R. Hoffmann of McLean, Va. Mr. John A. Cattell of Waban, twin brother of the bride, ushered with the bridegroom?s brothers, Mr. Frederic W. T. Rhinelander of Harvard and Mr. David H Rhinelander of Manchester, and Mr. Andrew L. Gray and Mr. Patrick F. Crossman, both of New York city, Mr. James O. Welch Jr. of Brookline and Mr. Robert F. Thompmson, Jr. of New Haven, Conn.
The bride is an alumnus of Connecticut College for Women and of the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William M. Cattell of Smithfield, Ohio, and of the late Dr. and Mrs. H.G. Matziner of Buffalo, N.Y.
The bridegroom, who prepared at Groton School for Yale University, was also graduated from the University of Virginia, School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review. He is the grandson of the late Rt. Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander, Bishop of Protestant Episcopal Dioces of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1923, and the late Mrs. Rhinelander of Washington D.C., and Easter Point, Gloucester, and of the late Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Templeton of Hinsdale, Ill.
After a weeding trip to Canada, the couple will live in New York city, where Mr. Rhinelander will be associated with the law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland and Kiendl.
The Boston Herald, Monday, December 31, 1956
Rhinelander-Cragin Engagement
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Wilson Cragin of Greenwich, Conn., announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Alison Washbugn Cragin, to Mr. John Bassett Rhinelander, son of Mrs. Constance Templeton Rhinelander of Boston and Dr. Frederic W. Rhinelander of Cleveland, Ohio.
Miss Cragin was graduated from Milton Academy and is a senior at Bryn Mawr College. She is a granddaughter of Mrs. George A. Cragin and the late Mr. Cragin and of Mrs. Reginald Washburn and the late Mr. Washburn, all of Worcester.
Mr. Rhinelander was graduated from Groton School and from Yale, where he was a member of the Fence Club and Wolf?s Head. He spent a year at the Graduate School of International Relations in Paris and is now serving in the Army at Youngstown, N.Y.
Mr. Rhinelander is the grandson of the late Bishop and Mrs. Philip M. Rhinelander of Washington, D.C., and Gloucester and the late Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Templeton of Hinsdale, Ill.
The Boston Herald, Wednesday, July 16, 1930
Marriage, Rhinelander-Templeton
On Tuesday, July 15, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York city, by the Rt. Rev. Philip Mercer Rhinelander, Frederick William Rhinelander, 2d, to Constance Templeton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Breakenridge Templeton of Hinsdale, Ill.
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