George Summerville Ward (1867 - September 3, 1940), was president of the Ward Baking Company and vice president

Vice president

A vice president is an officer in government or business who is below a president in rank. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning 'in place of'. In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president...

 of the Brooklyn Federal League

Federal League

The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs, known simply as the Federal League, was an American professional baseball league that operated as a "third major league", in competition with the established National and American Leagues, from to...

 baseball club. His brother was Robert Ward who owned the Brooklyn Tip-Tops

Brooklyn Tip-Tops

The Brooklyn Tip-Tops were a team in the short-lived Federal League of professional baseball from 1914 to 1915. The team was named by owner Robert Ward, who owned the Tip Top Bakery. They were sometimes informally called the Brooklyn Feds or BrookFeds due to being the Brooklyn team of the Federal...

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Biography

He was born in 1867 in Pittsburgh and had a son, Walter S. Ward (1891-?) who in 1922, shot and killed Clarence Peters (1903-1922) who was blackmailing him. George died on September 3, 1940 in Havana, Cuba.