Frederick A. O. SCHWARZ

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Frederick A. O. Schwarz, senior partner in the New York law firms of Davis, Polk & Wardwell, died yesterday of cancer at his home here. He was 72 years old.

Mr. Schwarz spent his entire professional career with the Davis' Polk firm except for two, short leaves. The first covered six months in 1930–31 when he ran the F. A. O. Schwarz toy business, which had been founded by his grandfather in 1862 and which his father, Henry F. Schwarz, ran until his death in 1925.

Mr. Schwarz was responsible for taking the risk, at the height of the Depression of moving the store to its present site at Fifth Avenue and 58th Street, then substantially north of the city's principal shopping area. He continued as chairman of the board until 1962, when a controlling interest was sold outsides the family, and as a director afterward.

Mr. Schwarz again left his law firm in. 1953–54 when he spent more than a year in West Germany, as general counsel to the United States High Commissiòner, James B. Conant.

At Davis, Polk, Mr. Schwarz had been active in its leadership and administration. He guided and advised his clients in business and Corporate law and in financing. They included the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the General Motors Corporation, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, Morgan Stanley & Co., Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., as well as the companies Of which he was a director, General Mills, the Chubb Corporation, Pullman, Inc., and the United States Trust Company of New York.

He was born here on April 7, 1902, and graduated summa cum laude in 1924 from Harvard, where he was president of The Harvard Crimson and secretary of his class, of which he later became president. He graduated magna cum laude in 1927 from Harvard Law School, where he became note editor of The Law Review.

In later years, Mr. pchwarz served as a member of the, university's Board of Overseers and as president of the Harvard Alumni Association, which he reorganized as the Associated Harvard Alumni. He had also been president of the Harvard Club of NewYork.

Mr. Schwarz was a trustee of Presbyterian Hospital, of which he had been a past vice president and acting president. He had also been a trustee of the Frick Collection, Union Theological Seminary, the Community Service Society and the Young Women'sChristian‐ Association.

Surviving are his widow, Mary; 4 sons, Frederick A. 0.1 Jr., H. Marshall, John C. and Robert DuB.; a daughter, Mrs. Newton P. S. Merrill, and 11 grandchildren.

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A funeral service will be held Thursday at 11 A.M. in, St. James's Episcopal Church, 865 Madison Avenue.

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