Joseph Clift Cornwall

CORNWALL--Joseph Clift, 89, died peacefully at home Tuesday, August 14, four weeks after celebrating his twenty-first wedding anniversary with Elizabeth Hillard Eddy Cornwall on July 19. He is predeceased by his wife of forty-four years, Barbara Wallace Cornwall, and son Timothy C. Cornwall, and survived by two daughters, Elizabeth Cornwall and Pamela Duncan, two sons, John W. Cornwall and Joseph F. Cornwall, a stepdaughter, Ellen Eddy Thorndike, a stepson Charles B. Eddy III and twelve grandchildren. In recent years he completed his tenure as a founding board member and chair of The Fund for New Jersey-a private foundation committed to public policy initiatives in the state of New Jersey. In 2001 the Newark campus of Rutgers University opened the Joseph Cornwall Metropolitan Center for research, analysis and formulation of data on the New Jersey urban environment. A graduate of Princeton, class of 1939, in 1942 he received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and later that year was commissioned an ensign in the Navy, and served the durations of World War II. He was a corporate secretary for Wallace & Tiernan, Inc. the manufacturing company begun by his father-in-law, Charles Wallace, and a lifelong generous supporter of nonprofit institutions. A Memorial Service will be held at 2pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at Christ Church, 66 Highland Avenue, Short Hills, NJ. Services by Bradley-Brough Funeral Home, Summit NJ.