Louis Ezekiel Stoddard

Major Louis Ezekiel Stoddard (January 25, 1878 – March 9, 1948) He won the Junior Polo Championship, Senior Polo Championship, U.S. Open Polo Championship and the Monty Waterbury Cup twice each. He was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He was graduated with a B.A. from Yale University in 1899, where he had been a member of Scroll and Key.

Business ventures He was treasurer and general manager of the Beatty Starch Company in New Haven from 1899 to 1902, and subsequently was involved with mining, banking, and manufacturing firms, including the Bingham-New Haven Mining Company, Alvarado Mining and Milling Company, the New Haven Hotel Company and Factory Products Export Company, the William P. Bonbright & Company banking firm; the Fowler and Union Horsenail Co., the Marlin Arms Co., the Red River Valley Company, and the Southwest Lumber Mills. and a son, Louis Ezekiel Stoddard Jr., who like his father was also prominent as a horseman and polo player. Rebecca died of complications from childbirth on December 13, 1913.

On April 29, 1915, in New York City, he married Mary Andrews, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Cole) Andrews. They had no children. Mary (Andrews) Stoddard died on February 22, 1945.

Death He died on March 9, 1948, in Los Angeles of heart failure. He was buried in Grove Street Cemetery.