James
Wilson
(Jim)
Rouse
Born in Easton, Talbot, Maryland, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
John Goldsmith Rouse II [half], Anna Stump Rouse [half], Margaret M (Rouse) Balch, Lydia Robinson Rouse, Mary Day (Rouse) Pryor and Willard Goldsmith Rouse II
Husband of
Elizabeth Jamieson (Winstead) Rouse
— married
3 May 1941 (to 1973) in Baltimore, Maryland
Husband of
Myrtle Patricia (Traugott) Rouse
— married
1974 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Robin (Rouse) Norton
Died
at age 81
in Wilde Lake, Columbia, Maryland, United States
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Biography
This profile is part of the Rouse Name Study.
James Wilson Rouse was born on 26 Apr 1914 in Easton, Talbot, Maryland, United States, son of Willard Goldsmith Rouse (1867–1930) and Lydia Agnes (Robinson) Rouse (1874–1930).
His siblings were:
- John Goldsmith Rouse (1895–1974)
- Margaret M (Rouse) Balch (1902–1972)
- Lydia Robinson Rouse (1904–1978)
- Mary Day (Rouse) Pryor (1905–1966)
- Willard Goldsmith Rouse II (1910–1971)
Jim (27) married Elizabeth Jamieson (Winstead) Rouse (26) (born about 1914 in Goldsboro, Wayne, North Carolina, United States; daughter of William Henry Winstead and Helen Hope (Privett) Winstead) on 3 May 1941 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Jim (59) married Myrtle Patricia (Traugott) Rouse (47) (born on 4 May 1926 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA; daughter of Albert Maser Traugott) in 1974.
Jim died on 9 Apr 1996 in Wilde Lake, Columbia, Maryland, aged 81.
Enterprise Foundation
Developer James W. Rouse was the founder of Columbia, Maryland, one of the best known and most successful new towns built in the U.S. after World War II. Columbia now has more than 83,000 residents and 2,500 businesses and industries. After retiring from the Rouse Company in 1981, Rouse devoted his time to the Enterprise Foundation, a nonprofit organization that has helped produce over 61,000 units of housing for the poor. Among other accomplishments , he was a member of Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Housing in 1953, a member of President Reagan's Task Force on Private Sector Initiative, and chairman of the National Housing Task Force. Awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom 1995.
James was born in 1914 and rose to fame as a Lawyer and land developer of shopping malls and planned urban communities. James Rouse ... He passed away in 1996 of Lou Gehrig's disease.
Sources
- See: Wikipedia.com
- http://www.famouskin.com ; Ancestry of Edward Norton, Ahnentafel# 6.
- Book: Jim Rouse: Capitalist/idealist By Paul Marx, University Press of America, 2008
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