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William A. Jenner

Lawyer

Centurion, 1892–1915

Full Name William Allen Jenner

Born 10 February 1844 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 14 March 1915 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by William Conant Church and Charles C. Beaman

Elected 5 March 1892 at age forty-eight

Archivist’s Note: Father-in-law of Sterling T. Foote

Proposer of:

Century Memorial

More exclusively devoted to practice at the Bar, especially in patent cases, was William Allen Jenner, sprung from old Vermont stock, and son of Ephraim Jenner, a close friend and coadjutor of Horace Greeley. His firm, Wetmore & Jenner, represented the association of these two men in work and friendship for a half century. Jenner was himself a fighter, convinced and eloquent in the support of his cases, as he was thorough in their preparation. He was a man of wide reading and intellectual curiosity. Well we knew him here as a forcible speaker and interesting conversationalist.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1916 Century Association Yearbook