Merchant/Developer, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.
Centurion, 1892–1924
Born 13 November 1837 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England
Died 17 January 1924 in Summerville, South Carolina
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Edward C. Moore and Wordsworth Thompson
Elected 3 December 1892 at age fifty-five
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
Walter William Law will be remembered in New York and its vicinity as the founder of Briarcliff Manor; it was thirty years ago that, after a long career as a New York City merchant, he built the Briarcliff Lodge, started the Briarcliff Farms, and engaged in what was almost pioneer work in developing on a consistant [sic] and scientific scale the beauties of Westchester. His particular delight was cultivation of the American Beauty rose; but he was also a man of wide general reading, to which his library of 8,000 volumes was witness.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1925 Century Association Yearbook
