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Edward R. Satterlee

Insurance

Centurion, 1894–1903

Full Name Edward Rathbone Satterlee

Born 19 May 1845 in Albany, New York

Died 28 November 1903 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Wappingers Rural Cemetery, Wappingers Falls, New York

Proposed by George L. Peabody and Benjamin Knower

Elected 2 June 1894 at age forty-nine

Archivist’s Note: Son of Edward Satterlee; brother of Henry Y. Satterlee

Century Memorial

Edward Rathbone Satterlee was descended from an old Albany family, and was born in that city in 1845, and educated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy. He was the head of a fire insurance house representing extensive foreign interests, especially German, British, and Canadian. He was at various times Secretary of the Columbia Fire Insurance Company, Metropolitan Manager of the British American Insurance Company, and Director of other corporations. He was the Manager of the East Side Settlement and was actively interested in the Historical and St. Nicholas Societies, the Sons of the Revolution, and the Society of Colonial Wars.

Edward Cary
1904 Century Association Yearbook