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William Bayard Cutting

Lawyer/Railroad

Centurion, 1891–1912

Born 12 January 1850 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 1 March 1912 near Davenport, Iowa

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Stephen P. Nash and J. Hampden Robb

Elected 6 June 1891 at age forty-one

Archivist’s Note: Brother of Robert Fulton Cutting; father of Bronson Cutting; uncle of Fulton Cutting

Proposer of:

Century Memorial

It were a long task to name the public institutions, financial, charitable, educational, to which William Bayard Cutting gave of his time and his abilities; and many were the civic movements for the betterment of our city’s life in which he took part. By reason of his character and the employment of his energies, as well as through wealth and social position, he was a distinguished member of this community. Lawyer, civil-service commissioner under Mayor Strong, president of the Tenement House Commission, member of the Committee of Seventy, director of the New York Botanical Garden and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, trustee of Columbia University, president also of the St. Louis, Alton, and Terre Haute Railroad—these positions honorably filled mark the man and his interests.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1913 Century Association Yearbook