Lawyer
Centurion, 1892–1915
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
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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