Franklin B. Lord

Franklin Butler Lord was taken at the zenith of his powers, having been one of us for fifteen years, cherished in the circle of his friends for his discriminating literary taste, his unfailing humor, his comradeship, his force of character, and his learning in the law. He was a representative New Yorker, the names of his father and mother being almost equally distinguished in the long history of our bar. He was graduated at Columbia nearly forty years since, was a trustee of Barnard College, president of the famous old society which has long relieved the destitute orphans of the city, and a practising lawyer of conscience: able and undaunted amid the storms of public opinion. To six important financial corporations he gave his services as director. When in these rooms he was always surrounded by a group of choice spirits; in his country home he was a good neighbor and an active citizen, and to the larger enterprises of our metropolitan life he gave largely in both energy and money, for art, for science, and philanthropy. Of old colonial stock, he accepted the burdens of his station as inherent in life, and bore them gracefully, without either worry or display.

William Milligan Sloane
1909 Century Association Yearbook