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