Lawyer
Centurion, 1909–1944
Born 10 July 1865 in Salem, Massachusetts
Died 21 January 1944 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Stockbridge Cemetery
, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Proposed by Joseph H. Choate and Edward C. Henderson
Elected 5 June 1909 at age forty-three
Archivist’s Note: Son-in-law of Frederic Crowninshield; brother of George B. de Gersdorff; father-in-law of David Percy Morgan
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
Carl August de Gersdorff. [Born] 1865. Lawyer. For more than 50 years practitioner at the New York Bar, becoming the senior partner in one of the city’s leading firms; a master negotiator, he became a specialist in railroad finance, playing an important role in a number of major reorganizations; Bostonian by birth and upbringing, he was the calm, restraining influence of his firm, a figure of quiet dignity always.
Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945