Lawyer
Centurion, 1894–1926
Born 19 March 1847 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 24 June 1926 in Lawrence, New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Courtlandt D. Moss and Samuel D. Babcock
Elected 5 May 1894 at age forty-seven
Century Memorial
William Palmer Dixon had been in active legal practice at New York for nearly fifty-seven consecutive years, having graduated from the Columbia Law School as far back as 1870. He was a highly successful administrator, and was trustee, director, or president for half a dozen of the largest banking, insurance and real estate corporations in the city.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1927 Century Association Yearbook