Banker
Centurion, 1894–1936
Born 2 September 1857 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Died 5 July 1936 in Katonah, New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Gustav H. Schwab and Howard Mansfield
Elected 2 June 1894 at age thirty-six
Archivist’s Note: Son of Harris C. Fahnestock
Century Memorial
William Fahnestock’s Wall Street career was marked out by inheritance. His father [Harris C. Fahnestock], another Centurion, had served with George F. Baker in the conducting of the First National Bank when the institution stood so effectively behind Secretary Sherman, in the struggle for resumption of specie payments that, in the political vocabulary of the day, the bank was long nicknamed “Fort Sherman.” Our later Fahnestock devoted his energies to Stock Exchange activities; he was the oldest living member of that organization, for membership in which he had qualified thirty-six years ago.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1937 Century Association Yearbook
