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William A. Jenner

Full Name: William Allen Jenner

Lawyer

Centurion, 1892–1915

Proposed by
William Conant Church and Charles C. Beaman
born February 10, 1844
New York (Manhattan), New York
died March 14, 1915
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected March 5, 1892
Age forty-eight
buried Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, New York
proposer of
seconder of
Member portrait of William A. Jenner

Archivist’s Notes

Father-in-law of Sterling T. Foote

Century Memorial

More exclusively devoted to practice at the Bar, especially in patent cases, was William Allen Jenner, sprung from old Vermont stock, and son of Ephraim Jenner, a close friend and coadjutor of Horace Greeley. His firm, Wetmore & Jenner, represented the association of these two men in work and friendship for a half century. Jenner was himself a fighter, convinced and eloquent in the support of his cases, as he was thorough in their preparation. He was a man of wide reading and intellectual curiosity. Well we knew him here as a forcible speaker and interesting conversationalist.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1916 Century Association Yearbook

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