Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Walter W. Law
Merchant/Developer, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.
Centurion, 1892–1924
Proposed by
Edward C. Moore and Wordsworth Thompson
Edward C. Moore and Wordsworth Thompson
born
November 13, 1837
Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England
Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England
died
January 17, 1924
Summerville, South Carolina
Summerville, South Carolina
elected
December 3, 1892
Age fifty-five
Age fifty-five
buried
Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, New York
Bronx, New York
seconder of
Member Photograph Albums Collection
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Century Memorial
Walter William Law will be remembered in New York and its vicinity as the founder of Briarcliff Manor; it was thirty years ago that, after a long career as a New York City merchant, he built the Briarcliff Lodge, started the Briarcliff Farms, and engaged in what was almost pioneer work in developing on a consistant [sic] and scientific scale the beauties of Westchester. His particular delight was cultivation of the American Beauty rose; but he was also a man of wide general reading, to which his library of 8,000 volumes was witness.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1925 Century Association Yearbook
