Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
William Sloane
Merchant
Centurion, 1913–1922
Proposed by
Henry Leavitt Smith and William Adams Delano
Henry Leavitt Smith and William Adams Delano
born
February 18, 1873
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
died
August 11, 1922
Southampton, New York
Southampton, New York
elected
November 1, 1913
Age forty
Age forty
buried
Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, New York
Bronx, New York
Archivist’s Notes
Son of John Sloane; brother of John Sloane
Century Memorial
William Sloane was of the best type of New York City business men. Upright in character, quiet in manner yet clear and decided in business judgment, ready to give his time and energy unsparingly to work for the public welfare but shunning notoriety or applause, his career recalls that of the old-time London merchants in the days when even the government had to reckon with the City merchants. It was under his auspices as chairman that the forty to fifty million dollars fund of the Young Men’s Christian Association was raised and distributed for the organization’s war work at the front.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1923 Century Association Yearbook
