Alfred Walter

Alfred Walter was another child of New York. He was but fifty-six years old [sic: fifty-five] when, in the height of an honorable and useful career as a master and director in the great business of transportation, he died after a short illness. Educated as a mechanical engineer in a famous school, his practical experience embraced every department of his profession, and it was as a tried and trained expert as well as because of his own rare and fertile mind that in succession he presided over the affairs of five corporations engaged in the business of transportation. His avocation was the cultivation of his artistic and literary tastes. In the history and evolution of the aesthetic life of mankind he was well versed, and his fine qualities made him an agreeable and stimulating companion.

William Milligan Sloane
1908 Century Association Yearbook