Howland Davis

Howland Davis had for many years been engaged in the banking business at New York, in which his experience covered a long series of those Wall Street vicissitudes of pre-war days, which very recently appeared to the new generation around the Stock Exchange, as a purely legendary if not absolutely mythical story. He was one of the limited Wall Street constituency which was able to look on the crash of October, 1929, not as something altogether new and portentous in financial cosmography, but as history repeating itself in the catastrophe as it had already repeated itself in the events that led up to it.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1931 Century Association Yearbook