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Carl A. de Gersdorff

Full Name: Carl August de Gersdorff

Lawyer

Centurion, 1909–1944

Proposed by
Joseph H. Choate and Edward C. Henderson
born July 10, 1865
Salem, Massachusetts
died January 21, 1944
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected June 5, 1909
Age forty-three
buried Stockbridge Cemetery,
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
seconder of
Member portrait of Carl A. de Gersdorff

Archivist’s Notes

Son-in-law of Frederic Crowninshield; brother of George B. de Gersdorff; father-in-law of David Percy Morgan

Century Memorial

Carl August de Gersdorff. [Born] 1865. Lawyer. For more than 50 years practitioner at the New York Bar, becoming the senior partner in one of the city’s leading firms; a master negotiator, he became a specialist in railroad finance, playing an important role in a number of major reorganizations; Bostonian by birth and upbringing, he was the calm, restraining influence of his firm, a figure of quiet dignity always.

Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945

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