Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Watson B. Dickerman
Broker
Centurion, 1897–1923
Henry Freeman Walker and John Woodruff Simpson
Mount Carmel, Connecticut
New York (Manhattan), New York
Age fifty-one
Rye, New York
Archivist’s Notes
The monument to him at the Central Burying Grounds, Hamden, is a cenotaph.
Century Memorial
Nowadays, Wall Street men play golf in their leisure hours and talk golf in their business hours. There was a time when the prosperous stock broker talked horse in Wall Street and drove a fast team up the Speedway in the afternoon; when people who wished to reflect the atmosphere of Wall Street hung on their walls the picture of “William H. Vanderbilt behind Maud S.” Watson Bradley Dickerman was a survivor of that period. He was a well-known figure in Stock Exchange affairs, had served long on the old-time Stock Exchange committees, and was at one time President of the institution. But when the newspapers told the story of his life, it was the story of a successful horseman and horsebreeder. The motor car and the golf-links have made the world forget those interesting avocations of a generation or two ago; but life has surely lost some of its picturesqueness in the disappearance of them.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1924 Century Association Yearbook
