Henry Waters Taft (S&B 1880)
Attorney. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Psi Upsilon. Columbia University School of Law.
The New Englands Society, The Pilgrims, American Friends of Lafayette
1937 to 1938 - Sons of the Revolution, Vice President.[2]
1933 - Advisory Committee to investigate public schools by Governor Lehman.[2]
1931 - Advisory Committee to investigate public schools.[2]
1931 - Pan America Society, Vice President.[2]
1926 to 1932 - Vice-chair Special Calendar Committee appointed by Apprellate Division of Supreme Court.[2]
1925 to 1928 - American Bar Association (Chairman committee on jurisprudence and law reform).[2]
1925 to 1926 - Member Committee on reorganisation of New York State government.[2]
1922 to 1928, 1934 to 1941 - Japan Society of New York. Awarded Insignia of the Order of the Double Rays of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan 1929.[2]
1920 to 1940 - Salvation Army Advisory Board for New York City.[2]
1919 to 1935 - American Law Institute. Internation Law Association and Martime Law Association, League for Political Education (now Town, Inc).[2]
1917 to 1920 - Russell Trust Association (Skull and Bones), University Settlement Society.[2]
WW1 - 1917 to 1920 - Chairman War Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York.[2]
WW1 - 1917 to 1919 - Chairman Permanent Legal Advisory Board of New York under selective service regulations.[2]
1914 to 1940 - New York County Lawyers Association (VP 1914 to 1918, 1923-1940, President 1930 to 1932).[2]
1911 to 1912 - Member Association of the Bar of the City of New York (VP: 1911 to 1912, Chairman War Committee 1917 to 1920. President 1923 to 1925).[2]
1908 to 1910 - Ohio Society of New York.[2]
1908 to 1919 - Trustee New York Public Library.[2]
1905 to 1907 - Special Assistant to U.S. Attorney General, William Henry Moody (Freemason. Phi Beta Kappa) and Charles Bonaparte of the United States in investigation and prosecution of Tobacco Trust[2] (President Theodore Roosevelt [Freemason])
1903 to 1905 - Trustee College of the City of New York.[2]
1901 - Charter Revision Committee to revise charter of Greater New York. [2]
1899 to 1945 - Partner of Strong and Cadwalader (Search mind map … Strong) , which became Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.[2]
1896 to 1900 - Board of Education New York City.[2]
1887 to 1899 - Practiced alone.[2]
1884 to 1886 - Opened an office of his own with Partner William Tyler Page [2] (great great grandfather Carter Braxton signed the United States Declaration of Independence).
28 Mar 1883 - Married Julia Walbridge (daughter of Levi and Sarah ). Died 9 Dec 1942.
1871 - Worked in Office of Thomas Thacher (S&B 1835).[2]
1882 - Admitted to the bar.[2]
1880 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch[2]
Died 11 Aug 1945, from Injuries received in a fall. Age 86
Son of Alpanso Taft (Skull and Bones Co-founder. Freemason) … Search mind map.
Publications: John Lam-bert Cadwalader (1915), The Covenanter (1919), Occasional Papers and Addiesses of an American Lawyer (1920), Japan and the Far East Conference (1921), Law Re-form (1926), An Essay on Conversation (1927), Kindred Arts (1929), Japan and America (1932), Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (1934), Witnesses in Court(1934), A Century and a Half in the New York Bar (1938), Legal Miscellanies (1941)
[3] - Skull and Bones - A Faustian Bargain ? By William P. Litynski
[4] - Yale Obituary Archive - Henry Walters Taft - Page 7
[5] - FYI - Wiki - William Tyler - Page
[6] - Find a Grave - Henry Waters Taft (S&B 1880)
[7] - William Henry Moody (Freemason. Phi Beta Kappa)
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