Howard Mansfield (S&B 1871)
Law. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Kappa Epsilon. Gamma Nu. Phi Theta Psi. Brothers in Unity. Phi Beta Kappa. Honorary member Berzelius
Trustee Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1909, treasurer 1909-29, and in 1936 made a Benefactor through his gifts of Japanese works of art, author A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1909), Whistler as a Critic of His Own Prints (1935), and Whistlertin Belgium and Holland (1935), Alumni Fund agent for Class of 1871 since 1918 and Class secretary since 1937, M A Hon 1913, member Jared Eliot Associates, Associates in Fine Arts at Yale, New York State and American Bar associations, Bar Association of the City of New York (vice-president 1914), New York County Lawyers Association, National Economic League, American Museum of Natural History, Japan societies of London and New York, Art Commission of the City of New York, National Art Club, the Groher Club (member of council since 1888 and president 1900-04), Caxton Club (Chicago), and the Elizabethan Club; former member St Thomas’ Church (Episcopal), New Haven.[4]
WW1 - 1918 - Chairman of the Advisory Board on Compulsory Service.[3]
1909 to 1929 - Treasurer of Metropolitan Museum of Art.[3]
Since 1901, Member Lord, Day & Lord [Franklin B , ‘05] and Senior Partner since 1908, Director Number 535 Park Avenue (President 1909-38).[4]
1901 to 1938 - Member of Lord, Day & Lord.[3]
12 Sep 1895 - Married, in Narragansett Pier, RI, Helen Coolidge (Todd) Tuttle, daughter of Reuben Jones and Hannah Trecothick Austin (Coolidge) Todd. No children.[4]
1884 to 1901 - Practiced independently (general counsel for Milwaukee Street Railway Company, Western NewYork & Pennsylvania Railroad Company, The Cuba Company, Cuba Railroad Company, and Omaha Water Company, and special counselfor West Shore Railroad, New York Central Railroad, The Pullman Company, Michigan-Peninsular Company, and other corporations).[4]
1881 to 1884 - Office counsel for North River Construction Company,New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railway Company, New York, Ontario & Western Railway Company, and West Shore & Ontario Terminal Company.[4]
Former special counsel for The Pullman Company.[3]
1873 to 1874 - Columbia University School of Law (LL.B 1874; first Municipal Law prize), admitted to New York bar October, 1874, associated with Anderson & Young (later Anderson & Howland [Henry E, ‘54]), New York City, 1874-81.[4]
1872 to 1873 - Yale School of Law.[4]
1871 to 1873 - Associate editor New Haven Daily Register.[4]
1871 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 14 Aug 1938,from bronchopneumonia. Age 89.
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 8 / on the page 8
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