Walter Crafts Witherbee (S&B 1880)
Anthron Grammar School. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Freemason. Independent order of odd fellows.[5]
American Institute of Mining Engineers, was a trustee of the Port Henry Presbyterian Church, and had held office as President of the Bear Lake Fish and Game Club, the Lake Champlain Forest, Fish, and Game Club, and the Port Henry Golf Club He had served as a governor of the Yale Publishing Association.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company Mr. Witherbee was President of the Citizens National Bank in Port Henry, as well as a Director, President of the First National Bank. [2][4]
**In 1919 he was a member of the executive committee of the New York Waterways Association. Mr. Witherbee had taken an active part in politics, serving as a member of the County and State Republican committees.[4]
WW1 - Secret Service work for Department of Justice.[4] He served as chairman of the Liberty Loan and the Home Defense committees of Essex County, and as chief of the American Protective League for Essex and parts of other counties.[4]
For several years he was Secretary and Treasurer of the Essex Mining Company, and he had been President of the J. H. Gautier Company of Jersey City, the Gowganda Gold Mining Company, the Witherbee Real Estate & Improvement Company, and the Port Henry Steam Ferry Company, and Vice-President of the Port Henry Iron Ore Company, the Lake Champlain & Moriah Railway Company, and the Port Henry Telephone Company. [4]
From 1900 to 1908 he was collector of customs for the district of Champlain, and he had also served as a supervisor in Port Henry. He was appointed treasurer of the Champlain Tercentenary Commission in 1908, and in 1912 he was decorated, at the hands of Ambassador Jusserand, as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, in recognition of his service in connection with the Champlain celebration.[4]
23 Jun 1886, Married Annie Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Josiah Hornblower Gautier and Marie Louise (Gregory) Gautier.[4]
1882, he joined his father’s company [Witherbee, Sherman & Company] at Port Henry as a clerk. He was made a member of the firm the following year, and became treasurer in 1900, holding this latter position until 1917. [4]
After an extended trip through the mining regions of Lake Superior, Colorado, and New Mexico, he spent two winters in the laboratories of A. R. Ledoux & Company in New York City, where he became expert in chemical analysis. [4]
After graduating he went into the iron business for a few months.[4]
1880 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 28 Sep 1922, from Not Known. Age 66.[4]
Note:
Father, Silas Hemenway Witherbee, was one of the founders of the Witherbee-Sherman Company, former operators of the Mineville, N.Y. Mines.[6]
The extensive properties at Mineville and Witherbee, N.Y. once Owned and Operated by the Witherbee-Sherman Company were taken over by Republic Steel Corporation many years after his death.[6]
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[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 122 / on the page 725
[5] - Find a Grave.com - Walter Crafts Witherbee (S&B 1880)
[6] - Find a Grave.com - Father, Silas Hemenway Witherbee
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