Alonzo Castle Monson (1821-1901)
Judge & President of the Knickerbocker Club, New York City; died unmarried
He was born on Varick Street, New York City, where he neighboured the Hamilton, Lydig and Minturn families. He graduated from Columbia and Yale Law School, and for a number of years he served as a Judge of the Superior Court of California. Returning to his native New York, he co-founded the Knickerbocker Club in 1871, served as its second president from 1890 to 1897, and was Treasurer of the New York Jockey Club. In 1894, he purchased No. 14 East 63rd Street where he lived with his widowed sister Mrs. Ann Eliza Morris, and his great-nephew and niece, Monson and Helen Van Cortlandt Morris. In 1899, he built “Mon Repos” in Southampton, L.I., where he lived until his death three years later on New Year's Eve, 1901, in his eightieth year.
