Elisha Walker (1879-1950)
Banker & Partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of New York & Long Island
He was born in New York City. He was educated at Hotchkiss School, Yale University (1900), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1902). In 1904, he became a broker with William Salomon & Co. and was made a partner in 1910. He was a pivotal figure in some of the most spectacular oil transactions of the 1920s & 30s. In 1919, he was named President of Blair & Co. (C. Ledyard Blair was Chairman), and then Chairman of Transamerica Corps and from 1933 he was made a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He adopted his wife's Catholic faith and was made a Knight of Malta. He married Adele, daughter of Saint-Ange d'Orn, a planter on Martinique, and they were the parents of five children. They lived between 33 East 69th Street in Manhattan and were best associated with Nassau Hall on Long Island from 1936.
