John Isaac Waterbury (1850-1929)
President of the Manhattan Trust Company, of "Fairfield" Morristown, New Jersey
He was born at Stamford, Connecticut, and graduated from the City College of New York in 1870. John I. Waterbury rapidly made a name for himself in finance becoming President of the Manhattan Trust Company and a Member of the Jekyll Island Club. He was Vice-President of the New York State Chamber of Commerce (1912-16) and was known for his work with the American Chamber of Commerce in London and the American-Belgian Chamber of Commerce. In 1901, he was the delegate of the N.Y. Chamber of Commerce to the London Chamber of Commerce. He served as the U.S. Delegate to the International Preliminary Conference on Wireless Telegraphy at Berlin in 1903 and 1906, and to the London conference in 1912.
In 1917, he was named Chairman of a special committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce to investigate the conduct of Camps Whitman and Peekskill during WW1. By the time of his death he was a Director of the American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) Co.; the Audit Company of New York; the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co.; the Louisville & Nashville Railway Co.; the Pacific Coast Company; the Telautograph Corporation; the Texas & Pacific Railway Company; and, the U.S. Guarantee Company.
He was a generous patron of the liberal arts and among others he was a Member of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts; the American Museum of Natural History; the London Royal Society of Arts; the Japanese Society; the American Academy of Political and Social Science; the Academy of Political Science; the New York Academy of Sciences; the New-York Historical Society; and, the New York Botanical Garden. He was also a Trustee of the American Numismatic Society and the French Institute in America; and, a member of the Metropolitan, University and New York Yacht Clubs, the Morristown Club, the Somerset Club of Boston, the Metropolitan of Washington D.C., and the Devonshire and American Clubs of London. In 1881, he married Elizabeth, daughter of the sugar refiner William Moller of Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, and they were survived by 3-daughters (listed above), two of whom married in to the British landed gentry. They lived at Fairfield House Convent Station, N.J. (a year-round house designed by Howells & Stokes noted for its excellent masonry) and "Dutch Cottage" at Bar Harbor. He left an estate $6,783,598.
In 1917, he was named Chairman of a special committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce to investigate the conduct of Camps Whitman and Peekskill during WW1. By the time of his death he was a Director of the American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) Co.; the Audit Company of New York; the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co.; the Louisville & Nashville Railway Co.; the Pacific Coast Company; the Telautograph Corporation; the Texas & Pacific Railway Company; and, the U.S. Guarantee Company.
He was a generous patron of the liberal arts and among others he was a Member of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts; the American Museum of Natural History; the London Royal Society of Arts; the Japanese Society; the American Academy of Political and Social Science; the Academy of Political Science; the New York Academy of Sciences; the New-York Historical Society; and, the New York Botanical Garden. He was also a Trustee of the American Numismatic Society and the French Institute in America; and, a member of the Metropolitan, University and New York Yacht Clubs, the Morristown Club, the Somerset Club of Boston, the Metropolitan of Washington D.C., and the Devonshire and American Clubs of London. In 1881, he married Elizabeth, daughter of the sugar refiner William Moller of Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, and they were survived by 3-daughters (listed above), two of whom married in to the British landed gentry. They lived at Fairfield House Convent Station, N.J. (a year-round house designed by Howells & Stokes noted for its excellent masonry) and "Dutch Cottage" at Bar Harbor. He left an estate $6,783,598.
