IN MEMORIAM

Francis Lynde Stetson
Born Keeseville, NY 1846. Williams
College A.M. ’67 (with honors). Columbia
law School ll.B. ’69. Admitted practice
New York 1869. Partnership at law
practice with William S. Hascall. Assistant
Corporation Counsel in New York City’s
legal Department. Delegate to Episcopal
conventions. Stetson, Jennings & Russell
(and successor firms) since 1894
(member of firm since 1894). Director:
Erie Railroad, Cataract Construction
Company, Niagara Development Company, Niagara Falls Power
Company, the Erie & Jersey Railroad Company, the Chicago & Erie
Railroad Company, the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company,
the Buffalo, Bellevue & lancaster Railway, the Buffalo Railway, the
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Railway, the Crosstown Street
Railway, the Niagara Junction Railway, the South Carolina & Georgia
Railway, the Southern Railway Company in Kentucky, the Southern
Railway Company in Mississippi, the New York, Susquehanna &
Western Railroad Company, the United States Express Company, New
York Botanical Gardens, Cataract Construction Company (Vice-
President). Trustee: Williams College, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity, General Theological Seminary, the Dunlap Society,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Geographical Society.
Member: New York State Bar Association (President 1908–09), Bar
Association City New York (President), Alumni Association of
Columbia law School (President), Alpha Delta Phi club of New York
City (President), Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity, Dunlap Society, New
England Society, American Geographical Society, the Century,
Metropolitan, University, Down Town, National Arts, Tuxedo, Reform,
Churchy, Democratic, Riding and Grolier clubs of New York.
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