James Montaudevert Waterbury, Sr.

James Montaudevert Waterbury, Sr.
Born	September 5, 1851 New York City
Died	July 11, 1931 (aged 79) New York City
Education	Columbia University
Children	James Montaudevert Waterbury, Jr. Lawrence Waterbury II

James Montaudevert Waterbury, Sr. (1851 - 1931) was an American businessman and industrialist. He was president of the New York Steel and Wire Company and the American Type Bar and Machine Company.^[1]

Biography

He was born on September 5, 1851 in New York City to Caroline Antoinette Cleveland and Lawrence Waterbury I.^[2]

He was an 1873 graduate of Columbia College and had inherited the Waterbury Rope Company from his father, Lawrence Waterbury I. He died July 11, 1931, at his apartment at the Knickerbocker Club in New York City of apoplexy.^[3]

References

1. Prominent and progressive Americans: an encyclopædia of an encyclopædia of contemporaneous biography. New York Tribune. 1902. pp. 365–366. The subject of this sketch, James Montaudevert Waterbury, is the only son of Lawrence and Caroline Antoinette Waterbury. He was born in New York city in 1851, and was educated at Columbia College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1873. Upon leaving college, he entered, in 1874, his father's business office. In a short time he was made a member of the firm, and upon his father's death became the head of the company. Possessing business abilities of a high order, he has conducted his various enterprises with great and increasing success, and has been for years a prominent figure in the manufacturing, mercantile, and social worlds. He is at the present time president of the Waterbury Rope Company, of the New York Steel & Wire Company, and of the American Type Bar & Machine Company.
2. Henry Hall (author). America's successful men of affairs. James Montaudevert Waterbury, manufacturer, born Sept. 5, 1851, in New York city, and member of an old family, descends through both the maternal and paternal lines from early Puritans of England, who emigrated to the new world in 1 63 ...
3. "James M. Waterbury: Former leading sportsman dies of apoplexy aged 79". New York Times. July 13, 1931. James M. Waterbury, one of the founders of the New York Yacht Club, and father of Lawrence and the late "Monte" Waterbury, international polo players, died Saturday at his residence at the Knickerbocker Club, Sixty-second Street and Fifth Avenue of apoplexy. He was 79 years old.