Person:William Woolsey (8)

Research Notes

• see Woolsey Family Papers (MS 562). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Family Recorded, in Rootsweb.

   William Walton Woolsey became a merchant in New York and married the sister of the Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale.
   
   Woolsey was an officer of the New York Chamber of Commerce and of the Manufacturing Society of New York City. His financial interests included a directorship of the Merchants' Bank, and he was president of the Eagle Fire Insurance Company. The subject was also one of the governors of the New York Hospital; board member Boston & Providence RR and of a bank at New Haven; treasureer Am. Bible Soc.; and member of the Council U of NY.
   
   Picture #2312 of William Woolsey at the NY Historical Society is a miniature on ivory; 4 5/8 x 3 1/2 inches by William Dunlap. ca 1812. Label on back reads: William Walton/Woolsey-Born Sept. 15/1766 died Augt 6th/1839. It was a gift to the society from William Samuel Johnson, 1934. - (Source of information: "The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy"; The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY, 10024-5194 (212) 873-3400

2.   Family Recorded, in Dunlap, William. Diary of William Dunlap (1766-1839): the memoirs of a dramatist, theatrical manager, painter, critic, novelist, and historian. (3 Volumes). (New York: New York Historical Society, 1930).
   William Walton Woolsey, painted by William Dunlap.