Name/Title
Laurence Dana Rumsey, Founder and second President and served in 1892 and 1893Entry/Object ID
00630Description
Laurence Dana Rumsey, Founder of CCB was born September 1, 1849 and died on September 27th , 1917. He graduated from Harvard College in 1872 and then became connected with the tannery business of .A.R. Rumsey & Sons , at the time one of Buffalo’s largest industries, of which his father was a partner. In 1876 he married Jennie Cary, daughter of Dr.Walter Cary and they had five children . Laurence’s younger sister Evelyn, married Jennie’s older brother, Dr. Charles Carey. He continued in the family until 1893, when the business was sold to the United States Leather Company. He then devoted his attention to the administration to the large estate of his father, which continued until his death. He served for a number of years as Vice President of the Bank of Buffalo and was also a director of the Erie County Savings Bank. He aided in forming the Buffalo Polo Club and belonged to the Buffalo Team who played the first Polo match in America in Newport, Rhode Island in 1877.
Some of information above is from CCB Historical Notes written by Bert Wright, Club Historian published February 2006.Context
Founder, the Country Club of Buffalo 1889Lexicon
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