About: Walter W. Law

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Walter William Law (November 13, 1837 – January 17, 1924) was a businessman and the founder of the 8,000-person village of Briarcliff Manor, New York. He was a vice president of furniture and carpet retailer W. & J. Sloane, and later founded the Briarcliff Lodge, the Briarcliff Table Water Company, Briarcliff Farms, and the Briarcliff Greenhouses. He founded or assisted in establishing several schools, churches, and parks in the village, and rebuilt its train station in 1906. In the early 1900s, Walter Law was the largest individual landholder in Westchester County.

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  • والتر دبليو. لو (بالإنجليزية: Walter W. Law)‏ هو شخصية أعمال أمريكي، ولد في 13 نوفمبر 1837 في Kidderminster ‏ في المملكة المتحدة، وتوفي في 17 يناير 1924 في سامرفيل في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Walter William Law (November 13, 1837 – January 17, 1924) was a businessman and the founder of the 8,000-person village of Briarcliff Manor, New York. He was a vice president of furniture and carpet retailer W. & J. Sloane, and later founded the Briarcliff Lodge, the Briarcliff Table Water Company, Briarcliff Farms, and the Briarcliff Greenhouses. He founded or assisted in establishing several schools, churches, and parks in the village, and rebuilt its train station in 1906. In the early 1900s, Walter Law was the largest individual landholder in Westchester County. Walter Law was born in Kidderminster, England, and was one of ten children of a carpet dealer. He relocated to the United States in 1859, where he lived until his death. Throughout his life, he was employed at various places, including at W. & J. Sloane, where he worked for 24 years. After retiring to a house on Scarborough Road in the small community of Whitson's Corners, New York, he developed the surrounding farmland into a suburban village. Law died in 1924 in Summerville, South Carolina, during rest cure treatment. (en)
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  • 1837-11-13 (xsd:date)
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  • Walter William Law (en)
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  • 1837-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • 1924-01-17 (xsd:date)
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  • 1924-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • A rectangular gravestone (en)
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  • Four girls (en)
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  • An old man with white hair and sideburns wearing a suit (en)
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  • 1837-11-13 (xsd:date)
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  • Walter William Law (en)
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  • Kidderminster, England (en)
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  • Daughters : Georgie, Martha, Carolyn, and Edith (en)
  • Walter Law c. 1910 (en)
  • Walter Law with his wife c. 1885 (en)
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  • Arthur Law (en)
  • Carrie Law-Fotterall (en)
  • Edith Bird Brockelman (en)
  • Georgia R. Penman (en)
  • Henry Herbert Law (en)
  • Martha Janet Macey (en)
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  • 1924-01-17 (xsd:date)
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  • Summerville, South Carolina, United States (en)
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  • Walter Law's gravestone and family plot (en)
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  • From Carmino Ravosa's Briarcliff show: (en)
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  • LawSiblings.jpg (en)
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  • Founding Briarcliff Manor (en)
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  • Walter William Law (en)
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  • English, American (en)
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  • Businessman (en)
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  • John and Elizabeth Bird Law (en)
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  • And if only a Tinker, no Tinker on earth (en)
  • If a Cobbler by trade, I'll make it my pride (en)
  • Shall mend an old Kettle like me. (en)
  • The best of all Cobblers to be; (en)
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  • Posted at Dalmeny, and given to Law (en)
  • by his father when he was eight or nine. (en)
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  • 1866-01-04 (xsd:date)
  • 1910-09-18 (xsd:date)
  • (en)
  • Georgianna Ransom Law (en)
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  • Only the Best is Good Enough (en)
  • This Is His Town This is His Village (en)
  • The Laird of Briarcliff Manor (en)
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  • والتر دبليو. لو (بالإنجليزية: Walter W. Law)‏ هو شخصية أعمال أمريكي، ولد في 13 نوفمبر 1837 في Kidderminster ‏ في المملكة المتحدة، وتوفي في 17 يناير 1924 في سامرفيل في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Walter William Law (November 13, 1837 – January 17, 1924) was a businessman and the founder of the 8,000-person village of Briarcliff Manor, New York. He was a vice president of furniture and carpet retailer W. & J. Sloane, and later founded the Briarcliff Lodge, the Briarcliff Table Water Company, Briarcliff Farms, and the Briarcliff Greenhouses. He founded or assisted in establishing several schools, churches, and parks in the village, and rebuilt its train station in 1906. In the early 1900s, Walter Law was the largest individual landholder in Westchester County. (en)
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  • والتر دبليو. لو (ar)
  • Walter W. Law (en)
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