november january businessman founder person village new_york vice president furniture carpet retailer later founded lodge farms founded assisted establishing schools churches parks village rebuilt train station early 1900s largest individual born england children carpet dealer relocated united_states lived death life employed places including worked years retiring house road small community new_york developed surrounding farmland suburban village law died south_carolina rest cure treatment early life born november english town children born john strict father sold dry goods time center carpet manufacturing britain law educated private schools left school began working age fourteen moved united_states having gained interest reading left england letters introduction written father addressed friends american carpet business money weeks arrived new_york_city january career law originally found job traveling carpet salesman continued discovered employer domestic imported charging premium prices employer hotels went business 1860s american_civil_war affected business law struggled unemployment working pay low point law employed store making dollars week later law contacted head hired kindness need employees age law began work years employment partner company increased business wholesale department securing account manufacture law wife moved avenue making easier service smith account later vice president joined developments began purchasing property present day village year law paid acres land area named land law retired began time farming built estate road manor later purchased land acquiring acres including land connecticut law farm began rough farmland cattle little knowledge farming eventually grew farm peak law workers caring cattle pigs chickens horses sheep law believed farming pay utilized scientific principles farm find best markets hold producing best products time established water company sold products cities owned foot wells farms producers certified milk farm produced litres milk daily night milk cream butter sent new_york_city new_york law greenhouse space grew square feet roses earned year roses shipped daily new_york_city law built lodge highest point estate hotel law developed village establishing schools churches parks donated land built later dedicated established acres land built guest house named scotland law invested million million village replaced railroad station present day public library employees moved village early years law held time required population density square mile incorporation village proposition presented mount pleasant october requested area acres population incorporated village incorporated november time law owned small parcels village employed residents law largely developed property business corporation purchased acres farms pine plains new_york began developing properties houses churches schools instead law formed run hotel sell original farms property son henry presided company sponsored law donated presented trophy valued sold farms land pine plains later life death died south_carolina january gone rest cure treatment news death spread law son henry left law funeral held days later buried wife children new_york_city february law filed county white plains estate approximately million majority divided equally children received shares company stock shares law friends servants employees received bequeathed longtime nurse secretary law son henry inherited family house law daughter georgia inherited family summer house house jefferson new_hampshire family personal life law sons daughters wife née ransom law married january second avenue new_york_city lived september children georgia born november september july april january january february november march life law owned road law later built houses henry lodge property road houses named stand friend described law having interest reading writing found phrase clever intriguing law document use wrote law new friends attractive personality law personal interest largely personal library volumes collected years library said contain works classic literature history vacation europe law spent time greece visiting historic sites member new_york players hollow country club law wife guard citizens committee committee tasked providing needs troops protecting world war law received honorary master arts degree yale_university
Walter W. Law