24 Facts About Ansley Wilcox

Ansley Wilcox was an American scholar, Oxford graduate, prominent lawyer, civil service reform commissioner, New York political insider and friend of Theodore Roosevelt.

Ansley Wilcox was born in Summerville, Augusta, Georgia, on January 27,1856, to Frances Louisa and Daniel H Wilcox.

Ansley Wilcox's mother was from the South and his father from the North.

Ansley Wilcox attended preparatory school at the Hopkins School before attending Yale, where he ultimately studied law.

Ansley Wilcox served as counsel for the commission acquiring land for the Niagara Falls Reservation from 1883 to 1885.

Ansley Wilcox was chair of medical jurisprudence at the University of Buffalo.

In 1890, Wilcox was involved in the case of Rogers v The Common Council of the City of Buffalo that established the constitutionality of the Civil Service Law.

In 1891, Wilcox took the landmark case of Briggs v Spaulding to the Supreme Court and with it, established the liability for negligence of directors of national banks.

Ansley Wilcox was a member of the Reservation Commission from 1910 until his retirement from the practice of law in 1917.

Ansley Wilcox met Theodore Roosevelt in the early 1880s when they were appointed by then Gov.

Ansley Wilcox hurried to Buffalo intending to stay at the Iroquois Hotel, however on his way inside he was stopped to speak to Ansley Wilcox who offered the vice president the use of his home on Delaware Ave.

Ansley Wilcox resumed his planned schedule which included a family camping and hiking trip to Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks.

On November 20,1883, Ansley Wilcox married Cornelia's younger sister, Mary G Rumsey.

Ansely Ansley Wilcox died of throat cancer on January 26,1930, one day before his 74th birthday.

Ansley Wilcox is buried in the Rumsey plot in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Ansley Wilcox founded the Charity Organization Society in 1877 and served as its president.

Ansley Wilcox founded the Fitch Creche, the first day center for working mothers in the United States.

Ansley Wilcox was a founding member of the Wanakah Country Club and enjoyed riding his horses and polo ponies in Delaware Park.

Ansley Wilcox served as president of the Civil Service Reform Association of Buffalo.

Ansley Wilcox was a member of the board of managers of the State Reformatory in Elmira in 1899.

Ansley Wilcox was a trustee of the Buffalo General Hospital.

Ansley Wilcox spent his time in charity work, golfing, riding and gardening.

Ansley Wilcox took a particular interest in the politics behind the development of the hydro-electric power plants in Niagara Falls in the 1920s.

Today, the Ansley Wilcox house is the oldest part of a National Historic Site including the lone surviving structure from the Buffalo Barracks compound.