Ellwood Walter (August 16, 1803 – May 7, 1877) was president of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company in

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for 28 years. The Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company was organized in April 1844. He was also secretary of the New York Board of Marine Underwriters since 1849.

Early life

Born in

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, Pennsylvania to a Quaker family. In his early life, he was an editor of a weekly newspaper, ''The Ariel: A Literary and Critical Gazette'', published in Philadelphia.

Career

In 1827 Walter started and edited a newspaper in Philadelphia which was a weekly. By 1845 Walter was secretary of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company in New York. In 1847 he became a Vice president, and in 1853 he became its president. Walter had been associated with the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company for 28 years. Walter was secretary of the New York Board of Marine Underwriters. The New York pilot-boat

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was named after Walter. The ship carried cargo between Boston Massachusetts and New York. In October 1861, Walter became a trustee of the Nautical School for the harbor of New York. On May 14, 1871, Walter was elected as Vice-President of the ''New York Seamen's Association''. In 1876, there was an act to authorize the transfer of the property of the New York Seamen's Association to the ''American Seamen's Friend Society'' and to dissolve the New York Seamen's Association. Walter was described as a man of "distinguished presence" and "great personal dignity" who had for his time "considerable wealth". Walter was one of the leading members of the

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mercantile community.

Death

On May 7, 1877, at the age of 75, Walter died at his residence in

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. He was buried at the Quaker Cemetery in

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, New York.

Post death

The Mercantile Mutual Insurance company went out of business in 1880.The Weekly Underwriter: An Insurance Newspaper, Index to Volume One Hundred and six, January 7, 1922, to June 24, 1922

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Walter, Ellwood 1803 births 1877 deaths Businesspeople from Philadelphia Insurance underwriters 19th-century Quakers