William Henry Cammeyer (March 20, 1821 – September 4, 1898) was a businessman who was a pioneer in the early days of

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. He was the owner of the

New York Mutuals The Mutual Base Ball Club of New York was a leading American baseball club almost throughout its 20-year history. It was established during 1857, the year of the first baseball convention, just too late to be a founding member of the National Asso ...

franchise and even managed the team during the 1876 season. He also built the

Union Grounds Union Grounds was a baseball park located in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. The grounds opened in 1862, its inaugural match being played on May 15. It was the first baseball park enclosed entirely by a fence, thereby allowing ...

ballpark for the Mutuals. Cammeyer was born in

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, but he moved to

Williamsburg, Brooklyn Williamsburg is a Neighborhoods in Brooklyn, neighborhood in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn, bordered by Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Greenpoint to the north; Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Bedford–Stuyvesant to the s ...

in 1849.Death List of a Day
, The New York Times, September 7, 1898. His father was a leather merchant, and upon his father's death, Cammeyer inherited his father's business. It was the profits from this enterprise which enabled him to finance the construction of the Union Grounds in 1861. Cammeyer died in his home, located at 44 Macon Street in Brooklyn. He was survived by his wife, four daughters, and three sons.

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Major League Baseball managers Major League Baseball executives 1821 births 1898 deaths People from Williamsburg, Brooklyn 19th-century American businesspeople {{Baseball-manager-stub