Henry K. Pomroy

Henry Keney Pomroy (August 14, 1854 – December 22, 1925) was an American financier who served as president of the New York Stock Exchange.

Early life Pomroy was born in New York City on August 14, 1854. He was the eldest child of Daniel Pomroy of Coventry, Connecticut, and his wife, Fanny Belden, of Simsbury,

After his father died when he was just twelve years old, his mother, brother and sisters moved to Stamford, Connecticut, before Henry attended boarding school at Mount Carmel and in Ossining, New York, before studying at the Columbia School of Mines for one year.

In 1914, Pomroy testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency and expressed his "approval of legislature prohibiting certain evils of the stock market sought to be corrected by the bill before the committee, incorporating stock exchanges, and excluding from the mails and interstate wires quotations of exchanges not fully complying with its provisions."

At the time of his death, Pomroy was a special partner with the firm of J. W. Davis & Co.,

Personal life On December 8, 1881, Pomroy was married to Anna Tuffle Moseley (1857–1920). The Pomroy's had a home known as Duneside near Georgica Pond in Wainscott, a hamlet in the southwest corner of Easthampton, New York.

Pomroy died at his residence, 127 East 40th Street in Manhattan, on December 22, 1925. His estate was valued at $2,310,178, of which $2,183,422 was bequeathed to his sister, Mrs. Josephine Belden (née Pomroy) Hendrick, and $15,000 in cash to his brother, A. Arthur Pomroy.

In 1976, his niece, Grace (née Hendrick) Eustis Phillips, and her husband, Rear Admiral Neill Phillips, donated Midsummer Twilight by Willard Leroy Metcalf to the National Gallery of Art, which Grace had inherited from Pomroy.