Seward Prosser

Seward Prosser (March 1, 1871 – October 1, 1942) Among his siblings was Mason Fay Prosser, an attorney in Honolulu, Hawaii.

His family later moved to Brooklyn, where he was educated in the public schools before attending the Englewood School for Boys in Englewood, New Jersey. He later became a member Prosser & Homans, representing Equitable Life. From 1907 to 1912, he served as vice president of the Astor Trust Company. He served as president until 1923 when he relinquished the presidency but continued to serve as a director, Chairman of the board of trustees, and a member of the Executive Committee. an attorney. Anna Fay Prosser (1907–1973), who married Dan Platt Caulkins in 1927. They divorced and she later married Leighton Hale Stevens (1903–1969). in 1939. Constance Mary Prosser (1910–1980), who married Vance McCaulley in 1929. After his death in 1935, she married Richard King Mellon, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank, in 1936. After his death in 1970, she married the director of the National Stud, Peter Eustace Burrell, CBE, a son of Sir Merrik Burrell, 7th Baronet.

He was a member of the Union League Club and the University Club of New York. His funeral was held at the First Presbyterian Church of Englewood, and more than 1,000 persons attended with more than 40 friends and associates noted as honorary pallbearers. His widow died in July 1948.

Descendants Through his eldest daughter, he was a grandfather of Prosser Gifford, a Director for the Office of Scholarly Programs in the Library of Congress who wrote a series on British and German colonialism in Africa.