Watson Bradley Dickerman

Watson Bradley Dickerman (January 4, 1846 – April 5, 1923) was an American banker who founded Dominick & Dickerman and served as president of the New York Stock Exchange.

Early life Dickerman was born on January 4, 1846, in Mount Carmel, Connecticut. He was the ninth and youngest child of son of Ezra Dickerman (1800–1860) and Sarah (née Jones) Dickerman (1806–1890). Among his siblings were brothers George Sherwood, Henry Street and Ezra Day Dickerman. Dickerman retired from active business life in 1909. Florence was a daughter of Freeman Brant Calkin of Yonkers, and according to their New York Times wedding announcement, "Dickerman is many years the senior of his wife." He married Mary McBurney Philbin, a granddaughter of the New York County District Attorney Eugene A. Philbin. Her sister was the first wife of journalist and political activist Blair Clark.

After his retirement in 1909, he devoted his time to breeding "trotting horses and Guernsey cattle" his country place on Weaver Street, Quaker Ridge in Scarsdale, New York. He first bought the property in 1884 and over the years, added to it until it reached nearly 500 acres in Mamaroneck and New Rochelle.

Dickerman died at 998 Fifth Avenue, his home on Manhattan's Upper East Side (an Italian Renaissance Palazzo-style luxury cooperative building designed by McKim, Mead & White and built by James T. Lee), on April 5, 1923. His funeral was held at Grace Episcopal Church in New York. After leaving $20,000 each to the New York Zoological Society and the Home for Incurables, the remainder of his roughly $5,000,000 estate was left to his widow and surviving son. The inheritance tax was $274,153, "the largest inheritance tax levied upon a Westchester estate in many months." Two codicils revoked bequests made totaling more than $500,000 to relatives and charity. His son died in 1955 and his widow died in 1963.