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William Jay Schieffelin ( New York City, April 14, 1866 – April 29, 1955), was an American businessman, philanthropist and president of the Citizens Union (New York City). Early life William Jay Schieffelin was the first son of William Henry Schieffelin and Mary Jay Schieffelin. William’s mother was the daughter of John Jay, who was the grandson of John Jay. His paternal ancestors were Jacob Schieffelin and Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin. Personal life William Jay Schieffelin married Maria Louise Shepard, eldest daughter of Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard and Elliott Fitch Shepard, in 1891. The wedding of Maria Louise and William was a highly social event and reflected the splendor of the Gilded Age. The wedding took place at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and in the grand picture gallery of William Vanderbilt’s double villa at Fifth Avenue. The couple had nine children: William Jay, Margaret Louisa, Mary Jay, John Jay, Louise, Bayard, Elliott, Barbara, and Henry. The family lived on 5 East 66th Street (the building is owned by the Lotos Club since 1947) and moved to 620 Park Avenue in 1925. They also had an estate on Schieffelin Point peninsula in Maine. Military service During the Spanish-American War in 1898, William Jay Schieffelin served as a volunteer captain and regimental adjutant of the 12th Regiment of the National Guard. In 1898 President McKinley called for volunteers for the war with Spain. In August 1898, William Jay Schieffelin served as senior aide on the staff of General Peter Conover Hains. It happened that the Adjutant General of the Division was ill, and William Jay Schieffelin had to act as Adjutant General for some time. General Hains was given command of one of the brigades and he asked William Jay Schieffelin to stay with him. The three regiments of the brigade were the 4th Ohio, the 4th Pennsylvania, and the 3rd Illinois. First General Hains’ brigade was ordered to Newport News to take ship for Cuba, but then the orders were changed, and the brigade was on a transport for Puerto Rico. The ship was commanded by Captain Sigsbee. It anchored three miles offshore from the port of Arroyo, Puerto Rico. The ship was firing three-inch shells because a troop of Spanish Cavalry had been observed on the beach, but they soon retired. The brigade swarmed on the shore with no opposition. When the brigade entered Guayama, the citizens greeted them with cheers, waving of handkerchiefs, towels, and sheets. On August 13, 1898, General Miles had ordered an advance against the Spanish forces that were entrenched at Cayey, Puerto Rico. General Hains commanded the column that was to attack the left flank. A total of twelve hundred men forming the 4th Ohio Regiment were on site. The battle was halted upon notification of the armistice between the United States and Spain. A Protocol of Peace had been signed and the column was returned to Guayama. When he was in Puerto Rico, William Jay Schieffelin was affected by the Army beef scandal, because the troops in the field were supplied with rancid canned meat. His weight had become reduced from 174 lbs. to 124 lbs., and it took him four months to regain his strength after the war. William Jay Schieffelin was on the way home on the transport "City of Chester". In World War I, 1918, Governor Whitman commissioned William Jay Schieffelin Colonel of the 15th New York Infantry, the (mainly) African American replacement regiment of Colonel William Hayward, 369th Infantry, U.S. Army, which served gloriously in the American Expeditionary Forces in France, where the whole regiment was awarded the Croix de Guerre. The 369th Infantry Regiment was commonly referred to as the Harlem Hellfighters. William Jay Schieffelin was involved in organizing the Memorial Day parade in 1919. He had recruited 800 men and was presiding at an officers’ meeting, when the orders for the parade were handed to him. He ensured that the 15th Infantry regiment was the second in line of parade, and it went up Riverside Drive amid cheers, marched to Central Park and finally paraded through Harlem. Career William Jay Schieffelin attended Trinity School in Manhattan. He received further education at the Columbia School of Mines, where he graduated as Ph.B. and member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1887. At Columbia he studied chemistry under Professor Charles F. Chandler. He then studied for two years at the University of Munich with Professor von Baeyer and received his Ph.D. in chemistry cum laude in 1889. Schieffelin & Co Back in Manhattan, William Jay Schieffelin had been a partner in Schieffelin & Co since 1890, its vice president since 1903, its president 1906–1923 and its chairman of board 1923–1929. He managed Schieffelin & Co in the 5th generation after Jacob Schieffelin (1757–1835), who founded the company in 1794 (then Lawrence & Schieffelin, Pharma-Trade, at 195 Pearl Street in Manhattan). Schieffelin & Co was America's longest-running pharmaceutical business. In 1889, William Jay Schieffelin began work in the analytical department of Schieffelin & Co and the company's laboratory, which was on Front Street in Manhattan. His routine work was assaying opium and coca leaves and standardizing concentrated Ethyl nitrite. At that time cocaine was in large demand for local anesthesia, and Schieffelin & Co imported large quantities of coca leaves from Bolivia and Peru, and became the leading manufacturers of the hydrochloride. Committee work and social commitment William Jay Schieffelin's social commitment extended to many associations and institutions: President of the National Wholesale Druggists Association (1910) Vice President of the American Pharmaceutical Association Honorary President of the New York College of Pharmacy (Columbia University) Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health Officer for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice Vestryman in St. George’s Church on Stuyvesant Square Manager of the American Bible Society President of the American Leprosy Missions (1941) Sponsor of the Schieffelin Institute of Health - Research & Leprosy Center in Karigiri, India President of the Huguenot Society of America (1922–1947) Member of the NAACP Board of Trustees of the Hampton Institute Board of Trustees of Tuskegee University President of the Armstrong Association Treasurer of the Defense Committee for the Scottsboro Boys Adjutant 12th New York Infantry, Spanish-American War (1898) Colonel of the 15th New York Infantry (the 369th Infantry Regiment), World War I (1918) Member of the City Reform Club (1889) Chairman of the Membership Committee of the City Club (1892) Member of the Committee of Seventy (1894) President of the Citizens Union (1908–1941) Civil Service Commissioner in New York City (1896) Chairman of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control representing the public President of the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage Chairman of the Christian Comm.... 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