johnwilliams

John Skelton Williams, US Comptroller of the Currency (1914-1921). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Skelton_Williams

And was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in 1913. He would have been 48 at the time of this picture -- looks younger.

The photo closely resembles photographs of John Skelton Williams, but in 1913 Williams looked somewhat older. w4.stern.nyu.edu/sternbusiness/spring_2007/triumphOf1914.... The date on a Bain News Service photo, in this case 7/9/13, doesn't necessarily represent the date the original photograph was taken. It may possibly represent the day the photo was copied or used. Since this is clearly a copy photograph (note the tack in the far upper left corner) it is possible that the photograph was taken earlier.

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Another photo of the board is in The Madison journal., January 09, 1915, Image 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064430/1915-01-09/ed-... The persons are: Paul Moritz Warburg (August 10, 1868 – January 24, 1932), a German-born American banker, and an early advocate of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Warburg John Skelton Williams (July 6, 1865 - November 4, 1926), United States Comptroller of the Currency from 1914 to 1921 and the first president of the Seaboard Air Line Railway. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Skelton_Williams William Proctor Gould Harding (May 5, 1864 – April 7, 1930), American banker and managing director of the War Finance Corporation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._G._Harding Adolph Caspar Miller (January 7, 1866 - February 11, 1953), American government official and university professor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_C._Miller Charles Sumner Hamlin (August 30, 1861 – April 24, 1938), American lawyer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner_Hamlin William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr. (October 31, 1863 – February 1, 1941), American lawyer and statesman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibbs_McAdoo Frederic Adrian Delano II (1863 – 1953), American railroad president en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Adrian_Delano

b-59: thank you for finding more information about the group of men in the picture. We'll add it to the record.