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causing around $ 100,000 in damages and injuring several firemen when a ceiling collapsed. Over 1,000 spectators reportedly gathered on
Purchase Road 1,000 feet away to watch the spectacle. After the fire was quelled, Pforzheimer was heard remarking that he would call a meeting of the Purchase fire district, which he had previously helped organize with New York broker George Agents, the next day to organize a Purchase fire department.
199:, and others. In June 1914, he resigned from the board of representatives of the Curb Association. Pforzheimer and two other retirees had composed the Complaint Committee, had recently had their charges against Secretary Franklin Leonard dismissed by the full board. Leonard had offered to resign if the three complaint committee members resigned as well. Pforzheimer did not drop his membership in the organization.
222:, after serving as a member of the library committee since 1949. He also joined the library's finance committee. He was also a trustee and vice chairman of the Institute of the Public Administration. He helped form the Purchase Community, Inc., serving as its first treasurer for 25 years. He was also founding chairman of the Town of Harrison Finance and Advisory Committee.
342:. The Dillingham mansion burned down the morning of March 4, 1916, with total losses estimated at around $ 20,000. In 1922, Carl and his brother Walter had a falling-out that “drew a fault line” between their two families. Carl Pforzheimer would not see his nephew, the young Walter Pforzheimer, until 1955 when the elder Walter died.
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Westchester County Emergency Work Bureau. In 1935 he resigned from that position to become chairman of the Westchester County Commission on Government. From 1939 until 1942, he was the Westchester County Planning Commission's chairman. He was a governor of
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Purchase had twenty rooms and was English-style on 400 acres. It adjoined the estate of Governor Lehman. As of 1936, Pforzheimer, his wife, his daughter, his son-in-law John Long, and two grandchildren were living in the manor. On July 14, 1936, lightning struck his Purchase mansion,
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Commissioner of Public Welfare and of the Joint Committee on Public Assistance. He was a director of the Westchester County Association. He was chairman and treasurer of the Westchester County of Social Agencies, Inc., was on the Westchester Cancer
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in 1911, Pforzheimer was a "pioneer" in the trading of old
Standard Oil shares and underwriting issues of companies that resulted from the break up of Standard Oil . After he formed Carl H. Pforzheimer & Co. he focused on the oil and gas industry, The NY Times writes that the firm was
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Pforzheimer was an avid collector of rare books, collecting manuscripts and books over decades and housing them in an office building in
Manhattan as the Pforzheimer Library, with access only allowed to specialized scholars. In 1923, he purchased a
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267:. In 1940, he published "The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library of English Literature 1475-1700" as a three-volume catalogue. Over the next two decades, the publication was used as a reference book by collectors and scholars. In 1951, the
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744:"John E. Long Weds Jane Pforzheimer; Ceremony Takes Place at Summer Horne of Bride's Parents at Purchase, N.Y. Bride Wears Rare Lace Carries Bible That Figured at Her Mother's Marriage--Wedding Trip to Colorado"
823:"Home in Purchase Fired by Lightning; Bolt Strikes Roof of 20-Room House on Estate of Carl Pforzheimer, Broker. Damage Put at $ 100,000 Five Firemen Hurt When Ceiling Crashes -- Water Shortage Hampers Fighters"
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