Background
Duryee, Samuel Sloan was born on November 18, 1893 in New York City. Son of Joseph Rankin and Margaret Elmendorf (Sloan) Duryee.
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Samuel Sloan Duryee
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Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1917. Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, Fordham, 1923.
Career
Admitted to New York bar, 1924. Member Parker, Duryee, Benjamin, Zunino and Malone and predecessor firms, 1943-1979. Vice president, and director Aglic Investing & Management Company, Incorporated.
Chairman advisory board Zurich Insurance Company.
Director First National City Trust Company, Aeronautical Associates Incorporated, Zurich Life Insurance Company, also American Guarantee & Liability Insurance Company, 333 East. 68th Saint Corporation. Treasurer, director Linn and Paul Fenimore Cooper Foundation Chief tax amortization section Office Undersec. of War, 1941.
Chairman Tax Amortization Board, 1941-1942. Trustee, past president Saint John's Guild, also New York Society for Relief Ruptured and Crippled (Hospital for Special Surgery).
Member, president of the board of trustees Groton school.
Past chairman Yale Alumni Fund, member Yale Alumni Board.
Achievements
Membership
Served as Second lieutenant 10th Field Artillery, Connecticut National Guard, 1916. Member American Bar Association, American Judicature Society, Association Bar City New York, Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick, American Legion, Holland Society. Clubs: Yale, Coffee House, Century (New York City).
Connections
Married Mary Ballard, August 18, 1917. Children: Samuel Sloan, Nina.
