Edwin R. Yale

The "Mansion House", a 250 bedrooms hotel in Brooklyn Heights, facing Wall Street, family property and residence of Gen. Yale[1]
View from Brooklyn Heights of the US Hotel, (Holt's Hotel), the central white tower in Manhattan

General Edwin Rodolphus Yale (1804 – 1883) was an American military officer, Britannia ware manufacturer and merchant, and proprietor of the "United States Hotel", the largest hotel in America in the mid 1830s. He was also a founding member and the first president of the Sumter Club, an abolitionist society honoring the Fort Sumter event and the death of Abraham Lincoln.[2]

  1. ^ Mansion House advertisement, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1916
  2. ^ Fort Sumter, The Brooklyn Union, 16 Apr 1866, Mon ·Page 2