John P. Townsend

John P. Townsend
A sketch of John P. Townsend, 1894
Born
John Pomeroy Townsend

1832
Middlebury, Vermont, U.S.
Died10 September 1898 (1898-09-11) (aged 65)
Tarrytown, New York, U.S.
Occupationbanker
Title
  • President of the Knickerbocker Trust
  • President of the Bowery Savings Bank
SpouseElizabeth A. Baldwin (1853)
Children3

John Pomeroy Townsend (1832–1898) was an American financier of the Gilded Age. He proudly claimed descent from "old Puritan stock", tracing his ancestry to a Thomas Townsend who settled at Lynn, Massachusetts in 1637.[1]

  1. ^ Prominent Families of New York (1897), p. 570.