Ellwood Walter (businessman)

Ellwood Walter (August 16, 1803 – May 7, 1877) was president of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company[1] in New York City for 28 years.

[3] In his early life, he was an editor of a weekly newspaper, The Ariel: A Literary and Critical Gazette, published in Philadelphia.

[6] By 1845 Walter was secretary of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company in New York.

[6] Walter had been associated with the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company for 28 years.

[14] Walter was described as a man of "distinguished presence" and "great personal dignity" who had for his time "considerable wealth".