Henry Keney Pomroy (August 14, 1854 – December 22, 1925) was an American financier who served as president of the New York Stock Exchange.
[2] After his father died when he was just twelve years old, his mother, brother and sisters moved to Stamford, Connecticut, before Henry attended boarding school at Mount Carmel and in Ossining, New York, before studying at the Columbia School of Mines for one year.
[1] After spending some time in Europe with his family, in 1875 he joined his uncle, A. Hamilton Pomroy, a dealer in commercial paper.
[1][3] In 1914, Pomroy testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency and expressed his "approval of legislature prohibiting certain evils of the stock market sought to be corrected by the bill before the committee, incorporating stock exchanges, and excluding from the mails and interstate wires quotations of exchanges not fully complying with its provisions.
The Pomroy's had a home known as Duneside near Georgica Pond in Wainscott, a hamlet in the southwest corner of Easthampton, New York.