Stephen Henry Olin

Stephen Henry Olin (April 22, 1847 – August 6, 1925)[1] was a lawyer and the acting president of Wesleyan University and a member of New York society during the Gilded Age.

He focused his practice on copyright law representing many of the eminent publishing companies in the United States.

He served as president of the University Settlement Society, vice president of the New York City Bar Association, and was a member of the New York National Guard, retiring in 1903 with the rank of colonel and chief of staff.

[a][8] In 1925, while in ill health, he traveled to Middletown, Connecticut, to witness the installation of President Dr. James L. McConaughy,[8][9] who later served as Lt.

[14] In 1742 Judge Robert R. Livinston of Clermont, married Margaret, the only surviving child and heiress of Col. Henry Beekman of Rhinebeck.

Tillotson also obtained another part of the Beekman lands, twenty-nine acres of woodland lying east of Fallsburgh Creek, which passes through two beautiful waterfalls before reaching the Hudson River.

In 1830, Dr. Tillotson gave as a present to his twelve-year old granddaughter, Julia Lynch, the wooded gorge containing the waterfalls of Fallsburgh Creek.

Together, they were the parents of:[18] After his wife's death in 1882 at the age of 29,[15] he remarried to Emeline Harriman (1860–1938), the widow of William Earl Dodge III, in 1903.