[1] The club was founded in 1916 and in 1940 was established on the second floor of the adjoining tavern.
[1] An honor medal presented by the Angler's Club was donated by Carl Otto Kretzschmar Von Kienbusch to the collection of the New-York Historical Society.
[1] Prominent members have included the United States Presidents Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower.
Hoover's collection of dry flies were "gathering dust but still venerated" in 1975.
[1] A member described the club as "a dusty, friendly luncheon club, where the only excitement had been the arguments between the men who fish for trout and the men who go after salmon" to the New York Times reporter John Corry in 1975.