William Dameron Guthrie was born in San Francisco, California on February 3, 1859.

In his practice before the United States Supreme Court he argued the income tax, California irrigation, Illinois inheritance tax, oleomargarine, and Kansas City stockyards rate cases.

[4] Besides his contributions to periodicals on legal and political subjects, he was author of Lectures on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1898), Introduction to American Constitutional Law (1913) and Magna Carta and Other Addresses (1916, Columbia University Press, NY).

Guthrie served as president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 1925 to 1927.

[2] William Dameron Guthrie died at his home in Lattingtown on December 8, 1935.