Cuyler Hall was built in memory of Cornelius C. Cuyler, a New York banker who was a trustee of the University from 1898 until his death in 1909. His had always been "a magical name for any 1879 man," his classmate, Woodrow Wilson, then governor of New Jersey, said at the dedication of the building in 1912, and it was "singularly appropriate" that a dormitory "symbolic of the democratic life and the comradeships of the University" should bear his name. "He always meant to me a singular stimulation," Governor Wilson concluded, "he imparted his own energy to everything he did. Let us hope that his spirit will in some degree touch the life of this dormitory."

Source: Leitch p. 125

More information on Cuyler Hall

Cuyler Hall in Evolution of the Campus