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WILLIAMS, GEORGE GILBERT, in 1841, when fifteen years of age, entered the service of the famous Chemical Bank of New York City, now the Chemical National, as assistant to the Paying Teller, five years later became Paying Teller, being the youngest holding that position in New York City; in 1855 became Cashier, and since January 1, 1878, has been its President. He is also President of the New York Clearing House Building Company, is a trustee and Treas- urer of the Institution for Savings of Mechants' Clerks, is a director
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and Treasurer of the Fabric Measuring and Packing Company, is a trustee of the Union Trust Company, and is a director of the Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Company, the Fidelity and Casualty Com- pany, the Title Guarantee and Trust Company of Brooklyn and New York, the United States Life Insurance Company, the Eagle Fire Company, the Texas Central Railroad, the Mexican Telegraph Con- pany, and the Eastmans Company. He has served as President of the New York Clearing House Asso- ciation. Holding that position in 1893, he was er officio member of the historie Clearing House Committee which so skillfully stayed the progress of the panic of that year, preventing a complete collapse, and turning the tide almost at once to- ward a restoration of confidence. Mr. Williams was born in East Haddam, Conn., October 9, 1826, and was educated in the public schools and Brainerd Academy. His father, Dr. Datus Williams, was for forty years the leading physi- cian of East Haddam, and was lineally descended from Robert Williams, of Roxbury, Mass., where he was admitted a freeman in 1638. Mr. Williams married, in 1867, Vir- GEORGE GILBERT WILLIAMS. ginia, daughter of Aaron King, of Massachusetts, and has had five children, of whom but one now survives. Mrs. Williams is a graduate of Rutgers Female Seminary of New York City.
TOWNSEND, JOAN POMEROY, for many years a member of the well-known mercantile firm of Dutton & Townsend, from which he retired in 1882, was in 1855 elected President of the New York Mari- time Exchange, of which he had previously been Vice-President; the same year became Treasurer of the New York Produce Exchange; . from 1889 to 1891 was President of the Knickerbocker Trust Com- pany, the affairs of which he brilliantly administered, and from 1891 until his death in 1898 was President of the Bowery Savings Bank, the most powerful savings institution in the world, having assets of nearly $60,000.000. Of the latter institution he had been First Vice President for twelve years, Second Vice-President for eight years, and trustee for thirty years. He was consid- ered the greatest authority on savings institutions, having contrib- uted articles to encyclopedie works, prepared papers for conven-
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tions in this country and for three congresses at Paris, and writ- ten on " Postal Savings Banks " and " The Silver Question." He was also author of a " History of the Bowery Savings Bank, from its Organization in 1834 to 18SS." He was a member of the Committee of Seventy which nominated William L. Strong for Mayor, serving on its Executive and Finance Committees. Since 1876 he had been a trustee of the Rochester University, where he founded a scholarship. He was a director of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, and a trustee of the Knickerbocker Trust Company. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He also wrote a history of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, whose society he served as Trustee, Treas- urer, and President. Descended from Thomas Townsend, one of the early Puritan settlers of Lynn, Mass., he was born in New England, passed his boyhood in Troy, N. Y., and has resided in New York City since 1850, when he entered the employ of the house of Wilson G. Hunt & Company. A few years later he became one of the founders of the mercantile house of Dutton & Townsend.
STEWART, JOHN AIKMAN, was principally instrumental in organizing the United States Trust Company and securing its char- ter in 1853; from that date until June, 1864, was its Secretary, resign- ing reluctantly to accept his appointment as Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, which President Lincoln urged upon him as a patriotic duty. Upon the death of Joseph Lawrence, Presi- dent of the United States Trust Company, in 1865, Mr. Stewart was elected as his successor, resigned the Assistant Treasuryship, and has been President of this notable corporation- the largest fiduciary institution in the Western Hemisphere-continuously since. Mr. Stewart is also a director of the Merchants' National Bank, the Bank of New Amsterdam, the Greenwich Savings Bank, the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the London and Liverpool and Globe Insur- ance Company of England, and the Chicago and Alton Railroad Com- pany. He is a trustee of the John F. Slater Fund, of Princeton Uni- versity, and of the Brick Presbyterian Church, and is a director of the New York Eve and Ear Infirmary. He was born in New York City, August 22, 1822. Through his father, he descends from the famous Scottish clan of Stewart, while his mother, Mary Aikman. was also of Scotch descent. His father, in 1817, emigrated from Scotland to New York City, where he eventually held the offices of Tax Assessor and Receiver of Taxes. John Aikman Stewart attended the New York public schools, was graduated from Columbia College in 1840, at the age of eighteen, and two years later was appointed Clerk of the Board of Education of the City of New York, a position he held for eight years. Appointed Actuary of the United States Life Insurance Company in 1850, he at once distinguished himself in that
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position. He resigned in 1833, however, to devote himself to the organi- zation of the United States Trust Company.
SIMMONS, JOSEPH EDWARD, President of the Fourth Na- tional Bank since 1888, served two terms ( 1884-6) as President of the New York Stock Exchange, and for nine years ( 1881-90 ) was a mem- ber of the Board of Education, a portion of the time being its Presi- dent. In 1885 he was the candidate of Sammel JJ. Tilden and others for Collector of the Port, and has several times declined the Demo- eratie nomination as Mayor when nomination seemed equivalent to election. Besides the Presidency of the Fourth National Bank, at the present time he is President of the Panama Railroad Company, Treasurer of the Love Electric Traction Company, a trustee of the Bank for Savings and the Royal Insurance Company of Eng- land, and a director of the Bank of New Amsterdam, the National Surety Company, the United States Casualty Company, the New York Clearing House Building Company, the Ann Arbor Railroad Com- pany, the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company, and the Pitts- burg, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company. He was a member of the New York Clearing House Committee during the financial panic of 1893 and was one of three members of the building committee which directed the erection of the present clearing house building. He has been Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce, is President of the New York Infant Asylum, and is a governor and member of the Exee- utive Committee of the New York Hospital. Born in Troy, N. Y., September 9, 1841, he is the son of the late Joseph Ferris Simmons, prominent business man and financier of Troy, and great-grandson of Christian Simmons, who emigrated from Holland to Dutchess County, New York, in the early part of the eighteenth century. Mr. Simmons was graduated from Williams College in 1862 and from the Albany Law School the following year. Successfully practicing law in Troy until 1867, in that year he removed to this city and became a member of the banking firm of Grant & Company. Forced to retire and travel abroad on account of his health in 1872, two years later he returned and engaged in financiering enterprises. His administration of the affairs of the Fourth National has been very able. He was married in 1886 to Julia, daughter of George Greer, of this city, and has a son- Joseph Ferris Simmons-and a danghter.
.TAPPEN, FREDERICK D., in May, 1850, entered the service of the Gallatin National Bank of New York as clerk, was its Cashier from October, 1857, to July 1. 1868, and on the latter date succeeded the late James Gallatin as its president, a position which he has continued to hold during the thirty years since. He is also a trustee and acting president of the Metropolitan Trust Company, having pre- viously been its Vice-President; is a trustee of the Bank for Sav-
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ings and the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, England, and is a director of the Bank of New Amsterdam, the Sixth National Bank, the New York Clearing House Building Company, the Queen Insurance Company of America, and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company. During the panic of 1873 he was selected as Chairman of the Loan Committee of the New York Clearing House Association, and he has served in that responsible position during every financial crisis since. His skill accomplished remarkable results in establish- ing public confidence in 1893 and in recognition of his services his colleagues on the Committee presented to him the original silver tank- ard which, under similar circumstances, had been presented in 1696 to Sir John Houlon, first Gover- nor of the Bank of England. He is a member of the Union, Union League, Metropolitan, St. Nich- olas, and Grolier clubs. He was born in New York City, January 29, 1829, and was graduated from the Columbia College Grammar School and the New York Univer- sity. His father. Charles Barclay Tappen, a well-known architect and builder of New York City, died in 1891 at the remarkable age of ninety-eight. Mr. Tappen de- scends from Jurian Tennisse Tappen, from Holland, who was residing at Fort Orange as early as 1662. Christopher Tappen, great-grandfather of Mr. Tappen, FREDERICK D. TAPPEN. married the sister of Governor George Clinton, represented Ulster County, New York, in the Colonial and State Legislatures, and was a member of the first Constitutional Convention of the State of New York.
BAKER, GEORGE F., Treasurer of the American Bankers' Asso- ciation for twenty years, from its organization in 1875 to 1895, is also an executive officer of a phenomenal array of corporations. He has long been President of the First National Bank of New York, and is likewise President of the Astor National Bank, President of the . New York and Long Branch Railroad Company, and President of the Long Branch Water Supply Company; is Vice-President of the Bank- ers' Safe Deposit Company, and First Vice-President of the Central Railroad of New Jersey; is a member of the Board of Managers of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company; is a trustee
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of the Consolidated Gas Company, the Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany, and the Provident Loan Society; is a voting trustee of the Southern Railway Company, and is a director of the Liberty National Bank, the People's Bank, the Guaranty Trust Company, the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, the Continental Insurance Company, the Citizens' Union Insurance Company, the Baltimore and Delaware Bay Railroad Com- pany, the Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, the Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad Company, the Navesink Park Company, the Atlas Cement Company, the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, the National Water Company, the East Jersey Water Company, the Montclair Water Company, the Spring Brook Water Supply Company, and the Car Trust Investment Company of London. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, City, Tuxedo, Riding, Country, Players', Lawyers', Atlantic Yacht, New York Athletic, and Mendels- sohn Glee clubs, and the New England Society.
POOR, EDWARD ERIE, head of the notable drygoods commission house of Denny, Poor & Company, was elected a director of the Na- tional Park Bank of New York City in 1888; in 1893 became one of its vice-presidents, and succeeded the late Ebenezer K. Wright as its president. He is also a trustee of the State Trust Company, and a director of the Consolidated Coal Company, the Denver Union Water Company, and the Passaic Print Works. He has been a mem- ber of the New York Chamber of Commerce since 1872, and a member of the Union League Club since 1870. He is a life member of the New England Society and a member of the Manhattan and Merchants' clubs. He was born in Boston, February 5, 1837, on the paternal side descending from Jolm Poor, of Wiltshire, England, who settled in Newbury, Mass., in 1635, and on the maternal side from Lieutenant Francis Peabody. of Hertfordshire, England, who, in 1635, settled in Ipswich, Mass. His grandfather, Jeremiah Peabody, was a cousin of the famous London banker and philanthropist, George Peabody. Mr. Poor was graduated from the Boston public schools, and in 1851 entered the drygoods establishment of Read, Chadwick & Dexter. In 1864 he established himself in the same business in New York City, un- der his own name. In 1865 the business was reorganized under the firm style of Denny, Jones & Poor, which subsequently became Denny, Poor & Company. Mr. Poor has long been at the head of the house. Two of his sons are partners in the business-Edward E. Poor. Jr., and James Harper Poor. The house is agent for several New England and New Jersey manufactories, and has branch establishments in Boston and Chicago. Mr. Poor married, in 1859, Mary Wellington, daughter of Washington J. Lane, of West Cambridge, Mass., and has five sons and two daughters. Of the sons, Charles Lane Poor is Assist- ant Professor of Astronomy in Johns Hopkins University, from which
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he holds the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Frank Ballou Poor, the New York banker, and Horace F. Poor, are also sons of Mr. Poor.
BAKER, STEPHEN, President of the Bank of the Manhattan Com- pany, came to New York City in 1875 and engaged with a drygoods commission firm, receiving rapid promotions. In 1881 he entered the employ of the American Exchange National Bank. while four years later he accepted a position of great responsibility in the service of John Stewart Kennedy, the well-known private banker. In January, 1891, he was elected Vice-President of the Bank of the Manhattan Company, and in December, 1893, was elected its President. Born in Ponghkeepsie, N. Y., August 12, 1859, he is the son of Hon. Stephen Baker and Anna M. Greene, both of New England descent save that a Dutch strain from the old family of Ryerson also comes through his mother. His father, who died in 1875, was for some years a mem- ber of the New York mercantile firm of Wilson G. & Thomas Hunt, and during the Civil War was a member of Congress. Mr. Baker is a member of the Union League and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs, and the Downtown Association, and is a vestryman of St. James's Church, Madison Avenue and Seventy-first Street.
STILLMAN, JAMES, in 1871 began his business career in New York City as a member of the firm of Smith, Woodward & Stillman, cotton merchants. Of this house, which rapidly became one of the most notable in the cotton trade in the United States, Mr. Stillman is now the head. Since 1891 he has also been President of the Na- tional City Bank of New York, one of the largest in the city. He is a trustee of the United States Trust Company, the New York Se- curity and Trust Company, the American Surety Company, the Con- solidated Gas Company, the American Veterinary College, and the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, and is a director of the Hanover National Bank, the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, the Audit Company, the Terminal Warehouse Company, the Queen In- surance Company of America, the Northern Pacific Railway Com- pany, the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Railroad Company. the Mobile Street Railroad, the Southern Pine Company, and the Deer Hill Company. He is also an officer of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, as he is of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. He is a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, the New York Cotton Exchange, the New England Society, and the New York Historical Society. He is a member of the Union, Metro- politan, Union League, Century, Tuxedo. Riding, Reform, Manhattan, Lawyers', New York Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Columbia Yacht, Eastern Yacht, St. Augustine Yacht, Jekyl Island. Storm King, and Camera clubs, the Downtown Association, and the Metro- politan Club of Washington. Mr. Stillman was born in Brownsville,
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Texas, during the temporary sojourn of his parents in that place, June 9, 1850, and was educated at Hartford, Conn., and at Churchill's School, Sing Sing, N. Y. His father, the late Charles Stillman, was a wealthy merchant of Hartford, Conn., and through him he descends from George Stillman, born in London, England, in 1654, who settled first in Hadley, Mass., and thence removed to Wethersfield, Conn. Through his mother he descends from William Goodrich, of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, who settled in Wethersfield, Conn. All four of Mr. Stillman's great-grandfathers were Revolutionary soldiers, two of them being officers.
PARKER, JAMES HENRY, is President of the Produce Exchange Trust Company, is President of the Assured Building Loan Asso- ciation, and is a director of the United States National Bank and the Western National Bank. He was for two years President of the New York Cotton Exchange, for one year was Vice-President of the National Park Bank, and for six years was President of the United States National Bank. He has been President of the Southern So- ciety of New York City, is a member of the Confederate Veteran Camp, and is a member of the New York, Tuxedo, Manhattan, New York Athletic, and Atlantic Yacht clubs, and the Blooming Grove Park Association. The son of Matthew Parker, he was born in North Carolina, January 4, 1843, and served as a commissioned officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He was graduated in med- icine and practiced for two years after the war. He then engaged in the cotton business at Charleston, S. C., from 1870 to 1887, and in the latter year removed to New York City, where he continued in the same line.
CRANE. JOHN M., President of the National Shoe and Leather Bank, of New York City, since February 1, 1883, was its Cashier for seventeen years previous to that date, and has been in its service for forty-five years, having, in 1853, become a clerk when the institution was a State Bank. Ile is a director of the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Company, and a member of the Hardware Club. He is also a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Jamaica, L. I .. where he has always resided. He was, in fact, born in the village of Jamaica, L. I .. December 8, 1833, the son of Rev. Elias W. Crane and Sarah R. Wickham. His ancestors on both sides, originally from England, were settled in America in carly colonial times. His father, a Presbyterian clergyman, was of an old New Jersey family. His mother's family early settled in Rhode Island. Mr. Crane was educated at Union Hill Academy, Jamaica, and at the age of fif- teen became clerk in a store. Four years later he entered the service of the Shoe and Leather Bank, of New York City. He was mar- ried, May 7, 1861, to Harriet Hewlett, daughter of John S. Seabury, of
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Jamaica. They have two sons -- Alden Seabury Crane, a lawyer, and " Warren Seabury Crane, who is connected with the New York Cen- tral Railroad Company.
CARTER, OLIVER STANLEY, President of the National Bank of the Republic, has also long been at the head of the largest tea-import- ing house in the United States. He was born in New Hartford, Conn., in 1825, the son of Hermas Carter and Hanmah Booth; in February, 1845, came to New York and ac- cepted a clerkship with a tea firm; in 1854 became a member of Whit- lock, Kellogg & Carter; became its . head as Carter, Hawley & Com- pany and as Carter Macy & Com- pany, the present style, while being chiefly instrumental in making it the leading house in the trade. Having been for many years a director of the National Bank of the Republic, he became its Vice-President in 1888, and on March 1, 1892. sue- ceeded the late John Jay Knox, ex-Comptroller of the Currency, as its President. He is also a director of the Home Insurance Company and the Standard Gas Light Company, and has been a director of the North American OLIVER STANLEY CARTER. Fire Insurance Company, and the World Mutual Life Insurance Company. He is a member of the Union League, Orange, and Essex County Country clubs, and the Downtown Association.
PULLEN, EUGENE HENRY, was President of the American Bankers' Association in 1895 and 1896, having previously held the important position of Chairman of its Executive Committee. Since 1892 he has been Vice-President of the National Bank of the Repub- lic, New York City, having been connected with this institution for more than thirty-six years. He entered its employ as Clerk in 1861, in 1874 was made Assistant Cashier, and was Cashier from 1879 to 1892, eight years of this period being under the Presidency of the late Hon. John Jay Knox. He was born in Baltimore, Md., in March, 1834. the son of Randall Pullen and Ann Rhodes. Ilis father was a shipowner. His paternal ancestors, established for many generations in Massachusetts, were of French descent. Mr. Pullen was carefully
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educated, and traveled extensively prior to 1856. He married, in 1860, Mary Holcomb Poole, of Brooklyn. They have no children.
RHOADES, JOHN HARSEN, has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Greenwich Savings Bank of New York City since 1863; from 1870 to 1878 was its Secretary, and since 1878 has been its President. Under his administration the resources of this venerable institution have almost trebled, now reaching nearly $40,000,000. He is also a trustee of the United States Trust Company and the London and Lancashire Insurance Company, and a director of the Bank of America, the Greenwich Bank, and the Woodbridge Company. He is a trustee of several large estates, including those of the late George Bliss and I. N. Phelps. He is a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and of the Metropolitan, Union League, Con- tury, and St. Nicholas clubs. He is President of the New York Eve and Ear Infirmary, and is a trustee of the Roosevelt Hospital, and of the Northern Dispensary. He has been a trustee of the New York Hospital, the Woman's Hospital, and the New York Asylum for the Blind. He married, in 1862, Anne Gardiner Wheelwright, and has two daughters and a son -- John Harsen Rhoades, Jr. He was him- self born in New York City, October 25, 1833, the son of Lyman Rhoades and Cornelia Rachel, granddaughter of the late Jacob Har- sen, and sister of Dr. Jacob Harsen, a well-known New York physi- cian who, sucessively, held the offices of Trustee, Second Vice-Presi- dent, and First Vice-President of the Greenwich Savings Bank. Her family, of Dutch descent, became established in New York at an early Colonial period. Mr. Rhoades's father was born at Skaneateles, N. Y., of Welsh descent. Coming to New York City, he became head of the well-known drygoods firm of Rhoades, Wood & Company. John Harsen Rhoades was educated in private schools, entered the employ of the New York drygoods commission firm of Spring, Bradley & Buffum, subsequently engaged in the same line as a member of the firm of Leonard, Schofield & Company, which was continued under the styles of Leonard & Rhoades, and Leonard. Rhoades & Grosvenor. After a successful career, he retired from this business in 1876.
MACLAY, ROBERT, one of the most successful business men and able financiers of New York City, at the time of his death, in the sum- mer of 1898, was President of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, Vice-President of the Bowery Savings Bank, Vice-President of the Gorham Coal Company, Vice-President of the Monmonth County Horse Show, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Crocker- Wheeler Electric Company, member of the Advisory Committee of the Audit Company, a director of the People's Bank, the National Snrety Company, the Manhattan Life Insurance Company, the East River Gas Company, the New Jersey Ice Company, the West Superior Iron
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and Steel Company, the Southern States Land and Timber Company, the Laguna Valley Company, the Hampton Roads Hotel Company, and the Ashtabula Water Company. He was also a trustee of the Northern Dispensary, and a member of the Board of Education of the City of New York. He served on the Board of Education many years, being always a vigorons opponent of the element which wished to make our educational system subservient to political ends. As Chair- man of the Committee on Buildings he inaugurated a generous and progressive policy, and ontlined and inaugurated plans which are still being carried to completion. For several years leader of the "reform " movement in the Board of Education, on the issue thus raised he was twice elected its President. He has also served on several publie commissions by appointment of the Supreme Court. In 1868 he became Vice-President and Treasurer of the Knickerbocker Ice Company of New York, and in 1875 sneceeded in the presidency its founder and first President, the late Alfred Barmore. This com- pany became the largest corporation of its kind in the world, having a capital of three million dollars. Mr. Maclay remained at its head until the recent combination with other ice companies was effected, creating the Consolidated Ice Company. He was Vice-President of the Bowery Savings Bank.for many years. His achievement as Presi- dent of the Knickerbocker Trust Company was remarkable. In spite of the period of business depression, during the little more than three years since he became President of this corporation, in 1894, in the number of its clients and amount of deposits, its business more than doubled, making its resources more than thirteen million dollars. He was born in New York City, June 11, 1834, the son of Dr. Robert Maclay and Eliza, daughter of Jean Marie Joseph Labatut, an old New York merchant. His father was prominent among the physi- cians of the city, received a service of plate from the citizens of the Sixth Ward in recognition of his distinguished services during the cholera epidemic of 1832, and was for many years President of the New York Savings Bank. He was also one of the most prominent leaders of the Democratic party in the city, and delivered the address of welcome on the occasion of the visit of President Polk to New York. He was a strong supporter of the Government during the Civil War. His younger brother, Hon. William B. Maclay, was famous as a New York lawyer, orator, Democratic leader, and legislator. He served two terms in the State Legislature, and five terms in Congress. He was practically the creator of the New York public school system with which his nephew was so prominently connected. Mr. Robert Ma- clay's grandfather, Dr. Archibald Maclay, born in Killearn, on the banks of Loch Lomond, Scotland, was a prominent minister of the Baptist denomination in New York City, being the founder and for thirty-two years the pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, origi- nally on Mulberry Street, and now on Second Avenue. Subsequently,
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