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Poore, Charles Talbot 426
Murray, James B 317
Porter, William Henry 158
Mynderse, Wilhelmus 297
Post, George B. 589
Newhall, John Bradford 633
Potter, Henry Codman 508
Nicoll, De Lancey 242
Powell, Andrew 675
Niebel, J. Curless 648
Powell, Seneca Daniel. 496
Niles, William Watson. 321
Power, John.
514
Oakley, William Henry 607
Pratt, Dallas Bache 168
O'Conor, Charles .. 336
Preston, Thomas S
514
O'Donohue, Joseph J. 598
Price, Bruce 638
Provost, Andrew Jackson 303
Pryor, William Rice 437
Pullen, Eugene Henry. 141
Purcell, John. 688
Purrington, George Franklin 651
Putnam, George Haven 349
Putnam, George Palmer 348
Quintard, Edward Augustus 167
Packard, Silas Sadler 620
Page, Charles B. 300
Page, Richard Channing Moore 423
Pardee, Sheldon John 684
Park, Joseph 381
Parker, Charles 'Aaron. 675
l'arker, James Henry 140
Parker, Willard. 490
Parsons, Charles 520
Parsons, Hosmer Buckingham 573
Rabe, Rudolph Frederick. 320
Rae, Robert. 610
Randall, Rufus Ritch. 636
Randolph, Lewis V. F. 153
Rankine, William Wirch 573
Rapallo, Edward Sumner 271
Rawson, Sidney Fuller. 278
Reid, Ralph Harold 688
Remsen, Charles
36
Oelrichs, Herman 357
Olcott, Frederic Pepoou. 147
Olcott, Horatio Leonard. 608
Orr, Alexander Ector 197
Olsson, Andrew. 676
Overbaugh, De Witt Clinton. 673
Quintard, George William 391
O'Donohue, Joseph J., Jr. 599
O'Donovan-Rossa, Jeremiah 627
Polk, William Mecklenburg. 422
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese 555
. Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn. . 527
INDEX.
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Remsen, Heury 35
Remsen, Henry . . 36
Renwick, Edward S. 551
Schenek, Frederick Brett. 154
Rhinelander, Frederick William.
40
Schermerhorn, Frederick Augustus
6
Rhinelander, Frederick William.
42
Schickel, William . 594
Rhinelander, Philip Jacob.
39
Schieffelin, William Henry 60
Rhinelander, Philip M.
42
Schieffelin, William Jay 61
Rhinelander, Thomas Newbold .
42
Schley, Grant Barney . 398
Rhinelander, T. J. Oakley.
41 Schroeder, Frederick A
374
Rhinelander, William
39
Schurz, Carl 80
Rhinelander, William.
39
Schuyler, Philip
8
Rhinelander, William .
40
Schwab, Gustav.
186
Rhinelander, William Christopher
40
Schwab, Gustav H. 187
Seribner, Charles 344
Richmond, Dean 617
Scudder, Townsend
321
Riekerson, Charles L 540
Seabury, Robert. 328
Riker, John Lawrenee 120
Seaman, Louis Livingston 420
Riker, Samuel . 259
Seamans, Clarenee Walker 534
Ripperger, George 689
Seligman, Henry 616
Risse, Louis Aloys 664
Seligman, Isaae N 616
Robertson, Joseph 1. 529
Seligman, Jesse 615
Robinson, Samuel Adams 350
Rockefell r, John D 204
Seward, Clarence A. 220
Rockefeller, William 205
Seward, George Frederick 149
Rockwell, William B. 619
Roe, Clinton Townsend
687
Sheldon, Edward Wright 332
Rogers, Theodore.
146
Sherman, William Winslow 157
Shoemaker, Henry F. 577
Romeyn, Charles W 649
Roosevelt, James Alfred.
9
Shrady, George Frederick 427
Roosevelt, Cornelius Van Schaick 8
191
Sims, James Marion 478
Roosevelt, Theodore
518
Skene, Alexander Johnson Chalmers .. 445
Roosevelt, William Emlen.
9
Slaven, Henry Bartholomew 586
Root, Elihu.
241
Sleicher, John Albert. 627
Ross, George. 686
Sloenm, Henry Warner 255
Rossiter, Clinton L. 529
Sloemn, Henry Warner 255
Rossiter, Walter King
613
Smith, Abrain Alexander 428
Rutherford, John Alexander
55
Smith, Artemas Brigham 303
Rylance, Joseph H.
508
Sackett, Henry Woodward.
250
Smith, Charles Stewart 206
Smith, Freling HI 316
Smith, G. Waldo 587
Sinith, George Washington 690
Smith, John Sabine. 238
Smith, William Alexander 118
Sehaefer, Edward Charles 536
Snow, Elbridge Gerry 605
Snyder, Charles B. J. 543
Soper, Arthur William 569
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Sehell, Augustus. 127
Schell, Edward 164
222
Sands, Henry Berton 497
Satt.rlee, Francis Le Roy 4.17
Sayre, Lewis Albert 411
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Schell, Edward Heartt 165
Sehell, Robert 163
Rhinelander, Frederick William .
41
Schermerhorn, William Colford. 6
Rhoades, John Harsen
142
Seligman, Joseph 614
Shaffer, Newton Melman 453
Röhl, Richard 646
Short, Edward Lyman. 300
Simmons, Joseph Edward 136
Roosevelt, Robert B
Smith, Bryan Hooker 152
Sage, Russell. 131
Sands, Benjamin Aymar
INDEX.
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Sonthard, George Henry
176
Tracy, Benjamin Franklin. 335
Spencer, Samuel. 370
Trask, Spencer. 177
Sperry, Howard Augustus. 686
Truax, Charles Henry. 243
Speyer, James
166
Truax, Chauncey Shaffer 317
Spofford; Panl.
True, Clarence Fagan. 647
Spofford, Paul Nelson
394
Tryon, Thomas
649
Sponable, Wells.
685
Tucker, John Jerome 632
Spragne, Charles E.
166
Turner, Archibald. 606
Sprague, Nathan Turner
611
Untermeyer, Samuel. 315
Stanton, John.
397
Valentine, Ferdinand Charles 455
Starin, John Henry 316
Stearns, Henry S. 474
Vanderbilt, Cornelius. 122
Stephens, George Washington -319.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius 124
Stephens, Stephen Dover. -304
Vanderbilt, Frederick William. 126
Stewart, John Aikman. .
135
Vanderbilt, George Washington. 126
Vanderbilt, William Henry. 123
Vanderbilt, William Kissam 125
Van Der Emde, Reinhold. 610
St. John, Andrew Warner
692
Van Name, Calvin Decker 328
Stokes, Anson Phelps
57
Van Nest, George Willett 287
Van Norden, Warner 156
Van Pelt, Daniel 567
Stonebridge, Charles H. 692
Storrs, Richard Salter 503
Story, Elmer Gildersleeve. 326
Stout, Charles Herman 539
Sturges, Frederick. 6
Sturges, Jonathan. 5
Sturgis, Frank Knight. 109
Sullivan, Andrew Theodore 173
Sutphin, John H. 630
Taggart, William Rush. 313
Tallant, Hugh. 645
Tappan, J. B. Coles 274
Tuppen, Frederick D 136
Taylor, Howard Angustus 301
Taylor, Isaac E. 488
Tefft, William E 665
Terry, John Taylor 359
Thiry, John H. 628
Thomas, Theodore Gaillard . 486
Warren, Ira Deforest. 262
Warren, Lyman Eddy. 288
Warth, Albin. 622
Watts, George Tyler. 697
Watts, John. 359
Tilden, Samuel Jones 353
Tilford, Frank 162
Webb, William Henry 401
Tompkins, Daniel D
37
Webb, William Seward. 396
Townsend, John Pomeroy 134
Weber, John. 673
Townsend, Ralph S.
636
Webster, David:
457
Van Vechten, Francis Helme . 307
Van Wormer, John R. 541
Van Wyck, Robert Anderson 280
Vermeule, John Davis 171
Waite, Henry Randall 629
Wales, Salem Howe 358
Walker, Henry Freeman 473
Wall, Charles. 568
Wall, Michael W 568
Wall, William 568
Walter, Charles 689
Walter, Martin. 547
Walther, Bartholomew 642
Warde, John Seymour 695
Warner, Charles Dudley 342
Warner, Lucien Calvin 407
Thompson, George Kramer 701
Thomson, William Hanna 441
Tiffany, Charles Lewis, 115
. Tiffany, Lewis Comfort 116
Watts, John, Jr. 561
Stewart, William Rhinelander 117
Stillman, James. 139
Stilwell, Stephen J. 326
Stokes, James 56
Stokes, Thomas 56
Van Rensselaer, Kiliacn. 4
Van Slyek, George Whitfield. 312
Van Den Toorn, Willem Hendick 604
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Weed, Smith Mead.
248
Williams, Lewis Alfred. 345
Weir, Robert Fulton. 490
Williams, William Edward. 700
Weller, Augustus Noble 270
Wilson, Richard T. 159
Wells, James L 520
Wilson, Washington. 584
Windmueller, Louis 602
West, George. 543
Winslow, Edward. 101
Westbrook, John 180
614
Winslow, Richard Heury 99
Wetmore, George Peabody 65
Winters, Joseph Edeil. 431
Wheeler, Charles Emery 617
Winthrop, Buchanan 63
Wheeler, Everett Pepperell. 314
Wolff, Philip 660
Wheeler, Jerome Byron 575
Wood, James Rushmore 493
White, Joseph Baker 540
Wood, Jolin Walter 468
White, Richard Granit 342
Wood, Orrin Squire. 556
White, Stanford .. 343
Woodford, Stewart Lyndon:
291 .
White, Stephen Van Cullen 273
Wright, Frank Ayres
647
Whitney, William Collins, 213
Wylie, Walker Gill. 429
Wiekes, Edward Allen. . 371
Yetman, Hubbard R. 546
Wight, Jarvis Sherman
446
Young, Charles Titus 156
Wilcox, Reynold Webb. 138
Zeltner, William H 700
Williams, George Gilbert. 133
Zucker, Alfred. 659
LIST OF STEEL ENGRAVINGS.
FACE PAGE
Horace Greeley
Title
John Jacob Astor
66
Joseph Hodges Choate
210
Richard Salter Storrs
501
ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT.
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Nicholas Fish
1
Antographs of William Alexander, Lord
Hamilton Fish.
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Stirling 47
Van Rensselaer Arıns
5
Pierrepont Arms 50
Schuyler Arms
8
Beekman Arms. 51
Autograph of Nicholas Roosevelt. 8
Colonel Gerardus Beekman, M.D. 51
Gallatin Arms. 15
James W. Beekman. 52
Colonel S. V. R. Cruger
16
Kip Arms 54
Gardiner Arms 17
21
Governor E. D. Morgan
57
Judge William Jay
31
Edward Denison Morgan.
59
Hon. John Jay
32
Schietfelin Arms 61
De Witt Clinton
38
de Peyster Arms
42
Rev. John Morgan Dix, D.D 65
Bayard Arnis.
43
Colonel John Jacob Astor
70
Autograph of Nicholas Bayard
44
DeLancey Arms . 74
Autograph of William Bayard. 45
John William Hamersley . 76
James Hooker Hamersley 78
James Alexander. 46
Rutherford Arıns. ɔ̃5
General John Watts de Peyster
Autograph of John Winthrop 63
Wendell, Jacob 571
Winslow, James. 101
Westervelt, Walter
ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT.
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Jay Gould. 83
Chester Alan Arthur. 90
Junius Spencer Morgan 93
Austin Barclay Fleteher 271
Richard Henry Winslow
100
Stephen Van Cullen White 273
George Vanderhoof Brower 275
Sturgis Arms.
109
Henry Hill Anderson 277
Sidney Fuller Rawson 279
John Vinton Dahlgren. 281
General Thomas Hillhouse 119
.. Commodore " Cornelins Vanderbilt .. 122
Cornelius Vanderbilt 124
Andrew Carnegie. 130
George Gilbert Williams
134
Frederick D. Tappen 137
Oliver Stanley Carter
141
Wilhelmus Mynderse 297
Theodore Fitch 299
Alexander Gilbert 148
Edward Lyman Short 301
302
Warner Van Norden. 157
William Joseph Fanning 304
William Henry Porter 159
Edward R. DeGrove 306
Frank Tilford 162
Henry Melville 308
Robert Sehell 164
Henry Clinton Baekus 310
Edward Augustus Quintard 167
John Davis Vermeule 171
William Rush Taggart 314
Philip Bissinger
174
Freling H. Smith 316
George Henry Southard
176
Louis Marshall. 318
320
Julian D. Fairehild.
182
James MeNaught
322
Richard Kelly
185
Luke J. Connorton. 324
Darius Ogden Mills 190
John Bryant Merrill. 325
Richard Delafield
194
Thomas W. Fitzgerald 327
Calvin Deeker Van Name 329
John Angustine MeCall
202
Dennis Daniel MeKoon 330
332
William Collins Whitney 213
Charles Luman Bnekingham 217
Benjamin F. Traey 335
William Maxwell Evarts 337
Charles Anderson Dana 340
Stanford White. 343
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. 317
Samuel Adams Robinson 351
Cornelius Newton Bliss 355
John Taylor Terry 359
Smith Mead Weed. 248
Thomas Allison 253
Oliver Prinee Buel
256
Samuel Spencer. 370
William Russell Graee. 373
Samuel Riker. 259
Ira DeForest Warren. 262
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Collis Potter Huntington. 376
Autograph of Ulysses Hiram Grant .... 378
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Antograph of William Frederick Have- meyer 111
Henry Osborne Havemeyer 113
Frederick William Adee 283
James William Hawes.
285
Lyman Eddy Warren. 288
Frank Moss 289
General Stewart L. Woodford 291
Joseph Fitch.
293
. Adrian Hoffman Joline .295
Charles Stebbins Fairehild. 145
Henry White Cannon 153
Charles Curie .
Daniel Peixotto Hays 312
Daniel Addison Heald. 204
Thomas C. Campbell'.
George Cromwell. 333
Clarenee A. Seward. 220
Thomas Hamlin Hubbard. 223
George Hoadly. 227
Jolin James MeCook 230
Chauncey Mitehell Depew 233
John' Sabine Smith. 239
Henry Elias Howland 244
Henry Clews
363
Roswell Pettibone Flower 367
Percival Farquhar 258
180
John Westbrook
George Washington Stephens
James Abererombie Burden. 199
Edward Lauterbach 265
Edward Everett MeCall 268
August Belmont
107
ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT.
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Frank Stuart Bond.
380
Woodbury Langdon. 384
James Robert Keene.
388
George William Quintard.
391
James Boorman Colgate.
393
Grant Barney Schley
398
William Henry Webb
401
Nathaniel L'Hommedieu McCready 404
Silas Belden Dutcher 408
George Tucker Harrison 415
Thomas Masters Markoe 418
Franeis Hartman Markoe 419
James Wright Markoe 420
Daniel Scott Lamont 519
Thomas Lemuel. James 553
Samuel Finley Breese Morse 555
Orrin Squire Wood 556
Cyrus West Field 358
De Peyster and Watts Arms 560
John Watts 560
Statue of John Watts, Jr 561
Edwin Thomas Booth 563
Cornelius Nevius Hoagland. 566
Dr. Daniel Van Pelt. 567
Arthur William Soper
570 372
Daniel Lewis. 461
James Harvie Dew. 462
Rufus Pratt Lincoln. 464
De Laney Carter 467
John Haskell Billings 469
William Tillinghast Bull. 471
Clement Cleveland 473
Robert Abbe. 475
Frank Hartley 477
Nathan Bozeman 484
Nathan Gross Bozeman 486
Charles Clifford Barrows .. 488
Porter Flewellen Chambers 489
John Henry Fruitnight. 491
Edward Delafield. 494
Francis Delafield 495
. John Lanson Adams
498
Albin Warth 622
Sigmund Bergmann. 624
Bishop Henry Codman Potter 508 David Neilson Melvin 626
Dean Engene Augustus Hoffman 509
Autograph of Dean Hoffman 510
Dr. Charles Frederick Hoffman 512
Bishop JJohn Connolly 514
Archbishop John Hughes 515
Cardinal John McCloskey 516
Archbishop Michael Augustine Corri- gan. 517
Governor Theodore Roosevelt 519
Charles B. Fosdiek 521
Charles W. Maekey 524
Charles Mallory. 527
Joseph L. Robertson 530
Stephen Alling Halsey 533
Charles I. Hudson 537
John R. Van Wormer 541
George West. 544
Richard Channing Moore Page 424
Charles Talbot Poore 426
Walker Gill Wylie 430
John Edeil Winters 432
William Oliver Moore 436
Edward Lassell Partridge 439
Robert Tuttle Morris 442
William Hanna Thomson 444
Franeis LeRoy Satterlee 447
Augustus Palmer Dudley 451
Newton Melman Shaffer 45.4
James Riddle Goffe. 456
Orlando Benajah Douglas 438
Jerome Byron Wheeler. 575
Henry F. Shoemaker 578
Henry Herschel Adams. 581
Washington Wilson. 584
Henry Bartholomew Slaven 586
Clarence Tynan Barrett 589
Joel Asaph Allen 391
Charles Joel Fisk. 595
Joseph J. O'Donohne 598
Louis Windmueller. 602
Daniel Butterfield. 604
William Lamnan Bull. 608
Nathan Turner Sprague 612
Jesse Seligman. : 615
Dean Richmond 617
William B. Rockwell 619
Silas Sadler Packard 620
John H. Thiry 628
John H. Sutphin 630
John Jerome Tucker. 632
John Bradford Newhall 633
Louis Fraucis Haffen.
662
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Dr. John Hall. 506
Samuel Miller Jarvis.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY.
FISH, NICHOLAS, ancestor of several distinguished citizens of New York, was no less eminent in his own day. Born in this city, Au -. Ernst 28, 1758, where he also died, June 20, 1833, he attended Prince- ton College, and subsequently studied law. In 1776, when eighteen years of age, he was appointed Aid-de-camp to Brigadier-General Charles Scott. In November, 1776, he was commissioned Major of the Second New York Regiment, and subse- quently became its Lientenant-Colonel. lle participated in the Battle of Sara- toga. In 1778 he was division inspector under Baron Steuben. He commanded a light body of infantry at Monmouth. In 1779 he was a member of General Sul- livan's expedition against the Indians. Ile was active at the siege of Yorktown, preceding Cornwallis's surrender. For several years, dating from 1786, he was Adjutant-General of the State of New York. In 1794 he became Supervisor of Revenue. He was elected President of the New York Society of the Cincinnati in 1797. From 1806 to 1817 he was Al- NICHOLAS FISH. derman of this city, and prominent on important public and social occasions. He was the personal friend of Washington and very inti- mate with Hamilton.
Colonel Nicholas Fish was the son of Jonathan Fish and Eliza- beth Sackett, his father being a merchant of New York City. His grandparents were Samuel Fish and Agnes Berrien, of Newtown, L. I. Ilis great-grandfather, Jonathan Fish, born in 1680, died in 1723, was for fifteen years Town Clerk of Newtown. Nathan Fish, great-great-grandfather of Colonel Nicholas, was born in Sandwich, Mass., in 1650, and in 1659 accompanied his father, Hon. Jonathan Fish, from Massachusetts to Newtown, L. I. The latter was born in England, in 1610, early emigrated with his brothers, Nathaniel and
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John, to Lynn, Mass., subsequently removing to Sandwich, and event- ually to Newtown, where for several years he was a magistrate. He is said to have been descended from Simon Fish, a London lawyer, who died about 1531. Colonel Nicholas Fish married Elizabeth Stuy- vesant, through her father fifth in descent from Governor Peter Stuy- vesant, and through her mother, Margaret Livingston, descended from Robert Livingston, first lord of Livingston manor. The late Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, was their son.
FISH, HAMILTON, the distinguished statesman, was the son of Colonel Nicholas Fish and Elizabeth Stuyvesant, was born in New York City, August 3, 1808, and died at Garrisons, N. Y., September 7, 1893. He was graduated from Columbia: College in 1827, and, hav- ing been admitted to the bar in 1830, was a successful practitioner, at one time being law partner of William Beach Lawrence. He had inherited a large estate from his father, and his activity in public life soon forced his professional work into abeyance. He was an unsuc- cessful Whig candidate for the Assembly in 1834, but in 1842 was elected to Congress. He was candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the State in 1846, Jolin Young being the Whig candidate for Gover- nor, but the ticket was defeated. The office becoming vacant in 1847, however, he was again the candidate of his party, and was elected by 30,000 majority. In the fall of 1848 he was the successful candidate for Governor of the State, and at the end of his term be- came United States Senator, to which office he had been elected by the Legislature in 1851. He opposed the extension of slavery into the Territories, both as Governor and in the Senate, and became early identified with the Republican party. In the Presidential campaign of 1860 he was a conspicuous sup- porter of Lincoln. With Bishop Ames he was constituted a United States Commission in 1862 to visit the Federal prisoners confined at Richmond, and he successfully arranged with the Confederate authorities the plan of exchange of prisoners which continued until the close of the war. Called into the Cabinet of President Grant as Secretary of State, in 1869. he held this portfolio continuously for eight years, during both terms of Grant's administration. " The career of Hamilton Fish as Secretary of State was marked by the determination of a number of very grave international questions. He was one of the commissioners on behalf of the United States in the negotiation of the treaty of Wash-
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ington of 1871; he settled the old Northwestern boundary controversy with Great Britain; he adjusted the critical questions between the I'nited States and Spain growing out of the Cuban insurrection, and it was at his instance that the Geneva tribunal for the settle- ment of the . Alabama claims ' incorporated in its decisions a pro- vision seeuring this country against claims for indirect damages re- sulting from Fenian raids or Cuban filibustering expeditions." He. married in 1836, Julia, daughter of Peter Kean, of Ursino, N. J., and had four married daughters -- Mrs. Sidney Webster, Mrs. Fred. S. G. d'Hauteville, the wife of Colonel S. N. Benjamin, U.S.A., and Mrs. William E. Rogers; an unmarried daughter, Edith Livingston, and . . three sons, who are prominent citizens-Nicholas, Hamilton, Jr., and Stuyvesant Fish,
FISH, NICHOLAS, eldest son of the late Hon. Hamilton Fish, has been engaged in banking in this city since 1887, while previous to that time he was engaged for many years in the diplomatic service of the I'nited States. He was born in New York, February 19, 1846, was grad- uated from Columbia College in 1867, and from the Dane Law School of Harvard in 1869. From 1871 to 1874 he was second secretary of the United States Legation in Berlin, and from 1874 to 1877 was first see- retary. From the latter date until 1881 he was chargé d'affaires to the Swiss Confederation. He was United States Minister to Bel. gium from 1882 to 1886. Mr. Fish is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, the Metropolitan, University, Tuxedo, Riding, Players', Lawyers', St. Anthony, University Glee and University Athletic clubs, the Century Association, the Downtown Association, the St. Nicholas Society, and the New York Historical Society. He married Clémence S. Bryce, and has a daughter living. His only son, Hamil- ton Fish, Jr., was the first American soldier killed in battle in the campaign against Santiago during the recent war with Spain. He was a member of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's regiment of so-called " Rough Riders." Volunteering as a private, he rose to the rank of Sergeant, and died gallantly in front of his company in the first charge at Siboney.
FISH, HAMILTON, second son of the late Hon. Hamilton Fish, was born in Albany, April 27, 1849, while his father was Governor of the State, and in 1869 was graduated from Columbia College. From 1869 to 1871 he was private secretary to his father, then Seere- tary of State in. Grant's Cabinet. In 1873 he was graduated from Columbia College Law School, and has actively practiced law in this city since, except when engaged in public life, although maintaining
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his residence at Garrisons, N. Y. He has been a prominent leader of the Republican party in this State, and for many years has been Chairman of the Republican County Committee of Putnam County. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1884. In 1873 and 1874 he was Aid-de-camp on the staff of Governor John A. Dix. He was a member of the Assembly from Putnam County, as a Republican, in 1874, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892. 1893, 1894, 1895, and 1896. He became Republican leader on the floor by length of service in 1890, and was Speaker of the Assembly in 1895 and 1896. From 1884 to 1886 he was a trustee of the State Homeo- pathic Asylum at Middletown. From 1886 to 1888 he was Aqueduct Commissioner of New York City. He is a member of the Union, Met- ropolitan, Union League, and Republican clubs, the Patriarchs, the Bar Association of the city, and the Columbia Alumni Association. He married, in 1880, Emily M., daughter of the late Hon. Francis N. Mann, of Troy, N. Y., and has two children.
FISH, STUYVESANT, third and youngest son of the late eminent Hon. Hamilton Fish, has been prominent as a banker and railroad financier since 1871, in which year he was graduated from Columbia College. In that year he accepted a responsible position with the Illi- nois Central Railroad Company, of which corporation he has been Pres- ident since 1887, and was Vice-President from 1883 to 1887. From 1872 to 1876 he was connected with the well-known banking house of Mor- ton, Bliss & Co. In 1877 he became a Director of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and secretary of the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad Company. In 1882 he was elected Vice-President of the latter corporation. At the present time, in addition to the presiden- ey of the Illinois Central, he is President of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, Vice-President of the National Park Bank, of which he has long been a director, and is a trustee of the New York Life Insurance & Trust Company and the Mutual Life Insurance Company. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Riding, Play- ers', and St. Anthony clubs, the St. Nicholas Society, the Southern Society, the Downtown Association, and the Columnbia Alumni Asso- ciation. Ile was born in New York City, June 24, 1851. He married in 1876 Marion G., daughter of the late William Henry Anthon, and granddaughter of Judge John Anthon, and has a daughter and two sons -- Stuyvesant. Jr., and Sidney Webster Fish.
VAN RENSSELAER, KILLAEN, stock broker, of this city, is President of the Grand Army Mission, President of the Sanitary Aid Society, President of the Dormitory of the Sanitary Aid Society, and
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a director of the American Tract Society and the City Missions. He is a member of the Holland Society, the St. Nicholas Society, the Inguenot Society, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and the Grand Army of the Republic. He was born in Albany in 1845, and despite his youth at the time of the Civil War he eventually enlisted. became a captain in the Thirty-ninth . New York Volunteers, and participated in fourteen engagements, serving under General Hancock and General Grant. After the war he traveled abroad extensively prior to engaging in busi- ness in this city. He married in 1870 Olivia Atterbury, of New York City, and has three; daughters and two sons -- Kiliaen, Jr., and JANBAPTEST VAN RENSSELAER DIRECTEUR DERCOLONY RENSSELAER Wyck 1656 William Stephen Van Rensselaer. Mrs. Van Rensselaer descends from the famons Bishop Atterbury, of England; is the granddaughter of the late Anson Greene Phelps, founder and VAN RENSSELAER ARMS. original head of Phelps, Dodge and Company, and is great-grandniece of Elias Bondinot, first President of the United States Congress. Mr. Van Rensselaer is seventh in descent from Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the rich merchant of Amsterdam, who was, in 1630, created the first patroon of Rensselaerwyck. He is the son of the late William P. Van Rensselaer and Sarah Rogers, and is grandson of General Stephen Van Rensselaer, fifth and last patroon of Rensselaerwyck, whose wife was Margaret, daughter of General Philip Schuyler, of the Revolu- tion, and whose mother was Catherine, daughter of Philip Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
STURGES, JONATHAN, born in Southport, Conn., in 1802, came to New York City in 1821, and was employed with R. & L. Reed. In 1828 he became a partner in this firm. The firm style became Sturges, Bennett and Company in 1843, and Sturges, Arnold and Com- pany in 1865, Mr. Sturges remaining at its head under both names until his retirement from business in 1868. He was twice Vice-Presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce. One of the founders of the Union League Club, in 1863 he was elected its President. He was also one of the founders of the Century Association. He was a director of the Illinois Central Railroad, the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford Railroad, and the Bank of Commerce, being one of the founders of the latter. He married in 1829 Mary, danghter of John Cary, and had four sons-Frederick, Edward, Arthur Pemberton, and Henry Cady. One of his daughters is Mrs. William HI. Osborne. Another died shortly after her marriage to John Pierpont Morgan.
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