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BEND, GEORGE HOFFMAN, stockbroker and member of the New York Stock Exchange, is of a distinguished Baltimore family. He was born in that city, and is the son of the late William Bradford Bend and Catherine Ann, daughter of Philip Thomas and Frances Mary Indlow. He is the grandson of Dr. Joseph G. Bend, Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Baltimore, whose wife was a grand- daughter of Mary, sister of Elias Bondinot, President of the Continen- tal Congress from 1779 to 1783. He is descended from Gabriel Lud- low, who was born at Castle Carey, England, in 1663; came to New York in 1694, and became a notable merchant. One of his ancestors, Philip Thomas, of Rockland County, Virginia, was a descendant of the fourth Baron Mowbray and Henry III. of England. Mr. Bend is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Union League, City, Riding, Players', and New York Yacht clubs. He married Elizabeth A. Town- send, and has two daughters.
SCHELL, ROBERT, at the age of fourteen entered the employ of the New York jewelry firm of Fellows, Cargill & Company, and re- mained with this firm as clerk, partner, and head of the establish- ment, upon the same spot on Maiden Lane, for a period of forty-two years. He took the business alone in 1842, but a little later was asso- ciated with one of his former employers under the style of Lonis S. Fellows & Schell. The firm name subsequently became Robert Schell & Company, under which style the house attained a foremost place in the wholesale jewelry and fancy hardware trade. Mr. Schell has
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been a trustee of the German Savings Bank of New York since 1859, and is its Vice-President, a position which he has held for many years. He was one of the founders of the Bank of the Metropolis in 1872, was its President from 1872 to 1894, when he resigned on ac- count of advancing years, and continues to be one of its directors, as he has been from the beginning. He is also a director of the New York and Harlem Railroad, the Woodlawn Cemetery, and the As- sociated Land Company. He is Treasurer of the New York His- torical Society, a trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital, one of the governors of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, one of the coun- sel of the New York University, a trustee of Rutgers College, and a member of the St. Nicholas and Manhattan chibs, the Uptown As- sociation, and the American Geo- graphical Society. He married, in March, 1850, Mary Spooner Taber, of New York City, and has a son, Francis Schell, a lawyer, of New York. Mrs. Schell died in 1896. ROBERT SCHELL. Mr. Schell was born in Rhinebeck, N. Y., October 8, 1815, the son of Christian Schell and Elizabeth Hughes, and a brother of the late Augustus Schell and the late Edward Schell, of New York City.
SCHELL, EDWARD, younger brother of the late Augustus Schell and the present Robert Schell, was partner in the mercantile firm of the latter for seventeen years, and subsequently for over thirty years was President of the Manhattan Savings Institution of this city. He was a trustee of the Union Trust Company, and a director of the National Citizens' Bank, the National Butchers' and Drovers' Bank, the Manhattan Life Insurance Company, the Citizens' Insurance Company, and the Park Fire Insurance Company. He was a trustee of St. Luke's Hospital, the New York Society Library, and the New York Institution for the Blind. He was a life member of the St. Nicholas Society, as he was also of the New York Historical Society. He was a governor of the Manhattan Club, and a member of the Century Association. He was likewise a vestryman of the Church of the Ascension, of this city, and a warden of Christ Church at Rye, N. Y. He was born at Rhinebeck, N. Y., November 5, 1819, the youngest of the six sons of Captain Christian Schell and Elizabeth Hughes, was educated under Professor Holbrook, of Rhinebeck, and
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at seventeen years of age became a clerk in New York City with Lit- tlefield & Shaw, linen importers. Seven years later he became junior partner in his brother's firm of Lewis S. Fellows & Schell. and con- tinned this connection for seventeen years, when he was elected Treas- urer of the Manhattan Savings Institution, of which he had then been trustee for eight years. He soon became its President, and so remained from 1876 until his death, December 24. 1893. He married Jane I., daughter of Jonas C. Heartt, for several terms Mayor of Troy. N. Y. The present Edward Heartt Schell is their son.
SCHELL, EDWARD HEARTT, who for many years has been en- gaged in the practice of law in New York City, is the son of the late Edward Schell, eminent merchant and financier of this city. He is a trustee of the Manhattan Savings Institution, of which his father was president for more than thirty years, and is a director of the Citizens' Insurance Company and the Manhattan Life Insurance Company. He is a member of the City Bar Association, the Manhat- tan Club, the St. Nicholas Society, and the Yale Alumni Association. Ile was born in Troy, N. Y .. September 30, 1848, was graduated from Yale and studied law in the Columbia College Law School under the late Professor Dwight. He married, in 1886, Cornelia E., daughter of William Evarts Barnes and Mary Spies.
CUYLER, CORNELIUS CUYLER, head of the New York City banking firm of Cuyler, Morgan & Company, is a director of a large number of important corporations, including the following: The Mer- cantile Trust Company. the United States Guarantee Company. the II- linois Steel Company, the Kings County Traction Company. the North Shore Traction Company, the New York. Susquehanna, and Western Railroad Company. the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, the East Shore Terminal Company's Railroad, the Buffalo Railway Company, the Crosstown Street Railway, of Buffalo, and the Consolidated Coal Company, of Wyoming. He is a member of the Holland Society. the Downtown Association. and the Union, City, University, Racquet. Calumet. Manhattan. Lawyers', Princeton, and University Athletic clubs. He is also a member of the Century Association. He was born in Philadelphia, was graduated from Princeton University in 1879, and is the son of the late Theodore Cuyler, an eminent member of the Philadelphia bar, and his wife, eldest daughter of Rev. Thomas De Witt. for forty years Pastor of the Collegiate Dutch Church of New York City. He is grandson of Rev. Cornelius C. Cuyler. D.D., of Poughkeepsie and Philadelphia, and is lineally descended from Major Hendrick Cuyler, who. born in Amsterdam, Holland. in 1637. married Annetje Schepmoes, and settled at Beverwyck. near Albany, in 1664. He was an officer in the war with the French. A brother of Cornelius C. Cuyler. Thomas De Witt Cuyler, is a prominent member of the
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Philadelphia bar, and is a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and a member of a number of New York clubs. He is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.
COPELAND, HENRY CLAY, is President of the Riverside Bank, and a Director of the Consumers' Fuel, Gas, Heat and Power Com- pany. He was born at Middletown, Vt., May 23, 1844, the son of Lu- cius Copeland, and grandson of Moses Copeland, and was educated at Union College. From 1870 to 1883 he was Cashier of the First National Bank of Brandon, Vt .; in 1883 organized the Sprague Na- tional Bank. of Brooklyn, and was its Cashier until 1885, and in the latter year organized the Minnehaha National Bank of Sioux Falls, Dakota. In 1887 he organized the Riverside Bank of this city. was its Cashier from that time until 1894. and since 1894 has been its President. He is a member of the Union College Alumni.
SPRAGUE, CHARLES E., entered the service of the Union Dime Savings Institution of New York City in 1870 as junior clerk; in 1878 was elected Secretary; in 1891 was elected Treasurer, and since 1892 has been President .. He is a charter member and President of the Institute of Accounts, and is State Examiner of Public Account- ants. He was graduated from Union College with high honors in 1860. During the Civil War he earned the brevet of Colonel in the volunteer service, and received a severe wound during the second day's fight at Gettysburg. He acquired at college a knowledge of Latin, Greck, Hebrew, French, German, and Spanish, and has con- tinued his study of these and other languages. He was the first student of Volapuk in America, and is the author of the standard textbook of Volapuk in the United States. He taught school for several years after the Civil War. Having a talent for mathematics, he has made an analytical study and exposition of the principle of accounts. At the present time he is Assistant Payinaster-General of the State of New York, with the rank of Colonel, and is a member of the Loyal Legion, the Old Guard of the Twelfth Regiment of New York Volunteers, George Washington Post, No. 103, Grand Army of the Republic; the Union College Alumni Association, and the Alpha Delta Phi Club. He married, in 1866, Ray Ellison, of New York City, and has two daughters, one of whom is now Mrs. Frank Foster Hazard. Mrs. Sprague is a member of the Society of the Danghters of the American Revolution.
SPEYER, JAMES, since 1885 has been a member of the New York banking house of Speyer & Company, formerly Philip Speyer & Com- pany, which was founded by his father, Gustavus Speyer, and his uncle, Philip Speyer, and is also a member of the allied firm at Frankfort, Germany. He is President of the Provident Loan So- ciety of this city, of which he was one of the founders, and is a
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trustee of the German Savings Bank and the Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was a member of the Executive Committee of 1894 which nominated Mayor Strong; was Vice-President and Treasurer of the German-American Reform Union, which favored the candi- dacy of President Cleveland in 1892, and in 1896 became a member of the Board of Education of this city. He was one of the organizers of the Citizens' Union movement for purer municipal government. He is also Treasurer of the University Settlement Society. He is a member of the City, Racquet, Players', Manhattan, Reform, Lawyers', Lotos, Whist, and New York Yacht clubs, and the Dutch Verein. Hle married, in 1897, Ellen L., daughter of the late John Dyneles Prince and Mary Travers, widow of the late John A. Lowery. Mrs. Speyer is Vice-President of the Woman's Auxiliary of the University Settle- ment Society, is Treasurer of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association, and is a member of the Board of Managers of the Loomis Sanitarium for Consumptives. Mr. Speyer was born in this eity in 1861, and was educated at Frankfort, Ger- many.
QUINTARD, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, has been President of the Citizens' Savings Bank of New York City continously since 1869, having previously been its Vice- President. He is also a director of the Mechanics' and Traders' Bank. the Anglo-American Canaigre Company, the Climax Quick Tan- ning Company, and the Haniman and Northeastern Railroad. He is a member of the Church of the Transfiguration of this city, and of the Union League, St. Nicholas, and American Lotos clubs, the New England Society, the Seventh Reg- iment Veteran Club, and the Acad- emy of Design. He has been twice married, and has six daughters and two sons-Edward and Will- jam Quintard. He was himself born in Stamford, Conn .. December 27, 1826, the son of Isaac Quintard and Clarissa Hoyt. He is the EDWARD AUGUSTUS QUINTARD. brother of George William Quintard, of this city, well known as a man- ufacturer and financier, and who has served terms as State Emigration Commissioner and Park Commissioner of the City of New York. An- other brother, Rev. Dr. Charles Todd Quintard, is Protestant Epis- copal Bishop of Tennessee. Edward Angustus Quintard was educated
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in the common schools and the High School of Stamford, Conn., was a clerk in the employ of his father, a Stamford merchant, and subse- quently established himself in business in New York City. He has served in the Seventy-first and Seventh regiments, National Guard of the State of New York, including the period of the Civil War. For several years he was Captain of the Engineer Corps. He was one of the volunteers from the Seventy-first Regiment who responded to the first call for a three months' service during the Civil War.
MARQUAND, HENRY GURDON, early in life took charge of the large estate left by his brother, Frederick Marquand, and subse -. quently was engaged for many years in banking in this city. He is President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. President of the Hu- guenot Society of America, and a director of the Mercantile Trust Company, the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and the Northern Railroad of New Jersey. He is the first honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. He erected a wing to Bellevue Hospital. He donated the Marquand Chapel to Princeton Univer- sity. He founded and endowed the free library of Little Rock, Ark. He has been one of the most liberal patrons of the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art. He is a member of the Metropolitan. Century, Grolier. and Princeton clubs. He married, in 1851, Elizabeth Love, daughter of Jonathan Allen, of Berkshire. Mass., and has three daughters -- the wife of Rev. Roderick Terry. Mrs. Henry Galbraith Ward. and Mrs. Harold Godwin-and three sons --- Dr. Allan, Professor of Art in Princeton University; Frederick Alexander, and Henry Marquand. now the head of the banking firm established by his father. Mr. Mar- quand is himself the son of Isaac Marquand, who was successfully en- gaged in business in this city, and Mehitable Perry, of Fairfield, Conn., and is the grandson of Henry Marquand, born in 1737, who, in 1761. emigrated from the Island of Guernsey to Fairfield, Conn.
PRATT, DALLAS BACHE, at the age of sixteen entered the em- ploy of the well-known banking firm of Brown Brothers & Company. of this city, and remained with the honse for sixteen years, when he resigned his position to accept that of Cashier of the Bank of America. At the end of another ten years he left the service of this bank to be. come a member of the firm of Maitland, Phelps & Company, now Mait- land, Coppell & Company, banking merchants. He has been an ex- eentive officer of the Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing Company, of Jef- fersonville. Ind .. and is a trustee of the German Savings Bank, and a director of the Bank of America and the New York Warehouse and Security Company. He is Treasurer of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He is a member of the Union League. Metropolitan, Riding, and Country clubs. He was born in this city. February 4. 1>19. and was educated in Trinity School. He
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married, in 1881, Minnie G., daughter of Charles G. Landon, and has three daughters and a son-Alexander Dallas Pratt. He is himself the son of the late Rev. Horace L. E. Pratt, prominent Episcopal eler- gyman, and descends from Lientenant William Pratt, who settled at Cambridge, Mass .. in 1632; in 1636 was one of the founders of Hart- ford. Conn .. under Rev. Thomas Hooker; in 1645 was one of the founders of Saybrook, Conn., which town he represented in the Gen- eral Court from 1666 to 1678. He was the son of Rev. William Pratt. born in 1562. died in 1629, Rector of Stevenage, England, and was great-grandson of Thomas Pratt, of Baldeck. England, who died in 1539.
GREENOUGH, JOHN, is a member of the New York banking firm of Poor & Greenough, and previous to its formation was for many years engaged in mercantile business in this city. He is a director of the United States Casualty Company, the Lawyers' Surety Com- pany, the Consolidated Jee Company, the Southwestern Coal and Im- provement Company, the Knoxville and Ohio Railroad Company, and the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company. He was born in Boston in 1846, was graduated from Harvard in 1865, and removed to this city soon after. He married, in 1879, Caroline H .. daughter of John M. Storey, of New York City. He is a member of the Tuxedo. University, Harvard, and Adirondack League clubs, the Downtown Association, the Sons of the American Revolution, and the New England Society. He is the son of the late David Stoddard Greenough. third of that name. of Boston. and Anna A. Parkman. granddaughter of Samuel Parkman, the celebrated Boston merchant. He descends from Captain William Greenough, who came from Eng- land to Boston in 1642, and established a shipyard at the New Eng- land metropolis. He commanded one of the Boston train bands, and participated in King Philip's War. Mr. Greenough is a cousin of the late Francis Parkman, historian, as also of Horatio Greenough. sculp- tor, whose statue of Washington stands in the National capitol.
BOWDOIN, GEORGE SULLIVAN, for thirteen years subsequent to 1871 connected with the well-known banking house of Morton, Bliss & Company. of New York, and Morton. Rose & Company, of London, and since that time connected with the banking house of Drexel, Morgan & Company, and its successor. J. P. Morgan & Com- pany, has been a participant in a large number of the notable finan- cial operations of the past quarter of a century. He has been active in railroad financiering, and notably in connection with the Philadel- phia and Reading, and the West Shore. He has been president. vice- president. director. receiver, or otherwise connected with a large member of railroad and other corporations, and at the present time is Treasurer of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, a
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trustee of the Bank for Savings, the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, and the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and is a director of the Guaranty Trust Company, the Commercial Union As- surance Company, of London, the Cataract Construction Company. the Niagara Development Company, and the Niagara JInnetion Rail- way Company. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Union, Metropolitan, Union League. Knickerbocker. Tuxedo, and other clubs, and is Treasurer of the HInguenot Society. . He married Julia Irving, daughter of the late eminent merchant. Moses H. Grinnell, and grandniece of Wash- ington Irving, and has living a daughter and a son-Temple Bowdoin. Through his father, the late George R. J. Sullivan, a West Point graduate, who took the name of Bowdoin, which was that of the family of his great-grandmother, Lady Temple, Mr. Bowdoin is de- scended from Sir John Temple, Lieutenant-Governor of New Hamp- shire, both of the Governors Winthrop, Judge James Sullivan, Gov- ernor of Massachusetts, and other notables. the Temple line going back to Algar. King of the East Saxons, and the Sullivan line to Lonis VII. of France. His mother was Frances, daughter of James Alexander Hamilton. lawyer, of this city, officer in the War of 1812, Secretary of State in the first Cabinet of President Jackson, and United States District Attorney for the Southern District of this State, and granddaughter of the famous Alexander Hamilton and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of General Philip Schuyler, of the Revo- lution.
FITZGERALD, LOUIS, is President of the Mercantile Trust Com- pany, Vice-President of the Brooklyn City and Newtown Railroad. member of the Advisory Committee of the Audit Company, and a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the Commercial Trust Company, the Mercantile Safe Deposit Company, the Security Safe Deposit Company, the Missouri Safe Deposit Company, the Pala- tine Insurance Company, of Manchester, England; the Mercantile Electric Company, the Maryland Coal Company, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the Mis- sonri Pacific Railroad Company, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and the Pittsburg, Cleveland and Toledo Railroad. He was born in this city, May 31, 1838, and having been carefully educated, engaged in business. Having joined the Seventh Regiment in 1857, he marched with it to the defense of Washington in 1861. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, having served on the staffs of General " Phil" Kearny and General D. B. Birney, and having won the Kearny Cross. He was wounded at Bull Run, Williamsburg, and Fair Oaks, and very severely by a torpedo explosion while recon- noitering on board the steamer Hiram Barney. Since the war he has been active in the National Guard of this city. In 1875 he was
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elected Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventh Regiment, and in 1882 was appointed Brigadier-General, commanding the First Brigade, consist- ing of the Seventh, Eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventy-first Regiments. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, United Service, and other clubs, including the Westminster Kennel, and of the Society of Colo nial Wars.
VERMEULE, JOHN DAVIS, has been engaged in the manufacture of rubber goods since 1844, and for nearly forty years has been Pres- ident, Treasurer, and Manager of the Goodyear India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Company. He is also President of the Holland Trust Company, President of the York Water Company, President of the York Cliffs Improvement Company is a trustee and was formerly Vice-President of the Anglo-Ameri- can Savings and Loan Association. and is a director of the United States Rubber Company, the Chat- ham National Bank, the Borden- town Company, and the Philadel- phia and Bordentown Railroad Company. He is a member of the Holland Society, and the Reform. Riding, Manhattan. Common- wealth, and Merchants' clubs. He served as Supervisor of Richmond County while a resident of Castle- JOHN DAVIS VERMEULE. ton, S. I. He married, in 1846, Mary C., daughter of John Kelly, a merchant of Philadelphia. Born in Plainfield, N. J., September 21. 1822, he is a grandson of Judge Frederick Vermenle, of the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset County, New Jersey, and is great-grandson of Cornelius Vermenle, who served in the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, and was a stanch Revolutionary patriot, his four sons serving in the Continental army. The first American ancestor. Adrian Vermeule, who came to this country in 1699, was the son of John Cornelissen Vermenle, a prominent citizen of Vlissengen, Zeeland.
DOMINICK, WILLIAM GAYER, with Watson B. Dickerman, founded, in 1869, the banking firm of Dominick & Dickerman, of this city, and was its senior partner until his death, August 31, 1895. He had been a member of the New York Stock Exchange since 1869. For seventeen years he had been a member of the Seventh Regiment,
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serving as Lientenant for ten years, and at the time of his death being Captain of the Ninth Company of the Veteran Association. He was one of the governors of the Seventh Regiment Veteran Club, a man- ager of the New York Huguenot Society, and a member of the Board of Managers of the Sons of the Revolution. Le was one of the Advis- ory Board of the Young Woman's Christian Association. In 1892 he was made a life member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with his brothers, George Francis and Bayard Dominick, having presented to that institution Schraeder's picture, " Queen Elizabeth Signing the Death Warrant of Mary Stuart." He was a member of St. Thomas's Church, the Union League, City, Riding, and other clubs, the Society of Colonial Wars, that of the War of 1812, the Aztec Society, and the New York Historical Society. He married, in 1874, Anne De Witt, daughter of Henry P. Marshall and Cornelia Eliza- beth Conrad, and a descendant of Edward Marshall, who settled in Virginia in 1624, but died in this city, and lies in Trinity Church- yard; as also of Rev. John Rutgers Marshall, Colonel Charles De Witt, of the Revolution; Hermanus Rutgers, Rev. Thomas Hooker, Rev. Everardus Bogardus, and Anneke Jans. She survives her husband, with three daughters and a son -- William Francis Dominick. Himself born in Chicago, in 1845, Mr. Dominick was the son of the late William Francis Dominick, a merchant in Chicago from 1844 to 1855, but who was born and who died in this city; was the grandson of James Will- iam Dominick, au eminent New York merchant. and his wife, Phoebe, daughter of Major James Cock, of the Revolutionary Army, and great- grandson of George Dominick, or Dominigue, a Huguenot, born in La Rochelle, France, in 1739. Brought to New York City in 1742, he became a prominent merchant, was Captain in the militia in 1775, and married Elizabeth Blanchard.
DICKERMAN, WATSON B., founder, in 1869, with the late Will- iam Gayer Dominick, of the banking firm of Dominick & Dickerman. and since the death of Mr. Dominick, in 1895, its senior partner, is the executive head of several important mining and railroad enter- prises. He is President of the Evening Star Mining Company, Presi- dent of the Morning Star Consolidated Mining Company, President of the Norfolk and Southern Railroad Company, a trustee of the Long Island Loan and Trust Company, and a director of the New York . Stock Exchange Building Company. In 1890 and 1891 he was Presi- dent of the New York Stock Exchange. Born in Mount Carmel, Conn., Jannary 4, 1846, he is the son of Ezra D. Diekerman, the first Ameri- can ancestor having come to Massachusetts from England in 1635. He was educated at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass, and entered the banking house of JJacob Bunn, at Springfield, III. In 1868 he became a member of the Open Board of Brokers of New York City,
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