Portraits Of The Presidents Of The Society 1835 1914 PDF Download

Excerpt from Portraits of the Presidents of the Society, 1835-1914 He was a founder of the New York Historical Society on November 20, 1804, and its President, 1836 - 1839; a Director of the Erie Railroad in 1832, this being the first trunk line to enter the city. He assisted in the endowment of the Chair of Ecclesiastical History in the General Theological Seminary, the only professorship for which even a partial endowment was raised between 1833 and 1837. He married first Susan Barclay, and second, Helen Sarah Rutherfurd, and being childless, devised most of his estate to Stuyvesant Rutherfurd, his great - grandnephew, on condition that he change his name to Rutherfurd Stuyvesant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.