Philip G. Hubert
Published: 2015-07-26
Total Pages: 282
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Excerpt from Merchants' National Bank of the the City of New York: A History of Its First Century, Compiled From Official Records at the Request of the Directors It is often said that the happiest and most prosperous of nations have no histories. As the senior Director of the Merchants' National Bank remarked to the compiler of the present volume, this is apt to be true of banks as well as of nations. There are no sensational events in the life of the Bank to relate. Its history is one of conservative, persistent, intelligent work which has earned the respect and consideration of the community. As the name implies, it has been a bank managed by merchants for merchants. It has had no phenomenal ups or downs. Nevertheless a great deal may be said of any institution one hundred years old. The contrast between the social and business conditions of New York in 1803 with those of to-day alone offers an interesting field of inquiry. Much may also be said of the long line of distinguished merchants who have served the Bank - men identified with the growth of New York from a city of 75,000 inhabitants to a metropolis second only to London in population and financial importance. The compiler desires to acknowledge the help afforded him by Mr. Robert M. Gallaway, the President; by Messrs. John A. Stewart and Charles Stewart Smith, Directors; by Mr. Cornelius V. Banta, formerly Cashier of the Bank; and especially by Mr. Clinton B. Price, Transfer-Clerk of the Bank, who has made the book a labor of love from the beginning. Thanks are also due to many of the Directors and friends of the Bank for suggestions and help in the way of portraits and data concerning former officers of the institution. 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.
