The magazine of American history with notes and queries . s in the erection of the elevated roads, was con-nected with the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, was a direc-tor in the American Exchange Bank, the Hanover Bank, and the HomeInsurance Company of New York, and the Dime Savings Bank of Brook-lyn, and was specially identified with Cornell University—one of his lastacts was to present $45,000 to the Association of Cornell University ; alsowith the Fisk University of Nashville, Tennessee, and the Adelphi andPolytechnic Academies of Brooklyn ; the Faith-Home in Brooklyn received
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . s in the erection of the elevated roads, was con-nected with the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, was a direc-tor in the American Exchange Bank, the Hanover Bank, and the HomeInsurance Company of New York, and the Dime Savings Bank of Brook-lyn, and was specially identified with Cornell University—one of his lastacts was to present $45,000 to the Association of Cornell University ; alsowith the Fisk University of Nashville, Tennessee, and the Adelphi andPolytechnic Academies of Brooklyn ; the Faith-Home in Brooklyn received$25,000 for its work. And he was an active member of thirty or moreimportant and useful societies. During the later years of his life he gaveto benevolent purposes not less than two-thirds of his princely income. Some years after the death of his first wife, he married Mrs. Mary Mat-thews Smith, a lady of rare mental culture and great force of character—whose pen from time to time reveals the literary faculty, and whose hymns ALFRED SMITH BARNES 371. 372 ALFRED SMITH BARNES and sacred poems have appeared in some of our leading periodicals, and inrecent hymn-books. They went abroad for a year or two, and after theirreturn Mr. Barnes purchased the elegant and spacious home in St. MarksAvenue, in which he resided until his death. This home was the scene of a Christmas festival in December, 1887, ofa most novel and impressive character. The richly and heavily ladenChristmas tree was in an upper room. The dinner table was spread in thedrawing-rooms on the west side of the house, with covers for forty-nineguests. It was strictly a family party. On the left of Mr. Barnes sat his fivedaughters, each with husband and children in a family group ; on the rightof the master of the mansion sat his five sons, each with wife and childrenin a family group. It so happened in one instance that a daughter withfive children sat exactly opposite a son with five children. There weresixteen grand
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