. Leslie's history of the greater New York . ndStock Telegraph Comiiany, theAmerican Speakiiij: TelegiajiliCom])any, the American Telegrapliand Cable Company, the Texas andIacific Eailway Company, the Wa-bash TJailroad Coniiiany, and theSt. Louis, Iron Mountain andSouthern Railway Company. He isinterested in several benevolent in-stitutions, including the Presbyte-rian Hospital and New York Insti-tution for the Instruction of theDeaf and Dumb, of both of whichhe is a director. He was boiU inHartford,Conn., Sejitember 0, 1S22,the sou of Hon. Roderick Terry,merchant and bank jiresident oftiartfo
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . ndStock Telegraph Comiiany, theAmerican Speakiiij: TelegiajiliCom])any, the American Telegrapliand Cable Company, the Texas andIacific Eailway Company, the Wa-bash TJailroad Coniiiany, and theSt. Louis, Iron Mountain andSouthern Railway Company. He isinterested in several benevolent in-stitutions, including the Presbyte-rian Hospital and New York Insti-tution for the Instruction of theDeaf and Dumb, of both of whichhe is a director. He was boiU inHartford,Conn., Sejitember 0, 1S22,the sou of Hon. Roderick Terry,merchant and bank jiresident oftiartford, and grandson of JudgeEliphalet Terry, Speaker of theTonnecticut Legislatuie for thirty-three years, 1778 to 1812. He is lineally descendeil from Samuel Terry,an early settler of Springtield, Mass., and original iiatentee of Enheld,Conn., in 1057, as he is also from (iovernor Bradford, of IMymouth,Governor Haynes of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and GovernorWyllys of Connecticut. He was married in 18-Ki to Elizabeth .riillN 1. IKKRV. I^LIXT, (IIARLES RANLETT, is one of the most eminent mer-chants in the exporting trade with South America, and is an oMcerof a large number of important coriioiations. 1 le lias been very activeas a busim^ss organizer. Having gradnale(l from the I>i-ooklyii Poly-technic Institute, in 1871 he eniiagetl in business as a member of the 360 HISTORY OF THE GREATER NEW YORK. fiiiii of Gilchrist, Flint & roiiiiiany. The next year he became oneof the founders of the notalilc tirni of W. K. Grace & Company, andwas a partner. In 1874 he traveled in ^^outh America. He organizedthe Export Lumber rompany in 1878, and has been one of its directorssince. With his father, the late Benjamin Flint, and his brother,Wallace Benjamin Flint, he oroauized, in 1885, the firm of Flint &Company, which rapidly assumed a leading place in the South Ameri-can trade, ^^ubsequently he effected a consolidation of large expoil-ing interests, forming tlie
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