. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . Assembly, and hasbeen for fifteen years its secretary and superintend-ent ; and, with the exception of its Vincent, and its president, Lewis Miller, perhaps no man is more closely identified with theorganization than he. He founded the Ceorgia(hautauqua Assembly at Albany, Ga., and has hada most important part in its successful institution has p
. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . Assembly, and hasbeen for fifteen years its secretary and superintend-ent ; and, with the exception of its Vincent, and its president, Lewis Miller, perhaps no man is more closely identified with theorganization than he. He founded the Ceorgia(hautauqua Assembly at Albany, Ga., and has hada most important part in its successful institution has prospered markedly ; and,owing to the peculiar educational conditions of theSouth, has been productive of great good. It hasalso been most helpful in promoting harmony be-tween the intelligent and religious people of theNorth and the South, since able representatives ofthe two sections meet constantly on its lectureplatform and in the general work of the assembly,and such necessarily produces a truerestimate of each others needs and limitations. But the work that is nearest Dr. Duncans heart isthat of the Sunday school, and it is this field in whichhe has won his widest reputation. He organized. U/LL/A.\r ALE.\A.\DER the Syracuse Sunday School Association, and wasits first president: and he was president for threeyears of the Onondaga County Sunday SchoolAssociation. For twentv-five vears he was the 10 MEN OF NEW YORK—EASTERN SECTION superintendent of the Plymouth Sunday School ofSyracuse, and its branch schools, the Clood Will andthe Pilgrim. For seventeen years he has representedNew York state on the executive committee of theInternational Sunday School Association of theIgnited States and Canada ; and he has been for an
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