Old buildings of New York City, with some notes regarding their origin and occupants . An Old Fifth Avenue House Former Besideuce of the Late James Lenox a AMES LENOX was born in New York in1800, and was the son of Robert Lenox, awealthy Scotch merchant. He graduatedfrom Columbia College in 1820 and entered upon abusiness life, but on the death of his father in 1839he retired and devoted the rest of his life to study andworks of benevolence. The collection of books andworks of art became his absorbing passion, and even-tually he gathered about him the largest and most valu-able private collect
Old buildings of New York City, with some notes regarding their origin and occupants . An Old Fifth Avenue House Former Besideuce of the Late James Lenox a AMES LENOX was born in New York in1800, and was the son of Robert Lenox, awealthy Scotch merchant. He graduatedfrom Columbia College in 1820 and entered upon abusiness life, but on the death of his father in 1839he retired and devoted the rest of his life to study andworks of benevolence. The collection of books andworks of art became his absorbing passion, and even-tually he gathered about him the largest and most valu-able private collection of books and paintings in Amer-ica. In 1870 he built the present Lenox Library. Thecollection of bibles is believed to be unequaled even bythose in the British INIuseum, and that of Americanaand Shakespeareana greater than that of any otherAmerican library, in some respects surpassing those inEurope. He conveyed the whole property to the Cityof New York. He was the founder and the benefactorof the Presbyterian Hospital. 63 M:Wj .1111.
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