. The city of New York. of 75,770. Private andchurch schools up to this time were the onlymeans of education. De Witt Clinton wasthe leader of the Free School Society andits first president. The first school building erected by thissociety was built in 1809 in Henry ground was given by Col. Rutgers forthe purpose. The development since thenhas been rapid and continuous. Old Merchants of New York As already explained elsewhere in thesepages, the formal beginning of New Yorkscommerce dates from 161-i—three hundredyears ago. Notwithstanding all the rapidand remarkable changes which hav
. The city of New York. of 75,770. Private andchurch schools up to this time were the onlymeans of education. De Witt Clinton wasthe leader of the Free School Society andits first president. The first school building erected by thissociety was built in 1809 in Henry ground was given by Col. Rutgers forthe purpose. The development since thenhas been rapid and continuous. Old Merchants of New York As already explained elsewhere in thesepages, the formal beginning of New Yorkscommerce dates from 161-i—three hundredyears ago. Notwithstanding all the rapidand remarkable changes which have oc-curred in New York since that time, thereare still not a few firms among us who aremore than a century old, and one of thembegan while the city was still a colonialpossession. Peter and George Lorillardnow P. Lorillard Co. established in 1760 arestill interested in tobacco. F. W. Devoe &Co., and C. T. Raynolds are the successorsof old Billy Posts paint store in WaterStreet shown in Valentines Manual, but 253. there are no Posts in the firm nor any de-scendants of the original partners, nor is thename used in the business which began in1766. W. H. Schiffehn & Co. was estab-lished in 1794 by Lawrence and the vSchiffelin family still control Bank of New York, 1794. is unique inthat it has occupied the same building inthe same location for over a hundred the Real Estate men the pre-miership must go to the Corporation ofCruikshank Company at 141 business was originally established in1794 by William Cruikshank who had someyears before that come to this country fromAberdeenshire, Scotland. His first officewas in his residence, and was located at 40Greenwich Street, southwest comer of whatwas then known as Beaver Lane, but nowknown as Morris Street. There he con-ducted a general real estate business, in-cluding renting, selling, collecting rents andalso wharfage from the piers along the riverfronts. He was succeeded in 1831 by hiss
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