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Title: Historic buildings now standing in New York, which were erected prior to eighteen hundred
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bank of the Manhattan Company Walton Advertising and Printing Company (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: New York City : Printed for Bank of the Manhattan Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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enth century by James Watson, and in 1805he sold it to Moses Rogers, a prominent merchant, whose wife was a grand-daughterof Governor Fitch of Connecticut and sister of the wife of President Timothy Dwightof Yale. In 1793 Rogers and his brother-in-law were merchants, doing business asRogers & Woolsey. Rogers was an active member of the Society for the Manumissionof Slaves, an officer of the New York Hospital in 1792-99, and in 1797 treasurer ofthe City Dispensary. He was also a vestryman of Trinity Church and member ofthe Society for the Relief of Distressed Prisoners. His sister, Esther, married Archi-bald Gracie, the linen merchant and ship-owner. The peculiar shape of the exteriorof the house was caused by State Street taking a sharp turn, so that the house hadto be built at the apex of the angle. During the Civil War it was used for militarypurposes by the Government. It is now a home for Irish immigrant girls, under theauspices of the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary. ( 39 )
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(4o) BANK OF THE MANHATTAN COMPANY IT is fitting that this brochure should conclude with a briefhistory of the Bank of the Manhattan Company, from itsrather unique beginning in 1799.At the beginning of the nineteenth century New York wasby no means so healthy a place as it is to-day, for it wasfrequently swept during the hot season by epidemics of yellowfever. One of the most severe of these, which occurredin 1798 and was attributed to the inadequate and inferiorwater supply, led a number of public-spirited gentlemen,among whom were John B. Church and Daniel Ludlow,wealthy merchants, to apply to the legislature for a charterfor a company that would supply New York with pure water.Two of the most active spirits in the movement were AaronBurr and Alexander Hamilton, who at this time were notby any means the bitter rivals that they were three yearslater. And the two together, on February 25, 1799, calledupon the mayor in advocacy of the movement, and weredirected by the Common Council to

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