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Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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r & Co.; Ward & Foster; andWard & Co. Mr. Ward retired from all active business in 1888. He remains, 303 364 HENKY CLAY WAKD however, a director of the German-American Insurance Company,a place which he has held ever since 1875. He has held no political office, and sought none. Mr. Wards favorite diversion is yachting, and for the lastseventeen years he has been a prominent and important figurein New York yachting circles. During that time he has owned,first, the sloop Sagitta, and for the last seven years the schoonerClytie. He was vice-commodore of the New York Yacht Clubin 1895-96, and has frequently served on the nominating andadmissions committee of that organization, the foremost yachtclub of the western hemisphere. Mr. Ward is a member of a number of the best clubs of NewYork city, among them being the Union, the Union League, theChurch Club, the Country Club, the New York Yacht Club, theLarchmont Yacht Club, and the Coney Island Jockey Club. Mr. Ward is a bachelor.
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THOMAS LISTER WATT DR. HOLMES has said that the education of a man shouldbegin with his grandparents. If the same rule shall beapplied to the history of a man, we shall observe Archibald Wattcame from Dundee, Scotland, in the early part of the presentcentury, and settled in New York. He married Miss MaryGoodwin, the daughter of Joseph Goodwin of Boston, Massa-chusetts, and his wife, formerly Miss Susannah Keith of Taunton,Massachusetts. Archibald Watt was for many years one of theforemost merchants of New York, and also one of the citys chieflanded proprietors. He had an extensive estate in the upperpart of Manhattan Island, reaching from what is now One Hun-dred and Thirty-third Street and Convent Hill to One Hundredand Fiftieth Street and the Harlem River. He also owned alarge tract farther south, including what is now the northernpart of Central Park. All those regions were then suburban andrural, but the prophetic eye of the canny Scotchman saw clearlythat one day they would be in

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