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Title: Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
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fresh from the commonschools, Samuel entered as a clerk the banking houseof Prime & King. While still a mere lad, an old friendof the family asked him what he meant to be when hecame to mans estate. I mean to be one of the first bankers in the UnitedStates! replied Samuel. At the age of twenty-two he became a partner in thefirm, which was thereafter known as Prime, Ward &King. In a memoir of our grandfather, the partner whosurvived him, Mr. Charles King, says: — Money was the commodity in which Mr. Warddealt, and if, as is hardly to be disputed, money be theroot of all evil, it is also, in hands that know how to useit worthily, the instrument of much good. There existundoubtedly, in regard to the trade in money, andrespecting those engaged in it, many and absurd prej-udices, inherited in part from ancient error, and fo-mented and kept alive by the jealousies of ignoranceand indigence. It is therefore no small triumph to havelived down, as Mr. Ward did, this prejudice, and to
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- fit P- o -S^ s 3 s w -.2 c-> £?X LITTLE JULIA WARD 17 have forced upon the community in the midst of whichhe resided, and upon all brought into connexion withhim, the conviction that commerce in money, like com-merce in general, is, to a lofty spirit, lofty and enno-bling, and is valued more for the power it confers, ofpromoting liberal and beneficent enterprises, and ofconducing to the welfare and prosperity of society,than for the means of individual and selfish gratifica-tion or indulgence. Mr. Wards activities were not confined to financialaffairs. He was founder and first president of the Bankof Commerce; one of the founders of the New YorkUniversity and of the Stuyvesant Institute, etc., etc. In 1812 he married Julia Rush Cutler, second daugh-ter of Benjamin Clarke and Sarah Mitchell (Hyrne)Cutler. Julia Cutler was sixteen years old at the timeof her marriage, lovely in character and beautiful inperson. She had been a pupil of the saintly

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