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Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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educationalinstitution similar to that of Oxford, in England, with broader scope andgreater powers (and less comprehended by the general public) than anyother on this continent. It was the corner-stone of New Yorks grandscheme of public instruction, yet it is constantly being confounded, evenby men and women of intelligence, with the University of the City, whichhad no existence in our annals until the University of the State was nearlyfifty years old. A concise and scholarly sketch of the rise and progressof this influential institution will be found upon another page, from thepen of Dr. David Murray, Secretary of the Board of Regents. It was in the picture-room of the City Hall in Wall Street that theNew York Historical Society was organized, in 1804. The founders ofthis time-honored institution represented the highest eminence and cultureof New York, and were veritable educators of the public taste. And theywere instrumental in directing public attention throughout the land to the
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WALL STREET IN HISTORY 427 importance of preserving contemporary records as the data from which allfuture history must receive its true impress. When this Society wasformed, but one institution of its kind existed in America—that of theMassachusetts Historical Society. It occupied a room in the City Hallfrom 1804 to 1809. Its first president was Judge Egbert Benson ; its firstvice-presidents were Bishop Moore and Judge Brockholst Livingston, andnearly all its presidents and many of its vice-presidents have since beenmen of national reputation. The Merchants Exchange, in Wall Street, was completed in 1827, andthe city Post Office was quartered under its roof. The full-page illustra-tion is from a steel engraving published in the New York Mirror in 1832,a little more than half a century ago—the artist looking towards the EastRiver, with the Phcenix Bank on his right and the Winthrop and Wilkeshomesteads on his left. A writer of same date mournfully moralizes overthe wonderful mutati

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