OF THE BANK FOR SAVINGS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK,
from its Incorporation, March 26, 1819 to July 1, 1936.
TRUSTEES
Alphabetical Listing
A
ALEXANDER, James S.
Elected: 1912
Resigned: 1930
ANDREWS, William L.
Elected: 1885
Resigned: 1913
APPLETON, William W.
Elected: 1892
Died in office 1924
ARCULARIUS, George
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1823
AUCHINCLOSS, Hugh
Elected: 1875
Resigned: 1888
B
BACON, Elliot C.
Elected: 1919
Died in office 1924
BACON, Robert
Elected: 1902
Died in office 1919
BAKER, JR. George F.
Elected: 1913
Resigned: 1923
BARNEY, Charles T.
Elected: 1894
Resigned: 1907
BAYARD, William
Elected: 1819
Died in office 1826
BELMONT, August
Elected: 1903
Died in office 1924
BIDDLE, Nicholas
Elected: 1912
Died in office 1923
BIDWELL, Marshall S.
Elected: 1848
Died in office 1872
BISHOP, David W.
Elected: 1886
Did not serve
BLACKSTONE, Wyllis
Elected: 1853
Died in office 1885
BOWDOIN, George S.
Elected: 1893
Died in office 1913
BOWDOIN, Temple
Elected: 1914
Died in office 1914
BROWN, Charles S.
Elected: 1892
Resigned: 1934
BROWN, James
Elected: 1846
Resigned: 1874
BROWN, John Crosby
Elected: 1874
Died in office 1909
BROWN, Noah
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1822
BROWN, Thatcher M.
Elected: 1915
Continues in office
BUCKLEY, John L.
Elected: 1840
Died in office 1857
BUCKLEY, Thomas
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1840
BUDD, Kenneth P.
Elected: 1922
Continues in office
C
CAMPBELL, Duncan, P.
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1823
CASWELL, John
Elected: 1858
Died in office 1871
CATLIN, Lynde
Elected: 1824
Died in Office 1833
CHAUNCEY, Henry
Elected: 1849
Resigned: 1852
CLARK, Benjamin
Elected: 1820
Resigned: 1839
CLARK, Edward S.
Elected: 1851
Resigned: 1867
CLARK, W. Irving
Elected: 1890
Resigned: 1924
CLARKSON, Matthew
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1825
COLDEN, Cadwallader D.
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1832
COLES, John B.
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1823
COLT, S. Sloan
Elected: 1935
Continues in office
COMSTOCK, Eleutheras D.
Elected: 1838
Resigned: 1840
CONOVER, Stephen
Elected: 1842
Resigned: 1869
COOPER, Francis
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1847
CORNELL, Robert C.
Elected: 1825
Died in Office 1845
CORNELL, George C.
Elected: 1847
Died in office 1857
COWDIN, John E.
Elected: 1911
Continues in office
D
DAVIS, Ezra P.
Elected: 1869
Died in office 1871
DAVIS, Gherardi
Elected: 1919
Continues in office
DE FOREST, Henry G.
Elected: 1869
Resigned: 1888
DE FOREST, Henry W.
Elected: 1888
Continues in office
DELAFIELD, William
Elected: 1851
Died in office 1853
DENNY, Thomas
Elected: 1908
Died in office 1931
DE PEYSTER, James F.
Elected: 1833
Resigned: 1854
Elected Treas.
DIMOND, Thomas
Elected: 1898
Rsigned: Died in office:
1918
DODD, John M.
Elected: 1854
Resigned: 1885
DODD, JR. John M.
Elected: 1886
Resigned: 1904
DODGE, Cleveland E.
Elected: 1935
Continues in office
DU BOIS, Cornelius
Elected: 1823
Resigned: 1838
E
EASTBURN, James
Elected: 1819
Died in office 1829
ECKFORD, Henry
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1824
EDDY, Thomas
Elected: 1819
Died in office 1827
EDGAR, Herman Leroy
Elected: 1924
Continues in office
EIDLITZ, Otto M.
Elected: 1904
Died in office: 1928
EIDLITZ, Robert J.
Elected: 1928
Died in office: 1935
ELLIOTT, Howard
Elected: 1926
Died in office: 1928
F
FEW, William
Elected: 1819
Died in office: 1828
FIELD, Benjamin H.
Elected: 1851
Died in office: 1893
FIELD, Marshall
Elected: 1926
Continues in office
FISH, Hamilton
Elected: 1860
Resigned: 1869
FLEMING, Augustus
Elected: 1840
Resigned: 1851
FURMAN, Gabriel
Elected: 1821
Resigned: 1838
G
GAWTRY, Lewis
Elected: 1903
Continues in office
GIFFORD, Walter S.
Elected: 1930
Continues in office
GOODHUE, Jonathan
Elected: 1823
Died in office 1848
GRAVES, E. Boonen
Elected: 1851
Resigned: 1852
GREEN, John C.
Elected: 1846
Died in office 1875
GRIGGS, Herbert L.
Elected: 1903
Resigned: 1911
GRISWOLD, George
Elected: 1861
Resigned: 1876
H
HAINES, Richard T.
Elected: 1841
Resigned: 1846
HALSTEAD, Caleb O.
Elected: 1842
Resigned: 1851
HARPER, James
Elected: 1850
Resigned: 1854
HARRIMAN, Oliver
Elected: 1888
Resigned: 1892
HILLHOUSE, Thomas
Elected: 1882
Died in office: 1897
HOE, William A.
Elected: 1885
Died in office 1912
HOLDEN, Hale
Elected: 1929
Resigned: 1935
HOLT, Philetus H.
Elected: 1860
Died in office 1874
HOLT, Robert S.
Elected: 1874
Resigned: 1903
HONE, Philip
Elected: 1819
Did not serve
Elected: 1823
Died in office 1851
HONE, Robert S.
Elected: 1876
Resigned: 1886
HOWLAND, Gardner G.
Elected: 1840
Died in office 1851
HOYT, Alfred M.
Elected: 1877
Died in office: 1903
HOYT, Henry R.
Elected: 1903
Died in office: 1921
HUSSEY, George F.
Elected: 1855
Died in office 1860
HYDE, John E.
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1842
I
ISELIN, Adrian
Elected: 1872
Resigned: 1900
Elected: 1900
Died in office 1935
ISELIN, Ernest
Elected: 1935
Continues in office
IRVIN, E. Townsend
Elected: 1917
Continues in office
J
JAY, Peter A.
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1838
JAY, Pierre
Elected: 1910
Resigned: 1914
Elected: 1931
Continues in office
JOHNSTON, John Taylor
Elected: 1863
Died in office 1893
JONES, Isaac C.
Elected: 1823
Died in office 1831
JONES, James I.
Elected: 1840
Died in office 1858
K
KENNEDY, DAVID S.
Elected: 1845
Died in office 1853
KENNEDY, Robert Lenox
Elected: 1853
Died in office 1887
KING, Peter V.
Elected: 1854
Died in office 1881
KNOWLES, James
Elected: 1907
Died in office 1916
L
LAWRENCE, Cornelius W.
Elected: 1836
Resigned: 1841
LAWRENCE, John B.
Elected: 1832
Resigned: 1836
LAWRENCE, John L.
Elected: 1841
Resigned: 1848
LAWRENCE, Richard M.
Elected: 1835
Resigned: 1852
LEDYARD, Jr., Lewis Cass
Elected: 1915
Resigned: 1918
LEVERICH, Charles P.
Elected: 1852
Resigned: Died in office 1876
LEWIS, Zachariah
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1840
LIVINGSTON, Brockholst
Elected: 1819
Died in office 1823
LORD, Daniel
Elected: 1837
Resigned: 1864
LORD, George De Forest
Elected: 1868
Died in office 1892
LOVETT, James
Elected: 1828
Died in office 1850
LUDLUM, Nicholas
Elected: 1847
Resigned: 1853
Elected: 1858
Resigned: 1863
M
MARLING, Alfred E.
Elected: 1921
Died in office 1935
MASON, John
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1833
McCARTHY, Dennis
Elected: 1819
Died in office: 1835
MILLER, George McCulloch
Elected: 1876
Resigned: 1903
MORGAN, Henry S.
Elected: 1936
Continues in office
MORGAN, William Fellowes
Elected: 1919
Continues in office
MORRIS, Andrew
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1823
MORRIS, Lewis Spencer
Elected: 1923
Continues in office
MOTT, Richard W.
Elected: 1926
Resigned: 1934
MOTT, Samuel F.
Elected: 1835
Resigned: 1842
MURRAY, Jr., John
Elected: 1819
Died in office 1819
MURRAY, Lindley
Elected: 1822
Died in office 1847
N
NEWBOLD, George
Elected: 1833
Resigned: 1834
Did not serve
NORRIE, Adam
Elected: 1851
Died in office 1882
NORWOOD, Carlisle
Elected: 1876
Died in office 1892
O
O'CONOR, CHARLES
Elected: 1839
Resigned: 1842
OGDEN, James De Peyster
Elected: 1843
Resigned: 1861
Elected Comp.
OOTHOUT, Henry
Elected: 1863
Died in office: 1882
OOTHOUT, John
Elected: 1823
Resigned: 1843
P
PALMER, James
Elected: 1819
Died in office: 1847
PARSONS, John E.
Elected: 1872
Died in office: 1915
PEABODY, Charles A.
Elected: 1897
Resigned: 1915
PEABODY, Julian
Elected: 1915
Died in office: 1935
PENFOLD, Edmund
Elected: 1854
Died in office: 1869
PERRY, John M.
Elected: 1921
Resigned: 1933
PHELPS, John J.
Elected: 1852
Died in office 1869
PHOENIX, Phillips
Elected: 1838
Resigned: 1840
PINTARD, John
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1841
POTTER, Eliphalet N.
Elected: 1919
Resigned: 1920
POTTER, Orlando B.
Elected: 1880
Died in office: 1894
Q (No listing)
R
RICHARDS, Nathaniel
Elected: 1829
Resigned: 1851
RIKER, William J.
Elected: 1892
Died in office 1923
ROGERS, Edmund P.
Elected: 1925
Continues in office
ROOSEVELT, George E.
Elected: 1915
Continues in office
ROOSEVELT, James A.
Elected: 1881
Died in office 1898
ROSS, Alexander M.
Elected: 1869
Resigned: 1885
RUSSELL, Abraham
Elected: 1819
Did not serve
S
SCHIEFFELIN, William H.
Elected: 1892
Did not serve
SCHUCHARDT, Frederick
Elected: 1872
Resigned: 1879
SERVOSS, Thomas L.
Elected: 1834
Continues in office
SHERMAN, Benjamin B.
Elected: 1869
Died in office: 1885
SHERMAN, Charles A.
Elected: 1888
Died in office 1917
SHERRED, Jacob
Elected: 1819
Died in office 1821
SHIELDS, William
Elected: 1934
Continues in office
SIMMONS, J. Edward
Elected: 1897
Died in office 1910
SLOANE, William
Elected: 1905
Died in office 1922
SMITH, Cornelius
Elected: 1851
Resigned: 1858
SMITH, Joseph
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1832
SMITH, Robert
Elected: 1842
Died in office: 1854
SMITH, William W.
Elected: 1902
Died in office 1906
SPEAR, Alfred W.
Elected: 1875
Died in office 1897
STEVENS, Francis K
Elected: 1928
Resigned: 1934
STEVENS, Frederick W.
Elected: 1886
Died in office: 1928
STEVENS, Linus W.
Elected: 1857
Died in office 1863
STEWART, David
Elected: 1867
Resigned: 1870
STRONG, Benjamin
Elected: 1823
Died in office 1851
STRONG, George T.
Elected: 1858
Died in office 1875
STRONG, George W.
Elected: 1838
Died in office 1855
STUYVESANT, Peter G.
Elected: 1835
Did not serve
SUYDAM, Cornelius R.
Elected: 1833
Resigned: 1843
SUYDAM, James
Elected: 1843
Died in office 1872
SWAN, Benjamin L.
Elected: 1827
Died in office 1866
SWAN, Caleb
Elected: 1849
Died in office: 1872
SWAN, Otis D.
Elected: 1866
Resigned: 1876
SWORDS, Charles R.
Elected: 1855
Resigned: 1875
T
TAFT, Walbridge S.
Elected: 1926
Continues in office
TAPPEN, Frederick D.
Elected: 1871
Died in office: 1902
TAYLOR, Najah
Elected: 1819
Died in office 1860
THOMPSON, David
Elected: 1847
Resigned: 1849
THOMPSON, Jeremiah
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1823
TILLINGHAST, William H.
Elected: 1894
Died in Office: 1902
TOD, J. Kennedy
Elected: 1893
Resigned: 1904
TRIMBLE, George T.
Elected: 1854
Died in office: 1872
TRIMBLE, Merritt
Elected: 1885
Died in office: 1903
TRIMBLE, Walter
Elected: 1903
Died in office 1926
TUCKER, John J.
Elected: 1872
Died in office: 1902
TUCKER, William
Elected: 1851
Died in office 1875
TWEED, Charles H.
Elected: 1904
Died in office 1917
U (no listing)
V
VAN WAGENEN, Hubert
Elected: 1826
Resigned: 1837
VAN SCHAICK, Myndert
Elected: 1831
Resigned: 1835
VERMILYA, Percy S.
Elected: 1935
Continues in office
VERMILYE, Jacob D.
Elected: 1870
Died in office 1892
W
WALKER, John Y.G.
Elected: 1917
Continues in office
WARD, George Cabot
Elected: 1872
Died in office: 1887
WHITE, William G.
Elected: 1902
Died in office: 1902
WHITNEY, George
Elected: 1924
Continues in office:
WILSON, William
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1836
WINTHROP, Robert
Elected: 1888
Died in office: 1892
WOOD, Samuel
Elected: 1819
Resigned: 1820
WOOD, Silas
Elected: 1836
Resigned: 1851
WOODRUFF, Lewis B.
Elected: 1864
Resigned: 1867
Elected: 1864
Resigned: 1867
X, Y, and Z (no listings)
Source: History of the Bank for Savings in the City of New York 1819-1929
Author: Charles E. Knowles
Copyright: The Bank for Savings in the City of New York
First Edition, 1929 and Second Edition, 1936.
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Researched, Prepared and Transcribed by Miriam Medina
Bank of NYC..TRUSTEE OFFICERS
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