George Colost Ward 1824-1887 The Prckering geneology NINTH GENERATION. 841 17. IX. 243. Charles Hazen Dorr, her husband, born in Boston, died in Boston. A retired merchant. Residences : Boston, Mass., and Bar Harbor, Maine. 1863 Mr. Dorr in early life was actively engaged in business, but he retired about thirty years previous to his death. He passed the latter part of his life in foreign travel, and between his house in Boston and his estates in Lenox and Bar Harbor. The latter, Old Farm," is one of the largest and finest on Mount Desert. Mr. Dorr was a man of cultivated tastes and of quiet and agreeable manners 1 He was a son of Samuel and Susan (Brown) Dorr, of Boston. His father was prominent in the Legislature of Massachusetts fifty years ago. His ancestry includes the following families : Dorr, Hawley, Harbottle, Rawson, Perne, Wilson, Mansfield, Hooker, Bucknam, Wilkinson, Knowers, Peabody, Fiske, Brown, Lazinby, Proctor, Adams, Winburn, Parker. See ANCESTRY TABLES 17. IX. 245. George Cabot Ward [Thomas W. 17. VIII. 183], born in Salem, died in New York City. A banker. Residence: New York City. Mr. Ward, H. C. 1843, on graduating, went to Heidelberg. After going around the world in a sailing ship, he went to New York, where he founded the banking house of Ward, Campbell, & Co. In 1869, his brother, Samuel Gray Ward, moved to New York, when Mr. Ward retired from the firm of Ward, Campbell, & Co., and became joint agent with his brother, under the name of S. G. & G. C. Ward, as agents for Baring Brothers & Co., of London. This partnership con- tinued until Jan. 1, 1886. Mr. Ward was an intimate friend of Secre- tary Chase, who consulted him on many points during the war. He was for a long time a director of the Bank of Commerce, New York, and of other institutions. He was a charter member of the Union League Club, of New York, its treasurer many years, and its president one year. 1 The Boston Daily Advertiser of Jan. 30, 1893. % Boston Evening Transcript of May 5, 1887. Digitized by Google Original from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 842 THE PICKERING GENEALOGY. G.C.W., 17. IX. 2451. Mary Anne Southwick, the first wife of George C. Ward, born in Salem, died in New York City. Mrs. Ward was a daughter of John Alley and ELZabeth (Kinsman) Southwick, of Salem. Eliza K. Southwick [15. IX. 215] was her sister. For her ancestry, see under the head of Eliza K. Southwick [15. IX. 215], on page 834. See ANCESTRY TABLES 1071. 17. IX. 2452. Frances Morris, the second wife of George C. Ward. Mrs. Ward is a daughter of William Lewis and Mary Elizabeth (Babcock) Morris. Her ancestry includes the following families: Morris. Pole, Graham, Staats, Ludlow, Bennett, Hanmer, Corbett, Ludlam, Wickham, Babcock, Lawton, Lawton, Isaacs, Arden, Blanc. See ANCESTRY TABLES IOT'. 17. IX. 247. Stephen Goodhue Wheatland [Richard G. 17. VIII. 185], born in Newton, Mass., died in New York City. A lawyer. Resi- dence: Salem. Mr. Wheatland, H. C. 1844, studied law, was admitted to the Essex Bar in 1850, and practised his profession in Salem. He took an active interest in the affairs of the city, and served as a member of the Common Council in 1852, 1853, 1859, 1861, and 1862, the last two years being presi- dent of that body. He was mayor of the city in 1863 and 1864, and its representative in the Legislature in the years 1862 and 1863.¹ 17. IX. 247. Ann Maria Pingree, his wife, born in Salem. Resi- dence: Salem. Mrs. Wheatland is a daughter of the Hon. David and Anna Maria (Kimball) Pingree. He was an eminent merchant and shipowner, of Salem. Her ancestry includes the following families : Pingree, Clement, Pickard, Crosby, Brocklebank, Platt, Kneeland, Perkins, Gould, Towne, Blessing, Symonds, Easty, Kimball, Scott, Cummings, Andrew, Towne, Perkins, Kimball. See ANCESTRY TABLES 108. IX 17. IX. 249. Richard Henry Wheatland [Richard G. 17. VIII. 185], born in Newton, Mass., died in Salem. Residence: Salem. 1 The Boston Transcript of March 4, 1892. Digitized Google Original from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY A HISTORY OF THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY WILL IRWIN EARL CHAPIN MAY JOSEPH HOTCHKISS I LLUSTRATED years Fifth Avenue Club House (Etching by E. H. Suydam, 1931) DODD, MEAD & COMPANY NEW YORK Copyright, 1952 FOREWORD BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, INC. All Rights Reserved You who are members of the Union League Club have been No part of this book may be reproduced in any form well aware that our club, since its foundation in the critical days without permission in writing from the publisher of the Civil War, has been much more than meeting place for a group of congenial men; it has been a positive and creative Printed in the United States of America by the Vail-Ballou Press force in preserving and developing the principles of constitu- tional government throughout the last eighty-eight years. In recognition of this fact George H. Sheldon, the original Chair- man of the History Committee, wisely decided that the activities of the club should be studied as objectively as possible and esti- mated as they affected the course of this nation not only in the crisis which brought about the foundation of the club but through those which followed. The Committee was fortunate to enlist the interest of one of the really great journalists of recent times, Will Irwin. The Committee left Mr. Irwin free to select the incidents which seemed to him most significant and representative of the purposes of the club. Necessarily he was obliged to omit ref- erence to many events which may be in the memory of some of our members and would seem to them to have a place in this book; and limitations of space obliged the historian to pass over many contributions to the development of the club by officers and members whom he would have liked to mention. There were not enough pages to present all aspects of the club through eighty-eight years. (v) A HISTORY OF THE Negro friends and families of the soldiers, marching hand in hand in columns of eight. They turned into Canal Street. It was ominously silent. Spon- taneously, the delegation from The Union League Club burst into that provocative battle song "John Brown's Body." The Negro families took it up, the band caught the key and joined in, and it surged through the regiment. John Habberton, who afterward wrote Helen's Babies, made that march as a lieutenant in the Twentieth. He has testified that not a paving stone flew and not a voice was raised against them. Contemporary news- papers seem to confirm this. But that does not detract from the courage of the performance. A few weeks afterward, another full regiment recruited and equipped exclusively by the Club, the Twenty-sixth Colored In- fantry, marched away without any official send-off except the presentation of colors on the transport by John Jay. Two weeks after it landed in the war zone it formed the spearhead of a re- connaissance in force. It lost twenty killed; and a report to the Club declared that "no troops in the world could have borne themselves better." Later Colonel William Silliman of this regi- ment was killed in action. The committee had recruited six hun- dred Negroes for another regiment when the emergencies of the summer campaign in Virginia and difficulty in finding any more able-bodied volunteers in New York caused them to brigade these men with four hundred Negroes from Connecticut as the Thirty- PRESIDENTS OF THE CLUB first Colored Infantry. In July 1864, this green regiment, DURING ITS FIRST FIFTY YEARS through no fault of its own, was "more than decimated" in that ill-directed affair of the Crater at Petersburg. Returning to the parade of the Twentieth, a month later Super- intendant of Police Kennedy, who led it, was elected to Club mem- (36) MINTURN 1864 SCHILL JOHN ELIHU ROOT PRESIDENTS OF THE CLUB DURING ITS FIRST FIFTY YEARS PRESIDENTS ROBERT B. MINTURN JONATHAN STURGES 1863 CHARLES H. MARSHALL 1864 JOHN JAY 1865 JACKSON S. SCHULTZ 1866-1869 WILLIAM J. HOPPIN 1870 JOSEPH H. CHOATE 187I-1872 JOHN JAY 1873-1876 GEORGE CABOT WARD 1877 HAMILTON FISH 1878 VILLIAM M. EVARTS 1879-1881 CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW 1882-1885 IORACE PORTER 1886-1892 LIHU ROOT 1893-1897 REDERICK D. TAPPEN 1898-1899 ORNELIUS N. BLISS 1900-1901 EORGE R. SHELDON 1902-1906 MUEL W. FAIRCHILD 1907-1910 IHU ROOT 1911-1914 ARLES E. HUGHES 1915-1916 ENRY P. DAVISON 1917-1919 MES R. SHEFFIELD 1920 TES W. McGARRAH 1921-1924 RED E. MARLING 1925-1927 ARLES C. PAULDING 1928-1930 RBERT L. SATTERLEE 1931-1938 RED H. COSDEN 1938-1939 JARD C. SHEPERD 1940-1945 J LOWRY 1946-1947 OLD WESLEY COMFORT 1948-1949 1950- (295) TREASURERS 1866 WILLIAM J. HOPPIN 1863-1866 1867 GEORGE CABOT WARD 1867-1877 1870 CHARLES LANIER 1878 1875 GEORGE F. BAKER 1879-1883 1878 GEORGE MONTAGUE 1884-I894 1879 WILLIAM G. WHITE 1895-1902 1881 ANDREW MILLS 1902-1906 1886 ALBERT H. WIGGIN 1907-1910 1888 GATES W. McGARRAH 1911-1920 1889 HENRY J. COCHRAN 1921-1923 -1891 THEODORE HETZLER 1924-1927 -1893 LOUIS S. BRADY 1928-1938 -1895 HARRIS A. DUNN 1939-1942 -1898 WALTON P. KINGSLEY 1943 -1902 SAMUEL G. ADAMS 1944-1949 -1907 PAUL M. RIPLEY 1950- -1909 -1913 -1919 -1923 -1925 ;1930 -1938 -1942 -1946 -1949 (297) 2020 Century Archives - The Century Association Archives Foundation THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION I ARCHIVES FOUNDATION INDISTING 1997 About the CAAF CENTURY ASSOCIATION BIOGRAPHICAL ARCHIVE Important Materials Earliest Members of the Century Association Publications < Previous Result 1433 of 1531 (view results) Next > Online Reference Shelf Collection Access GEORGE CABOT WARD Board of Trustees How to Donate Banker/Trustee Centurion, 1864-1885 Century Association Biographical Archive Born 4 November 1824 in Salem, Massachusetts Died 4 May 1887 in New York (Manhattan), New York Finding Aid to the Collection Proposed by Lucius Tuckerman and Dudley B. Fuller Finding Aid to the Platt Elected 7 May 1864 at age thirty-nine Library Centurions on Stamps Archivist's Note: Brother of Samuel G. Ward; uncle of Robert Barker and Thomas Wren Ward FDR: A Man of the Century (Audio File) Proposer of: Seconder of: Hot Buttons: A. Augustus Low Charles Stewart Davison Presidential Campaigns Samuel G. Ward and the Century Association Century Association Nobelists Questions, comments, corrections: email caba@centuryarchives.org When the Clubhouse © 2012-2020 Century Association Archives Foundation Was New (Photo Gallery) George Cacot Ward. 1864. George Cabot Ward Member Photograph Albums Collection Album 2, Leaf 71 ://www.centuryarchives.org/caba/bio.php?PersonID=1433&Search=baed72cfa6243ab6e3a9e83a7889bf8d 1/2 NINTH GENERATION. 841 17. IX. 243. Charles Haxen Dorr, her husband, born in Boston, died in Boston. A retired merchant. Residences : Boston, Mass., and Bax Harbor, Maine. Mr. Dorr in early life was actively engaged in business, but he retired about thirty years previous to his death. He passed the latter part of his life in foreign travel, and between his house in Boston and his estates in Lenox and Bar Harbor. The latter, "Old Farm," is one of the largest and finest on Mount Desert. Mr. Dorr was a man of cultivated tastes and of quiet and agreeable manners.1 He was a son of Samuel and Susan (Brown) Dorr, of Boston. His father was prominent in the Legislature of Massachusetts fifty years ago. His ancestry includes the following families: Dorr, Hawley, Harbottle, Rawson, Perne, Wilson, Mansfield, Hooker, Bucknam, Wilkinson, Knowers, Peabody, Fiske, Brown, Lazinby, Proctor, Adams, Winburn, Parker. See ANCESTRY TABLES 100. 17. IX. 245. George Cabot Ward [Thomas W. 17. VIII. 183], born in Salem, died in New York City. A banker. Residence: New York City. Mr. Ward, H. C. 1843, on graduating, went to Heidelberg. After going around the world in a sailing ship, he went to New York, where he founded the banking house of Ward, Campbell, & Co. In 1869, his brother, Samuel Gray Ward, moved to New York, when Mr. Ward retired from the firm of Ward, Campbell, & Co., and became joint agent with his brother, under the name of S. G. & G. C. Ward, as agents for Baring Brothers & Co., of London. This partnership con- tinued until Jan. 1, 1886. Mr. Ward was an intimate friend of Secre- tary Chase, who consulted him on many points during the war. He was for a long time a director of the Bank of Commerce, New York, and of other institutions. He was a charter member of the Union League Club, of New York, its treasurer many years, and its president one year. I The Boston Daily Advertiser of Jan. 30, 1893. 2 Boston Evening Transcript of May 5, 1887. 842 THE PICKERING GENEALOGY. 17. IX. 245 Mary Anne Southwick, the first wife of George C. Ward, born in Salem, died in New York City. Mrs. Ward was a daughter of John Alley and Ehzabeth (Kinsman) Southwick, of Salem. Eliza K. Southwick [15. IX. 215] was her sister. For her ancestry, see under the head of Eliza K. Southwick [15. IX. 215], on page 834. See ANCESTRY TABLES 17. IX. 245 Frances Morris, the second wife of George C. Ward. Mrs. Ward is a daughter of William Lewis and Mary Elizabeth (Babcock) Morris. Her ancestry includes the following families : Morris, Pole, Graham, Staats, Ludlow, Bennett, Hanmer, Corbett, Ludlam, Wickham, Babcock, Lawton, Lawton, Isaacs, Arden, Blanc. See ANCESTRY TABLES IOTH 17. IX. 247. Stephen Goodhue Wheatland [Richard G. 17. VIII. 185], born in Newton, Mass., died in New York City. A lawyer. Resi- dence: Salem. Mr. Wheatland, H. C. 1844, studied law, was admitted to the Essex Bar in 1850, and practised his profession in Salem. He took an active interest in the affairs of the city, and served as a member of the Common Council in 1852, 1853, 1859, 1861, and 1862, the last two years being presi- dent of that body. He was mayor of the city in 1863 and 1864, and its representative in the Legislature in the years 1862 and 1863.¹ 17. IX. 247. Ann Maria Pingree, his wife, born in Salem. Resi- dence: Salem. Mrs. Wheatland is a daughter of the Hon. David and Anna Maria (Kimball) Pingree. He was an eminent merchant and shipowner, of Salem. Her ancestry includes the following families : Pingree, Clement, Pickard, Crosby, Brocklebank, Platt, Kneeland, Perkins, Gould, Towne, Blessing, Symonds, Easty, Kimball, Scott, Cummings, Andrew, Towne, Perkins, Kimball. See ANCESTRY TABLES TOB 17. IX. 249. Richard Henry Wheatland [Richard G. 17. VIII. 185], born in Newton, Mass., died in Salem. Residence: Salem. 1 The Boston Transcript of March 4, 1892. TRUSTEES. - 1882-3. HENRY C. DORR, FREDERIC J. DE PEYSTER, CHARLES E. STRONG, FRANCIS A. STOUT, ROBERT LENOX KENNEDY, RICHARD T. AUCHMUTY, EDWARD SCHELL, STEPHEN C. WILLIAMS, STEPHEN P. NASH, JOHN M. KNOX, FREDERICK SHELDON, GEORGE CABOT WARD, HENRY DRISLER, JAMES M. McLEAN, JOHNSTON L. DE PEYSTER. OFFICERS ROBERT LENOX KENNEDY, Chairman. EDWARD SCHELL, Treasurer. JOHN M. KNOX, Secretary. LIBRARY COMMITTEE. ROBERT LENOX KENNEDY, CHARLES E. STRONG, HENRY C. DORR, JOHN M. KNOX, HENRY DRISLER, EDWARD SCHELL. LIBRARIAN. WENTWORTH S. BUTLER. (over) New Dork Society Library FOUNDED, A. D. 1700. INCORPORATED, - A. D. 1772. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES, APRIL I, 1883, WITH A LIST OF RECENT ADDITIONS. New York : EVENING POST JOB PRINTING OFFICE, BROADWAY, CORNER FULTON STREET. 1883. adidas the Work Societh Librari the the FOUNDED INCORPORATED A.D. 1772 the ANN UAL REPORT OFFICIAL and THE TRUST ES the and the WITH alamy A LIST OF RECENT ADDITIONS the P Few Post JOH PRINTING FULTON STREET 1883 COST THE GEORGE CABOT WARD'S FUNERAL. New York Times (1857-Current file); May 7, 1887; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2003) pg. 8 GEORGE CABOT WARD'S FUNERAL. The Church of the Holy Communion, at Sixth-svenue and Twentieth-street, was filled yesterday morning with the friends of the late George Cabot Ward, the banker, who died on Wednesday last. The funeral services, which were conducted according to the Episcopal ritual were simple. The body reated in an baken casket, mounted in silver. A wreath of hite roses, a cross, and a second wreath, which Jay upon the casket, were the only flowers. The services were conducted by the Rev. Henry Mottet, Rector of the church. assisted by the Rev. Prescott Evarts and the Rev. William A. Snively, of Grace Episcopal Church, Brooklyn Heights. After the services the body was left In the church until 2 o'clock, when it was taken Boston for interment at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Among those present at the funeral besides the widow and immediate relatives were George De Forest Lord, ex-Judge Charles A. Peabody, Edward King, George Schuyler, Charles Lanier, Charles W. Ogden. Alderman Frederick A. Conkling, William E. Dodge, A. A. Low, ex- Mayor Seth Low, August Belmont, John J. Astor, and ex-Judge Charles P. Daiy. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 4 From a New York paper, May 5, 1887. GEORGE CABOT WARD (1824 1887) George Cabot Ward, who died yesterday, after a long illness, was born in Boston sixty-three - years ago. He was the son of Mr. Thomas Wren Ward, who more than seventy years ago came from Boston to this city, and with his relative, the late Jonathan Goodhue, founded the firm of Goodhue and Ward, afterwards SO well known as Goodhue & Company. (In 1817 he returned to Boston and ten years later became the American agent of Baring Brothers. This agency was exclusively con- This ducted by him until his death when it devolved upon his son, Mr. Samuel Gray Ward.> George Cabot Ward was graduated at Harvard, and subsequently studied at Heidelberg and after a voyage around the world in a sailing ship, a rare experience in those days, settled in New York and founded the firm of Ward, Campbell & Company. It contained at one time one of the Baring family, but was never, as has been stated, the agent of Baring Brothers. Mr. Ward withdrew from it in 1869 to share with his elder brother, Samuel Gray, who had moved to this city from Boston, the Baring agency, which continued in their hands until George Cabot's illness, when both brothers surrendered it, January, 1885. George Cabot was, when the war broke out, in 1861, one of the most active and energetic supporters of the Government in 2. this city He was one of the founders of the Union League Club, its president for one term and its Treasurer until the decline of his health. He was also one of the Governors, and, we believe, Treasurer of the New York Hospital, one of the Trustees and most devoted and valuable friends of the Children's Aid Society and a director of the Bank of Commerce and of the Union Trust Company. In fact he was one of the men who are always ready "to pay with their person" for any worthy public object, and although of a singularly modest and retiring, and one might almost say self-distrustful disposition, had trusts and respon- sibilities imposed upon him without stint. He was a man of extraordinary simplicity of character and had a rare capacity for devotion to his friends as well as those of the public. His reading was very extensive and his love of speculation in the field of transcendental philosophy often gave an air of quaintness and abstraction to his conversation which made one wonder that a business life in this city should ever have been to his taste. He took a great interest in the establishment of The Nation newspaper in 1865 and perhaps had more to do with putting it on a firm financial footing than any other one person. The mem- ories of the war made him a very good Republican down to his last illness, but in no way diminished his sympathy with all efforts in the direction of purer politics. His death deprives New York of one of her most valuable citizens and one of a type which the existing conditions of business do not foster either in politics or society. 8/27/2019 Xfinity Connect Re_Colonel Porter, the Emersons, and George Cabot Ward Printout Jamie M. Carr 7/17/2018 5:31 PM Re: Colonel Porter, the Emersons, and George Cabot Ward To Ronald Epp Dear Dr. Epp, Thank you for your extremely kind words. I apologize for the delay in my response. We had a death in my husband's family this past week and so had traveled to Michigan. I kept thinking en route of course about how so many writers made a similar journey after they left the Falls. That 19th century world is like a game of six-degrees-of-separation. I love unraveling those threads of who knew whom. Your book looks incredibly interesting, and when I have some time to read at will again, I'll be sure to pick it up. (I have a manuscript due in September and so am madly trying to balance research and writing with summer family time.) I do a little work on Olmsted with two other colleagues in an interdisciplinary class project on Niagara Falls. Perhaps we can meet, depending on our schedules, in one of those green spaces he had a hand in in Buffalo. Thank you again - Jamie Dr. Jamie Carr Associate Professor of English Niagara University English Department 320 Dunleavy Niagara University, NY 14109 716/286-8544 From: Ronald Epp Reply-To: Ronald Epp Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 10:40 AM 8/27/2019 Xfinity Connect Re_Colonel Porter, the Emersons, and George Cabot Ward Printout To: Jamie M. Carr Subject: Colonel Porter, the Emersons, and George Cabot Ward Dear Professor Carr: I have just completed reading your excellent article in Western New York Heritage. I approached the article with curiosity about the family association with Ralph Waldo Emerson, a close friend of various members of the Ward family of Boston. Porter Banker Thomas Wren Ward (1792-1858) was the father of George Cabot Ward whose memorial essay on Emerson you brought to my attention- thank you. Thomas was also Treasurer of Harvard for a decade, and father of Samuel Gray Ward whose friendship with Emerson and Margaret Fuller is legendary. I secured my doctorate in philosophy from SUNY, Buffalo and later in my career morphed into an academic library director, spending the better part of two decades researching the Ward family at the MHS, Harvard, and NEHGS. Consequently, I was extremely impressed by the thoroughness of your research at Harvard even to the level of examining the library borrowing records (I thought that only I and Harvard archivist Barbara Meloni cared about such historical curiosities). My point is that my research was prompted by visits to Acadia National Park where information on its historic origins was deplorable. Little did I know that my pursuit of George Bucknam Dorr, the Father of Acadia, would lead me to his years at Harvard, his friendship and conservation partnership with Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, and the tragic death of Eliot's eldest son Charles, the landscape architect and associate of Frederick Law Olmsted. Fast forward fifteen years to 2016 and the centennials of Acadia National Park and the National Park Service and the publication of my Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr. My subject was the nephew of George Cabot and Samuel Gray Ward. Given our shared interests, perhaps we could meet in the months ahead when I have plans to visit friends who reside just south of you in Strykersville. 7/11/2018 Faculty Directory I Niagara University College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Directory Dr. Jamie Carr Associate Professor Email: jcarr@niagara.edu Phone: 716.286.8544 Office Location: Dunleavy Hall, Room 320 Bio I have long been intrigued by what Sven Birkerts, in his book The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (1994), says about what we experience when we are immersed in a good story: that we "hand over our groundedness in the here and now in order to take up our new groundedness in the elsewhere of the book" (81). Literature, that is, creates a 'sense of place, an 'elsewhere' in our minds that we visit for a short while, and that leaves us changed in some way. 7/11/2018 Faculty Directory I Niagara University College of Arts & Sciences SCHOOL, UI IaLLUIJ. And how might our connections to place foster our responsibility to it? I am fortunate to live and work in an environment that millions are drawn to each year, and that writers have 'created' for centuries -- Niagara Falls. I examine this cultural heritage in my manuscript, COMPOSING NIAGARA: A LITERARY TOUR OF THE FALLS, which is under advance contract with SUNY Press. In my classes, students encounter opportunities to explore and encounter the relation between literature and place, whether through reading works that elicit such reflections; in writing; on excursions to physical places in the city and landscape of Niagara Falls; or, through work on our art and literary journal, the Aquila. / Academics / Colleges / College of Arts & Sciences / Faculty / Faculty Directory DEATH OF GEORGE CABOT WARD. New York Times (1857-Current file); May 5, 1887; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2003) pg. 8 DEATH OF GEORGE CABOT WARD. George Cabot Ward died yesterday at his residence in this city, in the sixty-third year of his age. Mr. Ward was one of the best known business men in this city for many years. In 1886 Mr. Ward's mental faculties became im- paired, and a trip abroad failed to benefit him. He returned to America and resided temporarily at Morristown, N. J., whence he removed to this city. He was born at Salem, Mass., and while still a boy went to Boston, where his father, who had been a successful shipmaster, was ap- pointed agent of Baring Brothers, the London bankers. The son graduated from Harvard, and then went to Heidelberg. After going around the world in a sailing ship, he came to New-York and founded the banking house of Ward, Camp- bell & Co., which became the New-York agency of Baring Brothers. In 1869 Samuel Gray Ward, the elder son, who had succeeded his father in Boston, came to New-York and formed a partnership with his brother under the firm name of S. G. & G. C. Ward. This house con- tinued in active business till Jan. 1, 1886, when it was dissolved and retired. Mr. Ward was an intimate friend of Secretary Chase, and was consulted by him on many points during the war. He was one of the charter members of the Union League Club, of which he was Treasurer for many years, and also Pres- ident for one term. He was one of the Govern- ore of the New-York Hospital, a Director of the Children's Aid Society, the Bank of Commerce, the Union Trust Company, and the Iron Mount- ain Railroad, and a Trustee of the Unitarian Church of All Souls. He was a personal friend of Emerson, Bryant, and other American writers. Mr. Ward was married twice, his first wife dying six years ago. She left two children, 8. G. Ward. Jr., of Kidder, Peabody & Co., and Mrs. A. A. Low. His second wife was Miss Fanny Morris, of this city, whom he married in 1882. The funeral will take place on Friday at 10 A. M., in the Church of the Holy Communion, and the burial will be in Boston. Reproduce with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.