Identifier: historyofnewyork01loss (find matches)
Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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tively engaged in the same work, notably the American BibleSociety, The Auxiliary Female Bible Society, The Marine BibleSociety, and The Young Ladies1 Bible Society, all laboring vigorouslyin the city of New York. Yet there appeared to be a special work ofusefulness for young men to do, and at a meeting held in a school-roomin Thames Street, on September 22, 1823, the Young Mens BibleSociety was formed, with Horatio Gillet as president ; Anthony P. * The officers of the society (1883) are : the Rev. Bishop Matthew Simpson, D.D., presi-dent ; Bishops Bowman. Harris, Foster, Wiley, Merrill, Andrews, Peck, Warren, Foss,and Hunt, and the Rev. Drs. Crawford, Curry, and Wise, and Messrs. G. L. Fancher, J.H. Taft, Oliver Hoyt, H. W. Forrester, and George J. Ferry, vice-presidents ; JohnM. Reid and Charles Fowler, corresponding secretaries ; J. M. Phillips, treasurer •J. M. Waldron, assistant treasurer ; James N. Fitzgerald, recording secretary, andDavid Terry, emeritus recording secretary.
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FIKST DECADE, 1830-1840. 109 Halsey, George Colgate, John Xeilson, Jr , Louis King, HenryBennett, and John Sands, vice-presidents ; Frederick Bull, correspond-ing secretary : George A. Bartow, recording secretary, and Silas M.Butler, treasurer. There was a hoard of managers appointed. In October the president and secretary were authorized to purchaseone hundred Bibles for distribution, and in November the store ofJ. P. Havens was made the repository of the Bibles. At the outset the new association found little to do. The field wasalready filled with laborers, and it was compelled for some time to stand in the market-place all the day, idle, because it could not findlegitimate employment. So late as the close of March, 1824, therehad been only one Bible distributed. Wearied with the irksomeness of enforced inactivity, the society, inMay following, offeied to supply the Sabbath-schools of the city withBibles, tor prizes, a labor hitherto performed by the elder society, towhich the tende

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