Identifier: portraitsofemine153livi (find matches)
Title: Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Livingston, John
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Publisher: New York : Lamport & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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ty. He had been a director of the Monongahela Bank of Brownsville formany years, when under the presidency of his father—an institutionwhich has sustained an unparalleled confidence in the community, andis probably the only similar institution which, in all the mutationsof commercial elations and depressions, has never suspended speciepayments. In 1843, when the elder gentleman retired from the presi-dency, the subject of this notice was unanimously elected the presidentthereof, and each year since has thus been honored, and we are pleasedto say, that under his guidance the confidence reposed therein has not LA FAYETTE S. FOSTER, OF CONNECTICUT. 3G3 been diminished or impaired. Having an abundance of what is termed* this worlds goods, and an only son to inherit the same, he isnot over-solicitous for its greater accumulation, and has thereforemeasurably withdrawn himself from business, devoting his time to theinstitution over which he presides and the cultivation of his farm. I • i
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