Author: Philip G. Hubert

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780266208808

Excerpt from Merchants' National Bank of the the City of New York: A History of Its First Century, Compiled From Official Records at the Request of the Directors Merchants' National Bank remarked to the compiler of the present volume, this is apt to be true of banks as well as of nations. There are no sensational events in the life of the Bank to relate. Its history is one of conservative, persistent, intelligent work which has earned_ the respect and considera tion of the community. As the name implies, it has been a bank managed by merchants for merchants. It has had no phenomenal ups or downs. Nevertheless a great deal may be said of any institution one hundred years old. The contrast between the social and business conditions of New York in 1803 with those of to-day alone offers an interesting field of inquiry. Much may also be said of the long line of distin guished merchants who have served the Bank-men identified with the growth of New York from a city of inhabi tants to a metropolis second only to London in population and financial importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.