Samuel Ward (banker)

Samuel Ward III. ( May 1, 1786 in Rhode Island , † November 27, 1839 in New York City ) was an American banker.

family

Ward was born the son of the soldier Samuel Ward and his wife Phebe Greene. His oldest known paternal ancestor, John Ward, was from Gloucester . He served in Oliver Cromwell's army and emigrated to Newport , Rhode Island in 1673 after the Stuart Restoration . Both Ward's great-grandfather Richard Ward and his paternal grandfather, Samuel Ward , were governors of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , the former from 1741 to 1742, the latter from 1762 to 1763 and from 1765 to 1767. Ward's maternal grandfather was the second governor of Rhode Island, William Greene . In October 1812 Ward married Julia Rush Cutler, a great niece of Francis Marion . The marriage produced seven children, including the writer Julia Ward Howe .

Career

Ward began his professional career as a clerk at a bank. There he rose to partner in 1808. After the financial crisis of 1836, the Bank of England loaned the company $ 5,000,000. A little later, Ward became president of the New York Bank of Commerce . He remained involved in the bank operating under the name Prime, Ward & King until his death. In 1831 he was one of the founders of New York University . Ward was often active as a philanthropist and art collector. In his private house not far from Broadway, for example, he built New York's first private collection of paintings with works by Rembrandt , Snyders and Poussin . He also campaigned for the abstinence movement , of which he was a founding member and first chairman in New York City.

Web links

Short biography on juliawardhowe.org

Individual evidence

↑ John Ward: A memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward, First Rhode Island regiment, army of the American revolution . Self-published, New York 1875, LCCN 17-009743 , OCLC 5207086 , p. 5 ( A memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward, First Rhode Island regiment, Army of the American revolution [accessed January 19, 2014]).
↑ Kathryn Allamong Jacob: King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age . The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2010, ISBN 978-0-8018-9397-1 , pp. 35 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ward, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ward, Samuel III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American banker
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH	November 27, 1839
Place of death	New York City

[1] John Ward: A memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward, First Rhode Island regiment, army of the American revolution . Self-published, New York 1875, LCCN 17-009743 , OCLC 5207086 , p. 5 ( A memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward, First Rhode Island regiment, Army of the American revolution [accessed January 19, 2014]).

[2] Kathryn Allamong Jacob: King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age . The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2010, ISBN 978-0-8018-9397-1 , pp. 35 .