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became the "First National Bank of Yonkers." He was made President,
and was actively engaged in the duties of the office until the day of his
death, which occurred May 30, 1890.
He was one of the original members of the First Presbyterian Church,
holding the position of Treasurer for over thirty years. Interested in public
affairs, standing for the right always, he was a man esteemed and respected
by all who knew him.
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REV. AARON FRANKLIN OLMSTED, D. D.
Was born at E. Hartford, Conn., and died at Rhinebeck, N. Y. He grad.
Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. Was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Received degree of Doctor of Divinity from Union College. Ordained
1844 in Episcopal Ministry in which he served for fifty-one years, a portion
of the time in North and South Carolina and the last twenty-eight years
in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N. Y., as Rector of the " Church of the
Messiah."
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FRANK LINCOLN OLMSTED
Mr. Olmsted was born at Long Branch, N. J., and is a graduate of the
Phillips-Exeter Academy, 1885; Harvard, 1890. Has been engaged in educational
and literary work; Editor of Knickerbocker Literature Series (Putnam)
for which he rewrote and condensed Roosevelt's "Winning of the West";
Brook's " Lincoln," and Irving's " Astoria" and " Captain Bonneville."
Mr. Olmsted spent the summer of 1903 in a study of certain English schools;
in 1910 he made a general tour from Liverpool to Naples, and expects the
coming summer (1912) to visit Paris, Brittany, and Wales, and to spend a
few days in the neighborhood of Olmsted Hall in Essex. Since 1904 he has
been carrying on an interesting experiment in education, viz. : the intensive
training of a few boys whom he has taken into his country home at Pine
Lodge, near Lakewood, N. J.
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RUEY E. FORD, M. D.
Dr. Ford spent her girlhood days among the hills and valleys of Delaware'
county, N. Y. She attended the Physicians and Surgeons College in St. Louis
and graduated from that institution in 1893. Dr. Ford is local examiner for
the L. O. T. M. M., R. N. A. and I. 0. O. F. and a registered Michigan State
Pharmacist.
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GEORGE HENRY OLMSTED
Mr. Olmsted is at the head of one of the largest insurance agencies in
Ohio and is one of Cleveland's most prominent and progressive citizens; he is a
native of LaGrange, Ohio, where he was bom September 21, 1843. His father,
Jonathan Olmsted, was a farmer and a native of Lorain County, Ohio. His
ancestors were of an old Connecticut family, settled in the _" Nutmeg State"
in 1632 and were all prominent in business and civic affairs in their time.
His mother was also of an old New England family for generations back. He