National Affairs: Stuyvesant Fish

Stuyvesant Fish died in New York of heart disease. A directors' meeting of the National Park Bank was assembling. As Mr. Fish stepped across the threshold of the board room, he fell dead. So terminated the career of one of the country's great financial leaders and railroad presidents. A descendant of Petrus Stuyvesant, a grandson of Colonel Nicholas Fish of Revolutionary War fame, the youngest son of Hamilton Fish (Secretary of State under President Grant)—Stuyvesant Fish came from the stock of pioneers and joined the generation of great railroaders. Born in New York...

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