Identifier: magazineofamericv9stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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stier, each in succession contrib-uted largely to the style and elegance, as well as the pleasures of society.M. Otto possessed the most agreeable social qualities, and married intothe Livingston family. De Moustier was wealthy and was exceedinglyfond of display; he entertained frequently and ostentatiously. Thedaughter of John Adams tells us that he was handsome and polite, butthat his clever sister, Madame de Brehan, was the oddest figure eyes everbeheld. As for Sir John Temple, he made it his business to call upon everystranger of note who arrived in the city, as if he were a master of ceremo-nies, and lost no opportunity of extending the most delightful civilities.The President of Congress, Cyrus Griffin, from Virginia, and his wife, LadyChristiana Griffin, were in the habit of giving ceremonious dinners to twenty WALL STREET IN HISTORY 415 or more invited guests, as often as once or twice every week. Mrs. Smithwrote to her mother: Public dinners, public days, and private parties,
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may take up a persons whole attention if they attend to them all. Wehave dined to-day at President Griffins with a company of twenty-twopersons, including many members of Congress, etc. Had you been pres- 416 WALL STREET IN HISTORY ent you would have trembled for your country, to have seen, heard andobserved the men who are its rulers. There where very few whose behav-ior bore many marks of wisdom. M. Brissot describes the public char-acters of that interesting period in few words. He speaks of SecretaryJay as forty-three years of age, and says it would be difficult to find inhistory a character altogether more respectable. James Madison he callsthirty-seven, appearing hardly thirty-three, who has an air of fatigue, andhis looks announce the censor. He was still a bachelor, and invited dis-tinguished foreigners occasionally to dine with him at his hotel. Hamiltonhad taken up his abode in Wall Street, and is mentioned in the samebreath as six years younger than Madison, but judged to b

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