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its efforts, if they do not follow in its footsteps. 

 The good it has sought to accomplish has sometimes 

 been beyond its powers, and mistakes of judgment 

 have occasionally been made ; but the reader of this 

 brief sketch will surely admit that its purposes have 

 been commendable, and that the work it has done 

 has been done well. 



LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS AND OTHER 

 PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. 



A history of the St. George's Society would not 

 be complete without a retrospect of the lives of its 

 founders and the more prominent of its executive 

 officers. They were all representative men in their 

 day of the better class of English society in New 

 York, and to their efforts is due, in a large measure, 

 the success attending this institution. They were 

 men of intelligence, energy and probity, ever alert 

 in their efforts to promote the comfort and happi- 

 ness of their fellow countrymen in this city, and 

 always ready to open their purses to the calls 

 of charity and benevolence. It has been no easy 

 task to gather together the materials necessary to 

 the preparation of these memoirs, but from their 

 prominence in city life, enough is known of these 



