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EDWARD FISHER SANDERSON. 



Mr. Sanderson, twice President of the Society, in 

 1842-3 and again in 1848. was the senior member 

 of the Sheffield and New York firm of Sanderson 

 Bros. & Co., No. 16 Chff street. He was born in 

 England in 1799, came to America in 1823, and 

 started business at 1 34 Pearl street ; subsequently he 

 became a citizen of the United States. He mar- 

 ried a daughter of Mr. Isaac Carow, and having 

 amassed an ample fortune he returned to England 

 in 1856, where he died September 26th, 1866, in the 

 67th year of his a^s^e. 



His departure for England was signalized by a 

 public reception given to him by his brother-mer- 

 chants and members of the St. George's Society, 

 who thereby testified the esteem and regard they 

 entertained for him as a merchant, a philanthropist 

 and a man. He was a Director of the Merchants' 

 Bank, as well as of several of the local Insurance 

 Companies, a gentleman of cultivated and refined 

 taste and well read in scientific literature, especially 

 in mineralogy, of which he had made a special 

 study. 



