THE TOWN OF WEST FARMS. 53 1 



The collegiate year commences on the first Monday of September. 

 Average number of students about 130. 



Rose Hill place has been successively the property of the families of 

 Corsa Watts, and Brevoort, from whom it passed to Horatio Shephard 

 Moat, who sold it in 1836 to the present proprietor. 



The "Home of the Incurables " was first started by the Rev. Washing- 

 ton Rodman, then Rector of Grace church, West Farms, in that village, 

 in the year 1866. Its officers were : — 



President : 

 Benj. H. Field. 



Vice-Presidents : 

 Maetin E. Geeene, Wm. H. Guion. 



Treasurer : 

 Heney J. Cammann. , 



Secretary : 

 R. A. MoCtjbdt. 



Pastor and Superintendent : 

 Rev. Washington Rodman. 



CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE "HOME FOR IN- 

 CURABLES." 



In conformity with the provisions of the act entitled, "An Act for the Incorpo- 

 ration of Benevolent, Charitable, Scientific and Missionary Societies," passed the 

 12th day of April, 1S4S, and the several acts amendatory thereof, and supple- 

 mentary thereto, the subscribers of full age, citizens of the United States and 

 of the State of New York, and residents within the city of New York, in said 

 State, being desirous to associate themselves together for the purpose of estab- 

 lishing and managing a Hospital and Home for Incurables, and to be a body 

 politic and corporate for that purpose, do hereby make and sign this certificate. 



1st. The name or title by which said Society shall be known in law, shall be 

 the "Home for Incurables." 



2d. The particular business and objects of the said Society, shall be the estab- 

 lishing, founding, carrying on, and managing said Hospital and Home. 



3d. The number of managers to manage the said Society shall be twenty-four. 



4th. The names of the managers of the said Society for the first year of its 

 existence, are John T. Hoffman, Edward Haight, Wm. H. Guion, Benjamin II. 

 Field, Henry J. Cammann, Franklin F. Randolph, Geo. R. Jackson, Lloyd 

 Aspinwall, John H. Pool, Frederic Goodridge, William E. Curtis, Stephen E. 

 Cambrehng, Benjamin B. Sherman, Richard A. McCurdy, Archibald Russell, 

 Livingston Satterlee, Martin E. Green, George T. M. Davis, Henry M. McLaren, 



