THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Reading edition
Founded November 20, 1804. Organized January 14, 1805.
PRESIDENTS.
Egbert Benson, LL.D.1805-1815
Gouverneur Morris1816
Dewitt Clinton, LL.D.1817-1819
David Hosack, M.D., LL.D.1820-1827
James Kent, LL.D.1828-1831
Morgan Lewis1832-1835
Peter Gerard Stuyvesant1836-1839
Peter Augustus Jay, LL.D.1840-1842
Albert Gallatin, LL.D.1843-1849
Luther Bradish, LL.D.1850-1863
Frederic de Peyster, LL.D.1864-1866
Hamilton Fish, LL.D.1867-1869
Thomas DeWitt, D.D.1869-1871
Augustus Schell1872
Frederic de Peyster, LL.D.1873-1882
Augustus Schell1883-1884
Benjamin Hazard Field1885-1886
John Alsop King1887-1900
Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D., LL.D.1901-1902
Samuel Verplanck Hoffman1903-1913
John Abeel Weekes1913-