Identifier: juliawardhowe18101laur (find matches)
Title: Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
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tion he desired; so at fourteen, fresh from the common
schools, Samuel entered as a clerk the banking house
of Prime & King. While still a mere lad, an old friend
of the family asked him what he meant to be when he
came to man's estate.
" I mean to be one of the first bankers in the United
States!" replied Samuel.
At the age of twenty-two he became a partner in the
firm, which was thereafter known as Prime, Ward &King.
In a memoir of our grandfather, the partner who
survived him, Mr. Charles King, says:—
" Money was the commodity in which Mr. Ward
dealt, and if, as is hardly to be disputed, money be the
root of all evil, it is also, in hands that know how to use
it worthily, the instrument of much good. There exist
undoubtedly, in regard to the trade in money, and
respecting those engaged in it, many and absurd prej-
udices, inherited in part from ancient error, and fo-
mented and kept alive by the jealousies of ignorance
and indigence. It is therefore no small triumph to have
lived down, as Mr. Ward did, this prejudice, and to


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SAMUEL WARD
From a painting in the possession of his grandson
Henry Marrion Howe

JULIA RUSH WARD
From a painting in the possession of her granddaughrer
Mrs. Harry Richards


LITTLE JULIA WARD 17

have forced upon the community in the midst of which
he resided, and upon all brought into connexion with
him, the conviction that commerce in money, like com
-merce in general, is, to a lofty spirit, lofty and enno-
bling, and is valued more for the power it confers, of
promoting liberal and beneficent enterprises, and of
conducing to the welfare and prosperity of society,
than for the means of individual and selfish gratifica-
tion or indulgence."
Mr. Ward's activities were not confined to financial
affairs. He was founder and first president of the Bank
of Commerce; one of the founders of the New York
University and of the Stuyvesant Institute, etc., etc.
In 1812 he married Julia Rush Cutler, second daugh-
ter of Benjamin Clarke and Sarah Mitchell (Hyrne)
Cutler. Julia Cutler was sixteen years old at the time
of her marriage, lovely in character and beautiful in
person. She had been a pupil of the saintly Isabella

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