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There le one man, besides i-r^sifJ-T-t i-arrish, *»ho ?tm3p out in the records
with especial prominence in connecter, with the early fin?r,clnl story of the college.
This man was Srmruel "illete, of Uev; York. He was b o m in 1795, and was therefore
sixty-five y» ars of age when he began his work for Swarthmore College early in IP61.
'Vith hie elder brother Amos, he had established in 1R15 the firm of A . & S. billets at
l'o. ZOc r e-' rl Street, lie- Yorx City, and did not retire from active business until fifty-t-
o •ye
r
<rs later. The firm dealt principally in hardware and the products of the whaling
fishery until IB62, after 'which time it developed its trade in California^ Mexican
and Texa^ products, especially leather. Mercantile prominence and large wealth brought
Samuel into numerous directorate, of railway, bsnkinm and insurance companies; but
desritc his inert-R sin,. resronsibilitm PS, he remained until the end of his life proverbial
" m re ular attendance and punctuality i" h
!
<- business engagements. His philanthropies,
• ublic and , t , were equally widespread. H: r •"ifts and service as president or
director "err bestowed for aa yv-m- r n on more than c. half-dozen of Her York's benevo-lent
institutions. Among these were the General Hospital, In*V nt Asylum, ~orkinr "omen's
Protective Un? on, Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, Infirmary for
"'or,en and Children, Association for the Relief of Colored Orphans, and the 'Vomer's Med-ical
College.^Thr-u hout his life, he was a devoted member of the Society of Friends
and attended, with trv
r
--ryirt;; regularity its meetinm- for worshic and discipline, including
those which were held, in th- mddle of the week.
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