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Modern Paintings In The Western Galleries
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Miss Wolfe was descended from an old Lutheran family in Saxony, whence her great grandfather, John David Wolfe, came to this country before the year 1729. He died in 1759, leaving four children, of whom the eldest was David David Wolfe lived till near the end of a long life of eighty-eight years in the old family residence on Fair, now Fulton St... more »reet, and this, with other city real estate has remained in the possession of the family to the present time. In the war of the revolution, David Wolfe and his brother Christopher served their country with credit. After the war David and his younger brother, John Albert, were partners as hardware merchants in this city, and about 1816 they were succeeded in business by Christopher, son of John Albert and John David, son of David. John David Woife, born July 24, 1792, retired from active business in the prime of his life. Thereafter he devoted his large wealth and judicious Iabors to benevolent purposes, largely in the foundation and encouragement of educational, charitable and religious institutions. He was devoutly attached to the Episcopal church, was for some time vestryman of Trinity parish afterward vestryman, and at the time of his death, senior warden of Grace church. His memory is perpetuated in many noble institutions, not only in his native city but in various and remote parts of the country. Some of these were foundations laid by himself alone, others by him in association with generous men who were imbued with like spirit. The gifts and nobIe works of these men have made the fame of the merchant princes ol New York an enduring and priceless possession to their successors, their city and the world. Wolfes charities were always without ostentation, and his private gifts mere undoubtedly larger than those which were known. Churches and church foundations of benevolence and education in all parts of the country received his never failing aid. St. Johnland on Long Island, the Sheltering Arms in this city, the High School at Denver in Colorado, the Diocesan School at Topeka in Kansas, The Theological Seminary in Ohio, these and many other institutions bear witness to his munificent heart and hands. He was warmly attached to the New York Historical Society in whose important work and collections he was a free contributor of means and an active personal laborer, He was one of the founders of the American Rluseum of Natural History in this city, and was its first President when he died, May 17, 1872, in the eightieth year of his age, leaving but oce child, Catharine LoriJard, surviving him, who succeeded to the large property. Miss Woife was endowed with a mind of remarkable power, cultivated by edacation, reading and extended travel. Her biography cannot be written here. She devoted herself and her large and largely increasing wealth to the widest and most effective charity, governing herself in her gifts by careful examination and calm judgment, where personal investigation could be made, and where that was not possible, displaying her superior ability in the selection of sound and trustworthy advisers, on whom she relied with confidence. The catalogue of her specific charities would be much longer than this catalogue of her collection of paintings. Her catholic disposition in these may be gathered from the names of a few such objects of her larger appropriations, as Union College at Schenectady, St. Lukes Hospital in New York, the noble charities at St...

ISBN-13: 9781443775946
ISBN-10: 1443775940
Publication Date: 10/27/2008
Pages: 52
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Publisher: Leffmann Press
Book Type: Paperback
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