After serving there for three years with great satisfaction to his employers, he started business for himself in Wall Street, where, by his untiring energy and perseverence, he amassed a large fortune. No man better understood the value of money and the labor spent in acquiring it, therefore he greatly disliked to see negligence and indolence in others ; he had also a great fondness for literary pursuits. In 1852 he published a work upon " The Merits of Protestantism Demonstrated by the Character of Man," embracing in his history various countries from the earliest recorded period to the present century.

It was his great object in this undertaking to show the merits of Protestanism and the benefits which it has conferred upon the world in improving the civil, social and religious conditions of the great mass of the people. The work is written in a good spirit and brings into one compendious view the good fruits of the Reformation, and passed through three editions'* ; he was preparing a fourth for the press, only a few years before his death. Possessed of abundant means, he was liberal especially in the cause of education, being one of the founders of the free academy in New York and a generous contributor to its support. In 1840 he gave ten thousand dollars for the maintenance of the common schools in this town, and at one time greatly desired to establish a school not only for the promotion of Agriculture within its borders but throughout the country at large. He was preparing to increase his gift of the Glebe Lands by the building of the new church of St. Paul's, when he was removed by death on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 1st, 187 1. It was his wish that