New York, la métropole : ses hommes d'affaires et professionnelles a fait remarquer. . D fournira un modèle de ce que l.les écoles américaines devraient être. Il est membre de la famille Potter thefamous qui a tant fait pour l'art, la littérature et la religion-litre dans ce pays, WILLIAM ALEXANDER SMITH. Le Convnercial AdTrrliscr, du 17 mai 1892, treatingof niersary le centenaire de la .Bourse,dit : Le plus ancien membre actif de l'échange est WilliamAlexander Smith, qui s'est joint au Conseil en Décembre 17,1844. Les ees la tête de la maison portant son nom, et son bureau de l'EESI, n° 70, près de Broadway tous les bus

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New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . d will furnish a model of what the.American high schools should be. He is a member of thefamous Potter family which has done so much for art, liter-ature and religion in this country, WILLIAM ALEXANDER SMITH. The Convnercial AdTrrliscr, of May 17th, 1892, treatingof the Centennial .niersary of the Stock Exchange, says : The oldest active member of the Exchange is WilliamAlexander Smith, who joined the Board on December 17, 1844. Heis the head of the firm bearing his name, and isat his office, No. 70 Broadway, nearly every business day, attending to his interests with as much attention to detailsas when he first became a stock broker. He is a man of pre-possessing appearance, is of medium height, and his hair hasturned white with years. His manners are genial and affable.Mr, Smith w^as born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on Sep-tember 9, 1820, and came of a good old American family.His paternid grandfather, Robert Smith, was CajUain inColonel Malcolms Regiment, a body which was one of the. WILLIAM ALEXANDER SMITH. first organized by the State of New York, in the war of theRevolution, Ca])tain Smith, was wounded at the battle ofWhite Plains, and again at the bloodv battle of Monmouth.PLs father was Robert Hobart Smith, who married MissMary Potts, daughter of Joseph Potts. He was educated in Philadelphia and Princeton Acad-emy, but at the early age of thirteen entered a countinghouse in the former city. In 1844, he arrived in New York, and became connected with the old banking house of Colt& Smith, of which his uncle was one of the ])artners. Inthe year following (1845) he became partner himself in thathouse. He has since been engaged in the banking andbrokerage business, and not only is known as the father ofthe Stock Exchange, but as one of its most respected andesteemed members, always looked up to as the embodiment NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. of what an Anierican banker should be. He was electedtreasurer

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