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CHAPTER XXII.

There have been some iUustrious merchants in this
city — men who have added to its wealth by their ex¬
tended business operations — to its fame by their indi¬
vidual efforts, standing out in bold relief above all oth¬
ers. Those who in the last century have done most,
have been rewarded least, and names that would adorn
any city or nation, are now almost obscured or forgotten.
1 looked to-day at a Directory for 1862.    I found there:

" Pintard, Plisebe, widow John, h. 30 Canal,"
•' Pintard, Samuel, seaman, h. 3 Birmingham."

I know these are neither kith or kin of the proud old
mercantile race of Pintards, that have flourished in this
city almost 200 years, and that I am going to write
about to-day.

All the males of that great merchant race lie in a
vault in the church of St. Clement in Amity street, be¬
tween Sullivan and MacDougal streets. John Pintard,
of whom I shall have much to say, and to whom the
word illustrious applies, as much as to any man that
ever lived, was an only son of John Pintard, and the
younger left no males of the race. He had two daugh¬
ters.

How few of the hundreds of thousands that live in
this city now can answer this question : " Who was
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