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CHAPTER XXVI.

I have frequently alluded to Ebenezer Stevens, who,
in a former age, was a grand old merchant of this city,
and does honor to it. I have mentioned him in a for¬
mer chapter as having been one of the founders of the
Tammany Society, In 1789, and having held its highest
honors. He had been a soldier in the Revolutionary
War of 1776, and I think was a Lieutenant-Colonel of
New York Artillery. Originally, I tliink he was from
New England, as he was one of the life members of the
New England Society, as was also his son Horatio
Gates Stevens, and were so made when the Society was
founded in 1805. He was at that time its Vice-Presi¬
dent.

He was also prominent in the Cincinnati Society of
the State of New York.

Many of the old war veterans went into commercial
business after it was over, but among them none was
more prominent than Ebenezer Stevens. In 1786 he
went into the lumber business at No. 78 Water street,
with Michael Connolly, under the firm of Stevens &
Connolly. It lasted until the 20th of April, 1789,
when the following notice appeared :

This day the partnership of Stevens & Connolly is by mutual
consent dissolved.    All persons having demands against them are