WARD, Samuel [1786-1839] -- American banker
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He was b. at Newport, R. I., May 1, 1786;
in 1790 removed to N. Y.;
at 14 he became a clerk in the banking house of which he was afterwards the head;
1808 he was taken into partnership with Nathaniel Prime,
and the firm of Prime, Ward & King became widely known as enterprising bankers;
in 1828 he lent an active hand in behalf of the N. Y. Hist. Soc.,
and in 1830 to the founding of the N. Y. University,
and at a later day entered warmly into various temperance, mission, tract
and other beneficent movements;
in the commercial crisis of 1836-7,
he was particularly active in supporting the commercial credit of the city,
in 1838 he aided in founding the Bank of Commerce,
of which he was afterward president;
d. Nov. 27, 1839.
[Griswold's Biog. Annual 1841, 266;
Hunt's Lives of Am. Merchants, i, 295.] 
