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...Finger-Fono. All this scriptural activity flows from a paneled, portrait-hung board room on Manhattan's Park Avenue, headquarters of the Society. Founded in 1816, its first president was Elias Boudinot, a New Jersey Presbyterian who served as president of the Continental Congress. In 1819 it began supplying Bibles, New Testaments and extracts to overseas mission aries, and as of 1962 the grand total distributed had reached over 624 mil lion, in languages and dialects ranging from Apache to Zulu...
...number of Christian leaders met in Manhattan's Garden Street Dutch Reformed Church to discuss the country's need for Bibles. Novelist James Fenimore Cooper was among them; so was Preacher Lyman Beecher. Then & there, the American Bible Society was founded. Elias Boudinot of New Jersey, a onetime president of the Continental Congress, was its first president; its vice president was John Jay, first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, instituted the custom in 1792. Only once has a ripple of discord disturbed the ceremony. In 1801 the trial had to be postponed after the seat of government was moved from Philadelphia to Washington. At this unseemly break in an established tradition, Mint Director Elias Boudinot wrote indignantly to President John Adams, protesting that public confidence in the federal coinage was being undermined...
...Phillips, S. W. Reynolds, W. Say, and C. Turner, a gift from Miss Elizabeth G. Norton; a portfolio of 40 prints, engraved in mezzotint and stipple, facsimiles of engravings by James Ward and William Ward; a portrait of President Eliot, etched by Sidney L. Smith; a portrait of Elias Boudinot, by Waldo and Jewett, engraved by A. D. Durand; a portrait of Sir Leslie Stephen, by G. A. Watts, reproduced in photogravure; etchings by Bartolomineo Pinelli, the gift of Professor C. E. Norton; and two prints of landscapes by an unknown engraver, given by Professor M. H. Morgan...