Tenth Annual Fair Of The American Institute

Author : S. S. Packard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267224029
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Education From Contact With Things written by S. S. Packard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Education From Contact With Things: An Address Delivered at the Opening of the Sixty-First Annual Fair of the American Institute, Monday Evening October Tenth Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Two Few enterprising citizens, in the year 1828, met in a small room in Tammany Hall and organized the American Institute, and in 1829 a charter was granted by the Legislature of the State of New York, under the title of The American Institute of the City of New York. Its objects are to encourage and promote domestic industry in this State and the United States, in Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and the Arts, and any improvements made therein, by bestowing rewards and other benefits on those who Shall make such improvements, or excel in any of the said branches. The first trustees and officers were William Few, President; John Mason, First vice-president; Curtis Bolton, Second Vice President; Peter H. Schenck, Third vice-president; Enos Bald win, Fourth vice-president; Anson Hayden, Fifth vice-president, and John B. Yates and John A. Sidell, Secretaries. Mr. Thaddeus B. Wakeman was very prominent as one of its founders. In fact he may be styled its father, and was its Cor responding Secretary for eighteen years. He died in 1848. The Institute, to mark its appreciation of his services, erected a monu ment to his memory in Greenwood Cemetery. The hon. Henry meigs was always active in the affairs of the Institute; he was its Recording Secretary for seventeen years, and delivered a number of addresses at the Fairs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.