(1836- ), an American financier, born in New York. He moved to Chicago in 1855 and in 1858 entered the service of the Merchants' Loan & Trust Company. Later he became manager of the clearing house and was elected president of the First National Bank in 1882. He was three times chosen president of the American Bankers' Association, was twice president of the Civic Federation of Chicago, and was the first president of the board of directors of the World's Columbian Exposition. He was secretary of the treasury under President McKinley from 1897 to 1902 and in that year became president of the United States Trust Company of New York.