Trustees Past and Present

Chairs

• 1856:   Robert Kelly
• 1857:   Charles Richard Swords
• 1858:   Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
• 1870:   Frederic de Peyster
• 1882:   Robert Lenox Kennedy
• 1883:   Charles Edward Strong
• 1885:   Frederick Sheldon
• 1885:   Henry Drisler
• 1887:   John Mason Knox
• 1890:   Frederic James de Peyster
• 1894:   George Van Nest Baldwin
• 1898:   Johnston Livingston de Peyster
• 1900:   Edward King
• 1903:   Charles Boyd Curtis
• 1905:   Frederick Augustus Schermerhorn
• 1907:   Frederic de Peyster Foster
• 1929:   Charles de Rham
• 1930:   Lewis S. Morris
• 1944:   Hamilton Fish Armstrong
• 1957:   Frederic R. King
• 1966:   Arnold Whitridge
• 1979:   Spencer Byard
• 1985:   Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.
• 1992:   William J. Dean
• 2005:   Charles G. Berry
• 2012:   Barbara Hadley Stanton
• 2016:   Carol Collins Malone
• 2021:   Ellen M. Iseman
• 2023:   George L.K. Frelinghuysen

Secretaries

• 1754:   William Peartree Smith
• 1756:   Gabriel Ludlow
• 1758:   John Vanderspiegel
• 1769:   Samuel Bard
• 1789:   Edward Greswold
• 1791:   Jacob Morton
• 1792:   Isaac Leonard Kip
• 1794:   John Forbes
• 1815:   John Pintard
• 1816:   Anthony Bleecker
• 1827:   Evert Abraham Bancker
• 1837:   William Inglis
• 1855:   George Christian Anthon
• 1856:   Henry Van Schaick
• 1857:   William Jones Hoppin
• 1877:   Frederic James de Peyster
• 1880:   John Mason Knox
• 1883:   George Van Nest Baldwin
• 1894:   Charles Boyd Curtis
• 1903:   Beverly Chew
• 1929:   Frederic A. de Peyster
• 1945:   Rodman Gilder
• 1953:   Spencer Byard
• 1979:   Henry S.F. Cooper Jr.
• 1985:   Gordon R. Fairburn
• 1993:   Anthony D. Knerr
• 1996:   Charles G. Berry
• 2005:   Daniel M. Rossner
• 2020:   Timothy N. Wallach
• 2023:   Susan L. Robbins

Treasurers

• 1754:   John Watts
• 1755:   John Morin Scott
• 1756:   Gabriel Ludlow
• 1756:   David Clarkson
• 1757:   William Peartree Smith
• 1758:   John Vanderspiegel
• 1771:   Samuel Jones
• 1796:   Daniel Phoenix
• 1810:   Edward William Laight
• 1838:   William Henry Harison
• 1842:   Alexander Robertson Rodgers
• 1855:   Charles Edward Strong
• 1859:   Otis Dwight Swan
• 1877:   Richard Edwards Mount
• 1880:   Edward Schell
• 1891:   John Andrew Hardenbergh
• 1896:   John Jordan Morgan
• 1898:   Archibald Douglas Russell
• 1899:   Frederic de Peyster Foster
• 1907:   Henry Cotheal Swords
• 1924:   Charles de Rham
• 1929:   Edmund P. Rogers
• 1934:   Arthur J. Morris
• 1965:   Walter Maynard
• 1971:   Porter R. Chandler
• 1972:   Joseph P. Geraghty
• 1984:   James Q. Griffin
• 2005:   George L.K. Frelinghuysen
• 2023:   Timothy N. Wallach

Trustees

• 1754:   James Alexander
• 1754:   Henry Barclay
• 1754:   John Chambers
• 1754:   James De Lancey
• 1754:   Joseph Murray
• 1754:   Benjamin Nicoll
• 1754:   John Watts, Sr.
• 1754:   William Alexander (Lord Stirling)
• 1754:   William Peartree Smith
• 1754:   Robert R. Livingston, Sr.
• 1754:   William Livingston
• 1754:   William Walton
   
• 1755:   Philip Livingston
• 1755:   John Morin Scott
• 1755:   William Smith, Sr.
• 1755:   John Vanderspiegel
• 1755:   Peter Van Brugh Livingston
• 1755:   William Smith, Jr.
• 1755:   John Livingston
   
• 1756:   Henry Cruger
• 1756:   Oliver De Lancey
• 1756:   George Duncan Ludlow
• 1756:   Gabriel Ludlow
• 1756:   David Clarkson
   
• 1757:   Benjamin Hildreth
• 1757:   Goldsbrow Banyar
• 1757:   Peter Keteltas
• 1760:   John Bard
• 1760:   Whitehead Hicks
• 1765:   Walter Rutherfurd
• 1769:   Samuel Bard
   
• 1770:   Samuel Jones
• 1773:   Robert R. Livingston, Jr.
• 1773:   Samuel Verplanck
• 1774:   John Jones
• 1774:   John Tabor Kempe
• 1774:   Peter Van Schaack
   
• 1788:   Henry Remsen
• 1788:   Matthew Clarkson
• 1788:   Edward Greswold
• 1788:   Robert Watts
• 1788:   Daniel Crommelin Verplanck
• 1788:   Brockholst Livingston
• 1788:   Hugh Gaine
• 1789:   Gulian Verplanck
   
• 1790:   John Pintard
• 1790:   Jacob Morton
• 1791:   John Blagge
• 1791:   Frederick William Augustus, Baron Steuben
• 1791:   Rufus King
• 1791:   Benjamin Moore
• 1791:   Nathaniel Hazard
• 1791:   John Cozine
• 1792:   Francis Childs
• 1792:   Israel Wilkes
• 1792:   Edward Livingston
• 1792:   William Samuel Johnson
• 1793:   James Miles Hughes
• 1793:   Charles Wilkes
• 1793:   Samuel Latham Mitchell
• 1793:   David Van Horne
• 1794:   Richard Varick
• 1794:   William Linn
• 1794:   John Kemp
• 1795:   William Pitt Smith
• 1795:   Daniel Phoenix
• 1795:   William Denning
• 1796:   Thomas Eddy
• 1796:   Thomas Jones
• 1796:   James Kent
• 1796:   William Laight
• 1797:   William Johnson
• 1798:   John Henry Livingston
• 1798:   Peter Wilson
   
• 1800:   John Mitchell Mason
• 1801:   Daniel McCormick
• 1803:   Egbert Benson
• 1807:   John Stevens
• 1809:   Edward William Laight
   
• 1810:   Peter Augustus Jay
• 1810:   Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
• 1810:   Anthony Bleecker
• 1811:   Clement Clarke Moore
• 1811:   John Henry Hobart
• 1812:   John Richardson Bayard Rodgers
• 1814:   John Augustine Smith
• 1815:   Samuel Farmar Jarvis
• 1816:   John Ferguson
• 1816:   John Jordan Morgan
• 1817:   Charles Drake
• 1817:   David Samuel Jones
   
• 1820:   James Renwick
• 1821:   John Kearney Rodgers
• 1824:   John Le Conte
• 1824:   Ezra Weeks
• 1826:   Evert Abraham Bancker
   
• 1832:   Charles Baldwin
• 1832:   James Campbell
• 1833:   James Ellsworth DeKay
• 1833:   John Frederick Schroeder
• 1833:   Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright
• 1834:   Stephen Clay Williams
• 1834:   Enos Thompson Throop
• 1834:   John Anthon
• 1834:   William Berrian
• 1834:   Henry James Anderson
• 1835:   Washington Irving
• 1837:   Edgar Evertson
• 1837:   Charles Goadsby Ferris
• 1837:   Andrew Hammersley
• 1837:   Henry Nicoll
• 1837:   John Richard Townsend
• 1837:   William Samuel Johnson
• 1837:   William Anson Lawrence
• 1837:   William Henry Harrison
• 1837:   William Inglis
• 1838:   William Kent
• 1838:   Nathaniel Fish Moore
• 1838:   Charles Alexander Clinton
• 1838:   Daniel Seymour
• 1838:   Alexander Robertson Rodgers
• 1839:   Henry Brevoort Jr.
• 1839:   Rufus Lathrop Lord
• 1839:   Dayton Hobart
   
• 1840:   Peter Augustus Schermerhorn
• 1840:   Anthony Barclay
• 1840:   Frederic de Peyster
• 1841:   Augustus Fleming
• 1841:   Robert Bowne Minturn
• 1841:   Benjamin Isaac Haight
• 1841:   Joshua Coit
• 1841:   James De Peyster Ogden
• 1842:   James Isaac Jones
• 1842:   Joseph Delafield
• 1843:   Joseph Green Cogswell
• 1843:   Jacob Harvey
• 1845:   John Hamilton Gourlie
• 1846:   Orville Dewey
• 1846:   Charles Mortimer Leupp
• 1846:   James Henry Titus
• 1847:   Charles Astor Bristed
• 1848:   Jonathan Sturges
• 1849:   James William Beekman, Sr.
   
• 1850:   William Templeton Johnson
• 1853:   Edward Jones
• 1854:   John Bigelow
• 1855:   George Richard James Bowdoin
• 1855:   George James Cornell
• 1855:   Jacob Harsen
• 1855:   Martin Ryerson Zabriskie
• 1855:   Charles Edward Anderson
• 1855:   Cornelius Du Bois
• 1855:   Robert Kelly
• 1855:   Benjamin Hazard Field
• 1855:   Charles Edward Strong
• 1855:   George Christian Anthon
• 1855:   George Thomson Elliot, Jr.
• 1855:   Jacob Post Giraud Foster
• 1855:   Oliver Wolcott Gibbs
• 1855:   Robert Le Roy
• 1855:   Henry Van Schaick
• 1855:   William Henry Anthon
• 1855:   William Adams
• 1855:   Charles Richard Swords
• 1855:   Otis Dwight Swan
• 1856:   Lewis Colford Jones
• 1856:   William Jones Hoppin
• 1856:   Robert Lenox Kennedy
• 1858:   James Paine Cronkhite
• 1858:   George Folsom
• 1858:   John Romeyn Brodhead
• 1858:   William Allen Butler
• 1858:   Thomas Ward
• 1858:   Henry Crawford Dorr
• 1859:   William McMurray
• 1859:   Stacy Budd Collins
• 1859:   Evert Augustus Duyckinck
   
• 1862:   Thomas W. Clerke
   
• 1870:   John Lambert Cadwalader
• 1871:   Edgar Simeon Van Winkle
• 1871:   Stephen Payne Nash
• 1871:   Edward Schell
• 1871:   Frederick Sheldon
• 1873:   Richard Edwards Mount
• 1873:   Henry Drisler
• 1874:   Frederic James de Peyster
• 1876:   Francis Aquila Stout
• 1876:   Richard Tylden Auchmuty
• 1877:   Adam Tredwell Sackett
• 1879:   George Cabot Ward
• 1879:   John Mason Knox
   
• 1880:   James Monroe McLean
• 1882:   Johnston Livingston de Peyster
• 1883:   George Van Nest Baldwin
• 1885:   Albert Mathews
• 1885:   Edward King
• 1886:   James William Beekman, Jr.
• 1888:   Henry Augustus Cram
   
• 1891:   John Andrew Hardenbergh
• 1892:   Charles Boyd Curtis
• 1894:   Robert Fulton Cutting
• 1894:   Charles Henry Marshall
• 1894:   Frederick Augustus Schermerhorn
• 1894:   Frederic de Peyster Foster
• 1897:   Charles Coolidge Haight
• 1897:   David Maitland Armstrong
• 1898:   Alfred Pell
• 1898:   George Winthrop Folsom
• 1898:   Archibald Douglas Russell
   
• 1901:   Beverly Chew
• 1901:   Henry Cotheal Swords
• 1904:   Timothy Matlack Cheesman
• 1905:   Jacob Harsen Purdy
• 1906:   Stiles Franklin Stanton
• 1907:   David B. Ogden
• 1908:   Howard Townsend
• 1908:   Bayard Tuckerman
• 1908:   William Emlen Roosevelt
• 1909:   Paul Tuckerman
   
• 1912:   Archer M. Huntington
• 1913:   Frederic A. de Peyster
• 1915:   Charles de Rham
• 1915:   Henry E. Gregory
• 1917:   William A. Alcock
• 1919:   Frederic F. de Rham
   
• 1920:   Rodman Wanamaker
• 1920:   Russell Benedict
• 1920:   James G. King
• 1920:   Lewis S. Morris
• 1923:   W. Gedney Beatty
• 1923:   Edward C. Parish
• 1923:   Hamilton Fish Armstrong
• 1924:   Alfred Seton
• 1925:   Bertram Cruger
• 1928:   A. Coster Schermerhorn
• 1929:   Edmund P. Rogers
   
• 1930:   Samuel V. Hoffman
• 1931:   E. Coster Wilmerding
• 1932:   Henry James
• 1933:   Donald C. Vaughan
• 1933:   Edward C. Delafield
• 1934:   Philip J. Roosevelt
• 1934:   Arthur J. Morris
• 1937:   Rodman Gilder
• 1939:   Frederic R. King
   
• 1942:   Stephen Vincent Benet
• 1942:   Walter Millis
• 1944:   Arnold Whitridge
• 1945:   Nicholas Roosevelt
• 1948:   George S. Franklin, Jr.
• 1948:   William J. Schieffelin, Jr.
   
• 1950:   Fenwick Beekman
• 1950:   John Mason Brown
• 1951:   Charles H. Marshall
• 1952:   Spencer Byard
• 1954:   Ruth Draper
• 1954:   Rosemary Carr
• 1954:   Louis S. Auchincloss
• 1957:   Margaret Kernochan Leech
• 1959:   Porter R. Chandler
• 1959:   Phyllis Gordan
   
• 1962:   Walter Maynard
• 1963:   Walter Lord
• 1966:   Andrew Oliver
• 1966:   Mrs. A. Reginald Allen
• 1966:   Eustis Dearborn
• 1968:   Jacques Barzun
   
• 1970:   Thomas Thacher
• 1971:   Henry S.F. Cooper Jr.
• 1972:   Joseph P. Geraghty
• 1972:   John T. Booth
• 1972:   Gordon R. Fairburn
• 1973:   Brendan Gill
• 1974:   Shirley Hazzard
• 1974:   Andrew Oliver, Jr.
• 1977:   Harmon H. Goldstone
   
• 1982:   Barbara Tuchman
• 1984:   James Q. Griffin
• 1984:   Anthony D. Knerr
• 1984:   Maisie Houghton
• 1985:   Elihu Rose
• 1986:   Charles A. Platt
• 1988:   Barbara H. Stanton
• 1988:   Harold Buttrick
• 1988:   George Labalme Jr.
• 1988:   Margaret Cook
• 1989:   William J. Dean
• 1989:   Barbara Goldsmith
   
• 1991:   Jeannette Watson Sanger
• 1992:   Jean Parker Phifer
• 1992:   Isabel N. Eberstadt
• 1992:   Fawn White
• 1993:   Charles G. Berry
• 1994:   Robert A. Caro
• 1994:   Jenny Lawrence
• 1994:   Margaret Mather Byard
• 1995:   Theodore C. Rogers
• 1996:   Lyn Chase
• 1997:   Ralph S. Brown Jr.
• 1997:   Benita Eisler
• 1998:   Mark Hampton
• 1998:   Constance Rogers Roosevelt
• 1998:   Christopher Gray
   
• 2000:   Byron Bell
• 2002:   John K. Howat
• 2002:   Linn Cary Mehta
• 2002:   Daniel M. Rossner
• 2003:   George L.K. Frelinghuysen
• 2004:   Susan L. Robbins
• 2006:   Laurence Bergreen
• 2006:   Ellen M. Iseman
• 2009:   Ada Peluso
• 2010:   Betty Kelly Sargent
• 2010:   Carol Collins Malone
   
• 2012:   William G. Bardel
• 2012:   Barbara Goldsmith
• 2013:   Timothy N. Wallach
• 2013:   Adrienne Ingrum 
• 2016:   Francesca Stanfill
• 2017:   Ella M. Foshay
• 2017:   Gretchen Rubin
• 2018:   Liaquat Ahamed
   
• 2021:   Akosua Asamoah
• 2021:   Dwayne Ashley
• 2021:   John Schwolsky
• 2021:   Elliot S. Orol
• 2022:   Warren St. John
• 2022:   Emily Madison
• 2023:   Lisa Hess