{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4518", "width": "2904", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class .^S^r^^S^-i-\\nBookSlliJCS-\\nSMITHSONIAW, liEPCfSIT", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "i", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "4", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "IN MEMORIAM", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "IN MEMORIAM\\nROBERT SCHELL\\nBorn in Rhinebeck, N. Y., October 8, 1815\\nDied in the City of New York, May 8, 1900\\nThe sweet remembrance of the just\\nShall flourish when he sleeps in dust\\nNEW YORK\\nPRIVATELY PRINTED\\n1901\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acdit?^^ 2\u00c2\u00bb", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "o\\n2\\n(h\\no^ .1-\\nvf^\\nEDITION OF TWO HUNDRED COPIES\\nPRINTED FOR F. ROBERT SCHELL", "height": "4549", "width": "2896", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "New York Historical Society.\\nRobert Schell died at his residence, Thirt3^-three West\\nFifty-sixth Street, in the City of New York, on Tuesday,\\nthe Eighth day of May, Nineteen Hundred.\\nFuneral Services were held in the Marble Collegiate\\nChurch, Fifth Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street, on Fri-\\nday morning, the Eleventh day of May.\\nMr. Schell had been identified with the New York\\nHistorical Society for over half a century, having been\\nadmitted to its membership on April Fourth, Eighteen\\nHundred and Forty-eight.\\nHis brother, Augustus Schell, died March Twenty-\\neighth, Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-four, being at that\\ntime President of the Society. A few months after his\\ndecease, Mr. Robert Schell became Treasurer of the\\nSociety, which office he held at the time of his death,\\nhaving been annually re-elected.\\nHe left a munificent bequest to the Society, for its\\nbuilding fund, of Twenty-five thousand dollars. De-\\nsirous of preserving for his friends the affectionate trib-\\nutes paid to his memory, the following pages have been\\ncollated.\\nRobert H. Kelby,\\nLibrarian.", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS OF Rev. EDWARD B. COE, D.D.", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS AT THE FUNERAL OF\\nMR. ROBERT SCHELL,\\nHeld in the Marble Collegiate Church,\\nMay II, 1900,\\nBy the Rev. EDWARD B. COE, D.D.\\nI HAVE been asked to say a few words, and\\nonly a few words, in affectionate appreciation of\\nthe character and life of Mr. Schell.\\nIt is at once a sad and a pleasant duty, but it\\nis one which I do not find altogether easy to\\nperform. He would not, I think, have been\\nunwilling that we should give expression to our\\nkind regard for him, and to our profound sorrow\\nat his death. But anything like eulogy would\\nhave been most offensive to his modest nature\\nand would be equally distasteful to his nearest\\nfriends. It may thus easily happen that what\\nseems to us wholly inadequate would have ap-\\npeared to him, and would appear to them, ex-\\ncessive and unseemly.\\n9", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "In one respect, however, Mr. Schell was sin-\\ngularly fortunate. He lived to be more than\\neighty-four years old. Many men who reach\\nthat age find that they have outlived their\\nfriends, and are more or less out of sympathy\\nwith those among whom their later years are\\npassed, Mr. Schell never outlived his friends.\\nHe never lost his youthfulness of spirit. He\\nwas fond of young people, and they were no\\nless fond of him. He was interested in their\\nthoughts and in their interests, and his mind was\\nas alert and often as playful as theirs. You may\\nhave seen him in a company of people, not one\\nof whom was half as old as he, and yet he seemed\\nas young as any of them. His sense of humor\\nwas not deadened by the advance of years in\\nspite of obvious physical infirmities and limita-\\ntions. He kept his youthfulness and even his\\nmirthfulness of manner and spirit to the last.\\nNow this, which was one of his most charming\\ncharacteristics, had this effect that we all knew\\nhim, and (may I not add all loved him. We\\ndo not need to have anyone tell us what manner\\nof man he was. He did not belong to a past\\ngeneration, he was one of us. His face, his\\nlO", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "voice, his genial presence are at this moment\\nvividly before our minds they will long linger\\nin our memories.\\nBut this buoyancy of temper is, after all, like\\nthe sparkling foam on the surface of the river,\\nwhose power lies in the strong and steady push\\nof its deeper currents. And the deeper currents\\nof Mr. Schell s nature set strongly toward that\\nwhich was true and noble and good.\\nHe came to this city in his boyhood. He was\\none of a notable group of brothers, all of whom\\nwere men of force, of distinction, of wide influence.\\nThey filled high places, and they filled them well.\\nThe same is true of him who was the last survivor\\nof the group. He did not seek offices or honors,\\nbut they were thrust upon him, because men knew\\nhim, and needed him, and trusted him. He\\nwas a member of many societies, for he was em-\\ninently a social man. He was president or di-\\nrector in many institutions. Long after he had\\nreached the age at which most men have retired\\nfrom active business, he was still at the head of\\none of our most respectable banks. Now this\\ndoes not happen unless a man possesses two\\nthings: one is a vigorous mind, and the other is\\nII", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "a trustworthy character unless he is at once\\nalert and sagacious and strictly honest. All\\nthis Mr. Schell certainly was. Conservative he\\ndoubtless was in his views of many things po-\\nlitical, financial, commercial, social but he was\\nquick to perceive new conditions, and as far as\\npossible, to adopt himself to them. He was an\\nexceptionally judicious counsellor in practical mat-\\nters, and no opinion carried greater weight than\\nhis in the various boards of which he was a mem-\\nber. And then he was a man of absolute integrity.\\nHe was far too noble and high-minded to stoop\\nto anything that was I will not say dishonorable,\\nbut even questionable. Men knew this, and\\ntherefore they respected him and confided in him.\\nIn these days in which it sometimes seems as if\\nthe very foundations of morality were giving way\\nbeneath our feet, it is a comfort to remember that\\nthere are such men many of them in places of\\nresponsibility and influence in this city and\\nthroughout the land men who will not for any\\nconsideration whatever, violate their sense of\\nduty or do what they know that the law of God\\nforbids. Every such man is like the tower of\\nDavid at Jerusalem, which was builded for an\\n12", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "armory, and which was to the city both an orna-\\nment and a defence.\\nEven in his business life, men must, I think,\\nhave been attracted to Mr. Schell by his rare\\nkindliness of spirit. He was a man of force,\\nsometimes abrupt in speech and manner, a man of\\nquick decisions and of positive opinions but he\\nhad a hearty interest in other people. Who of\\nus will not long remember his graceful and cordial\\ncourtesy And he was always ready to help,\\nso far as it lay in his power to do so, any one\\nwho needed help. No friend ever called at his\\nhouse whom he did not, if it was possible, go\\ndown to see, often at the cost of much personal\\ninconvenience and discomfort. He had in large\\nmeasure the beautiful grace of hospitality, which\\nso many in our day seem too busy to cultivate\\nand manifest. He was also, as very many here\\ncan testify, a man of great generosity, giving\\nconstantly and freely to individuals, to the Church,\\nto more than one college, to the missionary work,\\nto a thousand things. I must not say much about\\nthis, lest I should seem to praise him, as I must\\nnot say anything about the loving and reveren-\\ntial regard in which he was held by his large\\n13", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "circle of relatives and friends. But you well\\nknow what the fact was, though I am sure no\\none knows how constantly and liberally he gave\\nto advance the cause of Christ, and to help every\\nhonest and wise endeavor to promote the welfare\\nof his fellow-men. He gave not so much out of a\\nlarge purse as out of a large heart he gave joy-\\nfully as well as from a sense of duty.\\nA sense of duty this was, I think, the govern-\\ning motive in all his life. I shall venture to refer\\nto one proof of it, which he gave, because it was\\npublicly given, though it is very personal and\\nvery sacred. He had long been a Christian I\\ndo not know how long a sincere believer in the\\nLord Jesus Christ, a humble and conscientious\\nfollower of Christ, a daily student of the Bible, a\\nman of prayer but he had never made public\\nconfession of his Christian faith. He did this\\nonly a few years ago, rising here in this church\\nand entering into the full communion of the\\nchurch. There are, no doubt, some of you men\\nwho know what a hard thing that is to do some\\nof you who may yourselves have done it some\\nof you who have not done it, though you know\\nyou ought to do it. I shall never forget the re-\\n14", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "mark which was made to me years ago by a man\\nof great intelligence, now dead, for whose sincere\\nand earnest Christian character I had the pro-\\nfoundest respect, but who was not a member of\\nthe church. He said to me It is almost im-\\npossible for a man who is over fifty years of age\\nto take that step. Mr. Schell was over seventy\\nyears of age he was a prominent man in this\\ncommunity he felt that he ought to take that\\nstep, and he took it. He took it from a sense of\\nduty to his Master. And there is no one here,\\nI am sure, who does not respect and admire him\\nfor taking it. It shows sufficiently what manner\\nof man he was.\\nIt is sad to think that we shall see his face no\\nmore, that his work on earth is done, that he is\\ngone forever from this world but at this solemn\\nhour we may reverently and gratefully thank God\\nfor what He gave to him. He granted him long\\nlife He sustained him under many bitter trials\\nHe enabled him to do a good work He gave\\nhim a perfectly childlike and undoubting faith in\\nthe Lord Christ Jesus; and, at last, like a little\\nchild who falls asleep when the day is over, He\\ntook him sweetly and without a struggle from\\n15", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "the earthly to the heavenly home. What more\\ncould He have done for him\\nAnd He has given to us his memory to cherish,\\nand his example to follow.\\ni6\\ni", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "RESOLUTIONS", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "New York Historical Society\\nAt a special meeting of the Executive Committee\\nof the New York Historical Society, held on the ninth\\nday of May, 1900, the following resolutions were\\nadopted\\nResolved^ That the Executive Committee of the New\\nYork Historical Society have heard with profound sor-\\nrow the announcement of the death at his residence in\\nthis city, on Tuesday, the eighth day of May, 1900, of\\nMr. Robert Schell, the Treasurer of the Society.\\nResolvedy That this Committee will attend the funer-\\nal, Friday morning, the eleventh instant, from the Col-\\nlegiate Church, Fifth Avenue and Twenty ninth\\nStreet, at ten o clock, and respectfully request the\\nmembers of the Society to join in this tribute of re-\\nspect.\\nResolvedy That the President of the Society be re-\\nquested to prepare a memorial minute of our late\\nAssociate and Treasurer to be read at the next meet-\\ning of the Society.\\nDaniel Parish, Jr.,\\nSecretary,\\nAt a stated meeting of the New York Historical\\nSociety, held, on the fifth day of June, 1900, the Hon.\\n19", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "John A. King, President of the Society, submitted and\\nread the following memorial minute\\nIn obedience to the foregoing resolutions, I have\\nwith unaffected sorrow at the loss of my venerable\\nfriend and associate Robert Schell, late Treasurer of\\nthis Society, prepared the following minute in memo-\\nriam\\nTo his great virtues, his unalloyed assiduity in the\\ndischarge of his duties, to the faithful maintenance of\\nthe financial trusts in his hands, and to the gentle\\ndeportment of manner and character which were so\\nmarked in his long and distinguished life. He loved\\nthe Society and was happy in all his connection with\\nit, and in his last will has remembered it so munifi-\\ncently.\\nMr. Schell was born at Rhinebeck, Dutchess County,\\nN. Y., on October 8, 1815, and was the son of Chris-\\ntian and Elizabeth Hughes Schell. His grandfather\\nwas Richard Schell from the Palatinate of the Rhine,\\nwhence he came about one hundred and fifty years\\nago and settled with others of his fellow-countrymen\\nin Rhinebeck, on the banks of the Hudson River.\\nThey were of a noted emigration, and though not\\nblessed with large pecuniary resources, yet they had\\nthe solid virtues of a strong and religious people, de-\\ntermined to found a settlement in the New World,\\nwhere they could be free from religious persecutions\\nand could live in peace and charity with themselves\\n20", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "and the inhabitants, who were their neighbors. They\\nwere a domestic, thrifty, and frugal people, and\\nbrought with them their industry and Christian habits\\nand moral principles. Mr. Richard Schell was of this\\nemigration, and from him have descended a family of\\nmarked and great moral virtue. Christian, his son,\\nmarried, in 1804, Elizabeth Hughes, a woman of strong\\ncharacter and a member of the Collegiate Reformed\\nDutch Church. He was a business man of enlarged\\nviews, a Democrat, and a patriot, as in 1812 he raised\\nand commanded a Volunteer Company for defence of\\nthe City of New York. He gave his sons a classic\\neducation, until his early death put an end to his\\nplans. Augustus was the only professional man.\\nThe widow soon removed to New York, and there\\ncontinued to impress her character upon the children.\\nShe was a good woman, domestic, and made her home\\nso attractive, the children were fond of passing the\\nevenings in her society. Robert, in due time, entered\\ninto business pursuits, and became a merchant, and\\nAugustus rose in his professional career. They were a\\nhappy and devoted family. They were simple in their\\ntastes and habits and seeking to do good, and to foster\\nthe charitable institutions as they became necessary\\nwith the growth of the population of the great metrop-\\nolis. Augustus, being the eldest and more in contact\\nwith the outer world, through his profession, led the\\nway, and finding congenial objects wherein they might\\n21", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "work together. Robert and himself joined sundry\\nsocieties of learning and philanthropy, and we find\\nthem, year by year, progressing in their useful benefi-\\ncence, swerving not from the rules of Christian recti-\\ntude. Thus it was that as early as 1845 Augustus was\\nvery active in the interests of the New York Historical\\nSociety, being a member of its Executive Committee\\nfrom 1845 to 1870, and its Chairman for twenty years\\nits President from January 2, 1882, and was President\\nuntil his death, March 28, 1884. Mr. Robert Schell\\nwas admitted as a member of the New York Histor-\\nical Society April 4, 1848. He remained an annual\\nmember until January 29, 1885, when he constituted\\nhimself a life member. He was elected Treasurer of\\nthe Society January 6, 1885, succeeding the late Ben-\\njamin B. Sherman in that office, and was Treasurer at\\nthe time of his death. His was a long, useful, and\\nfaithful service of fifty-two years, and during the latter\\nfifteen of these years he was the honored and scrupu-\\nlously exact Treasurer of the Society, always ready for\\nduty and a wise counsellor in the management of its\\naffairs, and greatly assisting in the choice and pur-\\nchase of the land on the west side of the Park, in-\\ntended for the new building. He had faith in the\\nSociety, and though unable in his life-time to accom-\\nplish that which he had so earnestly at heart, he has\\ngloriously sealed that love and regard by making in\\nhis will a noble and munificent bequest of twenty-five\\n22", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "thousand dollars for the Building Fund. He knew its\\nabsolute need, and with his wise, generous, and keen\\nforesight he was willing so to kindle the hearts and\\nfeelings of other wealthy New Yorkers, and of others\\nwho might come to dwell in our midst of their duty\\nand privilege to contribute to one of the oldest societies\\nin the city, which is free from debt of any kind, but\\nnow positively needing a new building wherein to store\\nthe treasures of art and constantly increasing library.\\nMay this, his last gift of benevolence, thus crowning as\\nit were his many years of active services, be an incen-\\ntive to others to share with the Society in the distribu-\\ntion of their wealth, so that erelong the land which\\nour venerable Treasurer assisted in procuring may\\nagain by his further benevolence be soon covered\\nwith a building worthy of New York and of the\\nSociety.\\nMr. Schell was married in 1850 to Mary S. Taber,\\ndaughter of Corey Taber, and with her he dwelt in\\ngreat happiness until about four years ago, when the\\ntender cord was broken and he was left to mourn her\\nloss, as he most faithfully did for his life was that\\nof the domestic circle, contributing by his kindliness\\nand gentle nature to the happiness of his kinfolk, and\\nthe comfort of the stranger within his gate. He\\nwas the soul of honor in business his conscience was\\nsensitive not merely to evil, but to the very sugges-\\ntion of it. Ought was a sacred word in the vocabu-\\n23", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "lary of his transactions with men. He was ever kind\\nand considerate in his relations with his subordinates,\\nbut his rigid justice was proverbial with them.\\nRobert Schell was one of the most distinguished\\nmembers of the old guard of mercantile New York.\\nHe was an old-fashioned man, however, only in his\\nmost charming courtesy and affability. In everything\\nelse he was fully abreast of this most progressive and\\nintelligent age.\\nMr. Schell belonged to many of the old societies of\\nour city. He is the last of the children of Christian\\nSchell, surviving his other brothers, all of whom had\\nbeen conspicuous in their day and generation. Like\\nthem he had become a Democrat of the old school,\\nnever seeking for promotion in political life, but always\\ndoing his full duty, and with positive opinions. He\\nwas a true friend, quiet in his way, and in his habits,\\nnot caring for the demonstrative conditions of modern\\nsociety, but satisfied with the comforts and happiness\\nof a well-regulated Christian home. He had been\\nnurtured in the Dutch Church, and to respect the wor-\\nship of that Church. He was a member of the Colle-\\ngiate Reformed Dutch Church, Fifth Avenue on the\\ncorner of Twenty-ninth Street. He was a member of\\nthe Chamber of Commerce, of the St. Nicholas Soci-\\nety, and of the St. Nicholas Club. He was President of\\nthe Bank of the Metropolis twenty years, from which\\noffice he resigned five years ago. He was Vice-Presi-\\n24", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "dent of the German Savings Bank a member of the\\nCouncil of the University of New York a Trustee of\\nRutgers College, of Woodlawn Cemetery, of the New\\nYork Eye and Ear Infirmary, and of the Presbyterian\\nHospital a member of the American Geographical\\nSociety, and a member of the Uptown Association,\\nand a Director of the New York and Harlem Railroad\\nCompany and also a member of the Botanical Gar-\\nden Association.\\nI have thus drawn together a brief memorial of the\\nsalient points of the life of one whom we have been\\npermitted to work and be associated with, revealing a\\ncharacter of unspotted fidelity to duty and of sterling\\nintegrity, of great simplicity, so very rare in these\\nbusy days a faithful friend and a wise adviser, of cool\\nand sound judgment, and withal a Christian gentle-\\nman, and of large beneficence. With you, I shall\\ndeeply feel his loss, and will sacredly cherish re-\\nmembrance of the noble example which he has left\\nto us. If unto us there is sorrow, let us not forget\\nto offer our sincere sympathies to the only son and\\nto the other loving relatives and friends who survive\\nhim.\\nI know of no higher commendation than that of his\\npastor, who has said of him I am glad that I knew\\nRobert Schell. He strengthened my confidence in\\nthe possibilities of human nature. He emphasized my\\nfaith in the gospel of life and Christhkeness. He\\n25", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "stimulated my desire to make the world better whilst\\npassing through it.\\nMr. Alfred T. Ackert, with remarks, submitted the\\nfollowing resolution, which was adopted\\nResolvedy That the memorial tribute of our late As-\\nsociate and Treasurer, Robert Schell, be entered on\\nthe records of the Society, and a copy duly attested\\nbe transmitted to the family of Mr. Schell.\\nExtract from the minutes.\\nSydney H. Carney, Jr.,\\nRecording Secretary.\\nRutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.\\nThe following memorial minute in reference to the\\nlate Robert Schell, Esq., was adopted by the Trustees\\nof Rutgers College, at their meeting held June 20, 1900\\nin memory of ROBERT SCHELL, ESQ.\\nMr. Robert Schell, who died at his residence in New\\nYork City on May 8th last, was a man greatly beloved\\nby all who knew him for his genial spirit and his en-\\ngaging manner, while he was universally respected for\\nhis integrity and nobility of character. A financier of\\nconspicuous ability, President for many years of the\\nBank of the Metropolis, an officer of many public insti-\\ntutions, he enjoyed, in an eminent degree, the confi-\\ndence and honor of the community in which his life\\nwas passed, and in which he was widely known.\\n26", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "He was at the same time interested in all that con-\\ncerns the higher life of the city and the nation, and\\ngave freely of his wealth to different educational insti-\\ntutions, as well as to humane and religious objects.\\nHe was a loyal and generous supporter of the Re-\\nformed Church of which he was a member and its\\nmissionary boards, as well. Rutgers and Hope Col-\\nleges have reason to cherish his memory with gratitude\\nand honor.\\nElected a Trustee of Rutgers College in 1894, he was\\nprevented by physical infirmity from attending many\\nmeetings of this Board but manifested his hearty\\ninterest in the College by his personal presence when-\\never circumstances permitted, by the contribution of\\nover $16,000 at different times to its treasury, and by\\nleaving to it a bequest of $10,000 additional in his will.\\nIt was a pleasure to be associated with him, and his\\ndeath is a loss to the Church, the College, and the\\ncommunity.\\nEdward B. Coe\\nh. w. bookstaver\\nJ. B. Drury\\nJune 20, 1900.\\nCommittee.\\nNew York University\\nThe Council of New York University, at a special\\nmeeting called for Thursday, June 7, 1900, adopted a\\nminute upon the decease of their fellow-member, Mr.\\n27", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "Robert Schell, and appointed that the same should be\\nread at the public commencement this day.\\nMr. Robert Schell entered the Council of the Uni-\\nversity in the year 1884, at a time coincident with the\\nrevival of new interest in the community in the work\\nof this foundation. Throughout the entire period of\\nhis service he has been eminently wise, faithful, and\\nliberal in his support of the manifold interests in-\\ntrusted to our care. The burdens of advancing age\\ndid not prevent his frequent presence at University\\nHeights. He proved by his liberal gifts also his great\\ninterest in this new outpost of the University. At\\nthe same time he evinced a comprehensive interest\\nas well in the maintenance of the University s work\\nat Washington Square and at East Twenty-sixth\\nStreet.\\nIn all his intercourse of life he proved himself a\\npublic-spirited citizen and high-minded Christian. We\\nshall preserve his name and memory among those who\\nhave from the beginning proven themselves devoted\\nfriends of Christian higher learning in our City of New\\nYork.\\nHenry M. MacCracken,\\nChancellor.\\nAt the first meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sci-\\nences after the summer recess, the following resolutions\\nwere adopted regarding the late Mr. Robert Schell,\\n28", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "whose decease occurred at the close of the last collegi-\\nate year.\\nResolved^ That in the death of Mr. Robert Schell\\nthe Faculty of Arts and Sciences recognizes the loss\\nsustained by the University of a loyal friend, and an\\nearnest and intelligent worker in the University s be-\\nhalf. Entering the Council sixteen years ago, after the\\ndeath of his brother, Mr. Augustus Schell, he aimed\\nfrom the first to promote still further the growth and\\nprosperity of an institution in which his brother had\\nevidenced his lively interest by a liberal bequest. His\\nconscientious discharge of his duties as a member of\\nthe Board, his thoughtful consideration of every plan\\nproposed for the enhancement of its usefulness, not\\nless than his direct contributions to the removal of our\\ndepartment to its new site on University Heights,\\nhave shown that fidelity to trust reposed in him was a\\nruling principle in his character.\\nResolvedy That the Faculty desires to convey to Mr.\\nSchell s family the expression of its sorrow at the death\\nof one by whose wise counsels the University has\\ngreatly profited, and whose example will ever be an\\nincentive to manly Christian living.\\nResolvedy That the Secretary be requested to send a\\ncopy of this minute to Mr. Schell s family.\\nMinutes of the Faculty meeting of October 4, 1900.\\nWilliam K. Gillett,\\nSecretary.\\n29", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "Presbyterian Hospital\\nAt a meeting of the Board of Managers of The\\nPresbyterian Hospital, held October 9, 1900, the fol-\\nlowing minute was adopted\\nThe Board of Managers deeply lament the death of\\ntheir late associate, Robert Schell, who passed away\\non the eighth of last May, in the eighty-fifth year of\\nhis age.\\nMr. Schell became a member of the Board in 1876,\\nand until laid aside by illness was faithful and consci-\\nentious in his attendance on its meetings, and the dis-\\ncharge of his duties.\\nWhile leading a very busy life, he gave much time\\nto societies that promote the public welfare. He was\\na member of the Council of the University of the City\\nof New York, a Trustee of Rutgers College, Treas-\\nurer of the New York Historical Society, and a Trus-\\ntee of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.\\nIn business life he held many honorable and impor-\\ntant positions, and in all transactions was considered\\nthe very soul of honor. Socially he was most kindly\\nand hospitable.\\nWide-reaching in his sympathies, calm in council,\\nwise in his judgments, and decided in his convictions,\\nhe was admirably fitted to be a valued counsellor in\\nthe management of benevolent institutions.\\nHis charities, which were many, were so quietly be-\\n30", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "stowed that only the subjects, in most cases, knew of\\nthem. The establishment of a Missionary Hospital in\\nmemory of his wife, and the endowment of a profess-\\norship of biblical instruction in Hope College, were\\namong the latter acts of his life. A large number of\\nindividual beneficiaries join in the general mourning\\nfor his loss.\\nIn his death the Church has lost a most worthy\\nmember, the institutions he served a wise counsellor,\\nand the city a prominent example of Christian citizen.\\nC. W. McAlpin,\\nRecording Secretary,\\nBank of the Metropolis\\nAt a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Bank\\nof the Metropolis held May lO, 1900, to take appropri-\\nate cognizance of the death of Mr. Robert Schell,\\nwhich occurred at his home in this borough, No. 33\\nWest Fifty-sixth Street, on the eighth day of May,\\non motion duly made and seconded the following Pre-\\namble and Resolution were unanimously adopted\\nWhereas^ By the will of God our associate, Mr. Rob-\\nert Schell, departed this life on the 8th inst., and we\\ndesire to place on the minutes of this Bank the expres-\\nsion of our profound grief at that event, and at the\\nsame time record our affectionate regard for himself\\npersonally, and our deep sense of the obligations\\n31", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "which we, as well as all others interested in the wel-\\nfare of this institution, were under to our lamented\\nfriend.\\nMr. Schell was the second President of this Bank,\\nelected January 29, 1872, which office he filled for\\ntwenty-two years, and resigned only because he con-\\nsidered that advancing years had rendered him no\\nlonger capable of bearing the burdens of its active\\nduties, but he continued a member of this Board to\\nthe time of his death.\\nDuring all the periods of adversity or prosperity in\\nthat long presidency, Mr. Schell remained the same,\\nneither unduly elated nor cast down, but exhibiting an\\nunwavering confidence in the future of this institution,\\nand giving to this Bank, for more than a quarter of a\\ncentury, the benefit of great business experience, a nat-\\nural aptitude for the business of a bank, and still more,\\nthe inestimable advantage that is derived from a char-\\nacter which knew only how to do the right without\\nregard to the expedient, and in whom commercial\\nhonesty and honor were an instinct.\\nHe endeared himself to all who came in contact with\\nhim and in a singular manner to us, his associates in\\nthis Board, as well as to all others connected with this\\nBank. Therefore, be it\\nResolvedy That this estimate of our departed friend\\nbe inscribed on the minute-book of this Bank, and\\nthat a copy thereof, signed by the President and Cash-\\n32", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "ier, be forwarded, together with the expression of our\\nsincerest sympathy and condolence, to the family of\\nMr. Schell.\\nTheodore Rogers, President,\\nE. C. Evans, Cashier.\\nGerman Savings Bank\\nAt a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the\\nGerman Savings Bank in the City of New York, held\\nMay 9, 1900, the President communicating the sad in-\\ntelligence of the death of Mr. Robert Schell, the fol-\\nlowing Preamble and Resolutions were unanimously\\nadopted\\nThe Trustees of the German Savings Bank in the\\nCity of New York have received with profound sorrow\\nthe announcement of the death of their associate and\\nfriend, Mr. Robert Schell, the Vice-President of this\\nBank.\\nHe was one, and the last remaining, of the incorpo-\\nrators of this Bank, and for over eighteen years one of\\nits Vice-Presidents, at all times ready to devote his\\ntime and energy to the furtherance of its interests.\\nIn every field to which humanity invoked the ser-\\nvices of the philanthropist his counsel, labor, and earn-\\nest benevolence were always effective.\\nBowing in sadness to our affliction, we shall always\\nbear in grateful remembrance his virtues and his ser-\\nZ2", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "vices, and direct this minute to be engrossed on the\\nrecords of the Bank.\\nResolved, That this Board attend the funeral ser-\\nvices in a body, that the flag of the Bank be daily dis-\\nplayed at half-mast until the day of the funeral that\\nthese resolutions be published in one of the daily pa-\\npers of this city, and that an engrossed copy be sent\\nto the family of Mr. Schell, as an evidence of our sym-\\npathy.\\nNew York and Harlem Railroad Company\\nThe Board of Directors of the New York and Har-\\nlem Railroad Company, at a meeting held Monday,\\nMay 21, 1900, adopted the following memorial, and\\nordered the same to be spread upon the minutes\\nIn the death of Robert Schell, this Board has lost\\none of its most valued members. For the many years\\nduring which he served as a Director, he was conscien-\\ntious and faithful in the discharge of every duty.\\nIn his long and busy life he was the custodian of\\nmany trusts, and in the performance of the delicate\\nand difficult tasks which such positions impose, he ex-\\nhibited rare wisdom and judgment.\\nIt was his special work to look after, as Director and\\ncustodian, the affairs of estates, banks and corpora-\\ntions, and he did it with satisfaction to all parties in\\ninterest.\\n34", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "We, the Directors of the New York and Harlem\\nRailroad Company, feel the loss, not only of his ad-\\nvice and judgment, but personally.\\nHis quick sympathies, and genial and kindly nature,\\nmade warm friends of all who were so fortunate as to\\nknow him well.\\nE. V. W. ROSSITER,\\nSecretary.\\nWooDLAWN Cemetery\\nAt a regular meeting of the Board of Directors of\\nThe Woodlawn Cemetery held June 12, 1900, the fol-\\nlowing minute was adopted\\nThe Board of Directors of The Woodlawn Cemetery\\ndesire to record their appreciation of the character and\\nservices of their late colleague, Robert Schell, who de-\\nparted this life May 8, 1900. He was faithful in the\\ndischarge of the duties devolving upon him. Kind\\nand considerate in his intercourse with his fellow-di-\\nrectors, thereby commanding their appreciation and\\nesteem. While death came to him at a ripe old age,\\nyet we sincerely mourn his departure we shall miss\\nhis wise counsel and pleasant voice at the meetings of\\nthe Board.\\nThe Board tender their heartfelt sympathy to the\\nfamily and relatives of their deceased associate.\\nWilliam T. Booth,\\nSecretary.\\n35", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "PRESS NOTICES", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "PRESS NOTICES\\nRobert Schell, who resigned the presidency of the\\nBank of the MetropoHs five years ago on account of ill-\\nhealth, died in this city yesterday. He was born at\\nRhinebeck, N. Y., and was connected with many chari-\\ntable, benevolent, and educational institutions, being\\nat the time of his death a Trustee of Rutgers College\\nand a member of the Council of the New York Uni-\\nversity. The Daily Democrat Amsterdam N. Y.,\\nMay 9, 1900.\\nRobert Schell died suddenly in New York City re-\\ncently. He was Vice-President of the German Savings\\nBank in New York, and Treasurer of the New York\\nHistorical Society. Mr. Schell was born in Rhinebeck,\\nin 181 5, and was one of the last of a once prominent\\nDutchess County family. He was the son of Christian\\nand Elizabeth Schell. He was married in 1850 to\\nMary S. Taber. He leaves one son, Francis Schell.\\nHe was a brother of Richard, Edward, and Augustus\\nSchell, all of whom he survived.\\nMr. Schell had been President of the Bank of the\\nMetropolis for twenty years, resigning five years ago.\\nHe was a Director of the New York and Harlem Rail-\\nroad, a member of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch\\nChurch, and was an active member of the New York\\nHistorical Society. He was also a member of the\\n39", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "American Geographical Association, the Uptown As-\\nsociation, and the St. Nicholas Club. The News-\\nPress Poughkeepsie, May lO, 1900.\\nRobert Schell, who resigned the presidency of the\\nBank of the Metropolis five years ago on account of ill-\\nhealth, died in this city yesterday. He was born at\\nRhinebeck, N. Y., and was connected with many chari-\\ntable, benevolent, and educational institutions, being at\\nthe time of his death a Trustee of Rutgers College and\\na member of the Council of the New York University.\\nThe Register y Newburgh, N. F., May 9, 1900.\\nRobert Schell, who died on May 8th, was the last of\\nfour noted brothers, he, Richard, Augustus, and Edward\\nforming a family quartet nearly as famous as the cele-\\nbrated four Field brothers, David Dudley, Stephen\\nJohnson, Cyrus West, and Henry Martyn. At Mr.\\nSchell s funeral on Friday I saw among the mourners\\nfour of his life-long associates, men prominent in busi-\\nness and finance, each of whom long ago passed the\\nthreescore and ten mark in life s journey. These were\\nCharles L. Tiffany, Samuel Sloan, Joseph Park, and\\nWilliam B. Isham, four directors in the Bank of the Me-\\ntropolis, of which Mr. Schell was President for twenty\\nyears. Mr. Tiffany is head of the house of Tiffany\\nCo., in Union Square Mr. Sloan is the famous Sam\\nSloan of the Delaware, Lackawanna Western Rail-\\n40", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "road Mr. Park is head of the firm of Park Tilford,\\nand Mr. Isham is the well-known banker.\\nRobert Schell would have appealed to the heart of\\nMagistrate Crane. He possessed in marked degree\\nthe rarest of human attributes gratitude. Henry\\nClews, who was most active in raising a fund for the\\nwidow of ex-Mayor Hall, sent an appeal to a director\\nin the Bank of the Metropolis, and the reply brought\\nnot only a check for $25 from that gentleman, but one\\nfor $50 from Mr. Schell, who had not been approached.\\nThe latter explained afterward to Mr. Clews that when\\nOakey Hall was Mayor, in 1869, he had granted him\\na favor, and he thought the privilege of contributing\\ntoward the widow s fund was an excellent opportunity\\nto reciprocate the courtesy. This act was characteristic\\nof the man. He never forgot a kindness. The New\\nYork Press, May 14, 1900.\\nThe late Robert Schell was one of the most distin-\\nguished members of the old guard of mercantile New\\nYork. He was an old-fashioned man, however, only\\nin his most charming courtesy and affability in every-\\nthing else he was fully abreast of this progressive and\\nmost exacting age.\\nHe was the life of his domestic circle, contributing\\nby his kindliness and good-nature to the happiness of\\nkinsfolk and the comfort of the stranger within his\\n41", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "gates. The death of his dear wife, a few years since,\\nwas like the putting out of the light of his eyes. To\\nthe last he gathered the flowers which she loved,\\nand was heard sobbing for her in the middle of the\\nnight.\\nHe was the soul of honor in business. His con-\\nscience was sensitive not merely to evil but to the very\\nsuggestion of it. Ought was a sacred word in the\\nvocabulary of his transactions with men. He was ever\\nkind and considerate in his relations with subordinates,\\nbut his rigid justice was proverbial among them.\\nIn the church he was constantly responsive to duty.\\nHis pastor had no more loyal helper, no dearer friend.\\nHow we shall miss him It would be quite impossible\\nto make suitable mention of his beneficences, since he\\nwould allow no trumpet to be sounded before him.\\nNot even his own left hand could have invoiced what\\nwas done by his right. The giving of a Missionary Hos-\\npital in memory of his wife was one of the last of his\\nnumberless charities. An army of poor people, in\\nevery part of our country, has been more or less de-\\npendent upon him.\\nI shall never forget his courage in making public\\nprofession of his faith in Christ. It was a step long\\ncontemplated but postponed from time to time until,\\nin an hour of sore affliction, the question came to an\\nissue. His resolution formed, there was no shrinking\\nbut who shall measure the heroism of that open\\n42", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "avowal He felt his duty, and, at whatever cost,\\nmust do it. This is the stuff that men are made of.\\nHis death was painless and peaceful. He had long\\nlooked forward to the home-bringing, the reunion in\\nthe Father s house. So part we sadly in the wilder-\\nness, to meet again in sweet Jerusalem.\\nIn recalling his life and death I am reminded of what\\nSir Walter Scott said, at the last, to his son-in-law\\nLockhart, my dear, there is nothing better in the\\nworld than to be a good man.\\nI am glad that I knew Robert Schell. He strength-\\nened my confidence in the possibilities of human nat-\\nure he emphasized my faith in the gospel of life and\\nChristlikeness he stimulated my desire to make the\\nworld better while passing through it.\\nFarewell, dear friend, for a little while. We do not\\nsorrow as those that have no hope. Auf wiedersehen\\nuntil we meet again. DAVID James Burrell.\\nThe Christian Intelligencer y May 23, 1900.\\nRobert Schell, a prominent banker of New York, who\\nwas years ago one of New York s leading jobbers in\\njewelry, died suddenly. May 8th, at his home, 33 West\\n56th Street, New York. Death was due to pneumonia.\\nMr. Schell will be remembered by the older jewellers as\\nhaving been prominent among the dealers in Maiden\\nLane for nearly thirty years, namely between 1844 and\\n1872.\\n43:", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "Mr. Schell was born at Rhinebeck, Dutchess County,\\nN. Y., October 8, 1815, and came of a prominent family.\\nIn 1844 he joined Louis S. Fellows, who had been es-\\ntablished in the jewelry business for many years, and\\nwith him formed the firm of Louis S. Fellows Schell.\\nThe firm, who were importers of fancy goods and\\nwatches and also jobbers in jewelry, built up a large\\ntrade and prospered until 1866, when Mr. Fellows died.\\nThe business was then continued by Mr. Schell under\\nthe name of Robert Schell Co. until 1872, at which\\ntime he retired from the jewelry trade altogether. Mr.\\nSchell became identified with many prominent banks of\\nNew York, and among other positions which he held\\nwas that of President of the Bank of the Metropolis for\\ntwenty years, Vice-President of the German Savings\\nBank, a Director in the New York and Harlem Rail-\\nroad, a member of the New York Chamber of Com-\\nmerce, a member of the Council of the University of\\nthe City of New York, and a member of other large\\nconcerns and institutions. At the time of his death\\nMr. Schell was Treasurer of the New York Historical\\nSociety, a position he had held for twenty years, and\\nwas also actively connected with the American Geo-\\ngraphical Society. He was also a member of St.\\nNicholas Club, St. Nicholas Society, Uptown Asso-\\nciation, and of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church.\\nThe Jewellers Circular- Weekly, May 16, 1900.\\n44", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4500", "width": "2722", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4516", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamrobert00kelb_0060.jp2"}}