Chapter 111 
ORGANIZATION AND EXPANSION 
OF THE FREEDMEN’S BANK 
THE ACT OF INCORPORATION 
IFTY men, most of them well known, were 
named in the Freedmen’s Bank Act of 
! March 3, 1865, as incorporators and trus- 
tees.! These were: Peter Cooper, William C. 
Bryant, A. A. Low, S. B. Chittenden, Charles 
H. Marshall, William A. Booth, Gerritt Smith, 
William A. Hall, William Allen, John Jay, Abra- 
ham Baldwin, A. S. Barnes, Hiram Barney, Seth 
B. Hunt, Samuel Holmes, Charles Collins, R. R. 
Graves, Walter S. Griffith, A. H. Wallis, D. 8S. 
Gregory, J. W. Alvord, George Whipple, A. S. 
Hatch, E. A. Lambert, W. G. Lambert, Roe 
Lockwood, R. HH. Manning, R. W. Ropes, Walter 
T. Hatch, Albert Woodruff, and Thomas Denney, 
of New York; John M. Forbes, William Claflin, 
S. G. Howe, George L. Stearnes, Edward Atkin- 
son, A. A. Lawrence, and John M. S. Williams, 
of Massachusetts; Edward Harris and Thomas 
Davis of Rhode Island; Stephen Colwell, J. 
Wheaton Smith, Francis E. Cope, Thomas Web- 
ster, B. S. Hunt, and Henry Samuel, of Pennsyl- 
vania; Edward Harwood, Adam Poe, Levi Coffin, 
and J. M. Walden, of Ohio. The trustees were 
1See appendix, p. 131. 
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