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 trustees.!
 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, Abraham
 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 Atkinson,
 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 Webster,
 B. S. Hunt, and Henry Samuel, of Pennsylvania;
 Edward Harwood, Adam Poe, Levi Coffin,
and J. M. Walden, of Ohio. The trustees were
1See appendix, p. 131.

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