The old merchants of New York City / by Walter Barrett.

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THE OLD ilfERCHJAJ'TS

He was a prcminent member of the Democratic party,
and a friend of the other leaders.
When the Bankrupt Law passed in 1842, Mr. Waddell was made the General or Official Assignee of Bankrupts for the city. It gave him a large property.
He at one time owned a beautiful residence at the
upper end of Fifth avenue, upon Murray Hill. Everybody went to see it. Dr. Spring's Presbyterian church,
corner Fifth avenue and 37th street, now stands on its
site.
Mr. Waddell has four sons living, all now in the volunteer army of the Union, battling for their country's
rights. His third son, Lieut. Col. Lloyd Daubeney
Waddell has made his mark for bravery and efficiency
in the celebrated battles of Fort Donelson and Pittsburg Landing and Vicksburg, under Gen Grant, at the
West, and is now provost marshal of Vicksburg. The
other boys have not yet earned their spurs in the conflict. Mr. Waddell has three daughters - one quite recently deceased. We cut from the papers of the day the
following beautiful lines on her demise.
OBITUARY.
The following beautiful lines by Mrs. Emeline S.
Smith, were read by Dr. Chapin, at the funeral servi
ces at the Broadway Universalist Church, on Saturday
the 26th of December, of Miss Ida L. Waddell, daugh
ter of William Coventry H. Waddell; and several of
the congregation having expressed, through Mr. Fer
don, the sexton of Broadway church, a desire that they
should appear in this number of the Ambassador, they
are published in compliance therewith:
In the sweet morning of her days,
When Life dawned op hbi rich and bright,