Samuel Ward III (1786-1839)

He went into the banking business in New York City and became a partner with Nathaniel Prime in 1808 in the firm of Prime, Ward & Sands that became even better known as Prime, Ward & King. In 1828, he procured a building for the New-York Historical Society and in 1830 he co-founded New York University. He was President of the City Temperance Society (1831) and in 1836 co-founded the Stuyvesant Institute. After the Financial Crisis of 1836-37, the Bank of England entrusted a loan of $5-million in gold to Prime, Ward & King which was proof of their highly trusted reputation. Soon afterwards, he was made President of the Bank of Commerce in New York.

In 1812, he married Julia Rush Cutler, daughter of Benjamin Cutler, of Boston, Sheriff of Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, and a nephew of General Francis Marion. They lived a 2 Bond Street on the corner of Broadway (see images) in a house noted for its fine gallery of paintings. They had seven children, six of whom (listed) survived to adulthood.