CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF THE

HARVARD CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, Edmund Wetmore, Edward King, Charles C. Beaman, Edward L. Parris, T. Frank. Brownell, Nathaniel A. Prentiss, G. S. Greene, Jr., J. W. Hawes, A. K. Fiske, Clement Cleveland, William Montgomery, Jr., Nathaniel S. Smith, Camillus G. Kidder, William S. Seamans, Eugene D. Hawkins, W. A. Purrington and Samuel H. Ordway, all citizens of the United States, a majority of whom are also citizens of the State of New York, being desirous of forming ourselves into a society or club for social purposes, under the provisions of Chapter 267 of the Laws of the State of New York, of the year 1875, and the acts amending the same, do hereby certify as follows:

I. The name or title by which the society or club into which we desire to form ourselves as aforesaid, shall be known in law, shall be the "Harvard Club of New York City."

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CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION.

II. The particular business and object of such society or club shall be to promote social intercourse among ourselves and others, our associates and successors, who are to be persons who have been connected with Harvard University as students or instructors, or who have received honorary degrees therefrom, and for that purpose to establish and maintain in the City and County of New York, for the use of ourselves and such others above mentioned, a club house, having a library, a reading room, a gallery of art, and such other appurtenances and belongings as are usual in clubs and club houses.

III. The number of trustees, directors or managers to manage the said society or club house shall be nineteen.

IV. The names of the trustees, directors or managers of said society or club for the first year of its existence are Edmund Wetmore, Edward King, Francis M. Weld, Charles C. Beaman, William E. Worthen, Edward L. Parris, T. Frank. Brownell, G. S. Greene, Jr., J. W. Hawes, A. K. Fiske, Clement Cleveland, William Montgomery, Jr., Nathaniel S. Smith, Nathaniel A. Prentiss, Camillus G. Kidder, Eugene D. Hawkins, William S. Seamans, William A. Purrington and Samuel H. Ordway.

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have to this certificate respectively signed our names this 16th day of April, 1887.

CHARLES C. BEAMAN.

The various affidavits, &c., referring to the Certificate of Incorporation, are to be found in full in the Club Catalogue, for 1887.