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MINTURN, Robert Bowne, merchant, born in New York city, 16 November, 1805; died there, 9 January, 1866. He received an English education, and, though compelled by the death of his father to leave school at the age of fourteen and enter a counting-house, spent his leisure in study, so that he gained an extensive acquaintance with general literature. He was received into partnership in 1825 with Charles Green, whose clerk he had been, and in 1830 entered the firm of Fish and Grinnell, which was afterward known as Grinnell, Minturn and Co. He declined all public office except the post of commissioner of emigration, which he accepted from a wish to secure the rights of emigrants. He was an active manager of many charitable associations in New York city, aided in establishing the Association for improving the condition of the poor, and was a founder of St. Luke's hospital. He was the first president of the Union league club.--His son, Robert Bowne, born in New York city, 21 February, 21,1836, was graduated at Columbia in 1856. He is the author of "New York to Delhi" (New York, 1858).
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