Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV Officers Op The Consolidated Stock Exchange The first president of the Consolidated Stock Exchange was John Stanton, who up to the time of his decease, several years ago, was a conspicuous figure in the mining world and an authority on copper. He served for two terms ? 1875 and 1876. In 1877 he was succeeded by George B. Satterlee who served until 1880, when his successor was elected in the person of S. V. White. In 1883 Charles O. Morris succeeded Mr. White and, after serving one year, he gave place to the late Charles George Wilson who filled the office for a period of fifteen years. Charles George Wilson was born at Baltimore, Maryland, June 9, 1843. In the year 1863 he began the study of law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in the city of Baltimore until 1876, when he came to New York. In 1878 he became a member of the American Mining Exchange, and his fellow-members recognized his executive ability in 1879 when they selected him to serve as Chairman of the Governing Committee, an appointment he held until 1882, in which year he was elected to fill the office of vice president of the National Petroleum Exchange. MORTIMER H. WAGAR In 1883 the Mining Stock Exchange and the National Petroleum Exchange consolidated, and in 1884 Mr. Wilson was elected president of the consolidated institution, an office he held up to 1900. MORTIMER H. WAGAR Having served fifteen years as president of the Exchange, Mr. Wilson was succeeded after a very interesting election by Mr. Mortimer H. Wagar. Mr. Wilson accepted his defeat gracefully, and Mr. Wagar entered upon his first year of work in 1900 with the support of a large majority of the members, having polled a vote of 504 to 287. Mr. Wagar was born in Toledo in 1857. His first venture in business was…
