Lynde Catlin

Lynde Catlin, the first cashier of the Merchants' Bank, was born in 1768, in Litchfield, Conn. He was educated as a lawyer graduating at Yale College in Class of 1786. He married Helen Margaret Kip, of Albany, N.Y. on October 19, 1793. They had eight children, four of whom died in infancy. While Mr. Catlin was cashier of the Merchants' Bank he attracted the attention of John Jacob Astor who induced him to become cashier of the branch in New York of the United States Bank, Mr. Astor himself taking the presidency; and at the dissolution in 1820 of the United States Bank he returned to the Merchants' Bank as its President. In that capacity he died Oct 18, 1833, and his remains were interred in the family vault in St. Mark's churchyard. Ref.: "The Merchants' National Bank of the City of New York, A History of its First Century,Compiled from Official Records At the Request of the Directors" by Philip G. Huber Jr., 1803-1903, MCMIII.