Robert Stuyvesant

Robert Stuyvesant, born and educated in New York, was a lineal descendant of the great colonial figure whose family name he bore. His life of seventy-three years [sic: seventy-two] was spent where his ancestry had its roots. For thirty-eight of these years much of his time was passed in the rooms of our Association with the many warm friends he had among his fellow-members. For long he was active in business, but his tastes were social and literary and his heart drew him toward those who had a fellow feeling. Not given to much strife in the market-place, he avoided tumult and sought quieter walks, observing, noting, and enjoying the panorama of life as it passed but admiring most the frequenters of its withdrawing rooms where little of its noise and less of its exasperation penetrated, where he was in the movement but not one of its propulsive forces. He wore his historic name without reproach and illustrated the virtues of a stock in which he felt a just pride.

William Milligan Sloane
1908 Century Association Yearbook