Joseph R. Duryee

A minister whose pastoral service, at the head of a single church, continued from 1879 to 1920, was a link with New York’s longer past, and Joseph Rankin Duryee’s personal reminiscence often took its color from the amazing changes of that forty-two year period in the city’s life. Dr. Duryee had surveyed that passing scene with gentle and kindly judgment of his fellow-men; it was inseparable from his personality, which never changed. A quiet talk with him at the Club’s monthly-meeting night—he rarely missed them—often carried back the mind to other days. But his interest in present-day events and institutions never flagged.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1936 Century Association Yearbook