title: List of presidents of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
text: # List of presidents of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
  
  The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, founded in 1835, is a charitable organization of men who are descended from early inhabitants of the State of New York.
  
  ## Governance
  
  The Society is led by a President, four Vice Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, Historian, Genealogist, Assistant Genealogist, Chaplains, and Physicians.
  
  ## List of presidents
  
  | No. | Name | Start date | End date |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Peter Gerard Stuyvesant | 1835 | 1836 |
  | 2 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck | 1837 | 1841 |
  | 3 | Egbert Benson | 1842 | 1843 |
  | 4 | James R. Manley | 1844 | 1845 |
  | 5 | Samuel Jones | 1846 | 1847 |
  | 6 | John Alsop King | 1848 | 1849 |
  | 7 | James de Peyster Ogden | 1850 | 1851 |
  | 8 | Ogden Hoffman | 1852 | 1853 |
  | 9 | Frederic De Peyster | 1854 | 1855 |
  | 10 | James de Peyster Ogden | 1856 | 1857 |
  | 11 | Hamilton Fish | 1860 | 1861 |
  | 12 | James Jacobus Roosevelt | 1862 | 1862 |
  | 13 | John Van Buren | 1863 | 1863 |
  | 14 | James Jacobus Roosevelt | 1864 | 1864 |
  | 15 | Augustus Schell | 1865 | 1866 |
  | 16 | Charles Roome | 1867 | 1867 |
  | 17 | James William Beekman | 1868 | 1869 |
  | 18 | Benjamin Hazard Field | 1870 | 1870 |
  | 19 | Richard Edwards Mount Jr. | 1871 | 1872 |
  | 20 | James Monroe McLean | 1873 | 1874 |
  | 21 | Augustus Rodney Macdonough | 1875 | 1876 |
  | 22 | William Montgomery Vermilye | 1877 | 1878 |
  | 23 | Robert George Remsen | 1879 | 1879 |
  | 24 | Edward Floyd DeLancey | 1880 | 1881 |
  | 25 | Abraham Riker Lawrence | 1882 | 1883 |
  | 26 | Nathaniel Platt Bailey | 1884 | 1884 |
  | 27 | Cornelius Vanderbilt II | 1885 | 1886 |
  | 28 | Carlisle Norwood Jr. | 1887 | 1887 |
  | 29 | John Cruger Mills | 1888 | 1888 |
  | 30 | Edward Schell | 1889 | 1889 |
  | 31 | James William Beekman Jr. | 1890 | 1891 |
  | 32 | Frederic James de Peyster | 1892 | 1893 |
  | 33 | Chauncey Mitchell Depew | 1894 | 1895 |
  | 34 | Edward King | 1896 | 1897 |
  | 35 | Stiles Franklin Stanton | 1898 | 1899 |
  | 36 | Frederic de Peyster Foster | 1900 | 1901 |
  | 37 | Stuyvesant Fish | 1902 | 1903 |
  | 38 | George Gosman DeWitt | 1904 | 1905 |
  | 39 | Austen George Fox | 1906 | 1907 |
  | 40 | William Jay | 1908 | 1909 |
  | 41 | Charles Augustus Schermerhorn | 1910 | 1911 |
  | 42 | John Thomas Lockman | 1912 | 1912 |
  | 43 | Walter Lispenard Suydam | 1913 | 1913 |
  | 44 | Charles Bradford Isham | 1914 | 1914 |
  | 45 | Vernon Mansfield Davis | 1915 | 1915 |
  | 46 | De Lancey Nicoll | 1916 | 1917 |
  | 47 | William Dennistoun Murphy | 1918 | 1919 |
  | 48 | Alfred Wagstaff Jr. | 1920 | 1921 |
  | 49 | Howard Duffield | 1922 | 1923 |
  