The National Park Service presents Exploring the Real Thing—your guide to curriculum-based programs at National Park sites in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Virginia.
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Albert Gallatin remained active after retiring from the government. In 1831, at age seventy, he was named president of the new National Bank of New York. He served on the council that established New York University in 1831. He founded the American Ethnological Society in 1842, at age eighty-one.