He was a personality of the city of the sixties.

The author of the curious volume thought it necessary to tell of his career as he told of the career of A.T.Stewart, and Henry Ward Beecher, and the particular Astor of the day, and the particular Vanderbilt, Fernando Wood, and Leonard W.
Jerome, and George Law, and James Gordon Bennett, the elder, and Daniel Drew, and General Halpin, and half a dozen more of the town's celebrities.
The Franconi Hippodrome on the Fifth Avenue Hotel site had become a memory, but far downtown Barnum's Museum was flourishing, with the doors open from sunrise till ten at night.

Early visitors from the country inspected the gallery of curiosities before sitting down to breakfast.
The great showman was living in a brown-stone house on Fifth Avenue, at the corner of Thirty-ninth Street.

He was approaching his sixtieth year, and had retired from active life, although he still held the controlling interest in the Museum.

A.T.Stewart was living in the white stone home he had erected at Thirty-fourth Street.