preferred method of transportation. Later career On April 13, 1880, he was appointed Superintendent of the New York State Banking Department, serving until 1883 when Willis S. Paine was appointed as his successor. He then served three years as National Bank Examiner for the cities of New York and Brooklyn before his appointment as Comptroller of the Currency by President Benjamin Harrison. An internationally recognized authority on financial and economic questions, Hepburn returned to banking when President Grover Cleveland took office. He later succeeded Henry W. Cannon as president of the Chase National Bank. Hepburn was a Director of the Studebaker Corporation. After leaving the office of Comptroller he worked in the field of banking, becoming the president of the Third National Bank of New York then the Vice-President of the National City Bank in 1897 when the Third National Bank merged with other banks to form that company. He then became the President of the Chase National Bank. A prolific writer on the economy and financial matters, he wrote the books History of Coinage and Currency in the United States: Perennial Contest for Sound Money (1903), A History of Currency in the United States" (1915), and "Artificial Waterways and Commercial Development. He also regularly contributed to magazines and periodicals. Personal life In 1873, he married Harriet A. Fisher, of St. Albans, Vermont, who died in 1881, leaving him with two sons: Harold Barton Hepburn (d. 1892) Charles Fisher Hepburn (1878–1923), who married Alice Smith (1881–1914), a daughter of Horatio Alden Smith. In 1887, he married suffragist Emily L. Eaton (1865–1956), of Montpelier, Vermont. Emily was a niece of Dorman Bridgman Eaton, a lawyer instrumental in American federal Civil Service reform. They lived at 471 Park Avenue and were the parents of two daughters: Beulah Eaton Hepburn (1890–1978), founder of the High Mowing School in Wilton, New Hampshire who married Rear Admiral Robert R. M. Emmet. Cordelia Susan Hepburn (1894–1960), who married Harvard graduate and stockbroker Paul Cushman (1891–1971) in 1923. Hepburn died in New York City on January 25, 1922, as a result of injuries sustained in a motor bus accident on Fifth Avenue. He left an estate of nearly $10 million. After his death, his wife was involved in the development of the Beekman Tower at the corner of First Avenue and East 49th Street. Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of actor Barton Hepburn. Philanthropy