Ward McAllister

Samuel Ward McAllister (December 1827 – January 31, 1895) was the self-appointed arbiter of New York society from the 1860s to the early 1890s.

Quotes

 * There are only about four hundred people in New York society.
 * Interview with Charles H. Crandall in ‘New York Tribune’, 1888, in ‘Dictionary of American Biography’ vol. 11 (1933)