Ward McAllister

Samuel Ward McAllister (1827-1895) was a popular arbiter of social taste in the Gilded Age of late-nineteenth-century America. He was widely accepted as the authority on which families could be classified as the cream of New York society.

Samuel Ward McAllister (1827-1895) was a popular arbiter of social taste in the Gilded Age of late-nineteenth-century America. He was widely accepted as the authority on which families could be classified as the cream of New York society. See less