McBurney YMCA records. 1858-1992 (bulk 1880-1941).

Reeves, Robert B.

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Dickson, Henry. D.

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YMCA of Greater New York. Twenty-third Street Branch.

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McBurney, Robert Ross, 1837-1898

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Robert McBurney was born in Ireland in 1837, immigrating to the United States in 1854. On arriving in New York City he got a room in the YMCA, where he soon developed an interest in the organization. He became employed as its executive officer in 1862. (The term general secretary was not yet used, but McBurney is regarded as the first staff person to whom the term applied.) McBurney presided over the extensive growth of the New York City association from this time through the 1890s. This growth ...

YMCA of Greater New York. McBurney Branch.

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The first permanent home of the McBurney Branch of the New York YMCA began as the headquarters of the New York association in 1869 and the first purpose-built YMCA building in the US. In 1904 the 23rd Street "Y" moved west to 7th Avenue. In 1943 the branch was renamed in honor of Robert Ross McBurney, an Irish immigrant who rose from librarian of the New York association in 1862 to chief executive in 1883, a post he held until his death in 1898. He is known as the first paid secretary of the YMC...