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Cortelyou family of Staten Island, New York

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Aaron Cortelyou (1726-1789) — of Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in 1726. Member, New York Provincial Congress, 1775-76. Allied with the British during the Revolution. Died August 22, 1789 (age about 63 years). Interment at Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.

		Relatives: Son of Cornelis Cortelyou; married to Elizabeth Andrevet; granduncle of Lawrence Hillier Cortelyou; second cousin four times removed of George Bruce Cortelyou.
		Political family: Cortelyou family of Staten Island, New York.

Lawrence Hillier Cortelyou (1802-1882) — also known as Lawrence H. Cortelyou — of Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in Greenridge, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., November 5, 1802. Whig. Grocer; county judge in New York, 1840; member of New York state assembly from Richmond County, 1852; director, and one of the founders, Richmond County Mutual Insurance Company. Died in Greenridge, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., September 25, 1882 (age 79 years, 324 days). Interment at Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.

		Relatives: Son of Peter Cortelyou and Emma (Hillier) Cortelyou; married, February 11, 1825, to Elizabeth Heckle; grandnephew of Aaron Cortelyou; second cousin thrice removed of George Bruce Cortelyou.
		Political family: Cortelyou family of Staten Island, New York.

George Bruce Cortelyou (1862-1940) — also known as George B. Cortelyou — of Huntington Bay, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., July 26, 1862. Republican. School principal; confidential stenographer to President Grover Cleveland, 1895-96; Executive Clerk of the White House, 1896-98; secretary to President William McKinley, 1900-01; secretary to President Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-03; financier; U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1903-04; Chairman of Republican National Committee, 1904-07; U.S. Postmaster General, 1905-07; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1907-09; president, Consolidated Gas Company, New York, 1909-35; director, New York Life Insurance Company; first president, Edison Electric Institute, 1933. Member, Union League. Died, following two heart attacks, in Huntington Bay, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., October 23, 1940 (age 78 years, 89 days). Interment at Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church, Laurel Hollow, Long Island, N.Y.

		Relatives: Son of Peter Crolius Cortelyou, Jr. and Rose (Seary) Cortelyou; married, September 15, 1888, to Lily Morris Hinds; second cousin thrice removed of Lawrence Hillier Cortelyou; second cousin four times removed of Aaron Cortelyou.
		Political family: Cortelyou family of Staten Island, New York.
		The World War II Liberty ship SS George B. Cortelyou (built 1942 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1972) was named for him.
		See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
		Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, October 1901

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