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Politicians in Finance in Connecticut

Francis B. Cooley — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Financier; member of Connecticut state senate 1st District, 1884-85. Burial location unknown.   Francis Shepard Cornell (1899-1985) — also known as F. Shepard Cornell — of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wis.; Charlottesville, Va. Born in Montclair, Essex County, N.J., July 13, 1899. Republican. Stockbroker; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 22nd District, 1940; general manager, Kankakee Works of the A.O. Smith Corporation, manufacturers of water heaters. Episcopalian. Member, Psi Upsilon; Rotary. Died in September, 1985 (age 86 years, 0 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of George Birdsall Cornell and Eleanor (Jackson) Cornell; married, February 28, 1923, to Helen Leigh Best; married, May 18, 1933, to Nathalie Lee Laimbeer; married, July 27, 1943, to Lucille Fraser.   Darwin James Meserole (1868-1952) — also known as Darwin J. Meserole — of Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y.; Bellport, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y.; Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., May 29, 1868. Socialist. Stockbroker; in June 1891, he shot and killed Theodore W. Larbig, was arrested and tried for murder, but found not guilty on ground of self-defense; lawyer; candidate for New York state assembly from Kings County 11th District, 1915; candidate for New York state attorney general, 1920; candidate for New York state senate 1st District, 1922; candidate for Justice of New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1931; candidate for chief judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1926; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; candidate for judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1930, 1934, 1936; president, National Unemployment League, which advocated public works programs to relieve unemployment. Died, from a heart attack, as he was about to board the Staten Island ferry, in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., May 21, 1952 (age 83 years, 358 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Jeremiah Vanderbilt Meserole and Ann Sophia (Richardson) Meserole; married, June 24, 1899, to Katherine Louise Maltby. Montgomery Schuyler Jr. (1877-1955) — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., September 2, 1877. Author; U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, 1904-06; U.S. Minister to Ecuador, 1913; Salvador, 1921-25; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; stockbroker; banker. Episcopalian. Died November 1, 1955 (age 78 years, 60 days). Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.   Relatives: Son of Katherine Beeckman (Livingston) Schuyler and Montgomery Schuyler; married, August 22, 1906, to Edith Lawver; second great-grandson of Valentine Brother; third great-grandson of Robert Gilbert Livingston; fourth great-grandson of Gilbert Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of John Livingston and Robert Livingston (1688-1775); fifth great-grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin four times removed of Philip Van Cortlandt and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin five times removed of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William Livingston; first cousin six times removed of Robert Livingston the Younger and Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin seven times removed of David Davidse Schuyler and Myndert Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Hamilton Fish and Philip N. Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Peter Robert Livingston, Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Henry Brockholst Livingston and Edward Livingston; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); third cousin thrice removed of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Rensselaer Westerlo, Peter Augustus Jay, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay and Charles Ludlow Livingston; fourth cousin of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright; fourth cousin once removed of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991).   Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: U.S. passport application (1921)   Leslie T. Young (1930-1996) — of New Canaan, Fairfield County, Conn. Born May 26, 1930. Stockbroker; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1984-96; died in office 1996. Died of cancer, March 21, 1996 (age 65 years, 300 days). Burial location unknown.

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