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Charles Beatty Alexander (1849-1927) —
also known as Charles B. Alexander —
of Tuxedo Park, Orange
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
6, 1849.
Democrat. Lawyer;
director and counsel for Equitable Life insurance
company; director of the Middletown & Unionville Railroad,
the Hocking Valley Railroad,
and several banks;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1912,
1916
(alternate), 1920;
member, New York State Board of Regents, 1913-27.
Presbyterian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of
the Revolution; Society of the Cincinnati; American Bar
Association.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
7, 1927 (age 77 years, 63
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Perry Belmont (1851-1947) —
of Babylon, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
28, 1851.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1881-88; resigned
1888; defeated, 1902 (7th District); U.S. Minister to Spain, 1888-89; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1892,
1896,
1900,
1904
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee), 1912;
major in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Society of the Cincinnati; American
Legion.
Died in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., May 25,
1947 (age 95 years, 148
days).
Interment at Island
Cemetery, Newport, R.I.
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David Brooks (1756-1838) —
of New
York County, N.Y.; Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., 1756.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1786-88, 1793-96, 1809-10 (New York County
1786-88, Dutchess County 1793-96, 1809-10); county judge in New York,
1795-1807; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1797-99.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Slaveowner.
Died in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y., August
30, 1838 (age about 82
years).
Interment at Poughkeepsie
Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
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Morgan Gardner Bulkeley (1837-1922) —
also known as Morgan G. Bulkeley —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in East Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., December
26, 1837.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; president,
Aetna Life
Insurance Company, 1870-1922; mayor
of Hartford, Conn., 1880-88; defeated, 1878; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1884
(alternate), 1896;
Governor
of Connecticut, 1889-93; candidate for Republican nomination for
Vice President, 1896;
U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1905-11.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the Revolution; Society of the Cincinnati; Society
of the War of 1812.
First
president of the National League of Professional Base
Ball Clubs in 1876.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., November
6, 1922 (age 84 years, 315
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1834-1928) —
also known as Chauncey M. Depew —
of Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y., April
23, 1834.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 3rd District, 1862-63; secretary
of state of New York, 1864-65; Westchester
County Clerk, 1867; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1868,
1892,
1896
(speaker),
1900,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1916,
1920
(speaker),
1924;
Liberal Republican candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1872; president, later chairman, New York
Central Railroad;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1888;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1899-1911.
French
Huguenot, Dutch,
and English
ancestry. Member, Union
League; Society of the Cincinnati; Skull
and Bones.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 5,
1928 (age 93 years, 348
days).
Entombed at Hillside
Cemetery, Cortlandt town, Westchester County, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Depew and Martha Minot (Mitchell) Depew; married, November
9, 1871, to Elise Hegeman; married, December
28, 1901, to May Palmer; second great-grandnephew of Roger
Sherman; second cousin twice removed of Roger
Sherman Baldwin, Sherman
Day, Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, William
Maxwell Evarts and George
Frisbie Hoar; second cousin four times removed of Aaron
Burr; third cousin once removed of Simeon
Eben Baldwin, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar, Maxwell
Evarts and Arthur
Outram Sherman; third cousin twice removed of Charles
Robert Sherman and Merton
William Fairbank; third cousin thrice removed of Reuben
Bostwick Heacock; fourth cousin of John
Frederick Addis, Henry
de Forest Baldwin and Roger
Sherman Hoar; fourth cousin once removed of John
Adams Dix, Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman, John
Sherman, Charles
Warren Fairbanks, Newton
Hamilton Fairbanks, John
Stanley Addis and Archibald
Cox. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy
family of Maine (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The village
of Depew, New
York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Parties and The Men
(1896) |
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Hamilton Fish (1808-1893) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
3, 1808.
Lawyer;
candidate for New York
state assembly, 1834; U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1843-45; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1848; defeated (Whig), 1846; Governor of
New York, 1849-51; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1851-57; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1869-77.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Garrison, Putnam
County, N.Y., September
7, 1893 (age 85 years, 35
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.
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Presumably named
for: Alexander
Hamilton |
| | | Relatives: Son of Nicholas
Fish (1758-1833) and Elizabeth (Stuyvesant) Fish; married to
Julia Kean (great-granddaughter of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston (1710-1792)); father of Nicholas
Fish (1848-1902) and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); uncle of Helen Neilson (who married David
Maitland Armstrong); grandfather of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); grandnephew of Robert
Gilbert Livingston; great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston; great-grandfather of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); great-grandnephew of John
Livingston and Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); second great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder; second great-grandfather of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward; second great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); third great-grandson of Pieter
Stuyvesant; first cousin of Margaret Cornelia Winthrop (who
married George
Folsom); first cousin once removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston (1710-1792), Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), William
Livingston and Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; first cousin thrice removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Bayard (c.1644-1707), David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin once removed of James
Jay, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, John
Jay, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Frederick
Jay, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836) and Gilbert
Livingston Thompson; second cousin twice removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Guy
Vernor Henry and Montgomery
Schuyler Jr.; third cousin of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); third cousin once removed of Nicholas
Bayard (1736-1802), Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, James
Parker, Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, John
Jay II and John
Jacob Astor III; third cousin twice removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, William
Waldorf Astor, John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); third cousin thrice removed of Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Peter
Goelet Gerry, Ogden
Livingston Mills, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Winthrop Kean and Brockholst
Livingston; fourth cousin of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, James
Alexander Hamilton, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Cortlandt Parker and Philip
N. Schuyler; fourth cousin once removed of John
Bubenheim Bayard, Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, James
Adams Ekin, Eugene
Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: John
Davis |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1896 |
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Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991) —
of Garrison, Putnam
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Garrison, Putnam
County, N.Y., December
7, 1888.
Republican. Insurance
business; member of New York
state assembly from Putnam County, 1914-16; served in the U.S.
Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from New York 26th District, 1920-45; defeated,
1944; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1928,
1932,
1940,
1944;
member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1936; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 28th District, 1938;
derided by Franklin
Roosevelt as one of "Martin, Barton, and Fish", three Republican
opponents of his New Deal policies.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Society of the Cincinnati; Grange;
Farm
Bureau.
Died of heart
failure, in Cold Spring, Putnam
County, N.Y., January
18, 1991 (age 102 years,
42 days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936) and Emily Maria (Mann) Fish; married, September
24, 1921, to Grace Chapin (daughter of Alfred
Clark Chapin); married, June 22,
1967, to Marie (Choubaroff) Blackton; married, October
16, 1976, to Alice (Curtis) Desmond (widow of Thomas
Charles Desmond); married 1988 to Lydia
Ambrogio; father of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); nephew of Nicholas
Fish (1848-1902); grandson of Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); grandfather of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward; great-grandson of Nicholas
Fish (1758-1833); second great-grandson of John
Kean (1756-1795); second great-grandnephew of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Philip
Peter Livingston; third great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston and Peter
Van Brugh Livingston; third great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; fourth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and James
Alexander; fourth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fifth great-grandson of Pieter
Stuyvesant and Pieter
Van Brugh; fifth great-grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster, Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
de Peyster; first cousin once removed of John
Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton
Fish Kean; first cousin thrice removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); first cousin four times removed of
Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, John
Stevens III and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin six times removed of Nicholas
Bayard (c.1644-1707), David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler, Johannes
DePeyster, Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; second cousin of Charles
Mann Hamilton and Robert
Winthrop Kean; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Howard Kean; second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; second cousin thrice removed of James
Jay, John
Jay, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Frederick
Jay, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and William
Jay; second cousin four times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; second cousin five times removed of Matthew
Clarkson, Henry
Cruger and Henry
Rutgers; third cousin of Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; third cousin once removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson; third cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, David
Edgerton and John
Jay II; third cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Bayard (1736-1802), Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and James
Parker; fourth cousin once removed of John
Jacob Astor III, Guy
Vernor Henry, Howard
Curtis Brown, Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Montgomery
Schuyler Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Epitaph: "For God And
Country." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Nicholas Fish (1848-1902) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
19, 1848.
Republican. Lawyer;
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Switzerland, 1877-81; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1882-85; banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Quarreled with Thomas J. Sharkey, a private detective, on the second
floor of the Ehrhardt Brothers saloon;
Sharkey struck
him, so that he fell down
the stairs into the street with a skull fracture; died the next day,
without regaining consciousness, at Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
16, 1902 (age 54 years, 209
days). Sharkey was later convicted of second-degree manslaughter
and sentenced to ten years in prison.
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893) and Julia (Kean) Fish; brother of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); married to Clemence S. Smith-Bryce; father
of Hamilton Fish (1874-1898; sergeant in the U.S. Volunteer Cavalry
Regiment, the "Rough Riders", in the Spanish-American war; killed in
battle); uncle of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); grandson of Nicholas
Fish (1758-1833); granduncle of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); great-grandson of John
Kean (1756-1795); great-grandnephew of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Philip
Peter Livingston; great-granduncle of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward; second great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston and Peter
Van Brugh Livingston; second great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; third great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and James
Alexander; third great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fourth great-grandson of Pieter
Stuyvesant and Pieter
Van Brugh; fourth great-grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster, Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
de Peyster; first cousin of John
Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton
Fish Kean; first cousin once removed of Robert
Winthrop Kean; first cousin twice removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873) and Thomas
Howard Kean; first cousin thrice removed of Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, John
Stevens III, Henry
Brockholst Livingston and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin four times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin five times removed of Nicholas
Bayard (c.1644-1707), David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler, Johannes
DePeyster, Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; second cousin once removed of Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; second cousin twice removed of James
Jay, John
Jay, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Frederick
Jay, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and William
Jay; second cousin thrice removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Matthew
Clarkson, Henry
Cruger and Henry
Rutgers; third cousin of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson; third cousin once removed of Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard and John
Jay II; third cousin twice removed of Nicholas
Bayard (1736-1802), Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, James
Parker, Guy
Vernor Henry and Montgomery
Schuyler Jr.; third cousin thrice removed of Philip
DePeyster; fourth cousin of John
Jacob Astor III, Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); fourth cousin once removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, James
Alexander Hamilton, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Cortlandt Parker, Philip
N. Schuyler, William
Waldorf Astor, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Robert
Reginald Livingston, Bronson
Murray Cutting and Brockholst
Livingston. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary |
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Frank Ernest Gannett (1876-1957) —
also known as Frank E. Gannett —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Bristol, Ontario
County, N.Y., September
15, 1876.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; founder of Gannett newspaper
chain; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1936; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1940;
Vice-Chair
of Republican National Committee, 1942.
Unitarian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Society of the Cincinnati; Elks; Rotary.
Died December
3, 1957 (age 81 years, 79
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
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Asa Bird Gardiner (1839-1919) —
also known as Asa Bird Gardner —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
30, 1839.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; received the Medal
of Honor for actions in Civil War War battles, but it was revoked
in 1917 when no evidence was found to support his award; law
professor; New
York County District Attorney, 1898-1900; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1900;
removed
from office as District Attorney in December 1900, by Gov. Theodore
Roosevelt, over charges
that he had interfered
with the prosecution of election cases against Tammany Hall.
Member, Tammany
Hall; Society of the Cincinnati; Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Society
of the War of 1812; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y., May 24,
1919 (age 79 years, 236
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) —
also known as "Alexander the
Coppersmith" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charles Town, Nevis,
January
11, 1757.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1782-83; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society of the Cincinnati.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1915.
Shot
and mortally
wounded in a duel with
Aaron
Burr, on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 12,
1804 (age 47 years, 183
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.; statue at Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married, December
14, 1780, to Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of Alexander
Hamilton Jr., James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; great-grandfather of Robert
Ray Hamilton; second great-grandfather of Laurens
M. Hamilton; ancestor *** of Robert
Hamilton Woodruff. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Nathaniel
Pendleton — Robert
Troup — John
Tayler — William
P. Van Ness |
| | | Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Hamilton,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Hamilton Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Alexander
H. Buell
— Alexander
H. Holley
— Hamilton
Fish
— Alexander
H. Stephens
— Alexander
H. Bullock
— Alexander
H. Bailey
— Alexander
H. Rice
— Alexander
Hamilton Jones
— Alexander
H. Waterman
— Alexander
H. Coffroth
— Alexander
H. Dudley
— Alexander
H. Revell
— Alexander
Hamilton Hargis
— Alexander
Hamilton Phillips
— Alex
Woodle
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $10 bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his
portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $2 to $1,000. |
| | | Personal motto: "Do it better
yet." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Historical
Society of the New York Courts |
| | | Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard
Brookhiser, Alexander
Hamilton, American — Forrest McDonald, Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography — Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror
: Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton — Ron
Chernow, Alexander
Hamilton — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander
Hamilton: A Life — John Harper, American
Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign
Policy — Stephen F. Knott, Alexander
Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth — Charles Cerami,
Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Donald
Barr Chidsey, Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson |
| | | Critical books about Alexander
Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, Hamilton's
Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution
-- and What It means for Americans Today |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1957) |
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Daniel Phoenix Ingraham (1874-1934) —
also known as Phoenix Ingraham —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
23, 1874.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1924-34; died in office 1934.
Member, Freemasons;
Sons
of the Revolution; Society of the Cincinnati; Tammany
Hall.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
30, 1934 (age 59 years, 189
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Morgan Lewis (1754-1844) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
16, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1789-90, 1791-92 (New York County 1789-90,
Dutchess County 1791-92); New York
state attorney general, 1791-92; appointed 1791; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1792-1801; Governor of
New York, 1804-07; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1810-14; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 7,
1844 (age 89 years, 174
days).
Interment at St.
James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Charles Ludlow Livingston (b. 1870) —
also known as C. Ludlow Livingston —
of Oakmont, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Westport, Essex
County, N.Y.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., June 10,
1870.
Republican. Electrical
engineer;
lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Salina Cruz, 1908-10; Swansea, 1910-15; Barbados, 1915-20; Charlottetown, 1921-22.
Catholic.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Knights
of Columbus.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Ludlow Livingston and Mary (Keif) Livingston; married, November
12, 1891, to Mary Keating; father of Philip Anson Livingston and
Brockholst
Livingston; great-grandson of Henry
Brockholst Livingston and Henry
Walter Livingston; second great-grandson of William
Livingston and Walter
Livingston; second great-grandnephew of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794) and Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792); third great-grandson of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790); third great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; fourth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder, Anthony
Brockholls, Pieter
Van Brugh, Phillip
French and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); fourth great-grandnephew of Johannes
Cuyler; fifth great-grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fifth great-grandnephew of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; first cousin once removed of Henry
Brockholst Ledyard; first cousin twice removed of Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), William
Jay and Edward
Livingston (1796-1840); first cousin thrice removed of Philip
Peter Livingston and Matthew
Clarkson; first cousin four times removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Peter
Samuel Schuyler and Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Cornelis
Cuyler, Stephanus
Bayard, John
Cruger Jr. and Pierre
Van Cortlandt; first cousin six times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin once removed of John
Jay II; second cousin twice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859) and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); second cousin thrice removed of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836) and James
Alexander Hamilton; second cousin four times removed of James
Jay, Nicholas
Bayard, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Henry
Cruger, Robert
Van Rensselaer, John
Jay, Frederick
Jay, James
Livingston and James
Parker; second cousin five times removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer; third cousin of Bronson
Murray Cutting; third cousin once removed of Philip
Schuyler, William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer and Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933); third cousin twice removed of Hamilton
Fish; third cousin thrice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston and John
Cortlandt Parker; fourth cousin of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean and Herbert
Livingston Satterlee; fourth cousin once removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, John
Jacob Astor III, Robert
Ray Hamilton, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert
Reginald Livingston and Robert
Winthrop Kean. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Henry Brockholst Livingston (1757-1823) —
also known as Brockholst Livingston —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
25, 1757.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1788-89, 1800-02; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1806-23.
Presbyterian.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
18, 1823 (age 65 years, 113
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Susannah (French) Livingston and William
Livingston; brother of Susannah Livingston (who married John
Cleves Symmes) and Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married John
Jay); married 1774 to Ann
Ludlow; nephew of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston; uncle of Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; grandfather of Henry
Brockholst Ledyard; grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; granduncle of John
Jay II; great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder, Anthony
Brockholls, Pieter
Van Brugh and Phillip
French; great-grandfather of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); second great-grandfather of Brockholst
Livingston; second great-granduncle of Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933); first cousin by marriage of James
Duane and William
Duer (1747-1799); first cousin of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Catherine Livingston (who married Nicholas
Bayard), Susanna Livingston (who married John
Kean (1756-1795)) and Matthew
Clarkson; first cousin once removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); first cousin twice removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Cornelis
Cuyler, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), John
Cruger Jr., Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer (1805-1879), Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer and Denning
Duer; first cousin thrice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler, Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton
Fish Kean; first cousin four times removed of Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert
Winthrop Kean; first cousin five times removed of John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; first cousin six times removed of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951), Alexa
Fish Ward and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; second cousin of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); second cousin once removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, James
Jay, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler, Henry
Cruger, Frederick
Jay and Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); second cousin twice removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson and John
Jacob Astor III; second cousin thrice removed of William
Waldorf Astor and Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; second cousin four times removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Goelet Gerry and Ogden
Livingston Mills; third cousin of Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and James
Parker; third cousin once removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, James
Alexander Hamilton, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Cortlandt Parker and Philip
N. Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, James
Adams Ekin, Eugene
Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; third cousin thrice removed of Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier |
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Alexander McDougall (1731-1786) —
of New York.
Born in Scotland,
1731.
Banker;
general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1781; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1783-86; died in office 1786.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 9,
1786 (age about 54
years).
Entombed at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Chase Mellen Jr. (1897-1978) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
5, 1897.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; banker; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; chair of
New York County Republican Party, 1933-35; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1936;
Liberal Party candidate for New York City Controller, 1953.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died, September
12, 1978 (age 81 years, 219
days). His body was
donated to the New York University Hospital.
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John Motley Morehead (1870-1965) —
also known as John M. Morehead —
of Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Spray (now part of Eden), Rockingham
County, N.C., November
3, 1870.
Republican. Mayor of
Rye, N.Y., 1926-30; U.S. Minister to Sweden, 1930-33; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1940.
Baptist.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati; American
Legion; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died in 1965
(age about
94 years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Paterson (1744-1808) —
of Lenox, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Lisle, Tioga County (now Broome
County), N.Y.
Born in New Britain, Hartford
County, Conn., 1744.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1775; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of New York
state assembly from Tioga County, 1792-93; Broome
County Judge, 1798, 1806; U.S.
Representative from New York 16th District, 1803-05.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Lisle, Broome
County, N.Y., July 9,
1808 (age about 64
years).
Original interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Whitney Point, N.Y.; reinterment in 1892 at Church
on the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, Mass.
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Claiborne de Borda Pell (1918-2009) —
also known as Claiborne Pell; "Senator
Oddball" —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
22, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1961-97; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Rhode Island, 1964,
1968,
1988,
1996.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., January
1, 2009 (age 90 years, 40
days).
Interment at Berkeley Memorial Cemetery, Middletown, R.I.
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Francis Key Pendleton (1850-1930) —
also known as Francis K. Pendleton —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Clifton (now part of Cincinnati), Hamilton
County, Ohio, January
3, 1850.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1911-20; defeated, 1909;
appointed 1911; resigned 1920.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Injured in an automobile
accident on Riverside Drive, and died two months later as a
result, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 26,
1930 (age 80 years, 204
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary Alicia (Key) Pendleton and George
Hunt Pendleton; married, December
20, 1890, to Elizabeth La Montagne (sister-in-law of Nicholas
Murray Butler); nephew of Philip
Barton Key (1818-1859); grandson of Francis
Scott Key and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; grandnephew of Edward
Lloyd (1779-1834) and Edmund
Henry Pendleton; great-grandson of Edward
Lloyd (1744-1796) and Nathaniel
Pendleton; great-grandnephew of Philip
Barton Key (1757-1815); second great-grandnephew of Edmund
Pendleton; first cousin twice removed of Philip
Clayton Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of John
Pendleton Jr. and Philip
Key; first cousin four times removed of Matthew
Tilghman; second cousin of Henry
Lloyd; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Carroll, Barrister, John
Penn, James
Joseph Tilghman and William
Tilghman; third cousin once removed of Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Philip
Coleman Pendleton, Joseph
Henry Pendleton and William
Welby Beverley; third cousin twice removed of James
Madison, William
Taylor Madison, Frisby
Tilghman and Zachary
Taylor; fourth cousin of William
Barret Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton and John
Overton Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of Coleby
Chew, Tench
Tilghman, Edward
Tilghman Paca and Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph
family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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LeBaron Bradford Prince (1840-1922) —
also known as L. Bradford Prince —
of Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M.
Born in Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., July 3,
1840.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1868,
1876;
member of New York
state assembly from Queens County 1st District, 1871-75; member
of New
York state senate 1st District, 1876-77; justice of
New Mexico territorial supreme court, 1878-82; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from New Mexico Territory, 1882, 1884; Governor
of New Mexico Territory, 1889-93; member New
Mexico territorial council, 1909; delegate
to New Mexico state constitutional convention, 1911.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Society of the Cincinnati; Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died in Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., December
22, 1922 (age 82 years, 172
days).
Interment at Flushing
Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Robert Prince and Charlotte Goodwin (Collins) Prince;
married to Hattie Estelle Childs; married, November
17, 1881, to Mary Catherine Beardsley. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Stephens Smith (1755-1816) —
of New York.
Born in Long Island (unknown
county), N.Y., November
8, 1755.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1813-15.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Smith Valley, Madison
County, N.Y., June 10,
1816 (age 60 years, 215
days).
Interment at Lines
Hill Cemetery, Smyrna, N.Y.
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Benjamin Tallmadge (1754-1835) —
of Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brookhaven, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., February
25, 1754.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; banker;
postmaster at Litchfield,
Conn., 1792-1801; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut, 1801-17 (at-large 1801-05, 7th
District 1805-07, at-large 1807-09, 7th District 1809-11, at-large
1811-17).
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Slaveowner.
Died in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., March 7,
1835 (age 81 years, 10
days).
Interment at East
Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.
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Frederick Chauncey Tanner (1878-1963) —
also known as Fred C. Tanner —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., April 7,
1878.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1912,
1916;
New York
Republican state chair, 1914-17; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 17th District, 1915;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1918.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 23,
1963 (age 85 years, 77
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Somerville Pinkney Tuck (1848-1923) —
of Mansourah (Mansoura), Egypt;
Cairo, Egypt;
Alexandria, Egypt;
Menton, France.
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., September
24, 1848.
Democrat. Lawyer;
judge, International Court of First Instance, Egypt, 1894-1908; judge
International Court of Appeals, 1908-11.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Menton, France,
April
14, 1923 (age 74 years, 202
days).
Interment at St.
Barnabas Church Cemetery, Upper Marlboro, Md.
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Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer (1859-1927) —
also known as Cortlandt S. Van Rensselaer —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
22, 1859.
Republican. Lawyer;
assistant U.S. Attorney; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 10th District, 1890.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Society of the Cincinnati.
Died, from nephritis,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
15, 1927 (age 67 years, 54
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Gratz Van Rensselaer and Catherine Van Cortlandt (Van Rensselaer)
Van Renss; married, June 17,
1891, to Miss Horace Macauley; great-grandnephew of Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer and Robert
Van Rensselaer; third great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Younger; fourth great-grandson of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); fourth great-grandnephew of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, Robert
Livingston the Elder, Jacobus
Van Cortlandt and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin twice removed of Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer and Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; first cousin thrice removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, James
Livingston and Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer; first cousin four times removed of Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin five times removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin six times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin once removed of James
Alexander Hamilton and Philip
Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847) and Maturin
Livingston; second cousin thrice removed of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792) and Peter
Samuel Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Pierre
Van Cortlandt, William
Livingston, James
Jay, Philip
John Schuyler, Matthew
Clarkson (1733-1800), Stephen
John Schuyler, John
Jay and Frederick
Jay; third cousin once removed of Peter
Gansevoort, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Robert
Ray Hamilton; third cousin twice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston and John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; third cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Bayard, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Philip
Van Cortlandt, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Matthew
Clarkson (1758-1825), Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., James
Parker, Peter
Augustus Jay and William
Jay; fourth cousin of John
Jacob Astor III; fourth cousin once removed of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, William
Waldorf Astor, Peter
Goelet Gerry and Ogden
Livingston Mills. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Richard Varick (1753-1831) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J., March
15, 1753.
Lawyer;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1786-88; New York
state attorney general, 1788-89; appointed 1788; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1789-1801.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., July 30,
1831 (age 78 years, 137
days).
Interment at Dutch
Reformed Church Cemetery, Hackensack, N.J.
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James M. Varnum (1848-1907) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1848.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1879-80;
candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1889; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1890; New
York County Surrogate, 1899.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Badly injured when his car
collided with a streetcar,
and died soon after, in Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
26, 1907 (age about 58
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1899 to Mary
Witherspoon Dickey. |
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