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Charles De Rham
Charles de Rham (October 22, 1822 – February 23, 1909) was an American merchant and clubman who was prominent in New York society. Early life Charles was born in New York City on October 22, 1822. He was one of four children born to Henry Casimir de Rham (1785–1873) and Maria Theresa ( Moore) de Rham (1784–1855). His father, who came to America in 1805, was a merchant and diplomat who was appointed one of the first two Swiss consuls to the U.S. in 1822. His paternal grandparents were Johann Christoph Wilhelm de Rham and the former Anne ( Kinloch) de Rham (a daughter of Sir James Kinloch, Bt. of Scotland). His maternal grandparents were Jane ( Fish) Moore and the well-known surgeon, Dr. William Moore (a brother of Bishop Benjamin Moore). His was a first cousin of writer and real estate developer Clement Clarke Moore. Career Charles became a partner in his father's firm, De Rham, Iselin & Moore, which was absorbed in 1881 by the firm of Adrian Iselin & Co., however, "at n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Casimir De Rham
Henry Casimir de Rham (15 July 1785 – October 1873) was a Swiss–American merchant and diplomat. Early life Henry Casimir de Rham was born on 15 July 1785 in Giez, Switzerland. He was a son of Johann Christoph Wilhelm de Rham of Braunschweig, Saxony, Germany and the former Anne ( Kinloch) de Rham (1742–1813). His elder brother was Jacques de Rham, who married Adélaïde Doxat whose family owned the Champvent Castle, Château de Champvent. His maternal grandfather was Sir James Kinloch baronets, Kinloch, Bt. of Scotland. He attended the military school in Munich, Bavaria. Career In 1803 he had opened a business in New York City, New York.Junold, Louis J. (1926),p.4 After the War of 1812 he entered business relationship with Isaac Iselin Roulet. After his 1815 marriage, two of his wife's brothers became partners in the business known as de Rham, Iselin & Moore (later known as de Rham & Moore, but at the time of his death as de Rham & Company).Junold, Louis J. (1926),p.5 I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig. Saxony is the tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of , and the sixth most populous, with more than 4 million inhabitants. The term Saxony has been in use for more than a millennium. It was used for the medieval Duchy of Saxony, the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Saxony, and twice for a republic. The first Free State of Saxony was established in 1918 as a constituent state of the Weimar Republic. After World War II, it was under Soviet occupation before it became part of the communist East Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Augustus Jay (lawyer)
Peter Augustus Jay (January 24, 1776 – February 20, 1843) was a prominent New York lawyer, politician and the eldest son of Founding Father and first United States Chief Justice John Jay. Early life Peter Augustus Jay was born at Liberty Hall", on January 24, 1776, at the home of his maternal grandparents' in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Peter was one of six children born to John Jay and Sarah Van Brugh (née Livingston) Jay, and one of two boys (brother William was born in 1789) with four sisters: Susan (born and died in 1780); Maria (b. 1782), Ann (b. 1783) and Sarah Louisa (b. 1792). Jay's paternal grandparents were Peter Jay, who was born in New York City in 1704 and became a wealthy trader in furs, wheat, timber, and other commodities, and Mary Van Cortlandt, who had married in 1728. Mary's father was Jacobus Van Cortlandt who was twice mayor of New York City. His mother was the eldest daughter of 13 children born to New Jersey Governor William Livingston (1723–1790) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hezekiah Pierrepont
Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont (1768–1838) was a merchant, farmer, landowner and land developer in Brooklyn and New York state. He restored the spelling of the family surname from "Pierpont" to "Pierrepont", its original French spelling. Life and career Pierrepont was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1768 of a long-established New England family – his grandfather was one of the founders of Yale University. After making some money by speculating on the national debt, in 1793 Pierrepont, at the age of 25, launched a career as a merchant-adventurer. He relocated to Paris and, with his cousin, began to import goods to France, later expanding the company's scope to India and China. The business came to an end when his ship, the ''Confederacy'', was captured in the China Sea by privateers in 1797, while he was on board. Having made a small fortune, he was now bankrupt, and returned to the United States. He settled in Brooklyn in 1802.Gallagher, John J. "Pierrepont [Pierpont], He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jay Pierrepont
John Jay Pierrepont (September 2, 1849 – September 25, 1923) was a Brooklyn businessman, financier, and amateur photographer. Early life Pierrepont was born on September 2, 1849, in Rye, New York into a prominent Brooklyn family that helped found Green-Wood Cemetery. He was the second son of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont (1808–1888) and Anna Maria ( Jay) Pierrepont (1819–1902). His elder brother was Henry Evelyn Pierrepont II and his sister, Mary Pierrepont, married Rutherfurd Stuyvesant. His father, together with Jacob R. Leroy organized Union Ferry Company. Upon her death in 1880, John and his wife jointly inherited $10,000 (). His paternal grandparents were the merchant, farmer, landowner and land developer Hezekiah Pierrepont and Anna Maria Constable (a daughter of Anna White and William Constable of Philadelphia). His maternal grandparents were Peter Augustus Jay (eldest son of Gov. John Jay) and Mary Rutherford Clarkson (a daughter of General Matthew Clarkson). Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Networks And Archival Context
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) is an online project for discovering, locating, and using distributed historical records in regard to individual people, families, and organizations. The project SNAC is a digital research project that focuses on obtaining records data from various archives, libraries, and museums, so the biographical history of individuals, ancestry, or institutions are incorporated into a single file as opposed to the data being spread throughout different associations, thereby lessen the task of searching various memory organizations to locate the knowledge one seeks. SNAC is used alongside other digital archives to connect related historical records. One of the project's tools is a radial-graph feature which helps identify a social network of a subject's connections to related historical individuals. The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia; the School of Information, University of California, Berke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport, Rhode Island
Newport is an American seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island. It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, Providence, south of Fall River, Massachusetts, south of Boston, and northeast of New York City. It is known as a New England summer resort and is famous for its historic Newport Mansions, mansions and its rich sailing history. It was the location of the first U.S. Open tournaments in both US Open (tennis), tennis and US Open (golf), golf, as well as every challenge to the America's Cup between 1930 and 1983. It is also the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station Newport, which houses the United States Naval War College, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and an important Navy training center. It was a major 18th-century port city and boasts many buildings from the Colonial history of the United States, Colonial era. The city is the county seat of Newport County, Rhode Island, Newport County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeRham Farm
The former DeRham Farm is located along Indian Brook Road just off NY 9D in the Town of Philipstown, north of Garrison, New York, United States. It is a complex of buildings assembled by a gentleman farmer in the early 19th century that remain intact today. It has, since its construction, been split into four contiguous lots on either side of the road totalling almost . In 1980 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Properties There are 15 contributing properties, all of them former farm buildings, spread across the four parcels. The main house is located off Indian Brook Road, overlooking the Hudson River and the mountains of the western Hudson Highlands across it. It is a two-and-a-half-story home with a full-length veranda supported by Tuscan columns across the first story on the southern (front) façade. It has a mansard roof with pedimented dormers. A two-story wing, also mansard-roofed, projects from the west. The main entrance is elaborately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Spring, New York
Cold Spring is a village in the town of Philipstown in Putnam County, New York, United States. The population was 1,986 at the 2020 census. It borders the smaller village of Nelsonville and the hamlets of Garrison and North Highlands. The central area of the village is on the National Register of Historic Places as the Cold Spring Historic District due to its many well- preserved 19th-century buildings, constructed to accommodate workers at the nearby West Point Foundry (itself a Registered Historic Place today). The town is the birthplace of General Gouverneur K. Warren, who was an important figure in the Union Army during the Civil War. The village, located in the Hudson Highlands, sits at the deepest point of the Hudson River, directly across from West Point. Cold Spring serves as a weekend getaway for many residents of New York City. Commuter service to New York City is available via the Cold Spring train station, served by Metro-North Railroad. The train journey is appro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theophylact Bache
Theophylact Bache ( – ) was an American merchant and fifth president of the New York Chamber of Commerce Early life Theophylact Bache was born on in Settle, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He was the son of William Bache, a tax collector, and Mary (née Blechynden) Bache, who were married around 1720. His younger brother, Richard Bache, was the second Postmaster General of the United States and the son-in-law of Benjamin Franklin. Career He landed in New York 17 September 1751, took charge of the business of Paul Richard a successful merchant and former mayor, whose wife was a Bache relative. Richard died in 1756, and Bache became the owner of merchant vessels, and engaged in privateering. He was identified with American resistance to England in 1765, and in 1770 was one of the committee to carry out the resolutions of non-intercourse. In 1774, he was one of the committee of correspondence appointed when the port of Boston was closed. He supported the first Contine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. Rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946. It was the driving force behind the unification of Germany in 1871 and was the leading state of the German Empire until its dissolution in 1918. Although it took its name from the region called Prussia, it was based in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Its capital was Berlin. The kings of Prussia were from the House of Hohenzollern. Brandenburg-Prussia, predecessor of the kingdom, became a military power under Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, known as "The Great Elector". As a kingdom, Prussia continued its rise to power, especially during the reign of Frederick II, more commonly known as Frederick the Great, who was the third son of Frederick William I.Horn, D. B. "The Youth of Frederick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie; 10 March 1776 – 19 July 1810) was Queen of Prussia as the wife of King Frederick William III. The couple's happy, though short-lived, marriage produced nine children, including the future monarchs Frederick William IV of Prussia and Wilhelm I, German Emperor. Her legacy became cemented after her extraordinary 1807 meeting with French Emperor Napoleon I at Tilsit – she met with the emperor to plead unsuccessfully for favorable terms after Prussia's disastrous losses in the Napoleonic Wars. She was already well loved by her subjects, but her meeting with Napoleon led Louise to become revered as "the soul of national virtue". Her early death at the age of thirty-four "preserved her youth in the memory of posterity", and caused Napoleon to reportedly remark that the king "has lost his best minister". The Order of Louise was founded by her grieving husband four years later as a female counterpart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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