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Leffert Lefferts
Leffert Lefferts (April 12, 1774 – March 22, 1847) was the first President of the Long Island Bank, the first bank in Brooklyn, New York. Early life Lefferts was born at the Bedford homestead on April 12, 1774. He was the son of Leffert Lefferts (1727–1804) and Dorothy (née Couwenhoven) Lefferts (1738–1816). The Lefferts family were an important family in the history of Brooklyn and were among the financiers of the State of New York. He attended Columbia College, Columbia University, Columbia College in 1794. Career Lefferts, a Federalist Party, Federalist, twice ran, unsuccessfully, for U.S. Congress, losing to his own cousin, John Lefferts, a Democratic-Republican Party, Democratic-Republican, in 1813. He was also the first judge of Kings County. In 1824, Lefferts, along with Jehiel Jagger, Fanning C. Tucker, Jacob Hicks, Thomas Everitt Jr., founded the Long Island Bank, the first bank in Brooklyn, of which Lefferts served as president. Judge Lefferts also owned subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Island Bank
The Long Island Bank was the first bank in Brooklyn, New York. History In the early 1820s, Brooklyn was the 16th largest inhabited place in the United States; however, Brooklyn had no bank and no insurance company. In 1824, the bank was incorporated and became the first bank in Brooklyn. The initial capital of the bank was $300,000 in $50 shares. Bank notes were issued from 3 August 1824. Its offices were at 7 Front Street in Brooklyn. The first President was Leffert Lefferts. In 1867, William S. Herriman, president of the bank, died and was replaced by William C. Fowler. References Banks based in New York (state) Banks established in 1824 History of Brooklyn 1824 establishments in New York (state) American companies established in 1824 {{US-bank-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New-York Historical Society
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the history of New York and the nation. The New-York Historical Society Museum & Library has been at its present location since 1908. The granite building was designed by York & Sawyer in a classic Roman Eclectic style. The building is a designated New York City landmark. A renovation, completed in November 2011, made the building more accessible to the public, provided space for an interactive children's museum, and facilitated access to its collections. Louise Mirrer has been the president of the Historical Society since 2004. She was previously Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the City University of New York. Beginning in 2005, the museum presented a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behind New York County (Manhattan). Brooklyn is also New York City's most populous borough,2010 Gazetteer for New York State . Retrieved September 18, 2016. with 2,736,074 residents in 2020. Named after the Dutch village of , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Bank Presidents
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Lefferts Family
Lefferts may refer to: People * Charles M. Lefferts (1873–1923), American illustrator and soldier * Craig Lefferts (b. 1957), American professional baseball player * George Lefferts, American writer, producer and director * John Lefferts (1785–1829), American politician * Winifred E. Lefferts (1903–1995), American painter, designer and philanthropist * Joseph C. Lefferts (1993 - current), American Photographer, designer Places * Lefferts Island, Nunavut, Canada * Lake Lefferts, Matawan, New Jersey Other uses * Lefferts Boulevard, formerly Lefferts Avenue, street in Queens, New York City * Lefferts Historic House, Brooklyn, New York * Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard (IND Fulton Street Line) Ozone (), or trioxygen, is an inorganic molecule with the chemical formula . It is a pale blue gas with a distinctively pungent smell. It is an allotrope of oxygen that is much less stable than the diatomic allotrope , breaking down in the lower ..., elevated station at Lefferts Boul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1847 Deaths
Events January–March * January 4 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S. government. * January 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in the Mexican–American War in California. * January 16 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. * January 17 – St. Anthony Hall fraternity is founded at Columbia University, New York City. * January 30 – Yerba Buena, California, is renamed San Francisco. * February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated Donner Party (California-bound emigrants who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada earlier this winter; some have resorted to survival by cannibalism). * February 22 – Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops under General Zachary Taylor use their superiority in artillery to drive off 15,000 Mexican troops under Antonio López de Santa Anna, defeating the Mexicans the next day. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1774 Births
Events January–March * January 21 – Mustafa III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I. * January 27 ** An angry crowd in Boston, Massachusetts seizes, tars, and feathers British customs collector and Loyalist John Malcolm, for striking a boy and a shoemaker, George Hewes, with his cane. ** British industrialist John Wilkinson patents a method for boring cannon from the solid, subsequently utilised for accurate boring of steam engine cylinders. * February 3 – The Privy Council of Great Britain, as advisors to King George III, votes for the King's abolition of free land grants of North American lands. Henceforward, land is to be sold at auction to the highest bidder. * February 6 – France's Parliament votes a sentence of civil degradation, depriving Pierre Beaumarchais of all rights and duties of citizenship. * February 7 – The volunteer fire company of Trenton, New Jersey, predecessor to the paid Trenton Fire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn Historical Society
The Center for Brooklyn History (CBH, formerly known as the Brooklyn Historical Society) is a museum, library, and educational center founded in 1863 that preserves and encourages the study of Brooklyn's 400-year history. The center's Romanesque Revival building, located at Pierrepont and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights, was designed by George B. Post and built in 1878-81, is a National Historic Landmark and part of New York City's Brooklyn Heights Historic District. The CBH houses materials relating to the history of Brooklyn and its people, and hosts exhibitions which draw over 9,000 members a year. In addition to general programming, the CBH serves over 70,000 public school students and teachers annually by providing exhibit tours, educational programs and curricula, and making its professional staff available for instruction and consultation. History The Center for Brooklyn History was founded in 1863 by Henry Pierrepont (1808–1888) as the Long Island Historical Societ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Barnewall Van Rensselaer
Louisa Barnewall Van Rensselaer (October 12, 1836 – July 3, 1920), was a prominent member of New York Society during the Gilded Age. Early life Louisa was born on October 12, 1836, in New York City. She was the daughter of William Barnewall (1792–1874), an attorney, and Clementina (née Rutgers) Barnewall (1800–1838), who married in 1818. After her mother's death when Louisa was only 2 years old, her father remarried to Anne Coles (1808–1885). Among her siblings was Elizabeth Barnewall (1825–1867), who married Alfred Schermerhorn; Morris Barnewall (1834–1895), who married Eliza Antoinette Hall. Her maternal grandparents were Nicholas Gouverneur Rutgers, an attorney, and Cornelia (née Livingston) Rutgers. Society life In 1892, Louisa (who at that point was a widow following her husband's death in 1878) along with her two unmarried daughters Mabel and Alice, and her married daughter Louisa Van Rensselaer Baylies, Louisa and her husband Edmund L. Baylies, Edmund, wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery is a cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery is located between South Slope/ Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park, and lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park. Its boundaries include, among other streets, 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east. Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery, in a time of rapid urbanization when churchyards in New York City were becoming overcrowded. Described as "Brooklyn's first public park by default long before Prospect Park was created", p. 687. Green-Wood Cemetery was so popular that it inspired a competition to design Central Park in Manhattan, as well as Prospect Park nearby. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 and was made a National Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egbert Benson
Egbert Benson (June 21, 1746 – August 24, 1833) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician, who represented New York State in the Continental Congress, Annapolis Convention, and United States House of Representatives. He served as a member of the New York constitutional convention in 1788 which ratified the United States Constitution. He also served as the first attorney general of New York, chief justice of the New York Supreme Court, and as the chief United States circuit judge of the United States circuit court for the second circuit. Education and career Benson's ancestor, Dirck Benson, who settled in New Amsterdam in 1649, was the founder of the Benson family in America.Arthur D. Benson Genealogical Notes and Correspondence Concerning Egbert Benson and the Benson Family 1938 Control, manuscript collection finding aid, Archives at Queens Library: "Genealogical Notes" Folder: 179/2 1934: Benson, Arthur D. "Some Data of the Descendents of Dirck Bensing or Bensingh (B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egbert Benson (New York Politician)
Egbert Benson (September 1, 1789 – February 25, 1866) was an American politician and prominent landowner in Brooklyn. Early life Benson was born in New York on September 1, 1789. He was the son of Dinah (née Couwenhoven) Benson and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Benson (1739–1823), Clerk of the New York State Senate. His siblings included Robert Benson; Maria Benson, the wife of Leffert Lefferts; Jane Benson, the wife of Dr. Richard Kissam Hoffman. His uncle, and namesake, was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Egbert Benson, a U.S. Representative who served as the Chief Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit. His paternal grandparents were Robert Benson and Tryntje "Catharina" (née Van Borsum) Benson. Benson attended Columbia College, graduating in 1807. Career From 1835 to 1841, and again in 1845 and 1846, Benson was a member of the Board of Alderman, serving as that bodies president from 1836 to 1838. For a short period, he also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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