Fordyce Luther Laflin (March 9, 1824
Blandford,
Hampden County, Massachusetts
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- April 27, 1887
Saugerties,
Ulster County, New York
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History
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) was an American businessman and politician from
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Life
He was the son of Luther Laflin (1789–1876) and Almira Sylvester Laflin (1801–1882). His family was in the
gunpowder
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business from before 1800 until 1912 when the companies were bought by
DuPont
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. His father and uncle had opened a factory at Saugerties in 1832 after their removal from
where they had had a gunpowder factory in
Southwick.
He was Supervisor of the Town of Saugerties for two years, and President of the
Village of Saugerties in 1851.
On September 21, 1851, he married Helen Miranda Burtt (d. 1896), and they had several children.
He was a member of the
New York State Assembly
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The Assem ...
(Ulster Co., 1st D.) in
1858
Events
January–March
* January –
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He was an
Inspector of State Prisons from 1870 to 1872, elected on the
Democratic ticket at the
New York state election, 1869
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.
He died of "
blood poisoning, resulting from an abscess which followed a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism." He was buried at the Mountain View Cemetery in Saugerties.
Sources
''DIED OF BLOOD POISONING''in NYT on April 28, 1887
Cemetery records, at Hope Farm
History of the Laflins' gunpowder business, at The Cartridge Collector's Exchange
Political Graveyard
''The New York Civil List''compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pages 411, 487 and 515)
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1824 births
1887 deaths
People from Blandford, Massachusetts
People from Saugerties, New York
New York State Prison Inspectors
American manufacturing businesspeople
Members of the New York State Assembly
Town supervisors in New York (state)
Deaths from sepsis in the United States
19th-century American legislators
19th-century American businesspeople