Lloyd Stephens Bryce (September 20, 1851 – April 2, 1917) was an American diplomat and politician who served one term as a
U.S. Representative
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from
New York from 1887 to 1889. He was also a prominent magazine editor.
Early life
Lloyd Bryce was born in
Flushing, New York
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on September 20, 1851. His father, Joseph Smith Bryce (1808–1901), graduated third in his class from the
United States Military Academy
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in 1829,
Robert E. Lee was second, and served as a
Union Army
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Major in the
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
, engaged in the defense of
Washington, D.C.
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Lloyd's sister was Clemence Smith Bryce, who married
Nicholas Fish, the
U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and
Belgium
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, and was the mother of
Hamilton Fish II
Hamilton Fish II (April 17, 1849 – January 15, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Speaker of the New York State Assembly and a member of the United States House of Representatives.
Early life
Fish was born in Albany, N ...
. He was a nephew of
John L. Stevens,
U.S. Minister to the
Kingdom of Hawaii.
He attended
Georgetown University
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, Washington, D.C., and
Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with
bachelor's and
master's
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Columbia Law School
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.
Career
Bryce was an avid sports enthusiast, and wrote that sports were capable both of quelling revolutionary thought among the poor and promoting understanding between nations. He was a frequent participant in
polo matches in
Newport, Rhode Island
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and
Manhattan
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and
fox hunts on
Long Island.
Political career
Bryce, a
Democrat
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Politics
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
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, became interested in politics. In 1886,
Governor
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David B. Hill
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In 1892, he made an u ...
appointed him to the governor's staff as Paymaster General of the militia with the rank of
Brigadier General
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, a largely ceremonial position. Afterwards he was known as General Bryce.
Bryce was elected as a
Democrat
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Politics
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
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to the
Fiftieth Congress, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1889. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the
Fifty-first Congress.
He was appointed
Minister to the Netherlands on August 12, 1911, and he served until September 10, 1913.
Writer and editor
His friend
C. Allen Thorndike Rice, the editor and owner of the ''
North American Review
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'', died unexpectedly in 1889 and left the magazine to Bryce in his will. Bryce was the owner and editor from 1889 to 1896.
Influenced by his experience in Congress he wrote an early "
Yellow Peril
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" story, called ''Dream of Conquest'' for the June 1889 issue of ''
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
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''Lippincott's'' ...
''. His other published works include: ''Paradise: A Novel'' (1888); ''Romance of an Alter Ego'' (1889); ''Friends in Exile'' (1893); and ''Lady Blanche's Salon'' (1899).
Family
In 1879,
he married
Edith Cooper (1854–1916),
the only child of
New York City Mayor Edward Cooper,
and granddaughter of the famous industrialist
Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician. He designed and built the first American steam locomotive, the '' Tom Thumb'', founded the Cooper Union for the Advancement of ...
. Together, they were the parents of:
*
Edith Claire Bryce
Edith Claire Cram ( Bryce; May 6, 1880 – February 28, 1960) was an American peace activist and heiress. She founded Peace House, which produced anti-war and peace movement lectures, newspaper advertisements, and other propaganda to promote peace ...
(1880–1960),
who married President of the
New York Public Service Commission
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John Sergeant Cram (1851–1936)
*
Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce (1881–1960),
who married
conservationist Gifford Pinchot
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(1865–1946), the first Chief of the
United States Forest Service
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under
Theodore Roosevelt
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, in 1914.
* Peter Cooper Bryce (1889–1964),
who married Angelica Schuyler Brown (1890–1980), of the
Brown banking family, in 1917.
Bryce died in
Mineola, New York
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...
, April 2, 1917, and was interred in
Greenwood Cemetery,
Brooklyn, New York
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. The bulk of his estate, worth $1,665,061,
was left to his two daughters, with his son receiving all his paintings, including a portrait by
Godfrey Kneller, books, engravings, and clothing.
His home at 1025
Fifth Avenue was left to his children in four equal shares, two to his son and one to each of his daughters.
Descendants
His grandson, Henry Sergeant Cram (1907–1997), married Edith Kingdon Drexel (1911–1934), the granddaughter of
Anthony Joseph Drexel, Jr.
Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr. (September 9, 1864 – December 14, 1934) was an American banker and philanthropist who was a close friend of King Edward VII.
Early life
Drexel was born on September 9, 1864, in Philadelphia to Anthony Joseph Drexel ( ...
and
George Jay Gould I
George Jay Gould I (February 6, 1864 – May 16, 1923) was a financier and the son of Jay Gould. He was himself a railroad executive, leading the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW), Western Pacific Railroad (WP), and the Manhatt ...
, in 1930.
Cram later married Ruth Vaux, a granddaughter of
Richard Vaux
Richard Vaux (December 19, 1816 – March 22, 1895) was an American politician. He was mayor of Philadelphia and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Early life and education
Richard Vaux was born in Philadelphia, P ...
, after his first wife's death.
His granddaughter, Edith Bryce Cram (1908–1972), married Arthur Gerhard in 1950.
References
External links
*
*James Terry White
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Volume 1, 1898, page 252
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