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James the third child, was born January 24, 1732, and married, November 15, 1753, his cousin Keziah Tiffany, and had five children.
James, the fourth child, was born November 10, 1760, died at South Brimfield, Massachusetts, March 25, 1823. He married Mary Howe, and went to New Hampshire, but finally settled at South Brimfield, now called Wales. They were the parents of six children.
Lyman, the second child, was born in Attleboro, September
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17, 1782, and died in Cambridge, July 8, 1873. He married, in Providence, Rhode Island, July 27, 1806, Sabra, daughter of Stephen Jenks and Mary Arnold, his wife. The greater part of his life was passed in Boston, where he was a very promi- nent dry goods commission merchant, and closely identified with the textile manufacturing interests of the country. He founded the firm of Tiffany, Sayles & Hitchcock, and was for many years the senior partner. He was one of the five who organized the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, with mills at Manchester, New Hampshire, which is one of the most prosperous manufac- turing corporations in the United States. After a very success- ful mercantile career, Mr. Tiffany retired from active business at the age of fifty-five, and lived to the advanced age of ninety.
Francis Alfonzo Tiffany, second child of Lyman and Sabra (Jenks) Tiffany, was born at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Decem- ber 24, 1809, died at Saratoga Springs, New York, June 20, 1873. He married, in New York, June 6, 1836, Mary Lydia, daughter of William W. Fox and his wife, Charlotte Leggett. Mr. Tiffany was educated at the Boston Latin School, and had a special fondness for languages and literature. He went to New York in 1835 and entered mercantile life under the firm name of Hutchinson & Tiffany, at No. 50 Exchange Place. The firm failed during the panic of 1857, and his business career was continned in Wall street. He was highly esteemed by his associates and was possessed of a well cultivated mind and polished manners. His children were: 1. George Fox, born April 5, 1837, died at West Farms, Westchester county, Febru- ary 12, 1868. 2. Lyman, see forward. 3. Francis Howe, born November 25, 1839, died March 19, 1868. 4. Henry Dyer, see forward. 5. Charlotte Fox, born September 1, 1843. 6. Mary Pearsall, born May 9, 1847, died September 27, 1885. 7. Isabel. 8. Ida, born November 17, 1857, died the same day. Of the
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daughters, Charlotte Fox married Miner Trowbridge, October 27, 1863, and has a family of nine children. Mary Pearsall Tif- fany married George Fox Tucker, April 6, 1878, and has one child. Isabel Fox Tiffany married, April 8, 1874, Charles Ben- jamin Perry, and has seven children.
Lyman Tiffany, second son and child of Francis Alfonzo and Mary Lydia (Fox) Tiffany, was born May 21, 1838. He first entered business life as a member of his father's firm, and then on his own account in the firm of Deming & Tiffany. He removed to Washington in 1889, where he has an elegant home and a large collection of curios and works of art. He has been an officer in the militia, and at the outbreak of the Civil war was a member of the Seventh Regiment and marched to the protection of the national capitol. He served the full time of three enlistments, and on retirement was elected captain of Com- pany G. Seventh Regiment.
Henry Dyer Tiffany, fourth son and child of Francis Al- fonzo and Mary Lydia (Fox) Tiffany, was born on the Fox homestead, New York, December 13, 1841, and has passed the greater part of his life on this homestead which is a part of the tract known as "The West Farms of the Borongh Town of Westchester." He is the ninth in descent from one of the orig- inal patentees to whom it was granted in 1661. He entered . Yale College. and while a student there the Civil war broke out and he was among the first to volunteer in the service of his country. He enlisted in the Seventh Regiment and hastened to the defense of Washington. Twice afterward he left college to go with his regiment, and served the full period of enlist- ment, and, notwithstanding this, he was gradnated in his class of 1864. He studied for the profession of civil engineering but never followed it, as most of his life has been devoted to the development of the large landed estate which has descended
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to him from his honored ancestors and which has been changed from a farming district to a part, and a growing part, of the great city. His principal amusement has been the study of ma- rine architecture. and his peculiar theories have been applied to the building of a yacht "Ventura," which he built in 1890; his principles have been adopted in the building of most successful vachts.
Mr. Tiffany married in Washington county, New York, October 11, 1864, Caroline, daughter of Josiah Dow Chase and Mary Chase Breed, his wife. Their children are: 1. William W. Fox, born September 13, 1865, died February 23, 1867. 2. George Fox, see forward. 3. Edith, born June 26, 1873, mar- ried Frederick R. Lord. 4. Marie, born Angust 6, 1875, died April 3, 1877. 5. Isabel Terry, born May 18, 1878, married John Morris Butler. Jr., of Ogontz, Pennsylvania, October 14, 1903. 6. Harry, horn Jannary 20, 1881, died the same day. Mrs. Caro- line Chase Tiffany died in 1906.
George Fox Tiffany, son of Henry D. Tiffany, born June 10. 1867, on the original homestead, is the tenth in line of de- scent from John Richardson, one of the patentees of West Farms, whose daughter Elizabeth married Gabriel Leggett and inherited a large part of her father's estate. The ancestral homestead is situated at the Junction of West Farms Road and the "Old Westchester Turnpike," now known as Westchester avenue. Mr. Tiffany is therefore fully identified with the bor- ongh of the Bronx, both by ancestry and inherited estate. He received his early education at the Harrington School, West- chester, and at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. His intimate acquaintance with the entire region renders him extremely fitted for his business as real estate broker and ap- praiser, in which he has had an extended experience, has been largely connected with the development of the Bronx, and es-
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pecially the region surrounding the Fox estate. He is connected with the Protestant Episcopal Church. In politics he is non- partisan. He is a member, and an active and influential one, of the North Side Board of Trade and the Bronx Board of Real Estate Brokers. He was the originator of the Westchester Golf Club, and is a member of the Transit Rod and Gun Club.
DURYEA FAMILY.
We learn from the oldest records that this family was originally from the old province of Burgundy in France. The name has been spelled in various ways, as Durie, Duryee and Duryea. The original form is probably Du Ryer, and a per- son acquainted with French pronunciation can readily under- stand the reason for the various forms in spelling. Some of the members of the family lived at an early date in the town of Marcigny, and were in prominent positions. The religious wars and persecution in France compelled a vast number of Protestant families to seek refuge in Holland, and one branch went to Scotland, about the year 1500.
Among the most eminent members of the Scottish branch of the family were Andrew Durie, who died in 1558, and who was bishop of Galloway and abbot of Melrose. George Durie (1496-1561), abbot of Melrose. Sir Alexander Gibson, Lord Durie, a Scottish judge, who died in 1644. John Durie, a Scot- tish Jesuit, died in 1587. John Durie (1537-1600), a Presby- terian minister of prominence. Robert Durie (1555-1616), also a minister of the same denomination. Sir Robert Bruce, of Clackmore, who had the honor of knighthood conferred upon him by King James VI of Scotland, married for his second wife Helen, daughter of Robert Durie, by whom he had one daughter, who became the wife of Alexander Shaw, of Saut- rie. Andrew Boswell, seventh son of Sir John Boswell, of Bal-
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muto, had a daughter Janet, who became the wife of her cousin, John Durie, of Grange. Andrew, the fourth Earl of Rothes. married for his third wife Janet, daughter of David Durie. The mother of this Janet Durie was Catharine Ram- sey, the daughter of George, Lord Ramsey of Dalhousie, and his wife Margaret, only child and heiress of Sir George Dong- lass, of Melinhill. Members of the various branches of the Scotch family of Durie have, it is seen, allied themselves in marriage to some of the most prominent noble families of that kingdom. The identification of this branch of the family with that of the French line is complete and unmistakable throngh the records of ancient chronicles and documents and the blazons of heraldry.
Andre Duryer, or Du Ryer, who was born in Marcigny, Burgundy, lived in the first half of the seventeenth century, and was a Gentleman of the King's Bed Chamber, the French dip- lomatie agent at Constantinople, and the consul for France at Alexandria, Egypt. He lived many years in the east, was one of the most accomplished Oriental scholars of his time, and published a translation of the "Gulistan of Saadi" in 1634, and one of the Koran in 1647.
Pierre Duryer, born in Paris, France, 1605, was a French dramatist and a man of letters, and a competitor of the cele- brated Corneille when the latter was admitted to the French Academy in 1646. From him was probably descended Charles Henry Duryer, born in Paris, France, 1830, chief of the Minis- try of Justice and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
Joost (George) Durie, the ancestor of the family in the New Netherlands, was a French Hugnenot, who after the Revo- cation of the Ediet of Nantes, sought a refuge at Manheim, of the Rhenish Palatinate, and came to America about 1675, being among the first of the Huguenot emigration. He settled at
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New Utrecht, Long Island, where he purchased a farm, which he sold, October 5, 1681, for thirty-two hundred guilders (or $1,200) "and a wagon." From the price we conclude that it was an estate of considerable value for those days. . He left New Utrecht and settled in the disputed lands between New- town and Bushwick; he was living in Bushwick in 1683 took the oath of allegiance there in 1687, and died there about 1727, at an advanced age. He married, 1660, Magdalena LeFevre, whose name, like that of her husband, shows that she was of French origin. They were the parents of eleven children: Joost, Peter, Jacob, Abraham, Cornelius, Simon, Jacquez, An- toinette, Charles, Magdalena and Phillip. From these are de- scended a very large number of descendants whose names are inseparably connected with the history of Kings county and the various branches of the family are to be found in many of the states of the Union. The arms of this family are, Azure, a chevron between three crescents argent.
Abraham Durije, born 1685, died 1753, son of Joost and Magdalena (LeFevre) Durie, married Elizabeth, daughter of Theodoris and Aertje (Bogart) Polhemius, the former a son of the Rev. Johannes Polhemius, and the latter the daughter of Tennis Gysbertsen Bogart.
Daniel Durije, son of Abraham and Aertje (Bogart) Durije, married a descendant of Laurens Cornelisen Koeck, who came over to the New Netherlands in 1661, and Gabriel Durije, his grandson, married Femetije (or Phoebe) Hoogland, daughter of Cornelius and Sarah (Woertman) Hoogland. Cornelius Hoogland was a descendant of Dirck Jansen Hoogland, who came from Naerseveen, Utrecht, 1657. Sarah (Woertman) Hoogland was descended from Direk Jansen Woertman, who came from Amsterdam in 1647.
Cornelius Duryea, son of Gabriel and Femetije (or Phoebe) Vol. IV-21
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(Hoogland) Durije, was born in 1776. Beginning at that period the family name was generally spelled in its present form, Duryea. He married Jemima Van Hansen Van Nostrand, daughter of Jolm and Hannah (Bedell) Van Nostrand, and a descendant of Hans Hansen Van Nostrand, who came from Noorstrand. Holstein, 1739, and from Robert or Daniel Beedle or Beadell, early settlers of Hempstead, Long Island.
George Van Nostrand Duryea, son of Cornelius and Jem- ima (Van Nostrand) Duryea, was born at the family home- stead near Oyster Bay, Long Island. January 29, 1815. The following year his parents removed to Brooklyn, and he was educated and reared to manhood in that city. Upon taking up the practical duties of life he learned the trade of ship-joiner, but did not, however, continue long in this line of work, turn- ing his attention to house carpentering, which occupation he continued for a number of years at Flushing, Long Island, where he was highly respected, being an energetic and perse- vering man, serupulously just in all his affairs. His death occurred in Brooklyn, December 6, 1886. He married, Decem- ber 30, 1840, Elizabeth Ann Post, born January 29, 1824, at Flushing, Long Island, daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann (Morrell) Post, both members of old Long Island families. Their children were:
1. Charles, see forward. 2. Henry F., born January 17, 1843, died November 4, 1843. 3. Evadna Post, born Septem- ber 29, 1844, married, August 4, 1864, Russell A. Green, and their children are: Lizzie W., born March 9, 1866, married Edwin M. Griffen. September 21, 1887; he died March 8, 1892. She married John Rofkar, April 11, 1894; he died August 8, 1895. She married William H. Clark, June 4, 1902; no issue. Dora A., born October 27, 1870, married Clarence L. Horning, and has children: C. Leslie, born March 1, 1896, and Marjorie
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A., born July 5, 1900. Frederick F., born January 30, 1873, married Ida Lane and has children: Dora Alice, born Septem- ber 21, 1892, and Warren, born Angust 4, 1894. Russell, born September 18, 1884, married Myrtle Phillips, no issue. 4. El- mira B., born Mareh 15, 1847, married, January 29, 1865, Daniel Parrish and has children : Fanny, married Andrew Mccullough, and their children are: Blake, Clarence, Elmira, Andrew, Will- iam, Drusilla and Minnie Mccullough. William, born April, 1873. Allen Parish, boru July 4, 1890. 5. Samuel, born July 4, 1849, died July 29, 1849. 6. George F., born October 5, 1850, died December 31, 1852. 7. Augustns S., born June 17, 1853, married Angust 31, 1876, Ellen Welch, and has children: Ray- mond, born June 28, 1877, married Elizabeth Sellers, no issue. May, born June 9, 1880, married Lester Smith, no issue. Rob- ert T., born June, 1887. 8. Alexander P., born December 29, 1856, died December 8, 1857. 9. Annie E., born June 13, 1861, married June 14, 1888, Robert J. Gough, no issue.
Charles Duryea, eldest child of George Van Nostrand and Elizabeth (Post) Duryea, born June 13, 1841, was educated in the schools of Flushing, Long Island, and at the age of fourteen began to take up the practical duties of life. His first business undertaking was the manufacture of drums for the government. In 1888 he served in a clerical capacity as deputy clerk in the city of New York. In 1861 he removed with his family to West Farms, where he has resided up to the present time (1907). He married, May 8, 1867, Susan Ryer, born July 7, 1843, daugh- ter of Samnel and Jane (Bussing) Ryer, and their children are: 1. Albert, born June 17, 1868, a leading and progressive citi- zen of Westchester, borough of the Bronx, married Norma Ar- now, daughter of Richard N. and Helen (Secor) Arnow. 2. Maria L., born November 19, 1872.
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CHARLES F. NEWMAN.
Charles F. Newman is a progressive and enterprising Ger- man-American citizen, of Huguenot Park, borough of Richmond, where he has resided for nearly twenty years. Mr. Newman was born in the city of Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, July 8, 1853, a son of August and Fredericka (Neumann) New- man. Both his parents came to the United States in 1880, and took up their abode in New York city, where they spent the re- maining years of their life.
Charles F. Newman was educated in the schools of the city of Berlin, where he also graduated from the high school. Upon taking up the practical duties of life he learned the upholstering trade, which line of pursuit he followed up to the time he was drafted into military service. Mr. Newman, upon entering into military service, was mustered into one of the regiments of the sharpshooters of the Prussian army, and accompanied his regi- ment to the Franco-Prussian war, having taken part in several severe engagements, and at the close of that memorable cam- paign returned home. After serving a period of four years in active military duty, he returned to his father's home in the city of Berlin, where he resided up to 1877, in which year he con- eluded to come to the United States, hoping here to find more favorable conditions and better employment for his skill and labor. In 1878 Mr. Newman went west and took up his location in Kansas, where he spent some time in Kansas City. In 1884, upon the arrival of his father to this country, Mr. Newman re- turned to New York city, but later again returned to Kansas, where he engaged at farming, in Lyon county, continuing thus engaged until 1887, when he again returned east and took up his abode at Richmond Beach, borough of Richmond, where he en- gaged in the baking and restaurant business, which he success- fully conducted up to 1890, in which year he became extensively engaged in the poultry breeding business, and in this line of
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undertaking he soon became known as one of the leading and successful poultry raisers of the east. Mr. Newman successfully continued the poultry raising business for a number of years, and by his careful study and close attention to his work, did very much towards prodneing some of the finest specimens of geese and dueks in this country. Many of his fowls were shipped to nearly all of the states in the Union.
During the period of fourteen years that Mr. Newman was actively engaged in the ponltry raising business, he was awarded numerous prizes for the finest specimens of chickens, ducks and geese at the various exhibitions, namely: 1893-Madison- Square Garden, New York First, second and third prizes on Pe- kin Dueks. First on White Wyandotte Cockerel-Selling Class. 1894, Madison Square Garden, New York. In three classes; two first and one second on Pekin Dneks. First on Breeding Pen White Plymouth Rocks. 1894 (fall) -- Ridfewood Park, Long Island Industrial Exhibition and Farm Stock Show. Diploma for best exhibit in poultry. 1894-Mid-Continental Poultry Show Kansas City, Missouri. All first and second prizes on Pekin Ducks. First prize on Toulonse Geese. First prize on Breed- ing Pen White Wyandottes. 1895-Madison Square Garden, New York. Two first, one second and special prizes in three classes Pekin Ducks. Second and fourth on White Holland Turkeys. First and second on Toulouse Geese. First on Sil- ver Grey Dorking Cockerel. Second on Silver Grey Dorking Pullet. Second on Breeding Pen of Pit Games. 1895-Mid- Con- tinental, Kansas City, Missouri. All firsts and seconds on Pekin Ducks. All firsts and seconds on Toulouse Geese. First and third on White Guinea Fowls. First and third on Pit Game Cock. First on Hen. First on Cockerel. Third and fourth on Pullet. Silver Cup for best exhibit in Pit Game Fowls. First special for best exhibit in Water Fowls. 1896-Madison Square Garden, New York. First, second and third on Pekin Ducks.
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First and second on White Holland Turkeys. 1896-National Show, Washington, D. C. One first, two seconds and one third on Pekin Ducks. First and second on Toulouse Ganders. First and third on Toulouse Geese. First and second on White Hol- land Turkeys. First on Pit Game Cockerel. Third on Cock. First and second on Hen. Second on Breeding Yard. 1896-97- Madison Square Garden, New York. First on Old Drake. First on Young Drake. First on Old Dnek. Second on Young Duck. First on Breeding Pen. Special on Pekin Ducks. Second on White Turkey Tom. Fourth on White Turkey Hen. First and second on Tontonse Geese. 1897-National Show, Washington, D. C. First and third on Old Drake. First and second on Young Drake. First and second on Old Ducks. First and second on Young Ducks. First on Breeding Pen. Special on Pekin Ducks. First and second on Toulouse Geese. First and second on Toulouse Ganders. Special on Geese. First on White Hol- land Turkeys. All firsts and seconds on Cock, Cockerel, Hen and Pullet Pit Games, and first on Breeding Pen. 1897-New Jersey State Fair, Waverly, New Jersey. All firsts and seconds on Pekin Ducks, young and old. All firsts and seconds on Toulouse Geese, young and old. 1897-Interstate Fair, Tren- ton, New Jersey. All firsts and seconds on Young and Old Pekin Ducks. All firsts and seconds on Young and Old Toulouse Geese. Mr. Newman is an active member of Tottenville Lodge, No. 385. Ancient Order of United Workmen.
Charles F. Newman married, June 11, 1880, in Osage county. Kansas, Harriet M. Bothstedt, a native of Brooklyn, New York, where she was born September 5, 1858, daughter of John and Mary (Yung) Bothstedt. The latter were natives of Moellen, Province of Lanenberg, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany. Mrs. Newman is one of a family of four children. Of this marriage there is no issue. Mr. and Mrs. Newman have an adopted daughter, Elizabeth, born June 10, 1885.
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CHRISTOPHER F. TIETJEN.
Christopher F. Tietjen, a progressive and enterprising Ger- man-American citizen, was born in the village of Rhade, lo- cated in the court district of Blumenthal, province of Hanover, Germany, July 28, 1851, the fifth and youngest child of Chris- topher and Adelheit (Hahn) Tietjen.
Christopher Tietjen (father) was born March 9, 1809, in the Blumenthal district, province of Hanover, Germany, and there spent his entire life, highly respected by all who had the honor of his acquaintance. He was nnited in marriage to Adel- heit Hahn, who was born in the Blumenthal district, June 8, 1815, and their children were as follows: Meta, born Sep- tember 26, 1839, married Fritz Werner. Henry, born Octo- ber 4, 1842. Diederick, born September, 1845, died aged eleven years. Gerhard, born September 21, 1848, came to America in 1868, settled in New York city and married Mary Nober, by whom he had three children, namely: George, Ade- laide, who became the wife of Arthur Lyons, and Virlette Tiet- jen. Gerhard Tietjen, the father of these children, died De- cember 6, 1904. Christopher F., born July 28, 1851, mentioned hereinafter. Christopher Tietjen (father) died Jannary 1, 1883, and his faithful wife died May, 1901.
Christopher F. Tietjen obtained his elementary education in the schools of the Fatherland, and at the age of fourteen years, shortly after completing his studies, took up a seafaring life. In 1867, upon one of his trips across the Atlantic Ocean, his ship landed at New York city and he visited some of his father's family, who persuaded him to remain in this country. The young mariner decided to remain and was not long in securing employment, accepting a position in a grocery store and there remaining for some time. His next employment was
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in the confectionery trade, and after a number of years in this line of work he learned the various details of the business, and in 1881 engaged in that trade on his own account, locating his store on First avenue. In 1886 he removed to larger quarters on Second avenue in order to facilitate the increasing demands of his trade, and in 1898 Mr. Tietjen removed his establish- ment to Eighty-sixth street and Second avenue. Mr. Tietjen is strictly a self-made man; having begun business dependent entirely upon his own efforts, he has by his indefatigable per- severance succeeded in building up a successful and profitable trade, which is the logical result of his straightforward and honorable business methods. Mr. Tietjen is a valued and useful citizen to the community in which he resides. Fraternally he is a member of the United Brethren Lodge, No. 356, Free and Accepted Masons.
Christopher F. Tietjen married, October 26, 1881, Rose B. Nober, born May 30, 1859, daughter of Charles and Dorothea (Rich) Nober. Mrs. Tietjen is an active member of the order of the Eastern Star, and also the order of the Emerand Auxil- iary. One son was the issue of this marriage: Harry C., born June 4, 1885. Charles Nober, father of Mrs. Tietjen, was born in the town of Hennegen, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany. He came to America in 1857 and settled in New York city. He en- listed in the Union army, served during the Civil war, and was honorably discharged at the end of his term of service.
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Abbott, Gertrude Horton, 2, 206. Abbott, Samuel K., 2, 217.
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