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BEEKMAN, GERARDUS, son of Wilhelmus Beekman and Cath- erina De Boog, was born in New Amsterdam, studied medicine, and settled at Flatbush, Kings County. Here he became a deacon, Colonel of the Militia, and Justice of the Peace. He was one of Leisler's sup- porters, to whom he administered the oath of office, afterward sitting in his Council. He was one of those tried and condemned to death, two of which, Leisler and Milborne, were actually executed. Offered his lib- erty if he would apologize for sup- porting Leisler. Beekman refused. By order of the King he was subse- quently pardoned. He served as commissioner to press the claims of the Mohegan Indians against Con- necticut. Ile was a member of the Conneils of Governors Cornbury and Ingoldsby, and was President of the COLONEL GERARDUS BEEKMAN, M.D. Council and Acting Governor of New York, from April 10, to June 14, 1710, between the removal of Ingoldsby and the arrival of Gover- nor Hunter. He was also a member of Hunter's Council. He died in November, 1724.
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BEEKMAN, JAMES WILLIAM, was a member of the New York Assembly for one year, while, in 1850, he was elected to the Senate, serving two terms. He effected important changes in the tax laws, and was Chairman of the Senate Committee which reported the bill creating Central Park. He served on the New York Board of Educa- tion, was a trustee of Columbia College, and was a trustee of Green- wood Cemetery. He was appointed on a committee by New York citizens, Thurlow Weed and Erastus Corning being the other mem- bers, to solicit President Buchanan to guarantee protection for a steamer provisioned by private enterprise to relieve Fort Sumter just prior to the Civil War. He was President of the Woman's Hospital, Vice-President of the New York Hos- pital, and a trustee of the New York Dispensary. He was one of the found- ers of the St. Nicholas Club, and its first President. He was one of the founders of the Union League Club, and one of its Vice-Presidents; was Vice-President of the New York His- torical Society; was an officer of the St. Nicholas Society, and was a member of the Century Association. Ile pub- lished an address on " The Founders of New York " (1870), delivered before the St. Nicholas Society, in 1869, and a " Report on a Village of Cottage Hos- JAMES W BEEKMAN. pitals " (1876), made to the Governors of the New York Hospital. He was born in this city, November 22, 1815, and died here June 15, 1877. He was the son of Gerard Beckman, and fifth in deseent from Wilhelmus Beekman and Cath- erina De Boog. His mother was a daughter of Captain John San- ders, of Schenectady, an officer in the Revolution, and a descendant of Major John Alexander Glen. Mr. Beekman was graduated from Columbia College in 1834. He studied law, but did not practice. Hle inherited a fortune from his father in 1833, and another from his uncle, James Beekman, in 1837. He traveled much in Europe. Ile married, in 1840, Abian Steele, daughter of Rev. Philip Milledoler, D.D., President of Rutgers College, and granddaughter of General John Steele of the Revolution.
BEEKMAN, JAMES WILLIAM, son of the late eminent citizen of New York of the same name, is a lawyer and trustee of his father's estate. He was born in this city, and in 1871 was graduated from the Columbia College Law School and admitted to the bar. He is a trus- tee of the New York Hospital, and like his father devotes ninch atten- tion to the benevolent organizations of the city. For the hospitality
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extended by him to the officers of the Dutch warship, Van Speijk, dur- ing the Columbian naval review of 1893, the Queen Regent of the Netherlands made him a Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, University, City, New York Yacht, and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs, the Century, and Downtown associations, the Holland Society, the Sons of the Revolution, and the Society of Colonial Wars.
BEEKMAN, GERARD, lawyer and joint-manager with his brother, James William Beekman, of the large estate left by their father, the late distinguished James William Beekman, was born in this city, and is a graduate of Columbia College. He has been for some years a trus -. ' tee of this university, and is a member of the University, City, Sea- wanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, and Oyster Bay clubs, the Century and Downtown associations, the Holland Society, the City Bar Associa- tion, and several historical and scientific societies.
CUTTING, LEONARD, founder of the New York family of this name, was born and educated in England, taking orders in the Church of England, and coming to America, served churches at New Bruns- wick, N. J .; Hempstead. L. I .. and Oyster Bay. L. I. He was for a time Tutor and subsequently Professor in King's College, now Colum- bia, and later established a famous school at Hempstead. He mar- ried a daughter of John Pintard, who in 1738 was an Alderman of New York. His only son became a prominent lawyer.
CUTTING, WILLIAM, an eminent lawyer of New York City dur- ing the first quarter of the present century, was the only son of Rev. Leonard Cutting and his wife, a daughter of Alderman Jolm Pintard. He was graduated fromt Columbia College in 1793, and formed a law partnership with F. R. Tillou. In 1807 and 1808 he was Sheriff of New York County. He married Gertrude, daughter of Walter Liv- ingston, and niece of Chancellor Livingston. She was the grand- daughter of Peter Schuyler and of Hon. Robert Livingston. Lord of Livingston Manor, County Judge and Speaker of the New York As- sembly, and was a sister-in-law of Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. Mr. Cutting secured for Fulton and the Livingstons the franchise for a term of years for the ferry between New York and Brooklyn, at the foot of the present Fulton Street.
CUTTING, WILLIAM BAYARD, a prominent lawyer of New York City, has been a Civil-service Commissioner of the city, and has taken an active part in movements looking to the achievement of reform in municipal government. He has long enjoyed a large corporation practice, and is an officer of many important corporations. He is President of the Improved Dwellings Association, Treasurer of the
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South Brooklyn Railroad and Terminal Company, member of the Ex- eentive Committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce, member of the Advisory Committee of the Audit Company, and a director of the American Exchange National Bank. the City and Suburban Homes Company, the New York and South Brooklyn Ferry and Steam Transportation Company, the Florida Central and Peninsula Railroad Company, and the Tropical Land Company. He is also a Trustee of the United States Trust Company. He is a member of the Union. Metropolitan, Tuxedo, City, University, Riding. Church, Players', Gro- lier, Lawyers', Delta Phi. Southside Sportsmen's, and Westminster Kennel clubs, the Patriarchs', the Downtown Association, and the Columbia College Alumni Association. He was born in New York City, January 12. 1850. and was graduated from Columbia College and Columbia College Law School. He is the son of the late Fulton Cut- ting and Justine, daughter of Robert Bayard and Elizabeth McEvers; grandson of William Cutting and Gertrude. daughter of Walter Liv- ingston and Cornelia Schuyler, and great-grandson of Rev. Leonard Cutting, and a daughter of Alderman John Pintard. He married Olivia, daughter of Bronson Murray and Anne E. Peyton, and grand- daughter of James B. Murray and Maria Bronson, and has two daughters and two sons-William Bayard. Jr., and Bronson Murray Cutting.
KIP. LAWRENCE: is President of the Coney Island Jockey Club. and a director of the National Horse Show Association. He has been Vice-President of the last-mentioned corporation. He has been prom- inent in efforts to elevate the character of the turf in this country, and has maintained both road and racing stables. Having attended the Churchill Military School at Sing Sing, N. Y., he entered West Point Academy in 1853, and was graduated four years later, receiving the commission of Second Lieutenant of Artillery. Throughout the Civil War he served on the staff of General Sheridan. He re- ceived brevets for bravery on the field as Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, and in 1866 was commissioned Captain in the regular army. In 1867 he resigned from the service. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Suburban, and Riding and KIP ARMS. Driving clubs, the Patriarchs, and other organiza- tions. He married, in 1864, Eva, daughter of Peter Lorillard and Catherine Griswold, and has a daughter, Edith Kip McCreery. His only son, Lorillard Kip, died in 1896. He was himself born in Mor- ristown. N. J., and is the son of the late Dr. William Ingraham Kip. Episcopal Bishop of California, and his wife, Maria Elizabeth, dangh- ter of Isaae Lawrence and Cornelia Beach. He is the grandson of Leonard Kip and Maria, daughter of Dnucan Ingraham, of Philadel-
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phia, and descends from Hendrick Hendricksen Kip, who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1643, became a member of Governor Stuyvesant's Council, and was elected Schepen.
RUTHERFORD, JOHN ALEXANDER, well-known stock bro- ker of this city, and member of the New York Stock Exchange, has been actively interested in railroad and industrial development in the Southern States. He has been Vice-President of the Rich- mond and West Point Terminal Company. as he has been also of the Richmond and Danville Railroad. He is now a director of the Wheel- ing Bridge and Terminal Railway and the Sloss Iron and Steel Com- pany of Birmingham, Ala. He is a member of the Metropolitan, . Manhattan, Players', Larchmont Yacht and Adirondack League clubs, the Society of the Cincinnati, and the Sons of the Revolution. He was born at Edgerston, N. J., March 2, 1848, and was graduated from Rutgers College. He is the son of the late Walter Rutherford, a prominent lawyer of this city; is the grandson of Robert Walter Rutherford, who was prominent in the public life of New Jersey; is great-grandson of John Rutherford, United States Senator from New Jersey, and is removed one generation further from Walter Rutherfurd (sixth son of Sir John Rutherfurd), an officer of the Royal Scots, who, having served in Flanders and Germany, was Ma- RUTHERFORD ARMS. jor and Judge Advocate in the British Army on this continent in the French and Indian War; acquired a grant of 5,000 acres in New Jer- sey, married the great-granddaughter of the Earl of Stirling, and after the Revolution resided iu New York City, and was a founder of the Society Library, President of the Agricultural Society, and Presi- dent of the St. Andrew's Society. Mr. Rutherford's mother was Isabella, daughter of David Brooks, Revolutionary officer, and origi nal member of the Society of the Cincinnati. She was granddaughter of Daniel Niel, another patriot officer, who was Aid on the staff of General Hugh Mercer, and was killed in the Battle of Prince- ton: and was likewise granddaughter of William Walton Morris, Aid on the staff of General Anthony Wayne during the Revolution, and the son of General Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence.
CARNOCHAN, GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, banker and broker, and Member of the New York Stock Exchange. is the only surviving son of the late eminent surgeon of New York City. Dr. John Murray Carno- chan. Born in this city. he was educated at Harvard, and being in- tended for the medical profession by his father, was matriculated at the Ecole de Medicine in Paris. He preferred, however, to engage
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in the banking and brokerage business. He is Inspector of Ritle Practice, with the rank of First Lieutenant, in the Seventh Regiment. He is a member of the Cahnnet, Military, Country, New York Athletic. and Delta Phi elubs; the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Seventh Regiment Veteran Association. He married, in 1888, Matilda Gros- venor, daughter of the late Frederic Goodridge, and has living two sons. His grandfather, John Carnochan, was a wealthy planter of Georgia. His mother was Estelle, daughter of Brevet-Major-General William Walton Morris, United States Army; granddaughter of Lieu- tenant William Walton Morris, Second Artillery Continental line, and Aid-de-camp to General Anthony Wayne in the Revolution; great granddaughter of General Lewis Morris. signer of the Declara- . tion of Independence; great-great-granddaughter of Lewis Morris, Lord of the Manor of Morrisania, and Chief Justice of the Vice-Ad- miralty Court; great-great-great-granddaughter of Lewis Morris, Chief Justice of New York and New Jersey, and one more generation removed from Richard Morris, officer in Cromwell's army.
STOKES, THOMAS, founder of the first missionary society in London in 1795; the associate of Robert Raikes in organizing the first Sunday-schools there, and one of those who fitted out the first mis- sionary ship, the Duff, sailing from that port, removed to New York City in 1798. Here he became a founder of the American Bible So- ciety in 1816, as also of the New York Peace Society and the Ameri- can Tract Society, serving as Chairman of the Distributing Committee of the latter until his death, October 10, 1832. He likewise served as Treasurer of the American Baptist Missionary Union. Born in Lon- don, in December, 1765, the son of William Stokes, he was of gentle blood and occupied high social position. He came under the influence of the famous Rowland Hill, and became a non-conformist. Although a layman, in early life he preached to the poor of London. His only brother, Judge William Armstrong Stokes, also came to New York. Thomas Stokes married Elizabeth Ann, daughter of James Boulter, Esq., of Lowestoff, Wales, and had twelve children, of whom one was the late James Stokes of this city.
STOKES, JAMES, son of Thomas Stokes and Elizabeth Ann, daughter of James Boulter, of Lowestoff, Wales, was born in this city in 1804, and died in 1881. In early life he was in business with his father. In 1837 he married Caroline, danghter of Anson Greene Phelps, head of the metal importing firm of Phelps, Dodge & Com- pany, and subsequently Mr. Stokes became a member of this firm. About forty years later he became one of the founders of the New York banking house of Phelps, Stokes & Company. He was the co- adjutor of Peter Cooper in the development of the public-school sys- tem, and was otherwise active in connection with educational and be-
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nevolent institutions. Three daughters survived him, one of whom became Mrs. Henry Dale, together with four sons-the present Anson Phelps Stokes, the present James Stokes, the present Thomas Stokes, and the present William E. Dodge Stokes.
STOKES, ANSON PHELPS, eldest son of the late James Stokes, and grandson of Thomas Stokes, the noted philanthropist and relig- ious worker, who came to this city from London in 1798, was for some time a member of the metal house of Phelps, Dodge & Company, sub- sequently was associated with-his father in the well-known banking firm of Phelps, Stokes & Company, and in recent years has mainly confined himself to the care of his large real estate and other interests. . He is a trustee of the United States Trust Company and a director of the Ansonia Brass and Copper Company and the Woodbridge Company. He was the first President of the Reform Club, and has twice been Vice-President of the New York Yacht Club. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He is a member of the Metropoli- tan, Knickerbocker, Union League, Tuxedo, Century, City, Riding, Reform, Lawyers', Church, New York Yacht, and Mendelssohn Glee clubs, and the Society of Colonial Wars. He married Helen L., daugh- ter of Isaac Newton Phelps, in his day one of the best known bankers of this city, and has four sons-Isaac Newton Phelps, J. G. Phelps, Anson Phelps, Jr., and Harold M. Phelps Stokes, and five daughters, of whom two are married-the wife of Baron Halkett and Mrs. John Sherman Hoyt.
MORGAN, EDWIN DENISON, engaged in business in New York City as a wholesale grocer in 1836, and made a large fortune. In 1850 he was elected to the State Senate, being re-elected two years later. In 1850 he was Chairman of the Whig State Central Commit- tee, while from 1857 to 1860 he was Chairman of the Republican State Committee. He was elected Governor of the State in 1858, and was elected again in 1860, the first time by a ma- jority of more than 17,000, and the second time by a majority of nearly 90,000. He was one of the stanchest of the " War Governors," vigor- ously supporting Lincoln's policy. He organ- ized and sent to the front 492,000 Union soldiers. At the close of his term he was elected to the United States Senate, where he served during the six years from 1863 to 1869. He was again the Republican candidate for Governor in 1877, but was defeated by Lu- cius Robinson. The son of Jasper Morgan, a farmer, he was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, February 8, 1811, and had only a
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comnon school education. Between 1822 and 1836 he was engaged in the grocery business in Hartford, Conn., and then established him- self in New York. He always remained at the head of the firm of E. D. Morgan & Company until his leath, in 1883, but after retiring from public life gave his chief attention to financial institutions in which he was interested. He was long a director of the United States Trust Company, the National Bank of Commerce, the Western Union Telegraph Company, and the New York, Lake Erie and Western Rail- road Company. He was Vice-President of the American Tract So- ciety from 1875 until his death. He was President of the Board of Trustees of the Brick Presbyterian Church, and President of the Board of Governors of the Woman's Hospital. He was also President of the Board of Managers of the Presbyterian Hospital, and was a Manager of the Association for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females. He endowed Union Theological Seminary and Williams College. He was a member of the Union League Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Maritime Association of the Port of New York. At the age of twenty-one he had been elected a member of the City Council of Hartford, while in 1849 he was elected to the Board of Assistant Aldermen of New York City. He was Commis- sioner of Emigration from 1855 to 1858. He twice declined the port- folio of Secretary of the Treasury, tendered him by President Lincoln and President Arthur, respectively. In the latter case his nomination had been confirmed by the Senate. He was eighth in descent from James Morgan, who emigrated from Llandaff, Wales, to Boston, Mass., in 1636.
MORGAN, EDWARD DENISON, son of Governor E. D. Morgan, was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1834, and died August 15, 1879. At the age of fifteen he made a voyage around the world in a sailing vessel. Hle attended the Literary Institute at Suffield, Conn., and, from 1860 to 1862, served as Colonel on the staff of his father, then Governor of New York. He visited Europe in 1867, and upon his re- turn a year later began the study of medicine with Dr. Austin Flint. In 1871 he was graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, while from that time until shortly before his death he devoted himself to the medical care of the poor in New York City, without compen- sation. He married Sarah E. Archer, of Suffield. Conn., who died soon . after his decease, leaving their only son, Edward Denison Morgan.
MORGAN, EDWIN DENISON. the third to bear this name. is the only surviving son of the late Dr. Edwin Denison Morgan, born in 1834, died in 1881. who in turn was the only son to reach maturity and have issue in the family of the late Hon. Edwin Denison Morgan,
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Governor and United States Senator, and founder of the bank- ing firm of E. D. Morgan & Company. The present representative of the family was gradu- ated from Harvard in 1877, and since that date has been engaged in banking in this city He is a director of the Corralitos Company, the Phillipsburg Coal and Land Company, and the Monterey and Mexi- can Gulf Railroad Com- pany. He is a yachtsman and sportsman, and has country seats on Long Is- land and at Newport. He married Elizabeth Moran. Ile is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Union League, Knickerbocker, Tuxedo, Racquet, Harvard, Country, Meadow Brook Hunt, New York Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, and At- EDWARD DENISON MORGAN. lautie Yacht clubs, the New England Society, and the Sons of the Revolution.
FLOYD-JONES, WILLIAM CHAUNCEY, has been long in busi- ness as a stockbroker in New York City, and is a member of the Stock Exchange. He is a member of the Union, Racquet, Country, and Westminster Kennel clubs, and, in addition to his city residence, occupies the estate which has long been in his family at Massapequa, L. I. He is the son of the late William Floyd-Jones, merchant of this city; grandson of Brigadier-General Thomas Floyd-Joues, and grand- nephew of Major-General Henry Floyd-Jones. His great-grandfather, David Richard Floyd-Jones, who married a daughter of Henry Onder- donk, was the only son of Richard Floyd and his wife, Arabella, daughter of Judge David Joues and sister of Judge Thomas Jones, and, becoming the heir of his uncle, Judge Thomas Jones, of the New York Supreme Court, who died without issue, added the latter's sur- name to that of his father by virtue of legislative aet of 1788. Rich- ard Floyd, father of David Richard Floyd-Jones, was a Judge and Colonel of militia, and, through his loyalty to the king during the Revolution, suffered the confiscation of his estate at Mastic, L. I. He was the son of Richard Floyd, also Judge and Colonel of the militia; was the grandson of Richard Floyd, Colonel of the militia
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of Suffolk County, New York, and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, his wife being Margaret, oldest daughter of Colonel Matthias Nicoll, cousin of Governor Richard Nicoll, and first Secretary of the English province of New York; and was the grandson of Richard Floyd, of Brecknockshire, Wales, who came over with Richard Wood- hull in 1634, acquired a large estate in Suffolk County, and was Judge of the county and Colonel of the militia.
CADWALADER, JOHN LAMBERT, who has long been engaged in the successful practice of law in New York City, was in 1874 As- sistant Secretary of State of the United States. He has a large corpo- - ration practice and has been an officer of a number of corporations. He has also been active in connection with public and benevolent interests in the city. He is now President of the Board of Trustees of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden founda- tions, having previously for some years been a member of the Board of Trustees of Astor Library. For some years he has been counsel to the Board of Trustees of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. He is a member of the Union, Metropoli- tan, Knickerbocker, City, University, Riding, Lawyers', Princeton, New York Yacht, and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs, the Cen- tury and Downtown associations, and the Sons of the Revolution, and is a prominent member of the Bar Association of the city. Born November 17, 1836, and a graduate from Princeton College, he is the son of the late Major-General Thomas Cadwalader and Maria C., daughter of Nicholas Gouverneur and granddaughter of Lawrence Kortright, both prominent citizens of New York and members of famous old families. The Cadwalader family of Philadelphia is the peer of any in the United States in respect both to ancient lineage and the eminence of its members. Its founder in this country, John Cadwalader, was a member of the Philadelphia Common Council from 1718 to 1733, and of the Provincial Assembly from 1729 to 1734, and traced his line through distinguished ancestors to Rhodri Mawr, who died 876 A.D., having been King of United Wales. Mr. Cadwala- der's grandfather, Colonel Lambert Cadwalader, was Colonel of the New Jersey line in the Revolution, represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787, and was subsequently a mem- ber of the Constitutional Convention and a member of Congress. He married Mary, daughter of Archibald McCall, of Philadelphia. Mr. Cadwalader's great-grandfather was the famous Dr. Thomas Cadwal- ader of Philadelphia, member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Council and Medical Director of all the Continental forces during the Revo- lution.
SCHIEFFELIN, WILLIAM HENRY, from 1865 until his death in 1895, was head of W. II. Schieffelin & Company, the well-known whole-
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sale manufacturing drng house established by his great-grandfather, Jacob Schieffelin, more than a hundred years ago, and which, in re- spect to its venerable history and extent of business, is the most nota- ble house in this line in the United States. Under his management this firm led in introducing the synthetic drugs of chemistry to American physicians. In 1860, at the age of twenty-four, Mr. Schieffelin led an exploring party across the Rocky Mountains from Montana, the com- pany being captured by the Crow Indians, but liberated through the intercession of a friendly chief. In 1862 he went to the front with the Seventh New York, and soon after being commissioned Major of the First New York Mounted Rifles, enlisted 400 men. He was at Suffolk, Va., under General Wool during its siege by General Longstreet. In July, 1863, he resigned his commission. He was one of the first to import registered Jersey cattle, bringing a herd in 1870 to his farm at Katonah, N. Y. He was Chairman of the Drug Trade Cleveland and Stevenson Club in 1892, having been a Republican previous to that year. He was President of the Fishers Island Sports- SCHIEFFELIN ARMS. men's Club, and Senior Vestryman of St. George's Church, Sinyvesant Square. Born in this city August 20, 1836, he was the son of Samuel Bradhurst Schieffelin, grandson of the late Henry Hamilton Schieffel- in, and great-grandson of Jacob Schieffelin, all of whom preceded him as heads of the drug house. He was married October 15, 1863, to Mary, daughter of the late John Jay, and great-granddaughter of Chief Justice John Jay. His son, William Jay Schieffelin, is now head of the firm.
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