Cadwallader D. Colden
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Cadwallader D. Colden | |
|---|---|
James Guyon, Jr. | |
| Succeeded by | Silas Wood |
| 54th Mayor of New York City | |
| In office 1818–1821 | |
| Governor | DeWitt Clinton |
| Preceded by | Jacob Radcliff |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Allen |
| New York State Assembly | |
| In office 1818 | |
| District attorney (1st District) | |
| In office 1810–1811 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Cadwallader David Colden April 4, 1769 Federalist |
| Spouse |
Maria Provoost
(m. 1793) |
| Relations | Cadwallader Colden (grandfather) |
| Parent(s) | David Colden Ann Alice Willett |
Cadwallader David Colden (April 4, 1769 – February 7, 1834) was an American politician who served as the 54th Mayor of New York City and a U.S. Representative from New York.[1]
Early life
Colden was born at
He was the grandson of Alice (née Chrystie) Colden and Cadwallader Colden (1688–1776), who served as the Governor of the province of New York several times in the 1750s and 1770s.[2]
He was taught by a private tutor and then provided a classical education in
Career
Colden first practiced law in
Colden was an active
He became a Colonel of Volunteers in the
Colden was also a member of the
After his resignation from the State Senate, he moved to Jersey City, New Jersey, where he devoted much of his time to the completion of the Morris Canal.[1]
Literary accomplishments
A proponent of a national canal system, in 1825 Colden was commissioned by the Common Council of New York City, during the last days of the construction of the Erie Canal,[6] to write his Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals. The work and its Appendix contain period lithographs of the canal construction and highlights of the "Grand Canal Celebration" in New York City.[7]
Personal life
On April 8, 1793,[8][9] Colden was married to Maria Provoost (1770–1837), the daughter of Rt. Rev. Dr. Samuel Provoost, 1st Bishop of New York and Maria Bousefield Provoost.[10][11] Together, they were the parents of:
- David Cadwallader Colden (1797–1850), who married Francis Wilkes (1796–1877),[12] daughter of banker Charles Wilkes and sister of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes.[13]
Death
Colden died in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1834. His body was removed in 1843 from interment in New Jersey and moved to a receiving vault in Trinity Church Cemetery in Upper Manhattan in New York City.[1] The vault was removed in 1845 and relocated to a prominent spot in the cemetery's Easterly Division, where it overlooks a rural intersection at Broadway and West 153rd Street. By 1869, preparations to widen Broadway, where the road cut through the cemetery caused Colden to be removed to another plot in the cemetery's Westerly Division that was essentially forgotten until a local historian rediscovered it in July 2011.
References
- ^ a b c d e f "COLDEN, Cadwallader David - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ^ a b Hough, Franklin Benjamin (1858). The New York Civil List: containing the names and origin of the civil divisions, and the names and dates of election or appointment of the principal state and county officers from the Revolution to the present time. Weed, Parsons and Co. pp. 126, 139, 193, 266, and 366f. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ^ "Pierson v. Post, 3 Cai. 175 (1805)". Caselaw Access Project. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
- ^ Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York, May 1921, p. 254.
- ^ "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, February 3, 2022, retrieved February 4, 2022
- ISBN 9781429952484. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ^ "Erie Canal Memoir". www.conigliofamily.com. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ^ Whittelsey, Charles Barney (1902). The Roosevelt Genealogy, 1649-1902. Press of J.B. Burr & Company. p. 33. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ISBN 9780674369276. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ Greene, Richard Henry; Stiles, Henry Reed; Dwight, Melatiah Everett; Morrison, George Austin; Mott, Hopper Striker; Totten, John Reynolds; Pitman, Harold Minot; Ditmas, Charles Andrew; Forest, Louis Effingham De; Maynard, Arthur S.; Mann, Conklin (1880). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ Valentine's Manual of Old New York. Valentine's manual, Incorporated. 1916. p. 228. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ "Digital Collections: ALs to Mrs. Frances Wilkes Colden". freelibrary.org. Free Library of Philadelphia. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ^ Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck; Feld, Stuart P. (1965). American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Painters Born by 1815. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 206. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
External links
- Cadwallader D. Colden at Find a Grave
- Political Graveyard
- United States Congress. "Cadwallader D. Colden (id: C000604)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- The White House, Where Aaron Burr arranged his memoirs, from Historic Houses of New Jersey by W. Jay Mills, 1902
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