Samuel L. Gouverneur
Samuel L. Gouverneur | |
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New York County | |
In office January 1, 1825 – December 31, 1825 | |
Private Secretary to the President | |
In office 1820–1825 | |
President | James Monroe |
Preceded by | Joseph Jones Monroe |
Succeeded by | John Adams II |
Personal details | |
Born | Samuel Laurence Gouverneur 1799 New York City, U.S. |
Died | September 29, 1865 Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, U.S. | (aged 66)
Spouses | |
Children | 4 |
Relatives | Thomas McCall Cadwalader (brother-in-law) |
Alma mater | Columbia College |
Samuel Laurence Gouverneur (1799 – September 29, 1865) was a lawyer and civil servant who was both nephew and son-in-law to James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States.
Early life
Gouverneur was born in 1799 in
His maternal grandparents were Lawrence Kortright, a wealthy merchant, and Hannah (née Aspinwall) Kortright.
He graduated from Columbia College in 1817.[5]
Career
In 1824, Gouverneur was elected as a People's Party (faction of the
On November 19, 1828, he was appointed
Relationship with Monroe
Gouverneur served as
Monroe was buried in the Gouverneur family vault at the New York City Marble Cemetery, until descendants had the remains moved to the James Monroe Tomb in the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. A ceremony was held at the Gouverneur vault 175 years later, on July 8, 2006.[11]
Monroe's personal papers were left to Gouverneur, who also was asked to support his wife's sister
Personal life
On March 9, 1820, Gouverneur was married to
- a daughter, who died in infancy (d. September 4, 1821)[16]
- James Monroe Gouverneur (1822–1885), a Baltimore, Maryland;[17]
- Elizabeth Kortright Gouverneur (1824–1868), who married Dr. Henry Lee Heishell, James M. Bibby, and Colonel G. D. Sparrier.[5]
- Samuel Laurence Gouverneur, Jr. (1826–1880), who married Marian Campbell (1821–1914), and became the first U.S. consul in Fuzhou, China (then spelled Foo Chow).[5]
In 1832, the Gouverneurs' sold their Prince Street residence to Miles R. Burke.[e] On June 20, 1850, his wife Maria died at the Oak Hill estate, which was sold two years later in 1852.
In September 1851, the widower Gouverneur married Mary Digges Lee (1810–1898), a granddaughter of Thomas Sim Lee (1745–1819). They retired to the Lee estate called "Needwood", near Frederick, Maryland and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.[22] This stressed family relations during the American Civil War, with Gouverneur associated with the Union government, while his in-laws had deep roots in the Confederate states.[8]
Death
Gouverneur died at his Needwood estate on September 29, 1865.[23][f] His estate was left to his second wife.[10]
Family
Descendants
His granddaughter Rose de Chine Gouverneur, born in China in 1860, married Roswell Randall Hoes (1850–1921) and died on May 26, 1933. Their sons Gouverneur Hoes (1889–1943) and Laurence Gouverneur Hoes (1900–1978) established the
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References
Notes
- ^ The "People's Party" or anti-Crawford faction of the Democratic-Republican Party joined forces with the "Clintonians" (supporters of DeWitt Clinton) to oppose the Bucktails faction of the Democratic-Republican Party.
- ^ Monroe was Gouverneur's uncle as he was married to his mother's sister Elizabeth Kortright Monroe.[8]
- ^ The first documented wedding ceremony held in the White House was when Dolley Madison, wife of President James Madison, arranged the wedding of her youngest sister, Lucy Payne Washington, to Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd in 1812.[14]
- ^ There might have also been a private wedding of Abigail Adams' maid Betsy Howard in 1801.[15]
- ^ After three years it was owned by John Ferguson and then was sold to Charles H. Contoit in 1873, and then Daniel Mahoney in 1900.[18] On April 28, 1905, a historical plaque was placed on the building in a ceremony with several Monroe descendants in attendance. A crowd of "thousands" included General Frederick Dent Grant and an army attachment.[19] However, by the 1920s the once-elegant pair of houses had fallen into disrepair and were covered in advertisements.[18][20] A group tried to save one of the houses in the 1920s, but it suffered damage when a move was attempted.[21]
- ^ Other sources say he lived until 1867.[24]
Sources
- ^ ISBN 9789004356412. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
- ^ George Morgan (1921). The life of James Monroe. Small, Maynard & Company. pp. 416–418.
- ^ John Woolf Jordan; Thomas Lynch Montgomery; Ernest Spofford; Frederic Antes Godcharies (1914). Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography: illustrated. Vol. 3. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 894–897.
- ^ Riker, James (1881). Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals: Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; Or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. Published by the author. p. 518. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
- ^ a b c Pelletreau, William Smith (1907). Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Family History of New York. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 162. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
- ^ Hough, Franklin (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. p. 126. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
- ^ "BAILEY, Theodorus - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
- ^ a b c d Marian Campbell Gouverneur (1911). As I remember: recollections of American society during the nineteenth century. D. Appleton and Company. pp. 256–259, 314–315. (Author is daughter-in-law)
- ISBN 978-0-8129-7346-4.
- ^ a b c Dorothy S. Eaton (1963). "James Monroe papers, 1758-1839". History of the Collection. US Library of Congress. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
- ^ Jefferson Siegel (August 8, 2006). "Monroe's gone, but not forgotten, on E. Second St". he Villager. Archived from the original on April 12, 2018. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
- ^ Monroe, James (1904). Papers of James Monroe: Listed in Chronological Order from the Original Manuscripts in the Library of Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 113. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7434-4633-4.
- ^ "How many wedding ceremonies have been held at the White House?". While House History web site. The White House Historical Association. Archived from the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved March 13, 2011.
- ^ "White House Brides and Envisioned Flowers: Two Nineteenth-Century White House Weddings" (PDF). White House History (23): 54. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2011.
- ^ "Maria Monroe Gouverneur - Papers of James Monroe". Academics | Papers of James Monroe. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-85011-017-3.
- ^ New York Times. October 22, 1922.
- New York Times. April 29, 1905. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
- ISBN 978-0-486-22907-2.
- New York Times.
- ISBN 978-0-7884-2103-7.
- New York Times. October 11, 1865.
- ^ "Samuel L. Gouverneur correspondence, 1822-1851". New York Public Library. Retrieved March 13, 2011.
- ^ "History of the James Monroe Museum". University of Mary Washington. Archived from the original on July 4, 2011. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
External links
- Nicholas Jenkins. "Samuel Laurence Gouverneur". W. H. Auden Family Ghosts. Stanford University. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved March 13, 2011.
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