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Herman LeRoy

Herman LeRoy (January 16, 1758 – March 31, 1841) was an American merchant, shipowner and banker.

Herman LeRoy
President of the Bank of New York
In office
1802–1804
Preceded byNicholas Gouverneur
Succeeded byMatthew Clarkson
Personal details
Born(1758-01-16)16 January 1758
New York City, Province of New York, British America
Died31 March 1841(1841-03-31) (aged 83)
New York City, New York, USA
Spouse
Hannah Cornell
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(m. 1786; died 1818)​
Parent(s)Jacob LeRoy
Cornelia Rutgers

Early life

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He was born on January 16, 1758, in New York City in what was then the Province of New York, a part of British America. He was the son of Jacob LeRoy (1727–1793) and Cornelia (née Rutgers) LeRoy (1736–1765). Among his siblings were Mary Ann LeRoy (who married John Livingston), Jacob Leroy (who married Martha Banyer), Robert Leroy (who married Catherine Cuyler) and Elizabeth (who married Julian McEvers). His father, who was born in Rotterdam, was a merchant and alderman of New York City.[1]

His paternal grandparents were Daniel Leroy and Ingenatia (née van den Bergh) Le Roy. His maternal grandparents were Hermanus Rutgers III and Elizabeth (née Benson) Rutgers. His mother was a first cousin of New York State Assemblyman Henry Rutgers and Samuel Provoost, the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, among others.[2]

Career

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In 1786, he was consul-general for Holland. In 1788, he went into business with his wife's brother-in-law, William Bayard Jr., and founded LeRoy, Bayard & Co. which later became LeRoy, Bayard & McEvers when he introduced his brother-in-law, Julian McEvers.[3] It again became LeRoy, Bayard & Co. after McEver's death. The firm was one the largest commercial house in New York City, shipping goods and trading product throughout the world.[4] By 1792, LeRoy and Bayard represented the Holland Land Company, which owned roughly 3 million acres of land in Western New York, and between the two of them, they owned 300,000-acres.[5] In 1813, he founded the town of LeRoy in Genesee County which was incorporated in 1834.[6]

A director of the Bank of the United States, following the death of Nicholas Gouverneur, he was elected president of the Bank of New York in 1802, a position he held until 1804.[7][8]

Personal life

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Portrait of his daughter Caroline Webster, by George Peter Alexander Healy, c. 1845

On October 19, 1786, LeRoy was married to Hannah Cornell (1760–1818), a daughter of Susannah (née Mabson) Cornell and Loyalist Samuel Cornell, a descendant of settler Thomas Cornell.[9] Hannah's father died in 1781 in British-controlled New York, having moved there from North Carolina after 1777 after refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance to the new United States. Her sister, Elizabeth Cornell, was the wife of William Bayard Jr. They lived at 4 Bowling Green before moving to 7 Broadway where he built a white marble house. He also owned a country home in Pelham, New York, where his daughter, Caroline, married Daniel Webster. He was one of only 15-New Yorkers who then owned a carriage. Together, they were the parents of had ten children who survived to adulthood, including:[9]

LeRoy died on March 31, 1841, in New York City.[21]

Descendants

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Through his daughter Catharine, he was a grandfather of Thomas Haines Newbold (who married Mary Elizabeth Rhinelander) and great-grandfather of New York State Senator Thomas Newbold (who married Sarah Lawrence Coolidge, a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson).[22]

Through his son Jacob, he was a grandfather of Charlotte LeRoy (who married Henry Louis De Koven)[15] and great-grandfather of music critic Reginald De Koven (who married Anna Farwell, a daughter of U.S. senator Charles B. Farwell).[23]

References

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  1. ^ Steward, Scott Campbell (2003). The Le Roy Family in America, 1753-2003. P.E. Randall Publisher. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  2. ^ Reynolds, Cuyler (1911). Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of Achievements of the People of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New York State, Included Within the Present Counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady, Columbia and Greene. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. Retrieved 5 December 2016. de peyster douw.
  3. ^ Jefferson, Thomas (5 June 2018). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 27: 1 September to 31 December 1793. Princeton University Press. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-691-18532-3. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  4. ^ New York Historical Society Quarterly. New York Historical Society. 1963. p. 352. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Herman LeRoy (1758-1841)". americanaristocracy.com. American Aristocracy. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  6. ^ a b Belluscio, Lynne J. (28 June 2010). LeRoy. Arcadia Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-4396-2378-7. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Bank Statistics". The Bankers Magazine and Statistical Register. Wm. Crosby: 853. 1853. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  8. ^ Scoville, Joseph Alfred (1864). The Old Merchants of New York City. Carleton. p. 273. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  9. ^ a b c Briggs, Lloyd Vernon (1938). History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937... Priv. print., C. E. Goodspeed & Company. p. 508. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  10. ^ Bartow, Evelyn Pierrepont (1879). Bartow Genealogy. Containing Every One of the Name of Bartow Descended from Doctor Thomas Bartow (and Other Descendants of ... Thomas Bartow) who was Living at Crediton, in England, A.D. 1672 ... p. 277. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  11. ^ Platt, Charles (1964). Newbold Genealogy in America: The Line of Michael Newbold, who Arrived in Burlington County, New Jersey, about 1680 and Other Newbold Lines, Including that of Thomas Newbold, who Arrived in Somerset County, Maryland, about 1665. pp. 65, 122. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  12. ^ Richard Haines and His Descendants: A Quaker Family of Burlington County, New Jersey Since 1682. J.W. Haines. 1961. p. 132. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  13. ^ Duyckinck, Whitehead Cornell; Cornell, John. The Duyckinck and Allied Families Being a Record of the Descendants of Evert Duyckink who Settled in New Amsterdam, Now New York, in 1638. p. 31. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  14. ^ Bowman, Fred Q. (1991). 8,000 More Vital Records of Eastern New York State, 1804-1850. Kinship. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-56012-114-5. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  15. ^ a b Beach, Helen (1923). The Descendants of Jacob Sebor: 1709-1793, of Middletown, Connecticut. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-598-99724-1. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  16. ^ Remini, Robert Vincent (1997). Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 542. ISBN 978-0-393-04552-9. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  17. ^ Rakestraw, Donald A. (9 September 2021). Daniel Webster: Defender of Peace. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4422-4995-0. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  18. ^ Burke, Arthur Meredyth (1908). The Prominent Families of the United States of America. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 385. ISBN 9780806313085. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  19. ^ Reynolds, Cuyler (1914). Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 1409. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  20. ^ Americana: (American Historical Magazine). American Historical Company, Incorporated. 1906. p. 325. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  21. ^ Domett, Henry Williams (1884). A History of the Bank of New York, 1784-1884. G. P. Putman's Sons. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  22. ^ "NEWBOLD" (PDF). The New York Times. December 30, 1922. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  23. ^ "REGINALD DE KOVEN DIES AT A DANCE; Composer Stricken, with Apoplexy as Guests Hail Success of His "Rip Van Winkle." WAS GRADUATE OF OXFORD Author of "ROBIN Hood" and "Rob Roy" Was a Prolific Writer ofLight Operas, and Conductor". The New York Times. Jan 17, 1920. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
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