Augustus Newbold Morris | |
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Born |
Morrisania,
New York, U.S. | June 3, 1838
Died | September 1, 1906
Ridgefield,
Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 68)
Education | Columbia University |
Spouse | |
Children | 5 |
Parent(s) | William Henry Morris Hannah Cornell Newbold |
Relatives |
George Morris (grandson) Newbold Morris (grandson) |
Augustus Newbold Morris or A. N. Morris (June 3, 1838 – September 1, 1906) was a prominent American during the Gilded Age in New York City. [1]
Morris was born on June 3, 1838 [2] to William Henry Morris (1810–1896) [1] and Hannah Cornell Newbold (1816–1842). His paternal grandparents were Helen ( née Van Cortlandt) Morris (1768–1812) and James Morris (1764–1827), High Sheriff of New York. His grandfather was a son of [3] Lewis Morris (1726–1798), signor of the Declaration of Independence, from the prominent Colonial-era Morris family of the Morrisania section of the Bronx. [4]
Morris graduated from Columbia College in 1860, and later, Columbia Law School. [1] He was considered a "man of leisure," [1] but worked nevertheless. He was a manager of the Home for Incurables at Fordham, a director of the Zoological Society, and a vice-president of the Plaza Bank. [1] While he did not hold office, he was considered an Independent Democrat. [1]
In 1892, Morris and his wife were both included in Ward McAllister's " Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times. [5]
He was a governor, and one of the founders, of the Metropolitan Club, a member of the Union Club of New York, member of the New York Young Republican Club, president of the Suburban Riding and Driving Club, president of the Ridgefield Club, a director of the Coney Island Jockey Club, a director of the National Horse Show Association, a member of the Riding Club, the Automobile Club, and the Delta Phi fraternity. [1] [6]
On December 10, 1862, Morris was married to Eleanor Colford Jones (1841–1906), [7] daughter of General James I. Jones (1786–1858) and Elizabeth (1817–1874), the older sister of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (1830–1908), also known as "The Mrs. Astor," [8] Mrs. Charles Suydam, and Mrs. John Treat Irving. [7] Her father's country home became Jones's Wood. [7] They had three sons and two daughters. [9] His wife died at their home, 19 East 64th Street, in April 1906, [7] and Morris died shortly thereafter on September 1, 1906, at his country home in Ridgefield, Connecticut. [1]
Through his son Augustus, [9] he was the grandfather of Augustus Newbold Morris (1902–1966), who was a lawyer, president of the New York City Council, and two-time candidate for mayor of New York City, [10] George Lovett Kingsland Morris (1905–1975), [11] a painter who married Suzy Frelinghuysen, [12] and Stephanus "Stephen" Van Cortlandt Morris (1909–1984), [13] [4] a diplomat. [14]
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