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Guide to the Gouverneur Morris, Jr. Papers
1835-1879 (bulk
1850-1860)
MS 427
Biographical Note
| 1813 |
Gouverneur Morris, Jr. born to Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), delegate from New York
to Continental Congress, and Anne Cary Randolf in New York.
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| 1816 |
Gouverneur Morris, Sr. dies. As the only son and heir to the family, Gouverneur Morris,
Jr. inherits the large area in the Bronx known as Morrisania.
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| [1838-1845] |
Gouverneur Morris serves on the Board of Directors for the New York and Harlem Railroad. |
| [1842] |
Marries his cousin, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Cary, a niece of Thomas Jefferson. The
marriage produces two sons and three daughters.
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| 1843-1846 |
Gouverneur Morris becomes a millionaire when the family land in the Bronx increases
in value.
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| [1850-1860] |
Serves as a developer and/or a significant stockholder in numerous railroads in New
York such as the Eries and New York Central Railroad, the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad,
and continues his service in the New York and Harlem Railroad. He also establishes
railroads in Illinois, Iowa, and Pennsylvania.
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| [1871-1880] |
President of the Vermont Valley Railroad. |
| 1888 |
Dies at his residence at Bartow-on-the-Sound, New York. |
