William Frederick Havemeyer (February 12, 1804 – November 30, 1874) was an American businessman and politician who served three times as mayor of New...
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refineries, before passing the business on to their sons. His son William Frederick Havemeyer, retired from the sugar refining business in 1842 and entered...
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William Frederick Havemeyer was New York City's first fireboat. The vessel entered service in 1875, and retired in 1901. She was named in honor of a recent...
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Duryée Joel B. Erhardt Frederick Dent Grant Theodore Roosevelt William S. Devery Michael Cotter Murphy Francis Vinton Greene Frederick Hamilton Bugher in...
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After the Havemeyer brothers retired in 1828, their respective sons, cousins William F. Havemeyer (1804-1874) and Frederick C. Havemeyer Jr. (1807-1891)...
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Woodward Moss Havemeyer (1869–1934), American socialite Charles Frederick Havemeyer (1867–1898), American socialite Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1847–1907)...
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Charles Frederick Havemeyer (March 1867 – May 9, 1898) was an American socialite who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age. Havemeyer was...
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Standard Oil, yachtsman William L. Harkness Charles K. Harris William Frederick Havemeyer, businessman, Mayor of New York City William Haviland, actor Coleman...
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Connecticut after his parents divorced. His grandfather William Frederick Havemeyer was three time Mayor of New York City, and his maternal grandfather...
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given a larger responsibility over the city and New York Mayor William Frederick Havemeyer would soon promote Matsell as police chief of the newly created...
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elevator car and made it impossible for Zito to make another attempt. William Gunn Shepherd, a reporter at the tragedy, would say, "I learned a new sound...
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Fernando Wood of the Mozart Hall faction of the Democracy and William Frederick Havemeyer of the Tammany Hall wing. As mayor, Opdyke recruited and equipped...
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in 1895. Havemeyer was born in New York City on May 17, 1839. He was the eldest son of three children born to Frederick Christian Havemeyer Jr. (1807-1891)...
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Olympics. Havemeyer was the grandson of William Frederick Havemeyer, who was the mayor of New York City. Havemeyer's father was Theodore Havemeyer, who was...
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Her paternal grandparents were Frederick Christian Havemeyer Jr. (1807-1891), and Sarah Louise Henderson Havemeyer (1812-1851). Her maternal grandparents...
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Smoke II The New Yorker Thomas Willett Three Forty Three William Frederick Havemeyer William J. Gaynor Willam M. Feehan Zophar Mills History Organizations...
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Foods, Inc. (also known as DFI and formerly known as W. & F.C. Havemeyer Company, Havemeyer, Townsend & Co. Refinery, and Domino Sugar) is a privately held...
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death of the elected mayor, William Havemeyer, on November 30, 1874, and the inauguration of his elected successor, William H. Wickham, on January 1, 1875...
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(née de Loosey) Havemeyer. Among her siblings was Charles Frederick Havemeyer, who married Camilla Woodward Moss, and Theodora Havemeyer, who married Admiral...
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management was characterized by prudence, sagacity and honesty. When William Frederick Havemeyer became Mayor in 1873, Westervelt was appointed a Commissioner...
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the commission. In 1904, he married Martha J. Havemeyer, descendant of Mayor William Frederick Havemeyer. On January 1, 1905, he became the Postmaster...
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University Magazine Publishing Company. p. 75. William Bristol Shaw (1932). "Havemeyer, William Frederick". Dictionary of American Biography. New York:...
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Belmont, John A. Dix, William Frederick Havemeyer, and John Van Buren and reformer Peter Cooper. After failing to recruit Havemeyer, the committee nominated...
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Samuel J. Tilden, forced the nomination of William Frederick Havemeyer on a Tammany ticket. William Frederick Havemayer, former mayor (Tammany Hall) George...
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instead of through the tunnel. In June, 1874, New York City Mayor William Frederick Havemeyer refused to sign warrants in payment for the project, as he believed...
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Benjamin F. Russell later joined the law firm. In 1873, Mayor William Frederick Havemeyer appointed him Police Justice with the encouragement of Alderman...
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2nd husband of Gloria Vanderbilt Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–1960): wife of James Watson Webb II Frederick Osborn (1889–1981): husband of Margaret Louisa...
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August Belmont and Samuel J. Tilden, forced the nomination of William Frederick Havemeyer on a Tammany ticket. Republicans nominated George Opdyke, a banker...
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anti-Tammany Hall Democrats who worked to overthrow William M. Tweed, and elected William Frederick Havemeyer as Mayor of New York City. He died in New York...
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Havemeyer, youngest child of Henry Osborne Havemeyer. William Seward Webb Jr. (1887–1956), married Gertrude Emily Gaynor, daughter of Mayor William Jay...
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