Aaron Columbus Burr
Aaron Columbus Burr (born around 1808; died July 27, 1882 in New York ) was an American entrepreneur.
Life
Born in France, Burr was believed to be the illegitimate son of Aaron Burr , the third vice president of the United States, who fled to Europe in 1808 after a high treason trial. Around 1813, according to other sources, in 1816, he followed his father to the USA. Here the father “adopted” his child and spread the claim that the boy was the son of a French count “Verdi de Lisle” and was entrusted to him for education; this version can be found in the obituary for Aaron C. Burr in the New York Times of July 28, 1882. Burr attended boarding school in Bergen , New Jersey, and later became a successful jeweler in New York.
In 1860, together with Anna Carroll, he forged a plan to establish a colony for former American slaves in British Honduras (today's Belize ) and presented it to Abraham Lincoln . However, the outbreak of the American Civil War made these plans obsolete. However, the American Honduras Company developed from the project and was primarily active in the mahogany trade in the British colony .
Burr died in New York in 1882. His papers are kept in the Yale University library.
literature
- Janet L. Coryell: The Lincoln Colony: Aaron Columbus Burr's Proposed Colonization of British Honduras. In: Civil War History 43, 1997, pp. 5-16.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Milton Lomask: Aaron Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile 1805-1836. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 1982, p. 388.
- ^ Obituary , in: The New York Times , July 28, 1882.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burr, Aaron Columbus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burr, Aaron C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jeweler and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1808 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1882 |
| Place of death | New York City |