William W. Woodworth

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William W. Woodworth (born March 16, 1807 in New London , Connecticut , † February 13, 1873 in Yonkers , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1845 and 1847 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William W. Woodworth was born in New London about five years before the outbreak of the British-American War . He received a modest education. In 1834 he moved to Hyde Park in Dutchess County . He was town supervisor there in 1838, 1841, 1843 and 1849 . In 1838 he was appointed judge in Dutchess County and again in 1843. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In 1842 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the 28th Congress . He was first elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 1844 congressional elections in the eighth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Richard D. Davis on March 4, 1845 . In 1846 he suffered a defeat in his re-election and resigned from Congress on March 3, 1847 .

After his time in Congress, he held stakes in Cuba and founded the Hudson River State Co. in Clinton . On December 1, 1849, he moved to Yonkers, where he did real estate and banking. As the estate manager of his father, he continued his patent litigation and lobbying work. With the patent rights, he earned $ 15 million annually in license fees until they expired in 1856. As a contractor, he was responsible for building a section of the Hudson River Railroad . On the basis of land speculation, he and his business partners Henry Atherton, Samuel Babcock and Charles Foster acquired land north of New York City in the immediate vicinity of the route in 1852. It was 100  acres on Independence Avenue where Woodworth would build an Italian-style mansion. He and his partners drew up plans for mansions and country roads and named their project Riverdale . The initial investment in their own property resulted in the construction of houses by others, including the mansions known as The Park-Riverdale and the construction of the Stonehurst Mansion for the Colgates. The residents included personalities such as Henry F. Spaulding, William Appleton, William Duke, Laura Harriman, Percy R. Pyne and Moses Taylor Pyne . Woodworth was elected President of Yonkers in 1857 and 1858, and Receiver of Taxes in 1870 . He died on February 13, 1873 in Yonkers and was then buried in Oakland Cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c “Descendants of Walter Woodworth of Scituate, Mass” , 1898, p. 102.
  2. ^ "Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States" , The Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, 1883, p. 670.
  3. ^ "Patent Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the United States: Dallas, Cranch, Wheaton, Peters, and Howard (1810-1860)" , WH & OH Morrison, 1878, p. 847.
  4. ^ "Early American Technology" , UNC Press Books, 1994, p. 314.
  5. ^ John Thomas Scharf: "History of Westchester County" , Volumes 1 and 2, LE Preston & Company, 1886, p. 759.
  6. ↑ "Riverdale Historic District" ( Memento from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.8 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Woodworth, William W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH New London , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1873
Place of death Yonkers , New York