Charles P. Leverich | |
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| Born | July 17, 1809 |
| Died | January 10, 1876 |
| Occupation | Banker |
| Predecessor | Anthony P. Halsey |
| Successor | Charles M. Fry |
Charles P. Leverich (1809-1876) was an American banker.
Charles P. Leverich | |
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| Born | July 17, 1809 |
| Died | January 10, 1876 |
| Occupation | Banker |
| Predecessor | Anthony P. Halsey |
| Successor | Charles M. Fry |
Charles P. Leverich (1809-1876) was an American banker.
Charles Palmer Leverich was born on July 17, 1809, in Newton, L.I., N.Y. [1] [2] He had three brothers: Henry S. Leverich, James Harvey and Charles E. Leverich. [2] [3]
From 1834 onwards, he became a factor for Stephen Duncan (1787-1867), the wealthiest cotton and sugar planter in the Antebellum South. [2] [3] He also served as a factor to the Minor and Connor families. [3] Additionally, he was a factor to planters William Newton Mercer (1792-1874), Levin Marshall, William St. John Elliot, Francis Surget (1784-1856) and his son Francis Surget Jr. (1815-1866), Sam Davis, William T. Palfrey, Mary Porter and John Julius Pringle. [3] He operated under the name of 'Charles P. Leverich & Co.', with a Southern office in New Orleans, Louisiana. [4]
He joined the board of directors of the Bank of New York in 1840. [2] [3] He went on to serve as its Vice-president in 1853 and its President from 1863 to 1876. [2] [3] [5] In this capacity, he helped raise US$50,000,000 for the Union army during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. [3]
Both he and his brother Henry married nieces of Stephen Duncan's. [2]
He died on January 10, 1876. His obituary was published in The New York Times . [6]
Natchez is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. It has a total population of 14,520. Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, Natchez was a prominent city in the antebellum years, a center of cotton planters and Mississippi River trade.
Murphy James Foster was the 31st Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana, an office he held for two terms from 1892 to 1900. Foster supported the Louisiana Constitution of 1898, which effectively disfranchised the black majority, who were mostly Republicans. This led to Louisiana becoming a one-party Democratic state for several generations and excluding African Americans from the political system.
William Henry Hunt was the 29th United States Secretary of the Navy, Minister to the Russian Empire and a judge of the Court of Claims.
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The Randolph family of Virginia is a prominent political family, whose members contributed to the politics of Colonial Virginia and Virginia after statehood. They are descended from the Randolphs of Morton Morrell, Warwickshire, England. The first Randolph in America was Edward Fitz Randolph, who settled in Massachusetts in 1630. His nephew, William Randolph, later came to Virginia as an orphan in 1669. He made his home at Turkey Island along the James River. Because of their numerous progeny, William Randolph and his wife, Mary Isham Randolph, have been referred to as "the Adam and Eve of Virginia". The Randolph family was the wealthiest and most powerful family in 18th-century Virginia.
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The 1811 German Coast uprising was a revolt of slaves in parts of the Territory of Orleans on January 8–10, 1811. The uprising occurred on the east bank of the Mississippi River in what is now St. John the Baptist, St. Charles and Jefferson Parishes, Louisiana. The slave insurgency was the largest in U.S. history, but the rebels killed only two white men. Confrontations with militia, combined with post-trial executions, resulted in the deaths of 95 slaves.
Edward Austin Burke or Burk, was the Democratic State Treasurer of Louisiana following Reconstruction. Burke later fled to Honduras after it was discovered that there were misappropriations of state treasury funds. While in Honduras Burke became a major land owner and held government positions within Honduras' nationalized railway systems. He remained an exile until his death nearly four decades later.
John Welch Jones, (1826–1916) was a medical doctor, Civil War cavalry officer, superintendent of the Insane Asylum of Louisiana, and planter. Jones led the reform of the care of mentally ill people in late nineteenth century Louisiana.
Stephen Duncan was an American planter and banker in Mississippi during the Antebellum South. He was born and studied medicine in Pennsylvania, but moved to Natchez District, Mississippi Territory in 1808 and became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest slave owner in the United States with over 2,200 slaves. He owned 15 cotton and sugar plantations, served as President of the Bank of Mississippi, and held major investments in railroads and lumber.
Captain William J. Minor was an American planter, slave owner, and banker in the antebellum South. Educated in Philadelphia, he lived at the Concord plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, and served as the second President of the Agricultural Bank. He was the owner of three large sugar plantations in Louisiana and supported the Union during the Civil War for the stability of the sugar trade.
Henry Michael Hyams was an American lawyer, planter and Democratic politician. He served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1862 to 1864 under Governor Thomas Overton Moore during the American Civil War, when Louisiana joined the Confederate States of America. He was an advocate of slavery in the United States.
The Boston Club is a segregated private gentlemen's club in New Orleans, Louisiana, US, founded in 1841 as a place for its white members to congregate and partake in the fashionable card game of Boston. It is the third oldest City Club in the United States, after the Philadelphia Club (1834) and Union Club of the City of New York (1836). The clubhouse has been located at 824 Canal Street since 1884, formerly 148 Canal St, on the edge of the Central Business District; built in 1844 by James Gallier as a city residence for Dr. William Newton Mercer, a planter in Mississippi and surgeon from the War of 1812. The Club itself was organized in 1841 by thirty leading mercantile and professional men, they were the heads of families and men of substance on the shady side of life, yet full of bonhomie and fond of the card game of Boston from which this club was christened. It epitomized the South's most refined male tastes and attitudes, a member once noted, "Propriety of demeanor and proper courtesy are alone exacted within its portals."