. Leslie's history of the greater New York . is command-er of Lafayette Tost, (!. A. K. Bornin Collamer, Ohio, July 9, 1844, heis lineally descended from HenryAdams, who settled at Braiutree,Mass., in l(io4. His Adams, was a Bevolutionarysoldier, and his father, Lowell , a soldier in the ^Yar of mother, Hei)zibali Thayer, was awell-known anti-slavery agitator andwriter i>rior to the Civil War. Hav-ing received aji academic education,he enlisted at the age of seventeenand served throughout the Civil War,participating in many liattles, and in1864 suftering c
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . is command-er of Lafayette Tost, (!. A. K. Bornin Collamer, Ohio, July 9, 1844, heis lineally descended from HenryAdams, who settled at Braiutree,Mass., in l(io4. His Adams, was a Bevolutionarysoldier, and his father, Lowell , a soldier in the ^Yar of mother, Hei)zibali Thayer, was awell-known anti-slavery agitator andwriter i>rior to the Civil War. Hav-ing received aji academic education,he enlisted at the age of seventeenand served throughout the Civil War,participating in many liattles, and in1864 suftering ca])ture by GeneralForrest, and incarceration in a Con-federate prison. In 18(17 he success-fully engag<d in the ii-on business inCleveland, (thio, also owning vessels in the iron ore and grain trade onthe lakes. He was a member of the Board of Trade of (levehind, andof its Board of Education. A delegate to the Iree ShipConvention of 1881, he was a member of its coiumittee wiiidi appcaicdbefore a Fnited States Seiiati HKNKY HKUSCHKI. AKAMS. BEACH, JOHN N., has been engaged in the wholesale drygoodsbusiness in New York City since 18r;7, fi-oni that year to 1S72 beinga of the firm of P. Vau Volkenbnrg & Cdnuiany; from 1S72to 1879 a member <d that of Yan Volkenbnrg, Beach .^ Company;while since 1879 he lias been a member of the well-known house ofTefft, A\(dler & Comiiany. He has been President of the DrygoodsChronicle Inldishim: .\ss(.ciati(tn, Vice-Pn-sidcni of tlic .Mcnaiiiile 582 HISTORY OF THE GREATER NEW YORK. Accident lusunuice Society, and a director of tlie Hamilton Loan andTrust Company, and is now a member of tlie Chamber of Commerce,a trustee of Hamilton College, a trustee of Adelplii College, Brooklyn;an officer of Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, and amember of the Merchants Club, of New York. He married, in 1870,Mary Linette, daughter of Elisha Nelson, of Cold Spring, N. Y., andhas several children. The eldest son die
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