Augustus Newbold Morris
{{Short description|American businessman (1838–1906)}}
{{For|his grandson|Newbold Morris}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Augustus Newbold Morris
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1838|06|03}}
| birth_place = Morrisania, New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1906|09|01|1838|06|03}}
| death_place = Ridgefield, Connecticut, U.S.
| party =
| education = Columbia University
| spouse = {{marriage|Eleanor Colford Jones
|1862|1906|reason=her death}}
| children = 5
| parents = William Henry Morris
Hannah Cornell Newbold
| relatives = George Morris (grandson)
Newbold Morris (grandson)
}}
Augustus Newbold Morris or A. N. Morris (June 3, 1838 – September 1, 1906) was a prominent American during the Gilded Age in New York City.{{cite news|title=A. Newbold Morris Dead. He Was A Descendant of Noted Family Which Owned Morrisania|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/09/03/archives/lieut-bolton-buried-new-rochelle-neighbors-follow-caisson-bearing.html|accessdate=15 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=3 September 1906}}
Early life
Morris was born on June 3, 1838{{cite book|last1=Moffat|first1=R. Burnham|title=The Barclays of New York: Who They Are And Who They Are Not, -- And Some Other Barclays|date=1904|publisher=R. G. Cooke|page=[https://archive.org/details/barclaysnewyork00moffgoog/page/n157 145]|url=https://archive.org/details/barclaysnewyork00moffgoog|accessdate=15 October 2017|language=en}} to William Henry Morris (1810–1896) and Hannah Cornell Newbold (1816–1842). His paternal grandparents were Helen (née Van Cortlandt) Morris (1768–1812) and James Morris (1764–1827), High Sheriff of New York. His grandfather was a son of{{cite journal|title=The Commercial and Financial Chronicle|date=1906|page=542|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bkk9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA542|accessdate=15 October 2017|publisher=National News Service, Incorporated|language=en}} Lewis Morris (1726–1798), signor of the Declaration of Independence, from the prominent Colonial-era Morris family of the Morrisania section of the Bronx.
Career
Morris graduated from Columbia College in 1860, and later, Columbia Law School. He was considered a "man of leisure," but worked nevertheless. He was a manager of the Home for Incurables at Fordham, a director of the Zoological Society, and a vice-president of the Plaza Bank. While he did not hold office, he was considered an Independent Democrat.
=Society life=
In 1892, Morris and his wife were both included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.{{cite news|last1=McAllister|first1=Ward|title=THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED {{!}} WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDER- STAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/02/16/108210917.pdf|accessdate=5 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=16 February 1892|language=en}}
He was a governor, and one of the founders, of the Metropolitan Club, a member of the Union Club of New York, member of the New York Young Republican Club, president of the Suburban Riding and Driving Club, president of the Ridgefield Club, a director of the Coney Island Jockey Club, a director of the National Horse Show Association, a member of the Riding Club, the Automobile Club, and the Delta Phi fraternity.{{cite book|last1=Phi|first1=Delta|title=Delta Phi catalogue [of the members of the fraternity] 1827-1907|date=1907|publisher=Mason-Henry Press|page=167|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_F07AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA167|accessdate=15 October 2017|language=en}}
Personal life
File:Morris Ridgefield CT AA&BN 18July1885 plate499.jpg, designed by Charles Alling Gifford.]]
On December 10, 1862, Morris was married to Eleanor Colford Jones (1841–1906),{{cite news|title=Mrs. Eleanor Colford Morris|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/04/27/archives/death-list-of-a-day-henry-jackson-wells-dam.html|accessdate=15 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=27 April 1906}} daughter of General James I. Jones (1786–1858) and Elizabeth (1817–1874), the older sister of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (1830–1908), also known as "The Mrs. Astor,"{{cite book|title=The American Historical Magazine|date=1908|publisher=Publishing Society of New York|pages=674–675|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aWQKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA675|accessdate=18 August 2017|language=en}} Mrs. Charles Suydam, and Mrs. John Treat Irving. Her father's country home became Jones's Wood. They had three sons and two daughters.{{cite book|title=Americana: (American Historical Magazine).|date=1906|publisher=American Historical Company, Incorporated|pages=433–434|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hUBHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA433|accessdate=15 October 2017|language=en}} His wife died at their home, 19 East 64th Street, in April 1906, and Morris died shortly thereafter on September 1, 1906, at his country home in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
=Descendants=
Through his son Augustus, he was the grandfather of Augustus Newbold Morris (1902–1966), who was a lawyer, president of the New York City Council, and two-time candidate for mayor of New York City,{{cite news|last1=Morris|first1=Augustus Newbold|title=Ivy Leaguer in Park Job|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/04/19/archives/ivy-leaguer-in-park-job.html|accessdate=18 August 2017|work=The New York Times|date=19 April 1960}} George Lovett Kingsland Morris (1905–1975),{{cite news|title=GEORGE L. K. MORRIS ENGAGED TO MARRY; Son of Mrs. Newbold Morris Affianced to Miss Estelle Condit Frelinghuysen DESCENDANT OF SIGNER His Fiancee is Member of Noted New Jersey Family, Daughter of Late Insurance Leader|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B04E3D9103FE53ABC4F52DFB766838E629EDE&legacy=true|accessdate=28 September 2017|work=The New York Times|date=January 17, 1935}} a painter who married Suzy Frelinghuysen,{{cite news|title=George L. K. Morris Is Dead; Abstract Artist and Sculptor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/27/archives/george-lk-morris-is-dead-abstract-artist-and-sculptor.html|accessdate=28 September 2017|work=The New York Times|date=27 June 1975}} and Stephanus "Stephen" Van Cortlandt Morris (1909–1984),{{cite news|title=NEWBOLD MORRIS DIES IN HIS SLEEP; President of Metropolitan Club, Trustee of Columbia and Lawyer. WITH PERSHING IN THE WAR Lieutenant Colonel on General Staff --Family One of Most Illustrious in United States.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/12/21/95686678.html?pageNumber=25|accessdate=28 September 2017|work=The New York Times|date=December 21, 1928|language=en}}{{cite news|last1=Huberdeau|first1=Jennifer|title=The Cottager {{!}} Brookhurst: Modern art finds a home on former estate's property|url=https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/the-cottager-brookhurst-modern-art-finds-a-home-on-former-estates-property,201238|accessdate=28 September 2017|work=The Berkshire Eagle|date=July 21, 2016|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929001143/https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/the-cottager-brookhurst-modern-art-finds-a-home-on-former-estates-property,201238|archive-date=2017-09-29|url-status=dead}} a diplomat.{{cite news|title=Stephen V. Morris, 74, Dead; U.S. Diplomat for 25 Years|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/29/obituaries/stephen-v-morris-74-dead-us-diplomat-for-25-years.html|accessdate=28 September 2017|work=The New York Times|date=29 February 1984}}
References
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External links
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