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Cornelius Lawrence

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in 1812 to embark on a business career, first at the Shotwell, Hicks & Co. auctioneering firm, and later as a partner in the wholesale dry goods firm of Hicks, Lawrence & Co.
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Lawrence died in Flushing (the same place he was born in) on February 20, 1861, 8 days shy of his 70th birthday. He was interred in the family burying ground in
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Lawrence attended the public schools and worked on his father's farm. He moved to
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He had a son, James Ogden Lawrence (died August 1, 1904).
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Collector of the Port of New York
Cornelius P. Van Ness
Hugh Maxwell
Mayor of New York City
Gideon Lee
Aaron Clark
U.S. House of Representatives
New York
3rd
Charles G. Ferris
Flushing, New York
Flushing, New York
Bayside, New York
Democratic-Republican
Jacksonian
Democratic
New York
New York City
Flushing, New York
Effingham Lawrence
John Lawrence
John Bowne
Quakers
Queens
New York City
Jacksonian
Congress
Collector of the Port of New York
Bayside, New York

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