Edward Floyd DeLancey

Edward Floyd DeLancey
24th President of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
In office
1880–1881
Preceded byRobert George Remsen
Succeeded byAbraham Riker Lawrence
Personal details
Born(1821-10-23)October 23, 1821
Mamaroneck, New York, U.S.
DiedApril 8, 1905(1905-04-08) (aged 83)
Ossining, New York, U.S.
Spouse
Josephine Matilda De Zeng
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(m. 1848; died 1865)​
Parent(s)William H. DeLancey
Frances Jay Munro DeLancey
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
Alma materHobart College
Harvard Law School

Edward Floyd DeLancey (October 23, 1821 – April 8, 1905)[1] was an American lawyer, author, and historian.

Early life[edit]

"Ned" DeLancey was born on October 23, 1821, in Mamaroneck, New York. He was the eldest son of eight children born to Frances Jay (née Munro) DeLancey (1797–1869) and the Right Reverend William Heathcote DeLancey (1797–1865),[2] the first Bishop of Western New York and sixth Provost of the University of Pennsylvania.[3] Among his siblings was Peter Munro DeLancey and William Heathcote DeLancey Jr.[3][4]

His maternal grandfather was Peter Jay Munro. His paternal grandparents were Elizabeth (née Floyd) DeLancey and John Peter DeLancey, a son of Governor James De Lancey. His grandfather was a brother to James De Lancey and a grandson of Stephen Delancey, a French Huguenot who became a successful New York merchant and married Anne Van Cortlandt, the third child of Gertrude Schuyler and Stephanus van Cortlandt, the Chief Justice of the Province of New York.[5] Through his great-grandmother, Anne (née Heathcote) DeLancey, he was also a direct descendant of Caleb Heathcote, the 31st Mayor of New York City. His paternal aunt, Susan Augusta DeLancey, was married to the prominent author James Fenimore Cooper.[6]

As a youth, he traveled on an extensive European tour for fourteen months with his father. DeLancey received his early education from the Rev. John Eustace and Samuel Wylie Crawford of Philadelphia. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania but transferred to Hobart College in Geneva, New York, upon his father's elevation to Bishop in 1839. He graduated from Hobart College with the class of 1843. DeLancey studied in Albany and later became graduated from Harvard Law School in 1845.[3]

Career[edit]

After being admitted to the bar in 1846,[7] he practiced in Albany for four years until he moved to New York City and entered into a partnership with Gerard Walton Morris (son of Richard Valentine Morris) and later with George Clinton Genêt (son of Edmond-Charles Genêt and grandson of Samuel Osgood).[3]

In 1867, he traveled abroad and stayed for more than two years, partly working in England, and also to visit Asia Minor, Northern Africa, the Holy Land.[3]

He served as president of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the 41st President of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York.[7] DeLancey was considered the head of DeLancey family as "all the other branches having become extinct in the male line."[8]

Personal life[edit]

In November 1848, DeLancey was married to Josephine Matilda DeZeng (1823–1865). Josephine was the eldest daughter of Caroline and William Steuben DeZeng.[9] Together, they lived in New York City and were the parents of six children, including:[3]

  • Frances Munro DeLancey (1854–1867), who died aged 12.
  • Edward Etienne Delancey (1859–1927), a civil engineer who married Lucia Cleveland Grannis (1872–1939), a daughter of William Heathcote Grannis, in 1890.[10]
  • Josephine DeZeng DeLancey (1863–1921).[11]

DeLancey died on April 8, 1905, in Ossining, New York.[1] After a funeral at Trinity Episcopal Church in Ossining, he was buried in the family burial ground at Mamaroneck by the side of his father and grandfather.[3]

Descendants[edit]

Through his son Edward, he was the grandfather of Edwin Floyd DeLancey (b. 1893) and William Heathcote DeLancey (b. 1897).[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Edward Floyd De Lancey" (PDF). The New York Times. 9 April 1905. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Death of Bishop Delancey" (PDF). The New York Times. 6 April 1865. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Greene, Richard Henry; Stiles, Henry Reed; Dwight, Melatiah Everett; Morrison, George Austin; Mott, Hopper Striker; Totten, John Reynolds; Pitman, Harold Minot; Ditmas, Charles Andrew; Forest, Louis Effingham De; Mann, Conklin; Maynard, Arthur S. (1904). "President Edward F. DeLancey". The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. XXXVI (3). New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  4. ^ "DEATH of BISHOP DELANCEY" (PDF). The New York Times. 8 April 1865. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  5. ^ Story, D. A. (1931). The de Lanceys, a romance of a great family, with notes on those allied families who remained loyal to the British crown during the revolutionary war. London: T. Nelson & Sons Limited. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  6. ^ Flick, Alexander Clarence (1962). New York History: Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association. The Association. p. 183. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  7. ^ a b Youngs, Florence Evelyn Pratt; Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (1914). Portraits of the Presidents of The Society, 1835-1914. New York, NY: Order of the Society. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  8. ^ Austin, Mary S. (1901). Philip Freneau The Poet of the Revolution: A History of His Life and Times. p. 255. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  9. ^ Luft, Eric v. d. (2009). SUNY Upstate Medical University: A Pictorial History. Gegensatz Press. p. 23. ISBN 9781933237350. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  10. ^ "Edward E. De Lancey" (PDF). The New York Times. 12 January 1927. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  11. ^ Hutchinson, Jane Errickson (1982). The descendents of Thomas Hutchinson of Southold, New York, 1666-1982: including the female lines into the related families of Boisseau ... Gateway Press. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  12. ^ Island, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Rhode (1908). The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The Society. p. 359. Retrieved 16 April 2019.

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