Hannah Tompkins
(1781-1829)
BIRTH
August 28, 1781
PLACE
New York City, New York
NAME
Hannah Minthorne
DEATH
February 18, 1829
PLACE
Tompkinsville, New York
FAMILY
MOTHER
Arietta Minthorne Thompson
(1800-1837)
SISTER
Susannah MacLaren Tompkins Smith
(1812–1882?)
HUSBAND
Daniel D. Tompkins
(1774-1825)
CHILDREN
Susannah MacLaren Tompkins Smith
(1812–1882?)
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Hannah Minthorne Tompkins (1781–1829) was the wife of Daniel D. Tompkins, New York governor and later U.S. vice president. Daughter of New York alderman Mangle Minthorne, she married Tompkins in 1798 and raised a large family. She was New York’s first lady during his governorship and the nation’s second lady during James Monroe’s presidency, rather than a U.S. first lady. The family settled on Staten Island, where Daniel developed Tompkinsville. She died four years after him.
EARLY LIFE
Hannah Tompkins was born on Aug 28, 1781 in New York City, New York. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Hannah Tompkins with work or public activity as a first lady, hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Hannah Tompkins died on Feb 18, 1829 in Tompkinsville, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Hannah Minthorne Tompkins was the wife of Daniel D. Tompkins, New York governor and later U.S. vice president. Hannah Tompkins died on Feb 18, 1829 in Tompkinsville, New York. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Hannah Minthorne Tompkins, Daniel D. Tompkins’s wife. Irwin is a related biography of her husband; the other selections give collective and political context. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Family and collective biographies, primary writings, references and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. Daniel D. Tompkins: Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States — Ray W. Irwin. [Related biography of her husband] Find on Amazon
2. Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789–1993 — Mark O. Hatfield (editor). [Collective biography] Find on Amazon
3. Vice Presidents: A Biographical Dictionary — L. Edward Purcell (editor). [Collective biography] Find on Amazon
4. The Empire State: A History of New York — Milton M. Klein (editor). [Related political and biographical history] Find on Amazon
5. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 — Edwin G. Burrows; Mike Wallace. [Related local and political history] Find on Amazon
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