James Chatham Duane (elder)
(c. 1770-1842)
BIRTH
c. 1770
PLACE
NAME
James Chatham Duane
DEATH
1842
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
James Duane
(1733-1797)
MOTHER
Mary Livingston
(1738-1821)
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RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
James Chatham Duane (c.1770–1842) was a Schenectady lawyer and son of statesman James Duane and Mary Livingston. He married Marianne, or Mary Ann, Bowers in 1792 and developed the family’s Duanesburg estate. Financial crises and tenant opposition reduced those holdings. His correspondence, deeds and legal papers survive in family archives. He was the grandfather of the Civil War engineer of the same name. Sources differ between 1769 and 1770 for his birth.
EARLY LIFE
James Chatham Duane was born around 1770, a son of James Duane and Mary Livingston Duane. The reviewed material identifies his family but provides no reliable account of his childhood or education. He must be distinguished from his grandson, the army engineer of the same name.
The older James Chatham Duane worked as a lawyer in Schenectady, New York. The reviewed historical collection identifies him through that legal career and his relationship to James Duane. No reliable fuller account of his practice or public appointments was found; the military and engineering career of his grandson belongs to a different person.
CAREER
DEATH
James Chatham Duane (elder) died in 1842. James Chatham Duane was a Schenectady lawyer and son of statesman James Duane and Mary Livingston. He married Marianne, or Mary Ann, Bowers in 1792 and developed the family’s Duanesburg estate. Financial crises and tenant opposition reduced those holdings. His correspondence, deeds and legal papers survive in family archives. He was the grandfather of the Civil War engineer of the same name. Sources differ between 1769 and 1770 for his birth. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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