Nicholas Gouverneur Kortright
(1804-1874)
BIRTH
1804
PLACE
DEATH
February 16, 1874
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FAMILY
SISTER
Catherine Louisa Livingston
(1815–1890?)
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Nicholas Gouverneur Kortright (c.1804–1874) was a New York lawyer and a son of Captain John Kortright and Katherine Seaman. Columbia’s alumni catalogue lists him among its 1822 graduates and records his death in 1874 at sixty-nine. Genealogical accounts identify his 1856 marriage to Sarah Allaire and children Gouverneur and Lawrence Minturn. Some accounts misdate his son or give only one child. His wider legal career and exact birth year remain insufficiently documented.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Nicholas Gouverneur Kortright’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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.
No distinct public profession or office for Nicholas Gouverneur Kortright is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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DEATH
Nicholas Gouverneur Kortright died on Feb 16, 1874. Nicholas Gouverneur Kortright was a New York lawyer and a son of Captain John Kortright and Katherine Seaman. Columbia’s alumni catalogue lists him among its 1822 graduates and records his death in 1874 at sixty-nine. Genealogical accounts identify his 1856 marriage to Sarah Allaire and children Gouverneur and Lawrence Minturn. Some accounts misdate his son or give only one child. His wider legal career and exact birth year remain insufficiently documented. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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