1869 KINGSTON NY LETTER SIGNED LAWYER POLITICIAN SCHOONMAKER CIVIL WAR MEDICAL!

Description: 1869 POLITICAL/MEDICAL RECOMMENDATION LETTER, 4 PAGES FROM A SCHOONMAKER JR, REGARDING DOCTOR J.O. VAN HOEVENBERG, IN ENVELOPE TO NY GOVERNOR HON JOHN T HOFFMAN ------------------------------------------------------------------SIGNED BY Augustus Schoonmaker Jr. (March 2, 1828 – April 9, 1894) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. Schoonmaker was born March 2, 1828, in the Town of Rochester in Ulster County, New York (not to be confused with the city of Rochester, New York which is significantly further west) to Hendricus Martin (1792-1870) and Jane (née Schoonmaker) Schoonmaker (1796-1866). His parents were second cousins, sharing the same great-grandparents, Jan and Margaret Hornbeck Schoonmaker. Schoonmaker was originally a teacher and superintendent of schools in Ulster County. In 1853, he was admitted to the bar. He was County Judge in Ulster County from 1864 to 1872, and a member of the New York State Senate (14th D.) in 1876 and 1877. He was New York Attorney General from 1878 to 1879, elected at the New York state election, 1877 on the Democratic ticket. At the New York state election, 1879, he was defeated for re-election by Republican Hamilton Ward Sr. At the New York state election, 1881, he ran for the New York Court of Appeals but was defeated by Republican Francis M. Finch. Afterwards he served on the New York Board of Civil Service Commissioners (1883–1887) and was an original appointee of President Grover Cleveland to the Interstate Commerce Commission, serving from 1887 to 1890. Schoonmaker died of tonsillitis on April 9, 1894, in Kingston. He married Louise Cooper (1835-1910) and they are both buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery in Kingston. --------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. James Oliver van Hoevenberg (a.ka. J. O. Van Hovenburg) was born July 16, 1822 in Kingston, Ulster County in New York. He was the third child of Dr. Henry van Hoevenberg and Jane Catherine Heemance, the last to marry and have children (of the four children following James Oliver, three died in childhood, and the last was debilitated.) He was the younger brother of Martin Henry and Sarah Jane. In 1838, after completing his schooling, James Oliver went to Michigan to work with his uncle, Col. James Dumond van Hoevenberg, on a farm in Jonesville. In March of 1840, he moved to Marine Settlement, Illinois (just west of Chicago) and began the study of medicine with a friend of his father's, a Dr. Allen, and lived with the Allen family. In 1843, James returned to New York City via Jonesville and went to Bellevue for further study and practice and eventually received the M.D. degree from the University of the City of New York (present day New York University.) James was on the staff of Bellevue, Blackwell's Island Hospital, and became Deputy Health Officer of the Port of New York stationed at Quarantine, Staten Island, where his father was in charge. In 1846 he received a commission as Assistant surgeon of the New York Volunteers under Col. J. D. Stevenson. Dr. James Oliver was in private practice for some time in Staten Island, and then in 1856 he moved to Kingston (this would have coincided more or less with the retirement of his father and the breakup of his elder brother Martin's first marriage.) In 1857 he was commission surgeon of the 20th New York State Militia, and in 1862 Surgeon of the 120th New York Volunteers with the rank of Major. He saw much action in the Civil War. The 120th Infantry, mustered out June 3, 1865. According the the Roster, Van Hovenburg, J.O. is listed as a surgeon, and was in the service until December, 1862. Because of war-related medical problems, Dr. James Oliver returned to Kingston and practiced for about six years with Walter Alexander van Rensselaer. He was appointed Deputy Health Officer at Sing Sing Prison, a post he left after awhile because of the unpleasant duty of attending hangings. When his eldest son, Henry, began medical practice in 1877, Dr. James Oliver left Kingston and returned to Staten Island. Dr. James Oliver married Esther Maria van Hoevenberg, his cousin, on June 14, 1849. They had five children. ----------------------------------------------------------------- John Thompson Hoffman (January 10, 1828 – March 24, 1888) was the 23rd governor of New York (1869–72). He was also recorder of New York City (1861–65) and the 78th mayor of New York City (1866–68). Connections to the Tweed Ring ruined his political career, in spite of the absence of evidence to show personal involvement in corrupt activities. He is to date the last New York City mayor elected Governor of New York and the last elected to higher office. Fund Stock of the Central Park Fund, issued 30. May 1868, signed by Mayor John T. HoffmanHe was born in Ossining in Westchester County, New York. He was the son of Jane Ann (Thompson) and Adrian Kissam Hoffman, a physician in Westchester County. His father's parents, Philip L. Hoffman and Helena Kissam, were "among the most valuable members of early society in New York, and the founders of many public charities and benevolent works," Harper's Weekly effused.[1] He attended Union College starting in 1843 in the junior class, but had to leave for a time due to ill health, eventually graduating in 1846. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1849 and practiced in Manhattan.[1] Hoffman became active in the Tammany Hall faction of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the New York State Democratic Central Committee beginning in 1848, and served as New York City Recorder from 1861 to 1866. Hoffman served as mayor of New York City from 1866 to 1868. from 1866 to 1868 he was Grand Sachem, or leader, of the Tammany Hall organization. When he was elected mayor in 1865, reformers had high hopes for him. A front-page article in Harper's Weekly intoned: It is many years since the city of New York has chosen for her Chief Magistrate a man of the position and reputation of John T. Hoffman. He is not only a gentleman of high social position, but a lawyer of distinction, a judge of eminent probity, a representative by descent of some of the oldest New York families, a citizen of unblemished reputation ...[1] Hoffman was elected governor in 1868, the last New York City mayor to accomplish this feat and the last New York City mayor elected to higher office. Hoffman's election was aided by Tammany Hall under the leadership of its boss William Tweed. Later on the fact that Hoffman had aid from Tweed, and his voter majority was so large for that time, would be recalled as proof that the governor was a member of the notorious Tweed Ring. In actuality, while Tweed did frequently see Hoffman in Albany on various votes and projects, it was no more than any other major Democrat in New York State. But they worked harmoniously together, and Tweed aided Hoffman in getting re-elected in 1870. Shortly afterwards a new city charter was enacted which granted more local autonomy to New York City. Such reform had been discussed for decades, but Tweed with Hoffman brought it to fruition. But just at this point Tweed's corruption began being revealed in The New York Times and Harper's Weekly, and the new charter was discredited as being planned for more municipal corruption. At this time Hoffman was also considering seriously to run for the presidency in 1872, and Tweed was to be his manager. Tweed, in actuality, had little interest in national affairs (he had been a congressman for a single term in the 1850s), and while he might have considered the possible corruption pickings greater he also was aware of the bad publicity such scandals had brought on the Grant administration. Whoever ran for president in 1872 would face Grant running for re-election. As it turned out, the Tweed scandals wrecked Hoffman's chances, and the nomination eventually was split between those Democrats supporting liberal Republican Horace Greeley and those supporting the "pure" Democrat, New York attorney Charles O'Conor. Hoffman, his reputation ruined by the connections with Tweed, did not seek further political offices. Hoffman died at age 60 in Wiesbaden, Germany on March 24, 1888, while traveling in Europe with family members, as he did each winter.[2] He was buried at Dale Cemetery in Ossining. ------------------------------- SEE PHOTOS !!! NO RESERVE, SHIPPING AND HANDLING IS $2.00 IN USA, OR $4.00 FOREIGN. I COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS ON MULTIPLE ITEM TO SAVE YOU MONEY.

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