Charles T. Duryea

Charles T. Duryea
Member of the New York State Assembly
from the Suffolk County district
In office
January 1879 – January 1879
Preceded byCharles S. Havens
Succeeded byGeorge F. Carman
Member of the New York State Assembly
from the Queens County's 1st district
In office
1863–1864
Preceded byIsaac Coles
Succeeded byWilliam Turner
Under Sheriff of Suffolk County
In office
1883–1886
Superintendent of New York Bonded Warehouses
In office
1887–1887
Deputy Collector of the Port of New York
Personal details
Born(1832-08-20)August 20, 1832
Center Moriches, New York, U.S.
DiedDecember 27, 1899(1899-12-27) (aged 67)
Babylon, New York, U.S.
Resting placeBabylon Rural Cemetery, Babylon, New York
PartyDemocratic
Spouse
Mary Mowbray Smith
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(m. 1858)​
Children4
OccupationFarmer, hotel keeper, politician

Charles Terhune Duryea (August 20, 1832 – December 27, 1899) was an American politician from New York.

Life

Duryea was born on August 20, 1832, in Center Moriches, New York,[1] the son of John Hubbs Duryea and Maria Duryea.[2]

Duryea attended Miller's Place Academy, a well-known school at the time. When he was 19, he moved with his parents to Dix Hills, where his father built a farm. He left the farm shortly afterwards and became a teacher in the House of Refuge in Manhattan. Shortly after his wedding, he moved to Syosset and began farming there.[3]

Duryea was Justice of the Peace from 1860 to 1862. In 1862, he was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Democrat, representing the Queens County 1st District. He served in the Assembly in 1863 and 1864.[4] In 1865, he moved to Brooklyn and spent the next two years representing a railroad pool in the Bureau of Immigration. In 1867, he moved to Huntington, leased the Suffolk Hotel, and spent the next several years successfully conducting the hotel. In 1874, he moved to Babylon and began managing Sumpwams Hotel, the leading local hotel at the time.[3]

Duryea was a Trustee of Huntington in 1871[5] and Supervisor of Babylon in 1876 and 1878. In 1878, he was the Democratic candidate for the New York State Assembly in Suffolk County and was declared the winner by one vote. He briefly served in 1879 but the Assembly declared the Republican candidate George F. Carman the winner.[1] In 1879, he was the Democratic candidate for the New York State Senate in New York's 1st State Senate district. He lost the election to Republican candidate John Birdsall.[6]

At one point, Duryea edited the Babylon paper Budget, which later merged with the South Side Signal. In 1883, Sheriff Selah S. Brewster appointed him Under Sheriff. He served in that office until the start of 1886. In 1887, Collector Daniel Magone appointed him Superintendent of New York Bonded Warehouses. And when Deputy Collector Dabney died a few years later, Collector James T. Kilbreth appointed him to that position. He retired in 1896 due to poor health.[3]

In 1858, Duryea married Mary Mowbray Smith. Their children were Carel Smith, Emma Louise, Annie Maria, and Stephen Conklin.[7]

Duryea died at home from a long illness on December 27, 1899.[8] His funeral was conducted at his home and was led by the Rev. George Downings Sparks, the rector of Christ Church in West Islip. A delegation of officers and members from the Freemason lodge Duryea was a member of attended the funeral.[9] He was buried in the Babylon Rural Cemetery.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 McBride, Alexander, ed. (1879). The Evening Journal Almanac, 1879. Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons & Co. p. 141 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ↑ Duryee, Harold T. (1955). The Charles Duryee Family: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Charles Duryee, Son of Joost, of Bushwick, Long Island, New York, With the Collateral Families of Schenck, Woodward, Moore, Fish, Leverich, Morse, Bosworth, Dean, Brooks, and Howe. p. 17 – via Internet Archive.
  3. 1 2 3 "The Hon. Charles Terhune Duryea". South Side Signal. Vol. 31, no. 1590. Babylon, N.Y. December 30, 1899. p. 3 – via NYS Historic Newspapers.
  4. ↑ The Evening Journal Almanac, 1864. Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons & Company. 1864. p. 80 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ↑ Shanks, Charles G., ed. (1879). The State Government for 1879: Memorial Volume of the New Capitol, Being Sketches of the Old and New Capitols, and Biographies of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature. Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons and Company. p. 99 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ McBride, Alexander, ed. (1881). The Evening Journal Almanac, 1881. Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons & Co. p. 123 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ↑ Stoutenburgh, Henry A. (1902). A Documentary History of Het (the) Nederdeutsche Gemeente, Dutch Congregation, of Oyster Bay, Queens County, Island of Nassau, Now Long Island. p. 204 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ "Hon. Charles T. Duryea". The Corrector. Vol. 78, no. 31. Sag Harbor, N.Y. December 30, 1899. p. 2 – via NYS Historic Newspapers.
  9. ↑ "Charles Terhunt Duryea". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. New York, N.Y. December 29, 1899. p. 11 – via Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn Newsstand.
  10. ↑ "Charles T Duryea (1832-1899)". PeopleLegacy. Retrieved March 18, 2025.
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