1860 OSWEGO NY SIGNED POLITICIANS ELIAS ROOT (3) +KINGSFORD +IRWIN +! AUTOGRAPHS

Description: SEE BIO BELOW !!!! AMAZING 1860 NY CANAL DEPT DOCUMENT, BOND OF MARINE BANK AT OSWEGO, SIGNED BY ELIAS ROOT THREE TIMES !! ALSO SIGNED TWICE BY THOMAS KINGSFORD, TWICE BY THEODORE IRWIN, TWICE BY JOHN R NOYES, ONCE BY JOSEPH WARREN. -- Elias Root (November 30, 1806 – September 10, 1880) was an American businessman and politician from New York. He was born on November 30, 1806, in Fort Ann, Washington County, New York. He attended the Fort Ann village school and the Rutland County grammar school. Then he enrolled at the United States Military Academy in West Point, but left after one year due to ill health. He taught school for two years in Newburgh, and then became a merchant there. On January 14, 1830, he married Lydia Noyes (died 1871), and they had three children. Later he moved to Mohawk, and there engaged in the wholesale and forwarding business. He was Supervisor of the Town of German Flatts. He was also Vice President of the Mohawk Valley Bank. In 1856, he moved to Oswego, where he continued his business, and was President of the Marine Bank, later the National Marine Bank, for many years.[1] Root was a member of the New York State Assembly (Oswego Co., 1st D.) in 1862 and 1865;[2] and Collector of the Port of Oswego for six years. On March 20, 1873, he married Mary A. Chalmers. He died on September 10, 1880, at his home in Oswego, New York.[3] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Kingsford was born on September 29, 1799 in Wickham, Kent County, England, the son of George and Mary (Love) Kingsford. EducationKingsford attended school until he was seventeen years old when the death of his father compelled him to find employment to help support his widowed mother. CareerFor five years Kingsford was a baker in London. He then found employment in a chemical plant where he developed a marked ability for chemical research and acquired a practical working knowledge of chemistry. Ill health, however, compelled him to give up this occupation after a few years and he again turned baker, working at his trade in various parts of England. At Kensington in addition to his baking business he maintained a general store. About 1830, when financial reverses ruined his business, he went to Headcorn in Kent County and with the assistance of his wife started a school. The following year he determined to seek his fortune in America, and leaving his wife in charge of the school, he emigrated to New York City, landing on December 12, 1831. He was able to send for his family in 1833. After working at his trade for a few months he found employment in the starch factory of William Colgate & Company at Harsimus, Bergen County, New Jersey, then the largest firm engaged in the manufacture of this commodity, and by his energy and resourcefulness soon rose to be superintendent. Starch was then made from wheat and there were many objectionable features in both the methods of manufacture and in the product. As early as 1833 Kingsford began to study means of improving the methods in use and became convinced that in ripe Indian corn lay a source of obtaining starch. For seven or eight years he continued this study without any encouragement from his employers and followed it in 1841 by a series of experiments. After many discouraging trials, upon determining that the starch in corn could not be extracted as in wheat, Kingsford accidentally placed some lime-treated corn in a receptacle containing corn treated with lye which a few days later yielded a thoroughly separated starch. Almost a year had transpired before this successful accident occurred, and very quickly thereafter, in 1842, Kingsford perfected his process and produced a quantity of marketable starch. A business engagement quickly followed between Kingsford and William Colgate & Company whereby Kingsford was to superintend all of the operations, devise the manufacturing machinery, and at the same time retain knowledge of the process for himself. Four years later, in 1846, Kingsford organized his own company with his son Thomson, erected a small factory at Bergen, New Jersey, and there began the manufacture of Kingsford starch. Two years later he founded the Oswego Starch Factory and erected a large plant at Oswego, New York, where he carried on a successful business until his death. In 1850, after a series of experiments, Kingsford successfully produced cornstarch for food purposes, which quickly came into public favor. Aside from his manufacturing interests, he was active in banking circles in Oswego. ---------------------------------------------------------------Theodore Irwin was born in Sodus, New York, in July 1827, but became best known for his personal and professional association with the port city of Oswego, in north-central New York, where he established himself as an industrialist and financier. Irwin’s library was defined in 1902, in The New York Times, as holding ‘a high and distinguished rank among the world’s great book collections’.[1] Yet, as a bibliophile, Irwin often avoided the limelight, expressing on occasion how he had ‘no desire to become celebrated as a collector’.[2] The wealth created from his business in agriculture, transportation and banking enabled him to begin collecting rare books and manuscripts in 1853, at the age of 26. The subsequent 34 years were dedicated to amassing a vast and eclectic collection, leading to the production of a library catalogue in 1887, in which 3084 books were listed. Amongst the highlights were precious incunabula (including a Gutenberg Bible), original Shakespeare folios and quartos, and a selection of illuminated medieval manuscripts. However, his most important manuscript acquisition – the so-called Golden Gospels of Henry VIII – was secured only in 1890 from Bernard Quaritch at the record price of $12,500. The tenth-century manuscript, now at the Morgan Library & Museum (MS M. 23), was described as ‘the noblest and most precious volume sold in a century’.[3] In 1900, aged 73 and reportedly struggling to cope with requests to visit his library, Irwin decided to part with his collection. The sale was conducted privately and was mediated by Joseph F. Sabin and George H. Richmond who sold it en bloc to John Pierpont Morgan in the same year. This was a landmark in the history of American book trade, reported as ‘the largest private transaction in rare books that has ever taken place in this country ------ --- SEE PHOTOS !! SHIPPING AND HANDLING IS $2.00 IN USA, OR $4.00 FOREIGN. I COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS ON MULTIPLE ITEM TO SAVE YOU MONEY. CHECK MY VERY HIGH FEEDBACK !!

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