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Swartwout is a Dutch surname, a variant of Swarthout (literally, ''black skin''). Notable people with it include: *Cornelius Swartwout (1839–1910), American inventor *Egerton Swartwout (1870–1943), American architect **Tracy and Swartwout, an architectural firm in New York City * Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (1818–1869), American humorist *Jacobus Swartwout (1734–1827), American landowner, statesman and military leader * Robert Swartwout (1779–1848), American military officer, merchant and alderman * Robert Egerton Swartwout (1905–1951), American-born author, poet and cartoonist * Roeloff Swartwout (1634–1715), Dutch settler in America *Samuel Swartwout (1783–1856), American soldier, merchant and politician **Swartwout–Hoyt scandal, a political scandal in 1829 *Thomas Samuel Swartwout (1660–1723), American settler *Tomys Swartwout Thomas or Tomys Swartwout (June 1, 1607 in Groningen – October 1679, in Amsterdam)Municipal Archives Amsterdam, Burials book 122 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swarthout
Swarthout, also spelled Swartwout and Swartout, is a surname of Dutch origins. All are descendants from the same lineage. Notable people with the surname include: * Gladys Swarthout (1900–1969), American opera singer * Glendon Swarthout (1918–1992), American author * Cornelius Swartwout, holder of first patent for the waffle iron * David Swartout, golf instructor and coach * Egerton Swartwout, American architect, Tracy and Swartwout * Jacobus Swartwout (1734–1827), brigadier general in Revolutionary War, delegate to New York State US Federal Constitution ratification * Roeloff Swartwout, early American settler, founder of Ulster County, New York * Robert Swartwout, 9th quartermaster general of the US Army, brigadier general during War of 1812, merchant * Samuel Swartwout, close supporter of Andrew Jackson, Collector of Customs Port of New York, American soldier *Thomas Samuel Swartwout, early settler and landowner of Peenpack Wagheckemeck Patent, Mamakating precinct, Ulst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelius Swartwout
Cornelius Swartwout (July 25, 1839 – December 17, 1910) was an American inventor who filed an early US design patent, patent related to waffle irons. Biography Swartwout was born in Westerlo, New York. The Swartwout family lineage goes back to Groningen in the Dutch Republic. He enlisted in the Union Army in July 1861, serving with the 3rd New York Volunteer Cavalry, 3rd New York Cavalry. Waffle iron and US patent The earliest waffle irons were not the work of Swartwout; instead, they originated in the Netherlands circa 14th century. They were typically made of two hinged iron plates connected to two long wooden handles, the plates often imprinted elaborate patterns on the waffles, coat of arms, landscapes, religious symbols, and the like. These irons were held over a hearth fire for baking. On August 24, 1869, Swartwout was awarded a US patent for an "Improvement in Waffle-Irons", consisting of a novel handle for opening, closing and turning a stovetop waffle iron. His inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egerton Swartwout
Egerton Swartwout (March 3, 1870 – February 18, 1943) was an American architect, most notably associated with his New York City architectural firm Tracy and Swartwout and McKim, Mead & White. His buildings, numbering over 100, were typically in the Beaux-Arts style. Six of his buildings are recognized on the National Register of Historic Places, and three others have been given landmark status by their city commissions. Family Egerton was born March 3, 1870, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the first son of Satterlee Swartwout (grandson of Robert Swartwout) and Charlotte Elizabeth Edgerton (daughter of Alfred Peck Edgerton). Egerton married British-born Isabelle Geraldine Davenport, June 20, 1904, in Cambridge, England. They had two children, Robert Egerton Swartwout and Charlotte Elizabeth. Robert, better known as R.E. Swartwout, was an author and the first American to cox the Cambridge University rowing team to victory over Oxford University, in 1930. Training and career Egerton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy And Swartwout
Tracy and Swartwout was a prominent New York City architectural firm headed by Evarts Tracy and Egerton Swartwout. History Evarts Tracy (1868–1922) was the son of first cousins Jeremiah Evarts Tracy and Martha Sherman Greene. His paternal grandmother Martha Sherman Evarts and maternal grandmother Mary Evarts were the sisters of William M. Evarts. Evarts Tracey graduated from Yale in 1890. Egerton Swartwout (1870–1943) was the first son of Satterlee Swartwout and Charlotte Elizabeth Edgerton (daughter of Ohio Representative Alfred Peck Edgerton). Swartwout graduated from Yale University in 1891. Both Swartwout and Tracy had trained and worked as draftsmen with the renowned firm, McKim, Mead and White. From 1904-1909, Tracy and Swartwout were joined by architect James Riely Gordon, forming the firm Gordon, Tracy & Swartwout. In 1909-1912 the firm was joined by Electus Darwin Litchfield, a graduate of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and the Stevens Institute of Techno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Swartwout Cozzens
Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (March 5, 1818 – December 23, 1869) was an American List of humorists, humorist, who sometimes wrote under the name Richard Haywarde. Biography Cozzens was born in New York City on 5 March 1818. In early life, he became a wine merchant. Beginning in 1854, he was the proprietor and editor of ''Cozzens' Wine Press'', a magazine on the culture of wine. In its issues, which he ran until 1861, he particularly promoted American wines. Cozzens had previously contributed humorous poems and articles to magazines, and in 1853 he issued his first volume, ''Prismatics'', under the pen name "Richard Haywarde". Then came ''The Sparrowgrass Papers'', first published in ''The Knickerbocker'', and collected in book form in 1856. The book, which was immediately popular and also published under the name Haywarde, followed a family that moved from New York City to the countryside in Yonkers, New York, Yonkers. Three years later (1859) he published a volume of travel sket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacobus Swartwout
Jacobus Swartwout (1734–1827) was an early American landowner, statesman, and military leader. Swartwout served as a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War under General George Washington. He was a close ally of many key Founding Fathers of the United States, and a delegate to New York State's convention for Constitution of the United States, ratification of the US Constitution. Family and life Jacobus Swartwout was born in Wiccopee, New York, on November 5, 1734, the son of Captain Jacobus Swartwout (captain), Jacobus Swartwout (1692–1749) and Gieletjen Nieuwkerk (1691–1749). He was baptized at the Fishkill Dutch Reformed Church. He was the grandson of Thomas Samuel Swartwout, the great grandson of Roeloff Swartwout and the great great grandson of Tomys Swartwout. His father married Gieletjen "Jannetie" Nieuwkerk of Kingston, New York, Kingston, Ulster County, New York on October 5, 1714, in Old Dutch Church in Kingston, New York, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Swartwout
Brigadier General Robert Swartwout (December 8, 1779 – July 17, 1848) was an American military officer, merchant, alderman, and Navy agent of New York City. He was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of the American Revolutionary War military veteran Captain Abraham Swartwout (1743–1799) and descendant of Tomys Swartwout. Political alliances Robert Swartwout was a loyal friend and supporter of Aaron Burr. He shot Richard Riker, a supporter of Alexander Hamilton, in the leg in a duel on November 14, 1803. Early life and military career Swartwout was born in Poughkeepsie, New York into a military and merchant family of Dutch ancestry. He was the second-born, and ultimately had four brothers and one sister. After finishing school, Swartwout intended to study at Columbia University, Columbia College. However, as his family was highly indebted and could not afford to pay the tuition fees, he chose to join the military. He began his military career in the War of 1812 as m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Egerton Swartwout
Robert Egerton Swartwout (July 2, 1905 – June 2, 1951) was an American-born English cartoonist, coxswain, and writer, including poet. He was the only son of American architect Egerton Swartwout and British-born Geraldine Davenport Swartwout. He drew from his rowing experience to produce a locked-room mystery about The Boat Race and many poems. Rowing Swartwout rowed and coxed for Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, from which he graduated on June 13, 1924. While attending Trinity College, Cambridge, he became the first American to cox Cambridge University Boat Club to victory over Oxford in 1930. Swartwout was 5' 6", weighed , and possessed a powerful bass voice. Writing At Trinity College, Swartwout earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1928, followed by a master's degree in literature in 1931. That same year, he was president of the Cambridge University Liberal Club; his devotion to David Lloyd George was such that he later became, according to the historian Eric Hobsb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roeloff Swartwout
Roelof Swartwout (June 1, 1634 – May 30, 1715) was a landowner, schout/magistrate, early settler of New Netherland, and the founder of Kingston, New York, and Hurley, New York. Early life Swartwout was born in Amsterdam, Holland, 1634, the second son of Tomys Swartwout (1607–1660). He was baptized on June 1, 1634, in the Oude Kerk Church in Amsterdam. His father was a landowner who founded (Midwout) (Midwood) Flatbush, Brooklyn, in what is today New York City. Swartwout, along with his father and family, arrived in New Netherland in 1652. Swartwout lived for a short time with his father in Midwout before helping to establish Kingston, New York, during the Esopus Wars. Career In the early 1650s, a settlement was established in the area around the Esopus Creek and Rondout Creek, small tributaries of the North River halfway between New Amsterdam and Fort Orange. At the end of 1659, Roelof returned to Holland and approached the Lords Directors of the Amsterdam chamber of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Swartwout
Samuel Swartwout (November 17, 1783 – November 21, 1856) was an American soldier, merchant, speculator, and politician. He is best known for his role in the Swartwout-Hoyt scandal, in which he was alleged to have embezzled $1,222,705.09 during his tenure as Collector of the Port of New York. Early life Swartwout was born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York on November 17, 1783. He was one of seven children born to Abraham Swartwout (1743–1799) and Maria (née North) Swartwout. Along with his brothers John Swartwout and Brigadier General Robert Swartwout, Samuel was a close ally of Aaron Burr in his early career in New York State politics. He remained close to Burr throughout the latter's life, and was his traveling companion on several long trips. Career Swartwout was an active participant in Burr's venture in the West and in the conspiracy trial that resulted from it. According to historian Thomas Perkins Abernethy, "Several members of the Swartwout fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swartwout–Hoyt Scandal
The Swartwout-Hoyt scandal was a political scandal in 1829. It arose from corruption in the Office of the Collector of the Port of New York. Background In 1829, President Andrew Jackson appointed Samuel Swartwout to serve as Collector of the Port of New York. Nine years later, Swartwout left office at the expiration of his term in 1838, retaining $201,096.40 with which to pay any pending claims that might be brought against him. He then went to England to raise money on his coal property before ensuring that his account at the customhouse was closed. After he left the country, or perhaps before, his account was "adjusted" by a subordinate and possibly by his successor, through the instigation of President Martin Van Buren. It was then alleged that Swartwout had embezzled $1,225,705.09 ($ in dollars) and fled. One of his assistants was indicted in 1841 for embezzling $609,525.71 of the sum, and, according to Swartwout's trustee, a federal court further reduced the amount by $435 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Samuel Swartwout
Thomas "Maas" Swartwout (c. 1660 – ) was one of the earliest settlers of the Neversink and Delaware River Valley, early landowner in colonial America, one of seven holders of the Wagheckemeck ( Minisink Region) Peenpack land patent then in Ulster County October 14, 1697 and one of seven founders with Pierre Guimard, Jacques Caudebec, Anthony & Bernardus Swartwout, David Jamison and Jan Tyse of pre1798 Deerpark, Orange County, New York. He married Elizabeth Jacobse Jansen Gardenier on February 4, 1683 in New York, British Province. Family Thomas Swartwout was the eldest son of Schout of Esopus Roelof Swartwout and Eva Brandt de Hooges and grandson of Tomys Swartwout. He was the brother of Antoni Swartwout and Bernardus Swartwout, brother in law of Jacob Kip, and father of Jacobus Swartwout and grandfather of Brigadier General Jacobus Swartwout. He was born in Beverwyck, New Netherland New Netherland () was a colony of the Dutch Republic located on the East Coast of what ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
