Archibald McIntyre (June 1, 1772 Dull, Kenmore,

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– May 6, 1858 Albany,

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), was an American merchant and politician.

Life

He was the son of Daniel McIntyre and Ann (Walker) McIntyre of the village of Dull, Kenmore, in the Breadalbane region of Perthshire, Scotland. The family emigrated to New York in 1774, settling in Broadalbin, named after their home in Scotland. He was a member of the

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from

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in 1798–99,

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, 1800–01,

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and 1820–21 and was Deputy Secretary of State from 1801 to 1806. He was

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from 1806 to 1821. He was member of the

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from the Middle District in 1822, and from the Fourth District from 1823 to 1826; sitting in the 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th and

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s. He was a

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and

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. In partnership with his son-in-law David Henderson, he ran

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mines in and around

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, including the North Elba Ironworks, the McIntyre Mine and the Adirondack Iron Company. He was also involved in the early development of

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. In the 1840s, with his nephew, Archibald Robertson, and his great nephew, Peter Thompson, he initiated coal mining in

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. From 1821 to 1834, he and his partner Henry Yates (brother of Governor Joseph C. Yates) operated the lotteries in New York and other states. Among others, they sold tickets for the

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lottery, which led to a controversy that was settled only in 1854. In 1836, he was president of the

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. On May 20, 1842, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad was sold at a public sale of the Comptroller in Albany to Henry Yates and Archibald McIntyre for the sum of $4,500, an additional sum of $13,500 being paid for the equipment. Yates and McIntyre then reorganized the road on April 13, 1843, under the name of Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad Co. In 1849, they sold it to the Leggett's Gap Railroad, and it became later part of the

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. He was buried at the

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, of which he was one of the first trustees. The MacIntyre Mountains in the

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are named after him.

References

Sources

Political Graveyard
Google Books
''The New York Civil List'' compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

Notable people's bios, at Albany Rural Cemetery

The controversy about the lottery proceeds for Union College, Dr. Nott and Yates & McIntyre.

''Yates and McIntyre: Lottery Managers'' by Hugh G. J. Aitken, in ''The Journal of Economic History'', Vol. 13, No. 1 (Winter, 1953), pp. 36–57

Early railroad history

Death notice, in NYT on May 7, 1858
''History of Political Parties in the State of New-York''
(states that the state senator elected in 1822 was "not the late comptroller")
''The MacIntyre, McIntyre and McIntire Clan of Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and New England''
compiled by Robert Harry McIntire (1949)
''Death of Archibald McIntyre''
in ''The Living Age'' (page 562) ays that he was indeed a Senator from 1822 to 1826

External links

NY State Stock Certificate signed by McIntyre, at Scripophily

The 'Deserted Village' Anthologies, containing source material on the McIntyre ironworks in Newcomb, N.Y. {{DEFAULTSORT:McIntyre, Archibald 1772 births 1858 deaths People from Perth and Kinross Scottish emigrants to the United States New York state comptrollers 19th-century American merchants Members of the New York State Assembly Burials at Albany Rural Cemetery 19th-century American railroad executives New York (state) state senators 1828 United States presidential electors 1840 United States presidential electors 19th-century members of the New York State Legislature 18th-century members of the New York State Legislature