Augustus Lefebvre Revere (1861-1910) was an American financier, banker, stock broker, and civic leader from

Morristown, New Jersey Morristown () is a Town (New Jersey), town in and the county seat of Morris County, New Jersey, Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

. He was a member of the Morristown Club, the Morristown Golf Club, the Morristown Field Club, and the Washington Association of New Jersey, the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Memorial Day Association. He was the son of Joseph Warren Revere, and the great-grandson and "last urvivingdirect descendant" of Revolutionary War figure

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Personal life

Augustus Lefebvre Revere was born on August 8, 1861 (some sources say 1858) in

Morristown, New Jersey Morristown () is a Town (New Jersey), town in and the county seat of Morris County, New Jersey, Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

. His parents were Rosanna Duncan Lamb Revere and General Joseph Warren Revere. Revere never married.

Career and civic engagement

Circa 1911, he was the local manager of New York stock and bond brokers Taylor, Auchincloss & Joost, presumably in

Paterson, New Jersey Paterson ( ) is the largest City (New Jersey), city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. In 1891, Augustus Revere and his brother

joined the Washington Association of New Jersey. Circa 1897, they were non-resident members of the New York Reform Club. In 1899, he was a director of the Morristown Trust Co. Circa 1901, art collector and publisher William Loring Andrews sent a copy of his book ''Paul Revere and His Engraving'' to A. L. Revere. He thanked Revere for his kind letter and described how he enjoyed compiling his great-grandfather's artwork. In 1907, he was elected as

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, presumably of Morristown.

Death and legacy

On May 20, 1910, he died of

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at his home, the historic Sansay House in Morristown. He was serving his second term as Morristown

when he died,Undated newspaper clipping, “Mr. Revere's Bequests.” Fosterfields cabinet, Subject Research Files > Paul & Augustus Revere. as well as being a vestryman at the Church of the Redeemer.

Will

Upon his 1910 death, Revere gave away $150,000 of his wealth (equivalent to $ million in ). He named the Morristown Trust Co. (where he was a director circa 1899) as the will's executor, probated by surrogate David Young. He left $25,000 to Morristown's Episcopal Church of the Redeemer as an endowment fund as well as an additional $25,000 for the erection of a new building. He gave the Morristown Trust Company where he worked $20,000, "the income of which is to be paid to...Marie Amelia Revere, of Canton, Mass.," and "at her death $20,000...to be given to the

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." The Harvard University grant was "to be known as the Revere Family Memorial Fund, and the income to be used for the purchase of books and plaster casts or other art objects for the use of the

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or for the assistance of needy students of the school." Harvard received the money in 1913. He gave the Morristown Church of the Assumption $500 to continue building a wall around its cemetery "from its present terminus to the main gate on Whippany road." Revere granted all of the Sansay House's furniture and "

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" to his surviving mother, Rosanna Duncan Lamb Revere. He also left $1,000 to be divided among his servants. He gave the All Souls' Hospital in Morristown $10,000 as the Paul Revere Memorial Fund, to be used for the erection of a new building. The hospital's president was his late brother,

. He donated $2,500 each to two charities: the

Market Street Mission Market Street Mission is an American charity organization and Christian mission based in Morristown, New Jersey. The organization operates a homeless shelter, meals, and emergency services, along with men's drug addiction recovery groups, commu ...

of Morristown and the Society for Providing Medical Attendance to the Worthy Poor of the Township of Morris. He gave the Morristown Trust Co. $6,000 to erect a granite and bronze flagpole base in the Morristown Green inscribed "Erected in memory of General Joseph Warren Revere," his father. He also gave $1,000 for an oil portrait of his father to be placed in the

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at Trenton.

Later legacy

In the winter of 1996, Fosterfields Living Historical Farm hosted an interpretive exhibit wherein museum guests were given the roles of Caroline Foster's friends and other local millionaires while touring the Reveres' Willows mansion. One of these historical figures was Augustus Revere.

References

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