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Caleb Ogden Halsted (June 13, 1792 – October 7, 1860) was an American merchant and banker.


Early life

Halsted was born in
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General), and raised him. His father served as Brigade Major on the staff of Gen. Winds, aide-de-camp to Gen.
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in the
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during the
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. The patriarch of the Halsted family was Timothy Halsted, who emigrated from England to America as early as 1660 and settled in
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before relocating to Elizabethtown. His paternal grandparents were Caleb Halsted Jr. and Rebecca ( Ogden) Halsted. His grandmother was a daughter of Robert Ogden who was a grandson of colonist
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, an original patentee of the Elizabethtown Purchase, "the first English settlement in the Colony of New Jersey." His mother was, therefore, a first cousin of
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and
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and Col.
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.


Career

Halsted began his career as a cloth merchant. In 1847, however, he was made president of the
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, succeeding Jonathan Thompson, who had been made president in 1840. In 1853, the Manhattan Company became one of the original 52 members of the
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Association and Halsted became its first president. Halsted served as president until his death in October 1860. Later that year, the board of directors promoted James M. Morrison as president of the bank to succeed Halsted.


Personal life

In December 1823, Halsted was married to Caroline Louisa Pitney (1796–1879), a daughter of Dr. Aaron Pitney and Anna Bowne ( Proovost) Pitney. Together, they were the parents of five children, three of whom died in infancy, including: * Pitney Halsted (1824–1825), who died in infancy. * Lucinetta "Lucy" Halsted (1825–1912), who married Col. John Kean, son of Peter Philip James Kean and Sarah Sabina
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, in 1847. * Caroline Halsted (1827–1848), who married William Henry Morris, a son of James Morris and Helen Van Cortlandt, in 1846. * Edwin Halsted (1829–1829), who died in infancy. * Theodore Halsted (1830–1831), who died in infancy. Halsted died on October 7, 1860, in Manhattan. After a funeral at the Presbyterian Church on University Place and 10th Street in Manhattan, he was buried in the churchyard of the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth. His widow died in New York on July 1, 1879.


Descendants

Through his daughter Lucy, he was a grandfather of nine, including Caroline Morris Kean (1849–1887) (wife of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State George L. Rives),
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and
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John Kean (1852–1914), U.S. Senator
Hamilton Fish Kean Hamilton Fish Kean (February 27, 1862December 27, 1941) was a U.S. Senator from New Jersey. Early life Kean was the son of Lucy (née Halsted) and Col. John Kean. He was related to several prominent American politicians including his great-grand ...
(1862–1941) (who married Katharine Taylor Winthrop), and Christine Griffin Kean (who married Emlen Roosevelt).


References

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