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Hendrick Vanderbilt Duryea (1799-1891) was president of the Duryea Corn Starch Manufacturing Company. He died in 1891 at the age of 92. (b. 26 February 1799; Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York, USA - d. 1 April 1891; Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York, USA)

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Hiram Duryea (1891)

Biography of his son with family history. "… The father of General Duryea was Hendrick Vanderbilt Duryea, who was born in Syosset, Long Island, in 1799, and died in 1891. The General's mother was Elizabeth Wright, who was born in 1801, was married to Hendrick V. Duryea in 1819, and died in 1881. …"

Hendrick Vanderbilt Duryea (1891)

His death. "Hendrick Vanderbilt Duryea, a lifelong resident of Long Island, died at his home in Glen Cove Wednesday afternoon in his ninety-third year. He was attacked by a severe cold ten days ago which developed into the grip, which his great age made him unable to withstand. He was in possession of all his faculties at his death, and was remarkably hale and hearty up to the day he caught cold. … Hendrick V. Duryea met many hardships in his young days, including the loss of one arm. He lost the hand in a buzz saw, and gangrene setting in the whole arm had to go at the shoulder. His wife died only a few years ago. Mr. Duryea was aboard the steamboat Seawanhaka when it was burned. He was then eighty years old, and as he had but one arm be would have been lost had it not been for the kindness and bravery of the wife of ex-Mayor William Russell Grace, who put a life preserver about him and helped him over the side. …"

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