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General Hiram Duryea (1834-1914) served in the American Civil War on the Union side, as a Brevet Brigadier General. He was murdered by his own son in 1914. Hiram died at age 80. (b. 12 April 1834; Manhasset, Nassau County, New York, USA - d. 5 May 1914; Bay Ridge, Kings County, New York, USA)

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Hiram Duryea (1891)

His biography. "… General Hiram Duryea was born at Manhasset, Long Island, April 12th, 1834. He received a good education in public and private schools, and, at the age of twenty-one, became a partner with his father in the starch manufacturing business. He was vice-president and president of the Glen Cove Starch Manufacturing Company for many years, and afterwards became president of the National Starch Company, which succeeded the Glen Cove Company. The military career of General Duryea was very creditable. In 1855, Governor Myron Clark commissioned him First Lieutenant of Artillery in the Forty-eighth Regiment of the State Militia, a commission which he held for several years. At the beginning of the Civil War, he promptly tendered his services to the State, and on April 25th, 1861, was commissioned Captain in the Fifth New York Infantry (Duryee Zouaves), and on August 15th, 1861, was commissioned Major in the same regiment, and on September 3d, Lieutenant-Colonel. After the siege of Yorktown he commanded the regiment in the Peninsula and Maryland campaigns. In the Seven Days' Battles, and in the operations before Richmond, his regiment was specially mentioned for its gallantry and efficient services, being one of the most famous New York commands in the war, and he was several times commended, in official reports, for distinguished service. He was appointed Colonel of the same regiment October 29th, 1862, and on May 26th, 1866, was commissioned by the President of the United States, Brevet Brigadier-General of Volunteers "for distinguished conduct at the Battle of Gaines Mills, Va." He retired from the service December, 1862, in consequence of permanent injuries received in the field. General Duryea was married, in 1868, to Laura D. Burnell, daughter of Leander Burnell and Anna Noble (Dewey) Burnell. His children are, Harry H., Chester B., Anna E., and Millicent S. Duryea. …"

Hendrick Vanderbilt Duryea (1891)

Death of his father. "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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