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Edward Cornelius Delavan
Birth: 1-6-1793
Death: 1-15-1871
Biography
Edward Cornelius Delavan was the owner of the famous downtown hotel and restaurant the Delavan House, notorious for open bribery and assorted shenanigans of state legislators during the Tammany Hall era. The booze flowed freely at his hotel, and he was a successful wine merchant who, later in life, did an about-face and became a rabid teetotaler and fanatical leader of a national temperance movement.
Letter References
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, Jr., August 9, 1857
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, January 20, 1842
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, February 7, 1834
Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, November 24, 1834
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Edward Cornelius Delavan was the owner of the famous downtown hotel and restaurant the Delavan House, notorious for open bribery and assorted shenanigans of state legislators during the Tammany Hall era. The booze flowed freely at his hotel, and he was a successful wine merchant who, later in life, did an about-face and became a rabid teetotaler and fanatical leader of a national temperance movement.
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Edward C. Delevan
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Edward C. Delevan
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