Biography

WILLIAM MAURY, OLD COTTON MAN, DEAD
Former Orleans Business Man Dies at Son-in-Law's in St. Louis
Special to The Times-Picayune.
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 28. - William Maury, who died yesterday, aged 83, was engaged in the cotton business in New Orleans as a young man, and later became a manufacturer of iron products.

Death, which was due to old age, occurred at the home of Maury's son-in-law, Gustavus Tuckerman, civic secretary of the City Club of St. Louis. The body will be cremated, following funeral services to-morrow morning. Maury was a grandson of James Maury, the first Untied States consul to Liverpool, Eng. According to Tuckerman, his father-in-law's grandfather was appointed to the consulate in Liverpool by President Washington in 1789 and served in the office forty years.

Surviving William Maury are a son, three daughters, a brother, a sister and eight grandchildren.

(Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA) 1915-01-29, p.: 1)

William Maury married Cornelia L. Fields on Jan 8, 1866 in St. Louis, MO. (Missouri Marriage Records)

William Maury married Isabella E. Schnell in Nov. 1881 in New Orleans, LA (Orleans Parish Marriage Records, Page: 12 Volume: 9)

Born Liverpool, England.