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James Bloodgood

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Main article: Category:People from Flushing, Queens
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  • 51 years, 9 months and 7 days

Murray Hill in Queens, geologically, has no hill. Albeit, its namesake is from William King Murray (1839–1918),[1] a Flushing horticulturist and nurseryman who, with Robert Bowne Parsons (1821–1898) (also a horticulturalist and nurseryman), sold property in the late 1880s to a real estate development firm headed by Frederick William Dunton (1851–1931). Dunton, by way of his mother, Lois Dunton (née Corbin; 1819–1893), was a nephew of Austin Corbin (1827–1996), President of the LIRR from 1881 until his death. A few years later, on November 2, 1898, Robert Bowne Parsons was struck and killed instantly by a westbound LIRR train at Newtown while attempting to cross the track to catch an eastbound train home to Flushing.[2]

The original Murray Hill neighborhood in Manhattan is the namesake of Robert Murray (1721–1786),[3] a New York City merchant and shipping tycoon[4] and wife, Mary Lindley (maiden; 1726–1782).

William King Murray and his two brothers, Joseph King Murray (1837–1916), a Manhattan lawyer, and Edward L. Murray (1842–1864), who died while as a POW during the Civil War, were great-grandchildren of Robert Murray (1721–1786),[3][5] They were also grandnephews of Lindley Murray (1745–1826), lawyer, writer, and internationally acclaimed grammarian. They were also grandnephews of Walter Bowne (1770–1846), the 59th Mayor of New York City. William King Murray and his brothers were also 1st cousins, twice removed of Robert Lindley Murray (1892–1970), winner of the U.S. National Tennis Championship Men's Singles title in 1917 and 1918.

  • By way of a Great-Great Grandfather, Thomas Parsons, William King Murray and Robert Bowne Parsons were 3rd cousins.
  • Samuel Bowne Parsons (1819–1906), a botanist and, with one of his sons, Samuel Bowne Parsons, Jr. (1844–1923), a nurseryman.[3] He founded Commercial Garden and Nursery of Parsons & Co. in 1838.[6]

And it was never its own town. Murray Hill is simply a neighborhood on the east side of Flushing that was, in the late 1880s, a development of the famed nurseries. Linden Hill, contiguous on Murray Hill's west border, also has no hill.

In 1901, a real estate promoter referred to the area as Murray Hill Park.[7] The area was composed of twelve blocks, each containing from 17 to 30 lots. The blocks were bounded by Bayside Avenue, Mitchell Avenue, Murray Lane, and Sixteenth Street.


  • Roullier, Gustave Augustus (1849–1910); Meagher, Mark C. (1898). Map of Murray Hill Park at Flushing, Third Ward, Borough of Queens, City of New York. Retrieved October 21, 2021 – via Queens Public Library, Digital Archives.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) OCLC 913487960 (all editions)
Queens Library: Collection AQL: 2662; Identifier AQL: 12774




QUOTE (needs rewording)
In 1889 developer Frederick William Dunton (1851–1931), a shareholder in the Long Island Rail Road, purchased large parts of the Robert Bowne Parsons estate, divided it into lots that quickly were snapped up. Dunton, by way of his mother, Lois Dunton (née Corbin; 1819–1893), was a nephew of Austin Corbin (1827–1996), President of the LIRR. A railroad stop, school and firehouse were built (their descendants remain in place today, though the original school is now a modern structure (PS 22, the Thomas Jefferson School, on Sanford Avenue east of Murray Street). Murray Hill did develop a separate suburban identity from Flushing that it retains today; though multistory apartment buildings were constructed near the Murray Hill RR station, they had a panache that today’s quickly proliferating multifamily buildings lack.
Before the neighborhood was developed by Dunton, the Murray family also held a lot of land in the area, and of course partnered in some of Flushing’s former plant nurseries, and also owned the Kingsland mansion on 37th Avenue that is now the home of the Queens Historical Society. Murray Street and Murray Lane are named for the family.[8][9]
It became known as a Flushing neighborhood in 1886.[10] Its namesake is of the same family for whom Murray Hill of Manhattan is named – Robert Murray (1721–1786) and family.[11] Before the Queens area was developed for residential housing in 1889, Murray Hill was the location of several large nurseries owned by the King, Murray, and Parsons families.


(Murray Hill Google Map → terrain map)


(Linden Hill Google Map → map)



(Murray Hill Google Map → map)



Flushing map, 1894


The LIRR Murray Hill Station opened in 1889.




  • James Bloodgood founded his nursery, James Bloodgood & Co. in 1798.[12] It covered 12 acres until 1829, then 70 acres.[13] His daughter, Anna Lawrence Bloodgood (1810–1843) – on April 1, 1839, twelve years, five months, and fourteen days years after his death, at age 28 – married Joseph Harris King (1811–1887).


  • Following the death of James Bloodgood in 1826, the business of Bloodgood & Co. of Flushing was ongoing under the management of the surviving partners, Charles Willets and John Wilcomb, with Thomas Bloodgood.
  • Around 1838, John Wilcomb and Joseph Harris King, both of whom had managed Bloodgood & Co. from 1926 until Bloodgood's death in 1936, purchased an interest in the nursery under the Estate of James Bloodgood and henceforce continued as it as Wilcomb & King.


  • After Bloodgood's death:
By 1841 Wilcomb & King → John Warner Willcomb (1793–1870), according to James Bloodgood's probated will, was a 25% owner in Bloodgood & Co.[14]
By 1845, King and Ripley were the proprietors → (i) Joseph Harris King; (ii) George Burbank Ripley (1811–1891), and (iii) Horace Ripley (1819–1893).[12]
By 1860, King and Murray were the proprietors.
By 1897, Keene & Foulk, per catalog → They were owners of Bloodgood Nursery of Flushing, as shown in a report of Entomologists in 1894 regarding the San Jose Scale. Apparently Bloodgood nursery stock had this scale infestation and was forced to destroy much of their stock as a result.
By 1912, Foulk & Flemer, per catalog → William Flemer Foulk (1890–1965) → when company became Foulk and Flemmer, it moved to Flemington, New Jersey. Ted Foulk (né Theodore Foulk; 1924–1990), Williams's son, after graduating from Princeton in 1946, moved the business to Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Flemmer stayed in New Jersey.[15]


  • Albert G. Edlin (1938–2016), who had received a degree in horticulture from Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, took over the Doylestown business and moved it to Horsham, Pennsylvania, as Bloodgood Nursery. Mr Edling was a long-time member of the Horsham Preservation and Historical Association and donated fruit trees and other plants to HPHA, and with his wife, Eleanor, hosted our Covered Dish Supper several years ago. He ran Bloodgood Nursery for 37 years.
We are sad to report the passing of Mr. Edling on December 10, 2016
Bloodgood still operates in Horsham as Bloodgood Pond and Landscaping.


James was a descendant of early Flushing settler Captain Frans Jansen Bloetgoet (c. 1632 - 29 December 1676).


  • Bloodgood sold a controlling interest in his nursery to his son-in-law, Joseph Harris King, who, in turn, turn on his nephew, William King Murray, who became his partner. The copartnership of King & Murray dissolved in March 1876 due to the retirement of King. Murray, henceforth, continued the business as sole proprietor until his retirement around 1898.



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Bloodgood relatives

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  • John Bloodgood, died December 19, 1830, in New York. He was buried in Flushing. Thomas Bloodgood was his brother. He lived on Mott Street in Manhattan.[16]

Bibliography

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Notes

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  1. ^ American Florist, November 23, 1918, p. 839.
  2. ^ New York Times, November 3 1898, p. 7.
  3. ^ a b c Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 1, 1899, p. 33.
  4. ^ New York Times, March 23 2003.
  5. ^ Egle, Google (Illinois), 1896, pp. 526–540.
  6. ^ Mandeville, Internet Archive (Allen County), 1914, pp. 134–135.
  7. ^ Sun, July 3, 1901, p. 9.
  8. ^ Walsh, July 17, 2020.
  9. ^ Walsh, October 2, 2020.
  10. ^ Brooklyn Citizen, May 29, 1899, p. 7.
  11. ^ New York Times, March 6, 2020.
  12. ^ a b Mandeville, Internet Archive (Allen County), 1914, p. 134.
  13. ^ Thomas, John Jacobs, 1858, p. 209.
  14. ^ Willcomb, 1902, p. 274.
  15. ^ "William Flemer, Sr. January 1925, p. 120.
  16. ^ New York Evening Post, December 20, 1830, p. 31.

References

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Books, journals, magazines, papers, websites

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  • Reading, Miller Kline, MD (1840–1918) (1903). William Bowne, of Yorkshire, England, and His Descendants. Flemington, New Jersey: H.E. Deats (printer). Retrieved October 21, 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link) LCCN 03-18201;
    1. Via Google Books (Wisconsin Historical Society).
    2. Via Internet Archive (Library of Congress).













    1. Via Google Books (Harvard). Lane S. Hart (printer & binder). 1886. pp. 465–477.
    2. Via Google Books (University of Illinois). Harrisburg Publishing Company. 1896. pp. 526–540.


    1. Via Internet Archive (Allen County Public Library).
    2. Via Internet Archive (Library of Congress).






  • Wilson, Edith King (née Edith Rodman King; 1876–1967) (1948). Bowne Family of Flushing, Long Island. → From the manuscripts of Jacob Titus Bowne (1847–1925), and other various sources. Richmond, Virginia: William Byrd Press (printer). Reprinted in 1987 by Bowne & Co., Inc. Retrieved October 22, 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link) LCCN 48-11491; OCLC 22656961 (all editions).


  • Probate Venue: Surrogate's Court, Queens County, New York. "The Estate of James Bloodgood, Deceased". Wills and Probate Proceedings, 1787–1881 (Queens County Surrogate Court Clerk Book → Wills, 1825–1827. Vol. E.) (Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City Microfilm No. 930530). New York County, District and Probate Courts (archives). pp. 451–454. Retrieved October 20, 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link)
Witnesses
Samuel Bowne Parsons (1819–1906), friend
Deborah M. Van Wyck
George T. Thorn
Executors
Thomas Bloodgood, decedent's brother
John Bloodgood, decedent's brother
Thomas Phillips, friend
Lindley Murray (1790–1847), friend
Thomas Tom Bloodgood (1815–1881), decedent's son
Commissioner
Nicholas N. Wyckoff (1774–1866)


News media

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    1. Via  – GenealogyBank.com.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
    2. Via  – Newspapers.com.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
    3. Via  – NYS Historic Newspapers Free access icon → Northern New York Library Network & the Empire State Library Network.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)


"Third Ward Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, shown and designated on a certain map untitled, Map of Murray Hill Flushing, Queens County, New York, surveyed December 1888, by G.A. Roullier, C.E. (née Gustave Augustus Roullier; 1849–1910), and filed as map number 497, in the office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, June 8, 1889, as and by the lot number 32 In block 193, which said lots are bounded and described as follows: to wit:"



    1. Via  – GenealogyBank.com.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
    2. Via  – Newspapers.com. {{cite book}}: |url-access= requires |url= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
    3. Via  – NYS Historic Newspapers Free access icon → Northern New York Library Network & the Empire State Library Network.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)



New-York daily advertiser (New York, N.Y. : 1817) 2641-0745 (DLC) (OCoLC)
New-York advertiser published once a week for the country (DLC)sn 85025524 (OCoLC) OCLC 11778541
New-York advertiser, for the country (DLC)sn 93062942 (OCoLC) OCLC 28296696



  • New York Times, The (November 3, 1898). "Old Man Killed Running Across Track". Vol. 48, no. 15231. p. 7 (column 7; top). Retrieved October 25, 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
    3. Link (PDF). Free access icon – via Fultonhistory.com → NY Times Image 664.







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