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    William Frederick Havemeyer (February 12, 1804 – November 30, 1874) was an American businessman and politician who served three times as mayor of New...
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  • refineries, before passing the business on to their sons. His son William Frederick Havemeyer, retired from the sugar refining business in 1842 and entered...
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    William Frederick Havemeyer was New York City's first fireboat. The vessel entered service in 1875, and retired in 1901. She was named in honor of a recent...
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    Duryée Joel B. Erhardt Frederick Dent Grant Theodore Roosevelt William S. Devery Michael Cotter Murphy Francis Vinton Greene Frederick Hamilton Bugher in...
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  • Woodward Moss Havemeyer (1869–1934), American socialite Charles Frederick Havemeyer (1867–1898), American socialite Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1847–1907)...
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    After the Havemeyer brothers retired in 1828, their respective sons, cousins William F. Havemeyer (1804-1874) and Frederick C. Havemeyer Jr. (1807-1891)...
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  • Connecticut after his parents divorced. His grandfather William Frederick Havemeyer was three time Mayor of New York City, and his maternal grandfather...
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  • Standard Oil, yachtsman William L. Harkness Charles K. Harris William Frederick Havemeyer, businessman, Mayor of New York City William Haviland, actor Coleman...
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  • Charles Frederick Havemeyer (March 1867 – May 9, 1898) was an American socialite who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age. Havemeyer was...
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    elevator car and made it impossible for Zito to make another attempt. William Gunn Shepherd, a reporter at the tragedy, would say, "I learned a new sound...
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