William W. Woodworth

William W. Woodworth ( born March 16, 1807 in New London, Connecticut, † February 13, 1873 in Yonkers, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. From 1845 to 1847 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William W. Woodworth was born about five years before the outbreak of the British - American War in New London. He received a limited education. In 1834 he moved to Hyde Park in Dutchess County. He was there in the years 1838, 1841, 1843 and 1849 Town Supervisor. 1838 he was appointed judge in Dutchess County and in 1843 again. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In 1842, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the 28th Congress. He was first in the congressional elections of 1844 in the eighth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard D. Davis on March 4, 1845. In 1846 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1847 the Congress of.

After his conference time he held interests in Cuba and founded the corporation Hudson River State Co. in Clinton. On 1 December 1849 he moved to Yonkers, where he pursued real estate and banking transactions. As a steward of his father, he continued his godfather litigation and its lobbying. With the patent rights he earned up to the expiry in 1856 of 15 million dollars a year in royalties. As a contractor, he was responsible for the construction of a section of the Hudson River Railroad. Based on a land speculation he acquired in 1852 with his business partners Henry Atherton, Samuel Babcock and Charles Foster land north of New York City, which was in the immediate vicinity of the track. There were 100 acres (0.40 km ²) on Independence Avenue, where Woodworth would build a villa in the Italian style. His partner and he put on plans for villas and country roads and called their building project Riverdale. The initial investment in their own land led to the construction of houses by others, including the villas, which became known as "The Park - Riverdale ", and the construction of Stonehurst Mansion for Colgate. The residents included figures such as Henry F. Spaulding, William Appleton, William Duke, Laura Harriman, Percy R. Pyne Moses Taylor Pyne and. Woodworth was elected in 1857 and 1858 as President of Yonkers and 1870 Receiver of Taxes. On February 13, 1873, he died in Yonkers and was then buried in the Oakland Cemetery.