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of this city with great ability, as chairman of the Committee of Commerce. He succeeded in passing a bill which extended the detention laws to the Canada trade, though it had been unsuccessfully attempted for 20 years. He also introduced and advocated the warehouse bill, which has proved of great advantage to the commerce of this city.
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"He also ably defended the bill to establish a branch mint in New York; and upon his return, the Chamber of Commerce voted him their thanks for his able efforts. He was nominated for the 30th Congress, but lost his election by 49 votes. In the following year (1847), he represented the city in the State legislature, and in 1849 was again sent to Congress.
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"Mr. Phoenix was distinguished by great ability and the strictest adherence to the path of rectitude and honor. He was courteous, warm-hearted, and liberal, and has held numerous offices of trust in the commercial and political world."
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He was nominated by the Whigs for Congress in 1844,1850, and 1856, but declined to be a candidate.
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V. Henry Whitney, b. at 25 Pearl St., New York, 23 Aug. 1812; was graduated at Yale College in 1830, and settled in New Haven, Conn., in 1837, where he continued to reside until his death, living for a year in "Maple Cottage", Trumbull Street, until the fine mansion which he built for himself on Whitney Avenue (now occupied by his son Stephen) was completed; married, 27 Jan. 1835, by Rev. Dr. Lyell, at the residence of her parents, 498 Broadway, N. Y., to Hannah Eugenia Lawrence,1 born in New York, 27 Jan. 1815, dau. of Isaac Lawrence and his wife Anna, dau. of Rev. Abraham Beach, D. D., minister of Trinity Church, New York. She died, 16 March 1844, in New Haven, and was buried in the New Haven Cemetery. He married (2d), 25 July 1850, at Norwich, Conn., Maria Lucy Fitch;2 and died in New Haven, 21 March 1856, and was buried in the New Haven Cemetery.
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VI. Stephen Whitney, b. at 25 Pearl St., New York, 11 Oct. 1814; died of consumption, at his father's residence, 7 Bowling Green, New York, 21 Nov. 1858, unmarried, and was buried in the family chapel, Greenwood Cemetery.
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VII. William Whitney, b. at 25 Pearl St., New York, 6 July 1816; for many years a gentleman-farmer, having a fine country-seat near Morristown, N. J.; married, 4 Nov. 1843, in the Duane Street, (Presbyterian) Church, by Rev. George Potts, to Mary Stuart McVickar, born at
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1 For some account of her ancestry, see the chart opposite page 344.
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2 She married (2d), 20 Nov. 1862, at New York, Nathan Adolphus Baldwin, of Milford, Conn., where they resided in June 1877. They have one child, Natalie Augusta Baldwin, born at Milford, 26 Dec. 1864.
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