{{short description|American politician (1787–1869)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Hon. Trumbull Cary | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1787|08|11}} | birth_place = Mansfield, Connecticut, US | death_date = {{death date and age|1869|6|20|1787|08|11}} | death_place = Batavia, New York, US | resting_place = Batavia Cemetery | office = New York State Bank Commissioner | term_start = 1840 | term_end = 1843 | preceded = Hiram Denio | succeeded = | office2 = Member of the New York State Senate<br>from the 8th District | term_start2 = January 1, 1831 | term_end2 = December 31, 1834 | preceded2 = George H. Boughton | succeeded2 = Isaac Lacey | office3 = Member of the New York State Assembly<br>from the District of Genesee County | term_start3 = January 1, 1828 | term_end3 = December 31, 1828 | preceded3 = Shubeal Dunham | succeeded3 = John Hascall | party = Anti-Mason<ref name="NYTObit"/> | alma_mater = | spouse = Margaret Elinor Brisbane | profession = Politician, Banker | children = Walter Cary | parents = Ebenezer Cary<br>Sarah Trumbull | relations = George Cary (grandson)<br>Seward Cary (grandson)<br>Albert Brisbane (nephew)<br>Charles Cary Rumsey (great-grandson) }} '''Trumbull Cary''' (August 11, 1787 Mansfield, Connecticut – June 20, 1869 Batavia, New York) was an American banker, lawyer,<ref name="NYTObit"/> and politician from New York.
==Early life== Trumbull Cary was born in Mansfield, Connecticut, on August 11, 1787. He was the son of Ebenezer Cary (1732–1816) and Sarah Cary (née Trumbull) (1741–1830). In 1805, aged 18, he moved to Batavia, New York, with his parents. In 1808, his father was one of two merchants operating in Batavia at the time.<ref name="Barnes">{{cite book|last1=Barnes|first1=Larry Dana|title=History of Batavia 1801-2015|date=2015|publisher=City of Batavia|url=http://www.batavianewyork.com/sites/bataviany/files/u151/history_of_batavia_by_larry_d_barnes.pdf|accessdate=5 April 2016}}</ref>
==Career== After moving to Batavia, Cary served as the Postmaster of the town for more than twenty years.<ref name="NYTObit"/> In 1822, Cary, along with two other citizens, petitioned New York State to incorporate the village of Batavia. The measure failed, but they tried again the following year, and the State approved the incorporation of the village of Batavia on April 23, 1823.<ref name="Barnes"/>
===Government service=== He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Genesee Co.) in 1828.<ref name="Hough"/> From 1831 to 1834, he was a member of the New York State Senate (8th D.), sitting in the 54th (serving alongside future U.S. President Millard Fillmore), 55th, 56th and 57th New York State Legislatures.<ref name="Hough"/> At the time, the Eighth District consisted of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara and Orleans counties. While serving in the Senate, he met William H. Seward, who later became the Governor of New York, a United States Senator, and the U.S. Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869. Seward and Cary maintained a close personal and political friendship for the rest of Cary's life.<ref name="NYTObit"/> In 1840, Cary became the New York State Bank Commissioner, a role in which he served until 1843.<ref name="Hough">{{cite book|last1=Hough|first1=Franklin Benjamin|title=The New York civil list: containing the names and origin of the civil divisions, and the names and dates of election or appointment of the principal state and county officers from the Revolution to the present time|date=1858|publisher=Weed, Parsons and Co.|location=Albany, New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newyorkcivillis00houggoog/page/n65 39], 129f, 1 206 and 263|url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkcivillis00houggoog|accessdate=5 April 2016|language=en}}</ref>
===Bank of Genesee=== In the early 19th century, Batavia was the headquarters of the Holland Land Company, owners of the Holland Purchase that became Western New York. As the largest settlement in the region at the time, it was an ideal place for a bank, and thus the Bank of Genesee was established in the city in 1829, with Cary as one of the incorporators and its first president. For the bank's first year, it operated out of his mansion in Batavia.<ref name="nrhpinv_ny">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=2504|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Batavia Club|date=April 1973|accessdate=2009-06-14 |author=Cornelia E. Brooke|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation}}''See also:'' {{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=2502|title=Accompanying two photos}}</ref><ref name="Barnes2011">{{cite book|last1=Barnes|first1=Larry D.|title=Batavia revisited|date=2011|publisher=Arcadia Pub.|location=Charleston, S.C.|isbn=978-0738574042}}</ref> Cary served as president of the bank for over twenty years, and was a director of the bank until his death in 1869.<ref name="NYTObit"/>
==Personal life== In 1817, he erected the Cary Mansion in Batavia, a 24-room Greek revival structure. It was said that the home was erected as a condition for his eventual bride, Margaret Elinor Brisbane, to marry Cary.<ref name="Barnes"/> Brisbane was the sister of utopian socialist Albert Brisbane and the aunt of Arthur Brisbane, one of the best known newspaper editors of the 20th century.<ref name="Barnes"/> Trumbull married Margaret on June 2, 1817. Together they had one son:
* Dr. Walter Cary (1818–1881), who married Julia Love (niece of Brig.-Gen. George Maltby Love); parents of seven, including architect George Cary (who married Allithea Birge) and polo-player Seward Cary (whose eldest daughter Phoebe married Arthur Brisbane in 1912).<ref name="CaryFamily">{{cite web|last1=LaChiusa|first1=Chuck|title=Cary Family / Love Family of Buffalo, NY|url=http://www.buffaloah.com/h/cary184del/tc.html|website=buffaloah.com|publisher=Buffalo Architecture and History|accessdate=4 April 2016}}</ref>
For nearly 50 years, he was a vestryman at St. James Church in Batavia.<ref name="NYTObit"/> Cary died on June 20, 1869, in Batavia, New York, and was interred at Batavia Cemetery.<ref name="NYTObit">{{cite news|last1=Staff|title=OBITUARY. Death of Hon. Trumbull Cary, of Batavia.|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1869/06/26/79362914.html?pageNumber=5|accessdate=5 April 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 26, 1869}}</ref><ref name="CaryFamily"/>
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== *Portrait, and a picture of his house, in [https://books.google.com/books?id=wtw6kUA2jlUC&pg=PA119 ''Batavia Revisited''] by Larry D. Barnes (''Images of America'' series; Arcadia Publishing, Charleston SC, 2011; {{ISBN|978-0-7385-7404-2}} ; pg. 119) *Bronze relief of Dr. Walter Cary, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, in [https://books.google.com/books?id=7oG5JpbeuDEC&pg=PA96 ''The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens''] by John H. Dryfhout (University Press of New England, reprinted 2008; {{ISBN|978-1-58465-709-5}} ; pg. 96) *[https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA129 ''The New York Civil List''] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 39, 129f, 139, 206 and 263; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) [gives surname as "Carey", except pg. 39]
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