Ransom Halloway Explained

State:New York
District:8th
Term Start:1849
Term End:1851
Predecessor:Cornelius Warren
Successor:Gilbert Dean
Birth Place:Pawling, New York
Party:Whig
Spouse:

    Ransom Halloway (c. 1793  - April 6, 1851) was a United States representative from New York.

    Early life

    Halloway was born in Pawling, Dutchess County. His name is sometimes spelled "Holloway." After the deaths of their parents, Ransom and his sister were raised by relatives.[1]

    Career

    He settled in Beekman, where he farmed and worked as a hat maker.[2] [3] He was also active in the state militia, and was appointed paymaster of the 30th Brigade in 1818.[4]

    Halloway was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress, holding office from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1851.[5] [6]

    Personal life

    In 1820, he married Rebecca Dodge, a daughter of Joseph and Ann Dodge, who died on August 5, 1843.[7]

    In 1851, a few months before his death, he married Eliza Genevieve Waring of Mount Pleasant in Prince George County, Maryland. His second wife's name appears in some accounts as "Warren."

    He died on April 6, 1851, in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, at Mount Pleasant,[8] the home of his second wife.[9] He was buried next to his first wife at the Dodge Family Cemetery in Pawling.[10] [11]

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    Notes and References

    1. Louise Tompkins, Millbrook Round Table, Out of the Past in Old Dutchess: Aaron Burr and the Quaker Lady, January 27, 1971
    2. Dutchess County Historical Society, Year Book, 1946, page 53
    3. New York Herald, Odds and Ends, November, 1848
    4. Book: Senate . New York (State) Legislature . Documents of the Senate of the State of New York: Volume 11 . 1902 . 1963 . 14 January 2020 . en.
    5. Book: Holt . Michael F. . The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War . 2003 . . 978-0-19-983089-3 . 1088 . 14 January 2020 . en.
    6. Putnam County Courier, Death of Benjamin Bailey, July 20, 1872
    7. Richard E. Hawley, An Explanation of Proposed Revisions To Settlers of the Beekman Patent and Mayflower Families in Progress, 2011, page 26
    8. W.M. Morrison, Stryker's American Register and Magazine, Volume 6, 1853, page 223
    9. https://archive.org/stream/bowiestheirkindr00bowi#page/976/mode/2up The Bowies and Their Kindred: A Genealogical and Biographical History
    10. Hawley, An Explanation of Proposed Revisions, page 26
    11. Book: Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society . 1938 . . 53 . 14 January 2020 . en.