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James Bloodgood

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 * Main article: Category:People from Flushing, Queens


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 * 51 years, 9 months, 22 days

Murray Hill in Queens, geologically, has no hill. Albeit, its namesake is from William King Murray (1839–1918), a Flushing horticulturist and nurseryman who, with Robert Bowne Parsons (1821–1898) (also a horticulturalist and nurseryman), sold property in the late 1880s to a real estate development firm headed by Frederick William Dunton (1851–1931). Dunton, by way of his mother, Lois Dunton (née Corbin; 1819–1893), was a nephew of Austin Corbin (1827–1996), President of the LIRR from 1881 until his death. A few years later, on November 2, 1898, Robert Bowne Parsons was struck and killed instantly by a westbound LIRR train at Newtown while attempting to cross the track to catch an eastbound train home to Flushing.

The original Murray Hill neighborhood in Manhattan is the namesake of Robert Murray (1721–1786), a New York City merchant and shipping tycoon and wife, Mary Lindley (maiden; 1726–1782).

William King Murray and his two brothers, Joseph King Murray (1837–1916), a Manhattan lawyer, and Edward L. Murray (1842–1864), who died while as a POW during the Civil War, were great-grandchildren of Robert Murray (1721–1786), They were also grandnephews of Lindley Murray (1745–1826), lawyer, writer, and internationally acclaimed grammarian. They were also grandnephews of Walter Bowne (1770–1846), the 59th Mayor of New York City. William King Murray and his brothers were also 1st cousins, twice removed of Robert Lindley Murray (1892–1970), winner of the U.S. National Tennis Championship Men's Singles title in 1917 and 1918.


 * By way of a Great-Great Grandfather, Thomas Parsons, William King Murray and Robert Bowne Parsons were 3rd cousins.


 * Samuel Bowne Parsons (1819–1906), a botanist and, with one of his sons, Samuel Bowne Parsons, Jr. (1844–1923), a nurseryman. He founded Commercial Garden and Nursery of Parsons & Co. in 1838.

And it was never its own town. Murray Hill is simply a neighborhood on the east side of Flushing that was, in the late 1880s, a development of the famed nurseries. Linden Hill, contiguous on Murray Hill's west border, also has no hill.


 * In 1901, a real estate promoter referred to the area as Murray Hill Park. The area was composed of twelve blocks, each containing from 17 to 30 lots. The blocks were bounded by Bayside Avenue, Mitchell Avenue, Murray Lane, and Sixteenth Street.




 * Queens Library: Collection AQL: 2662; Identifier AQL: 12774




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 * In 1889 developer Frederick William Dunton (1851–1931), a shareholder in the Long Island Rail Road, purchased large parts of the Robert Bowne Parsons estate, divided it into lots that quickly were snapped up. Dunton, by way of his mother, Lois Dunton (née Corbin; 1819–1893), was a nephew of Austin Corbin (1827–1996), President of the LIRR.  A railroad stop, school and firehouse were built (their descendants remain in place today, though the original school is now a modern structure (PS 22, the Thomas Jefferson School, on Sanford Avenue east of Murray Street). Murray Hill did develop a separate suburban identity from Flushing that it retains today; though multistory apartment buildings were constructed near the Murray Hill RR station, they had a panache that today’s quickly proliferating multifamily buildings lack.


 * Before the neighborhood was developed by Dunton, the Murray family also held a lot of land in the area, and of course partnered in some of Flushing’s former plant nurseries, and also owned the Kingsland mansion on 37th Avenue that is now the home of the Queens Historical Society. Murray Street and Murray Lane are named for the family.


 * It became known as a Flushing neighborhood in 1886. Its namesake is of the same family for whom Murray Hill of Manhattan is named – Robert Murray (1721–1786) and family. Before the Queens area was developed for residential housing in 1889, Murray Hill was the location of several large nurseries owned by the King, Murray, and Parsons families.


 * (Murray Hill Google Map → terrain map)


 * (Linden Hill Google Map → map)


 * (Murray Hill Google Map → map)


 * Flushing map, 1894

The LIRR Murray Hill Station opened in 1889.


 * James Bloodgood founded his nursery, James Bloodgood & Co. in 1798. It covered 12 acres until 1829, then 70 acres. His daughter, Anna Lawrence Bloodgood (1810–1843) – on April 1, 1839, 12 years, 5 months, 18 days years after his death, at age 28 – married Joseph Harris King (1811–1887).


 * Following the death of James Bloodgood in 1826, the business of Bloodgood & Co. of Flushing was ongoing under the management of the surviving partners, Charles Willets and John Wilcomb, with Thomas Bloodgood.


 * Around 1838, John Wilcomb and Joseph Harris King, both of whom had managed Bloodgood & Co. from 1926 until Bloodgood's death in 1936, purchased an interest in the nursery under the Estate of James Bloodgood and henceforce continued as it as Wilcomb & King.


 * After Bloodgood's death:
 * By 1841 Wilcomb & King → John Warner Willcomb (1793–1870), according to James Bloodgood's probated will, was a 25% owner in Bloodgood & Co.
 * By 1845, King and Ripley were the proprietors → (i) Joseph Harris King; (ii) George Burbank Ripley (1811–1891), and (iii) Horace Ripley (1819–1893).
 * By 1860, King and Murray were the proprietors.
 * By 1897, Keene & Foulk, per catalog → They were owners of Bloodgood Nursery of Flushing, as shown in a report of Entomologists in 1894 regarding the San Jose Scale. Apparently Bloodgood nursery stock had this scale infestation and was forced to destroy much of their stock as a result.
 * By 1912, Foulk & Flemer, per catalog → William Flemer Foulk (1890–1965) → when company became Foulk and Flemmer, it moved to Flemington, New Jersey. Ted Foulk (né Theodore Foulk; 1924–1990), Williams's son, after graduating from Princeton in 1946, moved the business to Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Flemmer stayed in New Jersey.


 * Albert G. Edlin (1938–2016), who had received a degree in horticulture from Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, took over the Doylestown business and moved it to Horsham, Pennsylvania, as Bloodgood Nursery. Mr Edling was a long-time member of the Horsham Preservation and Historical Association and donated fruit trees and other plants to HPHA, and with his wife, Eleanor, hosted our Covered Dish Supper several years ago. He ran Bloodgood Nursery for 37 years.


 * We are sad to report the passing of Mr. Edling on December 10, 2016


 * Bloodgood still operates in Horsham as Bloodgood Pond and Landscaping.


 * James was a descendant of early Flushing settler Captain Frans Jansen Bloetgoet (c. 1632 - 29 December 1676).


 * Bloodgood sold a controlling interest in his nursery to his son-in-law, Joseph Harris King, who, in turn, turn on his nephew, William King Murray, who became his partner. The copartnership of King & Murray dissolved in March 1876 due to the retirement of King. Murray, henceforth, continued the business as sole proprietor until his retirement around 1898.


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Bloodgood relatives

 * John Bloodgood, died December 19, 1830, in New York. He was buried in Flushing. Thomas Bloodgood was his brother. He lived on Mott Street in Manhattan.

Books, journals, magazines, papers, websites
  


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 * Witnesses


 * Samuel Bowne Parsons (1819–1906), friend
 * Deborah M. Van Wyck
 * George T. Thorn


 * Executors


 * Thomas Bloodgood, decedent's brother
 * John Bloodgood, decedent's brother
 * Thomas Phillips, friend
 * Lindley Murray (1790–1847), friend
 * Thomas Tom Bloodgood (1815–1881), decedent's son
 * Commissioner


 * Nicholas N. Wyckoff (1774–1866)

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