Ransom Halloway

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

Ransom Halloway
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 8th district
In office
1849–1851
Preceded byCornelius Warren
Succeeded byGilbert Dean
Personal details
Bornc. 1793
Pawling, New York
DiedApril 6, 1851(1851-04-06) (aged 57–58)
Mount Pleasant, Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Political partyWhig
Spouse(s)
Rebecca Dodge
​
(
m. 1820; died 1843)

Eliza Waring
​
(
m. 1851; his death 1851)

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."[8]

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

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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. Senate, New York (State) Legislature (1902). Documents of the Senate of the State of New York: Volume 11. p. 1963. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  5. Holt, Michael F. (2003). The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. Oxford University Press. p. 1088. ISBN 978-0-19-983089-3. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  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 Archived 2013-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, 2011, page 26
  8. Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society. The Dutchess County Historical Society. 1938. p. 53. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  9. W.M. Morrison, Stryker's American Register and Magazine, Volume 6, 1853, page 223
  10. The Bowies and Their Kindred: A Genealogical and Biographical History, 1899, page 492. This entry describes Halloway as being from New Jersey, bus since only one person named Halloway has ever served in Congress, this is clearly an error.
  11. Hawley, An Explanation of Proposed Revisions, page 26
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Cornelius Warren		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 8th congressional district
1849–1851		 Succeeded by
Gilbert Dean
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