Philip Hone

1780–1851 (age 71)

Merchant/Mayor

Photograph of Philip Hone

Biography

Philip Hone, merchant and mayor of New York City, kept a daily diary that became one of the most important social records of the antebellum era, capturing the energy and controversy of a growing metropolis. As mayor in the 1820s, he promoted civic improvements and the virtues of commerce, all while maintaining a generous patronage of the arts and careful attention to the welfare of his fellow citizens.

His writings and civic works continue to inform historians, and his memory endures in the philanthropic sensibility he brought to city life and the communal spaces he helped sustain.

Also buried at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery Churchyard

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St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery Churchyard
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St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery Churchyard
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Ogden Hoffman
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St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery Churchyard
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St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery Churchyard
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Daniel LeRoy
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St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery Churchyard
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David Lydig Suydam
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St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery Churchyard
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