John J. Cisco

John J. Cisco (April 26, 1806 - March 23, 1884), was a merchant in the dry goods business in New York City, who retired at the age of thirty-six with a fortune. Some eleven years later, in 1853 President Franklin Pierce appointed Cisco to the office of Assistant Treasurer of the United States, and placed in charge of the Sub-Treasury in New York.[1] He was later also appointed to this office by President James Buchanan. After serving under two Democratic Presidents, Cisco expected to be replaced by the incoming Republican administration of President Lincoln, but was kept on. He served under Lincoln until the Spring of 1864, when Cisco resigned the post due to poor health.[2]

John J. Cisco
Born1806
Died1884
NationalityAmerican

Family and residence

He had 11 children from three marriages. He married Maria Devoo, Marianne Cregier and Eliza Porter Sandford. His children were: Sara Jane, Ann Stymetz, Eliza Ann, Maria Devo, John Ashfield, John Crygier, Carolyne Monroe, William Cooper, Emaline, Euphemia Jane and Harris Cisco. They lived on a house on Grymes Hill in Staten Island, New York[3] erected in 1855 by Ernest Cazet, under the superintendence of Frederick Law Olmsted, the noted landscape architect.[4][2]

Other activities

After his retirement as Assistant Treasurer of the United States, at the insistence of President Lincoln, he was appointed government director and treasurer of the Union Pacific Railroad.[5]

References
  1. Wall Street in History, Chap. 3 by Martha J. Lamb
  2. "John J. Cisco (1806-1884)". The Lehrman Institute. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
  3. https://casa-belvedere.org/history
  4. Bayles, Richard Mather (January 1, 1887). "History of Richmond County (Staten Island), New York: From Its Discovery to the Present Time". L.E. Preston – via Google Books.
  5. Report on the Subject of a Sinking Fund for the Several Pacific Railroad Companies: Together with the Acts of Congress, Decisions of Courts, and Documents Relating to Said Railroad Companies. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1876. john J. cisco.
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