Biography of H. Julius Caryl
FROM OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
A DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF THE SARATOGIAN
THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1899
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Caryl, H. Julius, is a native of Otsego county, and was educated at Hartwick Seminary. He has long been a prominent
member of the New York Produce Exchange and one of the board of directors of the New York National Exchange Bank,
also a dealer in real estate. He married Eliza Jumel Perv, June 21, 1876. Both Mr. and Mrs. Caryl are descendants
of Revolutionary ancestors, and Mrs. Caryl's family has been associated with Saratoga Springs since 1804 and Jumel
Cottage was named in honor of Madame Jumel. Mrs. Caryl's great-grandfather, Jonathan Clark, was a Revolutionary
soldier and a friend of John Hancock. Her father was Nelson Chase, a distinguished lawyer of New York city, and
her mother a niece of Madam Jumel, whose husband, Stephen Jumel, was a merchant prince of New York in the early
days of this century; she purchased a tract in Saratoga Springs in. 1832, which remained intact until 1881, when
it was sold under a partition sale. The present Caryl residence is a part of that estate. Mrs. Caryl possesses
a very interesting and valuable collection of relics of the great Bonaparte, purchased by Stephen Jumel from a
niece of Josephine. Stephen Jumel owned a dozen ships and sailed to France to bring Napoleon Bonaparte to America
in 1815. Bonaparte, however, decided to throw himself upon the clemency of the English and then found himself lost.
Among the relics of Napoleon is his army chest, which he carried through all his wars, and which ha3 a secret lock,
the key of which never left his possession until the day before he left for St. Helena. Mr. Caryl's parents were
Hon. Leonard and Mary (Crippen) Caryl. His father was a member of assembly in 1842, and his great-grandfather was
a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
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