Items

• Photograph of Highwood - 1890

  Sepia toned photograph of Highwood, the elegant stone mansion built by James Gore King in 1832. After King's death in 1853, most of the family moved back to New York City. The mansion remained at it's location (approximately 21 King Avenue) until it burned in 1895. This image from 1890 is from Edward Kirk's Scrapbook.
• Highwood Bluff Mansion Photographs

  Three sepia toned photographs of Highwood Bluff or The Bluff, a mansion built by Archibald Gracie King, son of James Gore King in 1880-1881. Images are from the Edward Kirk Scrapbook. The first shows the mansion in 1910, the second in 1915 and the last in 1921, after it was destroyed by fire.
• James Gore King

  This engraving of James Gore King is from a Memoir of the Life of James Gore King, published by his brother Charles in 1854. The memoir, originally published in Hunts Merchants Magazine and reprinted in booklet form by George W. Wood of 9 Dutch Street in New York is 22 pages in length. It is not reproduced here due to its fragility. This item is in the collection of Willie Demontreux.
• Biography of James Gore King

  Entry from the Biographical Dictionary of the US Congress about the man who gave his name to King Avenue and Highwood Terrace and Avenue. KING, James Gore, (son of Rufus King and brother of John Alsop King), a Representative from New Jersey; born in New York City May 8, 1791; pursued classical studies in England and France; returned to United States; was graduated from Harvard University in 1810; studied law at the Litchfield Law School; served in the War of 1812 as assistant adjutant general of New York Militia; engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York City in 1815 and in banking in Liverpool, England, in 1818; returned to New York City in 1824 and engaged in banking, with residence in Weehawken, N.J.; president of the Erie Railroad in 1835; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1850; resumed the banking business; died at his country place, _ighwood,_ near Weehawken, N.J., October 3, 1853; interment in the churchyard of Grace Church, Jamaica, N.Y.