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 by	Cornelius Warren
Succeeded by	Gilbert Dean
Personal details
Born	c. 1793 Pawling, New York
Died	April 6, 1851(1851-04-06) (aged 57–58) Mount Pleasant, Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Political party	Whig
Spouses	Rebecca Dodge ​ ​ (m. 1820; died 1843)​ Eliza Waring ​ ​ (m. 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]

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

External links

• United States Congress. "Ransom Halloway (id: H000083)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Ransom Halloway at Find A Grave

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