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Oroondates Mauran (1791-1846) was a businessman in New York City who owned steamship and ferry operations.

Early life

Mauran was born in Barrington, Rhode Island, the eighth child of Joseph Carlo and Olive (Bicknell) Mauran.^[1] His father commanded two armed ships during the American Revolution.^[2]

Business career

He moved to New York City when he was 19 to become a merchant. Together with his partner Samuel Coates, he established the firm Coates & Mauran which owned ships that carried cargo from New York to the West Indies.^[3] In 1822, he also entered into a venture to run regularly scheduled ships between New York City and Charleston, South Carolina.^[3]^[4]

Mauran bought a 50% stake in the Richmond Turnpike Company, which had been founded by Staten Island resident and United States Vice-President Daniel D. Tompkins. The company also operated the first steam boat ferry between Manhatten and Staten Island which became known simply as the Staten Island Ferry.^[5]^[6]

In 1848 he was involved in a court case related to one of the Turnpike ships, the Sampson.^[7] which also had participated in a ramming battle with a rival ferry on September 2, 1838.^[8] It was alleged in court that Mauran expressly approved of the ramming and even expressed regret the captian had not sunk the rival Wave.^[9]

Mauran and Cornelius Vanderbilt gained control of the Turnpike company in 1838 after Thomkins died. However the Richmmond Turnpike Company was set to expire (having a limited duration by statute) so the partners assigned the equipment and real estate leases to themselves. The whole affair was bogged down in the courts for years^[10] but the $50,000 annual profit made the business worth fighting for. ^[11] Mauran managed the company as President.^[12] The same year Mauran died, Vanderbilt bought from his estate his shares in the Staten Island Ferry for $80,000.^[13]

Family

Mauran married Martha Eddy^[3] in 1814 in Providence, Rhode Island. They had a daughter Josephine who married Mr. Gibbs, a noted Harvard professor.^[14]

Other activities

Mauran lived in Manhattan in winter and on Staten Island in the summer. He purchased his Staten Island residence on Grymes Hill in 1831.^[15]

He was part of the founding of the first Italian Opera House in New York at the corner of Church and Lombard streets, opened November 18, 1833 at a cost of over $100,000. The theatre burned down in 1839 after being unsucessfully offered for sale at time when opera was a novelty in America.^[16]^[11] He was one of the oldest members of the Union Club of the City of New York.^[17]^[18]

References

1. ^https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/joseph-carlo-mauran_42016672
2. ^https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.2050-411X.2000.tb00285.x page 183
3. ^¹²{{Cite web|url=https://rihs.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/object-thursday-pirates-off-cuba-1829/|title=Object Thursday: Pirates Off Cuba! 1829|date=May 14, 2015}}
4. ^http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/Hagley/PRR1820.pdf "Barker & Hopkins and Oroondates Mauran (1796-1846) begin a regular line of packets between New York and Charleston (the “Old Established Line”) with sailings three times a month; this is the first regularly scheduled packet."
5. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=GwNwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=Oroondates+Mauran#v=onepage&q=Oroondates+Mauran&f=false|title=The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt|first=T. J.|last=Stiles|date=February 12, 2010|publisher=Vintage Books|via=Google Books|isbn=9781400031740}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.tjstiles.net/blog.htm?post=588484|title=The Cast: Chapter 5 & 6 - T.J. Stiles|website=www.tjstiles.net}}
7. ^https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F.Cas/0011.f.cas/0011.f.cas.0948.pdf
8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.olddutchchurchnyc.org/a-village-rises|title=olddutchchurchnyc | Radical Growth & Change|website=Olddutchchurchnyc | Staten Island | Port Richmond}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/?id=QIw3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA481&lpg=PA481&dq=Oroondates+Mauran#v=onepage&q=Oroondates+Mauran&f=false|title=Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York|first1=New York (State) Court of|last1=Appeals|first2=George Franklin|last2=Comstock|first3=Henry Rogers|last3=Selden|first4=Francis|last4=Kernan|first5=Samuel|last5=Hand|date=February 12, 1850|publisher=Lawyer's Co-Operative Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=https://casetext.com/case/vanderbilt-v-the-richmond-turnpike-company|title=Vanderbilt v. the Richmond Turnpike Company, 2 N.Y. 479 | Casetext|website=casetext.com}}
11. ^¹{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/?id=wnUtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=Oroondates+Mauran#v=onepage&q=Oroondates+Mauran&f=false|title=Memorials of the Mauran Family|first=John Calvin|last=Stockbridge|date=February 12, 1893|publisher=Snow & Farnham, printers|via=Google Books}}
12. ^{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/?id=QIw3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA481&lpg=PA481&dq=Oroondates+Mauran#v=onepage&q=Oroondates+Mauran&f=false|title=Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York|first1=New York (State) Court of|last1=Appeals|first2=George Franklin|last2=Comstock|first3=Henry Rogers|last3=Selden|first4=Francis|last4=Kernan|first5=Samuel|last5=Hand|date=February 12, 1850|publisher=Lawyer's Co-Operative Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}
13. ^The First Tycoon: the Epic Life of Cornelois Vanderbelt page 7
14. ^{{Cite journal|url=http://science.sciencemag.org/content/28/729/876|title=President Roosevelt's African Trip|first=American Association for the Advancement of|last=Science|date=December 18, 1908|journal=Science|volume=28|issue=729|pages=876–877|via=science.sciencemag.org|doi=10.1126/science.28.729.876|pmid=17743798}}
15. ^https://casa-belvedere.org/history
16. ^https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.2050-411X.2000.tb00285.x P183
17. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/?id=wnUtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=oroondates+mauran+staten+island#v=onepage&q=oroondates+mauran+staten+island&f=false|title=Memorials of the Mauran Family|first=John Calvin|last=Stockbridge|date=January 1, 1893|publisher=Snow & Farnham, printers|via=Google Books}}
18. ^{{Cite web|url=https://rihs.wordpress.com/tag/oroondates-mauran/|title=Oroondates Mauran | A Lively Experiment}}