| 词条 | James Gopsill |
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| name = James Gopsill | image = JamesGopsill.jpg | birth_date = July 22, 1823 | birth_place = New York City | death_date = July 26, 1884 | death_place = Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York | residence = Jersey City, New Jersey | office = Mayor of Jersey City | order = 15th | term_start = May 6, 1867 | term_end = May 3, 1868 | predecessor = Orestes Cleveland | successor = Charles H. O'Neill | party = Republican | religion = Quaker[1] | spouse = Rachel | children = Thomas Milburn Gopsill[2] | signature = JamesGopsill-sig.jpg }} James Gopsill (July 22, 1823 – July 26, 1884) was the fifteenth Mayor of Jersey City from May 6, 1867 to May 3, 1868. BiographyHe was born in 1823 in New York City to an immigrant from England.[1] He worked as a clerk in a dry goods store. He moved to Jersey City, New Jersey in 1840 and set up his own dry goods store. Gopsill became the president of the Hudson Insurance Company and founded the Children's Home for Orphans. In the 1860s, he began publishing city directories.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} Gopsill was a delegate from New Jersey at the 1868 Republican National Convention in Chicago and a member of the Republican National Committee from New Jersey from 1868 to 1872.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} He died from angina while on vacation with his wife in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York on July 26, 1884.[3] LegacyHe is the grandfather of Assemblyman Thomas Gopsill. References1. ^1 {{cite book|last=Shaw|first=William H.|title=History of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NQ4AQAAMAAJ|publisher=Everts & Peck|date=1 January 1884|page=1145|via=Google Books}} {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{succession box |2. ^{{cite book|title=History of Masonry in North America from 1730 to 1800|editor=Henry Whittemore|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=2003|isbn=978-0-7661-5438-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u2RmDyMYVDkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Gopsill&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA209,M1|accessdate=2008-08-26|page=209}} 3. ^{{cite news|title=Ex Mayor James Gopsill|publisher=New York Times |date=July 27, 1884 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C05E2D8163AEF33A25754C2A9619C94659FD7CF }} title = Mayor of Jersey City | before = Orestes Cleveland | after = Charles H. O'Neill | years = 1867–1868 | }} {{s-end}}{{JrsyCtyMayors}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Gopsill, James}}{{NewJersey-mayor-stub}} 6 : 1823 births|1884 deaths|Politicians from New York City|New Jersey Republicans|Mayors of Jersey City, New Jersey|19th-century American politicians |
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