ID: ind00555
Name: Douw Henry FONDA
Given Name: Douw Henry
Surname: Fonda
Sex: M
Birth: 10 SEP 1830 1
Baptism: 03 MAR 1841 2
Death: 23 FEB 1908
Age: 77y 5m 13d 3
Event:
Funeral 4 5
Residence:
Note: b. Fonda, Montgomery Co., NY; bp. Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, Fonda, Montgomery Co., NY; 1850 US Federal Census, Mohawk, Montgomery Co., NY; 1859 Canajoharie NY City Directory (Fonda, D H); 1860 US Federal Census, Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., NY; 1870, 1880 & 1900 US Federal Census, Albany, Albany Co., NY; 1870-1875 Albany NY City Directory (Fonda, D H - Fonda & Bagley, druggists); 1889-1891 Albany, NY City Directories (Fonda, D H - president); 1888-92 Saratoga Springs, NY City Directory (Fonda, Douw H - gen manager); 1902 New York Holland Society Yearbook Directory (Douw Henry Fonda); d. Albany, Albany Co., NY; o. Bank Cashier, Druggist Supplier, Railroad Ticket Agent; [US Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 - Name: D H Fonda; Congr. Dist.: 18th; Res.: NY; Race: White; Class: 1; Est. Birth: 1832; Marital Status: Married]; 1915 Yearbook of the Holland Society of NY List of Deceased Members; President of the D. H. Fonda Drug Company, Albany. Engaged in the railroad business, he was a ticket agent at Palatine Bridge under the late Hon. Webster Wagner. In September 1853, he became teller of the Spraker Bank, Canajoharie, and two years later was made cashier. In 1885, D. H. Fonda presented a pass from the Mount McGregor Railroad to NY Governor (future US President) Grover Cleveland. The pass was graciously returned with appreciation; from "Albany Illustrated": Douw H. Fonda Drug Co. - Wholesale drug business conducted by the above-named corporation is the outgrowth of that inaugurated in 1809 by Joseph and Thomas Russell, making this one of the oldest trade landmarks, as it is one of the most important commercial enterprises of Albany. In 1841 the business passed into the hands of Abram Puling, who, in 1865, was succeeded by Fonda & Bagley, and in 1879, the firm composed of Messrs. Douw H. Fonda, William B. French and Henry R. Wright became proprietors, and conducted the business on a scale of large proportions until January 21, 1889, when the company was organized and incorporated under the laws of New York. Mr. Fonda, the President of the company, was, for twelve years previous to his embarking in the drug business in 1865, the cashier of the Spraker Bank at Canajoharie, and his associates are among the most influential and successful business men of Albany. The premises comprise the large four-story brick building, 35 x 167 feet in dimensions, at Nos. 70 and 72 State street, extending through to Norton street in the rear, affording excellent facilities for receipt and shipment of merchandise, and the establishment is the largest and most complete wholesale depot for the supply of drugs, physicians and surgeons' requisites, perfumers and painters' stock, in New York, outside the metropolis. The trade of the house, which is exclusively wholesale, extends to all parts of Western and Northern New York, Eastern Massachusetts and Vermont, and is especially heavy among the retail druggists of Albany and vicinity, the sales aggregating a large amount and requiring the employment of twenty-five salesmen, clerks, porters, etc. The leading specialties include complete lines of pure and reliable drugs and medicines, and proprietary remedies, carefully selected in the best markets by the company's own buyers, besides chemicals, fluid extracts, wines and liquors for medicinal purposes, special pharmaceutical preparations, perfumeries, toilet goods, druggists' sundries, paints, oils, varnishes and painters' supplies generally. The company, under the present style and title, was organized in 1889 to succeed the firm of Douw H. Fonda & Company, and was, the same year, incorporated. With adequate facilities for their extensive trade, and with its affairs under the able management of some of the most progressive, representative business men of Albany, the old-time prestige of the house has been steadily maintained, and the trade is rapidly increasing and extending, and the concern is recognized in trade circles as one of the principal commercial enterprises of the capital city.; [R087b] New York State Men; [R004b] American Ancestry; [R074a] The Mayflower Descendant; [R102] Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley; [R003a] Noted living Albanians and state officials. A series of biographical sketches (1891)http://www.archive.org/details/notedlivingalban00hars >> www.fonda.org <<
Father: Garret T. B. FONDA Esq. b: 05 APR 1808
Mother: Rachel POLHEMUS b: 15 SEP 1809
Marriage 1
Mary A. FRENCH b: 1833
- Married:
1852
Religious Marriage
Marriage 2
Eleanor A. BARKER b: 1846
- Married:
1860
Religious Marriage
Children
 George Henry FONDA b: FEB 1861 Mary Eleanor FONDA b: 1866
Sources:
- Title: New York State Men
Biographic Studies and Character Portraits
Compendium
Publication: Albany, NY
Publisher: The Argus Company
Publication Date: 1910
Issue: C20
Author: Hills, Frederick S.
Note:
CompNewYorkMen
- Title: American Ancestry
Giving the Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans whose Ancestors Settled in the United States previous to the Declaration of Independence
Compendium
Publication: Albany, NY
Publisher: J. Munsell Co.
Publication Date: 1887
Issue: C3
Edition: Vol. I, p.28
Author: Hughes, Thomas P.
Note:
CompAmerAncesSett
- Title: The Mayflower Descendant
Quarterly Publication
Compendium
Publication: Plymouth, MA
Publisher: General Society of Mayflower Descendants
Publication Date: 1897
Issue: C14
Edition: Vol. 1-46
Note:
CompMayflowerDesc
- Title: Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley
A Record of the Achievements of her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation
Compendium
Publication: Baltimore, MD
Publisher: Clearfield Co.
Publication Date: 1914
Issue: C23
Author: Reynolds, Cuyler
Note:
CompNewYorkSouth
- Title: Noted living Albanians and state officials
A series of biographical sketches (1891)
Compendium
Publication: Albany, NY
Publisher: Weed, Parsons and Co.
Publication Date: 1891
Issue: C2a
Edition: 524 pgs.
Media: Book
Author: Harsha, D. A. (David Addison)
Note:
CompAlbanyNoted
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