Gouverneur Kemble
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Gouverneur Kemble was an American diplomat, industrialist, and two-term United States Congressman from New York from 1837 to 1841.
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Tontine Coffee House
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The Tontine Coffee House was a coffeehouse in Manhattan, New York City, established in early 1793. Situated at 88 Wall Street, on the northwest corner with Water Street, it was built by a group of sto
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…New York City. In 1854 Kemble was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician. Kemble was one of the last survivors of the Tontine Association. Gouverneur Kemble died in Cold Spring on September 16, 1875, at the age of 89 and was buried in Cold Spring Cemetery…
A 1797 painting by Francis Guy. The building with the American flag is the Tontine Coffee House. Diagonally opposite (southeast corner, extreme right) is the Merchant's Coffee House, where the stockbrokers of the Buttonwood Agreement and others traded before the construction of the Tontine. On the right is Wall Street, leading down to the East River.