Lewis D. Apsley
Lewis Dewart Apsley | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMassachusetts's4thdistrict | |
| In office March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1897 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph H. O'Neil |
| Succeeded by | George W. Weymouth |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 29, 1852 Northumberland, Pennsylvania |
| Died | April 11, 1925(aged 72) Colón, Panama |
| Resting place | Forestvale Cemetery Hudson, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
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Lewis Dewart Apsley(September 29, 1852 – April 11, 1925) was a businessman andU.S. RepresentativefromMassachusetts.
Biography[edit]
Born inNorthumberland, Pennsylvania,Apsley moved with his parents toLock Haven, Pennsylvania,in 1861. He attended public and private schools. He moved toPhiladelphiaand engaged in business, particularly the rubber goods trade. He moved toBostonin 1877 and became a manufacturer of rubber clothing inHudson, Massachusetts,in 1885, founding and serving as president of the Apsley Rubber Company (later theFirestone-Apsley Rubber Company). Apsley served as president of the Hudson Board of Trade and a director of the Hudson National Bank.
Apsley married Laura Marguerite Remington, a native Philadelphian, in 1873. She was the youngest daughter of Captain John S. Remington, a descendant of an old Philadelphia family. Laura Remington spent her early life in Philadelphia. She was much loved by a large coterie of friends and many admirers, among whom was Lewis Dewart Apsley, then an active young businessman of Philadelphia. The newlyweds resided in Philadelphia for a few years before moving to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1877 and finally to Hudson, Massachusetts, in 1883. Their only son Willie George Apsley died in 1880.[1]
Apsley was elected as aRepublicanto theFifty-thirdandFifty-fourthCongresses,serving between March 4, 1893 and March 3, 1897. He served as chairman of the Committee on Manufactures during the Fifty-fourth Congress and two terms as vice chairman of theNational Republican Congressional Committee.He declined to run for renomination in 1896, instead resuming his business pursuits in Hudson.
When Laura Apsley died in 1914 her companion Abigail (Abbie) Fobes Aldrich Black—widow of a favorite cousin, Victor F. Black—had run the Apsley household for nearly 20 years. Due to the morals of the time, Abigail had to move out or marry Lewis Apsley to keep her place. They married on May 1, 1915.[2]Abigail and Lewis traveled to Europe together several times and enjoyed his remaining years together.
Apsley died inColón, Panama,on April 11, 1925, and was buried in Forestvale Cemetery in Hudson.
References[edit]
- United States Congress."Lewis D. Apsley (id: A000271)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
This article incorporatespublic domain materialfrom theBiographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Specific
- ^Hinman, Ida (1895).The Washington Sketch Book.sec. Supplement p. 9.RetrievedFebruary 23,2023.This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain.
- ^New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911–1915; Volume: 632
