This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Duryee, Devoe, Sutton, Peabody Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VEC.2ACI/3670 Message Board Post: Everett Daily Herald 12/1922 Schuyler Duryee, Everett pioneer, died shortly after 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Everett hospital. He was approaching his 76th birthday anniversary. Mr. Duryee had been in failing health for the past month and last Wednesday had been removed to the hospital for an operation. Schuyler Duryee was born at Bayonne, N.J., January 13, 1847. With is family he moved to New York city in 1856 where he was educated in the public schools and later followed mercantile pursuit. In 1871 he became a clerk in the war department in Washington D.C., and two years later was appointed clerk in the office of the chief of Engineers, United States army. In 1873 he was made chief of the general record direction in that office, which position he held until 1881, when he was appointed chief of the assignment and copying division in the United States patent office. In 1883 he was made chief clerk of the patent office and four years later to enter the practice of patent law in Wash! ington city. In this he was successful, but later, in 1889 accepted an appointment as chief clerk of the patent office. He resigned again in November, 1891 to become general manager of the Everett Land company, a corporation organized for the building of the city of Everett. On November 15, 1891 Mr. Duryee and his family moved at Lowell and several months later moved to Everett. He was vice president and general manager of the Everett Land company, vice president and treasurer of the Everett Water company, president of the Everett Railway and Electric company, director in the Everett National bank and a trustee in various corporations that were under the control of the Everett Land company. In March, 1897 he resigned from the various offices held in Everett and went to Gold Creek, Nev., as manager of the Gold Creek Mining company and affiliated companies. Mr. Duryee continued his residence in Nevada and California until 1906, practicing patent and mining law. He was i! n San Francisco at the time of the big conflagration and earthquake in April 1906. After returning to Everett in the spring of 1906, he resumed the practice of patent law. Early in 1892 Mr. Duryee built one of the first homes in Everett, constructing a residence at the southeast corner of Thirty-second and Rockefeller. At that time the first surveys were being made for Hewitt ave. Mr. Duryee was a republican in politics, an ardent supporter of Roosevelt and had an extensive acquaintance among public men. He was unusually well informed upon all matters of public interest. He wrote and published technical books, including Duryee’s “Assignments of Patent Rights”, etc, which are still standard works. Mr. Duryee was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Everett and of the Knights of Pythias. The Everett pioneer was married to Margaret A. Devoe at Fort Plain, New York, October 12, 1875. Following their marriage Mr. & Mrs. Duryee made their home at Falls Church, Virginia, until coming West. Mr. Duryee is survi! ved by his wife, Margaret A. Duryee, four sons, Dr. Albert P. Duryee, Daniel A. Duryee, of Everett, and Leverich S. Duryee and Kore T. Duryee, Seattle; a daughter, Mrs. H.G. Sutton of Bainbridge island, and a sister, Mrs. Pamela R. Peabody, Cambridge, MA. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the First Presbyterian church, the Rev George T Gunter, officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen cemetery. Challacombe & Fickel undertakers are in charge of the arrangements. Schuyler Duryee served in 1st NY Veteran Cavalry Co. D. and was noted as POW on 3/6/1864 at Snickersville, VA Paroled 10/17/1864.