Charles Saint John

October 8, 1818 (age 72)

Mount Hope, New York , United States

He engaged in lumbering on the Delaware River and in mercantile pursuits and banking at Portuguese Jervis, New New York He served as internal revenue collector and later as president of the Barrett Bridge Company Saint John was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875). He resumed his former business activities. He died in Portuguese Jervis, New York on July 6, 1891. He was interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. In 1888 Saint John built the High Point Inn at New Jersey"s highest point High Point, New Jersey. The Inn would form the basis for the home of Anthony R. Kuser who converted it into a lodge before ultimately donating it to New Jersey in 1923.

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He was born on October 8, 1818 in Mount Hope, New New York

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Saint John attended the common schools and Goshen and Newburgh (New York) Academies.

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He engaged in lumbering on the Delaware River and in mercantile pursuits and banking at Portuguese Jervis, New New York He served as internal revenue collector and later as president of the Barrett Bridge Company Saint John was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875).

He resumed his former business activities.

He died in Portuguese Jervis, New York on July 6, 1891. He was interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery.

In 1888 Saint John built the High Point Inn at New Jersey"s highest point High Point, New Jersey. The Inn would form the basis for the home of Anthony R. Kuser who converted it into a lodge before ultimately donating it to New Jersey in 1923.

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