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Anthony Charles Cazenove (1775–1852)

Role

Cazenove knew Bushrod Washington through his work as a merchant. 

Description

Anthony Charles Cazenove was born on 6 April 1775 to an aristocratic family in Geneva, Switzerland. Following education in France and employment in London, he returned to Geneva, only to immigrate to Philadelphia in the face of Jacobin persecution. After co-founding the town of New Geneva in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, he settled in Alexandria, where he established the mercantile firm A.C. Cazenove & Company and (in 1797) married Anne Hogan (1776–1843).

Citations

John Askling and Anthony-Charles Cazenove, "Autobiographical Sketch of Anthony-Charles Cazenove: Political Refugee, Merchant, and Banker, 1775–1852," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 78, Number 3 (July 1970), 295–307.

F.L. Brockett and George W. Rock, A Concise History of the City of Alexandria, Va., from 16691883, with a Directory of Reliable Business Houses in the City (Alexandria: Alexandria Gazette Book and Job Office, 1883).

"Anthony Charles Cazenove to Thomas Jefferson, 25 October 1817," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-12-02-0100. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 12, 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, pp. 136–137.]

Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser (VA), 3 January 1820, page 3, column 1 (Newspapers.com).

Richmond Enquirer, 28 September 1832, page 2, column 4 (Newspapers.com).

Anthony Charles Cazenove at Find a Grave.