JARED LEWIS RATHBONE

Mayor of Albany New York

Birth: 2 Aug 1791 Colchester, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Death:13 May 1845 (aged 53) Albany, Albany County, New York, USA
Burial: Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, Albany County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 3, Lot 27.

Provision Merchant.
Director of the State Bank of Albany.
Director of the Albany Insurance Company.
Member of the Albany Common Council.
Trustee and President of Albany Medical College.

Member of the Whig Political Party.
Last mayor chosen by Albany Common Council, 21 January 1839.
First mayor of Albany elected by popular vote, 30 December 1839.
Re-Elected Mayor, 5 May 1840.

Father of Henry Reed Rathbone, who heroically grappled with (and was horrifically wounded by President Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, in Ford's Theatre on 14 April 1865.

His memorial is considered to be "a counterpart to the tomb of Scipio."

An artist's depiction of Rathburn's massive Kenwood Estate in Albany NY, found by a Disney Imagineer in the book Decorative Art of Victoria's Era by Frances Lichten, was the model for the facade of Walt Disney World's 'The 'Haunted Mansion attraction.

References:

The Original HAUNTED MANSION FAN CLUBtm website at
https://legendofthehauntedmansion.tripod.com/id8.html
and its companion "The Original Haunted Mansion Fan Club" Facebook Group at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/hauntedmansionfanclub

Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11689392/jared_lewis-rathbone

Stephen Town Genealogy, https://stephentowngenealogy.com/rathbone.html

Schenectady History, https://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/rathbone.html