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My gradnfather's Aunt Rosalie Myers was married to this man:
Cortelyou, George Bruce
Pronunciation: [kôr´tulyOO] (key)
1862–1940, American public official and business executive, b. New York City.
He taught school, and after learning stenography, he became secretary to
several New York City and federal officials. Appointed (1895) stenographer to
President Cleveland, Cortelyou became secretary to Presidents McKinley (1900)
and Theodore Roosevelt (1901). He also served under Roosevelt as Secretary of
Commerce and Labor (1903–4), Postmaster General (1905–7), and Secretary of
the Treasury (1907–9). He then left government service and became prominent
as an executive of public-utility companies.
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The original Jaques Cortelyou was the first Surveyor of Brooklyn, NY for the
Dutch West Indies Company.
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