Roswell Candee Cooley Obituary

OLD CUSTOMS EMPLOYEE DEAD  ---
Roswell C. Cooley, for Thirty-two Years in Service, Expires in East Orange
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Roswell Candee Cooley, who for thirty-two years had been connected with the
United States customs service in New York and who for twenty years had been
acting deptuy collector of customs, died yesterday at his residence, 100
North Nineteenth street, East Orange, of heart disease.  He had been ill a
week.  His term of service was one of the longest of any man in the
department.

Mr. Cooley was born in Pompeii [Pompey], N. Y., sixty-two years ago.  Early
 in life he engaged in the banking business in Buffalo, but lost his
fortune in the panic of Black Friday [1873?].  He then went to New York and
seccured a position in the custom house.  He lived in East Orange for
several years, but fifteen years ago moved to Staten Island, returning to
East Orange two months ago.  He is survived  by his wife, three sons and
three daughters.  the funeral services at his late residence to-morrow
night will be conducted by Rev. Dr. John A. Chambliss, of Plainfield,
formerly pastor of the Hawthorne Aenue Baptist Church, East Orange.

[from Newark (N.J.) Evening News, Monday, May 14, 1906.]

[Roswell Candee Cooley was the son of James and Maryette Candee Cooley, and
grandson of Roswell Candee who raised R.C. after his mother Maryette died
the year of his birth, 1844.]



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