Phineas C. Dummer

Phineas C. Dummer

Infobox_Politician
name = Phineas C. Dummer


width = 144px
height = 216px
birth_date = 1787
birth_place = New Haven, Connecticut
death_date = September 14, 1875
death_place = Jersey City, New Jersey
residence = Jersey City, New Jersey
office = Mayor of Jersey City
order = 6th
term_start = April, 1844
term_end = April 20, 1848
predecessor = Peter Bentley, Sr.
successor = Henry C. Taylor
party =
religion =
spouse = Eliza Dobbs Holt
children =
website =

Phineas C. Dummer (October 28, 1787 - September 14, 1875) was the sixth mayor of Jersey City in New Jersey. He succeeded Peter Bentley, Sr. A Whig politician, he served a single three-year term from April 1844 to April 20, 1848. He was succeeded by Henry C. Taylor.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he served in the New York Militia during the War of 1812. Dummer married Eliza Dobbs Holt, daughter of New London newspaper editor Charles Holt, on September 21, 1821 and they moved to Jersey City in 1824.

Dummer joined his brother George Dummer's Jersey Glass Company on Washington Street between Essex Street and the Morris Canal in Paulus Hook (later became incorporated as Jersey City). He later obtained a patent for the manufacture of pressed glass by a process called "Dummer's scallop or coverplate." By 1840's the glass company was known as P.C. Dummer & Company and was selling glassware for home, decorative and commercial use. The company went out of business after the economic downturn following the Civil War.

After serving as mayor, Dummer served as Chief of the Fire Department in 1850.

After his company went out of business, Dummer was elected City Collector of Taxes, and afterwards appointed Deputy collector of customs of the Port of New York, by Abraham Lincoln and re-appointed under Ulysses S. Grant. He held the position until his death. Dummer died in Jersey City.

ee also

*List of mayors of Jersey City, New Jersey

Resources

* [http://www.njcu.edu/programs/jchistory/Pages/D_Pages/Dummer_Glass_Company.htm Jersey City: Past and Present]


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