Robert Henry McCurdy (April 14, 1800 – April 5, 1880) was an American businessman and political candidate. He amassed great wealth with partner Herman D. Aldrich as the co-founder of McCurdy and Aldrich, a commission firm which traded Southern cotton and other dry goods prior to the Panic of 1857. He lost his bid for Congress as a Whig in the late 1850s, and served as Commissary-General for the State of New York during the American Civil War.
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14 April 1800 Lyme, Connecticut, U.S.
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Died |
5 April 1880 (aged 79)
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Zodiac | Aries |
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