David Hadden (1773-1856)
Senior Partner of Hadden & Co., Silk Merchants, New York City
He was born in Scotland at Aberdeen where his father was Bailie and two of his brothers served as Provosts. He apprenticed as a cloth manufacturer in Leeds where he started up on his own account before moving to New York in 1806. He established David Hadden & Sons on Pine Street in Lower Manhattan that later became known as Hadden & Co. Importing silk and mattings, by 1845 his personal fortune was estimated at $200,000. He was twice appointed President of the Andrew's Society of the State of New York. In 1809, he married Ann, daughter of the late William Smith Aspinwall and they were the parents of eleven children, ten of whom (listed above) survived to adulthood. The family lived at 20 Lafayette Place, New York City.
