William Beach Lawrence (1800-1881)

Lieutenant-Governor of Rhode Island

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His wife grew up at the Gracie Mansion in New York. He purchased a 60-acre farm at Newport that he named "Ochre Point" Farm (see images) on which many of the grandest Gilded Age mansions were built after his death, eg. Vinland and Edgewater which was replaced by Ochre Court.

Parents (2)

Isaac Lawrence

President of the United States Bank, New York City

1768-1841

Cornelia (Beach) Lawrence

Mrs Cornelia Ann (Beach) Lawrence

1777-1857

Spouse (1)

Esther (Gracie) Lawrence

Mrs Esther Rogers (Gracie) Lawrence

1801-1857

Children (6)

William Beach Lawrence

Lawyer, died unmarried

c.1825-1870

Isaac Lawrence

Lawyer & Democratic Candidate for Governor of Rhode Island

1828-1919

Esther Gracie (Lawrence) Wheeler

Mrs Esther Gracie (Lawrence) Wheeler

b.c.1830

Gen. Albert Gallatin Lawrence

Brigadier-General in the Union Army & U.S. Minister to Costa Rica

1836-1887

Cornelia Beach (Lawrence) von Klenck

Cornelia Beach (Lawrence), Baroness von Klenck

b.c.1840

James Gracie King Lawrence

of 45 East 25th Street, New York City

b.1845

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