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Samuel Ward McAllister, Sr.

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, United States
Death: January 31, 1895 (67)
New York City, New York, United States
Place of Burial: Kings County, New York, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Judge Matthew Hall McAllister, Jr. and Louisa Charlotte McAllister
Husband of Sarah Taintor McAllister
Father of Louise Ward Lewis; Ward McAllister, Jr. and Heyward Hall McAllister
Brother of Col. Julian McAllister, USA; Matthew Hall McAllister, III; Francis Marion McAllister; Benjamin Cutler McAllister, Esq and Harriet Hannah Francis

Occupation: New York society leader
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About Ward McAllister

Samuel Ward McAllister (1827 –1895)
Popular arbiter of social taste in the Gilded Age of late 19th-century America.
Son of Matthew Hall McAllister (1800–1865) and Louisa Charlotte (née Cutler) McAllister (1801–1869)
In 1853 married a Georgia born heiress, Sarah Taintor Gibbons (1829–1909).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_McAllister

https://books.google.com/books?id=1GE9AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA865

https://books.google.com/books?id=Rzc3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA51

Long obituary, San Francisco Chronicle, 01 Feb 1895: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89132911/ward-mcallister-obituary/

The following adapted from: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-400-hottest-new-yorkersof-1892
"He published a memoir, Society As I Have Found It, (in which he was said to have come) across as an overweening blowhard. The press he had so cultivated turned him into a figure of fun.

Doors closed to him all over town. He died, dining alone in the Union Club on January 1895. His funeral was attended by Cornelius Vanderbilt but not by Caroline Astor." ~• Anthony Haden-Guest
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 / Published Jul. 25, 2015

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Ward McAllister's Timeline

1827
December 28, 1827
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, United States
1854
May 11, 1854
1855
1855
Newport, Newport County, RI, United States
1859
December 12, 1859
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, United States
1895
January 31, 1895
Age 67
New York City, New York, United States
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Greenwood Cem., Brooklyn, NY, Kings County, New York, United States