Charles J. Lanman

Charles James Lanman (June 5, 1795 – July 25, 1870) was an American lawyer and politician.

Early life Lanman was born on June 5, 1795, in Norwich, Connecticut. He was one of four sons and eight daughters born to James Lanman (1769–1841) and Marian Griswold ( Chandler) Lanman (1774–1817), a granddaughter of Governor Matthew Griswold. His father was a U.S. Senator from Connecticut who was a cousin of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.

He attended Yale College,

Career Following his graduation from Yale, he studied law with his kinsman, Roger Griswold (the former Governor of Connecticut), and with his father before being admitted to the bar in 1817.

Michigan Territory Although he was invited by Henry Clay to settle in Kentucky, Lanman migrated to the Michigan Territory in 1817 on the invitation of his friends, William Woodbridge (later a U.S. Senator and Governor of Michigan) and Lewis Cass (the 2nd Governor of the Michigan Territory and later the Secretary of War under Jackson, U.S. Ambassador to France under Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler and Secretary of State under Buchanan),

As a result of riding the legal circuit he came to Frenchtown (now Monroe), on the River Raisin, where he met Marie Jeanne Guie, who he married in 1819. At that point Lanman became a resident of Frenchtown. In 1862, he moved to New London, Connecticut "because of his intense love of the scenery and air of the ocean."

Charles James Lanman (1819–1895), who married Adeline Dodge, a daughter of Francis Dodge of Georgetown, in 1849. Marie Louisa Lanman (1822–1893), who married, as his third wife (after the death of her sister), John De Peyster Douw Jr., a son of John De Peyster Douw and Catherine ( Gansevoort) Douw. Marianna Chandler Lanman (1826–1884), who married, as his second wife, John De Peyster Douw Jr. Sarah Cort Lanman (1833–1899), who married her cousin, Thomas Hubbard. who died unmarried.

Lanman died in New London on July 25, 1870. His widow died at their daughter Susan's residence in East Orange, New Jersey, in 1879 and was buried with Lanman in Norwich.