David Hadden

David Hadden (October 13, 1773 – June 3, 1856) was a Scottish-American merchant who served as the president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York.

Early life Hadden was born at Aberdeen, Scotland on October 13, 1773, and on September 22, 1778, he was "admitted an infant Guild burgess of Aberdeen." and merchant with Alexander Hadden & Sons. and Gavin Hadden were each Provost of Aberdeen.

His maternal grandparents were Rachel (née Cruickshank) Young and James Young, merchant-burgess of Aberdeen.

Career Hadden apprenticed with a cloth manufacturer in Leeds in Yorkshire before setting up his own business there. After his death, his descendants kept the firm going.

Hadden served as Senior Warden of St. Thomas's Episcopal Church and was member of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, serving as president, twice, from 1832 to 1835 and, again, from 1837 to 1840.

Personal life On May 16, 1809, Hadden was married to Ann Aspinwall (1786–1845) at Flushing on Long Island. Ann was the daughter of fellow merchant William Smith Aspinwall and Mary (née Bostwick) Apsinwall. Together, they lived at 20 Lafayette Place in New York City, the most exclusive location in the city at the time, and were the parents of eleven children: who married Frances Sanderson Smith, daughter of James Elnathan Smith, in 1849. Mary Aspinwall Hadden (b. 1812), who lived at 18 East 33rd Street in New York. who married Frances "Fanny" Mactier, daughter of Alexander Mactier, in 1855. who married Francis Tomes Jr., also a brother of Robert Tomes. who married Benjamin Curtis, a silk importer based in Paris, in 1856. His brother Lewis was the grandfather of Elizabeth Beers-Curtis, Marquise de Talleyrand. David James Hadden (1825–1826), who died in infancy. After a funeral at St. Thomas Church conducted by the Rev. Francis L. Hawks, he was buried in a vault at Trinity Church Cemetery (where his wife was re-interred). who took over Russell & Co., one of the largest mercantile firms in the Far East, with Robert Shewan after it went bankrupt in 1892 and renamed it Shewan, Tomes & Co. His daughter, Joan Elspeth Tomes (1901–1980), was married to Arthur Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, son of Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Through his daughter Laura, he was a grandfather of Ann Aspinwall Curtis (b. 1859), William Hadden Curtis (b. 1861), and Dr. Benjamin Farquhar Curtis (1857–1924), a prominent physician who graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and was the attending surgeon at St. Luke's Hospital in New York. and John Aspinwall Hadden Jr. (1858–1931), a noted clubman during the Gilded Age who was listed on Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred" in 1892. He married Marie Torrance, a granddaughter of John Torrance and her Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.