Lloyd Aspinwall

John Lloyd Aspinwall (December 12, 1834 – September 4, 1886) was an American lawyer and soldier who served in the U.S. Civil War, achieving the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. National Guard. and Anna Lloyd (née Breck) Aspinwall (1812–1885). His siblings included Anna Lloyd Aspinwall (1831–1880), who married architect James Renwick Jr. (1818–1895), Rev. John Abel Aspinwall (1840–1913), who married Julia Titus and Bessie Mary Reed, Louisa Aspinwall (1843–1913), who married John Wendell Minturn, son of merchant Robert Bowne Minturn, and Katharine Aspinwall (1847–1924), who married Ambrose Cornelius Kingsland, the son of New York Mayor Ambrose Kingsland. His father was a prominent merchant with the Howland & Aspinwall and was also a co-founder of both the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and Panama Canal Railway, companies which revolutionized the migration of goods and people to the Western Coast of the United States.

His maternal grandparents were Catherine Douce (née Israel) Breck (1789–1864) and George Breck (1784–1869), the brother of U.S. Representatives Samuel Breck and Daniel Breck. His uncle was Rev. James Lloyd Breck, an Episcopal missionary,

His paternal grandparents were John Aspinwall (1774–1847), a dry goods merchant firm of Gilbert & Aspinwall, and Susan Howland (1779–1852). The Howland family was descended from John Howland, a signor of the Mayflower Compact and the Aspinwall family was descended from William Aspinwall, who was among the first settlers of New England. His aunt, Mary Rebecca Aspinwall (1809–1886) was married to Isaac Roosevelt, the grandfather of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His great-aunt, Harriet Howland, was the third wife of Isaac's father, New York State Assemblyman James Roosevelt. His paternal great-grandfather, Captain John Aspinwall, was one of the most prominent shipmasters of the New York merchant marine before the American Revolutionary War.

Career Aspinwall, a New York attorney, succeeded his father in the firm of Howland & Aspinwall,

He was a staunch Republican, although he never held elected office. He was encouraged to seek the Mayorship of New York in 1880, considered it, but declined to seek the nomination and William Russell Grace, an anti-Tammany Democrat won election following the term of Edward Cooper. Beginning in 1854, Aspinwall had trained for eight years with the New York state troops, rising from the ranks to the staff of the Fourth Artillery. and was sent to give President Abraham Lincoln the first report of the battle. in the U.S. National Guard. At the same time, he was president of the State Military Association and was active in establishing the rifle range which was then incorporated into the military system. He was also a founder of the Army and Navy Club and became its president in 1877. He was a veteran companion of the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. In 1880, New York Governor Alonzo B. Cornell appointed him Engineer-in-Chief on his military staff, which he held until Cornell's term as governor ended on December 31, 1882. owned works by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Antonio da Correggio, Diego Velázquez, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Teniers, Peter Paul Rubens, Philips Wouwerman, Cuyp, Ary Scheffer, Gerard, Dow, Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Titian, Adriaen Brouwer, Gerard ter Borch, Paul Veronese, Mieris, and Leonardo da Vinci, Romney, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Jean-Baptiste Madou. He inherited several of the paintings.

Personal life On April 16, 1856, Aspinwall was married to Harriette Prescott D'Wolf (1835–1888) in Bristol, Rhode Island. She was the daughter of William Bradford D'Wolf (1810–1852) and Mary (née Russell) D'Wolf (1805–1881), and a granddaughter of U.S. Senator and Representative from Rhode Island James DeWolf. Together, Lloyd and Harriette were the parents of: Lloyd Aspinwall, Jr. (1862–1899), who married Cornelia Georgiana Sutton (1862–1897), daughter of merchant Cornelius Kingsland Sutton. Russell D'Wolf Aspinwall (1871–1874), who died young.

Aspinwall died unexpectedly of apoplexy on September 4, 1886, in Bristol, Rhode Island. He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Descendants Through his son Lloyd, who died of Bright's disease at the age of 37, he was the grandfather of Lloyd Aspinwall (1883–1952), a member of the Amateur Comedy Club in Santa Barbara, California, and Beatrice Aspinwall (1889–1897), who died a few days after her mother's death in 1897.