James Gopsill

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name = James Gopsill


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birth_date = 1823
birth_place = New York City
death_date = July 26, 1884
death_place = Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
residence = Jersey City, New Jersey
office = Mayor of Jersey City
order = 15th
term_start = May 6, 1867
term_end = May 3, 1868
predecessor = Orestes Cleveland
successor = Charles H. O'Neill
party = Republican
religion = Roman Catholic
spouse = Rachel
children = Thomas Milburn [cite book|title=History of Masonry in North America from 1730 to 1800|editor=Henry Whittemore|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|date=2003|pages=209|isbn=9780766154384|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=u2RmDyMYVDkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Gopsill&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA209,M1|accessdate=2008-08-26]

James Gopsill was the fifteenth mayor of Jersey City from May 6, 1867 to May 3, 1868.

He was the first Republican mayor of Jersey City. He was a delegate from New Jersey at the 1868 Republican National Convention in Chicago and a member of the Republican National Committee from New Jersey from 1868 to 1872.

The son of an English immigrant, Gopsill was born in 1823 in New York state. At a young age he worked as a clerk in a dry goods store. Gopsill moved to Jersey City in 1840 and set up his own dry goods store. Gopsill became the president of the Hudson Insurance Company and founded the Children's Home for Orphans. In the 1860's, he began publishing city directories.

He died from angina while on vacation with his wife in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York on July 26, 1884. [cite news|title=Obituary 2.|publisher=New York Times |date=1884-07-27 [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C05E2D8163AEF33A25754C2A9619C94659FD7CF] ]

He is the grandfather of Assemblyman Thomas Gopsill.

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