page_title: Edward G. Faile
hierarchical_section_title: Edward G. Faile
caption_attribution_description: English: In memory of Edward G Faile Died April 29 1864 In the 66th year of his age
context_page_description: Edward G. Faile was a tea and sugar importer. He was born in Semiston, Roxboroughshire, Scotland, and came to the United States when his family moved there in 1801. The family settled in what was at the time Westchester County.
  He went to school in Westchester, and at the age of 17, went to work at the wholesale grocery business of Abram Valentine, whose daughter, Ann Delia, he would marry in 1821. Sources differ on the number of children the couple had. America's Successful Men of Affairs lists Ann D, Edward, Thomas H, Charles V, Henry, Samuel, Mary E, Harriet, and Caroline. Ancestry.com also includes Josephine and George.
  Edward was an acquaintance of Richard March Hoe, who had an estate near his in Hunt's Point. Hoe invented a machine for stamping and dating tickets, based on a suggestion made by Edward.
  Faile was a director of both the New York & Harlem Railroad and the New York Central Railroad, as well as president of The New York State Agricultural Society.
context_section_description: Edward G. Faile (1799 - 1864) was a tea and sugar importer.  He was born in Semiston, Roxboroughshire, Scotland, and came to the United States when his family (father George Faile, mother Joan Hall) moved there in 1801.  The family settled in what was at the time Westchester County.
  He went to school in Westchester, and at the age of 17, went to work at the wholesale grocery business of Abram Valentine, whose daughter, Ann Delia, he would marry in 1821.  Sources differ on the number of children the couple had.  America's Successful Men of Affairs lists Ann D, Edward, Thomas H, Charles V, Henry, Samuel, Mary E, Harriet, and Caroline.  Ancestry.com also includes Josephine and George.
  Edward was an acquaintance of Richard March Hoe, who had an estate near his in Hunt's Point.  Hoe invented a machine for stamping and dating tickets, based on a suggestion made by Edward.
  Faile was a director of both the New York & Harlem Railroad and the New York Central Railroad, as well as president of The New York State Agricultural Society.
caption: Grave of Edward G. Faile in the cemetery at Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site
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