branch death_date children nationality birth_date term_end death_place placeofburial term_start rank spouse image name caption relations predecessor birth_place unit party office state successor religion article_title
national guard -lrb- army -rrb- september 11 , 1898 rufus king townsend -lrb- 1853-1895 -rrb- american september 28 , 1821 april 15 , 1851 albany , ny albany rural cemetery april 16 , 1850 adjutant-general anna josephine king franklin townsend.jpg franklin townsend franklin townsend son of isaiah and hannah townsend john taylor albany , ny new york national guard whig mayor , new york assemblyman of albany , new york of albany , new york alderman of albany new york new york eli pery presbyterian franklin townsend

franklin townsend

franklin townsend -lrb- 1821 -- 1898 -rrb- was descended from henry townsend one of the founders of oyster bay , new york .
he was a 19th-century industrialist , active in his family 's iron business which was a branch of the stirling iron works , the maker of the hudson river chain that prevented the british royal navy from sailing up the hudson river during the american revolutionary war .
he was active in albany politics , serving as an alderman and one term as mayor of the city .
he served as adjutant general of the state of new york from 1869-1873 .
