John P. Townsend

John P. Townsend
John P. Townsend
	A sketch of John P. Townsend, 1894
Born	John Pomeroy Townsend; 1832; Middlebury, Vermont, U.S.
Died	10 September 1898 (aged 66); Tarrytown, New York, U.S.
Occupation	banker
Title	President of the Knickerbocker Trust; President of the Bowery Savings Bank;
Spouse	Elizabeth A. Baldwin (1853)
Children	3

John Pomeroy Townsend (1832–1898) was an American financier of the Gilded Age. He proudly claimed descent from "old Puritan stock", tracing his ancestry to a Thomas Townsend who settled at Lynn, Massachusetts in 1637.

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