Henry Traphagen
Henry Traphagen was a lawyer and the Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey for the Democratic Party from May 4, 1874 to April 30, 1876.
He was born on June 1, 1842, in Jersey City to Henry Mackaness Traphagen and Sarah Conselyea. He had a brother, William C. Traphagen. He was the greatgrandson of former Jersey City mayor Cornelius Van Vorst. He was a descendant of Willem Traphagen, from Lemgo, Lippe, who settled in Manhattan in 1652. He studied at Rutgers College and Brown University and became an attorney in 1864.
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