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Gouverneur Morris II, c1840-1860. Gouverneur Morris Jr. (1813-1888), the son of one of New York's delegates to the Continental Congress in 1778-1779, erected the Episcopal Church of St. Ann's in the south Bronx, New York. A railroad entrepreneur, he was one of the richest New Yorkers of his time. Thomas Seir Cummings, a native of Bath, England, came to New York as an infant and trained with Henry Inman. He was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design and produced miniatures of noted individuals.