Elizur K. Hart

Who was Elizur K. Hart?

Elizur Kirke Hart was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Albion, New York, Hart attended the Albion Academy. He engaged in banking. He served as member of the State assembly in 1872. He served as director of the Niagara Falls International Bridge Co..

Hart was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1878. He resumed his former business pursuits. Founder and president of the Rochester Post-Express in 1882. He served as president of Orleans County National Bank 1890-1893. He died in Albion, New York, February 18, 1893 leaving $50,000.00 for the construction of the First Presbyterian Church of Albion, NY. He was interred in Mount Albion Cemetery.

Hart once owned an island in the Thousand Islands, which bore his name and an 80-room summer home; the island was later sold to George C. Boldt, who renamed it "Heart Island" and built Boldt Castle there.