Samuel Swartwout, center of a scandal in 1841 in which he was alleged to have embezzled more that a million dollars from customs revenue at the Port of New York in his role as Collector, dies in New York City at the age of seventy-three. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1858 (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1857), 350.