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Allcock, Thomas b. January 27, 1815 d. December 27, 1891
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Born in England, he served during the Civil War as Lieutenant Colonel and commander of the 4th New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery regiment. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "gallant and meritorious services in the campiagn against Richmond in 1864 and in the battles before Petersburg, Va." He was a member of the Military Commission that tried and convicted Confederate Captain and Andersonville Prison commander...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Dale Cemetery, Ossining, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Section S, Lot 53
Boas, Franz b. July 9, 1858 d. December 21, 1942
Scientist. Helped establish anthropology in the United States on a scientific footing while teaching at Columbia, to the point where many consider him the founder of American professional anthropology. He is noted also for his fieldwork among northwest coast Indians, for his belief that culture, not race, most influences human behavior, and for the accomplishments of his students, among whom were Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. (Bio by: Rick Watson)
Dale Cemetery, Ossining, Westchester County, New York, USA
Conner, Gen. Fox b. November 2, 1874 d. October 13, 1951
Military figure, he is best remembered as a mentor for a number of upcoming military leaders such as Dwight D. Eisenhower. He is also remembered as one of the principle authors of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, but set the stage for World War II, as he predicted. Despite growing up on the family farm in Mississippi, he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy in 1894, graduating four years later with a class rank of 17 out of a class of 59. Assigned to...[Read More] (Bio by: Bernadette Loeffel - Atkins)
Dale Cemetery, Ossining, Westchester County, New York, USA
Fish, Albert b. May 19, 1870 d. January 16, 1936
Criminal. Bribed children of New York City and took them to a place in the woods where he killed them and used their flesh in a stew. His most famous murder was the one that put him in the electric chair. In 1934 he killed and ate a 10 year old girl named Grace Budd, who he had lured into his forest cottage by saying that his niece was having a party and if she would like to come. At the cottage he strangled her and dismembered her body and used her flesh in a stew with peas carrots and onions...[Read More]
Cause of death: executed in the electric chair
Sing-Sing Prison Cemetery, Ossining, Westchester County, New York, USA
Hoff, Chester 'Red' b. May 8, 1891 d. September 17, 1998
Major League Baseball Player. Born in Ossining, New York, he was a left handed pitcher making his debut at age 20 with the New York Highlanders on September 6, 1911. For four season, he played with the New York Highlanders (1911-12), New York Yankees in 1913 and the St. Louis Browns in 1915. He end his career with a record of 2 wins, 4 loss, 2 complete games, 49 strikeouts and a 2.49 earned run average. He died at the age of 107 in Daytona Beach, Florida, and was the oldest living Major League...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Heart failure due to old age
Dale Cemetery, Ossining, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 3, Lot 30, Grave 3
Hoffman, John Thompson b. January 10, 1828 d. March 24, 1888
New York City Mayor, New York Governor. Served as Mayor of New York City, New York from 1866 to 1868. Served as Governor of New York from 1869 to 1873. He was one of only two New York City Mayors to obtain higher office after being Mayor, the other being DeWitt Clinton.
Dale Cemetery, Ossining, Westchester County, New York, USA
Ward, Aaron b. July 5, 1790 d. May 2, 1867
US Congressman. Commissioned in the Twenty-ninth Infantry on April 30, 1813, he was promoted to captain a year later and charged with conducting the first detachment of British prisoners from the US to Canada at the close of the war. He continued to serve in the New York State Militia earning the rank of major general. A lawyer by trade, he served as the district attorney for Westchester County. He was elected to the US House of Representatives for six terms, serving from 1825 to 1829; as a...[Read More] (Bio by: Beth Painter)
Dale Cemetery, Ossining, Westchester County, New York, USA
Youngs, Samuel b. December 4, 1760 d. September 12, 1839
Literary figure. He was the model for the character of 'Ichabod Crane' in the story "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.
Dale Cemetery, Ossining, Westchester County, New York, USA

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