He was a noted physician, botanist, and educator, and is perhaps most widely known as the doctor who attended to Alexander Hamilton after Hamilton's deadly duel with Aaron Burr. Tragically, three years earlier, Dr. Hosack similarly tended to Hamilton's eldest child, nineteen-year-old Philip, who also perished after a duel that took place at the same location.
He was born on August 31, 1769, at number 44 Frankfort Street, New York City, the son of Alexander and Jane Arden Hosack and the eldest of seven children. His father came from Moray, Scotland, and came over as an artillery officer under Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst KCB, and was at the retaking of Louisburgh. His mother was of English - French descent.
Married (1) Catherine Warner of Princeton; married (2) 12 Dec 1797 Mary Eddy of Philadelphia; married (3) Mrs. Magdalena Coster, widow of Henry A. Coster.
Following the end of the American Revolution, Hosack was sent to New Jersey academies to further his education, first in Newark and then Hackensack. He would go on to attend Columbia College, now a branch of Columbia University.
Hosack transferred to the College of New Jersey, or Princeton University. Hosack graduated from Princeton in 1789 and enrolled as a student under Dr. Nicholas Romayne. Two years later he was granted an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Among Hosack's beloved projects was his creation of the Elgin Botanic Garden, the first botanical garden in the United States. Today, the throngs bustling through Rockefeller Center's "promenade" between Fifth Avenue and the skating rink probably never imagine that this commercial setting in the heart of midtown Manhattan was once a botanical garden in the countryside.
In 1801, when Hosack purchased the property bordered by today's West Forty-seventh and West Fifty-first streets, and Fifth and Sixth avenues, this area of New York lay far beyond the limits of the settled city and was part of the undeveloped "common lands" that ran north of today's Twenty-sixth Street for approximately four miles. Hosack named his garden after Elgin, Scotland, his ancestral home, and created an Eden of flowers, medicinal plants, and trees, complete with an elaborate greenhouse for growing a variety of specimens.
He was a friend of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander von Humboldt and Sir Humphrey Davy.
His funeral took place on Friday, the 25th of December.
His remains were taken to Grace Church, where the Episcopal service for the burial of the dead was read by his friend and former pupil, the Rev. Dr. Ducachet, of St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia, who, upon receiving the sad intelligence of his death, came to New York for the purpose of assisting in the last ceremonies over the remains of his late preceptor. His body was deposited in the family vault at the Marble Cemetery in Second Street. His descendants transferred his remains to the burial ground at Trinity Church in 1888.
He was born on August 31, 1769, at number 44 Frankfort Street, New York City, the son of Alexander and Jane Arden Hosack and the eldest of seven children. His father came from Moray, Scotland, and came over as an artillery officer under Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst KCB, and was at the retaking of Louisburgh. His mother was of English - French descent.
Married (1) Catherine Warner of Princeton; married (2) 12 Dec 1797 Mary Eddy of Philadelphia; married (3) Mrs. Magdalena Coster, widow of Henry A. Coster.
Following the end of the American Revolution, Hosack was sent to New Jersey academies to further his education, first in Newark and then Hackensack. He would go on to attend Columbia College, now a branch of Columbia University.
Hosack transferred to the College of New Jersey, or Princeton University. Hosack graduated from Princeton in 1789 and enrolled as a student under Dr. Nicholas Romayne. Two years later he was granted an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Among Hosack's beloved projects was his creation of the Elgin Botanic Garden, the first botanical garden in the United States. Today, the throngs bustling through Rockefeller Center's "promenade" between Fifth Avenue and the skating rink probably never imagine that this commercial setting in the heart of midtown Manhattan was once a botanical garden in the countryside.
In 1801, when Hosack purchased the property bordered by today's West Forty-seventh and West Fifty-first streets, and Fifth and Sixth avenues, this area of New York lay far beyond the limits of the settled city and was part of the undeveloped "common lands" that ran north of today's Twenty-sixth Street for approximately four miles. Hosack named his garden after Elgin, Scotland, his ancestral home, and created an Eden of flowers, medicinal plants, and trees, complete with an elaborate greenhouse for growing a variety of specimens.
He was a friend of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander von Humboldt and Sir Humphrey Davy.
His funeral took place on Friday, the 25th of December.
His remains were taken to Grace Church, where the Episcopal service for the burial of the dead was read by his friend and former pupil, the Rev. Dr. Ducachet, of St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia, who, upon receiving the sad intelligence of his death, came to New York for the purpose of assisting in the last ceremonies over the remains of his late preceptor. His body was deposited in the family vault at the Marble Cemetery in Second Street. His descendants transferred his remains to the burial ground at Trinity Church in 1888.
He was a noted physician, botanist, and educator, and is perhaps most widely known as the doctor who attended to Alexander Hamilton after Hamilton's deadly duel with Aaron Burr. Tragically, three years earlier, Dr. Hosack similarly tended to Hamilton's eldest child, nineteen-year-old Philip, who also perished after a duel that took place at the same location.
He was born on August 31, 1769, at number 44 Frankfort Street, New York City, the son of Alexander and Jane Arden Hosack and the eldest of seven children. His father came from Moray, Scotland, and came over as an artillery officer under Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst KCB, and was at the retaking of Louisburgh. His mother was of English - French descent.
Married (1) Catherine Warner of Princeton; married (2) 12 Dec 1797 Mary Eddy of Philadelphia; married (3) Mrs. Magdalena Coster, widow of Henry A. Coster.
Following the end of the American Revolution, Hosack was sent to New Jersey academies to further his education, first in Newark and then Hackensack. He would go on to attend Columbia College, now a branch of Columbia University.
Hosack transferred to the College of New Jersey, or Princeton University. Hosack graduated from Princeton in 1789 and enrolled as a student under Dr. Nicholas Romayne. Two years later he was granted an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Among Hosack's beloved projects was his creation of the Elgin Botanic Garden, the first botanical garden in the United States. Today, the throngs bustling through Rockefeller Center's "promenade" between Fifth Avenue and the skating rink probably never imagine that this commercial setting in the heart of midtown Manhattan was once a botanical garden in the countryside.
In 1801, when Hosack purchased the property bordered by today's West Forty-seventh and West Fifty-first streets, and Fifth and Sixth avenues, this area of New York lay far beyond the limits of the settled city and was part of the undeveloped "common lands" that ran north of today's Twenty-sixth Street for approximately four miles. Hosack named his garden after Elgin, Scotland, his ancestral home, and created an Eden of flowers, medicinal plants, and trees, complete with an elaborate greenhouse for growing a variety of specimens.
He was a friend of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander von Humboldt and Sir Humphrey Davy.
His funeral took place on Friday, the 25th of December.
His remains were taken to Grace Church, where the Episcopal service for the burial of the dead was read by his friend and former pupil, the Rev. Dr. Ducachet, of St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia, who, upon receiving the sad intelligence of his death, came to New York for the purpose of assisting in the last ceremonies over the remains of his late preceptor. His body was deposited in the family vault at the Marble Cemetery in Second Street. His descendants transferred his remains to the burial ground at Trinity Church in 1888.
He was born on August 31, 1769, at number 44 Frankfort Street, New York City, the son of Alexander and Jane Arden Hosack and the eldest of seven children. His father came from Moray, Scotland, and came over as an artillery officer under Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst KCB, and was at the retaking of Louisburgh. His mother was of English - French descent.
Married (1) Catherine Warner of Princeton; married (2) 12 Dec 1797 Mary Eddy of Philadelphia; married (3) Mrs. Magdalena Coster, widow of Henry A. Coster.
Following the end of the American Revolution, Hosack was sent to New Jersey academies to further his education, first in Newark and then Hackensack. He would go on to attend Columbia College, now a branch of Columbia University.
Hosack transferred to the College of New Jersey, or Princeton University. Hosack graduated from Princeton in 1789 and enrolled as a student under Dr. Nicholas Romayne. Two years later he was granted an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Among Hosack's beloved projects was his creation of the Elgin Botanic Garden, the first botanical garden in the United States. Today, the throngs bustling through Rockefeller Center's "promenade" between Fifth Avenue and the skating rink probably never imagine that this commercial setting in the heart of midtown Manhattan was once a botanical garden in the countryside.
In 1801, when Hosack purchased the property bordered by today's West Forty-seventh and West Fifty-first streets, and Fifth and Sixth avenues, this area of New York lay far beyond the limits of the settled city and was part of the undeveloped "common lands" that ran north of today's Twenty-sixth Street for approximately four miles. Hosack named his garden after Elgin, Scotland, his ancestral home, and created an Eden of flowers, medicinal plants, and trees, complete with an elaborate greenhouse for growing a variety of specimens.
He was a friend of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander von Humboldt and Sir Humphrey Davy.
His funeral took place on Friday, the 25th of December.
His remains were taken to Grace Church, where the Episcopal service for the burial of the dead was read by his friend and former pupil, the Rev. Dr. Ducachet, of St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia, who, upon receiving the sad intelligence of his death, came to New York for the purpose of assisting in the last ceremonies over the remains of his late preceptor. His body was deposited in the family vault at the Marble Cemetery in Second Street. His descendants transferred his remains to the burial ground at Trinity Church in 1888.
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