The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-09-20
WESTMINSTER co. Is
VERY EDUCATIONAL
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ued there until 1859. The decisive
battles fought within the limits OF
Westchester County were those along
Pelham Heights, October 18, 177e
where body of 500 Americans re.
pulsed 1000 British under General
Howe, a brother of Admiral Howe
who was directed by the Admiralty te
sail with his fleet up the historic
Bronx river and capture White
Plains, and the struggle at Chatter,
ton Hill and Mt. Misery, Oct. 20
1776 which was the battle of White
Plains, when Gen. Washington at
tackled the enemy. Skirmishing, how.
ever, continued until Nov. 1st when
Gen. Washington retired with his
army to the Heights of North Castle
and later continued his marvellous re-
treat to the Highlands of the Hudson
near Peekshill where he stationed
suitable guards on the Cronton river
to protect the country from plumber
crossed the Hudson with portion OF
his troops and moved down in to the
neighborhood of Fort Lee.
"Westchester County is rich in the
history of the past, especially so with
the stirring events of the Revolution
airy War. 1t is here j. Fenimore
Cooper found and pictured the hills
and plains that have been trodden by
the weary feet of Harvey Birch
(Enoch Crosby when serving Wash
ington and his country as spy; 1T is
also in this territory that Betsy
Flanagan pushed her mare over the
hills while she was railing against DIR.
Sitgreaves, and dispensing "the
Lights of Science" This woman gave
to the world the American cocktail,
a Westchester County creation and
invention.
cit was at Chappaqua that the late
Horace Greeley spent much of his
time when absent from the editorial
room of the New York Tribune, that
he might tell the world "What l
know About Farming" and the "Great
American Conflict" an honest story
of the War of the Rebellion. 1t was
Horace Greeley who gave currency to
the now famous expression:
"Fame is a vapor; popularity
is an accident; riches take wings;
the only earthly certainty is OBJ
livion; no man can see what a
day may bring forth while those
who cheer today will often
curse tomorrow
"About two miles east of Katonah
is the homestead once owned and oc-
cupied by John Jay, the friend OF
Washington, and the first Chief Jus
tice of the United States. Jay was
one of the three commissioners who
signed the treaty of peace with Eng
land at Paris, Sept. 3rd, 1888, by
which the independence of the Ameri-
can Colonies was acknowledged. The
Chief Justice was afterward Cover
nor of the Empire State having been
first elected in 1795, and again in
1898.
"We have produced many able
men. Distinguished citizens who
have resided within our borders are:
Historians Washington Irving, j.
Fenimore Cooper, Henry B. Dawson,
Adrian Van Der Donk, Robert Bolton,
Rev. Charles Baird, D. D., Rev. Da-
vid Cole, D. D., William Samuel Cot
fey, D.. D., Isaac Wilkins, Gouver-
neur Morris, and John Jay.
"Biographers-W Washington Irving,
the American Addison, famous also
as the author of the "Knickerbocker
History of New York" "The Sketch
Book" "Alhambra" and "Woolfort's
Roost."
Poets-Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph
Rodman Drake, and John Savage.
Composers George F. Bristow
and Francis M. Nash.
Artists Francis w. Edmond, the
"Merchant Artist Bierstadt, world
renowned for his originality; TAFT,
the genial "Chicken Painter" and
Gustav M. Arnolt.
Politicians - Gouverneur Morris.
Isaac Wilkin, Gov. John Jay, Gov.
Daniel D. Tompkins, Samuel j. Til
den, William Jay, John Jay, the
younger; and Joseph Southworth,
better known as ''John Smith," of
Arkansas.
Ministry-Samuel Seabury, D.. D..
the first bishop of Diocese of Con-
neticut; William Hethcote Delaney.
D. D., the first bishop of the Diocese
of New York: Stephen H. Tying; Dav-
id Cole, d. D.; William Creighton, D.
D.; John A. Todd and Washington
Gladdin, D. D.; Rev. Isaac Wilkins
the reputed author of the Loyalis'
pmphlets, under the nome-de-plunne
of the ''Westchester Farmer
Bar-Isiah T. Williams, Odl6
Close, William H. Robertson, Robert
S. Hart, Calvin Frost, Silas d. Gift
ford, Jackson O. Dyclman, John S.
Bates, William Warburton Schrug
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