[Map of the area later bounded by 8th Street, Mercer Street, Waverly Place and Washington Square East, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)] / G.A.S. 1850 Oct. 7.

Sage, Gardner A.

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Cooper, William S., Manhattan property owner.

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Mason, Erskine, 1805-1851

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Suydam, John V.

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At the territorial convention in Belmont in the fall of 1836, businessman and future territorial governor James Duane Doty sought to make Madison the capital of Wisconsin. Doty owned much of the land on the isthmus between lakes Mendota and Monona, and stood to profit from its selection as capital. First, however, he had to convince the other delegates that Madison would make the best site. Doty and his surveyor, John V. Suydam, drew this map as a promotional tool to get other territorial delega...

Ogden, James De Peyster, 1790-1870.

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Edward Curtis was a lawyer and U.S. representative from New York. From the description of James De Peyster Ogden letter to Edward Curtis, 1840. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 719997595 The Atlantic Dock Company was the brain-child of Daniel Richards, who in 1839 began to develop the Brooklyn harbor shoreline by erecting a contained set of docks, warehouses, and a basin for deep water ships in the area presently known as Red Hook and S...

Selden, Dudley, -1855

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Skinner, Thomas H. (Thomas Harvey), 1791-1871

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Lockman, DeWitt McClellan, 1870-1957

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American artist; president of the National Academy of Design. From the description of DeWitt M. Lockman interviews with artists, 1927. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 475906995 DeWitt Lockman was a portrait painter, New York, N.Y. He studied in Europe, 1891-1892 and 1901-1902; a pupil of James H. Beard, Nelson N. Bickford and William Sartain; and was president of the National Academy of Design and records secretary of the New York Historical Society. F...

Post, Waldron Kintzing, 1868-1955

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