ANOTHER INTERESTING FIND FROM THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY...

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VIA THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY FB PAGE:   This envelope (CLICK ON THE PHOTO) is addressed to Schuyler Hamilton, Jr., an architect and the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, who lived in Croton in the late 1800s and owned the Anchor Brick Company. When he lived here he was married to Gertrude Van Cortlandt Wells, who had inherited most of the land in the upper village. The brick company had financial problems and Hamilton declared bankruptcy in the early 1890s. After the couple divorced he moved to Newport, R.I., where this envelope is postmarked. His wife later married Baron Raoul Nicholas de Graffenried in Paris and became known as Baroness de Graffenried. In 1919 she donated the land where Holy Name of Mary Church was built ten years later.

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