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The Buchanan side of his family arrived in the United States from Scotland. His paternal grandfather was a general with the Maryland Militia during the Revolutionary War while his maternal grandfather Thomas McKean was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Captain Franklin Buchanan, USN (circa 1855–1861)
The Players (often inaccurately called The Players Club) is a private social club founded in New York City by the 19th-century Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth.The club is located in a mansion at 16 Gramercy Park, built in 1847.
The Samuel Osgood House, also known as the Walter Franklin House, was the first official residence of the President of the United States.It housed George Washington, his family, and household staff, from April 23, 1789, to February 23, 1790, during New York City's two-year term as the national capital.
Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (September 22, 1831 – February 9, 1878) was an American businessman and philanthropist from the Roosevelt family.Roosevelt was also the father of President Theodore Roosevelt and the paternal grandfather of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio supported the removal, as did Roosevelt's great-grandson, Theodore Roosevelt IV, and great-great-grandson Kermit Roosevelt III. [3] The New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously on June 21, 2021, to relocate the statue. [4] The statue was removed on January 20, 2022. [5]
The “Law & Order: Organized Crime” star asked the show’s host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., to trace his family tree. He was shocked to learn that his sixth great-grandfather, Mathias Farnsworth ...
Roosevelt was born on September 29, 1790, in New York City, [1] he was the oldest surviving son of businessman and politician James Roosevelt (1760–1847) and Maria Eliza Walton (1769–1810), [2] the daughter of Admiral Gerard Walton (d. 1821) and a descendant of Wilhelmus Beekman, who was the treasurer of the Dutch West India Company, Mayor of New York City, [3] [4] Governor of Delaware ...
A frail 74-year-old parking garage attendant was in critical condition Wednesday after a hulking stranger shoved him to the tracks at an Upper East Side subway stop, with a construction worker ...