Perry, Stephen Decatur and many other works, born in New York, April (!, 1803, lived in Mount Pleasant, on the Sing Sing road, and died at Tarrytown, September 13, 1848 ; Benjamin Moore Norman, the author of interesting books of travel, born at Hudson, December 22, 1809, died near Summit, Miss., February 1, 1860 ; Rear Admiral Hiram Paulding, son of John Paulding, one of Andre's captors, and a distinguished naval officer and author of a " Journal of a Cruise Among the Islands ofthe Pacific," born in Westchester County, December 11, 1797; Calvin W. Philleo, the novelist, born at Yernon, July 14, 1822, died at Suf-

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field, Conn., June 30, 1858; Winthrop Sargent, the soldier, statesman and writer, who fought at White Plains; Joseph Mather Smith, M.D., the eminent physician and medical writer, who was a native of New Rochelle; John Savage, the editor and poet, who lives at Fordham ; John Canfield Spencer, LL.D., lawyer and politician, a native of Hudson, who is known to the literary world for having edited the first American edition of De Tocqueville's " Democracy in America," with an original preface and notes ; William Leete Stone, the noted journalist, who, in 1813, edited the Herkimer American and afterwards a political paper at Hudson, becoming finally one of the proprietors of the New York Commercial Advertiser; Peter Van Schaack, LL.D., jurist, loyalist in the Revolutionary War and author, born at Kinderhook, where he died, September 27, 1882; Aaron Ward, lawyer, politician and author, born at Sing Sing, July 5, 1790 ; Robert Watts, M.D., physician and medical writer, born at Fordham in 1812; and Thurlow Weed, the journalist and politician, born at Cairo, N. Y., November 15, 1797, and whose early life was passed as a cabin boy on the Hudson.