Pharcellus Church, D.D., the author of a number of books, reviews, etc., and a resident of Tarrytown ; Rev. Jacob Dutcher, author of " The Old Home by the River," who was born in Greenburgh ; Minna Irving, poetess, a contributor to The Century, whose full name is Minna Irving Odell,and who lives in Greenburgh ; Henry Drisler, scholar, author and professor, who lived in Greenburgh ; Rev. John A. Paine, professor in Robert College, Constantinople, archseologist to the Palestine Exploring Expedition,

and author of a work on that subject, whose home is in Tarrytown ; Colonel Church, editor of The Army and Navy Journal; E. Z. C. Judson ("Ned Buntline "), who lived at Chappaqua; Dr. Edward Bright, editor of The Examiner, who lives at Yonkers ; and Robert B. Coffin (" Barry Gray "), who lives at Katonah.

In music and the fine arts Westchester is also not without distinction. Among composers may be mentioned George F. Bristow and Francis H. Nash, both residents of Morrisania ; and among painters, Albert Bierstadt, the famous landscape painter, who lived within the corporate limits of Tarrytown, and whose residence was destroyed by fire ; Francis W. Edmonds, Edward W. Nichols, Tait, Gustave M. Arnolt, the young German painter of animals, and Samuel Fanshaw and Robert Hite, both of them eminent painters on ivory. Robert Walter Weir, the distinguished painter, who succeeded C. R. Leslie as instructor in drawing at West Point, was born at New Rochelle on June 18, 1808.