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Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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JOHN WATTS DE PEYSTER BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHN WATTS de PEYSTER,M. F. S. N. Y., M. A., Lit. D., Ph. D., LL. D., brevet major-general of the State of New York by special act of the State Leg-islature, April 9-20, 1866, for meritorious service rendered tothe National Guard and to the United States prior to and duringthe Rebellion, and the only officer receiving such an honor fromthe State of New York, as well as the only officer in the UnitedStates thus breveted major-general; also military agent Stateof New York in Europe- in 1851-53, fully indorsed by thegovernment in Washington—was born at No. 3 Broadway,New York city, on March 9, 1821, and is descended from twoof the most distinguished families of colonial and provincialNew York, de Peyster and Watts, as well as from others equallyprominent and honorable. Johannes de Peyster, the first of this family in America,according to tradition first visited New Amsterdam, or NewYork, and West Indies, and some years later, about 1642-45,return

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