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Timothy Dwight

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(1752-1817) Writer. Timothy Dwight was chaplain of the Connecticut Continental Brigade at West Point, New York, from 1777 until 1779.

C E S Wood

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(1852-1944) Author. C. E. S. Wood graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

James Gates Percival

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(1795-1856) Poet. James Gates Percival was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States Army, and professor of chemistry at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1824.

Kate Seredy

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(1899(or 96)-1975) Writer, illustrator. Kate Seredy was born in Budapest, Hungary. She lived in Montgomery, New York, authored and illustrated twelve books of her own, and illustrated many books by other authors.

Ethel Lynn Beers

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(1827-1879) Poet. Ethel Lynn Beers was born in Goshen, New York, and died in Orange, New Jersey. Her poems appeared in many publications, including the “New York Ledger.”

Margaret Leech

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(1893-1974) Author, historian. Margaret Leech (aka Margaret Pulitzer) was born in Newburgh, New York, and died in New York City. She was the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes in history, and a associate of many of the members of the Algonquin Hotel Round Table.

Andrew Jackson Downing

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(1815-1852) Horticulturist, writer. Andrew Jackson Downing was born in Newburgh, New York and died in a boating accident in the Hudson River, New York. He was editor of “The Horticulturist” magazine from 1846 to 1852.

Arthur Sherburne Hardy

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(1847-1930) Novelist, poet. Arthur Sherburne Hardy was born in Andover, Massachusetts in 1847 and died in Woodstock, Connecticut in 1930. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1865 and graduated in 1869.

Frederick Franck

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(1909-2006) Sculptor, writer. Frederick Franck was born in Maastricht, Netherlands in 1909 and died in Warwick, New York in 2006.