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4 unusual facts about Dale Cemetery


Dale Cemetery

Edwin A. McAlpin (1848-1917), president of the D.H. McAlpin & Co tobacco company, builder of the Hotel McAlpin, the largest hotel in the world, and Adjutant General of the State of New York

Samuel Youngs (1760-1839), first interment at Dale Cemetery, inspiration for the character Ichabod Crane in his friend Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Franz Boas (1858-1942), the "Father of American Anthropology"

Thomas Allcock (1815-1891), Civil War General for the Union Army



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