Samuel Youngs (1760–1839), New York assemblyman from Westchester County, inspiration for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
He was a friend of Washington Irving and may have served as inspiration for the character Ichabod Crane in Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
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He served as a lieutenant in the American Revolutionary War, and was honoured, along with other residents of Tarrytown who fought in that war, with a monument erected in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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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"