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4 unusual facts about Schuyler


Julien Garnier

There he remained until 1709, when Schuyler's expedition once more made it necessary for him to return to Canada.

Schuyler, Virginia

Schuyler was the birthplace and home of writer Earl Hamner, Jr. He is best known for the CBS television series The Waltons, which was based on his experiences of growing up the eldest child of a large rural family in depression era America.

Skyler

The name Skyler or Skylar is a modern spelling of the surname or the male first name Schuyler, which is now often used as a first name in the United States.

Westvale, New York

The core of Westvale was farmland retained by a major landowning family of New York State, the Schuylers.


1775 in Canada

August 21 - Generals Schuyler and Richard Montgomery, with 1,000 Americans come to Canada, and invite the inhabitants to rebel.

Alton Adams

During this entire period Adams served as a reporter, working as a stringer for the Associated Press as well as the Associated Negro Press and contributing regular articles to George Schuyler’s Pittsburgh Courier and a host of other publications.

Eleanor Audley

She also played Millicent Schuyler-Potts, the headmistress of the Potts School which Jethro Bodine attended in The Beverly Hillbillies.

Flansburgh

Paxus Calta (1957–), an American political activist, born Earl Schuyler Flansburgh

Florida, Montgomery County, New York

On a trip to London to visit Queen Anne in 1710, arranged by the Albany mayor Peter Schuyler, the Four Mohawk Kings asked for help in defense against the French, and for Anglican missionaries to offset French Catholic influence.

General Schuyler House

The Schuyler House or General Schuyler House was built in November 1777 over 29 days for General Philip Schuyler.

George Schuyler

Schuyler's paternal great-grandfather was believed to be a black soldier who worked for Philip Schuyler, whose surname the soldier adopted.

George W. Schuyler

In 1885, he published Colonial New York: Philip Schuyler and His Family (Charles Scribner's Sons; 2 volumes).

John Church Hamilton

The sons are General Schuyler Hamilton, who served with distinction in the Mexican War and also the War of the Rebellion; Judge Charles Hamilton, of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin (ed. note: He was actually a judge on one of the circuit courts); William G. Hamilton, the consulting engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; and Alexander Hamilton of Westchester County.

Josiah Hornblower

Around 1753, the Schuyler family brought him to America to support their copper mines on New Barbadoes Neck.

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

The Green VW used by Schuyler was two Herbie cars from The Love Bug: one was the vehicle carried by Tang Wu's Chinese Camp students, (this was a gutted car and a rubber truck tire tube was placed under the passenger door, and when inflated suddenly, it would tip the car over, this car used in the scene where AJ Arno rams it).

Philip Schuyler

A statue of Schuyler, created by sculptor J. Massey Rhind in 1925 stands on the grounds of Albany's city hall.

Rockfish, Virginia

Rockfish was frequently referenced in the CBS television series The Waltons as being the closest town to Waltons Mountain, the fictional version of the nearby community of Schuyler.

S-K-O

S-K-O, originally known as Schuyler, Knobloch and Overstreet, was an American country music group composed of Thom Schuyler, Fred Knobloch and Paul Overstreet.

Schuyler F. Otteson

Schuyler Franklin Otteson was a past dean of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Schuyler Towne

Schuyler Towne (born December 16, 1983) is a competitive lockpicker and pioneer of the American Locksport movement.

Thomas Egenton Hogg

His attorney was Schuyler C. Spencer, who had studied in the law offices of Edgar D. Crumpacker of Indiana, and who was one of the founders of what would become the Portland law firm of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt.

United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School

At that time, 5,000 midshipmen were in training and were permitted to complete their courses at Columbia University, University of Notre Dame, Cornell University and at Fort Schuyler in New York State, as well as the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.

United States Senate election in New York, 1791

Many of the Federalists took the opportunity to show their disapproval of both Schuyler's haughtiness and the financial policies of Alexander Hamilton, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Schuyler's son-in-law.

Walter S. Schuyler

In Wyoming, Schuyler participated in a grueling 1876 march under General George Crook that forced the cavalrymen to eat their own horses.


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