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Saturday, August 24, 2013
Friday, August 23, 2013
Passenger record for Gregorz Kolbusz
Arriving in New York in June 1900, from Galicia on the ship Main.
Seen below in the ship's passenger manifest are Gregorz Kolbusz with his wife, Gertrude, and daughter MaryAnna
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Thomas Durant (1820-1885)
Thomas Clark Durant
February 6, 1820 – October 5, 1885
American financier and railroad promoter
Married: Hannah Heloise Trimble
Children:
William West Durant (1850 – 1934) Architect
Héloïse (Ella) Durant Rose (1854?-1943) Author, playwright & critic
Buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY
"Founded in 1838 as one of America’s first rural cemeteries, the Green-Wood Cemetery soon developed an international reputation for its magnificent beauty and became the fashionable place to be buried."
(Cemetery photos from findagrave.com)
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