History of Hyde Park, (Dutchess County) New York United States of America

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Eugene Benson, artist, was born at Hyde Park, on the Hudson, N.Y., in 1837. His studies were pursued chiefly at New York, Paris and Venice. His pictures are conscientiously painted, and have much real merit. Mr. Benson at one time gave some attention to journalism, contributing to the Atlantic Monthly and other prominent Boston and New York periodicals. Among his pictures are: "The Strayed Maskers" (1873); "Renunciation" (1876); "Bazaar at Cairo" (1877); "Hay Boats," "Peasants of Cadore at Religious Worship" (1876);" Thoughts in Exile," "A Reverie," "Market Place, Egypt," "Study of a Girl in Blue," "The Reverential Anatomist," "Hashish Smokers, Jerusalem," "Slave's Tower" (1878), and the "Last Worshipper." He published "Gaspara Stampa; the Story of her Life" and "Art and Nature in Italy" (1881).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

James Conner, typefounder, was born in Hyde Park on-the-Hudson, N.Y., April 22, 1798. He learned the printer's trade in New York city, becoming an expert compositor, pressman and stereotyper. He spent three years as superintendent of a stereotype foundry in Boston and then established himself in New York as a printer and stereotyper. He used old stereotype plates in making poster type to take the place of wood type, and soon had for it a large sale. He manufactured the ordinary type used in his office. He printed the first folio Bible made in the United States, selling the plates for $5000. He also stereotyped and printed from plates Shakespeare's works, a polyglot Bible, and set in agate type, which he designed and cast, the works of Scott and other standard authors. He was the first to use an electrotyped matrix and chemical precipitation in casting type and became one of the most extensive typefounders in America. He was county clerk for New York county, 1844-52. He died in New York city in May, 1861.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor