History of New Rochelle, (Westchester County) New York United States of America

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Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, author, was born at New Rochelle, N.Y., Feb. 22, 1838; daughter of John and Margaret (Chisholm) Munson; granddaughter of John and Grace (Gale) Munson, and of Thomas and Margaret (Kirkaldy) Chisholm; and of Irish and Scottish lineage. She was educated in New York city, and was married Aug. 12, 1858, to George Sangster. She contributed to the leading periodicals, and was associate editor of Hearth and Home, 1871?73; of the Christian at Work, 1873?79, and of the Christian Intelligencer from 1879; staff-contributor to the Christian Herald from 1894, and editor of Harper's Bazar, 1889?90. She is the author of: Home and Heaven (1860); Five Happy Weeks (1862); Mary Stanhope and Her Friends (1863); Miss Dewbury's School (1870); Splendid Times (1870); Hours with Girls (1876); Manual of Missions of the Reformed Church in America (1880); Poems of the Household (1882); Home Fairies and Heart Flowers (1882); With My Neighbors (1883); Art of Home Making (1883); On the Road Home (1890); Easter Bells (1891); Little Knights and Ladies (1892); Maidie's Problem (1892); Winsome Womanhood (1900); Janet Ward (1902); When Angels Come to Men (1903).

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

Peter Faneull, merchant, was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., in 1700; son of Benjamin and nephew of Andrew Faneuil, French Huguenots who settled in Westchester county, N.Y., in 1690 and founded the town of New Rochelle. They removed to Boston, Mass., in 1701, and became prosperous merchants, Peter succeeding to the business. He took an active interest in the subject of a public market which had begun to be agitated as early as 1717 and he was largely responsible for the appropriation of ?700 made by the town in 1734 to build market houses. The hucksters and country people refused to use these buildings and in a few years they were torn down or sold. In 1740 at a public meeting Mr. Faneuil proposed to erect at his own expense a suitable market-house and present it to the town. The opposition to the project was so strong that while the citizens gave him a unanimous vote of thanks for his offer, on a vote to accept the gift it was carried by only seven votes. The market house was designed by the artist Smibert and was two years in building (1740-42). The first public use made of the audience hall was the funeral oration of the donor, March 14, 1743, when John Lovell, the famous schoolmaster, was the orator. On Dec. 30, 1760, the accession of George III to the throne of England was celebrated from the balcony of Faneuil hall by a blare of trumpets, while the forts in the harbor fired a salute, and the same day a state dinner was served in the hall. In 1761 the hall was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt by the town, largely through the proceeds of a lottery, in 1763. In 1767 upon the repeal of the stamp act it was brilliantly illuminated. In 1768 the citizens held a revolutionary meeting in the hall to provide ways and means for resisting the oppression of England and the indignity of quartering British troops in the colony. On the citizens refusing to lodge the soldiers, they were quartered in Fancuil hall in October, 1768, and during the occupation of Boston by the British the soldiers and loyalists used it as a theatre. During the Revolution it was used as the meeting place for the patriots and it thus became known as the "cradle of American liberty." In 1805 the hall was remodeled after designs by Bulfinch and in 1822 the first city government of Boston was organized there. The hall continued to be used for patriotic meetings and many of the reform movements of the nineteenth century were born and nurtured within its walls. Peter Faneuil died in Boston, Mass., March 3, 1743.

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

Freeborn Garretson Hibbard, clergyman, was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., Feb. 22, 1811; son of the Rev. Billy Hibbard, a prominent Methodist clergyman. He entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1829 and held various pastorates in New York state. He was editor of the Northern Christian Advocate, at Auburn, N.Y., 1856-60, and in the latter year was appointed a presiding elder of the district. He received the degree of D.D. from Genesee, in 1859. He is the author of: Christian Baptism (1845); The Geography and History of Palestine (1851); The Psalms, Chronologically Arranged, with Historical Introductions (1856); the Religion of Childhood (1864); Biography of Bishop Leonidas L. Hamline (1880); and History of the Late East Genesee Conference (1887). He died in Clifton Springs. N.Y., Jan. 27, 1895.

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