The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . Hamilton died July 12, 1804; his wife (GeneralSchuylers daughter) survived him until November 9,1854 (fifty years), and then her body w^as interred byhis side. She was then ninety-nine years old. Cap-tain Lawrence died on June 1, 1813; his wife sur-vived him more than fifty years, and it was notuntil September 15, 1865, that she w^as laid to restbeside her husbands remains. General Montgomery,who is buried beneath St. Pauls Church, died in theassault on Quebec in 1775; and his w
The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . Hamilton died July 12, 1804; his wife (GeneralSchuylers daughter) survived him until November 9,1854 (fifty years), and then her body w^as interred byhis side. She was then ninety-nine years old. Cap-tain Lawrence died on June 1, 1813; his wife sur-vived him more than fifty years, and it was notuntil September 15, 1865, that she w^as laid to restbeside her husbands remains. General Montgomery,who is buried beneath St. Pauls Church, died in theassault on Quebec in 1775; and his wife, the daugh-ter of Chancellor Livingston, survived him fiftyyears. It is a curious coinciden(je and full of touch-ing suggestions that these three men, so conspicuouslyheroic and useful to their country, buried so closetogether, should have left their widows to mournso many years. These women were affectionatewives, and they treasured the memories of theirhusbands and their heroic deeds, and, though manyyears elapsed, they died in the freshness of theirearly love. We may enter this old cemetery of Trinity168. MONUMENT TO THK d )MMANIiKK oK IIIK IKKJATK ClILKCMVAKl). \ ..I. Two. p. IfiB. NEW YORK CITY LIFE Church in the busy hours of the day, or passaround it after night ha« fallen, or we may wanderthrouf^h its paths in the early hours of Sunday,when the crowds have deserted the streets, and wewill always find gentle associations, sweet thoughtsand helpful lessons. Here we can truly see theconnection between the present and the past. Fromthe crude carving and lettering on the monuments,even of those who were rated as wealthy and re-fined, to the exquisite car^^ngs on the white build-ings across the street, there is a wonderful develop-ment of taste and ability, though the lapse of timeis substantially but a few years; but it cannot besaid that men are truer and nobler than they werein those days, or that the essentials of characterhave changed,
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