. Nooks & corners of old New York . ft Wdlhington Pew¥ TACUS chapel OF OLD NEW YORK taken, and the monument, arriving safehere, was set in place. The body wasremoved from its first resting-place inQuebec, and interred close beside themonument in 1818. In the burying-ground, which hasbeen beside the church since it was built,are the monuments of men whosenames are associated with the citys his-tory : Dr. William James Macneven,who raised chemistry to a science;Thomas Addis Emmet, an eminentjurist and brother of Robert Emmet;Christopher Collis, who established thefirst water works in the citv»an
. Nooks & corners of old New York . ft Wdlhington Pew¥ TACUS chapel OF OLD NEW YORK taken, and the monument, arriving safehere, was set in place. The body wasremoved from its first resting-place inQuebec, and interred close beside themonument in 1818. In the burying-ground, which hasbeen beside the church since it was built,are the monuments of men whosenames are associated with the citys his-tory : Dr. William James Macneven,who raised chemistry to a science;Thomas Addis Emmet, an eminentjurist and brother of Robert Emmet;Christopher Collis, who established thefirst water works in the citv»and who first conceived theidea of constructing the ErieCanal; and a host of others. The tomb of GeorgeFrederick Cooke, thetragedian, is conspicu-ous in the centre ofthe yard, facing themain door of the church. 77. ?Montgmmtryi Tnjpk NOOKS AND CORNERS Cooke was born in England in 1756,and died in New York in 1812. Earlyin life he was a printers 1800 he had taken high rank amongtragic actors. The grave of George L, Eacker, whokilled the eldest son of AlexanderHamilton in a duel, is near the VeseyStreet railing. The Astor House, occupying theBroadway block between Vesey andBarclay Streets, was opened in 1836 byBoyden, a hotel keeper of site had been part of the ChurchFarm, and as early as 1729, when therewere only a few scattered farm houseson the island above what is now LibertyStreet, there was a farm house on theAstor House site ; and from there ex-tended, on the Broadway line, a rope-walk. Prior to the erection of the hotelin 1830, the site for the most part hadbeen occupied by the homes of John 7s OF OLD NEW YORK Jacob Astor, John G. Coster and DavidLydig. On a part of the site, at 221Broadway, in 1817, M. Paff, popu-larly known as Old Parr*/ kept a bric-a-brac sto
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