Think of all the history she saw! From the War for Independence through the founding of the government, the War of 1812, the Jacksonian Age, the Mexican-American War era, and many of the milestone events that led to the Civil War.īy the time George Templeton Strong in his late teens and twenties wrote about “Old Lady Hamilton,” she had organized her husband’s thousands of papers and started petitioning the U.S. It’s remarkable to think that a woman who witnessed “the Hard Winter” of the Revolutionary War was alive until just seven years before the firing on Fort Sumter. Hamilton.said it was a mere trifle, nothing at all to the winter of 1780.” In January 1840-a particularly cold winter-“Mrs.
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She lived until 1854, passing her 97 th birthday.Īccording to Strong, she was remarkably cheerful and full of anecdotes when he paid New Year’s Day calls several years in a row to leave a business calling card since he worked for the law firm that represented her. That’s actually a reference to Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. She came to the lawyers’ office “about the fortieth alteration of her will and divers other responsibilities.” One of the names that caught my eye in the early years of his writings: “Old Lady Hamilton. However, he started journaling in 1835, and his writings are a wonderful resource for who’s-who in 19 th Century New York City social circles. George Templeton Strong’s diaries are often quoted or referenced in Civil War studies, and he was influential in the establishment of the U.S. Mark’s Place and was going to walk back, which is certainly doing very well for an old lady of her degree of antiquity.
January 31, Old Lady Hamilton was in the office this morning she’s as spry as usual.
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