- 1. Jefferson Davis is captured (2020-05-10)
- (Events Calendar/Jefferson Davis is captured)
- Jefferson Davis is captured Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was captured when the Union Army caught up to him on May 10, 1865, in Irwinville, Georgia. He would spend 2 years in prison ...
- Created on 27 December 2015
- 2. Fallsburg
- (Category)
- ... that it was at the turn of the last century, there are a lot of positive things here. The three prisons in Woodbourne offer employment to many area residents. The Sullivan County Community College in ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 3. Cochecton
- (Category)
- ... Army saw Tyler offspring in its service. Nathaniel was a drummer and was taken prisoner at the Battle of St. Johns. Bezaleel Tyler, a Captain in the Revolutionary Army, commanded the Mamakating Scouts ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 4. Frederick A. Cook Exhibit
- (Pictures)
- ... ed a Presidential pardon for a federal conviction in 1923 involving Texas oil properties, which resulted in immense wealth for those who purchased them as sheriff's sale while Cook was in prison. Cook ...
- Created on 18 December 2015
- 5. Frederick A. Cook
- (Now Showing)
- ... ed a Presidential pardon for a federal conviction in 1923 involving Texas oil properties, which resulted in immense wealth for those who purchased them as sheriff's sale while Cook was in prison. Cook ...
- Created on 18 December 2015
- 6. Woodbourne Reh. Center Cemetery
- (Fallsburg)
- LOCATION: Located on Woodbourne Prison Grounds, Riverside Drive, Woodbourne, NY. Permission from prison officials is needed in order to visit. AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery ...
- Created on 03 June 2010
- 7. William Galbraith Smith
- (History Preserver)
- ... to Ossining, New York where Bill’s father was a dietitian at Sing Sing Prison. When Bill was twelve, his father died. His Irish immigrant mother moved with her two sons to Stone Ridge, New York. Bill attended ...
- Created on 11 August 1998
- 8. John Raleigh Mott
- (History Makers)
- ... rest of his life. He actually never became a minister, but during his years at Cornell he undertook an intensive study of the Bible, worked among the prisoners in the county jail and ...
- Created on 11 August 1997
- 9. Judge Robert C. Williams
- (History Makers)
- ... denied the Borough’s application. He was responsible for the decision that required New York State to move promptly and transfer prisoners from local jails to the State prison system within ten days after ...
- Created on 11 August 1996
- 10. Frederick A. Cooke
- (History Makers)
- ... man to reach the North Pole. Cook’s troubled later years included imprisonment for promoting Texas oil lands in 1923. He was paroled in 1930, pardoned by President Franklin Roosevelt ...
- Created on 01 June 1994
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