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  2. Frances Xavier Cabrini - Wikipedia

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    Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC ( Italian: Francesca Saverio Cabrini; July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also known as Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American Catholic religious sister. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a religious institute that was a major support to her fellow Italian immigrants to the United States.

  3. Peru, New York - Wikipedia

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    Peru is a town in Clinton County in the U.S. state of New York. The population was 6,772 at the 2020 census. The town was so named for its views of the Adirondack Mountains to the west and the farmlands throughout the town, resembling scenery found in the country of Peru in South America. Peru, New York, is in the southeastern part of Clinton ...

  4. Percy Sutton - Wikipedia

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    United States Army Air Corps. Years of service. 1941-1945. Rank. Captain. Battles/wars. World War II. Percy Ellis Sutton (November 24, 1920 – December 26, 2009) was an American political and business leader. An activist in the Civil Rights Movement and lawyer, he was also a Freedom Rider and the legal representative for Malcolm X.

  5. Natural burial - Wikipedia

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    New York: Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve was founded in 2004 and has been providing natural burial services since 2006. The preserve, located on the top of Irish Hill in Newfield, New York , covers 130 acres of rolling meadows and is surrounded by 8,000 acres of Cornell University 's Arnot Forest and Newfield State Forest.

  6. Andre Braugher, the two-time Emmy-winning actor who starred in the hit television series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Homicide: Life on the Street,” died Monday after a brief illness. He was 61.

  7. Peru (CDP), New York - Wikipedia

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    12972. Area code. 518. FIPS code. 36-57364. GNIS feature ID. 0960223. Peru is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the town of Peru in Clinton County in the U.S. state of New York. The population of the CDP was 1,591 at the 2010 census, [2] out of a population of 6,998 in the town as a whole.

  8. Hamilton Fish - Wikipedia

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    Columbia College ( BA) Signature. Hamilton Fish (August 3, 1808 – September 7, 1893) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 16th governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States senator from New York from 1851 to 1857, and the 26th U.S. secretary of state from 1869 to 1877. Fish was the most trusted advisor to ...

  9. Philip Hamilton - Wikipedia

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    Philip Hamilton (January 22, 1782 – November 24, 1801) was the eldest child of Alexander Hamilton (the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. He died at age 19, fatally shot in a duel with George Eacker .