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		The first Catholic Cemetery in New York State was established in the year 1785, nine years after signing of the Declaration of Independence and three years prior to the ratification of the Constitution.
		Soon after, New York became a diocese in 1808, plans were made to erect a Cathedral church on a portion of the property which had been set aside for the cemetery.
		-In 1918, the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven was opened for burials in Westchester County and in 1966, the Cemetery of The Ascension was established in Rockland County.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Cemetery/Calvary.hist.html (1231 words)

	Miscellaneous Queens County, New York Obituaries
		Queens Co., NY PILITZ of Glendale died on April 6, 2001 at the age of 78.
		A native of New York, she was the devoted grandmother of TerriAnn Schwegler.
		A native of New York, he was the beloved husband of Margaret Ann, dear brother of Barbara Vensky and Joseph Srour.
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	My Family
		He was buried in Nov 1948 in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York.
		He was married to Margaret Agnes DEELY on 11 Nov 1906 in Holy Cross Church, New York, NY.
		He was buried in Jul 1921 in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York.
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	A Walk Through Queens . History \| Thirteen/WNET
		Queens was rural and offered an abundance of flat, open surfaces ideal for horse racing.
		In the quarter century that followed, 1865-1890, the initial urbanization of western Queens was largely completed: Glendale in 1868-1869, Richmond Hill in 1869, and Queens Village in 1871.
		In Queens, Long Island City and the Towns of Jamaica and Newtown voted in favor, Brooklyn vetoed the proposal as did the Town of Flushing, by a vote of 1407-1144.
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	City Craigslist Free New York
		On May 7, 1847 the New York State Legislature chartered "a Free Academy for the purpose of extending the benefits of education gratuitously to parsons who have been pupils in the common schools of the...
		From the Free Academy to CUNY provides the first generally accessible narrative of the development of the City University of New York from its inception in 1847 as the Free Academy to its present status as the largest urban university in the country.
		The Free Academy was born in controversy and today the City University of New York is again in the midst of controversial changes.
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	Southern Life
		He says he is able to walk through Calvary and — without looking at the names on the stones — tell the ethnic heritage of nearly any deceased person just from the way his or her grave is kept.
		The largest diocesan cemetery in New York, Calvary was the setting for Vito Corleone’s funeral in the film “The Godfather.” Inguanti himself has relatives buried in Calvary and says that his interest in the tending of gravesites is “more than a research interest; it’s personal.”
		Inguanti traces these grave tending practices to the great wave of Italian immigrants to New York City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, noting that this influx of immigrants coincided with a shift in the United States toward a suburban domestic planning model.
	www.southernct.edu /faculty/paffairs/news/?file=view.php&id=61 (653 words)

	Exeter News-Letter Obituaries: Friday, October 24, 2003
		Ada was a graduate of Hampton Academy, with the Class of 1937, and the University of New Hampshire, Class of 1941.
		She was born April 19, 1904, in New York City, the daughter of the late Thomas and Mary (McEvatte) McGlynn, who emigrated to the United States from Dublin, Ireland.
		She was given the Profile of Service Award from the University of New Hampshire Alumni Association and was also made an honorary member of the alumni association for the Class of 1952.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2003news/exeter/10242003/obituari/56944.htm (2101 words)

	Distinguished Alumni
		New York Law School was founded in 1891.
		At thirty-five years old, John Purroy Mitchel was the youngest person ever to be elected Mayor of New York City, a distinction that earned him the nickname, "Boy Mayor." A graduate of Columbia University and New York Law School, Mitchel held numerous government posts after being admitted to the bar.
		He devoted much of his term to transit issues and was reelected based on his opposition to a state plan that would have increased the five cent subway fare.
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	Representative Crowley: New York: Sunnyside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sunnyside is a neighborhood in northwestern Queens, lying within Long Island City and bounded to the north by the Sunnyside Yards, to the east by Calvary Cemetery and 51st Street, to the south by the Long Island Expressway, and to the west by Van Dam Street.
		The Queensboro Bridge opened in 1909 and from it was built Queens Boulevard, which ran to the center of the borough through Sunnyside, where streets were built along the boulevard.
		Sunnyside Gardens (1924-29), a complex of attached houses of two and a half stories, with front and rear gardens and a landscaped central court, was on e of the nation's first planned communities, hailed for its innovative design by such scholars of urban life as Lewis Mumford (a onetime resident).
	crowley.house.gov /newyork/sunnyside.htm (266 words)

	Catholic New York - Lead Story
		Roina, the first layman to hold the position of managing director of Calvary and Allied Cemeteries, is fascinated by the history of the Church of New York and its people that is written in the grave markers of the huge cemetery.
		A hands-on manager who stops on his rounds to talk with the workers in the four "allied" cemeteries, he is endlessly touched by the sorrows he reads in the engraved names and ages--little children who died in the crowded tenements of Irish immigrants; young servicemen who fell in World War II...
		A 21-gun salute was fired in memory of the 266 sailors who died in the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor 100 years ago, and children placed daisies on the graves of the 24 who were brought to Key West for burial.
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	Coyne/Strasser Connections - Person Page 1
		Birth: Joseph Aloysius Anderson was born on 16 August 1883 in New* York, New York County, New York.
		Burial: Edward Anderson was buried in Calvary* Cemetery, Queens, New York.
		Born in New York City, he was about 65 years old when the editor-publisher of Scribner's Magazine spotted him riding in an elevator in Manhattan, and decided he had the "authentic mid-western farmer" look Scribner's wanted for their cover of November 1937.
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	The Queens Spin - Queens Catherine Braganza
		Queens was supposedly named after Queen Catherine in 1683, when the area was under the rule of King Charles the II of England — her husband.
		Flack’s design of the 35-foot high statue showed the Queen with an orb in her hand, symbolizing her role in bridging the new and old worlds.
		A revisited history on the Queen spurred groups to rise up against the monarch when it was alleged that the Queen and her family had profited from the slave trade.
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	A History of the Chenot / Shenot / Schenot Family in America
		It’s possible that Nicolas Chenot may have lived for a time in upstate New York: An undated letter, handwritten in French and addressed to Nicolas via the postmaster of Morehouseville (Hamilton County), NY, is one of the aforementioned documents preserved by his descendants.
		The Chenot household appears in the 1840 census in New York City’s 6th ward, with Nicolas’s name recorded as “Nich’s Chinott.” According to this census record, Nicolas’s household consisted of one female aged 30 to 40 (Marie) and four males.
		She was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, NY, on October 13, 1884, in First Calvary, Sec.
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	Queens County, New York NY, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		The county was named for Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II Queens County is one of 62 counties in New York.
		Queens County is better known as Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City.
		This was an increase of.35% from the 2000 census.
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	Representative Crowley: New York: Long Island City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Long Island City is a neighborhood in northwestern Queens, bounded to the west and the north by the East River, to the east by Hazen Street, 49th Street, and New Calvary Cemetery, and to the south by Newtown Creek.
		After Queensboro Bridge opened in 1909, new streets were laid out, blocks of houses were built and land values rose rapidly.
		The Citicorp building with 48 floors is the tallest building outside New York City.
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	New York Cemeteries - I Dream of Genealogy Databases
		Cemeteries of Long Island - These transcripts of records compiled in the early 1900's show many no-longer-existing graves of Long Island residents who died in the 1700's and early 1800's, some born as early as the 1650.
		New York City - Dutch Church Burials Ancestry.com This database is a listing of persons buried by the church prior to 1899.
		New York City - Marble Cemetery Records, 1830-1937 Ancestry.com The oldest extant non-sectarian cemetery in New York City, the Marble Cemetery was designed in 1830 with solid marble vaults built completely underground.
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	Irish Echo Online - News
		The news was out in advance of the press conference that there were two Annie Moores entangled in the historical record.
		In fact, she never left New York city and spent the rest of what was to be a tough and all too short life on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
		Smolenyak Smolenyak held all in the room captive last Friday as she outlined what was a gumshoe genealogical story spurred by nagging, unanswered questions and a series of clues that began with a New York City death certificate for Annie's brother, Anthony Moore, dated 1902.
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	Al Smith Summary
		Alfred E. Smith was born on Dec. 30, 1873, in a tenement on New York City's Lower East Side.
		At the constitutional convention in 1915 Smith demonstrated that he was the best-informed man on the business of the state of New York, and Tammany leaders immediately designated him sheriff of New York County.
		Governor Smith, the spokesman for the new urban masses, instituted a number of important social reforms, including an amended workmen's compensation law, higher teachers' salaries, and appropriations for the sick and mentally ill. He also urged the legislature to extend labor laws to protect women in industry and to enact health insurance legislation.
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	Local Catholic Church History and Catholic Ancestors - New York
		The Diocese of Ogdensburg encompasses the northeastern New York counties of
		The first Catholic Cemetery in New York State was established in the year 1785 was located on the corner of Barclay and Church Streets, the present location of St. Peter's Church..."Ecumenism, a rare occurrence in those days, played a major role in the establishment of the first Catholic Cemetery in New York.
		The Diocese of Syracuse encompasses the central New York counties of Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego.
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	Calvary Cemetery Pictures Queens County New York - details from newyork-bestdeals.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Calvary Cemetery is owned and managed by the Archdiocese of New York.
		It consists of four cemeteries and has about 3 million interred:...
		Mailing address: Calvary Cemetery 49-02 Laurel Hill Blvd. Flushing NY 11377-7396...
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	Copper Topics #94 - Winter 2002
		Copies of the four statues were erected in the late 19th Century in White Plains and Ossining, New York; Clinton and Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Wilmington, North Carolina.
		Other copies were also erected at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York, in 1866, three years before they were installed at the Green-Wood Cemetery.
		Among the 600,000 persons buried at Green-Wood Cemetery are hundreds of those who fell during the Civil War, including two New Yorkers who served the South as generals.
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	The Political Graveyard: Queens County, N.Y.
		This site only lists about 5,000 cemeteries where politicians are known to have been buried (the number grows gradually as more research is done).
		Interment.Net (Cemetery Records Online), which has collected millions of interment records from thousands of cemeteries.
		Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
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	TERRA: Champion Trees
		A cemetery is a sacred space—a hushed sanctuary of shaded serenity amid the noise and bustle of urban life.
		New York's Big Tree Register is kept by NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Region 4 Forester Michael Urban (518-357-2157).
		Calvary Cemetery will be the first such Living Library in New York City, and the largest in New York State.
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	Miss Mary Katherine "Katie" Gilnagh
		Miss Gilnagh was bound for New York, NY.
		In later life she became a member of the "Titanic Enthusiasts of America" and she appeared on two televison programs, To Tell The Truth and the Steve Allen Show, she was also mentioned in Walter Lord's, A Night to Remember and her picture appeared in a 1953 Life Magazine account of the tragedy.
		Miss Gilnagh (later Mrs John Joseph Manning) died on March 1, 1971 in Long Island City, New York at the age of 75.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /biography/826 (323 words)

	CALVARY VETERANS PARK - Historical Sign
		Since then, the Roman Catholic cemetery, which now comprises Old Calvary Cemetery and New Calvary Cemetery, has expanded to 365 acres, and is the largest cemetery in the United States.
		On April 28, 1863, the City of New York purchased the land for this park from the Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral and granted Parks jurisdiction over it.
		In 1929, for $13,950, the monument was given a new fence, and its bronze and granite details replaced or restored.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=9778 (485 words)

	Queens Family Cemetaries
		The Moore-Jackson Cemetery in Woodside, Queens, is a 270-year old colonial cemetery.
		The Moore-Jackson Cemetery is a family member of the Queens Family Cemeteries, and its restoration is crucial to the history and heritage of Queens.
		These web pages are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
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