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PEEKSKILL , a See also:village of Westchester See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., on the E. See also:bank of the See also:Hudson See also:river, about 41 M. N. of New York See also:City. Pop. (1910, See also:census), 15,245. It is served by the New York Central & Hudson River railway, and by passenger and See also:freight steamboat lines on the Hudson river. The village is the See also:home of many New York business men. At Peekskill are the Peekskill military See also:academy (1833, non-sectarian); St See also:Mary's school, See also:Mount St See also:Gabriel (See also:Protestant Episcopal), a school for girls established by the sisterhood of St Mary; the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field memorial library; St See also:Joseph's home (See also:Roman See also:Catholic); the Peekskill See also:hospital, and several sanatoria. Near the village is the See also:state military See also:camp, where the See also:national guard of the state meets in See also:annual encampment. Peekskill has many manufactures, and the factory products were valued in 1905 at $7,251,897, an increase of 306.7% since woo. The site was settled See also:early in the 18th See also:century, but the village itself See also:dates from about 176o, when it took its See also:present name from the adjacent See also:creek or " kill," on which a Dutch trader, Jans Peek, of New York City, had established a trading See also:post. During the latter See also:part of the See also:War of See also:Independence Peekskill was an important outpost of the See also:Continental See also:Army, and in the neighbourhood several small engagements were fought between See also:American and See also:British scouting parties. The village was incorporated in 1816. Peekskill was the See also:country home of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward See also:Beecher.
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