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Coming Soon! Peter K Dotson and the Saints

Coming Soon! Peter K Dotson and the Saints

Coming Soon! Peter K Dotson and the Saints

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Peter K. Dotson, Isabelle's Great Grandfather,  was the first US Marshal in Utah in the 1800s  and then became a Pioneer of Colorado as a major 

landowner. The history of risking everything and losing it as well.

Ladies' Lib : How Rockland Women Got the Vote

Coming Soon! Peter K Dotson and the Saints

Coming Soon! Peter K Dotson and the Saints

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It is one of the anomalies of our times that American historians, traditionally concerned with the struggle to realize the American dream of freedom and democracy, have almost ignored a facet of that struggle that actively engaged half the citizens of the United States for a period of seventy-two years- the struggle for woman suffrage.

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The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing

Coming Soon! Peter K Dotson and the Saints

The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing

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Snedens Landing is a residential enclave on the Hudson River in the south-east corner of Rockland County, which, over a period of many decades, has attracted a galaxy of individuals in the arts and professions. The Tonetti Family is an amazing story.

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Wine and Bitters

Daughter of Vermont: A Biography of Emily Eaton Hepburn

The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing

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An account of the meetings in 1783 at Tappan, N.Y. and aboard H.M.S. Perseverance, between George Washington and Sir Guy Carleton, commanding generals of American and British forces at the close of the American Revolution.

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Daughter of Vermont: A Biography of Emily Eaton Hepburn

Daughter of Vermont: A Biography of Emily Eaton Hepburn

Daughter of Vermont: A Biography of Emily Eaton Hepburn

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Isabelle K. Savell is the Grandniece of A. Barton Hepburn, Banker and Philanthropist, who's widow is the subject of this book. Daughter Beulah Eaton Hepburn (1890–1978), founder of the High Mowing School in Wilton, New Hampshire who married Rear Admiral Robert R. M. Emmet


The Executive Mansion in Albany

Daughter of Vermont: A Biography of Emily Eaton Hepburn

Daughter of Vermont: A Biography of Emily Eaton Hepburn

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A Century of New York History

Savell, Isabelle K. The Executive Mansion in Albany. New York State Office of General Services, 1982. Savell, Isabelle K. The Governor’s Mansion in Albany. Isabelle K. Savell, 1962. Isabelle worked directly with Nelson A. Rockefeller for eight years.

Politics In The Gilded Age

Politics In The Gilded Age

Politics In The Gilded Age

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A Biography Of Senator Clarence Lexow

Based primarily on the papers and Records of Senator Lexow and the Lexow family, this book deals with the political concerns that occupied the voters and dominated the headlines in Rockland County and New York City and State in the 1890's when the Gilded Age was drawing to a close.

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South of the Mountains

Politics In The Gilded Age

Politics In The Gilded Age

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Bi-Monthly magazine published by The Historical Society of Rockland County.

Isabelle was a regular contributor. This cover features a story about Lucy Virginia Meriwether Davies, "Dockie" to her friends and patients. She was one of Rockland's historic women, a country doctor and wife of Arthur B. Davies, the renowned artist. The Dr. Davies Farm continues to be productive and legendary.

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