New York, 1895
News in Brief
Captain James Baker, the oldest war veteran in Suffolk county, died Wednesday morning at Sayville. He was 77 years old. Heart failure was the cause of his death.
The death Thursday of Coles Carpenter, of Glen Cove, who had been employed by the Coles family at Dosoris for over half a century removes the oldest colored resident of the town. He was born in 1806.
Captain Edgar C. Bowen, U. S. A., instractor in military tactics at St. Paul's school, Garden City, has been relieved at his own request from further duty.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 3, 1895, p. 8.
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