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This incensed Jerome's wife so much that she had bronze plaques saying "Jerome Avenue" made up and bolted into place along the road, forcing the city to accept the name. The racetrack was acquired and demolished by the city in 1894, to make way for Jerome Park Reservoir. The Bathgate mansion served as a summer home for the Jerome family.
Leonard Jerome was born in Pompey in Onondaga County, New York, on November 3, 1817. He was one of nine sons and one daughter born to Aurora ( née Murray) Jerome (1785–1867) and Isaac Jerome (1786–1866). Isaac was a descendant of Timothy Jerome, a French Huguenot immigrant who arrived in the New York Colony in 1717.
May 16, 2024 · The Leonard Jerome Mansion was a Gilded Age mansion completed in 1865 and one of the first buildings landmarked under the new preservation law in 1965. Built by a business associate of Cornelius ...
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Leonard Walter Jerome (November 3, 1817 – March 3, 1891) was an American financier in Brooklyn, New York, and the maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill. (en) Leonard Walter Jerome, né le 3 novembre 1817 à Pompey et mort le 3 mars 1891 à Brighton, est un homme d'affaires américain.
Jul 8, 2013 · Although Leonard Jerome made and lost millions of dollars in his life, even in 1854 these were modest homes, which compare not at all with such splendid residences at the Jerome Mansion on Madison Avenue and 26th Street in Manhattan, which Jerome built in 1860. Let us now consider the three contending addresses.
May 18, 2019 · Leonard Jerome : biography 03 November 1817 – 03 March 1891 Leonard Walter Jerome (3 November 1817 – 3 March 1891) was a Brooklyn, New York, financier and maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill. Honors Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, Jerome Avenue in Brooklyn, Jerome Park Reservoir, and the Jerome Stakes are all named for Leonard […]
