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Catherine McAuley. Website. www .mercyworld .org. The Sisters of Mercy is a religious institute for women in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. As of 2019, the institute has about 6200 sisters worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations.
In 1920, they bought the Cyrus West Field estate in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Smith died on December 20, 1908, at Bonneview in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1910, after his death, his son commissioned his portrait to be painted by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury, who also painted his daughter-in-law's portrait six months later.
Fix was the son of Wilhelm Fix and Louise Walz, and was born born March 13, 1901, in Dobbs Ferry, NY. His father was a brewer from Germany. Following the United States' entry into World War I in April 1917, Fix joined the National Guard, initially serving at Peekskill, New York.
1979. Estherwood is a late 19th-century mansion located on the campus of The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States. It was the home of industrial tycoon James Jennings McComb, who supported Masters financially in its early years when his daughters attended. The house's octagonal library was the first section built.
Death. Ashe was found dead at his home in Dobbs Ferry, New York on June 22, 2016. The Westchester County, New York medical examiner's office reported that Ashe died of injuries (specifically, traumatic asphyxia, and laryngeal fractures) suffered when a barbell he was lifting from a bench dropped on his neck.
The station depicted in a 1906 postcard. Dobbs Ferry station opened on September 29, 1849 with its origins as part of the Hudson River Railroad. [1] The current station house, which was built in 1889 by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, became a Penn Central station upon the merger between NYC and Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 ...
From the publisher's press release: Richard Borkow is the village historian of Dobbs Ferry, New York, a trustee of the Dobbs Ferry Historical Society and editor of the website www.VillageHistorian.org. In 2009 and 2010, he was project director for Noted Historians Reveal Dobbs Ferry's Historic River Connections, a series of video interviews on ...
