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Journal" called it on July 18, 1885 "virtually a new regiment, so much has its personnel changed during the past six months..." The Journal placed the credit squarely on McAlpin's shoulders writing, "Colonel Edwin A. McAlpin, the but recently elected commander, has certainly developed energy, pluck and good sense in the management of his organization, which has, in turn, been followed by most encouraging results..."
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proprietor of the then-famous “Brandreth
Vegetable Universal Pills” from which he had amassed a large fortune. The wedding took place at Trinity Episcopal Church in Ossining and was officiated by Rev. Clarence Buel. Also in that year he was admitted as a partner in his father's firm, the D.H. McAlpin
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who had plans to use the property as a retirement home for members of the
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where he was promoted in 1885 to colonel, a role he retained until his military retirement in 1887. McAlpin had inherited a disorganized and dispirited regiment which was in danger of being disbanded by the State of New York. He aggressively cut dead wood from the ranks and reorganized the officer
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to be '...one of the show places of the Hudson River section'. Consisting of 27 rooms on a landscaped plot of 6 acres (24,000 m), the house had 10 baths, large stables, a garage, some greenhouses, and a commanding view of the
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