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American Biography: Dr. Benjamin P. Kissam, born in New York City, March 17, 1787, died
October 6, 1828. He spent his boyhood and early youth in New York
City, entered, and was graduated with honors from Williams College,
and studied medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
New York. He received his medical doctor's degree in 1816. He then
became a surgeon in the United States navy and continued in active
service until his death in 1828. He was a Master Mason and a member
of Holland Lodge, No. 8, Ancient York Masons. He married Harriet
J. Miller, daughter of Dr. Seth Miller, of Ossining, New York, and
niece of Bishop Jarvis, of Connecticut. The family moved to Peekskill
in 1841, and resided on the Weeks property, at that time on the waterfront.
Later they moved to James street and Constant avenue, and in 1888
the two daughters, Harriet and Josephine C, made their home at No.
1120 Constant avenue, where Josephine C. Kissam died in 1916, in
her ninetieth year. Josephine C. Kissam was a charter member of Van
Cortlandt Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and in earlier
years was active in the work of the organization. She was also a
prominent worker in St. Peter's Church, where she had been a communicant.
A memorial window in Harriet, in 1908, a rood screen was presented
to the church by her sister. |