Franklin Brandreth
news article · 2000
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SUMMARY
Magazine feature on Franklin Brandreth (Benjamin's great-grandson) and Brandreth Park, fetched directly via a Wayback Machine snapshot of a courtesy reproduction. States: 'Brandreth Park was established in 1851 when Franklin's great-grandfather Dr. Benjamin Brandreth of Ossining, New York, bought Township 39 of the Totten & Crossfield Purchase for fifteen cents an acre. The acquisition -- some twenty-six thousand acres of woodlands -- became the first private preserve in the Adirondack Park. Dr. Brandreth was born in England and came to this country in 1835. He was the son-in-law of an English apothecary who developed and patented the first laxative pill, thereby creating the family's fortune,' and that 'Dr. Brandreth became a successful entrepreneur in his own right and went on to serve in the New York State Senate.' Used in this bundle for the 1851 Adirondack land purchase (26,000 acres, Township 39, Totten & Crossfield Purchase, $0.15/acre) and for a conflicting account of Benjamin's relationship to the English pill originator: son-in-law, rather than the grandfather relationship reported by Appletons' Cyclopaedia and The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. The case records the conflict rather than picking one account silently.
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This Adirondack Life magazine feature on Franklin Brandreth (Benjamin’s great-grandson), fetched directly via a Wayback Machine snapshot, documents the 1851 purchase that created Brandreth Park: 26,000 acres of Adirondack wilderness (Township 39 of the Totten & Crossfield Purchase) bought for fifteen cents an acre, later the first private preserve in what became the Adirondack Park. It also gives a conflicting account of Benjamin Brandreth’s relationship to the English pill originator, calling him a “son-in-law” where Appletons’ Cyclopaedia calls him a “grandson” and The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography more specifically describes a maternal grandfather. This bundle records that unresolved conflict rather than choosing one account silently.