These biographies were extracted from the history of Orange County, New York by Russel Headley.
Orange county was one of the earliest counties of the State, dating back to 1683, when it was organized by a colony law. It was also one of those formed by a general act of organization in 1788, when it included the present county of Rockland, and was described as extending from the limits of East and West Jersey on the west side of the Hudson River along the river to Murderer’s Creek, or the bounds of Ulster County, and westward into the woods as far as Delaware River — that is, all that part of the state south of an easterly and westerly line from the mouth of Murderer’s Creek to the Delaware River or northerly line of Pennsylvania. In 1797 Rockland county was set off from it, and five towns from Ulster were added. Its boundaries were definitely fixed by an act of the New York legislature adopted April 3rd, 1801. The previous act of April 5th, 1797, provided that five towns, then a part of the County of Ulster, should be annexed to the county of Orange, and that the courts should hold their sessions alternately at Newburgh and Goshen. Two days afterward another act was passed defining the boundary lines of the towns composing the newly constructed county, and naming them as follows: Blooming Grove, Chesekook, Deer Park. Goshen. Minisink, Montgomery, New Windsor, Newburgh, Wallkill and Warwick.
- Biographical Sketch of Benjamin Barker Odell
- Biographical Sketch of Edward M. Ruttenber
- Biographical Sketch of Edward Payson Roe
- Biographical Sketch of Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Biography of David Halliday Moffat
- Biography of Dewitt Clinton
- Biography of Ethel Lynn Eliot Beers
- Biography of George Clinton
- Biography of Joel Tyler Headley
- Biography of Major Edward Carlisle Boynton
- Biography of William Henry Seward