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Stock #: 370621
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Albany
State: New York (NY)
County: Albany
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Martin Van Buren, eighth President of the United States, was born in the old town of Kinderhook, on the Hudson, Dec. 5th, 1782. He had no college education, but began to practise law in 1803. In 1807 he married Hannah Hoes. She died in 1819. After 36 years of active public life, Van Buren returned to "Lindenwold," his fine estate at Kinderhook and here lived quietly and peacefully until his death, July 24th, 1862

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