... the low income housing and the high crime rate of the neighborhood was not conducive to raising impressionable kids. After a few years of factory work and saving money, moving just across the river made sense. Woodbridge, New Jersey was quiet with lots of open space for kids to grow and play. The worries of high crime that Jamaica offered were left ... Army (Woodbridge). Two famous residents of Woodbridge were Captain John Pike, the ancestor of General Zebulon M. Pike (Pike Peak was named in his honor), and Thomas Bloomfield, the ancestor of Joseph Bloomfield, for twelve years the Gover...

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... West Native American braves, he resolved to paint and study Native American culture. So he began an epic journey through the Midwest and the west from 1829 to 1838, traveling across the frontier and living among some 48 separate tribes while he painted their portraits, over six hundred, in fact. He published plates of these paintings along with a fairly thorough documentation ... for by his daughter in his final days. He left the Cartoon Collection behind in Washington. Catlin died to his illness on December 23, 1872. In 1879, five years, after Joseph Harrison's death, his widow, Sarah,...

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