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| ALEXANDER hAMILTON EXHIBITION |
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| THE MAN WHO MADE MODERN AMERICA |
Welcome to the Friends of Alexander Hamilton & Decendants Group website.
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Alexander Hamilton Opinion Page
The New York Historical Society has titled its recent exhibition "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America."
All we have to do is look around us and we can see the results of his social, economic and political theories. What do you
think?
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It is the mission of the Friends Alexander Hamilton & Descendants Group to
enhance his legacy and contributions to America. Alexander Hamilton was born on the Caribbean Island of Nevis on Jan.
11, 1757. He later migrated to the United States from the Island of St Croix in the Virgin Islands. Because of his expressed
intellectual brilliance at an early age he was given a scholarship to study at Princeton University in Elizabethtown,
New Jersey. Although he was not accepted at Princeton University he eventually enrolled in Kings College in New York City,
which is now Columbia University. It was during this time that he became active in writing and speaking as a supporter of
the cause for American Independence. When the Revolutionary War broke out he joined the local Militia and was eventually recruited
by Gen. George Washington as his aide-de-camp. He went on to become a Revolutionary War hero. After the war he served
as President George Washington's first Secretary of the Treasury.
During
the Reolutionary War Alexander Hamilton discovered the Paterson Great Falls while traveling from Paramus, New Jersey to Gen
George Washington's headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey. He invited Gen. George Washington and their friend
the Marquis de Lafayette to have lunch and to explore the Great Falls as a possible site for setting up what was to become
America's first planned industrial city
When Alexander Hamilton became the Secretary of the Treasury he submitted
three
reports to congress. The first report was to get authorization to establish America's first Bank
of the United States. The second report was to get authorization to pay off America's accumulated war debts and the third report
was to get authorization to establish the Society for the Estalishment of Useful Manufactures. (SUM-1791) After this corporation
was established he then founded the area surrounding the Great Falls which became Paterson, New Jersey The Friends
of Alexander Hamilton & Descendants Committee has undertaken the task of assisting in the enhancement of Alexander Hamilton's
legacy.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON MISSION STATEMENT:
The Friends of Alexander Hamilton & Descendants Group came into existence on July 15, 2004. The
mission of this group is to enhance the legacy and contributions Alexander Hamilton has given to this nation and to Paterson,
New Jersey with the establishment of this city as the first planned industrial city in America.
| PATERSON GREAT FALLS |
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| Site of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (1791) |
| ALEXANDER HAMILTON |
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| FOUNDER OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY |
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