Benjamin Brandreth: Difference between revisions

Brandreth was active in civic development in Sing Sing (later [[Ossining (village), New York|Ossining, New York]]). He was an early subscriber to the fundraising effort to build the Trinity Church in that town. He was one of the founders of the New York [[Eclectic medicine|Eclectic Medical College]], which he supported financially throughout his life. In 1874, he presented the building used by the Collegecollege to Dr. Robert S. Newton and his associates.<ref>{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Brandreth, Benjamin|year=1900}}</ref> Brandreth was active in the [[Freemasonry|Masons]] who took charge of his funeral with full honors.

Brandreth's funeral was held at the Trinity Church which could hold only a fraction of the mourners in attendance. Others lined the streets to the [[Dale Cemetery]] where he was buried. His body was in a wrought metal and bronze casket hermetically sealed with a full -length plate glass top.<ref>''Medical Eclectic'', p. 97</ref> The procession to the cemetery included carriages for the clergymen and pallbearers, the 16th Battalion brass band, the hearse with a bodyguard of 8 Masonic knights, and carriages for 150 friends and family, stretching out over a mile in length, so that the first carriages were arriving at the cemetery at about the same time as the last were leaving the church.