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AJdie, now demolished, the house Elizabeth Lawrence commissioned for her sister Mary Mercer's family.
It stood near the northwest comer of North Main Street and Old Dublin Pike.
1871
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Note:
Judge Chapman retired, sold his town house, and built a retirement villa, Frost-erley, on the portion of his farm property nearest to the Aldie estate. (The mansion was replaced by theclusteroftown houses known as Regency Woods.)
HCM attended Mohegan Lake School in Peekskill, N.Y., which seems to have been a military school.
Letters home from Mohegan to his sister, and his recorded memories of Tennent School show HCM to have enjoyed the usual childhood pastimes of sledding and skating, damming streams for swimming, collecting birds’ eggs, and raising pigeons. He was particularly interested in hunting for arrowheads and other Indian relics. Harry was also developing his skills as an artist in these years; some of his early drawings survive and show promise.
HCM in about 1871 or 1872 (age 15 or 16).
A drawing created by HCM at age 16, signed and dated 1872.
HENRY CHAPMAN MERCER: AN ANNOTATED CHRONOLOGY 5