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Brooklyn rendition. (Wright (2000) mentions "Eckford" clubs in Albany
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President in the latter year." Immigration and census records show that Peter Tostevin, a resident of Brooklyn, was born in France in about 1827, that he immigrated to the United States on May 31, 1852, and that he was a mason and master builder.
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