1. Dr Isaac Bronson was a surgeon during the American Revolutionary War.
12 Facts About Isaac Bronson
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Isaac Bronson was later a successful banker and land speculator and is credited with co-founding the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company and Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company.
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Isaac Bronson's father was a farmer who was a member of the Connecticut General Assembly.
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Isaac Bronson made a personal appeal to George Washington to have his mates treated fairly and awarded pensions like the other officers.
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Isaac Bronson then pursued a career in purchasing and selling government obligations.
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Isaac Bronson invested in the new American government's debt, assisted by many friends from former officers, including Alexander Hamilton, who had become the first Secretary of the Treasury in Washington's first cabinet.
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Isaac Bronson owned and invested in considerable real estate holdings throughout New York.
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None did more than banker Isaac Bronson to make an exact science of the business.
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Isaac Bronson then resold it to farmers, granting five-year mortgages at 6 percent to those whose financial standing his agents and scrutinized and certified.
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In 1796, Isaac Bronson purchased the home of Timothy Dwight, called "Verna" in Greenfield Hill.
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Isaac Bronson is credited with planting the first dogwood trees along Bronson Road where today there is a yearly Dogwood Festival.
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Isaac Bronson was the daughter of Archibald Gracie King and Elizabeth Denning King, and the granddaughter of US Representative James Gore King and William Alexander Duer.