The Town Historian can also be reached at home at 141 Spring Street, South Salem, NY 10590 at
914-763-3326.
Questions: Inquiries about the history of the Town are welcome. Can do limited genealogical searching. Holdings include miscellaneous deeds and family papers for several local families, i.e.Hoyt, Lawrence, Bouton. Agricultural Yearbooks for late 1800s; Yearbooks from Westchester County Board of Legislators, same era.
Seeking information on Henry Agard Wallace, Vice President and Secretary of Agriculture under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Seeking namesake of the Town of Lewisboro - John Lewis, born Lower Salem 1793, probably lived in Wilton, CT circa 1811, died Washington, DC 1871. Father, John Lewis, was from Clinton, CT. Especially interested in missing portrait given to St. John's congregation in 1870 by William Lewis. Information re: William Lewis, his nephew, is also welcome.
Seeking local ghost stories from northern Westchester area, especially Lewisboro, to add to my growing collection - object to write a book.
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