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Spy glass, telescope owner identified as belonging to Isaac B. Gildersleeves as engraved. Optics are working and produce an upright image. Circa 1860. Capt. Isaac B. Gildersleeve was part owner of the "G. W. Sparrowhawk," "Spread Eagle" and "Minnehaha." He was in U. S. service in the Civil War at the battle of Shiloh transporting troops with Gen. U. S. Grant on board of his steamboat. See more of his bio. below. Size: 23" L x 2.5" diameter Weight: 3lbs ******************************************Isaac Bush Gildersleeve, born in Scipio, Cayuga county, N. Y., Apr. 5, 1823, died at Wiccopee, East Fishkill, N. Y., Feb. 25, 189o, married in 1864, Charlotte Anne Miller of White Pigeon, Michigan, born in Berwick, Pa., Sept. 21, 1833, died Sept. 24, 1887. His father Solomon Gildersleeve born in 1782 in Fishkill, N. Y., died in 1838, ensign in the War of 1812, 149th N. Y. Regiment, moved back to Fishkill in 1830 where his father Iived, Nathaniel, born in Hempstead, L. I., in 1753. He was the son of Benjamin (whose father George was born Oct. 22, 1687, charter member of St. George's Church of Hempstead, L. I.), and served in the Revolution (N. Y. in Rev.) from Fishkill and died in Liberty, Sullivan county, N. Y., in 1840. Capt. Isaac B. Gildersleeve was part owner of the "G. W. Sparrowhawk," "Spread Eagle" and "Minnehaha." He was in U. S. service in the Civil War at the battle of Shiloh transporting troops with Gen. U. S. Grant on board of his steamboat. He sold the Everett House in St. Louis, Mo., in 1870 and bought a large farm at Wiccopee near Hopewell where his only daughter Rita Alice, born July 1, 1866 has lived and managed the estate. (1940.) Mrs. James Hervey Gildersleeve soon joined her husband from St. Louis and on April 10, they started for Denver, Colorado, in an ox team with two young men who were glad to join them to drive the cows. After six weeks journey across the plains, they reached the Rocky Mountains and Denver, encountering many Indians who were friendly. Some of them wanted to trade their ponies for their little daughter Minnie. At Denver, Mr. Gildersleeve bought a restaurant and ran it through the summer. He hired a man to take his herd of cows out to pasturage and care for them all summer long. Denver had just experienced a large fire and the little village was building up again. He had an excellent chance to procure a homestead where the finest residential portion of Denver developed. He found the milk business overdone in Denver so early in the fall of 1863, he started his herd with a trusty man for Montana, expecting to winter in the Salt Lake valley, as he had not sold his restaurant. When he sold it, he fell ill of typhoid fever and was not able to travel for two months. The winter set in very hard in Colorado and Utah where his cows were. There was never known to be such a winter there with so much snow. No feed or corn was available so that half of his herd perished. In the spring, he started for Virginia City, Montana, and sold his cows to go into the grocery business. He sent his brother...
Condition: very good, replaced lens cap .
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