Selden, New York
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Selden is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 21,262 at the time of the 2020 census.
The Selden Campus of Suffolk County Community College, located within the hamlet
From The Diary of Captain Daniel Roe, 1806–08 (1904), caption reads: "School house near home of Capt. Daniel Roe. Near the tree, at the right, tradition says the Tory Captain Richard Miller fell from his horse in 1776."
The Selden home of Daniel Roe, From The Diary of Captain Daniel Roe, 1806–1808 (1904)
Henry R. Selden
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Henry Rogers Selden was an American lawyer and politician. He was the lieutenant governor of New York from 1857 to 1858. He defended Susan B. Anthony in her 1873 trial for unlawfully voting as a woman
Selden, New York
…in 1957. When a post office was opened in 1852, Westfield had already been taken as a name by a community upstate. Upstate attorney (and later judge) Henry Selden promised to do "something handsome" if the community named itself after him. The name was adopted, though it is usually said to be unknown whether he…
Henry R. Selden