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Posted By: barrysloate

Both the Excelsior's clubhouse and Jim Creighton's house are in my neighborhood, just a couple of blocks away. I pass the clubhouse nearly every day. I know the exact place that Creighton was taken out of his family home in his coffin, and ceremoniously paraded to Greenwood Cemetery to be buried. It was a big deal in 1862, though I doubt many in Cobble Hill(my neck of the woods) and Brooklyn Heights know who he is today.