1755–1804

A dropout from King’s College (later Columbia University), Alexander Hamilton was nonetheless a New York success story of the highest order. After marrying the well–connected Elizabeth Schuyler, he took up residence on Wall Street (at No. 58), practiced law, established the Bank of New York, helped ratify the Constitution of the United States, wrote much of the Federalist Papers, and in 1789 became the first Secretary of the Treasury. He was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr that took place in Weehauken, New Jersey, on July 11, 1804, and he was buried in the crowded graveyard of Trinity Church.