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Chernow married Valerie Stearn in 1979; she died in January 2006. Valerie S. Chernow was an assistant professor of languages and social sciences at the New York City College of Technology . [8]
Dec 22, 2017 · She died in 2006 after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Chernow’s Hamilton biography is dedicated to her, as “best of wives and best of women” and he wears her gold wedding ring.
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- Susannah Butter
- Hamilton may have had a different father. One of the first lyrics in Hamilton refers to its eponymous protagonist as "the $10 Founding Father without a father."
- Hamiltonopolis. When Hamilton celebrates New York as "the greatest city in the world," it's not quite historically accurate (it took the Big Apple a while to pass Boston and Philadelphia as America's cultural capital), but then again, it's being told from Hamilton's point of view.
- “Laurens, I like you a lot” In Hamilton, John Laurens is portrayed as the protagonist's best friend and the best man at his wedding. To further emphasize their familial connection, Laurens is played by the same actor as Hamilton's son Philip.
- Hamilton and Madison. Hamilton's relationship with James Madison in the musical is an adversarial one—the author of the Bill of Rights mostly serves as a hype man and partner-in-crime to Hamilton's arch-nemesis, Thomas Jefferson.
Jul 10, 2020 · The couple's oldest son Philip named a village on the land Angelica after his mother. Angelica Schuyler died on March 13, 1814 at age 58.
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- Savannah Walsh
Jun 26, 2020 · Historian Ron Chernow in his book Alexander Hamilton (on which the musical is based) characterized Hamilton Sr. as a ne’er-do-well bouncing from enterprise to enterprise, losing money at every...
- Amy Briggs
Feb 25, 2016 · On July 11, 1804, his former colleague Aaron Burr shot him in a duel over a petty insult. Alexander died the following day, with Elizabeth and their children by his side.
Oct 15, 2017 · The only reason that he decided to write the memoirs was a year before he dies, two things happened almost simultaneously: Number one, he becomes the victim of the Bernie Madoff of his day, a...
