Editing Piermont, New York (section)

==Notable people==
* Alfred Bristol, a 100-year-old [[World War II]] veteran of Piermont who served his country in a segregated Army unit, was a recipient of the Rockland County Buffalo Soldier Award. The award, presented since 1993, is named after the Black [[10th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|10th Cavalry Regiment]] that was stationed near the railroad construction camps of the [[Kansas]] Frontier in 1867. Regiment members were nicknamed “[[Buffalo Soldiers]]” by the [[Plains Indians]], based on their exceptional and fearsome fighting reputation. They were never defeated during 23 years of service in the [[Indian Wars]], from 1867 to 1890. Bristol enlisted in the segregated [[New York Army National Guard]] in 1931. He belonged to the “[[369th Infantry Regiment (United States)|Harlem Hellfighters]],” the nickname for the 369th Infantry Regiment, which was later reorganized into the 369th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion and was sent to the [[Pacific War|Pacific]] during World War II. It participated in the [[10th Armored Division (United States)|10th Army Division's]] invasion and occupation of [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]], a Japanese stronghold, in 1945. Upon completing Officer Candidate School, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant, a rarity for Blacks at the time. Bristol and his wife, Carolyn, who married in 1941, moved to [[Camp Shanks|Shanks]] Village in [[Orangeburg, New York|Orangeburg]] after World War II where Bristol organized meetings, dances, parades and the 25-cent ''“Shanks Carpool”'' to and from [[New York City]]. Bristol played a role in the creation of [[Tappan, New York|Tappan]] Public Library and from 1963 to 1995 served as a trustee and president of the library's board. In 1967, he organized the Art for the Mountain auction to help save [[Blauvelt State Park|Clausland Mountain]] from development, with the 550-acre site later becoming a county park.
* Grady Anderson of [[Nanuet, New York|Nanuet]], a [[Vietnam veteran|Vietnam-era Army veteran]] and the 1996 award recipient, stated ''“The purpose was to honor African-American unsung heroes in Rockland County who served in the military and, like their predecessors, experienced the wrath of racism, and were successful in their fields and for giving back to the community,”'' Anderson said. 
*Thomas Pomplin - Pomplin, an African-American resident of Orangetown and a dedicated member of the Piermont Fire Department, died on August 5, 1854, while responding to a fire in Nyack.<ref>[https://rocklandnews.com/pomplin-honored-with-proclamation-during-black-history-month/ Pomplin honored with Proclamation During Black History Month]</ref>
* Army veteran David Smith of [[Montebello, New York|Montebello]], who saw combat in Vietnam and was the 1994 award recipient, thanked Bristol ''“for allowing me and others to climb up your back, for the path that you laid for us. So I say that with appreciation, affection and love, and I'll salute you again, sir.”''
[[File:John W. Ferdon.jpg|left|thumb|100px|John W. Ferdon, Congressman from New York]]
* [[William Gaddis]], American novelist, lived in Piermont while writing his second novel, ''[[J R]]'' (1975). The house he lived in served as the setting for his third novel, ''[[Carpenter's Gothic]]'' (1985).<ref>{{cite web |title = Gaddis, William 1922–1998 |url = https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/gaddis-william-1922-1998 |website = Encyclopedia.com |access-date = June 21, 2021 }}</ref>
* Mimi Bryan was elected Piermont's first woman mayor in 1974.<ref>{{cite news|title=Piermont to elect area's 1st woman mayor|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/163171645/?clipping_id=9162816&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE2MzE3MTY0NSwiaWF0IjoxNjc1NjYxODA1LCJleHAiOjE2NzU3NDgyMDV9.AstYzx9YhDUhsPhMRXaLtEpLKoqdEnZy7w4qbQ8TI-o|access-date=February 6, 2023|work=The Journal News|date=February 21, 1974|location=White Plains, New York|page=1}}</ref>
* [[John W. Ferdon]] (December 13, 1826 – August 5, 1884) Served in the [[United States House of Representatives]], [[New York State Assembly]] (Rockland Co.) and [[New York State Senate]] (7th D.).
* [[Pierpoint Isham]], Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court<ref>{{cite book |last=Aldrich |first=Lewis Cass |date=1889 |title=History of Bennington County, Vt. |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofbenning1889aldr |location=Syracuse, NY |publisher=D. Mason & Co. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofbenning1889aldr/page/539 539]–541 |ref={{sfnRef|''History of Bennington County, Vt.''}}}}</ref>
* [[Al Markim]], actor and producer, starred as Astro in the [[Tom Corbett, Space Cadet#Television|''Tom Corbett, Space Cadet'']] television series.<ref name=thr>{{cite news|first=Mike|last=Barnes |title=Al Markim, Actor on the 1950s TV Serial 'Tom Corbett, Space Cadet,' Dies at 88 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/al-markim-dead-tom-corbett-844063 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=November 27, 2015 |access-date=December 22, 2015}}</ref><ref name=jnews>{{cite news|title=Alfed Markim obituary |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lohud/obituary.aspx?pid=176669755 |work=[[The Journal News]] |date=November 27, 2015 |access-date=December 22, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Paul E. Olsen]], professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at [[Columbia University]] and member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]
* Dennis D. Sweeney (1853–1912), of Piermont, Employed as Yard Conductor in the Erie Yards, Jersey City since about 1885, Veteran in yard service; was a Yard Master of the Rail Road in 1900s, Member of Lodge 56 and Master Switchman then later Grand Master of Lodge 115 in Jersey City, New Jersey of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association, was regarded as an industrious and sober man, had money saved in the bank, frequently attended lodge meetings, wrote numerous articles and newsletters in the Switchmen's Journal, was a delegate to the Dallas Convention as Chairman of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association, died from a bullet wound in 1912 while walking in the streets of New York at the corner of Doyers and Bowery at 3:00&nbsp;p.m. the shots of which were intended for another person supposedly from a Chinese battle (“Pell Street” Battle”) also known as “Tong Fight” going on in the vicinity.<ref>#1 1870 U.S. census, population schedules, NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d., Year: 1870; Census Place: Orangetown, Rockland, New York; Roll: M593_1087; Page: 597B; #2 Thompson, W. H., Journal of the Switchmen's Union, Volume 14, Switchmen's Union of North America, January 1912, No. 1, pp. 704, 741, and 830; New Jersey, State Census, 1885, pg. 151</ref>