History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 151 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The whole business, which has been built up from a small beginning, has been the outgrowth of constant activity and enterprise, and his acknowledged success is the result that naturally follows when a man of talent gives his whole time and thought to one par-ticular thing. Mr. Klunder married Mary Broseman, who is like himself a native of Germany. They are the parents of four children, Alma, Meta, Henry and Charles.1 Sing Sing is a location of remarkable salubrity, and has always enjoyed an extraordinary exemption from infectious and malarial diseases. In the year 1869 the writer had occasion to refer to the salubrity of this township in his official report, as sanitary inspector, under the Metropolitan Board of Health, from whose published volume for that year-the following extract is taken, and what was then written is applicable and quite true to-day. " From the facts above stated, it would naturally he presumed that the people of the town of Ossining would enjoy a remarkable immunity from diseases of all kinds, excepting such as are due to general epi-demic influences, or to the vicissitudes of season, or other meteorological conditions not subject to sani-tary control.