[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] proprietor in 1882. It affords employment to about twenty persons, mostly women, at the building, and a considerable number outside. R. H. Macy & Co., of New York, manufacture ladies' underwear in the portion of the building on Main Street, located above the corporation rooms. Among the manufacturers of Westchester County there are few who have achieved a more honorable record than George W. Robertson. He was born in New York, October 19, 1838. His early education was obtained in the public schools, and at the Me-chanics' Institute, subsequently at the Peekskill Academy, then under the able care of Albert Wells, and in 1856 he was a student at Charlottesville Uni-versity. Upon leaving sehool he resolved to learn the carpenter's trade, and served a three years' ap-prenticeship. '. The outbreak of the Civil War occurred when he had reached early manhood, and he was among the first to enlist from Peekskill. Joining the Seventy-first New York Regiment, he participated in all its engagements, and at the battle of Bull Run w as slight-ly wounded. In this engagement he personally se-cured from capture the flag of the Newburgh Howitzer Company, and returned it to Captain Ellis on bis re-turn to the Washington Navy Yard. He distinguished himself as a scout in 1861, and in 1862, as lieutenant of Company "B," Seventy-first Regiment, he acted as adjutant of the left wing, under Lieutenant-Col-onel Cole.