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Judge Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker

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Judge Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker Veteran

Birth
Death
16 Jan 1903
Burial
Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA
Memorial ID
13163654 View Source
Civil War Union Officer, US District Attorney. He served in the Civil War from 1862 to 1865. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Nineteenth United States Colored Troops. Later he was appointed as a ordinance officer and assistant provost marshal. In 1887, he was appointed by President Grant as the first US District Attorney for the State of Colorado.

Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker
Gender: Male
Birth: April 22, 1839
Tyre Seneca County New York
Death: January 1903 (63)
Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA
Place of Burial: Fairmount Cemetery Denver Denver County Colorado
Immediate Family:
Son of Albert Decker and Gertrude Decker (Schoonmaker)
Husband of Sarah Sophia Decker (Chase) and Katherine Decker (Worden)
Father of Cora Emily Sargent (Decker); Mason Loomis Decker and Howard Decker
Brother of Mary Etta Moule (Decker); Joseph Decker; Loakin Decker; Joachim Depuy Decker; Lydia Ann Decker; and Jane Decker

https://www.geni.com/people/Justice-Westbrook-Schoonmaker-Decker/6000000027000669102
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http://politicalstrangenames.blogspot.com/2014/02/westbrook-schoonmaker-decker-1839-1903.html

The son of Albert and Gertrude Schoonmaker Decker (both of whom are recorded as being of Holland Dutch extraction), Westbrook S. Decker was born in the village of Tyre, New York on April 22, 1839.

Mustered out of service at Brownsville, Texas in August 1865, Decker journeyed to Michigan to begin the study of law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating in the class of 1867. He married on August 1 of that year to Katherine Worden (1841-1897), an acquaintance of many years who had resided near Decker's hometown. The couple would later have three children, Cora Emily (born 1868), Howard (died aged seven) and Mason Loomis Decker (1873-1911).

On March 18, 1897 Katherine Worden Decker, Westbrook's wife of thirty years, died. Two years following her passing Westbrook Decker remarried to Ms. Sarah Sophia Platt, who gained notoriety in her own right for being the first female to be appointed to a seat on the Colorado Civil Service Commission, as well as being active in the affairs of state women's clubs.

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* '''Residence''': Tyre, Seneca, New York, United States - 1850
* '''Residence''': Precinct 10 Denver city Ward 9, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States - 1900
** Reference: [https://familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KCKG-JV9 FamilySearch Genealogy] - [http://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''Dec 26 2020, 8:01:53 UTC''
Civil War Union Officer, US District Attorney. He served in the Civil War from 1862 to 1865. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Nineteenth United States Colored Troops. Later he was appointed as a ordinance officer and assistant provost marshal. In 1887, he was appointed by President Grant as the first US District Attorney for the State of Colorado.

Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker
Gender: Male
Birth: April 22, 1839
Tyre Seneca County New York
Death: January 1903 (63)
Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA
Place of Burial: Fairmount Cemetery Denver Denver County Colorado
Immediate Family:
Son of Albert Decker and Gertrude Decker (Schoonmaker)
Husband of Sarah Sophia Decker (Chase) and Katherine Decker (Worden)
Father of Cora Emily Sargent (Decker); Mason Loomis Decker and Howard Decker
Brother of Mary Etta Moule (Decker); Joseph Decker; Loakin Decker; Joachim Depuy Decker; Lydia Ann Decker; and Jane Decker

https://www.geni.com/people/Justice-Westbrook-Schoonmaker-Decker/6000000027000669102
-------------------
http://politicalstrangenames.blogspot.com/2014/02/westbrook-schoonmaker-decker-1839-1903.html

The son of Albert and Gertrude Schoonmaker Decker (both of whom are recorded as being of Holland Dutch extraction), Westbrook S. Decker was born in the village of Tyre, New York on April 22, 1839.

Mustered out of service at Brownsville, Texas in August 1865, Decker journeyed to Michigan to begin the study of law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating in the class of 1867. He married on August 1 of that year to Katherine Worden (1841-1897), an acquaintance of many years who had resided near Decker's hometown. The couple would later have three children, Cora Emily (born 1868), Howard (died aged seven) and Mason Loomis Decker (1873-1911).

On March 18, 1897 Katherine Worden Decker, Westbrook's wife of thirty years, died. Two years following her passing Westbrook Decker remarried to Ms. Sarah Sophia Platt, who gained notoriety in her own right for being the first female to be appointed to a seat on the Colorado Civil Service Commission, as well as being active in the affairs of state women's clubs.

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* '''Residence''': Tyre, Seneca, New York, United States - 1850
* '''Residence''': Precinct 10 Denver city Ward 9, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States - 1900
** Reference: [https://familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KCKG-JV9 FamilySearch Genealogy] - [http://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''Dec 26 2020, 8:01:53 UTC''

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In loving memory of Westbrook S. Decker by his wife Sarah S. Decker



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  • Find a Grave Memorial ID: 13163654
  • Find a Grave, database and images (: accessed ), memorial page for Judge Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker (22 Apr 1839–16 Jan 1903), Find a Grave Memorial ID 13163654, citing Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA; Maintained by Eric Crow (contributor 46623671).