Edmund Schermerhorn

[6] His maternal uncle, Gen. James I. Jones,[7] married his paternal cousin, Elizabeth Schermerhorn (Abraham's daughter and Caroline's sister).

[11] During the U.S. Civil War, Edmund, his brother William, and nephew Henry Augustus Schermerhorn (son of Peter Augustus) all took advantage of the loophole in the Enrollment Act of 1863, which allowed for drafted citizens to opt out of service by either furnishing a suitable substitute to take their place or paying $300, and found a substitute to take his place so he didn't have to fight.

[13] His obituary in The New York Times read: "Edmund H. Schermerhorn died this afternoon at his cottage on Narragansett Avenue, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.

[15] Edmund continued to live in the free-standing brick and brownstone mansion at 6 Great Jones Street after his parents' deaths along with his brother William and his wife, Ann, a society leader who threw a lavish costume ball at the home in 1854.

[18][19] Schermerhorn entertained in the Great Jones house, including prominent attorney George Templeton Strong who wrote about an afternoon musicale Edmund hosted there.

[2] After Edmund eventually moved out of the Great Jones Street mansion, it became a boarding house and then the Law School of Columbia University.

The entrance is so modest, consisting simply of a small door on the street level, as to be almost a disfigurement, suggesting a place intended to be barred against intrusion rather than a way to reach a hospitable mansion.

This impression is strengthened by the wide carriage entrance which adjoins the front door, over which an iron curtain has been securely fastened for many years.

"[23]A year after his death and less than a quarter of a century after it was built, his brother William, as his executor, had Edmund's New York City residence at 23rd Street torn down and replaced by an eight-story office building for the George C. Flint Furniture Co. with a front of Indiana limestone at 43 West 23rd Street (and later housing the Touro College Graduate School of Education and Psychology).