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About Justice Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker
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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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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.
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In loving memory of Westbrook S. Decker by his wife Sarah S. Decker
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- Residence: Tyre, Seneca, New York, United States - 1850
- Residence: Precinct 10 Denver city Ward 9, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States - 1900
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Justice Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker's Timeline
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April 22, 1839
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Tyre Seneca County New York
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| 1868 |
May 21, 1868
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Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois, USA
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1873
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Colorado, USA
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January 1903
Age 63
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Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA
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Fairmount Cemetery Denver Denver County Colorado
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