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| - Flandrau's father was Thomas Hunt Flandrau of New Rochelle, New York, a law partner of Aaron Burr. His mother was Elizabeth Maria Macomb, a daughter of Alexander Macomb, the wealthy New York merchant, and half-sister of General Alexander Macomb, hero of the war of 1812 and afterward head of the United States Army. The Flandraus were descendants of Jacques Flandreau, a Huguenot who came to New Rochelle in the 1690s.
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| - Flandrau's father was Thomas Hunt Flandrau of New Rochelle, New York, a law partner of Aaron Burr. His mother was Elizabeth Maria Macomb, a daughter of Alexander Macomb, the wealthy New York merchant, and half-sister of General Alexander Macomb, hero of the war of 1812 and afterward head of the United States Army. The Flandraus were descendants of Jacques Flandreau, a Huguenot who came to New Rochelle in the 1690s. Flandrau was educated in Georgetown, then a separate community in the District of Columbia, until the age of 13 when he tried to enlist in the Navy. Too young to obtain an appointment, he instead spent three years as a common sailor under other services. In 1844, tiring of the sea, he spent three years in the mahogany trade in New York City, after which he rejoined his family at Whitesboro, New York, where he apprenticed in his father's law practice. He passed the bar in 1851 and joined his father's firm as partner.
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