When John Crosby Bleecker was born on 4 June 1904, in Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, New York, United States, his father, William Hill Bleecker Sr., was 37 and his mother, Emma White Fish, was 37. He married Emily Margaret Cornell on 18 May 1931, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. He lived in Queens, New York City, New York, United States for about 35 years. He registered for military service in 1923. He died in April 1978, in Kings Park, Smithtown, Suffolk, New York, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Middle Village, Queens, New York, United States.
Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Bleeker .
History: Jan Jansen Bleecker and his wife came to New Netherland in 1658 and settled in Beverwyck (now Albany, NY). They had 10 children, two of whom (Johannes and Rutger) went on to become mayors of Albany.
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