The LONGSTREET Family

including Photos

For the complete Biographical Sketches of Cornelius Tyler LONGSTREET, 19 April 1814 - 4 July 1881, click here.  From:  Onondaga’s Centennial, Gleanings of a Century, Vol. II, edited by Dwight H. Bruce, The Boston History Company, 1896, pp. 109-110

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Cornelius Tyler Longstreet

Picture from Onondaga’s Centennial, Gleanings of a Century, Vol. II, edited by Dwight H. Bruce, The Boston History Company, 1896, Pg. 109

Cornelius Tyler LONGSTREET, c. 1875 (Sect 3)

The grandson of early Onondaga Valley settler and salt producer, Comfort Tyler, Longstreet was a successful clothing merchant and financier noted for commissioning James Renwick, (architect of the Smithsonian Institution) to design his family home.  Now demolished, "Yates Castle" as the home was known, stood on Irving Avenue overlooking the city below.

Text from Oakwood, a Walking Guide to Historic Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, New York, est. 1859, 1992

Postcard from collection of Pamela Priest

Obituary of Joseph Breed LONGSTREET

Obituary of Rosalina Zerlina Sophia NORTHWAY LONGSTREET, wife of Joseph Breed LONGSTREET

Descendants of Cornelius LONGSTREET (very incomplete)