Irving's Ichabod Crane Again.
Kinderhook's Claim Stoutly Denied and That of Sleepy Hollow Asserted

Letter to the Editor of The New York Times by Edgar Mayhew Bacon, author of "Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow," &c.

-Mar 12, 1898-

... Brom Bones lived in Sleepy Hollow till he died there, and he did not die till after the legend which made him immortal was published and he had heard about it. He did not covet immortality of that sort, and (though somewhat decrepit from age when the news reached him) bestirred himself to hunt up the author to the intent that he might thrash him. The real name of Brom Bones was Abraham (or Abram) Van Tassel.