According to Parton, the doctor who attended Burr during the last few months of his life was a 'Dr Hosack'. Recognise the name?
Dr David Hosack, who attended Alexander Hamilton's deathbed, had died in 1835. But his son Alexander Hosack had taken over his practice. And isn't Alexander an interesting name for a boy born in 1805?
Thirty years after one of them was dead, those men's lives were still inextricably entwined.
Alexander Eddy Hosack was born nine months after Alexander Hamilton's death and I am not touching that with a barge pole.