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Thomas Clapp Cornell, after whom a Yonkers public school is named, came to Yonkers as a young man of 28 in the summer of 1847.

 At that time, as Cornell himself wrote almost 50 years later,

Born in the German duchy of Baden, but brought to the United States as an infant, Father Albert Lings is eminently worthy to be counted among those figures reckoned as pillars of Yonkers. 

Ervin Saunders, who was born on April 3, 1848, was one of the six sons of David Saunders, the founder of David Saunders & Sons, a successful tool manufacturing business located on Atherton Street (the street which now separates the library

Charles Eugene Gorton died on June 5, 1922, after a career of 50 years’ service to the Yonkers public schools, beginning in the early 1870s as a teacher in Public School 2.

The Congressional Medal of Honor has been awarded to one, and only one, Yonkers resident, Colonel William Laing Heermance.