Jesse Merwin

Ichabod sucks.

Well, he knew several people that may or may not have inspired him for this character, one of which being Jesse Merwin, who taught at the local schoolhouse in Kinderhook, which is a little bit further north of here along the Hudson River.

And Irving spent several months there in 1809.

And many in the Tarrytown area, even I guess today, still claim that they think Samuel Youngs, who was a local school teacher at the time and also a friend of Washington Irving, was the true inspiration for Ichabod Crane.