Samuel Youngs

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.

Huh, that's very interesting.

I kind of assumed it might have been a schoolmaster he had when he was a boy.