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Annette,
You are correct, there were FOUR camps in Wayne County. The camp in Clyde was
reserved for Italian POW's and was closed with the Italian surrender.
The Newark camp was for German POW's. It was located east and north of the
current Post Office. I have a short bit of an 8mm movie converted to video
tape showing the camp prior to its opening.
The Sodus Point camp was located along the lake just west of the village of
Sodus Point. I have a few contemporary photos.
The Marion camp was located at on Route 21 at the Marion-Warworth crossroads.
The buildings there were converted for migrant labor. Most have been torn
down and replaced with more modern buildings. I believe there is one original
one left. They were old CCC buildings that were moved, (some) from Schuyler
County. I have photos prior to replacement.
At least three "Hoffman Papers" (papers by high school students on Wayne
County history) were written about the camps. Probably the most recent one
was written in 1989 - 90 by my daughter. She is working in Russia right now
but she is on the internet. This message is being cc to her.
I would be happy to share the photos I have in return for a copy of whatever
you write about the camps. I can also direct you to one of the men who
arranged for the building of several of the camps. Les Buell
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Is anyone familiar with Internal Revenue lists published in NYC newspapers?
I'd appreciate your help!
I stumbled across such a list in an 1866 NY DAILY TRIBUNE.
It had alphabetized lists of NYC residents, with "valuations" for each person
by district and ward.
Are these valuations amounts of taxes paid? Net worth? Are they tied into
property values? Also, what was "Internal Revenue" at that time? Did every
resident have to pay something, or just those with property?
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Does anyone out there know what 1870's hat-making machinery did when it
"pounced" hats? I haven't been able to find any references to the word
"pounced" in that context anywhere!
Thanks!!!
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Did you know that the book, "Elmira Prison Camps, 1864-65," by Holmes, was
recently reprinted? Did you know that the flag pole from the camp still
exists?
Our unit, the 21st Georgia, does a yearly remembrance there for several of
the men from the 21st who died there.
Les Buell
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The New York State Newspaper Project in the State Library will
celebrate the microfilming of the one millionth page of New York State
history in newspapers on Wednesday, June 4 at 2:30 in the Terrace
Gallery, 4th Floor, Cultural Education Center, Empire State Plaza, Albany.
You are all invited to attend the program and reception. Historian
Warder Cadbury will talk about the significance of the millionth page
(from the Albany Daily Advertiser of August 15, 1837, containing a
letter describing the exploration and naming of the State's highest peak,
Mt. Marcy in the Adirondacks).
We have alerted newspapers across the State and are hoping to get
some statewide publicity for this milestone. If you see any articles in your
local area newspapers about the millionth page filming or the Newspaper
Project's work, we would appreciate it if you would let us know (or even
better, send along a copy to us at the New York State Newspaper
Project, New York State Library, Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY
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The Internal Revenue Service was established within the US Department
of the Treasury in 1862. It was responsible for collecting special taxes
levied to help finance the war effort. The taxes included levies on
money incomes (above a certain, rather high base) and on certain
categories of "luxury" personal property (e.g. gold watches, pianoes,
etc.). The assessments on personal property were calculated by IRS
agents in each congressional district. The original, full assessment lists
are now in the National Archives (Record Group 58). See the published
guide to the National Archives or the on-line version available at the
following URL:
http://clio.nara.gov:70/inform/guide
The IRS assessment rolls for New York and New Jersey, 1862-66, are
available on 218 rolls of microfilm (National Archives microfilm publication
M603).
I have used the Civil War-era IRS assessment lists for local history
research, and find that they are a valuable complement to the real
property tax assessment rolls (available in the county treasurer's
offices) for the same period.
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Hello from Syracuse:
I just signed on a few weeks ago and have decided to take the plunge =
onto the "Help, please!" part of the listserve. My PhD topic is the =
change in the number of applications and admission of black students to =
Syracuse University (SU) during the Chancellor Tolley years: 1942-1969. =
Among the leads I'm following are the increases in enrollment due to the =
GI Bill and the increased graduation rate of black students from high =
schools. SU's student body tripled in one year due to the enrollment of =
GI's. I just read a book review on Michael Bennett's new book: When =
Dreams Came True: The GI Bill and the Making of Modern America. The =
review says 250,000 blacks became first-time college students. How many =
came to Syracuse? Aside from looking up Michael Bennett's source, where =
would I find this kind of data broken down geographcally? Is there a =
web source of this statistical data?
SU recruited mostly from New York State. Between 1942 and 1960, about =
75% of the students were NY residents, so I'm looking for census data on =
the high school graduation rates for black students in NY during the =
period. I realize I have some de facto school segregation issues to deal =
with as well as raw numbers of graduates. So my second question is -- =
where do I go to find high school graduation rates? Some high schools =
are noted for being predominantly black or predominantly white, but for =
numbers on how many qualified students there were for any given year - =
is there a good primary source on the web or should I stick with census =
data? =20
Lastly, Chancellor Tolley wrote that he started an exchange program =
with Bennett College because "there were no black women in the dorms". I =
suspect the "exchange" happened during a few summers in the early 1940s =
(and there were never any white women who went to Greensboro, NC), but =
my question is about the "founding father" of Bennett College. =
According to the Bennett College homepage, in the late 1870s, Lyman =
Bennett, a businessman from Troy, NY, donated $10,000 to build residence =
halls and classrooms. Is there anybody out there who knows more about =
this person, Lyman Bennett? He may be the same Lyman Bennett from my =
family tree who disappeared from central New York around the same time. =
Thanks for any info you may have. Marla Bennett
Marla A. Bennett
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Subject: NYNY 1869-1872
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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>There have been a number of requests
for previous NYNY postings. I've been looking for another Web site to
host the files, but have not come up with any solid offers so far. I
would still like to find a host page, but, in the meantime I will begin
posting some of them to my WWW page (see below). They will be posted as
I have the time and while I have the space, and I'll put the total
range at the bottom of future posts as I upload additions. Thanks to
all of you who have made this a necessity. :-)
David
<bold>1869</bold>
May 15 =09
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton break away from the Equal
Rights Association, found the National Woman Suffrage Association, in
New York City.
Jul 6 =09
Engineer John Roebling is injured at the Brooklyn Bridge construction
site.
Sep 24 =09
The Black Friday market crash on Wall Street occurs after an attempt by
Jay Gould, Jim Fisk and Abel Rathbone Corbin to corner the New York
gold market.
Oct 16 =09
Hired hands working for New York State farmer William "Stub" Newell,
cousin of Binghamton cigar maker George Hull, "discover" a stone Giant
while digging a well at his farm near Cardiff.
Oct 17 =09
New York <italic>Herald</italic> owner James Gordon Bennett gives
Welsh-born journalist Henry Morton Stanley the assignment of find ing
missionary David Livingstone, lost in central Africa.
Oct 18
The first newspaper accounts of the discovery of the Cardiff "giant"
appear.
Oct 23 =09
George Hull sells quarter shares of the Giant.
Nov 5 =09
The Cardiff Giant is exhumed and moved to Syracuse.
Nov 14 =09
=46ormer stage line owner John Butterfield, 48, dies in Utica.
Nov 26 =09
The Cardiff Giant appears at Albany's Geological Hall.
Dec 6
P. T. Barnum's American Museum displays a copy of the Cardiff Giant,
billed as the true original.
Dec 10
George Hull admits to the Cardiff Giant complicity.
City
A group of independent fish merchants form the Fulton Market Fish
Mongers Association, to build a permanent market on South Street. **
Architect Louis Burger enlarges the German American School. ** =20
142 East 18th Street's Stuyvesant House apartment building designed by
Richard Morris Hunt, is completed by builder Rutherford Stuyvesant. It
is the first apartment house in the city. ** The American Museum
of Natural History is founded. ** The population reaches 769,000.
** Jay Cooke and Company becomes the financial agent for the
Northern Pacific Railroad. ** Thomas Edison patents an improved
stock ticker. ** Black composer Will Marion Cook is born.
State
Chili Seminary publishes its first catalogue. ** The first
"skew arch" bridge is built, over Silver Creek's Jackson Street for the
New York Central tracks. ** A blast furnace opens at Charlotte. =20
** The Erie Railroad abandons its Dunkirk car shops. Division
superintendent Horatio Brooks leases the buildings and founds the
Brooks Locomotive Works. ** The State Line Railroad is organized
to bring Pennsylvania coal to Rochester. ** William Medill leaves
his job as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. President Grant appoints
Civil War officer Ely Parker to take his place, the first Native
American in the post. ** The Mohonk Mountain House is founded by
Albert E. and Alfred H. Smiley, twin brothers. ** Cornelius
Vanderbilt consolidates the New York & Hudson River Railroad with the
New York & Harlem Railroad to form the New York Central & Hudson River
Railroad, gaining monopoly control of the tracks between New York City
and Buffalo. Passenger service shifts to Grand Central Terminal. **=20
Utopian planner John Humphrey Noyes tells his followers it's time to
begin an experimental community at Oneida. ** Martin V. Heller
builds the Port Jervis & Monticello Railroad.
Rochester
=46itzhugh Street's First Presbyterian Church is destroyed by fire. The
city will build a City Hall on that site. ** The Rochester
Theological Seminary begins its campus at the southeast corner of East
Avenue and Alexander Street.
<bold>1870</bold>
=46eb 2 =09
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) marries Olivia Langdon, in
Elmira.
=46eb 10 =09
The Chicago <italic>Tribune</italic> publishes the Cardiff Giant
sculptor's letter detailing the hoax.
=46eb 26 =09
The New York City subway system opens.
April =09
Sioux chief Red Cloud makes peace with the whites, visits Washington,
D.C. and New York City.
City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is incorporated. ** The Atlantic
Basin dock area, developed by the Atlantic Dock Company, is completed.=20
** Art collector Thomas Jefferson Bryan dies aboard the
<italic>Lafayette</italic>, en route from Europe to New York. ** =20
Photographer Jacob Riis emigrates from Scandinavia to the U. S.
State
Seth Green founds the first state fish hatchery, at Caledonia. ** =20
Cohoes is incorporated. ** A son, Pierrepont, is born in Oneida
to the utopian colony's founder John Humphrey Noyes. ** Ira
Carpenter's wooden bridge across the Genesee River near Rush is
replaced. ** Waterloo becomes the permanent site of the Seneca
County Agricultural Fair. ** Lewisboro's Lake Waccabuc is tied
into the Croton reservoir system. ** The Syracuse City Waterworks
Company builds Wilkinson Reservoir to hold water to be drawn from
Onondaga Creek. ** Melrose industrialist Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Goodrich arrives in Akron, Ohio, to build a factory for the manufacture
of fire hoses and other rubber products.
Rochester
The <italic>Democrat</italic> newspaper threatens to publish the names
of men who make remarks as women walk past. ** The state census
counts 16 Italians out of the city's 50,940 inhabitants. ** Glen
House is built in the Genesee River gorge, below the lower falls. **=20
Buffalo Street is renamed West Main Street.
<bold>1871</bold>
Jan 26 =09
Author Samuel Hopkins Adams is born in Dunkirk.
April =09
Prattsville pioneer Zadock Pratt is buried in the town's cemetery,
rather in his tomb in the hills that was never completed, due to the
density of the rock.
Apr 28 =09
A section of the Erie Canal's banks collapses at the Ox-Bow, in
=46airport. The barge <italic>Bonnie Bird </italic>is carried a mile away
from the canal by the escaping waters. The crew and a team of horses
are unhurt.
Jul 8 =09
The N.Y. <italic>Times </italic> publishes an expose of the Tweed
Ring.
City
President Grant names Chester A. Arthur Collector of Customs. ** =20
George Armstrong Custer visits the city in an unsuccessful attempt to
find an alternative to military service. ** Steam locomotives are
put into service on lower Manhattan's elevated lines. ** Quakers
form the New York Colored Mission, to aid freed slaves. ** The
first Dutch ballplayer, Rynie Wolters, joins the New York Mutuals.
State
The Syracuse City Waterworks Company begins drawing water from Onondaga
Creek, an unsafe source, polluted by glue factories and tanyards. **
Kingston's population exceeds 10,000. ** A High Victorisn
Gothic home is built at 512 South Main Street in Geneva. ** Le
Roy druggist Schuyler C. Wells, Sr. begins marketing the Shiloh brand
of patent medicine.
Rochester
Andrew Jackson Warner's new First Presbyterian Church is built,
replacing the one destroyed by fire in 1869. ** The common
council votes to demolish downtown's public market. ** The
approximate date the Orthodox Berith Kodesh congregation becomes
Reform.
<bold>1872</bold>
=46eb 10 =09
New York City's Metropolitan Museum opens.
Aug 24 =09
Twenty Lake Ontario schooners transport the apple harvest on the lower
Genesee River.
Sep 4 =09
The New York <italic>Sun</italic> exposes the Cr=E9dit Mobilier scheme.
Oct 10 =09
=46ormer U. S. Secretary of State William Henry Seward dies at the age of
71 in his Auburn home.
Nov 2 =09
The news of the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher's affair with Mrs Tilden
breaks out in <italic>Woodhull and Clafflin's Weekly</italic>.=20
Nov 28 =09
Editor Horace Greeley dies in Pleasantville.
City
The J & C Johnson department store moves into Broadway's Mortimer
Building. ** Two time former mayor (1845-1846; 1848-1849) William
=46. Havemeyer, running on the Republican ticket, defeats
Liberal-Republican A. R. Lawrence and Apollo Hall Democrat James
O'Brien, to win a third term as mayor, serving 1873-1874). ** =20
Attorney Marshall S. Bidwell dies. ** William Cullen Bryant edits
<italic>Picturesque America</italic>.
State
James Annin opens a fish hatchery in Caledonia. ** Kingston is
incorporated as a city. ** Harmony Manufacturing Mill No. 3
(Mastodon) at Cohoes is enlarged. ** An 1814 stone arsenal near
Batavia is demolished.
Buffalo
The screw-propelled canal boat <italic>William Newman</italic> is
built.
Rochester
The Common Council invests $600,000 in the new State Line Railroad. It
also requires all railroad companies to post a flagman at every street
crossing.
<bold>Update:</bold> The years 1524-1619 are now available at the URL
below.</fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor
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According to the unabridged Random House Dictionary of the
English Language, "pounce" has the following meaning in
relation to hats: "To finish the surface of (hats) by rubbing
with sandpaper or the like."
This would appear to be the function of the hat-making
machinery to which Daniel Dumych refers in his recent query.
Melinda Yates
New York State Library
Albany, NY
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Daniel M. Dumych wrote:
> Does anyone out there know what 1870's hat-making machinery did when it
> "pounced" hats? I haven't been able to find any references to the word
> "pounced" in that context anywhere!
>
> Thanks!!!
>
>
>
>
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Sir Thomas Lipton visited the Niagara area sometime roughly between 1900
and 1906. There is a photograph of him on the steamer Chicora in "A
Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River," by Barlow Cumberland
(Toronto, 1913) on a plate between pages 144 and 145, but maddeningly, he
is not listed in the book's index. Does anyone out there know when he was
here?
Thanks!!!
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David Minor wrote:
> There have been a number of requests for previous NYNY postings. I've
> been looking for another Web site to host the files, but have not come
> up with any solid offers so far. I would still like to find a host
> page, but, in the meantime I will begin posting some of them to my WWW
> page (see below). They will be posted as I have the time and while I
> have the space, and I'll put the total range at the bottom of future
> posts as I upload additions. Thanks to all of you who have made this a
> necessity.
>
> David
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David,
I would be happy to archive them/ host them on the nygenweb site.
Contact me at [log in to unmask] if you are interested.
Kim Harris Myers
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These internal revenue lists were microfilmed and are available from
the National Archives. I believe we obtained our Saginaw Michigan
reels from Scholarly Resources , 104 Greenhill Ave., Wilmington DE
19805-1897. Our three reels cover 1862-1866 and District 6 for
Michigan, and that includes many Michigan counties.
I would think that the same information would be available for
other states too. I'm not sure where I got the microfilm numbers
but it must be from one of the many catalogs we've acquired.
Our building is under seige by construction workers, and I haven't
a clue which box or drawer or room that's hiding those catalogs now.
Anna Mae Maday
Eddy Historical & Genealogy Collection
Hoyt Public Library
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I am interested in getting a printing of events in NY during the Civil War. I
find these listings very informative. I would appreciate any assistance you
could give me to get such a listing.
Thanks
James McMann
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Anna Mae,
Thanks for the info.
I found an original clipping from a 1866 NYC newspaper, strangely enough!
Best wishes,
Leslie Corn
NYC Researcher
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The curator of the Supreme Court is asking for information about the
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If anyone has information, we would be happy to forward. Unfortunately
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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Previous years will appear in a new
home on the Web this summer. More on that later.
I'm sneaking this post in early (for the benefit of New York History
list subscribers) to get it in before next week's scheduled listserv
hiatus .
David
<bold>1873</bold>
April
Rochester's Genesee River floods, inundating downtown's Crossroads
area, undermining a city building under construction and killing two
people. Several other people fall into the river.
May 19
<italic>Variety</italic> founder-publisher Sime Silverman is born to
banker Louis Silverman, in Cortland.
May 21
Brooklyn physician, writer and lecturer Rizq [Risq, Rizk] (Georger)
Haddad is born in Judeida, Marjayoun, Syria (now Lebanon).
Aug 1
Broadway librettist Otto Hauerbach (Harbach) is born in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
Aug 11
Broadway bass and composer John Rosmaond Johnson is born in
Jacksonville, Florida.
Sep 8
The New York Warehouse and Security Company goes bankrupt.
Sep 18
The brokerage house of Jay Cooke and Company fails.
Sep 20
Wall Street trading shuts down.
Sep 30
The New York Stock Exchange reopens.
Nov 5
The steam-powered canal boat <italic>William Newman </italic> sets a
record on the Erie Canal - Troy to Buffalo, in four days and 22 hours.
City
General Charles Graham maps lower Manhattan. ** Gustave Lening's
<italic>Dark Side of New York Life</italic> is published. **
Quakers form the Young Friends'Aid Association, to help children.
State
The office of State Commissioner in Lunacy is created, to oversee the
state's insane asylums. ** New York City expands its limits,
gaining three miles of Hudson River shoreline, as well as eight miles
from the Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek, and approximately 18
milesfrom Long Island Sound. ** The Troy Gas Light Company's
Gaholder House is completed. ** Chicago industrialist John
Coonley buys Wyoming's Hillside, gives it to his wife, the poetess and
society leader Lydia Coonley, daughter of the previous owner. **
The U. S. House of Representatives censures Democrat James Brooks for
corruption. ** Black former freedman Henry Flipper is nominated
to West Point.
Albany decides to use the Hudson River as its sole source of water.
Rochester
The Vincent Place bridge, across the Genesee River, is completed. **
Construction begins on City Hall, on Broad Street.
<bold>1874</bold>
Mar 8
Former U. S. president Millard Fillmore dies in Buffalo at the age of
74.
Apr 27
Phineas Taylor Barnum's Great Roman Hippodrome opens at Madison Avenue
and 27th Street. The site will later become the home of the first
Madison Square Garden.
Jul 31
The New York <italic>Sun</italic> is the first to use the expression
'face a pitch', meaning to come to bat.
Aug 27
Twelve followers of John Wilcox leave Chicago to start a community on
Lake Champlain's Valcour Island.
November
Democrat Samuel J. Tilden is elected governor.
Nov 18
Humorist, illustrator and essayist Clarence Day is born in New York
City.
Nov 30
Three-time New York City mayor William Frederick Havemeyer dies in
office. S. B. H. Vance completes his term.
City
Democrat William H. Wickham defeats Republican Salem H. Wales and
Independent Oswald Ottendorfer to become mayor, serving 1875-1876.
** The Young Men's Hebrew Association is organized, with Lewis May
as president. ** The Social Democratic Workingmen's Party is
organized.
State ** The Lake Ontario steamboats <italic>Abyssinian
</italic>and <italic>Athenian</italic> are sold to a St. Lawrence River
company. ** Painter William West Durant is summoned home from
Europe by his father, railroad tycoon Thomas Clark Durant, to help in
promoting the Adirondacks as a tourist attraction. ** James
William Towner and twelve followers from a failed community at Berlin
Heights, Ohio, join the community at Oneida. ** Macedon's Erie
Canal Lock 60, is converted to a double lock. ** The Cohoes Music
Hall is built. ** Dr. Annie Cheyney (-Spofford) is born in
Franklinville. ** The Chautauqua Institution is founded by Lewis
Miller and Bishop John H. Vincent. ** Grand Army of the Republic
(GAR) Post #68, named for Lieutenant ColonelAugustus I. Root, is formed
in Batavia. ** Italian stonemasons begin construction on a house
at Whitehall for State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Potter. **
John Dellinger establishes the Dellinger Opera House in Batavia.
Rochester
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass is defeated in his attempt to gain a
seat in the local assembly. ** The Ebenezer Watts house goes out
of the family. ** Work begins on a municipal water system. **
The Genesee Yacht Club is organized at Charlotte. ** North Street
and North Avenue switch names. ** Andrew Jackson Warner's Broad
Street City Hall building is completed. The bell from the second County
Court House dome is moved here. ** The city annexes parts of the
town of Brighton, Gates, Greece and Irondequoit, bringing its total
area to 16.98 square miles.
<bold>1875</bold>
January
Batavia's Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Post #68 is disbanded.
Mar 15
Broadway producer Lee Shubert is born in Syracuse.
Sep 1
The first use of New York's City Hall Park Post Office.
Oct 5
The mortgage is foreclosed on Wilcox's Valcour Island community.
City
Quakers form the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Henry Bergh is named president. ** Henry James winters in the
city, writing <italic>A Passionate Pilgrim and Others Tales,
Transatlantic Sketches</italic>, and <italic>Roderick Hudson</italic>.
** Contentious Long Island Railroad (LIRR) president Oliver
Charlick is removed from office and replaced with Conrad Popenhusen.
** Sheldon and Company publishes George Armstrong Custer's
<italic>My Life on the Plains</italic>, compiled from a series of
articles he wrote for New York City's <italic>Galaxy
</italic>magazine.
State
The state takes over the operation of Seth Green's fish hatchery in
Caledonia. ** Former Seneca County surrogate judge J. K. Richardson
dies. ** President Grant visits the Chautauqua Institute, the
first U. S. president to do so. ** The American Bankers'
Association is organized, at Saratoga Springs. ** The stone house
at Whitehall for Justice Joseph Potter - Skene Manor - is completed.
** New York army captain Willard Glazier begins preparations for a
coast-to-coast trip on horseback.
Rochester
The city begins getting water from Hemlock Lake. ** The city now
has 30 Italian immigrants. Young Italian immigrant Antonio Pesole seeks
protection of the police, claiming he is regularly beaten by his
Italian sponsor (padrone) and the man's wife. ** The Rochester and
Lake Ontario Navigation company is organized. ** The Genesee
River Glen House-to Charlotte excursion steamer <italic>Falling Waters
</italic>burns and is replaced by the <italic>Estelle</italic>. **
Builder John Canfield moves to Alexander Street.
<bold>1876</bold>
Feb 2
William Hurlbert and Morgan G. Bulkeley form the National League of
Professional Base Ball Clubs from the National Association, in New York
City. The member teams are Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford,
Louisville, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis.
April
Martha Hulz Wickham, widow of Watkins peach grower William Wickham, Jr.
dies. $4400 in gold and silver is found in a trunk after her death.
Apr 20
The American Chemical Society is founded to promote chemical research,
in New York City.
May 15
The Fifth Avenue Conference, to reform the Republican Party, is held in
New York City. Little is accomplished.
May 18
The Greenback (Independent) Party holds its first national convention,
in Indianapolis and nominates New York's Peter Cooper and Ohio's Samuel
F. Carey. Their platform calls for the resuming the use of paper
money.
Jun 4
A Centennial Express train arrives in San Francisco, having made the
trip from New York City in a record 83 hours nd 39 minutes.
Jun 16
The Republicans nominate Ohio's governor Rutherford Birchard Hayes and
New York's William A. Wheeler.
Jun 29
The Democrats nominate New York governor Samuel Jones Tilden and
Indiana's Thomas A. Hendricks.
Jul 6
The New York <italic>Herald</italic> publishes two accounts of the
Custer massacre, based on yesterday's dispatches from Salt Lake City.
Aug 25
The first aerial crossing between towers of the uncompleted Brooklyn
Bridge is accomplished.
September
The adultery trial of the Reverend Henry Beecher in Brooklyn ends in a
hung jury.
November
Juliet Corson starts the first cooking school in the U. S. in New York
City.
Nov 23
New York City's William Marcy "Boss" Tweed , convicted of fraud, is
returned to New York from Spain after being apprehended there.
Dec 5
A fire in Brooklyn's Conway Theatre claims 300 lives.
City
Central Park opens. ** John Draper takes the first photograph of
a solar spectrum. ** A warehouse is built at 213 Water Street. It
will one day become the Museum Gallery of the South Street Seaport
Museum. ** Democrat Smith Ely, Jr., a merchnt, defeats Republican
John Dix to become mayor, serving 1877-1878. ** Philadelphia and
New York are expelled from baseball's National League for not
completing their final western road trips. ** Whitman's <italic>A
Death Sonnet for Custer </italic>appears in the New York
<italic>Tribune</italic>.
State
Wiard Plow Company moves from East Aurora to Batavia.
Rochester
Antonio Nucci and Paul Regali become the first Italian immigrants in
the city to gain full citizenship. ** The municipal water system
is completed. The city begins getting some of its water from Hemlock
Lake.
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David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
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To all:
A form was distributed at the Conference on NYS History inviting
participants to be listed on the NY Historians page
(http://www.NYHistory.com/people.htm) of NY History Net. Since I'm
behind schedule on getting a data form posted on the site, I'm posting
the text of the data form below. I'd invite anyone interested in being
listed on the site to return this information to [log in to unmask] (not
to reply to the list).
Bob Shear
______________________________
NEW YORK HISTORIANS
NY History Net (www.NYHistory.com) is an Internet Web Site that focuses
on the presentation of historical information about the state. It hosts
websites on historical characters (Gerrit Smith, Matilda Joslyn Gage),
sites (Harriet Tubman Home) and themes (The Underground Railroad in NYS,
the Conference on New York State History)). The site also provides an
expanding list of resources, including links to various history
resources.
The site has added a page to list persons with an inyterest in NYS
History. If you would like to be listed on the NY Historians page, you
can email the following information to [log in to unmask] or simply fill
out the information below and return it to:
NY History Net
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Syracuse, NY 13201
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To All:
The structure of the NY History Net is finally near completion, though
I'm still trying looking for a search engine for the site. Anyone
wishing to suggest a link in any of the following categories is invited
to do so. And of course, anyone needing a website for a project or
organization related to NY History is also invited to drop me a line.
Bob Shear
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NY History Resources
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