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I don't know of such a reference; how about someone out there on the list?
David Minor
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>To: [log in to unmask]
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>
>David,
>
>I have reached the point where I depend on your New York knowledge. So, a
>question---
>
>Might you know of any book on members of the bar within the State of New York
>where I might find details on an attorney from the mid-1800's.
>
>I have hopes to find some details, biographical, in nature on a Smith Edward
>Lane who had offices at 169 Broadway in New York City in 1862; he lived at 8
>Charlton.
>
>djweber
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Eagles Byte Historical Research
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What about the NY State Bar Association??
Shirley
> I don't know of such a reference; how about someone out there on the list?
>
> David Minor
>
> >From: [log in to unmask]
> >Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 17:05:34 -0400 (EDT)
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: A New York question
> >
> >David,
> >
> >I have reached the point where I depend on your New York knowledge. So, a
> >question---
> >
> >Might you know of any book on members of the bar within the State of New York
> >where I might find details on an attorney from the mid-1800's.
> >
> >I have hopes to find some details, biographical, in nature on a Smith Edward
> >Lane who had offices at 169 Broadway in New York City in 1862; he lived at 8
> >Charlton.
> >
> >djweber
> >[log in to unmask]
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Dear Sir;
I received a copy of NYNY 1820-1824, which was forwarded through the
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can get back and future issues. I have many ancestors who lived in New York
(who doesn't?) and this posting is of great value, I think!
Please email me at [log in to unmask]
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Martindale-Hubble (I am unsure if Hubble is spelled right) is a
directory of lawyers in each state. I don't know how long it has been
published. The full title is probably something like "Martindale
Hubble's Directory of ....." I don't recall that either. I believe West
Publishing Company, a publisher of law books, publishes an annual New
York Diary with a listing of all lawyers in the state. Again, I don't
know how long that's been published.
I'd inquire of a law librarian. The state Office of Court
Administration operates libraries in most counties.
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There's a several volume book called "Courts and Lawyers of New York" by
Alden Chester published around 1925 that may help - Ancestor Publishers
(6166 Janice Way, Arvada, CO 80004-5160) has a microfiche copy of volume
3 (7 fiche) for $28.00.
Mike
On Thu, 8 May 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> What about the NY State Bar Association??
>
> Shirley
>
> > I don't know of such a reference; how about someone out there on the list?
> >
> > David Minor
> >
> > >From: [log in to unmask]
> > >Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 17:05:34 -0400 (EDT)
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: A New York question
> > >
> > >David,
> > >
> > >I have reached the point where I depend on your New York knowledge. So, a
> > >question---
> > >
> > >Might you know of any book on members of the bar within the State of New York
> > >where I might find details on an attorney from the mid-1800's.
> > >
> > >I have hopes to find some details, biographical, in nature on a Smith Edward
> > >Lane who had offices at 169 Broadway in New York City in 1862; he lived at 8
> > >Charlton.
> > >
> > >djweber
> > >[log in to unmask]
>
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I recently discovered one of my relatives was an assistant surgeon during the
Civil War. What resources could I use to find out his educational
background?
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Shirley,
Thanks for the suggestion. Someone else also suggested it and I've already
passed the information along. The Albany Law School was also suggested. I
appreciate your effort.
David
>What about the NY State Bar Association??
>
>Shirley
>
>> I don't know of such a reference; how about someone out there on the list?
>>
>> David Minor
>>
>> >From: [log in to unmask]
>> >Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 17:05:34 -0400 (EDT)
>> >To: [log in to unmask]
>> >Subject: A New York question
>> >
>> >David,
>> >
>> >I have reached the point where I depend on your New York knowledge. So, a
>> >question---
>> >
>> >Might you know of any book on members of the bar within the State of
>>New York
>> >where I might find details on an attorney from the mid-1800's.
>> >
>> >I have hopes to find some details, biographical, in nature on a Smith
>>Edward
>> >Lane who had offices at 169 Broadway in New York City in 1862; he lived
>>at 8
>> >Charlton.
>> >
>> >djweber
>> >[log in to unmask]
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1857
<smaller>Jan 30 =09
Harvey Burdell, a New York City bachelor, is found murdered in his Bond
Street home. The case is never solved.
=46eb 12 =09
The Agricultural Rooms of Albany's State Geological and Agricultural
Hall is dedicated.
Apr 7 =09
=46ollowing a survey by the U. S. Coast Survey, Manhattan's underwater
boundaries are confirmed.
May 1 =09
Elizabeth Blackwell, her older sister Dr. Emily Blackwell and
German-born Dr. Marie Zakrzewska found the New York Infirmary for Women
and Children, on Bleecker Street in New York City.
May 20 =09
Having rented out his house, William Tecumseh Sherman and his family
leave San Francisco for New York.
June =09
Railroad brakemen across the state strike for $1 a day, followed a week
later by engineers and firemen.
Jun 16 =09
A riot breaks out in New York City when police captain Walling and his
Strong Arm Squad, en route to arrest mayor Fernando Wood for refusing
the state legislature's demand to disband the corrupt Municipal Police,
run into Wood's defenders. Over 50 people are injured. Wood surrenders
when the Seventh Regiment comes to Walling's rescue.
July =09
Lawyer Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary visit New York City, Niagara
=46alls and Canada. ** The final arch keystone of Rochester's Main
Street bridge is set in place.
Jul 1 =09
Rochester stone cutter Patrick O'Rorke enters the West Point Military
Academy.
Jul 4 =09
=46ederal troops end a New York City gang fight in lower Manhattan, in
which eight of the 1,000 participants are killed.
Jul 21 =09
Having arrived in New York City via Panama, William T. Sherman opens
Lucas, Turner & Company on Wall Street.
August =09
=46uture Army captain and author Willard Glazier enters school at
Gouverneur.
Aug 9 =09
Lecturer-reformer Harriet May Mills is born in Syracuse.
Aug 24 =09
New York City's Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company branch fails,
precipitating a financial panic. 4,932 U. S. firms will fail.
Oct 7 =09
Sherman is instructed to close the New York branch of Lucas, Turner,
after the St. Louis home branch closes. He will move to St. Louis, to
help close the bank, then apply for an army commission.
Oct 31 =09
The Albany water works has taken in $75,550 in receipts for the fiscal
year just ending.
November=09
Unemployment rises in the state.
Nov 15 =09
15,000 unemployed gather in New York City's Tompkins Square Park,
parade down to Wall Street.
Nov 23 =09
The Collins Line's <italic>Adriatic</italic> sails from New York City.
December=09
Sherman leaves St. Louis and travels back to San Francisco, by way of
New York, to liquidate Lucas, Turner's remaining assets.
City
The first passenger elevator is installed in the Haughtwout Department
Store. ** Industrialist Peter Cooper founds the Cooper Union
school. ** John Craig Havermeyer is named president of the New
York Savings Bank. ** Frederick Law Olmsted's Central Park is
laid out. ** Paint dealer and Tammany politician Daniel F.
Tiemann (Independent) defeats incumbant Democratic mayor Fernando Wood,
serves 1858-1860. ** Lithographers Nathaniel Currier and Charles
Ives become partners
State
U. S. Senator Hamilton Fish resigns and Preston King is elected to
succeed him. ** The grain elevator at Charlotte collapses. **=20
The State Senate reports that the poorhouse at Angelica is poorly
run, with lunatics left unattended and in filthy conditions. They are
often flogged. ** Oramel's <italic>Republican Era</italic> ceases
publication. ** The state legislature proposes diverting Lime
Lake into Ischia Creek, at the cost of $160,000, to provide water for
the Genesee Valley Canal. ** Le Roy's Ingham Collegiate Institute
is chartered as Ingham University. ** The Medina Police
Department is founded. ** The U. S. and the Seneca Indian tribe
sign a treaty at Tonawanda in which the tribe repurchase state
reservation lands with funds from the exchange and sale of Seneca
reservation lands in Kansas. ** The Hudson River steamer
<italic>Armenia</italic> gets the first steam calliope. ** The
New York Central adds improved snowplows to its rolling stock. ** =20
The National Association of Baseball Clubs, the first league, is
formed, playing at the Fashion Race Course, in Jamaica, New York. The
rules are changed from the first-team-to-reach-21 rule to a nine-inning
format. ** St. Louis and New York City are linked by rail.
Albany
1857 expenses of Albany schools total $44,310.10. ** =20
Construction begins on the Albany Industrial School, for vagrant
children.
Rochester
Washington, D. C. nun Sister Hieronymo O'Brien and three Sisters of
Charity found St. Mary's Hospital, the city's first. ** The Howe
and Rogers carpet manufacturing firm is founded. ** Spring rains
wash away the temporary Main Street bridge. Rochester replaces the
Andrews Street bridge. ** The Industrial School of Rochester
(later the Rochester Children's Nursery) is established at 133 Exchange
Street. ** The Rochester Savings Bank is completed. ** =20
Sophia and Hart streets become Plymouth Avenue. ** Rosetta
Douglass, daughter of black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, is denied
entrance to school. The Board of Education reverses the ban.
1858
=46eb 22 =09
The Cabinet display room of Albany's State Geological and Agricultural
Hall is opened to the public.
Mar 30 =09
Musical comedy star DeWolf Hopper, known for his Gilbert and Sullivan
roles and <italic>Casey at the Bat</italic> recitations, is born in New
York City.
Apr 2 =09
The state legislature mandates the removal of the county seat of
Allegany County from Angelica to Belmont. The execution of the move is
held up in state courts for several years.
Apr 28 =09
=46rederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux are chosen to design New York
City's new Central Park, beating 32 other designs, to win a $2,000
contest.
May =09
The clipper <italic>Twilight</italic> makes the year's record New York
to San Francisco run - 100 days. ** C. H. Mallory, Connecticut
builder of the <italic>Twilight</italic> sees his
<italic>Haswell</italic> win theNew York Yacht Club regatta grand
prize.
May 13 =09
Susan B. Anthony presides over the two-day Eighth National Woman's
Rights Convention in New York City's Mozart Hall. The meetings are
often disrupted by rowdy men.
Jun 29 =09
Panama Canal engineer George Washington Goethals is born in Brooklyn.
Jul 20 =09
The New York All-Stars baseball team beats Brooklyn, in the first paid
admission game.
August =09
Susan B. Anthony places a proposal to provide equal educational
opportunities for women before the State Teacher's Convention in
Binghamton. Her resolution is defeated.
Aug 23 =09
Timothy Shay Arthur's temperance novel <italic>Ten=00=00=07=83hts in a
Bar-room</italic>, adopted for the stage by William W. Pratt, opens at
New York City's National Theatre. It will become a controversial
nation-wide hit.=20
Oct 5 =09
An unidentified arsonist torches New York City's Crystal Palace,
destroying the building and $2,000,000 worth of art. Editor and
exhibition commissioner Horace Greeley will be arrested in Paris and
temporarily put in Clichy prison in an attempt to coerce damages for
statuary destroyed in the fire.
Oct 25 =09
Senator William H. Seward speaks at Rochester, declares the slavery
issue a "irrepressible conflict". =20
Oct 27 =09
Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City.
December=09
The first trains run over the newly completed railroad between New York
City and Boston in 7 hours and 7 minutes. Trains are ferried over the
Thames and Connecticut rivers.
Dec 25 =09
=46uture governor John Alden Dix is born in Glens Falls.
City
Construction begins on St. Patrick's Cathedral. ** Brooklyn's St.
=46rancis College is founded. ** High Bridge, over the Harlem River,
loses its charter as a toll bridge. ** The collection of Luman
Reed is given to the New-York Historical Society. ** Edward R.
Squibb starts a pharmaceutical firm in Brooklyn. ** Matthew Brady
opens studios here and in Washington, D. C. ** Mrs. Marshall O.
Roberts starts a Ladies' Christian Association prayer group, considered
the first U. S. Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). ** =20
The first Steel-nibbed pens go on sale.
State
Thurlow Weed prot=E9g=E9 Edwin D. Morgan is elected governor. ** =20
Methodist Episcopal pastor Bishop Benjamin Titus Roberts is ousted by
the Genesee Conference at Perry. ** The legislature hires a
physician for the state's Indians at $300 a year. ** C. Weickmann
establishes the Catholic journal <italic>Aurora</italic> in Buffalo. =20
** Former Buchanan ally John W. Forney attacks him in a bitter
speech in Tarrytown. ** William J. Stillman's painting
<italic>ThePhilosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks</italic>. ** =20
The New York Central adds sleeping cars to its trains. ** The New
York Central and Erie railroads end their rate war, temporarily. **=20
<italic>Fisk's Family Journal</italic> begins publication, in Troy.
Albany
This year canal boats deliver 267,406,411 feet of boards, 11,949,700
feet of timber and 67,505 tons of barrel staves, mostly from the
northern part of the state. ** The city contains 48 churches. =20
** The Wash House (Laundry and Cannery) of the Shaker colony at
Watervliet is built.
1859
Apr 4 =09
Bryant's Minstrels begins performing Daniel D. Emmett's <italic>Dixie
Land</italic>, in New York City's Mechanics Hall.
May 12 =09
Susan B. Anthony presides over the Ninth National Women's Rights
Convention in New York City, links the slavery cause with that of
women's rights.
Jun 30 =09
=46rench aerialist Fran=E7ois Gravelet (Blondin),performing before a crowd
of 25,000, crosses Niagara Falls on a tight rope. He then crosses
again on stilts, blindfolded, pushing a wheelbarrow and carrying a man
on his back.
August =09
New York City's Infirmary for Women and Children, needing more space,
moves from Bleecker Street to Second Avenue.
Aug 12 =09
=46. H. Conway's play<italic> Pike's Peak or, The Search for
Riches</italic>, opens at New York City's Old Bowery Theater.
Nov 28 =09
Washington Irving, 76, dies at Sunnyside, North Tarrytown.
Dec 17 =09
George C. Boniface plays John Brown at New York City's Old Bowery
Theater in <italic>The Insurrection, or, Kansas and Harpers
=46erry</italic>. =20
City
Leonard Jerome moves back from Paris. ** Music publisher John
Andrews is bought out by Henry De Marsan. ** The approximate date
outlaw Henry McCarty (William H. Bonney, Kid Antrim, Billy the Kid) is
born. ** Manhattan restauranteur John Taylor buys the Oaks, the
Queens mansion belonging to the Lawrence family. In partnership with
John Henderson he turns the estate into a horticultural business. The
area will become Oakland Gardens. ** Widow Anna Behr Uhl,
publisher of the <italic>New Yorker Staats-Zeitung</italic>, marries
her assistant Oswald Ottendorfer. ** Former mayor Fernando Wood,
now described as a Mozart Democrat, defeatsfellow former mayor and
Tammany Democrat William C. Havemeyer, and Republican George Opdyke, to
become mayor from 1860-1862. ** Brooklyn bans steam locomotives
along Atlantic Avenue by this date. The Long Island Railroad (LIRR)
moves its western terminus to Long Island City. ** Cooper Union
for the Advancement of Science and Art opens and collector Thomas
Jefferson Bryan houses his art collection there.
State
Governor Edwin D. Morgan is elected for a second term. ** A
special burial ground for French and Germans is established in Buffalo.
** The collapsed Charlotte grain elevator is rebuilt. ** =20
California promoter Sam Brannan founds a resort there he calls
Calistoga, a word play on "the Saratoga of California". ** During
a celebration in Albion a bridge over the Erie Canal collapses. Fifteen
of the crowd on the span drown. ** Future Army captain and author
Willard Glazier enters the State Normal College at Albany. ** The
American Line of steamboats is split in two, with one line continuing
between Lewiston, New York, and Kingston, Ontario, and the other
partly operating on the St. Lawrence River. ** The New York
Central replaces its wood-burning engines with coal burners and puts
smoking cars on its trains.
Rochester
The Main Street bridge gets a pavement of Medina sandstone. ** The
city's Liberty Pole, weakened by severe winds, is demolished.
1860
=46eb 27 =09
Lincoln makes his Cooper Union speech in New York City, speaking on
slavery and the Constitution's framers.
March =09
U. S. Army headquarters in New York orders three columns to operate
independently in the Kiowa-Comanche country during the summer: one from
=46ort Riley, Kansas; one from Fort Kearny, Nebraska; and a third from
New Mexico.
Mar 19 =09
Elizabeth Cady Stanton addresses a joint session of the state's
legislature on the subject of women's suffrage.
Apr 23 =09
The Democratic National Convention meets at Charleston, South Carolina.
Among those in attendance is New York State railroad executive Dean
Richmond.
May 9 =09
The Constitutional Union Party meets in Baltimore, nominating
Tennessee's John Bell and Massachusetts' Edward Everett. Dean Richmond
attends.
Jun 9 =09
<italic>Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter</italic>, goes on
sale in New York City, the first of Irwin P. Beadle's Dime Novel
Series, and the first of the genre, written by Mrs. Ann Sophia Stevens.
Jul 1 =09
Inventor Charles Goodyear, 59, dies in New York City.
August =09
William Tecumseh Sherman, now a superintendent and professor of
engineering at the Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Academy,
travels to Lancaster, Ohio, Washington, and New York to purchase
supplies and 200 muskets for student drills at the school.
Aug 4 =09
=46inancier Harrison Durand, brother of lawyer John Ewing Durand, is born
in Rochester.
Sep 5 =09
Enrico Farini walks across Niagara Falls on a tightrope above the
cataract, with a washing machine, does his laundry.
Sep 7 =09
Painter Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) is born in Greenwich,
New York.
Oct 11 =09
A parade held in New York City for the Prince of Wales draws 200,000
people.
Oct 12 =09
A ball is given at the Academy of Music for the Prince of Wales. Part
of the temporary dance floor collapses.
Oct 13 =09
The Prince of Wales is photographed by Matthew Brady.
Nov 7 =09
The William T. Coleman Line's ship <italic>Racer</italic> is launched,
to be used for the New York-San Francisco trade.
Nov 12 =09
The New York stock market experiences heavy trading and a sharp price
drop.
Dec 18 =09
Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell is born in New York City.
City
Matthew Brady opens his National Portrait Gallery on Broadway and Tenth
Street. ** James Wrigley begins publishing music on Chatham Street
(Park Row). ** A tenement fire on Elm Street kills twenty people.
New laws will be soon passed requiring fire escapes. ** The
Connecticut-built clipper ship<italic>Andrew Jackson </italic>breaks
1858's New York to San Francisco record, making the trip in 89 days and
4 hours.
State
The foreign-born population passes 1,000,000 - 498,000 of them Irish
and 256,000 German. ** The New York State court of appeals,
deliberating in the Lemmon slave case, rules that the state determines
the status of all persons in its jurisdiction and can declare blacks to
be free men. ** Angelica is made a half-shire town. ** R. P.
Smith of Syracuse publishes J. H. French's <italic>Gazetteer of the
State f New York</italic>. ** Jonathan Goble, a naval marine on
Perry's 1852-1854 voyage to Japan, returns there as the first Baptist
missionary. ** Albany's population reaches 62,000. ** The
New York Central adds restaurant (dining) cars to its trains.
Rochester
The Rochester Historical Society is founded. ** The first Italian
immigrant arrives in the city, an unnamed laborer. ** Area
congressmen advocate ending the trade reciprocity treaty with Canada. =20
** The city's second Liberty Pole is erected. ** Sixty trains
a day leave the city.</smaller></fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
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Pat,
At his point most back issues are not generally available but I will add
you to the list for future issues. Actually, you lucked out. I used to post
the NYNYs to my local bulletin board, but left off doing that, for seeming
lack of interest, with the 1820 posting. But now I've been asked to resume
them. I'm just beginning to resubmit them from 1820 to the current 1860.
You should start receiving them, along with this message, when I go back on
line, and I'll see you get future postings.
>Dear Sir;
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>I received a copy of NYNY 1820-1824, which was forwarded through the
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>can get back and future issues. I have many ancestors who lived in New York
I think that takes in half of Michigan.
>(who doesn't?) and this posting is of great value, I think!
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There are no relevant records in the New York State Archives, which
holds only official New York State government records. I suggest
looking for a newspaper obituary (New York State Library holds a huge
collection of NYS newspapers on microfilm; phone 518-474-5355, e-mail
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Check out the program for the Lake Ontario Archives Conference, at
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/archives/loac
Christopher Densmore
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Hi David,
Glad you are going to resume NYNY. I printed them out and save them.
Anne Bowie
Researching: BUCHER, FOWLER, LOOMIS
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The name is Martindale-Hubbel and it has not been published long enough
to satisfy the questioner's needs. The same goes for West Publishing.
The New York Public Library or the state Office of Court Administration
would be your best bet.
John F. Kovacic
Columbia University
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I would like to say that David Minor's history posts should be archieved
somewhere. I read them and enjoy them and then delete them to save space,
but it would be nice to go to a site and read those I missed or reread
ones I've read. They are good and one of the reasons why I continue to
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<excerpt><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1857
<smaller>Jan 30 =09
Harvey Burdell, a New York City bachelor, is found murdered in his Bond
Street home. The case is never solved.
=46eb 12 =09
The Agricultural Rooms of Albany's State Geological and Agricultural
Hall is dedicated.
Apr 7 =09
=46ollowing a survey by the U. S. Coast Survey, Manhattan's underwater
boundaries are confirmed.
May 1 =09
Elizabeth Blackwell, her older sister Dr. Emily Blackwell and
German-born Dr. Marie Zakrzewska found the New York Infirmary for Women
and Children, on Bleecker Street in New York City.
May 20 =09
Having rented out his house, William Tecumseh Sherman and his family
leave San Francisco for New York.
June =09
Railroad brakemen across the state strike for $1 a day, followed a week
later by engineers and firemen.
Jun 16 =09
A riot breaks out in New York City when police captain Walling and his
Strong Arm Squad, en route to arrest mayor Fernando Wood for refusing
the state legislature's demand to disband the corrupt Municipal Police,
run into Wood's defenders. Over 50 people are injured. Wood surrenders
when the Seventh Regiment comes to Walling's rescue.
July =09
Lawyer Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary visit New York City, Niagara
=46alls and Canada. ** The final arch keystone of Rochester's Main
Street bridge is set in place.
Jul 1 =09
Rochester stone cutter Patrick O'Rorke enters the West Point Military
Academy.
Jul 4 =09
=46ederal troops end a New York City gang fight in lower Manhattan, in
which eight of the 1,000 participants are killed.
Jul 21 =09
Having arrived in New York City via Panama, William T. Sherman opens
Lucas, Turner & Company on Wall Street.
August =09
=46uture Army captain and author Willard Glazier enters school at
Gouverneur.
Aug 9 =09
Lecturer-reformer Harriet May Mills is born in Syracuse.
Aug 24 =09
New York City's Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company branch fails,
precipitating a financial panic. 4,932 U. S. firms will fail.
Oct 7 =09
Sherman is instructed to close the New York branch of Lucas, Turner,
after the St. Louis home branch closes. He will move to St. Louis, to
help close the bank, then apply for an army commission.
Oct 31 =09
The Albany water works has taken in $75,550 in receipts for the fiscal
year just ending.
November=09
Unemployment rises in the state.
Nov 15 =09
15,000 unemployed gather in New York City's Tompkins Square Park,
parade down to Wall Street.
Nov 23 =09
The Collins Line's <italic>Adriatic</italic> sails from New York City.
December=09
Sherman leaves St. Louis and travels back to San Francisco, by way of
New York, to liquidate Lucas, Turner's remaining assets.
City
The first passenger elevator is installed in the Haughtwout Department
Store. ** Industrialist Peter Cooper founds the Cooper Union
school. ** John Craig Havermeyer is named president of the New
York Savings Bank. ** Frederick Law Olmsted's Central Park is
laid out. ** Paint dealer and Tammany politician Daniel F.
Tiemann (Independent) defeats incumbant Democratic mayor Fernando Wood,
serves 1858-1860. ** Lithographers Nathaniel Currier and Charles
Ives become partners
State
U. S. Senator Hamilton Fish resigns and Preston King is elected to
succeed him. ** The grain elevator at Charlotte collapses. **=20
The State Senate reports that the poorhouse at Angelica is poorly
run, with lunatics left unattended and in filthy conditions. They are
often flogged. ** Oramel's <italic>Republican Era</italic> ceases
publication. ** The state legislature proposes diverting Lime
Lake into Ischia Creek, at the cost of $160,000, to provide water for
the Genesee Valley Canal. ** Le Roy's Ingham Collegiate Institute
is chartered as Ingham University. ** The Medina Police
Department is founded. ** The U. S. and the Seneca Indian tribe
sign a treaty at Tonawanda in which the tribe repurchase state
reservation lands with funds from the exchange and sale of Seneca
reservation lands in Kansas. ** The Hudson River steamer
<italic>Armenia</italic> gets the first steam calliope. ** The
New York Central adds improved snowplows to its rolling stock. ** =20
The National Association of Baseball Clubs, the first league, is
formed, playing at the Fashion Race Course, in Jamaica, New York. The
rules are changed from the first-team-to-reach-21 rule to a nine-inning
format. ** St. Louis and New York City are linked by rail.
Albany
1857 expenses of Albany schools total $44,310.10. ** =20
Construction begins on the Albany Industrial School, for vagrant
children.
Rochester
Washington, D. C. nun Sister Hieronymo O'Brien and three Sisters of
Charity found St. Mary's Hospital, the city's first. ** The Howe
and Rogers carpet manufacturing firm is founded. ** Spring rains
wash away the temporary Main Street bridge. Rochester replaces the
Andrews Street bridge. ** The Industrial School of Rochester
(later the Rochester Children's Nursery) is established at 133 Exchange
Street. ** The Rochester Savings Bank is completed. ** =20
Sophia and Hart streets become Plymouth Avenue. ** Rosetta
Douglass, daughter of black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, is denied
entrance to school. The Board of Education reverses the ban.
1858
=46eb 22 =09
The Cabinet display room of Albany's State Geological and Agricultural
Hall is opened to the public.
Mar 30 =09
Musical comedy star DeWolf Hopper, known for his Gilbert and Sullivan
roles and <italic>Casey at the Bat</italic> recitations, is born in New
York City.
Apr 2 =09
The state legislature mandates the removal of the county seat of
Allegany County from Angelica to Belmont. The execution of the move is
held up in state courts for several years.
Apr 28 =09
=46rederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux are chosen to design New York
City's new Central Park, beating 32 other designs, to win a $2,000
contest.
May =09
The clipper <italic>Twilight</italic> makes the year's record New York
to San Francisco run - 100 days. ** C. H. Mallory, Connecticut
builder of the <italic>Twilight</italic> sees his
<italic>Haswell</italic> win theNew York Yacht Club regatta grand
prize.
May 13 =09
Susan B. Anthony presides over the two-day Eighth National Woman's
Rights Convention in New York City's Mozart Hall. The meetings are
often disrupted by rowdy men.
Jun 29 =09
Panama Canal engineer George Washington Goethals is born in Brooklyn.
Jul 20 =09
The New York All-Stars baseball team beats Brooklyn, in the first paid
admission game.
August =09
Susan B. Anthony places a proposal to provide equal educational
opportunities for women before the State Teacher's Convention in
Binghamton. Her resolution is defeated.
Aug 23 =09
Timothy Shay Arthur's temperance novel <italic>Ten=00=00=07=83hts in a
Bar-room</italic>, adopted for the stage by William W. Pratt, opens at
New York City's National Theatre. It will become a controversial
nation-wide hit.=20
Oct 5 =09
An unidentified arsonist torches New York City's Crystal Palace,
destroying the building and $2,000,000 worth of art. Editor and
exhibition commissioner Horace Greeley will be arrested in Paris and
temporarily put in Clichy prison in an attempt to coerce damages for
statuary destroyed in the fire.
Oct 25 =09
Senator William H. Seward speaks at Rochester, declares the slavery
issue a "irrepressible conflict". =20
Oct 27 =09
Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City.
December=09
The first trains run over the newly completed railroad between New York
City and Boston in 7 hours and 7 minutes. Trains are ferried over the
Thames and Connecticut rivers.
Dec 25 =09
=46uture governor John Alden Dix is born in Glens Falls.
City
Construction begins on St. Patrick's Cathedral. ** Brooklyn's St.
=46rancis College is founded. ** High Bridge, over the Harlem River,
loses its charter as a toll bridge. ** The collection of Luman
Reed is given to the New-York Historical Society. ** Edward R.
Squibb starts a pharmaceutical firm in Brooklyn. ** Matthew Brady
opens studios here and in Washington, D. C. ** Mrs. Marshall O.
Roberts starts a Ladies' Christian Association prayer group, considered
the first U. S. Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). ** =20
The first Steel-nibbed pens go on sale.
State
Thurlow Weed prot=E9g=E9 Edwin D. Morgan is elected governor. ** =20
Methodist Episcopal pastor Bishop Benjamin Titus Roberts is ousted by
the Genesee Conference at Perry. ** The legislature hires a
physician for the state's Indians at $300 a year. ** C. Weickmann
establishes the Catholic journal <italic>Aurora</italic> in Buffalo. =20
** Former Buchanan ally John W. Forney attacks him in a bitter
speech in Tarrytown. ** William J. Stillman's painting
<italic>ThePhilosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks</italic>. ** =20
The New York Central adds sleeping cars to its trains. ** The New
York Central and Erie railroads end their rate war, temporarily. **=20
<italic>Fisk's Family Journal</italic> begins publication, in Troy.
Albany
This year canal boats deliver 267,406,411 feet of boards, 11,949,700
feet of timber and 67,505 tons of barrel staves, mostly from the
northern part of the state. ** The city contains 48 churches. =20
** The Wash House (Laundry and Cannery) of the Shaker colony at
Watervliet is built.
1859
Apr 4 =09
Bryant's Minstrels begins performing Daniel D. Emmett's <italic>Dixie
Land</italic>, in New York City's Mechanics Hall.
May 12 =09
Susan B. Anthony presides over the Ninth National Women's Rights
Convention in New York City, links the slavery cause with that of
women's rights.
Jun 30 =09
=46rench aerialist Fran=E7ois Gravelet (Blondin),performing before a crowd
of 25,000, crosses Niagara Falls on a tight rope. He then crosses
again on stilts, blindfolded, pushing a wheelbarrow and carrying a man
on his back.
August =09
New York City's Infirmary for Women and Children, needing more space,
moves from Bleecker Street to Second Avenue.
Aug 12 =09
=46. H. Conway's play<italic> Pike's Peak or, The Search for
Riches</italic>, opens at New York City's Old Bowery Theater.
Nov 28 =09
Washington Irving, 76, dies at Sunnyside, North Tarrytown.
Dec 17 =09
George C. Boniface plays John Brown at New York City's Old Bowery
Theater in <italic>The Insurrection, or, Kansas and Harpers
=46erry</italic>. =20
City
Leonard Jerome moves back from Paris. ** Music publisher John
Andrews is bought out by Henry De Marsan. ** The approximate date
outlaw Henry McCarty (William H. Bonney, Kid Antrim, Billy the Kid) is
born. ** Manhattan restauranteur John Taylor buys the Oaks, the
Queens mansion belonging to the Lawrence family. In partnership with
John Henderson he turns the estate into a horticultural business. The
area will become Oakland Gardens. ** Widow Anna Behr Uhl,
publisher of the <italic>New Yorker Staats-Zeitung</italic>, marries
her assistant Oswald Ottendorfer. ** Former mayor Fernando Wood,
now described as a Mozart Democrat, defeatsfellow former mayor and
Tammany Democrat William C. Havemeyer, and Republican George Opdyke, to
become mayor from 1860-1862. ** Brooklyn bans steam locomotives
along Atlantic Avenue by this date. The Long Island Railroad (LIRR)
moves its western terminus to Long Island City. ** Cooper Union
for the Advancement of Science and Art opens and collector Thomas
Jefferson Bryan houses his art collection there.
State
Governor Edwin D. Morgan is elected for a second term. ** A
special burial ground for French and Germans is established in Buffalo.
** The collapsed Charlotte grain elevator is rebuilt. ** =20
California promoter Sam Brannan founds a resort there he calls
Calistoga, a word play on "the Saratoga of California". ** During
a celebration in Albion a bridge over the Erie Canal collapses. Fifteen
of the crowd on the span drown. ** Future Army captain and author
Willard Glazier enters the State Normal College at Albany. ** The
American Line of steamboats is split in two, with one line continuing
between Lewiston, New York, and Kingston, Ontario, and the other
partly operating on the St. Lawrence River. ** The New York
Central replaces its wood-burning engines with coal burners and puts
smoking cars on its trains.
Rochester
The Main Street bridge gets a pavement of Medina sandstone. ** The
city's Liberty Pole, weakened by severe winds, is demolished.
1860
=46eb 27 =09
Lincoln makes his Cooper Union speech in New York City, speaking on
slavery and the Constitution's framers.
March =09
U. S. Army headquarters in New York orders three columns to operate
independently in the Kiowa-Comanche country during the summer: one from
=46ort Riley, Kansas; one from Fort Kearny, Nebraska; and a third from
New Mexico.
Mar 19 =09
Elizabeth Cady Stanton addresses a joint session of the state's
legislature on the subject of women's suffrage.
Apr 23 =09
The Democratic National Convention meets at Charleston, South Carolina.
Among those in attendance is New York State railroad executive Dean
Richmond.
May 9 =09
The Constitutional Union Party meets in Baltimore, nominating
Tennessee's John Bell and Massachusetts' Edward Everett. Dean Richmond
attends.
Jun 9 =09
<italic>Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter</italic>, goes on
sale in New York City, the first of Irwin P. Beadle's Dime Novel
Series, and the first of the genre, written by Mrs. Ann Sophia
Stevens.
Jul 1 =09
Inventor Charles Goodyear, 59, dies in New York City.
August =09
William Tecumseh Sherman, now a superintendent and professor of
engineering at the Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Academy,
travels to Lancaster, Ohio, Washington, and New York to purchase
supplies and 200 muskets for student drills at the school.
Aug 4 =09
=46inancier Harrison Durand, brother of lawyer John Ewing Durand, is born
in Rochester.
Sep 5 =09
Enrico Farini walks across Niagara Falls on a tightrope above the
cataract, with a washing machine, does his laundry.
Sep 7 =09
Painter Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) is born in Greenwich,
New York.
Oct 11 =09
A parade held in New York City for the Prince of Wales draws 200,000
people.
Oct 12 =09
A ball is given at the Academy of Music for the Prince of Wales. Part
of the temporary dance floor collapses.
Oct 13 =09
The Prince of Wales is photographed by Matthew Brady.
Nov 7 =09
The William T. Coleman Line's ship <italic>Racer</italic> is launched,
to be used for the New York-San Francisco trade.
Nov 12 =09
The New York stock market experiences heavy trading and a sharp price
drop.
Dec 18 =09
Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell is born in New York City.
City
Matthew Brady opens his National Portrait Gallery on Broadway and Tenth
Street. ** James Wrigley begins publishing music on Chatham Street
(Park Row). ** A tenement fire on Elm Street kills twenty people.
New laws will be soon passed requiring fire escapes. ** The
Connecticut-built clipper ship<italic>Andrew Jackson </italic>breaks
1858's New York to San Francisco record, making the trip in 89 days and
4 hours.
State
The foreign-born population passes 1,000,000 - 498,000 of them Irish
and 256,000 German. ** The New York State court of appeals,
deliberating in the Lemmon slave case, rules that the state determines
the status of all persons in its jurisdiction and can declare blacks to
be free men. ** Angelica is made a half-shire town. ** R. P.
Smith of Syracuse publishes J. H. French's <italic>Gazetteer of the
State f New York</italic>. ** Jonathan Goble, a naval marine on
Perry's 1852-1854 voyage to Japan, returns there as the first Baptist
missionary. ** Albany's population reaches 62,000. ** The
New York Central adds restaurant (dining) cars to its trains.
Rochester
The Rochester Historical Society is founded. ** The first Italian
immigrant arrives in the city, an unnamed laborer. ** Area
congressmen advocate ending the trade reciprocity treaty with Canada. =20
** The city's second Liberty Pole is erected. ** Sixty trains
a day leave the city.</smaller></fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, David Minor wrote:
> Pat,
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> At his point most back issues are not generally available but I will add
> you to the list for future issues.
David, With the exception of the 1760s, I believe I have all the timeline
messages. Do you need copies?
Regards,
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By all means keep sending material from David Minor. He has done a
marvelous job for all of us.
I have saved all of his lists and I stay on this list chiefly
because of material like his.
I am interested mainly on the history of western New York,
particularly Genesee County where my ancestors went before the War of
1812.
New York's involvement in that fracas would be an interesting
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Hi David,
I second the motion. Your postings should be somewhere that we can all reread
them. I really enjoy reading the postings.
Les Buell
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Architectural history firm seeks archivist to work with architectural
drawings, photographs - cataloguing, developing databases, some conservation;
10-15 hours a week, $15/hour. Sunny, messy office - bring your dog.
Write or e-mail only, please, and be sure to include your _specific_
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All previous postings to NYHIST-L are available by a fairly simple method.
They are arranged by year and month - not by subject.
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Some questions to ask yourself about your Civil War medical ancestor.
1. What state did he serve from.
2. What unit did he serve with.
If you have the answers to these questions, check with the state and National
Archives for information that maybe of assistance. You might also try writing
to:
The Society of Civil War Surgeons Inc.
Peter J. D'Onofrio, President'
243 Bristol Drive S.W.
Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068-9653
If you can give me a bit more information about your ancestor, I may be able
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In a message dated 97-05-15 10:08:29 EDT, you write:
<< I second the motion. Your postings should be somewhere that we can all
reread
them. I really enjoy reading the postings.
Les Buell >>
As a transplanted NewYorker add my vote to having the list posted
'somewhere'. I made the unforgivable error in deleting the earlier lists and
now would very much like to be able to retrieve them.
Chuck V.
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Fleet,
I have them all, thanks, and have been sending out individual copies to
people when time has allowed. There's a good possibility I may have a home
for them on someone else's server quite soon. Then you can pick up the
1760s. Do you have the ones previous to those? Stay tuned, and thanks for
the offer.
David
>On Mon, 12 May 1997, David Minor wrote:
>
>> Pat,
>>
>> At his point most back issues are not generally available but I will add
>> you to the list for future issues.
>
>
>David, With the exception of the 1760s, I believe I have all the timeline
>messages. Do you need copies?
>
>Regards,
> - fleet -
> P. R. "Fleet" Teachout
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<bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1861</fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><=
param>Geneva</param>
Jan 5 =09
The merchant ship <italic>Star of the West</italic> departs from New
York City with troops and supplies for Fort Sumter.
Jan 6 =09
New York City mayor Fernando Wood proposes that the city should declare
itself free and neutral if the Union should dissolve.
Jan 12 =09
The <italic>Star of the West</italic> returns to New York. ** =20
Pro-Union sympathizers break up an abolitionist meeting in Rochester.
Jan 18 =09
Vassar Female College is founded in Poughkeepsie. Inventor and artist
Samuel Finley Breese Morse is one of the founders.
=46ebruary=09
Lincoln passes through Westfield, stops to see Grace Bedell, the little
girl who suggested last year that he grow a beard, advice he has
taken.
Apr 15 =09
John F. Rand of Batavia is the first to volunteer for the Union Army.
Apr 25 =09
Elizabeth Blackwell assembles 92 New York City society women at the
Infirmiry for Women and Children, to organize a meeting of prospective
nurses, to become the Women's Central Association for Relief.
June<bold> =09
</bold>Henry Adams serves as foreign correspondent for <italic>The New
York Times.</italic> ** George Armstrong Custer graduates last in
his class at West Point.
Jun 6 =09
The second <italic>Maid of the Mist</italic> runs into the Niagara
rapids to avoid creditors.
July =09
The first recorded test drilling for petroleum in New York State is
performed in the town of Rushford. This test and another later in the
year in Olean yield nothing.
October =09
Union staff officer Patrick Henry O'Rorke, an assistant engineer at the
Washington defenses, is transferred to the South Carolian coast.
Oct 4 =09
Painter-sculptor Frederick Remington is born in Canton, New York. **
Baptist clergyman and theologian Walter Rauschenbusch is born in
Rochester.
Oct 24 =09
The first transcontinental telegraph is completed by Western Union,
linking New York and San Francisco.
Nov 16 =09
The Christian Commission, to aid soldiers, is founded in New York
City.
Dec 30 =09
New York City banks suspend specie payment - no redemption of paper
money for coinage.
City
Republican George Opdyke defeats Mozart Democrat and former mayor
=46ernando Wood and Tammany Democrat C. Godfrey Gunther to become mayor,
from 1862-1864. ** Griffith Thomas' Mortimer Building is built at
22nd Street and Broadway. ** The Freedman's Relief association is
founded to assist recently-freed slaves, with chapters in Boston, New
York and Philadelphia.
State
The Lake Ontario steamboats <italic>Northerner</italic> and <italic>New
York</italic> are put into Atlantic coastal service. ** Philip
Church, first judge of Allegany County, dies and is buried in
Angelica's Until the Dawn cemetery. ** Olean's first oil refinery
is built. ** French vintner Charles D. Champlin founds the
Pleasant Valley Wine Company near Hammondsport, the first winery in the
area. ** Oswego State College is founded. ** Businessman
Ezra Cornell of Westchester Landing is elected to the state
legislature. ** Batavia clubwoman Kate Fisher (McCool) is
born in Ontario, Canada. ** William Almon Wheeler of Malone is
elected to the U. S. House of Representatives. ** Patrick Henry
O'Rorke graduates at the top of his class, in the year's second class.
Rochester
H. A. Palmer builds a private market on Front Street, through to Mill
Street, completing the line of buildings on the Street. ** The
University of Rochester moves to property on the former Azariah Boody
farm. ** Lawyer-anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan is elected to
the state assembly. ** The city annexes more land for Mt. Hope
Cemetery, increasing the its own area to 8.04 square miles.
<bold>1862</bold>
January =09
Henry Adams resigns as foreign correspondent of <italic>The New York
Times.</italic> ** The average gold price of the greenback
dollar is 98 cents.
Jan 24 =09
Novelist Edith Newbold Jones (Wharton) is born in New York City.
Jan 30 =09
Engineer John Ericsson's ironclad, the <italic>USS Monitor, </italic>is
launched at Greenport, Long Island.
=46eb 9 =09
Iranian expert Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson is born in New York
City.
=46eb 19 =09
=46inal outfitting on the <italic>USS Monitor</italic> is completed.
=46eb 20 =09
The <italic>USS Monitor</italic> is handed over to the U. S. Navy. =20
** Portland, Maine, slave trader Nathaniel Gordon is hanged fpr
piracy in New York City's Tombs Prison, after an appeal to Lincoln is
turned down - the last white executed for the crime.
Mar 6 =09
The <italic>USS Monitor</italic> sails out of New York City.
May 15 =09
Union Grounds, the first fenced-in baseball park, opens in Brooklyn.
May 21 =09
Minstrel show pioneer Edwin Pearce Christy, mentally deranged, commits
suicide by throwing himself from a window in his New York City house.
Jun 16 =09
Adah Isaacs Menken opens in <italic>Mazeppa</italic> at New York City's
New Bowery Theater.
Jun 23 =09
Lincoln leaves for New York State to confer with the retired Winfield
Scott.
Jun 25 =09
Lincoln returns to Washington.
Jul 9 =09
Union staff officer Patrick Henry O'Rorke marries his childhood
sweetheart Clara Wadsworth Bishop, in Rochester's St. Bridget Church.
Jul 22 =09
The Prairie Motor departs Nebraska City for a trip to Denver, Colorado.
It breaks down several miles out of town, requiring inventor Joseph
Brown to return to New York for a spare part.
Jul 24 =09
=46ormer president Martin Van Buren dies at Lindenwald, in Kinderhook.
Aug 16 =09
Joseph Brown wires Nebraska City from New York, informing his engineers
that wartime demands on factories will delay the manufacture of the
needed spare part.
Aug 18 =09
The Miltary Committee of Monroe County announces the formation of a new
infantry regiment, 1,000 men strong, toward a planned U. S. draft of
1,500 men from the county.=20
Aug 19 =09
Monroe County Board of Supervisors announces a bonus of $100 to
enlistees, bringing the total of enlistment bounty money up to $252.=20
Aug 20 =09
Horace Greeley, in the <italic>New York Tribune</italic>, demands that
Lincoln to free the slaves.
Aug 22 =09
The Monroe County Military Committee appoints their own Louis Ernst, a
local hardware store owner, as lieutenant-colonel.
Aug 26 =09
The first company of the Rochester Regiment, out of Brockport, goes
into camp at Camp Fitz John Porter, on the banks of the Genesee River
in Rochester.
Aug 29 =09
A company of mostly German immigrants arrives at Camp Fitz John
Porter.
Sep 1 =09
The enlargement of the Erie Canal, to carry 270-ton boats, is
completed. Cost - $31,000,000.
Sep 3 =09
All ten companies of Rochester's regiment have arrived in camp.
Sep 5
The Rochester regiment learns it's been designated the 140th NY
Regiment.
Sep 7 =09
Approximately 15,000 civilians make a Sunday visit to Camp Fitz John
Porter.
Sep 8 =09
The 140th NY Regiment elects Patrick Henry O'Rorke as its colonel.
Nov 11 =09
The city of Rochester bans many public amusements, including any form
of gambling, including shuffle board, card playing, billiards and
bowling, where money or liquor can be won. Even kite flying and
swimming in the canal are outlawed between 6 AM and 8 PM.=20
Nov 28 =09
Editor Horace Greeley dies in Pleasantville.
Dec 18 =09
The New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled
organizes the first orthopedic hospital in the U. S.
City
The former Customs House Building on Wall Street becomes the U. S.
Subtreasury Building. ** Construction begins on the South Cliff
Battery defenses on Staten Island. ** Republican John Opdyke is
inaugurated as mayor. ** A message is received from Captain
Semmes of the Confederate raider <italic>Alabama</italic> that he will
raid the city. His plans never come off. ** Quakers found the
=46riends Employment Society, to train young women to work in hospitals
and other jobs. ** The New York <italic>Tribune</italic> fires
managing editor Charles Anderson Dana, for his pro Civil War views. =20
** The first open-hearth steel furnace is installed in New York
City. ** The first children's clinic is established at the
University of the City of New York. ** Baseball pitcher Jim
Creighton, of the Brooklyn Excelsiors, ruptures his spleen while
playing, and dies in his home.
State
The Atlantic and Great Western Railroad (later the Western New York and
Pennsylvania branch of the Erie Railroad) reaches the Bucktooth
(Salamanca) area. ** Brigadier General John Henry Martindale
returns to Batavia to recuperate from typhoid fever contracted in the
Peninsula Campaign. He's given a large public reception. ** =20
Calvert Vaux's Ashcroft in Geneva is completed. ** Governor
Charles Evans Hughes is born in Glens Falls.
Rochester
The city relinquishes the part of Mt. Hope Cemetery it annexed last
year, dropping the total square milage back to 7.95.
<bold>1863</bold>
January
The greenback dollar averages 69 cents on the New York market.
=46eb 10 =09
P. T. Barnum midget star Charles S. Stratton (General Tom Thumb) is
married to midget Lavinia Warren in a very public New York City
ceremony.
Mar 21 =09
Elderly Union major general Edwin Vote Sumner dies in Syracuse.
May 1 =09
The New York Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled Children, opens in New
York City.
Jun 3 =09
New York City mayor, Democrat Fernando Wood, calls a meeting at Cooper
Union, to pray for peace.
Jun 26 =09
U. S. rear admiral Andrew H. Foote dies in New York City.
Jul 2
Patrick Henry O'Rorke is killed at Gettysburg while defending Little
Round Top.
Jul 4 =09
The Lake Ontario steamboat <italic>Ontario</italic> makes four
excursions out of Charlotte.
Jul 13 =09
=46our days of riots break out in New York City when 50,000 poor
demonstrate against the conscription laws. ** Smaller draft riots
break out in Boston, Massachusetts, Troy, New York, Portsmouth New
Hampshire, Wooster, Ohio and Rutland, Vermont.
Jul 15 =09
New York's draft riots begin to subside. A seven-year-old black boy is
clubbed to death.
Jul 16 =09
New York's remaining riots are put down by Federal troops on their way
from Gettysburg. Over 100 buildings have been burned, hundreds are dead
and over 70 blacks have been murdered and lynched.
Jul 20 =09
New York City merchants plan aid for black victims of the rioting.
Aug 3 =09
Governor Horatio Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend the draft in the
state.
Aug 11 =09
Lincoln writes to Governor Seymour, defending his draft policy.
Aug 19 =09
The draft is resumed in New York City.
September
Russian fleets arrive in New York and San Francisco for visits.
Oct 31 =09
New York senator William Gibbs McAdoo is born near Marietta, Georgia.
Dec 7 =09
Jerome A. Clark, Jr., 18, nephew of General John Henry Martindale,
enlists at Bergen.
City
Central Park is laid out. ** The collections of the American
Museum are sold. ** Honoring the terms of a relative's bequest,
builder Stuyvesant Rutherford changes his name to Rutherford
Stuyvesant. ** The South Cliff Battery defenses on State Island
are completed. ** Actor Edwin Booth becomes manager of the Winter
Garden Theater. ** William Marcy Tweed becomes Street Commissioner.
** Merchant C. Godfrey Gunther, running on the Independent
Democratic ticket, defeats Tammany Democrat Francis I. A. Boole and
Republican Orison Blunt, to become mayor. ** The New York Stock
and Exchange Board changes its name to the New York Stock Exchange. =20
** Mailmen form the first union for Federal workers. ** =20
Novelist Herman Melville moves here from Massachusetts. ** Black
songwriter Gussie Lord Davis is born. ** James A. Garfield and
former mayor Fernando Wood are elected to the U. S. House of
Representatives. ** Collis P. Huntington travels to New York
City to try and raise funds for the Central Pacific. ** Cornelius
Vanderbilt gains control of the New York and Harlem Railroad. ** =20
=46inancier and former congressman Russell Sage moves here from
Washington, D. C. ** Charles Francis Gounod's <italic>Faust
is</italic> produced in London, Dublin, and New York.
State
Horatio Seymour is elected governor for a second (non-consecutive)
term. ** Efforts are begun to enlarge Bucktooth (Salamanca) from
swampland. ** Mumford's Presbyterian "church of petrified wood",
so called because of marking in the stone, is built. ** A Batavia
msuic teacher by the name of Mrs. Bryan begins giving lessons in the
building once used as the Holland Lsnd Office. ** Naturalist John
Burroughs visits the Adirondacks. ** John Frederick Kinnsett
paints <italic>View near Cozzens' Hotel from West Point</italic>. =20
** Erie Canal tonnage reaches 118,609. ** Oliver Charlick is
named president of the Long Island Railroad (LIRR). ** Governor
William Sulzer is born in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Rochester
Patrick Barry's streetcar company establishes its second line, along
Mount Hope Avenue. ** Geologist Ferdinand Hayden is awarded an
honorary A. M. degree by the University of Rochester.
<bold>1864</bold>
January =09
Sixty-one Confederate dollars are now worth the equivalent of one U. S.
dollar in gold.
Jan 3 =09
Irish-born New York City archbishop John Joseph Hughes dies at the age
of 66. He will be succeeded by Albany bishop John McCloskey.
Jan 13 =09
Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster, 37, dies in New York City's Bellevue
Hospital, in poverty.
=46eb 5 =09
Jerome A. Clark, Jr., nephew of General John Henry Martindale, joins
the 8th New York Heavy Artillery at Fort Federal Hill in Maryland.
Apr 14 =09
A Sanitary Commission Fair in New York City raises $2,000,000 in three
weeks for the war effort. General McClellan's wife, insulted during a
straw vote pitting Grant and her husband, soon moves to Europe.
May 18 =09
The <italic>Journal of Commerce</italic> and the New York
<italic>World</italic> publish untrue reports of a new troop call-up by
Lincoln. The editors later claim to have been taken in by a fraud.
June =09
Art collector Thomas Jefferson Bryan moves his collection to the
New-York Historical Society. ** The French paddlewheeler
<italic>Washington</italic> arrives in New York City to begin service
between New York and the English Channel ports.
Jun 23
Jerome A. Clark, Jr. is wounded in the left shoulder, at Petersburg,
Virginia.
Jun 24 =09
Jerome A. Clark, Jr. dies of peritonitis and hepatitus.
Jul 17
Horace Greeley, with Lincoln's permission, meets at Niagara Falls with
alleged peace Confederate commissioners.
Aug 5 =09
The Wade-Davis Manifesto is published in the New York
<italic>Tribune</italic>, attacking Lincoln for his reconstruction
proposals.
September
Union general John Henry Martindale retires due to ill health, returns
to Rochester.
Oct 14 =09
New Orleans mayor Martin Behrman is born in New York City.
Nov 2 =09
Rumors begin reaching New York City, warning of arson attempts on the
city on Election Day.
Nov 25 =09
Confederate spies set 19 separate fires in New York City, including
many in hotels, in revenge for Union activities in the Shenandoah
Valley. Very little real damage is done.
City
=46rederick A. Barnard becomes president of Columbia University. ** =20
Recent immigrant Samuel Gompers joins the cigar maker's union. ** =20
Brooklyn Stars baseball pitcher William Cummings throws the first
recorded curve ball.
State
Churchville's Smith House hotel is built by Hanford Smith of New York
City. ** Seth Green starts a commercial fish hatchery in
Caledonia. ** The Seneca chief Copperhead dies in the Town of
Caneadea, claiming to be 120 years old. ** An oil company is
founded in the Town of Freedom. ** The S. Howes company is
founded in Silver Creek to manufacture grain cleaning machinery. **=20
Watkins peach grower William Wickham, Jr. dies, at the age of 80. =20
** Grapes are planted in the Portland area of Chautauqua County. =20
** John C. Morrissey opens a race track at Saratoga. ** =20
Batavia's Dean Richmond, vice-president of the New York Central System
railroads, is made president of the line. ** Cornelius Vanderbilt
takes over the Hudson River Railroad.
Elmira
A camp for Confederate prisoners is set up. ** The city is
incorporated.
Rochester
City Hospital opens.
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David Minor's chronological list has the Monitor built in "Greenport";
it was in Greenpoint -- then a section of the city of Brooklyn (not part of NYC
until 1898); it was built at the Continental Iron Works and sailed out of NY
Harbor. (Greenport was also a shipbuilding port but is on the north fork of
eastern Long Island.)
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On Sat, 17 May 1997, David Minor wrote:
> I have them all, thanks, and have been sending out individual copies to
> people when time has allowed. There's a good possibility I may have a home
> for them on someone else's server quite soon. Then you can pick up the
> 1760s.
Wonderful!
> Do you have the ones previous to those? Stay tuned, and thanks for the
> offer.
To the best of my knowledge, the 1760s are all that I am missing. I
believe your series started at 1640. And you are most welcome!
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I would be grateful for information on the life and/or work of David
Thomas Valentine (1801-69), editor of the Manuals of the Corporation of
the City of New York (1841-), aka "Valentine's Manual," as well as author
of the History of the City of New York (1853).
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Department of History
Brooklyn College CUNY
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Just a correction to this post. The Maid Of The Mist II was not taken
through the Whirlpool Rapids to escape creditors. It was part of the
condition of sale that the boat be taken down the St.Lawrence to tide
water. That meant taking the rapids trip. The Captain of the Maid,
incidentally, never went to sea again and died two years after the trip.
Peter D.A. Warwick
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Ted,
You wrote:
<< I would be grateful for information on the life and/or work of David
Thomas Valentine (1801-69), editor of the Manuals of the Corporation of
the City of New York (1841-), aka "Valentine's Manual," as well as author
of the History of the City of New York (1853).
Ted Burrows
Department of History
Brooklyn College CUNY>>
Have you by any chance tried the NY Genealogical & Biographical Society?
Valentine's Manual takes up a nice amount of shelf space over there. Don't
know if they have anything on DTV himself, but I find the NYGBS one of the
finest resources we've got and a great first shot.
All the best,
Leslie Corn
NYC Researcher
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Ted,
David Minor
See the brief article on Valentine in The ERncyclopedia of New York City,
if you haven't done so already.
>
>I would be grateful for information on the life and/or work of David
>Thomas Valentine (1801-69), editor of the Manuals of the Corporation of
>the City of New York (1841-), aka "Valentine's Manual," as well as author
>of the History of the City of New York (1853).
>
>Ted Burrows
>Department of History
>Brooklyn College CUNY
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
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Correction noted and made.
>Just a correction to this post. The Maid Of The Mist II was not taken
>through the Whirlpool Rapids to escape creditors. It was part of the
>condition of sale that the boat be taken down the St.Lawrence to tide
>water. That meant taking the rapids trip. The Captain of the Maid,
>incidentally, never went to sea again and died two years after the trip.
>
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Each year the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, NY celebrates the legacy of
this famous 19th century hero on Memorial Day Weekend. Tonight's dinner
is at 7:30 PM, and tickets may still be available. Tomorrow (Saturday)
morning there will be a service at Tubman's grave at 10 AM, and a
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Information about events at the Harriet Tubman Home, as well as her
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A question has arisen about the attribution of this term to an isolated
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Additional content and links have been added to the NY History Net
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JUNE: Conference on NYS History
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NY Government Sites:
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Here is some material for you relative to the Seminary. Please let me know
what you find. I am interested in one of the graduates of the Seminary, Phebe
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"In 1848, Williams C. Rogers moved a store building from Beachvill to the
present grounds of the Academy, and established therein a select high school
with one department. This was a priveate enterprise, and was supported by
tuition fees, under the supervision of Mr. Rogers. Rev.J Strough was thr
first principal. The present fine building was completed in 1852, by
subscriptions and contributions, and January 28, 1853 the Rogersville Union
Seminary was chartered by the Regents of the State University, who
appointed........" This is from, "History of Steuben County, New York," by
Prof. W.W. Clayton, 1879. I can scan the pages if you wish and send you
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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Are list members and other readers
sharp or what?
Barbara Fisher writes, "Horace Greely...he dies on Nov 28...in 1862 and
is reincarnated...on July 17, 1864 at Niagara Falls!!!! Did I miss
something?"
Not much, but I did. I bumped poor old Horace off a decade too early.
He died November 28, 1872.
As to Natalie Naylor's post on the Monitor, she's obviously correct,
the ship was built in Brooklyn.
Now, on to...
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1865
January =09
The U. S. greenback dollar is now worth only 46=A2 in gold in the New
York markets.
Jan 1 =09
Theologian-historian Philip Schaff dies in New York City at the age of
74.
Mar 17 =09
Rochester's Genesee River floods, washing away part of the Erie Canal's
banks and flooding downtown's Crossroads area.
Apr 1 =09
Naturalist Louis Agassiz sails from New York City on an expedition to
South America.
Apr 24 =09
The assassinated Abraham Lincoln lies in state in New York's City
Hall.
Apr 25 =09
Lincoln's funeral procession leaves New York City, heads for Albany.
Apr 27 =09
Lincoln's funeral train makes stops at Rochester and Buffalo.
Jun 5 =09
Geneva diarist Josephine Matilda deZeng, 42, dies.
July =09
Admiral Porter admits to the New York <italic>Herald</italic> that the
U. S. Merchant Marine has all but disappeared.
Aug 14 =09
Tony Pastor's Opera House<bold> </bold>(variety hall) opens in New York
City.
Nov 1 =09
New York State robber Wash Loomis (of the Loomis Gang) is beaten to
death by vigilantes.
Nov 18 =09
Mark Twain has his first story, <italic>The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County</italic>, published in the <italic>New York Sunday
Press</italic>.=20
City
Benjamin Altman opens a dry goods store. ** The German-American
School buildings on East 52nd Street is built. ** A 4,000-man
volunteer fire fighting force is replaced with steam pumpers and 583
paid firemen. ** Tammany Democrat John T. Hoffman defeats
Republican Marshall O. Roberts, Mozart Democrat John Hecker and
Independent Democrat and incumbent C. Godfrey Gunther, to become mayor,
serving 1866-1868. ** German lawyer Henry Morganthau emigrates
here. ** Edwin Lawrence Godkin begins publishing <italic>The
Nation</italic>. ** Mary Mapes Dodge's <italic>Hans
Brinker</italic> is published. ** The <italic>Complete
Works</italic> of John Joseph Hughes, first Roman Catholic archbishop
of New York, is published. ** Irish playwright Dion Boucicault's
<italic>Rip Van Winkle</italic>. premieres here.
State
Cornell University is founded at Ithaca by Ezra Cornell and Andrew
White. ** The federal government spends $25,000 to extend the
Lake Ontario piers at Charlotte. ** Judge Benjamin Chamberlain
donates $50,000 to build a dormitory for the Randolph Academy and
=46emale Seminary, on the condition the name be changed to the
Chamberlain Institute and that the trustees be chosen from the Erie
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ** Two petroleum
test holes are drilled in the Town of Freedom, providing a short-lived
source of oil. ** Job Moses brings in a producing commercial oil
well southwest of Olean, the first such well in the state. ** Lima
journalist Henry Jarvis Raymond is elected to Congress. ** A
combination herb storage building and milk house is built at the Shaker
community in Watervliet. ** James Wright paints horse breeder
William Rysdyk and his stallion Hambletonian. Lithographers Currier and
Ives, and H. C. Eno will ctreate prints from the painting.
Rochester
Osmer Hulbert opens his Oyster Bay restaurant at Front and Main. **=20
The Rochester and Brighton Railway Company builds a horse-car line
out Monroe Avenue to Goodman Street. ** Citizens begin agitating
for a railroad line to the Pennsylvania coal fields.
1866
Jan 2 =09
Writing for a New York City magazine, Elizabeth Cady Stanton alerts
women that the language of the propsed Fourteenth Amendment, refering
to male inhabitants and male citizens, threatens to disenfranchise
women.
Jan 29 =09
Eliphalet Nott, president of Schenectady's Union College dies at the
age of 92.
=46ebruary=09
David M. Smith, a telegrapher in the Ellenville D & H Canal office,
fails to show up for work. He's never seen alive again.
Mar 7 =09
After a Fenian mass meeting in New York City threatens an invasion of
Canada, 10,000 militiamen are placed under arms.
Apr 16 =09
New York passes the State Normal School Act<bold>.
</bold>May 8 =09
Physician-educator Charles Dettie Aaron is born in Lockport.
May 10 =09
The Woman's Rights Society, meeting in New YorkCity, changes its name
to the American Equal Rights Association, with Lecretia Mott as its
president.
May 29 =09
U. S. general Winfield Scott dies at West Point at the age of 69. =20
May 31 =09
800 Fenians under John O'Neill cross into Canada at Buffalo. They take
=46ort Erie, cut telegraph lines as well as the railroad, and advance.
Jun 2 =09
O'Neill's Fenians defeat two Canadian armies, the first under Alfred
Booker at Ridgeway, Ontario, the second under John Stoughton Dennis,
back at Fort Erie. Ten Canadians are killed and 44 wounded in the two
engagements. =20
Jun 3 =09
The Fenians return to New York State, escaping the main Canadian force
under George Peacocke.
Jul 4 =09
=46inancier John Jay, speaking in Paris, promises to build a National
Institution and Gallery of Art in the U. S. It will be founded as New
York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870.
Aug 27 =09
New York Central System president Dean Richmond dies at the home of
Samuel Tlden on New York City's Gramercy Park.
Sep 12 =09
<italic>The Black Crook</italic>, the first appearence in North America
of the Europe import, burlesque, opens at Niblo's Garden in New York
City. Others will soon open in the next few weeks; some will be shut
down for indecency.
Sep 25 =09
Jerome Racetrack opens on Long Island.
Dec 3 =09
Brockport and four other New York State towns are chosen as Normal
Schools sites.
City
Wood's Minstrels disbands. ** The city's board of health is
created. ** Cholera spreads to the U. S. from Russia and Europe,
killing 50,000 this year, including 2,000 here.
State
Benjamin Titus Roberts arrives in North Chili, where he founds Chili
Seminary (Roberts Wesleyan College) - the first Free Methodist
educational institution in the U. S. He buys the local tavern and
closes it. ** Bergen is damaged by a fire. ** Architect
Claude Fayette Bragdon is born in Port Ontario. ** Promoter
William West Durant begins construction on his first Adirondacks Great
Camp, Camp Pine Knot. ** Allegany County gets its first horse car
line, between Fredonia and Dnkirk. ** William McKinstry, editor
of the Fredonia <italic>Censor</italic>, begins a movement to get one
of the state's four normal schools for the town. ** Reverend
Doctor Samuel D. Burchard becomes chancellor of Le Roy's Ingham
University. ** Stanford Gifford paints <italic>Twilight on Hunter
Mountain</italic>. ** Samuel Colman paints <italic>Storm King on
the Hudson</italic>. ** The U. S. House of Representatives
censures Democrat John W. Chanier for insult to the House. ** =20
Samuel J. Tilden becomes chairman of the State Democratic Committee.
Rochester
James Vick buys the driving park on the city's east side t operate a
seed farm on the property, which will one day become Vick Park A and
Vick Park B. ** The Vacuum Oil Company is founded.** The Henry
R. Brewster home on Spring Street is conveyed to the William Burke
family.
1867
Mar 21 =09
Brockport Collegiate Institute disbands and the Brockport Normal and
Training School is created.
Apr 16 =09
The New York State legislature establishes a free public school system
for the state.
Apr 7 =09
Brockport Normal and Training School opens.
Apr 30 =09
Incorporation papers are signed for the village of Fairport.
May 9 =09
Lucretia Mott convenes a two-day convention of the Equal Rights
Association in New York City.
May 14 =09
New York State enacts the first tenement house law.
Jul 25 =09
A New York State constitutional convention continues to deny the vote
to women.
Aug 13 =09
Augustin Daly's melodrama <italic>Under the Gaslight</italic> opens in
New York City.=20
October =09
Stage line owner John Butterfield suffers a stroke in New York City.
Oct 3 =09
Sewing machine inventor Elias Howe, 48, dies in Brooklyn.
Dec 2 =09
English novelist Charles Dickens gives his first reading in New York
City, drawing huge crowds.
Dec 19 =09
A train plunges off a bridge and burns at Angola, killing 44 people.
City
The Ninth Avenue elevated railroad line goes into service, the first in
the U. S. ** A pedestrian overpass is built over Broadway, south
of City Hall. ** Pomeroy Tucker's <italic>Origin, Rise and
Progress of Mormonism</italic> is published. ** Paris, France,
hosts a second International Exposition. The new lenses by Augustin
Jean Fresnel are awarded a prize. A light tower containing the lenses
is purchased by the U. S. for $30,000., as a beacon for the Atlantic
Highlands of the Navesink, overlooking NewYork City harbor.
State
The State University of New York at Buffalo is founded. ** =20
Temperance leader Frances Willard brings her ailing father back to
Churchville, where he dies. ** Binghamton is incorporated as a
city. ** Montour fruit farmer George C. Wickham raises a $2600
crop, the largest income ever received by a single person for a fruit
crop. ** Canandaigua brewers J. and A. McKechnie launch the
110-foot long sidewheeler <italic>Canandaigua</italic> on Lake
Canandaigua as a passenger-freight service. Naples brothers Henry and
Sales Standish launch the 120-foot steamer <italic>Ontario</italic> in
competition. ** The New York State School for the Blind is
established, in Batavia. ** The U. S. House of Representatives
censures New York Independent John W. Hunter for insult to a
representative.
1868
Mar 3 =09
P. T. Barnum's second museum burns in New York City.
Apr 20 =09
Novelist Charles Dickens gives his farewell New York City reading at
Steinway Hall.
June =09
Cigar maker George Hull selects Iowa gypsum for the statue of a giant
and ships it to Chicago.
July =09
John Sturla becomes the first child born to Italian parents in
Rochester.
Jul 4 =09
The Democratic National Convention opens, in New York City.
Jul 9 =09
The Democrats close their convention after nominating Horatio Seymour
of New York, with Missouri's Francis P. Blair, Jr. as his running
mate.
Oct 7 =09
Cornell University is founded, in Ithaca. Andrew D. White is its first
president.
Oct 22 =09
The Corning Flint Glass Works begins operations in Corning.
November=09
Hull's stone giant is transported by rail and wagon to Cardiff, New
York, and buried on Stub Newell's farm.
December=09
Western explorer Ferdinand Hayden, returned to New York City, writes up
his explorations for 1868, including glowingly optimistic reports of
the mineral and agricultural potential for the Colorado area.
City
The world's first elevated railroad goes into service in downtown
Manhattan. ** T. Coman serves as acting mayor. ** Former
District Attorney Abraham Oakey Hall, a Democrat, defeats Republican
=46rederick A. Conking for the office of mayor's, serving 1869-1872. =20
** Henry De Marsan's monthly two-penny New York City newspaper
<italic>Henry De Marsan's Comic and Sentimental Singers' Journal
</italic>begins publication.
State
Wells College is founded. ** William West Durant's Adirondacks
Camp Pine Knot, is completed. ** Harmony Manufacturing Mill No.
3 (Mastodon) is built at Cohoes. ** The Genesee County Poor
House in Bethany conatins 170 paupers. The average weekly expense is
$1.32 per inmate. ** The New York State for the Blind opens in
Batavia. ** Industrialist Frank J. Tone is born in Bergen. **=20
The first steamboat to use the canal, the <italic>Edward
Backus</italic>, arrives in Rochester, carrying a load of coal from
Ithaca. ** The U. S. House of Representatives censures Democrats
E. D. Holbrook of Idaho and Fernando Wood of New York, for offensive
utterance. ** Lake Ontario's American Line of steamboats sells
out to Canada's Royal Mail Line.
Rochester
Domenico Sturla becomes the city's first Italian immigrant to apply for
citizenship papers. ** The Enos Stone building is destroyed by
fire and replaced by Cook's Opera House. ** High Street is
renamed Caledonia Street.</fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor
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Two citations referring to Jackson Whites:
Bedell, Cornelia F. Now and then and long ago in Rockland
County, New York. New City, NY: Historical Society of
Rockland County, 1968, pp. 167-169.
Cohen, David Steven. The Ramapo Mountain People. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974. Numerous pages.
I haven't been following the thread so excuse the following
definition but the term is a derogatory one, of controversial
origin, to describe certain people, some say mixed race, in
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I am researching World War II Prisoner of War camps and Displaced
Persons camps that were located in Wayne Co., NY. Anyone know where I
might find any information?
Annette Harris
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I am very interested in any web sites about the Elmira, NY Civil War Prison
Camp, sometimes known as Helmira. If you know of any could you please pass
them on to me at: [log in to unmask] ?
I am interested in any other web sites that deal specifically with Elmira
history.
Thank you for your assistance.
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See George T. Mazuzan and Nancy Walker, "Restricted Areas: German
Prisoner-of-War Camps in Western New York, 1944-1946," New York
History, 59:1 (Jan. 1978), 54-72. The authors' main source of information
was Record Group 389 (Records of the Office of the Provost Marshall
General), National Archives.
Jim Folts
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Sorry. Not Wayne County. But Oswego
had such camps and Barb Dix, the County
Historian there, should be helpful. Reach
her via the County Clerk's Office,
315/349-8385.
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Bob Arnold is right, the camp was in Oswego.
For an unofficial (I can't vouch for his historical
accuracy) account of Fort Oswego's history,
including its role as a WWII camp, see the on-line
account of a tour across the U.S., titled "Los
Alamos to Boston (September 1994)" by Philip
Greenspun, at
http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/philg/summer94/los-alamos-to-boston.html
His visit to Oswego is dated September 30, and is
most of the way into the document.
Regarding sources on Fort Oswego's WWII camp
days, Greenspun writes, "Several excellent books
have been written on the subject: Haven: The
Unknown Story of 1000 WWII Refugees by Dr.
Ruth Gruber, the former liaison between the
refugees and the government, Token Refuge, by
Sharon Lowenstein, and Don't Fence Me In, by
Joseph Smart, the former commander of the
camp."
Greenspun provides links to information on
obtaining the Gruber and Smart books, which he
says are in print.
The NYS Museum in Albany has an exhibit on the
Holocaust, which includes information on the
camp at Fort Oswego, photographs, news articles,
and a section of the original chain link fence.
David W. Palmquist
NYS Museum
3096 Cultural Education Center
Albany NY 12230
518-473-3131
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I am researching World War II Prisoner of War
camps and Displaced
Persons camps that were located in Wayne Co.,
NY. Anyone know where I
might find any information?
Annette Harris
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The most famous WW II internment camp in Oswego County was not for German
prisoners of war but for Jewish Refugees. From 1944-46 approximately 1000
refugees from Europe were "housed" at Fort Ontario in the city of Oswego,
NY. Although these refugees were "rescued" and retrieved from liberated
Europe at the expense of the American government, the "Safe Haven"
operation also came into a lot of criticism for the fact that it was
really only a token contribution towards the problem of caring for the
displaced and persecuted of WW II. Intended to act as a model, the Oswego
experiment was in fact the *only* camp for refugees on American soil. The
refugees also faced considerable hostility from the State Dept. who
battled against the admission of any Jews into the United States. While
in the United States, the refugees faced restrictions on their rights and
freedom of movement which many of them resented. Slowly, the barriers
between the refugees and the community, and the refugees and the
government melted, and the story did finally conclude happily for the
refugees, most of whom stayed after all and became American citizens.
A number of books, government documents, newspaper and magazine articles
exist describing this episode in Oswego's history and a bibliography on
the topic can be had through me at Penfield Library (see sig.file below).
Safe Haven Inc., a registered charitable organization dedicated to telling
the story of the refugees has a collection of camp records, memoirs,
articles, photos, interviews, etc. which they currently house in the
Special Collections storage area (unprocessed) of Penfield Library, SUNY
at Oswego. Safe Haven Inc. has opened a small display in the city which
operates one day a week in the summer, and they have a Web page at:
http://www.syracuse.com/safehaven/
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Thank you for your message, however, I am interested in the sites in
Wayne County. There were two POW camps and one DP camp that I know of
within the County. I am familiar with the Oswego site having lived in
Oswego for several years.
Annette H.
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