Anna Mae Maday wrote:
It is good to see you on the Internet. It has been about 10 years since you helped
me and sent that very nice card showing the entrance to the Hoyt Library.
>
> **********************************************************************
> Note: Saginaw has had Hoyt street, Hoyt School, and several subdivisions
> with the name "Hoyt" attached, such as Hoyt's Northern Addition.
>
> When Jesse Hoyt died in 1882 he left a wife and one daughter which
> they said was an invalid. The daughter contested the will, and that
> story is an interesting one as well. We have here at the Hoyt Library
> several volumes of the "Hoyt Will Case" from New York's Surrogate Court.
> Irene Hoyt visited East Saginaw, and said that if she won her case
> she would donate even more money to the library. She claimed her
> uncles were cheating her out of her inheritance, had put her in a
> sanitarium, and wouldn't let her attend her father's funeral.
> >From newspaper accounts from the New York Times, they made it sound
> as if she had a drinking problem.I think I remember hearing of the "Jenks Case" similar to this.
> A cable station (I forget which) is doing a documentary on Alexis
> DeTocqueville, and visiting the sites he visited to see what has
> happened to them, so of course they'll be coming to Saginaw.
It may be C-Span; I think they'll soon have a DeTocqueville special.
thanks for the story,
Arthur Hoyt Prutzman
Dallas, Pa.
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<bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1833</fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><=
param>Geneva</param>
Jan 1 =09
The first issue of <italic>Knickerbocker Magazine</italic> is
published, in New York City.
=46eb 5 =09
The state confirms a boundary surveyed by its agents Benjamin F.
Butler, Peter A. Gray and Henry Seymour, and New Jersey agents Lucius
K. C. Elmer, Theodore Freylinghuysen, and James Parker, as the states'
common border.
=46eb 26 =09
New Jersey confirms its new boundary with New York.
May =09
Journeymen carpenters go on strike in New York City, win a wage
increase after they're out for a month.
Jul 1 =09
The Connecticut legislature approves the merger of the New York and
Stonington Railroad with the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad,
to be called by the latter name.
Aug 1 =09
Sailors' Snug Harbor opens, on Staten Island. ** A strike of
journeymen shoemakers at Geneva is settled, with the shoemakers gaining
wage increases.
Aug 14 =09
Stock subscriptions of $500,000 are solicited for New York State's
Rochester & Tonawanda Railroad Company. ** The General Trades
Union (GTU) organizes in New York City, linking all city trade
societies.
Sep 3 =09
The New York <italic>Sun</italic>, the first penny newspaper, begins
publication, under editor Benjamin Henry Day.
Nov 15 =09
New York State lawyer Benjamin Franklin Butler becomes U. S. Attorney
General.
City
The all-black Phoenix Society institutes a library and a job bank. =20
** Construction of fortifications is begun on Throgg's Neck
overlooking Long Island Sound. ** Gideon Lee is elected mayor. =20
** Irish actor Tyrone Power (great grandfather of the film actor)
makes his New York City debut. ** The first clipper ship, the
<italic>Ann McKim, </italic>is built in Baltimore, to carry immigrants
from New York to San Francisco.
State
Warren Huff of Qu=E9bec, Canada, settles the village of Alma.** The
first Young Men's Association is founded in Albany. ** An
extension to Buffalo's South Pier is made and the "Chinaman" Lighthouse
is erected on it. ** The Chemung Canal is completed. ** =20
Mary Jemison, White Woman of the Genesee, dies, in her early ninties. =20
** Geneva lawyer Charles Butler visits the Toledo and Chicago
areas, makes real estate investments there. ** The State Canal
Commission hires John B. Jervis to supervise the construction of the
Chenango Canal.
Rochester
Church sextons are fined if they do not ring church bells during fires.
** The Rochester Canal & Railway Company blocks a scheme to build
a rival rail line between Rochester and Charlotte, along the west side
of the Genesee River.
<bold>1834</bold>
January<bold> </bold>=09
=46ire destroys business buildings on Rochester's Main Street Bridge.
April =09
Davy Crockett begins a political tour of Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York City, and Boston.
Apr 18 =09
The Brooklyn & Jamaica Railroad is completed. The Long Island Railroad
(LIRR) buys it and begins laying rails to the east of the line.
May 6 =09
James Gordon Bennett begins publishing the New York
<italic>Tribune</italic>.=20
May 12 =09
The new building of the Albany Female Academy is completed.
June =09
James Fenimore Cooper's <italic>A Letter to His Countrymen</italic> is
published, urging Americans to not defer to foreign opinion. He
revisits Cooperstown after a seventeen-year absence.
Jun 4 =09
Missionary Dr. Peter Parker sails for China aboard New York merchant
David Olyphant's <italic>Morrison</italic>.
Jun 28 =09
An engine explodes on New York City's Harlem Railroad shortly after its
first run. ** Congress approves the new New Jersey-New York State
border.
Jul 1 =09
New York City firemen Eugene Underhill and Frederick A. Ward are killed
when a wall falls on them while they're fighting a fire at Haydock's
drug store on Pearl Street.
Jul 4 =09
New York City's annual Convention of People of Color sets July 4th as a
day of prayer and contemplation of the condition of blacks. ** =20
Rioters break up a meeting of the Chatham Street Chapel in New York
City because of blacks in the audience.
Jul 12 =09
Anti-abolition riots in New York City end after eight days.
October =09
James Fenimore Cooper purchases the family seat at Otsego.
December=09
James Fenimore Cooper begins writing a series of articles on the U. S.
and Europe for the New York <italic>Evening Post</italic>, under the
pen name A. B. C.
City
Steam railroad carriages are introduced on the new New York and Harlem
Railroad, but only above 14th Street. ** Author James Fenimore
Cooper moves his family to a townhouse at 4 St. Marks Place. ** =20
New Jersey agrees to make its Bedloe's Island part of New York. ** =20
Jacksonian Democrat Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence becomes the city's
first directly elected mayor, defeating Whig writer Gulian C.
Verplanck. ** Abolitionist Rev. Samuel Hansen Cox, pastor of the
=46irst Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, has his church and home
ransacked because of his views. ** The National Trades Union is
organized by the General Trades Union. ** An English book
released, setting the rules for the game of Rounders, and the same
rules for Base Ball and Goal Ball.
State
Brooklyn is incorporated as a city. ** Binghamton is incorporated
as a village. ** The federal government complete two piers at the
mouth of the Genesee River, extending 2,876 feet into Lake Ontario,
beyond the sand bars. ** Carpenter-sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer
moves to Dunkirk. ** Albany's Lancasterian School is superseded
by the state public school system. ** A survey is authorized for
a Genesee Valley Canal. ** The village of Le Roy is
incorporated. ** The Cohoes Company completes most of its
hydraulic canals. ** Geneva lawyer Charles Butler moves to New
York City. ** Young William Nowlin's family arrives in the
Detroit area, having traveled from New York's Putnam County.
Buffalo - Weekly steamboat service between Buffalo and Chicago is
inaugurated. ** 80,000 people leave Buffalo, headed for the
West.
Rochester
The city is incorporated . Carthage landing is annexed. The new city
covers 7.148 square miles. ** The Habitual Drinkers List, a
compulsory register of local drunks, is published.
Syracuse
The New York State Upstate Medical Center is built. ** Village
trustees offer Captain Oliver Teall a 35 year franchise to supply
water. He again does nothing.
<bold>1835</bold>
Mar 12 =09
Albany's Young Men's Assocxiation is incorporated.
May 6 =09
James Gordon Bennett founds the New York <italic>Herald</italic>, a
penny newspaper.
May 12 =09
A mob of 300 anti-Rent farmers descends on Batavia's Holland Land
Office. The sheriff and 120 men arrest the leaders.
Aug 21 =09
Sir John Herschel's moon hoax begins, published in the New York
<italic>Sun</italic>.=20
Oct 21 =09
An Abolitionist meeting in Utica is involuntarily dispersed.
Oct 29 =09
During a Tammany Hall meeting in New York City the lights are put out
by opponents of the radical Jacksonian Democrats faction, which
responds by lighting candles and locofoco friction matches, earning the
sobriquet locofocos.
Dec 16 =09
The Anti-Masonic Party meets at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and nominates
William Henry Harrison for President of the U. S. and New York's
=46rancis Granger for Vice-President. ** A fire breaks out in
lower Manhattan in the vicinity of Hanover Square, in sub-zero
weather, when fire hydrants are frozen.
Dec 18 =09
The New York City fire is finally put out. 654 buildings are destroyed;
the damage is estimated at $20,000,000.
City
The city's jurisdiction over underwater lands is extended. ** =20
Sculptor Thomas Crawford moves to Rome to study under Danish sculptor
Bertel Thorvaldson.
State
Brockport's Baptist Institute opens. ** One of the five
steamboats regularly stopping at the Genesee River skips its visits. =20
** Work begins at Piermont on a railroad to link the Hudson River to
Dunkirk, passing through the Southern Tier. ** Part of the town
of West Almond is split off from Alfred. ** Frederick C. Mills,
newly-elected chief engineer of the Genesee Valley Canal, presents a
report based on last year's survey. ** Domestic School founders
William and Caroline Kirkland leave Geneva for Detroit, Michigan, where
William becomes head of the Detroit Female Seminary. ** Ship's
carpenter Francis C. Pollay is born in Pulteney. ** Civil War
officer John Henry Martindale graduates from West Point. ** John
Johnston of Geneva introduces agricultural tile drainage to the U. S. =20
** Farmer Peter Hill comes to Wayne County. His son Edmund, a
future lawyer, is born in Junius, Seneca County. ** Erastus
Corning, Thomas W. Olcott and other investors found the Corning
Company, to develop mineral deposits at Blossburg. ** High
anti-land office feeling breaks out in Chautauqua County's Mayville,
and local farmers burn the office there. ** Receiving a request
for an autograph by England's Princess Victoria, JamesFenimore Cooper
sends her a manuscript of <italic>The Minikins</italic>. He and his
family sped the summer in Cooperstown.
Rochester
Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne visits the city. ** A winter flood
damages the Main Street Bridge and buildings on it. ** The
Rochester common council changes Court Street to Monroe Avenue, named
for the former U. S. president.
<bold>1836</bold>
=46ebruary=09
New York City tailors go out on strike. When the National Guard is
called out and the strikers are denied the right to oraginize, 30,000
protestors gather and call for a new political party.
April =09
New York's Auburn & Rochester Railroad is chartered, to link
Canandaigua and Geneva to Rochester.=20
Apr 10 =09
Richard P. Robinson murders famed New York prostitute Helen Jewett.
Because of her profession few complain when a bribed jury acquits
Robinson and he goes free.
Apr 15 =09
The New York State legislature passes an act calling for a geological
survey of the state, to be divided among four teams.
Apr 20 =09
A Canadian company is incorporated to build a suspension bridge over
the Niagara River.
May<bold> =09
</bold>James Fenimore Cooper and his family move from New York City to
Cooperstown.
May 31 =09
New York City's Astor Hotel, built by John Jacob Astor, opens its
doors.
Jun 7 =09
New York City businessman and art patron Luman Reed dies.
August =09
Batavia newspaper owner Frederick Follett sell his <italic>Spirit of
the Times</italic>, to go to fight along with the Texas
revolutionaries. He will not arrive in time.
Aug 1 =09
James Dickson, Montezuma II, Liberator of All Indians, departs with his
army from Buffalo to liberate New Mexico and California.
Aug 13 =09
A climbing party including chemistry professor Ebenezer Emmons and
geologist William G. Redfield, attempting to scale the yet-unnamed
Mount Marcy, in the Adirondacks, leaves Cedar Point. =20
Aug 14 =09
The Emmons-Redfield party arrives at the Clear Pond home of sawmill
innovator Israel Johnson.
Aug 15 =09
The climbing party, lead by Adirondack guides John Cheney and Harvey
Holt, leaves Clear Pond and heads for Mount Marcy.
Aug 17 =09
Bad weather forces the climbers to abandon the Marcy climb.
Aug 25 =09
Author-poet Francis Bret Harte is born in Albany.
Sep 14 =09
=46ormer U. S. Vice-President Aaron Burr 80, dies in Port Richmond.
City
The Merchants' Exchange is built. ** Winter snows pile up in some
streets to a height of six or seven feet. ** A company is formed
to build a canal at 106th Street in northern Manhattan for a marble
quarry, but the project's abandoned when the stone turns out to be
inferior. ** Nathaniel Currier founds a lithography business. =20
** The New York Women's Ant-Slavery Society bars blacks from
membership. =20
State
The railroad reaches the western part of the state. ** The
<italic>Allegany</italic> <italic>Republican and Internal Improvement
Advocate </italic>becomes the <italic>Angelica Republican and Allegany
Whig</italic>, but is soon bought by William Pitt Angell, who changes
it to the <italic>Angelica Reporter and Allegany Republican</italic>.
Samuel C. Wilson will later run it as the <italic>Angelica
Reporter</italic> ** Orville L. Holley, editor of the
<italic>Western Repository and Genesee Advertiser</italic> absorbs the
Canandaigua <italic>Freeman</italic>. ** Cohoes' Harmony
Manufacturing begins production. ** Farmers in the western part of
the state riot against the policies of the Holland Land Company. **=20
A Greek Revival mansion is built at 600 South Main Street in Geneva.=20
** The first grain shipment from Chicago reaches Buffalo to be
shipped down the Erie Canal. ** John Henry Martindale resigns
his Army commission when he is unable to get into the Corps of
Engineers. He will become a lawyer in Genesee County. ** Little
Yankee Hill's song <italic>Corn Cobs Twist Your Hair</italic> is
published. ** New Jersey's Morris Canal is extended to the Hudson
River.
Rochester
=46ront Street is moved to the west. ** Only three of the=20
steamboats regularly stopping at the Genesee River visit this season.
398 ships are using the Port of Rochester facilities. Imports are
valued at $235,701, according to a brochure issued by the
recently-opened Tonawanda Railroad. ** Mount Hope Cemetery is
founded. ** Dr. Augustus H. Strong is born. ** The city
annexes the William Pitkin farm, increasing its own size to 7.321
square miles.</fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor
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The Middle Atlantic Folklife Association (MAFA) announces its annual meeting,
to be held in Ithaca, NY on May 2-3, 1997. This year's meeting focuses on The
Finnish Sauna: Folklore and Vernacular Architecture and includes a reception,
panel presentations, a tour, and a dinner/dance.
The event begins Friday evening with a reception in the historic Clinton
House in downtown Ithaca. Saturday morning panels will include professionals
and community scholars representing a diversity of perspectives including
folklore, history, historic preservation, construction and personal
experience. The first panel, "The Built Environment: Folklore and Vernacular
Architecture" discusses general considerations, while the second panel
"Perspectives on Finnish Culture and History" will take a closer look at the
Finnish experience in the Southern Finger Lakes region of New York State. A
guided tour on Saturday afternoon will take participants through the rich
Finnish cultural landscape and built environment in the area and will stop at
several saunas, a typical Finnish-American farmstead, the first
Finnish-American church and cemetery in the area, and other sites important
to the Finns. We'll end with an evening of Finnish food, music and dancing at
the Newfield Fire Hall, site of the annual local Finn Fest. The MAFA annual
business meeting will be held during the lunch break on Saturday.
MAFA is a not-for-profit professional organization of folklorists, educators,
artists and community leaders interested in folklife research and
presentation. The organization serves the states of Delaware, Maryland, New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of
Columbia.
Registration for the conference is $50 and includes all events as well as a
box-lunch on Saturday. This year's meeting is being co-sponsored by the New
York Folklore Society and the Roberson Museum and Science Center. The Finger
Lakes Finns are helping organize the dinner/dance. More information may be
obtained by calling the NYFS office at (607) 273-9137 or emailing
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New York Folklore Society
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The Lake Ontario Archives Conference will hold its annual meeting on June
13-14, at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
An interesting program is planned, including sessions on The Role of the
State Archives in Preserving the Historical Record; the New York State
Historical Records Advisory Board Strategic Planning Project; the use of
interns, volunteers and student workers in archives; folklore and
archives; archives and digital photography; Encoded Archival Description
[EAD] and SGML [Standard Generalized Markup Language]; a Documentation
Research Roundtable; and poster sessions on topics ranging from shared
research facilities, to Iroquois records, to publishing for the small
institution.
The annual banquet will be held at the Lily Dale Assembly, a Spiritualist
community founded in 1879, and features a talk on the history of Lily
Dale.
All are invited to attend. Programs are being mailed soon. If you want to
be sure to receive a program, write to Jack T. Ericson, LOAC, c/o Special
Collections, Reed Library, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063, or send
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Christopher Densmore
University Archives
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Box 602200
Buffalo, New York 14260-2200
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TUBMAN
I'm looking for Harriet Tubman web resources for a website being
developed for the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn. Etexts, images, good
links, and contact are all needed. I'd appreciate any help on this.
TEMPERANCE
Also, April is Alcohol(ism) Awareness Month, so I'd like to Feature a
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I am looking for background information on the roadside historical
markers in New York State, and eventually for the documentation for a
particular sign. I have not seen the sign myself; my brother tells me a
sign is there and has promised to go by and get all of the information
from it. It is in front of a house which our family legend has it was a
station on the Underground Railroad.
Questions:
1) What agency or agencies erect such signs? I've visited one website
that claims to list all such signs but it does not.
2) Do any of these agencies have websites? If not, where would I find
the addresses to write to them?
3) Is there a general NYS government site?
Thank you for your assistance.
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The historic marker program was begun in 1926, and state funding ran
until 1939. Thereafter private funds were used to erect markers, often
with minimal quality control by the State, and sometimes without any
recording of text and location.
However, there is an inventory of the approximately 3,000 signs put up
with state funding. While we try to update that, we do provide
information on existing, or past, state markers, and we have the original
application files as well. These files often give clues as to the origin of
the text and the reason why the sign was placed as it was.
If you send me the particular marker reference [County, Town and text] I
will try and find what I can in the files.
The program remains part of the services of the State Education
Department, and is managed by the Historical Survey of the NYS
Museum. While the Education Department has a website, the State
Museum does not yet have one running. However, access to information
may be had from me, Philip Lord, Jr., Acting Chief, Historical Survey,
Room CEC 3097, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12230, or at
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Bill Evans:
Please post the following update for the conference.
CONFERENCE ON NEW YORK STATE HISTORY
The complete 1997 program for the June 5-7 meeting in Saratoga Springs
is now available on the "NY History Net" website at
http://www.nyhistory.com/histconf.htm.
Printed flyers will be available next week.
Contact:
Stefan Bielinski
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(518) 474-6917.
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Phil Lord wrote:
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> However, there is an inventory of the approximately 3,000 signs put up
> with state funding.
Is this listing on the web? Can we have a copy?
Bob Shear
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My favorite is in Rexford, Town of Clifton Park, Saratoga County, along River
Road, The sign as you drive eastbound states:
Mohawk Riv-
er on Right
I love it for the hyphenation and for noting the obvious -- there is no body
of water on the left.
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So far the featured site for April (Alcoholism Awareness Month) at
http://NYHistory.com/featured.htm is the Alcohol and Temperance History
Group at Ohio State University. Suggestions fore a NYS-oriented
Temperance site would be welcome.
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> [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> > My favorite is in Rexford, Town of Clifton Park, Saratoga County, along River
> > Road, The sign as you drive eastbound states:
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> > Mohawk Riv-
> > er on Right
> >
> > I love it for the hyphenation and for noting the obvious -- there is no body
> > of water on the left.
I like the one in front of Vern's trailer park in Sloansville.
On the front it says: Site of the state's first tornado
On the back it says: Whoever believes this is an idiot
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Dr. Alan Taylor, Speaker
1996 Pulitzer Prize winning author of *William Cooper*s Town: Power and =
Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic.* Dr. Taylor =
is Professor of History, University of California at Davis, and concentrate=
s on Colonial American history.
Thursday, May 8, 5:30 -7:30 pm
Lecture, reception and book signing
New York State Museum Theater
Cultural Education Center
Madison Avenue, Albany
*Wasty Ways*: Settlers and Nature in Upstate New York and in the Mind of =
James Fenimore Cooper.=20
In his classic 1823 novel *The Pioneers,* James Fenimore Cooper described =
the destructive energies of settlement upon the forest and its wildlife. =
Dr. Taylor will seek to account for that assault by re-examining the harsh =
experiences of settlers and the myth of themselves as *second creators* =
which drove their assault upon the wild.
Co-sponsored by the State Museum, State Library*s Manucript Collection, =
State Archives, and Archives Partnership Trust
This talk by Dr. Alan Taylor is open to the public free of charge.=20
You are welcome to attend and bring guests but seating is limited.
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In response to a query about whether the Lake Ontario Archives Conference,
meeting at Fredonia on June 13-14, 1997, will include anything on the
underground railroad. Yes it will. A session on current research will
include Carol Kammen speaking on evaluating the evidence of Underground
Railroad activities.
The following "Letter from Western New-York" was printed in the National
Anti-Slavery Standard, May 5, 1842, p. 190, columns 3-4. The author,
James C. Hathaway was a Quaker from Farmington, New York, an active
anti-slavery lecturer and would later participate in the woman's rights
conventions of the 1850s.
**********************************************************************
Letter from Western New-York
Our friend gives the names of master and slave, dates, places of
residence, &c. But we omit them; because in all such cases, we consider
"discretion the better part of valor."
To the Editor of the Standard:
A few days ago, a fugitive from Virginia gave me a call, on his
way to a free country. He is no doubt safe, ere this, from American
kidnappers. He arrived about 10 o'clock, and remained until after dinner;
during which time, we had an opportunity of making many inquiries relative
to the condition of our southern brethren in bonds. We urged him much to
remain over night with us; but he was impatient to set foot upon a soil
where he could feel assured he was free. He was a fine-looking fellow, of
about nineteen, evidently possessing much native shrewdness. The
Virginian, whose victim he was, staked him against $1000 in a cock-fight
[italicized]; and for fear his master might loose his wager, and he be
sold to the South, he thought best to use the physical and intellectual
powers God had given him, in finding a country were an immortal being is
considered of too much value to have his destiny hang upon a chicken's
foot. [last two words italicized]
He says the dread of being sent further South, is universal; that
the slaves in his region, field hands and all, talk of nothing else but
freedom, when they are by themselves; and that they have a long song about
Canada. He seemed to place a light estimate on the value of human life.
This is the legitimate result of education in slavery; thus, through the
world's history, do we find habitual violence unconsciously preparing the
way for its own retribution; teaching, by its own example, the very
lessons it most dreads to have inculcated.-- When I called in question
the right of slaves to kill their masters, even to obtain their freedom,
he quickly replied, "If it be right for their masters to kill them
[italicized], it must be right for them to kill there masters; and they
make nothing of killing a nigger."
Of course, I could not in a few hours counteract the teachings of
years.
A letter from Dr. Jewett, of Geneva, a few days ago, informs me
that several man-stealers have infested that village, in quest of prey,
since the decision of the United States' Supreme Court. One of them
stepped into Johnson's barber's shop, to be shaved. Mr. Johnson at once
recognized in him his old master. He shaved him with a trembling hand; and
the moment he left the shop, hurried out of the back door, and
immediately fled to Canada. How long must the free States submit to the
shame of being unable to protect innocent men in the enjoyment of a right
that belongs to all?
J.C. Hathaway.
***********************************************************************
Christopher Densmore
University Archives
University at Buffalo
420 Capen Hall
Box 602200
Buffalo, New York 14260-2200
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Craig,
The Canal Society of New York State, of which I am a member, goes on
twice-yearly field trips to different parts of the state. We've taken to
erecting markers at canal sites. Last Spring one was put up on the Buffalo
waterfront, to mark the western terminus of the Erie Canal. We put up
another one on the Hudson at Albany last Fall, to mark the eastern
terminus. One will be put up in Binghamton at the end of this month, to
mark the site of the Chemung Extension.
I also attended a ceremony a few years back when a marker was erected in
front of Batavia's Holland Land Office, to remember Charles Rand, the first
volunteer for the Union Army.
My point is that many such markers and signs are now being put up
privately. I'm assuming they're registered with the NYS, and I hope a list
will be made available as a result of your query.
David Minor
>I am looking for background information on the roadside historical
>markers in New York State, and eventually for the documentation for a
>particular sign. I have not seen the sign myself; my brother tells me a
>sign is there and has promised to go by and get all of the information
>from it. It is in front of a house which our family legend has it was a
>station on the Underground Railroad.
>
>Questions:
> 1) What agency or agencies erect such signs? I've visited one website
>that claims to list all such signs but it does not.
> 2) Do any of these agencies have websites? If not, where would I find
>the addresses to write to them?
> 3) Is there a general NYS government site?
>
>Thank you for your assistance.
>
>Craig Bond
>Lufkin, TX
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1837
<smaller>Feb 10
Rioters protest high food prices in New York City, storm the
wheat-and-flour store of Eli Hart & Company. Several people die and
much grain is destroyed. The prices soon rise again.
Apr 3
Naturalist John Burroughs is born near Roxbury.
May
The first locomotive for the Rochester & Tonawanda Railroad Company
arrives by boat on the Erie Canal.
May 2
William B. Ogden, brother-in-law of New York investor Charles Butler,
is elected Mayor of Chicago.
May 10
New York banks suspend specie payment, precipitating a financial panic
in the U. S. and seven years of a depression.
May 11
The first train leaves Rochester for Churchville, Bergen, Byron and
finally Batavia, where its passengers are treated to a dinner at the
Eagle Hotel, before making the return rail trip to Rochester.
</smaller>
<smaller>August
Former Batavia newspaper editor Frederick Follett returns from Texas to
resume the editorship of the <italic>Spirit of the Times</italic>.
** William C. Redfield's account of the Mount Marcy climb begins
appearing in the New York <italic>Journal of Commerce</italic>.
City
The Sandy Hook Bar, stretching from Sandy Hook, New Jersey, to
Rockaway,Long Island, is dredged to a depth of twenty-three feet. **
Whig alderman Aaron Clark is elected mayor for the next two one-year
terms. ** The city is granted jurisdiction over underwater land
on the North (Hudson) River as far north as 13th Avenue. ** The
U. S. Navy's first steam warship <italic>Fulton </italic> is launched
from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
State
The Le Roy Female Seminary (later Ingham University), the first woman's
college in the U. S., is founded in Le Roy, by sisters and former
Attica schoolteachers Mariette and Emily Bingham. ** Brockport's
Baptist Institute closes due to financial problems of the New York
Baptist Convention. ** The Ellenville Glassworks opens. **
Contracts are let for construction of the Genesee Valley Canal. **
T. A. Conrad is given the task of compiling a paleontological survey
of the state. ** Work on the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) line
between Mineola and Hempstead is halted for the next four years by the
financial panic. ** Batavia's Holland Land Office sells its
remaining land and ceases operations. ** Troy's Carr Mansion is
built. ** William Henry Bartlett paints a view of the Hudson
River from Hyde Park. ** The Genesee and Wyoming Seminery operns
in a cobblestone building in Alexander. ** Last year's climbing
party succeeds in reaching the top of Mount Marcy, the first recorded
ascent.
</smaller></fontfamily>
<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><smaller>
Albany - The city ceases using Maezlandt Kill for its water supply.
Rochester
Construction begins on a new Erie Canal aqueduct over the Genesee
River. ** The city's first murder occurs. ** A wall is
built along the Genesee River through downtown. ** A public
market is built on Front Street. ** Wealthy St. Louis fur trader
Henry Shaw builds a house for his parents.
1838
Apr 23
The British ship <italic>Sirius</italic>, the first ship to steam
across the Atlantic, arrives in New York City.
Jun 15
The steamship <italic>Pulaski</italic> is wrecked off Cape Hatteras.
100 die, among them New York State judge and former candidate for
governor William B. Rochester.
Oct 29
Isaac C. Sheldon begins publishing Cuba, New York's <italic>Cuba
Advocate</italic>.
Nov 7
William Henry Seward is elected governor of New York.
City
Lawyers George Griffin and George Washington Strong dissolve their
practice. Strong takes on Marshall S. Bidwell as his new partner.
Strong's son George Templeton Strong also joins the firm as a clerk.
State
The Scottsville and Le Roy Railroad is built at the cost of $40,0000,
using wooden rails. It only reaches from Scottsville to Caledonia.
** Rochester boat tonnage drops to 408 tons. Oswego's reaches 6,582
tons and Buffalo's is 9,615 tons. ** The steamboat
<italic>Washington</italic> burns off Silver Creek. Twelve people die.
** Meteorologist Cleveland Abbe is born.
Rochester
Clyde Street is renamed St. Paul Street for the local Episcopal church.
River Street becomes South St. Paul.** The public cemetery is moved
from the west side of town to the east bank of the Genesee River. The
street and cemetery are named Mount Hope. ** The Rochester
Carthage horse-car railroad is discontinued. ** Henry O'Reilly's
<italic>Sketches of Rochester</italic>. ** George Ellwanger
and Patrick Barry establish the Mount Hope Garden and Nurseries. **
Abelard Reynolds is named alderman of the first ward.
1839
Jan 26
Stephen Van Renssalaer, last of the Dutch patroons, dies.
Feb 16
Albany Medical College is incorporated.
</smaller></fontfamily>
<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><smaller>Jun 12
The claimed date that Abner Doubleday invents modern rules for
baseball, at Cooperstown.
Sep 2
Corning residents meet at the home of S. B. Denton to establish a
school system for the village.
Sep 28
Temperance leader Frances Elizabeth Willard is born in Churchville.
Oct 1
Herman Melville arrives back in New York City on the
<italic>Lawrence</italic>.
Nov 13
Abolitionists convene at Warsaw leading to the formation of the Liberty
party. They nominate James G. Birney for President of the United States
and Pennsylvania's Francis J. Lemoyne as Vice-President.
December
Anti-rent protestors in western Albany County disperse quietly when the
governor sends forces to assist the civil authorities.
City
Democratic lderman Isaac I. Varian wins two one-years terms as mayor,
defeating Whig candidate Aaron Clark this year and Whig J. P. Phioenix
in 1840. ** William F. Harnden starts a Boston-to-New York
package service, carrying them in a carpetbag.
State
Builder John Canfield is born in Churchville. ** The Genesee
Valley Canal reaches Mount Morris. ** William Henry Seward
becomes the state's first Whig overnor, serving two terms - 1839-1843.
** General William Kerley Strong erects a Greek Revival mansion on
Geneva's Rose Hill Farm. ** A railroad connects Corning with the
Pennsylvania coal fields. ** Junius peppermint farmer Peter Hill
moves to Lyons, having bought property at the future site of Erie Canal
Lock E-56. ** A Stafford silkworm operation contains 6,000
mulberry trees and 72,000 worms. ** American Revolution heroine
Sybil Ludington dies in her late seventies. ** The Albany
Exchange Building is erected. ** Geneva-born author Caroline
Matilda Stansbury Kirkland publishes <italic>A New Home: Who'll
Follow</italic>, an account of her life in the Detroit frontier
settlements. ** Ulysses S. Grant enters West Point. **
Northern general-tactician Emory Upton is born in Batavia. **
Company directors liquidate the Rochester Canal and Railway Company.
1840
June
Batavia newspaper publisher Frederick Follett sells the <italic>Spirit
of the Times</italic> to Lucas Seaver, and joins Peter Lawrence in
publishing the new <italic>Batavia Times and Farmers and Mechanics
Journal</italic>.
Aug 19
Daniel Webster speaks at Saratoga.
Sep 1 </smaller></fontfamily>
<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><smaller>The first boat to use New
York State's Genesee Valley Canal, traveling from Rochester to Mount
Morris, stops at Cuylerville's National Hotel for a celebration.
Sep 10
The locomotive <italic>The Young Lion</italic> inaugurates New York's
Auburn & Rochester Railroad.
Sep 12
The first train on the Auburn & Rochester Railroad arrives in
Canandaigua.
City
The Atlantic Dock Company is established, in Brooklyn. ** The
Admiral's House is built, on Governor's Island. ** Henry James
marries Mary Walsh. They will be the patrents of William and Henry
James.
State
The town of Irondequoit is carved out of the town of Brighton, on the
outskirts of Rochester. ** Angelica's <italic>Allegany
Gazette</italic> begins publication. ** The first Orange Counyt
Fair is held. ** Population: Albany: 34,000; Rochester: 20,195;
Utica: 13,000. ** Wayne County peppermint farmer Peter Hill
bewgins dismantling his private grocery building to move it out of the
way of the Erie Canal enlargement. ** William Tecumseh Sherman
graduates from West Point. ** The approximate date Elijah T.
Hayden builds Syracuse's Leavenworth House hotel, at the corner of
James and McBride Streets.
Corning
Advance crews of the New York and Erie Railroad arrive for preliminary
studies. ** The village's first school house is built.
Rochester
Construction begins on East Avenue's Smith-Perkins (Woodside)
andPitkin-Powers mansions. ** The city annexes Mount Hope
Cemetery, increasing its own size to 7.438 square miles. ** The
Phoenix Mill is destroyed by fire, rebuilt.</smaller></fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
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I'd like to mention that Roger Tottman and myself, both of St.Catharines,
are co-authoring a book on shipbuilding on the Welland Canals. As part of
our research we have found evidence that Louis Shickluna, who was perhaps
the greatest of the 19th century shipbuilders on the Great Lakes, employed
escaped slaves from the Underground Railroad and may have otherwise been
involved with it here, in St.Catharines. This has long been suspected due
to his close ties with William Hamilton Merritt and other local people,
who are known to have been involved.
I would like to invite anyone who has any information relating to the
Underground Railroad and the shipbuilding industry on the Welland Canals
to contact me. Thank you.
And by the way, I enjoyed the letter. Excellent example of why I find
history fascinating.
Peter D.A. Warwick
St.Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Bike Through The Garden Of Canada
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David Minor wrote:
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> My point is that many such markers and signs are now being put up
> privately. I'm assuming they're registered with the NYS, and I hope a list
> will be made available as a result of your query.
>
Has anyone mentioned the listing of NYS historical markers posted by
Phil Marks at RPI?
There's a link to it at http://www.NYHistory.com/featured.htm
Bob Shear
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The Underground Railroad in NYS website (http://www.nyhistory.com/ugrr)
now lists 138 individuals. Additions to Wilbur Siebert's list include
Frances and William H. Seward, Harriet Tubman, Gideon Pitts, Jr. (father
of Frederick Douglass' second wife) and Calvin Fairbank.
Of the 138 persons now listed, there is at least some descriptive
information posted on 57. Persons with information on individuals or
sites are urged to check the lists, and email any additions or
corrections.
Bob Shear
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Museum trustees, staff and volunteers, local government historians, and all
those interested in the preservation and presentation of the history of
upstate NY are invited to attend the Regional Council of Historical Agencies
(RCHA) Annual Conference, 'Making Connections: Museums and Communities', on
Monday, May 12th, at the Oneida Community Mansion House in Oneida, NY.
The keynote speaker is Carol Kammen of Ithaca, nationally-known author of
numerous books and articles on the practice of local history. Her talk,
"Beyond the Obvious: Everyone's History", will look at why we do the history
of our home places and who the audience for such history is.
Conference sessions include: 'The Stickley Project: An Innovative School,
Museum, and Community Partnership', which explores an art and history based
program at the Everson Museum in Syracuse; 'But What Am I Supposed to Do:
Ideas for Local Historians', with Laura Lynne Scharer, Jefferson County
Historian and author of a new book by the same name, and Joseph Meany,
Acting State Historian; 'Exhibits: Common Sense Collaboration and the Small
History Museum' with staff from the Gallery Association of New York State
(GANYS); and 'Using Folklore and Oral History in the Classroom', based on
several award-winning projects in Geneva.
In addition, Robert Baron, Director of the Museum Program of the New York
State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) will discuss directions for that agency,
and a panel headed up by Kathleen Roe of the NYS Archives & Records
Administration's Documentary Heritage Program will seek input on statewide
initiatives for historical records repositories.
The day also includes the presentation of Awards of Merit, a resource
marketplace where participants can collect information on funding sources,
and a silent auction of goods and services to benefit RCHA's general
operating fund.
The day concludes with a guided tour of the Oneida Community Mansion House
and Gardens, the site of the utopian Oneida Community founded by John
Humphrey Noyes in 1848.
Pre-registration is required for the conference, lunch is available, and
there is a modest fee. For registration information contact The RCHA, PO Box
28, Cooperstown, NY 13326 / telephone: 1-800-895-1648 / or on-line at
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The Regional Council of Historical Agencies is a non-profit organization
based in Cooperstown that produces workshops, lectures, publications and
other projects to assist upstate organizations and communities in
interpreting their history. Membership is open to anyone interested in the
region's history.
- submitted by Suzanne Etherington, President, RCHA Board.
Suzanne Etherington
NYSARA Regional Advisory Officer for Region 6
Binghamton State Office Bldg, Floor #16
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Can anyone on the list suggest resources on cemetary preservation in New
York State, particularly anything that discusses the establishment of
ownership of rural and/or abandoned cemeteries? Thanks.
Christopher Densmore
University Archives
University at Buffalo
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Box 602200
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Re: privately funded historic markers and the state inventory list.
Here is the problem. Since 1939, all "state historic markers" erected have
been privately funded, and because they have not been part of a
funded, state program, with rigorous reporting and approval standards,
most of these have NOT been recorded on our inventory.
We are trying to complete a roadside inventory project, begun two years
ago, to list all markers, no matter who paid for them. But as with any
volunteer effort, we have very mixed results.
We are not trying to establish some form of recording requirement, but
with the State not providing any funding, and the format of the markers
never having been copyrighted, we cannot require it.
We are exploring ways to re-establish the quality control portion of the
program. Any suggestions?
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The web listing posted by Phil Marks at RPI is the full text of the Education
Department's State Historic Marker inventory as last done for the entire
State, c. 1950. We are trying to do an update, since this list is very out of
date. However, the program for these samll markers has been unfunded
since 1939, so it is catch as catch can for anything we do.
Things to remember include the age of the list and that a lot has
happened since 1950. This includes markers being damaged, moved,
stolen and destroyed. In two county surveys we did a few years ago
[Weschester and Rensselaer] we found that up to 50% of the markers
listed could not be found still standing in the field.
But also, many look-alike markers have been erected which were never
reported to us, and so don't appear on the lists. This was not required,
so people did not report them, even though they are identical to ones put
up with state funds. You have to look at the credit line, if there is one. If it
does not say State Education Department, it is privately funded [usually].
But, all this aside, it is a great service to have the 3,000 markers listed on
the old inventory available on the web, as we get frequent questions
about where to get copies, and the old way of xeroxing and charging a
page fee was not good for us or the customer.
Philip Lord
NYS Museum
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The Association for Gravestone Studies (http://www.berkshire.net/ags) -
[log in to unmask] - is very familiar with cemetery issues and can
probably point you in the right direction.
Mike
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Densmore wrote:
>
> Can anyone on the list suggest resources on cemetary preservation in New
> York State, particularly anything that discusses the establishment of
> ownership of rural and/or abandoned cemeteries? Thanks.
>
> Christopher Densmore
> University Archives
> University at Buffalo
> 420 Capen Hall
> Box 602200
> Buffalo, New York 14260-2200
>
> Voice: 716-645-2916
> Fax: 716-645-3714
> E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
>
>
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Densmore wrote:
> Can anyone on the list suggest resources on cemetary preservation in
> New
> York State, particularly anything that discusses the establishment
> of
> ownership of rural and/or abandoned cemeteries? Thanks.
Found this:
The Association for Gravestone Studies was founded in 1977 for the
purpose of furthering the study and preservation of gravestones.
AGS is an international organization with an interest in gravemarkers of
all periods.
on this web page: http://www.berkshire.net/ags/
--tom mcdonald
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Information: Nassau County Museum did an inventory of historical
markers in the county a few years ago (including "missing" markers, I believe).
Mildred DeRiggi at the LI Studies Institute has a copy/information
(516-463-6418).
Rufus Langhans published a listing of markers in the Town of Huntington with
the inscriptions; he was very active in erecting historical markers in his
portion of Suffolk County. That list should be available from the Town
of Huntington Historians office.
A Long Island guidebook by Kruhl a number of years ago included many of
the then extant historical markers in both Nassau and Suffolk; I believe it
included text.
Hope this information may be helpful if you compile a list.
Natalie Naylor, LI Studies Institute, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11550
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Well, it's a time consuming job. Try and go at it county by county. Have a
handful of interested people go over ever possible road that could have a
sign. Hopefully when completed someone in each county has a computer and all
data is entered. And eventually all data entered in one computer as a
completed list.
Someone should keep cities, towns and villages aware and record all road
signs after this, hope this gives y'all an ideal what to do.
I think also each county should let it be known that a new road sign just
has to be recorded with them.
From born and raised in New York but living in Texas!
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Phil Lord wrote:
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> Re: privately funded historic markers and the state inventory list.
> We are exploring ways to re-establish the quality control portion of the
> program. Any suggestions?
Were there a description of the volunteer-based marker inventory
project, I'd be happy to post it at NY History Net. More info would
make it easier to know how others might aid this effort.
The method used for maintaining the web pages on the UGRR NYS website
might serve as a model for a progressive quality control strategy fo
markers, as I hope it will be for building and improving the UGRR
database. The basic info is kept in a dbase file. Anyone who wanted to
conduct a local inventory could use the file as a collection
instrument. That way schol kids could be sent out to do projects on any
scope, with a uniform data structure. The collected files can easily be
imported into the master file, which is used, with a program, to
generate the pages that appear on the web. No further HTML coding
required.
By making the whole listing available in searchable form, anyone with an
interest can locate a record they know about, and if possible, offer
improved or updated information. With such a platform for information,
it would at least be possible for people to help assemble and correct
the publicly stated facts.
Beyond that, it seems to me there ought to be an appropriation to do
this work, and to provide some quality control. When I was involved in
creating several markers in 1985 (which, by the way DO say State
Education Department on them) we had to give state ed documentation of
the facts, and pay for the foundry and erection costs. Maybe a law
requiring this process be followed on public right of ways could be
passed, with an appropriation, if the Legislature appreciated the value
to tourism. Someone at SED needs to talk with someone at DOT.
Bob Shear
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Can any one out there know where I can get list of cemeteries in Warren and
Saratoga Counties. Researching family and need this to continue. Thanks
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Hi there Phil Lord --
At 10:34 AM -0400 4/11/97, you wrote in part:
>We are not trying to establish some form of recording requirement, but
>with the State not providing any funding, and the format of the markers
>never having been copyrighted, we cannot require it.
>
>We are exploring ways to re-establish the quality control portion of the
>program. Any suggestions?
Do you have a way to make it worthwhile to register and conform to
*standards* without obligating the State to spend money? From your return
email address, it appears that you are part of the New York State
government and may be able to consider the things which follow. Could you,
in exchange for registration and conformity to standards --
1) Offer to build a list on a website on which each
"registered" site would have a small blurb;
2) Offer to include the registered historic sites in
whatever material the State assembles for
visitors and tourists;
3) Work a cooperative arrangement with triple A
(AAA) to include the registered sites in their
annually produced touring guides;
4) Within the State's tourist advertising budget
include only registered sites in your materials;
5) Include sites, addresses and their NEEDS in press
releases from whatever agency would like to have
a hand in the appearance of the markers. Simply,
no registration, no mention. Even once completed,
physical markers need maintenance. You are in
a position to call attention to those needs.
These are a few things which come to mind. In general, the State of New
York -- or any other state for that matter -- has a bunch of ways it can
feature people, places and things. The trick is aligning the goodies you
already have in place with conformity to desired policy. Properly done, you
may not only get the registrations you want, but also you could develop
some advertising and feature critters that would cause folks to break the
doors down to join.
Good luck and good hunting,
Mark Merritt
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Phil Lord wrote:
>
> Re: privately funded historic markers and the state inventory list.
>
> Here is the problem. Since 1939, all "state historic markers" erected have
> been privately funded, and because they have not been part of a
> funded, state program, with rigorous reporting and approval standards,
> most of these have NOT been recorded on our inventory.
>
> We are trying to complete a roadside inventory project, begun two years
> ago, to list all markers, no matter who paid for them. But as with any
> volunteer effort, we have very mixed results.
>
> We are not trying to establish some form of recording requirement, but
> with the State not providing any funding, and the format of the markers
> never having been copyrighted, we cannot require it.
>
> We are exploring ways to re-establish the quality control portion of the
> program. Any suggestions?
I suggest that roadside marking be privatized. Require the signage
entreprenuers to payback a portion to the State. Creates employment,
eliminates "fake markers." The government can use the funds to provide
the entreprenuers with necessary standards and maintain inventory.
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Phil,
I would certainly get (and remain) in touch with any group that makes a
point of erecting such markers. Anita Cottrell, Secretary-Treasurer of the
Canal Society of New York State can be reached at:
7308 Jamesville Road
Manlius, New York 13104
Also, did your post mean to say "we are not trying to establish" or "now
trying to establish"?
As a taxpayer I think some discussion of the necessity of "a funded, state
program, with rigorous reporting and approval standards..." The worth of
such an extension of bureaucracy is probably debatable, in a period of
scarce government resources for education, environment and child poverty
concerns, among others.
I have several books (bless the used bookstores) that cover other states'
markers:
As part of its sesquicentennial in 1953 the state of Ohio embarked on a
program of erecting markers at the corporation limits of towns along state
highways. (I mention this for informational purposes only, not as a
suggestion.) The text of each marker is accompanied by details expanding on
the information, with each town getting a full page as well as an icon
indicating the approximate location of the town within the state. The book
is:
Ohio Pride: A Guide to Ohio Roadside History
Jeff Traylor
Columbus, Backroad Chronicles, 1990
The other book is by a writer who set out to locate and detail every marker
in the state of Florida. He recorded over 700, and his introduction
describes the process.
FLORIDA: Historical Markers & Sites
Floyd E. Boone
Houston, Texas, Gulf Publishing Company, 1989
This may the "road" to follow, rather than a state-run effort, which will
probably happen about the time the state budget is passed on schedule -
"Can you say 'pie-in-the-sky?'".
I'm sure there are other viewpoints.
David Minor
>Re: privately funded historic markers and the state inventory list.
>
>Here is the problem. Since 1939, all "state historic markers" erected have
>been privately funded, and because they have not been part of a
>funded, state program, with rigorous reporting and approval standards,
>most of these have NOT been recorded on our inventory.
>
>We are trying to complete a roadside inventory project, begun two years
>ago, to list all markers, no matter who paid for them. But as with any
>volunteer effort, we have very mixed results.
>
>We are not trying to establish some form of recording requirement, but
>with the State not providing any funding, and the format of the markers
>never having been copyrighted, we cannot require it.
>
>We are exploring ways to re-establish the quality control portion of the
>program. Any suggestions?
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
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Phil
Thanks for the information on State Historic Markers. I was not aware =
that they are not state funded. =20
I did notice (as you pointed out) several omissions of markers from =
Monroe County. As my wife and I collect old maps, postcards and are =
generally amatur historians, would you like updates on markers not =
currently listed on the www.rpi.edu site?
Doug Morgan
Honeoye Falls, Monroe County, New York
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Re: privately funded historic markers and the state inventory list.
Here is the problem. Since 1939, all "state historic markers" erected =
have
been privately funded, and because they have not been part of a
funded, state program, with rigorous reporting and approval standards,
most of these have NOT been recorded on our inventory.
We are trying to complete a roadside inventory project, begun two years
ago, to list all markers, no matter who paid for them. But as with any
volunteer effort, we have very mixed results.
We are not trying to establish some form of recording requirement, but
with the State not providing any funding, and the format of the markers
never having been copyrighted, we cannot require it.
We are exploring ways to re-establish the quality control portion of the
program. Any suggestions?
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The State Education Department published a small pamphlet in 1967
called "Selected New York State Laws Relating to Cemeteries" and it
does include some discussion of ownership. Abandoned plots, in
general, revert to the custody and protection of the Town in which they
occur and the Town is supposed to provide some minimal upkeep, I
believe.
Anyone who wants a copy of this pamphlet could send a
self-addressed and stamped envelope - not a regular one, but one that
measures at least 9 1/4 by 6" and include two stamps. Send it to Sue
Seney, Room CEC 3097, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12230. No note
is required, just mark the envelope "Cemetery Laws".
Phil Lord
History Office
NYS Museum
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A writer is trying to find out how the village of Stewart Manor
(Nassau County) voted in the 1964 U.S. Senate race between Kenneth
Keating and Robert Kennedy.
The Legislative Manual does not list results at the village level.
The New York State Archives does not have village results, and they are
not available at the Nassau County Board of Elections or the Clerk's
office in Stewart Manor.
It is the writer's belief that Stewart Manor -- normally a Republican
stronghold -- went for Kennedy in 1964, largely because of the
village's Irish voters. But he would like to find the figures to
support his memory. His memoir is to be published in a forthcoming
book on the Irish in America.
The State Library does not have microfilm of the Long Island Press or
Newsday for 1964.
Does anyone know of a source where I might find this information?
Thank you for your help.
Melinda Yates
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(518)474-5959
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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>A couple notes before we turn to the
time lines:
a) You'll notice that the "State" entries for 1843 refer to an
assistant geologist by the name of Seymour. My source, French's state
Gazeteer of 1861, does not provide a first name. If anyone out there, a
Seymour perhaps, knows the name, maybe they can let the rest of us
know.
b) Shortly after posting the information for the 1830s, I received the
following post from Philip G. Terrie, author of Forever Wild:
Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve
(Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1985):
"I have a slight quarrel with your account of the steps leading up to
the first ascent of Mount Marcy. At the beginning of field work in
1836, the "High Peak of Essex" was not known to exist. William Redfield
spotted it in August of that year as he was exploring in the vicinity
of the McIntyre iron works. Ebenezer Emmons was not with Redfield that
year, but he sighted Marcy from Whiteface about a month later. There
was no expedition in 1836 that set out to climb Marcy. The trip that
had both Redfield and Emmons passing through Clear Pond (where it's
doubtful they would have been with Cheney and Holt) occurred in 1837,
when they returned to the McIntyre works and successfully climbed the
mountain that Emmons named Marcy."
Our thanks to Phil for setting the record straight.
Now, on to the chronologies !
<bold>1841</bold>
Apr 10
Horace Greeley founds the New York <italic>Tribune </italic>.
July
The Auburn & Rochester Railroad reaches Geneva, out of Rochester.
Jul 25
New York City cigar stand clerk Mary Cecilia Rogers disappears.
Jul 28
The body of the strangled Mary Rogers is found in the Hudson River. The
crime is never solved. Edgar Allan Poe, a customer of the cigar stand,
will base <italic>The Mystery of Marie Roget </italic>on the case.
August
The Auburn & Rochester Railroad reaches Seneca Falls. ** Scottish
geologist Sir Charles Lytell visits the Rochester area.
Aug 9
The Lake Erie steamboat <italic>Erie </italic>leaves Buffalo, headed
for Chicago. It catches on fire off Silver Creek; 215 people are
killed.
September
The Auburn & Rochester Railroad reaches Waterloo.
October
The first Seneca County Agricultural Fair is held, alternates among
various county towns until permanently settling in Waterloo in 1870.
Nov 4
The Auburn & Rochester Railroad reaches Auburn.
December
Canandaigua merchants petition the Auburn & Rochester Railroad for at
least one freight train a week to pick up shipments, challenging the
monopoly of canal interests.
City
A fire in Astoria, Queens, destroys the roofs of four buildings. **
The brig <italic>John Gilpin</italic> runs aground in the harbor
during a storm. ** Democrat Robert H. Morris is elected mayor for
each of the next three one-year terms.
State
Brockport Collegiate Institute opens. ** Samuel C.
Wilson's<italic>Angelica Reporter </italic>newspaper<italic>
</italic>is bought by Horace E. Purdy and Charles Horton. ** The
Dansville Branch (Side-cut) of the Genesee Valley Canal links Dansville
with Shaker Settlement (Sonyea). ** Macedon's Erie Canal Lock 60
is built. ** The Long Island Railroad (LIRR), having resumed work
early in the year after a hiatus due to the 1837 financial panic, has
tracks extended to Farmingdale by the end of the year, as well as laid
west from Greenport. ** Wayne County peppermint farmer Peter Hill
moves his private grocery building of the way of the Erie Canal
enlargement. ** Wyoming County is created out of Genesee County.
Rochester
The Smith-Perkins and Pitkin-Powers mansions are completed. **
English-born Toronto carpenter William Williams moves to town.
<bold>1842</bold>
Jan 11
Philosopher-psychologist William James is born in New York City at the
Astor House hotel, to Henry and Mary Walsh James.
Feb 24
Editor-novelist-playwright John Habberton is born in Brooklyn.
March
Henry James (father of William, and later of author Henry) makes the
acquaintance of Ralph Waldo Emerson, beginning a long frienmdship.
Jul 4
The Croton Aqueduct System is completed. Croton water first reaches
New York; the city is no longer dependent on well water.
Jul 11
Poet Henry Abbey is born in Kingston.
Aug 9
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty settles British-U. S. boundary disputes
over Maine, Minnesota and New York. The 1774 Canada-New York boundary
is restored and Albert Smith (U. S.) and J. B. B. Estcourt (Britain)
are assigned to a new survey.
Nov 18
A fire breaks out at New York City's Tombs Prison. The body of
condemned murderer John C. Colt, brother of inventor Samuel Colt, is
found with a knife in his heart. Rumors persist that the "suicide" was
faked and that Colt had escaped.
City
Isaiah Roger's Merchants' Exchange is erected on the Wall Street site
of the First Merchants' Exchange, destroyed in the 1834 fire. **
Town, Davis and Frazee's Customs House is erected on the site of the
old City Hall, on Wall Street. ** The New York Philharmonic is
founded. ** Phineas Taylor Barnum opens the American Museum,
features Charles S. Stratton (Tom Thumb). ** Sweets Restaurant
opens in lower Manhattan. ** A stove fire destroys the building
at 231 Water Street.
State
The first U. S. grain elevator is built at Buffalo. ** Henry
Wells organizes Wells and Company, a freight express outfit. **
The steamboat <italic>Lady of the Lake</italic> is launched. **
Geologist Amos Eaton dies. ** Reports of the state geological
survey are published: the Second District (Adirondacks counties) by Dr.
Ebenezer Emmons, Ebenezer Emmons, Jr. and James Hall; and the Third
District (central New York counties) by Lardner Van Uxem, James Eights
and S. Can. ** Dr. Lewis C. Beck, William Horton and L. D. Gale
issue the report of the New York State Mineralogical Department. **
Dr. James E. DeKay and John W. Hill begin publishing the report ofthe
Zoological Department. It will come out in five volumes over the next
year. ** Erastus S. Palmer begins publishing Angelica's
<italic>Allegany Co. Advocate. </italic> ** Syracuse raises its
water rates. Captain Oliver Teall finally agrees to accept a 35-year
franchise top provide the city's water, starts Syracuse City Waterworks
Company. ** The Presbyterian Synod of Genesee begins stewardship
over the Le Roy Female Seminary (later Ingham University). **
Rensselaerville's Presbyterian Church is built. ** Stephen
Olmsted opens a plaster plant in Oakfield.
Albany
A new State Hall, built to hold various government offices, including
those of canal commissioners, is completed at an approximate cost of
$350,000. The old State Hall is converted to a geological hall. **
The Meneely bell is cast for the main Dwelling House of the Shaker
Community at Watervliet.
Rochester
The Erie Canal aqueduct over the Genesee River is completed. **
The O'Rorke family arrives from Ireland, settles in the Irish "Dublin"
section.
<bold>1843</bold>
Apr 15
Novelist Henry James is born at 21 Washington Place in New York City.
September
Batavia newspaper publisher Frederick Follett is named postmaster and
sells his <italic>Spirit of the Times</italic> to Lucas Seaver.
City
The first school built by the Board of Education opens. **
William Kirkland and his wife, author Caroline Matilda Stansbury
Kirkland leave Michigan after failing to make a financial success there
out of the new town of Pinckney, arrive in New York. **
Immigrant German Jews form B'nai B'rith.
State
The state geological survey of the First District (Hudson Valley
counties), compiled by William W. Mather, Caleb Briggs, J. Lang Cassels
and ______ Seymour, is published. The Fourth District report (western
New York), prepared by Joseph Hall, J. W. Boyd and E. N. Horsford, is
published. ** Dr. John Torry publishes the report of the State
Botanical Department. ** State Paleontologist T. A. Conrad reisgns
and is replaced by Professor James Hall. ** When his wife dies
General William Kerley Strong sells Geneva's Rose Hill Farm. **
The state founds its first lunatic asylum, Utica State Hospital. **
New York physician Elijah J. Smith settled in DuPage County,
Illinois, on an unclaimed 80 acres, the future town center of Itasca.
** Western photographer William Henry Jackson is born in
Keeseville.
Rochester
The city acquires Mason Street property for a hay scale, and widens
Bugle Alley, home of burgeoning handicraft shops, changing its name to
Works Street. ** A three-story post office is erected on Works
Street, next to the Reynolds Arcade. ** The city annexes part of
the town of Gates, increasing its own area to 7.57 square miles.
<bold>1844</bold>
Apr 4
Fourierists convene in New York City's Clinton Hall and elect George
Ripley as their president and Charles A. Dana, Parke Godwin and Horace
Greeley as vice-presidents.
May
The polka is introduced to the U. S. at New York City's Chatham
Theatre.
Jul 27
Three Long Island Railroad (LIRR) excursion trains arrive in Greenport,
having made the first trip on the line from Brooklyn in 3 1/2 hours
rather than the expected five.
Nov 25
Alfred Bunn and Michael William Balfes' <italic>The Bohemian
Girl</italic> opens in New York City's Park Theatre.
City
The first terminal of the Atlantic Dock Company is completed. **
Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue subway tunnel is built. ** Publisher
James Harper is elected Native Party mayor of the city for a one-year
term, defeating Locofoco Party candidate Jonathan I. Coddington and
Whig Morris Franklin. ** The New-York Gallery of Fine Arts is
founded to preserve the collection of the late merchant-patron Luman
Reed.
State
The University of Albany is founded. ** The Rochester & Tonawanda
Railroad builds a spur to link its Rochester terminal with the Auburn &
Rochester, several blocks away, finally linking Buffalo and Albany by
rail. ** Charles Horton becomes the sole proprietor of the
<italic>Angelica Reporter</italic>. Angelica's<italic>Republican
Era</italic> begins publication, is published for a short time.
Control of the State Library, containing around 10,000 volumes, is
transferred from state appointed trustees to the Regents of the
University, headed by Dr. T. Romeyn Beck. ** Representative
Millard Fillmore is defeated in his bid for the governorship. **
General Peter Porter, a commander during the War of 1812, dies at his
Niagara Falls home at the age of 74. ** The abolitionist Liberty
Party nominates James Gillespie Birney of New York for president.
Rochester
Front Street's Cottage Hotel opens. ** The first ErieCanal bridge
at Exchange Street is built. ** Clarissa Street iscreated. **
The city annexes the west side of the Genesee River Gorge and part of
the Lexington Avenue area as far north as the Ridge Road area,
increasing its own area to 7.65 square miles.</fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
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I went to the web site that has that 1950 inventory of the historical markers
and printed out quite a few pages. My thought is that I could use these in
planning my frequent bicycle trips in the warm weather. It then occurred to
me that probably bicycle groups all across the state would be ideal to use
as a resource of verifying the list. For example, a Saturday ride in Saratoga
County with each rider having a list of signs for that county. When a sign
is encountered, the list is checked to see if it's on or not, and is checked
or added as needed. I'm going to contact the local group in the Capital
District, I think they are called the Mohawk-Hudson Wheelmen or some such
and I guess if others think it's worth it, they could do the same with their
local bike clubs.
Is Phil Lord the person that people would report results to ?
Dan Martin
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I can share one's concerns about a state program [control, expense,
etc.], but the very lack of a full inventory of markers is the result of the
democratic process of anyone with $400 to spend erecting a marker,
and no central listing. Someone has to require reporting of erected text,
and the only hook is funding and approval. That is the link. It is not to be
restrictive in the negative sense; just to make sure everything is
recorded and that signs that look official reflect some consistent
standards. A French and Indian War era trench system is one thing; a
1890s house run as a B&B is another.
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Melinda, try contacting Newsday, several different ways.
1. 1-800-2findout, Back articles or photos, special research by Newsday
editorial library.
2. http://www.newsday.com, searchable archives.
3. Main switchboard- 516/843-2020
This info is from page 2 of todays paper. Newsday usually publishes a
pretty good breakdown of most major local and national elections a day or
two after an election. Don't remember that particular election, I only
delivered the paper back then!
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:15:08 +0400 (EDT)
Melinda Yates said:
>
> A writer is trying to find out how the village of Stewart Manor
> (Nassau County) voted in the 1964 U.S. Senate race between Kenneth
> Keating and Robert Kennedy.
>
> The Legislative Manual does not list results at the village level.
> The New York State Archives does not have village results, and they are
> not available at the Nassau County Board of Elections or the Clerk's
> office in Stewart Manor.
>
> It is the writer's belief that Stewart Manor -- normally a Republican
> stronghold -- went for Kennedy in 1964, largely because of the
> village's Irish voters. But he would like to find the figures to
> support his memory. His memoir is to be published in a forthcoming
> book on the Irish in America.
>
> The State Library does not have microfilm of the Long Island Press or
> Newsday for 1964.
>
> Does anyone know of a source where I might find this information?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
>
> Melinda Yates
> Reference Librarian
> NYS Library
> (518)474-5959
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Yes, any updates from any source would be well received. We are
collecting field reports. If we get a volunteer to enter the data, we can
revise the list and update any webites on which these are running.
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Dear David
I have a question while looking through my local obits (current) I noticed
a lot of the people who died orig. came from back east.. would it be ok to
post them to the lists? as someone might be looking for that info?
GeriRyerson Kanner
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I was the editor of The Westbury Times in Nassau County at the time JFK ran,
I conducted a telephone survey that indicated Democrat Kennedy might well
carry usually Republican Westbury. My recollection is that the actual vote
confirmed the survey's predicted unusually strong voting power of JFK in that
then GOP stronghold. I also seem to recall that the way I confirmed the
results involved my studying the Election District returns of which the local
board keeps a record. Depending upon whether they are running in Presidential
election year, local office races also provide closer-to-village-size
districts. Congressional Districts, State Senate, Assembly Districts provide
tallies how heads of tickets are doing, providing coat-tails up or dragging
down the locals. Usually the local community papers in their next issue tell
their readers how their area voted with big headlines and lots of detail and
analysis. Because by then, everyone knows who won; the only question is how
my vote, by neighborhood, by community figured in the outcome.
Tom McCarthy
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NATALIE A. NAYLOR wrote:
>
> Hope this information may be helpful if you compile a list.
> Natalie Naylor, LI Studies Institute, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11550
>
If anyone has access to these (or similar) documents, I'd be happy to
scan them and post them at NY History Net. US Mail address is PO Box
1011, Syracuse 13201. I'd be even happier to post material that someone
else has scanned.
Bob Shear
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Re : What other states are doing in historical
markers:
The Connecticut Historical Commission
completed a program in 1981 to install one large
bronze marker in every city and town containing
a capsule history of that muncipality. Marker size
was approximately 4 x 4 feet. These markers
were funded by the Legislature, and the
Commission's staff involved local writers in a
vigorous editing and review of proposed text.
The Conn. Dept. of Transportation placed smaller
bronze markers around the state in the 1950s and
60s. David O. White, Ph.D., at the Conn. Historical
Commission can supply a 12-page list which
contains locations and an abbreviated description
of the text for about 128 markers. Phone
860-566-3005.
The Commission is now completing a series of
"Freedom Trail" marker installations commerating
sites important in the state's African-American
history. Many are sites on the Underground
Railroad. This was also funded by the Legislature
and involves large roadside metal markers (3 x 4
feet) and smaller wall-mounted plaques for
houses. It is worth noting that many private
homeowners and all cemeteries declined the
proposed plaques when offered. Contact David
White for more info.
Let it be said there is no easy road to a successful
roadside marker program!
David Palmquist
NYS Archives
Albany, NY
518-474-5141
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I love this site--look forward to reading it every time. Thanks!
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, David Minor wrote:
> <fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>A couple notes before we turn to the
> time lines:
>
>
> a) You'll notice that the "State" entries for 1843 refer to an
> assistant geologist by the name of Seymour. My source, French's state
> Gazeteer of 1861, does not provide a first name. If anyone out there, a
> Seymour perhaps, knows the name, maybe they can let the rest of us
> know.
>
>
> b) Shortly after posting the information for the 1830s, I received the
> following post from Philip G. Terrie, author of Forever Wild:
> Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve
> (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1985):
>
>
> "I have a slight quarrel with your account of the steps leading up to
> the first ascent of Mount Marcy. At the beginning of field work in
> 1836, the "High Peak of Essex" was not known to exist. William Redfield
> spotted it in August of that year as he was exploring in the vicinity
> of the McIntyre iron works. Ebenezer Emmons was not with Redfield that
> year, but he sighted Marcy from Whiteface about a month later. There
> was no expedition in 1836 that set out to climb Marcy. The trip that
> had both Redfield and Emmons passing through Clear Pond (where it's
> doubtful they would have been with Cheney and Holt) occurred in 1837,
> when they returned to the McIntyre works and successfully climbed the
> mountain that Emmons named Marcy."
>
>
> Our thanks to Phil for setting the record straight.
>
>
> Now, on to the chronologies !
>
>
> <bold>1841</bold>
>
> Apr 10
>
> Horace Greeley founds the New York <italic>Tribune </italic>.
>
>
> July
>
> The Auburn & Rochester Railroad reaches Geneva, out of Rochester.
>
>
> Jul 25
>
> New York City cigar stand clerk Mary Cecilia Rogers disappears.
>
>
> Jul 28
>
> The body of the strangled Mary Rogers is found in the Hudson River. The
> crime is never solved. Edgar Allan Poe, a customer of the cigar stand,
> will base <italic>The Mystery of Marie Roget </italic>on the case.
>
>
> August
>
> The Auburn & Rochester Railroad reaches Seneca Falls. ** Scottish
> geologist Sir Charles Lytell visits the Rochester area.
>
>
> Aug 9
>
> The Lake Erie steamboat <italic>Erie </italic>leaves Buffalo, headed
> for Chicago. It catches on fire off Silver Creek; 215 people are
> killed.
>
>
> September
>
> The Auburn & Rochester Railroad reaches Waterloo.
>
>
> October
>
> The first Seneca County Agricultural Fair is held, alternates among
> various county towns until permanently settling in Waterloo in 1870.
>
>
> Nov 4
>
> The Auburn & Rochester Railroad reaches Auburn.
>
>
> December
>
> Canandaigua merchants petition the Auburn & Rochester Railroad for at
> least one freight train a week to pick up shipments, challenging the
> monopoly of canal interests.
>
>
>
> City
>
> A fire in Astoria, Queens, destroys the roofs of four buildings. **
> The brig <italic>John Gilpin</italic> runs aground in the harbor
> during a storm. ** Democrat Robert H. Morris is elected mayor for
> each of the next three one-year terms.
>
>
> State
>
> Brockport Collegiate Institute opens. ** Samuel C.
> Wilson's<italic>Angelica Reporter </italic>newspaper<italic>
> </italic>is bought by Horace E. Purdy and Charles Horton. ** The
> Dansville Branch (Side-cut) of the Genesee Valley Canal links Dansville
> with Shaker Settlement (Sonyea). ** Macedon's Erie Canal Lock 60
> is built. ** The Long Island Railroad (LIRR), having resumed work
> early in the year after a hiatus due to the 1837 financial panic, has
> tracks extended to Farmingdale by the end of the year, as well as laid
> west from Greenport. ** Wayne County peppermint farmer Peter Hill
> moves his private grocery building of the way of the Erie Canal
> enlargement. ** Wyoming County is created out of Genesee County.
>
>
> Rochester
>
> The Smith-Perkins and Pitkin-Powers mansions are completed. **
> English-born Toronto carpenter William Williams moves to town.
>
>
>
> <bold>1842</bold>
>
> Jan 11
>
> Philosopher-psychologist William James is born in New York City at the
> Astor House hotel, to Henry and Mary Walsh James.
>
>
> Feb 24
>
> Editor-novelist-playwright John Habberton is born in Brooklyn.
>
>
> March
>
> Henry James (father of William, and later of author Henry) makes the
> acquaintance of Ralph Waldo Emerson, beginning a long frienmdship.
>
>
> Jul 4
>
> The Croton Aqueduct System is completed. Croton water first reaches
> New York; the city is no longer dependent on well water.
>
>
> Jul 11
>
> Poet Henry Abbey is born in Kingston.
>
>
> Aug 9
>
> The Webster-Ashburton Treaty settles British-U. S. boundary disputes
> over Maine, Minnesota and New York. The 1774 Canada-New York boundary
> is restored and Albert Smith (U. S.) and J. B. B. Estcourt (Britain)
> are assigned to a new survey.
>
>
> Nov 18
>
> A fire breaks out at New York City's Tombs Prison. The body of
> condemned murderer John C. Colt, brother of inventor Samuel Colt, is
> found with a knife in his heart. Rumors persist that the "suicide" was
> faked and that Colt had escaped.
>
>
>
> City
>
> Isaiah Roger's Merchants' Exchange is erected on the Wall Street site
> of the First Merchants' Exchange, destroyed in the 1834 fire. **
> Town, Davis and Frazee's Customs House is erected on the site of the
> old City Hall, on Wall Street. ** The New York Philharmonic is
> founded. ** Phineas Taylor Barnum opens the American Museum,
> features Charles S. Stratton (Tom Thumb). ** Sweets Restaurant
> opens in lower Manhattan. ** A stove fire destroys the building
> at 231 Water Street.
>
>
> State
>
> The first U. S. grain elevator is built at Buffalo. ** Henry
> Wells organizes Wells and Company, a freight express outfit. **
> The steamboat <italic>Lady of the Lake</italic> is launched. **
> Geologist Amos Eaton dies. ** Reports of the state geological
> survey are published: the Second District (Adirondacks counties) by Dr.
> Ebenezer Emmons, Ebenezer Emmons, Jr. and James Hall; and the Third
> District (central New York counties) by Lardner Van Uxem, James Eights
> and S. Can. ** Dr. Lewis C. Beck, William Horton and L. D. Gale
> issue the report of the New York State Mineralogical Department. **
> Dr. James E. DeKay and John W. Hill begin publishing the report ofthe
> Zoological Department. It will come out in five volumes over the next
> year. ** Erastus S. Palmer begins publishing Angelica's
> <italic>Allegany Co. Advocate. </italic> ** Syracuse raises its
> water rates. Captain Oliver Teall finally agrees to accept a 35-year
> franchise top provide the city's water, starts Syracuse City Waterworks
> Company. ** The Presbyterian Synod of Genesee begins stewardship
> over the Le Roy Female Seminary (later Ingham University). **
> Rensselaerville's Presbyterian Church is built. ** Stephen
> Olmsted opens a plaster plant in Oakfield.
>
>
> Albany
>
> A new State Hall, built to hold various government offices, including
> those of canal commissioners, is completed at an approximate cost of
> $350,000. The old State Hall is converted to a geological hall. **
> The Meneely bell is cast for the main Dwelling House of the Shaker
> Community at Watervliet.
>
>
> Rochester
>
> The Erie Canal aqueduct over the Genesee River is completed. **
> The O'Rorke family arrives from Ireland, settles in the Irish "Dublin"
> section.
>
>
>
> <bold>1843</bold>
>
> Apr 15
>
> Novelist Henry James is born at 21 Washington Place in New York City.
>
>
> September
>
> Batavia newspaper publisher Frederick Follett is named postmaster and
> sells his <italic>Spirit of the Times</italic> to Lucas Seaver.
>
>
> City
>
> The first school built by the Board of Education opens. **
> William Kirkland and his wife, author Caroline Matilda Stansbury
> Kirkland leave Michigan after failing to make a financial success there
> out of the new town of Pinckney, arrive in New York. **
> Immigrant German Jews form B'nai B'rith.
>
>
> State
>
> The state geological survey of the First District (Hudson Valley
> counties), compiled by William W. Mather, Caleb Briggs, J. Lang Cassels
> and ______ Seymour, is published. The Fourth District report (western
> New York), prepared by Joseph Hall, J. W. Boyd and E. N. Horsford, is
> published. ** Dr. John Torry publishes the report of the State
> Botanical Department. ** State Paleontologist T. A. Conrad reisgns
> and is replaced by Professor James Hall. ** When his wife dies
> General William Kerley Strong sells Geneva's Rose Hill Farm. **
> The state founds its first lunatic asylum, Utica State Hospital. **
> New York physician Elijah J. Smith settled in DuPage County,
> Illinois, on an unclaimed 80 acres, the future town center of Itasca.
> ** Western photographer William Henry Jackson is born in
> Keeseville.
>
>
> Rochester
>
> The city acquires Mason Street property for a hay scale, and widens
> Bugle Alley, home of burgeoning handicraft shops, changing its name to
> Works Street. ** A three-story post office is erected on Works
> Street, next to the Reynolds Arcade. ** The city annexes part of
> the town of Gates, increasing its own area to 7.57 square miles.
>
>
>
> <bold>1844</bold>
>
> Apr 4
>
> Fourierists convene in New York City's Clinton Hall and elect George
> Ripley as their president and Charles A. Dana, Parke Godwin and Horace
> Greeley as vice-presidents.
>
>
> May
>
> The polka is introduced to the U. S. at New York City's Chatham
> Theatre.
>
>
> Jul 27
>
> Three Long Island Railroad (LIRR) excursion trains arrive in Greenport,
> having made the first trip on the line from Brooklyn in 3 1/2 hours
> rather than the expected five.
>
>
> Nov 25
>
> Alfred Bunn and Michael William Balfes' <italic>The Bohemian
> Girl</italic> opens in New York City's Park Theatre.
>
>
> City
>
> The first terminal of the Atlantic Dock Company is completed. **
> Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue subway tunnel is built. ** Publisher
> James Harper is elected Native Party mayor of the city for a one-year
> term, defeating Locofoco Party candidate Jonathan I. Coddington and
> Whig Morris Franklin. ** The New-York Gallery of Fine Arts is
> founded to preserve the collection of the late merchant-patron Luman
> Reed.
>
>
> State
>
> The University of Albany is founded. ** The Rochester & Tonawanda
> Railroad builds a spur to link its Rochester terminal with the Auburn &
> Rochester, several blocks away, finally linking Buffalo and Albany by
> rail. ** Charles Horton becomes the sole proprietor of the
> <italic>Angelica Reporter</italic>. Angelica's<italic>Republican
> Era</italic> begins publication, is published for a short time.
> Control of the State Library, containing around 10,000 volumes, is
> transferred from state appointed trustees to the Regents of the
> University, headed by Dr. T. Romeyn Beck. ** Representative
> Millard Fillmore is defeated in his bid for the governorship. **
> General Peter Porter, a commander during the War of 1812, dies at his
> Niagara Falls home at the age of 74. ** The abolitionist Liberty
> Party nominates James Gillespie Birney of New York for president.
>
>
> Rochester
>
> Front Street's Cottage Hotel opens. ** The first ErieCanal bridge
> at Exchange Street is built. ** Clarissa Street iscreated. **
> The city annexes the west side of the Genesee River Gorge and part of
> the Lexington Avenue area as far north as the Ridge Road area,
> increasing its own area to 7.65 square miles.</fontfamily>
>
> David Minor
>
> Eagles Byte Historical Research
>
> Rochester, New York
>
> 716 264-0423
>
>
> http://home.eznet.net/~dminor
>
>
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The Schoharie County Bicentennial Committee replaced "lost" markers in
our county, using a 1930's (I believe) list on file at our local museum,
The Old Stone Fort. The project has been completed. I would be glad to
send you a complete listing, if you desire. We were surprised to learn
that some signs has spent years in various highway garages and would
strongly suggest consulting highway superintendents before ordering any
signs.
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Melinda Yates wrote:
>
> A writer is trying to find out how the village of Stewart Manor
> (Nassau County) voted in the 1964 U.S. Senate race between Kenneth
> Keating and Robert Kennedy.
>
> The Legislative Manual does not list results at the village level.
> The New York State Archives does not have village results, and they are
> not available at the Nassau County Board of Elections or the Clerk's
> office in Stewart Manor.
>
> It is the writer's belief that Stewart Manor -- normally a Republican
> stronghold -- went for Kennedy in 1964, largely because of the
> village's Irish voters. But he would like to find the figures to
> support his memory. His memoir is to be published in a forthcoming
> book on the Irish in America.
>
> The State Library does not have microfilm of the Long Island Press or
> Newsday for 1964.
>
> Does anyone know of a source where I might find this information?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Melinda Yates
> Reference Librarian
> NYS Library
> (518)474-5959
I work for Schoharie County Board of Elections. While I realize we are
much smaller than Nassau some of the same laws apply. We are all
required by law to keep "forever" election results, and boundry maps.
Stewart Manor, may be in the Town of Hempstead, for instance, you would
then need to know what Election Districts or precincts make up that area
you call Stewart Manor, but I am sure you could get results of that
election by district from Nassau county, as well as a map of the
districts/precincts for the town in 1964. County Boards of Elections
operate on a Town level and the person you contacted may have never
heard of Stewart Manor. --Anne Hendrix
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Hello,
This is just a matter for thought..There is a cemetery on Long Island
that was the grave site for many folks who died in a ship wreck (late
1800's), and a memorial was built listing the number of bodies buried there
and where they could, the names.
They church that held the records for that cemetery burned and
records lost. SInce then names have been sanded off(I was informed of that by
the local historian) and the area used for "the newly departed".
Actually because of the "lost records" folks, myself included, have
been unable to locate family members buried there in the 1800's and a closed
cemetery is fully in business.
Possibly there should be more done to protect the past.
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Will the professor from SUNY Albany who wanted the glove cutters please
e-mail me again. I have lost your e-mail address. Les Buell
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Where is the www site of the 1950 historical markers? [log in to unmask]
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I am seeking information about the Rev. Robert McDowall, appointed about 1790
by the Classis of Albany, Reformed Church in America, to minister to the
Tories who had fled to Canada. He later (1820) became part of the
Presbyterian Church in Canada and, I believe, was a founder of the University
of Toronto.
I will be spending my sabbatical (June-July-August) learning what I can about
McDowell and revisiting the places where he established churches along the
St. Lawrence River.
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I am not sure if it is the same cemetery, but there is a large cemetery in
Brooklyn in which there is a large memorial to those lost in a tragic East
River (?) fire/accident in the late 1800's. Having lived on Long Island for
10 years, I had occasion to visit that cemetery more than once.
Also, being a clergy type, I don't know of any cemetery (church related or
not) where names would be removed from a memorial "in order to make room."
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Historic marker listing on the web:
http://www.rpi.edu/~marksp2/history/nystate3.html
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Hello,
No, this cemetery is on Long Island and as I am at work, can't give the name
of the ship. It was lost off of the Rockaways, during the winter. Many of the
bodies were stored in garages etc. until they could be buried.
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I have a link directly to the markers list on the Otsego County NY GenWeb
page. The URL is listed directly below my name. Hope this helps. You'll
find it about 3/4 of the way down the initial index page.
Jerry Reed -Whitesboro NY - reply to: [log in to unmask]
Visit the Otsego County NYGenWeb Genealogy Page:
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> Where is the www site of the 1950 historical markers? [log in to unmask]
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Densmore wrote:
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> Can anyone on the list suggest resources on cemetary preservation in New
> York State, particularly anything that discusses the establishment of
> ownership of rural and/or abandoned cemeteries? Thanks.
>
> Christopher Densmore
> University Archives
> University at Buffalo
> 420 Capen Hall
> Box 602200
> Buffalo, New York 14260-2200
>
> Voice: 716-645-2916
> Fax: 716-645-3714
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Did you get any reply's
There is a small plot on my property
I've wondered what is right?
looking for data.
thanks..
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The Town of Fairfield celebrated a successful Bicentennial last year and now
the Bicentennial committee finds itself with hard earned funds to spend on a
town project. We would like to purchase roadside markers to place by
historically significant sites in Fairfield. This project has the blessings
of the Town Board and now we must seek some information.
In Fairfield there remain only two of the signs erected by the state many
years ago. We had something similar in mind and we were told that a cast
iron sign like the old state signs would coast in the neighborhood of $700.
At this price, of course, we would not be able to purchase many. Can anyone
recommend some places that produce such signage? Any suggestions on other
materials that could be used? Would the DOT be in charge of the legal
aspect of placing these signs? Any comments or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated. Thank you.
Jane Dieffenbacher
P.O. Box 1
Middleville, NY 13406
315-891-3974
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In addition to historical markers, the Town of Fairfield would like to
preserve in the best possible manner the first two Town Record books, dating
from 1796. The pages have lasted quite well, as old paper does, but the
books have no hard covers. We would like each page preserved in mylar or
whatever is the best material and also to have them bound. Any suggestions?
What agency might provide information? Are there any outstanding, reputable
book binders that are recommended?
Both books have been transcribed and copied, and these copies have been
distributed to the Herkimer County Historical Society and area libraries. We
do not fear the loss of the information. But we would like to keep the
originals as they should properly be kept. They have been through many
strange, interesting, and extremely scary experiences in the last two hundred
years. Any suggestions to point us in the right direction will be greatly
appreciated.
Jane Dieffenbacher
Town Historian
P.O. Box 1
Middleville, NY 13406
315-891-3974
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John Barber and Henry Howe in "Historical Collections of the State of
New York," 1841 (reprinted in 1960s) have information on the shipwrecks of the
"Bristol" and "Mexico" in 1836-37 and the monument in the Sand Hole Church
Cemetery (now Rockville Cemetery in Lynbrook) to the 199 who died in those
wrecks off the Far Rockaway and Hempstead beaches. They do not list names but
do have the inscription on the monument.
Natalie Naylor, LI Studies Institute, Hofstra [log in to unmask]
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The New York State Program for the Conservation/Preservation of Library
Research Materials funds preservation of local records. We recommend that
before you begin treating materials that you apply for funding for a
general preservation survey. The next round of applications are due Dec.
5, 1997. I have added you to our mailing list. Applications themselves
are usually distributed in August. In addition, I usually conduct grant
writing workshops in the fall. You will also receive notification of the
dates and times of workshops.
I strongly suggest that before you apply that you call me to discuss your
proposal. My telephone number is 518-474-6971.
Barbara Lilley
NYS Conservation/Preservation Program Officer.
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> In addition to historical markers, the Town of Fairfield would like to
> preserve in the best possible manner the first two Town Record books, dating
> from 1796. The pages have lasted quite well, as old paper does, but the
> books have no hard covers. We would like each page preserved in mylar or
> whatever is the best material and also to have them bound. Any suggestions?
> What agency might provide information? Are there any outstanding, reputable
> book binders that are recommended?
> Both books have been transcribed and copied, and these copies have been
> distributed to the Herkimer County Historical Society and area libraries. We
> do not fear the loss of the information. But we would like to keep the
> originals as they should properly be kept. They have been through many
> strange, interesting, and extremely scary experiences in the last two hundred
> years. Any suggestions to point us in the right direction will be greatly
> appreciated.
> Jane Dieffenbacher
> Town Historian
> P.O. Box 1
> Middleville, NY 13406
> 315-891-3974
> [log in to unmask]
>
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This message has also been posted to NYLINE.
April 21, 1997
To NYHIST-L subscribers:
WOMEN PRISONERS, FAMILY FARMS, MOHICANS, CAMP SAGAMORE,
HUDSON VALLEY IMAGES ARE TOPICS FOR NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY RESEARCH
RESIDENTS
Princeton University Ph.D. candidate Cheryl Hicks is using the
collections of the New York State Library to help show how nineteenth
century ideas about morality influenced laws on the arrest and
incarceration of European immigrant and black women. Hicks is the
recipient of one of five 1997/98 New York State Library Research Residency
Awards announced today by Interim Director Lee Stanton.
The other recipients are:
Shirley Dunn, an author, who plans to publish "The Mohicans: People and
Places" based on her research at the New York State Library. The new book
will detail land transactions, identify influential sachems who appeared
often in land records, and contain material about the archeological
record.
Leila Philip, a university professor and journalist, who is
conducting research for her book "The Place", about the farm owned by
her family since 1705. Her inventories of papers from the 1820s to
the 1970s provide a unique view of the evolution of agriculture and fruit
growing in the Hudson Valley.
Dr. Michael Wilson, Associate Director of the Sagamore Institute
at Camp Sagamore in the Adirondacks, a former private wilderness retreat
for some of America's wealthiest entrepreneurs. He hopes to write a
history of Sagamore that will assist in the nomination of the camp for
National Historic Landmark status, and that will place the camp in the
broader context of Adirondack and American history.
Walter Wheeler, a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and
private architectural practitioner in Troy. He is coordinating
the compilation and production of a catalog of historic architectural
prints of the Hudson Valley. Images of the prints will be searchable by
location, subject, name of artist, and other entry points in a CD-ROM
publication.
"The New York State Library offers these Research Residency awards
to recognize and encourage individual research and to promote the use of
our collections in scholarly research," says Stanton. "The Library has
a special interest in supporting research and publications relating to
the history, culture, environment, and public policy of New York State."
"Research Residents receive direct borrowing privileges and
access to the reference, database, photoduplication, and
interlibrary loan services of the State of New York," adds Linda Braun,
Chair of the 1997 New York State Library Research Residency Committee.
"Research projects typically develop into books, articles, or public
lectures."
The New York State Library established its Research Residency
awards in 1986. Recent projects include studies of the status
of blacks in the Post-Civil War North from 1865-1915, a biography
of former Albany Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd, and a book on the Erie Canal.
The New York State Library is the largest state library in the
nation and the only state library to qualify for membership in
the Association of Research Libraries. The State Library's
research collection of more than 19 million items includes major
holdings in law, medicine, the social sciences, education,
American and New York State history and culture, the pure
sciences, and technology.
Information on the 1998/99 Research Residency Program, for
which applications will be due March 1, 1998, is available from
Research Residency Committee, New York State Library, State Education
Department, Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY 12230; email
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At Lutheran (All Faiths) Cemetery, there is the General Slocom monument. It
pays tribute to a German ship that sank off Manhattan with about 108 dead.
Most years, the someone does a memorial service.
Susan>
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I am looking for information on Dr. Phebe (correct spelling) Oliver, later
Dr. Phebe Oliver Briggs. She may have graduated from the Female Medical
College (?) in Philadelphia circa 1870. Do the records of this school exist?
In the late 1860's, (prior to her graduation from medical college),she may
have worked in New York City at the New York Infirmary for Women under Dr.
Elizabeth Blackwell. Do the records of this institution exist?
She apparently had some connection to the Quakers in Philadelphia as about
1871 she was appointed by them to work with Native Peoples. Are there any
records that could confirm this information.
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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Peter Warwick sent the following
update. (Items not in the chronologies are just "friends I haven't met
yet". I'm always glad to learn of omissions and errors. The timelines
are "works in progress" and constantly updated.) Thanks Peter.
"You forgot the launch of the Vandalia. The Vandalia, launched in the
fall of 1841 (date unknown) at Oswego, was the first American vessel to
sail on the Great Lakes using John Ericsson's propeller. On November
20, 1841 the Vandalia left Oswego on its maiden voyage to Hamilton,
Ontario, stopping off at Port Dalhousie (now part of St.Catharines) on
November 23 and sailing through the First Welland Canal as far as
St.Catharines. The Vandalia was originally intended to be a schooner of
Welland Canal dimensions. See "The Vandalia And Her Line Mates: Trend
Setters" by Richard F. Palmer, Fresh Water: A Journal Of Great Lakes
Marine History, Volume 3, Number 2, Winter, 1988, pages 14-20.=20
"It was not, as has often be claimed, the first propeller driven ship
to sail on the Great Lakes. That honor goes to, appropriately enough,
the Ericsson, built in 1840 at Brockville, Ontario, and made its first
voyage to Kingston, on Lake Ontario, on or about June 21, 1841."
Peter D.A. Warwick
St.Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Bike Through The Garden Of Canada
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Now, on with the show.
<bold>1845</bold>
Jan 29 =09
Edgar Allan Poe's <italic>The Raven </italic>appears in the New York
<italic>Evening Mirror</italic>.=20
=46ebruary=09
New York State pioneer Moses Van Campen is stricken with paralysis.
Apr 2 =09
The showboat <italic>Temple of the Muses</italic> debuts in New York
City's North River.
July =09
A fire destroys twenty shops on Rochester's Front and Works streets.
Volunteer firemen save the Reynolds Arcade and the steeple of St.
Paul's Church.
Jul 16 =09
AT&T president Theodore Newton Vail is born in Morristown, New Jersey.
September=09
American Temperance Union lecturer John Bartholomew Gough goes to New
York City to give a series of lectures. He disappears and is found
seven days later, drunk in a "house of ill repute" on Walker Street. He
claims he was kidnapped and drugged, and is believed.
Sep 20 =09
A tornado sweeps across northern New York State. There are no
casualties.
Dec 9 =09
Sophia Beatty Rochester, widow of Rochester founder Colonel Nathaniel
Rochester, dies at the age of 77.
Dec 13 =09
Editor-critic Hamilton Wright Mabie is born in Cold Spring.
City=20
=46ort Schuyler, on Throgg's Neck overlooking Long Island Sound is
completed, named for American Revolution general Philip Schuyler. **
James Wrigley bcomes a publisher. ** George Templeton Strong
becomes a partner in his father George Washington Strong's law firm. =20
** Sugar dealer William F. Havemeyer defeats Native Party mayor
James Harper and Whig Dudley Selden to become the Democratis Party
mayor for the next year. ** The <italic>Rainbow</italic>, the
first clipper, is launched by John W. Griffiths. ** The law firm
of Howland & Aspinwall sues the Federal government for the restoration
of 15 tons of rum seized by Customs for having been imported in small
casks.
State
The state legislature authorizes Utica entrepreneur Edward Brodhead to
construct a log aqueduct to bring water to the city, but the system is
never built. ** Construction begins on the Albany County
Penitentiary. ** Congressman Zadock Pratt hires an itinerant
stonecutter to carve a bust of him on a bolder near his village,
Prattsville. ** The state now has 661 miles of railroad track. =20
** Captain Harry Whitaker navigates the steamboat <italic>United
States </italic>between Buffalo and Detroit, Michigan, for the entire
winter, the first boat to do so. ** The population of Genesee
County reaches 28,845.=20
Rochester
Mason Street is renamed Front Street. ** Susan B. Anthony
arrives, to teach school.
Syracuse
Alexander Jackson Davis' Charles B. Sedgwick house is completed.
<bold>1846</bold>
=46eb 4 =09
A Mormon party under Samuel Brannan leaves New York City by the ship
<italic>Brooklyn</italic> for Yerba Buena (San Francisco).
Mar 20 =09
Herman Melville's <italic>Typee </italic>is published in New York
City.
April =09
The Albany County Penitentiary begins receiving prisoners.
Apr 24 =09
Edwin T. Christy's "Ethiopian Minstrels" open at New York City's
Palmo's Opera House.
Jun 19 =09
The first recorded baseball game in history is played, between the
Knickerbockers and the New York Nine, at Hoboken. New Jersey. The Nine
wins, 23-1. Umpire Alexander Cartwright fines one player 6=A2 for
cursing.
Sep 26 =09
Colonel Stevenson and his volunteer settlers sail from New York for
California.
City
The city charter is revised. ** Richard Upjohn's new Trinity
Church is erected at Broadway and Wall Street. ** Tobacco tycoon
Andrew F. Mickle, running on the Democratic ticket, defeats Whig Robert
Taylor and Native Party candidate William B. Cozzens for the office of
mayor. ** The city's jurisdiction over underwater lands is
extended. ** William Kirkland, editor of the <italic>New York
Evening Mirror</italic> and his own <italic>The Christian
Inguirer</italic>, near sighted and deaf, accidentally walks off a pier
and drowns.
State
Riga Academy is founded. ** A press festival of printers and
newspapermen is held. ** J. K. Richardson is elected surrogate
judge of Seneca County. ** Portions of Allegany County become
part of Wyoming and Livingston counties. ** Horace E. Purdy
begins publishing Oramel's <italic>Republican Era</italic>. ** Dr.
Ebenezer Emmons begins publishing the report of the New York State
Agricultural Department. ** Millard Fillmore becomes the first
chancellor of the University of Buffalo. ** George Brinton
McClellan graduates from West Point. ** George Westinghouse, Jr.
is born in Central Bridge.
Rochester
Vessel tonnage operating out of Rochester reaches 3,074 tons. ** =20
Congress Hall opens on Mill Street. ** A Liberty Pole is erected
on East Main Street.
<bold>1847
</bold>
Jan 18 =09
Rochester newspapermen celebrate the 141st anniversary of Benjamin
=46ranklin's birth by holding a banquet and collecting reminiscences of
printing in New York State, to be published in pamphlet form.
May 1 =09
Herman Melville's <italic>Omoo </italic>is published, in New York
City.
Jun 27 =09
New York City and Boston are linked by telegraph.
Jul 1 =09
The first U. S. adhesive postage stamps are sold, in New York City.
November=09
The Liberty Party meets in New York City, nominate New Hampshire's John
P. Hale and Ohio's Leicester King.
Nov 11 =09
The steamer <italic>Phoenix</italic>, loaded with Dutch immigrants,
leaves Buffalo onto Lake Erie. =20
Nov 20 =09
The <italic>Phoenix</italic> leaves Manitowac, Wisconsin.
Nov 21 =09
The <italic>Phoenix</italic> burns; 207 immigrants die.
Dec 14 =09
New York senator D. S. Dickinson introduces resolutions relegating
slavery in the territories to the legislatures concerned (popular
sovereignty. The resolutions are affirmed.
City
The approximate date Frederick Newbold Lawrence builds a mansion in
Queens' future Oakland Gardens, nanmes it the Oaks. ** Whig
fiscal conservative William V. Brady defeats Democrat J. Sherman
Brownell and Native Party candidate E. G. Drake to become mayor,
serving a one year term. ** John Larkin founds Xavier High
School, a Jesuit school for boys, in Holy Name Church, at the
intersection of Elizabeth and Walker streets. ** Caroline Matilda
Stansbury Kirkland, William Kirkland's widow, becomes editor of
<italic>The Union Magazine </italic> ** Violinist Camillo
Sivori performs. ** The Fall River Line of steamboats goes into
business, running Long Island Sound routes between the city and Fall
River, Massachusetts.
State
Syracuse is incoporated as a city. ** Perfectionist John Humphery
Noyes visits his disciple Jonathan Burt's colony at Oneida Creek. Noyes
gets the idea for his own utopian colony ** Subscribers raise less
than $38,000 for the Utica Water Works Company, only about half of the
required amount. Engineer Thomas Hopper raises the rest.
<bold>1848</bold>
January =09
New York City's Holy Name Church is destroyed by fire. Xavier High
School, located in the building, moves to quarters in St. James
Church.
April =09
The Lake Ontario steamer <italic>Niagara</italic> is nearly wrecked.
June<bold> =09
</bold>A new <italic>Ontario</italic> steamboat is launched.
Jun 2 =09
The Liberty League convenes in Rochester, nominates the New York's
Gerrit Smith and Michigan's Charles E. Foote.
Jun 9 =09
The Whigs nominate Zachary Taylor and New York's Millard Fillmore.
Jun 22 =09
The Barnburners, a group of radical Democrats in New York state, meet
at Baltimore and nominate Martin Van Buren and Wisconsin's Henry
Dodge.
Jul 19 =09
The first Women's Rights convention in America is held in Seneca Falls,
chaired by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Abolitionist
=46rederick Douglass attends.
Jul 28 =09
Douglass writes approvingly of the Seneca Falls women's suffrage
convention, in his Rochester <italic>North Star</italic>.
Aug 9 =09
The Free Soil Party meets in Buffalo, nominates Martin Van Buren and
Massachusetts' Charles Francis Adams, on the platform "Free soil, free
speech , free labor and free men."
Aug 19 =09
New York's <italic>Herald</italic> is the first eastern paper to report
the discovery of gold in California.
Sep 22 =09
Circus impresario Sig Sautelle is born in Luzerne, New York.
October =09
Berith (later B'rith) Kodesh, Rochester's first synagogue, is built.
Nov 7 =09
Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore are elected President and
Vice-President of the United States.
Dec 16 =09
A fire destroys New York City's Park Theatre.
Dec 24 =09
Noyes and his disciples move in to the new community room at the Oneida
Perfectionist colony.
Dec 25 =09
Alexandre Dumas' play <italic>Monte Cristo</italic> opens at New York
City's Broadway Theatre.
City
Alexander T. Steward founds the first department store, on Broadway. =20
** City University is founded. ** Former Democratic mayor
William F. Havemeyer is elected once again, defeating Whig mayor
William V. Brady by 928 votes, out of 46,280. ** High Bridge over
the Harlem River is completed. ** New York and Chicago are linked
by telegraph. ** The Public School Society begins evening
schools. ** A group of city newspapers organize the Associated
Press.
State
The city of Auburn is incorporated. ** The Utica Water Works
Company begins operations, with engineer Thomas Hopper as president (he
raised half the money). ** The Rochester & Tonawanda and the
Auburn & Rochester railroads replace their unsafe strip rails with the
new T-bar rails. Rochester & Tonawanda profits reach $57,000 while the
Auburn & Rochester makes $96,000, both railroads paying dividends of 8%
to stockholders. ** Perfectionistslead by John Humphrey Noyes
establish a socialist community atOneida. He publishes his pamphlet
<italic>Bible Communism</italic>. ** The location of the Seneca
County Agricultural Fair begins settling in the town that raises the
most money, finally settles in Waterloo in 1870. ** <italic>The
Political Investigator</italic>, a monthly newspaper, begins
publication at Angelica, runs for a short time. ** The New York &
Hudson River Railroad is extended to Fishkill. ** Mrs. W. G.
Bryan opens a music school for young ladies in Batavia's Ellicott
Mansion. ** The railroad reaches Whitehall. ** The village
of Corning, with a population of about 850, is incorporated. ** =20
Syracuse architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee is born. ** Chester A.
Arthur graduates from Schenectady's Union College. ** =20
Canajoharie school teacher Susan B. Anthony reads about the recent
Seneca Falls convention.
Albany
Dr. Amos Pillsbury assumes the directorship of the Albany County
Penitentiary. ** The Shaker meeting house at Watervliet is
built.
Rochester
William A. Reynolds hires Burlington, Vermont, architect Henry Searle
to design a meeting place across Works Street from his arcade, for
gatherings of the Athenaeum & Mechanics Association. Columns on the
front of the building will give it its name - Corinthian Hall. ** =20
The Rochester Gas Company is chartered. ** Enos Stone erects a
building on South St. Paul Street ** Captain Robert Harding's
Victorian Gothic mansion is built, on Brooks Avenue. ** The
second Women's Rights Convention is held, passes a resolution to have
the word "obey" struck from the marriage vows.
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David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
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A couple of weeks ago, somebody inquired as to whether or not there
was a listing of cemeteries in some upstate counties, Saratoga and
Warren counties I believe. I just returned from visiting the offices of the
Department of State's Division of Cemeteries and I can report that the
division maintains two sets of indices that list almost all cemeteries in the
state.
The first index (both indices are 3 x 5 cards) is arranged alphabetically
by county and therein alphabetically by name of cemetery. The cards
provide very, very, summary information (e.g. name of cemetery,
incorporation date, officers in charge, and capacity). They DO NOT
contain any information about people buried in the cemetery and the
division DOES NOT maintain any such information either. The second set
of cards duplicates the first set but this set is arranged alphabetically by
name of cemetery.
I spoke to division staff about their referencing the cards. They do
perform some reference service but it is minimal. You'll have to keep in
mind that the division's primary function is to regulate cemeteries for
which it is responsible and not answering detailed reference questions.
If you would like to speak to somebody in the division about the cards
you can do so by calling 474-6226.
If anybody has any questions please feel free to contact me.
Daniel Lorello
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Appraisal & Accessioning Unit
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474-6771
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The USGS can help find cemetery locations at:
http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html
This url asks for county & state and feature (either type or name). If
you ask for, for instance, Columbia County, NY cemeteries you will get:
USGS
Feature Name St County Type Latitude Longitude 7.5' x
7.5' Map
------------------- -- -------------- ------ -------- ---------
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Ancram Old NY Columbia cemete 420237N 0733839W Ancram
Cemetery
Austerlitz NY Columbia cemete 421810N 0732819W State Line
Cemetery
Canaan Cemetery NY Columbia cemete 422333N 0732721W Canaan
Cedar Park NY Columbia cemete 421434N 0734617W Hudson
South
Cemetery
Cemetery of the NY Columbia cemete 422830N 0732306W Canaan
Evergreens
Collins Cemetery NY Columbia cemete 421250N 0733121W Hillsdale
Cornwall-Tilden NY Columbia cemete 422744N 0732442W Canaan
Cemetery
Crum Church NY Columbia cemete 421442N 0733536W Hillsdale
Cemetery
Firwood Cemetery NY Columbia cemete 422322N 0734648W Ravena
Germantown NY Columbia cemete 420754N 0735218W Hudson
South
Reformed Cemetery
Harlemville NY Columbia cemete 421616N 0733505W Chatham
Cemetery
Hillsdale Cemetery NY Columbia cemete 421117N 0733436W Hillsdale
Immaculate NY Columbia cemete 422803N 0732522W Canaan
Conception
Cemetery
Livingston NY Columbia cemete 420957N 0735030W Hudson
South
Reformed Cemetery
Mott Cemetery NY Columbia cemete 422854N 0732302W Canaan
Mountain View NY Columbia cemete 422355N 0733131W East
Chatham
Cemetery
Niver Cemetery NY Columbia cemete 421033N 0733537W Hillsdale
Red Rock Cemetery NY Columbia cemete 422139N 0733010W Chatham
Sacred Heart NY Columbia cemete 421502N 0733806W Stottville
Cemetery
Saint James NY Columbia cemete 422002N 0733648W Chatham
Cemetery
Saint Paul NY Columbia cemete 422101N 0734437W Stottville
Cemetery
Stuyvesant Falls NY Columbia cemete 422114N 0734430W Stottville
Cemetery
Swartwout Memorial NY Columbia cemete 421530N 0734630W Hudson
North
Cemetery
The Maples NY Columbia cemete 422506N 0733049W East
Chatham
Cemetery
Union Cemetery NY Columbia cemete 420256N 0733819W Ancram
Union Cemetery NY Columbia cemete 421513N 0733940W Stottville
Union Ghent NY Columbia cemete 421847N 0733741W Stottville
Cemetery
Valley View NY Columbia cemete 420915N 0735200W Hudson
South
Cemetery
Williams Cemetery NY Columbia cemete 420844N 0733024W Hillsdale
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Can someone answer this interesting question?
______
I am writing a college senior research paper on Franklin Roosevelt and
in all the books I have referenced it states that he ran for Governor in
1928 and then again in 1930. I am puzzled as I thought the Governor was
elected to a four year term. I need to clear this detail up for my
paper. I would appreciate any help you can give me. If the N.Y.
Governor used to be elected to a two term when was this changed.??
Thank You,
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In a message dated 97-04-22 10:06:51 EDT, Susan Walski wrote:
<< At Lutheran (All Faiths) Cemetery, there is the General Slocom monument.
It
pays tribute to a German ship that sank off Manhattan with about 108 dead.
Most years, the someone does a memorial service.
At least 1021 people died on the General Slocum. The burning ship was
beached by the captain on North Brother Island above the Hell Gate at the
beginning of the Bronx. Lutheran Cemetery appears to be in Queens.
Most of the victims of the Gen. Slocum disaster were from St. Mark's Lutheran
Church in what became known as the Lower East Side. Hence many were buried
in Lutheran Cemetery. One procession from St. Mark's to Lutheran Cemetery
had 156 hearses. The General Slocum was New York City greatest single
disaster.
The naval disaster that has hither to been referred to apparently took place
off the Rockaways, a far cry from North Brother Island. But should the
original writer be unsure of the site of the disaster this in fact may be it.
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You might want to check with:
Canal Society of New York State
c/o Anita Cotrell, Secretary Reasurer
7308 Jamesville Road
Manlius, NY 13104
The society erects two markers a year at canal sites
I don't remember what was said about the cost (paid for by field trip
donations) but Anita should be able to tell you who does them and what the
cost is.
The Society does not, at this time, have e-mail or presence on the WWW. You
could either write, or call the Society president Tom Grasso (716 292-2420)
at Monroe Community College. He would probably also know.
David
>The Town of Fairfield celebrated a successful Bicentennial last year and now
>the Bicentennial committee finds itself with hard earned funds to spend on a
>town project. We would like to purchase roadside markers to place by
>historically significant sites in Fairfield. This project has the blessings
>of the Town Board and now we must seek some information.
>In Fairfield there remain only two of the signs erected by the state many
>years ago. We had something similar in mind and we were told that a cast
>iron sign like the old state signs would coast in the neighborhood of $700.
> At this price, of course, we would not be able to purchase many. Can anyone
>recommend some places that produce such signage? Any suggestions on other
>materials that could be used? Would the DOT be in charge of the legal
>aspect of placing these signs? Any comments or suggestions would be greatly
>appreciated. Thank you.
>Jane Dieffenbacher
>P.O. Box 1
>Middleville, NY 13406
>315-891-3974
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Could you give an area code for those phone numbers, please?
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David Minor wrote:
>
> Peter Warwick sent the following update. (Items not in the
> chronologies are just "friends I haven't met yet". I'm always glad to
> learn of omissions and errors. The timelines are "works in progress"
> and constantly updated.) Thanks Peter.
>
> Jul 19
> The first Women's Rights convention in America is held in Seneca
> Falls, chaired by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
> Abolitionist Frederick Douglass attends.
>
Well, technically it was JAMES Mott in the Chair, according to A History
of Woman Suffrage by Stanton, Anthony and Gage
Bob Shear
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I suggest you contact the archivist at the
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For the person requesting the area code for the phone numbers I gave
yesterday, it is 518 (Albany area).
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I am looking for information about a school in Dansville, New York-a seminary
or women's college or high school ca. 1870s.
I have a researcher who is seeking information on the school or the possible
location of its records. The primary interest is for a biography on Frances
Beardslee. She is seeking information about ellen Rigby and Frank B. Davis.
If anyone has any leads as to this school or the location of any records, I
would appreciate hearing about it.
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Individual sheet encapsulation of your records books can be very costly
and is usually not needed. A less costly approach, especially since the
pages themselves are in good condition, would be to have the book
rebound with archival covers and endpapers. Which approach you take
will depend on the money available, the overall condition of the volumes,
and the intended use of the volumes. If you expect that they will be
handled and/or exhibited extensively (on a monthly basis) then the
encapsulation would be appropriate. If however they will be brought out
only one or twice a year then rebinding would be the better strategy.
There are a number of vendors that operate through out the state. Some
are better than others. You want to carefully evaluate the materials and
procedures that they are using as well as the viability of the approach
that the vendor proposes. I would be happy to discuss your project with
you or to send you publications that I have on rebinding of volumes. You
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I received this query recently. Anyone out there have any suggestions,
especially on contemporary newspaper accounts?
>My wife's GG Grandmother, Laura Tryon Mack, returned to Connecticut via
>the Erie Canal
>in the autumn/spring of 1840-41. Her husband had died in Ohio and she
>resolved to
>get back "home" with her several small children. Her 21 year old son
>Noah E Mack
>found an abandoned boat, fixed it up with shingles and whatnot and off
>they headed.
>According to family lore they became celebrities of sorts as "Noah's
>Ark" made its
>way back East. Apparently their arrival was anticipated in newspapers
>along the way
>and usually brought out crowds to cheer them on. They wintered in
>Phelps NY with
>some relatives.
>
>My question is this: can you point me toward newspaper records of those
>days?
>
>Do they still exist? Where? Etc. Any advice you can give me on how to
>proceed to
>find verifications of these events would be greatly appreciated.
>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
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The attached looks quite interesting. Bill Evans
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NEW WEB SITE ON-LINE:
Visit the FIVE POINTS HOME PAGE, a new interactive Web site featuring
historic images of New York City's legendary 19th-century slum, artifacts
from the ongoing Foley Square/Five Points archaeological project, and an
introduction to the complex story of this fascinating fragment of New York
history.
http://199.75.180.203:8080/fivept/fphome.htm
The Five Points Home Page is fairly graphic-intensive and is best viewed
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I saw a Mickey Roonie (ey?) movie onetime, and this scene was in the beginning
of the movie, I can't remember if it was a biography or what, some seaches
could clear that up.
Art
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> In a message dated 97-04-22 10:06:51 EDT, Susan Walski wrote:
>
> << At Lutheran (All Faiths) Cemetery, there is the General Slocom monument.
> It
> pays tribute to a German ship that sank off Manhattan with about 108 dead.
> Most years, the someone does a memorial service.
>
> At least 1021 people died on the General Slocum. The burning ship was
> beached by the captain on North Brother Island above the Hell Gate at the
> beginning of the Bronx. Lutheran Cemetery appears to be in Queens.
>
> Most of the victims of the Gen. Slocum disaster were from St. Mark's Lutheran
> Church in what became known as the Lower East Side. Hence many were buried
> in Lutheran Cemetery. One procession from St. Mark's to Lutheran Cemetery
> had 156 hearses. The General Slocum was New York City greatest single
> disaster.
>
> The naval disaster that has hither to been referred to apparently took place
> off the Rockaways, a far cry from North Brother Island. But should the
> original writer be unsure of the site of the disaster this in fact may be it.
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> Jim Maguire
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John Barber and Henry Howe in "Historical Collections of the State of
New York," 1841 (reprinted in 1960s) have information on the shipwrecks of
the
"Bristol" and "Mexico" in 1836-37 and the monument in the Sand Hole Church
Cemetery (now Rockville Cemetery in Lynbrook) to the 199 who died in those
wrecks off the Far Rockaway and Hempstead beaches. They do not list names
but
do have the inscription on the monument.
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It is my understanding that in 1847 NY established a Board of Commissioners
of Emigration to "receive immigrants and register them". Can anyone advise
me where this commission's "registers" are archived?
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Between 1848 and 1890 the New York State Commissioners of
Emigration (so-called) were responsible for the reception of immigrants
entering New York City. The Commissioners contracted with the Federal
government to provide this service. The Commissioners conducted
medical inspections of immigrants, and they regulated port vessels,
boarding houses, railroad agents, and other businesses dealing with
immigrants. After 1855 the Commissioners operated an immigrant
reception center at Castle Garden in lower Manhattan. (This facility was
the predecessor to Ellis Island, opened in 1892.) The published annual
reports of the Commissioners of Emigration are available in the New York
State Library and probably in other major research libraries holding
collections of New York State (printed) government documents.
However, the records of the Commissioners are not in the New York
State Archives or the National Archives, and are presumed to have been
destroyed.
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To see who has what newspapers on microfilm in New York State,
check the NYS Newspaper Project Web site at
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/
Even if the paper is not listed there (because it is not on microfilm), the
names, addresses and phone numbers of repositories are there. Some
repositories may have the newspapers for the period you want in paper
form. Also, it may be that the news for the community in which you are
interested was covered by a newspaper in a neighboring community
during the period you want; staff at the local libraries or historical
societies may be able to point you to the names of those places. (Or you
can do it on your own by putting a pin in the name of the community on
the map and draw ever-widening concentric circles to see which
communities were closest to the one you want and then check the NYS
Newspaper Project Web site to see if papers for those times and places
are available on microfilm.)
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The foundry that produced the original State Historic Markers still does
the same for privately funded markers. They switched from cast iron
[$130 each] to aluminum [$400 each] a few years ago.
If you e-mail us we can send you one of their fact sheets, but we also
encourage anyone to explore options with other foundries in their area.
There are a number that work in aluminum and bronze, but if you want
them to duplicate a certain form, they may have to create molds, which
can be costly.
Their phone number is 607 538-1160
Phil Lord
NYS Museum
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RE: placement of historic markers.
The landowner controls the placement of any signage, including historic
markers. You have to determine who owns the land and negotiate with
that person.
Most roadside markers, in order to be readable, would have to be placed
on state or county highway rights-of-way. Yet most highway agencies
restrict the installation of signs within the ROW, as these are seen as
traffic hazards.
Phil Lord
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Does the Department of State listing of cemeteries include just
incorporated or "active" cemeteries, or does it include the many burial
plots and burying grounds that dot the landscape? My impression is that
there is a lot of interest, and concern about these latter cases.
Phil Lord
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At 09:00 AM 4/28/97 -0400, you wrote:
>The foundry that produced the original State Historic Markers still does
>the same for privately funded markers. They switched from cast iron
>[$130 each] to aluminum [$400 each] a few years ago.
>
>If you e-mail us we can send you one of their fact sheets, but we also
>encourage anyone to explore options with other foundries in their area.
>There are a number that work in aluminum and bronze, but if you want
>them to duplicate a certain form, they may have to create molds, which
>can be costly.
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>Their phone number is 607 538-1160
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>Phil Lord
>NYS Museum
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Phil, I'd like one of the fact sheets on the foundry which produced the
original markers. Thanks in advance, Bruce L. Lloyd, 53 South Knoll Drive,
Dryden, NY 13053
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Phil, I asked that question of Division of Cemeteries staff and the best
answer they could give me was that the index contains summary
information on "almost all" cemteries in New York State and not just those
that were incorporated. I do know there are cards for cemeteries that
have been abandoned or were not incorporated. There are also cards
pertaining to religious, municipal, and private cemeteries. My guess is
that the cards may not document every single cemetery throughout the
state, but they come pretty close to it.
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There are no complete lists of cemeteries maintained at
any level of state government. Those files maintained by
the Department of State are far from complete, excluding
many smaller, older cemeteries.
USGS and DOT maps show only a small percentage of
cemetery locations. For the smaller cemeteries, there is no
rationale to which are mapped.
Some county and municipal historians have compiled
complete lists, and often have mapped the cemetery
locations as well. These lists may or may not exist, as
there is no legal requirement that they be maintained.
Local historical societies and libraries may maintain these
lists as well.
In Rensselaer County, all cemetery locations have been
mapped on computer in a G.I.S. maintained by the county.
The number of cemeteries identified and mapped was
staggering, and this data layer is updated as necessary. It
is quite possible that similar G.I.S. data layers or other
computer lists of cemeteries exist at other counties as well.
Another good source of cemetery lists is the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The Mormons have
compiled complete lists and have made fastidious copies
of cemetery inscriptions in various parts of the state.
In other words, there is no one, easy source to consult.
But isn't that true for all local historical research?
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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Received the following from Peter
Warwick of St. Catharines, Ontario, referring to a recent NYNY:
"Um, David, I er... hate to tell you this, but the first baseball game
in history was played in Canada. In the October/November, 1994 issue of
<italic>The Beaver</italic>, pages 12-17, there's an article entitled
"Abner Who? Baseball's Canadian Roots" by Mark Kearney. Basically it
reviews the claim of Dr. Adam Ford of Denver about a game of baseball
played at Beachville, Ontario, on June 4, 1838. The claim, which has
been investigated by historians, is authentic. Dr. Ford made the claim
in a lengthy letter published May 5, 1886 in <italic>Sporting Life
Magazine</italic>, based in Philadelphia. It provides details and a
diagram of the baseball "diamond". Among the illustrations in The
<italic>Beaver</italic> article is one taken from the <italic>Canadian
Illustrated News</italic> in 1876 showing a game of baseball being
played at London, Ontario, between a team from London and a team from
Chicago. The claim in recognized as authentic by baseball historians."
Just a sidelight to<italic> New York</italic> history, of course, and
there may be some wishing to dispute the claim (not me), but that will
have to wait for some other forum. My thanks to Peter and all of you
out there striving to keep me honest and accurate.
Now, on to:
<bold>1849</bold>
Feb 5
Manning and Mackintosh sell their concession across the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec to New York City speculator P. A. Hargous.
Feb 7
The U. S. Supreme Court rules against Massachusetts and New York,
banning the practice of taxing each immigrant arriving.
Mar 29
Ice blocks the mouth of the Niagara River, which runs dry for 30
hours.
Apr 7
The state legislature charters the Panama Railroad Company.
Apr 11
Albany City Hospital is incorporated.
Apr 14
Herman Melville's <italic>Redburn </italic>published in New York.
May 10
Actors' claques for Edwin Forest and William Charles Macready riot at
Astor Place in New York City. Thirty-four people are killed by the 7th
Regiment.
Jun 12
Herr Freebertshyster and the Germania Campanologians bell-ringing act
appear at Albany's Bleecker Hall.
Nov 14
Two of the Fox sisters, Margaret and Ann, give a demonstration of their
spirit rappings at Rochester's Corinthian Hall.
Nov 15
A committee conducts an investigation of the Fox sisters at Rochester's
Sons of Temperance Hall, finding no evidence of deceit on the part of
the girls. The audience demands another investigation.
Nov 16
A second Rochester committee fails to find evidence of deceit in the
Fox sisters. Citizens hostile to spiritualism demand a third
investigation, sitting on the committee themselves.
Nov 17
The third Rochester committee can detect no faking of the Fox rappings.
When they announce their findings a mob rushes the stage and is fought
back by Police Justice S. W. D. Moore and his men.
Nov 22
The New York <italic>Weekly Tribune</italic> prints an account of the
Rochester committees. Other New York City journals will also report on
the upstate Spiritulaism movement.
City
Whig Caleb S. Woodhull defeats Democrat Myndert Van Schaick to become
mayor. His one-year term will extend into 1851, when voting for the
office undergoes changes. ** The Distin family introduces the
saxophone to the U. S.
State
J. T. Headley's <italic>The Adirondacks</italic>: <italic>or, A Life
in the Woods. </italic>** John Butterfield organizes the
Butterfield and Wasson Express Company. ** Batavia postmaster
Frederick Follett is named state Canal Commissioner. ** Allegany
County's jail in Angelica is built. ** An amusement wheel ride is
featured at the State Fair in Syracuse. ** Orsamus Turner's
<italic>Pioneer History of the Western Purchase of Western New
York</italic>. ** Albany's St. Vincent Orphan Asylum is
incorporated. ** The Utica Water Works Company begins supplying
customers from a distributing reservoir on Corn Hill. ** Albany's
State Library is divided, with one of the Libraries of the Court of
Appeals going to Syracuse and the other going to Rochester. **
Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first U. S. woman doctor, graduating
from Geneva College. ** Kate and Margaret Fox of Hydesville, New
York, become the first U. S. spiritualists, communing with the departed
by spirit rapping. They hold seances at Auburn.
Corning
The New York and Erie Railroad reaches the city. ** The cityis
now the third largest shipping point in New York State.
Rochester
Corinthian Hall is completed. ** A house is built on Spring
Street for insurance agent Henry R. Brewster.
1850
Apr 27
The Collins Line begins its steamship business with the launching of
the <italic>Atlantic</italic>, in New York City, competing with
Britain's Cunard Line.
July
The Auburn & Rochester and Auburn & Syracuse railroads are consolidated
into the Rochester, Auburn & Syracuse.
Jul 2
<italic>Seawitch</italic> sets the N.Y.-to-San Francisco record - 97
days.
Jul 15
2,000 New York City tailors walk off the job. One worker is killed in
the dispute, the first such labor death in the U. S. No gains are made.
The Cooperative Union of Tailoring Estates grows out of the incident.
Jul 18
The <italic>Elizabeth</italic> anchors off New York's Fire Island.
Jul 19
The <italic>Elizabeth</italic> is driven ashore by a storm. Philosopher
Margaret Fuller and her family drown within sight of shore. Several
seamen survive.
Jul 29
The side-wheeler <italic>Baltic</italic> hits a rock four miles above
Niagara Falls and sinks. All passengers are removed safely and the ship
is later raised.
Sep 11
Swedish singer Jenny Lind makes her American debut in New York City at
Castle Garden, promoted by P. T. Barnum.
Oct 30
A mass meeting in New York City resolves to sustain the Fugitive Slave
Act.
City
Xavier High School moves from 77 Third Avenue to 30 West 16th Street
and changes
Volney B. Palmer expands his Philadelphia advertising brokerage to New
York and Boston, calling it the American Newspaper Advertising Agency.
** Horace Greeley convinces Phoebe and Alice Cary, the poet
sisters, to relocate from Cincinnati, Ohio. ** Population passes
500,000.
State
A canal weighlock is built in Syracuse. ** The water supply
system of the Utica Water Works Association is abandoned. **
Byron E. Huntley founds the Johnston Harvester Works in Brockport, to
manufacture McCormick reapers. ** The Seneca Falls firm of Cowing
& Company begins manufacturing fire fighting equipment. ** Hector
fruit farmer George G. Wickham moves to Montour. ** The former
Batavia mansion of land agent Joseph Ellicott becomes the Bryan
Seminary for Young Ladies. ** Henry Wells, of Greenport, Long
Island, begins seining menhaden and establishes the first
steam-operated fish oil extraction plant, on Shelter Island. **
The Rochester & Tonawanda and the Buffalo & Attica railroads are
consolidated. The number of cross-state railroads in New York drops
from seven to five. ** A New York-to-Boston route through
Connecticut is opened. ** Exective Dean Richmond becomes Chairman
of the New York State Democratic Committee. ** The Fox sisters
hold further seances at Auburn. They begin holding others in New York
City, where they are attended by James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen
Bryant, Horace Greeley and others. Greeley defends the Foxes. **
J. E. B. Stuart enters West Point.
Albany
The city establishes a municipal water system, appointing a Board of
Water Commissioners.
Geneva
A Gothic home with adobe walls is built at 629 South Main Street. **
Farmer Robert Swan buys Rose Hill Farm.
Rochester
The city founds a Home for the Friendless for prostitutes. **
City pioneer Hamlet Scrantom dies. ** The University of Rochester
and the Rochester Theological Seminary are founded in the United States
Hotel. ** Leonard Jerome, grandfather of Winston Churchill, sells
his interest in the Rochester <italic>Daily American</italic>, moves to
Brooklyn. ** Works Street is renamed Exchange Place. ** The
city police department begins using the north wing of downtown's market
building for a police court and overnight jail. ** The second
court house is built. ** The Erie Railroad is completed through
the city. ** The Rochester & Hemlock Lake and the Rochester &
Pittsford, plank road companies are organized. ** <italic>Moore's
Rural New Yorker</italic>, a weekly farm journal, begins publication.
** City lines are adjusted at the northeast and northwest corners,
increasing the total square miles to 7.95. ** Spirit rappings are
demonstrated in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Mrs. B. G. Bushnell, a witness of
the Rochester manifestations.
<bold>1851</bold>
Apr 17
The Law School of the University of Albany is chartered.
Apr 29
New York City's Cooper Union college is chartered. Discrimination
because of race, religion or color is forbidden.
May
Gro
along with his parents and siblings.
May 15
The first train on the Erie Railroad, with Millard Fillmore and
Secretary of State Daniel Webster aboard, travels from New York City to
Dunkirk, connecting the city to the Great Lakes by rail for the first
time. The <italic>USS Michigan</italic> is part of the Dunkirk
celebration.
Jun 3
The New York Knickerbocker baseball team is the first to wear uniforms,
including straw hats and baggy blue pants.
Jun 14
The Hudson River railroad is extended north as far as Hudson.
Sep 2
The side-wheeler <italic>Bunker Hill</italic> burns to the water line
at a dock in Tonawanda.
Sep 14
Author James Fenimore Cooper dies in Cooperstown.
Sep 18
The first issue of the New York <italic>Daily Times </italic>is
published, with Henry J. Raymond as editor.
Oct 1
The first New York to Albany train trip is made. ** A fugitive
slave named Jerry is freed from a jail in Syracuse.
Oct 8
The railroad from New York to Albany commences service.
Oct 25
Karl Marx begins publishing in Horace Greeley's
<italic>Tribune</italic>. His <italic>Revolution and Counter
Revolution</italic> begins serial publication in the newspaper.
Oct 29
Financier Edward Gould Richmond is born in Attica.
Nov 14
Herman Melville's <italic>Moby Dick </italic>is published, by Harper
and Brothers, in New York City.
Dec 29
Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert (Lola Montez), former mistress of
Ludwig I of Bavaria, makes her U. S. stage debut in
<italic>Betley</italic> at New York City's Broadway Theatre.
City
Griffith Thomas' Union Club is built at 20th Street and Fifth Avenue.
** Henry Wood, brother of future New York City mayor Fernando Wood,
founds Wood's Minstrels. The group plays the city for the next fifteen
years. ** Importer Ambrose C. Kingsland becomes the first mayor
elected for a single, two-year term - in a change forced by his own
party, the Whigs - defeating Democrat Fernando Wood. ** The
Brooklyn Navy Yard Dry Dock Number One, the U. S. Navy's first, is
completed. ** The Donald McKay ship <italic>Flying Cloud</italic>
sets the all-time clipper record for the run from New York to San
Francisco - 89 day and 8 hours.
State
Albany establishes a municipal water system. ** Irish immigrant
James Malony begins commercial fishing operations out of Dunkirk, on
Lake Erie. ** Stock is offered to the public for a Genesee Valley
Railway, but sales are slow. ** The Rochester, Auburn and Syracuse
Railroad receives a charter for a line along the Erie Canal. **
The policy of req
Erie Canal tolls is abandoned. ** The National Temperance
Convention meets at Saratoga Springs. ** Dr. Philo Hayes builds
the mansion Hillside in Wyoming, to be used as a water cure sanitarium.
** Lewis Henry Morgan's <italic>League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee,
or Iroquois</italic> is published. ** The pamphlet
<italic>Discovery and Explanation of he Source of the Phenomena known
as the Rochester Knockings </italic> is published in Buffalo. It is
among several claims that the knockings are produced by the voluntary
partial dislocation of joints in the body. ** Amelia Bloomer
introduces Elizabeth Stanton to Susan B. Anthony, in Seneca Falls.
Batavia
The Bank of the Genesee is reorganized as a national bank. ** The
village's first businessman and postmaster, James Brisbane, dies.
Rochester
A 6,230 pound bell is cast to be hung in the second County Court House.
** Daniel Webster and Jenny Lind visit the city. **
Author-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson visits the city, is given a tour
of the University of Rochester. ** The Fox family moves from
Rochester to New York City, where they hold further seances.
<bold>1852</bold>
Mar 13
Uncle Sam first appears in a newspaper cartoon, in the New York weekly
<italic>Diogenes, Hys Lantern</italic> (sic).
Apr 2
Albany's Dudley Observatory, founded with the aid of Mrs. Blandina
Dudley, is incorporated.
Apr 21
Dion Boucicault's dramatization of Dumas' <italic>The Corsican
Brothers</italic> premieres at New York City's Bowery Theatre.
Jul 28
The Hudson River steamer <italic>Henry Clay</italic>, racing the
steamer <italic>Armenia</italic>, catches fire, off of Fort Lee, New
Jersey. Close to 60 people drown or burn to death.
Sep 8
James William Walleck opens New York City's Walleck's Lyceum theater.
Sep 27
Actor-playwright George L. Aiken premieres his unauthorized
dramatization of <italic>Uncle Tom's Cabin</italic> in Troy.
Dec 2
New York City Police evict the 1000 occupants of the Old Brewery
building in the Five Points section of Manhattan in preparation for the
demolition of this breeding ground of crime.
City
Shipbuilder Jacob A. Westervelt defeats Whig candidate Morgan Morgans
to become Democratic mayor. ** The city is granted jurisdiction to
underwater lands in the Harlem River. ** Collector Thomas
Jefferson Bryan returns to New York after touring Europe since 1823. He
opens a gallery in the New York Society Library on Broadway. **
English novelist William Makepeace Thackery arrives to give six
lectures on English writers to the First Unitarian Society.
State - The Erie Railroad builds a branch from Hornellsville to
Buffalo. ** Seneca County surrogate judge J. K. Richardson retires.
** The Industrial Home Association founds the village of Mount
Vernon. ** Brockport's Johnston Harvester works is destroyed by
fire. The operation is moved to Batavia. ** Angelica's
<italic>Allegany Co. Advocate</italic> merges with the <italic>Cuba
Whig</italic> to become the <italic>Advocate and Whig</italic>. **
The Le Roy Female Seminary becomes Ingham Collegiate Institute (later
Ingham University). ** Commodore Perry sails his flagship the
<italic>USS Mississippi</italic> to Japan. Among the crew are state
residents Jonathan Goble, marine, and Francis C. Pollay, ship's
carpenter.
Rochester
A weighlock is built, on the canal.
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Warren, I never meant to imply that the Department of State maintained a
complete list of all cemeteries in the state. When I visited the office to
appraise the "Master Cemetery Index" and the Minutes of the Cemetery
Board, I was told by Division of Cemeteries staff that the index contained
summary information "on almost all" cemeteries in the state. When I
asked what they meant by almost all they could not be more specific
because they said that since the index has been maintained and updated
since 1949 (when the division was first established by Chapter 533 of
the Laws of 1949) there may have been some omissions, gaps, etc.
However, they were fairly adamant on the point that to the best of their
knowledge, the Master Cemetery Index constitued one of the most
complete and concise listings of cemeteries in the state extant. I agree
with you that there are probably gaps in this index, but it is nevertheless,
an excellent source for researchers interested in cemeteries and related
subjects.
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The New York City Municipal Archives has a great handout listing all of the
cemeteries (including addresses and phone numbers), in the NYC Metro Area.
I don't know if that information has been placed online anywhere.
Frederick Smith
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Warren Broderick wrote:
[snip]>...In other words, there is no one, easy source to consult.
>But isn't that true for all local historical research?
And I would add simply that that is true for all historical research, not
just local, and half the fun is in the search for sources.
Suzanne Etherington
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Binghamton State Office Bldg, Floor #16
44 Hawley Street
Binghamton, NY 13901-4406
voice: 607/721-8428/9
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