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| J. Thomas Scharf (1886) | 916 | 173,521 | Original → |
| Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) | 572 | 106,421 | Original → |
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The bank, in addition to its capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, now has a surplus of thirty-five thousand dollars, and deposits amounting to about one-third of a million of dollars. It owns and occupies a fine ma…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Noxon first became connected with this institution the deposits were only about fifty thousand dollars; the amount now exceeds one million two hundred thousand dollars. Since being a resident of the village he has been close…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He married Estcdle, daughter of Herbert Hall, of New York, and has one child, Grace I '. Mr. Noxon is a member of the Baptist Church, an" active supporter of that denomination and was one of the building committee who erecte…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] copper currency. Hence, an endless number of " shinplasters " and private bills, for fractional parts of a dollar were put in circulation. The writer has in his collection small bills of this kind which were issued by "the c…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] some by Barlow Brothers. These were all five by two and three-quarter inches, printed on one side only. The banking office of C. F. Maurice & Co. issued a series of the same denominations, September 30, 1862, which were sign…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The Arcade Works consume over two hundred and fifty tons of steel per annum, chiefly of American make. The Croton File Company, composed of James Horner & Co., with offices at 25 Cliff Street, New-York, started a file works …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] connected with a gentlemen's furnishing store. In 1843 he went to Scotland, and again in 1S45, and traveled extensively in that country, visiting many of the famous iron-works. In 184!> he came to this country and remained f…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The buildings now cover a lot of ninety by two hundred and four feet, and in the two cupola furnaces attached twenty-two tons of iron are daily melted. In addition to the foundries at Sing Sing the firm has extensive warehou…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] denser. They also make a Huller Gin, which they claim will gin as fast and make as smooth a sample from dirty, trashy and hully cotton as any other gin in the market. The works of the company are located on the middle dock, …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] — ' writer of this arti-cle very well remembers casting his vote in the affirmative, as president of the village, in 1855, when the <jues-tion of lighting the place by gas was before the board of trustees which had voted fou…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Charles, and Ellen, wife of Henry Racon, of Goshen. Orange County. Mrs. Rrandreth died in 183ti, and lie was married a second time to Virginia Graham. They were the parents of ten children — Beatrice, wife of Colonel Henry C…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] At the age of twenty-one, he went to South America, and traveled exten-sively, remaining for some time in Venezuela, and afterwards passed a year in the British, Dutch and Danish West Indies. From thence he went to Cali-forn…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] « OSSINTNG. 361 As a citizen there are few who have taken a more active part in local improvements. The introduction of steam fire-engines and reservoirs in the village of Sing Sing was largely owing to his efforts, and it i…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He is also a director and owner in the Porous Plaster Company of the village of Sing Sing, which company is the successor of his father's business, manufacturing Brandreth's Pills and Allcock's Porous Plasters. Mr. Brandreth…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Young has been thus engaged, he has seen the village of Sing Sing increase from a small town to its present pro-portions, and there are few among its citizens who ii.— 33J have been more actively connected with its progress.…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] taking a deep interest in political affairs, he has been no seeker after official honors. He has long been a member of the Methodjst Episcopal Church, and an active supporter of the denomination, and one of the officials of …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In 1868 Hugh Herringshaw erected a fine brick building on the corner of Central Avenue and Leon-ard Street, which contained a spacious room called Olive Hall. This hall soon became very popular. The building was destroyed by…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The writer of this sketch of the history of the town of Ossining occupied this famous old house as a dwelling and office a third of a century ago. The death of one son in this house and the birth of another, not long since d…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Among the dis-tinguished guests that have been entertained at th's hotel was the late Emperor Napoleon HI., who dined at this place on a number of occasions, while in exile in this country, as lie traveled by stage from Bed-…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He was a res-ident of this place, and landed his boat in the Kill Brook, as we are told, about as far up as the present location of the gas works. He is said to have carried on his business as far back as the Revolutionary p…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] From 1812 to 1S32 a consider-able number of steamboats ran from New York to Sing Sing and places above. Among these were the " Mountain Mouse," the " Ariel," the " < Jeneral Jack-son," the "Cinderella," the " Water Witch" an…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] This is not the only example which history furnishes of a narrow and short-sighted policy, resulting in the ruin of one town and the building up of another. The river-transportation of a half-century ago was vastly more impo…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] furnished a home mar-ket for farm produce, has resulted in an almost en-tire destruc-tion of river transp orta-tion. The saddest of all the incidents connected with our river navigation was the explosion of the passenger ste…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] be left home to enter into business on his own account, and came to Sing Sin»-, where he opened a grocery store, and carried on the business till 1853, when he purchased the lumber yanl and dock property formerly owned and o…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of Reuben Kip, of Som-ers. Their children are Florence C. (wife of Ed-win L.Todd), Helen and Louis F. Mr. Wash-burn has ever declined taking any active part in pol-itics, devoting his time and attention almost exclu-sively t…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Thomas Collyer was born in the village of Sing Sing in the year 1818, and in early boyhood showed great fondness for boats and employed his leisure in carving them out, which even then gave evidence of
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Distingi;ishki> Residents ok the Town. — One of the most celebrated personages who ever resided within the limits of our little town was Robert Mat-thews, better known as the religious fanatic and im-postor Matthia*. The sce…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of sinking the " Merrimac." "The ' Monitor' went whack into the ' Merrimac,' And as she went, played 'Yankee Doodle Dandy 0 !' " Worden was born in the house a little below, and to the east, of the Sparta burying-ground. Som…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Its extreme length from the top of Croton PoiAt north to the Putnam County line is' twelve and a quarter miles, and its greatest breadth nine miles. Its area is approximately fifty square miles. The Croton River passes throu…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The Kitchewonks had two important vil-lages,— one where Peekskill now stands, called Sack-hoes, and the other upon Van Cortlandt's Neck, con-necting Senasqua or Croton Point with the main land. Here they had a strongly-built…