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📖 Westchester County Histories
Comprehensive histories of the county and Town of Cortlandt
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. Thomas Scharf (1886) | 916 | 173,521 | Original → |
| Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) | 572 | 106,421 | Original → |
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Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] In 1832 he began operations with the steamboat •• Westchester," having, as he avers in a card to the public-some time later, no interest in any other boat in the North River. He met with a rival in the "Water…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Jacob Vanderbilt, brother of Cornelius, was captain of the boat, and escaped without injury. Many other interesting particulars of the Hudson River traffic be-fore the era of railways might bo added. Peekskil…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The old property qualification for the suffrage was practically abolished in 1821. For the purpose of representation in the State senate. Westchester Comity was from 1777 to 1815 associated with New York, Kin…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] the Revolution, and after the begin-ning of the present century there was scarcely a farmhouse that did not receive some newspaper from New York. There were several early enter-prises in the line of local new…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] year 183G. Irving was born in New York City, April 3, 1783. He " first came to Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow when a lad ot fourteen or fifteen. He spent some of his holidays here, and formed an attach-ment for …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Interesting reminiscences of his Sunnyside years appear in Scharf's History.2 He was " a regular
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Samuel Woodworth, author of the " Old Oaken Bucket," who lived a) Westchester; and James K. Paulding, the friend of Irving and a very forcible and esteemed writer, who was of Westchester County extraction and…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] In the early years of the New York and Harlem enterprise the idea of another line following the river shore had been scouted as both chimerical and inexpedient. In a sober official report it was declared that…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Jervis, the engineer of the Croton Aqueduct, being em-ployed as chief engineer. Work was begun toward the middle of 1847, the entire line being placed under contract by sections, and the work was prosecuted s…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Omnibuses will be provided at the junction of Chambers Street and Hudson Street to convey passengers who furnish themselves with tickets at the engine-house, at Thirty-first Street, until the rails are laid t…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] development was effected by the extension of the line from High Bridge to the terminus of the Elevated Railway at One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street, and by the building of the branch from Van Cort-landt Stat…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Schoolcraft in 1844, at the request of General Aaron Ward, member of congress from this district at the time. We arc told that the word ossin, in the Chippeway language, signifies 'a stone'; that ossinee or o…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] of New York. Judges, district attorneys, and other officers formerly appointive were made elective. The first county judge elected in Westchester County was John W. Mills, of White Plains (1851-56); the first…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Morrisania 1... Mount Pleasant.
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] During the ten years the total population increased 32,284, of which increase 22,401 was in the Towns of West Farms (including West-chester), Yonkers, Eastchester, and Greenburgh — that is, in the localities …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Pouudridge, Somers, and York-town. Pouudridge, not entered by any railway line, actually lost some 300 people in the ten years. Amongst the significant local results thus brought to pass, the most interesting…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] the history of our county. His labors also included " personal visita-tion of every spot of interest and nearly every person of advanced age.'' In addition to his History of the county, he published a " Guide…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Mount Pleasant, in the house built by General James Watson Webb.— Seharf, L, 599. 2 It is of interest to record the names of the delegates from Westchester County to the State conventions held for the purpose…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] extracted from a valuable work published at Syracuse in 1800 — the "Gazetteer of the State of New York," by J. II. French. THE TOWNS AND THEIR VILLAGES IN 1800. Bedford. Population, 3,639. Local particulars: …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The Westchester County delegates to the Democratic Stale convention were Thomas Smith, Gilherl S. Lyon, and Abraham Hyatt. William Radford, of Yonkers, was a contesting delegate from the nth congressional dis…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] the sembly district. 590 HISTORY OP WESTCIIKSTHR COUNTY nually from 80,000,000 to 90,000,000|bricks. 3. Croton (formerly called Collaberg Land-ing); population, 400; a station on the Hudson River Railroad; co…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] southwest of the village, on a small island connected with the main land by a stone cause-way." 2. West New Rochelle, 3. Petersville,5 and 4. Upper New Rochelle were scattered villages, mostly inhabited by Ge…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Pelham Priory; the seat of a young ladies' seminary, "established by the late Rev. Robert Bolton, and conducted by his daughters." Poundridge. — Population, 1,471. Local particulars: — 1. Poundridge; a small …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] pal owner. 592 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY tensive manufactories, which included a foundry, edge tool factory, tide gristmill, and a last and shoe factory. 5. King Street; "a fine agricultural district, ext…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] seminaries," and having a population of about 1,000. Yonkers. — Population, 11,848. Local particulars: — 1. Yonkers; an incorporated village; population in 1859, 0,800; contained nine churches, several privat…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] It was a spirit conspicuously manifest in the editorial conduct of very able newspapers in New York City, which gave nearly thirty thousand majority against Lin-coln. The dominant political party of the metro…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] being the first of the thirty-nine old regiments to report for duty:" The number of men lost by the regiment at the second Bull Run was almost half the whole number who went into the battle. 590 HISTORY OF WE…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Yorktown also lost a great number of men in the same way, no mention of them being found in the official records of the two years' volunteers; and of other towns there is still less trace in any documents by …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Whittaker, ''concludes the three years' volunteers in Westchester County as organizations of whi(di the records are accessible in an official form," up to the enlistment of the famous (itli New York Heavy Art…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] from 1842 to 1900 597 the 8th senatorial district — then comprising the Counties of West-chester, Rockland, and Putnam — which proceeded to raise the troops required to make up the quota of the district. " It…