[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] should rise. So they girded themselves for business and began. If the committees would not do the work, they would. And they did it. They drew up sub-scription papers, and presented them everywhere. Soon they saw the dawning of success. General Henry Storms, a native of this county, then one of the inspectors of the State Prison at Sing Sing, a man of remarkable patriotism and public spirit, was approached, and he entered with characteristic heartiness into the movement. He stated that if the association would assume the cost of transporting the stone from Sing Sing, he would have them cut and prepared there by the workmen in the stone-yard of the prison. The offer was promptly accepted, and the ^plans for the monument, prepared by the architect, Mr. James W. Smith, — then owning and living on the property now owned by Mr. E. J. Blake, directly op-posite the spot where the monument was to stand, — were passed over to General Storms. The spot where the capture was made, and of course the site of the monument, belonged to a colored man, named Wil-liam Taylor, who had formerly been a slave in the South, but having obtained his freedom, he came to the North to live. He was a man of some property and not only intelligent, but also benevolent and public-spirited. He presented the ground for the monument to the association, and formally transferred it by deed.