[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] handsome building of two stories, and there are at present four departments. The building erected some thirty years ago for the Mount Kisco Educational Institute stands on a commanding site a little east of the station. It was occupied for some years as a school, but is now used as a hotel. There are in the village some forty stores, offices, shops and other places of business and three hotels. Two miles east of Katonah is the Jay estate, owned by that family since 1743, when Mary, wife of Peter Jay and mother of Chief Justice Jay, inherited it from her father, Colonel Jacobus Van Cortlandt.1 It then consisted of twelve hundred and ninety-nine acres, which, on the death of Peter Jay, in 1782 went to his three sons, — Peter, Frederick and John. The latter became an owner of a part of the shares of Peter and Frederick, and received also a part of the share of John Chambers. About that time he built the old-est part of the present house (west of the main hall), and it was occupied by his agent in charge of the farm. At the close of the century, when he was pre-paring to retire from public life, he built the eastern part of the house, and in 1818 the north wing and the kitchen. At the end of his second term as Gov-