[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 newspaper publication in the Westchester vil-lages. According to a generally re-liable chronicler, a journal called the Vomers Museum was published by Milton F. Cushing in 1810,. and in the same year Robert Crombie started <il Peekskill the Westchester Gazette, which, after various changes of name. finally became the Peekskill Republi-can. Other early newspaper ventures in West Farms, Sing Sing, White Plains, Port Chester, Morrisania, etc., are recorded by this authority.1 The Eastern State Journal, of White Plains, appears to be the oldest present newspaper of the county retaining its original name. It was begun in 1815 by Edmund G. Southerland. In 1810 the population of Westchester County was just about double that attained in 1790. During the half century there had been an average growth every ten years of slightly more than 1,000. The original character of the population had not yet been materially modified. Men engaged in active daily business in New York had