History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 239
[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 private seminaries, two banks, two newspaper offices, and various manufactories 2. Spuyten Duyvil; the seat of several large foundries; inhabited chiefly by operatives. 3. Tuckahoe; a station on the Harlem Rail-road; Hodgman's rubber goods manufactory employed about seventy -five hands. 4. Kings-bridge. 5. Riverdale; "a group of villas, and a railroad station." 6. South Yonkers; a post-office. Yorktown. — Population, 2,231. Local particulars: — 1. Crompond (Yorktown p. o.), 2. Jefferson Valley, and 3. Shrub Oak, were hamlets. A rolling mill, wire factory, gristmill, and sawmill had been erected two miles west of Croton dam. Intense partisan feeling characterized the discussion of political issues in Westchester County in the electoral campaign of 1860. At that time the leading newspapers of the county were the Eastern State Journal, of White Plains, the II i<ililan<l Ih mocrat, of Peekskill, and the Yonkers Herald; and all three were aggressively Democratic. They took the election of Lincoln with very bad grace, and indeed never became entirely reconciled to it or to the prosecution of the war with the seceding States. Such a spirit in the County of West-chester, which had always been on the conservative side politically, was naturally to have been expected.