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KNAPP, LEONARD, 1848. KNOX, HENRY, 1867, 8.
KNOX, WILLIAM, 1853. LANE, LEONARD, 1825. LANE, LEWIS, 1821, 2. LANGDON, BENJAMIN, 1833.
LANGDON, RICHARD, 1844, 5, 7, 8, 9,65. LANGDON, SAMUEL, 1842, 9. LANGDON, THOMAS, 1835.
LAPHAM, BENJAMIN, 1813, 19, 20, 2, 3.
LAPHAM, JONATHAN, 1826.
LAPHAM, STEPHEN, 1786, 8, 97, 9, MASON, CALVIN, 1860, 1, 7. 1800.
LAPOINT, STEPHEN, 1862.
LAROSE, JAMES, 1867, 8.
LAROSE, JOSEPH, 1866.
LAUDER, DAVID, 1846, 7, 9, 50, 2, MEAD, ANSON, 1834. 3, 4, 9, 60, 3, 70.
LAUDER, JOHN, 1869.
LAUDER, JOHN B., 1861, 2.
LAUDER, JOSEPH, 1864.
LEAVINS, ROYAL, 1817, 26.
LEMOIN, JOHN, 1826.
LOCKHART, GEORGE, 1863.
MILLARD, STEPHEN, 1804, 9, 11, 14.
LOCKHART, JAMES, 1857, 62, 5, 6, MILLER, ASHBELL, 1801. 7,8.
MILLER, JOHN, 1862, 3.
MILLS, CALVIN, 1839.
MOON, ANDREW, 1870.
MOON, ROBERT, 1797, 8.
MOON, ROBERT JR., 1806.
MOON, SOLOMON, 1801, 5, 6, 15.
MOORE, ELI, 1847, 8, 51, 2.
MORGAN, JAMES W., 1872, 3.
MCAULEY, JAMES, 1852.
MCAULEY, HUGH, (a) 1786, 7, 8, - 3, 5. 9,92. MCCRIPPEN, THOMAS, 1850.
MCCUMBER, JONATHAN, 1806, 12. MCDONALD, ALEXANDER, 1857, 8. MCDONALD, DANIEL, 1868, 9, 70, 2,3 MCDONALD, RICHARD, 1841, 5. McDONALD, WILLIAM, 1869, 72. MCDOUGALL, WILLIAM, 1870. MCEACHRON DANIEL D., 1848. MCEACHRON, JOHN, 1861, 3, 70, 2, 3.
MCKINNEY, WILLIAM, 1848, 72. MADISON, JOB, 1867.
MARSHAL, FRANCIS, 1792, 5.
MATTESON, JOHN, 1868, 73. MATTISON, CHARLES, 1814. MATTOCKS, JAMES, 1803, 4. MATTOCKS, JOHN, 1800.
MEAD, ENOS, 1866, 8, 9, 70.
MEAD, EZRA, 1838, 44, 5.
MEAD, JOHN H., 1867, 9, 70, 3. MERRITT, ICHABOD, 1769.
MICKLE, HENRY, 1852. MILLARD, GEORGE, 1872.
LOCKHART, JOHN, 1860. LONG, ROBERT, 1856.
LOOP, BENJAMIN, 1850, 1, 2.
LORD, ASA, 1824, 33, 41, 2.
LORD, ASA L., 1826.
LORD, IRA, 1836, 44.
LORD, LEVI, 1837.
MORGAN, REUBEN, 1797, 1811, 22,
MOSES, HENRY, 1826. MOSES, WILLIAM H., 1857, 64, 5, 6.
(a) Conjectured to be the ancestor of the McAuley family of Glen's Falls. On the 11th of April, 1796, an act was passed by the State Legislature for the relief of Hugh McAuley granting him two hundred acres out of vacant, unappropriated lands in the eastern district of the state.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
MOSHER, BENJAMIN S., 1844.
PADDOCK, IRA A., 1861.
MOSHER, CHRISTOPHER H., 1838.
MOSHER, DANIEL, 1857.
MOSHER, ISAAC, 1821, 34, 8, 9, 49. PALMER, JOHN, 1832.
MOSHER, ISAAC JR., 1847.
PALMER, TIM M., 1826, 34.
MOSHER, NATHAN, 1848, 52.
PARRISH, RICE R., 1870, 2, 3.
PARKS, JOHN K., 1809.
MURRAY, AARON G., 1857, 9, 60, PARKS, JOSEPH, 1813. 5.
PARSONS, CHARLES, 1850, 66, 7, 8, 9.
MURRAY, JAMES, 1832.
MURRAY, PHILEMON, 1816, 17, 18. PEARCE, JACOB, 1846.
MURRAY PHILEMON 1866, 7, 72.
NEGUS, JOSEPH, 1808.
NEWCOME, CHARLES, 1873.
NICHOLSON, CHARLES, 1854, 69.
NILES, WILLIAM, 1825.
PECK, REUBEN, 1802, 16.
NORRIS, JOSIAH, 1853.
PECK, SMITH, 1838.
NORTHRUP, JOSEPH, 1796.
PEIRSONS, SYLVESTER, 1847.
PETTIS, PELEG, 1799, 1800.
PHELPS, ALPHEUS, 1822, 53, 5, 6.
PHELPS, ANDREW, 1869.
PHELPS, JOHN, 1836, 59, 60, 2.
NUMAN, DANIEL, 1849, 50, 1, 2, 3, PHETTIPLACE, JOHN, 1827. 4, 5, 7. PHETTIPLACE, JOHN, 1859.
NUMAN, ISRAEL, 1801.
NUMAN, LEWIS, 1832, 3, 4, 43.
NUMAN, ORANGE, 1836, 7, 9, 40, 1, 2, 3, 51, 2, 61.
NUMAN, REUBEN, 1811, 14, 25. OAKLAND, CHARLES, 1852.
OAKLEY, CHARLES, 1856, 60.
O'CONNOR, ROBERT, 1873.
ODELL, AUGUSTIN M., 1823, 5.
ODELL, BENJAMIN, 1824, 33, 42, 6, 55, 6, 8,9, 60, 5, 6, 8, 72, 3.
ODELL, JACOB, 1802.
ODELL, NATHANIEL, 1797.
ODELL, SAMUEL, 1793, 1800, 13, PIXLEY, LEWIS L., 1824. 15.
OGDEN, DAVID, 1816, 44.
OGDEN, WILLIAM G., 1820, 34.
ORR, ALEXANDER, 1844, 50, 1, 2. POOR, ABEL, 1837.
ORR, DANIEL, 1862, 5, 6.
OSGOOD, JESSE, 1850, 5, 6.
PITCHER, JONATHAN JR., 1797.
PITTS, LEVI, 1793, 5.
PLATT, ELMORE, 1843, 7, 8, 55, 9, 65.
PLATT, HARVEY, 1870.
POOR, DAVID, 1816, 17. POTTER, EZEKIEL, 1833.
PHILO, SAMUEL, 1822, 32, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
PHILO, WILKIE, 1860.
PIKE, GEORGE, 1864.
PIKE, SAMUEL, 1847.
PITCHER, ALFRED, 1802, 3, 6, 15, 19, 22, 3, 5, 32, 4.
PITCHER, BENJAMIN, 1797, 8.
PITCHER, JONATHAN, 1786, 9, 93, 1814.
PHILO, HENRY, 1854.
NORTON, BENJAMIN, 1863, 4.
NORTON, PHILANDER, 1858, 9.
NORTON, WILLIAM, 1866, 7, 8.
NUMAN, CLARK, 1803.
PECK, BENJAMIN, 1841, 3.
PECK, EDMUND, 1815.
PECK, PETER, 1794, 6, 7, 8.
PECK, PETER, 1863, 4, 5, 6, 9.
MOYNAHEN, TIMOTHY, 1872, 3.
PALMER, ALEXANDER, 1833. PALMER, GEORGE, 1861.
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CIVIL LIST.
POTTER, JONATHAN W., 1862, 3, 4, SCOTT, JAMES, 1836, 8, 41, 3. 70, 3. SCOTT, WILLIAM, 1847. POTTER, WASHINGTON, 1848.
PRICE, ORLIN, 1861.
PUTNAM, BENAJAH, 1766, 7.
PUTNAM, JEFFERSON, 1839.
RAMSAY, GEORGE B., 1853.
RANGER, PARSONS, 1803, 16.
RAUSTON, WILLIAM, 1865.
RAY, HARRY, 1844.
REYNOLDS, BENJAMIN, 1839.
REYNOLDS, OLDUCK, 1849, 51, 2. REYNOLDS, SOLOMON, 1803, 5. RHEUBOTTOM, SAMUEL, 1870.
RICE, L. N., 1869.
RICHARDS, EDMUND B., 1842.
RICHARDSON, WILLIAM, 1862, 5, 6, SEWALL, JONATHAN, 1819. 7,9,70.
RILEY, JOHN, 1864.
RING, PETER, 1845, 6, 7, 8, 9.
RIPLEY, ASA JR., 1813.
RIPLEY, DOCTOR, 1818, 19, 20, 1.
RIPLEY, JAMES, 1814, 17, 25, 33, SHELLEY, IRA, 1808. 45, 9, 52.
RIPLEY, REUBEN, 1858, 9, 70.
ROBARDS, EBENEZER, 1800.
ROBARDS, WILLIAM, 1787.
SHERMAN, EBENEZER, 1800, 1.
ROBARDS, WILLIAM JR., 1802, 4. SHERMAN, JAMES, 1811.
ROBINSON, HECTOR, 1857.
SHERMAN, NATHAN, 1846, 7, 9, 50.
ROBINSON, LYMAN, 1856, 60, 9, 70. SHERMAN, STEPHEN, 1820, 1, 33, 8,
ROBINSON, LYMAN JR., 1873.
9.
ROBISON, ALEXANDER, 1851, 2, SHERWOOD, THOMAS A., 1811. 3, 68. SHIPPEY, CHARLES, 1815. ROGERS, JACOB M., 1826.
SHIPPEY, DEWEY, 1839, 40, 50.
ROGERS, JEREMIAH, 1806, 8, 9, 12, SHIPPEY, THOMAS, 1847, 8. 17, 20, 2, 3. SIMPSON, GEORGE, 1857. SIMPSON, HOUSTON, 1853. RUSSELL, - EsQ., 1792.
SANFORD, CHARLES S., 1843.
SIMPSON, JOHN, 1839, 42.
SANFORD, DAVID, 1798, 1806.
SIMPSON, PETER, 1834, 5, 6.
SISSON, BENJAMIN, 1827.
SISSON, DANIEL, 1866, 7, 70.
SANFORD, GOOLD, 1825, 35, 40, 5, SISSON, JAMES, 1852.
8.
SISSON, NATHANIEL, 1798.
SCHERMERHORN, WILLIAM, 1851, 2. SMITH, GEORGE, 1857, 9, 63, 4.
13
SEELYE, BENJAMIN, 1802, 14, 21. SEELYE, DAVID, 1835, 7, 41, 4, 7, 8, 52, 5, 6, 9, 61, 2. SEELYE, GEORGE, 1860.
SEELYE, JUSTUS, 1800, 3.
SEELYE, LEMUEL C. P., 1844, 55.
SEELYE, REUBEN, 1808.
SEELYE, REUBEN, 1834, 5, 6, 40, 2, 5, 7,8.
SEELYE, REUBEN, 1856, 8, 60, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
SEELYE, WILLIAM A., 1866, 9.
SELLICK, JONAS, 1857, 61, 5, 6.
SEWALL, JOHN, 1846.
SHAVER, JACOB, 1832, 7. SHAW, DANIEL, 1848.
SHAW, NEHEMIAH, 1838.
SHELDON, ALLEN, 1836, 65, 6, 7.
SHELDON, NEHEMIAH, 1835.
SANFORD, FREDERIC, 1851, 4, 5.
SANFORD, GEORGE, 1835.
SHERMAN, ASA, 1834, 8, 43, 4, 8, 54, 5, 6, 8, 64, 5. SHERMAN, BURDEN, 1837.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
SMITH, ISAAC, 1853.
SWEET, WILLIAM, 1834, 40.
SMITH, JOHN H., 1872.
TAYLOR, GILBERT, 1825, 44, 5, 50.
SMITH, JUSTIN, 1800, 5.
TAYLOR, THOMAS, 1858, 9, 70.
SMITH, MAJOR F., 1854, 8, 60.
TEARSE, PETER B., 1795. THAYER, WILLIAM, 1854, 5, 6. . .
SMITH, MASON F., 1843. SMITH, WALTER, 1842, 4, 6, 8, 9, THOMAS, CHARLES, 1836. 56
SPENCER, BENJAMIN, 1821.
SPENCER, HENRY, 1802, 11, 12, 15, THOMAS, ISRAEL JR., 1797, 8.
18, 19, 21, 4, 32, 4.
SPICER, EBEN, 1839.
SPRAGUE, BERIAH, 1811.
SPRAGUE, WARREN, 1861.
STAATS, JEHOIACHIM, 1834.
STAATS, PETER, 1838, 9, 42.
STAPLES, ABRAM, 1852.
STAPLES, ANSON R., 1856.
STEDWELL, GILBERT, 1815, 25.
STEDWELL, ROGER, 1794.
STEPHENSON, JAMES, 1805, 6, 12. STEPHENSON, MARMADUKE, 1806. STEPHENSON, STEPHEN, 1795, 6, 9. STEVENS, LUCIUS B., 1856.
STEVENSON, ANDREW, 1837, 40, 1, TRIPP, JONATHAN, 1804.
2.
STEWART, JAMES B., 1863, 72. STEWART, PETER, 1864.
STEWART, ROBERT, 1857, 8, 9, 60, TUBBS, SENECA, 1836, 7, 40, 1, 3, 1,72. 5, 8,50.
STOWER, ASA, 1805.
STRINGHAM, THOMAS, 1794
STURDEVANT, LEVI, 1854, 65. SWAIN, GEORGE, 1863.
SWEET, ABRAHAM, 1832.
SWEET, BENONI, 1802, 3, 8, 9.
SWEET, DAVID, 1832.
SWEET, DODGE, 1801, 35.
SWEET, ELNATHAN, 1823, 5.
SWEET, GEORGE, 1856, 8, 9, 64.
SWEET, GEORGE W., 1861.
SWEET, HERMES, 1821.
VANDUZEN, HIRAM, 1858, 62, 7, 8.
VANDUZEN, JOHN, 1790, 2.
VANDUZEN, JOHN JR., 1804, 5, 11,
SWEET, NELSON, 1854, 9,62, 5 ,6, 7. 12, 17, 18, 22.
TRAVER, JOHN, 1858, 9, 65, 6, 7, 8, 9, 70, 3. TRIPP, JAMES, 1794.
TUBBS, GEORGE, 1839.
TUBBS, JEREMIAH, 1812, 16, 26, 33.
TUCKER, ABRAHAM, 1787, 8, 9.
UPTON, WALTER JR., 1815.
VANDUSEN, ABRAHAM, 1814, 21, 34, 7, 43, 4, 8, 51, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7. VANDUZEN, CHARLES, 1857, 8. VANDUZEN, DAVID, 1823. VANDUZEN, DEWITT, 1859, 60.
VANDUZEN, HARTMAN, 1805, 12.
VANDUZEN, HARVEY, 1850.
VANDUZEN, HARVEY, 1850. VANDUZEN, HENRY, 1866.
SWEET, JACOB, 1857.
SWEET, JEREMIAH, 1857.
THOMAS, HENRY, 1864. THOMAS, ISRAEL, 1793, 4.
THOMAS, PAUL, 1869, 72. 4
THOMAS, SETH, 1808, 18, 23. THURSTON, HENRY, 1825.
TIBBITS, BENJAMIN, 1795, 9. TILLOTSON, DAVID, 1832. TILLOTSON, JOHN C., 1851, 2. TINNEY, ASA, 1846, 56. TINNEY, ASA F., 1862.
TITUS, ABRAM J. G., 1853, 66, 9, 70, 2, 3.
TRAPHAGAN, JOHN J. B., 1872.
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CIVIL LIST.
VANDUZEN, JOHN R., 1857, 73. VANDUZEN, MYRON, 1847, 8.
VANDUZEN, ORRIN, 1845, 65, 7, 8. WELLS, PETER, 1816.
VANDUZEN, ROBERT, 1839, 66.
VANDUZEN, WILLIAM, 1835.
VANDUZEN, ZENAS, 1841, 9, 56. VANDUZEN, ZEPHANIAH, 1865.
VANHEUSEN, GARRETT, 1872, 3. VANTASSELL, HERMON, 1826, 38, 9, 40,1. VARNEY, DANIEL, 1866. VARNEY, DAVID, 1869.
VARNEY, HARVEY, 1845, 9, 54, 5. VAUGHN, DAVID, 1837.
VAUGHN, GEORGE, 1865, 6, 8.
VAUGHN, JAMES, 1826. VAUGHN, STEPHEN, 1840, 5, 55, 8, WHEELER, F., 1864, 5, 6. 62.
VAUGHN, WELLINGTON, 1857, 9, 62. VAUGHN, WILLIAM, 1836, 7.
VAUGHN, WILLIAM M., 1863. VERNOR, JOHN, 1798.
VIELE, ASA, 1832.
VIELE, ASAPH, 1833, 5, 40, 2.
VIELE, SIDNEY, 1853, 4.
VOORCE (Q. VOORHEES ?), JOSEPH, 1803.
WALKER, DAVID, 1843, 9, 55, 60. WALKUP, CHARLES, 1857.
WALKUP, GEORGE, 1833, 56, 61. WALKUP, GEORGE B., 1862.
WASHBURN, ROBERT, 1853, 4, 63. WEAVER, ABRAHAM, 1834, 5. WEAVER, JESSE, 1846, 7. WEAVER, JOSEPH, 1822. WEAVER, SOLOMON, 1840. WEEKS, JOSEPH, 1804, 14, 15, 26. WEIDAWAY, ANTHONY, 1857. WELLS, BENJAMIN, 1813, 23, 36, WILSON, JOHN R., 1841.
41.
WELLS, DAVID, 1856. WELLS, HENRY, 1858, 65, 6, 7.
WELLS, HIRAM, 1837, 42, 58, 9, 60, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7.
WELLS, JAMES, 1792, 9. WELLS, JOEL, 1836, 7, 42, 50, 62.
WELLS, SYLVESTER, 1861, 3. WEST, EBENEZER, 1839, 40, 6, 9, 50, 4, 5, 61, 2, 6, 7. WEST, GEORGE P., 1818, 22. WEST, JOHN P., 1834, 7, 40, 3.
WEST, JOHN V., 1825, 40. WEST, THOMAS, 1817, 23, 4, 5, 6, 32
WEST, WILLIAM BARBER, 1795, 6, 7, 8, 1805, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19, 20, 1.
WESTON, JOHN, 1813. WHEELER, D., 1867.
WHIPPLE, ARCHIBALD P., 1863.
WHIPPLE, J., 1818. WHITNEY, DANIEL, 1840. WHITTEMORE, GEORGE, 1846.
WICKS, EDMUND B., 1848.
WILBER, GILBERT, 1848. WILCOX, BRAZILLA, 1869. WILKIE, DAVID, 1833, 49. WILKIE, ELISHA D., 1872, WILKIE, JACOB, 1837, 41, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 54, 5, 7, 8. WILKIE, JAMES, 1858, 9, 61. WILKIE, MARTIN, 1856.
WILLIAMS, BARBER, 1816, 21.
WILLIAMS, BERIAH, 1836.
WILLIAMS, DAVID, 1837, 40, 1, 2, 6, 9, 50, 3, 4.
WILLIAMS, EDWIN, 1858.
WILLIAMS, LEWIS, 1847, 53, 5, 60, 1, 3.
WILLIAMS, WARREN, 1826, 35, 6.
WINCHIP, ALVIN, 1858, 9. WINCHIP, ANSEL, 1824, 39, 42, 7, 8, 56, 64, 5, 6.
WINCHIP, JOEL, 1796, 7, 1801, 22. WINCHIP, JOEL, 1840, 2, 55, 6.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
WINCHIP, JOEL JR , 1814, 19, 32, 6. WINSLOW, JOHN, 1799, 1801, 5, 6, WINCHIP, JOEL P., 1860, 2. 8, 15.
WINCHIP, JOHN, 1812, 16, 20, 1, 4, WINSLOW, THOMAS, 1814.
5, 33, 7.
WINCHIP, RANSOM J., 1846, 7, 73.
WING, ABRAHAM, 1772, 3, 6, 80, 7, WITHERELL, NATHANIEL, 1836, 9, 8.
WING, ABRAHAM JR., 1788. WING, BENJAMIN, 1768, 71, 5, 83, WOOD, AMOS, 1822.
4.
WING, EDWARD, 1796.
WING, JEREMIAH, 1811.
WING, JOSEPH, 1801.
WOOD, WALTER, 1825, 42, 7, 52.
WING, NEHEMIAH, 1809.
WOODWARD, JOEL, 1819.
WING, NEHEMIAH, 1855, 8, 61, 2, WOOLEY, WILLIAM, 1872, 3. 6, 8, 70, 2, 3.
WING, RICHARD, 1838, 9, 44, 61.
WRIGHT, JOB, 1770.
WING, WILLIAM, 1823.
Y ANDLE, GEORGE, 1838.
CORPORATION OFFICERS, VILLAGE OF GLEN'S FALLS.
PRESIDENTS OF BOARDS OF TRUSTEES.
BENEDICT, EZRA, 1857.
CONERY, GEORGE, 1864.
BRIGGS, WILLIAM, 1845, 8.
COWLES, DANIEL H., 1859.
BROWN, DANIEL V., 1861.
DELONG, ZOPHER I., 1863.
CARPENTER, STEVENS, 1846. FERGUSON, JAMES, 1862, 6.
CLARK, JAMES C., 1853.
FERRISS, JOHN A.,(a) 1839.
(a) SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF JOHN AKIN FERRISS. According to the statement of the late Mrs. Prouty, who was a grand-daughter of the original proprietor of this name, as well as a cousin of the subject of this sketch, and who died last year at an advanced age, there were four brothers and two sisters of the name of Ferriss, who immigrated to this country from England, (another ac- count says from Wales), about the middle of the seventeenth century. A por- tion, if not all of them, settled at, or in the vicinity of the Oblong, in Dutchess county, who, in religious sympathy with nearly all the settlers of that region, were Quakers.
The youngest of this large family of brothers and sisters, was Reed Ferriss, who died at Quaker Hill in Dutchess county, on one of the last days of March, 1804, aged seventy-four years, which would carry the date of his birth back to 1730.1 He was an intimate friend of Abraham Wing, the founder of the first set- tlement and town of Queensbury, and early became interested, by purchase of a large tract, in the Queensbury patent. One of his lots laid upon the eastern borders of the town. The outlet of the big Cedar swamp (much larger then
1 Among the Wing manuscripts is a memorandum to the effect that Reed Ferriss and Benjamin Ferriss jr., were witnesses to a deed in 1764.
WITHERELL, BETHUEL, 1853, 64, 9, 70.
49, 50.
WITHERELL, SETH, 1861, 3.
WOOD, JOHN, 1838, 40, 54.
WOOD, MAYNARD, 1869.
WOOD, PHILIP, 1837, 42.
WRIGHT, ABRAHAM, 1818.
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CIVIL LIST.
FICKETT, HENRY E., 1858. GOODMAN, STEPHEN L., 1865. HIGBY, RICHARD W., 1850, 1, 2.
HAWLEY, GEORGE G., 1849.
than now) derived its name from him and a large beaver meadow through which it ran, whence the early settlers in that neighborhood were wont to obtain their hay. This stream is specified in the early survey, and records, as Reed's meadow creek. He was also the purchaser or patentee of a township tract of land in Vermont, which in compliment to him was called Ferrisburg. He was also the proprietor of other lands at or in the neighborhood of Vergennes in Vermont. After the Revolutionary war he used to come up the river every season with great regularity to look after his interests in these several localities. The old Wing papers contain communications from him setting forth and showing the cordial relations and amity subsisting between him and the head of that family.
had ten children, the eldest of whom, Edward, married for his first wife a Tabor, for his second Mary Akin, of whom the subject of this memoir was born, the seventeenth of October, 1772, at the Oblong, in Dutchess county. He learned the trade of a hatter, and removed to Glen's Falls, about the year 1794. At that time he had about five hundred dollars in hard cash, which, for those days was con- sidered a large sum ; and as many, probably mnost of the residents of the town were then what is significantly called "land poor," he was offered, in ex- change for that sum, great lot number twenty-nine of the original survey, now embracing the most thickly settled and valuable portion of the village of Glen's Falls, and the offer was declined.
Soon after his arrival at Glen's Falls he bought the lot next north of the Glen's Falls Insurance building, on the back part of which he erected a hat shop where he carried on business, for a number of years. Subsequently he erected two one and a half story framed buildings on the site of S. D. Hopkins and Z. I. DeLong & Son's stores, where the same business was carried on by him as late as 1838. He was a man of very considerable push and energy, and contributed largely toward giving an impetus to the early growth and development of the village. In 1798,1 he erected as a tavern, the dwelling house now occupied by A. Newton Locke In 1802, he commenced the old Glen's Falls Hotel, occupying the present site of the Rockwell house. This inn after- wards became a great success and popular resort under the administration and management of the late Peter D. Threehouse. A year or two later he diverted the springs of water and the rivulet flowing therefrom, which then existed in the side hill now covered by the Glen's Falls Opera house, into a shallow reservoir, making a fish pond of the same on the flat in the rear of Albert Vermillia's market building. This for quite a period was one of the attractions and curiosi- ties of the village. Early in the century also he erected the long known structure, which occupied the ground where Mrs. Ferguson's variety store, and the row of groceries and saloons below it now stand. This was subsequently variously designated as Ferriss' row the Tontine, the long row, hemlock row, and Mc- Gregor's row. This, after various vicissitudes, mishaps and repairs, was burnt down in 1856, the fire being the work of an incendiary.
He married first, about the year 1796, Parthenia, daughter of Doctor Seth Alden, a biographical sketch of whom may be seen elsewhere in this work. She died in
1 In this year there is an entry in the town records to the effect that John A. Ferriss was allowed eight dollars and a half for services done on the bridge at Glen's Falls.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
JOHNSON, FREDERICK A. JR., 1870. MCEACHRON, WILLIAM, 1872.
KEENAN, JOHN,(a) 1871.
MEAD, JOSEPH, 1869.
LAPHAM, JEROME, 1867. MORGAN, ALONZO W., 1854.
the year 1800, aged twenty-three. For his second wife, he married her sister Hannah, as appears by the docket of the late Judge Roberts on the 21st of Sep- tember, 1802. She was born the 15th of May, 1779, and surviving her husband, died at an advanced age on the fifth of November, 1865, at the family home- stead in Glen's Falls.
John A. Ferriss was a leading business man, an ardent and influential politi- cian, a man whose public spirit, foresight and sagacity placed at least a full generation in advance of the age in which he lived. As may be been by the official record, he was the first postmaster appointed at Glen's Falls. At that time he carried on business in the old corner store on the site now covered by Pearsall and Cooledge's clothing establishment, the post office occupying a small corner of the building. His second appointment was the result of a town meeting as appears by the following preamble and resolutions, which were entered on record in the town clerk's office, but some malicious and evil disposed person cut it out of the record book, together with many pages of the official records of town meetings, and other entries important to retain. The original document still remains on file.
" Whereas a base and shameful attack has lately been made upon the character of his excellency DeWitt Clinton, governor of this state, by a series of publica- tions in a certain paper called the National Advocate, edited by M. M. Noah, and whereas, it appears conclusively that Adonijah Emons has been a principal actor in fabricating and furnishing for publication the scandalous falsehoods which have been resorted to, to support that attack, and whereas from the general character and conduct of the said Emons we believe him wholly destitute of in- tegrity, honor or moral worth, and unfit and unworthy to be trusted in any office.
Resolved, Therefore, by the people of the town of Queensbury in town meeting `assembled, that the said Adonijah Emons ought to be removed from the office of postmaster in said town, that the security of the public mail, and the honor and interest of the town will be promoted by such removal, and the reappointment of the former postmaster John A. Ferriss in whom we have full confidence.
Resolved, That the supervisor and town clerk cause a certified copy of this reso- lution to be forwarded to the post master general."
Truly the asperities, and brutal antagonisms of modern politics, were quite equalled by the sharp animosities of those early days !
Mr. Ferriss was a man of great liberality, contributing freely of his means and efforts to every worthy public enterprise. Exemplary in his private life, up- right and honorable in his business and social relations, he commanded the good will and respect of all who knew him. He died at Glen's Falls on the eighth of September, 1840, and was buried in the family enclosure, in the old burial ground at Moss street, in the town of Kingsbury, N. Y.
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(a) JOHN KEENAN, the son of Robert and Anne (Logan) Keenan, was born in the town of Leitrim near Castle Dawson, in the county Derry, Ireland, on the eleventh of November, 1809, being the youngest of a family of nine children. He was brought up according to the faith of his forefathers in the strictest tenets of the Roman Catholic religion. With less inclination for study, than for the wild and
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CIVIL LIST.
PALMETER, JAMES, 1840. PECK, DANIEL, 1868. ROBERTS, HIRAM, 1860. ROSEKRANS, ENOCH H., 1855. SCHENCK, JAMES W., 1856.
SHELDON, MELVILLE A., 1873. SPENCER, HENRY, 1841, 2, 4. TALLMADGE, SAMUEL S., 1843. WING, ABRAHAM, 1847.
TRUSTEES.
BENEDICT, EZRA, 1850, 1, 7.
CLARK, JAMES C., 1848, 53.
BRIGGS, WILLIAM, 1845, 6, 8, 57. COFFIN, THOMAS, 1845.
BRONSON, ERASTUS, 1840, 1. BRONSON, WILLIAM C., 1843.
CONERY, GEORGE, 1861, 2, 4, 8.
COOL, JOSEPH B., 1855.
BROWN, DANIEL V., 1850, 1, 2, 61. COOL, KEYES P., 1840.
BROWN, DANIEL V., 1869. BURNHAM, CYRUS, 1844. BUSWELL, JAMES, 1853.
COOLEDGE, THOMAS S., 1870. COSGROVE, WILLIAM, 1868.
COWLES, DANIEL H., 1853, 9. CRONKHITE, GEORGE, 1839, 44.
CRONKHITE, WILLIAM, 1858.
CROSBY, ENOS C., 1847.
DEAN, DAVID M., 1843, 8.
exciting pastimes of youth, he can hardly be said to have availed himself of all the educational advantages within his reach. Possessing a strong love of adven- ture, and an indomitable will, he had but barely passed his majority, when he put in execution a long cherished desire to visit the new world, and having made his preparations therefor, sailed from Belfast, on the ninth of April, 1831. After a stormy passage of forty days, he landed in Quebec ; proceeding from there direct to Swanton Falls, Vt., at which place he remained about a year, removing the following spring to Kingsbury, N. Y., where he resided for several years.
In 1838, he embarked in the manufacture of lime in company with Martin Ryan. At the end of three years this company was dissolved, and another formed, in which Harvey and Israel Smith were taken as partners, and a store of general merchandise added to the business. In 1843, this connection was dissolved, and Mr. Keenan continued the business alone. In 1847, he removed to Queensbury, still continuing his manufacture of lime at the kilns between Glen's Falls and Sandy Hill. For a short time, E. H. Rosekrans, and Eleazer S. Vaughn were in- terested as partners. In 1851 their connection with the concern terminated. The same year he entered into partnership with the late H. R. Wing, and founded the Jointa Lime Company, to which, after a successful existence of eight years, Mr. L. G. McDonald was added, and shortly afterward the extensive lime and trans- portation business of the Cool brothers was purchased. Of the latter interest, under the name of the Glen's Falls Transportation Company, Mr. Keenan was elected president, a position he held for a number of years. Something like ten years of great prosperity and success followed this combination, conferring wealth on all concerned.
By reason of Mr. Wing's death, which occurred in 1870, the firm finally, after an attempt to carry out his wishes, in continuing the business the same
CADWELL, JAMES E., 1857.
CAMERON, CHARLES R., 1866, 8.
CARPENTER, STEVENS, 1846. CHENEY, ALBERT N., 1846.
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DELONG, THEODORE S., 1869.
HOLMAN, DEWITT C., 1865.
HOLMAN, EZEKIEL, 1846.
DELONG, ZOPHER I., 1862, 3, 73. EASTWOOD, MARTIN, 1850.
HOSKINS, WILLIAM, 1864. HOTCHKISS, THEODORE, 1870.
FERGUSON, HENRY, 1844, 50, 1, 2. HUBBARD, EDWIN, 1855.
FERGUSON, JAMES, 1858, 61, 2, 6.
JOHNSON, FREDERICK A. JR., 1870.
FERRISS, JOHN A., 1839.
KEEFFE, DANIEL F., 1869. KEENAN, JOHN, 1863, 6, 71, 2.
FICKETT, HENRY E., 1858.
FINCH, JAMES C., 1856.
KENWORTHY, JOHN L., 1853.
GOODMAN, STEPHEN L., 1865.
KIPP, RULIFF, 1854, 70. KNAPP, ISAAC, 1849.
GOODSPEED, STEPHEN, 1842.
GRAY, ENOCH, 1860.
KRUM, HIRAM, 1863.
GREEN, JOEL B., 1863, 6.
LAPHAM, BENJAMIN F., 1865. LAPHAM, HENRY G., 1873.
HARRIS, HIRAM M., 1871, 2.
HAWLEY, GEORGE G., 1849, 54.
LAPHAM, JEROME, 1851, 7, 71, 2. LEAVINS, HARMON R., 1869, 71, 2.
HIGBY, JOHN C., 1847.
HIGBY, RICHARD W., 1849, 50, 1, 2. LEWIS, GARDINER T., 1863.
HITCHCOCK, ALFRED, 1858.
LITTLE, MEREDITH B., 1865, 73.
HITCHCOCK, DWIGHT, (a) 1841, 2. LOCKE, IRA, 1855.
. as though he were living, was broken up and Mr. McDonald, with others, bought out the establishment. Since this period Mr. Keenan has retired from the manufacturing business, but the wonderful energy and industry of the man still keeps him busily engaged in the activities of life. During all the years of his residence here, Mr. Keenan has conspicuously identified himself with all measures looking towards public improvement and reform. He was among the first to urge the great advantages which would accrue to our village from the construc- tion of a railroad here. After many political struggles, and the greatest of oppo- sition from some of the inhabitants of the village and town, he succeeded in fighting a bill through the legislature in its favor and secured the construction of the road. From its inception to its completion, he was one of the heaviest stock holders, and president of its board of directors. He also assisted largely in securing to the village its present admirable system of water works, obtaining with others the passage of an act of legislature authorizing their construction. It was during this period that he acted as president of the board of village trustees.
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