A short history of New York State, Part 74

Author: Ellis, David Maldwyn
Publication date: 1957
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Published in co-operation with the New York State Historical Association by Cornell University Press
Number of Pages: 764


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Bacon, Ezekiel, 223


Baker, George (Father Divine), 634 Ballet, 644


Ballots, secret, 371


Bank of America, 138


Bank of the United States, 214 Banks, 138, 177-178, 211, 214, 215, 216, 261-264, 339, 424, 467, 583-585


Barber, Jedediah, 176


Barker, George P., 218


Barnard, George Grey, 356, 357, 630


Barnes, William, Jr., 385


Barnum, P. T., 573 Barry, Philip, 641


Barton, Bruce, 634 Baseball, 628


Battles: Brooklyn Heights, 106-107; Bull Run, 243; Golden Hill, 96; Harlem Heights, 108; Johnstown, 117; Lundy's Lane, 142; Newtown, 116; Oriskany,


691


692


INDEX


Battles (cont. )


111; Saratoga, 111-112; Stony Point, 116; Valcour Island, 109 Bausch and Lomb Company, 503 Bayard, Nicholas, 37 Bayes, Nora, 643 Beardsley, Samuel, 218 Beecher, Henry Ward, 234-235, 604


Beecher, Lyman, 208, 308 Beecher, Thomas K., 604


Beechnut Company, 512


Behrman, N. S., 641 Bell, John, 240 Bellows, George, 611 Belmont, August, 566


Bemelmans, Ludwig, 647


Bemis, James D., 202 Bennett, James Gordon, 326


Bennett, John J., Jr., 434


Benton, Nathaniel, 319


Berger, Erna, 643 Berkeley, Lord John, 31 Bernhardt, Sarah, 614


Biddle, Nicholas, 262 Bigelow, John, 363, 373


Bingham, William, 154


Binghamton area, 515-516 Birney, James G., 220, 310 Birth rate, 450 Bissell, Josiah, 299 Black, Frank S., Governor, 378, 380


Black Horse Cavalry, 351


Blaine, James G., 364, 366, 380 Bloomer, Amelia, 312-313


Board of Trade (London), 50-51, 55-56


Boerum, Simon, 97 Bogardus, Dominie, 27 Books, 202-203 Boon, Gerrit, 167 Booth, Edwin, 334 Booth, Junius Brutus, 334 Bossism, political, 351-360 Boston Tea Party, 96 Bouck, William, Governor, 160, 218, 219, 223 Boughton, Dr. Smith A., 160 Bounties, land, 153 Brace, Charles Loring, 315 Braddock, Edward, General, 56 Bradford, William, 68


Bradish, Luther, 218 Bradstreet, John, Colonel, 58


Brady, "Diamond Jim," 617, 618


Brant, Joseph, 111, 115, 116 Brant, Molly, 55 Breckenridge, John C., 240 Brewing, 269 Bridges, 555-556


Briggs, Charles, 334


Brisbane, Albert, 291 Broadhead, Daniel, Colonel, 116 Brock, Sir Isaac, 140


Brockholls, Anthony, Governor, 32 Bronson, Greene, 231


Brooklyn, 20 Broome, John, 112, 137


Brown, Dr. Amos, 276


Brown, David, 269


Brown, Jacob, 139-141


Brown, John (abolitionist), 237-238


Brown, John (merchant), 157, 171 Brown, Shipley and Company, 261


Browne, Lewis, 634


Bryant, William Cullen, 204, 227, 233, 235, 238, 241, 307, 326-327, 329


Buchalter, Louis, 434


Buchanan, James, President, 234, 235, 241 Buel, Jesse, 275, 279


Bull, Ole, 333


Bullard Orchards (Schuylerville), 482 Bullfinch, Charles, 331


Bunner, H. C., 606, 607


Burden, Henry, 267


"Burgher Government," 24


Burgoyne, John, General, 109-110, 112 Burnet, William, Governor, 54


Burnham, Daniel, 613


Burr, Aaron, 131-132, 135-136, 177 Burroughs, John, 606 Burt, Silas W., 365 Burton, William, 333 Business, 173-186, 256-270


Butler, Benjamin F., 144, 227 Butler, John, Colonel, 106, 111, 115, 116


Butler, Nicholas Murray, 595


Butler, Walter, 106, 115, 117


Cabins, described, 165 Cadman, Rev. S. Parkes, 634


Calhoun, John C., 148, 149, 214 Cambreling, Churchill C., 223, 227 Camping grounds, state, 627


Camps, children's, 628 Canada, expeditions against, 54, 99, 100, 139, 140 Canal Ring, 362-363


Canals, 211, 217, 218, 560-564 Capital district, 506-509 Capron, Dr. Seth, 184


Cardozo, Albert, 356, 357


Carleton, Sir Guy, 106, 109 Carmer, Carl, 635 Carnegie, Andrew, 545, 600 Caroline affair, 217


Carteret, Sir George, 31


693


INDEX


Caruso, Enrico, 616, 643 Catt, Carrie Chapman, 391 Cattle, 273 Cazenove, Theophile, 154


Central Park (New York City), 298


Chanler, Lewis S., 386


Charles II, King of England, 28-29


Charlick, Oliver, 546


Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions (1629), 21


Charter of Liberties and Privileges, 32, 33, 35, 36


Chassanis, Peter, 157


Chauncey, Isaac, Captain, 140, 141


Chautauqua Institution, 598, 635


Chemicals, 508, 519, 522


Cherry Valley, 115


Chesterfield, Lord, 206


Chippendale, Thomas, 68


Choate, Joseph H., 373


Church, Frederick, 330


Church, Sanford E., 227


City, freedom of, 85


Civil service reform, 364-365, 369, 373, 374, 378, 381, 430


Civil War, 242, 243, 335-342, 495


Clark, Dr. Billy, 208


Clark, Myron H., Governor, 230, 231, 310


Clarke, George, Lieutenant Governor, 39, 43, 60, 73,80


Clarke, George, 158, 159


Classes, social, 206-207, 652-653


Clay, Henry, 148, 149, 214, 219, 221, 228 Cleveland, Grover, President, 361, 367- 373, 380


Clinton, De Witt, Governor, 127-128, 130, 134-138, 142-145, 148-149, 162, 167, 170, 175, 182, 199, 212, 242, 325 Clinton, George, Governor, 43-45, 54-56, 73, 98, 100, 113, 115, 119-124, 132, 135, 137, 138, 150, 162, 199, 205 Clinton, George W., 242 Clinton, Sir Henry, 112-113, 117


Clinton, James, General, 115 Cobleskill, 115


Cogswell, Joseph, 325


Colden, Cadwallader, 40, 43-47, 70, 71, 90, 93, 96 Cole, Thomas, 330


Colleges, 193, 322, 593-597; Barnard, 594; Brooklyn, 596; Champlain, 596; Elmira, 595; Hamilton, 201, 331; Har- pur, 597; Hobart, 201; Hunter, 594, 596; Jamestown Community, 597; Mo- hawk, 596; Queens, 596; Rutgers, 64; Sampson, 596; Union, 201, 331; Vas- sar, 594; see also various New York universities listed individually


Collins, Edward, 261


Columbia University, 64, 66, 146, 193, 200, 201, 595


Commerce, 80 ff., 568-586


Committee of Correspondence, 97


Committees of 51, 60, and 100, 98-99


Common Sense (Paine), 100


Communication facilities, 254


Compromise of 1850, 228


Congresses: Continental, 97-100; Provin- cial, 98-101, 112


Conkling, Roscoe, 355, 357, 361, 363-366, 377, 385


Connelly, Marc, 641


Connolly, John, Bishop, 197


Connolly, Richard B., 356, 359


Conservation, 374, 404, 486, 638, 639


Constable, William, 157


Constitution, U.S., ratification of, 125 Cook, Charles, 276


Cooper, James Fenimore, 163, 192, 193, 203-204, 206, 327, 329, 332


Cooper, Dr. Myles, 67


Cooper, William, Judge, 126, 129, 131, 151, 158, 167, 190, 202, 204, 206 Cooperatives, 291-292, 487-492, 528- 529


Coote, Richard, Earl of Bellomont, Gov- ernor, 36, 37, 50, 53, 73, 75, 81


Copeland, Jo, 650


Copland, Aaron, 645


Copley, John, 68


Cornbury, Lord Edward, Governor, 37, 38, 53, 66, 73


Cornell, Alonzo, Governor, 365, 366


Cornell, Ezra, 254-255, 343, 593


Cornell University, 276, 322, 355, 357, 593, 595


Corning, Erastus, 251, 547


Corning Glass Center, 509-510


Cornwallis, Charles, General, 117


Corporations, 184, 266, 377


Corruption, political, 351 ff., 383-384, 413-415 Cosby, William, Governor, 42, 43, 73 Cotton, 175, 339


Council of Appointments, 134-135, 145- 146


Council of Revision, 146


Courts, 30-31, 36, 42, 112-113, 146-147, 223, 253, 373, 414


Crain, Thomas C. T., 414 Crane, Hart, 638


Crane, Stephen, 607


Crary, John, 213


Crawford, William H., 148


Credit, 177, 487-488 Creston, Paul, 645


INDEX


694


Crèvecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean de, 163 Crime, 48-49, 120, 296-297, 342, 372, 433-434 Croker, Richard, 370, 380, 382


Croswell, Edwin, 145, 218, 327


Crothers, Rachel, 641


Culture: changes in, 619-653; Dutch, 28 Cummings, E. E., 648 Cunard, Samuel, 260


Cunningham, Waddel, 90


Currency, 122-123 Currier, Nathaniel, 330


Curry, John F., 421


Curtis, George William, 234-235, 239, 365


Dairying, 273-275, 413, 474-475, 488-492 Daly, Joseph F., 380


Damrosch, Leopold, 616


Dana, Charles A., 241, 327, 608


Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 332


Darwin, Charles, 639


Davenport, Ira, 370


David Harum (Westcott), 608


Davies, Arthur B., 611


Davis, Richard Harding, 606


Day, Benjamin, 326


Dearborn, Henry, Major General, 140 Death rate, 457


Debtors, 120


Declaration of Independence, 100


de Forest, Robert, 465


de La Barre, A. J. L., Governor, 52


De Lancy, James, 41-45, 54-56, 66, 76 De Leon, Daniel, 530-531


Delicatessens, 651-652


Delinquents, juvenile, 314-315


Dello Joio, Norman, 645 de Mille, Agnes, 644 Depew, Chauncey M., 545 Depression (1929), 416-419, 424-427, 586


Dewey, Melvil, 600 Dewey, Thomas E., Governor, 348, 423, 432-446, 596 De Witt, Charles, 112


Diamond, David, 645


Dickens, Charles, 295


Dickinson, Daniel S., 218, 229, 240


Diedrich Knickerbocker's History of New York (Irving), 27, 203


Dieskau, Ludwig August, Baron, 57


Dix, Dorothea L., 313-314, 471


Dix, John A., Governor, 192, 227, 229, 240, 242, 359, 361 Dix, John Alden, 387, 388 Dodge, David Low, 313


Dongan, Thomas, Governor, 16, 32-34, 52, 64, 71


Donovan, William J., 421


Dos Passos, John, 638


Doughty, Thomas, 330


Douglas, David, 69


Douglas, Lloyd, 634 Douglas, Stephen A., 237, 240


Downing, Andrew Jackson, 332


Draft riots (1863), 337


Dred Scott Decision, 235


Dreiser, Theodore, 607


Drew, Daniel, 253, 273, 278, 356, 582, 583 Drew, John, 614 Drexel, Anthony J., 584


Duane, James, 97, 98, 100, 125, 128, 158, 170 Duchamp, Marcel, 611


Duer, William, 112


"Duke's Laws," 30, 65


Dunne, James, 112


Durand, Asher, 330


Dutch East India Company, 19


Dutch West India Company, 18-20, 22- 23, 25, 29


Dutchman's Fireside (Paulding), 204 Duyckinck, Gerardus, 82


Dvořák, Anton, 616


Dwight, Timothy, 189, 191


Eastman, Max, 638


Eastman Kodak Company, 504-505


Eating, habits in, 575


Eckford, Henry, 269


Eddy, Thomas, 197, 199, 314


Eden, Medeef, 162


Edmonds, Walter D., 635


Education, 317-334, 589-601; adult,


598-599; agricultural, 483-485, 595


Edwards, Jonathan, 65


Einstein, Albert, 639


Elections, 46-47


Electors, presidential, 131, 149, 213 Eli Hart and Co., 290 Eliot, T. S., 640


Ellicott, Joseph, 155


Ellwanger and Barry ( nurserymen), 273


Elmira area, 509-510


Elssler, Fanny, 334 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 635


Emigrant Aid Society, 233


Empire, symbols of, 51


Erie Canal, 143-144, 182, 187, 188, 244- 245, 560 Erlanger, Abraham, 613


E. S. Higgins Co., 500-501 Eustis, William, 140


695


INDEX


Evans, George Henry, 289-291 Evarts, William M., 239, 241 Evergood, Philip, 649 Exchanges, commodity, 578-579


Factories, 266-267, 502


Fairs: county, 171, 276; state, 276, 484; world's 635 Fargo, William, 547


Farley, James A., 410, 434


Farley, Thomas M., 415


Farmers, 77, 159, 221, 347, 439-440, 459, 473-492, 522


Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, 156 Farming, 78, 163-172, 271-279, 472-493, 509


Fashion, 498-499, 650-651


Faulkner, William, 647


Fay, Frank, 643


Featherstonhaugh, George W., 170


Federal Interstate Commerce Act, 374


Federalist, 125


Federalists, 124-132, 138, 143-144


Feke, Robert, 68


Feminists, 312


Fenton, Reuben E., Governor, 333, 338, 355, 357, 364, 377


Ferguson, Patrick, 105


Ferries, 48-49


Field, David Dudley, 227, 235, 239, 241


Fields, Lew, 614


Fields, W. C., 643


Fillmore, Millard, President, 215, 219- 220, 227-229 Finance, 261-262


Finney, Charles G., 193, 299-302, 308, 310, 316 Fires, 48, 295-296


Fish, Hamilton, Governor, 192, 227, 228


Fish, Nicholas, 137


Fisk, Jim, 253, 356, 582-583, 617-618


Fitch, Clyde, 615


Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 637-638


Flagg, Azariah Cutting, 145, 192, 218


Fletcher, Benjamin, Governor, 35, 36, 73, 80


Flower, Roswell P., Governor, 366-367, 372, 465


Floyd, William, 97 Flushing Remonstrance (1645), 27


Flynn, Edward J., 411


Fogarty, Anne, 650


Folger, Charles J., 366 Forbes, Gerrit, 463


Ford, Rev. George B., 634


Ford, Paul Leicester, 606-607


Forrest, Edwin, 333-334


Forsey, Thomas, 40


Fort Orange, 19 Fort Sumter, 242 Fosdick, Rev. Harry Emerson, 634


Foster, Henry A., 218 Foundries, 267


Fourier, Charles, 291 Fowler, Orson S., 332 Fox, Dixon Ryan, 299 Fox, John, 307


Franchise Tax Bill, 381 Frank, Lawrence K., 589


Franklin, Benjamin, 56, 70, 108, 128


Frederic, Harold, 608


Freeholders, qualifications of, 46 Freemanship, decline of, 185


Freemen (New York City), defined, 46


Frémont, John C., 234, 235, 337


French and Indian Wars, 52-53


French Revolution, 129


Freud, Sigmund, 639


Freylinghuysen, Theodore, 65


Friedsam, Michael, 403, 592


Frohman, Charles, 613


Frontenac, Louis, 52


Fugitive Slave Law, 229


Fuller, Margaret, 326 Fulton, Robert, 178 Fur trade, 15, 19, 33, 41, 52-54, 59


Gage, Thomas, General, 77, 95 Gallagher, Thomas, 646 Galusha, Elon, 306


Gannett, Frank E., 621


Gansevoort, Peter, General, 111


Garfield, James A., President, 366


Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 285


Garland, Hamlin, 608


Gates, Horatio, General, 109, 112


Gatti-Casazza, Giulio, 616


Geddes, James, 182


General Electric Company, 506-508, 512, 517, 632


General Society of Tradesmen, 185


Mechanics and


Genêt, Edmond Charles, Citizen, 129


George, Henry, 370


German Flats, 115


Gershwin, George, 642 Gershwin, Ira, 642


Gibbons, Thomas, 250


Gilbert, Cass, 555


Glynn, Martin H., Governor, 388


Godkin, E. L., 609


Gold, Mike, 638 Golden Age of Homespun (Van Wa- genen ), 492


Goldstein, Jonalı J., 422 Gompers, Samuel, 529-530


696


Gonzalez, Julio, 650 Goodman, Benny, 645 Gordon, Waxey, 433 Gorham, Nathaniel, 154 Gough, John B., 309


Gould, Jay, 253, 278, 356, 357, 368, 545, 551, 566, 582-584


Government, beginning of state, 101 Grady, Thomas F., 368


Graham, Martha, 644 Graham, Sylvester, 310


Grand Army of the Republic, 342 Granger, Francis, 213-214, 228


Grant, Ulysses S., President, 359, 364, 366


Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, 572


Greater New York Bill, 378-379


Greeley, Horace, 192-193, 216, 229-230, 233, 241, 276-277, 291, 307, 310, 326, 335-336


Green, Andrew H., 298, 373, 379


Green Mountain Boys, 99, 122


Greene, Franklin, 324


Greene, Frederick Stuart, 411


Greene, Nathanael, General, 108


Greenwich Village, 605-606


Grenville, Lord, 91 Griscom, John, 314


Griscom, Dr. John H., 463


Gropper, William, 649


Gunther, C. Godfrey, 337, 341 Guy, Francis, 329


Haggerty, John, 176 Hale, Nathan, 108


Hall, A. Oakley, 356, 359


Hall, Amos, General, 141


Hall, George, 309


Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 204 Halper, Albert, 638


Hamilton, Alexander, 100, 120, 123-125, 128, 130-132, 136, 150, 177, 183, 202, 206, 225, 638 Hamilton, Andrew, 42 Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 642


Hammett, William H., 218


Hammond, Bray, 262 Hanley, Joseph R., 435 Hardenbergh Patent, 73


Harding, Warren G., President, 395, 408 Hardy, Sir Charles, Governor, 45, 84 Haring, John, 97 Harison, Richard, 125, 128


Harpers Ferry, 237 Harrigan, Ned, 614 Harris, Ira, 222, 241, 364 Harrison, Benjamin, President, 377


INDEX


Harrison, William Henry, President, 141, 216, 326


Hart, Lorenz, 642 Haviland, William, General, 58


Hawley, Gideon, 145, 193, 200


Hayes, Rutherford B., President, 364- 366


Hayman, Al, 613


Heald, Henry T., 593


Hearst, William Randolph, 384, 397, 609


Heathcote, Caleb, Colonel, 64


Heck, Oswald D., 436


Held, Anna, 615 Hellman, Lillian, 641


Hemingway, Ernest, 637-638


Henri, Robert, 611


Herkimer, Nicholas, General, 111


Hertz, Alfred, 616


Hewitt, Abram S., 370


Hiawatha, 12 Hicks, Elias, 197 Hicks, Granville, 638


Higgins, Frank W., Governor, 382-383 Hill, David B., Governor, 361, 369-373, 376


Hines, James J., 434


History of the Five Indian Nations (Colden), 68


Hobart, John Henry, 195, 303


Hobart, John Sloss, 112, 125


Hoffman, John T., Governor, 357


Hoffman, Michael, 218, 223


Hofstadter, Samuel H., 415


Holland, 18-19, 24


Holland Land Company, 154-155 Hone, Philip, 176, 248


Hooker, Philip, 331


Hoover, Herbert, President, 395, 414


Hopkins, Harry L., 411


Horsmanden, Daniel, 90


Housekeeping, 206


Housing, 292-295, 431, 441-442, 463, 465-468


Howe, Louis McHenry, 410


Howe, Sir Richard, 108


Howe, Sir William, 106, 109


Howe Sewing Machine Company, 573 Howells, William Dean, 602, 606-607 Hudson, Henry, 19


Hughes, Charles Evans, Governor, 348, 376, 383-387, 401


Hughes, John, Bishop, 285, 303-304 Hughes, Langston, 648-649


Hull, William, 140


Hunt, George, 12


Hunt, Richard Morris, 612


Hunt, Washington, Governor, 229, 240, 248


697


INDEX


Hunter, Robert, Governor, 41, 61 Hylan, John F., 397


Ilsely, Ferdinand, 333 Immigrants, 193, 220, 281-286 Income, individual, 568-570


Indians, 8-17, 23, 629; land rights of, 151-152 Industry, 494-523 Ingolsby, Robert, 35


Inman, Henry, 329 Inman, William, 157 Innes, George, 330, 610


Insanity, 313, 471 Insurance, 178, 264, 383-384, 585 Intemperance, 208, 308


International Business Machines Corpo- ration, 516, 518, 565 International Harvester Company, 518 Intolerable Acts, 96


Investments, 85-86 Iroquois confederation, 9, 10-17 Irving, Washington, 27, 203, 327, 329 Irving, William, 203 Ives, Irving M., 435-436, 443 Ives, James Merritt, 330


Jackson, Andrew, President, 149, 212- 214, 262


James, Duke of York and Albany ( King James II), 28-30, 32-34, 52 James, Henry, 606


Jay, John, Governor, 97, 98, 100, 108, 112, 119-120, 125, 128-131, 168, 170, 225, 365 Jay, Peter Augustus, 146, 148, 225 Jay, William, 220 Jazz, 645 Jefferson, Thomas, President, 129, 131- 132, 137, 199, 331 Jervis, John B., 252 Jews, 197, 603 Jogues, Father Isaac, 21


Johnson, Andrew, President, 338 Johnson, Guy, 106 Johnson, Hugh, 410 Johnson, Sir John, 76, 106, 111 Johnson, Samuel, 67 Johnson, Dr. Samuel (lexicographer), 365


Johnson, Sir William, 45, 52, 55-57, 59- 60, 64, 73-74, 93, 204, 499 Johnson, William Samuel, 200 Joncaire, Louis, 54 Jones, David, 43 Jones, George, 358 Journalism, 326


Judges, tenure of, 45-46 Jury, trial by, 91


Kalm, Peter, 65 Kansas Nebraska Bill, 230, 233


Kaufman, George S., 641-642


Kay, Ulysses, 645 Kean, Thomas, 69


Keep, Henry, 547 Kelly, "Honest" John, 355, 361, 363, 367- 368, 370 Kelsey, Otto, 385


Kemble, Fanny, 334


Kensett, John F., 330


Kent, James, Chancellor, 134, 146, 147, 205-206, 222, 325


Kent, Rockwell, 650


Kent, William, 216


Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, 131


Kern, Jerome, 641


Kernan, Francis, 359


Kidd, Michael, 644


Kieft, William, Governor, 21, 23-24, 27


King, John A., Governor, 233-234


King, Preston, 227, 233, 235, 239


King, Rufus, 143-144, 225, 233


King George's War, 54


Kingsland, Ambrose, 298


Kirkland, Charles S., 223


Klaw, Marc, 613


Knower, Benjamin, 144-145


Kossuth, Lajos, 285 Kuhn, Fritz, 434


Labor, 86-87, 286-291, 370, 374, 383, 387-390, 403, 412, 427-428, 438-439, 445-446, 498, 524-540


La Farge, John, 611


La Guardia, Fiorello, 413, 416, 423, 429


Lamb, John, 92, 96, 98, 100 Land disputes, 25-26


Landlords, 7 ff.


Landon, Alfred, 623


Lang, Pearl, 644 Langmuir, Irving, 508, 632


Langtry, Lily, 614


Lansing, John, 124-126


Lardner, Ring, 638 Larkin, Oliver, 328


Last of the Mohicans (Cooper), 10 Law, 30-31 Law, Samuel A., 271


Lawrence, Cornelius V. R., 215 Lawyers, 204-205 Leases, land, 75; defined, 159


Leather, 499-500, 511, 516 Leather Stocking Tales (Cooper), 204 Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 328


698


INDEX


Lee, Robert E., 237 Legislation, labor, 532-536


Legislature, state, 352-353, 411-412 Lehman, Herbert H., Governor, 409, 430- 435, 467, 536, 538


Leisler, Jacob, 34-35, 37, 52 Letters from an American Farmer


(Crèvecoeur), 163


Lewis, Francis, 98


Lewis, Morgan, Governor, 136-137


Lewis, Sinclair, 637-638


Libraries, 203, 325-326, 600


Limon, José, 644


Lincoln, Abraham, President, 236-241, 335, 337-338


Lind, Jenny, 333


Link, Henry S., 634


Lippmann, Walter, 413


Littlepage, Major, 163


Littlepage Manuscripts (Cooper), 204


Livingston, John H., 64, 195


Livingston, Peter R., 146


Livingston, Philip, 82


Livingston, Robert, 61, 77


Livingston, Robert R., 97, 100, 112, 125, 128, 130, 169-170


Livingston, William, 66, 90, 95, 97


Livingston Manor, 77


Lockwood, Charles C., 466


Lodges, fraternal, 199


Loesser, Frank, 642


Lord, Eleazur, 252


Lord and Taylor, 257


Loudoun, Earl of, 57


Louisburg, siege of, 57


Lovelace, Francis, 31-32


Lovelace, John, Governor, 40


Low, Isaac, 97


Low, Seth, 382-383


Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 469


Loyalists, 114, 118, 121


Luce, Henry R., 623


Luciano, Lucky, 433 Luks, George, 611


Lumbering, 78-79, 166, 277, 512, 516 Lusk, Clayton R., 399


McAllister, Ward, 617


McCardle, Claire, 650


McCarron, Patrick, 382


McClure, General, 141


McDonough, Thomas, Captain, 142


McDougall, Alexander, 96, 99


MacDowell, Edward Alexander, 616 McDowell, John R., 312


McEvers, James, 92


McGraw, John J., 628


Machold Storage Law (1915), 404


Mckay, Donald, 270 Mackenzie, William Lyon, 216-217 McKim, Mead and White (architects), 613


Mclaughlin, Hugh, 354, 361


McLeod, Alexander, 217


Macomb, Alexander, General, 142, 151, 156-157 Macy, R. H., 257 Madison, James, President, 125, 131, 137-139


Magaw, Robert, Colonel, 109


Magazines: 610, 623, 624, 647-648, 650; American Agriculturist, 275, 485; Country Gentleman, 275; Cultivator, 275; Evangelist, 301; Fortune, 623; Galaxy, 573; Genesee Farmer, 275; Good Roads, 552; Harper's Monthly, 573, 610; Harper's Weekly, 358, 365; Life, 623; The Lily, 312; Literary Di- gest, 623; McClure's, 610; The Masses, 605; Moore's Rural New Yorker, 275; The Nation, 413; New Genesee Farmer, 275; New York History, 636; New Yorker, 647-648; Printers' Ink, 648; Publishers' Weekly, 648; Read- er's Digest, 623; Review of Reviews, 422; Rural New Yorker, 483, 485; Saturday Review, 648; Scribner's Monthly, 573, 610; Time, 623; The Yorker, 636


Mahler, Gustav, 616


Mail, 254


Mainbocher, 650


Makemie, Francis, 66


Maltz, Albert, 638


Manhattan Island, 18


Manning, Daniel, 366


Manors, 73-75


Mansfield, Richard, 615


Manufacturing, 86-88, 182-184, 264-268, 340, 494-505, 510-515 Marcy, William L., Governor, 144-145, 214-215, 217, 221, 227, 229, 262


Marin, John, 650


Markets, public, 85, 177


Marshal, Benjamin, 266


Martin, Homer, 610


Martling, Abraham, 136


Marx, Karl, 530, 639


Masonic Order, 212-213


Massacres: Deerfield, 53-54; Schenec-


tady, 52 Massey-Harris Company, 506


Matsell, George, 314 Matthewson, Christy, 628


May, Rev. Samuel, 313


Maynard, Isaac H., 372


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Mead, James M., 435 Medalie, George Z., 433


Medicine, 205, 207-208, 297 Melville, Herman, 327-328


Mencken, H. L., 638 Merchant marine, 257-258, 339, 556-560 Merchants, 82-83; Albany, 53-54


Merritt, Edwin A., 365


Metals, 511-512, 515


Metropolitan Museum of Art, 629-630 Metropolitan Opera Company, 616, 643 Mexican War, 222


Mid-Hudson area, 518-519 Military Tract, 151, 153


Militia, 139-140, 142-143


Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 638


Miller, Arthur, 640-641


Miller, Elizabeth Smith, 312


Miller, Nathan, Governor, 395, 398


Miller, William, 193, 306


Milling, flour, 497


Mills, Ogden, 398, 423


Miner, Roy W., 631


Mining, 513-514


Minisink, 116


Minthorne, Mangle, 137


Minuit, Peter, Governor, 23


Missouri Compromise, 230


Moby Dick (Melville), 328


Moffatt, Abbott Low, 436


Mohawk Valley area, 510-512 Monckton, Robert, Governor, 45, 56 Money, paper, 582-583


Monroe, James, President, 143


Montcalm, Louis Joseph, General, 57


Montgomerie, John, Governor, 42, 46 Montgomery, Richard, General, 99-100 Montgomery Ward and Co., 571


Moore, Douglas, 645


Moore, Henry, Governor, 77, 93 Moore, Marianne, 649


Morgan, Edwin D., Governor, 233, 236- 238, 241, 251, 335-336


Morgan, J. P., 261, 507, 545, 584-585


Morgan, Junius Spencer, 584


Morgan, William, 212


Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 411


Mormons, 305 Morrill Land Grant Act, 276, 593


Morris, Gouverneur, 76, 100, 112, 143, 158, 182, 225 Morris, Lewis, Jr., 40, 42, 76


Morris, Lewis, Sr., 39-42, 98 Morris, Robert, 151, 154-155


Morse, Samuel F. B., 220, 254, 304, 328- 329 Morton, Levi P., Governor, 373, 376, 378-379


Moscow, Warren, 397 Moses, "Grandma," 650


Moses, Robert, 423, 556, 629


Mount, William S., 330


Movies, 624-625


Muhlenberg, William A., 604


Mumford, Lewis, 494


Munsey, Frank A., 622-623


Murphy, Charles E., 382, 388-389, 396- 397, 408 Murray, Colonel, 141


Murray, John, 197


Murray, Robert, 82


Museums, 612, 629-631, 649


Music, 332-333, 615-617, 643-645


Nanfan, John, 37 Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemi- son, 202


Nast, Thomas, 385


National Reform Association, 291


Nativism, 220, 233, 285-286, 304


Navigation Acts, 51, 59, 84


Negroes, 62, 281, 311-312, 342, 454-455


Nelson, Samuel, 222


New Amsterdam, 19, 20, 21


New Deal, 407-431


New Hampshire Grants, 77, 121-122 New Sweden Company, 25


New York City: Assembly, 35, 37-45, 91, 97; Charter of, 33, 46, 235-236, 357 (1870); Common Council of, 33, 47; cultural leadership of, 602-618; Metro- politan area, 518-519, 522


New York Folklore Society, 635


New York Sacred Music Society, 333


New York State: Constitution of (1777), 112-113, 121, 145-146; (1821), 223; (1874), 359-360; (1894), 373-374; constitutional conventions, 146-148; (1846), 222-223


New York State Agricultural Society, 275- 276


New York State Board of Mediation, 539- 540


New York State Department of Agricul- ture and Markets, 485


New York State Federation of Labor, 531- 532


New York State Historical Association, 629, 635, 636


New York Temperance Society, 309 Newhouse, Sewall, 306


Newspapers: 201, 208-210, 622-623; Al- bany Argus, 327, 366, 608; American Gazetteer (N.Y.), 67; Atlas (Albany), 327; Broadway Journal, 334; Commer- cial Advertiser (Buffalo), 285-286;


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Newspapers (cont.)


Daily Advertiser (N.Y.), 201; Day- Book (N.Y.), 337; Dutchess County Intelligencer, 244; Emancipator (N.Y.), 226; Evening Journal (Albany), 216, 327, 608; Evening Post (N.Y.), 202, 204, 233, 238, 327, 387, 608-609; Evening World (N.Y.), 416, 609; Gazette (N.Y.), 68; Herald (N.Y.), 326, 410; Herald-Tribune (N.Y.), 621, 623; Irish-American (N.Y.), 283; Jef- fersonian, 216; Journal (N.Y.), 609; Justice, 529; New York Gazette or Weekly Post-Boy, 92; News (N.Y.), 337, 621; Observer (N.Y.), 220; On- tario Repository, 202; Otsego Herald ( Cooperstown), 202; Republican (Rochester), 321; Sun (N.Y.), 326, 608; Times (N.Y.), 233, 327, 355, 358, 430, 609-610, 620-621; Times ( Owosso, Mich.), 432; Tribune (N.Y.), 216, 233, 242, 286, 291, 326-327, 340, 395; United States Economist, 340; Variety, 643; Wall Street Journal, 622; Weekly Journal (N.Y.), 42; Working Man's Advocate, 289; World-Telegram and Sun, 622; Young America, 291 Niagara frontier, 501-503




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