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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
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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
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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
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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
699
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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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