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On Nov. 22, 1876, J. Henry Deane married Mary C. Losee, daughter of Stephen \ Losee, and in the spring of 1879, moved to Austin, Illinois, where he entered the employ of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, with office at Chicago. He remained with the company and on a visit to his old home he was induced by his father to return to the farm, which he did in 1884. He remained on the farm for 4 years, but prices for farm produce were so low (hay selling for from 88 to $10 per ton) he decided to give up farming which he did in 1888, and moved to Catskill, where he entered the employ of the Catskill Mountain Railroad Company. He remained with them for 2 years, when he gave up railroading and became a clerk in the furniture store of Post & Deane, after first going to New York City and taking a course in embalming, with Prof. A. Raymond, recognized as the best tex- cher of the art in this country. In 1892 he purchased the interest of W. A. Post in the furniture and undertaking business, and the firm of Post & Deane was changed to Deane & Deane, Dr. J. A. Deane, an uncle, being the senior partner. In 1910 George A. Deane, his son, purchased the interest of Dr. J. A. Deane, and the father and son became partners. Their increasing business demanding more room in 1914 they moved to their new store No. 439-441 Main street where they have one of the largest and finest furniture stores in the state.
During his residence in Catskill, J. Henry Deane has serv- ed as president of the Rip Van Winkle Club, president of the Board of trustees of the village of Catskill, coroner of Greene county for 4 years, and is now serving his third successive term as supervisor of the town. Mr. Deane is associated with the Masons, Rip Van Winkle Club, Red Men, Protected Home Circle, and is a trustee of the Presbyterian church.
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Catskill Savings Bank
O CATSKILL SAVINGS BANK
CATSKILL, N. Y.
This institution which is the only one of its kind in the county was incorporated by Chapter 96 of the Laws of the State of New York, passed April 1, 1868.
Its first Trustees were its incorporators, none of whom sur- vive, namely :
S. Sherwood Day, John Breasted, Samuel Harris, Rufus II. King, Jacob H. Meech, George Griffin, Elijah P. Bushnell, Fred- erick Cooke, John H. Bagley, Jr., Burton G. Morse, John A. Griswold, Luke Roe, Edwin N. Hubbell, Sheldon A. Givens, Charles L. Beach, George Beach, George Robertson, Isaac Pruyn, John M. Donnelly, Francis N. Wilson, Nelson Fanning, Manly B. Mattice, Edgar Russell and Joseph Hallock.
Its present Trustees are Orrin Day, Jeremiah Day, W. Ir- ving Jennings, Emory A. Chase, William Palmatier, Lucius R. Doty, Charles E. Bassett, George S. Lewis, William H. Van Or- den, Frank H. Osborn, Albert C. Bloodgood, William J. Hughes, Omar V. Sage, Addison P. Jones and James Lewis Malcolm.
The following Trustees have served as President since the bank's organization in the order named: John Breasted, S. Sher- wood Day, Rufus H. King, Joseph Hallock, Manly B. Mattice and W. Irving Jennings.
The executive officers for many years have been and are: W. Irving Jennings President, Emory A.Chase 1st Vice President, Jeremiah Day 2nd Vice President and Secretary, and Orrin Day Treasurer.
From its organization until June, 1909, the business of the bank was conducted in the banking room of the Tanners National Bank of Catskill, since which time it has occupied its new build- ing, shown on the head of this page, No. 343 Main Street.
The bank's total resources January 1, 1915, based on in- vestment or amortized value of securities were $3,797,400.55, which are carefully invested as required by Law and subject to the supervision of the State Banking Department.
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GEORGE W. HOLDRIDGE
George W. Holdridge was born in the town of Catskill, Greene county, October 20, 1847. His father was James Ilold- ridge and his mother, Sarah Lane. James Holdridge was a son of Isaac Holdridge and Hannah Pettit.
The Holdridge family was of English descent and moved from Connecticut to Lexington, Greene county where they lived until 1814 when they moved to Catskill and purchased a tract of land situated at the foot of Round Top Mountain, part of which is now owned by the shale brick company.
The Pettit family came from France and settled on Long Island. Later they moved to Hurley, Ulster county, and from there to Lexington. Hannah Pettit had two brothers, Amos and Hezekiah, who resided in the town of Lexington. Hezekiah was born in 1779 and died in 1852. For fifty years he was pastor of the Baptist church on Lexington flats, being widely known as Elder Pettit. He served without pay most of the time.
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Andrew Lane, father of Mr. Holdridge's mother came front England and settled in Dutchess county. About 1800 they moved to Ulster county. He served in the 2d regiment during the Rev- olutionary War.
At the age of 13 George W. Holdridge came to Catskill and was apprenticed to A. & B. Wiltse in the foundry that is now the Catskill Machine Works, and was to receive $50 per year until he became 21. But after 8 months he received $4 and went to work for John Hardwick and Robert E. Ferrier, where he ran the en- gine for 3 years, doing his own firing, and shoveling daily 16 loads of sand into the pit. He received $1 per day and board. At the close of thejbrick season he went to work for William H. Finch, to learn the mason's trade.
In 1865 he listed in the U. S. navy, going first to the Ver- mont and later the Shenango. The boat was sent south and ar- rived at Charleston, Feb. 18, 1865, the morning following its evac- uation by the Rebels. The city had been set on fire, and he help- ed put it out. Later on they captured a Rebel boat, the Olivia, laden with cotton,
Sailing down the Black River they dispersed 300 Rebel Guerilla Cavalry and took a large quantity of provisions from them. Being transferred from the Shenango to the Kansas they were ordered to the West Indies, later to Brazil and the Falkland Islands. They had many rough and exciting experiences, and plenty of hardship, and at one time for 15 days were on an allow- ance of a half pint of water per man. April 13, 1867, he was paid off and discharged from the navy.
In 1868 he started to work for L. S. and William Smith at Catskill, and in 1870 formed a partnership with William Ruland as contractor and builder. In 1881 he went by himself and since that time has forged to the front as one of the best builders of brick and stonework in Greene county. Among the many splen- did structures that he has erected are the Catskill AArmory, St. Luke's church, the Young Men's Christian Association building, the Carnegie Library, the Irving School building, the Grandview School building, St. Patrick's Academy, Parochial residence, num-
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ber 1 and number 5 engine houses, and the Rowena Memorial School building at Palenyille, a picture of which is to be seen else- where in this book, and many other structures.
He was a member of the Catskill fire department from 1871 to 1888, and 2 years chief. He served the town of Catskill as col- lector 1872-3, trustee of the village 1894-96, being president of the Board in 1896. In 1897 he was honored by the county by elec- tion as sheriff, serving with distinction during 1898-1900, the jail being then as it was at the time Mrs. Beardsley purchased the property. (See account Heidelberg. )
Mr. Holdridge has always taken an active part in the upbuilding of Catskill, and has been a trustee of the Catskill Meth- odist church since 1892.
He was married to Hannah M. Dederick Jan. 4, 1871, and had 5 children, Frank, who died at the age of 13 years, Harry, who was killed by the cars at Alsen, Jan. 16, 1910. Harry was married to Anna May Richardson, Sept. 6, 1905, and they had one son, George Frederick. There are now living Walter H., Florence and May Holdridge. Walter married Adaline Craigie of Catskill and they reside in New York where he has a fine medical practice. They have one son, Walter Henry. Florence married Frank H. Cooke. They are living in Catskill and have one child, Marie Holdridge. May is still living at the old home.
On July 1, 1908, Mr. Holdridge married Marie Burger, who takes an active interest in church, Y. M. C. A. and fireman- ic work as well as her home on Division street.
Mr. Holdridge has a large and well equipped contracting supply plant on the West Side, and employs a large number of skilled mechanics who are generously paid and always take great interest in his work.
The residence of Mr. Holdridge _on Division street, adjoins his supply plant, and is a very handsome building, located on a well kept terrace and surrounded by a flower garden.
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Temporary Depot at Catskill, built in two days after the destruction of the old depot at West Shore Station. View of first depot will be found elsewhere in book.
All that remained of St. Anthony's School, formerly Pros- pect Park Hotel, Catskill, after the fire. Building is to be re- placed by the Francescan Society, in the near future as a monas- tery.
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HASONIC TEMPLE
Free and Accepted Masons
The institution of Masonry early appealed to the prominent citizens of Catskill, and within ten years of the close of the Revo- lutionary war, when a time of settled peace had given opportun- ity to the people in the long harrassed Hudson river valley to turn their minds to other things than war, on the 11th of December, 1792, to be exact, a petition bearing ten names asking for organi- zation of a Masonic lodge at Catskill was forwarded to the Grand Lodge. The petition was granted, and Harmony Lodge No. 31, F & A. M., was instituted by charter dated September 3, 1793, signed by Robert R. Livingston, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York. The charter members of the lodge were Jacob Bogardus, Stephen Day, Samuel Haight, Rufus Stanley, George Taylor, Dr. Thomas Thomson, Hezekiah Van Orden, and W. W, Wetmore, men whose names survive as land-
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marks of an earlier time in Catskill history. Samuel Haight was the first master of the lodge, Stephen Day senior warden and Dr. Thomson junior warden. The lodge increased in membership up to the year 1800, when it numbered 48, after which it declined and probably went out of existence in 1805.
The second Masonic lodge organized here was Catskill Lodge No. 302, F. & A. M., by charter dated March 4, 1818, signed with the illustrious name of M. W. DeWitt Clinton, then Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York. There were thirteen charter members, and the first officers were: Caleb Benton, W. M .; Cornelius DuBois, S. W .; Thomas Hale, J. W. This lodge occupied rooms which had been fitted up for the pur- pose by Francis Botslord, in the third story of the building now known as the Selleck building, at the corner of Main and Thom- son streets. These rooms were plainly but substantially furnish- ed and at that time were considered ideal lodge rooms. No. 302 held together during the height of the anti-masonic wave that swept over tke country from 1827 to 1830, having an active mem- bership of 40 in June, 1829, but it declined after that date, be- coming extinct on the 4th of June, 1835.
It was another generation that again revived Masonry in Catskill, a quarter of a century having elapsed before the institu- tion of another lodge here. This took place in 1859, when by dispensation granted February 10th, Catskill Lodge No. 468 was organized with the following charter members: John H. Bagley, jr., James Becker, Peter Baurhyte, Samuel DuBois, David S. Manchester, George L. France, Luke Kiersted, Rufus H. King, A. Melvin Osborne, T. C. Palmer and Isaac Pulver. The lodge first met in a hall in the Cook building at the corner of Main street and Bank Alley, now occupied by the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, and here it was formally instituted June 27, 1859, with the following officers: John H. Bagley, jr., W. M .; T.C. Palmer, S. W. ; James Becker, J. W. ; Samuel DuBois, secretary; Rufus H. King, treasurer; Isaac Pulver, S. D .; A. M. Osborne, J. D .; D. Manchester, tyler.
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On the 1st of May, 1863, the lodge room was moved to Martin's hall in the building now occupied by Beardsley's hard- ware store. Some five years later Charles E. French erected a building further up Main street, nearly to the corner of Church street, and the lodge leased the third floor of this building from the 1st of January, 1869. Ten years later, on the 1st of May, 1879, another move was made, to the Oliver Bourke building, in the hall now used by the Knights of Columbus. The stay here was longer, but in 1894 another move was made to what is known as Cowles hall, which was in fact the old location in the French building, over the present location of the telephone exchange.
But as the lodge grew in numbers and influence the ques- tion of owning a building was brought to the front, and a building fund was started and added to each year up to 1907, when it was used in the purchase of the Irving House property at the corner of Main and Clark streets. This property was, however, soon after taken by the county as part of the location for the new court house, so the matter rested for another year. In 1909, on the advice of the trustees of the lodge, Ira B. Kerr, I. Wheeler Bran- dlow and William H. Hallenbeck, and of the worshipful master, J. Henry Deane, the old court house property. at the corner of Franklin and Bridge streets, was purchased from the county. Ex- tensive alterations were made in the building to fit it for Masonic purposes, with the result that here is one of the finest lodge rooms along the Hudson river. The new rooms were first occupied at the communication of September 1st, 1910, and the building, now properly designated the Masonic Temple, was formally dedicated to the uses of Free and Accepted Masonry with impressive cere- monies on the 7th of February, 1912. Howard C. Wilbur, wor- shipful master, made the presentation, and the dedication ceremo- nies were conducted by M. W. Robert Judson Kenworthy, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York, and the following staff: John J. MacCoun senior grand warden, Christo- pher C. Molienhouer junior grand warden, John H. Sanford De- puty Grand Master, William E. Stevens Grand Chaplain, H. Greeley Brown Grand Secretary, Mayhew W. Bronson Grand Treasurer, Jacob C. Klinck Grand Marshal. There were more
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than 400 Master Masons present on this occasion, members of Catskill lodge and visitors.
Under the uspices of Catskill Lodge No. 468, F. & A. M., the corner stone of the new Greene Co. court house was laid with proper ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 12, 1908 (A. L. 5908), at 1:15 P M., by the Grand Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York. The acting officers of the Grand Lodge present were: R. W. Charles Smith Grand Master, R. W. Samuel Stern Deputy Grand Master, R. W. Ira B. Kerr Grand Senior Warden, R. W. Richard A. Anstin Grand Junior Warden, R. W. Sanford W. Smith Grand Treasurer, R. W. Henry Hudson Grand Secretary, R .. W. William W. Chace Grand Marshal, Bro. Clark Wright D. D. Grand Chaplain, Bro. William J. Beardsley Grand Architect. Lafayettee Commandery No. 7, Knights Temp- lar, of Hudson, Edward W. Scovil, E. C., served as escort to the grand officers. There were in attendance representatives from the following Masonic lodges: Ark Lodge No. 48, Coxsackie; Oasis Lodge No 119, Prattsville; Cascade Lodge No. 427, Oak Hill; Catskill Lodge No. 468, Catskill; Mountain Lodge No. 529, Windham; James M. Austin Lodge No. 557, Greenville; Kede- mah Lodge No. 693, Cairo; Social Friendship Lodge No. 741, New Baltimore; Mount Tabor Lodge No. 807, Hunter.
The successive worshipful masters of Catskill lodge have been: John H. Bagley, jr., Charles C. Givens, John H. Bagley [2d time], James E. Nearing, Jacob S. Philip, James E. Nearing [2d time], A. Melvin Osborne, John H. Bagley [3d time], James Becker, Charles H. Pierson, John F. Sylvester, George C. Fox, Charles H. Pierson [2d time], Stephen M. Bagley, William J. Hughes, Charles H. Pierson [3d time], Orrin G. Selden, Abram P. Kerley, Will R. Post, Charles II. Bennett, Robert Selden, William W. Bennett, George H. Warner, William R. Maguire, Henry T. Jones, Samuel B. Doty, Charles G. Coffin, Charles E. Carey, William R. Maguire [2d time], Ira B. Kerr, Frederick A. H. Dewald, J. Rodney Magee, W. Platt Fisher, J. Henry Deane, George H. Terns, Howard C. Wilbur, Archie D. Clow.
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Catskill Lodge is in the 15th Masonic district, of the State of New York, which comprises Greene and Ulster counties. It has produced two grand lodge officers, R. W.John H. Bagley and R. W. Ira B. Kerr, both of whom held the position of District Deputy Grand Master. The lodge grows steadily in influence and membership, its active list in 1914 carrying 236 names. The lodge officers for 1914 are as follows; Claude II. Heath, W. M .; John Henry Felter, S. W .; George A. Deane, J. W .; R. D. Mil- ler, Secretary; James P. Philip, Treasurer; Frank L. Vedder, S. D .; Lewis R. Magee, J. D .; Earl C. Sandt, S. M. C .; George W. Parks, J. M. C .; Jeremiah E. Crawford, Edward M. Sedgwick, Stewards; Rev. G. H.P. Grout, Rev. J. W. Tetley, Rev. Wallace J. Gardner, Jay D. Hopkins, Chaplains; J. Lewis Patrie, Mar- shal; Frederick Becker, Tyler. Regular Communications of Cats, kill Lodge are held every Wednesday evening at 7:30. Later - Officers for 1915, John Henry Felter, W. M .; Frank L. Vedder, S. W .; Lewis R. Magee, J. W .; Roscoe D. Miller, Secretary; J. P. Philip, Treasurer; Earl C. Sandt, S. D .; George W. Parks, S. D .; Seth T. Cole, S. M. C .; Euberto Austin, J. M. C .; Frank S. Mackey, Elmer E. Whitcomb, Stewards; Rev. G. H. P. Grout, Rev. J. W. Tetley, Rey. Wallace J. Gardner, Jay D. Hopkins, Chaplains; J. Lewis Patrie, Marshal; Clarence A. Noble, Tyler; William H. Hollenbeck, Ira B. Kerr, I.W. Brandow, Trustees.
Catskill Masonic Club was organized in 1912 to give mem- bers of the order greater advantages for social intercourse. All master masons are eligible to membership and can become mem- bers of the league of Mason Clubs on payment of a small fee. The club rooms are located on the ground floor of the Masonic Temple and are open every day and evening in the year. Its past presi- dents are James P. Philip, Jay D. Hopkins and ('laude H. Heath. Present officers: Archie D. Clow, president; Clarence A. Noble, J. Henry Felter, vice-president; Euberto Austin, treasurer; Earl C. Sandt, secretary; Frank L. Vedder, collector; George H. War- ner, George S. Lewis, Jay D. Hopkins, J. Henry Deane, Howard C. Wilbur, Howard C. Smith, Charles H. Arbogast, governors.
We are indebted to F. E. Craigie, editor of the Examiner for the history of the Masonic lodges of Greene county.
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Coxsackie
The town of Coxsackie or dis- trict as it then was regarded was taken from Albany county in 1788, and included New Baltimore, Free- hold, Athens, Cairo, Durham, Greenville, stretching as far as Gil- boa. It was made up of many ori- ginal grants of which Peter Bronk's in 1662, was the first. Naturally therefore Coxsackie figures very largely in the colonial history. Ref- erence has been made elsewhere to these patents.
The Bronks, Van Bergens, Van Slykes, Hallenhecks, Smiths, Van Loons, Houghtalings, Spoors, Van Dayton B. Smith. Schaacks, were among the first sett- lers, and Counsellor E. C. Hallen- beck, and the Rev. Lewis Lampman have among their possessions many of the original deeds and historical documents.
The commodity of the early date appears to have b.en wheat and "schepels of good and merchantible wheat" took the place of money.
At the present time the town comprises 33,000 acres, and the value of the real property is over $2.000,000, and the taxes for 1914 were over $47,000. Coxsackie has no bonded indebtedness and is one of the most prosperous of the river towns.
The first ferry was operated by Ephraim Bogardus and in 1800 there is a record of a license to him to run a ferry.
The Dutch Reformed church was organized at Coxsackie in 1732, and a church was erected around 1738, and this building was pulled down in 1798 when Henry Van Bergen gave a lot for a new church on the opposite side of the road. This building stood until 1861, when the present church was built. Michael
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Weiss is given the honor of first minister. He was followed by Johannes Schunemann, who preached also at Catskill, 1752-1794. Later Coeymans was included in the circuit.
The Second Reformed Church was organized in 1833.
The Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1836, and Coxsackie and Coeymans were the preaching places.
The Protestant Episcopal church was organized in 1853.
The Roman Catholic church was organized in 1845.
The Coxsackie High school is a splendid institution with a large and commodious building, and a teaching corps that is sec- ond only to Catskill in point of numbers. The first schools were established in the town just prior to 1800, Anthony Rogers teach- ing the school at Coxsackie village. The Rev. Henry Ostrander is also said to have been a teacher in 1801 to 1810.
The Coxsackie cemetery was incorporated in 1826, and contains the mortal remains of many of the early residents. The Riverside cemetery was not incorporated until 1873.
Coxsackie village was incorporated in 1867.
Coxsackie has a well equipped fire department with a grav- ity water system, the supply being taken from streams in the neighborhood. The village is lighted by electric lights. There are many fine stores and a number of manufacturing concerns.
The first National Bank was organized in 1865.
The hotels are the Park Hotel, Frank Vermilyea, proprie- tor, an old and well equipped stand at West Coxsackie, the Cob- blestone Inn, a very pretty hotel also at West Coxsackie, the Lar- abee House, the Eagle Hotel and the Cummings Hotel at the landing.
William P. Franklin conducts the Coxsackie Union, which in 1867 he started as the Coxsackie News. It is still printed in the same building where it was started by Mr. Franklin.
Coxsackie Lodge No. 50, F. & A. M. was organized at a meeting held at Foot's Inn in that village on the 24th of Decem- ber, 1796. The first officers were: Philip Conine, jr., W. M .; Isaac Rosa, S. W .; Benjamin Moore, J. W .; John Barr, secre-
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tary; Jesse Wood, treasurer. The other charter members were John Bostwick, Giles Gridley, John Mcintyre, Solomon Palmer, Storm Rosa and Stephen Truesdell. This lodge continued until 1804, when its charter was surrendered.
Ark Lodge No. 271, F. & A. M. was organized in 1816, with Talmadge Fairchild, W.M .; Amariah Foster, S.W. ; William Bliss, J. W. Other officers and charter members not on record. It lasted for ten years, going out of existence during the anti- mason wave that started in 1826.
Ark Lodge No. 48, F. & A. M. was organized in 1846 with the same worshipful master, Talmadge Fairchild, who started with the lodge of thirty years before. Succeeding him as W. M. there have been Philip C'onine jr., Isaac Rosa, Jesse Wood, Solo- mon Palmer, Adonijah Miner, W. V. B. Hermance, John Bedell, Gilbert Bedell jr., Henry M. Beach, John B. Bronk, Alexander Reed, Albert Parker, Jacob Houghtaling, William K. Reed, A. Webster Van Slyke, Samuel C. Bennett, A. V. D. Collier, Henry J. Hahn, Henry Van Dyck, Rev. Eugene Hill, Schuyler (. Bis- hop, Geo. W. Barber, Oakley L. Fenton, William I. Sax, R. II. Van Denburgh, Austin W. Barber, W. Ralph Church, Henry R Soper.
Officers of 1914: W. Ralph Church W. M., Henry R. So- pher S .¿ W., Collins C. Whitmore J. W., W. R. Church Treas., Geo. W. Barber Sec., Leonard A. Warren S. D., Francis L. Wor- den J. D., Wm. H. Salisbury S. M. C., Chas. F. Colvin J.M. C., Jerome E. Browne, Tyler, Rev. Samuel T. Clifton, Chap.
At Fort Orange, on the 14th of January 1662, Sisketas and and Sichemoes, two Indians sold to Pieter Bronck the first parcel of land in what is now Greene county, and which under Governor Knolls in 1667 became known as Bronck's patent. This tract of land was called by the Indians Kioxhacking, and this land after- wards passed to Jan Bronck and south of this patent was the Loonenburgh patent which extended to what is now the Catskill line, and on the north it extended into the Coeymans district. A part of the Loonenburgh patent became the property of Marte Garritse Van Bergen known as the fountain flats, 1861. The Korlarskill Patent was owned by Jan Bronck and Marte Gerritse
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Van Bergen, and became in 1687 the Coxsackie Patent. The Bronk house, which is still standing and which is in the possession of the Rev. Lewis Lampman, was erected in 1736. Judge Leonard Bronk, who was born in 1752, was undoubtedly the foremost man of his period. Not only was he appointed first Judge of the Court Common Pleas for Greene county, 1800, a position which he held for ten years, but he was the first lieutenant Governor of the State of New York, 1777, 1778, was major of infantry in 1793, lieuten- ant Col. in 1796. Previous to that time he had served 9 nine terms as member of assembly, and state senator, in 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1803. For many years he was justice of the peace of Albany county. He died in 1828 at the age of 76 years. Many of the deeds covering the early lands are in possess- ion of Mr. Lampman, and still others of the Van Bergens are in the possession of Judge Hallenbeck and Lawrence Van Bergenof Coxsackie, son Henry Van Bergen.
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