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Mr. Gould was educated at the Friends' school in Providence, Rhode Island; and at fourteen years of age he was allowed by his parents to select out of several excellent opportunities the one he would most desire for his success in life. He chose deliberately to come with Benjamin Marshall, a relative, to Stockport, Columbia Co., N. Y., in whose print-works he was chemist for several of the earlier years of hia life.
In politics, Mr. Gould was an old-line Whig, and possessed in an eminent degree the confidence and friendship of Horace Greeley, whose cause he espoused in the Liberal movement of 1872. While he never courted political favors, his abilities early brought him before the people, who elected him to the Assembly in 1847. In 1858 he received the nomination for State senator, but was defeated by Wil- liam G. Mandeville. In 1867, Mr. Gould was elected as a senatorial delegate to the constitutional convention, and bore a prominent part in the discussions and deliberations of that body.
Always deeply interested in matters of a humanitarian nature, the organization of the State Prison Association waa an object of his earnest aolicitude. He was early called to the councils of the board, and was subsequently made vice-president of the organization. In thia position his broad and philanthropic views found full scope in devising means for the amelioration of the condition of the inmates of our prisons, and many of the measurea instituted for the reforma- tion of the dangerous claases were the suggestions of his fertile brain.
Greatly interested always in agricultural matters, he had from early life familiarized himself with the science of farming, and his lectures and writings upon the subject gained for him a wide-spread reputa- tion. Upon the subject of scientific farming he had no superior, and
his writings in relation thereto are among the most valuable contri- butions relating to this topic. His knowledge of thia and kindred matters marked him as one admirably fitted for the office of president of the State Agricultural Society, which position he most acceptably filled for one term. His lecture upon the subject of " Grasses" before the Stato Agricultural Society was one of the most masterly produc- tions ever presented to that body. He was professor of agriculture in Cornell University from the founding of that institution to the time of his death. As director of the Farmers' National Bank of Hudson, a position held by him for many years, his presence always insured sound advice and clear judgment.
He was early identified with the public school system in this locality, and was for four years superintendent of public schools in the city of Hudson, in whose welfare he always maintained the greatest interest. He had a wonderful command of language, and a happy faculty of imparting his knowledge to others, which made him ever a welcome addition either to the public platform or the social circle. As a lecturer on education, on scientific topics, or on agriculture, but few excelled him.
Mr. Gould departed this life on the 8th of Auguat, 1874, aged sixty-two years. He had been twice married, his second wife surviv- ing him. His only son, who attained to manhood, William Ashby Gould, died in the year 1872; the remaining children are daughters.
We quote the following just tribute to Mr. Gould's character from the Elmira Gazette of the date of his decease :
" The news of the death of this man will fall heavily on a wide constituency of friendship and acquaintance. Without ostentation and without effort, he had gained a place in the hearts and minds of the middle classes of the people of this State which few men occupy, and none other holds with the confidence which was reposed in him.
" Mr. Gould was an educated man in a double sense. He had the advantage of a liberal education, and to this acquirement he added the fuller education which comea of constant study and untiring devotion to applying scientific truths to practical enda. As an essayist, Mr. Gould enjoyed a high reputation, his productiona being printed and read as widely as the subjects he treated had application. On the opening of Cornell University he was selected to give a yearly course of lectures on agriculture and the mechanical arts. These lectures have been promptly delivered, and at every course many farmers in the neighborhood of the institution have attended. He was one of the most popular of the non-resident professora of Cornell. His death lays on the institution a loaa which it will not be easy to make good."
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HUDSON CITY LODGE, NO. 142,
was instituted in Hudson, Aug. 9, 1849, with the following charter members : M. W. Leland, Abraham G. Vosburgh, Silas W. Tobey, Henry Miller, Wm. H. Coons, Morgan II. Chrysler, Wm. I. Traver, John Crapser, Wm. H. Crapser, Edward Crossman, Chas. Mitchell, John H. Charlot.
The first officers were Abraham G. Vosburgh, N. G .; Morgan H. Chrysler, V. G .; Edward Crossman, Sec .; Charles Mitchell, Treas. ; Henry Miller, P. Sec.
Officers for 1878 are Jacob Fleahman, N. G .; Robt. J. Smith, V. G. ; Richard J. Race, See. ; Lewis W. Bach- man, Treas .; William Horton, W. ; Augustus H. Sanford, C .; William Horton, I. G .; E. H. Roberts, O.G .; Wil- liam H. Crapser, Alexander Tanner, and Charles Ziesneitz, Trustees.
Present number of members, ninety-one.
The lodge meets at Odd-Fellows' hall, Warren street, every Tuesday evening.
ALLEN LODGE, NO. 92,
was instituted Aug. 12, 1843. The first officers were M. B. Charlot, N. G .; M. L. Pultz, V. G .; Jas. Batchellor, Sec .; A. Heermance, Treas. Present officers: E. J. Covey. N. G. ; H. L. McArthur, V. G .; Charles Cham- plin, See .; H. Payne, Treas.
UNION ENCAMPMENT
was instituted at Hudson, July 18, 1844. Its first officers were James Batchellor, C. P .; M. L. Pultz, II. P .; S. A. Coffin, S. W .; William R. Steele, Seribe ; H. Doty, Treas. ; G. Dixon, J. W. Present officers : J. W. Quick, C. P .; Lucas Fais, H. P .; Jacob Waterman, S. W .; W. S. Taylor, Scribe ; Thomas P. Nash, Treas. ; W. D. Holsap- ple, J. W.
LINDENWALD LODGE, NO. 442,
was instituted Nov. 19, 1875, at Hudson, with twenty- eight charter members, as follows: Edmond Chas. Getty (P. G.), Henry W. Race, Depew C. Wildey (P. G.), Geo. C. Byrne, Jr. (P. G.), Martin Rowe, Alexander R. Benson (P. G.), Charles F. Dernell, William L. Shortman, Minard C. Shaver, Jacob Waterman (P. G.), William E. Hallen- beck, Edward A. Osborne, John B. Longley (P. G.), Ira Rider, Hiram Best (P. G.), Milo P. Moore, George G. Miller (P. G.), Norman S. Roe, Jay D. Ten Broeck, Fred- erick Hebener, Dedrick Van Iloesen, William Park, George B. Sweet, William Rowe, Andrew H. Getty, Richard M. Remington, Jr., John Elting, Christopher M. Mellen.
Officers when instituted : Alexander R. Benson, N. G. ; George C. Byrne, Jr., V. G .; Depew C. Wildey, Sec. ; Norman S. Roe, Treas.
Present number of members, eighty-seven; place of meeting, No. 225 Warren street.
The officers for 1878 are George P. MeArthur, N. G. ; Charles Van Albert, V. G .; Iliram Simons, Sec. ; William C. Falk, Treas .; Alexander R. Benson, R. S. N. G .; Robert R. Dormandy, L. S. N. G .; Richard Roche, Warden ; Valentine Raab, Conductor; Casimer H. Guer- tin, R. S. S .; Dedrick Van Hoesen, L. S. S .; Jacob Waterman, O. G .; Martin Egan, I. G .; Theodore Morris,
R. S. V. G .; Andrew Shiller, L. S. V. G .; Herbert H. Trent, Chaplain ; Robert F. Hermance, Organist; Hiram Best, Jr. P. G .; John B. Longley, Frederick A. Welch, Wilson Van Hoesen, Trustees.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. JOHN BANIM LODGE, NO. 83,
was instituted May 31, 1872. Number of members at or- ganization, forty ; present number of members, eighty. The officers for 1878 are M. J. Crapser, Past Chancellor ; Jacob Wronski, Chancellor Commander; E. T. Denegar, Vice-Chancellor ; H. Moores, Prelate; C. Champlin, Keeper of Record and Seal; H. T. Waterman, 2d Mas- ter of Finance; L. Geiger, Master of Exchequer; S. G. George, Master at Arms; John Keneyon, Outer Guard. The lodge meets at Odd-Fellows' hall.
SONS OF THE COVENANT. GAMALIEL LODGE, NO. 11G,
was instituted and chartered by the Grand Lodge, Aug. 23, 1868, the number of original members being twenty-five.
The first officers were M. Greenthal, President ; N. Dosenheim, Vice-President ; Jacob Wronski, Sec .; A. Harris, Financial See .; S. M. Swartz, Treas .; William Boston, Mentor; M. Peyser, Assistant Mentor ; J. Fried- lander, Warden ; M. Simon, Guardian ; S. Kritzman, M. Sylvester, A. Israel, Trustees.
The lodge has at present a membership of fifty, and a fund of nearly $1000. Its cardinal principles are benev- olence, brotherly love, harmony, and the rendering of aid and support to the sick, needy, and aged of the order. At the decease of a member, the widow and children receive the sum of $1000, which is collected by a per capita tax upon the members in the district. The order, of which this is a subordinate lodge, extends through the United States, and has a membership of over twenty-five thousand.
The present officers of Gamaliel Lodge are M. Greenthal, President ; M. Sylvester, Vice-President; Jacob Wronski, Sec. ; M. Wolke, Financial Sec .; J. Kritzman, Treas.
MISCELLANEOUS SOCIETIES.
Among the earliest of the many societies of Hudson was the Society of Mechanies of the city of Hudson and town of Claverack, which was formed in the spring of 1791. We are unable either to state the objects of the society or to give the names of its first officers.
THE HUDSON MECHANICAL SOCIETY
was incorporated by act of Legislature, passed March 21, 1806 ; the corporators being Jonathan Ames, Aaron Char- lot, Abiel Cheney, Daniel Clark, Jared Coffin, Paul Dakin, Isaac Hathaway, Nicholas Hathaway, Charles Holt, Prosper Hosmer, John Keeney, James Nixon, Jr., Laban Paddock, Nathaniel Porter, William Rogers, Nathan Sears, Sylvanus Seely, Ashbel Stoddard, Robert Taylor, John C. Ten Broeck, Cornelius Tobey, Samuel Wigton, and William Wigton, " mechanics of the city of Hudson, in the county of Columbia."
The first officers of the society were Prosper Hosmer,
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president; Nathan Sears, vice-president ; Daniel Clark, treasurer ; C. Holt, secretary ; Samnel Wigton, Paul Da- kin, Cornelius Tobey, Jonathan Ames, and Aaron Charlot, directors. This society remained in existence for a number of years.
THE HUDSON CONSCRIPT COMPANY
was formed March 1, 1806, at the inn of James Fairehild, in Hudson. Its name might give the impression that it was a military organization, but instead of this it was a society for the detection and capture of horse-thieves, who were at that time very plenty and very bold in their opera- tions. George Burch, Esq., was chosen treasurer, and David Ingersoll, Ephraim Mandell, Henry I. Best, Christopher Keiller, Samuel Dyer, David Arms, Samuel Piersons, James Fairchild, John Davis, Jr., Michael M. Hollenbeck, Jacob C. Platner, and Abraham Morrison, riders.
THE COLUMBIA MORAL SOCIETY
was organized about 1815. Of the objects or operations of this society we know no more than may be inferred from its name. Similar societies were organized about the same time in Claverack, Kinderhook, Livingston, and perhaps other towns.
THE F. M. C. T. A. B. SOCIETY, NO. 1,
of Hudson, held its first meeting on March 2, 1871, and elected the following members as its first officers : James Cooney, president; William G. Trimble, first vice-president ; John Brennan, second vice-president ; Henry Maloney, recording secretary ; William Gabin, corresponding secre- tary ; Thomas Clark, financial secretary ; David Ryan, treasurer ; Michael Gaul, marshal.
The present officers (elected September, 1877) are John Hennessey, president ; David Ryan, first vice-president ; James Patten, second vice-president ; James Hallorn, re- cording secretary ; Fenton Cudy, corresponding secretary ; Henry Murphy, financial secretary; Peter McShane, treas- urer ; John Brady, marshal; Lawrence Doyle, John Brown, Michael Pursel, John Costigan, and Morris Foley, trustees.
The Rev. Father Smith is ex-officio president of the society.
Present membership, eighty-five.
Society meets at St. Mary's school-house, Allen and Third streets.
THE HUDSON CLUB
was organized Jan. 28, 1873, its object being the promo- tion of rational pleasures and social intercourse among its members. Its first officers were John C. Hogeboom, presi- dent ; Richard Kidney, first vice-president; William H. Traver, second vice-president ; E. P. Magoun, secretary ; John M. Pearson, treasurer ; and these were re-elected for the years of 1874 and 1875.
The officers for 1878 are Cornelius Esselstyn, president ; J. M. Johnson, first vice-president ; V. Whitbeek, Jr., second vice-president ; Charles W. Bostwick, secretary ; Thomas O. Wells, treasurer.
The present membership of the elub is forty-nine.
Meetings are held on the second and fourth Mondays of each month, at the club-rooms, 207 Warren street.
THE YOUNG MEN'S TEMPERANCE AND LITERARY SOCIETY holds regular weekly meetings at its rooms, corner of War- ren and Third streets, Hudson. It was organized Oct. 1, 1873, the first officers elected being as follows: Henry Maloney, president ; Michael Brophy, treasurer ; Charles Tillman, recording secretary.
The officers of the society for 1878 are Dennis Kennedy, president ; Frederick Sullivan, treasurer; Edward J. Till- man, recording secretary ; Andrew M. Purcell, librarian ; John W. Carlos, John F. Brennan, John Harvey, John Carroll, Dennis Kennedy, trustees. The present member- ship is fifty-five.
THE HUDSON TEMPERANCE REFORM CLUB
was organized Nov. 22, 1877, at the close of a series of temperance meetings held at the city hall, in Hudson, by Mr. C. C. Frost, of Maine. The first officers were John M. Welch, president ; Reuben W. Jaquins, Rufus W. Parmatier, Jacob Van Hoesen, vice-presidents ; James C. Ferguson, secretary ; Hiram D. Gage, corresponding secre- tary ; Reuben W. Jaquins, financial secretary ; Rev. C. W. Tomlinson, treasurer; J. T. Bowne, chaplain ; Alexander Carter, sergeant-at-arms ; Crawford Rifenburgh, Edward Law, marshals; David Burns, janitor.
The present officers, June, 1878, are John M. Welch, president ; James W. Quick, Robert Currie, and Jacob Van Hoesen, vice-presidents ; James C. Ferguson, secretary ; Hiram D. Gage, corresponding secretary; Reuben W. Jaquins, financial secretary; Rev. C. W. Tomlinson, treas- urer ; J. T. Bowne, chaplain ; Lewis H. Hermance, ser- geant-at-arms ; Crawford Rifenburgh and William Gaskell, marshals ; David Burns, janitor.
The regular meetings are held on Wednesday evenings of each week, and occupy rooms in the Register building, on Central square. The club-room is open each day from nine A.M. to ten P.M. The membership is one hundred and sixty.
MILITARY.
The "Cowles' Guard," a military company (so named in honor of the lamented Col. David S. Cowles, who fell like a hero in an assault on the rebel fortifications at Port Hud- son in 1863), was formed in Hudson in May, 1878, and now numbers eighty-five men. They have adopted a hand- some gray uniform with black trimmings and white belts. The company is an exceedingly fine military body, and is now under command of the following officers : Rufus J. Palen, captain ; W. R. Elting, first lieutenant ; Volkert Whitbeck, Jr., second lieutenant.
POPULAR DEMONSTRATIONS IN HUDSON.
The first notable reception of a distinguished public man by the citizens and city government of Hudson was that given to Governor John Jay, on the 4th of July, 1792. He had stopped at Kinderhook, and came thence to Hud- son, for the purpose of taking passage by sloop to proceed down the river. He came by way of Claverack, where he was met by a cavalcade of about two hundred Hudsonians,
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who escorted him to the city. He was received by Mayor Seth Jenkins, on behalf of the city government and the people, and was honored with an elegant entertainment at the public-house of Russell Kellogg. The usual compli- mentary and patriotic speeches and toasts were given, the principal citizens paid their respects, and on the following morning the distinguished guest moved to the landing and embarked, amid the acclamations of the populace and the thunder of an artillery salute from Captain Frothingham's guns on the Parade hill.
At the death of WASHINGTON the demonstrations of public grief were imposing. At a meeting of the council held Dec. 26, 1799, that body took action as follows :
" The Council having received certain accounts of the Death of our illustrious, beloved General WASHINGTON, and being desiroos of testi- tying their sorrow in the most public manner, do Resolve that the citizens he immediately notified to repair to the City Hall to form a procession to the Presbyterian Meeting-House, where suitable prayers will be made by the Rev. Mr. Sampson, and an Eulogy will be spoken by Mr. Gilbert on the solemn occasion."
The procession moved in the following order :
" Capt. Nicholas Hathaway's Company of Infantry, with Arms Re- versed and Musick Muffled and Sbrouded. Recorder and Orator. Common Council, two aod two. The Reverend Clergy. Officers of the late Revolutionary Army. Other Officers, Civil and Military. Citizens, two and two."
Minute-guns were fired by the artillery, the bells of the city were tolled, all places of business were closed, and a vast concourse of citizens, wearing badges of morning, as- sembled at the church to listen, with absorbing interest and deepest grief, to the tonching eulogy.
A most remarkable and joyous occasion in Hudson was that of the public reception of the old Marquis LAFAY- ETTE, in September, 1824. Upon his arrival at New York a deputation from Hudson had waited on him there, ten- dering him the hospitalities of the city and soliciting the honor of a visit from him, which invitation was politely accepted.
Lafayette left New York and passed up the North river on the steamer " James Kent," commanded by Commodore Samuel Wiswall. After leaving Poughkeepsie he more than once mentioned his desire to meet again his "old friend Livingston" (Colonel Henry B. Livingston, who had served under him in the Revolution), and while the " Kent" was at Staatsburgh the colonel came alongside in a small boat, boarded the steamer, and the two old men, who had been comrades in the times that tried men's souls, rushed to embrace each other, much to the surprise of the lookers-on. Then the party proceeded to the Clermont mansion, where the night was passed in festivity. There the marquis was met by a committee from Hudson, with Generals Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer and James Flem- ing, who, accompanied by the Hudson City Guards, the Scotch Plaids, and the Hudson brass-band, had come down upon a steamer* to escort the illustrious guest to their city.
About the middle of the following day the company reached the wharf at Hudson, where the hero entered a carriage drawn by four superb horses, each led by a groom dressed in Turkish costume; and in this manner, escorted by the military and a great procession of citizens, all under direc- tion of Colonel Charles Darling as marshal of the day, he was taken through Warren and other principal streets, which were spanned in various places by arches of ever- green bearing inscriptions and mottoes of welcome. To the great crowds assembled he continually bowed his ac- knowledgments, and everywhere he was greeted with un- bounded enthusiasm, which was redoubled when he alighted from the carriage, limping from the effects of the wound which he received at the Brandywine nearly half a century before. At the court-house he was welcomed by the mayor, and had presented to him a great number of Revolution- ary veterans, the officers of the military, and the principal citizens.
Extensive preparations had been made for a dinner at Allen's hotel, where the largest room was most elaborately and beautifully decorated for the purpose. Above the chair of honor, set apart for the gnest of the day, hung a flower- bordered inscription in these words :
" We bow not the head, We bend not the knee, But our hearts, Lafayette, We surrender to thee."
But those who planned the dinner festivities were disap- pointed, for he had already spent much time here, and was compelled to leave after a very short stay at the hotel. So he said adieu to Hudson, and, re-embarking, passed on up the river, while the flocking thousands waved their fare- wells, and the cannon upon the bluff bade him God-speed.
When the naval hero, William Howard Allen, lost his life in a desperate encounter with pirates off the north coast of Cuba, and his remains were brought for interment to his native city of Hudson, the people were more deeply moved than they had ever been before upon a public occasion. Every possible sign of sorrow was shown. The bells were tolled, all business ceased, the entire population of the city turned out to testify their respect, and thousands followed to the grave, and stood uncovered during the service, the burial, and the firing of the parting volley. An account of these obsequies will be found in a biographical sketch of this distinguished officer, printed in another chapter.
Martin Van Buren, while President of the United States, made a journey from the seat of government to revisit the county and town where he was born. He was everywhere received with great enthusiasm by the people, but especially was this the case in Kinderhook. Hudson, however, was not behind in showing her respect for the chief magistrate by means of flags, salutes, and a general turning out of the citizens. But what was made the subject of severe and bitter criticism by the political friends of the President was that he was not given an official reception by the authorities of the city. But if he had received this courtesy it could hardly have added to the popular enthusiasm which greeted him here. Mr. Van Buren, upon this occasion, did not avail himself of the public means of conveyance, but came and departed in his private carriage.
* We are in doubt whether this steamer was the "Richmond" or the "Chancellor Livingston." Mr. Henry Hubbel, of Hodsou, who well recollects the occasion, is confident that it was the last-named boat.
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The capture and incarceration of the anti-rent chief, " Big Thunder," in 1844, is fully mentioned in the general history of the county, as also the threats of incendiarism and rescue made by his partisans, and the intense alarm and excitement which pervaded the city of Hudson, and led to its occupation by the military. One of the papers of that day (the Rural Repository), in mentioning these stirring events, said, " The days of chivalry have returned among us. All are now full of deeds of war and daring. We are surrounded, as in a fortress, with soldiers, swords, pistols, cannon, colonels, etc. These, in old Hudson, have become the order of the day." It was certainly a strange expe- rience for the staid and quiet city to find itself occupied by infantry, cavalry, and artillery, with all their officers and paraphernalia of war; but after the first few days of dread were over, and all fears of the bedizened anti-renters had passed, the stay of the troops became agreeable both to themselves and to the citizens. Balls and entertainments were given to the officers, and the entire forces were re- viewed by the mayor, and after a protracted stay and a final interchange of courtesies and compliments, the dif- ferent commands returned to their homes, probably some- what improved in discipline, and leaving the city none the worse for their temporary occupation.
During the five years succeeding 1860-a period thickly crowded with great events-the city was often profoundly agitated, sometimes draped and decked with flags and streamers, and too often shrouded in mourning crape. At the receipt of the momentous tidings from Sumter, the de- parture and return of volunteers, the obsequies of the brave Colonel Cowles, and the announcement of the assassination of the great President,-on these and other scarcely less memorable occasions the citizens of Hudson closed their stores and offices and shops, and collected in great gatherings upon the streets, or marched by thousands in procession ; filled with patriotism, fired with indignation, or weighed down by grief and mourning. These were demonstrations such as, in those times, were seen in almost every city and large town in the northern States, and of a sufficiently recent date to be clearly in the recollection of the greater part of the people now living.
BOUNDARIES AND CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE CITY.
The boundaries of the city, and of the four wards* into which it is divided, were established by the provisions of
" AN ACT to revise, amend, and consolidate the several acts in rela- tion to the Charter of the City of Hudson," passed May 1, 1872, and amended May 21, 1873, as follows :
"SECTION 1. The district of country in the county of Columbia contained within the following limits, to wit : Beginning at a point bearing north thirty-three degrees and twenty-five minutes west from a buoy standing at the southerly point of the flats in the Hnd- son river; said buoy bears south seventy-seven degrees and five minutes west, forty chains and eighty links from the southwesterly corner of Mr. Goodwin's doek, in the city of Hudson, and north twenty-eight degrees and ten minutes west, twenty-nine chains from Black Rock, on the most northerly point of Mt. Merino; thenee
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