History of Ulster County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Vol. I, Part 37

Author: Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett, 1825-1894. cn
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 758


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In 1836-37 the steamer " Fanny," Capt. Tremper, ran from Marlborough to New York.


# See the various town histories in this volume.


t Capt. Jacob H. Tremper is a native of Ulster County, born within a mile of his present residence, inside the present limits of the city of Kingston, in 1$12. After 1832, when he commanded the "Congress," he was captain of the Swiftsure line of barges and the steamer " Fanny ." From 1858 to Is41 he resided in Rhinebeck ; in the latter year removed to Kingstou and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1647, when he took command of the barge " Ulster County," running from Rondout to New York. In 1552 went to New York, where he was engaged for a year in mercantile trade, and again returned to Kingston, embarking in the general freight and forwarding business, in connection with Messrs. Rower & Gillett, and, in 1856, Romer & Tremper, with which tirus he has been connected to the present time, thirty-nine of the past forty-eight years of his life having been spent as captain in the river service.


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Kingston Point, locally known as " Columbus Point," was the landing-place for many years of the regular night- boats between New York and Albany.


The " Hudson" and the " Emerald" were carly boats, and engaged in towing market-Farges to New York City, then quite a truffe, but now nearly or quite unknown.


Besides Capts. Tremper and Mapes, elsewhere mentioned, other Ulster County navigators may be named :


Capt. Absalom L. Anderson, for many years on the river, and now captain of the " Mary Powell," resides in Esopus. Capt. David Abbey, captain of " Santa Claus," " Thomas Cornell," etc., now in New York. Capt. Isaac Cox, now deceased. Capt. John Ketcham, one of the most promi- nent river men, did not reside in Ulster, and is dead. Capt. Chas. Anderson was in sloop and steamboat navigation, now deceased. Capt. John Samuels, captain for several years, dead. Capt. Wm. Dodge, of the " Mohican" and " Nor- wich."


In 1852, Nicholas Elmendorf, William Masten, and Marius Schoomuaker started an "opposition" line from Wilbur to New York with the steamer " Alida."


Among the many boats operating ou the Hudson, and owned or run by residents of this county, may be named : The North America. The Highlander.


The Norwich. The Mohican.


The Santa Claus.


The Rip Van Winkle.


The Manhattan. The James W. Baldwin.


The Mazeppa. The Metamora.


The. Eagle. The M. Martin.


The Mary Powell.


The " North America" was purchased by Romer, Trem- per & Gillett it. 1854, and ran from Roudout to New York until 1860. The " Norwich" and " Mohican" were owned and commanded by Capt. William Dodge ; purchased after- wards by T. & T. W. Cornell. The " Santa Claus" was put on in 1854, and was succeeded by the " Manhattan." The " Rip Van Winkle" was run (in 1833) in connection with the " Comumodore," owned by the late Daniel Drew, of New York City. The " James W. Baldwin" was built in 1860 by Romer & Tremper, took the place of the " North Amer- ica," and is still running. The " Eagle" in 1857 replaced the " Mazeppa," both making three trips a weck from Poughkeepsie to Albany. The " Metamora" in 1865 ex- tended its trips to Newburgh, and, with the " Eagle," made daily trips each way. In 1867. Romer & Tremper ex- changed her for a larger boat, the " M. Martin,' which, with the " Eagle," constitutes the present line of " worn- ing boats" operated by Romer & Tremper, of Roudout. The " Mary Powell," one of the finest boats on the Hudson, is owned and commanded by Capt. A. L. Andersou, of Esopus.


The immense freight and forwarding business of Ron- dout, which exceeds that of any point on the river between Albany and New York City, is carried on, at the present time, by the firms of T. & T. W. Cornell and Romer & Tremper.


III .-- REMINISCENCES.


About 1838, Capt. David P. Mapes cuibarked in the freighting and passenger business on the Hudson; bought the steamboat " General Jackson," which had been built by Vanderbilt to run between New York and Peekskill.


This boat Mapes put on as an opposition one, to run be- tween Kingston and New York City. The other boat on that line was called the .. Hudson," and was commanded by Capt. Woolsey. A young man named Rexford was the first captain of the " General Jackson," but he was drowned on its first trip to the city, and Mapes assumed command. This boat ran regularly for about eight years, and towed the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's coal from Ron- dout to New York City, but was finally sunk at the Pali- sades. In a work published by Capt. Mapes in 1873,* being an autobiographie account of himself and of the towns he aided in building, he says,-


" After getting my bont into a successful operation, and paying for her the first season, I proposed to turn my carly acquaintances in Delaware County to my advantage, and have them go to New York by way of Kingston. They had heretofore traded by way of Catskill, where they had steamboats, and had a line of coaches from their place to Delhi. I proposed to my Kingston friends to establish a mail-route ant line of stages to Dethi; but no, the place had been a large town for over a hundred years, and nothing of the kind ever came in froin the west, except, once a week, a boy on horseback with saddlebags; so I left the boat for a week, and went to Washington and had a mail route establishedl. After establishing the route, I sup- posed I could get some one to put on a line of stages, but here again I was disappointed, and finally bought three Troy coaches and thirty horses, and established the first line of stages west fromn Kingston. . . . The inauguration of a line of Troy stages through a country the people of which had never before seen a four-horse team was a great event. The inhabitants along the line, and at the little villages and corners, came out aud fired off their anvils, swung their hats, and shouted ' Great is the Captain ! I went over the road ou the first trip; now a railroad passes over the greater portion of the route."


A few items about this old pioneer in the history of Ulster's internal improvements may not be inappropriate in this connection. He was born Jan. 10, 1798, in Cox- sackie, N. Y. The years from 1818 to 1828 he spent mostly in Delaware Co., N. Y., " engaged in selling goods, making potash and whisky, and running a grist-mill and farm." Ile was elected supervisor and a member of the Assembly of New York, 1830, and was a major in the militia and an aid to Maj .- Gen. Preston. During the sub- sequent years of his life he resided in Carbondale, Pa. (where he was postmaster), New York City, and Rondout, and, after losing a fortune, went West and founded the now city of Ripon, Wis.


IV .- THE TURNPIKE OF 1831-32.


This was an enterprise of considerable importance, not ouly to the trade and growth of Kingston, but to the con- venience of the inhabitants living in the central and western towns of the county and extending through into Delaware. It was over this road, a few years later, that Mr. Mapes established his stage line, mentioned elsewhere. This turn- pike was the first good road up the Shandaken valley. It was marked by milestones, some of which are still stand- ing, after nearly fifty years. It immediately became a great thoroughfare. So important was this line of communica- tion that even then, in 1831, while as yet the first rail- roads of the country were scarcely opened, the idea of a railroad along this valley is said to have been actually


# History of the City of Ripon, Wis., and of its Founder, David P. Mapes, with his Opinion of Men und Manners of the Day, Milwau- kce, Wis., 1873.


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broached. It was an idea far in advance of the age, but forty years later the fanciful vision became a fact, the mountain-sides echoed to the thunder of the cars, and doubtless many of the same men and women who had rushed to the doors to see Mr. Mapes' four-horse stage- coaches lived to see the railway trains dashing by their dwellings.


About 1851 the turnpike was succeeded for a part of the distance by a plank-road, built by the Union Plank- Road Company. Under the heavy loads drawn in hauling stone the plank experiment was a short-lived affair, even more so than iu other parts of the country, and then was laid the present " stone-road," extending from the Beaver- kill quarries to the bridge over the Esopus.


From there to Wilbur a plank-road was laid about 1850, and, like the other portion, was changed to stone about 1860. This last is a species of very durable road. The travel over it is immense, and the franchise is said to be very valuable.


V .- THE DELAWARE AND HUDSON CANAL.


This was the first great publie work in the county of Ulster, and its completion was an era from which dates a rapid advance in industrial enterprises. To the difficult and laborious method of transportation by wagons the canal was the first successor. The project of connecting the waters of the Delaware and Hudson had been entertained for many years, and the discussions over its feasibility were coeval with those relating to the construction of the Erie Canal, which connected the lakes of the West with the Hudson, forming a great chain of interaal navigation.


The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was incor- porated April 23, 1823, with a capital of one million five hundred thousand dollars, with the right to use fifty thou- sand dollars in banking until 1844. The credit of the State was loaned to the company to the amount of eight hundred thousand dollars in stock, bearing interest at four and a half or five per cent. The ground was broken July, 1825, and the work pushed through rapidly, the canal being opened for business in October, 1828. The canal was originally constructed to afford a depth of four feet and navigable for boats of thirty tons. In 1542 it was en- larged to accommodate boats of forty tous, and in 1851 it was further enlarged to accommodate boats of one hundred and twenty tons. The original cost of the canal was two million thirty-seven thousand oue hundred and seventeen dollars, of which amount one million four hundred and twenty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-four dollars was for the New York section.


The impulse of this canal enterprise may be said to have created Roudout, as that place, now teeming with so many varied industries, and the seat of such extensive com- mercial enterprises, was a mere hamlet of a few buildings prior to the opening of this system of internal navigation.


The amount of coal carried over this route is simply enormous. The manufacture of cement, originating soon after the opening of the canal (the value of the rock being discovered during its construction), immensely enlarged the business to be done by the canal, and still further de- veloped a rapid growth at Rondout.


In later years the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company has become an important railroad corporation, extending its lines of transportation far beyond the limits of this county, and far beyond the views of the original projectors .*


VI .- ULSTER AND DELAWARE RAILROAD.


This road extends from Rondout to Stamford, in Dela- ware County,-a distance of seventy-four miles. Its route lies for a considerable portion of the way along the Esopus Creek, traversing the Shandaken valley. During the months of summer travel a large number of tourists seek the mountains by this route. The scenery is romantic and sublime, for descriptions of which reference is made to the chapters upon the western towns. This railroad has had three several organizations, with a new name at each change. It was originally known as the " Rondout and Oswego;" subsequently it became the " New York, Kingston and Syracuse."


The present ownership commenced and the present name was adopted June 15, 1875.


The earliest time-card, preserved in the general office of the company, bears date May 23, 1870. The road was then finished to " Longyear's," now Mount Pleasant. It had been opened to West Hurley a few months earlier.


These ten years of railroad facilities have been of great valne to the Shandaken valley, not only by way of afford- ing ready means of travel and freighting to the people of those towns, but also by opening up a channel through which the stream of summer travel is steadily pouring into their very midst,-a stream increasing year by year.


The stations on this road are as follows : Rondout, Wall- kill Valley Railroad Junction, Kingston, Stony Hollow, West Hurley, Olive Branch, Brown's Station, Brodhead's Bridge, Shokan, Boiceville, Mount Pleasant, Phonicia, Fox Hollow, Shandaken, Big Indian, Pine Hill, Summit, Grif- fin's Corners, f Arkville (Dean's Corners), Kelly's Corners, Hlalcottville. Stratton's Falls, Roxbury, Grand Gorge, Stam- ford.


The present board of directors (May, 1SS0) is com- posed of the following persons : Thomas Cornell, President ; S. D. Coykendall, Vice-President ; Anthony Benson, Treas- urer; William F. Romer, A. A. Crosby, A. S. Staples, D. Kennedy, Ripley Ropes, C. A. Miller, John Baird, J. D. Fish, George Opdyke, J. L. Van Deusen ; Superintendent, George Coykendall.


The general office is located in Rondout, Sampson Building.


VIL .- WALLKILL VALLEY RAILROAD.


The articles of association were dated April 14, 1866, and the directors therein named were Abuer Hasbrouck, Bruynswick ; Abram D. Deyoe, Tuthill; Abm. V. N. Elting, New Paltz ; F. S. Mckinstry, Bruynswick ; William H. D. Garmo, New Paltz; A. K. Chandler, Shawangunk ; Abm. D. Bevier, Tuthill ; Alfred Deyoc, New Paltz; Hector Webb, Shawangunk ; Joseph L. Hasbrouck, Lib- ertyville ; Edmund Bruyn, Bruyuswick ; S. M. Capron,


# In May, 1880, the officers of the previous year were re-elected.


+ From Griffin's Corners to Stamford (both inclusive). The stations are in Delaware County.


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Walden ; L. L. Gowdy, Wahlen. Among the early sub- scribers to the stock other than the above-named directors are B. J. Freer and Daniel Bevier, of Gardiner. Floyd S. MeKinstry is said to have been the most active original promoter of the enterprise, and the success of the road is largely attributed to his unyielding perseverance in the face of many opposing obstacles.


It was built from the south, first terminating for a time at New Paltz, then at Rosendale, and finally being extended to Kingston. It opens up a separate route from Kingston to New York, connecting with the Erie at Goshen, as well as furnishes ready communication with each other to several of the towns of this county.


It passes through some fine seenery, as well as along an excellent farming region. The high bri lge at Rosendale is a work of magnitude and altitude, with few or no parallels in this country.


This road passed into the management of the present company in June, 1877. The directory (May. 1880) are the following : Thomas Cornell, President ; S. D. Coyken- dall, Vice- President ; Ambrose S. Murray, George Coyken- dall, David Kennedy, R. G. Townsend, Alva S. Staples, Charles Bray, Floyd S. Mckinstry, Jacob Lefevre. Ambrose S. Murray, Jr., Anthony Benson, Isaac M. North.


Officers : Matthew Winchell, Treasurer; John Romeyn, Secretary ; J. II. Jones, Superintendent.


At the time of writing, the extension of the Wallkill road from Kingston to Sangerties is supposed to be assured. As the route is located, the right of way largely secured, and other steps looking to immediate construction are being taken, the projectors of this extension anticipate that they will be able to make this finally the long-talked-of " west. shore railroad" from New York to Albany.


The stations on this line within the bounds of Ulster County are Rondont Depot, Kingston, Whiteport, Binne- water, Rosendale, Spring Town, New Paltz, Forest Glen, Gardiner, New Hurley, and Shawangunk. the stations in Orange County being Walden, Montgomery. Beaver Dam, Neeley Town, Campbell Hall, Kipps, and Goshen, with which connection is made, rif the " Erie," with New York City and other points east, south, and west.


CHAPTER XXV.


CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.


Ox the 19th day of February, 1877, the following note was sent to citizens of the city of Kingston :


" CITY OF KINGSTON, Ich. 19, 1977.


" DEAR SIR, -You are invited to attend a meeting to be hell at the Supreme Court Chambers, in the City Hall, in this city, on the 224 day of February, 1877, at 11 A.w., to organize and make arrange- ments for a proper commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the burning of Kingston, on the 16th day of October, IST7.


"A. BUVYS HASBROUCK, " Provident Ulster Ii Porical Society.


" WILLIAM LOFNERERY,


" M. M. FRISEI .. E, ". A. T. CLEARWATER, " JOHN MCENTEF, " J. NEWTON FIERO,


formmiture of Kingston Literary Peut."


In response to this invitation, the following gentlemen, among others, met at the City Hall on the 22d day of Feb- ruary following : Hon. T. R. Westbrook. Gen. George HI. Sharpe, Rev. J. C. F. Hoes, D.D., C. II. Van Gaasbeck, Hon. William Lousbery, Dr. M. M. Frisselle, Rev. C. W. Camp, A. T. Clearwater, Rev. George S. Strobridge. Hon. Thomas Cornell, Hon. James G. Lind ley, 1. T. Douglass, M.D., Rev. Isaac Clark, Rev. James Demarest, Jr., Thomas II. Tremper, Rev. II. S. Westgate, J. M. Cooper, Rev. A. K. Sanford, and II. D. Darrow.


The meeting was called to order by Rev. James Demarest, Jr., upon whose motion Mayor Lindsley was chosen chair- man. On motion of Rev. C. W. Camp, A. T. Clearwater was chosen secretary.


At the request of Rev. Dr. Hoes, Mr. Clearwater stated the object of the meeting, which was then addressed by Gen. George HI. Sharpe, Hou. T. R. Westbrook, Hou. Thomas Cornell, Dr. MI. M. Frisselle, Thomas H. Tremper. Dr. 1. T. Douglass, Rev. Dr. Hoes, Rev. Isaac Clark, aud A. T. Clearwater.


On motion of Judge Westbrook it was


" Resolved, That the chair appoint a committee of seven to prepare and report to a meeting, hereafter to be called, some snitable plan for a proper commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the burning of Kingstou."


The chair appointed as such committee Hon. T. R. West- brook, Hon. Thomas Cornell, Gen. George H. Sharpe, .1. 'T. Clearwater, Dr. A. T. Douglass, William M. Hayes, Charles Bray.


On motion of A. T. Clearwater, the chairman was added to the committee.


Judge Westbrook stated that his official duties would prevent his giving as much time to the matter as he would like, and asked that he be relieved from the chairmanship of the committee, and that Mayor Lindsley be made chair- man in his place.


Mayor Lindsley was accordingly made chairman of the committee.


At the suggestion of Judge Westbrook and Gen. Sharpe. Hon. A. Bruyn Hasbronck, Rev. J. C. F. Hoes, D.D., Mr. C. II. Van Gaasbeck, Ilop. William hounsbery. Dr. M. M. Frisselle, and Hon. S. L. Stebbins were added to the committee, and the meeting adjourned.


The committee on permanent organization subsequently met at Judge Westbrook's chambers and presented their report, by which they recommended that the permanent organization should be known and called " The Centeuary Organization of the State of New York ;" that its object should be the celebration of the one hundredth auniversary of the inauguration of the State government ; that, while in its personnel it is at present confined to the county of Ulster. it was intended simply as a basis for one more broad and general, and the board of management was authorized to enlarge, change, or modify, as might be found expedient ; that the officers should consist of a president, vice presi- dent, secretary, treasurer, and an executive committee of eight, who, together with the president, secretary, and treasurer, should constitute a board of management. There should be eight standing committees, of each of which a member of the executive committee should be chairman.


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The standing committees should consist of not less than five nor more than seven members, who should be ap- pointed hy the chairman of the committee.


At a subsequent meeting of the citizens of Kingston this report was adopted, and the following gentlemen were selected as officers of the permanent organization : Presi- dent, Hon. James G. Lindsley ; Vice- President, Hou. A. Bruyn Hasbrouck, LL.D .; Secretary, A. T. Clearwater; Treasurer, William H. Turner; and the following gentle- men were chosen as additional vice-presidents : Augustu, II. Bruyn, Hon. T. R. Westbrook, LL.D., Hon. Thomas Cor- nell, Gen. George II. Sharpe, Hon. Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr., S. D. Coykendall, Elijah Da Bois, Jansen Hasbrouck, Hon. William S. Kenyon, James Kiersted, William B. Fitch, Jervis MeEntce, William H. Romeyn, Gen. D. T. Van Buren, Harrison Suydam, HI. G. Crouch, Hon. S. L. Stebbins, James E. Ostrander, C. D. Bruyn, Ilon. Marius Schoomaker, Correlins Burhans, William F. Romer, Howard Osterhoudt, L. L. Cronnse, Peter Masten, Hiram Radcliff, James S. MeEntee, C. H. Van Gaasbeck, P. J. Du Bois, Capt. Jacob HI. Tremper, Dr. Peter Crispell, Jr., IIon. E. M. Brigham, Hlou. William Lawton, Charles Bray, Hon. Charles A. Fowler, Rev. J. C. F. Hlocs, D.D., Gen. J. S. Smith, Hon. D. M. Dewitt, J. S. Burhans, Dr. A. T. Douglass, John II. Trumbull, R. R. Martin, Au- thony Benson, Rev. C. Van Santford, D.D., Jantes O. Merritt, Dr. F. W. Ingalls, Walter B. Crane, C. S. Clay, Horatio Fowks, E. B. Newkirk, Lieut .- Col. C. Coddington, John E. Van Etten, Rev. James Demarest, Rev. J. G. Van Slyke, Rev. II. S. Westgate, M. T. Trumpbour, Rev. C. W. Camp, Heury Abbey, Rev. M. S. Terry, Rev. A. Blauvelt, D.D., Rev. Isaac Clark, David S. Hasbrouck, Rev. G. S. Strobridge, Rev. A. H. Sanford, Hiram Schoon- maker, Andrew Near, J. B. Van Deusen, Dr. Jesse Myer, Iloward Chipp, A. A. Crosby, Dr. R. Loughran, Thomas 11. Tremper, Cornelius Westbrook, Rev. A. S. Dealey. A. T. Newton, Elias T. Van Nostrand, Ilon. H. C. Connelly.


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The organization of the movement was thus completed. The original plan to celebrate the one hundredth return of the day when Kingston suffered destruction by the British was changed, as seen in the above record of proceedings, to an observance of the one hundredth anniversary of the ju- auguration of the State government, July 30, 1877.


The several committees immediately entered upon the duties assigned to them, and made all the necessary arrange- ments.


From the local press of that day the following extracts are chosen to show the method of the celebration :


" All day yesterday the weather tokens were eagerly watched, and prophecies and hopes for the display to day were equally blended. Ileavy rains fell during the night, and the day broke with weeping skies, but it was ushered in by the boomting of a hundred guns from the common down-twee, which was revectvel by the guns up-town and the ringing of bells from the spires that point their taper fingers towards beaven, proclaimed us a God-loving as well as a God-fearing people. Before the morning fairly dawned the city was festooned with a forest of tags and garlanded with a part rre at flowers. Public builtings, places of business, and private houses were gay with bunt- tug and evergreens, and the brave ald dag floated from masthead and staff an I balcony all along the city limits. The steam aud sail craft in the stream had


". All their eusigne dighit As If for a great sea-fight.'


"THE DECORATIONS OF HISTORIC KINGSTON.


"The decarations in the upper part of the city were very fine. Ilarilly a building could be found that did not make some display. Ou Wall Street all the stores and other places were handsomely devo- rated, notably those of Bernstein, Merritt & Co., which store also dis- played a pair of slippers that were made in 1763, also a Bible dated in 1741. On the front of Charles B. Safford's there was suspended a large -hield, which was most tastefully gotten up by one of the young gentlemen. The court-honse was decorated by bnuting and flags, which hung in graceful festoons from the windows, while in the door- way was a large inscription, as follows :


" ** On th's spot, July 30, 1777, George Clinton, of Ulster, seven times Governor and iwice Vier-President of the United States, was inaugurated first Governor of New York.'


"The trees in front were wrapped with bunting. On Clinton Ave- une could be seen the old house of F. L. Westbrook, which had once been occupied by the Senate. On this building is a large inscription, 'Senate of the State of New York, 17:5.' Hlou. F. L. Westbrook's house was also decorated in a very baudsome manner, and made a fine appearance, stan ling at the head of John Street. Ou Albany Avenue the display was perfectly magnificent.


" The residences of Gen. sharpe, William B. Fitch, H. D. Darrow, Peter Dumont, Mrs. John Smith, Peter Masteo. C. J. Townsend, Capt. Jacob HI. Tremper. Col. Tremper, Alderman Hayes, and Gen. J. S. Smith were decorated from top to bottom, and the most of the trees in those fronts were also ornamented with flags that floated from the branches. All the ministers iu that part of the city showed their patriotism by displaying from their honses and grounds tlags anel streamers. A fine flag wasel from the house of Judge T. R. Westbrook.




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