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street. There has been no change of place or proprietorship. The Vienna bakery and restaurant, now in the hands of Charles T. Sewell, was established in 1877 by S. & M. E. Mclaughlin. In 1883 Mr. Sewell bought out S. Mc- Laughlin, who had been sole proprietor for about two years. S. D. Kendrick, proprietor of a large wholesale and retail drug store, and also of a planing-mill, and sash, blinds and door factory, has been associated at various times with Levi Wing, C. M. Peck and Lyman G. Willson. He came here in 1873. Ezra Hartman opened a boot and shoe store here in 1873, having bought in a half interest with John E. Potter. Mr. Potter soon went out, and the firm name became Hartman & Freeman in about 1875. Charles E. Everest became asso- ciated with Mr. Hartman in 1876. The firm style is now Hartman & Everest. J. W. Haviland began the manufacture and sale of harnesses in Glens Falls in 1874, having George Wells for a junior partner. Mr. Haviland purchased Wells's interest in 1880. In 1874 T. C. Stillwell bought an interest in the hard- ware business of W. W. D. Jeffers. In 1876 Jeffers withdrew and was suc- ceeded in the firm by J. W. Allen. Jeffers had been in the business since 1868. The firm title is now Stillwell & Allen. E. M. Silver opened a clothing store here in 1874. He came into the present building, No. I Warren street, in 1880. Isaac Smith has been the sole proprietor of an extensive grocery estab- lishment since May 18th, 1875, in the Cosgrove Opera House. He was burned out in 1884, and immediately removed to his present quarters, 99 Glen street. R. N. Peck was in the drug business here first in 1870. The beginning of the present enterprise, however, dates in 1875. Haviland and Ferriss are the pro- prietors of a wholesale and retail drug store which was first opened in 1876 by R. F. and Willis H. Haviland. The latter went out in 1881, and the vacancy was filled by George M. Ferriss. The firm are also largely interested in a lumber, sash, door and blind factory, and in hardware. M. & J. Cohen opened their present clothing store, at 80 Glen street, in 1877. George H. Thomas started a hardware store at No 55 Glen street in Glens Falls, in the year 1877. H. Thomas acquired an interest in the business in 1879. After various re- movals, and after being burned out on April 28th, 1884, they removed into their present quarters September Ist, 1884. H. Thomas and J. L. Kenworthy both learned their trade of Noble Peck. Coolidge & Bentley (F. B. Coolidge and W. F. Bentley), dealers in clothing, hats, caps, etc., began business in 1878 on the corner of Warren and Glen streets, and removed to their present site in 1880. Mr. Coolidge was associated with A. J. Pearsall from 1872 to 1878. Stephen Bentley, grandfather to W. F. Bentley was an early settler in the town, and now lives about two miles from the village. C. A. Hovey deals exclu- sively in fruits. He opened a grocery at No. 20 Warren street in 1880. In the winter of 1884 he removed to his present location, 101 Glen street, and abandoned the general grocery business for his present stock. O. C. Smith, in company with E. C. Quinlan, started a grocery trade in 1880, at the present
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stand of O. C. Smith, who has been sole proprietor since the withdrawal of Mr. Quinlan in October, 1884. S. G. Boyd began dealing in books, stationery, wall paper and fancy goods in about 1869 or 1870. The present proprietors, P. P. Braley and E. C. Boyd, bought him out, in March, 1880. In the fire of April, 1884, he was burned out, but immediately rebuilt on the same site and commenced their occupation of the new store in the following October. J. Lieb- erman established a clothing and "gents' furnishing goods " business here in 1880. In 1883 L. Sonn acquired a half interest in the concern and the firm name became Sonn & Lieberman. M. B. Sweeney & Bro., groceries. In 1880 this trade was established by M. B. Sweeney and Daniel O'Leary under the firm title of M. B. Sweeney & Co. In June, 1881, Mr. Sweeney purchased O'Leary's share in the business and a few days later took his brother, G. A. Sweeney, into partnership with him. The trade in boots and shoes now con- ducted by Long Bros., was originally established in about 1879 or 1880 by Herrick & Freeman, an Albany jobbing house. After about six months ex- perience there they sold out to C. W. Long who remained alone until March, 1885. In that month he associated himself with his brother, D. R. Long. The building which C. W. Long formerly occupied on the same site was destroyed by the fire of April 28th, 1884. The present firm of general merchants known as Havilands & Gilbert, and consisting of Charles W. and John G. Haviland, and F. W. Gilbert, was formed in March, 1881, being successors to Coolidge & Lee who formerly occupied the same site. W. F. Bissell opened a music store in Bay street, in 1882. James E. Thompson, who occupies part of the store of Long Bros. commenced dealing in jewelry in November, 1882. J. Raub, jr., has dealt in dry goods and fancy goods at No. 74 Glen street since June, 1883. The drug store now conducted by C. L. Doty on Bay street was first opened in 1882, by S. W. Lambie. Mr. Doty bought him out in 1883. C. P. Schermerhorn, merchant tailor and gents' furnishing goods, has been sole proprietor of the business since April, 1883, when he established it .. M. H. Bitely began dealing in groceries in July, 1883, in the store still occupied by him. George E. Adams, dealer in hardware, bought out J. A. Underwood in February, 1883 ; Underwood had had charge of the business about four years prior to this transfer. Powers & Day, grocers, went in together in the spring of 1883. Mr. Powers was, the previous year, with C. A. Hovey, and Mr. Day bought the latter out. Keene & Hovey established the business about 1881. The members of the present firm are J. S. Powers and H. N. Day. Calvin Day, father to H. N. Day, came from Massachusetts to the town of Chester about 1845. He moved to Glens Falls in 1852 and died in 1881. The The firm of I. N. Scott & Son, general merchants, was formed in January, 1884. succeeding the firm of Holman, Haviland & Co. I. N. Scott was the " Co." The business was first conducted by Holman & Haviland. Crandell & Mores, dealers in groceries, bought out Charles A. Hovey, Bay street, in 1884. H.
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D. Sanford purchased his store of F. A. Mitchell in 1884, Mitchell's business. was then about a year old. G. F. Bayle & Co. (dry goods and millinery) be- gan business in March, 1884. The junior member of the firm is W. T. Marsh, of Saratoga. The Glens Falls crockery store was first opened March 31st, 1884, by the present proprietor, A. F. Stewart. The Rochester clothing com- pany alias Henry Schwartz & Co., began to deal in ready made clothing in November, 1884. Martine, Rice & Co., dealers in teas, coffees and spices, es- tablished their business in December, 1884. W. H. Rice is the active mana- ager of the trade. N. S. Cronkhite, dealer in books and stationery, bought out I. J. Keeler in 1884. Keeler had established the business in the fall of 1883. L. F. Baker, boot and shoe merchant, bought out E. A. Stevens, Jan- uary Ist, 1885. Stevens had been here about two years previous. Willis J. Ken- drick opened a store for the sale of drugs, chemicals, and medicines, on the- 12th day of January, 1885. S. A. Barrows came here from Troy in April, 1885, and opened his present grocery store at No. 57 Glen street.
Hotels. - Glens Falls, being a convenient station for summer visitors en route for Lake George, and having been used therefor " time whereof the mem- ory of man runneth not to the contrary," has always been more or less famous for the number and excellence of its hotels. The early taverns, and, indeed, all those that are now dead, have received sufficient mention a few pages back, and therefore all that is required here is a sketch of the hotels at present re- ceiving guests.
The site on which the Rockwell House stands has been occupied for hotel purposes since the opening of the present century. In 1802 John A. Ferriss. erected the original hotel here, and by the aid of various landlords, most prom- inent among whom is the well-known Peter D. Threehouse, the Glens Falls Ho- tel became deservedly celebrated among the traveling public as a desirable place to stay. Threehouse was followed, among others, by Rogers & Brown, Richard W. Higby, A. B. Tubbs, and Wait S. Carpenter. In the fall of 1852- 53, Carpenter, last above named, having purchased the premises, tore down the old structure and erected on its site a large, substantial brick building. Carpenter played well the part of "mine host" until the great fire of 1864 con- sumed his hotel and effects, when he decamped. The ground for a number of years lay idle. In 1869, in order to forestall the apprehended occupation of the eligible site by a proposed row of stores, a number of gentlemen procured a contribution of fifteen thousand four hundred dollars for the purchase of the lot and the erection of a first-class hotel. The purchase being effected, the premises were offered to any person or firm who could assume the responsi- bility of building thercon a hotel which would reflect credit upon the village. The offer was accepted in the spring of 1871, by H. J. and George H. Rock- well, who redeemed their undertaking in a manner of which they and their fel- low-townsmen have reason to be proud. The construction of the building
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occupied all the interim between the 26th of March, 1871, and the 3 1st of Jan- uary, 1872. In October, 1871, Mr. C. L. Rockwell took the place of George H. Rockwell. On the 12th of the ensuing February the Rockwell House was opened for business, and on the 22d of the same month a grand infair attested to the people of Glens Falls, at once the singular adaptability of the new pro- prietors to the business they had undertaken, and their enterprising determina- tion to employ their talents most worthily. The hotel in front is four stories high, with a Mansard roof and Swiss towers. It extends one hundred feet in length by forty-five feet in depth. Projecting in the rear is an ell one hundred and forty feet long, forty feet wide, and three stories high. There are several parlors, seventy-two sleeping rooms, and a capacity for about one hundred and fifty guests. When the house is filled, the labor of thirty-seven employees is continually required. In round numbers, the cost of the building was sixty thousand dollars, and of the furniture, purchased in Boston, twenty thousand dollars. The crockery and silver ware was purchased in Albany and the car- pets in New York city. The iron work used in the construction of the build- ing was furnished by the American Corrugated Iron Company, of Springfield, Mass. The spacious pleasure grounds in the rear of the building, together with the complete catalogue of all the modern appliances, conspire to make this pub- lic house homelike and comfortable. The architect was M. F Cummings, of Troy; the carpenters were Krum & Adams; brick masons, Holman & Pike. James Camp laid the stone work; and the painter and glazier was S. P. Jack- man. The proprietors for the first six years were H. J. & C. L. Rockwell, but in 1878, upon the withdrawal of the senior member of the co-partnership, Mr. C. L. Rockwell, the present manager, assumed the control of the business. Ac- cording to the exceptionless testimony of those who have been entertained by Mr. Rockwell, there is not a better hotel in the country. Hotel proprietors, like poets, are born, not made, and Mr. Rockwell has not mistaken his calling.
The site of the American House is also of considerable antiquity as the foundation ground for a hotel. The old building was destroyed by fire on the 5th of August, 1879, and the present structure completed in the following July. George Pardo the present proprietor, bought out Noble Clark in No- vember, 1865, and has remained the landlord to the present. Clark had been in this hotel about three inonths when he sold to Pardo.
The Nelson House Bay street, deriving its name from the proprietor, John S. Nelson, who has kept the house since 1870, will accommodate about twenty- five guests.
McSweeney & Lynch have kept the Mansion House for seven or eight years.
The remaining hotel is the Fitzgerald House, near the depot, kept by Dan- iel Fitzgerald, who fitted up the hotel from a former private residence.
Banks .- The Glens Falls National Bank was organized as a private bank-
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ing company in 1851, under the name of the Glens Falls Bank. The first offi- cers and directors were : B. P. Burhans, president; Abraham Wing, vice-pres- ident ; Billy J. Clark, Walter Geer, Keyes P. Cool, D. G. Roberts, Bethuel Peck, James Buell, Pelatiah Richards, Benjamin Ferris, Halsey Rogers, Byron Rice, Dan'l H. Cowles. In 1865 it was reorganized under the National Bank Act, as the Glens Falls National Bank, with the following officers and directors : B. P. Burhans, president; Abraham Wing, vice-president ; Pelatiah Richards, Benjamin Ferris, Thos. S. Gray, Zenas Van Dusen, Alonzo W. Mor- gan, D. G. Roberts, Dan'l H. Cowles, J. C. Finch, N. E. Sheldon, Chas. Rice, S. L. Goodman. Prior to the reorganization, i. e., May 31st, 1864, the corporation suffered in common with the greater portion of the business pop- ulation of Glens Falls, from the devastating fire which then visited the village. Business continued, however, without any serious interruption, until the re-or- ganization, when, of course, it assumed a new phase.
The first cashier was E. J. Blacke. In 1853 he resigned, and was succeeded by John Alden, who filled the position creditably until 1862, when he died. William A. Wait, who was elected to fill the vacancy thus caused, has per- formed the duties incident to the office with unremitting diligence and distin- guished ability to the present time. The other changes in office are indicated by the following chronological statement :--
1867, Jeremiah W. Finch elected vice- president, vice Abraham Wing re- signed on account of failing health ; 1870, January: James C. Finch died ; Hon. Halsey R. Wing died; February : Pelatiah Richards died; 1873, Abra- ham Wing, late vice-president, died June 13th ; Dr. N. Edson Sheldon died July 3d ; 1875, Benj. Ferris died Feb. 15th ; June 16th, death of Hon. Benjamin P. Burhans, president of the bank from its original organization ; Jeremiah W. Finch elected president, and Stephen Brown, vice-president. The present officers and directors are as follows, the dates of the election of the respective directors following their names :--
J. W. Finch, president, (elected director in 1866); Stephen Brown, vice- president, (elected director in 1873) ; Dan'l H. Cowles, (1851); Alonzo W. Morgan, (1856); Zenas Van Duzen, (1858); S. L. Goodman, (1863) ; Henry Crandell, (1870) ; Joseph Fowler, (1871); Fred. O. Burhans, (1871); John P. Bowman, (1871); Dan'l J. Finch, (1873); T. S. Coolidge, (1873); Dan'l Peck, (1873); William A. Wait, cashier; John E. Parry, teller.
First National Bank of Glens Falls .- This banking company was originally organized in January, 1853, under the title of the Commercial Bank of Glens Falls, in what was then known as the Sherwood Building, erected about 1841 or 1842, on the site of the present structure. The bank purchased it of W. S. Sherwood for $2,800, and lost it in the great fire of 1864. The present build- ing was erected in the same year'at a cost of $18,000. Architect, Walter Dick- son, of Albany; builders, D. C. Holman ; original capital unchanged, $136,400.
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It was reorganized as a national bank in April, 1865. The officers have been as follows : President, William McDonald, from the organization ; Augustus Sherman from November, 1858 to December, 1884; present president, Jerome Lapham. Vice-presidents, Bethuel Peck, from the organization; Augustus Sherman, from February, 1855 ; Linus B. Barnes, from November, 1858; James Morgan, from February, 1861 ; Jerome Lapham, from November, 1873 to 1884. Cashiers, Isaiah Scott, from organization ; Fred A. Johnson, jr., from April, 1859; Emmett T. Johnson, from January, 1865 to and including the present. The original board of directors consisted of: Lewis Hunt, James C. Clark, William W. Rockwell, Bethuel Peck, Keyes P. Cool, James Morgan, Hermon Peck, William H. Warren, Quartus Curtis, Augustus Sherman, Erskine G. Clark, Joseph Russell, William McDonald. Other members of the board at various times are as follows; Jeremy Rockwell, elected September, 1853; Wil- liam A. Fonda, February, 1854; Isaiah Scott, July, 1854; Levi Hatch, Feb- ruary, 1855; Enos Howland, ditto; Henry Ferguson, ditto; Ruliff Kipp, February, 1856; Ira Harris, ditto; Charles R. Richards, ditto; Daniel Sweet, February, 1857 ; U. G. Paris, February, 1858; Linus B. Barnes, August, 1858 ; James Morgan, ditto; Alexander Robertson, January, 1859; Henry Crandell, February, 1860; Jerome Lapham, ditto; Samuel Pruyn, Gustavus A. Austin, Nathaniel Barker, Charles Fowler, February, 1861 ; Lifelet Harris, October, 1861; William H. Gayger, February, 1862; Daniel V. Brown, February, 1 864; William McEchron, February, 1865; Martin Coffin, August, 1867. The present directors are Jerome Lapham, M. A. Sheldon, William McEchron, A. B. Abbott, Z. I. De Long, Samuel Pruyn, Ruliff Kipp, D. W. Sherman, Mar- tin Coffin, W. E. Spier, William H. Gayger, Jonathan M. Coolidge, Byron B. Fowler.
Glens Falls Insurance Company. - The first movement toward the forma- tion of an insurance company in Glens Falls was in 1849, when a number of the prominent citizens of the place united their abilities and energies and se- cured the corporation of what was called the Glens Falls Dividend Mutual In- surance Company. Probably none of those who originally moved in the mat- ter supposed that they were laying the corner stone of a corporation that would ultimately count its property by the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and its business by millions, and make Glens Falls a familiar name throughout the United States.
The following were the signers of the original call for the purpose of for- mation : J. H. Rice, D. G. Harris, E. H. Rosekrans, Abraham Wing, Bethuel Peck, Charles Rockwell, E. S. Vaughn, A. Sherman, E. H. Hopkins, George Cronkhite, A. N. Cheney, D. McNiel, Billy J. Clark, J. G. Haviland, L. B. Barnes, James Hurley, J. B. Cool, W. S. Carpenter, H. R. Wing, D. H. Cowles, John H. Walker, J. J. Perine. On the 15th day of February, 1850, at the first meeting of the company, the following were elected directors: F. D. Hodge-
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man, E. H. Rosekrans, Thomas Archibald, Charles Rockwell Stephen Good- man, Bethuel Peck, William Cronkhite, Albert Cheney, Pelatiah Richards, L. B. Barnes, Abraham Wing, William H. Wells, Billy J. Clark. Following close upon their election the board of directors held a regular business session on the 4th of March, 1850, and chose the following officers: President, Bethuel Peck ; vice-president, Pelatiah Richards ; secretary, R. M. Little; treasurer, A. N. Cheney ; attorney, E. H. Rosekrans. The company then commenced the prosecution of business in a single room of the old Exchange Building, on the corner of Glen and Exchange streets. They shortly afterward removed to a single room in D. H. Cowles & Co's building, on the corner of Warren and Ridge streets, which they occupied until their final removal to their own build- ing on Glen street. Dr. Holden, in his excellent history, states that the build- ing had been "twice enlarged to meet the requirements of the constantly increas- ing business which has accompanied its increase of years. During the early years of this company, while in its swaddling clothes, the transaction of its business was not necessarily diffused into the hands of as extensive a corps of assistants as at present, and many of our citizens will recall the fact that for some years the secretary (now president) was ' boss and all hands, ' not only transacting all the inside work but the outside business as well. Even after the name of the Glens Falls Dividend Mutual Insurance Company had become well and favorably known over a large extent of territory as an honorable and efficient corporation, the whole office work was done by the secretary and one clerk, and that with the accommodations and palatial surroundings and office fur_ niture which would not have brought twenty-five dollars in the market."
In 1864, by reason, it seems, of the general and increasing prejudice against State mutual insurance companies, which had almost universally met with disaster through reckless and unscrupulous management, it was proposed to reorganize the Dividend Mutual Company into a joint stock company. The plan was accordingly executed and the company started on its auspicious career with a paid up capital of $100,000, and as much more subscribed. So rapid was the growth of the business that in 1868 the capital was increased by actual payment to $200,000. Following are the more prominent members of the boards of directors since the original formation of the company : D. H. Cowles, Hermon Peck, Lewis Hunt, Alexander Robertson, Joseph Parry, George Clendon, S. B. Lee, T. S. Gray, O. Cronkhite, James W. Schenck, Alonzo W. Morgan, Thomas Potter, Isaac J. Davis, Walter Phelps, jr., John Alden, D. G. Roberts, F. A. Johnson, jr., O. Richards, Jerome Lapham, B. F. Bancroft, Charles Fowler, Augustus Sherman, J. C. Greene, E. Andrews, M. W. Fish, H. S. Rankin, F. O. Burhans, H. R. Wing, Asahel Wing, James Mor- gan, Isaac G. Parker, R. M. Little, Stephen Brown, Ruliff Kipp, Samuel Pruyn, A. J. Pearsall, T. S. Coolidge, J. L. Cunningham, Harvey Brown, M. B. Lit- tle, Joseph Fowler, E. Alliger, D. C. Holman, Joseph E. King, W. A. Wait,
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John A. Sheldon. Since the formation of the new company the following have held the offices prefixed to their names in the order in which their names are written : Presidents : Bethuel Peck, Pelatiah Richards, A. W. Morgan and R. M. Little. Secretaries : R. M. Little, A. N. Locke and J. L. Cunningham. Treasurers : A. N. Cheney, F. A. Johnson, jr., Alexander Robertson, Jerome Lapham and F. A. Johnson. The present officers are as follows: president, R. M. Little ; secretary, J. L. Cunningham; treasurer, F. A. Johnson ; gene- ral agent, R. A. Little; board of directors: Daniel H. Cowles, Frederick A. Johnson, Jerome Lapham, Augustus Sherman (deceased since election), Mo- ses W. Fish, Fred O. Burhans, Russel M. Little, Stephen Brown, Melville A. Sheldon, Thomas S. Coolidge, Harvey Brown, Meredith B. Little, Joseph Fowler, Dewitt C. Holman, Joseph E. King, William A. Wait, Alson B. Ab- bott, B. F. Bancroft, J. L. Cunningham, Orange Ferriss. The Western Depart- ment is at Chicago, Ill., J. L. Whitlock being manager. The total premiums paid to the company since its organization amount to $6,163,069.56; divi- dends (cash) $350,000 ; losses $3,332,087.10; stock owned by directors per- sonally $72,180. As Dr. Holden justly says, "prudence and firmness have ever been the predominating traits of this sound old company ; its risks have been carefully selected and a powerful resistance always opposed to fraud."
The foregoing mention of the business interests of Glens Falls would be scarcely complete if the establishment of S. R. Stoddard, the widely-known artist and publisher, was neglected. Mr. Stoddard came to Glens Falls in 1864, having then just attained his majority, from Troy where he had been employed in the celebrated car works of Eaton & Gilbert, as an ornamental painter. Within six months from the time he entered that establishment, so great was his ar- tistic ambition and natural genius in that direction, he was engaged upon the finest work, taking the place of a painter who had received more for a day's work than young Stoddard did for a week. From the time of his advent to Glens Falls he followed the business of sign and ornamental painting, giving his spare hours to landscape and portrait work. He learned the art of pho- tography, with a view of thus securing by his own use of the camera broader opportunities to study the beautiful in nature, his artistic genius turning natur- ally more to landscape than to portrait work. As his collection of photo- graphic negatives increased, embracing many of the grandest scenes in the Adirondack region and about Lakes George and Champlain, the prints began to be called for by tourists and others, and Mr. Stoddard finally gave up shop work and devoted himself entirely to landscape photography, landscape and portrait painting, and latterly to the publication of books and maps. His first publication was called Lake George, a historical and descriptive guide, which appeared in 1873. This was soon followed by Ticonderoga, Past and Present, a similar work on that historic region. In 1874 he published The Adirondacks Illustrated, a work of value as a guide book. Since then the
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