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21. Eliza, wife of Matthew Coulter, died, aged 38 .... Peter Owens died, aged 38. .. John B. Evertsen died in New York, aged 29. . Mrs. Sarah Russell died, aged 30.
23. Janette Osborne died, aged 51 George L. Campbell died, aged 29.
24. J. F. Campbell died, aged 25.
25. An alarm of fire, caused by the burning of a wooden tenement in Montgomery street. ..... Thomas J. Thomas died, aged 62. ... Mrs. Ann Kennedy died, aged 24.
26. Teresa Lawlor died, aged 20. . Erskine Kelley died, aged 21.
28. Duncan Hayes died, aged 28 ...... Ann, wife of William Birge, died, aged 72. ... . John Gilbo died, aged 28.
29. The last rail was laid on the Albany Northern Rail Road, connecting it at Eagle Bridge with the Vermont road, and opening a continuous rail road route from Al- bany to Montreal ...... Ann Eliza Hays, wife of Robert L. Johnson, died, aged 24.
30. The first locomotive passed over the Albany North- ern Rail Road, from Eagle Bridge to Albany ...... Mar- garet Ten Eyck died, aged 62. . . . John H. Brown, died.
JULY.
1. The boiler of the steam boat New World, from Al- bany to New York, exploded, killing four persons, and severely scalding several others ...... Owen Hughes died, [ Annais v.] 29
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aged 26. ..... Mrs. Nancy Field died, aged 56. ..... Mrs. Anna McGuigan died, aged 70.
2. A fire in the evening destroyed the upper part of a brick house in Division street.
3. David E. Gregory, formerly of the firm of Gregory & Bain, died, aged 73. .. .. . Henry S. Crandall died, aged 29. . ... Albert Blair, formerly of Albany, died at Medina, . Orleans county.
4. The customary celebration of the day was observed. . A fire destroyed the upper part of a dwelling house in Broadway in the afternoon, and in the evening a dwell- ing in Park street was burnt; both caused by fire works. .. . Elizabeth McCollum died, aged 82.
5. Edmund Marcy died at sea, aged 22. He was the youngest son of the Hon. Wm. L. Marcy, Secretary of State of the United States. .. Eliza, wife of Herman Ten Eyck, died, aged 51. Mrs. Rachael Graham died, aged 48.
7. The directors of the consolidated rail road held their first election of officers, when Erastus Corning was chosen president, and .J. V. L. Pruyn secretary and treasurer .. .. The trial of Hendrickson for the murder of his wife by poison was brought to a close by the jury finding him guilty, and he was sentenced to be hung .... A fire in the evening caused by a balloon, which in its ascent got entangled in the roof of a house in Chestnut street. . Mrs. Martha Reed died, aged 67.
8. John Leslie died, aged 42. ..... Eliza, wife of Rev. Peter Bullions, late of Albany, died in New York, aged 61.
9. Elizabeth C., wife of Thomas Caghlen died, aged 22.
13. Colin R. Woolley died, aged 56.
15. Margaret, wife of James Sheerin, died.
16. Boiler of the steam boat Empire of Troy exploded near Castleton, by which five persons were killed and ten or more badly scalded .... Elias W. Babcock, died, aged 35.
18. Margaret Fitzpatrick died, aged 23 ...... George Huddleston died at Greenbush ... Elizabeth McCam- mon, wife of James A. Gray, died ...... John Hilton died, aged 92. ..... Richard Ross died, aged 20.
19. Barney Leddy, under trial for the murder of his
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wife, was acquitted .. . Denison Williams, formerly of Albany, died in Brooklyn, aged 65.
21. The extra session of the Legislature adjourned. One of its last acts was the defeat of the temperance bill in the house of assembly, 56 to 54. ..... Maria, wife of David Prest, died, aged 38 .. Eleanor Amsden died, aged 69.
23. Catharine McShane died, aged 59.
24. Alarm of fire in the morning; a barn destoyed on the Niskayuna road, and several cows burnt; loss $2500.
27. Mrs. Rebecca, widow of Cornelius Witbeck, died, aged 69. . William Cassidy died, aged 21 ...... A man, name unknown, was found floating in the river, dead. . Nathaniel Higby died, aged 69.
28. At the meeting of the board of inspectors of the Penitentiary, the resignation of William W. Forsyth was received, and complimentary resolutions passed upon his capacity and efficiency. Mr. John B. James was elected to fill the vacancy ...... William Berresford, aged 26, a caulker, accidentally fell into the basin and was drowned. . . Isaac Albright, aged 41, while engaged in wheeling coal aboard a steam boat, fell overboard and was drowned. Andrew Gibbs died, aged 19.
AUGUST.
1. A rain storm in the afternoon flooded the streets; Beaver street and Maiden lane being of insufficient capa- city for the torrent, the basements of many houses were deluged,
And State Street o'er its rocky bed Roared like a bull in battle.
. James Murtaugh, aged 48, came to his death by walking off the dock into the river.
2. A young woman, aged 24, threw herself into the river at the foot of Lydius street, with the intention of drowning herself, but was rescued with much difficulty. .. Mrs. Mary Mayell died, aged 32 ...... Margaret Bilyieu died, aged 72 ...... William McLaughlin died, aged 30.
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4. Matthew Moran died, aged 21.
5. George A. Raymond died, aged 28.
6. A company called Davidson's Fire King Guards, turned out for a target exercise, numbering 80 muskets. Prizes were awarded to the best shots.
7. Lucy J., wife of H. B. Lamson, died, aged 23.
8. Matthew Crow died, aged 30.
9. Walter Luce died, aged 54.
10. Louis Whipple, aged 48, was pushed overboard from a canal boat, and drowned.
11. Peter White died, aged 28. . Catharine, wife of P. Crowley, died, aged 28.
12. William Cahill died, aged 26.
13. The table below exhibits the state of the weather for the week, ending this day, at two places in the city at half past 1 o'clock:
Cor. Broadway and Maiden Lane.
Cor. State and North Pearl.
Monday,
89
85
Tuesday,
90
82
Wednesday,
91
87
Thursday,
924
90
Friday,
94
93
Saturday,
94
The whole number of deaths by heat in the city and vicinity was 28 during the week. Daniel Sullivan, aged 28, died suddenly, at 106 Orange street. He had been laboring hard early Saturday morning, and his death is supposed to have been brought on by the exhausting effects of the excessive heat. He had been but a few weeks in this country, and was a young man of excellent character and habits ...... Edward Flanigan, a paver, re- siding at 34 Herkimer street, in this city, dropped dead on Saturday afternoon, about three o'clock, while working on Broadway in Greenbush ...... A man named Joseph, other name not known, died coming up the river on the barge Buffalo, from the effects of excessive heat ...... A man named Morrison was sun-struck on Arbor Hill, and died in the afternoon at his boarding house .. ..... John Dunlavy, a teamster, fell from his wagon and died from excessive heat in Lydius street. He was 30 years of age. Thomas Foxen, aged 50, while at work in Van
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Woert street, dropped dead from excessive heat. ..... A man named Murphy, who was employed on a building at Castleton, died from a stroke of the sun. He was a mason and resided in Arch street. . . Joshua P. Tucker died, aged 28.
15. Ann, wife of Henry Dermody. died, aged 40.
16. The weather vane of the Congregational Church, an arrow, having been regilded, was returned to its place, where it had pointed to the wind for many years. .. The first passenger train on the Northern Rail Road came through from Eagle Bridge. .. .Mrs. Agnes Williamson died, aged 54 . . Louisa, wife of Henry Trowbridge, died, aged 68.
17. A woman weighing 764 pounds was exhibited at Bleecker Hall, with her daughter weighing 340 pounds, 15 years of age.
18. Mrs. Mary Pratt died, aged 67 .. .. Richard S. Bay died, aged 28. ..... A young woman in the employ of John H. Canoll, burned to death by the explosion of burning fluid or camphene, which she was pouring into a stove to hasten the fire!
19. John Boardman died, aged 82. He was one of the original elders of the Second Presbyterian Church, and a man of untiring zeal in his office.
21. The body of a Mr. Springsteed found drowned in the Island creek. ..... Mrs. Mary Dobbs died, aged 76.
22. The Worth Guards went on a steam boat excur- sion to Coxsackie, where a riot was got up by a party of rowdies who accompanied them, and the boat was driven off by the people of the village. ..... The Erina Guards arrived from Newark, and were received by the Emmet Guards ...... Miss Lucy Newton died.
23. The Rondout Battalion, three companies, arrived by steam boat, and were received by the Worth Guards and the Washington Rifle Corps.
24. Collision on the Albany and Northern Rail Road near North Ferry street; two men badly hurt.
28. William Chapman, many years an extensive grain merchant on the dock, died, aged 82. ..... Mrs. Catharine Theresa Beck died, aged 86. . Samuel Parke died,
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aged 31. Mrs. Nancy, wife of Jessup Townsend, died, aged 59.
Mrs. Miriam Watson, wife of Warren B. Hedden, died.
31. The editor of the Evening Journal received a sam- ple of wheat from the southern part of the county, which returned over forty bushels to the acre. The farmers of the county once almost abandoned the cultivation of wheat, as an unprofitable crop.
SEPTEMBER.
1. The Albany and Schenectady Rail Road took 2370 passengers over the road, which is the greatest number ever carried in one day, except on some great public oc- casions.
4. The exempts of the Burgesses Corps, under Capt. John O. Cole, went out for a target excursion, on the Watervliet turnpike ...... John Morgan, chief of police, resigned his office, which he had discharged with great faithfulness and efficiency since the organization of the present police. He was, however, induced to continue in office ... Mrs. Mary Storey died, aged 68 ...... Eveline, wife of Robert Ruby, died, aged 77.
5. Ground was broken on the Albany and Susquehanna Rail Road ... .. The following gentlemen were this day elected directors of the Albany and Susquehanna Rail Road Company for the ensuing year : Edward C. Delavan, of Albany ; Robert H. Pruyn, do .; Ezra P. Prentice, do .; Andrew White, do .; James D. Wasson, do .; Cornelius Vosburgh, do .; Chauncey P. Williams, do .; Charles Courter, of Cobleskill; George W. Chase, of Maryland; Eliakim M. Ford, of Oneonta; Arnold B. Watson, of Unadilla; Timothy Ruggles, of Harpersville; Edward Tompkins, of Binghamton ..... A man named Palmer attempted to jump aboard the steam boat Francis Skiddy as she was leaving the dock, fell into the river and was drowned. .. . . . Mary, wife of James Conlon, died ...... James O'Conner, confined in jail, died of congestion of the brain.
6. The Albany Medical College commenced its fall course of lectures, on which occasion Dr. Howard Town-
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send delivered the introductory lecture. .... . Capt. Fox, of the barge Western, was sun struck while engaged in loading his craft at the Pier.
9. The firemen had a torch-light procession in honor of the arrival of a Syracuse fire company.
10. The first of Erie canal enlarged boats arrived, con- taining 3700 bushels of wheat. . Mrs. Sarah L. Ran- dall died, aged 66.
12. A frost was observed by the gardeners on the island below the city .. .. The Artillery company went up to Cohoes for their annual target shooting ; M. A. Benjamin making the best shot.
13. Margaret, wife of Archibald Madden, died, aged
31 ... ... John Jackson died.
14. Mrs. Virtue Cone died, aged 75.
17. Hannah Kimbell, wife of Henry P. Nugent, died, aged 31.
19. Roseanna, wife of.George Marrin, died.
20. The committee of the citizens of Albany forwarded $1,535.25 to New Orleans for the relief of the sufferers by the yellow fever in that city.
21. Bridget, wife of Jocelyn Hickey, died. ..... Alice. wife of John A. Mckown, died, aged 42 ...... Catharine, wife of Barnard Sweeney, died .... Margaret, wife of Francis Fahrenbach, died, aged 48
22. The house of Mr. Bates, on the Island, was de- stroyed by fire .... . Sarah, wife of Abram H. Lord, formerly of Albany, died at Peekskill.
23. A highway robbery was committed by two persons upon a man and his wife, on the Bethlehem plank road, as they were returning from the city to the country.
25. Mrs. Elsie Van Wormer died, aged 91 .... Andrew Farrell died, aged 68.
26. A boy fishing in the basin drew up the body of a man in an advanced state of decomposition, which proved to be that of John Alexander, aged 27, who had been missing since the 21st . ..... The journeymen horse-shoers struck for an advance of wages.
27. Meeting of the barnburner democrats at the Capi- tol, attended with bonfires, speeches and resolutions, all
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aimed at the destruction of the hunkers ...... Anna, wife of John A: Johnson, and daughter of the late Jacob Groesbeck, died at Newark, N. J., aged 35, and was brought to Albany for interment.
28. A meeting of the master horse shoers was held at the Pavilion in South Pearl street, who resolved to pay the advance of wages demanded by the journeymen, and appealed to the public for an advance of their own prices. .. . Margaret Kelley died, aged 28.
29. Torchlight procession in the evening in honor of the visit of a New York company of firemen.
The firemen assembled in large numbers, to escort their New York guests, by torchlight, through the streets. The thorough- fares on the line of procession, were lined with people, and to make one's way along Broadway or State street, was a difficult undertaking. About 9 o'clock the procession started from their gathering place in North Pearl street, and moved in the follow- ing order:
Chief Engineer aud.his Assistants, Cooke's Brass Band. Washington Engine No. 1, Niagara Engine No. 6, Eagle Engine No. 7, Daniel D. Tompkins No. 8, Excelsior Engine No. 12, Hook & Ladder No. 2, Neptune Engine No. 10, Red Jacket Hose Carriage No. 45, (drawn by the members of Engine No. 10,) Metropolitan Cornet Band, Red Jacket Co. No. 45.
After marching down Broadway to Ferry, up Ferry to Pearl, up Pearl to Lumber, down Lumber to Broadway, down Broad- way to State, when the line commenced wagging snake-like up the hill. As soon as the whole procession got in the winding way, the fireworks commenced. The effect of the constellation of burning torches in State street, was, as on all former occa- sions, truly imposing. The shooting of Roman candles, lent an additional brilliancy to the scene. After marching up the hill, the guests were escorted to their quarters, highly gratified with the display they were honored with .-- Knickerbocker.
.. Great gathering of the democratic party at the Capitol-speeches by some of the principal orators of the
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State, in the course of which the barnburners were cut up and salted down .. ... The Providence Artillery ar- rived as the guests of the Burgesses Corps, and encamped upon Washington Parade Ground ...... The funeral of Edmund Marcy, who died at sea, was attended by a large number of friends, at the residence of his father. in State street .... Mary Boyd, widow of the late Jno. Davis, died.
OCTOBER.
2. The Burgesses Corps, with their guests, attended the Middle Dutch Church, in a body ...... An alarm of fire proceeded from the basement of the Delavan House; the winter stock of coal, about 400 tons, had taken fire; it was soon extinguished.
3. The Providence Artillery, escorted by the Burgesses Corps, visited the Arsenal at West Troy; dined at Van Vechten Hall, on their return, and in the evening returned home by the way of New York ...... The fare on the Harlem Rail Road, which had been $1, and that of the Hudson River Rail Road, which had remained a long time at $1.50, was raised by both roads to $2. . .. John Thomas died, aged 75. .. ... Abel F. Mckown died, aged 26 .. .. . Mrs. Catharine Arnold died, aged 58. . Cath- arine Liddy died, aged 20.
4. John O. Cain died, aged 28.
5. Sarah Elizabeth Haskell died, aged 31. ... Mrs. Cor- nelia Snyder died, aged 69 ...... Edwin B. Tripp died, aged 38. ..... John Grimes died, aged 37. ..... Jacob Radiff died. aged 52 ...... Isabella, wife of James Brown, formerly of Albany, died at Baltimore, aged 75.
6. A county fair was held four miles from the city, at which the receipts amounted to nearly $2,000. The experiment was otherwise quite successful and creditable ...... Harriet S. Corey, wife of Wm. H. Dia- mond, formerly of Albany, died in New York. ... Philip Dwyer died, aged 39.
7. The judges of the Albany County Fair, on female equestrianism, reported the following prizes: 1. Miss Catharine M. Springsteed, Albany, silver cup. valued at $15. 2. Miss Leah Marshall Ireland, Ireland's
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Corners, Watervliet, silver goblet, valued at $12. 3. Miss Sarah R. Osborn, Watervliet, silver cup, valued at $9. 4. Miss Helen Lawton, Coeymans, set of silver spoons, valued at $6. 5. Miss Phebe K. Beardsley, AI- bany. silver butter knife, valued at $3.
8. Mary Ann Laden died, aged 21.
9. The Pearl Street Baptist Church, which had been closed several months for repairs, was reopened. Rev. Dr. Hague, of Newark, preached, with a view to becoming the future pastor of the church .. ... Sarah, wife of S. P. Goewey, died, aged 83 .. ... Angelica, daughter of the late James Van Rensselaer, died.
13. James O'Neil died, aged 27 . Geo. W. Thomp- son died, aged 23.
14. An attempt was made to fire the Vegetable Market, which was discovered in season to arrest the destruction of that unsightly range of corporation property .. .... Anthony L. Harrison died, aged 31. . Mary Jane Mane died, aged 17.
15. The country market presented an unusual array of the produce of the season, which found a brisk sale at high prices. Butter 23 cts., Lamb 8 cts., potatoes $1.25 a barrel ... ... James W. Blackwood, formerly of Albany, died at Galveston, Texas, of yellow fever.
16. The Congregational Church, corner of Beaver and South Pearl, which had long been undergoing repairs, was opened for worship. During the summer this ancient edifice, the oldest church building in the city, put on a new appearance under the hands of the painters and other artizans, looking quite as modern as any of its neighbors.
17. John Whalen died, aged 19.
18. Alexander Heyer Brown died, aged 43. . . . .. John Tenehan died, aged 24. . . .. John Strothers died, aged 21.
20. Fryer & McMichael's dry goods store robbed of several hundred dollars worth of goods. ..... John Cos- grove, aged about 40, who had been missing several days, was found drowned. ..... Rachel Copley died, aged 77.
22. Rev. William I. Kip, of St. Paul's Church, was appointed as Missionary Bishop to California ...... Ann P. Porter, widow of the late Frederick Porter, died ....
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Mrs. Margaret Brown, wife of Samuel Brown, died .... Michael Byrne died, aged 42.
23. Owen Droogan died ...... Ellen Milwain, widow of Thomas Milwain, died, aged 56.
24. A snow storm commenced soon after 11 o'clock in the morning, and continued till evening. About eight inches of snow fell, and the next morning it was seen covering the houses and hills in every direction; but an unclouded sun during the day dissipated almost every vestige of it.
25. The grain measurers and strikers demanded an advance of pay, from 37} ets. to 50 cts. per hundred bushels of grain, which the board of trade agreed to. The price of day laborers on the dock was 25 cents an hour ...... John O. Lansing died, aged 73.
26. An alarm of fire at Conner's Theatre; no damage. . An attempt was made to fire a lumber yard.
28. The river, swollen by the late rain storms, rose to the top of the docks, and then retired again.
29. William C. Wheeler died, aged 42.
31. An assault and robbery was committed upon one Capt. Morgan, of a canal boat; $100 reward was offered for the detection of the perpetrators.
NOVEMBER.
1. Richard Thomas died, aged 67. ..... Hannah Jane, wife of Samuel B. Nafew, died, aged 38.
2. Mrs. Caroline M., wife of Wm. Kerr, died, aged 45. Mrs. Sarah, wife of Joseph Davis, died, aged 54. 3. George Galpin died, aged 47. He was the printer of the National Observer, and the other publications of Solomon Southwick, during the anti-masonic campaign. . . Mrs. Henry Wood died, aged 59. ..... William R. Coulson, formerly of Albany, died at sea, aged 40.
5. The first train of cars from Rutland came down the Albany Northern Rail Road, with about forty passengers. The officers of the company, under the presidency of James D. Wasson, had surmounted every obstacle in ac- complishing the completion of this road ...... Martin Dunn died, aged 56.
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7. William Gribbon died, aged 28.
9. Charles Waters died, aged 31. ... Mrs. Eliza Burns died, aged 36.
12. The house of Rev. Dr. Kip was entered by bur- glars, and robbed ...... William Gladding, formerly of Albany, died in New York, aged 56.
13. The boats which left New York on the evening previous were detained by fog till noon .. Elizabeth Neely died, aged 24.
14. The heavy rain of the previous two days produced a rise of water in the river, which overflowed the docks.
15. Miss Lydia Newton died.
There was an exciting time among the colored population of the city, growing out of the election of a delegate to the National Council-an institution lately organized for the purpose of devising means to benefit colored people generally. Mr. W. H1. Topp, merchant tailor, Broadway, was the regularly nominated candidate, and was the choice of the aristocratic colored persons. 'The bone and sinew-the underground democracy - set up Stephen Myers, who was the people's candidate. The polls opened at an early hour in the morning, and the greatest possible excitement prevailed about the City Hall all day. The contest was carried on with great spirit and enthusiasm by the friends of both parties. Every nook and corner in town was dragged for voters. Even the basin and river crafts were raked, and patriotic colored men who before never enjoyed the privilege of express- ing their sentiments through the ballot-box, were marched up to the polls flanked by the friends of the candidates. The pulling, hauling, coaxing and threatening were excellent imitations of the scenes witnessed at the polls on a general election among white people. Every voter had to pay ten cents for the privilege of voting, which goes into a common school fund for colored people. The fun and excitement attracted the attention of a large crowd of people. The election was conducted in good nature, and passed off quietly. The election resulted in the choice of Mr. Topp. It was close work, however, as he beat Mr Myers by only 2 votes .- Mr Topp's friends fired a salute in the evening in honor of the victory .- Knickerbocker.
17. David Benson died, aged 51.
20. An affray early in the morning in State street ; Michael Flynn stabbed Michael O'Brien.
21. Meeting of young men at the rooms of the Young Men's Association, for the purpose of organizing a gym-
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nasium. At the opening of the court of oyer and term- iner, there were 238 causes on the calendar.
22. Donald McLeod delivered the first of a series of lectures before St. Mary's Library Association.
23. Store of Wm. McElroy broken into and robbed.
24. Wendell Phillips lectured before the Young Men's Association on The Lost Arts.
25. Robert Crawford died, aged 52.
26. Christina, wife of Daniel Smith, died, aged 45. ... Nancy Maria, wife of David M. Relyea, died, aged 37.
27. James C. Patrick died, aged 43.
28. The blacksmith's shop of the Central Rail Road was burnt ...... Wm. McBride died, aged 68.
30. The St. Andrews Society celebrated the nativity of their patron saint.
DECEMBER.
2. Peter Snyder died, aged 76.
4. Garret Ackerman died, aged 48.
10. Margaret Jane Stewart died, aged 17.
11. Olive, widow of S. J. Penniman, died, aged 74.
12. The school for ragged children, which was begun in Van Zandt street Dec. 20, 1852, and abandoned in May following, was again opened on this day at 159 South Pearl street, under Miss Knapp.
15. A woman named Mary Smith burned to death in Van Zandt street.
16. Robert Reynolds, engraver, for several years a re- sident of Albany, died at Charleston, S. C., aged 45.
18 Joseph A. Strain died.
19. The canal commissioners had decided to close the canals on the 20th, but the frost had two days the start of them, the last cpen reaches being effectually closed over by ice during the preceding night ...... Sarah Mid- dleton died, aged 68.
20. The river was closed over with ice, having been open 275 days.
21. Amos Adams died, aged 80. ..... Rebecca Hillman, wife of T. R. Cutler, died, aged 26.
23. Snow fell in the morning and rain fell at night .... [ Annals v.] 30
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Ellen Van Voast, wife of Horace B. Silliman, formerly of Albany, died at Schenectady, aged 26.
24. The ice was sufficiently strong on the river to bear foot passengers who had the temerity to try it.
25. At the anniversary meeting of the City Tract So. ciety, Dr. Alden March was elected president ..... Josiah Clark died, aged 61.
26. Mrs. Elizabeth Churchill died. . . Lemuel Steele died, aged 67.
He came to this city in 1816, and began business as a paper hanger. His establishment was twice destroyed by fire; but by industry, economy, and enterprise, he overcame the effects of disaster, and acquired a competence. He was, for a long time, chorister of the Middle Dutch church, and had his seat under the pulpit, being the last to occupy that position, the eustom having been abolished, much to the dislike of the old people, and of Mr. Steele himself. He was, for about ten years, demo- cratic alderman of the fourth ward, when it was claimed that " as goes the fourth ward so goes the state." He was also, for many years. chief engineer of the fire department, supervisor, and almost time out of mind, a director of the Mechanics' and Farmers' bank. He will be remembered as a deservedly suc- cessful merchant, a public spirited citizen, and an upright man.
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