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Aug. 18. Rufus Putnam died, aged 52.
Aug. 19. Thomas Jenkinson died, aged 24.
Aug. 27. James T. Clark died, aged 23.
Sept. 1. Augustus Graham died, aged 43.
Sept. 4. Lansing V. De Freest died, aged 24. Owen J. Egbert died, aged 44.
Sept. 6. Mrs. Phobe McKelvey died, aged 78. Thomas Patterson died, aged 23.
Sept. 8. Catharine C., wife of Charles B. Lansing, died. Samuel Graham died, aged 41. John R. Richardson died, aged 47.
The common council directed the police office to be removed from the basement of the City Hall to the Centre Market.
Sept. 10. Elizabeth, wife of David Holt, died, aged 65.
The census showed the following comparative gain of population in Albany and Troy during the last fifteen years : ALBANY. TROY.
1835,. 28,109 1835,. 16,959 1840, 33,663
1840, 19,373 1845, 41,152
1845, 21,681
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Notes from the Newspapers. 1845.
Sept. 12. Thomas V. Z. Merrifield died, aged 28. Ellen, wife of Matthew Owens, died, aged 76.
Sept. 13. Sarah, wife of John Hughes, died, aged 29.
Sept. 14. Sarah M., wife of Wm. H. Pollard, died, aged 29.
Sept, 15. Capt. James Benson died in New York, aged 45. From 1827 to 1839 he commanded the steam boats Saratoga, North America and Erie.
Sept. 21. The steam boat Oregon, a marvel of a boat, made her first appearance at the landing, and attracted a crowd of visitors.
Sept. 26. Alexander Cummings died, aged 41.
Sept. 27. Mrs. Elizabeth McBurney died, aged 77.
Oct. 1. Ellen, wife of John Glen, died, aged 72.
Oct. 2. James Waddell died, aged 82.
Oct. 3. Capt. Eliakim Ford died, aged 60. Margaret, widow of Wm. Brower, died, aged 78.
Oct. 4. Mrs. Hannah Creer, died, aged 56.
Oct. 5. Mrs. Nancy Gould died, aged 84.
Oct. 6. Samuel Van Vechten died, aged 29.
John H. Wightman died, aged 40.
Oct. 7. Interments for the month, ending this day, 72; males 40, females 32.
Oct. 9. The Hendrik Hudson made her first appear- ance at the landing of the People's line, a perfect wonder of steam boat architecture to all beholders, of 1170 tons burden.
Oct. 13. Eliza, wife of George Morse, died, aged 39.
Harriet M. wife of Nicholas Pike died, aged 20.
Oct. 17. Amelia, wife of George Pike, died, aged 48. Oct. 29. Matthew M. Van Alstyne died, aged 37.
Nov. 2. Angus McDuffie died, aged 54; formerly sheriff of the county.
Nov. 3. Mrs. Dorothy Brown died, aged 83. Mrs. Mary D. Shiffer died, aged 70.
Nov. 4. Election; Ira Harris received 6,296 votes for assembly, and was elected.
Nov. 5. Gertrude, wife of Jas. Loatwall, died, aged 30. Mendwell, wife of Wm. Stead, died, aged 68.
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Notes from the Newspapers.
Nov. 8. Mrs. Mary Milton died, aged 86.
Mrs. Lydia Ann Pike died, aged 43.
Nov. 10. The first experiment of the gas works was made by lighting some of the most public streets, as a preparatory trial of the pipes.
Nov. 9. During a severe blow, the walls of the Peni- tentiary, which were ready to receive the roof, were blown down.
Nov. 11. Philo K. Cole died, aged 39.
Nov. 29. Canal closed, having been open 225 days.
Nov. 13. William Clark engaged in drawing clay was drowned with his span of horses in the Hudson street pond; driver, horses and wagon were engulphed and en- tirely disappeared in that abyss.
Nov. 23. Anna, widow of Henry Truax, died, aged 77.
Nov. 27. Catharine Linacre died, aged 50.
Nov. 28. Mary, wife of John Freeman, died at Roches- ter, aged 18.
Elizabeth, widow of Lyman Root, died.
Nov. 30. Anna L., wife of Dr. James H. Armsby, and daughter of Hon. Gideon Hawley, died, aged 25.
Mrs. Rachel Judd died, aged 78.
Henry W. Mayer died, aged 23.
William Salisbury died, aged 37.
Dec. 1. Julius A. Varney died, aged 24.
The following sums were directed to be raised by tax: For city watch and lamps, $23,000
contingencies,
20,000
interest on city debt, .. 10,000
account of city debt and interest under act of 1844, 25,000
loan for erecting school houses,. 2,950
common schools, 7,635.70
temporary relief of poor, 7,000
$95,585.70
Dec. 2. Elijah Tripp died, aged 44. Alexander H. Lovett died in China. Dec. 3. The Third Presbyterian church was dedicated.
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Dec. 3. Mary P. Falconer died, aged 21. The river closed.
Dec. 5. Mrs. Janet McPherson died, aged 85.
Dec. 9. Cornelius Egberts died, aged 48.
Dec. 10. Arthur C. Southwick died.
Dec. 15. Francis Dwight, editor of the District School Journal, died.
Dec. 27. Sally M., wife of Ralph S. Lewis, died, aged 29.
Dec. 29. Mary Ann, widow of Richard Walker, died, aged 49.
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Jan. 2. Isabella, wife of Job Bendall, died, aged 42.
Jan. 6. Abram Franks died, aged 40.
Jan 15. George A. Hoyt died, aged 52.
Mary, widow of Daniel Pohlman died, aged 74.
Jan. 12. The chief engineer of the fire department re- ported that there were 11 engine companies, 2 hook and ladder companies, 1 hose company, and I axe company. In the year 1845, there were 42 fires and 21 alarms; loss of property $57,232, on which there was insured $43,252. This was about double the number of fires and loss of any year since 1839.
Jan. 14. Abraham Rosekranse died at Mobile, aged 27.
Jan. 20. Thomas Russell died, aged 73; of the late firm of Thomas & Joseph Russell, who came to this city about 1805, from New Bedford, Mass., and established themselves as painters and glaziers. Soon after con- necting a paint and drug store with the mechanical busi- ness, they were extensively known for more than thirty years as an industrious and thrifty firm, and accumulated handsome fortunes.
Jan. 20. William Gould, law bookseller, died, aged 72. He came to this city in 1809, from New Jersey, and es- tablished a large and prosperous business, in which he became wealthy. He was the senior partner, at the time of his death. of the house of Gould, Banks & Gould.
Jan. 22. Mrs. Harriet A. Williams died, aged 48.
Jan. 26. Jane Ann, wife of George T. Carter, died, aged 35.
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Jan. 29. Ann, widow of John W. Yates, died.
Jan. 30. Eliza Austin died, aged 38.
Mrs. Jane A. Tryon died, aged 35. Jan. 31. Mrs. Elizabeth Lyons died.
Feb. 2. Thomas Lawrence died, aged 40.
Feb. 4. Mary, wife of John Buckbee, died.
Feb. 5. Stephen P. Schuyler died, aged 66. Feb. 8. Philip Burnop died, aged 76. Isaac Sitterly died, aged 91.
Feb. 10. John White died, aged 57.
Feb. 11. Casparus F. Pruyn died, aged 54. Gideon Deming died, aged 90.
Feb. 13. Isaac Packard died, aged 76.
Feb. 14. Wm. Spencer died, aged 39.
Feb. 15. Mrs. Clarissa Capron died, aged 54.
Feb. 19. Capt. Samuel Parks died, aged 42. Julia Griffin died, aged 25. Charles P. Chapman died.
Feb. 26. Patrick Gayner died, aged 27. Mrs. Agnes Edgar died, aged 62.
March 2. Mary wife of Barnard McManus died, aged 35. Lucy Brown died, aged 78.
March 3. Daniel Delahanty died, aged 73.
George Guardenier died, aged 46.
March 4. John Campbell died, aged 32.
March 16. Almira, wife of Humphrey Clark, died, aged 34.
The river opened as far down as Hudson, but was ob. structed between that city and Catskill, preventing com- munication with New York by water.
March 17. Steam boat Columbia arrived.
March 18. Catharine, daughter of Philip Phelps, died, aged 27.
The steam boat St. Nicholas came on about this time. March 25. Moritz Wollensack died, aged 68. Mary wife of Edward Truax died, aged 22.
March 28. Thomas W. Ford died, aged 76. March 29. George G. Olmsted died, aged 52.
March 31. Mary, wife of James Morrell, died, aged 48. [ Annals, x.] 32
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Notes from the Newspapers. 1846.
April. The steam propeller Mohawk arrived at this city from Hartford in 36 hours; performing the quickest trip that had been made by water between the two cities. April 2. Jacob Angus died, aged 29. Job Gould died, aged 80. Jane Ann, wife of William Ellis, died.
April 3. Harriet A. wife of T. S. Gillett died, aged 22.
April 4. Mrs. Elizabeth McCrea died, aged 75.
April 5. Rachel, widow of Henry Yates, died, aged 81. The common council were at this time discussing earnestly the project of introducing water more abund- antly into the city. A report on the subject had been made at a previous meeting of the board by Alderman Haswell, who now presented the form of a law for the purpose of effecting the object. It was estimated that the expense would be as much as $100,000!
April 12. Maria B. wife of David Benson died, aged 38.
April 14. Charter election: whigs triumphant. Wm. Parmerlee for mayor, 3,106
John Keyes Paige, do 2,512
WHIGS. Aldermen.
- DEMOCRATS.
Richard Parr., . 266
P. B. Rooney, 267
John W. Harcourt, 253
John S. Kinney, 249
Wm. J. Fryer, . 337
M. Hendrickson, 332
Isaiah Townsend, 222
George Warren, . 219
Wm. Nessle, 155
David Newcomb,. 163
James Maher, 165
Wm. A. Young, 179
Charles Chapman,. 260 John Van Ness, jr., 267
John Harrison, 219
Gerrit Gates, 195
Eli Warford, 238
Daniel P. Clark, . 218
Richard Yates, . 264
H. H. Van Dyck,. 260
April 14. Phebe, widow of Capt. John Gager, died, aged 75-
- 594 maj.
1st Ward .- E. C. Warner, .... 182 Samuel Watson, .. 183
2d Ward .- H. C. Whelpley ... 266 Elijah Cobb, .. .... 230
3d Ward .- He ry Greene, .. 447
Jas. H. Pease, .... 441
4th Ward .- John D. Hewson, . 385 James Goold, ..... 389 5th Ward .- Andrew White. ... 272
Robert H. Pruyn .. 275
6th Ward .- J. A. Livingston, . 246 Thomas McElroy, . 256 7th Ward .- Zebina Belknap, .. 247 Uri Burt, 235 202 8th Ward .- Giles K. Winne, .. Elkanah Hunter, . . 209 9th Ward .- Arthur H. Root, .. 454 Theo. Watkins,, .. 489
10th Ward .- Joshua I. Jones, .. 391 Edmund Dorr, .... 391
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Notes from the Newspapers. 371
April 15. Richard Hilton died, aged 87.
April 16. Rebecca widow of Elijah Judson died, aged 69.
April 18 Jonathan Burdick died, aged 76. John Kenyon died, aged 45.
Jeremiah Smith died, aged 50.
April 21. Magdeline, wife of Joseph Coughtry, died, aged 25.
April 28. Election for members of the convention for revising the constitution; Ira Harris elected from this city.
May 2. Timothy Gladding died, aged 71. James Colvin died, aged 70.
May 11. Mrs. Hannah Stevens died, aged 73.
May 12. Agnes Mclachlan died, aged 38.
May 14. Robert Harris died, aged 53.
Levi Sanderson died, aged 30.
May 18. Benjamin Knower died at Marseilles, aged 33.
May 30. Oliver Cotter died, aged 39.
June 1. Meeting of the convention to revise the con- stitution.
June 2. Andrew Wollensack died, aged 37. Lewis Becker died, aged 39,
June 9. Owen Warner died, aged 56.
June 10. John Humphries died in New York, aged 79.
June 12. Elizabeth Thompson died, aged 72,
June 14. James Wood died, aged 64.
June 18. Elizabeth Nelson Eager, died aged 25.
June 19. Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel White, died, aged 49.
June 22. Adaline Augusta, wife of W. Brown, died, aged 27.
June 25. John T. S. Hansen died, aged 33.
July 2. Peter C. Jones died, aged 34. William Lush died.
July 3. Peter Boyd died. The father of Mr. Boyd arrived here from Scotland in 1774, and his ten sons were born and educated in the city, The deceased com- menced business as a merchant in 1803, and the firm of Peter & John I. Boyd was extensively known from that
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Notes from the Newspapers. 1846.
time until 1830, for its probity and honorable dealing. Mr. Boyd was an active member of the First Presbyte. rian church, and diligently occupied in doing good.
July 9. Dolly, wife of Daniel Patterson, died, aged 71. July 11. Sarah wife of John Richardson died, aged 46,
July 14. Jacob Moore died.
July 15. Hannah wife of James N. Straw died, aged 48.
July 17. Walter Whitney, a revolutionary soldier, died aged 87.
July 21. Mary, widow of John Cuyler, died, aged 71. July 23. Joseph S. Bell died, aged 30.
John C. Judd died, aged 22.
July 26. Joseph P. Mott died, aged 49.
July 28. Mrs. Elizabeth Hawley died, aged 83.
July 29. Rosetta G., wife of George W. Gladding, died, aged 34.
July 30. Margaret Drake died, aged 31.
Margaret, widow of Edward Willett, died, aged 58.
July 31. A company of volunteers under Capt. Fris- bie left the city for California.
Aug. 3. William, son of John Tweddle, died, aged 22,
Aug. 4. Matthew Henry Webster died in New York, aged 42.
Aug, 6. Sarah, daughter of Joseph Robinson, died, aged 27,
Aug. 10. Jane M., wife of C. S. Frink, died, aged 30. Jane widow of Wm. R. Hilton died, aged 57.
Aug. 13. Moses Tyler died, aged 52.
Aug. 17. Mrs. Ann W. Johnson died, aged 57,
Aug. 19. Westerlo Woodworth died, aged 35.
Edward Brown died, aged 75. He was a native of Stonington, Conn,, and came to this city near the close of the last century, and in connection with his brother under the firm name of E. & S. Brown, carried on an ex- tensive mercantile business. They were engaged in several voyages to China, and built the first brick store on the dock at the foot of Hudson street, which was taken down in 1845, The Dutchmen told them that
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Notes from the Newspapers.
1846.
they would not build there if they had seen the river break up. Mr. Brown discharged the duties of dock master from 1820 to 1841, under the corporation, when the infirmities of age induced him to withraw from active pursuits.
Sept. 2. Eleanor Jane, wife of Williams Gill, died, aged 30.
Sept. 4. Rev. David Abeel, Chinese missionary, died at the Manor House, aged 42, and was buried from the North Dutch church.
Sept. 5. De Witt C. Truax died, aged 24.
Sept. 7. Mrs. Patience Godley died, aged 56.
Sept. 8. A fire destroyed the brewery and malt house of R. Boyd & Co., together with the Mineral Spring Garden, and several dwelling houses on Ferry and Arch streets. It was the largest fire that had occurred since 1838.
John T. Norton was elected president of the Mohawk and Hudson rail road in place of Isaac Newton, resigned.
Sept. 10. Evert Yates died at Fultonville, aged 82.
Sept. 11. William Kemp died, aged 28.
Sept. 13. Thomas L. Hartness died, aged 37.
Sept. 16. Elizabeth, wife of Benj. F. Smith, died.
Sept. 18. Catharine, widow of George McCleheran, died, aged 78.
Sept. 22. Elizabeth Johnson died, aged 68. Mrs. Maria Lewis died, aged 61.
Sept. 27. Catharine Westerlo, wife of John Wood- worth, died.
Sept. 30. James Gibson died, aged 85.
Dr. Henry Van OLinda died, aged 43.
Oct. 1. Maria, wife of Chas. Low senior, died aged 52.
Oct. 6. Mrs. Mary Parke died, aged 77.
Margaret, daughter of the late James McElroy, died at Philadelphia, aged 48.
Oct. 7. John N. Quackenbush died, aged 72. Mary M. Parker died, aged 26.
Oct. 8. The convention sitting in this city for the re- vision of the constitution, adjourned after a session of 131 days.
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Notes from the Newspapers. 1846.
Oct. 9. The steam boat Isaac Newton, Capt. W. H. Peck, made her first appearance with 800 passengers.
Oct. 12. Cornelia A., widow of Charles Smyth, died, aged 51.
Henry L. Webb died at Hartford, Conn. He was one of the founders of the Canal Bank, and at the time of his death president of the Albany Gas Light company.
Oct. 17. Henry Nichols died at Westport, Ct., aged 43. Oct. 18. Eliza, widow of Samuel Dexter, died, aged 84.
Elizabeth, widow of Robert H. Dunkin, died, aged 87.
Oct. 21. A very destructive fire commenced in the stove furnace of McCoy & Clark in Montgomery street, which destroyed that establishment, a part of the steam planing mill of John Gibson, the factory of G. C. Tread- well, and a large quantity of staves belonging to Wm. H. De Witt. It was the largest fire which had occurred in several years.
Oct. 24. Mary E., wife of Henry Brockway, died, aged 20.
Oct. 25. Permelia, wife of Levi Chapman, died.
Oct. 27. John Howes, of the firm of Howes & North- rop, died.
Oct. 31. Henry W. Holland died, aged 29.
The expenses of the district schools for the past year were $12,280.89.
Nov. 3. Election. Marcus T. Reynolds was elected to the assembly, John I. Slingerland to Congress, Thomas Kirkpatrick county clerk, Oscar Tyler sheriff.
Nov. 5. Georgianna Gibson, died aged 22.
Nov. 7. John Glin died, aged 73.
Nov. 11. Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Peter Wendell, died.
Nov. 12. Maria Winne died, aged 21.
Nov. 13. William Henry Paddock died, aged 22.
Nov. 14. Maria, wife of Wm. Henry Kearney, died.
Nov. 15. Catharine, wife of Henry Lewis, died.
Nov. 20. Jane widow of Edward Jordan died, aged 49.
Nov. 21. Bethana Ann Weaver died, aged 26.
Nov. 26. Adrian D. Clark died at Mobile, aged 21
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Notes from the Newspapers.
Dec. 1. William Lavender died, aged 35.
Abraham Vosburgh died, aged 92.
Dec. 7. Harvey Miller died, aged 47.
Dec .. 14. The common council resolved to light the City Hall with gas.
Dec. 16. Thomas Wright, of the firm of Relyea & Wright, died, aged 50.
The voting and representative population of Albany city and county, was as follows :
City.
County.
Total.
Whole population.
41,139
36,129
87,268
Aliens, .
5,759
1,499
7,258
Colored, not taxed, ..
752
355
1,109
Representative,
34,628
34,275
68,903
Voting,
7,977
7,901
15,878
Dec. 18. Hannah S., wife of Selleck Whitney, died, aged 56.
Dec. 24. Peter McElroy died, aged 36.
Dec. 25. Frederick Fredendall died, aged 63.
Dec. 26. Thomas Gough died, aged 66.
Dec. 27. Susan Van Benthuisen, wife of Robert Shaw, died.
Dec. 30. Susannah wife of Mellen Battel died, aged 55.
Dec. 31. Dorothy'Gove died, aged 88.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher died.
1847.
Jan. 3. The river was open before the city, and the weather spring-like.
Jan. 9. Aaron Lyon died, aged 59.
Mrs. Hannah Redecar died, aged 55.
Jan. 11. The common council, before whom the pro- ject of a new mode of furnishing the city with water had long been pressed, now resolved to subscribe $100,000 as soon as $150,000 more of the stock should be taken by individuals.
Oliver H. Perry died, aged 22.
Jan. 14. John Campbell died, aged 34.
The whole amount of taxes assessed upon the city and
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Notes from the Newspapers. 1847
county to meet the expenses of the past year, was $144,- 943.65.
Jan. 15. Sarah, widow of John Spencer, died, aged 61.
Messrs. E. Corning & Co. removed into their new store in Broadway, which was at the time the most excellent one in the city. .
Jan. 18. Mary, widow of George Artcher, died, aged 80. Susan B., wife of Henry R. Hoffman, died, aged 27.
Matilda A., wife of Wm. Hurst, died, aged 22. Subscriptions were at this time being made to the stock of the Hudson River Rail Road.
Feb. 1. A new theatre, called the Odeon, was opened, in Broadway.
Feb. 3. Catharine, widow of Isaac Hamilton, died.
Feb. 5. John Mills died, aged 26.
Ann Elizabeth Lyons died, aged 20.
Feb. 7. Capt. John Iggett died, aged 46.
Feb. 12. There was a meeting at the Capitol in behalf of starving Ireland.
Feb. 16. George W. Thatcher died, aged 70. .
Feb. 22. Cornelius J. Bounds died, aged 51.
Feb. 24. Anna, wife of John W. Bell, died, aged 26. Susan, widow of Jesse Buel, died, aged 64.
Feb. 26, Ann Eliza Willett died, aged 39.
March 1. Wm. M. Northrop died, aged 35.
Marc1 7. John Wilson died, aged 70.
Contributions for the relief of the famishing in Ireland were taken up in the three Catholic churches, which amounted to $5,329.
March 9. The military and citizens paid funeral hon- ors to the remains of Capt. Lewis N. Morris.
Lyman Phileo died, aged 42.
March 10. Martin Blunt died, aged 32.
Mrs. Sarah Miller died, aged 78.
Russell Buckley died, aged 46.
March 11. P. M. wife of Ephraim Howard died, aged 65.
March 14. Mary wife of Richard Thomas died, aged 59.
March 18. Wife of Wm. H. Mayer died at Fort Plain, aged 49.
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Notes from the Newspapers.
March 20. Ann C., widow of Thomas Russell, died, aged 75.
Mrs. Margaret Bloomingdale dicd, aged 83.
Philip Schuyler Van Ingen died at Bethany, Va., aged 46.
March 24. David Christian died, aged 71.
March 25. Cynthia M., wife of Henry Johnson, died, aged 33.
The fare to New York by the Housatonic rail road Ład been $5, during the winter; it was now reduced to $3, to meet the competition by water. The steam boats eame within a few miles of the city, but were unable to get through the barrier below the overslaugh.
March 28. Daniel W. Mixter died, aged 24.
March 30. A jubilee dinner was given to Dr. William Bay on the occasion of his completing a half century of practice. The fete was celebrated at Congress Hall, Dr. T. R. Beck, presiding.
April 2. Huldah Ann Mead died, aged 32.
April 5. Sarah, wife of Henry Lathrop. died, aged 48. April 8. Mrs. Anna Wood died, aged 75.
April 7. Jakey Jackson died; an aged and respectable colored man, employed all his life in sweeping lawyers' offices, daily redeeming them from the dust of litigation, and restoring as much natural sweetness in those waste places, as could possibly be effected by the aid of a broom and watering pot. He was a little old gentleman, grave and reverend before a lawyer with his eyes upon a book, but jocund as the morning when addressed. and particu- larly happy if the recognition was made in Dutch.
April 10. The river was open and three steam boats arrived. For more than a week the boats had tantalized the merchants on the dock and pier with the sight of * their smoke pipes, first from the City Hall, when twelve miles below, and from day to day nearer and nearer, till they were within sight of their own stores, making vigor- ous efforts to push through the ice, within three miles of their destination. Relief was anxiously looked for in the breaking up of the Mohawk, which took place at last,
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Notes from the Newspapers. 1847.
causing such a rise of water and rush of ice, that the large wooden storehouse on the pier above the Maiden lane cut, was completely demolished, and many thousand bushels of grain and feed went down with the flood.
April 10. Ann, widow of William Stilwell, died.
April 12. Sarah, wife of John Tweddle, died, aged 51.
April 13. Marion wife of Joseph Gibson died, aged 33.
April 13. Election : four parties in the field; whigs elected mayor and 14 of the 20 aldermen.
For mayor-William Parmelee, 4088
James Goold, 1168
M. Hendrickson, 605
Woodruff, 78
WHIGS. Aldermen.
DEMOCRATS.
Richard Parr, 265
S. W Harned,. 228
Geo. B. Riggs, . 372 W. W. Forsyth, . ... 306
Chas. Van Benthuysen, 282
H. W. Allen, 311
Geo. Monteath, 214
Geo. Clemens 210
Thos. Hun, . 171
E. R. Satterlee, 161
W. B. Gourlay, 170
Geo. W. Luther, 159
Timothy Spears, 205
Uri Burt, . ..
300
C. Boyd, .
207
J. Harrison, 290
P. McCall,
318
Robert Higgins, 255
J. D. Cady, 335
John Cooke,. 277
J. Disney, . 230
April 15. William G. Fry died, aged 42.
The Second Presbyterian church, which was built in 1816, at the cost of $75,000, was now thoroughly reno- vated by extensive changes in its interior arrangements at an expense of $9,000.
April 16. Mary Capron died, aged 81.
April 26. Daniel W. Humphrey died, aged 28.
April 27. Elizabeth wife of John Moffit died, aged 40. John Reston died, aged 66.
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287
R. H. Pruyn, 289
6th Ward .- John A. Livingston, . 288 C. M. Jenkins, .. 282
ith Ward .- Rensselaer West, ... 298
8th Ward .- Wm. B. Scott. 274
H. A. Williams, ..
197
488
9th Ward .- George Traver, . Wm. Cumming, .... 467
10th Ward .- Roswell Steele, ...... 345 Daniel B. Bassett, ... 377
1st Ward .- John Milliman, ..... 102 Jacob Schoonmaker,. 118 2d Ward .- W. W. Frothingham, 142 Anson McAllaster, .. 187
3d Ward .- H. B Haswell, ..... 452
G. A. H. Englehart ... 453 4th Ward .- Franklin Townsend, . 411 Daniel Fry ... 403
5th Ward .- Andrew White,
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Notes from the Newspapers.
1847.
April 29. Mrs. John Van Ness Yates died, in N. York. May 4. Edmund Lord died, aged 63.
May 9. Rev. James McDonough, pastor of St. John's church in Ferry street, preached his farewell sermon, having been transferred to St. James's church, Brooklyn. Rev. Mr. McClosky of Schenectady succeeded him.
Rev. Dr. Schneller, who had for more than twelve years officiated as pastor of St. Mary's church, was also transferred to Brooklyn.
May 9. Julia A. Covert died, aged 18.
Hiram Bromley died, aged 43.
May 10. Eliza, wife of James H. Brooks, died.
May 14. Alex. McLean died at Buffalo, aged 40.
May 17. Mrs. Nancy Van Ness died, aged 75.
May 19. John Davis died, aged 40.
News was received of the murder of Wm. H. Kearney, a volunteer in the Mexican war. After the American army left Vera Cruz, he was sent back with several others to bring up some stragglers and the mails, and whilst on that duty was shot down from the way side by the banditti that infested the road, and bayonetted; after which his feet were tied together, and his body drawn by a horse over the road until his head was so bruised that his features could hardly be recognized.
May 20. Mary E., daughter of the late Rev. John M. Bradford, died.
May 28. John Delehanty died, aged 61.
Betsey S., wife of James B. Stryker, died aged 27.
May 29. Leonard Beardsley died, aged 25.
May 30. Mrs. Leah Kane died, aged.74. Emeline Mayell died.
May 31. Joseph Hall died, aged 83.
June 1. Anna, wife of Charles Scovel, died, aged 32.
June 7. Lydia, wife of Caleb Benjamin, died, aged 79. Mary Jane, wife of Rev. Horatio Potter, died at Schenectady.
Amasa J. Parker and Ira Harris, Esqs., were elected justices of the supreme court.
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Notes from the Newspapers. 1847.
June 9. George W. Weed died, aged 35.
June 19. Henry R. Walker died, aged 25.
June 20. William W. Crannel died, aged 51.
June 22. Margaret Henry died, aged 59.
June 25. Henry Keyes died, aged 51.
June 26. James McKown died, aged 58. Col. Mckown was educated to the legal profession under John V. Henry, whose law partner he became. He held the office of re- corder for 15 years, and resigned in 1838. He was again appointed in 1844. During his term the jurisdiction of the mayor's court was extended, its character and dig- nity increased, and it commanded universal confidence and respect. He was several years successively a mem- ber of the assembly, and a regent of the university.
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