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The future history of the city of Albany will likely be no less remarkable than its past. Conjecture cannot portray the realities of the succeeding centuries. Never- theless, it is believed, that five hundred years hence the evidences of the enterprise, culture, and wealth of the present inhabitants of the city will still be perspicuous in the activities of those forming its population and con- ducing to its greater renown.
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1821. February 16. Act to incorporate the Female Academy passed Corner-stone of institution in Montgomery Street laid June 26.
1825. March 19. Act to incorporate the Gas Light Company of the city of Albany passed.
April 20. Act to incorporate the Hudson River Steamboat Company passed.
Albany fire department had ten fire engines. Besides the ten fire com- panies in 1825, there were two hook and ladder companies and one axe com- pany.
1827. May 30. Albany Exchange Association formed.
1829. May 2. Act to incorporate the president, directors and company of the Canal Bank of Albany passed. John T. Norton elected president June 24. Bank failed, July 11, 1848.
Albany Orphan Asylum established in November. Opened December 1, in a frame-building on Washington Street. Incorporated March 30, 1831. Asylum erected in 1833, on Robin Street, south of Washington Avenue.
1830. December 1. Museum moved from the old city-hall to new marble building, northwest corner of State and Market (Broadway) streets. Dis- continued in 1855.
1832. April 17. Act to incorporate the New York and Albany Railroad passed.
1833. April 11. Act to incorporate the Albany Gas Light Company passed.
Albany made a port of entry. William Seymour appointed collector of customs.
October 8. The Burgesses Corps organized. John O. Cole, captain. First public parade of corps, July 4, 1834.
1834. Female Academy, No. 40 North Pearl Street, erected. Opened May 12.
September. People's line of steamboats established.
1836. April 30. Old city-hall burned.
1839. December 2. Beginning of anti-rent war. Sheriff of Albany County with a posse comitatus of six hundred men proceeded to Reedsville to enforce the law against the rent-debtors. Met several hundred armed men on horseback, four miles beyond Clarksville, and forced to return to Al- bany. December 9. The sheriff with a body of military proceeded to the anti-rent district. December 10. The governor issued a proclamation for the maintenance of the law. December 15. The sheriff returned to the city with the following companies from Albany and Troy, under the command of Major W. Bloodgood, marching twelve miles through deep snow : Albany Burgesses Corps, Capt. Bayeux ; Albany Union Guards, Capt. Brown ; Al- bany Republican Artillery, Capt. Strain ; First company Van Rensselaer
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given to the city for the site of the former. January 1, 1882, name changed to State Armory.
1859. April 4. Commerce Insurance Company organized. June 1, began business.
1860. July. Albany Zouaves organized.
1861. April 22. Departure of the 25th regiment, Col. M. K. Bryan, for the seat of war. Returned, July 28.
May 18. Departure of the 3d regiment, N. Y. Vols. Col. Frederick Town- send. Returned, May 15, 1863. Re-organized regiment returned Septem- ber 1, 1865.
May 23. National Bank failed.
June. Departure of the 30th regiment, Col. Edward Frisby. Returned May 30, 1863.
September 16. Departure of the 43d regiment, Col. F. S. Vinton.
October 21. Departure of the 44th or Ellsworth regiment. Returned, September 27, 1864.
December 20. Departure of the 91st regiment. Returned, July 19, 1864. Returned from one year's service, June 15, 1865.
1862. April 15. Watervliet Turnpike and Railroad Company chartered.
August 19. Departure of the 113th regiment, Col. Lewis O. Morris.
1863. June 15, 16 and 17. Strike of dock and railroad laborers.
June 22. Street cars began to run from the Lumber District to South Ferry.
September 24. Albany Street Railway Company organized. February 22, 1864, cars began to run on Pearl Street.
December 22. Academy of Music opened in the building known as the South Pearl Street theatre, and subsequently St. Paul's church.
1864. January. Army Relief Bazaar erected in Academy Park. Opened February 22.
February 22. Cars on State Street railway began to run.
March 31. Steam fire-engine, built by Joseph Banks, New York, for the Beaverwyck Club, reached the city. Engine named James McQuade to honor the chief engineer of the Albany fire-department.
1865. October 12. Letter-boxes placed on lamp-posts for drop-letters.
1866. February 22. Opening of the first bridge, now known as the upper bridge. Twenty-one stone piers. Four spans 172 feet each ; 14 of 72 feet, and a draw of 257 feet ; length of bridge between the trestle-work on each side of the river 1953 feet. Cost about $750,000. The project of build- ing a bridge across the river at Albany first discussed in January 1814, but it was opposed by the citizens of Troy, Lansingburgh and Waterford. In 1831, 1835, 1836, 1841, 1854, and in 1856 similar projects were discussed, but were abortive. Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Hudson River at Albany by the Hudson River Bridge Company, passed April 9, 1856. On the opening of the new bridge, all the passenger trains, the Hudson River, the Harlem and the Boston trains, departed from the New York Central depot at the foot of Steuben Street.
April 28. Act to incorporate the Hope Savings Bank passed. Failed, May 10, 1877.
September 17. Street cars began to run from North Pearl to Van Woert Street.
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1867. March 21. Roman Catholics purchased cemetery grounds south of the Rural Cemetery. St Agnes Cemetery Association incorporated May 9. Cemetery consecrated May 19.
Old Guard, Burgesses Corps, organized.
1868. January 29. Academy of Music or old South Pearl Street theatre burned.
August 13. Albany Jackson Corps organized.
September 7. Free Academy established, and opened at No. 119 State Street.
October. City building, on southwest corner of South Pearl and Howard streets, erected in 1868 and 1869, completed. Cost $200,000.
November 19. Dana Natural History Society organized.
December 30. Last rail on the Albany aud Susquehanna railroad laid, running from Albany to Binghamton, and connecting it with the Erie rail- road. Ground first broken for its construction, September 5, 1853. Road opened January 12, 1869. Depot on the west side of Broadway, opposite the steamboat landing. Company formed April 19, 1851. Edward C. Delavan first president. Leased to the Delaware and Hudson Canal Com- pany, February 24, 1870. In 1875, depot on the northwest corner of Quay Street and Maiden Lane first used. New building erected in 1880.
1870. April 8. Parts of the towns of Watervliet and Bethlehem added to the city.
St. Agnes School founded by the Right Rev. William C. Doane for the education of girls. Act to incorporate the trustees of the Corning Founda- tion for educational and Christian work in the diocese of Albany, passed March 14, 1871. Corner-stone of school-building, north side of Elk Street, between Hawk and Swan streets, laid June 19, 1871. Building formally opened on Hallowe'en, 1872.
1871. December 28. First train crossed the iron railroad bridge at the foot of Maiden Lane. Length 1940 feet. Length of approaches 725 feet Twenty-two spans, Act authorizing the Hudson River Bridge Company, to construct the bridge passed May 10, 1869. Construction began in May, 1870.
1872. October 6. Union depot, foot of Steuben Street, opened.
1876. Erection of the High School building, on the east side of Eagle Street, between Steuben and Columbia streets, begun. Frontage 85 feet, depth on Steuben Street 135 feet, on Columbia 120. Opened May 4, 1876. Cost $140,000.
July 4. Stone tablet placed by the members of the Albany Institute and the citizens' committee on the front of the Commercial building, on the northeast corner of Broadway and Hudson Avenue, unveiled by Visscher Ten Eyck, in the presence of a large concourse of people. Addresses by John V. L. Pruyn, president of the Albany Institute, Henry A. Homes, LL. D., of the Institute committee, and by Judge J. O. Cole. Inscription on the tablet : "The Declaration of Independence was first publicly read in Albany by order of the Committee of Safety, July 19, 1776, in front of the City Hall, then on this site. This memorial of the event was placed here by the citizens, July 4, 1876."
1877. June 15. Old Elm tree, on the northwest corner of State and Pearl streets, cut down to widen Pearl Street. "The rings of its growth show its age to have been 123 years."
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July 23. Beginning of the railroad riots at West Albany. Ended July 28 September. Young Men's Association rooms opened in the Bleecke building, on the southwest corner of North Pearl and Steuben streets. As sociation organized December 10, 1833. Amos Dean elected president, De cember 13. Robert Gray, first librarian. Incorporated March 12, 1835 Occupied rooms in Knickerbacker Hall, on the east side of Market Street Nos. 332 and 334, (now Nos. 451 and 453 Broadway) from 1833 to 1840. Ir 1840 moved to rooms in the Albany Exchange building. Occupied rooms in the Commercial Bank building from 1851 to 1870 ; in Music-hall build- ing from 1870 to 1877. Number of volumes in its library about 16,000.
1880. January 15. Death of Joel Munsell, the distinguished antiquarian, compiler, and printer.
January 31. Fort Orange Club organized. The handsome club-house, No. 110, on the south side of Washington Avenue, between Swan and Dove streets, was erected in 1810, by Samuel Hill. February 28, 1880, Ephraim H. Bender, (the publisher of the History of the City of Albany) sold the building, then his residence, to Erastus Corning, Robert H. Pruyn, J. How- ard King and Dudley Olcott, who, on the eighth of May following, conveyed it to the Fort Orange Club. Club-House opened July 1.
March 1. The People's Gas Light Company organized.
1881. February 11. Adelphi Club incorporated. Organized under the name of the Adelphi Literary Association, January 26, 1873. First rooms in building on South Pearl Street. In 1876 moved to Adelphi Hall, No. 83 Green Street. Building No. 101 Hudson Avenue used as a club-house in 1880. The present building, corner of South Pearl and Division streets, erected in 1881.
April. Albany Electric Illuminating Company organized.
June. Young Men's Christian Association reorganized. First organized February 24, 1857. Incorporated April 24, 1867. Rooms in Perry building, No. 20 North Pearl Street.
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1882. January 24. Lower iron bridge at foot of Ferry Street opened. Work of construction begun in 1876. Length 1669 feet. Length of draw 100 feet. Built by the Albany and Greenbush Bridge Company.
1883. January 16. Tweddle Hall burned.
July 9. The New York, West Shore and Buffalo railroad from Wee- hawken to Albany opened. January 1, 1884, opened to Buffalo. Incor- porated June 14, 1881.
Broadway viaduct, at the New York Central railroad crossing, com- pleted. Work begun in 1882.
December. Government building, on the northeast corner of Broadway and State street, first occupied. Construction authorized by act of Con- gress March 12, 1872 ; the site to be given to the government by the city. The Exchange building and the Mechanics' and Farmers' Bank building and their sites purchased by the city and conveyed to the United States govern- ment. Demolition of buildings on its site began in December, 1875. Corner- stone laid May 7, 1879. Frontage of building on Broadway 113 feet, depth 150 feet. Cost of the granite structure about $530,000. First occupied by the post-office, January 1, 1884.
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FIRST PARTICULAR. (See page 455). Church, southeast corner of Hud- son and Philip streets, opened for service, December 26, 1852.
Pastors : Francis Wayland, 1811-12; Isaac Webb, 1815-16 ; Joshua Bradley, 1817-19; Lewis Leonard, 1825-26; Bartholomew T. Welch, 1828-34; George B. Ide, 1834-35 ; Alanson L. Covell, 1837 ; James Hodge, 1839-41 ; John Knox, 1842; James M. Coley, 1843-45 ; Asa Bronson, 1845 ; W. S. Clapp, 1846-49 ; Reuben Jeffrey, 1849-57 ; E. L. Magoon, 1858-67 ; George C. Lorimer, 1868-69; J. B. Hawthorne, 1871; D. M. Reeves, 1872-79 ; Thomas Rambaut, 1883 to present time.
EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH. First meeting-house, near southwest corner of Pearl Street and Maiden Lane (site of Perry building), erected in 1833. First members from the First Particular Society. Incorporated Sep- tember 7, 1833. Church first opened for worship, October 26, 1834. In 1871 the society began to worship in Emmanuel Baptist church on north side of State Street, between Swan and Dove streets. Corner-stone laid July 14, 1869. Dedicated, February 23, 1871. Built of Onondaga limestone. Cost $217,000. Sittings 1500.
Pastors : Bartholomew T. Welch, 1834-48 : Luther F. Beecher, 1850-53 ; William Hague, 1854-57; T. R. Howlett, 1860 ; C. DeW. Bridgman, 1862-78; T. Harwood Pattison, 1879-81 ; Henry M. King, 1882 to present time.
SOUTH BAPTIST SOCIETY. Meeting-house in 1842 the Scotch Presby- terian church on Westerlo Street. Incorporated, August 29, 1842. Church South Pearl Street, opposite Herkimer Street, dedicated December 25, 1843. Trinity Episcopal church, corner of Herkimer and Franklin streets, purchased by the society in 1848. Opened for service, April 8, 1849. Church on South Pearl Street sold to the Jews. Last services in it, September 28, 1851.
Pastors : Stephen Wilkins, 1843-48 ; Barry, 1849 ; A. Kingsbury, 1850 ; W. G. Howard, 1850-51; W. W. Moore, 1852; Lewis Sill, 1853-54; Isaac N. Hill, 1854 ; Malcom Roberts, 1858-59.
STATE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. Meeting-house, southeast corner of State and High streets, erected in 1845. Organized, January 15, 1846. Church dedicated, January 15, 1846. Sold to Calvary Baptist church in 1865.
Pastors : Jacob Knapp, 1846-47; Edwin R. Warner, 1847-48 ; Jabez S. Swan, 1848-49 ; W. W. Moore, 1849-51; Charles B. Post, 1852-54 ; William Arthur, 1858-64 ; T. W. Smith, 1865.
WASHINGTON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. Building, No. 252 Washington Avenue, purchased in 1859. Society organized, February 16, 1860. Chapel sold to Roman Catholics, January 3, 1866.
Pastor : William P. Everett, 1860-64.
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH. Organization originally the Washington
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Avenue Baptist Church Society. Incorporated, April 3, 1863. Name, The Calvary Baptist Church, taken February 4, 1865. In 1865, society purchased the State Street Baptist church, southeast corner of State and High streets. In 1880, edifice demolished. Present building dedicated, March 26, 1882.
Pastors : J. Spencer Kennard, 1865-66 ; John Peddie, 1866-70; John Love, 1872-75 ; Joshua Day, 1876-77; John Humpstone, 1878-82; J. Wolfender, 1883 to present time.
TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. Chapel North Pearl Street, between Wilson and Lumber (Livingston Avenue) streets, dedicated June 14, 1857. Society organized, October 1859. Incorporated under name of the Taber- nacle Baptist Church, November 10, 1859. Present edifice, northwest cor- ner of Clinton Avenue and Ten Broeck Street, dedicated February 14, 1877.
Pastors : J. D. Fulton, 1859-64 ; William A. Alden, 1865-67 ; Thomas Cull, 1869-70; R. B. Kelsay, 1871-72; F. R. Morse, 1873-78 ; Albert Foster, 1879 to present time.
WASHINGTON STREET GERMAN BAPTIST CHURCH. Building on Wash- ington Avenue, near Lark Street, dedicated, October 29, 1854.
Pastors : A. Von Puttkammer, 1857-61 ; H. Feltman, 1864-69 ; William Argow, 1870-75 ; Henry Trumpp, 1877-80; John Jaeger, 1882 to present time.
FIRST AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH. Organized September 6, 1820, under the name of the Albany African Church Association. Meeting-house, north side of Hamilton Street, between Grand and Fulton streets, dedicated, Janu- ary 16, 1823. The name, The First African Baptist Society, taken, January 16, 1826. Property sold to the Roman Catholics in 1869.
Pastors : Nathaniel Paul, 1822-30 ; Calvin C. Williams, 1831 ; Samuel Treadwell, 1832-33; Thomas Ritchie, 1834; Nathaniel Paul, 1838-39 ; Jonas H. Townsend, 1843 ; John Kial, 1844; W. Surrington, 1846 ; Wil- liam Garnett, 1849 ; J. Atkin, 1852 ; - Hansen, 1855; L. Black, 1859 ; T. Doughty Miller, 1860-64 ; John D. Bagwell, 1869.
SECOND AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH. Organized 1870. Meeting-house Chestnut Street, near Dove.
Pastors : Theodore D. Miller, 1872 ; Charles Charles, 1873 ; Henry H. Mitchell, 1879.
MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHAPEL. Building southeast corner of Madison Avenue and Partridge Street. Rev. A. W. Stockwin, missionary, 1883 to present time.
CHRISTIAN.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Meeting-house south side of Chestnut Street, between Lark and Dove streets. Society organized in 1881.
Pastors : E. C. Abbott, 1881-34 ; Warren Hathaway, 1884 to present time.
CONGREGATIONAL.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. First Presbyterian meeting-house, on corner of South Pearl and Beaver streets, purchased, December 15, 1849. Opened for services, April 7, 1850. Society incorporated, June 6, 1850.
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Church sold, September 10, 1867. Last services in it, February 9, 1868. Meetings thereafter held in Association Hall. Corner-stone of building, southeast corner of Eagle and Beaver streets, laid, September 22, 1868. Dedicated, October 14, 1869.
Pastors : Ray Palmer, 1850-66 ; William S. Smart, 1867 to present time.
SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Society organized in 1862. Meet- ings held in Gibson's. Hall, No. 1 Clinton Avenue, corner of Broadway.
Pastor : R. B. Stratton, 1862-63.
EPISCOPAL.
CATHEDRAL OF ALL SAINTS. Incorporated March 27, 1873. Corner- stone of All Saints cathedral laid June 3, 1884. (See page 482.) Present chapel of the cathedral on northwest corner of Hawk and Elk streets.
Right Rev. William Croswell Doane, bishop; consecrated bishop of the diocese of Albany, February 2, 1869, in St. Peter's church. Rev. F. L. Nor- ton, dean. Rev. G. W. Dean, chancellor. Rev. E. T. Chapman, treasurer. Rev. T. B. Fulcher, minor canon.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH. (See pages 278-282, 284-287, 296, 332, 349, 407, 408, 430, 431, 448). Church erected in 1803 demolished in 1859. Corner- stone of new edifice laid June 29, 1859. Consecrated, October 4, 1860. Tower dedicated, September 29, 1876.
Rectors : Thomas Barclay, 1708-171 -; -- Miln, 1728-37; Henry Barclay, 1738-46; John Ogilvie, 1749-64; Thomas Brown, 1764-68; Harry Munro, 1768-74; Thomas Ellison, 1787-1802; Frederick Beasley, 1803-09; Timothy Clowes, 1810-17 ; William B. Lacey, 1818-32; Horatio Potter, 1833-55; Thomas Clapp Pitkin, 1855-62; William F. Wilson and William Tatlock, 1862-66 ; William Croswell Doane, 1867-69; William A. Snively, 1869-74; Walton W. Battershall, 1874 to present time.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH. Meetings of the first members of the church held in 1827 in a building, corner of Pearl and Rensselaer streets. First wardens and vestrymen elected November 12, 1827. Incorporated, November 28, 1827. Corner-stone of church, erected on northwest corner of Ferry and Dallius streets, laid June 11, 1828. Consecrated, August 4, 1829. Sold to Roman Catholics in 1839. Theatre-building on South Pearl Street, between Beaver and Hudson streets, purchased shortly thereafter, refitted, and con- secrated February 22, 1840. Dudley Reformed Protestant church, south side of Lancaster Street, between Swan and Hawk streets, purchased in 1862, and used for the first time, September 21, 1862.
Rectors : Richard Bury, 1827-30; William Linn Keese, 1830-33; Joseph Henry Price, 1834-37; William I. Kip, 1837-53; Thomas A. Starkey, 1854- 58; William Rudder, 1859-63; J. Livingston Reese, 1864 to present time.
TRINITY CHURCH. Organized in 1839. Leased that year to the Pres- byterian (Cameronian) church, south side of Westerlo Street, between Dallius and Church streets. Incorporated, May 12, 1840. In 1841, held services in the school-house, corner of Dallius and Ferry streets. In 1842, erected a frame-building on the southeast corner of Herkimer and Franklin
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streets. Last services held in it by the society, December 25, 1848. Corner stone of church, west side of Broad Street, between Lydius (Madison Avenue) and Westerlo streets, laid May 18, 1848. Consecrated September 10, 1849.
Rectors: Isaac Swart, 1839-40; William Dowdney, 1840-41; Edward Embury, 1842-43; Edward Selkirk, 1844-84.
GRACE CHURCH. First called the Episcopal Free Church. Grace church incorporated, May 25, 1846. First services in a building corner of State and Lark streets. Subsequently the congregation worshipped in a building on Spring Street. Corner-stone of church, corner of Lark and Washington Streets, laid July 8, 1850. Dedicated, December 14, 1852. Building re- moved in 1873 to northwest corner of Robin Street and Clinton Avenue.
Rectors : Mansell Van Rensselaer, 1846-47 ; John Alden Spooner, 1848 ; John Radcliff Davenport, 1850-57 ; Theodore M. Bishop, 1858-61 ; Philander K. Cady, 1863-65; Edwin B. Russell, 1866-71 ; James Hutchings Brown, 1872; David Louis Schwartz, 1875 to present time.
CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS. Corner-stone of edifice, southeast corner of North Pearl and Colonie streets, laid June 7, 1849. Incorporated, February 16, 1850. Consecrated, September 3, 1850.
Rectors : Sylvanus Reed, 1850-61 ; William R. Johnson, 1862-63 ; Wil- liam S. Boardman, 1866-68 ; Royal Marshall, 1870-74 ; Samuel E. Smith, 1875-82 ; Ralph Wood Kenyon, 1883 to present time.
ST. PAUL'S FREE CHAPEL. Building south side of Madison Avenue, between Green and Dailius streets.
A. F. Steele, assistant rector, 1868; Walker Gwynne, 1872 ; Thomas B. Berry, 1873 ; W. H. Gallagher, 1875-76 ; Frederick O. Granniss, 1877-80 ; Frederick J. Bassett, 1881-82 ; Rev. J. B. Hubbs, 1883 to present time.
EVANGELICAL.
CHURCH OF THE EVANGELICAL (GERMAN) ASSOCIATION. Incorporated, January 1847. First meeting-house on Grand Street, between Hudson and Beaver streets. Afterward corner of Clinton and Nucella streets. Church erected in 1869, on south side of Elm Street, between Grand and Philip streets.
Pastors: Jacob Wagner, 1851; Levi Jacobi, 1852-59 ; Augustus Spies, 1862; William Mintz, 1863-64; Henry Fischer, 1866-68; Charles Schoepfle, 1870-71; Albert Unholtz, 1872-74; J. Siegrist, 1875-77; M. Yauch, 1878-80; A. Schlenk, 1881-83; Jacob Eberling, 1883 to present time.
GERMAN EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT SOCIETY. Organized in 1850. In- corporated, April 29, 1851. Church, corner of Clinton and Alexander streets.
Pastors : Augustus J. Grotrian, 1852-58; Charles A. Biel, 1862; Alfred Kretschmar, 1862-64; A. J. Grotrian, 1866-68; M. Frankel, 1859; Oscar Kraft, 1871; W. Stroebel, 1874; J. Petersen, 1875-76; - Junegst, 1877-80; Paul L. Menzel, 1881 to present time.
FRIENDS.
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. Meetings in 1829 held in a building corner of State and Lodge streets. Meeting-house erected in 1833 on south side of Plain Street, between Grand and Fulton streets.
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BETH EL. Society organized in 1822. Incorporated, March 25, 1838. First synagogue in Bassett Street. The second, No. 76 Herkimer Street, dedicated, September 2, 1842. South Ferry Street Methodist Episcopal church, southwest corner of South Ferry and Franklin streets, purchased, and dedicated, January 20, 1865.
Rabbis : Isaac Wise, 1847-50; Veis Traub, 1851-53; Samson Falk, 1854; Isaac Gothold, 1863-65; H. Berkenthall, 1867-72; L. A. Son, 1873- 79; Adolph Friedmann. 1880 to present time.
BETH EL JACOB. Incorporated, Feburary 22, 1841. Synagogue, No. 8 Rose Street, dedicated, May 25, 1841. Corner-stone of synagogue, east side of Fulton Street. between Lydius (Madison Avenue) and Van Zandt streets, laid December 1, 1847. Consecrated, April 28, 1848.
Rabbis : Julius Katzenberg, 1851-52 ; Joseph Lewin, 1883 ; I. N. Cohn, 1855-57 ; Wolf Fashbinder, 1858-59; - Hydeman, 1861; H. C. Solo- mon, 1863 ; Isaac Reiterman, 1864-65; S. Thanhauser, 1868-71 ; Josiah Goetz, 1872-82 ; Samuel Distillator, 1883 to present time.
ANSHE EMETH. Congregation first worshipped in a building, corner of Lydius (Madison Avenue) and South Pearl streets. Society incorporated, October 11, 1850. Afterward in a building in Green Street. Baptist church, on South Pearl Street, opposite Herkimer, purchased. Synagogue dedicated, October 3, 1851.
Rabbis. Isaac M. Wise, 1851-54 ; Elkan Cohn, 1854-59; M. Mayer, 1862 ; N. Nathanson, 1863 ; M. Schlessinger, 1864 to present time.
LUTHERAN.
FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN. (See pages 107, 108, 150, 151, 152, 156, 157, 170, 171, 175, 176, 204, 284, 395, 396, 397, 448. 453, 457). August 26, 1784, incorporated under the title of "Der Evangelisch Lutherischen Gemeinde." Corner-stone of church laid, June 2, 1786. Present church, north-west corner of Pine and Lodge streets, dedicated January 26, 1871.
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