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1855-Woman's Rights County Convention hehl at Corinthian Hall .--- The Union Grays quelled a riot of striking canal laborers .- The night of Feb. 6-7, the coldest known; mercury 200 below zero .- May 11th. Martin Eastwood sentenced to hang for the murder of Edward Brereton, but a new trial re- sulted in life imprisonment .-- The body of Emma Moore found in the upper race .- The " Ameri- can" or "Know-Nothing" party. attaining its great est strength, elected Charles J. Hayden Mayor .-- Junior Pioneer Association organized President. Para M. Parsoos. ----- Mis. Levi Ward, Mrs. Joseph Sibley, Mrs. Samuel J. Andrews, Eli Stillson and Mbert W. Scrantom, early settlers, died .---- Christ Church, & Episcopal founded. ---- Veteran corps of the Rochester Union Grays organized in December. 1856- Heavy snow blockades .-- Elihu Burritt. the "Learned Blacksmith." lectured before the Typo- graphical I'mign .---- The Suspension bridge com- pleted over the river at Carthage. at a cost of $25.000. -Rev. John Donnelly killed by the cars on the Central Railroad bridge, August 9th. --- Charles M. Lee, leading lawyer. died .- Flower City Bank or- ganized unade a national bank in 1865), -- Calvary Presbyterian Cimuch founded.
1557 -- The year opened. as did the previous oue. with very heavy falls of snow .---- A Hood in Feb- ruary carried off several buildings on the north side of the old Main street bridge .-- Abolitionist Con- vention hold February 10th .-- Ephraim Moore. pioneer. died .--- The new Carthage Suspension bridge fell. during April .-- The bill for extendtin,: the tieneser Valley Canal passed. -- Main street bridge finished, at a cost of $00.000. ----- While wn kaged in ile rebuilding of Andrews street brut ... Nathan Newbafer was swapt over the fall. - Duly Denoget offer destroyed by time. ... Hospital commenced mtao small aone call . 1 Tieneser street. near Main .- -- Mergingof te ... American and daily Democrat under the style / . ard und lamerican .- Patrick Heavy and WHY an Cleator, firemon, killed at the butmugg of the hagi
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bank building .- - December 16th, Ira Stout mur- dered Charles W. Littles, with the assistance of Mrs. Littles, Stout's sister .-- Industrial School incor- porated.
1858-Funeral held here of T. Hart Strong and Henry H. Rochester, who had perished at the buru- ing of the l'aceite Hotel, St. Louis, --- Third Pres- byterian Church burned .--- William H. Perkins, of this city, killed in a railroad accident near Utica. --- Angust 17. general celebration of the laying of the first Atlantic cable: a serious couffagration vis- ited the city the same night. Longmir's brewery and other property being turned, loss $175.000 .-- Alerts and Protectives formed .- William H. Seward originated the phrase, "the irrepressible confliet." in an anti-slavery speech. at Corinthian Hall. October 25 .--- Dr. F. F. Backus, pioneer, died. -Stout hanged, October 22: Mrs. Littles sentenced for seven years.
1859-Another Rochester Daily Times started, Jan. 24th: it was discontinued in April and revived in June as the Rochester Evening Express .- De Lave walked a tight rope stretched directly over Genesee Falls .---- The first locomotive explosion (that of the engine Ontario, took place west of the Central depot: no one killed .---- The Second Bapti-t Church (on the present site of Washington Hall) burned -- Rev. George Bush. the distinguished commentator. died here .-- The Traders' Bank organized (nationalized. 1965).
1860- First. Wide Awake company in the State or- ganized "have to the first Lincoln campaign: 100 outfits for the organization spenred by George C. Buell and D. M. Deweg. - Old Brick church torn down; erection of present Brick church begun .- Convention held for the formation of the Western New York Agricultural. Horticultural and Mechani- cal Association. --- Fre- Methodist Church and Christadelphian Church founded .-.. - Steam fire en- gines substituted for hand-working engines - Rev. Joseph Penny. D. D .. died .--- New building of the Home for the Friendless opened .-- Ex- Mavor Child died .-- Doric Council. R. and S. M., and Genesee Falls Lodge. F. and A. M .. instituted.
1861 -- Dr. Levi Ward died. -- An Abolition conven- tion mobbed at Corinthian Holl. January 11 .- President-elect Lincoln, on his way to Washington. addressed a vast crowd at the depot, February 18 --- The Common Council appropriated $10,000 to defray urgeut war expenses; the citizens subscribed $40,000 for the families of volunteers .--- The Thir- teenth Regiment (raised in Monroe county, mus- tered in May 14th: the first to leave for the seat of war from this part of the State .- The Eighti: Cav- alry recruited .---- Congressman Afred Ely. being informed that some of his constituents ( members of the Thirteenth had been wounded in the skirmish at Centreville, left Washington to render assistance. and going too near the battlefield at Bull Run. was captured by the rebels, July 21st. and taken to Rich- mond prison, where he remained until December 25th, when he was exchanged for Charles J. Faulk- ner, formerly United States minister to France, who had been arrested for betrayal of his trust in the in- terest of the South .--- Calvin Huson. jr., ex District- Attorney of Monroe county, captured near Bull Run by rebel pickets. July 234. and taken to Richmond prison, where he died of typhoid fever, October 24th. -Office of Fire Marshal created and O. L. Augevine elected to fill the position .--- St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church founded .-- James Vick first began the systematic growing of flower seeds,- Deaths of Selah Mathew. General Lansing B. Swan, Orlando Hastings, Ebenezer Grito and Joshua Conkey.
1802 -- Congressman Ely accorded a reception Jan. 4th, on his return from captivity. - The One Hun. dred and Fifth Regiment of infantry organized at Rochester and LeRoy .--- The One red and Regiment Eighth left for
the seat of war, And It the One red and Fortieth left a month Inter .--- - Parson Brownlow delivered an address at Corinthian Hall Clarissa street bridge completed; cost. $15.000 .--- Dr. Lewis Swift discovered his first comet in his primitive observatory, on the gravel roof of Duify's
, cider mill .-- The Eighteenth Battery (Mack's) mustered in. --- Deaths of Mrs. Hamlet Serantom and Harvey Fly. pioneers .--- First Rochester Haru. gari lodge instituted.
1563-Emancipation celebration at Corinthian Til. Jan. Itk. --- The Eagle Hotel change! into a business block, after being conatctcu as a tavern for forty years. -- The Twenty. sixth Battery of Light Artillery mustered in, February,-The corner-stone of St. Mary's Hospital laid June 9th. - The first street- car ran July 9th .--- Company E (now the Eighth Separate Company) organized. - Impressive funeral of Colonel Patrick TI. O'Rourke, who was killed at Gettysburg .--- The Fifty fourth Regimer t. N. G., S. N. Y., left for New York to aid in suppressing the draft riots .- 1.000 names drawn from the wheel to fill the city's quota of drafted men .--- First Union League in the State organized here .- Paid Fire Department established .----- Rochester City Brighton (street) Railroad Company incorporated. --- The Fourteenth Regiment of Artillery mus tered in. December .---- The Junior Pioneer Associ- ation merged with the offer society ----- Arion Singing Society organized .-- Rochester Division Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers established. -- Among the deaths of the year were those of Rev. John'T.Coir. D.D , Isaac R. Elwood, William C. Bloss, William S. Bishop. Samnel G. Andrews. Rev. Dr. Calvin Pease. Silas O. Smith and his son L. Ward Smith.
1364 -- Funeral of Major Jerry Sullivan, killed in a skimmich in Virginia .-- The Fifty-fourth regiment Infistered into the United States service and sent to Elmira to guard rebel prisoners -- City Hospital opened, January 28 --- Twenty-Second Regiment (cavalry) mastered in. February. --- Brackett House built .--- Holy Family Roman Catholic Church founded .---- Rochester Fire De- partment incorporated ---- Rochester Business Uni- versity established. -- Speculation ran rife in petro- lein and in Western Union Telegraph stock --- Seth Green began his experiments in fish hatching - Rev. James Nichol, Anson House, Jason Baker, Captain Daniel Loomis and Colonel Eliphas Trinn- mer died during the year.
1865-The doubled stock of the Western Union Telegraph Company (whose headquarters were in this cityy ran up to $220 per share March 17th. then fell to $120, and, before the summer was over. to $GS, bringing ruin to many .--- A great food sub- merged the central part of the city, March 17th: damage to property. estimated at over one million dollars : no lives lost. - -- Lee's surrender celebrated. April 9th .---- The funeral of President Lincoln, at Washington. April 19th, observed bere by a public demonstration, including a procession, with a funeral car : the President's remains passed through Roch- ester the 20th. ---- The Fenian Brotherhood held a grand demonstration at the Court House. August 12th, -- The old Eagle Tavern demolished to make way for Powers Block .---- Rochester Philharmonic society organized .----- Present police force or- ganized. ----- Humane society established. --- Andubon Club organized. -- During the year the cits lost by death. ex.Mavor and ex-Con. grossman Thomas Kempshall, Moses Chapin, the first County Judge) and ex-Mayor John C. Nash.
1506-Jonathan T. Orton, a hackman, found mur- dered, March Sth; one man arrested proved an alibi: the murderer was never found. -- Several
Rochester Fenians took part in the " invasion " of
Canada in June .-- President johnson. accom- pamed by Secretaries Seward and Welles, Generals tirant and Custer, Admiral Farragut and others gave an open air reception in Rochester. --- . Holy Rederiet &Roman Catholic Church founded .--- O'Rourke Post. No. 1. G. A. R., organized --- Grand Lodge of Perfection, A. and A. S. R .. instituted. --- Monroe County Homeopathie Medical Society or. ganized.
Ist- An ice gorge formed at the piers of the Erie railroad bridge in February, atalthrew the water into the heures Valley canal causing a food in portions of the Third and Eighth -wards .-- Cyrene Commandery, No .. De, K. T., organized February 4. --- Rochester Lodge, ceo, F. and A. M., organized
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CORNELIUS R. PARSONS.
The Hon. Cornelius R. Parsons, now in his fifth term as Mayor of Rochester, is the son of the late Hon. Thomas Parsons, State Senator, and was born in York, Livingston county, May 22, 1842. His father removed to Rochester in 195, and since that year Mayor Parsons has been a resident of this city. He received bis education in the public schools and in the select school tanght by Prof. John R. Vosburgh. When quite a young man, he engaged in the lumbering and milling business. In the spring of 1807 he was elected a member of the Common Council, and was re-elected to the same position in the spring of 1868 and 1870. During the last year of his second term he was chosen President of the Board. In the spring of 1876 he was nominated by the Republicans and elected Mayor over Colonel Jaines Brackett, the Democratic candidate. He has been four times re-elected by large majorities over some of the most prominent men of the party opposed to him. He has also several times been a member of the Republican State Committee, a position he holds at the present time. He is one of the most popular mayors the city has ever had, and was very active in promoting the success of the semi-centennial celebration.
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February 16, and chartered August 22 .-- A board of trade was established March 9th, and after living a few months, expired. -- The " Black Crook " ran thirty six nights at the Metropolitan Opera House. ---- Ristori played "Queen Elizabeth " at Corin- thian Hall. April 16th .--- John D. Pike. Henry Forschler aud Joseph Wernette. firemen, killed at the burning of Washington Hall and the Fabner Block Inday. -- lovie Chapter. 210. 1. A. M., organi- ized July 10 .-- Weston passed through here at mid- might of November 19th. on his walk from Portland to Chicago .---- Mechanic's Savings Bauk incorpo. rated .--- Advent Christian Church founded. ---- The body of Lonis Fox. a celebrated billiard player, found in the river at Charlotte .--- Seth Green went to Holyoke and made the discovery of harch- ing shad artificially .--- - Rochester Council Princes of Jerusalem, Sovereign grand chapter Rose Croix. Germania Lodge of Perfection, and Rochester Grand Consistory (all A. and A. S. R. institnied; also Ionic Chapter, R. A. M .---- Major-General Jacob Gond (also ex-Mayor), died; other deaths were those of Dr. M.M. Mathews, and Dr. Chester Drewes.
1868 -Joseph Messner murdered his wife in Pen- field, April 13th .-- The boiler of an engine on the Genesee Valley railroad exploded uear the depot on Exchange street, Sept. 14th, killing the engineer, brakeman and three little girls .--- During the year 503 houses were built at a cost of $1. 456. 100 .---- Prof. John F. Richardson and ex. Distriet - Attorney Martin S. Newton died .----- Power-'s block begun . the north- ernmost store, incorporated in the great structure. was built a few years befores -- James H. Hackett .played Futstuff. , The Daily Chronicde estabhshed by Lewis Selye. ---- Westminster Church founded .--- Protestant Episcopal Church Hume established .- Rochester Safe Deposit Company incorporated.
1500-Practical operations in fish-batching were begun mider the direction of Seth Green, the State having purchased his butchers at Caledonia .--- Eight persons killed and almut Eity injured by the falling of a floor in the German school of Samts Pe- ter and Panl .--- St. Patrick's Cathedral opened with impressive ceremonies March 17th, -- odd Fellows' semi-centennial celebrated, Aprileoth .---- The swing bridge on Exchange street built. --- Joseph Mess- ner, who was to have been bouged June 4th, and subsequently on December loth. obtained a new trial .- Powers's block. so far as the State street part and the Stone part on West Main street are concerned, was finished this year .-- Metropolitan Opera House destroyed by fire .- Rochester and State Line Railroad Company incorporated. - Fast Side Savings Bank incorporated. --- Fire alarm telegraph finished: cost $12,000 .--- Church of the Good Shepherd, Church of the Epiphany thoth Episcopal), and the Church of the Reformation ( Butheram founded. - -- Exempt Firemen's Associ. ation organized .----- Rochester Club fomeled. - Grace Rebekah Degree Lodge 1. O. O. P., instituted. Monroe Rebekah Degree Lodge (the first ladies' lodge) chartered .---- Riverside Rowing Cinb organized. --. Deaths of Colonel John H. Thompson, ex-Mayor William Pitkin, Rev. Dr. Sanmel Lukes, and Frederick Starr.
1870 -- Veterans of 1812 held a meeting at the Court Honse January 13th. ---- Canal convention held at Corinthian fall to advocate the abolition of the contract system in repairing canals, --- State sports- men's convention held here --- Captain for Gent- erab O'Neil arrested and lodged in jail while abont to lead the Fenians into Canada upon another raid. ---- The State Arsenal built --- Powers' block ex- tended on West Main street to Pindle aller .-- Funeral obsequies hokl over the remains of Colonel George Ryan of the 140th Regiment, Who was killed at Laurel Hill. May 8. 1864. ---- Rochester Water Works Company formed. - - Democrat au thropide consolidated. --- Aitz Rannon Kodesh congres tion founded. -- Deaths of Ebenezer Ely. ex Mayor S. W. D. Moore, ex-Mayor Hamlin Stilwell. ex.County Judge Patrick G Buchan, and Mes. Mary Ann Semantom.
1471-Orient Lodge, No. 333. 1. 0 0. F. in- stituted Mareb Sist. with 121 charter meushers. -- - The German citizens hele a peace jubiler . Bank
(April 10th), over the closing of the Franco-Prussian war .-- The Fifty-fourth regiment quelled a riot (May #tln), among strikers at the "ox Bow." --- The negro Howard commited an aggravated as- sault on a little girl. -- Joseph Messner hanged .--- Grand Opera House opened .---- East avenue and Lake avenue Baptist churches founded .---- Publica- tion of the Sunday Times begun- - A Whole of Knights of Pythias first instituted here. -- Floral and Koerner Lodges, I. O. O. F., instituted .--- Rochester Pathological Society founded. - Old Cadets organized. - The dead of the year : H. N. Curtis, Dr. Horatio N. Fenn (the first in Western New York to devote himself exclusively to dentistry), Preston Smith (who cante here in 1813), Rev. Dr. Barker, of St. Mary's church, Rev. Dr. Albert G. Hall, Aristarehns Champion, George HT. Mumford and Dr. Philander: G. Tobey.
1872 -- The Howard riot. (January 3); John Elter and Henry Merlau killed, five others wounded; secret session of the court held at which Howard pleaded guilty and was sentenced for twenty years. Funeral of William A. Reynolds, January 15 .- A small pox epidemie visited Rochester: twenty- eight deaths and many cases that were not fatal; a general vaccination ordered .-- Cerebro-spinal meningitis raged with great violence during March: twenty eight deaths .- The "epizootie" caused great. mortality among the horses in October .- The following named women voted the National and Congressional tickets in the Eighth ward: Susan B. Anthony. Mrs. Hannah Anthony Mosher. Mus. Mary S. Hibbard, Mrs. . Money M. Chapman. Mrs. Jane M. Cogswell, Mrs. Martha N. French, Mrs. Margaret Lerden. Mrs. Lottie Bolles Anthony. Mrs. Hanvah Chatfield, Mrs. Susan Ml. Hough, Mrs. Sarah Truesdale, Mrs. Mary Pulver, Mrs. Rhoda DeGarmo, Mrs. Guelma Anthony Mebran, Miss Mary S. Anthony, and Miss Ellen T. Baker: those who reg- istered but whose votes were not accepted. were: Mrs. Amy Post. Mrs. Mary Fish Curtis, Mrs. Dr. Dutton. Mrs. Charlotte Wilbur Griffin, Mrs. Dr. Wheeler. Mrs Lathrop, Mrs. Allen; the 14 women who voted were arrested held to bail and indicted : three of the inspectors of election, Beverly W. Jones. W'in. B Hull and Edwin T. Marsh, were also in- dieted : of the women who voted, Miss Anthony aione was tried .-- Rochester German Insurance Com- pany chartered .--- State Line railroad commenced. -- Rapids Baptist Church and Memorial Presby- terian Church founded .---- Vincent place bridge begun .--- Holy Sepulchre cemetery and Young Men's Catholic Association incorporated .--- Abe- lard. Amity and Old Star Clubs organized. -- Holy Sepulchre Cemetery incorporated. -- Germania Lodge, F. and A. M., h,stituted .---- Odd Fellows' Thion Association incorporated to build the Odd Fellows' Temple .--- The dead of the year: O. M. Benedict, Dr. L. C. Dolley, Isaac Post, Henry Stau- tou. Lyman Munger and James Riley the last named three being pioneers).
1423-The Rochester German "Real Schule " ded- icated February 11. ----- First session hell in the new Free Academy building, March 23d. -- The corner- stone of the new City Hall laid May 22 ---- Miss Au- thony convicted of illegal voting and fined $100 June 19; the inspectors fined $25 each and costs; fines remitted by President Grant .- The Young Meu's Catholic Association building opened, Oe- tober 29 .-- Vincent place bridge completed at a cost of $150.000 .--- Bible reading in the public schools discontinued .- --- Rochester Driving Park Association incorporated. -- Glide Encampment, 1. 0. 0. F., instituted .-- Rochester Liederkranz or- ganized. -- Dead of the year: A. G. Bristol and Rob- ert M. Dalzell (early settlers), Thomas Parsons (State Senator, 1867-75, Gideon W. Burbank. Dr. Michael Weigel, John Haywood pioneer. first Treasurer of Rochester Savings Bank), Colonel Aaron Newton (pioneer), Ebenezer Watt (pioneer), and JJoim MeConvill (member of Asseniby 1561.5.
1+4 -- City building on Front street completed; cost over STAND. -- The Holy water works yant inie operation: grand public test made February 15th. --- Faire of the Farmers' and Mechanics' May .- Albert Mccullough, aged
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self into the river, and was swept over the falls. --- The fhuling of old city records proved cx-Controller Robertson to have secreted the same to cover up a defalvation of nearly $10,000 ------ Corner stone laid of the St. John's German Lutheran and the First German M. E. Churches, and of St. Justpo'r's Orphin Asylonto- - Salem Evans tonl Church and St. Michael's Catholic Church dedi- cated .-- Organization and reunion of the school boys who had attended the high school before 1843. --- Hedding Mission, and St. John's clantheran) Church founded .---- Police Benevolen Association organized. - - Celtic Club formed. -- John C. Klinck Lodge, I. O. O. F., instituted. -- Deaths: Sam Drake (a local Isaak Walton), John M. French, Father Andrew J. Brennan. Pliny M. Bromley, Isaac Butts, (veteran journalist), Thomas H. Roch- ester (pioneer; and ex-Mayor Harvey Montgomery. 1875 -- The City hall opened to the public. January 5; cost of buikling, $337,000 .--- Funeral of Gen. Williams, March 29,-Mass-meeting held (April 9th) in support of Governor Tilden's course in pros- ecuting canal fraud cases. - The Leighton bridge works at East Rochester wrecked by a gale .- John Clark shot and killed John Trevor. July 3; the murderer was hanged November 19 .- The first fast mail train from New York to Chicago, passed through the city September 17 .---- William J. Vian. co and Andrew J. Northrup, engineer and fireman. killed by the freight train which ran off the track in the Central depot, October 7 .--- Y. M. C. A. organized. - Bank of Rochester incorporated. - Literary Union organized. -- Deaths: Elias Pond (ex Collector of the port, Sheriffand Heraber of As- sembly ), Daniel E. Harris, William Brewster (pio- neer), ex-Mayor Rufus Keeler. George W. Par- sons, Edward S. Boughton (pioneer), John Witt (ex- Mayor, Congressman. City Treasurer and, at the time of his death, Major-General N. G. S. N. Y., Father Patricio Byrnes, Charles L. Pardee, David R. Barton, Dr. H. B. Hackett, ex-Mayor A. Carter Wilder, Dr. Hartwell Carver, and William H. Han- ford (pioneer).
1876-Hemlock lake water system completed, Jan. 23 .- Institute for Deaf Mutes incorporated. Feb. 4 .--- Centennial oak sapling planted by the Ger- mans in Franklin square, -- Murder of Policeman Louis Gonmenginger by A. C. Fairbanks, who was sentenced for life .- Murder of Joseph Fryer by Stillman who was also sentenced for life .--- Victor Smith killed Catherine Boorman and committed sui- cide in jail .- First Baptist Church built -- St. James (Episcopal) Church founded .---- Board of Public Works abolished and Executive Board created. - -- Windsor Club organized .-- Sunday Herald estab ished .--- Rochester Atheneum and Mechanics' Association failed: library closed. Deaths: Samuel Hamilton, Horatio G. Warurr, Judge Samuel L. Selden, William F. Holmes, Dr. Douglass Bly, Dr. H. C. Wanzer, Abram Karnes, and Lysander Farrar.
1877 .- The Fifty-Fourth Regiment ordered to Hor. hellsville on account of the railroad strike .---- The Rochester Yacht Club held a regatta on the lake .--- Republican State Convention held in the City Hall, September 96; Senator Conkling attackedl George William Curtis. - Rua on the Rochester Saviox's Bank stopped by a display of over a million dollars in greenbacks .---- The Water Works Department first used the telephone from this city to Hemlock Leke (twenty-eight miles), being the longest line then in use in the world .--- Ebenezer (Dutch Reformed) Church founded .-- Rochester Art (lub organized. --- Jewish Orphan Asylum Society organized .- -- First Rochester lodge of the A. O. U. W. established. ----. Deaths: Rev. Dr. R. J. W. Buckland, RAv. S. F .... mous Brown. Sanmel Chase wpioneer, Mrs. Mary Anderson (pioneer), Augustin Picord taged 100 yearst, ex.Judge Harvey Humphrey. General William E. Lathrop, ex-Mayor John B. Elwood. Colonel C. T. Amsden, George W. Rawson WJustice of the Supreme Court, and Rev. Dr. J. V Van Ingvil. 1;S-The last rad of the State Line ritirovt lail January 2s .--- Fall of a building on Exchange street; Col. M. H. Smith terribly, but not fatilly
burned .- Twenty-four prisoners broke out through the wall of the jail, October 1th .--- German Evau. gelieal Entbern Church founded .--- Commercial National Bank incorporated. - Lincoln Club or- ganized. ---- Piremen's monument in Mount Hope dedicated .----- First Rochester lodge of the Knights of Honor established .---- Deaths: Dr. H. W. bean. Rev. John Barker. B. N. Poell, Charis P A. Abelard Reynolds first Postmaster and original owner of Reynolds' Areader, and George J. Whit- Hey .---- Severe snow storms blocked the railroads during the last week of the year. .
IST-The great snow blockade continued until January 10th: many trains ran off the track and a number of employes were killed; people frozen to death in snow drifts in the country .---- Convention of National Association of Stovemakers held here. ----- Failure of Stettheimer, Tone & Co.'s bank Feb. 13. ---- Rochester Microscopical Society organized after- wards became the Academy of Natural Sciences) ---- Celebration of the Maennerchor's twenty fifth. anniversary. -- The Elwood block erected .-- Rochester Telephone Exchange established: E. Demmangh sent the first message .--- Rochester and Lake Ontario railroad completed. - St. An- drews. Episcopal Church and Beth Israel Syna- gogule founded .-- Fire and .Water Works Board created .--- Rochester Opera CInb organized; R. H. Lansing, director; J. M. Angle, stage manager. ----- Rochester Morning Herald established. - Rochester Gua Chib organized .-- Deaths: Dr. Jonah Brown (pioneer, first physician in the settle- menti, ex-Mayor Joseph Field. Dr. W. W. Fly, Ezra Jones, and Colonel A. T. Lee.
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