ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and thanks are tendered, with due appreciation, to those friends who have kindly contributed toward making this book of interest and worth to those to whom it is specially dedicated:
To Miss CARRIE M. HILLS , for her finely written article on "The Glimmerglass," much assistance in collating and preparing for the press data embraced in "The Chronicles" from 1838 to 1886, and proof-reading. To Mr. G. POMEROY KEESE , for his valuable article on local "Meteorology," and the statistics accompanying it relating to the ice leaving the Lake; an article on "The Cooper Monument," etc. To Miss SUSAN FENIMORE-COOPER , for her interesting articles on "The Thanksgiving Hospital" and "The Orphan House of the Holy Saviour." To Mr. ELIHU PHINNEY , for his article and valuable statistics on "Fish and Fishing in Otsego Lake." To Dr. JOHN K. LEANING , for his brief sketch of Fly Creek and its early settlers. To Mr. ISAAC K. WILLIAMS , for his chapter on Pierstown history, of special interest to the families who were the principal early settlers of that neighborhood and their now widely-scattered descendants. He has collated and put on record facts which might otherwise have been lost to the next generation. The Essay of the late Hon. ISAAC N. ARNOLD on Mr. Cooper, is the tribute not only of a warm personal friend and admirer, but is the most discriminating and just, and one of the best written panegyrics on the great Novelist and Naval Historian, which has ever been published. Mr. Arnold wielded a polished and scholarly pen. We also give an extract of local interest from an address which he made in Cooperstown a few years before his death. THE CHRONICLES OF COOPERSTOWN James Fenimore Cooper (1838)
THE CHRONICLES OF COOPERSTOWN, Continued
Sections: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y.
Abbe de Raffcourt,
23
Academy, subscription,
29
Acknowledgment to contributors,
237
Agricultural Society of Co,
73 , 231
Aqueduct Association,
108, 153
Arnold, Isaac N., address,
167
Arnold, Isaac N., tribute to Cooper,
192 – 206
Averell, William H.
161
Ballard House,
103
Bank of Cooperstown,
71
Bank Robbery,
68
Bank incorporated,
50
Banks in Cooperstown
152
Baptist Church,
91, 120
Barber, Andrew M.
72 , 162
Bible Society,
231
Boucks visit, Gov.
61
Bowen, Samuel A.
121, 162
Bowers, Henry and John M.
41
Bowers, John M.
163
Bowers, Martha S.
162
Bowers, Mrs.
7
Bowers’ Patent,
6
Bowerstown,
7
Bowne, George L.
78 , 161
Bowne, Samuel S.
163
Carter, Mrs. Jane R.
109
Catholic Church,
86, 87
Centennial Year,
103
Central Hotel,
121
Christ Church,
123
Churches in Cooperstown,
143-146
Churches, early established,
36-39
Civil War, meetings,
78, 82, 84
Clark, Edward
73, 118, 161
Clarke, Alfred
163
Clarke, Thomas
162
Cooper House, hotel,
93, 106
Cooper Monument,
75, 208
Cooper, Miss Anna
37
Cooper, personal recollections of
206
Cooper’s libel suits,
64
Cooperst'n facts and incidents,
164-167
Cooperst'n walks, drives and sails near,
170
Cooperstown in 1838,
54
Cooperstown RR. Co.,
153
Corporation of Cooperstown,
141
Cory, Ellery
160
County Buildings,
100, 107
Court House, laying the Corner Stone,
109
Court House,
43
Court House built,
63
Crippen, Mrs, Schuyler
162
Chronicles of Cooperstown, Cooper,
9-61
Chronicles of Cooperstown, S. M. Shaw,
62 - 129
Clinton’s Campaign,
8, 14
Cooper. William,
12 , 170
Cooper. William, death of
42
Cooper’s Patent,
14
Cooperstown, first settlement,
19, 20
Cooperstown, first buildings,
21, 22
Cooperstown, first store,
23
Cooperstown, first child born,
25
Cooperstown, first minister,
29
Cooperstown, first M. C. elected,
31
Croghan, Col. George
11
Death of Old Residents,
173-177
Dedication,
3
Distinguished Visitors,
84
Dix, John A.
52
Early Society of Cooperstown,
167
Earthquakes,
88, 105, 125
Edwards, Edward
100
Empire House,
68, 73, 90
Ernst, Rev. John F.
37
Facts of Interest,
164 – 167
Fire Department,
151
Fire Engines first obtained,
44
Fires,
46, 49, 66, 78, 106, 108, 125
Fish & Fishing in Otsego Lake,
165 – 191
Fly Creek,
212
Fowler, Dr. E. P.
120, 122
Freeman’s Journal,
102, 108
Garfield, President,
117
Gas Light for Streets,
78
Glimmerglass,
130
Grant, Gen U. S.
126
Gregory, Kate Worthington
168
"Hall, The" built,
33, 52
"Hall, The" changed to hotel & burned,
70
Harris, E. M., appointed Co Judge,
83
Hausman, Esaias
41
Hop Growers’ Association,
65
Hotel Fenimore,
102, 121
Hotels, early established,
48, 49
Kingfisher Tower,
104
Keese, Theodore
160
Lake Navigation,
74, 93
Lake Otsego,
55
Lakelands, sale of
119
Lakewood Cemetery,
73, 126
Lathrop, Horace
160
Lawyers,the first,
48
Le Quoy de Mersereau,
27
Lee, Frederick A.
121, 161
Library first opened,
34
Lincoln, President
85
Literary Society,
151
Manufactories,
59
Marcy, Gov. Wm. L.
69
Masonic Hall,
42 127
McIntosh, Thos.
162
Medical Society,
232
Members of Congress,
48
Memorial Day,
125
Meteorology, local,
137-180
Methodist Church.
103
Military Companies,
45
Morehouse, E. B.,
68
Morehouse, Mrs. E. B.
162
Musical Convention,
72
Newspapers,
44, 59, 149
Nelson, Judge Samuel
52, 93, 99, 159
Oldest residents,
51, 157-159
Orphan House,
117, 118, 123
Otsego Co. Bible Society,
84
Otsego Lake and Vicinity.
6-8
Otsego Lake Building Association,
89
Otsego Republican,
73, 102, 122
Otsego, County of
224-238
Otsego, Town of,
212
Phinney, Elihu, Sen.,
159
Phinney, Elihu,
31
Phinney. Henry F.
90, 91, 160
Pierstown,
214-223
Pioneer Boat Club,
86
Pioneer Mills,
106
Points of interest near Cooperstown,
170
Pomeroy, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
160
Population of Cooperstown 1812,
44
Population of Cooperstown 1820-35,
49
Preface,
5
Prentiss, Col. John H.
77, 160
Printing house destroyed by fire,
66
Printing house of H. & E. Phinney,
59
Professional and Business Men
154-157
Roads first built,
32
Railroad projected in 1839,
62
Railroad Matters,
70, 83, 89, 91, 102
Schools, public and private,
147
Scott, Henry
161
Secret Societies,
150
Seminary, The
70, 85, 87
Seward’s first visit, Gov.
63
Sewerage System,
118, 120
Seymour, Gov.
88
Sheriff’s Residence built,
63
Sill, Jedediah P.
161
Skating Rink,
122
Smith, Dr. Thomas
162
Snow Storm in April,
74
Society in Cooperstown,
57
Spafard, Dr. Ariel
163
Steamers on Lake,
90
Story, Joshua H.
161
Sturges, H.
103, 109, 123,162
Sunday School Association,
232
Telegraph Line,
69
Telephone Syslem,
119, 153
Temperance movement,
64, 65
Thanksgiving Hospital,
86, 87, 91, 180
Thanksgiving Sermon first preached,
32
Trials for Life,
232
Union School,
88, 91, 147
Village Trustees elected,
43
Van Buren’s first visit, President
63
Washington, Gen,
7, 12
Water Supply,
65
Weed, Thurlow
92
Whipping Post,
31
Williams, Isaac K.
164
Williams, Isaac, Jr.
163
Wilson, William
162
Wilson, Mrs.
7
Wood, Mrs. Levi
163
Worthington Bank,
72, 92
Worthington, John H
160
Young Men’s Association
86
