<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1825
Jan 3
Troy, New York's Rensselaer School of Theoretical and Practical Science
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; RPI) opens.
Jan 19
Thomas Kensett takes out a U. S. patent in New York City for a tin
can.
March
Sir John Franklin reaches New York and departs to travel overland to
the Mackenzie RIver and Great Bear Lake.
Apr 9
New York State authorizes $2000 annually for the New York House of
Refuge.
May
Batavia newspaper owner Oran Follett moves to Buffalo, leaving his
younger brother Frederick as publisher of the <italic>Spirit of the
Times</italic>. ** Bricklayer William Morgan is made a Royal
Arch Mason, in Le Roy.
May 25
The steamboat <italic>Washington</italic> makes its inaugural New York
City-to-Stonington, Connecticut,run, with E. S. Bunker as captain.
June
The Marquis de Lafayette visits Geneva.
Jul 4
Construction begins on Connecticut's Farmington Canal, from
Massachusetts to Long Island Sound, along the Connecticut River.
Jul 6
Governor De Witt Clinton breaks ground for the Miami and Erie Canal.
Jul 13
Construction on the Delaware and Hudson Canal begins, at Wurtsboro.
Oct 10
Geneva lawyer Charles Butler marries Eliza A. Ogden of Walton. They
will buy water lot 21 this year.
Oct 15
De Witt Clinton's party leaves Albany on the Erie Canal.
Oct 25
Clinton's party arrives in Buffalo. ** The first Erie Canal boats
leave Buffalo - destination New York City.
Oct 26
Clinton officially opens the Erie Canal.
Nov 4
The Clinton flotilla reaches New York City. ** Dissatisfied
members of the Academy of Arts found the New York Drawing Association.
City
Lorenzo Delmonico begins his career as a restaurateur. ** The
House of Refuge is founded as a reformatory for juveniles.x **
Gioacchino Rossini's opera <italic>The Barber of Seville </italic>opens
at the Park Theater. ** Bookbinder Christian Brown opens a store
at 211 Water Street. ** Mayor Philip Hone buys two of Thomas
Cole's Hudson River landscapes for his collection. Asher Brown Durand
and Cole form the beginning of the Hudson River School of painting.
** State adjutant general William Paulding, Jr. Is elected mayor for
the next year. ** 52 Norwegian Quakers arrive aboard the ship
<italic>Restoration</italic>. ** William Cullen Bryant drops the
practice of law to became coeditor of the <italic>New York
Review</italic>. ** James Cooper publishes <italic>Lionel
Lincoln</italic>. It is a commercial failure. He forms a friendship
with artist Samuel F. B. Morse.
State
Gypsum is discovered in Oakfield. ** Two entrepreneurs buy the
remains of Silver Creek's giant tree, take it on a tour via the Erie
Canal. ** Proprietors of the settlement of Dunkirk sell half
their interest to Fredonia entrepreneur Walter Smith ** Syracuse
pioneer Ephraim Webster dies in Tuscarora at the age of 72. **
TheSeneca Lock Navigation Company petitions the state legislature to
purchase the canal. The state will do so. ** The village of
Syracuse is incorporated. ** Black Rock's 6500-foot-long Bird
Island Pier into the Niagara River is completed. ** Lafayette
visits Albany. He has his portrait painted; it will hang in the
Executive Chamber of the State House. ** Rensselaerville's Wands
house is built. ** Brockport novelist Mary Jane Holmes is born in
Massachusetts. ** The <italic>Enterprise</italic> becomes the
first steamboat launched in the Finger Lakes. ** Le Roy's Eagle
Hotel opens. ** Population: Buffalo - c. 2300; Batavia - 3,352;
Rochester - c. 5000. ** Mormonism founder Joseph Smith goes to
work for Joseph Stoal in Chenango County, soon goes toHarmony,
Pennsylvania, with him to seek silver.
Erie Canal
John Rutherford's <italic>Facts and observations in relation to the
origin and completion of the Erie canal</italic>, is published by N. B.
Holmes in New York City.
Geneva
A Federal-style home is built at 543 South Main Street in Geneva. **
Pultney Park, the town square, is conveyed to the village.
Rochester
The Marquis de Lafayette visits the city and is entertained at the
Mansion House (Christopher's Tavern). ** Construction begins on a
house for hardware merchant Ebenezer Watts. ** Elisha Johnson,
Josiah Bissell and others found the Rochester Canal and Railway
Company. ** William Fitzhugh and Charles Carroll file a quit
claim for Mason (Front) Street, with lawyer John Mastick, to facilitate
the construction of a retaining wall along the Genesee River. The
street is moved to the west.
1826
Feb 5
Buffalo area lawyer Millard Fillmore marries Abigail Powers.
Feb 26
<italic>New Yorker Staats-Zeitung</italic> publisher Oswald Ottendorfer
is born in Moravia.
Mar 14
The U. S. agrees, after much controversy, to send two delegates to a
congress of the new Latin American republics, to be held in Panama,
Colombia. One is New York State judge William B. Rochester.
May
James Cooper is awarded a silver medal from the Corporation of the City
of New York.
May 14
Eaton's RPI expedition reaches Rochester.
June
Simon Bolivar convenes an inter-American congress in Panama. One U. S.
delegate dies en route and the other, William B. Rochester, arrives
after it's ended. ** James Fenimore Cooper and his family sail
for Europe, where he will remain for the next seven years.
July
A gathering of Scots clans is held in Caledonia.
Jul 10
Anti-Constitutionalist Luther Martin dies in New York City at the age
of 78.
Aug 19
Joseph Ellicott, former Resident-Agent for western New York's Holland
Land Office, despondent and ill, takes his own life, at Bellevue
Hospital in New York City, at the age of 65.
Sep 10
William Morgan is arrested in Batavia to protect him from a Freemason
mob accusing him of revealing Masonic secrets.
Sep 12
Morgan is taken from jail in Canandaigua, vanishes.
City
The opera company of tenor Manuel del Popolo Vincente Garcia brings
Italian opera to the city, performing at the Park Theater. ** The
National Academy of Design opens, with Samuel F. B. Morse as its first
president. The U. S. buys land on the Throgg's Neck area overlooking
Long Island Sound from William Bayard, for future fortifications. **
Assistant Alderman Philip Hone is elected mayor for the next year.
** The city is granted control over underwater lands as far north as
Spuyten Duyvil Creek and the Harlem River. ** Author James Cooper
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He's given a farewell dinner by New York's Bread and Cheese Club. **
William Cullen Bryant becomes editor of the New York <italic>Evening
Post</italic>.
State
De Witt Clinton is returned to the governorship, defeating
Dewmocratcandidate William B. Rochester.
Saratoga Springs isincorporated. ** Caledonia's first post
office, bank and apothecary shop is built. It will later house the
public library. ** Rensselaerian School (Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute) professor Amos Eaton leads a geological expedition through
the western part of the state aboard the canal boat
<italic>LaFayette</italic>. They name the town of Gasport when they
discover coal gas from a spring.] ** Stephen Van Rensselaer and
other investors buy out the Cohoes Manufacturing Company and form the
Cohoes Company. ** E. M. Perkins begins publishing the Le Roy
<italic>News-Gazette</italic>. ** U. S. Secret Service founder
Lafayette C. Baker is born in Stafford.
Rochester
Monroe County's almshouse is built on South Avenue.
1827
Jan 18
Mormonism founder Joseph Smith marries Emma Hale in South Bainbridge.
Feb 7
Madame Francisquay Hutin introduces toe dancing during her ballet debut
at New York City's Bowery Theater. Many are shocked at the amount of
calf displayed.
Mar 16
John Russworm and Samuel Cornish publish <italic>Freedom's
Journal</italic>, the first black newspaper, in New York City.
Jul 4
New York State officially abolishes slavery. 10,000 slaves are freed.
Sep 8
The <italic>Michigan</italic>, with live animals aboard, is sent over
Niagara Falls as a stunt.
Sep 22
The date that Joseph Smith says the Book of Mormon was shown to him by
an angel near Palmyra.
December
New York City lawyer and social arbiter Samuel Ward McAllister is born
in Savannah, Georgia.
City
Gas lights are installed on Broadway, between City Hall and Whitehall
Street. ** Former mayor William Paulding is re-elected, serves
two more one-year terms. ** A company is formed to build a canal
across the northern end of Manhattan, but the plan will be abandoned.
State
The slave Isabella Van Wagener is freed by the state's Emancipation
Act. She will take the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. ** Archibald
McIntyre, David Henderson, Duncan McMartin and others discover the
largest deposit of iron ore on the known continent, in the Adirondacks,
purchase the land for an iron works. ** A tavern is built in
Caledonia. ** The Angelica <italic>Republican</italic> is revived
as the Allegany <italic>Republican</italic>, with Samuel P. Hull as its
publisher. ** W. W. Phelps begins publishing the Anti-masonic
Canandaigua <italic>Phoenix</italic>. R. Royce soon buys it and changes
the name to the <italic>Freeman</italic>. ** Marine and
missionary Jonathan Goble is born in Wayne. ** Troy mayor and
businessman Richard Hart has a Federal-style mansion built (later the
Hart-Cluett Mansion, after that, home to the Rensselaer County
Historical Society). ** Jeffersonian homes are built at 584 and
574 South Main Street in Geneva. ** Leonidas Lafayette Polk
graduates from West Point.
Albany
While drilling for water for a brewery on Ferry Street, a mineral
spring is discovered.
Le Roy
Pioneer Charles Wilbor moves to Milan, Ohio. ** The first state
convention of the Anti Masonic Party meets.
Rochester
The population nears 10,000. ** A platform is built over the
Genesee River to provide space for a farmer's market. ** The house
of hardware merchant Ebenezer Watts is completed. ** Alexander
Street and Pennsylvania Street (South Union Street) are completed
betweenthe Erie Canal and East Avenue.
1828
Feb 7
Civil War officer Ely Parker, author of the terms of surrender at
Appomattox, is born on the Tonawanda Reservation in Indian Falls.
Feb 11
Governor De Witt Clinton dies of a heart attack, in Albany.
Apr 9
The Albany Female Seminary is incorporated.
May 19
William Ladd founds the American Peace Society, in New York City.
Oct 16
The packet <italic>Orange</italic> leaves Kingston - the first boat on
the Delaware and Hudson Canal.
Oct 18
The <italic>Orange </italic> arrives at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, to
begin the transportation of coal from Pennsylvania fields to Eastern
industrial cities.
Dec 10
The first shipment of Pennsylvania anthracite from the Delaware and
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City
All of the existing Broadway is lit by gaslights. ** The New York
Drawing Association is renamed the National Academy of Design. **
Long Island Quaker Elias Hicks forms a conservative faction separate
from the more unorthodox New York City Quakers (closder to traditional
Christianity). His followers become known as Hicksites. ** The
city's statutes are revised. ** The city's jurisdiction over
underwater lands is extended.
State
Future philanthropist Ezra Cornell moves from the Bronx to Ithaca.
** The first printing press in Wyoming County. ** The Rogers
brothers launch their first schooner, the <italic>Jeanette</italic>, on
the lower Genesee River. ** James D. Bemis sells the
<italic>Western Repository and Genesee Advertiser</italic> to Morse and
Harocy. ** Hamilton College tutor William Kirkland marries writer
Caroline Stansbury and they move to Geneva to found the Domestic
School. ** The Cayuga and Seneca Canal is completed, linking
Seneca and Cauga lakes to the Erie Canal. ** Buffalo area lawyer
Millard Fillmore is elected to the state legislature. **
Kingston's Rondout district is created by the directors of the
Delaware & Hudson Canal as the eastern terminus of their canal. **
Jefferson Davis enters West Point Military Academy.
Theater
New York comic actor Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice introduces his new
character Jim Crow in Louisville, Kentucky. He performs in blackface
and calls the entertainment a minstrel show.
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David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
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