<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Peter Warwick sent the following
update. (Items not in the chronologies are just "friends I haven't met
yet". I'm always glad to learn of omissions and errors. The timelines
are "works in progress" and constantly updated.) Thanks Peter.
"You forgot the launch of the Vandalia. The Vandalia, launched in the
fall of 1841 (date unknown) at Oswego, was the first American vessel to
sail on the Great Lakes using John Ericsson's propeller. On November
20, 1841 the Vandalia left Oswego on its maiden voyage to Hamilton,
Ontario, stopping off at Port Dalhousie (now part of St.Catharines) on
November 23 and sailing through the First Welland Canal as far as
St.Catharines. The Vandalia was originally intended to be a schooner of
Welland Canal dimensions. See "The Vandalia And Her Line Mates: Trend
Setters" by Richard F. Palmer, Fresh Water: A Journal Of Great Lakes
Marine History, Volume 3, Number 2, Winter, 1988, pages 14-20.=20
"It was not, as has often be claimed, the first propeller driven ship
to sail on the Great Lakes. That honor goes to, appropriately enough,
the Ericsson, built in 1840 at Brockville, Ontario, and made its first
voyage to Kingston, on Lake Ontario, on or about June 21, 1841."
Peter D.A. Warwick
St.Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Bike Through The Garden Of Canada
pwarwick@freenet.npiec.on.ca
writer/researcher
Now, on with the show.
<bold>1845</bold>
Jan 29 =09
Edgar Allan Poe's <italic>The Raven </italic>appears in the New York
<italic>Evening Mirror</italic>.=20
=46ebruary=09
New York State pioneer Moses Van Campen is stricken with paralysis.
Apr 2 =09
The showboat <italic>Temple of the Muses</italic> debuts in New York
City's North River.
July =09
A fire destroys twenty shops on Rochester's Front and Works streets.
Volunteer firemen save the Reynolds Arcade and the steeple of St.
Paul's Church.
Jul 16 =09
AT&T president Theodore Newton Vail is born in Morristown, New Jersey.
September=09
American Temperance Union lecturer John Bartholomew Gough goes to New
York City to give a series of lectures. He disappears and is found
seven days later, drunk in a "house of ill repute" on Walker Street. He
claims he was kidnapped and drugged, and is believed.
Sep 20 =09
A tornado sweeps across northern New York State. There are no
casualties.
Dec 9 =09
Sophia Beatty Rochester, widow of Rochester founder Colonel Nathaniel
Rochester, dies at the age of 77.
Dec 13 =09
Editor-critic Hamilton Wright Mabie is born in Cold Spring.
City=20
=46ort Schuyler, on Throgg's Neck overlooking Long Island Sound is
completed, named for American Revolution general Philip Schuyler. **
James Wrigley bcomes a publisher. ** George Templeton Strong
becomes a partner in his father George Washington Strong's law firm. =20
** Sugar dealer William F. Havemeyer defeats Native Party mayor
James Harper and Whig Dudley Selden to become the Democratis Party
mayor for the next year. ** The <italic>Rainbow</italic>, the
first clipper, is launched by John W. Griffiths. ** The law firm
of Howland & Aspinwall sues the Federal government for the restoration
of 15 tons of rum seized by Customs for having been imported in small
casks.
State
The state legislature authorizes Utica entrepreneur Edward Brodhead to
construct a log aqueduct to bring water to the city, but the system is
never built. ** Construction begins on the Albany County
Penitentiary. ** Congressman Zadock Pratt hires an itinerant
stonecutter to carve a bust of him on a bolder near his village,
Prattsville. ** The state now has 661 miles of railroad track. =20
** Captain Harry Whitaker navigates the steamboat <italic>United
States </italic>between Buffalo and Detroit, Michigan, for the entire
winter, the first boat to do so. ** The population of Genesee
County reaches 28,845.=20
Rochester
Mason Street is renamed Front Street. ** Susan B. Anthony
arrives, to teach school.
Syracuse
Alexander Jackson Davis' Charles B. Sedgwick house is completed.
<bold>1846</bold>
=46eb 4 =09
A Mormon party under Samuel Brannan leaves New York City by the ship
<italic>Brooklyn</italic> for Yerba Buena (San Francisco).
Mar 20 =09
Herman Melville's <italic>Typee </italic>is published in New York
City.
April =09
The Albany County Penitentiary begins receiving prisoners.
Apr 24 =09
Edwin T. Christy's "Ethiopian Minstrels" open at New York City's
Palmo's Opera House.
Jun 19 =09
The first recorded baseball game in history is played, between the
Knickerbockers and the New York Nine, at Hoboken. New Jersey. The Nine
wins, 23-1. Umpire Alexander Cartwright fines one player 6=A2 for
cursing.
Sep 26 =09
Colonel Stevenson and his volunteer settlers sail from New York for
California.
City
The city charter is revised. ** Richard Upjohn's new Trinity
Church is erected at Broadway and Wall Street. ** Tobacco tycoon
Andrew F. Mickle, running on the Democratic ticket, defeats Whig Robert
Taylor and Native Party candidate William B. Cozzens for the office of
mayor. ** The city's jurisdiction over underwater lands is
extended. ** William Kirkland, editor of the <italic>New York
Evening Mirror</italic> and his own <italic>The Christian
Inguirer</italic>, near sighted and deaf, accidentally walks off a pier
and drowns.
State
Riga Academy is founded. ** A press festival of printers and
newspapermen is held. ** J. K. Richardson is elected surrogate
judge of Seneca County. ** Portions of Allegany County become
part of Wyoming and Livingston counties. ** Horace E. Purdy
begins publishing Oramel's <italic>Republican Era</italic>. ** Dr.
Ebenezer Emmons begins publishing the report of the New York State
Agricultural Department. ** Millard Fillmore becomes the first
chancellor of the University of Buffalo. ** George Brinton
McClellan graduates from West Point. ** George Westinghouse, Jr.
is born in Central Bridge.
Rochester
Vessel tonnage operating out of Rochester reaches 3,074 tons. ** =20
Congress Hall opens on Mill Street. ** A Liberty Pole is erected
on East Main Street.
<bold>1847
</bold>
Jan 18 =09
Rochester newspapermen celebrate the 141st anniversary of Benjamin
=46ranklin's birth by holding a banquet and collecting reminiscences of
printing in New York State, to be published in pamphlet form.
May 1 =09
Herman Melville's <italic>Omoo </italic>is published, in New York
City.
Jun 27 =09
New York City and Boston are linked by telegraph.
Jul 1 =09
The first U. S. adhesive postage stamps are sold, in New York City.
November=09
The Liberty Party meets in New York City, nominate New Hampshire's John
P. Hale and Ohio's Leicester King.
Nov 11 =09
The steamer <italic>Phoenix</italic>, loaded with Dutch immigrants,
leaves Buffalo onto Lake Erie. =20
Nov 20 =09
The <italic>Phoenix</italic> leaves Manitowac, Wisconsin.
Nov 21 =09
The <italic>Phoenix</italic> burns; 207 immigrants die.
Dec 14 =09
New York senator D. S. Dickinson introduces resolutions relegating
slavery in the territories to the legislatures concerned (popular
sovereignty. The resolutions are affirmed.
City
The approximate date Frederick Newbold Lawrence builds a mansion in
Queens' future Oakland Gardens, nanmes it the Oaks. ** Whig
fiscal conservative William V. Brady defeats Democrat J. Sherman
Brownell and Native Party candidate E. G. Drake to become mayor,
serving a one year term. ** John Larkin founds Xavier High
School, a Jesuit school for boys, in Holy Name Church, at the
intersection of Elizabeth and Walker streets. ** Caroline Matilda
Stansbury Kirkland, William Kirkland's widow, becomes editor of
<italic>The Union Magazine </italic> ** Violinist Camillo
Sivori performs. ** The Fall River Line of steamboats goes into
business, running Long Island Sound routes between the city and Fall
River, Massachusetts.
State
Syracuse is incoporated as a city. ** Perfectionist John Humphery
Noyes visits his disciple Jonathan Burt's colony at Oneida Creek. Noyes
gets the idea for his own utopian colony ** Subscribers raise less
than $38,000 for the Utica Water Works Company, only about half of the
required amount. Engineer Thomas Hopper raises the rest.
<bold>1848</bold>
January =09
New York City's Holy Name Church is destroyed by fire. Xavier High
School, located in the building, moves to quarters in St. James
Church.
April =09
The Lake Ontario steamer <italic>Niagara</italic> is nearly wrecked.
June<bold> =09
</bold>A new <italic>Ontario</italic> steamboat is launched.
Jun 2 =09
The Liberty League convenes in Rochester, nominates the New York's
Gerrit Smith and Michigan's Charles E. Foote.
Jun 9 =09
The Whigs nominate Zachary Taylor and New York's Millard Fillmore.
Jun 22 =09
The Barnburners, a group of radical Democrats in New York state, meet
at Baltimore and nominate Martin Van Buren and Wisconsin's Henry
Dodge.
Jul 19 =09
The first Women's Rights convention in America is held in Seneca Falls,
chaired by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Abolitionist
=46rederick Douglass attends.
Jul 28 =09
Douglass writes approvingly of the Seneca Falls women's suffrage
convention, in his Rochester <italic>North Star</italic>.
Aug 9 =09
The Free Soil Party meets in Buffalo, nominates Martin Van Buren and
Massachusetts' Charles Francis Adams, on the platform "Free soil, free
speech , free labor and free men."
Aug 19 =09
New York's <italic>Herald</italic> is the first eastern paper to report
the discovery of gold in California.
Sep 22 =09
Circus impresario Sig Sautelle is born in Luzerne, New York.
October =09
Berith (later B'rith) Kodesh, Rochester's first synagogue, is built.
Nov 7 =09
Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore are elected President and
Vice-President of the United States.
Dec 16 =09
A fire destroys New York City's Park Theatre.
Dec 24 =09
Noyes and his disciples move in to the new community room at the Oneida
Perfectionist colony.
Dec 25 =09
Alexandre Dumas' play <italic>Monte Cristo</italic> opens at New York
City's Broadway Theatre.
City
Alexander T. Steward founds the first department store, on Broadway. =20
** City University is founded. ** Former Democratic mayor
William F. Havemeyer is elected once again, defeating Whig mayor
William V. Brady by 928 votes, out of 46,280. ** High Bridge over
the Harlem River is completed. ** New York and Chicago are linked
by telegraph. ** The Public School Society begins evening
schools. ** A group of city newspapers organize the Associated
Press.
State
The city of Auburn is incorporated. ** The Utica Water Works
Company begins operations, with engineer Thomas Hopper as president (he
raised half the money). ** The Rochester & Tonawanda and the
Auburn & Rochester railroads replace their unsafe strip rails with the
new T-bar rails. Rochester & Tonawanda profits reach $57,000 while the
Auburn & Rochester makes $96,000, both railroads paying dividends of 8%
to stockholders. ** Perfectionistslead by John Humphrey Noyes
establish a socialist community atOneida. He publishes his pamphlet
<italic>Bible Communism</italic>. ** The location of the Seneca
County Agricultural Fair begins settling in the town that raises the
most money, finally settles in Waterloo in 1870. ** <italic>The
Political Investigator</italic>, a monthly newspaper, begins
publication at Angelica, runs for a short time. ** The New York &
Hudson River Railroad is extended to Fishkill. ** Mrs. W. G.
Bryan opens a music school for young ladies in Batavia's Ellicott
Mansion. ** The railroad reaches Whitehall. ** The village
of Corning, with a population of about 850, is incorporated. ** =20
Syracuse architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee is born. ** Chester A.
Arthur graduates from Schenectady's Union College. ** =20
Canajoharie school teacher Susan B. Anthony reads about the recent
Seneca Falls convention.
Albany
Dr. Amos Pillsbury assumes the directorship of the Albany County
Penitentiary. ** The Shaker meeting house at Watervliet is
built.
Rochester
William A. Reynolds hires Burlington, Vermont, architect Henry Searle
to design a meeting place across Works Street from his arcade, for
gatherings of the Athenaeum & Mechanics Association. Columns on the
front of the building will give it its name - Corinthian Hall. ** =20
The Rochester Gas Company is chartered. ** Enos Stone erects a
building on South St. Paul Street ** Captain Robert Harding's
Victorian Gothic mansion is built, on Brooks Avenue. ** The
second Women's Rights Convention is held, passes a resolution to have
the word "obey" struck from the marriage vows.
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David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
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