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Comprehensive histories of the county and Town of Cortlandt
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| J. Thomas Scharf (1886) | 916 | 173,521 | Original → |
| Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) | 572 | 106,421 | Original → |
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 401 building, forty by ninety feet, was erected for their accommodation. The children in the Home in 1884 numbered over four hundred. The buildings are situated in a tract of about fourteen acres. The property is valued at o…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The fire which melted the iron was brought to the proper degreeof heat
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] plates and old plow castings instead. The cupola which he used to contain the melted iron could be carried around by two men, and the melted fluid was poured from it into the moulds over a lip shaped like that of a pitcher. …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Up to this time the firm had devoted their attention to the manufacture of plowshares and other agri-cultural implements, but through Mr. Finch's influ-ence they now began the manufacture of stoves also. In 1837 Bernard Wile…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Nathan L. Finch, his brother, secretary; and Peter B. Acker, son-in-law of Reuben R. Finch, treasurer. On the death of Nathan L. Finch, in 1869, Mr. Acker became both secretary and treasurer, and no further change in the com…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] eighty-six years. Reuben Finch, his only child was born in Stan-wich, Fairfield County, Conn., July 19, 1773. He married Abigail Reynolds, who was born in Stanwich, November 13, 1774, and died June 6, 1861. They were married…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] This firm was dissolved, and he and his part-ner, Elihu E. Raker, continued the business, the firm being R. R. Finch & Co., and opened a salesroom in New York. Subsequently he admitted to partnership his son, Edward B. Finch…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] whole interest in the lusiness, upon the retirement of Mr. Finch, in 1802, had it incorporated under the name of the " Union Stove Works." This name was given to the business by Edward B. Finch and Joel W. Frost when they we…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The extensive buildings of the " Union Stove Works " are among the first objects that meet the eye of a traveler as he lands in the village, and their productions are sent to all parts of the world. At the time of his death …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 403 afterwards occupied by Niles Frost, Jr., in the manu-facture of stove brick, and was then torn down to make way for the foundry of the Mutual Stove Com-pany. In 1841 Thomas Southard, a former furniture dealer and cabinet…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] succeeded Mr. Brown, and Watson Sanford succeeded Mr. De La Montanya. After a number of changes a stock company, known as " The National Stove Company," was organized in 1865 to run the works, with Watson Sanford as presiden…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Baxter as superintendent. Their works were located on the upper dock. After some years opera-tion this company failed. In 1881 Fly & Ramsay, a firm established in Troy in 1868, took the works, and continue the manufacture of…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] ent occupied by the National Stove Company, a New York City concern, with J. B. Thomas, president. They have the plant of the old "National Stove Com-pany." The number of men employed averages fifty. The firm of Finch & Co.,…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Brown then formed a stock company to operate the plow works, which was called the Peekskill Plow Company. About 1870 the company moved their establishment to Newark, N. J„ inflict-ing thereby a severe blow to Peekskill's pro…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] They employed from three hundred to three hundred and fifty hands, and their weekly pay-roll amounted to about three thousand dollars. These mills were burned on the 25th of August, 1883, with a loss of $180,000, upon which …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] became the owner, and in 1 x< 1 7 Stephen 1). Horton and William Mabie succeeded him under the firm name of Horton & Mabie. They are the present proprietors. Their manufactures include all shapes of fire-bricks, stove and ra…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] His son, Stephen D., obtained his early education at the well-known Peekskill Acad-emy, and at the age of fifteen commenced business in the foundry of the plough manufactory in which his father was a partner. When he reached…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He is a trustee of the Cortlandt Cemetery Association, and one of the stock-holders of the Westchester County National Hank, of which his father was one of the original founders. He is a member of St. Paul's Methodist Episco…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] proprietor in 1882. It affords employment to about twenty persons, mostly women, at the building, and a considerable number outside. R. H. Macy & Co., of New York, manufacture ladies' underwear in the portion of the building…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Erom 1863 to 1868 he was superintendent ' and manager of the Cincinnati Elevator Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1868 he returned to Peekskill, and succeeded Charles H. Frost in the foundry busi-ness, and has ever since bee…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Paul's Meth-odist Episcopal Church, and from thence onward he has been one of its leading members, and unsparing both of his labor and his means to advance its welfare and increase its usefulness. For nine years he has been …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Louis; Frederick, now living with his par-ents on the Van Cortlandt homestead; Augusta, wife of Arthur Morse, deceased; Albert, who died in New Orleans in 1868; and George W., who mar-ried Ella, daughter of Marine Ruffher, o…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Before the construction of the rail-roads Peekskill was the depot from which Westches-ter County for miles around, from a large portion of Putnam County, and even from Connecticut, shipped their produce to New York City. App…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] building of the Harlem and the Hudson Biver Rail-roads, and the adoption of quicker methods of river travel, were a death blow to the traffic of these sloops. The early days on the river, when it furnished al-most the only a…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] June 6, 1831, the "General Jackson," plying be-tween Peekskill and New York, exploded on her down trip off Grassy Point, and all the front portion of the cabin v.'as torn away. Three persons were killed out-right,— the firem…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In the year 1S4"> a bridge was built by Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt across the wide estuary of Annsville Creek, a short distance east of the present CORTL railroad bridge. A dock and hotel were also built by him at Roa Hook…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He is also interested in the Broadway Insurance Company, and is one of its present directors. His home in Westchester County is situated at Croton-on-Hudson, and commands a beautiful view of the river. He married Martha J., …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In addition to the " Chrystenah " there were run-ning in 1884 from Peekskill the propeller "Sarah ANDT. 407 A. Brown," owned by William S.Tompkins and Wil-liam L. Dyckman, and the propeller "Pierre C. Van Wyck," owned and co…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It was opened for business, near the northeast corner of Main and Division Streets, in September, 1833, and at its present location, at the southeast corner of the same streets, May 1, 1834. This was probably the first bank …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Clapp, president of the Westchester National Bank, was born in Peekskill November 9, 1820. His grandfather, Elias Clapp, was a resident of Dutchess County, where he married Mary Dorlin, 408 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. and…