Schenectady County Historical Society

Volume 50 NumberNewsletter 5-6 May-June 2007 32 Washington Avenue, Schenectady, 12305 (518) 374-0263 Web site: http://www.schist.org • Editor email: [email protected] FAX: (518) 688-2825 Librarian email: [email protected] • Curator email: [email protected]

General William North (1755–1836)

Portrait by – 1785 Owned by Detroit Institute of Art Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.

Photograph © 1986 - The Detroit Institute of Art

See profile of General North by David Vincent, on pages 6 & 7 BOARD OF Letter from the President TRUSTEES This is an expanded issue whose extra four pages are needed just to thank the Edwin D. Reilly, Jr. hundreds of you who joined the Society or renewed your membership for another year. President When we did this piecemeal, some each issue, the list used to end “Without You We Are Calvin Welch Nothing!” And this is still so very true. Vice President This is also the issue in which we note the changes in staff and among our Board Richard Clowe of Trustees. At a farewell luncheon on March 15, we said goodbye to long-time librar- Treasurer ian Ginny Bolen. But she won’t be far away, having accepted a full-time position at that Anneke Bull fabulous new Clifton Park-Half Moon Library on Moe Road, just a bit south of Route 146. Assistant Treasurer And then, to balance this private to public transition, we welcome Katherine Chansky, Cynthia Seacord most recently a public librarian at the Crandall Library in Glens Falls, who began work Secretary as Grems-Doolittle Librarian – Archivist on April 2. See her profile below, or better yet, Stephanie Albers stop in and meet the graceful person who has come to serve you. Her arrival enables our Ann Aronson proud announcement that we now operate full-time, nine to five, Monday through Friday, Earl Brinkman with extra hours on Saturday, 10 to 2, to be staffed by volunteers and summer interns. We Ann Coggeshall consider this a significant milestone—we’ll be buzzing, but no more buzzer! Nancy Edmonds Of our 24 Trustees, three were elected at the Annual Meeting of April 14 and Jim Eignor two were named by the Board to fill vacancies during the fiscal year. Their profiles are Frank Gilmore on the facing page, and we welcome all of them. Last issue, we noted with great sadness Merritt Glennon Ann Karl the reason for one vacancy, namely, the death of Larry Rainey. Dick Whalen and Gary Gail Kehn Hermanson resigned during the year, and we will miss them. Chris Hunter, archivist at the Carol Lewis Schenectady Museum, chose not to seek another three-year term, but we are pleased that Mary Liebers he will remain on our library committee. Similarly, Stan Lee, who did so much to get our Kim Mabee Mabee Farm Historic Site up and running, chose to leave the Board but will still be active Elsie Maddaus as a Walkabout Volunteer. To all of you, on behalf of our membership, thank you for your Irma Mastrean Vaughn Louise Nevin service and dedication to this venerable Society. Harry Steven –Ed Robert Sullivan Frank Taormina Our New Librarian Sally van Schaick Katherine Philip Chansky grew up in Manhattan, attended Smith College, graduated with a degree STAFF in history, and took a first job in . It was Katherine P. Chansky another job that brought her to the Capital District, Librarian first as a paralegal for an Albany law firm, and Kathryn Weller later at Skidmore College as a counselor and Curator library assistant. Her job at Skidmore’s Scribner Pat Barrot Library gave her the opportunity to learn archives Mabee Farm Site Manager management and gain experience caring for a rare Nicolette Sitterly book collection. She then went back to school full Office Manager time and earned her Masters in Library Science Paul Gonsowski from the University at Albany in 2000. Katherine Custodian has been a reference librarian part time at Saratoga Newsletter Editors: Springs Public Library and at the Crandall Public Ann Aronson Library in Glens Falls. Over the past six years, she Ruth Bergeron coordinated the Writers Series at Crandall. She has also worked as a consultant to arrange and catalog diverse manuscript collections: the HOURS Skidmore College Department of Nursing archives, a map collection and local history MUSEUM collections at Crandall Library, the records of the Washington County Historian’s Office, & Library and a Civil War documents collection at The New York State Museum. When she isn’t Monday-Friday 9-5 reading about local history or continuing her research on her own family history, she is Saturday 10-2 either out walking or driving around Schenectady County, getting acquainted with the area. She can be found on weekends working on her historic Greenfield Center home or working MABEE FARM at the Philip family apple orchard in Columbia County. Katherine, whose daughter Allison Tuesday-Saturday 10-4 attends Skidmore College, lives in Greenfield Center with her husband Jim, a Skidmore administrator, her teenage son Isaac, and two spoiled cats.  New SCHS Trustees

Ann Aronson, a native of Albany, is a graduate of station in Rensselaer, and is currently working on Boston College with a Bachelor of Science degree the Stockade Harbour project, a new waterfront in Nursing. Her nursing practice includes Public community along East Front Street in Schenectady. Health, Public School nurse and Camp nurse. She After completion of two BA degrees from Cornell, owned and operated the Jiminy Cricket Nursery one in Arts and Science and one in architecture, Frank School in Scotia for 12 years before going to work earned the degree of Master of Urban Design from for the Girl Scouts for 20 years as both a staff member the City University of New York. He is currently a and a volunteer. Ann is a professional photographer member of the Boards of Vale Cemetery, and the extensively published in Schenectady Magazine Downtown Schenectady BID. Mr. Gilmore resides and American Photo. She also teaches workshops in Schenectady’s Stockade area.. for the NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation in a program entitled “Becoming an Outdoors Merritt Glennon is a native of Schenectady County. Woman in New York State.” She volunteers at the He is a graduate of SUNY New Paltz with a degree SCHS library cataloging photographs as well as co- in History. He retired in 2001 after 33 years of editing the SCHS Newsletter. Her hobbies include service with the New York State Office of Mental kayaking on local rivers and lakes and skiing. She Hygiene and the Office of Mental Retardation and lives in Scotia, has two grown daughters and two Development Disabilities. His primary areas of grandchildren. responsibility were in revenue development, program development, documentation, and training. He has Jim Eignor is a triple graduate of Union College. been the President of the Altamont Free Library, There, he earned a BS in Civil Engineering with a member of the New York State Council on the subsequent Masters degrees in Engineering and Arts Decentralization Committee, President of the Computer Science. He has also held a professional Guilderland Soccer Club, and a PTA unit president. engineer’s license in a number of states including He has been volunteering at the Mabee Farm since New York. Early in his career he designed bridges for 2002 and succeeded co-chairs Kim Mabee and John the New York State Department of Transportation. Van Schaick as chair of the Mabee Farm Committee Subsequently he worked for GE as a design engineer last November. He and his wife Patricia, who have for power plants and power plant equipment, three daughters, live in the Town of Guilderland. retiring at the end of 2002. He has been and will continue to be a member of the Society’s Building Harry M. Steven, a native of Schenectady, is a and Grounds Committee, and as an engineer he is graduate of Clarkson University and Rensselaer interested in following the progress of the Franchere Polytechnic Institute. He began his employment Educational Center. His hobbies include gardening with GE at the General Engineering Laboratory and photography, and he has put the latter skill to and concluded it at the Knolls Atomic Laboratory good use on behalf of Grems-Doolittle library where he assisted with the design and production of projects. Jim and his wife Ann, also a volunteer at nuclear power reactors for the Navy. During World our library, live in Scotia. War II he served with the US Marine Corps as a Naval Aviator flight instructor. Since retirement in Frank Gilmore is a principal in the Schenectady 1986, Harry has done volunteer work for a number architectural firm of Stracher, Roth and Gilmore of service organizations such as the American Red whose design projects have won many awards in Cross, Habitat for Humanity, the Hall of History, the areas of urban design, historic preservation, and the ALCO Historical Photo Library. He has adaptive re-use of existing structures, senior compiled genealogies of both his Scottish paternal housing, and medical facilities. He has been the ancestors and his German maternal ancestors. He is design architect for a number of projects in the also an avid skier and bicyclist. Harry and his wife Capital District including Proctor’s Theatre, the Sybil, who have three grown children, have lived in new terminal at Albany Airport, the new train Niskayuna since 1950.

 At the SCHS the exhibit entitled Painting Schenectady: McIlworth of Scottish descent worked between Samuel Sexton and His Works continues through July. 1758 and 1769 in the Province of New York and There is a charge of $4 for adults. Exhibit is free for painted portraits of the Van Rensselaers, Van Cort- members and students. landts and Livingstons. Of interest to Schenectady residents are the portraits of Daniel Campbell, his Mapping a New World : Early Dutch wife Engeltie Bradt and John Duncan. He also paint- Maps of the Age of Exploration ed Sir Willliam Johnson and several of Johnson’s children are believed to have been painted by Mc- by SCHS members Calvin and Carol Welch Ilworth. May 12th 1:30 Refreshments 2:00 Program The book is well illustrated. His portraits put faces on the major players in the Hudson, Mohawk Val- During the age of exploration, our knowledge leys and all of the New York Province in the period about the world’s geography was steadily being between the French and Indian War and the Revolu- updated. Explorers discovered new lands and tion. recorded their findings about these previously Ona Curran is a graduate of Hofstra University and unknown regions. While there had been earlier holds a Master of Arts degree in Museum Methodol- sailing ventures and modest record keeping, there ogy from State University of New York at Cooper- was a great burst of exploratory activity in the stown. She has served in a professional capacity at seventeenth century. Mapmakers were instru- both the Schenectady Museum and the Schenectady mental in documenting these new discoveries, County Historical Society and is a former member of and provided amazingly accurate images about the Board of Trustees of the historical society. She is new lands that most Europeans would never see. currently an Antiques and Fine Arts appraiser as well These early maps were as much works of art as as an art historian specializing in American paint- they were informative documents. They have ings of the colonial period, post Revolution and early become a great attraction for modern collectors 19th century. and researchers. Join Schenectady County His- torical Society members Cal and Carol Welch as they discuss their interest in antique maps. They have focused their collecting on early Dutch maps and mapmakers of the seventeenth century. They will talk about the significance of these maps and the great influence the Dutch, in particular, had on the age of exploration and mapmaking. Origi- nal examples of the mapmaker’s craft will be dis- played along with reference books.

THOMAS McILWORTH Colonial New York Portrait Painter” – by Ona Curran

According to the author, a long time member of the SCHS, Thomas McIlworth is an elusive artist whose work and life have been a mystery for years. The book, recently published, will soon be available at SCHS headquarters and the Mabee Farm. Ona Curran will give a lecture on this artist and sign cop- ies of her book sometime during the month of June. The scheduling of this will depend on delivery of the book by the publisher Cover of book by Ona Curran

 The Mabee Farm opens for the season on May 1st.

On May 5th an exhibit will open on The Mohawk River and the Erie Canal: Transportation and Recreation. MABEE FARM ENCAMPMENT This will include pictorial records of historic activi- June 2nd & 3rd ties along the Mohawk River throughout the seasons and emphasize the use of this important waterway Experience what life was like in the 1700s here by local people for travel, the transport of goods as in Schenectady County at the historic Mabee well as its enjoyment for swimming, boating (both Farm’s Revolutionary War Encampment, Satur- recreational and competitive), fishing, ice skating day & Sunday, June 2 & 3. Over 100 people in and ice boating. period dress will turn the site into a military en- campment with colonial militia, British Loyalists, Indians, local settlers, and sutlers selling period items. The weekend will be full of action with amphibious battles in period Bateaux. Always a crowd pleaser Sheldon’s Horse from Connecticut will perform spectacular cavalry demonstrations. There will also be: camp tours, camp fire cook- ing, battles, historic house tours, children’s ac- tivities, a fun barn dance on Saturday night with caller Gail Griffith and her band, and a Church Service on Sunday morning. This is a great way to combine fun and education. Thanks to a gen- erous grant from the County of Schenectady, ad- mission is free. “Funding for this project made possible in part by a grant from the Schenectady County Legisla- ture through its County Initiative Program” MABEE FARM HISTORIC SITE, 1080 Main St. (Route 5S), Rotterdam Junction, N.Y. (518) 887-5073 www.mabeefarm.org [email protected] BLACKSMITH WORKSHOPS (beginners) May 5-6 and May 19–20. John Ackner will teach two workshops in the lost art of Blacksmithing. Call 887-5073 for more information

 William North—General, Senator, and throughout the remainder of the war, primarily Town Supervisor in the campaign. North was present at by David Vincent the surrender of Cornwallis in Yorktown, VA in 1781. Born into a military family in 1755, it Following the official end of the Revo- is not surprising that William North would be lution in 1783, North was brevetted, by act of among the very first young men of his generation Congress, a Major in the 2nd US Regiment, and to take up arms in support of the independence served as Inspector of the Army through June of his native and nascent country. North was the 1788. Among his duties in that capacity were an son of Captain John North, commander of Fort involvement in the response to Shays’ Rebellion Frederick, Pemaquid Point, Maine. At the age of in western Massachusetts, and later, while in- ten, following his father’s death, North moved to specting defenses on the Ohio River, the found- Boston with his mother, Elizabeth Pitson North. ing of Fort Steuben, Steubenville, Ohio. Thus he was at the very center of a series of North lived in New York City, where he events that would culminate in the birth of the met and courted Mary Duane, the eldest daugh- United States. ter of the Hon. , Mayor of New York. The two were married in October of 1787, and in 1788 took possession of the 1,000-acre wilderness estate in Duanesburg given to them by James Duane. Duane was the founder and proprietor of the town’s entire 1.8 million acres, which had been formally erected as a Township in 1765. The North’s struggled to make a home and family in the 18th century wilderness, returning during many winters to family in New York City. Nevertheless, the family and farm gradually took shape, and North was again called into service. He was elected to the NY Assembly in 1792 and 1794 and was selected Speaker in both 1795 and 1796, when New York City was the state capi- tal. Not to diminish in any way William North’s considerable personal qualities and achievements, but by marrying into the Duane family, North joined one of the most influential and powerful extended families in 18th century North Family Coat of Arms America. James Duane’s wife was Mary Liv- ingston, eldest daughter of Robert Livingston, Commissioned a 2nd lieutenant, his ser- 3rd Lord of Livingston Manor. The extended vice began in 1775 shortly after the British seized , connected by marriage, in- Boston. North served in a number of Massachu- cluded the names Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, setts’s regiments, spent the winter of 1787-88 Hamilton and Jay. The Livingstons were mem- in Valley Forge, PA, and as a Captain in 1788, bers of an elite group of wealthy and influential led his company in the , NJ. landed gentry whose considerable estates were In 1779 he was appointed Aide de Camp to the located along New York’s Hudson River valley. General Baron Von Steuben, whom he served These landowners practiced a unique perpetual  rent system that left their tenant farmers liable in 1816, surrendering ownership of the Duanes- for payment of an annual rent in perpetuity, a burg estate to his son, William Augustus Steu- practice that lasted into the latter half of the 19th ben North (1793-1845). William A.S. North had century. graduated from Union College in 1812 and stud- In 1798 North served as a Federalist in the ied Law at Columbia University in New York, US Senate, occupying the seat first held by Gen- where his grandfather, James Duane, had served eral and held today by Senator many years as chairman of the board of trustees, Hillary Rodham Clinton. At that time Philadel- and his uncle, James Chatham Duane, had grad- phia was the nation’s capital and North traveled uated second in his class in 1789. The younger there to fulfill his Senatorial duties. The matters North took possession of the Duanesburg prop- of consequence that he is known to have sup- erty, where he distinguished himself in the pur- ported were the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, suit of agriculture. adopted in June and July of that year. The same fear of war caused Congress to order the establishment of a “Provisional” army. On July 19, 1798, President John Adams appointed William North to the post of Adjutant General in the Provisional Army with the rank of Brigadier General under Major General Alexan- der Hamilton, with as Com- manding General. North served in this capacity through June 14, 1800, when the threat of war was resolved through diplomacy. North was Duanesburg’s first supervisor to represent the town on the newly formed Sche- nectady County Board of Supervisors in 1809 The North Mansion today, Duanesburg, NY (the year Schenectady County was carved from Albany County), and was elected that board’s first moderator (chairman). The following year General William North died in New York he was again elected to the NY State Assembly in 1836 and was interred in the family crypt in and was again chosen Speaker of that body. North was an investor in the Great West- Duanesburg. He left behind a considerable lega- ern Turnpike, and he served many years as one cy of sacrifice, hardship, devotion to family and of seven commissioners on the NY State West- country, and the fruits of an indomitable Ameri- ern Canals Commission, charged with laying out can spirit. the routes to early New York State canals, which ultimately became the Erie Canal. Following the construction of the covered bridge over the Schoharie Creek (the first State bridge) in 1793, NOTE: SCHS member David Vincent lives in North purchased in 1806 the land on the western the North Mansion in Duanesburg. He is also shore, where he founded and named the Village the author of a more extensive paper on General of Esperance (French for hope). North and his Mansion. There is a copy in the William North’s daughter Mary died in North family file at the Society and copies will 1812 at the age of 22, and his wife Mary died soon be available in our gift shop. in 1813. Both were buried in the Duane family crypt at Christ Episcopal Church, Duanesburg. Consequently, North retired to New York City

 Schenectady County Historical Society Members as of March 31, 2007 (Fiscal Year 2006)

Life Dr. N. Balasubramaniam Richard Sills & Katherine Fritz Patterson Telephone Company Mrs. Bette I. Bradway Ms. Dianne J. Gade Rotary Club of Schenectady Mr. & Mrs. Merrill Brown Mr. George D. Gamble Schenectady Foundation Mr. Dudley E. Chambers Mrs. Janet Gardner Stewart’s Almy & Anne Coggeshall Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Gifford T.A. Predel & Co. Inc. Mrs. Muriel J. DeSorbo Max & Arlene Gollmer Wright Family Foundation Mr. Werner L. Feibes Neil and Jane Golub Mrs. Roland Fitzroy Dr. & Mrs. John Gorman Donor Mr. Frederick C. Fox Jr. Mr. Edward G. Grems III Mr. William D. Ackner Mr. Robert F. Fullam Mr. & Mrs. Charles Griswold Jr. Ms. Stephanie L. Albers Fr. George C. Gagnon Mr. Edward J. Hamman Ms. Eileen I. Alessandrini Mr. & Mrs. R. L. George Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hickmott Dr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Alexander Miss Dorothea F. Godfrey Ms. Analine Hicks Mr. & Mrs. M.W. Beaulieu Mr. Leon J. Goldberg Mr. Malcolm D. Horton Michael & Sandra Beloncik Ms. Gladys Graubart Dr. & Mrs. Israel S. Jacobs Mr. John Berdy Mrs. John E. Hancock Mrs. Karen B. Johnson Ms. Ann Bish Mrs. Larry Hart Philip & Joy Jones Gary & Kathleen Bivona Mrs. Wayne H. Harvey Mr. Joe Jurczynski Mr. & Mrs. William W. Borthwick Mr. & Mrs. R.T. Henke Ernest & Gloria Kahn Daniel & Patricia Bradt Dr.. Grace Jorgensen Mrs. M. Burrows & Mr. A. Kee Ms. Diane Buckley Mr. George W. Juno Robert & Elaine Kennedy Lou & Judy Buhrmaster Mr. Francis Karwowski Donald & Ruth Kerr Ms. Shirley Burgess Mr. Henry R. Kelly Mr. Robert F. Koenig Ms. Diana O. Carter Fred & Catherine Kindl Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Krauter Mr. James F. Cerniglia Mrs. T. S. Kosinski Mr. Dana A. Lansing Ms. Anne Christman Ms. Betty La Grange Col. & Mrs. John A. Lighthall Richard & Marian Clowe Mrs. Albert W. Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Livingston Mr. & Mrs. Louis F. Coffin Mrs. Laura Lee Linder Mrs. D. Wayne Mabie Ms. Laura Conrad Mr. Douglass M. Mabee Mr. Paul Mabie Mr. & Mrs. Whylen G. Cooper Gary & Kim Mabee Mr. Robert J. Mabie James & Wilma Corcoran Mr. Stephen W. Mabie Ms. Judith A. Martinelli Mrs. Gladys M. Craven Mr. Edward H. Mc Elroy Jr. Charles & Debra McCambridge Mrs. Harold P. Curran Mrs. Ernest J. Milano Mr. William H. Milton III Mr. & Mrs. Allen R. David Mr. Charles I. Millington Mrs. Margaret B. Moore Mr. Rudolph A. Dehn Dr. James W. Nelson Dale Miller & Zoe Oxley Mr. Hubert DeLeeuw Mrs. John P. Papp Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Pagano James & Judith DePasquale Mr. Donald F. Putnam Mr. & Mrs. V. Russell Patience Mr. Albert C. Di Nicola Mr. Ronald K. Ratchford Mrs. Mary E. Predel Ms. Susan P. Duncan Mr. Norman J. Rynex Dr. & Mrs. Charles J. Reilly Mr. & Mrs. Neil H.W. Eklund Mr. Clinton W. Sager 2nd Edwin & Jean Reilly Mr. & Mrs. Morris Evans Mr. James D. J. Schmitt Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Ringlee Paul & Jane Farrell Mr. John L. Schoolcraft Mr. & Mrs. Clayton R. Rowland Mrs. Renie M. Federighi Mr. Frederick Sistarenik John & Cynthia Seacord Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Fenton Mr. & Mrs. Joe Strange Ms. Janet R. Shook Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Ferrannini Mrs. Shirley Sutphen Mr. & Mrs. Gordon M. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Donald A. Gavin John & Sally van Schaick Ms. Joan L. Spicer Mr. Peter H. Graham Mr. Charles S. Van Wormer Mrs. Esther M. Swanker Ms. Sherie Grignon Mr. W. Brinson Weeks Jr. Mr. Francis R. Taormina Mrs. Emmeline A. Grubb Mr. Jay B. Wright Mr. & Mrs. Wayne S. Thomas Mrs. Philip B. Hawkes Ms. Frieda H. Wyman Mr. & Mrs. Maynard J. Toll Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Franklyn Hayford David & Jane Vermilyea Mr. Garrett Hermanson Sponsor William & Greta Wagle Mr. & Mrs. Douglass Horstman Miss Cindy Albright Samuel & Carol Wait Mr. Richard J. Huether Miss Joyce M. Alessandrini Mr. & Mrs. Francis X. Wallace Ms. Kathryn F. Johnson Mr. Paul Basile Mr. & Mrs. David J. Walz Dr. Peter D. Johnson Ms. Ruth E. Bergeron Mr. Greg Welsh Manfred & Nancy Greene Jonas Mr. & Mrs. Elwin C. Bigelow Dr. Steve Jones Bob & Sylvie Briber Supporting Ms. Sharon A. Jordan Jim & Sandra Buhrmaster Broughton Foundation Mr. Richard M. Junge Mrs. Erma Ruth Chestnut George E. Franchere Trust Mr. David A. Kendall Mrs. Nancy Johnsen Curran Daily Gazette Mr. Peter R. Kozak John & Mary D’Anieri First National Bank of Scotia David & Joann Kress Mr. Anthony De Ruscio Golub Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Kuba Mr. & Mrs. Burton B. Delack Great North Eastern Railway Carolina Lazzari and family Mr. William A. Dimpelfeld J&P Builders Stanley & Fern Lee Richard & Nancy Edmonds Mabee Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John Lehner Ms. Linda S. Flynt Patterson Furniture Store Dr. Robert & Mary Liebers  Mr. & Mrs. William G. Loveday Jr. Robert & Barbara Christensen Michael & Beth Petta Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Mabee Mrs. Lawrence A. Cioffi William & Janet Pickney Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Markey Mr. & Mrs. William R. Collins Mr. & Mrs. V. Ennis Pilcher Michael & Lisa Maybee Mr. Carlton P. Consaul Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Polgreen Dr. & Mrs. Bernard F. McEvoy Clinton & Anita Cox Mr. & Mrs. Reuben A. Powell Mr. Thomas W. McMaster Nicholas & Josephine Cristy Richard & Barbara Preisman Mrs. Nancy G. McNabb Dr. & Mrs. James F. Cunningham Mr. & Mrs. John P. Putnam Mr. & Mrs. Harold W. Moore Nelson & Pam Curtis David & Cay Raycroft Dr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Mundy Dan & Sue Dayton Ms. Deborah Ann Reid Prof. & Mrs. William M. Murphy Dr. & Mrs. Carlos A. De la Rocha Ms. Patricia Ellen Richards Mr. & Mrs. John C. Myers Morgan & Ellen Desmond Dr. & Mrs. Arnold B. Ritterband Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Naumoff Neff & Dorothy Dietrich Everett & Shirley Rivest Hugh & Vaughn Nevin Mrs. Adriana Woldring Donnelly Mrs. Beryl R. Rockwell NSDAR, Schenectady Chapter Mr. Robert H. Doremus Mr. & Mrs. Herbert J. Roes Mr. & Mrs. David S. Packard Mr. & Mrs. Roger S. Ehle Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Rowland Mrs. Barbara J. Palmer James & Ann Eignor Mr. Mark J. Sacco Mr. & Mrs. Laurence A. Pardi Dale & Virginia Evans Mr. & Mrs. Timothy C. Sager Mrs. Ann M. Perry Frank & Rose Cooper Feiner Paul & Judith McDonald Sandhofer Mrs. Marilyn M. Pfaltz Russell & Susan Felthousen Mrs. Christie Sardella Gerry & Eleanor Pierce Howard & Undine Fiedler Mr. & Mrs. Eric Schadow Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Pinkerton G. Albert & Norma Finke Mr. E. James Schermerhorn Ms. Jean B. Purdy Mrs. Martha Fuerst & Family Stephen & Alexandra Schmidt Mrs. Caroline Roberts Chris & Colleen Gardner Mr. & Mrs. James H. Shaw Mr. John Ross Mr. & Mrs. Edward N. Gifford Ken & Sue Siegal Mr. Ernest C. Rumbaugh Clark & Mildred Gittinger Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Sise Mr. Michael J. Ryan Mr. & Mrs. David R. Gould Don & Joanne Snell Mrs. Gretchen Savage Mrs. Marcia T. Grimm Wayne & Betty Somers Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence R. Schmidt Dr. & Mrs. Richard F. Gullott Mr. Paul G. Stephens Ms. Helga A. Schroeter Mr. & Mrs. James Hathaway Mr. & Mrs. James R. Stewart Mr. & Mrs. James F. Sefcik Richard & Dana Helion Dr. James & Marge Strosberg Mr. & Mrs. Van der Bogert Shanklin Mr. & Mrs. Myron E. Hermance Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Strum Mr. Earl J. Shirkey Mr. & Mrs. Stanley G. Hickok Owen & Betty Sutton Mr. & Mrs. William A. Simpson Jr. Joseph & Amanda Hope Dr. & Mrs. Clifford M. Tepper David & Katherine Skelly Don & Ann Hotaling Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Topka Mrs. Elaine M. Springsted Bill & Irene Howe Wayne & Elizabeth Tucker Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Stafford Mr. & Mrs. George A. Jackson Ms. Cathie Tunis Richard & Charlotte Stearns Mr. & Mrs. Dugald C. Jackson IV Dr. & Mrs. Jack L. Underwood Harry & Sybil Steven Drs. John Schenck & Susan Kalia William & Mary Jane Valachovic Mr. Martin L. Storm Mr. & Mrs. John R. Karm John & Linda Vallely Roy & Barbara Dobbins Stratton George & Gail Kehn Mr. Louis Van Curler-Cuyler George & Evelyn Terwilliger Brian & Roberta Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Van Flue Mrs. Shirley Jennings Thomas Scott & Diane Bengtson-Kilbourn Mr. & Mrs. Wallace C. Van Houten Assemblyman Paul D. Tonko Wayne & Joyce Kimball Christine Clark and Arend Vanderveen Mrs. Laura S. Van Eps Mr. & Mrs. Ron King Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Veino Mr. Edwin Van Ingen Shaw Douglas & Deborah Kreifels David & Ann Vincent Mrs. George D. Vlahides Mr. Ronald LaGasse J. Paul & Doris Ward Mr. & Mrs. Phillip J. Wajda Clarence & Janet Langley Herbert & Margaret Warne Emile & Ann Walraven Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Lewis Jr Calvin & Carolyn Welch Marvin & Vera Weiss James & Mary Ann Lommel Mr. & Mrs. John W. Wilkinson Mr. & Mrs. Donald T. Weller Ms. Katharine L. Lowe Mr. Malcolm R. Willison Mr. & Mrs. Robert V. Wells Mrs. John C. Mabee Paul Hoff & Becky Woodard Ralph & Pauline Wood Mr. & Mrs. John W. Mabee Mr. & Mrs. George L. Yager Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Yager Jeffrey & Karen Mallia Mr. & Mrs. John L. Mangan Individual Family Robert & Patricia Matey Mr. John Ackner Donald & Kay Ackerman John and Anne McLaughlin Dr. Stephen C. Ainlay Mr. & Mrs. Arnold A. Amell Robert & Mary McLean Mrs. Josephine R. Aker Ms. Helen M. Badinelli Kevin & Carol McNamara Mr. Edgar D. Alderson Mr. Mark W. Baird Anne & Donald Middleton Mr. Norman B. Aldrich Nicholas & Laura Barber Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Milbert Mr. Jorge Luis Alvarez Gabe & Diane Basil Mr. & Mrs. Rexford G. Moon Jr. Ms. Marlena Amalfitano Mrs. Andrea J. Becker Ms Pauline M. Moran Ms. Mary L. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Robert Benedict Robin Sanders & Brendan Burrs Ms. Susan N. Apt Elmer & Olga Bertsch Jim & Faye Tischler Murphy Mr. Donald F. Ardell Bart & Marylin Bisgrove Oliver & Ethel Murray Ms. Ann Aronson Earl & Rita Brinkman Mr. Timothy M. Nace Ms. Bonnie Ausfeld Howard & Diana Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. O’Connor Mr. Herb Bachorik Mr. & Mrs. James J. Caufield Mr. & Mrs. John Ostapow Ms. Betty Lou Bailey Mr. & Mrs. Kevin T. Chamberlain Carl & Joann Paulsen Ms. Cornelia Bailey Mr. & Mrs. John Chequer Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Pearson IV Mr. Thomas G. Baker

 Ms. Louise A. Basa Mr. James J. Elbrecht Ms. B. J. Kelly Mr. Henry J. Bastian Rev. Wendell Elmendorf Mrs. Dottie Kennison Ms. Grace Benson Mrs. Mona M. Evenden Ms. Jane Kessler Mrs. Bertha A. Berman Mr. Joseph F. Fava Mrs. Sharlene M. King Dr. Janis L. Best Mrs. Joy P. Favretti Dr. Ronald F. Kingsley Ms. Claudia Birch Mr. Anthony P. Fazzone Ms. Gloria Kishton Ms. Theone T. Bob Ms. Hazel A. Feiker Ms. Claudette Koza Ms. Patricia T. Booth Mr. Robert Felthousen Ms. Donna Kuba Ms. Maxine Borom Mrs. Pamela Felton Ms. Nancy Kuczek Mrs. Ann L. Bowerman Mr. Arnold S. Fisher Mrs. Florence LaMontagne Mr. Kenneth H. Bradt Mr. John C. Fitts Mrs. Rita Lancefield Ms. Susan Brady Ms. Ruth G. Fitzmorris Ms. Elizabeth R. Landers Mr. Bob Bramwell Ms. Ellen H. Fladger Dr. Richard H. Lange Ms. Margaret Brazell Mr. Brian Flahive Mr. Clinton C. Lawry Mr. Charles Bridley Mrs. Martha S. Foland Dr. Ralph Leach Ms. Sally Brillon Miss Margaret M. Foley Mr. Michael F. Leonard Ms. Adrianne Brockman Mrs. Barbara J. Foti Mr. Jerry L. Leonardo Mr. William A. Bronk Mr. Richard A. Fowler Ms. Kori Lessing Mrs. Joan Marzitelli Brooks Ms. L. Arlene Frederick Mrs. Sally Sutliff Lester Ms. Anne H. Brown Mr. Karl Fredericks Ms. Carol V. Lewis Mrs. Dorothea T. Brown Mr. Stuart Freeman Mr. Joseph J. Lomonaco Mrs. Jean S. Brown Ms. R. Michaela French Mr. Edward Kruesi Lorraine Mrs. Joan C. Brown Mrs. Marilyn W. Gagnon Mr. Victor Lou Mr. R. Mark Brown Ms. Barbara J. Gaines Mr. O. Chadwick Loveland Mr. Bill Buell Mr. Ralph E. Gasner Mr. Barrie Mabie Ms. Anneke M. Bull Mrs. Jean H. Gauer Ms. Catharine Mabie Mr. Robert A. Butsch Mrs. Michael L. Gelfand Mr. George W. Mabie Ms Miriam W. Butzel Mr. Carl J. George Mr. Sylvester M. Mabie Ms. Marjorie L. Byrnes Mrs. Helen W. George Mr. Ralph W. Maclachlan Ms Sandra Mabie Caldeira Mr. Matthew F. George Jr Mrs. Elsie Maddaus Mr. Lynn E. Calvin Ms. Sarah A. George Mr. David Manthey Ms. Rachel Cameron Mrs. Jeannette K. Gerlaugh Mr. Richard T. Martin Mrs. Allene J. Carbin Mr. Frank F. Gilmore Mrs. Irma Mastrean Ms Doris L. Clark Mrs. Kelly M. Giminiani Mr. Brian G. Maybee Ms. Patricia L. Clark Mr. Donald Gleason Ms. Patricia A. Mc Allister Mrs. Shirley H. Clark Mr. Merritt E. Glennon Mr. Robert B. McCalley Jr. Mrs. Carol Clemens Ms. Kathleen K Grabo Ms. Carole McCarthy Ms. Hilda M. Clohesy Mrs. Harold C. Grant Mrs. Ruth H. Metzler Mr. Robert J. Coan Mr. Herschel Graubart Mr. Robert J. Mielke Mr. Michael S. Companion Mrs. Marion M. Grimes Mrs. Anne Gates Miller Ms. M. Joy Coneway Mr. Peter Guidarelli Mrs. Jacquelyn H. Miller Ms. Evalyn K. Conklin Mrs. Elaine Bradshaw Guidice Ms. Kimberly Mitchell Ms. Justine M. Connelly Mrs. Jean Daley Gwynn Mr. Peter Modley Ms. Vivian F. Consalvo Mrs. Donna T. Hablitzel Ms. Martha T. Mooney Librarian, Cornell University Mrs. Roberta M. Hambleton Mr. Andrew Morris Lt. Col. Irving E. Costanzo Mrs. Ruth L. Hand Mr. George F. Morris Ms. Paulyn M. Cox Mr. John D. Harnden Mrs. Marsha Mortimore Mrs. Linda Crandall Mr. Alan Hart Ms. Linda Muralidharan Mrs. Lois S. Crauer Mr. John Hawley Mrs. Malinda Myers Mrs. Jocelyn F. Creech Mr. Clifford W. Hayes Mrs. Beverly Neadle Mr. Peter DeGraff Cross Mr. Randal W. Herbert Ms. Helen Nelson Mrs. Elinor Czebiniak Mrs. Phyllis W. Hill Mrs. Nancy P. Nichols Dr. Lee L. Davenport Mr. Paul F. Hooker Ms. Christie A. Noble Mrs. Ruth Deagle Mrs. Sylvia Hosegood Mrs. Ida Nystrom Dr. Edward DeFeo Dr. Marvin A. Humphrey Mr. Francis E. O’Connor Ms. Katherine L. Delain Mrs. Janet R. Hutchison Mr. Jon A. Olson Mrs. Charleen DeLorenzo Mrs. Agnes G. Ingraham Mrs. Elaine L. Orsini Mr. Robert A. Demarest Ms. JoAnne Ivory Ms. Amanda Page Mr. John R. Diesso Mrs. Barbara J. Jeffries Mr. Caleb Paine Mrs. Leonard Dietz Mrs. Betty Ann Jennings Ms. Christine Pangburn Mrs. Mary Jane Dike Mrs. Ann Jensvold Ms. Nancy Papish Mr. Michael Divak Mr. Blaine H. Johnston Mr. Christopher Patterson Mrs. Rose E. Dixon Mrs. Leonard J. Josefiak Ms. Mary Pedone Ms. Ruth R. Doering Rev. James J. Kane Mr. David A. Pells Ms. Kate Dudding Mr. Raymond T. Karis Mrs. Linda Perregaux Ms. Shirley W. Dunn Mrs. Ann L. Karl Ms. Johanna Petersen Ms. Patricia Dwyer Mrs. Elizabeth D. Karl Mr. Sean W. Peterson Mr. William A Edelstein Mr. Francis I Karwowski Mr. Robert A. Petito Jr Ms. Elizabeth M. Ehrcke Ms. Barbara Katz Mrs. Agnes E. Pfaffenbach Ms. Lydia D. Eis Mrs. Jean B. Katz Mrs. Julia M. Pfaffenbach

10 Mrs. Betty Pieper Ms. Marie D. Shore Ms. Carolyn M. Veeder Mrs. Barbara Piper Ms. Henrietta A. Slosek Dr. Elizabeth Veeder Ms. Elsie J. Prior Mr. Donald R. Smith Jr. Mrs. Abbie S. Verner Mrs. Janet Rainey Mr. Robert L. Smith Jr. Mr. Harold B. Vroman Dr. Franklin W. Rapp Mr. Dave St.Louis Ms. Doris Vrooman Mr. Everett Rau Dr. Charles F. Stamm Mr. Dale Wade-Keszey Ms. Rebecca Rector Mrs. Ellen W. Steele Ms. Nancy L. Walden Miss Louise M. Repice Mrs. Diane Stewart Mr. F. William Walker Mr. C. Malcolm Rhoades Mr. Douglas Strickland Ms. Anita R. Walther Mrs. Patricia M. Ritrovato Ms. Carole A. Strong Mrs. Nancy H. Wasmund Mrs. Barbara J. Roberts Miss Gertrude L. Sullivan Ms. Mary Kuykendall Weber Ms. Lillian K. Roe Mr. Robert J. Sullivan Mrs. Barbara J. Weinheimer Ms. Jessie L. Roensch Mr. Robert G. Sullivan Mr. Charles Warner Wendell Mrs. Daniel J. Rourke Mr. Edward C. Tanner Jr. Mr. Robert Wetmore Mrs. Sonia H. Rubenstein Assemblyman James Tedisco Mr. Richard Whalen Dr. Jack Ruthberg Mr. Peter Ten Eyck Mr. Walter Wheeler Mr. Paul L. Ryan Mrs. Alice Buff Tepper Mrs. Yvonne K. White Mr. Gordon Schaufelberg Mrs. Carol C. Thomas Mr. Henry G. Williams Ms. Shirley A. Schleier Mrs. Jill S. Titus Ms. Dena Williamson Mrs. Marjorie L. Schmid Dr. Jon Tobiessen Mr. Arthur D. Willis Ms. Sadie Schneider Mr. Paul H. Tocker Mr. Keith Willis Mrs. Judith B. Schultz Mrs. Jean H. Tomlinson Mr. George Wise Mrs. Elinore Schumacher Mr. Tulloch Townsend Ms. Johanna M. Woldring Mr. Roy A. Scott Mrs. Katherine W. Trimarco Mr. Robert Woods Mrs. Kathleen P. Scutt Mrs. Lois M. Troup Mr. John J. Woodward Mrs. Pilar M. Seacord Ms. Lois E. Truax Mrs. John E. Wooton Mr. William Seyse Ms. Susan F. Tyler Dr. Lionel D. Wyld Ms. Paula Shafer Mr. William H. Underhill Mr. William T. Yates Ms. Suzanne S. Sheldon Mr. John Drew Van Der Volgen Mr. Neil B. Yetwin Mrs. Susanna K. Sherwood Mr. Eugene F. Van Dyke Jr. Mr. James Zayicek Ms. Patricia A. Shoemaker Mr. John W. Van Laak Mrs. Jean B. Zegger Mrs. Gloria Vassolas Mr. Matthew A. Zembo

SCHS thanks all of its members and contributors for their support. We greatly appreciate all that you have done.

Financial Status for fiscal year FY2006, April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007

Copies of the Society’s detailed Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statement (Budget vs. Actual) were part of the Annual Report distributed to attendees at the Annual Meeting of April 14 and will be mailed to any member of the Society upon request. Our records will now be audited by our CPA and his report will be available some time in mid-2007. Richard M. Clowe, Treasurer

Balance Sheet Summary

Mabee Farm Historic Site $753,807 Headquarters (Museum, Library, Office) 75,257 Fixed Assets Mabee Farm 299,515 Headquarters 533,588 Other Assets 3,265,107 Total Assets $4,927,274

Profit & Loss Summary % of FY2006 budget Restricted income $629,440 Unrestricted income 345,745 118.4 Expense 314,048 107.7 Income added to reserves 31,697 11 Historical Society Newsletter Non-Profit Org. 32 Washington Avenue US POSTAGE Schenectady, New York 12305 PAID Permit No. 942

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