140 GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF CORTLAND. teed by the firm to be one of the best in the market. Mr. Cramer, the senior member of the firm, devotes his personal attention to the finances and the store business, while Mr. Hollister has personal charge of the plumbing, heating and contract work. Law rence S. Cramer, the son of Henry V. Cra mer, was born in Lafayette, Onondaga Co., N. Y., Aug. 24, 1848. His early years were spent on the farm with his father, during which time he attended the common school until aboutsixteen years of age, and then the Onondaga Valley academy and Syracuse schools. After leaving home he was forsome time employed as clerk in the general store of Stephen Headson at Dewitt Center, N. Y., after which he was for 15 years in the em ploy of the Syracuse & Binghamton Rail road Co. as station agent and telegraph ope rator. From the employ of the railroad company he moved to Cortland and was for two years previous to engaging in the hard ware business, employed as bookkeeper and collector. He was married to Anna V. Palmer Sept 16, 1875, and they have two daughters. May B. and Edith V. Mr. W. K. Hollister, son of Harvey D. Hollister, was born in the town of Cortland Feb. 1870. L. S. CRAMER. (Hyatt, Photos.) W. K. HOLLISTER Truxton, Co., 13, At 15 years of age he entered the employ of Cramer & Hollister, hardware dealers, his brother, H. T. Hollister, in Cortland, to learn the and where he continued plumbers and steam fitters at No. 19 Railroad plumbing tinning trades, to work for the different firms, who have succeeded street, succeeded the firm of Cramer & Mellon, to this business as already above mentioned, un Jan. 1, 1896. Cramer & Mellon, who were suc til the time he formed the co-partnership with cessors of Seaman & Cramer, did business at the Mr. Cramer. He has received instruction at a same place for about two and a half years and the trade school where sanitary plumbing is taught, so that the work he performs is of the best from a latter, who were there about a year and a half, sanitary standpoint. He married Miss Maude L. bought out H. T. Hollister who had then been in Loucks, of Cortland, March 2, 1898. They have one the same store about four years but who had pre daughter, Lillian Harriet. He is a member of the viously carried on the business on Orchard street. John L. Lewis Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 587. Cramer & Hollister branched out into all kinds Members of from Cortland Co. of metal work to a greater extent than either of Assembly the two latter preceding firms. This has been the During the period ofninety years Cortland has case steam and hot water especially in plumbing, been a county, only fifteen members have each fitting. From time to time have done sev they served two terms and four members three terms eral large jobs in Cortland and vicinity in fitting each. Those who have served three terms are up buildings with steam and hot water heating Hath- apparatus, notably The Wallace Wall Paper Co. 's William Trowbridge, 1811-13, Samuel G. factory, besides several other large obs in this vil **-- j :.w J.-.-.. - -1 lage. The hardware busi ^;W> ness proper is carried on in a store 24 x 80 feet, with the shop in the rear where all kinds of general jobbing is done, while the fitting and cutting of pipes for plumb ing andheating jobs is done in the basement, where a large stock for those pur poses is kept. The firm also occupies the second floor of the building, which is used for thestoring of stoves and a surplus of everything in the tin and hardware line; also for the display ofstoves and plumbing goods. From 6 to 10 men are employed by the firm in the shop and outside work. The hard ware part of the business includes everything carried in that line of trade, par- I ticularly stoves and ranges, among which is a full line guaran- of Summit ranges, Hyatt, Photo. CRAMER & HOLLISTER'S STORE. GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF CORTLAND. i4i away, i8i4,'i5 and '18, John Miller, 1816, '17 and 20, and Rufus T. Peck, i889-'9i. There have been two con tests for seats, both unsuc cessful, the first when J. B. Phelps contested the seat which was awarded to Jo siah Hart in 1825, and the other when Lewis Riggs contested the seat given to Chauncey Keep in 1836. Cortland had only one rep resentative in i8io-'22, two in i823-'46, and one since 1846. The full list of mem bers to and including 1900 are as follows : Ephraim Fish, 1810; William Trow bridge, 18H-13; Wm. Mal- lory, 1814; Samuel G. Hathaway, 1814-15, '18; Joshua Ballard, 1816; John Miller, i8i6,'i7 '20; Joseph Reynolds, 1819; John Os born, i820-'2i; Daniel Sher wood, 1822, '23; John Gil lett, 1823; Wm. Barto, Jr., 1824; Matthias Cook, 1824; James Jo Chatterton, 1825; Hyatt, Photo. INTERIOR OF CRAMER & HOLLISTER'S STORE. siah Hart (contested by J. B. Phelps), 1825; Augustus Donnelly, 1826; John liam Barnes, 1840; Jabez B. Phelps, 1840; Nathan Lynde, 1826; Cephas Comstock, 1827, '36; Nathan Heaton, 1841; Lovel G. Mitkels, 1841; Jesse Ives, Dayton, 1827, '28; John L. Boyd, 1828; Abraham 1842; Oren Stimson, 1842; Harry McGraw, 1843; Carley, 1829; Gideon Curtiss, 1829; Chauncey George N. Miles, 1843; Piatt F. Grow, 1844; John Keep, 1830, '36 (contested by Lewis Riggs); Kingman, 1844; George J. J. Barber, 1845; John Henry Stephens, 1830; Fredus Howard, 1831; Pierce, 2nd, 1845; Amos Graves, 1846; John Miller, Charles Richardson, 1831; Andrew Dickson, 1832; 1846; Timothy Green, 1847; James Comstock, Jonathan L. Woods, 1832; Enos S. Halbert, 1833; 1848; IraSkeel, 1849; Lewis Kingsley, 1850; Alvan David Mathews, 1833; Stephen Bogardus, 1834; Kellogg, 1851; George W. Bradford, 1852; Ashbel Oliver Kingman, 1834; Aaron Brown, 1835; Barak B. Patterson, 1853; Perrin H. McGraw, 1854; John Niles, 1835; Josiah Hine, 1837; John Thomas, H. Knapp, 1855; George I. Kingman, 1856; Joseph 1837; David Mathews, 1838; John Osgood, 1838; Atwater, 1857; Nathan Bouten, 1858; Arthur George S. Green, 1839; George Isaacs, 1839; Wil- Holmes, 1859; John A. McVean, i860; Loammi Kinney, 1861; Thos. Barry, 1862; Henry B. Van Hoesen, 1863; Benj.F. Tillinghast, 1864; Dann C. Squires, 1865, '72; Stephen Patrick, 1866; Hora tio Ballard, 1867; Raymond P. Babcock, 1868; Hiram Whitmarsh, 1869; Charles Foster, 1870; Henry S. Randall, 1871; Geo. W. Phillips, 1873, '74; Daniel E. Whitmore, 1875; Judson C. Nel son, 1876, '83 ; Delos McGraw, I877; Orris U. Kellogg, 1878; George H. Arnold, 1879; Samuel A. Childs, 1880; Alburtis A. Carley, 1881, '82; A. Judson Kneeland, 1884; Harlan P. Andrews, 1885; Milfred M. Brown, 1886; Wayland D. Tisdale, 1887, '88; Rufus T. Peck, 1889, '90, '91; James H. Tripp, 1892, '93; Benjamin F. Lee, 1894; Wilbur Holmes, 1895; Franklin P. Saunders, 1896, '97; D. W. VanHoesen, 1898; Geo. S. Sands, 1899, 1900. Colonial Governors of New York.Adrian Joris, term began 1623; Cornelius Jacobzen, May, 1624; Wm. Verhulst, 1625; Peter Minnit, May 4, 1626; Wonter Van Twiller, April, 1633; William Kieft, March 28, 1638; PetrnsStuyvesant, May 11, 1647; Richard Nicolls, Sept. 8, 1664; Francis Lovelace, Aug. 17, 1668 ; Cornells Evertse, Jr., Ed- Aug. 12, 1673 ; Anthony Colve, Sept. 19, 1673 ; Brock- mond Andros, Nov. 10, 1674 ; Anthony holies, commander-in-chief, Nov. 16, 1677 ; Jan. 13, 1681 ; Sir Edmond Andros, Knt., Aug. 7, 1678; Aug. 11, 1688; Thomas Dongan, Aug. 27, 1683 ; Francis Nicholson, lieutenant-governor, Oct. 9, 1688 ; Jacob Leisler, June 3, 1689 ; Henry Sloughter,* March Richard. 19, 1691; Ingoldesby , commander-in-chief, July 26, 1695 ; lieutenant- governor, May 9, 1709, lieutenant-governor, June Benj. Aug. 1692 Earl of AN OLD ROMAN ARCH.[Where Is It? 1, 1709 ; Fletcher, 30, ; " " 142 GRIP'S HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF CORTLAND. Dec. 6, 1775 ; Abraham Yates, Jr., president, pro tem, Nov. 2, 1775, president pro tern, Aug. 10, 1776, president pro tem, Aug. 28, 1776; John Harding, president pro tem, Dec. 16, 1775; Peter Living ston, Sept. 26, 1776; Abraham Ten Broeck, March 6, 1777; Leonard Gansevoort, president pro tem, April 18, 1777; Pierre Van Cortlandt, president council safety, May 14, 1777. *This governor's name is down to this day used as a term of reproach in the singlecounty of Schoharie, whose forefathers claimed to have been treated vilely by him . To applythe term Sloughter" "a in that county is regarded as a heinous insult. The Kremlin was opened as a first-class hotel by Wickwire Brothers, who had recently purchased the property, about three years ago, and was placed under the management of Lyman Cams. On May 1, 1899, the property was sold to Mr. Albert Allen, who at once took possession and now con ducts the hotel on a strictly high class order. It is three stories high, and has thirty rooms at the disposal of guests. The furnishings are compara tively new and of the most approved class, includ ing velvet carpets, pretty chamber suits, etc. It is located on Court street, but a few doors from Main street, and a few steps from the trolley line, which leads hence directly to both railroad sta tions, the house being the nearest to the Lacka wanna station of all the hotels. Mr. Allen is the purchasing agent for the Manhattan Beach hotel, and is familiar with the best manner of conduct Borrowed Photo. ALBERT ALLEN. ing a hotel. He also has charge of the Sunny Side Plantation in Bellomont, April 13, 1698; July 24,1700; JohnNau- Arkansas, belonging to the Austin Corbin estate, where he spends a part of fan, lieutenant-governor, May 17, 1699; May 19, the winters.