;^i>-i22 (l^acneU ^ninecattg Htbtaty 3tl)aca, Slein ^atk BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE JACOB H. SCHIFF ENDOWMENT FOR THE PROMOTION OF STUDIES IN HUMAN CIVILIZATION 1918 Cornell University Library F 127 .L8R82 V.3 History of Long Island 3 1924 026 113 914 ¥2 Cornell University Library ^^1 The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924026113914 A HISTORY OK LONG ISLAND From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time BY ^W^ILLIAM S. PELLETREAU, A. M. VOL. Ill the lewis publishing company New York and Chicago 1905 INDEX A c Abbott, George B 94 Cabbie, Elijah 89 Abrams, James F 427 Cadman, Samuel P 205 Abrams & Stockton 427 Calder, Alexander G 340 Ackerson, T. Benton 398 Calder, William M 335 Allan, John T 338 Carleton, Thomas J 108 Assip, John 388 Carlin, Patrick J 352 Chandler, Albert B 211 B Chrichton, Alexander F 129 Church & Gough 356 Ballard, Gayton 68 Claasen, Arthur ' 13 Barnes, Charles C 280 Clarke, Frederick D 122 Barton, Charles T 107 Cochrane, William 24 Bass, Charles H 38 Comey, George P 39 Battey, William J 5 Cook, Elisha W 244 Bauer, August 363 Corbin, John R 445 Bauer, Henry C 378 Corrigan, Thomas 292 Baylis, Abraham B., Jr 124 Cert, William K 268 Baylis, Abraham B., Sr 123 Cosgrove, James F 188 Bell, James A. W 51' Cozine, Chauncey G 382 Bergen, DeWitt 234 Cummings, James J 455 Bierschenk, Philip igg Cutter, Ralph L 210 Birdsall, George N S6 Blackford, Eugene G 196 Boardman, Elbridge H 162 D Boardman, George M log Dale, James 266 Boerum, Folkert R 299 Davol, William H 288 Boerum, Henry 296 Dawe, James 337 Bonert, Louis 442 Dean, James E 21s Bonnlander, Nicholas 346 Denison, Charles H 366 Bowen, William T . 3So DeSilver, Carll H 131 Brandlein, Christian 344 Dobbins, John 389 Brewer, John H 200 Dole, William H 34 Brown, Henry 371 J Downing, Richard F 292 Brown, James N 182 Dreher, John 369 Brown, John 31 W Duryea, Sanford B 27 Buehl, Charles 406 Dutcher, Charles H 275 Bungart, Peter J 231 Burkhardt, Stephen 358 E Burr, Wilfred 390 Eason, Burrell, F. A. M , 242 John W 134 Burroughs, H. F 80 Egbert, George W 396 Burtis, John H 238 Eisenbach, George 405 Burtis, Samuel W 28 Elderkin, John, Sr 313 Burwell, M. J 434 Eppig, Leonhard 203 Byrnes, Thomas F 274 Evans, Norris ig IV INDEX. F Huggins, Joseph D 157 I94 Ferguson; Thomas 136 Hull, Johnson C Findeisen, Ernst 422 J Fique, Carl 88 James, Darwin R I49 Firth, Christopher C 3So Johnson, Leonard 436 Fish, Ferdinand 318 Johnson, Nels 435 Fitzhugh, Edward J ISS Johnson, William H 397 Flanagan, WilHam 360 Fletcher, George 359 K Fraser, John 429 Kaiser, Frederick W 408 Eraser, Thomas H 430 Kaufmann, Edward 119 Friedmann, Christian 238 Kay, William E 357 Froeb, Charles 64 Keim, George F 329 Fuller, Junius A 102 Kerrigan, Thomas A 290 G Koehler, Charles 364 Garrison, William '^F 285 L Gascoine, Jamfes 92 Lam.b, Albert J 4l8 Gardes, Herman 33' Lamb, William 14 Gildersleeve, James 73 Larsen, Peter 10 Gilligan, Jerre J 331 Lauer, Daniel 390 Gleason, Robert W 310 Leary, James D 1 17 Gload, Adolphus 438 Lethbridge, Robert P 58 Grattan, Harry 364 Longworth, David 145 Gray, Allen 282 Loretz, John M 158 Greenman, W. B 4IS Loughran, John _ 52 Gregg, David 186 Lusher, Walter R - 410 Gurney, Richard So .Lyon, William H 142 H M Hall, William A So Mack, Andrew T 446 Hamilton, Alfred 384 Macomber, Walter H 233 Hamilton, Charles 387 Magilligan, John J 407 Hansen, Harry 436 Mahegin, Jere D 34S Harman, John W 243 Marchant, Thomas 308 Haskell, Charles S 33 Martin, Charles C 100 Haskell, Samuel S 74 Martin, Thomas F 437 Hassan, William S 420 Martin, William B 408 Haw ley, Henry R 49 Maske, William 346 Hazzard, William H 376 Mason, John W ; 237 Healy, A. A 94 Matheis, Gustave X 444 Heath, Henry R 206 Matthews, Azel D 64 Heisenbuttel, Henry D 79 McCarroll, William 87 Hendrix, Joseph C 217 McCooey, John H 257 Herod, William 383 McGerald, Arthur 59 Herring, William J 225 Mclndoe, Samuel 40 Hesterberg, Henry 185 Mclntyre, Hugh D ' 230 Hicks, Edgar S 242 McKelway, St. Clair i Hilis, John 60 McNulty, Peter H 302 Hobbs, Edward H 169 McTiernan, Patrick 416 Hoffman, Paul ' J. 394 McWilliams, Daniel W 34 Hommel, Charles D 4S2 Mechanics' and Traders' Exchange 323 Hooker, Edward 138 Metz, Adam 370 Howell, James 47 Metz, Herman A no Hoyt, Charles A 221 Miller, Charles R 9 INDEX. Modern Brooklyn ' 328 Schwarzmann, Adolph 192 Moody, Leonard 79 Scoville, F. H 171 Morgan, Henry P 115 Sillcocks, Warren S '. 307 Morrison, George N 419 Silver, WilHam H 254 Morse, Lyman D 75 Singer, Otto 433 Mulvihill, Michael 176 Smith, Edmund T 205 Mundell, William A 381 Southard, George H 301 N Spencer, Albert 19 Stack, Thomas 231 Napier, A. Milton 422 Steel, Charles F 232 Nesmith, Henry E 276 Stevens, Gerard M 85 Newton, Albro J. 279 Stiner, Munroe 372 Nichols, George 229 Stockton, James K 428 Nichols, Othniel F 379 Swanstrom, J. E 252 Noonan, William T 295 Norris, Fred B 449 T Nostrand, Louis P 251 Tate, Samuel 414 o Taylor, James A 42 Taylor, William 45 O'Keeffe, Arthur J : . 289 Thallon, Robert 127 Olsen, Andrew 339 Thompson, Joseph 451 O'Rourke, John H 120 Tillson, George W 417 P Treboss, Henry V 4SS Palmer, Henry U 76 Troetschel, Hugo 12 Patterson, Calvin 191 Tuthill, Charles E 18 Pearsall, Alva 73 Twitchell, Herbert K 181 Twyeffort, Louis Peters, John , 375 P 3 Pettersen, Gustave 34S U Phelps, Ellsworth C 177 Ulrich, Louis 426 Pipe, George W 387 Planet, The Mills 129 V Planten, H. Rolff 146 VanDerwerken, F. Stanley 175 Polhemus, Henry D 41 VanDerwerken, Yates 172 Pool, Joseph C 141 Venth, Carl 96 Powell, David B 272 Powell, Leander T 273 W Wallace, William 26 Pratt, Henry L 258 C Walther, 82 Putnam, Harrington 90 August Warren, Horace M 114 Q Wechsler, Joseph 262 Quimby, David S 245 Wells, Albert P 25 R Westernacher, Gottfried 244 Wheeler, J. D 137 Randall, Stephen M 37o Wheelock, A. D 11 Raymond, Benjamin C 33° White, George 20 Rexer, William 414 W White, Robert 249 Roberts, George H 224 White, William E 226 Rosenthal, Charles 450 Whitney, Abijah 167 Rutz, Louis 6 Williams, William H ii6 S Wilson, George 175 Salmon, Hamilton H 104 Wilson & Morgan 381 Sbrignadello, Anton 107 Wing, Halsey F 351 Schmidt, Henry 422 Wise, William 140 Schmidt & Findeisen 421 Wood, Boyd H 413 Schultheiss, John 103 Woodman, R. H 163 TWs plate furnished by courtesy of the editor and publisher. ST. CLAIR McKBLWAY, EDITOR BROOKLYH EAGLE. HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND. ST. CLAIR McKELWAY. Philadelphia, in 1834. For some years he prac- ticed medicine in New Jersey, and then moved St. Clair McKelway, editor-in-chief of the to Missouri, where four of his seven children "Brooklyn Eagle," was born in Columbia, Mis- were born. He returned to New Jersey in souri, March 15, 1845. He is descended from 1853, and at the beginning of the Civil war a blended Scotch and Irish ancestry, and in was commissioned surgeon of the Eighth Reg- him are united the robust physical vigor arid iment of New Jersey Volunteers. He served strong mental traits of both races. His par- until the end of the war and was honorably ents were Alexander J. and Mary A. (Ryan) discharged in 1866. He resumed the practice McKelway, bom respectively in Glasgow, of his profession in New Jersey, and died of Scotland, December 6, 1812, and in Philadel- complications resultant from his war 'service, phia, Pennsylvania, October i, 1812. His pa- in Williamstown, Camden county, in Novem- ternal grandparents were John and Isabella ber, in his seventy-fourth year. His Buchanan (McGregor) McKelway, both na- 1885, widow died of extreme age in Philadelphia in tives of Scotland ; the former named was edu- 1898, in her eighty-sixth year. Both were cated in the classics and in medicine at the uni- Presbyterians. versity in Edinburg, his birthplace, and died St. Clair classical at Trenton, New Jersey, in 1877, aged ninety- McKelway attended a one years, his wife having died about three academy in Blackwood, New Jersey, the acad- years before. The m.aternal grandparents of emy in Trenton, and the State Normal School our subject were Patrick A. and Mary Ryan, in that city. In 1863 he was prepared for ad- not born in Dublin, Ireland, and baptized into the mission to Princeton College, which he did Philadelphia, enter, preferring newspaper work, which then Church of England ; both died in the former named by drowning, in 1853, and opened to him. In Trenton he, combined news- the the latter named from old age, many years paper work with the study of law under continued jour- later. late Augustus C. Richey, and father of St. Clair nalism in New York city on the "World" news- Alexander J. McKelway, McKelway, came with his father to the United paper of that day, completing his law studies States in 1817. He was graduated in the in the office of Blatchford, Seward & Gris- in classics at Princeton about 1830, and after- wold, and being admitted to the bar May, ward in medicine at Jefterson Medical College, 1866. He did not enter upon law practice, Philadelphia. He married Mary A.