The Chronicles of Cooperstown/Index

by S. M. Shaw

OUR CONTRIBUTORS.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and thanks are tendered, with due appreciation, to those friends who have kindly contributed toward making this book of interest and worth to those to whom it is specially dedicated:

• To Miss CARRIE M. HILLS, for her finely written article on "The Glimmerglass," much assistance in collating and preparing for the press data embraced in "The Chronicles" from 1838 to 1886, and proof-reading.

• To Mr. G. POMEROY KEESE, for his valuable article on local "Meteorology," and the statistics accompanying it relating to the ice leaving the Lake; an article on "The Cooper Monument," etc.

• To Miss SUSAN FENIMORE-COOPER, for her interesting articles on "The Thanksgiving Hospital" and "The Orphan House of the Holy Saviour."

• To Mr. ELIHU PHINNEY, for his article and valuable statistics on "Fish and Fishing in Otsego Lake."

• To Dr. JOHN K. LEANING, for his brief sketch of Fly Creek and its early settlers.

• To Mr. ISAAC K. WILLIAMS, for his chapter on Pierstown history, of special interest to the families who were the principal early settlers of that neighborhood and their now widely-scattered descendants. He has collated and put on record facts which might otherwise have been lost to the next generation.

• The Essay of the late Hon. ISAAC N. ARNOLD on Mr. Cooper, is the tribute not only of a warm personal friend and admirer, but is the most discriminating and just, and one of the best written panegyrics on the great Novelist and Naval Historian, which has ever been published. Mr. Arnold wielded a polished and scholarly pen. We also give an extract of local interest from an address which he made in Cooperstown a few years before his death.

THE CHRONICLES OF COOPERSTOWN
by James Fenimore Cooper (1838)

Preface & Introduction	5 – 9
Chapter I	11 – 18
Chapter II, From 1780 to 1799	19 – 25
Chapter III, From 1792 to 1797	26 – 35
Chapter IV	36 – 39
Chapter V	40 – 47
Chapter VI	48 – 53
Chapter VII	54 – 61

THE CHRONICLES OF COOPERSTOWN, Continued by S. M. Shaw (1886)

Chapter VIII, From 1838 to 1851	62 – 68
Chapter IX, From 1851 to 1861	69 – 76
Chapter X, From 1861 to 1871	77 – 91
Chapter XI, From 1871 to 1881	92 – 115
Chapter XII, From 1881 to 1886	116 – 129
"The Glimmerglass"	130 – 140
The Town of Otsego	212 – 223
The County of Otsego	224 – 236
Index	237 – 240

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Sections: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y.

A

Abbe de Raffcourt,	23
Academy, subscription,	29
Acknowledgment to contributors,	237
Agricultural Society of Co,	73, 231
Aqueduct Association,	108, 153
Arnold, Isaac N., address,	167
Arnold, Isaac N., tribute to Cooper,	192 – 206
Averell, William H.	161

B

Ballard House,	103
Bank of Cooperstown,	71
Bank Robbery,	68
Bank incorporated,	50
Banks in Cooperstown	152
Baptist Church,	91, 120
Barber, Andrew M.	72, 162
Bible Society,	231
Boucks visit, Gov.	61
Bowen, Samuel A.	121, 162
Bowers, Henry and John M.	41
Bowers, John M.	163
Bowers, Martha S.	162
Bowers, Mrs.	7
Bowers’ Patent,	6
Bowerstown,	7
Bowne, George L.	78, 161
Bowne, Samuel S.	163

C

Carter, Mrs. Jane R.	109
Catholic Church,	86, 87
Centennial Year,	103
Central Hotel,	121
Christ Church,	123
Churches in Cooperstown,	143-146
Churches, early established,	36-39
Civil War, meetings,	78, 82, 84
Clark, Edward	73, 118, 161
Clarke, Alfred	163
Clarke, Thomas	162
Cooper House, hotel,	93, 106
Cooper Monument,	75, 208
Cooper, Miss Anna	37
Cooper, personal recollections of	206
Cooper’s libel suits,	64
Cooperst'n facts and incidents,	164-167
Cooperst'n walks, drives and sails near,	170
Cooperstown in 1838,	54
Cooperstown RR. Co.,	153
Corporation of Cooperstown,	141
Cory, Ellery	160
County Buildings,	100, 107
Court House, laying the Corner Stone,	109
Court House,	43
Court House built,	63
Crippen, Mrs, Schuyler	162
Chronicles of Cooperstown, Cooper,	9-61
Chronicles of Cooperstown, S. M. Shaw,	62 - 129
Clinton’s Campaign,	8, 14
Cooper. William,	12, 170
Cooper. William, death of	42
Cooper’s Patent,	14
Cooperstown, first settlement,	19, 20
Cooperstown, first buildings,	21, 22
Cooperstown, first store,	23
Cooperstown, first child born,	25
Cooperstown, first minister,	29
Cooperstown, first M. C. elected,	31
Croghan, Col. George	11

D

Death of Old Residents,	173-177
Dedication,	3
Distinguished Visitors,	84
Dix, John A.	52

E

Early Society of Cooperstown,	167
Earthquakes,	88, 105, 125
Edwards, Edward	100
Empire House,	68, 73, 90
Ernst, Rev. John F.	37

F

Facts of Interest,	164 – 167
Fire Department,	151
Fire Engines first obtained,	44
Fires,	46, 49, 66, 78, 106, 108, 125
Fish & Fishing in Otsego Lake,	165 – 191
Fly Creek,	212
Fowler, Dr. E. P.	120, 122
Freeman’s Journal,	102, 108

G

Garfield, President,	117
Gas Light for Streets,	78
Glimmerglass,	130
Grant, Gen U. S.	126
Gregory, Kate Worthington	168

H

"Hall, The" built,	33, 52
"Hall, The" changed to hotel & burned,	70
Harris, E. M., appointed Co Judge,	83
Hausman, Esaias	41
Hop Growers’ Association,	65
Hotel Fenimore,	102, 121
Hotels, early established,	48, 49

I

Ireland, relief,

65

J

Jail burned, built,

63

K

Kingfisher Tower,	104
Keese, Theodore	160

L

Lake Navigation,	74, 93
Lake Otsego,	55
Lakelands, sale of	119
Lakewood Cemetery,	73, 126
Lathrop, Horace	160
Lawyers,the first,	48
Le Quoy de Mersereau,	27
Lee, Frederick A.	121, 161
Library first opened,	34
Lincoln, President	85
Literary Society,	151

M

Manufactories,	59
Marcy, Gov. Wm. L.	69
Masonic Hall,	42 127
McIntosh, Thos.	162
Medical Society,	232
Members of Congress,	48
Memorial Day,	125
Meteorology, local,	137-180
Methodist Church.	103
Military Companies,	45
Morehouse, E. B.,	68
Morehouse, Mrs. E. B.	162
Musical Convention,	72

N

Newspapers,	44, 59, 149
Nelson, Judge Samuel	52, 93, 99, 159

O

Oldest residents,	51, 157-159
Orphan House,	117, 118, 123
Otsego Co. Bible Society,	84
Otsego Lake and Vicinity.	6-8
Otsego Lake Building Association,	89
Otsego Republican,	73, 102, 122
Otsego, County of	224-238
Otsego, Town of,	212

P

Phinney, Elihu, Sen.,	159
Phinney, Elihu,	31
Phinney. Henry F.	90, 91, 160
Pierstown,	214-223
Pioneer Boat Club,	86
Pioneer Mills,	106
Points of interest near Cooperstown,	170
Pomeroy, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.	160
Population of Cooperstown 1812,	44
Population of Cooperstown 1820-35,	49
Preface,	5
Prentiss, Col. John H.	77, 160
Printing house destroyed by fire,	66
Printing house of H. & E. Phinney,	59
Professional and Business Men	154-157

R

Roads first built,	32
Railroad projected in 1839,	62
Railroad Matters,	70, 83, 89, 91, 102

S

Schools, public and private,	147
Scott, Henry	161
Secret Societies,	150
Seminary, The	70, 85, 87
Seward’s first visit, Gov.	63
Sewerage System,	118, 120
Seymour, Gov.	88
Sheriff’s Residence built,	63
Sill, Jedediah P.	161
Skating Rink,	122
Smith, Dr. Thomas	162
Snow Storm in April,	74
Society in Cooperstown,	57
Spafard, Dr. Ariel	163
Steamers on Lake,	90
Story, Joshua H.	161
Sturges, H.	103, 109, 123,162
Sunday School Association,	232

T

Telegraph Line,	69
Telephone Syslem,	119, 153
Temperance movement,	64, 65
Thanksgiving Hospital,	86, 87, 91, 180
Thanksgiving Sermon first preached,	32
Trials for Life,	232

U

Union School,

88, 91, 147

V

Village Trustees elected,	43
Van Buren’s first visit, President	63

W

Washington, Gen,	7, 12
Water Supply,	65
Weed, Thurlow	92
Whipping Post,	31
Williams, Isaac K.	164
Williams, Isaac, Jr.	163
Wilson, William	162
Wilson, Mrs.	7
Wood, Mrs. Levi	163
Worthington Bank,	72, 92
Worthington, John H	160

Y

Young Men’s Association

86