Biographical files, [ca. 1760]-2002.

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Crandall Public Library (Glens Falls, N.Y.),. Biographical files, [ca. 1760]-2002.

Title

Biographical files, [ca. 1760]-2002.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155432950

Abstract

The Biographical Files contain information concerning people and families, mainly in the Glens Falls area, Warren County, Washington County, and the Adirondack Mountain region. The principal type of material in the files is newspaper clippings, many of them obituaries. Some longer articles and pamphlets can be found, along with a few pictures, letters, and other manuscripts (sometimes photocopies of original material). Most of these files are small in size, containing only a few sheets of information. Over 1,900 surnames are represented in the collection, but only small portions of them contain genealogical information contributed by researchers and others.

Extent

12 cubic ft. (8 file drawers)

Holding Repository

New York State Historical Documents (Albany, N.Y.)

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6868033

New York State Historical Documents (Albany, N.Y.)

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Bishop, Charles Reed, 1822-1915

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Smith family.

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Thomson family.

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Holden family.

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Finch family.

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Buell family.

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Blackburn, Loren.

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Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933

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Painter, architect, landscape designer; New York, N.Y. and Cornish, N.H.; b. 1861; d. 1933. From the description of Charles A. Platt letter collection, [ca. 1887]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79370050 Also known originally as Seven Springs Farm. From the description of House for Eugene Meyer, Esq., Mt. Kisco, N.Y. [graphic] : Project 525. [Part 1] / Charles A. Platt, Architect. 1915-1921. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 83173...

Chitty, Marion A., 1861-1948.

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Peck family.

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Ferris family.

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Robards family.

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Miller, Charlie 1850-1955.

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Brown family.

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Crandall, Henry, 1821-1913.

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Wing family.

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Pruyn family.

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Ashley, Eugene Lionel.

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Williams, Sherman, 1846-1923

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Willams was an FIT faculty member. It is believed that the sketches were done by his students. From the description of Sherman Williams collection, 1970-197. (Fashion Institute of Tech Library). WorldCat record id: 220838334 ...

Stoddard, Seneca Ray, 1844-1917

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Seneca Ray Stoddard was an American landscape photographer, publisher, and conservationist active in the Adirondack Region of New York State. From the description of Seneca Ray Stoddard collection, 1848-1916. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155514215 Seneca Ray Stoddard (1844-1917) was an American landscape photographer, naturalist, writer, poet and cartographer. Born in Saratoga County, New York, he taught himself painting (one his fi...

West family.

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Gansevoort family.

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Patterson, Robert Porter, 1891-1952

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Lawyer, jurist, and U.S. secretary of war. From the description of Papers of Robert Porter Patterson, 1940-1951 (bulk 1940-1947). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 74984701 ...

Goodman family.

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Mead family.

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Colvin, Addison Beecher, 1858-1939.

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Addison Beecher Colvin (1858-1939) was a Glens Falls, New York newspaper publisher, banker, industrialist, businessman, civic leader, and politician active in the Republican Party, serving as New York State Treasurer from 1894 to 1898. In 1879 Colvin established the Glens Falls Times, the first daily newspaper in Glens Falls. He was involved in numerous other business ventures in printing, real estate, banking, street railways and railroads, and telegraph and electric utilities. He organized the...

Russell family.

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Cochran, Robert, -1811

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Goodspeed family.

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Durkee family.

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Austin family.

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Haskins family.

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White, Stanford, 1853-1906

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Collector, artist; New York, N.Y. From the description of Stanford White papers, 1873-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86132941 Stanford White (1853-1906) was an American architect, and a partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White. He designed numerous homes for wealthy individuals as well as public buildings in and around New York City. He was murdered in 1906 by Harry Kendall Thaw for having had an affair with Thaw's wife, the very beautiful (and very ...

Solomon, Gerald B. H., 1930-2001.

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Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon was born in Okeechobee, Florida on August 14, 1930. He attended public schools in Delmar, New York. He attended Siena College from 1949-1950 and St. Lawrence University from 1953-1954. Solomon served in the Marine Corps in Korea from 1951-1952. He went into business in Glens Falls, was first elected to public office in 1967 as a Town Supervisor in Queensbury, later as a member of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, and in 1972 as a member of the New York State Asse...

Fuller family.

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Gilchrist family.

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Morgan family.

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Smith, David, 1906-1965

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Sculptor; Bolton Landing, N.Y. From the description of David Smith interview, 1964 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80437636 Sculptor. Studied painting at the Art Students League in New York City between 1927 and 1932. Smith began working with sculpture around the time of leaving the League. In 1940 he moved to upstate New York where he remained until his death in 1965. Retrospective exhibitions of Smith's work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1957, and at the Fogg Art ...

Swick family.

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DeLong family.

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Miller, Alexander Ward, 1889-1978.

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Alexander Ward Miller (1889-1978) was keenly interested in local history during his thirty years as Superintendent of the Glens Falls City School District and after his retirement in 1957. A dedicated teacher and historian, Miller accumulated a large manuscript collection relating to the history of Glens Falls and nearby communities. Alexander Miller was born in Hillsville, Pa. He graduated from Harvard University in 1913 and completed graduate studies at Columbia Univer...

Patterson family.

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Jenks family.

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Crockwell, Douglass, 1904-1968

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Douglass Crockwell (1904-1968) was a painter, illustrator, and museum director. From the description of Oral history interview with Douglass Crockwell, 1965 Feb. 21 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 435526899 Painter, illustrator, museum director. From the description of Douglass Crockwell interviews, 1965 Feb. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220192721 ...

Crandall Public Library (Glens Falls, N.Y.)

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Collecting of photographs by Crandall Library evidently began through the efforts of Sherman Williams, who was a founder of the New York State Historical Association and an advisor to Henry Crandall. Photographs may have been collected beginning with or near the founding of Crandall Library in 1892. Others who were influential in developing this collection were Robert C. Carter and Arthur S. Fisher. The cataloging and indexing began in the early 1980's through the efforts of Bruce Cole. ...

Wray family.

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Foster, Jeanne Robert, 1879-1970

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Jeanne R. Foster (1879-1970), creator of the collection, was an American poet, assistant editor of The Review of Reviews and American editor of Transatlantic Review. She met a significant group of writers, poets and artists through John Quinn who was a New York lawyer, collector of modern art and active patron of the arts. From the description of Foster-Murphy collection, 1900-1969. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122640093 From the guide to the Foster-Murphy ...

Biographical files, [ca. 1760]-2002.

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