1824
Jan 24
During an Ontario Canal Company meeting at
Canandaigua's Mead’s Hotel, nine directors are elected. The canal is never
built.
Feb 2
The Niagara County town of Lockport is formed from
Cambria and Royalton.
Feb 9
New York Secretary of State J. V. N. Yates
presents a report to the state senate , advocating houses of employment for
each county for the poor and for orphaned children.
Feb 19
Rochester's first bank, the Bank of Rochester, is
chartered.
Mar 23
The Tioga County town of Barton is formed from the
Town of Tioga.
Mar 29
The Broome County town of Conklin is formed from
the Town of Chenango.
Mar 30
Oswego businessman Henry Milton Ames is born in
Mexico, New York, to Leonard and Minerva Peck Ames.
April
Manhattan Company superintendent John Lozier
issues a report, lowering his estimate of possible new customers to 1,000, and
offering an uninterrupted supply of water. At an annual rate of $12 few sign
up.
Apr 3
Samuel Young is nominated by a state caucus for
governor.
Apr 12
De Witt Clinton is deposed as an Erie Canal
commissioner.
May 11
The cornerstone of Rochester’s St. Luke's Church Church
- to be in the Gothic style - is laid.
Jun 1
The Erie Canal Commission signs a second,
overlapping contract with Samuel Wilkeson and Ebenezer Johnson, for building
the dam at Tonawanda.
Jul 12
Horatio Gates Spafford registers his A Pocket
Guide for the Tourist and Traveller along the Line of the Canals and the
Interior Commerce of the State of New-York with R. R. Lansing, the Clerk of the Northern District of New-York
in New York.
Jul 23
Western New York land agent Paolo Busti dies at
the age of 74.
Aug 4
Rochester lumber dealer William B. Morse is born.
Aug 24
Syracuse builder and salt manufacturer Amos L.
Mason, is born in Onondaga, to Cyrenus and Martha Harroun Mason.
September
Spafford’s “Guide . . . “ is published in Troy,
New York.
Sep 11
Holland Land Office agent Joseph Elliott gives his
nephew and accounting clerk David E. Evans power of attorney for conducting the
office's business.
Sep 3
On this day or the next Micah Brooks, Jellis Clute
and Henry B. Gibson contract with former Indian captive Mary Jemison for her
land on the central Genesee River, except for her 2-square mile Gardeau Tract,
which she reserves for herself and her Indian family.
Oct 26
The cutting of the western end of the Erie Canal
at Lockport, to Lake Erie, is completed.
Oct 28
The Reverend Joseph Penney preaches the dedication
sermon at the opening of his Presbyterian Church in Rochester. The sermon will
be printed by Everard Peck.
November
De Witt Clinton is again elected governor of New
York, partly a backlash due to his ouster from the canal commissioner's post by
Van Buren's colleagues.
Nov 8
Cayuga Lake ferryboat operator, politician, and
militia colonel John Harris, dies in Bridgeport at the age of 64.
Nov 11
Orleans County is created out of north central
Genesee Country.
Nov 25
The Onondaga Canal Company is organized, to
connect the Erie Canal to Onondaga Hollow. Nothing is ever done.
Nov 27
New York State authorizes the establishment of
county poorhouses, to be run by superintendents.
December
Final engineering measurements are made at
Lockport, the work is found completely satisfactory.
State
John Beardslee, founder of Beardslee City,
dies. ** Syracuse is incorporated as
a city. ** The approximate year editor
Benjamin Smead turns Bath’s Farmers’ Advocate and Steuben Advertiser over to his sons. ** The Naples Village Record begins publication. ** Hector pioneer Mrs. William Wickham dies at the
age of 82. ** Charles Butler is admitted
to the bar, begins practicing in Lyons. He will move to Geneva after a few
months. ** James Seaver, MD's The
Life of Mary Jemison, from her
own words, is published.
** James
Fenimore Cooper accompanies four English noblemen (including future prime
minister Edward Stanley) on a tour of Saratoga, Ballston, Lake George,
Ticonderoga and Lake Champlain. While in Little Falls he decides to write Last
of the Mohicans. ** The 7th Regiment of the New
York State Militia takes the title National Guards. ** Evangelist Charles G. Finney begins his career,
in western New York.
** The
steamboat Martha Ogden is
built at Sackets Harbor, financed in part by Rochester merchants. ** Richard McDaniels settles
in Connewango. ** Ebenezer Mack, publisher of
Ithaca's Seneca Republican,
takes on William Andrus as a partner. ** The late land agent Paolo Busti is replaced by
John J. Vander Kemp.
** H. G.
Spofford’s Gazetteer of the State of New York is published. ** When Troy hardware merchant John Spencer dies
partner Erastus Corning buys out Spencer’s heirs to become full owner. ** Legislation is passed
calling for the final sale of all unassigned patent lands in the state. ** Buffalo businessman
Benjamin Rathbun successfully sues Samuel E. Barnes for $75. Barnes is defended
by "Counselor" John Root; Rathbun retains Millard Fillmore partner
Joseph Clary. ** Farmer John Nicholas Rose purchases over a thousand acres of
land on Keuka Lake from Captain John Beddoe. **
New York City mercantile worker David Piffard settles in the central
Genesee Valley, buying 600 acres of land. ** Newfane holds its first town meeting in James
Van Horn’s mansion.
** Construction
begins on Skaneateles’ Lake House (later the Indian Queen). ** The approximate date James
Brown opens a public house in Scottsville, later to become the Oatka Inn. ** Reuben Hyde Walworth is
named the last chancellor of the state. **
The approximate date the
present basic structure of Pittsford’s Phoenix Hotel is completed by its owner
– either M. Kempton or the former inn’s next owner John Acer. ** A stone house is built in
Clinton County. In the 1920s it will be purchased by industrialist William H.
Miner’s wife Alice, to store her artwork collection.
Auburn
The Auburn system of prison management is
implemented, ending universal solitary confinement.The prison in enlarged. ** William Henry Seward
marries Frances Miller, daughter of his senior law partner Judge Elijah Miller.
Miller gives them a house.
Canandaigua
The second County Court House (later City Hall) is
completed. ** A. N. Phelps begins
publishing the Canandaigua Republican. He soon sells the paper to Thomas B. Barnum who runs it for a short
time. ** The home of Dr. E. Carr at
50 Gibson Street is completed. ** Boston architect Francis Allen’s home for
Alexander McKechnie is completed. ** David E. Evans becomes a director of the Ontario
Bank and the Western Insurance Company.
Chautauqua Lake
A bursting dam destroys Robert Miles’s log canoe,
used for freighting on the lake since 1806. ** Elisha Allen builds a horse-boat scow for the
Chautauqua to Maysville passenger run. Powered by two pair of horses
alternating hourly, the run takes ten hours. ** Wine is first produced in the Chautauqua
region.
Erie Canal
Professor Amos Eaton’s report on the rock
formations along the route of the future Erie Canal, A geological and
agricultural survey of the district adjoining the Erie canal, in the State of
New-York, commissioned by Stephen
Van Rennselaer, is published. It contains a 4 1/2 foot profile of geology
between Boston and Buffalo. Eaton is designated senior professor of the
Rensselaer School (later Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute) in Troy, founded
by Van Rensselaer, who donated $300, and himself. **
The inhabitants of Cayuga, Onondaga, Ontario, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga,
Tompkins, Wayne, and Yates counties petition the Legislature to ask further
navigation improvements from Cayuga and Seneca lakes to the Erie Canal,
including the draining of the Cayuga Marshes. An act is passed to have a state
engineer to do a feasibility study; the drainage of the marshes does not get
beyond the survey stage. ** A weighlock is built at Syracuse.
Penn Yan
The approximate date Alexander Heimup builds a
house at 200 Main Street.
** The Yates
County Court House is built.
** The 1801
grist mill is destroyed by fire. **
Birkett Mills is built.
Rochester
The village gets its first theater. ** A visitor is robbed of
$1,800 at a gambling shop.
** St. Luke's
Episcopal Church is built.
** The wooden
Main Street bridge across the Genesee River is replaced by a new wooden one on
stone piers, - designed by Elisha Johnson - at half the cost of the previous, 1812 one. ** The aqueduct is completed. ** Nathaniel Rochester’s home at Spring and South
Washington streets is completed. He is named president and a subscription
manager for the new Bank of Rochester, which he co-founded. ** Thurlow Reed becomes editor
of the Telegraph. ** The First Presbyterian
Church is built. ** Printer H. Leavenworth
publishes David Rogers' The American Physician. and Lewis W. Covell's An Account of the
Destruction of the City of Jerusalem , by the Roman Army Under Titus. ** Joshua Bradley's An Address to the Masons, on
the Importance and Utility of forming Associations . . . is published. ** The Rochester Magazine and Theological Review, edited by the Reverend John Samuel Thompson, is
printed by L. W. Sibley.
** Lumberman
Sanford Hunt builds the canal boat Hazard at the Lower Falls of the Genesee site known as the Old Rafting
Place. He will use it to transport timber, potash and pearl ash to Albany via
the Erie Canal. ** Dr. Douglas Bly is born in
West Henrietta.
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