1828
Jan 28
The Cayuga &
Susquehanna Rail Road, formerly the Ithaca and Owego, is chartered, the second
railroad charter in the state - capitalized at $150,000.
Feb 7
Civil War officer Ely
Samuel Parker, a Seneca sachem of the Wolf Clan, author of the terms of surrender at Appomattox, is
born on the Tonawanda Reservation, in Indian Falls, New York to Senecas William
and Elizabeth Parker.
Mar 16
Ezra R. Andrews,
founder of Rochesterville's Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, is born.
Mar 25
The Sullivan County
town of Cohocton is formed from the Town of Bethel. ** Construction is authorized by the state for a
branch from the Cayuga & Seneca Canal , following the Seneca River looping
north to Cayuga Lake, after receiving numerous petitions by residents of
Cayuga, and Tompkins counties looking to solve the problems of low water and
sand bars.
April
James Samuel
Wadsworth reads law under U. S. Senator Daniel Webster, in Boston.
Apr 1
The Erie Canal opens
for the season.
Apr 2
The packet boat Niagara is the first boat of
the season to pass Syracuse, heading west on the Erie Canal.
Apr 12
The Canandaigua
Railway & Transportation Company is founded, to connect Canandaigua and
Watson to the Chemug Rail Road to Elmira. It’s capitalized at $50,000.
Apr 17
The Great Ausable
Rail Road is organized, capitalized at $150,000, to connect Port Kent to the
Ausable Forks. It’s never built.
Apr 21
The Genesee County
Town of Gerryville changes its name to Alabama. ** The Auburn and Owasco Canal Company is
chartered, with a capitalization of $100,000, to connect the village and Owasco
Lake. ** Elmira village, the former
Newtown, is organized with Stephen Tuttle as president; Theodore North, Charles
Orwan, Lyman Covell, William Maxwell as trustees, and Hiram Gray as clerk. The local Masonic temple closes, a
victim of the national William Morgan scandal. It will reopen fifteen years
later. ** The Catskill & Ithaca
Rail Road is organized, capitalized at $1,500,000, to connect the two villages.
It’s never built.
** The Geneva
and Canandaigua Rail Road is organized – capitalized at $100,000 - to connect the two locations. It’s
never built.
May 16
Buffalo-born
politician Peter Buell Porter is naed Secretary of State, replacing James
Barbour who will be named Ambassador to the United Kingdom on the 26th.
Jul 16
Scottish traveler
James Stuart boards the packet William Thomson for a three-year
expedition to North America - first port of call, New York City.
Aug 27
Buffalo architect
Cyrus K. Porter is born in Cicero, New York, to Welcome and Rachel Kinne
Porter.
Sep 1
The Stuarts are late
getting their seats in the carriage when the female servant fails to wake them
on time. They reach Auburn just before sundown.
Sep 2
Stuart is given a
tour of Auburn Prison, for a 25-cent fee.
Sep 4
Stuart’s party
travels as far as the wooden bridge across the north end of Cayuga Lake, travel
down the east shore to Aurora, put up at an inn (not the later Aurora Inn) for
the night.
Sep 5
Stuart’s coach passes
through Ithaca, then proceeds up the west side of Cayuga Lake, passing
Taughannock Falls, through Ovid and on to Geneva.
Sep 11
Brockport lawyer
Daniel Holmes, Jr. is born in West Bloomfield to Massachusetts native Daniel Holmes, Sr. and his wife Susan
Hale-Stuart Holmes.
Nov 15
The Cayuga and Seneca
Canal linking Seneca and Cayuga lakes to the Erie Canal is completed. An additional appropriation
of $16,000 had been needed, bringing the total to $214,000.31.
Nov 24
Optician, businessman
Henry Lomb is born in Burghaun, Germany, to Johnnes and Caroline Issbruecker
Lomb.
December
New York’s Oswego
Canal is completed, connecting the Erie Canal at Syracuse with Lake Ontario.
Total cost is $525,115.
State
Future philanthropist
Ezra Cornell moves from the Bronx to Ithaca. ** The first printing press in Wyoming County. ** The Rogers brothers launch their first schooner,
the Jeanette, on the lower Genesee River. **
James D. Bemis sells the Western Repository and Genesee Advertiser to Morse and
Harocy. ** Hamilton College tutor
William Kirkland marries writer Caroline Stansbury and they move to Geneva to
found the Domestic School.
** Great Lakes
steamboat operator Josephus Bradner Stuart dies. ** 1000 gallons of whiskey is purchased at 20¢ a
gallon for resale in Le Roy.
** Nathaniel
Pitcher, Jr. is elected governor. ** A brick Steuben County court house is built at
Bath. ** The legislature calls for a
registry of canal boats.
** David S.
Wilberforce replaces John T. Wills as captain of the Chautauqua. ** Elmira village is organized
with Stephen Tuttle as president; Theodore North, Charles Orwan, Lyman Covell,
William Maxwell as trustees, and
Hiram Gray as clerk.
** Having
outgrown its first structure, Binghamton's Broome County courthouse moves
across the street into a new brick building. ** "Sally", probably Sarah Sullivan,
"the belle of Boston", comes to Geneseo for a visit with young James
Wadsworth and his family.
** 47,000 more
acres of Seneca Indian reservation land are put on the market. ** The Oswego Canal opens
north from Syracuse as far as Phoenix. ** A parcel of land northwest of Keuka Lake - the
Beddoe Tract - goes on the market for farm land. George Stafford of Geneva
marries Charlotte Beddoe of Branchport, daughter of landowner John Beddoe.
Charlotte's brother dies of epilepsy this year. ** Jonas Baldwin and John McHarrie begin
construction on a gristmill on the Seneca River. ** 1,160,888 bushels of salt are processed at
Salina. ** Combined revenue from
the Erie and Champlain canals totals $883,000. ** Robert Hyde Walworth becomes the last Chancellor
of the State of New York..
** Alva
Palmer builds an inn at the Genesee Valley gorge which will later become the
Glen Iris Inn of Letchworth State Park. ** Auburn Prison now has its prisoners working in
seven shops – blacksmith, copper, shoe, tailor, tool, turning and weaving. ** Lawyer Simeon B. Jewett builds a Federal-style
house on Lake Road in Clarkson. ** Future Volunteers officer Calvin Nicholas Otis
moves from Spafford to Auburn after the death of his father, to learn
carpentry. ** Mendon's Daniel Barnard
fails in his re-election bid to Congress. ** Assemblyman Timothy Childs is elected to his
first term in Congress.
** Albion is incorporated as a village. ** A Connecticut man settles
in Brockport, notes it has eight or so stores and reminds him of a slightly
smaller version of New Hartford.
Buffalo
Lawyer Millard
Fillmore is elected to the state legislature. ** Beals, Mayhew and Company establish the
village’s first foundry and machine shop, at Indiana and Ohio Streets. ** The Great Lakes schooner Guerriere delivers 2500
bushels of wheat from the west. Not finding a ready market here, they carry it
down to Dunkirk.
** Benjamin
Rathbun is elected a village trustee for a second one-year term. He will
afterwards retire from politics. ** Use of the harbor increases 30% over last year. ** The Old Mail Line, renamed
the Buffalo and Albany Coach Line, faces competition from the Pioneer Line, a
rival that doesn't travel on Sundays.
The new line sets up offices in the Steamboat Hotel with proprietor
David E. Merrill as agent. The Buffalo and Albany establishes the Telegraph
Line, offering higher cost, speedier service. ** The Bank of Niagara fails.
Rochesterville
Merchant Charles J.
Hill takes Lewis L. Peet on as a partner; the new firm becomes Hill &
Peet. ** Loud and Peck's Western
Almanack carries its first patent medicine advertisement. ** Abelard Reynolds builds an
arcade on East Main Street.
** The first
temperance meeting here is held in the Monroe County Court House. ** The Board of Trustees is
given complete control of the maintenance of city streets. ** Elisha Johnson is elected
president of the community for a second consecutive one-year term. ** Massachusetts transplant
(1817) Ezra Parsons is appointed Monroe County Clerk.
Syracuse
A new weighlock
building is completed, replacing the 1824 Erie Canal water level chamber used
previously for weighing boats and their cargo.
Canada
Former British
citizen Thomas Barnett buids a museum in Kingston, Ontario. In a year or so it
will move to Niagara Falls.
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