Erie Canal widening debate and era of celebration stories
Western and central New York residents push for Erie Canal enlargement to allow steam navigation or full ship canal. The piece recounts Clinton era plans, the 1825 completion, grand 19th century ceremonies, and the canal’s rapid shift to railroads as freight moved westward, highlighting tolls, tonnage, and population shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Syracuse
Rochester
Friends
Central West
Annals of Commerce
de Witt Clinton
Colonial Assembly of
Western Inland Navigation Company
Seneca
Ontario
Life Sketch of Dr E D Standiford Wealthy Kentuckian
Dr E B D Standiford of Louisville died at 56 after a rise from poverty to wealth as a tri millionaire with political clout. He battled for U S Senate with James Beck, led as railroad president and bank director, and left seven children. His widowhood followed a third marriage to a Paducah merchant’s daughter.
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EB. D. Standiford
Louisville
James Beck
United States
Kentucky
Beck
Standiford
F. D. Standiford
Laura Scott
Paducah
Phillips
Louisville and Nashville Road
Farmers and Drovers’ Bank
Congress
L. and N. Railroad
Death of George H. Patch Boston Globe editor
Massachusetts mourns the death of George H. Patch military editor of The Boston Globe a devoted advocate for old soldiers. A veteran of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Volunteers he fought at Gettysburg and later worked as a conductor for Albany Railroad before joining journalism. Survived by wife and infant daughter his loss is mourned by thousands of veterans and colleagues.
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Massachusetts
George H. Patch
Boston Globe
Massachusetts Volunteers
Gettysburg
Patch
Albany Railroad Company
Globe
Grand Army
Republican Party
The Mormon Chief Dead Career of John Taylor
John Taylor died in Utah at age 79 after a long life that spanned England Canada and the United States. He rose from Methodist roots to Mormon leadership serving as apostle and president and endured exile and peril including a jail deathbed escape. His career included missionary work in France and New York and leadership during the Salt Lake period before hiding from U S marshals and dying in Utah.
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John Taylor
Brigham Young
United States
Utah
Milnthoro
Westmoreland County
England
Canada
America
Campbell-Purcell
Ohio
Taylor
Kirtland
Missouri
Expositor
Nauvoo
Illinois
Pratts
L'Etoile
the Star
France
Salt Lake City
New York City
P T
Young
Disaster at Zug Switzer land sinks quay and houses
European illustrated papers show a view of Zug after a catastrophic slide that sent two dozen houses and a new quay into the water. The death toll is unclear as scientists debate the disaster's cause.
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Zug
Switzerland
Ohio Gubernatorial Race in 1883 and Key Candidates
Ohio’s 1883 gubernatorial contest features Joseph Benson Foraker, the Republican nominee who fought in the Civil War and became a judge at 53, facing Democrat George Hoadly and rising contender Thomas E. Powell. Morris Sharp stands as Prohibition hopeful from Washington Court House.
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Joseph Benson Foraker O
Ben
Foraker
Eightyninth Ohio Volunteers
Joseph B. Poraker
Ohio
George Hoadly
Rainsboro
Thomas E. Powell
College
Delaware
Wales
Theson
Ohio Wesleyan University
Morris Sharp
Washington Court House
Aberdeen
Brown County
Kentucky
Fayette County
River Navigation Early Roating on Small Western Streams
The article recounts the rise and decline of river steamboat traffic from Fulton’s Clermont era to mid nineteenth century western rivers. It notes early experiments, landmark vessels, rapid growth of river towns, and how railroads later supplanted river commerce, with examples from the Ohio Mississippi and Missouri valleys.
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Blasco de Garay
William Henry
Chester County
Conestoga River
D’auxiron
Perier
France
Marquis de Jouffroy
James Rumsey
Potomac
John Fitch
Delaware
Great Britain
Robert Fulton
Seine
America
Clermont
New York
Albany
Fulton
Fulton and Livingston
Pittsburg
Clyde
Scotland
Ohio
Mississippi
Cairo
Florence
City of
New Harmony
Terre Haute
Raccoon Creek
Parke County
Lafayette
Indiana
Missouri
Omaha
Yankton
St. Paul
Messenger Boy Sails to London With Souvenirs for The Highest Bidder Cast
A New York district messenger boy named Eugene B. Sanger, 14, sails to London to deliver souvenirs and letters to actors and writers including E A Sothern and others from the play The Highest Bidder. He will be met in Liverpool, travel by train, and return to New York, testing speed and morale.
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Bay
New York
London
Sothern
Maddason Merton
Robert Reece
Dan Frohman
Ed. Sothern
Lyceum Theatre
E. A. Sothern
Low
Liverpool
John B. Curtis
Midland Railroad
Edmund Yates
Henry Irving
Ellen Terry
Eugene B. Sanger
Buffalo Bill
Nate Salsbury
Emily Faithfull
Nat Goodwin
Toole
Clement Scott
Sanger
John Bull
Stately Western Steamers Mark River Trade Shift
The piece traces steamers on Red River Lake Winnipeg and Sas Katchewan while upper Mississippi and Missouri see fewer boats due to bridges. It notes traffic from St Louis to New Orleans remains vast with seven steamers weekly to Memphis, and the Memphis and St Louis Packet Co moving nearly 200000 tons of freight yearly and 40000 to 60000 bales of cotton. It highlights the Great Republic as the era’s grand western steamer and references the interstate commerce bill offering a potential river transport boost despite a long decline.
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New York
New England
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Mississippi
Tidewater
Falls of St. Anthony
Anson Northrup
Red River
Manitoba
Lake Winnipeg
Saskatchewan
Missouri
Ilinois
St. Louis
New Orleans
Memphis
Memphis and St. Louis Packet Company
Great Republic
Late Gen. Dunn Remembered as Indiana Builder and Soldier
The death of Gen William McKee Dunn brings back a statesman of Indiana who helped frame its constitution and school laws. Born December 12 1814 he studied at the state university and Harvard, served in Congress during the Civil War era, aided McClellan in West Virginia, and rose to judge advocate general before retiring in 1881. He died at his Fairfax county Virginia country home after a long public career.
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William McKee Dunn
Indiana
Dunn
Robert Dale Owen
Blackford
M’kee Dunn
Morton
Colfax
W.M. Dunn
State University
Harvard
Lincoln
McClellan
West Virginia
Fairfax County
Where Water Power is Used Across Five Manufacturing Branches
Five branches of manufacturing use 850 cent of all water power. Flouring and grist mills consume 88.4 percent, sawmills 22.7 percent, cotton mills 12.1 percent, and woolen mills 4.4 percent. The iron industry uses very little water power.
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Boston Budges
Indorser of Ericsson John B Kitching dies in New York
John B. Kitching a noted merchant and promoter of the Ericsson and Atlantic cable projects died in New York City. Born in England in 1515 he moved to the United States in 1924 and built mercantile ties with England and Cuba. He supported suburban development around New York and left six children including General J Howard Kitching who fell at Cedar Creek.
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John B. Kitching
New York City
Ericsson
Mr. Kitching
Ericson
Ericon
New York Bay
John BR Kitching
Jocosely
England
United States
Cuba
J. Howard Kitching
Battle of
Cedar Creek
Death of Gen. James M. Comly Toledo editor and Civil War officer
Gen. James M. Comly, longtime editor of the Toledo Commercial, Ohio, was born March 3 1812 in Perry County. A Civil War veteran, he rose from private to lieutenant colonel and brevet brigadier general, later serving as minister resident to Hawaii before returning to editorship until ill health forced relief. He was a lifelong Republican.
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Comly
James M. Comly
Toledo, O
Ohio
Perry County
Henry Comly
Philadelphia
William Penn
Columbus
Supreme Court
Forty-third
Ohio Volunteers
Twenty -Third Ohio
Ohio State Journal
United States of Hawaii
Toledo Commercial
Lust
Gen
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Buffalo
Lockport
State Senate
Utica
Rome
Clinton
Sandy Hook
Union Pacific
Erie Basin, New York
Beneca
James Tallmadge
Stephen van Renslaer
Chancellor Livingston
Lake Erie
Wade
Brooklyn
E. D. Standiford
Prohibition
River Navigation
Hudson Highlands
Hudson
Toeliver Parcelea
Indorser
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