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...fortune as a merchant at the northeast corner of Pearl & Broad Streets, served as senior warden of Trinity Church, bought land in what is now Westchester County. When he had accumulated an estate of 83,000 acres extending ten miles along the Hudson River north from the Croton River and "a day's journey" [20 mi.] eastward to the Connecticut line, he built himself a fort-like house of red sandstone, with loopholes, cannon em-brasures, 3-ft. walls. King William III of England bestowed upon him in 1697 full manorial privileges.* When he died in 1700, his large...
...York Central R. R. threw a solid bridge across the Croton where it empties into the Hudson. Surviving Van Cortlandts now complain that this bridge blocks boats passing up the Croton to their estate. Last spring a judge ruled that the railroad must replace its structure with a drawbridge, but before he could sign his decree he died. Therefore last fortnight Mrs. Isabel R. Mason and the Misses Catherine Van Cortlandt Mathews and Anne S. Van Cortlandt, now occupants of the family manor house, appeared in the White Plains Supreme Court to recommence their suit against the railroad. Clad...
Married. August Heckscher, 81, Manhattan zinc tycoon, philanthropist; and a Mrs. Virginia Curtiss, 55, of Greenwich, Conn.; at Croton-on-Hudson...
...American Foundation for the Blind and the Playground & Recreation Association of America, such diverse topics as Children and Educational Publicity. Numerous (313) were the meetings, numerous (471) the speakers. So much was there to hear that the Conference appointed a general consultant, Alexander "Uncle Alec") Johnson of Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1897 president of the Conference, 1890-93 general secretary. Puffing on his pipe "Uncle Alec" sat at a desk in the Hotel Statler and told bewildered conferees how to get the most good out of the Conference, what persons to see, what meetings to attend...
...York had no such worry. In its Catskill and Croton reservoirs were 240 billion gallons of water, enough to carry through until next year without rain...