1874
Saturday, February 7, 1874
The Y.M.C.A. of Burlington presented its library
to the Fletcher Free Library.
Monday, February 2, 1874
Mrs. Mary L.
Fletcher and her daughter Miss Mary M. Fletcher gave to a Board of Trustees of
the Fletcher Free Library of Burlington, the sum of $10,000 for the purchase of
books and a further sum of $10,000, the income of which was to be used in
increasing the Library.
Monday, March 16, 1874
he association for a united,
systematic effort in behalf of homeless waifs and strays of the street and
county house, organized by Margaret P. Platt, Sarah S. Williams, Catherine
Frederica Buckley, Joanne W. Clark, Deborah T. S. Bixby, Mary M. Foot, Margaret
E. Edwards, Margaret S. Palmer, Hannah S. Lansing, Welthy
H. Orvis, Francis D. L. Hall, Charlotte M. Norton, Margaret P. Myers.
Wednesday, May 20, 1874
"Home for
the Friendliness in Northern New York" incorporated by act of legislative
power.
Thursday, August 6, 1874
At Port Kent, in the house which he had built in 1828, died Peter
Comstock, far famed as the pioneer contractor and navigator of the Champlain
Canal and prominent in the transportation and lumbering interest of the valley.
The youngest son of Samuel and Sarah (Crippen) Comstock of Egremont, Mass.,
where he was born in 1796, he came with his parents to Fort Ann about 1800.
As a young man he settled at a point (since called Comstock) on the
projected Champlain Canal in the construction of which he was the leading
contractor. He ran athe first freight boats and packets, was proprietor of
the Red Bird Stage line, and principal proprietor of the opposition steamer
Francis Saltus. Nothing ever daunted him--"a regular Napoleon in business-he
carried everything by storm."
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