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1895

Saturday, February 9, 1895
 
Incorporation of Plattsburgh Institute, the object of which is to cultivate a more general interest in the history of Plattsburgh and vicinity, and to perpetuate the memory of many important historic events of the Champlain Valley.  Pres., Dr. D. S. Kellogg; Sec. and Tres., Hiram Walworth; Trustees:  George F. Bixby, George E. Pond, David S. Kellogg, Elmer F. Botsford, Hiram Walworth.

Tuesday, February 12, 1895
Saranac Chapter, D. A. R. organized with twenty-three charter members.  Mrs. Pauline C. Stoddard, Mrs. Julia R. Nichols, Mrs. Jeannette A. Corbin, Mrs. Frances R. Weed, Mrs. Mary S. Warren, Mrs. Caroline W. Farnsworth, Mrs. Martha B. Wolff, Mrs. Katherine M. Platt, Mrs. Lucy B. Sowles, Mrs. Sarah P. Fuller, Mrs. Susan A. Kellogg, Miss Theodora Kyle, Miss Helen M. Palmer, Miss Helen D. Woodward, Miss Erminia Hall, Miss Margaret S. Beckwith, Mrs. Alice S. Whittelsey, Miss Elizabeth Ross, Mrs. Jeannette B. Tuttle, Mrs. Augusta W. Cady, Mrs. Julia Russell Myers, Vice Regent, Mrs. Mary McGill Gamble, Historian, Mrs. Margaret P. Myers, Corresponding Secretary.

Friday, March 22, 1895
An ordinance was approved which established a paid Fire Department in Burlington.

Thursday, July 4, 1895
Tablet, placed by Saranac Chapter, D. A. R. upon the Gen. Benj. Mooers house, unveiled with appropriate exercises.

Saturday, August 10, 1895
Ground was broken for the mill and dam of the High Falls Pulp Company at the great falls of the Chateaugay River, five miles below the outlet of Chateaugay Lake at Bellmont.

Saturday, September 28, 1895
Green Mountain Chapter, D.A.R. Burlington, placed a bronze tablet in a boulder near the site of Ethan Allen's last home, near "Indian Rock."

 

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