
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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