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John P. Blakely, a
prominent farmer of Kortright, was born in this
town, June 18, 1845, son of James G. and Susan
(McAuley) Blakely, both of whom were natives of
the town. The father was born January 12, 1810,
and the mother July 23, 1813. James G. Blakely
was a son of William, who was born in Washington
County, and moved to the town of Kortright in
1808, when quite a young man, purchasing a farm
of about nine hundred acres. At the time of his
advent in the town it was in a very primitive
state, most of the land being covered with
timber, requiring the expenditure of much energy
and time to bring it under cultivation. This Mr.
Blakely successfully accomplished. In addition to
his farm he also kept a tavern, which was the
first one in the town. He raised a family of nine
children, all of whom grew to maturity, one Mrs.
Sarah Mitchell, being alive at this time. William
Blakely died on the homestead, aged seventy-four.
In politics he was a Democrat. James G. Blakely
was educated in the district schools of
Kortright. He was a successful farmer and
dairyman, owning a farm of three hundred acres,
part of the old homestead. He and his wife Susan,
had eight children, five of whom are now living,
namely: Mrs. Agnes Thomas, widow of John Thomas,
residing in the town of Stamford; William, Jennie
M., and John P., all of Kortright; and Rebecca
S., who resides at home. Mr. James G. Blakely
died April 15, 1882.
John P. Blakely
was educated in the district schools of Kortright
and at the Stamford Academy, and then engaged in
teaching for two terms. He afterward devoted his
attention to general farming, also making a
specialty of dairying, owning fifty head of
cattle. Mr. Blakely is a man of progressive
ideas, and has remodelled and improved the farm
buildings until the estate is second to none in
the county. He is a member of the West Kortright
Presbyterian Church, and in politics is a
Democrat. He has never been prominent in
politics, neither has he ever sought any public
office. He is a man of great popularity with his
fellows, and the type of an honest, intelligent,
industrious, and well-to-do farmer.
Note: Laid to rest at Blakely Cemetery in Kortright.
Moved to Kortright in
William married Nancy McDonald, and with
capital stock amounting in all to an ax and an
auger, and two indomitable spirits, the youthful
couple went into the woods on the farm now owned
by their son,G. Banyar. Mr. Blakely built a cabin
with his ax, and with his ax and auger made
furniture for it. He took from a huge tree timber
sufficient to make a table, and left the tree
still growing. He hewed the material and finished
the table; it had "fall leaves". This
table was used by the family until they were able
to have a better one.
Mr. Blakely soon became noted as a business
man. "The turnpike", running from
Catskill, on the Hudson, to the Susquehanna,
afforded good facilities for keeping a hotel. He
erected suitable buildings, and for forty years
was the jolly host of the home-seeking traveler.
He was one of the most prosperous business men of
his day. He died in 1855, aged 78 years, leaving
an inheritance which will be enjoyed for
generations by his descendants. Two of his sons,
James G. and G. Banyar, live on parts of the old
homestead. His other son, John D., moved to
Tully, N.Y., and is still living. The other
brothers and their descendants are unknown to the
Note: William and Nancy were
either laid to rest at Tully Cemetery
in Onondaga County or moved from Blakely Cemetery in Kortright as both cemeteries mark
their burials.
The son of David and
Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish, Aaron was born 21 Oct
1768, at Glastonbury, Conn. He married Roxanna
Webster, and she was born 29 July 1774.
Their children:
Frances born 22
Nov 1792 in Glastonbury, Conn.
Novatus born 03 Ap 1795
Aristarchus born 21 Mar 1797
Roderic Skinner born 21 Jul 1800
Henry M. born 30 Oct 1802; died 21 Apr 1827
Sophia L. born 11 Mar 1805; married Burr Gould
Sally T. born 13 Sep 1807; married Sellick Gould
Almira S. born 15 July 1811; married Harrison
Lewis J. born 01 Mar 1813; died 04 Aug 1834
Emily born 02 Jun 1816; married Bethuel
After his
marriage, Aaron Blish removed to New York State.
He first settled on the river by the flouring
mill below Kortright. He remained there for
twenty years or more; then sold out and went into
Genesee Valley, near Rochester, intending to
settle there, but hearing of the new Ohio
country, he went out prospecting. While in Ohio
he contracted fever and ague, and soon repented
his venture. He returned to Genesee Valley, but
finding his ague no better there returned to
Delaware county, and bought land on Rose's Brook,
where he remained until his death. He was a
farmer all his lifetime. He was a large man of
commanding appearance and of sterling character.
The exact date
when he left Connecticut is not know, but it must
have been early, as only one entry is found in
the Town records of Glastonbury mentioning his
name: "1792 Dec 10 - John Case, Samuel
Stratton 3rd., George Hunt, Roger Hollister and
Aaron Blish chosen collectors of Town
Novatus M. Blish , of
Stamford, is a great-grandson of David Blish, a
native of Connecticut, and a lineal descendant of
Abraham Blish, who settled in Duxbury, Mass., in
1637, buying a farm of twenty acres at what is
known as Eagle's Nest. In 1640 Abraham removed to
Barnstable, Cape Cod, where he was among the
first settlers, residing in the western part of
the town, which is known as Great Marshes; and
this property was owned by the Blish family for
over two hundred years. July 17, 1658, Abraham
Blish purchased for seventy-five pounds a farm
called the Dolar Davis place, situated in the
eastern part of the town, which was known as the
common field, and since that period has been
called Blish's Point. He was an active, energetic
man, prominent in all town affairs, and died
September 7, 1683, leaving a numerous family.
Many of his posterity took an active part in the
Revolution and the War of 1812, some also in the
French and Indian War.
Aaron Blish, son
of David, was born in Connecticut and married
Roxie Webster, of the same State. In 1790 they
moved to Stamford, Delaware County, where he
purchased two hundred acres of wild land, which
he cleared and improved, building a log house. He
belonged to the State militia, and was well known
as Colonel Blish. He was an active member of the
United Presbyterian church at South Kortright,
was a Whig in politics, and held the office of
Justice of the Peace. Disposing of his first
farm, he purchased one at Rose Brook, where he
and his wife passed away, both having reached the
age of seventy-five years. Of their ten children,
three are still living: Mrs. Sally Gould, of
Stamford: Mrs. Elmira French, of Otsego County;
and Mrs. Emily Sutherland, of St. Paul, Minn.
Their son, Novatus
Blish, the father of the subject of this sketch,
was born in Litchfield, Conn., but grew to
manhood in the town of Stamford. He learned the
blacksmith's trade, which he followed for some
years, and then purchased a farm and adopted a
farmer's life. Moving to Roxbury, he kept a
general store for about five years, selling it at
the expiration of that time, and returning to
Stamford, where he became possessor of a farm of
one hundred and fifty acres and a store. These he
operated for twenty-one years, adding land from
time to time to his original purchase, until at
his death he owned two hundred and fifty acres.
He was a practical and successful business man, a
Democrat in politics; and he and his wife were
members of the Presbyterian church at
South Kortright. He came to his death at the age of
fifty-seven years by falling from a scaffold. He
married Mrs. Mary Mapes Barlow, of Albany County;
and she died at the old homestead when
seventy-four years of age, leaving two children
by her first husband and six by Mr. Blish,
namely: Joseph Barlow, a resident of Ripon, Wis.,
and his sister, Mrs. Harriet Silliman, wife of A.
G. Silliman, of Hobart; Mary, who died when
sixty-one years of age, the wife of William S.
Foot, of Hobart; Novatus M., the subject of this
biography; David P., who lives at Atchison, Kan.,
and is engaged in the wholesale hardware
business; Alonzo, who died at the age of
seventy-five; Aaron, who passed away when sixty
years old; and Henry, a resident of Broome
Novatus M. Blish
was born in Roxbury, July 16, 1828, and grew up
in the town of Stamford, attending the district
school, and later the Hanford Academy at Hobart.
When nineteen years of age, after the death of
his father, he assumed the charge of the old
homestead, and settled his father's business
affairs. He then purchased the home farm and the
store, operating the latter until 1861, when he
sold it. Until 1892 he occupied the old home, but
then moved away to make room for his son. He
increased the extent of the farm land to four
hundred and thirty acres, making it one of the
largest and most productive farms in the town.
Here he operated a dairy, in which industry he
was very successful.
On September 22,
1849, Novatus M. Blish married Miss Marietta
Cowan, who was born in Stamford, December 13,
1830, a daughter of John and Nellie (Grant)
Cowan. Mrs. Blish passed away March 25, 1893, at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Griffin, having
been the mother of four children: Charles A.,
born in 1852, and at present the General Agent of
the Portland Insurance Company in San Francisco,
Cal., where he resides with his wife and four
children; Helen, who was the wife of Bruce
Chisholm, but has passed away; John C., who is
married, has one child, and lives on the old
homestead; Mrs. Etta Griffin, wife of Thomas
Griffin, and mother of two children Bruce B. and
Kenneth B. Mr. Blish is a Presbyterian and a
Republican, having held the office of Justice of
the Peace for twelve years and Justice of the
Session for two terms. He has now retired from
active business, and lives with his daughter,
Mrs. Griffin. An upright, trustworthy man, he
holds an exalted position in the regard of all
who are fortunate enough to claim his
Note: Laid to rest
at South Kortright Cemetery
James Buchan, son of Robert Buchan, was born
at Harelaw Mains, Parish Of Linton,
Roxburghshire, September 3, 1812, and died in New
York City, April 29, 1887. In 1828 after
passing through the parish school, he was
apprenticed to Mr. Stephen Palmer, hardware
dealer, Kelso, and served him for five years. In
the spring of 1833 he sailed from Leith for
Montreal, from which place after a brief
residence he removed to Peterboro.
In 1835 Mr. Buchan came to this city and four
years later entered into business with a partner
in the manufacture of soap and candles. In 1842
the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Buchan
continued the business in the works on Elizabeth
Street until 1879. Although full of enthusiasm
for Scotland and all that pertained to it Mr.
Buchan did not mingle much with the Scottish
residents of the city or identify himself with
any of the national societies (except the Saint
Andrew's Society). He was thoroughly domestic in
his tastes, loved his home, his family and his
books. He possessed a remarkably well selected
library, full of representative works in Scottish
literature and in their society his happiest
hours were spent. The result of his study might
often be seen in the columns of the
Scottish-American where under the signature of
"Caverton Edge," or under his own name,
he wrote pleasant reminiscences of life in the
Scottish border and in Canada, half a century
ago. One or two stories from his pen also pleased
many of our readers and his contributions were
generally copied very extensively into the
Scottish newspapers.
His first wife Jane McClure died March 29,
1848, aged thirty-four years. He married secondly
Rachel, daughter of Stephen A. Rich. She died
October 6, 1899, in her eighty-second year. All
are buried in Greenwood.
Simon Bolivar Champion (Aaron), born
7 September 1825, in East Worcester, N. Y. ;
married in Charlotteville, N. Y., 'S April 1857,
Rev. J. Hiram Champion (99)
officiating, Mary Louisa McCollum,
daughter of Reuben and Patty (Smith) McCollum,
born 21 March 1829, in Bloomville, N. Y.
Bolivar Champion, so named by his uncle
Reuben who had just finished reading the life of
the famous South American, was the first grandson
born to the East Worcester Champions. He attended
the district school until September 7, 1840, when
he went to Cooperstown, N. Y., to learn the
printer's trade. He served a six-year
apprenticeship with the Hon. John H. Prentiss in
the Freeman's Journal office, and' then
acted as foreman in the same office for nine
months. In the fall of 1847 he went to
Prattsville, Greene County, and became a partner
with John L. Hackstaff in the publication of
the Pratteville Advocate, a Democratic
newspaper. Here Mr. Champion first
introduced the local department under the caption
of "Home Matters," an example soon
imitated by nearly every country paper. He claims
the pioneership of that progressive kind of
journalism. For nearly two years he labored
industriously with the pen : then hi* health
began to give way, and his physician ordered him
to seek higher land and cease close indoor work.
Accordingly, in 1849, he went to Bloomville,
Delaware County, a village of only two hundred
inhabitant«, where he and his father bought a
dwelling house, gristmill and saw-mill While
attending to the mill he kept
his pen busy as correspondent for
several papers, especially the Albany,
Aryus) which he had read all his life. Ho
was also often called to assist the printers in
Delhi, the county scat, which was only eight
miles distant.
In the spring of
1S51 he was called to Schoharie, by "W. H.
Gallup of he Republican, who desired a
vacation and wanted a man to take charge of the
paper. Young Champion introduced a
local department and reported a noted arson case,
which gave new life to the paper ; and induced
the proprietor on his return to buy new type for
it. While dumping the cases of old
type Champion suggested buying some of
it to take home. Mr. Gallup told him to take what
he wanted, and he made up a small font of only a
dozen pounds. Soon after his return to
Bloomville, a neighbor desired some labels
printed. Champion thought of the old
type, made cases, obtained a quire of printing
paper, a piece of composition and a few ounces of
ink, made a wooden stick and chase, covered a
square block of wood for a press, and began work.
One day a squirrel hunt took place, and the next
a special election was held for a state senator,
to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of
Democratic senators on account of Canal troubles.
When making up an
account of these happenings for several papers,
the thought occurred to him, that he could print
the little slips and save using the pen. He
succeeded, and mailed the printed slips
containing the election returns and an account of
the hunt. Next day there was a call for
the slips, as he had shown a copy to some
friends, so he again started his press of .
planer and mallet, after adding the returns of
two towns, he thought it would look better to
have a newspaper caption, so he set
up Bloommlle News and took proof. It
did not suit, so he changed it to Bloomville
Mirror. He gave the copies away. The miniature
paper " took like wild fire," .and his
friends urged him to start a paper ; but the
printer said he had no capital to buy a press. In
about a week he issued another slip containing
only local items. Applications for it began to
come in by mail ; he filled the orders, but as
yet no price had been fixed. After several
numbers had been issued and about 1000 names
entered, he fixed the price at twenty-five cents
a year. Here was a problem. If he commenced
taking pay he would have to furnish the paper. He
found an old "Ramage" press in the
garret of the Prattsville
Advocate which Colonel Pratt gave him;
bought a case of old brevier type, and fitted up
a room in the mill for an office. Voluntary
subscriptions began to come in and lie soon had
money enough to buy a few fonts of new type. On
July 1, 1851, the law came into effect by which
papers were allowed a free circulation in the
county where they were published. This did away
with paying postage and opened the door of
success to the little sheet. It was about the
size of a sheet of common note paper, and
contained home news and a list of its
subscribers, which made it a special favorite
with the boys.
After the
circulation reached 1000, a Smith hand press was
purchased, and as business increased so was the
size and price. In 1856 the circulation reached
2000, and an office was erected mid a power press
put in operationthe first one in Delaware
County. The little sheet was well filled with
county news and pithy correspondence from all
over the country. At the breaking out of the
Civil War the Mirror had a voluntary
list of 3000 subscribers. In 1870, owing to the
daily mail service being reduced to three times a
week and there being no railroad or telegraphic
communication, and in view of the opening of a
railroad from Rondont to Stamford,
Mr. Champion sold his property in
Bloomville, both of his parents being dead, and
in September bought two acres of land in
Stamford, erected an office, and changed the name
of his paper to the Stamford
Mirror. The Mirror is issued
weekly. It has twenty-eight columns, is printed
with modern machinery, and has a circulation of
2000 copies.
Mr. Champion is
probably the oldest editor in the Empire State.
He learned short-hand of Sherman Croswell of
the Argus, and has served as editor
for. over thirty-eight years consecutively on one
paper. In 1858 he was unanimously elected a
member of the State Assembly, but declined on
account of his literary work. On January 31,1861,
he was chosen one of the delegates from the
Second Assembly District of Delaware County to
the " Peace Convention " at Albany. In
1868 he was Presidential Elector for Delaware and
Otsego Congressional Districts. In 1870 he was
Democratic candidate for County Treasurer, but
although leading his ticket by 400 votes was
defeated as was nearly every Democrat at that
time. In that year he took the census of
Davenport, Meredith and Kortright. He has also
acted several times as delegate to various
conventions. In Bloomville, where he resided
twenty-one years, he was postmaster, school
trustee, etc. At Stamford, he has been
deputy-postmaster for several years, trustee of
the village school, and a member of the Board of
Education of Stamford Seminary. He has been
High-priest of the Royal Arch Masons and is the
present secretary of that order.
Amasa Junius born 10 Apr 1858, in
Bloomville, NY and married Mary E. Rexford;
Elmina Brown, born 30 July I860, in
Bloomville and married John D. Church;
Aaron Clifford, born 13 Aug 1860, in
Bloomville and is foreman in
the Mirror office in Stamford, N Y;
Lucy Brown, born 18 Oct 1809, in Bloomville
and died 31 Dec 1873, in Stamford; and
Nellie, born 27 Jan 1873, in Stamford.
Hector Cowan, who died on
July 4, 1878, at his home in the town of
Stamford, New York where he was an influential
and valued citizen, was born here on October 2,
1824. His father, John Cowan, who was a
Scotchman, was born in the old country on June 4,
1798; and his mother, Helen Grant Cowan, was born
two years later, September 15, 1800, in Stamford.
John Cowan's
father, whose name was Hector, came to America
with his wife at the beginning of the century,
while John was only two years old, and settled in
Stamford, on what is now known as the old Cowan
farm, which he reclaimed from the wilderness,
building a frame house, wherein he resided till
his death, at ninety-three years of age, in 1843.
The children of the emigrant Hector were as
follows: James Cowan, born June 29, 1794;
William, on August 3, 1796; John, in 1798;
Isabella, on June 14, 1800- all before the
emigration. Afterwards, in Stamford, came Mary,
March 12, 1803; Agnes, July 1 1805; Andrew,
December 13, 1808. Grandfather Cowan was an Elder
in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church in
South Kortright. Politically, he was a Whig. He
lost his wife when she was sixty years old,
nearly thirty years before his own demise.
John Cowan grew up
on his father's farm, and attended the district
school, his educational opportunities being,
however, very meager. In the course of years he
purchased the homestead from the other heirs, and
added thereto so largely that finally he owned
six hundrend acres, and stood at the head of the
agriculturists of this neighborhood. Not only was
he his father's successor as a farmer, but as an
Elder in the Kortright Parish. His marriage to
Helen Grant took place on New Years's Day, 1824;
and Grandfather Hector Cowan was greatly pleased
the next autumn, when they named their first
child after him, Hector. On September 18, 1826,
came a sister Ann Eliza, and on December 11,
1830, another sister, Marietta; but all three
have joined "the innumerable caravan,"
Ann Eliza on February 21, 1843, the same year
with her grandfather, as above mentioned. Hector
died in 1878, and Marietta in April, 1893.
Young Hector went
to the local school, like his father before him,
and likewise worked on the home farm, devoting
himself wholly to agriculture. In 1851, November
5, at the age of twenty-seven, Hector Cowan
married Helena Jane Rich, who was born on the
Rich family homestead at South Kortright, the
daughter of James and Helena (Marshall) Rich; and
more particulars concerning her family may be
found in the sketch in the volume of Mrs. Sarah
Rich. Like his progenitors, Mr. Cowan took an
active part in church affairs, and succeeded them
as an office-bearer, holding the position of
Ruling Elder. As they had been Whigs, so was he
in sentiment, and cast his first vote for Taylor
and Fillmore; but a few years later the
Republican party arose, and he at once joined its
fortunes. He was also influential in town
affairs. At his death he left a widow and eleven
children, eight of whom are still living.
The eldest of
these, John A. Cowan, born in 1854, is a Stamford
farmer and an Elder in the Presbyterian church in
Hobart. Helena Cowan, born in 1856, married Dr.
F. H. McNaught, of Denver, Colorado. Of James
Rich Cowan more will be said presently. Robert F.
Cowan, born in 1860, is a Stamford farmer. Hector
William Cowan, born in 1862 amid our Civil War,
and named for his father and great- grandfather,
is a Presbyterian clergyman in Lawrence, Kansas.
Henry Marshall
Cowan, born in 1864, resides on the ancestral
acres. Charles Cowan was born in 1868, and lives
in Stamford, unmarried; and so does Frank B.
Cowan, born in 1870. The children no longer
living in this world are: Thomas Rich Cowan, who
died at the age of twelve; Stephen, at age seven;
Annie, at four. Since the death of their father
the large farm has been carried on by his widow
who owns it. Of course she is aided by her
efficent sons, but is herself a very capable
manager, as well as a bright and intelligent
woman. She is especially proud of her son, the
Hon. James Rich Cowan, who bears her own family
The Honorable
James R. Cowan was born on May 22, 1858. He was
educated in the local school, like two
generations of his ancestors, and then went to
Stamford Seminary. He lived at home till his
majority, and did not give up farming till the
year 1891, having six hundred acres under his
control. Like other farmers in the region, he
gave special attention to cattle, having from
seventy-five to one hundred. In politics he has
been active being commissioned a Justice of
Peace. In 1889 he was made Town Supervisior by
the Republican party, and acting as chairman of
the board the latter part of the time. In 1891 he
was elected to the State Assembly, and served a
term at Albany. The same year he was chosen
President of the National Bank of Hobart which
has a capital of fifty thousand dollars; and this
place he still fills, the Vice-President being
Oscar I. Bennett, and the Cashier J.A. Scott. Mr.
Cowan is still unmarried, and gives his main time
and attention to finance. In religion, as well as
politics, he retreads the inherited foorsteps,
and ia a member of the United Presbyterian church
in South Kortright. The Cowan homestead is a
noble old place, the house standing amid fertile
fields not far from the village of Hobart.
James Crofoot was one of the prominent early
settlers and probably emigrated from Connecticut
about the year 1806, arriving in Preble during
the latter part of that year. He settled on lot
88 and was one of the very first to locate in
Joseph Crofoot was postmaster of that hamlet
for a number of years. His son, David Crofoot,
was a tanner and currier and became wealthy. He
was a skillful mechanic and carried on that
business at Baltimore for forty years. The old
stone building, still standing in that place and
occupied for that especial purpose during the
time Mr. Crofoot was engaged in that pursuit, was
afterward used for various purposes, such as
blacksmith shop, shoe shop, etc., but has been
virtually abandoned for many years. This building
was erected about the year 1810, and was the
first tannery in the town.
David Crofoot must have turned his attention
in part of politics; the records of the town show
him to have been supervisor in 1823, '24, '25,
'30, '32, '33, '34, '39, '40, '43, '44, '45, '46,
'52, and '53 -- fifteen years in all, but
extending over a period of thirty years of time.
The Rev. William Mc Auley
was born in the North of Ireland about the year
1765. At the usual age he repaired to the
University of Glasgow, the institution in which
most of the North Irish young men of that day,
who intended to enter one of the learned
professions, received their education. While a
member of the University, Mr. McAuley gained very
high distinction. He was regarded by his fellow
students and the Professors as a youth of
singular promise, and was the special favorite of
Prof. Anderson, one of the most eminent
scientific men of that time, and the founder of
the Andersonian University of Glasgow. Having
completed his academic course, he at once began
the study of Theology under the well known and
venerable John Brown, of Haddington, the
Professor of Theology to the Associate Burgher
Synod of Scotland, and was one of the last class
of students taught by that great and good man.
Mr. McAuley was
licensed by the Associate Presbytery of Armagh in
1789, and on this occasion a little scene
occurred which showed the sort of stuff of which
he was made. I had an account of it years ago, by
a venerable parishioner of mine, himself a native
of Ireland, and who happened to be present at the
meeting and a witness of the affair. The Sermon
and Lecture of the young candidate being under
discussion, though better, I dare say, than many
of the members of Presbytery could have preached,
were most unmercifully criticized
according to the usage of Scottish and Irish
judicatories of that day. Mr. McAuley endured the
infliction as long as he could, but, at length,
burning under a sense of the injustice done his
productions, he arose, " bearded the lion in
his den," demanded to be heard in reply, and
then proceeded to give the astonished fathers and
brethren a taste of the same sort of excoriation
as that to which they had subjected him. The very
sublimity of the impertinence, as it must have
seemed to them, probably saved him from instant
suspension. Certainly he must have been an
uncommonly bold young man, who would venture, in
that way, to face a Scottish or an Irish
Presbytery in those times. In 1790 Mr. McAulay
was ordained by the same Presbytery as Minister
of the Associate Congregation of Tulliallan, and,
during the four years of his residence in this
charge, he performed his pastoral duties, in and
out of the pulpit, with very great acceptance.
He came to this
country in the summer of 1794, was received by
the Associate Reformed Presbytery of Washington,
(in the Synod of New York,) on the 2d of
September of that year, and on the 25th of June
he was installed by the same Presbytery in the
pastoral charge of the United Congregations of
Kortright, Harpersfield and Stamford, in the
County of Delaware, N. Y. The new field into
which he entered was then one of the " new
settlements," on the confines of the
unbroken wilderness, if not actually in it, and
must have presented the greatest possible
contrast to that which he had left, amid the
verdant and cultivated hills and valleys of
Ireland. To reach Delaware County in that day,
whether one started from Albany or Catskill, a
long journey through the wilderness was
necessary, and when one arrived there, he would
find himself in just such a " lodge "
as Cowper longed for, " a boundless
contiguity of shade."
The history of Mr. McAuley's pastorate in
though it extended over more than half a century,
is soon told. His parish originally embraced two
or three townships, but the number of his
parishioners was small, and most of them were so
poor that it was absurd to think of their
supporting a minister. Their Pastor, while
watching over their spiritual concerns, was
obliged to depend mainly upon his own exertions
for the supply of his own temporal necessities.
In process of time, Mr. McAuley's family grew to
be a very large one ; his salary hardly amounted
to $300, and was irregularly paid ; while
preaching on the Lord's day, he was compelled to
labour as hard as any of his hearers on every
other day, and so he toiled, year after year,
until he was past middle life, amid difficulties,
privations, the pinchings of poverty, and the
anxieties incident to a large family, such as few
ministers or missionaries experience now-a-days.
Ultimately his labours were confined to
Kortright, which, while the mother of three or
four respectable congregations itself, grew to be
one of the largest and most substantial churches
in all that region. In 1810 the Stamford branch
of his original charge was set off as a distinct
parish under the care of the Rev. Robert Forrest.
His settlement in this place proved a great
comfort and blessing to Mr. McAuley. No two men,
in many respects, could differ more than these
two Pastors, who, for nearly forty years lived
and worked together within some six. or seven
miles of each other. They became the most
endeared friends, and regularly twice a year they
assisted each other at the dispensation of the
Lord's Supper. There was no man whom Mr. McAuley
loved more warmly than Mr. Forrest, and there was
no man for whom Mr. Forrest had a profounder
veneration as well as affection than Mr. McAuley.
" Mr. Forrest, carried with him to the then
wilds of Delaware County, a fine library. He was
a lover of books, and having the means to do so,
he made constant and valuable additions to his
collection. His settlement, therefore, in
Stamford was a double boon to Mr. McAuley, for it
gave him the companionship of a dear friend and
fellow-presbyter, and also the access to books
from which his remoteness from town and his
poverty had shot him out for years. He had the
happiness to see sundry colonies going forth from
the mother church peacefully, and with their
venerable Pastor's blessing, and to welcome, as
his colleague and successor, my esteemed friend,
the Rev. Clarke Irving, the present minister of
Kortright. But so long as he himself was able to
ascend the pulpit, and even when blindness and
other infirmities of advanced age made it
necessary for others to assist him into it, there
was no one whom his people so loved to see there,
or to whose voice they listened with greater
delight. His death took place on the 24th of
March, 1851.
About the year
1810 or '12, an earnest effort was made by the
old Associate Reformed Church of Albany, (now the
3d Presbyterian,) to induce Mr. McAuley to become
its Pastor. But, as the congregation was, not a
very strong one, and as his family had grown to
be a large one, his friends thought that the risk
involved in removal to a new sphere was too great
for him in his circumstances to run, and the plan
was consequently abandoned. The first time that I
ever saw him was in my childhood. There was a
meeting of Synod at Newburgh, and Mr. McAuley was
a guest of my father's. I have a dim remembrance
of the sermon he preached on the Lord's day
afternoon, though the fact might have faded from
my memory if I had not so often heard the
circumstances attending it repeated by my father
and others who were present on the occasion. The
leading men of the church had asked the Synod to
arrange the services of the Lord's day,
expecting, of course, that only the " big
guns " would be employed, to use a
cant phrase knowing as they did that the
church would be crowded. The day came, and
greatly to the mortification of the Elders and
others, they learned that the person chosen for
the service was the plain looking and rather
humbly attired Mr. McAuley, of Kortright, who had
not once opened his mouth in Synod, and from
whom, judging by appearances, only a very
ordinary sermon was to be expected. However the
thing was done and could not be changed ; they
only hoped that there might be a thin audience,
but in this too they were disappointed, for the
church was as full as it could he. Mr. McAuley
ascended the pulpit and began the service. The
tone of his prayer surprised them a good deal,
and they began to think, when it was ended, that
they had possibly mistaken the man. He announced
his text, I Peter i, 8. " Whom having not
seen ye love," &c., and within five
minutes he led the vast audience captive at his
will. I have, as I said, a dim remembrance of
that noble discourse, for I was only a child at
the time, but I can never forget the profound
stillness of the church, nor the delight with
which I listened to his rich Irish voice. I need
not mention that ever after, Mr. McAuley was a
prime favourite in Newburgh, and that, on his
occasional visits, necessity was laid upon him
invariably to preach. As a member of Synod, the
meetings of which he punctually attended until
kept at home by the infirmities of age, he was
one of the most modest and retiring of men. It
was an exceedingly rare thing for him to take
part in a discussion, although he was always in
his place and a most attentive listener ; but
when he did speak, it was to give in a brief,
clear and simple way, his judgment and the
grounds on which it rested. But by the fireside
of a friend, or in his own house, he was as
genial and accessible as a child, and wherever he
was a guest, the little ones were sure to find
the way to his lap.
His head was one
which would have filled a phrenologist with
delight, and no one could look upon it without
suspecting at least that it was the home of a
superior intellect ; and no one could look into
his countenance without perceiving the traces of
that love of humour for which his countrymen are
generally noted. Indeed, I can well believe that
in his earlier years, his native humour and wit
often overflowed ; but when I first knew him, he
was past the meridian of life, and he had been
called to drink deeply of the cup of sorrow, and
consequently his humour came out in a quiet way.
On one occasion when the Synod was to meet at
Kortright, a large coach load of the brethren
reached the parsonage about 8 p. M. We were of
course warmly weleomed, but when some one was
expressing his fears that there might not be beds
enough for so large a company, Mr. McAuley with a
humorous twiukb of his eye, replied that in any
case we would not be so badly off as he was the
first night he spent in Kortright, when, said he,
" we had to sleep fourteen in a bed,"
i. e., on the soft side of the floor. He was once
called to marry the nephew of one of his
neighbours, a worthy Covenanter of the old stamp,
who was disposed to measure the value of
religious services by their length. Mr. McAuley,
as his habit was, made the marriage service quite
short, and when, at the close, he pronounced the
young couple husband and wife, "
Humph," said the uncle, " they
are nae mair married than they were before."
Mr. McAuley overheard the remark, though it was
not intended to reach his ear, but he did not
notice it in any way. Some time afterward the
uncle resolved to take to himself a wife, and as
no minister of his own church could be got, he
was forced, much against his will, to apply to
Mr. McAuley, who cheerfully consented to "
tie the knot " for him. When the evening for
the marriage arrived and the parties had
presented themselves, Mr. McAuley addressed the
bridegroom (after a single word to the bride) in
a discourse regarding his duties and
responsibilities of such length that the poor
man, fairly wearied out, was forced to take a
seat, leaving the lady standing alone. Mr. M.
thereupon closed the service, and, after the
customary congratulations, he, with a significant
smile, asked the worthy Covenanter, "
Do you think that you are married?" But I
must bring these reminiscences to a close. My
letter is perhaps longer than it should be, and
yet I feel that it will give your readers who
never knew him, a very imperfect idea of the
venerable man whom I have attempted to portray.
That he was not an ordinary man all I think will
admit, who consider the angle fact that his
" natural force " as a Preacher was
considered as " unabated " by the
grandchildren and the great grandchildren of
those who seventy years ago or more settled in a
wilderness, which, through their instrumentality,
has been made to blossom as the rose. You can
easily understand how a man of the most brilliant
natural genius, if compelled to toil in the
fields during the entire week, and to elaborate
his discourses while following the plough, and to
do this for ten years, would come to feel a
positive distaste for the pen. It seemed to have
been so with Mr. McAuley. His fellow-presbyters
who knew his powers often tried to get some
product of his pen that might be preserved. With
this view he was appointed by the Synod to
prepare a Testimony on an important doctrinal
point, about the year 1833 ; but the habits of a
life-time were too strong, and the document was
unwritten. So that only the memory of his
sermons, his piety, his pastoral work, remains.
Stat nominis umbra. And yet I am persuaded that,
in the central portion of Delaware County, there
are thousands, who, though they never saw him,
yet from what their fathers have told them, will
cherish with affectionate veneration the name,
William McAuley. I am affectionately yours, John
Duncan Mc Donald was
elected sheriff of Delaware county in 1852. He
was a son of John Mc Donald, one of the early
settlers of the town. Mr. Mc Donald was a man of
great firmness and determination, which made him
very popular as an officer. John Mc Donald,
another son of the pioneer, represented the
second Assembly district of Delaware county in
the Assembly. He held many public positions
beside. He was one of the most popular officers
of his day.
Note: Duncan's sister Nancy
McDonald (1791-1855) was the wife of William
Blakely (1781-1855) For more - Tully Cemetery Family Burial
and Headstones
George Peters was born in
Delaware county, New York, September 21, 1822. He
removed with his parents, Richard and Polly
(Wilcox) Peters, to Mornoe county, May 4, 1824,
locating on the present site of Petersburg which
was then the western terminus of the settlements.
Richard served nearly two years as collector for
the township of Raisinville, then embracing the
western half of Monroe county. He was unable to
find all the tax payers, consequently wrote to
his father in New York asking for money to supply
the deficiency, which he received, thereby
closing up the tax roll for 1825. The first mill
was built by Benjamin Davis, in the year 1827,
near the present site of the mills now in
Petersburg. The first bridge across the river
near the present one was built in the year 1828;
the crossing previous to that time was done by
fording and canoes. Charles, Peters, the first
white child born in the western part of the
county, was born in March, 1825. The second one
was Richard Ingersoll, now living in Dundee.
George Peters was married in Monroe, Michigan,
June 10, 1847 to Mary J. born September 22, 1827,
in Batavia, New York, daughter of Benjamin S. and
Minerva (Howe) Holmes, who settled in Monroe
county in 1845. Mrs. Peters is the mother of Mary
Helen, born May 1 1849, died February 6, 1850;
infant, December 25, 1850, died January, 1851;
Helen F., November 14, 1857, resides in Buffalo,
New York; Richard G., June 9,1865, resides in
Summerfield township. Mr. Peters was elected
supervisor in the year 1855, serving until 1874;
was elected to the Michigan Legislature in 1860,
serving two years; was elected again in 1866,
serving two years, and was postmaster through the
administrations of Hayes and Grant. He is a
farmer, residing in Summerfield township.
Address, Petersburg.
John Peters was born in the
town of Stamford, Delaware County, NY,
March 22, 1804, the son of Richard Peters and
Susannah Halsted, who came to this county from
Saratoga, and settled in the town of Stamford
about the year 1795, on the farm recently
occupied by Mr. James A. Rich, bringing all their
earthly possessions in a wooden chest of
primitive mould and rather heroic dimensions,
which served them for years in their new home, in
turn as table, tool-chest, wardrobe, and
cupboard, and which was carefully preserved in
the family for many years, bearing the marks of
teeth and claws of many wolves, bears, and other
wild animals, received during their almost
nightly visits while doing duty as a barricade to
their doorless cabin. It is not too much to
say that the presence of some of these animals
around or near their cabin during these years was
almost of nightly occurrence: and the death
rate of the item of wolves for a single
season killed by Mr. Richard Peters and a
neighbor, Mr.Timothy Canfield, as an occasional
pastime, numbered as high as fifteen. The
writer remembers a solitary cove in the woods
near the Bovina line, on the old farm, pointed
out by the old gentleman (John Peters) many years
ago as a spot where he was at one time attacked
in open day by three of these half-starved
creatures, he having only an axe and an old knife
with which to defend himself, the conflict ending
only when he had dispatched the most determined
one and injured another, and being pretty well
scratched up and done for himself.
The family of
Richard Peters (whose father and grandfather both
bore the same name) consisted of nine children,
five sons and four daughters. Of these John
was the sixth child and the youngest son.
One of the social features of our country during
these early years, worthy of note, was the
existence of slavery throughout the Northern as
well as the Southern States. That previous
to the passage of a law about the year 1820
fixing at latitude thirty-six degrees and thirty
minutes a division know as the Compromise
Line, dividing States that should
henceforth be recognized as slave and
free, slavery existed to a limited
extent in Delaware County, is a fact which
doubtless many of the present generation have but
imperfectly comprehended. A considerable
number of the prominent farmers, however, owned
one or more slave. One such was among the
chattels of the Peters household - a colored girl
whose name is now forgotten. Her
acknowledged value appeared to have been
estimated at from two hundred and fifty to three
hundred dollars: and she was swapped
around among the families of the neighborhood at
about one of these prices, with nearly the same
frequency and as little ceremony as the good
woman of the house in our day changes her servant
girl. The sequel of the particular
Topsys history was that during her forced
migrations she chanced to fall into hands that
were reported as not being any too gentle toward
her: and some of her former owners, having
learned of this fact, straightway consulted with
the good minister, the Rev. Robert Forrest, in
reference to the matter. A purse was
raised, a large proportion of the amount having
been furnished by the preacher: and the slave
girl soon became the property of the venerable
Scotch divine. There being a worthy colored man
in the neighborhood who had lately obtained his
own freedom, and was matrimonially inclined, the
good man sought out the sable Romeo, and in
course of time, with the fullest consent of all
parties interested, sold to him the faithful
Juliet for the sum of one dollar, marrying them
in the bargain, the couple living happily
together for many years, the firm friends of
their generous and saintly benefactor.
At the age of
twenty-six years, July 1, 1830, John Peters
married Jane, daughter of William Blakely, Esq.,
of Kortright, N.Y., and shortly thereafter
purchased of his father the Stamford homestead,
the father removing shortly afterward, with the
unmarried portion of his family, to Tully,
Onondaga County, N.Y. There was born to John and
Jane Peters four daughters and two sons; Nancy
C., who became the wife of Samuel McCune; Sarah
A., who died unmarried at the age of eighteen
years; William B., now residing at Bloomville;
Elizabeth J., wife of the late Judge D.T.
Arbuckle; Susan F., wife of the Hon. Henry Davie;
and John R. Peters-all of whom are living except
the two first named. Although succeeding well as
a farmer, the rather restless spirit of John was
not to be confined to the limits of the homestead
domain: and forming a partnership with a friend
and neighbor, Mr. John Loughren (who later became
the senior member of the butter firm of Loughren
& Edbert, of New York City), carried on with
him for many years a quite extensive and
profitable business as dealers in butter, wool,
etc. Later he added to this quite an extensive
business in the manufacture of horse-rakes, being
one of the pioneers in this industry, beginning
with that marvel of labor-saving appliances, the
wheelless scratch rake, which in these
progressive days would be regarded as a marvel of
the man-killing art. The favorite branch of his
business, however, during his early life, and
that to which he devoted most of his attention,
was dealing in wool. In the earlier years nearly
every farmer living in the towns of Andes,
Bovina, Middletown, and Stamford kept more or
less sheep, many of them from two hundred to five
hundred, and some as many as a thousand; and the
sheep and wool industry was the most important in
the county. Fulling and carding mills were as
common as grist-mills at the present day. Every
house has its spinning-wheels, and very many
contained looms for weaving their yarn into cloth
for family use. Buyers of wool were abundant in
the county about sheep-shearing time, the latter
part of May or early June; and activity meant
success. Sleep on the part of local speculation
during this rather brief portion of the season
was a matter that was left almost out of the
question; and many were the "lots" of
wool that were purchased for future delivery
during the midnight and early morning hours, the
good man of the house being "rattled"
out of the bed, and the negotiations carried on
and completed through the keyhole or open window,
the purchaser having no time to wait to appear in
his "proper person."
During these years
he was seldom without two or three farms on his
hands, it being as much in the line of his
speculative disposition to buy a drove of cows as
a dairy of butter, and a farm as either,
providing always there was promise of quick
returns and a fair commission; and it might, we
think, be safely said of him, as many of his
early acquaintances would testify, that he
possessed in a large degree a spirit of
determination which usually "made thing
go." In the year 1850, having purchased a
farm in the village of Bloomville, he removed to
that village, where he shortly after engaged in
that mercantile business. This was the period
when the gold excitement of California was at
white heat; and as an experiment, he made at
different times large shipments of butter to that
market. One of the methods adopted with
fair success for preserving it sweet during the
journey of two or more months necessary for its
transit was that of packing the butter in small
wooden kegs, holding about one gallon, identical
in style with the old-fashioned oyster-kegs.
These kegs were in turn packed in large casks of
sixty or more gallon capacity, and the vacant
spaces carefully filled with Turk's Island salt.
These weighty packages were then carted by team
to Catskill, thence by water to New York, and
thence around Cape Horn, crossing the equator
twice on their journey to the
"forty-niners" in that then far-off
land of gold-a venture which proved a financial
success. The advent of the hop-growing industry
into Delaware County gave scope for speculation;
and Mr. Peters, although well advanced in years,
took his chances with the others, and, like most
others who dealt in this rather treacherous
commodity, met with varied experiences as to the
results. Many of the members of the One Hundred
and Forty-fourth Regiment will recall a
characteristic incident which occurred during a
visit made by Mr. Peters to their camp at Upton
Hill, Va., during the war.
It is needless to
say that to many of the boys he was a welcome
visitor; and, when night came on, they succeeded
in arranging for him a comfortable sleeping place
in one of the tents. This, however, the old
gentleman, being a good sleeper, entirely
ignored; and wrapping himself in a blanket, he
took his place with "the rest of the
boys." stretched at full length around the
camp-fire, where he was soon sleeping soundly.
The night was cool, the disposition was to
unconsciously snuggle up a little closer to the
embers; and toward morning the "mess"
were awakened by him with the caution; "Take
care there, boys! some of you are burning! It's
somebody's boots!" Then, suddenly getting
out of his, he said: "Well, well! I guess
it's my boots, after all!" They were burned
to a crisp - a joke which furnished sufficient
fun for the rest of the night, and which no one
seemed to enjoy better that himself. A pair of
army "schooners" about as wide as they
were long were substituted which "did him
proud" until he returned to
Mrs. Jane Peters,
his wife, died at Bloomsville, March 7, 1879, at
the age of sixty-eight years, after having spent
a busy and in many respects an exemplary life. Of
slight frame and never physically strong, she
shared the spirit of activity and ambition which
has characterized the life of her husband. Her
kind disposition and gentle manners deserved and
were rewarded with the respect of all with whom
she mingled. Her remains are resting beside
those of her husband's parents, Richard and
Susannah Peters, who, after living about twenty
years in Cortland County, returned to Delaware
that they might spend their last days near the
scenes of their early married life, and in the
year 1853 were, within a few weeks of each other
laid to rest in the cemetery at Bloomville.
Mr. John Peters is living with his son, William
B. Peters, at Bloomville, hale and hearty, and
still full of business projects at the age of
ninety -one years. His long and active
life, crowing hard upon a century, has been to a
greater extent than that of any other man now
living identified with the history of the village
in which he dwells.
Who removed with his
parents, Richard and Polly (Wilcox) Peters, to
Monroe county in 1824, was born in Delaware
county New York, December 16, 1823. His wife,
Ellen, to whom he was married in Lenawee county,
Michigan, was born in Summerfield township,
December 16, 1843, deceased. Her parents, Calvin
and Mary A. (Bruce) Burnham, settled in Monroe
county in 1837. Mr. Peters, residing in
Summerfield township, is the father of Frances,
born January 8, 1865; Mary A., March 23, 1856;
Ellen L., December 17, 1875. Mr. Peters is
engaged in farming. Address, Petersburg.
Of Petersburg, was one of
the early pioneers of Monroe county, and his
services has been invaluable in aiding to clear
up and redeeming an unbroken wilderness from the
savages and wild beasts which inhabited it.
He purchased from the United States Government
some six hundred acres of land, about five
hundred of which he cleared and brought into an
excellent state of cultivation.
He emigrated from
Harpersfield, Delaware county, New York, in 1824,
at which place he received a common school
education, and at which place he was married to
Polly Wilcox, and proceeding directly to the spot
where the village of Petersburg now stands, where
he built a hut and commenced improvements, with
Morris and Lewis Wells and their families the
nearest neighbors, two miles distant. The
last two or three miles of road he cut through
the wilderness. The family then consisted of
a wife and three children, the former died in
1834, and the latter are all still
living. Mr. Richard Peters held himself
aloof from all kinds of offices; was highly
esteemed as a citizen and first-class farmer, and
though averse to holding office, was,
notwithstanding this, frequently forced to accept
township offices, and was supervisor of the town
of Raisinville eight or ten years, which town
then embraced Summerfield, Dundee, Whiteford,
Bedford, Ida, London and Milan. He died at
the old homestead of inflammation of the lungs
after a short illness of six weeks, at the
advanced age of sixty-four years. His
eldest son George was born September 21, 1822, at
Harpersfield, now residing on a part of the old
homestead far; has been repeatedly honored with
offices, indicating the esteem in which he is
held; has serve the town as school inspector; was
nineteen years supervisor; member of the House of
Representative in 1861 and 1862, and a member of
the State Senate in 1867 and 1868. He married
Miss Mary J. Holmes; has one son Richard G., who
resides on the home farm, and one daughter, who
was married to Mr. Rea, and resides in Buffalo,
New York.
John resides on a
portion of the old homestead farm; married Ellen
Burnham; has two daughters receiving their
education in Oberlin College, Ohio. he is
esteemed as a very substantial enterprising
farmer, and has always resided on the farm, with
the exception of a few years that he spent in
Manistee is noted for the
number of its business men who have risen by
their own unaided efforts from poverty and
obscurity to wealth and prominence in the
commercial world. The city is very largely made
up of men who were poor boys and have fought
their way over obstacles to success. These men
to-day are strong, financially, and they are also
strong in character, and their names command
respect wherever they are known. Of this class
the subject of this sketch is a prominent member.
He began at the
foot of the ladder, and to-day is one of the
boldest and most extensive operators in pine on
this shore.
He was born in
Delaware County, N.Y., July 2, 1832. He lived at
home upon the farm, until eighteen years of age,
when he started out into the world to delve for
In the Spring of
1850, he started for Cincinnati, Ohio, and from
that place he came to Michigan. He landed at
Point Sable in 1858, and went to work for Charles
Mears. He is naturally one of the irrepressible
kind of men, and his great energy and business
ability very soon made themselves manifest.
From Point Sable
he went to Ludington to take charge of lumbering
interests for James Ludington.
In July, 1866, he
came to Manistee and became a member of the
lumber firm of M.S. Tyson & Co. From that
time to the present he has been a bold and
successful business man. His remarkable energy
and great vital force have enabled him to execute
the great purposes of a clear brain.
At the present
time he is the proprietor of Eastlake, a neat
little village on the east shore of Lake
Michigan, where he has two mills, a salt block,
store and boarding home. He is a member of the
firm of Butters, Peters & Co., whose mill is
at Tallman, and of the firm of Peters &
Butters, at Ludington. He is interested in the
ownership of about 8000,000,000 feet of standing
pine, 700,000,000 of which he owns individually.
His own mills and those in which he is part owner
cut 60,000,000 feet of lumber a season. He is
president of the Manistee National Bank, and is
also interested in a refrigerator manufactory at
Michigan City, Ind.
He is perfectly
familiar with all the minute details of his vast
business, and knows personally all the men in his
employ. His manner is sharp and decisive, though
always courteous and affable. He always interests
himself in all local enterprises, and is ever
ready to contribute liberally to anything of
benefit to Manistee. No fitter monument of
individual liberality could be erected than Union
Hall, erected by him. This magnificent building
is described elsewhere on these pages. He has
held the office of mayor one term.
Mr. Peters was
married April 6, 1858, at Oberlin, Ohio, to Miss
Evaline N. Tibbitts, of that place, and in his
domestic relations he has been truly blessed.
Mrs. Peters is one of the noble women of the
land, whose whole life seems to be devoted to
doing good and bringing comfort and happiness to
others, and in this work she has the generous
sympathy and co-operation of her husband. The
family residence of Mr. Peters is a handsome and
spacious structure, surrounded by beautiful
grounds, a fine full page view of which is given
in this work.
Mr. Peters was born July 2,
1832, in Delaware county, N. Y., upon the farm of
his parents, James II. and Susan (Squires)
Peters. The family removed to Syracuse, N. Y.,
and later to Cincinnati, Ohio, where, as well as
at Syracuse, they were engaged at hotel keeping.
In 1847 the mother died, and the son, now fifteen
years of age, went to live his grandparents at
Tully, N. Y., where he worked upon the farm, and
employed his winters in completing his education
in the district schools. For a year he was
employed by his uncle as gate-keeper on a toll
road, and in this school of "human
nature" he learned much which in his
subsequent career has enabled him to estimate man
at their proper value. At the age of eighteen
years he returned to Cincinnati, and in 1850 went
to Monroe, Mich., where he worked on a farm
belonging to a cousin, leaving in the fall to
enter the employ of the michigan Southern
Railroad Company, in the engineering department.
He was soon placed in charge of a division of the
road, in the capacity of assistant civil
engineer, a position which he occupied for five
In 1855 Mr.
Peters' star beckoned him northward, where he
took charge of the lumber and mill interests of
the late Charles Mears at Big Point Au Sable,
being thus employed for five years. He then went
to Ludington, where he purchased a small tract of
government land, and proceeded to get out timber
on his own account, giving up this enterprise,
however, to accept a position with James
Ludington, as superintendent of his mill and
lumber operations at the month of the Pere
Marquette river (now the city of Ludington),
where he remained two years. In 1866 Mr. Peters,
together with M. S. Tyson and G. W. Robinson, of
Milwaukee, purchased the mill and timber property
of Filer & Tyson, at Manistee, comprising the
sawmills on Manistee lake and a large portion of
the site of the city of Manistee, for which the
sum of $250,000 was paid. His connection with
this firm continued for two years, since which
time Mr. Peters has been practically alone in his
business affairs, which have been mainly
conducted under the style of "The R. G.
Peters Salt & Lumber Company."
In 1869 Mr. Peters
bought the Wheeler & Hopkins mill on Manistee
Lake, which he operated until it was destroyed by
fire thirteen years later. His next step was the
purchase of forty acres of land, and a mill at
East Lake, the site of the present Peters plant.
This mill was rebuilt and a second mill added and
upon the discover of salt in this vicinity, a
well was struck at the Peters plant and salt
struck, adding this industry to that of the
manufacture of lumber. The Manistee & Luther
railroad, extending from East Lake to near Le
Roy, Osceola county, eighty miles, is part of the
Peters plant. In the last named year also, Mr.
Peters, in connection with Horace Butters,
purchased two large tracts of land, twenty-eight
miles south of Manistee, on the F. & P. M. R.
R., containing 130,000,000 feet of pine, and laid
out the town of Tallman. This firm acquired mill
property and a salt block at Ludington, together
with thirty miles of Logging road.
Mr. Peters' timber
holdings in Michigan and Wisconsin have been
estimated at 150,000 acres, with 100,000 acres in
the south, and he has been styled the "King
among lumbermen." Mr. Peters is president of
the R. G. Peters Salt & Lumber Company, of
the Manistee & Luther Railroad, of the Peters
Lumber and Shingle Company of Benton Harbor, is
vice-president of the Butters & Peters Salt
& Lumber Company of Ludington, and the
Bachelor Cyprus Lumber Company with mills at
Panasoffkee, Florida, a director in the Manistee
National Bank, in the Michigan Salt Association,
and in the Manistee (Furniture) Manufacturing
Company. His religious connection is
Congregational. He is Republican in politics and
a member of the Michigan Club. Mr. Peters has
been twice married, but has no children. First to
Miss Evelyn N. Tibbits, at Oberlin, Ohio, April
6, 1862, who died Feb. 14, 1879. Again June 15,
1898 to Miss Jeanet Telford, of Onekama, Mich.
William B. Peters, third
child and eldest son of John Peters and Jane
Blakely, was born in the town of Stamford,
Delaware County, N.Y., December 23, 1837, in the
same house in which his father first saw the
light, and took his name from his maternal
grandfather, William Blakely.
Since the age of
twelve years he has been a resident of
Bloomville, having removed with his parents to
that village in 1850, on the same day in which
Simon B. Champion, the now venerable editor of
the Stamford Mirror, took up his abode therein.
Being a boy of an inquistive turn on mind, his
time for the following four years was about
equally divided between the district schoolhouse,
his father's store, and the printing-office, with
odds probably in favor of the latter. At the age
of sixteen he was placed in Harpersfield Union
Academy, at that time under the supervision of
the Rev. Robert Rogers, and remained for two
years, at the end of which time he entered
Delaware Academy at Delhi, in the old building
which is now standing, opposite the County
Clerk's office, it being the first term in which
Professor John L. Sawyer was in control of that
institution. He remained a student there for
about three years, during which time the present
buildings were erected and the school was removed
into its more commodious quarters; and during the
same time he taught two winter terms of school.
At twenty-one years of age he entered into
mercantile business at Bloomville with Samuel
McCune, under the firm name of McCune &
Peters, and the following winter was elected
Justice of the Peace, his opponent being the
honorable Stephen H. Keeler, now deceased.
July 17, 1861,
four days previous to the battle of Bull Run, he
married Hannah Rich, of South Kortright, daughter
of James Rich and Jane Southard, and a
granddaughter of the Rev. Robert Forrest. Mrs.
Peters is a sister of Captain John Rich, late of
Jacksonville, Fla. Like her husband, Mrs. Peters
was for a time student at Delaware Academy under
the tutorage of Professor Sawyer. During the war
Mr. Peters was a member of the town board, and
was for some time engaged in the recruiting
service, being later appointed at assist Colonel
Robert Parker and the Hon. James H. Graham in
looking after the just apportionment of State
military credits in Delaware County, at Albany,
and elsewhere. After the war, having closed out
his mercantile business, he engaged in
agricultural pursuits on what was then known as
the John Bathrick farm in Bloomville, and
continued to make this his business, in part, for
about four years. In this short period he
entitled himself, as he declares, to be regarded
as one of the most unsuccessful farmers in the
community; and, feeling a particular respect for
men who succeed in employments where he cannot,
he to this day feels like raising his hat when he
meets a prosperous farmer. Mathematics was his
favorite study, and he had a special fondness for
mechanical pursuits. The astonishing
development of the watch-making industry about
1870 led him to engage in the watch and jewelry
business; and this occupation, together with that
of surveying, to which he has from boyhood given
more or less attention, have for the past
twenty-five years furnished him with sufficient
and fairly remunerative employment. As a surveyor
and draughtsman, Mr. Peters is said to have no
superior in Delaware County.
Mr. and Mrs.
Peters have had a family of four children, three
daughters and one son, named respectively,
Jennie, who died at the age of eleven years;
Lizziebell, who pursued a course of study at
Delaware Academy, and afterward graduated from
the Oneonta Normal School; James R., who was for
a time a student at Delaware Academy, and also at
D.L. Moody's school at Mount Hermon, Mass.; and
Sarah, who finished a course of study at Delaware
Robert S. Rich, one of the
oldest business men of this section of Delaware
County, is carrying on a profitable trade in
general merchandise in the village of Hobart,
where he has been located for two score years.
During this length of time the sterling traits of
his character have become thoroughly known to his
fellow-citizens, by whom he is held in high
esteem. Mr. Rich was born in the town of Stamford
on March 7, 1823, son of James and Helen
(Marshall) Rich. (For further ancestral history
see the sketch of Mrs. Sarah Rich, which appears
on another page of this work.)
After leaving the
district school he continued his education in New
York City. When eighteen years old, he secured a
position as clerk in Hall's retail dry-goods
store, where he remained five years, faithfully
fulfilling his duties, and at the same time
acquiring a good insight into the business. At
the expiration of that time Mr. Rich, in company
with an associate, opened a store for the sale of
dry goods; and for five years they carried on a
successful business under the firm name of Rich
& Blish. The firm being then dissolved , the
senior partner came to Hobart, where in 1855 he
formed a partnership with John F. Grant, and ,
buying out the general merchandise establishment
of Dr. McNaught, continued in trade, the firm of
Rich & Grant being for a number of years one
of the most active and thriving in the village.
Mr. Rich subsequently bought the interest of his
partner, and has since conducted the business by
himself. He is one of the oldest and best known
merchants of Hobart, a man of excellent capacity
and business talents; and his honest dealings and
uniform courtesy have secured him the general
respect and good will of the community.
On April 25, 1850,
Mr. Rich was united in marriage with Caroline D.
Blish, a native of Stamford, and a descendant of
one of the oldest families of the county, being
the daughter of Aristarchus and Nancy Merriam
Blish, formerly prosperous members of the farming
community of Stamford. Two sons and two daughters
have been born to this union, the family record
being as follows: James B., a single man, is a
partner in his father's business. Caroline M.,
the wife of L.E. Higgley, resides in North Adams,
Mass. Stephen W., a farmer, lives in Stamford.
Bertha E. lives with her parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Rich are members of the Presbyterian church at
Hobart, and contribute liberally and cheerfully
toward its support. Politically, Mr. Rich is a
steadfast Republican, and is a man of decided
views, although quiet and unobtrusive in his
manner. His influence has always been strongly in
favor of the maintenance of schools and churches,
and whatever else is calculated to benefit the
Mrs. Sarah Rich, who lives
on the Rich homestead of two hundred and
seventy-five acres in Almeda, in the town of
Stamford, N.Y., and carries on the place with
marked ability, is the widow of Stephen Rich. The
Rich family, hers by birth as well as marriage is
one of the oldest and best established in the
The present record
begins with James Rich, who was born in New York
City in 1764, and was therefore a boy eleven
years old when the Revolution began, and still
older when the patriotic tide reached his native
city. By trade he was a tailor, but died at the
early age of thirty-five, only ten years after
his marriage and in the same year with the Father
of his Country. His wife was Mary Altgelt, also a
native of the metropolis, where she was born,
July 30, 1769. She outlived her husband many
years, and twice entered again the holy estate of
matrimony. Her second husband was Joseph Thomson;
and the other was Robert Forrest, of Stamford,
who left her the third time a widow. Her own
death occurred in Stamford on December 6, 1857.
To her first husband she bore three sons, Stephen
Altgelt Rich, a grocer in New York City,
grandfather of Mrs. Sarah Rich, was born August
4, 1790, during Washington's first Presidency,
and lived till 1858, when Buchanan was in the
White House.
The next son, to
whose line this sketch specially relates, was
born October 23, 1791, and was named for his
grandfather. James Rich was a Stamford farmer,
and carried on the place subsequently owned by
his son Stephen. This he did so practically and
progressively as to make agriculture a profitable
pursuit. He was an old-time Whig, and an Elder
and Trustee in the United Presbyterian church in
South Kortright. His first wife, Miss Helena
Marshall, was born in New York City, October 13,
1792. They were marred in 1816, just a week
before Christmas, when the second peace with the
mother country had been finally declared, and
praises of General Jackson's warlike pluck echoed
on every hand; and she died on Christmas Day,
1835, aged forty-three, while Jackson was
President, so that the great Christian holiday
and America's democratic and autocratic statesman
were peculiarly associated with her life.
From this union
came ten children, two of whom survive. Henry
Marshall Rich was born September 12, 1819, and
lived, unmarried, on the homestead with his
brother's widow until his death, August 24, 1894.
He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and a
Republican, greatly respected by his associates.
Robert S. Rich was born March 7, 1823, and is a
merchant in Hobart village. Helena Jane was born
on February 24, 1832, and is now the widow of
Hector Cowan, of Stamford, of whom a sketch may
be found elsewhere in this volume. The eldest
child, James Altgelt Rich, a Stamford farmer,
named for his grandparents, was born in October,
1817, and died March 5, 1894. Mary Rich was born
February 17, 1821, and died unmarried in New York
City on April 3, 1842. Stephen was born October
8, 1824; and he died July 6, 1884, at the sound
age of sixty. Of him more hereafter. Thomas Rich,
a farmer, was born August 28, 1826, and died in
Mexico on the last day of April, 1852. Alexander
Rich was born on the first day of November 1830,
became a New York plumber, and died February 18,
1854. Ann Eliza, twin sister of Helen, died in
October 1889, at fifty-seven. James Rich's first
wife, as already stated was Helena Marshall; but
he was married again. The second wife was Jane
Southard, a native of Dutchess County, and by her
he had three children. The eldest, Hannah Rich,
born July 17, 1838, married William B. Peters, of
Bloomville, of whom a sketch may be found in its
proper place in this volume. John Rich was born
December 14, 1839, and died March 19, 1885, in
Jacksonville, Fla., where he was acting as agent
for the Mallory line of steamers. Isabella Rich
was born April 10, 1841, four days after the
country was appalled by the sad news of the death
of General Harrison, when only a month in the
Presidential chair. She married Rev. James M.
Stevenson, and died December 19, 1893. Thus we
see that James Rich was indeed a patriarch, with
one more child than Jacob, of the Bible history
he so loved. He was also an Elder in the
Presbyterian church, and a Whig in politics, but
would have rejoiced over the triumph of Abraham
Lincoln, which occurred three years after Mr.
Rich's death on the homestead, July 10, 1857.
The father of
James Rich's first wife, Henry Marshall, was born
in Scotland, and came to America before his
marriage. He studied medicine, became a
successful practitioner in Kortright in pioneer
days, and reared a boy and six girls, all of whom
have passed away. Dr. Marshall died in Hobart at
threescore and ten, an Elder in the Presbyterian
church, and a Whig in politics. His wife also
lived to a good old age.
Stephen Rich grew
up on the Stamford farm where he was born, and
which had been bought by his grandmother, Mrs.
Mary Altgelt Rich (Thomson) Forrest, of its
former owner, Mr. Sheldon, early in this century,
and upon which the widowed Mrs. Stephen Rich now
resides. After attending the district school,
Stephen went to New York City when he was
eighteen, and found work with James Buchan &
Co., manufacturers of soap and candles. In due
time he was able to buy an interest in the
concern, and pursued a successful trade until
1865, after the war, when he returned to
Stamford, bought the old homestead, passed his
last days there farming, and died July 6, 1884.
He was married May
6, 1869, at the mature age of forty-five, to his
cousin, Sarah Rich, a native of New York City,
the daughter of Stephen Altgelt Rich and his
wife, Jane Oliver, who was born October 22, 1788.
These parents were married May 12, 1812, by the
Rev. Robert Forrest. Stephen A. Rich died August
29, 1858, and his wife on February 25, 1868. They
had ten children, half of whom survive. Charlotte
and Rachel are both widows in New York City, the
former having married William Patterson, and the
latter Mr. Buchan, of the firm above mentioned.
Jane Rich lives with her sister Sarah on the
homestead. Elizabeth Rich is the wife of James
Rintoul, of New York City. Sarah Rich married her
kinsman, Stephen Rich, as before stated. The five
deceased children are as follows: James B. was
born on the first day of March, 1813, and died in
Alabama, August 12, 1844. Mary Struthers Rich was
born March 18, 1815, and died January 28, 1892.
Robert Forrest Rich, born January 3, 1820, died
November 11, 1872, in New Jersey. Hannah Thomson
was born November 19, 1822, and died March 27,
1852 in New York City. Andrew Mather Rich was
born December 23, 1823, died August 17, 1826.
Mrs. Stephen Rich
belongs to the United Presbyterian church in
Kortright, in which her husband held the
birthright office of Elder. He was also a
Republican and a thoroughly good citizen, and
left his widow well endowed. Both the land and
house are valuable. In her management of the
place Mrs. Rich was aided by her brother-in-law,
Mr. Henry Rich, until the time of his death.
Thomas, Jr., a descendant of an old and
well-known family of that name, was a prominent
citizen of Stamford, where he was born on
November 20, 1828, and died, highly respected and
beloved, on April 14, 1887. His grandfather,
Abram Thomas, the original settler, was a son of
an earlier John Thomas, who was born on November
25, 1746, and whose wife Phoebe Thomas, was born
on August 10, 1749. Abram Thomas was born January
3, 1773, and married Lydia Hawley, who was born
March 4, 1776. He was a farmer, and proprietor of
the first tavern in Stamford, which is still
standing on the Thomas farm on the main road
between Bloomville and Hobart, in what is now
South Kortright. It is built on the old Dutch
plan, and with its great chimneys and moss grown
roof is a landmark for the inhabitants of all the
surrounding country, having been in its day one
of the most noted and important inns of that
section. By industry and economy Abram Thomas
accumulated a comfortable fortune, which his
descendants now enjoy. He was the father of
twelve children, ten of whom reached maturity;
but all have since passed away. Abram Thomas died
on October 11, 1848. He was liberal in religious
views, and a Whig in politics. His wife lived
until May 12, 1849, when she , too, passed away
on the old homestead.
Their son, John B. Thomas, the
father of the subject of this sketch, was born in
Dutchess County, February 15, 1795, and married
Fanny Smith, who was born on January 3, 1795. He
was a successful farmer , and in 1817 settled in
Stamford on the farm where Mrs. Thomas now
resides. His wife was a member of the
Presbyterian church at South Kortright; but he
was liberal in religion, and a Republican in
politics. John B. Thomas passed away on April 23,
1870, and his wife, October 15, 1875. They had
six children, of whom three are now living: Sally
Adelia Perkins, who resides in California; James
A.,a resident of Wisconsin; and Maria L.
Eschemberg, who also lives in California. Their
son Abraham died at the age of forty-eight years.
A daughter, Mrs. Adeline Wetmore, also passed
away when forty-eight years old. The other son,
John Thomas Jr., was born on the old Thomas farm
now occupied by his widow, and here grew to
manhood, attending the district schools,
afterward teaching for a time. Like his father
and grandfather, he adopted a farmer's life,
buying the old homestead and living there until
his death. On June 2, 1863, he married Miss Sarah
Agnes Blakley, who was born in Kortright,
December 5, 1838, a daughter of James G. Blakley,
whose family history is given elsewhere in this
volume. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas were the parents of
four children: Susan Frances Cronk, born
September 21, 1864, and a resident of Roxbury;
Sarah A. Lyon, born November 28, 1867, residing
in Stamford; Jennie L., born August 8, 1870, at
home; and John James Thomas, who was born May 23,
1872, unmarried, and assisting his mother in the
management of the old home farm, which she has
carried on since her husband's death.
The old Thomas farm consisted
of three hundred acres of land; and here the
descendants of the family now live, keeping fifty
head of cattle, and carrying on a large dairy,
making an excellent quality of butter. At his
death Mr. Thomas was an Elder of the Presbyterian
church at South Kortright. He held many public
offices, among which were those of Assessor and
County Superintendent of Poor. He was a
liberal-minded, public-spirited, conscientious
man; and his death was keenly felt and sadly
mourned by a wide circle of loving relatives and
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Definition of insure in English:
verb[with object]
- The wife shall ensure the property is fully insured for all perils to closing at her expense and for full insurable value.
- No carrier will insure a high-risk property if a loss of, say, $3 billion would wipe out the company before government aid kicks in.
- Both insure against loss or damage to gear and set premiums on declared value.
- But either they cover the risks required to be insured against by section 143 and 145 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 and applied by the certificates or they do not.
- GE is certainly going to suffer a net economic loss if any of their executives or even middle managers drop dead - are you going to keep them from insuring the risk?
- Well, I mean, you would have to know exactly what he means by insuring the risks.
- It may be wildly unlikely, but then a couple of lines on a map changing the route of the pylons is a small premium if it will insure them against such an awful possibility.
- The article on previous page explains what you are insured against with standard cover.
- If you are insured against something bad happening to you, like being unemployed, then you will be less prone to prevent it from happening than you would be without the insurance.
There is considerable overlap between the meaning and use of insure and ensure. In both US and British English, the primary meaning of insure is the commercial sense of providing financial compensation in the event of damage to property; ensure is not used at all in this sense. For the more general senses, ensure is more likely to be used, but insure and ensure are often interchangeable, particularly in US English: bail is posted to insure that the defendant appears for trial the system is run to ensure that a good quality of service is maintained.
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- Nervousness over the extent of his insurability means he has been told he will not be getting another playing contract in Scotland.
- Many organisations did not even report their losses, fearful for their reputations or their insurability.
- This includes medical information, encompassing conditions such as high blood pressure and obesity, and other information that may affect insurability, such as a reckless driving record or participation in hazardous activities.
- Example sentences
- The big question is whether this is really an insurable event.
- In the meantime, the organization is looking at ways of minimizing risk and helping its members become more insurable through training and education, and the development of safety standards among its members.
- This does not reflect the modern reality that other far greater catastrophes which are insurable, such as an explosion in a coal mine, may wreak greater havoc, but are not events in respect of which there is a ceiling upon damages.
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News: Marks case becomes sticking point in Secretary of State raceOctober 14, 2010
A former Aspen mayoral candidate was drawn into the tight race for Colorado's Secretary of State earlier this week. Former candidate Marilyn Marks' crusade for access to ballot images became a major issue in the race when the Democratic incumbent brought it up in an e-mail. KDNK's Mathew Katz has more.


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New military recruits are being sworn in by Congressman Brad Wenstrup in Clermont County. They are also remembering those soldiers who were killed while serving in the armed forces.
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Carven Vintage
crystal loop earrings
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Silver-tone earrings from Carven Vintage featuring a loop design, crystal embellished and a clasp fastening on back. Please note that vintage items are not new and therefore might have minor imperfections. Two ways to wear it, with the cristal loop or without!!
Made in France
Designer Style ID: V71212
Farfetch ID: 10315744
- Measurements:
- length: 6 centimetres
- Composition:
- Metal (Other)
Your order will be shipped directly from the boutique to you. Farfetch ships worldwide, and you will be able to track your order at any time. The cost of shipping your order will be calculated at the checkout.
Import duties information
Delivery duties are included in the item price when shipping to all EU countries plus USA, Canada, China, Australia, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Singapore, Republic Of Korea, Kuwait, Qatar, India, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, U.A.E., Japan.This means all import duties are included in your order, so the price you see is the price you pay. You will not receive an additional duty bill from the courier to receive your shipment. If you are ordering from within your own customs zone or country, import duties will not be applicable anyway, however you may have to pay VAT or local Sales Taxes where applicable (for the UK and USA these are included at the checkout).
Delivery duties are not included in the item price when shipping to all other countries. This means you may be liable to pay import duties on receipt of your order.
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You have 14 days from receiving your order to return the item to the boutique using our free returns pick-up service. We strongly recommend that you book your free returns pick-up within 7 days of receiving your order to ensure that it arrives back to the boutique in time. Please note for standard orders we can only collect returns from the same country to which your order was delivered. For click and collect orders we can collect your return from the country your order was delivered to and also the country of the original boutique you ordered from. Click here to read our full returns policy.
Since its inception in 1945, the house of Carven offered a very democratic vision of fashion. Madame Carven was the first to make the luxurious accessible, entering the rarefied world of 1940's haute couture with a spontaneity in design which represented the daily lives of women at the time. The designs remain simple and refined to this day, reflecting the stylised elegance of Parisian chic.


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Dragons' Den winner backing young entrepreneurs on London council estates
Published by Anonymous for 24dash.com in Communities and also in Featured, Finance
Levi Roots
A man whose jerk barbeque sauce product shot to success after being backed by investors on the BBC's Dragons' Den is getting behind a similar scheme for young people on London council estates.
The 'Dragons' put a £50,000 investment into Levi Roots' Reggae Reggae food brand after he serenaded them with his guitar on the show.
Now the entrepreneur is backing a competition aimed at encouraging young people from Westminster council estates to bid for funding for a local community project of their choice.
The 'CityWest Factor' competition is being piloted by ALMO CityWest - which manages 22,000 properties in the borough - and is inviting young people aged up to 19 to form project groups and come up with an idea of how they can spend up to £1,500 on a project of their choice.
The teams will consider how their project will work, how it will last, and how it will benefit the local community.
Once the plans have been put in place, each group will be asked to present a business case for their idea to a judging panel, where they will learn if they have been successful in their bid.
It is hoped that the project will encourage young people to get more involved in their local community but also provide an opportunity to develop their creativity, business acumen and pitching skills.
Levi said: "This project is a great idea, as not only could it provide something to benefit the community which has been chosen by the community, but it also provides young people with some invaluable experience for the world of work.
"In taking part, these young people will need to think creatively to make their idea stand out from the crowd.
"They will need to make a good business case, showing how they will get the most out of the investment; focussing on the customer, and taking into account logistics and costs.
"The success of the scheme will not only be judged by the project which is delivered for the community, but by the skills and business acumen that these young people will develop.
"I wish the 'CityWest Factor' pilot and its participants well."
Mark Hoyland, chief executive of CityWest Homes, said: "The project can be absolutely anything that young people would like to see, from dance classes, sports equipment, renovation work, tuition, to an event for the whole community.
"It will be just like walking into the Dragon's Den for the project teams. They will have to present their case and demonstrate that their idea is worthy of the investment.
"The young people can make their presentation in anyway they choose, from a boardroom PowerPoint display, flip chart and pens, to a Levi Roots inspired guitar performance. They have complete freedom."
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With the express purpose of increasing its presence in the United States, ROBUSCHI opened a new subsidiary in Charlotte, North Carolina, in September, 2004. (Picture below: building where the Robuschi USA office is located).
The opening of this new subsidiary is the consequence of a significant growth experienced by ROBUSCHI in the North American territory in the last 20 years, as well as the promising expectations of this market in the near future.
Robuschi USA provides commercial activities to its customers by means of a network of distributors and agents and technical support through specialized service centers.
The main products that are distributed in the USA market are:
- P.D. BLOWERS: RBS Bare shaft and special groups
- ROBOX evolution complete packages
- RB-DV / TRB-DV High Vacuum Blowers (Air injection) for truck and stationary applications
- RBS AV High Vacuum Blowers for centralized vacuum systems
- LIQUID RING VACUUM PUMPS: RVS series and special groups
Robuschi USA Inc. - 3801 Beam Road, Suite F -
Charlotte, North Carolina 28217
Tel. 704-424-1018 - Fax 704-424 1019
- Toll free: 877-424-1020
E-mail: email@example.com - Internet: www.robuschiusa.com