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March 2009
Table of Contents
June Annual Meeting
Important Dues Announcement
Did You See Us In The Memorial Day Parade?
Election Of Officers
At New Hartford –Unanimous Desire To Keep Out Of Utica
What Happened Fifty Years Later
Condolences
Thomas Kilburn White Of New Hartford Is Dead
New Hartford Grade Schools Change Much In 70 Years, Manual Indicates
New Hartford Cotton Manufacturing Plant
Cleverly Put
June Annual Meeting
Thursday, June 4, 2009, 7 P.M.
Presbyterian Church Hall, 45 Genesee St. , New Hartford
Program: “Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”
Presented by Cheryl Pula
Election of officers will take place at this meeting. Come and be a part of your Society!
IMPORTANT DUES ANNOUNCEMENT
The most important part of this message is that your renewal for July 2009 through July 2010 is due.
The second part is the board voted to raise the dues $2.00 per category. This increase is due partly to the increase of postage.
The new rates are:
Individual
Family
Contributing
Corporate
Student
$ 12.00 $ 17.00
$ 27.00
$ 52.00
$ 3.00
Now, here is the good part. If you pay before June 30th you can renew at the old rate. If you pay after July 1st the new rates will be in effect. So by renewing right now you can save $2.00! In this economy, that’s a good deal.
Also, we are now a 501(c3) tax exempt organization which means you can deduct your donations in your tax returns
You are important to us because you are in keeping this Society running. Without you we would not exist. So we hope to see many renewals in the mail. Thank you for your support.
DID YOU SEE US IN THE MEMORIAL DAY PARADE?
We were represented by Barbara Couture, Steve Grant, Burke Muller and Ralph and Lois Humphreys. Ralph and Steve both brought old cars to the parade and Burke and Barbara and Lois rode in them. It was a good parade with policemen, firemen, veterans, boy scouts, acrobats, bands, bag pipers, politicians, and lots of fire engines. A nice way of celebrating the day and remembering our loved ones.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Two of our board members have agreed to run for another three years. They need to be elected as well as our president, vice president, and secretary. The following will be voted on:
President—Barbara Couture
V. Pres.—Burke Muller
Secretary—Lorraine Hadley
Trustees to 2012—Mary Anne Buteux and Lee Gurley.
Remaining on the board are Ray Philo as treasurer and Jim Spellman, Henry McCann and Barbara Munde as trustees.
Honorary members are Dr. Arthur Baker, Bob Dicker, and Bob Jones.
The Utica Herald of February 20, 1871 ran this article. Utica wanted to annex the land owned by New Hartford from Prospect Street south to the Sauquoit Creek. (No Man’s Land)
AT NEW HARTFORD –UNANIMOUS DESIRE TO KEEP OUT OF UTICA.
A town meeting, the members of which have no desire to take part in ward caucuses, was held at Lightbody’s Hotel, New Hartford, on Saturday, at 2 P.M. The meeting was held pursuant to a previously published call to consider the prospect of being initiated into the mystery of citizenship by the Common Council of Utica. The attendance was not so large as at the meeting held last week in Whitesboro, but the same unanimity of sentiment was manifested.
The meeting was organized with John French in the chair; Morgan Butler was secretary.
On motion, the following committee on resolutions was appointed:
Lewis Babcock, J.B, Winship, William M. French, M.C. Blackstone, and Richard Davis.
The committee immediately retired for consultation. During their absence no speeches were made, but the proposed extension of Utica was generally discussed, to say the least, and many informal, but heart-felt remarks, were made in all parts of the room.
On the return of the committee, chairman Babcock, called upon W.M. French to read the report, which was a follows;
Whereas, by the resolution of the Common Council of the city of Utica, it as become known to the tax-payers and electors of the town of New Harford, that a scheme exists to divide and annex part of said town to the city of Utica; and whereas, the avowed object of the proposed annexation is to obtain territory for the purpose of taxation; thereby be it
Resolved: That we, the tax-payers and electors of said town, in town meeting assembled, do emphatically and earnestly protest against any dismemberment of the town or of the annexation of it, or of any part of it to the city of Utica.
Resolved: That a committee of four be appointed by this town meeting to visit Albany and present the remonstrance of our citizens to the Legislature and use all their influence to prevent this proposed annexation.
Resolved: That this committee consist of the following persons; John French, Hon. Oliver R. Babcock, Hon. D. M. Prescott and Hon. W. H. Chapman.
S.L. Warriner moved to adopt the report unanimously..
The motion to adopt was carried unanimously.
On motion of M.C. Blackstone, it was resolved to appoint a committee consisting of one member from each school district in the township, to circulate remonstrances for the signatures of tax-payers and electors. The committee was made to consist of the following named gentlemen.
District No. I, J.P. Richardson; No. 2, John C. Roby; Nos. 3 & 6, F.D. Blackstone; No. 4, T.W. Blackstone, No. 5, R.M.Davis; No. 7, J. Hart Case; No. 8, Julian A. Rogers; No. 9, Isaac Dingman; No. 10, C.F.D. Jones; No. 11, A. Finch; No. 12, B. Nichols; No. 13, Ira Edwards.
The committee was instructed to take the resolutions above published from the Utica Morning Herald and to use the same form in preparing remonstrances for signatures; also to secure the names at as early a date as possible, and forward the same to the nearest member of the committees to Albany, named in the resolutions. The meeting adjourned sine die.
WHAT HAPPENED FIFTY YEARS LATER
In T. Wood Clarke’s book, “Utica, For a Century and a Half” chapter XI, we found a section titled “The Booming Twenties”.
Land developments began to spring up like mushrooms, especially in the Seventeenth Ward, the no man’s land between the southern boundary of Utica at Prospect Street and the Sauquoit Creek, which, after much controversy, had been admitted to the city in 1921. In 1921, Talcott Road running west from Genesee Street, was laid out by Hugh R. Jones Company. In1923, The Vernon Davis Company bought the unoccupied land between Higby Road and the Sauquoit creek, laid out streets, and called it South Utica Lawns. In 1925, Fay Inman boomed Benton Hills east of Upper Oneida Street, and Harry W. Roberts developed Sherman Gardens and built Sherman Drive on the hills overlooking East Utica. In 1926, Hugh R. Jones Company purchased the old Benton Farm east of Genesee Street, called it Ridgewood, had it landscaped by Olmsted, and sold off the lots rapidly. During the years of prosperity, all these developments prospered, and many fine homes were built. “No Man’s Land” rapidly took on a decidedly urban appearance. Thousands of Uticans, tired of the noisy trolley cars of the city and longing for a country life in the city, sold their houses downtown and moved to these semi-rural regions.
CONDOLENCES
Another long-time member of the Society, William Barrick, passed away on May 8, 2009. Bill and his wife Martha joined the society in 1990 and were active members. Our sympathy is with Martha and the family.
The following is from a 1936 edition of a Utica paper.
THOMAS KILBURN WHITE OF NEW HARTFORD IS DEAD
New Hartford, May 14—Thomas Kilburn White died about noon Saturday at his late home, 21 Sanger Avenue, after a short illness. He was born in Taberg January 7, 1852. On July 6. 1873, he married Ellen Williams in New Hartford, They have resided here since.
For 28 years Mr. White was employed on the street car line, until it became an electric railway. In politics he was a Republican. He attended the Baptist Church. Besides his wife, he leaves four sons and three daughters, Evan of Syracuse, George of the United States Marines at Santiago, Humphrey of Utica and Thomas of New Hartford, Mrs. Nellie Davis, Mrs. Margaret Helmer, Mrs. Laura Newman, all of Utica, and 11 grandchildren.
Mr. White liked to tell how they used to do things on the New Hartford, New York Mills and Whitesboro horsecar lines 40 and 50 years ago. He began as a driver with the New Hartford system when he was only 14 years old and continued in the service of the company for the next 24 years, or until the electric cars were pressed into the service.
In his own words his story is substantially as follows:
“There were a good many presidents at the head of the company in my time. When I began to drive, John Butterfield was in charge, then came young John Butterfield, “Bill” Schuyler, Roger Rock, “Hanky” Bates, “Al” Mathers, Delbach, and toward the end Charlie Benton and Johnny Jones. We had five cars on the road, that ran half an hour apart, making the trip in about 45 minutes, and it was a poor driver that couldn’t make his time.
“Those lines paid well, too. Expenses for wages and horses’ keep wasn’t over $12 a day for each car. And we used to take in $25 or $30. Of course, a horse wouldn’t last over two years at that work, and a man who took any interest in his stock felt kind of bad to see them go to pieces. You couldn’t think you were married to them though, for if you had a good team and the company wanted to put them somewhere else, why away they would go
For every car there were four teams, each of which ran two trips day, but the same conductor and motorman stayed on all day, beginning at 7:40 a.m. and getting through about 11 at night. Oftentimes we’d put in more than 16 hours, just according to the weather. That was every day and Sunday, too, although, of course, we had time off once in a while. But on holidays you might as well ask the superintendent for his life as a holiday. A union? Oh, no, there never was a union, we didn’t need one; if a man was sick or hurt we just took up a collection for him. So it was very simple.
“One winter night I remember we started up the line with four as good horses as ever looked through a collar, and it took from 8 Sunday evening until 2 Monday morning to make the trip. It did have its disadvantages, but, of course, conductors and motormen never see the winters we used to see. More than that, we didn’t have the equipment to clear the tracks that they have now. After we let down the little scrapers on either side of the front of the car and got after the drifts with pick and shovel nothing more could be done—except just one thing— we’d jump the tracks completely and take to the carriage road. Now that is something the electrics couldn’t do, could they?
Everything is changed now, though. There used to be few houses on the outskirts of the city and the land between was marshy and wet. Now it is built up just like the city.”
This article ran in the June 1955 Observer Dispatch.
NEW HARTFORD GRADE SCHOOLS CHANGE MUCH IN 70 YEARS, MANUAL INDICATES
Few residents of New Hartford in 1887 would have thought that by 1955 the school system of the village, and what is now the local school district, would have grown to 10 times its size in the earlier year. But that is just what happened.
According to the manual of the Union Free school of New Hartford for 1887, there were 217 students enrolled, with 64 in the “grammar department;”, 82 in the “intermediate department;” and 71 in the “primary department.”
If you think that education has changed much in its ways and operations and techniques, consider for a moment a few of the points of study in the school at that time:
First grade, Language—Reading names and sounds of letters of the alphabet taught from chart, blackboard, and chart primer. Written form also given. Constant use of slate to copy lessons and sentences. Complete Monroe’s First Reader. Spelling, From chart, Primer and reader. Arithmetic, Taught orally. Numbers taught concretely at first. Counter used as long as necessary—no longer. Tables of addition formed. Slate work. Oral Lessons, color, primary colors. Also brown, black and white. Place right and left hand, cardinal points of compass. Conversation, on common objects and circumstances to teach observation as inculcate moral lessons.
Perhaps more interesting are some of the courses covered in the eighth grade: Language, reading, spelling, composition (in connection with other studies); arithmetic from Robinson’s Higher Arithmetic; American History; physiology; natural philosophy; and rhetorical weekly in each department.
At the time of the publication, James Armstrong was chairman of the board of education, and to say that certain of their philosophies would be unique in today’s schools would be an understatement. The school year at that time was 40 weeks, as compared with about 190 days at the present time. In addition, the year was divided into three terms.
Quoting from the manual, “Tuition fees shall be paid by non-resident pupils to the treasurer in advance for each term, in accordance with the rates per term for each pupil, given in the following schedule; Grammar School, per term, $5; Intermediate, $4; Primary, $3. No pupil shall be allowed to remain in any of the schools, whose tuition is not paid within four weeks from the time it becomes due, as above described. NO allowance shall be made for absence of less than two consecutive weeks, and that only in case of sickness or other unavoidable necessity.”
The duties of pupils would pose something of a jolt for present-day pupils, too. “All pupils who, from irregular attendance, indolence, inattention or other cause, fail to maintain a fair standing in their classes, shall be reduced to a subordinate grade by the Principal….No pupil shall on or about the school premises, use any profane or unchaste language, use tobacco in any form, carry fire arms, indulge in rudeness of any kind, nor throw snow or any missiles which endanger property or tend to vex or annoy any one….”
Other members of the board of education during the 1887-88 term included James Auld, Mortimer T. Canfield, Florus J. Cook, James Harris, George W. Rice, and A.P. Seaton. On the teaching staff were Carrie L. Fisher, school principal; Mary Mallory, school assistant principal; and Hattie F. Potter and Kittie Powers, teachers in the intermediate school; and Julie A. Saltsman in the primary school.
Equally interesting was the advertisement appearing on the back cover of the booklet for the Hugh Glenn Company. They noted their big shirt sale, and in “Lot No. 1” they mention a group “Made of very heavy cotton, reinforced back and front, all linen bosom and well made. Price 39 cents; equal to any 50 cent shirt in Utica.” One other group was advertised as “Made of New York Mills cotton. Warranted. Finest all linen bosom. Lined with heavy butcher linen, reinforced back and front, patent back, double stitched all over. In fact, the best manufacture. Price 75 cents; cheap at $1.00. We invite early attention to this chance.”
New Hartford Cotton Manufacturing Plant
These two pictures are from the John Edgar Burton collection that we have at the Society. They were taken in 1896 when John Burton revisited New Hartford, his birthplace, after having moved west . He was born here on October 19, 1847. He attended Whitestown Seminary and Cazenovia College before moving west and working with companies in Wisconsin, Minnesota and California. For more information on him see the March 2005 “Tally-Ho!” .
The pictures that he took on that visit are priceless. The top picture is what he called the Old Stone Factory. It was at the foot of what is now Daly Place in New Hartford. The picture below he called Old Stone Factory Lane and the X marks the house he was born in , the second house from the factory. These were the mill houses built by the mill owners.
Stone Factory Lane now called Daly Place
CLEVERLY PUT
No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.
Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
When cannibals ate the missionaries they got a taste of religion.
Table of Contents
May Meeting
Library Exhibit
We Have An E-Mail Address
Did You Know?
Lucky New Hartford
Welcome New Members
Condolences
The House At 76 Oxford Road
St. Margaret’s House
Why, Why, Why?
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 7 P.M.
Willowvale Fire Department . Oneida St. Chadwicks
Program: “DAR & General Herkimer-14th Monument”
Presented by Mary Helen Jones
The presenter will wear a period outfit. Others may be in costume. Come and see!
During the month of May the Historical Society will have on exhibit, in the corridor at the New Hartford Public Library , Jerry Cunningham’s collection of First Day stamps, especially the ones from WWI and WWII, plus a few old postcards of New Hartford. Remember to stop and look at them when you are in the library.
The New Hartford Historical Society has an e mail address—historicalnh@yahoo.com.
If you have questions contact us. If you have ideas for the “Tally-Ho!” or even articles to suggest, we are open to all suggestions.
The New Hartford’s Sherrill Brook was started in 1963 by the Jaycees of New Hartford on 201 acres. The land was purchased from the Bordens, Yeandles, Owens, Finens, Johnsons and Specks and is on Route 12. According to an article dated August 27, 1965 a tour was held at the Town Park for the 40 boys and their families who worked on the park projects. That project was financed in part by a $10,000 State Youth Division grant. Supervisor James H. Donovan said the town would spend about $20,000 in 1965 on developing the park. The total project to be completed over several years, will cost about $350,000. Around 1969 the town took over the management of the park. Hiking trails, baseball diamonds, tennis courts, pavilions , swings and slides for the children, picnic areas and bathroom facilities were in the original plans and even a swimming pool was considered but was never actually built. In 1978 a large octagon-shaped band shell complete with gingerbread trim was erected. The initial performance in the band shell was a concert by the New Hartford Citizens Band followed by a fireworks display on the 4th of July to an overflow crowd. Fourth of July concerts and fireworks were held for many years at the park and some of us have fond memories playing in the band or going to the concerts.
A contest was held at Oxford Road Elementary School to name the park. We couldn’t discover the person’s name who won the contest. Does anybody know?
HUNTINGTON PLACE 1914
LUCKY NEW HARTFORD
This article is from an January 15, 1914 edition of a Utica paper.
Two New Streets With All Improvements Deeded to the Village
New Hartford is a lucky town! In the first place it is fortunate in being a suburb of one of the most progressive and up-to-date cities in New York State and then, again, it has reason for rejoicing because of the constant, untiring efforts of its people, individually and collectively, to advance the interests of the town and make it one of the most desirable residential communities in this section. A recent example of this was the presentation to the village by Mrs. I. N. Terry of a deed of two streets through her former property. The Butler Place, formerly known as the Sherrill place, on the Clinton road is one of the landmarks of New Hartford. It contains the large dwelling formerly occupied by Rev. I. N. Terry and later by Prof. George C. Hodges. The place has a frontage on Genesee street and contains about 25 acres. About two years ago Mrs. Terry had the place divided into building lots which have been sold, and several fine new dwellings have been erected on them. In order to do this it was necessary to lay out streets through the property, and Mrs. Terry determined to do this as a memorial to her mother and as a gift to the village.
The streets are 50 feet wide and have been graded and furnished with a permanent sewer and with gas and city water. Sidewalks have been put down on both sides of each street, the lawns between the sidewalks and roadway have been seeded and good sized elms have been planted at intervals of 50 feet. The first street is Huntington Place and it runs at right angles to Genesee street and ends back a distance of over 1,000 feet. The entrance to this street is paved with brick, and on either side are pillars of concrete blocks about 4 feet square, and 12 feet high. Each is surmounted with a globe of cut stone, and on the front in bronze is the name Huntington place, the name being chosen in memory of Mrs. Terry’s mother. The west end of this street terminates in a circular flower bed about 60 feet in diameter. The second street intersects this and runs at right angles with it in the direction of Whitesboro street. It is called Woodland avenue..
The work on these improvement has been in progress over a year, and was completed about five weeks ago. The deeds for the streets were delivered by C. Lansing Jones to Marcus Failing, president of the village, and the generosity of Mrs. Terry in making this great improvement and deeding it to the village is highly appreciated.
Huntington Place 2009
Phil Eastman –New Hartford
Bruce Ketcham—New Hartford
We lost a long time member and friend, Ena D”Apice on April 13, 2009. Ena was a loving person with many talents. She will long be remembered for her beautiful water color paintings.
Our thoughts and prayers are with her husband, Tony, and their children and grandchildren.
The following is from a 1970 edition of the Utica Daily Press. No byline was given.
THE HOUSE AT 76 OXFORD ROAD
For those who pass the stately Eames home at 76 Oxford Road and see the lights beaming brightly behind the tall pillars at night, there is no more impressive sight in New Hartford. The house built, almost 130 years ago, has weathered the storms of New Hartford’s history.
It is said that after the death of the founder of New Hartford, Jedediah Sanger, in 1829, his daughter Sally (known later as the widow Eames) took part of the settlement from his estate and built a fine large house on the same site as her original homestead. (When Sally married John Eames in 1794, they went to live in a small white cottage on South Street—now Oxford Road, near the farm where Eli Butler settled in 1780.) The little cottage remained as a rear wing for her lovely new home. A few years before New Hartford’s sesquicentennial the wing was torn down. Widow Eames lived with her nine children in great style in the house which represented elegance. Mr. Eames was one of the original incorporators of the New Hartford Manufacturing Society, the second cotton cloth mill in the state.
Edward Williams’ family did much to restore the house to its original appearance, inside and out. Not needing the stables in the back, they were sold to a real-estate agent. The back of the house was changed for the original kitchen and woodshed no longer served a purpose. In there place came two rooms and a garage. Much was done to the rest of the house to bring it back to its original appearance.
The house is striking in its construction as all of the wood used is the result of hard work. The pillars which extend from the porch to the overhanging roof, 30 feet above, are trees that were brought in from the forest. The house is of matched siding, all of which is hand hewn, and entirely free of knots. Beneath the siding and between the studs are bricks, a most unusual insulation. All of the timbers are hand hewn and the arrangement of the house as well as the architecture, which is pure southern colonial, appeals particularly to those who are fond of grand old styles.
Seven fireplaces, of unusual design, provided heat for the large house. Some of the fireplaces are in the old-fashioned plan of being offset in order that the large flues may be cleaned from the top of the chimney to the basement. The interior woodwork is all hand carved
When the present standing Eames house was completed, it was a gala occasion and while the guests in attendance at the house warming promenaded the grounds, a band was stationed in the enclosure at the top of the house.
The original deed of the home has been lost. There is an engraving of the palatial residence dated 1794 - however history proves this date wrong. There are also rumors of secret passageways and hidden slave quarters. Nothing can be found in the house today to substantiate those rumors. A few hiding places for material wealth are in the home, however. On the stairs leading to the attic one stair lifts up and it is believed here was the hiding place for the Eames family silver.
ST. MARGARET’S HOUSE
JORDAN ROAD
The Society of St. Margaret was founded in 1855 in Sussex, England by the Rev. John Mason Neale with three sisters . In 1873 the sisters established a society in Boston, Mass. Around 1912 Rachel Munson Williams Proctor visited England and was so impressed by the work of “The Society of St. Margaret” that she asked if they would establish a chapter in Utica. In 1912, through the Society of St. Margaret in Boston a mission home on Clark Place in Utica was established.
Rachel Proctor, in 1937, bequeathed 8 1/2 acres of land on Jordon Road to the St. Margaret’s Society and this lovely home was built. It contains living quarters, a library, dining room, “great” room with TV and video setup , a fully stocked kitchen, 18 bedrooms with four that can be used as double rooms (meals and linens are provided) and a beautiful chapel in a separate building that is accessible by an underground corridor from the main house as well as from the outside . The chapel is open every day for worship where the Episcopal Daily Office and the Eucharist from the Book of Common Prayer are offered.
On the grounds is a shrine of Jesus on the Cross. The Pippin Hill Garden Club keep the ground under the shrine covered with flowers. It is a beautiful and peaceful place.
At one time a full time chaplain lived on the grounds in a stone house adjacent to the convent. Today, local Episcopal clergy come to perform the necessary services for the sisters and guests. The chaplain house is rented out.
In 1983 the sisterhood started Emmaus House—a homeless shelter for women and children on Kemble Street in Utica, and a soup kitchen on Devereux Street.
Sister Mary Gabriel, sister-in-charge, graciously met with Barb Munde and Bob Dicker one sunny morning in April and gave them a tour and the information printed in this article
The sisters are leaving August 2009 to go back to the Mother House in Boston, and it will be sad to see them leave. The House is not closing. It is entrusted to St. Margaret Corporation which makes the financial and business decisions for St. Margaret’s and Emmaus House. They are optimistic that St. Margaret’s can be maintained without the sisters there. But they will be sorely missed.
LIVING ROOM
CHAPEL ON RIGHT
LIBRARY
CHAPEL ALTER
DINING ROOM
Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?
How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?
Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?
March 2009
Table of Contents
March Meeting
Raymond M. Alden A Winner
Welcome To Our 2009 NHHS Programs
New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences
Mrs. Edwin L. Collins
Welcome New Member
Historical
An Old Assessment Roll
Old Sanger Mansion
Point School
Cleverly Put
Sunday, March 1, 1 P.M.
Presbyterian Church Parish House, New Hartford (in the park)
Program: Cheryl Pula
“Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”
Cheryl is always a very interesting speaker who know her subject thoroughly. We hope you will make an effort to come and welcome her. We need your support!
Native of New Hartford Awarded $1,000 as a Third Prize for a Story
(An article that appeared in the February 13, 1905 Utica Newspaper)
Collier’s Weekly announced that it would give three prizes, one of $5,000, one of $2,000 and one of $1,000 for the best short-story submitted under terms which insured absolute anonymity in a competition to close June 1, Over 12,000 stories were submitted. The judges who decided the contest were Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Walter H. Page and William Allen White. The prize winners were announced in Collier’s of Saturday. Rowland Thomas wins the first, Margaret Deland the second and Raymond M. Alden the third. Collier’s says of him: “Mr. Alden is a son of Rev. G. R. Alden, a Presbyterian minister, and Isabella M. Alden, author of the “Pansy Books.”
He was born in 1873 at New Hartford, N.Y. He was educated at Rollins College, a preparatory school in Florida, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1896. After his graduation Mr. Alden occupied the post of instructor in English at Columbia University, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and later assistant professor of English literature at Leland Stanford University, California. While still an undergraduate, Mr. Alden contributed some verse and fiction to various periodicals. Since leaving college, however, he has devoted most of his time to works of a more serious nature, and is the author and editor of various education works. Mr. Alden’s story is entitled “In the Promised Land,” and will appear in the June fiction number of Colliers.
(editor's note; Raymond Alden also wrote the popular Christmas story “Why the Chimes Rang.”)
WELCOME TO OUR 2009 NHHS PROGRAMS
The theme of the next four programs, March through June, will be the revolutionary war in the Mohawk Valley.
Please note where we are meeting each month. This month it is at the Presbyterian Church. In April our meeting will be at the Oneida County Historical Society where Frank Tomaino will do a program on “How OCHS Was the Founding Factor in the Oriskany Battlefield Monument.
New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences, New Hartford
The former Country Day School
It all began as an educational experiment, aimed at providing job training for veterans returning from World War II. New York State, in April 1940, created five institutes of applied arts and sciences in New York City, White Plains, Binghamton, Buffalo and Utica.
The institute in Utica opened first, on Oct. 15, 1946, directed by Paul Richardson. It was housed in the former Country Day School in New Hartford.
In 1947, the college’s Mechanical and Textile Technology Divisions moved into the second floor of the old Mohawk Cotton Mill on State Street in Utica. Both State Street sections attended classes at the New Hartford headquarters of Utica Tech during certain days of the week for communications classes and sports activities.
Many students were military veterans from World War II from other parts of New York Sate.
In 1953, the college came under sponsorship of Oneida County, and changed its name to Mohawk Valley Technical Institute. Dr. Albert Payne was named as the college’s first President.
In 1960 the campus on Sherman Drive was opened. It was designed by noted American architect Edward Durell Stone, and included an academic administration building, student center and gymnasium. Additions have been made; four dormitories (1966), Payne Hall (1969) and a major addition to the physical education facilities nearly complete now. (This information is from an OD article written in 1976.)
The building pictured above was built in 1921. It was the Utica Female Academy and later became the coeducational Utica Country Day School. It closed in 1943. It was occupied by the Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences and after they left by Notre Dame High School. It was razed in 1961. The Wedgewood Apartments now occupy the space where this building stood.
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Two 1949 graduates of the Mechanical Technology Division of Utica Tec. are shown studying under the Institute sign on Genesee Street in New Hartford. |
This information is from an article in the Utica O.D. dated August 28, 1946 written by Alberta J. Dickinson. Many people in New Hartford remember Mrs. Collins and the house she lived in that was on the corner of Park Street and Oxford Road. The house was moved to Reservoir Road in Sauquoit when the new fire station was built. Especially intriguing is the depiction of a way of life in the village in the post-World War II era as revealed in all the activities that held Mrs. Collins interest. Also it is interesting to note that not once in the article is Mrs. Collins referred to by her Christian name, Wilma.
Back of the white picket fence, enclosing what many persons consider New Hartford’s most charming residence, at 2 Oxford Road, a youngish dark-haired woman in a blue chambray frock works in her garden. She snips and prunes and weeds and, in the late afternoon of these summer days, can be seen laying the table for supper on the rear terrace overlooking a cool fern-edged rock garden and pool.
Mrs. Collins, the lady behind the picket fence, definitely is community– minded. True, her husband and their 15 year- old- son, Edwin, a New Hartford High School second-year student are among her first interests. Then comes New Hartford, its history, traditions and future.
Mrs. Collins is one of the 50 charter members and was the first president of the village Historical Society, formed five years ago. She is now serving as secretary of the society.
While she was president of the New Hartford PTA group, she had charge of “Old Settlers’ Day”, when, arranged in the High School gymnasium, historical treasures from village homes brought crowds to the school for three days. That was eight years ago.
In the late summer of 1941 she headed a committee in charge of an old-time “Country Fair” held on the grounds of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. The fair was repeated the following year and was equally successful. The church netted about $1,200 through both occasions.
Mrs. Collins has been president of the Service League of St. Stephen’s, is a member of the Altar Guild and teaches the Sunday School kindergarten class. Six years ago she organized the first Boy Scout Cub Pack in New Hartford,. During the war she was on the Red Cross Emergency Medical Committee for the village and organized Red Cross First Aid classes.
She served six years ago as Oneida County PTA president, and is now on the executive committee of the village PTA. A member of the AAUW, she is particularly interested in the book and garden groups.
For the last six years she has been an active member of the New Hartford committee of the New York Tribune Fresh Air Fund. Through the committee more than 100 New York children have enjoyed vacations of more than two weeks to a month in and around New Hartford.
When the Collins’ first moved to New Hartford they build a house to their liking at the top of Sanger Ave. In 1943 they bought the picturesque Queen Anne house at 2 Oxford Road, built in 1853, which stands on ground once owned by George Washington and George Clinton. The house was owned before they took up their residence there by Mr. and Mrs. W. Chase Young, now of Syracuse and Fayetteville.
Throughout the hospitable Oxford Road house there’s an emphasis on simple primitive American furniture in every room. They are carrying on the tradition of a home that interests them by way of maple and pine furniture used in the Pilgrim century. They personally have refinished every one of their pieces, which experts say are unrivaled in this part of the county.
Charles Graff—Florida
The following is from the 1896 New Hartford Union School handbook.
HISTORICAL
The present Union Free School District organization was formed in 1884. At that time the school occupied the building opposite the park which is now used as a box factory. It employed only three teachers and had an enrollment of about one hundred sixty pupils. In the same year the present excellent site was purchased (ed. Note. Jedediah Sanger mansion on Pearl Street about where Allport Place is now), and the dwelling house occupying it remodeled to accommodate the school. The improved facilities and increased interest resulted in a steady growth in the school since that time, so that it has now doubled both its teaching force and attendance.
The admission of the school to the inspection of the Regents in 1893 gave a new impulse to its development. The work of all departments has been systematized and a full year added to the courses, bringing it fully up to middle academic grade.
Both the teaching force and the building accommodations are now fully taxed. By crowding the seated together the capacity of the academic room as been increased to the utmost, but it is still unequal to the demand. In the primary department, not only are the rooms over-crowded, but the number of pupils under each teacher is too large for satisfactory work, especially in view of the dependence of pupils of that age upon the personal attention of the teacher.
Our school has acquired an enviable reputation in this vicinity and with the department at Albany as a growing school, and no effort will be spared to maintain this high opinion.
(Ed. Note. The school subsequently moved to the point at Genesee and Paris Road In New Hartford after the completion of the Point School in 1902.)
The names of the students are listed in this publication and it is interesting to note some of them
Robert Auld, Bertha Bentley, Arthur Bakersfield, Marguerite Coe, Theo. Cookingham, George Corbett, 3 Cramers, Edwin Crippin,3 Durrenbecks, 4 Eddys, 2 Fitzgeralds, Marion Healey, George Hoffman, 2 Hogans, Augustus Hunzicker, Marion Ireland, 3 McLeans, 4 O’Connors, Marguerite McMahon, 2 Perrys, 3 Potters, Arthur Service, Frances Vedder, 3 Wilsons to name a few. Many of these names were prominent in our village history.
In the academic department there were 80 resident pupils, 22 non-resident. The Intermediate department had 68 resident and 9 non-resident and the primary department had 129 resident students, no non-resident. Clearly the town was growing and more children were attending school than ever before.
An old article in one of the scrapbooks at the Society Rooms had the following article from a Dec. 12, 1910 Utica Daily Press. Excerpts from this article are as follows:
An old assessment roll from 1827 shows that the total amount of real estate then assessed in the town was $542,591. At present (1910) real estate is assessed at $2,520,603.
Among the largest taxpayers were Jacob and Lewis Sherrill, 363 acres, Timothy Wadsworth 250 acres, Jedediah Sanger 143 acres, Arnold Mason 452 acres, Samuel Lyon 34 acres, John Birdseye 210 acres. Taverns, mills, factories and tanneries were as plenty as they are today, though not as large. While many of the assessments are made as house and lot, others are made on house and store, house and mill, etc. Here are some: Joseph Allen house and store; John Butler, fulling mill; Joseph Butler, house and store; Abner Bartlett, house lot and factory; John Chadwick, house, lot and factory, Samuel Hicks, mill and lot. Among the names which occur most frequently are those of Philemon, Jaccheus, and Pitny Case; John Joseph, Eli Ashbel, Sylvester E. and Lucinda Butler, Babcock, Beckwith, Birdseye, Ensworth, Ferris, French, Goodrich, Gilbert, Gaylord, Goodwin, Higbe, Huxford, Hecox, Hart, Kirkland, Kellogg, Lee, Mason, Mosier, Mallory, Montague, Norton, Nichols, Liberty Powell, Prescott, Plant, Parsons, Potter, Palmer, Risley, Roberts, Richardson, Rogers, Sherrill, Sanger, Smith, Seymour, Stone, Steel, Shepherd, Savage, Seward, Tyler, Tucker, Woodruff, Wilcox, Williams, Wadsworth and Wetmore.
The old Sanger Mansion when it was a school in the late 1800’s
1937 Fifth Grade Class outside of the Point School . Miss O’Connor, teacher
Back row: Mary Louise Shephard (Quayle)*, Dorothy Moak (Kilbourn)*, Peggy O’Neil (Wisniewski), Barbara Dunmore (Weaver), Jane Rae McKee (Walsh)*, Suzanne Grosse (Warren)*, Miss O’Connor (teacher)*, Joan Cunningham (Carroll), Eleanor Henry (Messersmith), Mary Kowalczyk (Skoroulski), Virginia Luker (Butler)* , *Vernoica Wolczanski*, Patty Jetty, Una Mae Thomas ( Ferguson)*.
Bottom row: Barbara Gurley (Munde) , Frances Gruppe, Roger Ketcham, William E. Simmons, *Bill Synal*. Bill Smith *. Henry Jacoboski, Ralph Ketcham, ? , Arthur Cotins*, Roger Harrison*, Sue Herring, Peggy VanAuken (Baldwin).
*deceased that we know of
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