Traders and Gentlefolk
Traders and Gentlefolk

Author: Cynthia A. Kierner

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780801426384

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Descendants reside primarily in New York.

History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York
History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York

Author: Jay Gould

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1438485417

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When Jay Gould died in 1892 he left behind an estate worth the equivalent of seventy-eight billion in today's dollars. He also left behind a reputation as one of Wall Street's most shrewd, astute, and (some said) manipulative operators. Long before his adventures in finance, the future "robber baron" was a young man on the make in his native Catskills, working as a surveyor and mapmaker in his natal place of Delaware County, where he had grown up side by side with the future writer and naturalist John Burroughs. Originally published in 1856, when Gould was just twenty, Gould's History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York is based on primary sources and original testimony from second and third generation settlers, many of them Gould's own friends and cousins. The book continues to be an important source on the first settlement of the region and is highly regarded by scholars. This edition features a new introduction by Edward Renehan, the biographer of both Gould and John Burroughs.

Calling Down Fire
Calling Down Fire

Author: Marianne Perciaccante

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2003-02-13

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780791456392

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Explores how the agrarian setting of Jefferson County, New York, influenced the revival methods of Charles Grandison Finney, with implications for the study of revivalism more generally.

Out-Doors at Idlewild; or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson
Out-Doors at Idlewild; or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson

Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2021-11-01

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1438486243

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During the 1850s and '60s, by far the most prominent author in all of New York State was the writer, editor, and publisher Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867). Nearly as prominent as Willis himself was his Hudson Valley estate, Idlewild, where literary elites gathered and about which Willis himself wrote and published extensively. In 1846, Willis founded the Home Journal, which would go on to become Town and Country. In Out-Doors at Idlewild, first published in 1855, Willis chronicled the creation of his estate at Cornwall-on-Hudson (near West Point), as well as life amid its countryside. The land afforded brilliant views of the river and the mountains to the East. Calvert Vaux, the famed architect of both landscapes and houses, designed the elaborate and ornate Gothic Revival home, which Willis named Idlewood (whereas he called the estate Idlewild), and into which the Willis family moved in July of 1853. Here, Willis wrote a series of papers for the Home Journal documenting life at the seventy-acre estate. These papers were gathered together in Out-Doors at Idlewild, a celebration of Willis's home and estate.