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Sacandaga River Valley Scrapbook

This wonderful old scrapbook primarily contains newspaper clippings, circa 1880-1930, about the people who lived in the Sacandaga River Valley, before life was forever changed by the completion of the Conklingville Dam in 1930, which transformed the Sacandaga River Valley into the Great Sacandaga Reservoir. Geographically, Day and West Day are best represented, with scattered news from Batchellerville, Conklingville, Corinth, Hadley, Luzerne, Edinburg, Northville, Mayfield and places far beyond, but with some connection to the people of the Sacandaga River Valley. The scrapbook was scanned from front to back, however, the clippings are not in chronological order. Related subjects are somewhat grouped and parts of large articles are consecutive.

A "major subject" index follows, which includes all births, marriages & deaths, but the news tidbits on every page are fascinating reading, include many additional names, and will give one an excellent impression of life in that earlier time and place.

Browse through the pages (click HERE to go to page 1),

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click on the particular page number of an item in the index below.

Sacandaga Scrapbook Index
Name Scan #
Abbott, Ira Willard - cousin of Fanny Meader - poem 120
Abrams, William B. & Lena S. Murphy - marriage 71
Alderman, Ada - Evangelist, holding revival meetings 52
Aldrich & Eggleston - married, at home of John Ambler 81
Alexander, Mrs. John of West Charlton - 99th birthday 40
Allen, Emily Lawton, widow of Ellery S. Allen - interment East Aurora 84
Allen, Joseph W. - died in Edinburg, former deputy sheriff 146
Allen, Orlando J., late of Buffalo, from Wyoming County Times 146
Andrew, Wm. of Glens Falls - 58th birthday 95
Andrews, Walter & Ora Rollman - marriage 5
Angell, A.D. - letter about Drew Theological Seminary - 1897 45
Angell, Rev. Albert D. & Mabel J. Palmer - marriage 44
Austin, Sarah E., widow of Elum Austin - death 1898 97
Balmoral Hotel, Mt. McGregor 95
Barron, Mrs. Edward, daughter of Mrs. John Shay - funeral 112
Blanch, Jesse, mother Malvina, grandfather Joseph Shaw - funeral 59
Blighton, Frank H. - sent to Dannemora for forgery 87
Blighton, J. Lizzie Horton, wife of Frank Blighton - death 43
Blood, Albert Phillips, son of Sylvester & Loretto Robertson Blood 118
Bloss, Stella - a surprise party in Day 6
Blowers, Estella M. & Charles Milligan - marriage 11
Blowers, Jennie E. Frasier - buried in the Middle Grove cemetery 142
Bradt, Alonzo - on trial at Johnstown 63
Bristol, Dena, died at Saratoga Springs - funeral 137
Brooks, Levi - has been granted an original pension 31
Brown, Mary E. & Dennis J. Leahey - marriage 56
Burneson, Dr. J.B. of Luzerne - death 154
Burnham, George W., son of W.J. Burnham - death 38
Burpee, Chas. H. - poem for Mrs. S.M.W.---berlain of Locust Grove 92
Butler, Rev. Charles I.- funeral at Union Mills, former West Day pastor 85
Cady, infant of Will Cady died at Croweville 94
Cameron, Rev. F. - finished at Wells, now gone to Quaker Springs 94
Carleton, Will - poem "Up in the Loft" 155
Carlton, Hattie - teacher Rock Hill district school 85
Caton, Mary Queeny, wife of William - death 43
Church, W. B., at Glens Falls - death 17
Church, William, native of England, also resident of Canada - death 87
Coleman, William S. & Mabel Gailey - married 80
Colson, Nancy Snow, wife of P.L. Colson - death 1903 88
Colson, Thomas - death 15
Colson, Thomas, Sr., father of Philip & Charles Colson - death 20
Columbian Exposition 1893, Chicago 123
Combs, Jennie Green, wife of Alva Combs - death 50
Conaughton, John, Civil War Veteran, left for Soldiers' Home at Bath 158
Conkle, Rev. - will return to Auburn Theological Seminary 22
Conklingville Dam under construction - 1929 160
Conklingville M.E. Church - election of Trustees 126
Connaughton, Melinda, wife of John - death 43
Cooms, Alvah & Jennie Green - marriage 154
Coty, Corena, daughter of Paul Coty - death 61
Crocker, Rev. Dr. James Norton - funeral 14
Darling, Erastus of Gloversville - probate of estate 98
Darling, Hiram, son of Ransom Darling - death 102
Darling, Mary Tennant, wife of George Darling - death 43
Darling, Mary, wife of George Darling - death at Tenantville 90
Darling, William - died at residence of Mrs.H.F. Lawrence 132
Day, Clement Arthur - hanged in Utica - 1888 152
Day, Emma J. & Irvin Herrick - marriage 156
Day, Henry C. - death 1898 in the Alvord House fire 29
Deming, Sarah Elizabeth Smith, widow of Hiram Deming - death 102
disaster - Alvord house fire, Gloversville, 1898 29
disaster - Balmoral Hotel fire, Mt. McGregor 10
disaster - destructive fire Sacandaga Park burning 177 cottages 89
disaster - excursion steamer, Rachel, sinks on Lake George 31
disaster - Mayfield's Cyclone - great havoc at Shawville 76
Drexel Cottage, Mt. McGregor 96
Drexel, Joseph W. - died in New York, a summer resident at Saratoga 95
Dunklee, E. George, GAR veteran - died. Saratogian correspondent. 159
Dunn, Joseph Jr. - baptism 151
Edmondson, Daniel & Margaret St.John - marriage 61
Eggleston & Aldrich - married, at home of John Ambler 81
Ehlers, Rev. W.A. & Emma Griffin - marriage 59
Ennis, May - Salvation Army Captain - miracle cure 45
Ferris Wheel and its inventor, George Washington Gale Ferris 122
Ferry, Georgia Harriett & Rev. Hiram Grant Person - marriage 35
Ferry, Georgia Harriett & Rev. Hiram Grant Person - marriage - 1898 78
Finch, Lemuel S. & Minnie Green - engaged to be married 70
Fish House Lodge No. 289, F.& A.M. 15
Flansburg, Anna & John Vines - marriage 85
Flansburgh, I.J. - Saratogian correspondent 6
Flansburgh, I.J. of Day - death 68
Flynn, George A. of Troy & Mrs. Ruie Lehman Ostram - married 98
Fourth of July celebration in Day; E. George Dunklee, Rev.Vining 73
Foy, Martin - electrocution at Dannemora 39
Franklin, George W. & Charlotte Mae Paul - marriage 56
Frasier, Caroline, daughter of Freelove Allen & Luke Kathan - death 115
Frasier, Emma & Bert W. Johnson - marriage 1899 94
Frasier, Gladys Florence - infant daughter of Luke Frasier - death 65
Frasier, John T. - death 143
Frasier, lady boarder to L.W. Frasier - birth 89
Frasier, sister of Fred & Lewis - funeral 65
Frasier, William & Carrie Johnson - marriage 110
Frasier, William H. at home of his sister, Mrs. Stuart Wood - death 116
Gailey, Mabel & William S. Coleman - married 80
gallows - list of persons hanged 1888 or before 152
GAR - B.C.Butler post 316, Luzerne, annual election of officers 21
Garfield, Eliza Ballou, mother of President J. Garfield - death 45
George, Estella & Elwyn Mosher - marriage 41
Gold Mill and Mining Co., one mile south of Northville 18
Good Templars lodge No. 206, West Day, meetings 23
Gordon, E. Gertrude & Robert O. Walsh - marriage 1899 93
Granger, Miss. - school teacher, a thank you. 9
Gray, Mary E. Guiles, widow of George Gray - death 44
Greeley, M. Agnes - teacher District No. 2 66
Green, Eliza - last surviving war of 1812 pensioner in this section 21
Green, Jennie & Alvah Cooms - marriage 154
Green, Minnie & Lemuel S. Finch - engaged to be married 70
Griffin, Emma & Rev. W.A. Ehlers - marriage 59
Guiles, Aaron - recent shock of paralysis with no hopes of recovery 26
Guiles, I. W., member B.C.Butler post No. 316 GAR - death 68
Guiles, Irving Wesley - resolutions of respect from Fish House lodge 8
Guiles, Marion E. - funeral 7
Guiles, Olivia A., widow Aaron Guiles, daughter Mrs. Grey - death 17
Guptil, Mark Hoyt & Emily J. Mason - marriage, 1902 50
Gwinup, Lawyer of Luzerne - baptism 151
Hale, Lucy B,, daughter of Aaron Jr. & Typhosa Hale - death 79
Hall, A.E. - school commissioner held a teachers' examination 129
Hartman, Herbert, his bride resided at Noyes' homestead - marriage 20
Herrick, Irvin & Emma J. Day - marrige 156
Holcombe, Leslie - teacher, village school 20
Hollett, Harriet Templeton, wife of John Hollett - death 25
Holmes, Ella Perqua - funeral. Cousins, Edna & Waldo Perqua. 34
Holmes, Ella Perqua, daughter of James Perqua - death 21
Horton, Herbert - burial Glens Falls Cemetery 116
Horton, Herbert, son of Almon Day Horton & Amanda Wait Horton 130
Horton, Marilla Wait, widow of Chestor Horton - death 67
Hotel Champlain, Lake Champlain, three miles south of Plattsburgh 103
Houghton, Irvin B. & Alice E. Lyon - marriage 56
Hull, infant daughter of Alfred & Jennie - death 24
Hyde, Sybel - 90th birthday, at home of Eliza Paul 104
Hyde, Sybel Ellis, widow of Rev. David Hyde - death 1900 82
Jacobie, Hillard - in memoriam 35
Jacobie, Hillard D. - death 1898 74
Jacobie, Hillard D., sisters Mrs. Ball & Mrs. Mead - death 43
Jenkins, Carrie - baptism 151
Jenkins, Rollin L., 169th Regt. U.S. Vols., lieutenant Co. E. - death 72
Johnson, B. Frank, son of John S. & Lavina Johnson - death 106
Johnson, Bert W. & Emma Frasier - marriage 1899 94
Johnson, Carrie & William Frasier - marriage 110
Johnson, David, husband of Jeminah Austin - death 131
Johnson, J. S. & wife of Cold Brook - golden wedding anniversary 65
Johnson, J.S. - visitors; Judd, G.N. Scott, Fannie Rickert, Johnson 50
Johnson, John S. - death. Sisters: Keiser, Judd, Scott & Reckart 104
Johnson, John S. - Deputy Grand Chief Templar, lodge 206 W. Day 53
Johnson, Lucina - died at home of Mrs. Elmer Fuller 139
Johnson, Lucinia of West Day - 96th birthday 103
Johnson, Lucretia Barker - died at Cedar Rapids, Iowa 117
Johnson, Mary E., mother of John & Charles Palmer - death 51
Johnson, Mrs. B.F., daughter of H.S. Jenkins - death 106
Johnson, Mrs. J.S. Celebrated her 94th birthday 158
Johnson, Prudence, wife of B.F. died in Conklingville 107
Johnson, Rosetta E., at home of George C. Darwin, Detroit - death 98
Johnson, Vickory & Mamie Mosher - marriage 5
Johnson, Vickory & Mamie Mosher - marriage 125
Jones, Mrs. C.W., daughter of William & Mary Thorn - 79th birthday 64
Kathan, Dr. Sherman S., Conklingville physician - death 100
Kathan, Dudley - studying for a physician, New York 26
Kathan, Harmon R. - picture 121
Kathan, I.D. - funeral. Members of Corinth Lodge, I.O.O.F.attended 83
Kathan, I.D., father of Mrs. S.T. Wright of Sandy Hill - death 1902 82
Kathan, Monroe L., father of Mrs. Walter Menzies - death 120
Kathan, R.B. - first prize Densmore & Son's advertisement 136
Kathan, Sarah E., children: Mrs. Paul, Mrs. Buckmaster, John Stead 116
Kendall, Lydia Kathan Mosher, daughter Truman Kathan - death 16
Kendall, Lydia, wife of George Mosher, also of Daniel Kendall - death 22
Kenyon, son of Holden - birth 21
Keysor, Amie, widow of Captain Clark Keysor - death 135
Keysor, Mrs. Clark - 93rd birthday - daughter Amy Carpenter 1
Keysor, W.W, son of Mrs. Clarke Keysor - death 128
Kimball, Ephraim, Emma & Nellie Gray Kimball - deaths, 1898 29
Kinney, J.S. of Day, died in Corinth 143
Kinsey, Horatio S. - death - interment at Broadalbin 84
Knapp, Mable & John Shaw - marriage 61
Kneil, Thomas R. at the Teacher's Institute in Saratoga 118
Leahey, Dennis J. & Mary E. Brown - marriage 56
Lehman, Ruie (widow of Earl Ostram) & George A. Flynn - married 98
Lindsey, Lyman, son of James Lindsey - death 1898 43
Lyon, Alice E. & Irvin B. Houghton - marriage 56
Lyon, daughter born to John Lyon & wife 65
MacDonald, Cassie & Milton Miller - marriage 1910 127
MacDonald, Cassie, inheritance from Charles B. Anderson 127
Marcellus, Kittie C. - 9th birthday 154
Marcellus, William - died in Boise Idaho, widow Malinda Paul 67
Mason, Emily J. & Mark Hoyt Guptil - marriage, 1902 50
Mason, Mrs. Seymour - death at Mayfield 77
Meader, Isaac & Fanny - golden wedding anniversary 120
Micheals, William, school teacher - death 25
Miller, Edith V. & Roy E. Noyes - marriage, 1901 54
Miller, Milton & Cassie MacDonald - marriage 1910 127
Milligan, Charles & Estella M. Blowers - marriage 11
Mills, Paul - letter from Mayaquez, 1898 48
Moore, Augusta M. James, wife of Grove H. Moore - death 61
Morgan, Anna Person, daughter of Hiram Person - death 36
Morgan, Anna Person, wife of Edward Morgan - died 1898 78
Mosher, Elwyn & Estella George - marriage 41
Mosher, first daughter of Lank - birth 26
Mosher, Mamie & Vickory Johnson - marriage 5
Mosher, Mamie & Vickory Johnson - marriage 125
Mosher, Sarah, wife of Frank, sister of Warren Baker - death 115
Murden, Sara Wotherspoon Cooper, wife of S.A., - death, in Florida 6
Murphy, Lena S. & William B. Abrams - marriage 71
Newton, Chas. - froze his feet quite badly 89
Nibalo, David - funeral 17
Northup, James Watson & Elizabeth L. Yates - marriage 56
Noyes, Delbert W. & Katherine Paul - marriage 1900 111
Noyes, H.G. & Sarah E. Stead - marriage 84
Noyes, Roy E. & Edith V. Miller - marriage, 1901 54
O'Neil, Annie and children killed by train near Rhinebeck 61
Olmstead, Emma Hale & Edward Haynes Sargent of MA - marriage 99
Olmstead, John W., former Edinburg supervisor, died at Northville 102
Orvitt, Aber - serious injuries in the wooden ware works 23
Ostrander, George Willard, 115th N.Y.Vols, Edinburgh supervisor 96
Ovitt, Cora A., infant daughter of L.J. Ovitt - death 157
Palmer, Abigail Lawton, wife of Marvin, former teacher - death 68
Palmer, Mabel J. & Rev. Albert D. Angell - marriage 44
Palmer, Mrs. Saline - funeral 17
Palmer, Salina Diets, widow of A.H. Palmer - death 32
Parkis, Mirard, formerly of Troy - death 25
Partridge, Miss Alzira - Sand Hill school, 1898 13
Partridge, Mrs. Everett, daughter of John W. Latcher - death 90
Paul, Adelbert H., husband of Carrie E. Stead - death 133
Paul, Amy Palmer, wife of Henry Paul - death 1902 106
Paul, Charlotte Mae & George W. Franklin - marriage 56
Paul, Gertie Rhodes, wife of Arthur Paul - death 44
Paul, Henry & wife - fiftieth wedding anniversary 129
Paul, Henry, brother of Moses Paul of Broadalbin - death 116
Paul, Katherine & Delbert W. Noyes - marriage 1900 111
Paul, Mary A. Howe, wife of Clark Paul at Fayette County, Iowa 113
Payne, Miss Lillah - district 8 school 15
Perkins, Zoah, daughter of Oliver - funeral 26
Person, Rev. Hiram Grant & Georgia Harriett Ferry - marriage 35
Person, Rev. Hiram Grant & Georgia Harriett Ferry - marriage - 1898 78
Plattsburgh State Normal School Faculty - Palmer, Hudson, etc. 3
Possom, Catherine, wife of Rev. William L. Possom - death at Albany 149
Pulling, William A., survived by his mother, Eliza Porter - death 27
Putnam, Austin of Stony Creek - accident at Hall's saw mill 98
Queeney, Peter - burial Stone Church cemetery 125
quilting party at the parsonage, West Day, 1902 115
Rake factory will close its doors permanently, Edinburgh 25
Ran, Mr., Gloversville - funeral. Former partner of Mr. Simpson. 86
Raynor, Grace - departs for South Africa as missionary 59
Retallick, George & wife - silver wedding anniversary 41
Revival meetings, West Day, conducted by Ada Alderman 19
Rhodes, Charles, veteran 93rd Regt. N.Y.Vol. Inf. - death 62
Rhodes, daughter of William - birth 7
Rhodes, Guy - died at Corinth, interment Stone Church cemetery 129
Rhodes, Guy, son of Edwin Rhodes - death 1892 4
Rhodes, Mr. of Warrensburg & Cora Shepard - marriage 126
Rhodes, Mrs. George, gave birth to twins who have since died 154
Rice, John T., former school commissioner - death 109
Rice, Philip Ensign & Pearl Inez Thompson - marriage 54
Rice, Phillip E. & Pearl Inez Thomson/Thompson - marriage 108
Rockwell, Abbie M. White, wife of E. G. Rockwell - death 42
Rockwell, Everal G. & Abbie White - marriage 25
Rockwell, Mrs. S.G. - funeral 154
Rockwell, S.Y. - funeral at Day 24
Rollman, Ora & Walter Andrews - marriage 5
Roods, Mrs.S.M. - injured by a cow 80
Ross, John & daughter of Frank Swears given granite shower 158
Rowe, James, the Blacksmith Poet: A Mighty Change in Jenkins 141
Roy, Robert H., husband of Nettie Brewer - death 37
Russell, Hollis of Glens Falls - death 24
Ryther, David, born in Hadley, married 60 years - died 145
Ryther, Deliah Rhodes, born in Day, funeral at the Stone Church 145
Sacandaga Valley Creamery, Edinburgh 46
Salmon, Neil, son of Lewis Salmon, at Spokane, Washington - death 83
Sargent, Edward Haynes of MA & Emma Hale Olmstead - marriage 99
Satterlee, Mary Elizabeth & James R. VanNess - marriage 42
Schermerhorn, Orrilla, widow of Harvey Schermerhorn - death 65
Scott, Isaac N. - tribute at his death 144
Scribner, Jennie - taken to Utica Asylum 25
Shanl, Lyman - died at Rockwood due to injuries from a fight 63
Shaw, John & Mable Knapp - marriage 61
Shear, Rev. & Mrs. G.D. - gift of star album quilt as memorial 117
Shepard, Cora & Mr. Rhodes of Warrensburg - marriage 126
Smith, Alice E., wife of Alexander, sister of Daniel & George Scott 116
Smith, H.D., brother of Philo R. Smith of Gloversville - death 49
Smith, Hiram D., of Gloversville, at Ontario - death 33
Smith, Isaac - Resolutions of the School Board - 1898 79
Smith, Isaac, husband of Hattie Allen - death 79
Smith, Jennie, wife of Theodore Smith - funeral 26
Smith, Lyman H. - sent to Dannemora for assault of Ewald Frederick 87
Sparks, Peter - sent to Dannemora for seduction of Maggie Martin 87
St.John, Margaret & Daniel Edmondson - marriage 61
Stead, Ida - death at Edinburg, 1902, Step-father R.H.Kathan 82
Stead, May, daughter of Joseph W. Allen, wife of John Stead - death 140
Stead, Sarah E. & H.G. Noyes - marriage 84
Stimson, Earl L. - former Cohoes attorney - death 2
Stimson, John Fay - death 60
Stimson, Margaret, widow of Azariah E. Stimson - death 2
Sullivan, Mary Elizabeth of Long Lake died at St. Joseph's convent 93
Sumner, William C., at the residence of Elsie Sumner - death 153
Sumner, William C., son of Cyrus Sumner - death 49
Sutliff, Grace, niece of Mrs. H.F.Kathan - death 16
Swears, Charlotte, widow of Henry Swears - death 134
Swears, Gertrude & Horace Washburn - marriage 71
Teacher's Institute at Saratoga; Frasier, Traver, Payne, Paul 22
The exodus of the residents from the Sacandaga Valley - 1929 161
Thompson, Pearl Inez & Philip Ensign Rice - marriage 54
Thomson/Thompson, Pearl Inez & Phillip E. Rice - marriage 108
Totman, Lois - funeral 1
Tucker, LeGrand of Essex, struck by train at Port Henry tunnel 105
Twenty-first Regt. US Infantry, Plattsburgh, on way to war 47
VanAvery, William - funeral at home of Emmitt Paul 139
VanNess, James R. & Mary Elizabeth Satterlee - marriage 42
VanWie, Mr. Of Clifton Park - Prohibition campaign 154
Vines, John & Anna Flansburg - marriage 85
Wait, Emma F. Johnson, widow of Stephen Wait - death at Buffalo 22
Wait, Emma F., of Detroit, at Buffalo- death 1891 26
Walsh, Robert O. & E. Gertrude Gordon - marriage 1899 93
Wark, Grace Anna Partridge, wife of Rev. William Orr Wark - death 58
Wark, Grace Anna Partridge, wife of Rev. William Orr Wark - death 91
Washburn, Horace & Gertrude Swears - marriage 71
Werner, Julius - letter from cruiser New York, at sea, 1898 52
Wheeler, P.C. contemplates residence in Onondaga county 147
White, Abbie & Everal G. Rockwell - marriage 25
White, daughter to Thurber - birth 25
White, Mrs. Andrew, at residence of Hollis Andrew - death 12
Wilcox, Edward J. - funeral. Tribute by Fred Peck. 128
Wilcox, Rev. C.F. Of Northville - slander case at Johnstown 148
Wilson, Henrietta - murder, 1892 39
Womans Relief Corps, election of officers 21
Wright, Dr. Franklin N.,Northville physician - slander case, Johnstown 148
Wright, Fanny, wife of Dr. F.N. Wright of Northville - death 94
Yates, Charles A., Civil War Veteran, Justice of the Peace - death 97
Yates, Elizabeth L. & James Watson Northup - marriage 56
Yates, John, husband of Betsey Allen and Sylvia Lawton - death 138
Yates, Joseph - funeral. Wives Jane Duncan also Annie Cargan 126
Yates, Joseph - marriage to Cargan 7
Yates, Mrs. Joseph of Day - interment at Wells 54
Yates, Sylvia, wife of John Yates - funeral 22
Yates, T.D.- contributor to Garfield monument fund, Lake View Cem. 69
Yerrington, Polly - funeral at Creek Center, interment Day Center 126
York, Laura - funeral 26
York, Laura, sister of Reuben & James York - death 21

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