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John Tayler (1742–1829), businessman and politician; represented Albany County in the New York State Assembly (1777–1779, 1780–1781, and 1785–1787); appointed City Recorder (Deputy Mayor) of Albany in 1793; justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1797; represented Albany in the New York Senate 1802–1813; Lieutenant Governor (1811-1822 ...
George Rogers Howell was born in Southampton, New York on June 15, 1833. [1] A graduate of Yale College (1854), he received the M.A. from Yale University in 1885. He entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 1861 and served briefly as a Presbyterian minister. In 1872 he was appointed Assistant Librarian of the New York State Library in Albany.
Contents: Counties in New York Albany – Allegany – Bronx – Broome – Cattaraugus – Cayuga – Chautauqua – Chemung – Chenango – Clinton – Columbia – Cortland – Delaware – Dutchess (Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck) – Erie – Essex – Franklin – Fulton – Genesee – Greene – Hamilton – Herkimer – Jefferson – Kings – Lewis – Livingston – Madison – Monroe ...
Reflecting Albany's status as New York's capital, 17 of the 41 extant buildings listed individually, more than one-third of that total, have been used for governmental purposes at some point. [ note 7 ] The city government is responsible for three of those, its school district for two and the federal government one (the Old Post Office ), with ...
The Times Union, or Times-Union, is an American daily newspaper, serving the Capital Region of New York. Although the newspaper focuses on Albany and its suburbs, it covers all parts of the four-county area, including the cities of Troy, Schenectady and Saratoga Springs. In 2021, the paper also expanded to covering the Hudson Valley.
Nikki Giovanni speaks during the 61st New York Film Festival on Oct. 1, 2023, in New York City. Who is Nikki Giovanni? Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee , to her parents, Yolande Cornelia ...
Eli Perry was born in Cambridge, New York on December 25, 1799, [1] a son of John Perry and Jeannie (Searles) Perry. [2] After his mother's death and father's remarriage, Perry's family moved from their Cambridge farm, first to a farm in Johnstown, then to Albany, where they owned and operated a tavern at the corner of what are now Washington Avenue and Swan Street. [3]
It is also listed on the New York State Underground Railroad Heritage Trail and is a site on the National Park Service's National Network to Freedom. Stephen Myers , himself freed from slavery in his youth, served for a time as chairman of the Vigilance Committee of Albany, which met in the house built and owned by an African American boat ...