Sunday's Obituary: Catherine Sullivan O'Keefe 1837-1928

Mrs. Catherine O'Keefe

Former Resident of Lowville Dies in New York—Funeral at St. Peter's Church Today.

Mrs. Catherine Sullivan O'Keefe, 91, a former resident of Lowville died Saturday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.D. Austin, New York. The remains were brought to the undertaking rooms of Graves & Virkler, Lowville, Wednesday, and funeral services will be held from St. Peter's church at 9:30 this morning. Burial will be in Rural cemetery.

Mrs. O'Keefe was born in Albany in April, 1837, but came as a child to Lowville with her parents. Practically all her long life was spent in this village, until ten years ago, when she sold her home here and went to love with her daughters. Her husband, David O'Keefe, died in 1870.

Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Margaret O'Neil, of this village; four daughters, Mrs. Austin and Miss Ella O'Keefe of New York; Mrs. David Barry, of Dedham, Mass., and Mrs. James Downey, Birmingham, Ala, and two sons, Frank D. O'Keefe, Carthage, and Maurice O'Keefe, of Staten Island. A sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Conway, 83, died in this village about a month ago.

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Note: Catherine Sullivan was my 3rd great-grandmother (Thomas MacEntee > Jacqueline Austin > Alfred Austin > John Ralph Austin > William Dence Austin > Catherine O'Keefe > Catherine Sullivan) and I have her wedding silver from the late 1850s.

Source: Mrs. Catherine O'Keefe, digital image, NYS Historic Newspapers (http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/, accessed 13 July 2014), Lowville Journal Republic, published 16 February 1928, Volume 69, Number 17, p. 5, col. 3.

© 2014, copyright Thomas MacEntee. All rights reserved.

Treasure Chest Thursday - 1869 Diary of Mary Weber

I scored a major ebay win last week but I didn't want to let the cat out of the bag until I actually had said item in hand. And literally in hand, for this tiny church diary of Mary Weber dated 1869 and measures 3 inches by 2 inches!

Why did I bother to purchase this very old item once owned by someone who may not even be an ancestor? Here's why:

• Mary Weber lived in Lowville, New York when the diary was completed. I consider Lowville my ancestral hometown since my great-grandfather John Ralph Austin was born there in 1896 and his ancestors settled there around 1840.

• Given the commonality of ancestral locations, chances are pretty good that I have some relationship either with Mary Weber or perhaps someone in her diary.

• At the very least, the entries - once transcribed - would give me a better idea of what life was like back in 1869.

• And finally, how could I pass up a chance for such an artifact? While I did have to outbid others, my presumption is that all of us would have wanted to somehow tell Mary Weber's story.

So what's next? Here are my plans:

• Transcribing will be very difficult - entries are hard to read, in small print and in pencil.  My best bet might be to scan the diary and then use photo editing software to make a negative image and enhance the results.

• The next step is to type the text up probably in Microsoft Word.

• Then I need to select a platform in which to present the text to the rest of the world on the Internet.  One option is to use Blogger or WordPress and create a new blog (just what I need, right?) using a diary format, with a post for each day.  Perhaps if I start this on January 1, 2010 I can have the posts follow sequentially for 1869.  

• Another option is to use one of the newer platforms such Tumblr or Posterous.  I like this idea since it would get me to learn a new platform.

• Finally, I could somehow incorporate it into my Lowville Long Ago wiki which is currently offline.  One of my genealogy New Year's resolutions is to revive the wiki and make it more robust.

I'd appreciate any input from readers especially ideas as to how best to preserve Mary Weber's legacy.  Ultimately, I may reunite the diary with a proven living descendant who is interested in having this piece of history.  Or I  may donate it to the Lewis County Historical Society along with the transcription.

Oh, and by the way, this was just the first Lowville-related item I scored on ebay last week.  Next Treasure Chest Thursday I'll post about the 1879 Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Lewis County, NY booklet I purchased!

© 2009, copyright Thomas MacEntee

Wordless Wednesday

Postcard: Snow in Lowville, New York. Date unknown. Digital image. Privately held by Thomas MacEntee, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Chicago, Illinois. 2008.

The Baby Picture That Started It All

This post was composed for the 7th Edition of Smile For The Camera ~ A Carnival of Images



John Ralph Austin, age 18 months. Lowville, New York, 1898. Digital image. Privately held by Thomas MacEntee, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Chicago, Illinois. 2008.

My great-grandparents, John Ralph Austin and Therese Rose McGinnis were the first people to get me interested in genealogy and the history of my family. Growing up, I would hear stories of who my Dutch ancestors had arrived in New York during the 1660s.

But while the stories were always interesting, and always seemed to be embellished with each telling, it was the albums of photographs which captivated me the most. The photo above is of my great-grandfather and was taken at a professional studio in Lowville, New York where he was born.

I never saw this photo while my great-grandfather was alive but only after he had died in 1976. My great-grandmother gave this and others to me since she probably felt that I would be the one most likely to preserve the memories and keep telling the stories as they had.

John Ralph Austin was born on January 31, 1896 in Lowville and would be the last of the five sons of William Dence Austin to die, on April 20, 1976. Being the second youngest, I imagine that his outfit - which many today might call a "gown" - was passed down from his oldest brother Maurice Ira Austin who was born in 1890. With his blond hair, posed on an elaborate Victorian style over-sized chair, little did he know that 100 years later he would leave behind over 200 descendants across five subsequent generations.

Genealogy Quip of Yore

"It is just as foolish to get a big head over the idea of your intelligence as it is your pedigree. Nine times out of ten your parents earned the wherewith to furnish you the former and the latter you had no hand in making; and furthermore, many pedigrees will not bear digging over very thoroughly, for fear a pleasant family fiction may become a disgraceful fact."

"Local Matters," The Journal and Republican, Lowville, Thursday, March 19, 1903, Vol. 44, No. 17, p. 5.

A Cobweb Social

Well, I've come across another Victorian era "social" game which took me quite a bit of time to research. The event is known as a "cobweb social" or a "cobweb party."

As described in a 1903 newspaper article from Lowville, New York:

"The members of the I.O.G.T. lodge held a cob-web social on Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Lillian Bent."[1]

Despite the fact that Miss Lillian Bent seemed to be quite the party gal that week in Castorland (she hosted the Ladies' Aid Society the Thursday prior to the cob-web social), it must have been good clean fun since the I.O.G.T. is the International Organisation of Good Templars - a temperance group.

With very few references to this cobweb event, I was able to determine the following:

"Each guest or participant is handed the end of a string or a card on which is a number the duplicate of which is attached to the end of a string; or if preferable, each guest may be allowed to select his own string. The ends of these strings are all in the reception-room, or bunched in one place, so that all start from the same room. They should be of different colors, or those for the gentlemen of one color, and those for the ladies of another.

Each guest starts out leisurely to follow his or her string to the end. These strings are run in all sorts of directions, woven about articles of furniture, around the piano legs, up the stairway, down again, from one room to another, crossing other strings, and forming a labyrinth of cobwebs, which gives the name to the entertainment. At the extreme end of these strings are souvenirs, or the name of the partner whom the guest is expected to escort to supper. Much fun is caused in following up the strings and clearing the tangles. The guests need not hurry, and oftentimes, as they meet on their journeys, they spend a few minutes in merrily chatting."[2]

Notes

[1] "Castorland," The Journal and Republican, Lowville, Thursday, March 19, 1903, Vol. 44, No. 17, p. 8.

[2] Eureka Entertainments: Containing a Wide Variety of New and Novel Entertainments Suitable to All Kinds of Public and Private Occasions, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Penn Publishing Company, 1894, accessed at Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=oHHh6RAmq-MC&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0) on August 29, 2008.

A Measuring Party

I am working on a new genealogy-related venture (shhhh - it's a secret since it isn't ready for public debut or consumption yet) and I came across a social event for which I had no knowledge. Hard to believe, right? Well, do you know what a measuring party is?

Here is the entry in a 1903 newspaper article from Lowville, New York:

"There will be a measuring party at the residence of George Edick, Friday evening, March 27th, for the benefit of our pastor, Rev. F. Alexander. All are invited."[1]

I had never heard of a measuring party before and my thoughts first went to something related to agriculture, given that Lowville was known for its maple syrup, milk and cheese production (being March there would not be any crops in production). Or could it be a women's gathering to measure wool, yarn or fabric? But how could you turn such an action as "measuring" into a benefit for someone such as Rev. Alexander?

With much difficulty, I finally had to consult Google Books and search for "measuring party" +tall for the answer.

From what I can gather, at the turn of the century, a measuring party was a way of measuring all the invitees and/or the attendees. There was a specific poem, with some variations, used in the invitation:

MEASURING PARTY

A measuring party we give for you,
'Tis something pleasant as well as new.
The invitation carries a sack,
For use in bringing or sending back
Five cents for every foot you're tall,
Measure yourself against the wall.
An extra cent for each inch you'll give,
And thereby show how high you live.
Then with music and song, recitation and pleasure,
We will meet one and all at our party of measure.[2]

Included in the invitation was a small bag made of silk or ribbon into which the invitee deposited the measuring money. On the evening of the party, all the guests who attended, brought their "sacks" and placed them in a large bowl, the money benefitting the guest of honor. There was also the option of simply sending the sack filled with money back if the invitee could not attend.

The last two lines of the poem indicate some of the activities during the measuring party. From what I can gather in my research, at certain points during the affair, guests would have their heads or hands measured and compared to other guests. I guess this is what constituted fun in 1903.

I was lucky enough to find an actual invitation to a measuring party held by the Grace Christian Church of St. Johnsville, New York on December 19, 1902:[3]





Notes

[1] "Pine Grove," The Journal and Republican, Lowville, Thursday, March 19, 1903, Vol. 44, No. 17, p. 8.

[2] Linscott, Mrs. Herbert B., Bright Ideas for Entertaining, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Macrae Smith Company, 1905.

[3] Measuring Party, Grace Christian Church, 125th Anniversary Booklet, (http://www.fortklock.com/grbookletmeasparty.htm) accessed on August 29, 2008.

Two New Northern NY Newspapers Added - And They're Free!

I don't know about you but this is exciting news for me! I was working on my Carnival of Genealogy post yesterday and checking my sources and references. At the Northern New York Historical Newspapers website, where I perform searches of the Lowville Journal & Republican, 1860-1940, I noticed a new addition: The Lewis County Democrat, 1867-1906.

I have been looking for more upstate New York newspapers to come on line, even in non-searchable image format. But just like the other newspapers at their site, the Northern New York Library Network has scanned these issues as text searchable!

They have also recently added the Plattsburgh Daily Press, 1931-1942 (Clinton County). If you are researching ancestors who migrated from New England over to the Midwest, more than likely they may have lived for a period in this part of New York. Go check these newspapers out and best of all, it's free!

Election Day

In several states and major cities, today is Election Day. Back home in the Catskills where I grew up, there are several local races for supervisor, judge etc. This got me to thinking about two things a) how my family and ancestors viewed voting and b) whether any of my ancestors ever ran for an elective office.

Voting

Starting at an early age, I was reminded that the ability to cast a vote in this country was not only a right but a responsibility. My great-grandmother, Therese McGinnes Austin, was not only very vocal about her political beliefs (which were decidedly right of mine - she despised FDR and was a big Goldwater fan in the 1960s) but about the responsibility of voting. I also learned this from my mother, Jacqueline Austin MacEntee, in not only what she said, but by what she did. I would go with her to vote as a child, even if the election was just for the school board and budget in March.

I am proud to say that I've never missed an election, no matter how small or how trivial I thought the issues were, since I was able to vote in 1981. I was not old enough to vote in the 1980 Presidential election but I did see the first Presidential debate of 1980 in Baltimore between Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and John Anderson (remember him?). I was going to college in Washington, DC at the time and I managed to get tickets through a political club at school.

Voting in California was so much easier and I really miss it: more than 50% of voters use absentee ballots. Absentee voting is not restricted to those who can prove that they will be away on business, out of the country etc. In California you can file for permanent absentee status. Basically you are voting by mail. In addition, California pioneered early voting where you could go down to your city hall and vote in person up to 2 weeks ahead of time - even on a Saturday or Sunday! I just don't know if there would be enough safeguards for this to work in a city like Chicago where the saying is "Vote early and vote often."

I was so committed to voting last November that I managed to vote during the day while I was moving to my new home here in Chicago. I just think more people would vote if voting were easier and if the candidates stuck to the issues that matter to and interest voters. No half-truths or double-answers. No issues driven by donors with the most money. Allow voting by mail, by phone or by internet. And make Election Day on Sundays the way it is in most European countries.

Elected Officials

I haven't had any ancestors run for or get elected to what I would call "major offices" such as governor, House of Representatives, Senate, or President. Many of my ancestors and even current relatives have run for offices such as school board, assessor, tax collector etc.

John Doig Dence from Lowville, New York was my 1st cousin 4 times removed and lived from 1873 to 1956. Here are details of his various elected offices from History of the North Country, Henry F. Landon, 1932, p. 1557-1558:

"President of Dence Lumber Corporation (1932). Educated at Lowville Academy, graduated from Ives Seminary (Antwerp) 1891. Taught school for short time, then became clerk at V. L. Waters dry goods store from 1892-1896. Then became associated with Leroy Crawford of Chases Lake and engaged in general mercantile and lumber business for 15 years. Formed partnership with Royal J. Fenton in 1907. Dence became president of Lumber Co. in 1909. Until 1929 Dence also involved in feed and milling business in Lowville, being vice president and director of C. W. Nole, Inc.

In 1907 and 1909 elected member of Lewis County Board of Supervisors as representative of town of Watson. During 1912-1914 he served as trustee of village of Lowville, 1914 elected as water commissioner of Lowville. Also sealer of weights and measures in Lewis County. He was delegate to National Republican Convention at Cleveland OH in 1924 at nomination of Calvin Coolidge.

He was affiliated with Lowville Lodge, F and AM no. 134; Lowville chapter R. A. M. no. 223; Watertown Commandery K. T.; and Media Temple, Watertown. Also member of Lowville Club where he was past president, and during 1930 was president of the Kiwanis club. In 1922 he was president of the Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of United Methodist Episcopal Church.

Until 1926 he was recognized as one of the leading land owners of the North Country. In that year he disposed of most of his holdings to H. D. Cornwall of Beaver Falls."

Peter Peterse Gansevoort from Albany, New York was my 3rd cousin 7 times removed and lived from 1788 to 1876. Here are details of his various elected offices from Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911), Vol. I, pp. 65-72:

"Judge Peter Gansevoort, son of General Peter and Catherine (Van Schaick) Gansevoort, was born in Albany, December 22, 1788, and died at his home in that city, January 4, 1876. His higher literary education was acquired at the College of New Jersey, Princeton, where he graduated, and afterward he attended the celebrated Litchfield Law School; still later read law in the office of Harmanus Bleecker, and was admitted to the bar about 1811. His practice for many years was very considerable, and he ranked among the prominent members of the profession. For some time he acted as private secretary to Governor DeWitt Clinton, and then on his military staff as judge advocate general from 1819 to 1821. In 1830-31 he was a member of the assembly, and then a senator for four years, 1833 to 1836 inclusive. In all matters of public interest he took an active part, and was thoroughly attached to all that concerned his native city. He was a trustee of the Albany Academy for fifty years, and for twenty years was chairman of the board. In 1840 he was one of a committee, with Stephen Van Rensselaer, John A. Dix and others, to organize the Albany Cemetery Association, and to select grounds for the cemetery. He was a trustee of the cemetery until his death, and took a warm interest in arranging and beautifying the grounds. For many years he was a director of the New York State Bank, and occupied other positions of trust. Although his military service was short, he took a warm interest throughout life in military matters.

Among the public positions held by General Gansevoort was that of first judge of the county court of Albany county from 1843 to 1847, the duties of which office he discharged with great fidelity and to the entire satisfaction of the legal profession and the public. He carried marked traits of his ancestry with him through life, and was a most thorough representative of the Dutch element of his native city. He was the very embodiment of high-souled honor and integrity, pure in private life, and devotedly attached to his country and its institutions. On more than one occasion he visited the countries of the Old World in search of health and instruction, but always returned home with his love for his own government strengthened by comparison with those abroad. He was a man of courtly manners and commanding presence, and in society was very genial and engaging. His kind heart and generous impulses made him a favorite with all classes of men, and he lived without enemies, and no one is left of all who knew him who does not mourn his death and honor his memory."

Photo: Left to right back: Bridget Farren McGinnes, Loretta McGinnes Murtha, Alice McGinnes Mehl. Seated: Evelyn Mehl. About 1923.

Family Deaths on Same Day or Close to Each Other

Apple of Apple's Tree made a comment on yesterday's post about illness that got me to thinking: are there any instances in my family history where family deaths occurred on the same day or very close to each other? So, I worked my way back and really didn't have to go too far.

Deaths that occur in the same family on or around the same date are good indicators of either a common illness such as measles, scarlet fever, cholera, typhoid fever. Or it could be an accident such as a fire or car accident. Or it could be a broken heart.

We've often heard of a husband and wife being together for many years and then dying within a day or a week or a month of each other. I've found two instances of this in my family history that I'd like to relate.

Ira H. Austin was my 3rd great-grandfather and was born in Denmark, Lewis County, New York in 1831. He ran a saddle-shop in Lowville, New York - I know this through a copy of an advertisement for the shop, print ads that ran in the Lowville Journal-Republican in the 1870s, and the D.G. DeBeers print of Lowville from 1875 (I used the great new Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases, 1507-2000 database on Ancestry).

Ira Austin married Hannah Dence on July 4, 1862 in Lowville. Hannah Dence is my ancestor that links me to the Pootman/Putman line going all the way back to 1661 in New York.

Ira and Hannah were married for almost 45 years when Hannah died on January 15, 1907. Ira followed three days later on January 18, 1907. In addition, their daughter Margaret Austin was married to George H. VanDeusen at the Austin home on January 14, 1907 in what the Lowville Journal-Republican called "a quiet affair." Ira Austin's obituary states ". . . passed away . . . the day following the funeral of his life companion."

The second instance of a husband and wife dying within a short period of each other is more recent. My great grand-aunt Elizabeth McGinnes McCrickert was married to John B. McCrickert. John died on December 15, 1955 and Beth, as she was known, followed six weeks later on January 23, 1956.

I think the best way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

The Weather Gets Colder - That Means Only One Thing . .

. . . more genealogy work! During the summer, who wants to be stuck inside going through websites or images? Well, given our weather here in Chicago this past summer, there were days when I relished being in my condo with the central A/C running!

But now that more reasonable temperatures prevail (highs in the mid 70s, lows in the low 50's at night), I've been spending more time on genealogy. Plus I think it is great to take breaks every now and then. Those of you who work on genealogy know what I'm talking about - you will bang your head against the wall trying to figure out a relationship or why your great-great-great grandfather married his wife's sister after his wife died (more common than you think). And don't you eventually put it aside and move on to another part of your family tree and come back to the vexing problem later? And often, I find that I have a different perspective and usually find what I am looking for.

I've made two great advances - both of which are not yet posted to the Austin database.

First, I have been able to locate information on my great-great-great grandmother Catherine Sullivan O'Keefe. The "Sullivan" is the important part - I never had her maiden name and had no information whatsover. All I had were some pictures of her from about 1917 (see above) taken at the family home on Elm Place in the Bronx.

Catherine Sullivan was born in Albany, New York in 1837 and died in the Bronx in 1928. That means she was about 90 or 91 when she died (longevity runs in my family but alas, mostly among the women). It is unknown when she married David O'Keefe but she spent most of her entire life in Lowville, NY. I was then able to trace her parents, Daniel Sullivan and Mary Griffin Sullivan who both immigrated from Ireland, probably during one of the early potato famines around 1830.

Second, and this one has me so psyched, I have been able to trace my 4th great-grandmother on my mother's side - her name is Margaret De Wandelaer. This one has perplexed me for well over a year - I was giving up hope and figured she was dropped down upon Fonda, NY by aliens or gypsies or alien gypsies. The problem was her last name.

The 1916 printed family genealogy listed the name as DE WANDERLEAR. I knew through my research that there were many DE WANDELAERs in upstate New York especially around Albany and Schenectady. And the Genalogical and Family History of Northern New York by William Richard Cutter published in 1910 said that she was the daughter of "one of the sons of Johannes De Wandelaer" born in 1756. So it could have been Pieter De Wandelaer or Herman[us] De Wandelaer. As luck would have it, I knew using early census records would be a challenge since most records only listed the head of household by name and didn't list the wife and children until 1850 or 1860 (see, again, women didn't count!).

First, I headed over to the Records of the Dutch Reformed Church of Albany, New York 1683 - 1809 and scoured through baptismal records looking for either a Pieter or Herman De Wandelaer who had a daughter Margaret. I was able to locate a Johannes De Wandelaer who had married Gerritje Gansevoort in 1777 in Albany, New York. From there I was able to locate Pieter and Herman De Wandelaer and get information on their births, baptisms and marriages. Herman De Wandelaer married Rachel Ten Eyck and they had a daughter Margaret born in 1809 which matched the age of my Margaret De Wandelaer.

Well it took me much of one weekend to work through early census records using the Ancestry website (for which I have a subscription and believe me it is well worth it) where I discovered this: the early census records showed the family last name as WANDLER. I've come to the conclusion that a) the early census takers probably had a limited education and their writing skills were not the best; and b) those being counted probably had a limited education as well. The census taker probably only heard the "wandler" part and by 1840 or so it was pronounced more as an English surname than a Dutch ("de van de lar") surname. Funny since the original name is acutally French as in DE FRONDELAC.

So, now I've added five or six more generations off of this one person. And the tree continues to grow.

Lowville NY

Most of you know that John Ralph Austinor Grandpa Austin, was born in upstate New York in a small town called Lowville. It is in Lewis County near Watertown, New York and is 49 miles away from Utica at the base of the western Adirondack Mountains.

In going through The Box, I came across a great find: a booklet entitled Souvenir of Lowville, NY It is an 18 page booklet printed in 1895 by Kip & Stone from Canton, NY This booklet contains great photos of residences, businesses and churches in the town of 4,000 which was the population in 1895. I was able to scan the photos and transcribe the text (see below).

Besides posting the information here, I've also added it to the Lewis County page of the NYGENWEB at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nylewis/.

Enjoy!


Cover:
Souvenir of Lowville, N.Y.
Copyright 1895, By
Kip & Stone, Canton, N.Y.
Printed by The F. Gutekunst Co.
Philadelphia
Page 2:
Text: “This volume contains view of the Public Buildings, Factories, Residences, etc., within the Village of Lowville, Lewis County, New York.
Lowville is a beautiful village in the Black River Valley, situated one and one-half miles west of Black River, on what was formerly known as the Utica and Black River Railroad, now called the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburgh Railroad, which is part of the New York Central system. The town of Lowville was settled in 1797, and the village was incorporated in 1847. It is the county seat of Lewis County; distance 59 miles from Utica and about the same distance from the St. Lawrence River, and has a population of about 4,000.
It is situated in the midst of a splendid farming and dairy region, its butter and cheese being famous throughout the country.
Lowville has the finest system of water works in the State of New York; the water is pure, cold and soft; brought from springs at the foot of the Adirondacks, nine miles away. The springs are 300 feet higher than Lowville and the pressure is 125 pounds to the inch. The village is lighted by electricity and the streets are macadamized. Here are views of the Court House, County Clerk’s Office, Casket Factory, Furniture Factory, Planing Mills, Lowville Academy, State Street School, Lyons Falls, the Churches, Soldiers Monument, view of State Street, views of Mill Creek, Iron Works, Business Blocks, Hotels, Residences, etc. There are three Printing Offices in the village, the Journal and Republican block is among the business blocks given in this book. Two National Banks, five Churches, six Hotels, all in a prosperous condition.
The streets are well shaded by Elms and Maples, the homes are neat and well kept; prosperity abounds and the residents are all proud of their lovely village.
List of Locations (in order):
Methodist Church
St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church
Presbyterian Church
J.E. Haberer’s Furniture Plant
Lowville Iron Works
Asbestos Burial Casket Co.
Residence of C.R. Blodgett
Residence of James G. Campbell
The Doig Residence
Residence of H.H. Ryel
Residence of Hon. Henry E. Turner
Residence of Hon. Eliada S. Merrell
Residence of Hon. Henry A. Phillips
Residence of E.H. Bush
Residence of Amasa S. Stoddard
Residence of G.A. Blackmon
Residence of John E. Haberer
Residence of Hon. Frederick C. Schraub
Residence of V. Lansing Waters
Residence of Almander H. Crosby, M.D.
Residence of Charles E. Douglass, M.D.
The Brahmer Residence
Residence of Eugene Arthur
Residence of O.P. Hedden
Residence of Dr. A.R. Gebbie
Residence of F.L. Tedmon
Residence of C.D. Manville
Lowville Academy
Residence of Horace Bush
Residence of Frederick S. Easton
Residence of Geo. W. Fowler
Baptist Church
Trinity Church
Lyons Falls
Soldiers Monument
Court House
Clerks Office
Lewis County Court House & Clerks Office
Alms House
Jail
Lewis County Alms House & Jail
Kellogg House
Journal and Republican Office
State Street School