# The Chronicles of Cooperstown/Index

THE CHRONICLES OF COOPERSTOWN
| by James Fenimore Cooper (1838) Preface & Introduction Chapter I Chapter II, From 1780 to 1799 Chapter III, From 1792 to 1797 Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII | continued by S. M. Shaw (1886) Chapter VIII, From 1838 to 1851 Chapter IX, From 1851 to 1861 Chapter X, From 1861 to 1871 Chapter XI, From 1871 to 1881 Chapter XII, From 1881 to 1886 "The Glimmerglass" The County of Otsego Index |

## OUR CONTRIBUTORS.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and thanks are tendered, with due appreciation, to those friends who have kindly contributed toward making this book of interest and worth to those to whom it is specially dedicated:
* To Miss CARRIE M. HILLS, for her finely written article on "The Glimmerglass," much assistance in collating and preparing for the press data embraced in "The Chronicles" from 1838 to 1886, and proof-reading.
* To Mr. G. POMEROY KEESE, for his valuable article on local "Meteorology," and the statistics accompanying it relating to the ice leaving the Lake; an article on "The Cooper Monument," etc.
* To Miss SUSAN FENIMORE-COOPER, for her interesting articles on "The Thanksgiving Hospital" and "The Orphan House of the Holy Saviour."
* To Mr. ELIHU PHINNEY, for his article and valuable statistics on "Fish and Fishing in Otsego Lake."
* To Dr. JOHN K. LEANING, for his brief sketch of Fly Creek and its early settlers.
* To Mr. ISAAC K. WILLIAMS, for his chapter on Pierstown history, of special interest to the families who were the principal early settlers of that neighborhood and their now widely-scattered descendants. He has collated and put on record facts which might otherwise have been lost to the next generation.
* The Essay of the late Hon. ISAAC N. ARNOLD on Mr. Cooper, is the tribute not only of a warm personal friend and admirer, but is the most discriminating and just, and one of the best written panegyrics on the great Novelist and Naval Historian, which has ever been published. Mr. Arnold wielded a polished and scholarly pen. We also give an extract of local interest from an address which he made in Cooperstown a few years before his death.
THE CHRONICLES OF COOPERSTOWN by James Fenimore Cooper (1838)
| Preface & Introduction | 5 – 9 |
| Chapter I | 11 – 18 |
| Chapter II, From 1780 to 1799 | 19 – 25 |
| Chapter III, From 1792 to 1797 | 26 – 35 |
| Chapter IV | 36 – 39 |
| Chapter V | 40 – 47 |
| Chapter VI | 48 – 53 |
| Chapter VII | 54 – 61 |
THE CHRONICLES OF COOPERSTOWN, Continued by S. M. Shaw (1886)
| Chapter VIII, From 1838 to 1851 | 62 – 68 |
| Chapter IX, From 1851 to 1861 | 69 – 76 |
| Chapter X, From 1861 to 1871 | 77 – 91 |
| Chapter XI, From 1871 to 1881 | 92 – 115 |
| Chapter XII, From 1881 to 1886 | 116 – 129 |
| "The Glimmerglass" | 130 – 140 |
| The Town of Otsego | 212 – 223 |
| The County of Otsego | 224 – 236 |
| Index | 237 – 240 |
Sections: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y.

## A

| Abbe de Raffcourt, | 23 |
| Academy, subscription, | 29 |
| Acknowledgment to contributors, | 237 |
| Agricultural Society of Co, | 73, 231 |
| Aqueduct Association, | 108, 153 |
| Arnold, Isaac N., address, | 167 |
| Arnold, Isaac N., tribute to Cooper, | 192 – 206 |
| Averell, William H. | 161 |

## B

| Ballard House, | 103 |
| Bank of Cooperstown, | 71 |
| Bank Robbery, | 68 |
| Bank incorporated, | 50 |
| Banks in Cooperstown | 152 |
| Baptist Church, | 91, 120 |
| Barber, Andrew M. | 72, 162 |
| Bible Society, | 231 |
| Boucks visit, Gov. | 61 |
| Bowen, Samuel A. | 121, 162 |
| Bowers, Henry and John M. | 41 |
| Bowers, John M. | 163 |
| Bowers, Martha S. | 162 |
| Bowers, Mrs. | 7 |
| Bowers’ Patent, | 6 |
| Bowerstown, | 7 |
| Bowne, George L. | 78, 161 |
| Bowne, Samuel S. | 163 |

## C

| Carter, Mrs. Jane R. | 109 |
| Catholic Church, | 86, 87 |
| Centennial Year, | 103 |
| Central Hotel, | 121 |
| Christ Church, | 123 |
| Churches in Cooperstown, | 143-146 |
| Churches, early established, | 36-39 |
| Civil War, meetings, | 78, 82, 84 |
| Clark, Edward | 73, 118, 161 |
| Clarke, Alfred | 163 |
| Clarke, Thomas | 162 |
| Cooper House, hotel, | 93, 106 |
| Cooper Monument, | 75, 208 |
| Cooper, Miss Anna | 37 |
| Cooper, personal recollections of | 206 |
| Cooper’s libel suits, | 64 |
| Cooperst'n facts and incidents, | 164-167 |
| Cooperst'n walks, drives and sails near, | 170 |
| Cooperstown in 1838, | 54 |
| Cooperstown RR. Co., | 153 |
| Corporation of Cooperstown, | 141 |
| Cory, Ellery | 160 |
| County Buildings, | 100, 107 |
| Court House, laying the Corner Stone, | 109 |
| Court House, | 43 |
| Court House built, | 63 |
| Crippen, Mrs, Schuyler | 162 |
| Chronicles of Cooperstown, Cooper, | 9-61 |
| Chronicles of Cooperstown, S. M. Shaw, | 62 - 129 |
| Clinton’s Campaign, | 8, 14 |
| Cooper. William, | 12, 170 |
| Cooper. William, death of | 42 |
| Cooper’s Patent, | 14 |
| Cooperstown, first settlement, | 19, 20 |
| Cooperstown, first buildings, | 21, 22 |
| Cooperstown, first store, | 23 |
| Cooperstown, first child born, | 25 |
| Cooperstown, first minister, | 29 |
| Cooperstown, first M. C. elected, | 31 |
| Croghan, Col. George | 11 |

## D

| Death of Old Residents, | 173-177 |
| Dedication, | 3 |
| Distinguished Visitors, | 84 |
| Dix, John A. | 52 |

## E

| Early Society of Cooperstown, | 167 |
| Earthquakes, | 88, 105, 125 |
| Edwards, Edward | 100 |
| Empire House, | 68, 73, 90 |
| Ernst, Rev. John F. | 37 |

## F

| Facts of Interest, | 164 – 167 |
| Fire Department, | 151 |
| Fire Engines first obtained, | 44 |
| Fires, | 46, 49, 66, 78, 106, 108, 125 |
| Fish & Fishing in Otsego Lake, | 165 – 191 |
| Fly Creek, | 212 |
| Fowler, Dr. E. P. | 120, 122 |
| Freeman’s Journal, | 102, 108 |

## G

| Garfield, President, | 117 |
| Gas Light for Streets, | 78 |
| Glimmerglass, | 130 |
| Grant, Gen U. S. | 126 |
| Gregory, Kate Worthington | 168 |

## H

| "Hall, The" built, | 33, 52 |
| "Hall, The" changed to hotel & burned, | 70 |
| Harris, E. M., appointed Co Judge, | 83 |
| Hausman, Esaias | 41 |
| Hop Growers’ Association, | 65 |
| Hotel Fenimore, | 102, 121 |
| Hotels, early established, | 48, 49 |

## I

| Ireland, relief, | 65 |

## J

| Jail burned, built, | 63 |

## K

| Kingfisher Tower, | 104 |
| Keese, Theodore | 160 |

## L

| Lake Navigation, | 74, 93 |
| Lake Otsego, | 55 |
| Lakelands, sale of | 119 |
| Lakewood Cemetery, | 73, 126 |
| Lathrop, Horace | 160 |
| Lawyers,the first, | 48 |
| Le Quoy de Mersereau, | 27 |
| Lee, Frederick A. | 121, 161 |
| Library first opened, | 34 |
| Lincoln, President | 85 |
| Literary Society, | 151 |

## M

| Manufactories, | 59 |
| Marcy, Gov. Wm. L. | 69 |
| Masonic Hall, | 42 127 |
| McIntosh, Thos. | 162 |
| Medical Society, | 232 |
| Members of Congress, | 48 |
| Memorial Day, | 125 |
| Meteorology, local, | 137-180 |
| Methodist Church. | 103 |
| Military Companies, | 45 |
| Morehouse, E. B., | 68 |
| Morehouse, Mrs. E. B. | 162 |
| Musical Convention, | 72 |

## N

| Newspapers, | 44, 59, 149 |
| Nelson, Judge Samuel | 52, 93, 99, 159 |

## O

| Oldest residents, | 51, 157-159 |
| Orphan House, | 117, 118, 123 |
| Otsego Co. Bible Society, | 84 |
| Otsego Lake and Vicinity. | 6-8 |
| Otsego Lake Building Association, | 89 |
| Otsego Republican, | 73, 102, 122 |
| Otsego, County of | 224-238 |
| Otsego, Town of, | 212 |

## P

| Phinney, Elihu, Sen., | 159 |
| Phinney, Elihu, | 31 |
| Phinney. Henry F. | 90, 91, 160 |
| Pierstown, | 214-223 |
| Pioneer Boat Club, | 86 |
| Pioneer Mills, | 106 |
| Points of interest near Cooperstown, | 170 |
| Pomeroy, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. | 160 |
| Population of Cooperstown 1812, | 44 |
| Population of Cooperstown 1820-35, | 49 |
| Preface, | 5 |
| Prentiss, Col. John H. | 77, 160 |
| Printing house destroyed by fire, | 66 |
| Printing house of H. & E. Phinney, | 59 |
| Professional and Business Men | 154-157 |

## R

| Roads first built, | 32 |
| Railroad projected in 1839, | 62 |
| Railroad Matters, | 70, 83, 89, 91, 102 |

## S

| Schools, public and private, | 147 |
| Scott, Henry | 161 |
| Secret Societies, | 150 |
| Seminary, The | 70, 85, 87 |
| Seward’s first visit, Gov. | 63 |
| Sewerage System, | 118, 120 |
| Seymour, Gov. | 88 |
| Sheriff’s Residence built, | 63 |
| Sill, Jedediah P. | 161 |
| Skating Rink, | 122 |
| Smith, Dr. Thomas | 162 |
| Snow Storm in April, | 74 |
| Society in Cooperstown, | 57 |
| Spafard, Dr. Ariel | 163 |
| Steamers on Lake, | 90 |
| Story, Joshua H. | 161 |
| Sturges, H. | 103, 109, 123,162 |
| Sunday School Association, | 232 |

## T

| Telegraph Line, | 69 |
| Telephone Syslem, | 119, 153 |
| Temperance movement, | 64, 65 |
| Thanksgiving Hospital, | 86, 87, 91, 180 |
| Thanksgiving Sermon first preached, | 32 |
| Trials for Life, | 232 |

## U

| Union School, | 88, 91, 147 |

## V

| Village Trustees elected, | 43 |
| Van Buren’s first visit, President | 63 |

## W

| Washington, Gen, | 7, 12 |
| Water Supply, | 65 |
| Weed, Thurlow | 92 |
| Whipping Post, | 31 |
| Williams, Isaac K. | 164 |
| Williams, Isaac, Jr. | 163 |
| Wilson, William | 162 |
| Wilson, Mrs. | 7 |
| Wood, Mrs. Levi | 163 |
| Worthington Bank, | 72, 92 |
| Worthington, John H | 160 |

## Y

| Young Men’s Association | 86 |