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November 21 2024 in Mohawk Valley History

• 1887 Amsterdam Annual meeting of the Green Hill cemetery association.
• 1877 Albany Death of Chancellor John V. L. Pruyn at Clifton Springs. N. Y., whither he had gone in October for his health, He was a man of rare attainments and most beneficent: born at Albany on June 22, 1811 of a Dutch family resident here two centuries; admitted to bar Jan. 13. 1832. and forming a partnership with Henry H. Martin in 1833; appointed Regent May. 1844. serving 33 years and made Chancellor January, 1862. serving 15 years; first president State Board of Charities; for 25 years president of The Albany Institute; elected (Dem.) to State senate, 1861, giving salary to poor; Congressman, 1863-65, 1867-69; a director of the first railroad, Moh. & Hud.; drew up the articles consolidating several railroads to form the N. Y. Central, 1853; one of original commissioners of new Capital and laid the first stone, July 7, 1869; earliest public advocate of Washington Park; residence at No. 13 Elk St.

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