The Rochester Historical Society: Publication Fund Series Vol. VIII [Volume 8]

Rochester, New York: Rochester Historical Society, 1939. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Spine slightly faded. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1939 Hard Cover. 372 pp. 9 3/8 x 6 1/8. Contents include: Presidents from 1860 to 1929; Foreword; Bequests and Devises; The Changing Charter of Rochester by W. Earl Weller; Historical Backgrounds of Rochester Charter Law by Edward R. Foreman; The Iroquois in the Revolution by George H. Harris; The Indian Interpretation of the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign by Arthur C. Parker; Effacement of Rochester's Nature Monuments by Herman LeRoy Fairchild; National Hysteria, with an Illustration by Edward G. Miner; Historic Reynolds Arcade by Amy Hanmer-Croughton; History of Engineering in Rochester by Edwin A. Fisher; Pittsford Town Records by Charles H. True; Reminiscences of Miss Araminta D. Doolittle and the Rochester Female Academy by Alice L. Hopkins; Money and Money Units in the American Colonies by Simon L. Adler; Contributions of the German People to the Life and Progress of Rochester by Prof. Albert T. Ramaker; The True Story of Mary Jemison - The White Woman of the Genesee by Isabel Ayrault; Panorama of Rochester in Its Early Days by Mrs. Elizabeth J. Varney; Early Genesee River Bridges in Rochester by James M. Angle; History of the Presbyterian Church of Gates by Anna E. Terrill; In Honor of the Erie Canal and the New England Pioneers: Editor's Note and Program, Invocation, The New England Pioneers, Our Forefathers, Appreciation, Influence of the Erie Canal in the Development of the Nation, Influence of the Erie Canal in the Development of New York State; Our Heritage and Our Task by President Rush Rhees; Historiettes by Edward R. Foreman: The Denonville Route, A Famous Mortgage, Useless Hospitals, Early Mail Cars, Rochester Ropemakers, The Blossom Hotel Fire, Judge Lynn and Venus, The Ridge Road or the Alluvial Way, Rochester's First Board of Trade, Auburn and Rochester Railroad, Monroe County Court Houses and Their Corner-Stones, Fire Fighting in Early Rochester.