C.S. Bok was a friend Mort Austin met at Centenary Collegiate Institute. Mort attended the Seminary only a year due to health or financial reasons, but C.S. Bok and Mort continued to correspond and visit each other for a number … Continue reading
Grandpa Mort Austin’s school board tax cost 80 cents in 1891!
Mort Austin received an acceptance letter from Centenary Collegiate Institute, a seminary in Hackettstown, New Jersey, in October 1890. Centenary was founded by the Newark Methodist Episcopal Church in 1867. It was built at a cost of $200,000. George H. … Continue reading
Mort Austin wrote to his brother Lon: “I have made up my mind to live an old bachelor the rest of my days. Don’t you think I would make a good one? “But I think you would do well to … Continue reading
Robert Greig’s brothers Thomas and Bennett Greig wanted to create a high class hunting and fishing club on Mill Pond (later called Stege’s Pond). They had rice growing on the upper end of the pond to benefit the large population … Continue reading
Seven Oaks, owned by George and Elizabeth Beck, was another huge, beautiful boarding house. It was set back some distance north of Mill/Stege Road and west of Mill/Stege’s Pond. It was north of the Greig Home. Two more pages of … Continue reading
The massive Greig home built in the early 1890s, was south of Mill/Stege’s Pond and Road. Robert, Kate, Isabelle, and Bennett Greig lived in the huge Greig House. Robert’s sister Jane, his sister-in-law Julia and her daughter lived there also. … Continue reading
The Beck and Greig families, both from England, lived less than a mile north of Eldred Corners near Mill Pond (later called Stege’s). Their houses were not far from Board Road which went north to Bethel, New York, some 13 … Continue reading
The New York Herald Headquarters at Broadway and 34th Street was designed by McKim, Mead, & White in 1890. The building was completed by 1895. James Gordon Bennett Sr. had founded the Herald in 1835. His son James Bennett Jr. … Continue reading
On January 1, 1892, the U.S. Immigration Station on Ellis Island at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor opened. Previously, the states were responsible for immigrants. The first structure on Ellis Island burned down in 1897. … Continue reading
