The county, as we have indicated, is steadily becoming more and more popular with the class who appreciate the great advantages of semi-rural homes as a relief from the cares of business. In the summer months the population, of course, is greatly increased. Many wealthy inhabitants of New York have summer residences in the county, and not a few prefer to live here both winter aud summer. Among those whose palatial residences adorn the county are Hon. Samuel J. Tilden, Royal C. Vilas, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the Hamiltons, Lorillards, Jays, Tituses, Wetmores, Havcmeyers, Jay Gould, Cyrus W. Field, David Dudley Field, James B. Colgate, AV. H. Beers, William Allen Butler, John B.Trevor, David Hawley, Thomas W. Ludlow, Leonard W.
Jerome, S. H. Kneeland, George H. Halsey, T. B. Underbill, Nathaniel Valentine, Isaac W. Fowler, Jacob D. Odell, Charles E. Waring, Edward Haight, James T. Adee, Lorillard Spencer, W. A. Dooley, P. R. Uuderhill, L. D. Huntingdon, Adrian Iselin, George G. Sickles, John Stephenson, E. H. De Lancey, E. F. DeLancey, J. Hairland, G. R. Jackson, J. M. Tilford, G W. Quintard, C. L. Tiffany, David Dows, Philip Schuyler, the Burrs, the Sacketts, the Minturns, General E. L. Viele, H. A. Chauncey, Professor J. W. Draper, P. J. Armour, Cortlandt Palmer, J. C. Fargo, E. O. Matthiessen, Eliphalet Wood, H. R. Bishop, James Benedict, the late William E. Dodge, Robert Hoe, John T. Terry, George Lewis, S. B. Scheffelin, the Beekmans, John Anderson, A.
C. Kingsland, H. Aspinwall, 0. B. Potter, General George W. Morell, the Onderdonks, Colonel Van Cortlandt, Philip Van Wyck, D. L. Seymour, William Nelson and many others of equal prominence.