The White Plains Rural Cemetery. -- This cemetery was incor[)orated November 20, 1854. A tract of thirty-six acres was purchased, bounded on
the east by Broadway and on the south by the highway leading from Broadway to Greenburgh. About 1862, the affairs of the company having fallen into disorder, its creditors were induced, through the efforts of Wm. H. Albro, Esq., to exchange their claims for cemetery lots of corresponding value. Under its present management the cemetery is well kept, and is in a prosperous condition.
The officers are Wm. H. Albro, president; Wm. H. Huestis, secretary; John R. Sherwood, treasurer; and Wm. H. Albro, Eugene T. Preudhomme and John R. Sherwood, working committee.
newspapers.
The Westchester Spy. -- In the spring of the year 1830, Alan McDonald and Minott Mitchell, with one or two others, purchased the necessary material for establishing a newspaper, and employed as editor Mr. Peter C. Smith, a young gentleman from New York, who, in May, 1830, issued the first number of the first newspaper published in White Plains, under the title of The Wesl cheater Spy.
Its publication was contiinied by successive editors until 1847, when it was discontinued.
The Eastern State Journal. -- This paper was founded at White Plains in May, 1845, by Edmund G. Sutherland as its proprietor and publisher, assisted by a half-brother, Thomas Jefferson Sutherland.
This business arrangement continued about eleven months, when Thomas J. Sutherland withdrew and the paper remained in the hands of Ednuind G. Sutherland, under whose mauagment it became the leading Democratic pajier of the county, and so continued until his death, in May, 1883.