In 1828 William 0. Waring and Hezekiah Nichols began to manufacture bodies for wool hats. This was the first introduction of the hat industry -- now so .important-- in Yonkers, and it was also the first appearance of the name of Waring. The Warings were from Putnam County. -John T. Waring came some years later. Rut our space does not admit of any attempt to recapitulate the names of the founders of the early Yonkers. The Xepperhan River, with its long descent from a high elevation, and its considerable volume of water even in the dryest seasons, must have been appreciated from the earliest times by men of discreet perceptions as a stream affording ideal conditions for the inauguration of extensive manufacturing industries. Rut through practically all of its course suitable tor mill sites the Nepperhan was embodied in the Manor House estate, ami it was not the policy of Lemuel Wells to encourage private manufacturing enterprise on its banks. In 1837 he co-operated with Prince W. and Obed Paddock in the construction of a dam near the present Elm Street Bridge, which later came to be known as the " fifth water power." Rut this did not immediately lead to any important utilization of the water power. Meanwhile the abundant power of the lower stream was used exclusively for grist and sawmills. Lemuel Wells left no children. His heirs were numerous, including his widow, three brothers, and their children. The estate was partitioned in 1843. the principal representative of the heirs being Lemuel W. AYells, familiarly known in Yonkers (where he lived until his death in 1861) as " Farmer" Wells. From this event dates the t of Yonkers. "Released from beginning of the serious developmen the hand that had so long kept it out of the market, and catching the spirit of enterprise," says Dr.