Thomas Scharf, in his History of Westchester County, dovotes a separate chapter to the literati identified by birth, residence, or otherwise with our county. Among the names which we have not previously mentioned, belonging to the first half of the nineteenth century, are those of William Leggett, the able journalist, a descendant of Gabriel Leggett, of West Farms, and a resident of New Rochelle, who died in 1839 at the early age of thirty-seven; Samuel Woodworth, author of the " Old Oaken Bucket," who lived a) Westchester; and James K. Paulding, the friend of Irving and a very forcible and esteemed writer, who was of Westchester County extraction and received his education in this county.

CHAPTER GENERAL

HISTORY

COUNTY

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T the time of the introduction of the Croton water into New York, the summer of 1842, trains were running on the New York and Harlem Railroad as far as Williams's Bridge. It took more than two years longer to extend the road to White Plains, and it was not until June, 1847, that the line was opened to Croton Falls on the border of Putnam County. The early operation of this first railway in Westchester County was naturally conducted in very imperfect fashion, but its completion through the whole extent of the county was an event of great importance, not only to the people residing along the route, but to those of all other sections, stage communication with the various stations being immediately established from villages east and west as the work progressed. Before the construction of this central route had been finished, the two other principal railways that now pass through Westchester County had been chartered and put on a basis assuring their early completion. The New York am! Albany division of what is now the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad was originally called the New York and Hudson River Railroad.