History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900

Mount Kisco, a station on the Harlem Railroad; contained 200 5. Whitlockville, « a station on the Harlem Railroad near the north border." inhabitants. Cortlandt.-- Population, 10,074. Local particulars :-- 1 . Peekskill ; an incorporated village ; population, 3,538; contained ten churches, the Peekskill Academy, four boarding schools, a bank, newspaper office, six iron foundries (chiefly engaged in the manufacture of stoves and plows, and giving employment to 300 men), two machine shops, two tobacco factories, a pistol lty

and gun factory, tannery, and gin distillery; connected by a steam ferry with Caldwell's ring Landing and by a daily steamer and line of sloops with New York. 2. Verplanck's Point; population, 1,456; contained a church, steamboat landing, and important brick manufactories, anout turning and men 1,350 to employment giving i't: thirty-four, was i Id in number whose a conve ntion. h ; in t S ?nt 'los( selecting State delegates to the national con1PP lov Weste lorn ventions nf tin' two parties in the historic yeai en--' hester Kidd, < of ;>ril. F. si ites: ]•Edward CI; 1. .1. 0 f Yonkers, •he1m;o. The Westchester County delegates to the ih, m w Od Democratic Stale convention were Thomas larve\ Torter, the ml Jo] of Smith, Gilherl S. Lyon, and Abraham Hyatt. ,', fro -embly Iw; m .it li in esti J. v distil. and William Radford, of Yonkers, was a contesting Roche lie. )ssi yra the Ml of if cle ( , fro district delegate from the nth congressional district the : ai i.sembly and (embracing Westchester County) to the Charleston national convention. To the Republican J.district. H. I' la it . c