1899.

United States Government ever launched abroad, and christened by the wife of Lt. J. C. Colwell, Naval Attache to the U. S. Embassy in London, Jan. 14. Death of Gen. Selden Erastus Marvin, the Republican nominee for Mayor Nov. 2, 1897, while on a visit to New York; born at Jamestown, N. Y., on Aug. 20, 1835; Paymaster-General and then, in 1865, Adjutant-General under Gov. R. H. Fenton; participated two and a half years in the Civil War; secretary and treasurer many years of the Corning Iron Works at So. Troy; president of Hudson River Telephone Co., and treasurer of 27 religious funds, with residence No. 344 State st.,

Jan. 19. Howard J. Rogers appointed director Educational and Social Economy exhibition for the United States commission to the 1900 Paris Exposition,

January.

Harry Hamilton Bender appointed State superintendent of public buildings, Feb. I.

William Manning Van Heusen, lawyer, son of Theodore V. Van Heusen (b. Albany, May 5, 1865) dies at Pasadena, Cal., Feb. 3. Simon W. Rosendale appointed commissioner State Board of Charities,

March 8. March 24.

River opened to navigation (Government record),
Mrs. Erastus Corning (Miss Mary Parker, daughter of Judge A. J.
Parker), philanthropist and president of Women's Diocesan
League, dies at No. 23 Elk street, Easter,
April 2.
George Rogers Howell, State Archivist, an author, and secretary
of The Albany Institute (b. Southampton, N. Y., June 15, 1833)
dies at Albany,

April 5.

April 6.

Charles H. Turner appointed manager of N. Y. State Reformatory for Women, Bedford, Albany Academy receives fund of $50,000 from Frederick P. Olcott,

Marion Randolph (superintendent of Rural Cemetery), dies,

April.

April 21.

Albany Rural Cemetery appoints James A. Burns (6th) superintendent.

Albany Rural Cemetery superintendent's residence (Marcus T. Reynolds, architect) erected.

Albany Savings Bank (s. w. corner North Pearl street and Maiden. Lane) completed and first occupied,

Ten Eyck Hotel opened,

Albany City Hospital's first patient,

Hudson River Line changed to Hudson River Day Line.

April 25.

May 8.

May 15