You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The History of Orange County New York is a work by Russel Headley. It presents the historical happenings of OC while focusing on the development of ideas and institutions and local social and economic conditions.
Excerpt from The Bench and Bar of Orange County Gedney' s happiest hours we1e passed at his own fireside, while Win field loved to mingle freely with. His fellow men. But Winfield' 5 children had died, one by one, in childhood, and it is pathetic to recall that he sank to his long sleep while addressing little children on a peaceful Sunday afternoon in June, just sixty-six years after his eyes had opened not far away on a world in which he was destined to reap many cruel sorrows, some substantial rewards, and all the mocking, delusive delights of a transient fame. His friend, Judge Gedney, followed him only a month later as he sat upon the porch of his home in Goshen. As together they had jo...