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YONKERS , a See also:city of Westchester See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., on the E. See also:bank of the See also:Hudson See also:river, immediately adjoining New York City on the N. Pop. (1900) 47,931, of whom 14,634 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 1005 were negroes; (1910, U.S. See also:census) 79,803. Yonkers is served by three divisions of the New York Central & Hudson River railway, and is connected with New York City and other places E. and N. by interurban electric lines. It has also during most of the See also:year steamboat service on the Hudson. There are two See also:principal residential districts: one in the N., including Amackassin Heights and (about 1 m. W.) Glenwood, where are the old Colgate See also:Mansion and " Greys See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone," the former See also:home of See also:Samuel J. See also:Tilden; the other in the S., including See also:Ludlow, See also:Van Cortlandt See also:Terrace and See also:Park See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill (adjoining Riverdale in the See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of the See also:Bronx), a park-like reserve with winding streets and drives. The business and manufacturing districts occupy the See also:low lands along the river. Among the public buildings are the City See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, the High School and a See also:Manual Training School, and Yonkers is the seat of St See also:Joseph's Theological See also:Seminary (See also:Roman See also:Catholic; 1896), the Halsted School (founded 1874) for girls, and a business See also:college. It has a See also:good public library (established 1893; 25,000 vols. in 1910), and the Woman's See also:Institute (1880) and the See also:Holly-See also:wood See also:Inn See also:Club (1897; for working-men) have small See also:libraries. Philipse See also:Manor Hall, built originally about 1682 as the mansion of the son of See also:Frederick Philipse (1626-1702), the See also:lord of Philipsburgh, and enlarged to its See also:present dimensions in 1745, is of some historic See also:interest. It was confiscated by See also:act of the legislature in 1779 because its owner, Frederick Philipse (1746-1785), was suspected of Toryism, and was sold in 1789. In 1867 it passed into the See also:possession of Yonkers, and from 1872 to 1908 was used as the city hall. In 1908 it was bought by the See also:state, and is now maintained as a museum for colonial and revolutionary See also:relics. It is one of the best examples of colonial See also:architecture in See also:America. In the square before it stands a See also:monument to the soldiers and sailors of the See also:Civil See also:War. Yonkers is an important manufacturing city, and in 1905 the value of its factory products was $33,548,688.
On the site of Yonkers stood an See also:Indian See also:village known as Nappeckamack, or See also:town of the rapid See also:water, at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:settlement of the Dutch in New See also:Amsterdam; and a See also:great See also:rock, near the mouth of the Nepperhan See also:Creek, was See also:long a See also:place of Indian See also:worship. The territory was See also:part of the " Keskeskick See also:purchase," acquired from the See also:Indians by the Dutch W. See also:India See also:Company in 1639. In 1646 the See also:tract was included in the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant to See also:Adrian van der Donck, the first lawyer and historian of New Netherland, author of A Description of New. Netherland (1656), in Dutch. His grant, known as " Colen Donck " (Donck's See also:Colony), embraced all the See also:country from Spuyten Duyvil Creek, N. along the Hudson to the Amackassin Creek, and E. to the Bronx river. Some squatters settled here before 1646. Van der Donck encouraged others to remove to his lands along the Hudson river, and in 1649 he built a saw-See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill near the mouth of the Nepperhan Creek, which for many years was called " Saw-Mill river." The whole settlement soon came to be called " De Jonkheer's See also:Land " or " De Jonkheeas "—meaning the See also:estate of the See also:young lord, as Van der Donck was called by
his tenants—and afterwards Yonkers. Subsequently the tract passed largely into the hands of Frederick I'hilipse and became part of the manor of Philipsburgh. See also:Early in the War of See also:Independence Yonkers was occupied for a time by part of Washing-ton's See also:army, and was the See also:scene of several skirmishes. The town of Yonkers was incorporated in 1788 and the village in 1855. In 1872 Yonkers became a city; at the same time the See also:southern part was separately incorporated as See also:Kingsbridge, which in 1874 was annexed to New York.
See See also:Frederic Shonnard and W. W. Spooner, See also:History of Westchester County (New York, 1900); J. T. See also:Scharf, History of Westchester County (New York, 1886) ; and See also:Allison, History of Yonkers (New York, 1896).
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