Dear old Greene County; embracing facts and figures. Portraits and sketches of leading men who will live in her history, those at the front to-day and others who made good in the past (1915) (14578904319)

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Title: Dear old Greene County; embracing facts and figures. Portraits and sketches of leading men who will live in her history, those at the front to-day and others who made good in the past
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gallt, Frank A
Subjects: Greene County (N.Y.) -- History Greene County (N.Y.) -- Biography
Publisher: Catskill, N.Y.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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e T»roperty for$3000, Catskill people thought that she had the ghost of Bancoonher hands, and even ^Nlr. Beardsley couldnt just understand how-she had come to get him that rummage sale stuff. Possibly hefumed a little and wondered how he was going to get rid of thedouble tier of steel cells, and how after all there could be anythingworth saving in the structure. Leave that to the genius and ar-tistic Mrs. Beardsley and we have arrived at the solution of it all.She got the grandest view in all Catskill, and she got a home thatwould be a palace for the Caesars. Out of the luins of the cells,she chased $10 gold pieces, that had been hidden away in thecrevices of years, and out of the 80 tons of the finest Norway ironshe found other treasure, and no sooner had it gone out that shehad purchased the jail than Troy, Poughkeepsie, Kingston andUtica iron dealers began to offer her 30, 35, 40 and finally 50cents per hundred pounds for the iron, and she closed with a (39 DEAR OLD GREENE COUNTY.
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70 DEAR OLD GREENE COUNTY. Kingston dealer, who sent six men to cut off the bolts and get theiron in pieces so that it could be moved. $S00 for old iron andall she had to do was listen to the din and ci-ash of the getting itout. The old museum to which we refer, she has has not yet dis-posed of, though it is of considerable value. Besides she has thecommitment papers of a hundred yec(rs. The old cells had no lessthan six coatings of iron on them. .Some of them bore the sawmarks of John Kelley, the desperate criminal who escaped duringthe term of Sheriff Decker. In it all Mrs. Beardsley showed a pluck and determination thatis remarkable. For two weeks she worked with bar and hammersto tear down a portion of that oid 20 inch wall on the secondMoor in order to make a change that she wanted, and all the whileMr. Beardsley wondering at the increasing pile of brick in therear of the jail did not know what she was up to. She pried themloose and let them down in a pail attached to a rope. Whe