The Women of Columbia County

Vol. 4, No. 3

Women of Columbia County”

In this issue:

• The First Lady of the Manor: Alida Schuyler Livingston, Dr. David William Voorhees
• Lady Lumberjack, Albert Callan/The Chatham Courier
• The Man Who Married Honoria, Allene G. Hatch
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, Cindy Puccio
• The Experience of Irish Domestic Servants at Van Buren’s Lindenwald, Patricia West
• “Women Worthies” of Columbia County, Dr. John C. Fout
• Mabel Mercer Lived Here, Mary Faherty Sansaricq
• Historic Hudson: An Architectural Portrait, Book Review by Carole Osterink
• Murray Bartlett Douglas, Virginia Cairns-Callan
• Notable Neighbors: Three Guiding Sisters at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, Jerry V. Grant and Sharon Duane Koomler
• Ma Pardee, John Mason
• Edith Harrison and the Town of Gallatin, Jim Hamilton
• The Dramatic Changes in Women’s Paid Employment in Hudson Between 1860 and 1910, Dr. John C. Fout
• The Three Graces of the New Lebanon Library, Daniel Caplice Lynch
• Highlights from the Society’s Collections, Helen McLallen, Curator
• News of the Columbia County Historical Society
• Columbia County Historical Society Calendar of Events

On the Cover: The front page of the Rural Repository from April 12, 1845, published in Hudson, is reprinted with the permission of Leo Bower. This newspaper is a part of his private collection on the history of Hudson. The feature article “Cutting a Swell” laments a by now all too familiar theme — alarming evidence of the decline in cultural and moral values as indicated by the dress and attitudes of the newest generation of young adults. The more things change, the more they stay the same.