The Albany Egg Auction
The Altamont Enterprise in 1935 had high praise for Egg Auction, Inc. of Albany (praise inspired by the company’s advertising in the newspaper’s special section – common practice then and […]
The Altamont Enterprise in 1935 had high praise for Egg Auction, Inc. of Albany (praise inspired by the company’s advertising in the newspaper’s special section – common practice then and […]
The Atlanta Constitution of April 9, 1906, carried this story of romance from Athens, Georgia that involved a Schenectady girl with big brown eyes. “News has just reached Athens of […]
In 1933, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad (you may recognize its headquarters. Or its other headquarters) could carry you from New York to Montreal, overnight or during the day, in […]
We’ve spent most of this week looking at the good that Mrs. Russell Sage did for two well-known institutions for the education of women, the Emma Willard School and Russell […]
Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage died November 4, 1918, at the age of 90, just two years after founding Russell Sage College. Her will, which had been drawn up 10 years […]
American Biography: A New Cyclopedia has a more detailed description of the life of Margaret Olivia Slocum, who later in life became Mrs. Russell Sage and one of the nation’s […]
After almost 90 years in downtown Troy, the Emma Willard School moved out to Mount Ida, thanks to a $1 million gift from one of its graduates, Margaret Olivia Slocum […]
One of the Troy Female Seminary’s most important former students was Margaret Olivia Slocum. She is best known as Mrs. Russell Sage, for as the second wife of the Wall […]
The original Troy Female Seminary was leased from the City of Troy for 50 years, during which time it had grown from the original three-story “coffee house” building to “a […]
Despite all the superlatives garnered by Emma Willard in her lifelong dedication to the education of women and the training of teachers, it must be said, there were those who […]