The Rochester Historical Society, Publication Fund Series, Vol. IV [Volume 4]

xvii, 409 pp. Black leatherette boards, gilt titles and rules, blind-stamped RHS insignia on front board. Engraved plates, reproductions of photographs, and maps throughout. CONTENTS: Dedication; Illustrations; Verse; Officers and Managers; Presidents from 1861-1925; The Two Organizations; Foreword; The Expedition of the Marquis de Denonville against the Seneca Indians--1687; Etienne Brule, the First White Man in the Genesee Country; The Natural Forces that Molded the Genesee Country; The Jesuits and Their Missions in the Genesee Country; The United States Marshal's Office in the World War; Jenny Lind's Letter; History of the Monroe County Court; Changes in Practice of the Law in Rochester; Two Episodes of Anti-Slavery Days; Lawrie Todd; The First Church Sun-Dial; Memories of Village Days--Rochester, 1822 to 1830; Rochester in the Forties; Henry Clay's First Visit to Rochester; The Magic of a Voice; Reminiscences of Early Rochester; Adventures of a Surveyor-Pioneer in the Genesee Country--Augustus Porter; The Twenty-Thousand-Acre Tract; First Families of Rochester and Their Dwellings; Pioneer Associations of Rochester; Chronological List of Papers Read Before the Rochester Historical Society, 1922-1925; Members of the Rochester Historical Society; Index.