Name: Elbert Colville Davis

Updated: 08-06-2020 01:08:71.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Annie M Colville: Birth: Oct 1837 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY. Death: 18 Jun 1914 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York

  2. William R. Colville: Birth: 29 Jun 1842 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY. Death: 22 May 1918 in Roselle Park, NJ

  3. Mary Ann Colville: Birth: ABT 1844 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY.

  4. Ellenor Colville: Birth: ABT 1848 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY.

  5. George H Colville: Birth: Jan 1853 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY. Death: 12 Dec 1924 in Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ


Sources
1. Title:   New York State census 1855 - Ulster County
2. Title:   Montrepose Cemetery
Publication:   Ulster County Genealogical Society
3. Title:   Kingston Journal

Notes
a. Note:   saddle & harness maker, as per 1850 & 1860 census. Listed as Caldwell in 1850 census, p 60 Civil War - Private, 59th Infantry, NY, E company. Enlisted 18 Sep 1861. 5 feet 9.5 inches high, fair complexion, grey eyes, dark hair. Discharged Jan 20, 1863 due to inguinal hernia of the right side.
  John 45 sadler b Col res 15y
 Mary Ann 37 b New Burg res 15y
 Wm 13 b UL Mary Ann 11 Elenor 7 Geo E 2
  Brief history of Kingston
  The development of the Delaware & Hudson Canal in 1828 transformed the Rondout Valley into the principal center of commercial activity on the Hudson River. The completed canal, 108 miles in length, ran from Eddyville on the Rondout Creek to Honesdale, Pennsylvania, a point 16 miles from the Wurts brothers' Pennsylvania coal mines. By the mid-1800s, a million tons of coal annually were carried on the canal and the surrounding region was booming.
 Towing was the main boating activity out of the Rondout in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the post-Civil War years, towing on the Hudson River was a highly competitive and lucrative business. Thomas Cornell and his son-in-law, Samuel Decker Coykendall, pursued the opportunities with enterprise and vigor. The resulting Cornell Steamboat Company, at its peak, owned more than sixty towing vessels and was the largest commercial organization of its kind in the nation. The Cornell Steam boat Company was headquartered at Rondout.

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