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| Entry Number | 735 |
| Author | O'REILLY, HENRY. |
| Title | Settlement in the West. Sketches of Rochester; with Incidental. Notices of Western New-York. A Collection of Matters Designed to Illustrate the Progress of Rochester during the First Quarter-Century of Its Existence. Including a Map of the City and Some Representations of Scenery, Edifices, etc. |
| Publication | Rochester: William Alling 1838. 416 pp. Index comp by Florence Fischer Van Slyke. Rochester: Rochester Public Library, 1934. 50 pp. See also Prospectus of a New and Enlarged Edition of Henry O'Rielly's (sic) Sketches of Rochester and Western New-York; Bringing the Record Down to 1868 … Rochester: Dellon M. Dewey, 1868. 11 pp. This work was never published, but the prospectus quotes many reviews of the 1838 ed. Other facts may be found in O'Reilly's own description of his papers in the New-York Historical Society. … Henry O'Rielly's "Pioneer Memoranda," with Illustrative Documents and Other Records Concerning Some of the Principal Events in His Connection with the First Footprints in the March of Empire across the American Continent… New York: Evening Post Job Printing Office, 1882. 8 pp. See also Edward R. Foreman, "Valuable Source Material of History: The Henry O'Reilly Documents in the Archives of the Rochester Historical Society." Rochester Historical Society, Publication Fund Series, 9 (1930), 123-45. |
| Subject(s) | : ROCHESTER -- General Works (Listed by date) |
| Notes | (Includes a sketch of O'Reilly's life by Benson J. Lossing, with further information by Foreman.) The best survey is Dexter Perkins, "Henry O'Reilly." Rochester History, 7, no. 1 (January 1945), 1-24. See also Miriam Monaghan. Henry O'Reilly: Journalist and Promoter of the Telegraph. M.A. Thesis, Catholic University of America, 1939. 321 pp. (The most famous 19th century book on Rochester; it mixes promotion with history, but the wealth of detail, the energetic writing, and the fascinating woodcuts make it still a worthwhile book to read.) |
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