Category: Franklin County

  • Mr. & Mrs George H. Chapman

    Mr. and Mrs. George H. Chapman 1891-1977 &  Katherine M. Cushman, His Wife 1912- 1989       GEORGE CHAPMAN APPROX 1922                            Tape 104 Tape 1 Side 1 Growing up and family life; early settlement of the area;house design and living standards;…

  • J. Hollis Foote

    Mr. J. Hollis Foote 1888 – 1972 Farming and creamery in Malone and Belmont, NY TAPE 1 Track 1   Growing up in Malone in the 1890’s/1900’s; family life; religion; the natural landscape of Malone; housing and furniture.   Click on Audio link to listen to interview: Audio Click on Audio link to listen to…

  • Lillian Lawrence

    Mrs. Ellsworth (Lillian) Lawrence 1878-1974 Early 20th century life in northern New York State & Malone, NY TAPE 1  Track 1  Click on Audio link to listen to interview:                                              Audio Family life; Rutland Railroad; grandfather’s voyage out from Vermont in 1827; making rag rugs; grandfather’s work–carpentry, funeral undertaking, and milling   Track 2   Click on Audio link…

  • Samantha (Purdy) Marlowe

    Mrs. Samamtha (Purdy) Marlowe 1886-1974 Interview with Mrs. Marlowe about family life in the late 19th & early 20th century in Malone, NY  TAPE/CD:   FCRTR -121-1-ATrack 1  Click on Audio link to listen to interview: Audio Whippleville, Canning, food, and preservation; clothing; carting mill; woollen industry; home remedies: Bangalia tree and others; bathing and…

  • Mrs. Katie Long

    Mrs. Katie Long 1886-1982     Loom Operator at the Lawrence-Webster Mill and Ballard’s Mill, producing wool cloth and clothing in Malone, NY from 1907- 1951 Detailed descriptions of both mills TAPE 1 Track 1 Growing up in Champlain and Rouses Point; moving to Malone in 1907; family life; housing and living conditions; dances, music, and other…

  • A Brief History of Malone, NY

    Main Street, Malone, Ny 1907 from postcard  A Brief History:  In 1807, New England settlers founded the First Congregational Church in what was to become the Village of Malone; this congregation was the first organized religious body in Franklin County.  The area around Malone had actually been first surveyed several years earlier, in 1801, by…

  • Mrs. F.R. Kirk

             Mrs. F.R. Kirk (Elizabeth Crooks)   1883-1972   Mrs. Kirk was a member of a prominent Malone family whose husband, a succesful businessman died at a realively young age.     TAPE 1 Track 1 Family life; growing up in Malone in the 1890‟s; A.G. Crooks & Company wholesale grocer; house design and furniture; religion; gardening and…

  • Franklin County Oral History

    Listed here are oral history interviews with thirty individuals who were residents of Franklin County and from a cross section of life:  farmers, loggers, mail carriers, blacksmiths, teachers, politicians, mill owners and housewives.  Most of the people were born in the late 19th century.  The material focuses on life and work in Franklin county from…

  • Clarence E. Kilburn

    Clarence E. Kilburn    1893-1975     Mr. Kilburn was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, 1940-1965 Contents: Clarence Kilburn remembers: Links to listen to tapes Link to read the transcript Sally Bullard Remembrances of her Grandparents   Clarence Kilburn memories of WWI: “I remember Archie Roosevelt,… He was not in that company; he…

  • Malone, New York Oral History Interviews

    History Of Malone, NY         Oral History Interviews and Transcripts   Below are the names of taped interviews from 1970 with residents of Malone who talk about the lives in the late 19th & 20th Centuries. Click on the interviewee names for PDF files of their transcripts.    Clarence Evans Kilburn 1893…