Fayetteville, NY Downtown Fire, June 1852
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
The village of Fayetteville, Onondaga Co., was visited by a disastrous conflagration on Tuesday last. It broke out in the premises of MR. A. JENCKS, on the west side of Mill street, and entirely destroyed it, together with a number of the adjoining buildings. The losses are as follows:
B. C. & H. BEARD, store and buildings, $1,500; lumber, &c., in yard, $1,000; goods in store, $8,000. Goods insured in Madison Co. Stock Co., $5,000.
A. F. GILMOR, building, (tin shop,) $600, tools and stock, $1,000. No insurance.
ODD FELLOWS; loss by destruction of Hall in GILMOR'S building, $300. No insurance.
ECKER & GETTY, tailor shop and store, $200. Clothing saved. No insurance.
A. VAN SLYK, harness shop and building, $500; stock in shop, &c. $400. Insured, building, $350, harness stock $200, in Essex and Clinton Mutual.
J. C. ROGERS, house and tailor shop, $600; furniture, $200. Insured, on house $400 and on furniture $200, in the U.S. Mutual, West Potsdam.
D. A. GRIFFIN and others, building $500.
D. A. GRIFFIN, harness stock, $200.
PLATT Brothers, meat market, $150.
S. D. LUCE, law books, $100; also valuable papers.
J. N. MEAD, Justice of the Peace, lost all his books and papers. No insurance.
J. & D. H. DECKER, building, $1,000; cabinet ware tools, $1,300. Insurance on building, in National Protection, $300, in Madison Co. Mutual, $300, on furniture, in Essex and Clinton, $400.
In same building, M. BROWN, boots, shoes and stock, $400.
O.D. BLANCHARD, stock and work, $125.
L. WRIGHT, furniture, $40.
A. JENCKS, building, $500.
HIGBY & WILLIAMS, stock and tools, $600. No insurance.
J. McVICCAR, building, $800. Insured in Essex and Clinton Mutual, $400.
Three families, ALLEN, ESPENHEIM and FULLER lost small quantities of furniture.
The New York Times New York 1852-07-02
__________________
Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!
Search for more information on this disaster and other train wrecks, fires, accidents, etc. in historical newspapers in the Newspaper Archive. Over one billion newspaper articles online!
Search for your ancestors among the billions of names at ancestry.com Find death records, census images, immigration lists and genealogy other databases for your surnames. Use this Free trial
to search for your ancestors.
Start Your Family Tree It's FREE and easy. Start with yourself, your parents, grandparents and you're on your way to building your family history! Get Started Now and build your family tree at ancestry.com. It's Free!
|
gendisasters.com is a genealogy site, compiling information on the historic disasters, events, and tragic accidents our ancestors endured, as well as, information about their life and death. Database and records searchable by surname. Compilation, design, artwork and concept covered by copyright. Copyright ©2006-2009, All rights reserved. Contact me. Privacy Policy. |










