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Elijah M. K. Glenn
Elijah McKinney Glen (August 12, 1807October 14, 1879) was an American politician and abolitionist who was a member of the New York State Assembly. Glen was born in 1807 in Amsterdam, New York to Scottish parents. He studied to become a shoemaker. Glen became active in the abolitionist movement in 1834. For fifteen years, he travelled around the country giving lectures. In the late 1840s, he was lecturer for the New York Antislavery Society. When he was twenty-one, Glen married, and would have six children. During the last forty rears of his life, he lived in Montgomery County, New York, and for twenty years in Macedon, New York. Glenn served as a keeper at Sing Sing Prison, and was in 1861 to 1866, the postmaster of Macedon. He helped organize the Liberty Party (United States, 1840), Liberty Party, which he supported until switching to the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party in 1850. Glen was elected a member of the New York State Assembly from the first distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amsterdam, New York
Amsterdam is a city in Montgomery County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 18,219. The city is named after Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The City of Amsterdam is surrounded on the northern, eastern and western sides by the town of Amsterdam. The city developed on both sides of the Mohawk River, with the majority located on the north bank. The Port Jackson area on the south side is also part of the city. History Prior to settlement by Europeans, the region which includes Amsterdam was inhabited for centuries by the Mohawk tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy, which dominated most of the Mohawk Valley. They had pushed the Algonquin Mohican tribe to the east of the Hudson River. Dutch settlers began to arrive in the area in the 1660s, founding Schenectady in 1664. They had previously been based in Albany, along the Hudson River to the east. They reached what would later be Amsterdam c.1710. They called the community Veeders Mills a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
