Combined families — Lumberman and cattleman

Lumber wasn’t the only enterprise that Samuel Pruyn engaged in.

“A carload of western cattle from Samuel Pruyn’s farm at Gansevoort arrived yesterday,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Nov. 28, 1894.

In addition to heading the Finch, Pruyn & Co., Pruyn also was president of Glens Falls Coal Co.

“The Glens Falls Coal Company has completed their new coal pockets on the Delaware and Hudson Company’s track leading from Glens Falls to Caldwell,” The Morning Star reported on April 21, 1889. “The necessity for the erection of this building and railroad connection is occasioned by their rapidly increasing business.”

In other news of the families of Samuel Pruyn and his three daughters, collected from historic newspapers of the region:

• Mary Pruyn was on the committee in charge of the flower table at the Glens Falls Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid Society fair.
• Nellie Pruyn was home from Miss Compstock’s Seminary for the holidays, The Morning Star reported on Dec. 22.
• Charlotte Hyde had a nickname in her college years.

“Miss Lottie Pruyn, who has been attending school in Boston, returned home last evening,” The Morning Star reported on March 20, 1890.

• “Miss Mary E. Pruyn, who is at school at Boston, will spend the Easter holidays at home. She is expected to arrive home a week from tomorrow,” The Morning Star reported on March 26, 1890
• “Miss Mary E. Pruyn, who is a student at a Boston school, arrived home yesterday to spend Easter vacation,” The Morning Star reported on April 3, 1890.
• One of the three daughters of Samuel Pruyn, identified only as “Miss Pruyn,” wore a pink China silk gown to the Glens Falls Athletic Association Ball on Sept. 24, 1890, The Morning Star reported the next morning.
• “Miss Nellie Pruyn, who has been spending the holiday vacation with her parents here, will return to the Comstock School in New York today,” The Morning Star reported on Jan. 7, 1895.
• “The Misses Pruyn” were among the organizers of a social event the previous evening at the Citizen’s Corps Armory, which would soon be replaced by a new armory on Warren Street, The Morning Star reported Feb. 2, 1895.

“Dancing was indulged to the music of St. Mary’s Orchestra of five pieces, and light refreshments, consisting of ice cream and wafers, were served.”

• “The Misses Charlotte and Mary Pruyn go to Boston today for a sojourn of two weeks,” The Morning Star reported on Feb. 20, 1895.
• Mary Pruyn was to appear in the role a Boston relative in a local production of the drama “Old Fashioned Husking Bee” at the Glens Falls Opera House April 18 to benefit the Glens Falls Young Men’s Christian Association, The Morning Star reported on March 27, 1895.

Click here to read the most recent previous Combined Families post.