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After much and careful consideration he decided to open a phar- 

 macy of his own, which he did on Broadway and Eighteenth Street 

 in April 1849, having the experience of hearing the troops march by 

 the door the night before opening to put down the Forrest and 

 McCready riots at Astor Place where several were killed and many 

 of the lookers on wounded ; among the number the party that put in 

 the gas fixtures at the store a few days before. 



Broadway and Eighteenth Street then was considered out of the 

 city, the stages making the experiment of extending their route from 

 Twelfth Street (then the limit) to Thirty-second Street that spring. 

 Cows were kept and milk sold on the southwest corner of Eighteenth 

 Street. Pegs kept ou the opposite corner a large dance house that had 

 been a factory, where Arnold & Constable now have their store; on 

 the northeast corner was a seed store that had been there many years, 

 and at this corner some two years after Mr. Mclntyre found a life 

 ]iartner, who not only is the mother of a large family but as well 

 largely contributed to whatever of success he has achieved, and still 

 remains wuth him after more than fifty-five years of companionship 

 together. 



No doubt he has lived in a wcMiderful period of the world's history 

 and has seen great changes ; he when a bov sitting on his father's door- 

 step has seen the pioneers that were settling the great West — Ohio. In- 

 diana, Illinois — from the eastern States pass with their covered wagons, 

 their families and all they possessed, counting often more than thirty a 

 day ; he has seen the second railroad built for business in this country 

 from Schenectady to Utica, and even as late as 1843 the train was 

 drawn up the hill at Schenectady by removing the engine and attach- 

 ing a rope to the train, hauling the train to the top of the hill, aided 

 by a carload of stone going down ; after the train reached the top of 

 the hill, the rope was removed and another engine hitched on which 

 took the train to Albany, the end of the road : he has seen the intro- 

 duction of matches, the old flint and steel being the way to get a fire 

 or keep some fire or live coals over by covering them with ashes or go 

 to a neighbor; the telegraph, telephone, the excitement on the dis- 

 covery of gold in California, the great growth of a city above where 

 he commenced business larger than the city below Eighteenth Street; 

 advance in chemistry, surgery and medicine, and the many changes, 

 making possible the wonderful age in which we now live. It would 

 hardly seem possible that the next seventy-five years should make so 

 great and wonderful changes and progress, and still why not ? May he 

 and his family be blessed with many more years of life, health and 

 happiness. 



