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and having capacity for TIMI patients. Besides the 

 city high-school, which cost $".". mi. there arc other 

 x-hooK. including a Roman Catholic seminary. The 

 total valuation of property is $1 ,7;"in.tKK and there is a 

 1'iililic ili -lit of $|s.ou>. The city was incorporated in 

 1868. In 1SX5 a destructive cyclone levelled the lower 

 town, causing the death of 27 persons. That portion 

 of tlie city has since been rebuilt. The population by 

 tli.' St:it<> census of 1885 wag 5313. 



K< M'l 1 KSTKR. a flourishing city of New York, the 

 seat of Monroe co., is on both banks of the Genesee 

 Kiver. 7 miles from Lake Ontario. The city is about 

 250 ft. above the level of Lake Ontario, and the river has 

 here three falls, of 96 ft.. 2ti ft., and !S3 ft., respectively. 

 which afford immense water-power, abundantly utilized 

 in all kinds of manufactures. At the Upper fall the 

 New York Central Railroad crosses the city, and it lias 

 here three branches. The other main railroads are the 

 Erie: the Buffalo. Rochester, ami Pittshurg : the 

 Buffalo. New York, anil Philadelphia: the \\Ot 

 Shore; and the Home. Watertown. and Ogdonsburg. 

 There an 1 short roads to Lake Ontario and to Brighton 

 River. The Erie Canal crosses the river by a stone 

 aqueduct. >."iii ft. in length, and supported by 7 arches. 

 Annum the public buildings are the city-hall, court- 

 house, which are also surrounded by buildings of fine 

 architecture. There arc also the spacious city-hospital, 

 St. Mary's Hospital, county-jail, arsenal. Among the 

 7") churches are several of fine architei-nire, including 

 the First Baptist, First Presbyterian. St. Peter's, and 

 the Roman Catholic Cathedral. There are many 

 charitable institutions, including orphan asylums. 

 homes for the friendless, and church homes. The 

 1'iiivcrsity of Rochester, which is under control of the 

 l!apti.-t denomination, has handsome buildings and 

 grounds, comprising -3 acres. The Baptist Theo- 

 logical Seminary has a fine 4-story brick building. 

 The public school system comprises 31 schools of 

 various grades, including the Kroe Academy. There 

 are also 44 private and parochial schools, the chief of 

 which is St. Andrew's Seminary. A public library 

 connected with the public schools, the Athenaeum, has 

 a large library and reading-room, and the Law Library 

 in the court-house is of great value. The State has a 

 House of Refuge for juvenile delinquents, there being 

 separate buildings for males and females. The grounds 

 cover 42 acres and there are aeeoamodationa for .100 

 boys and 2<)0 girls. The object of this iititution i- to 

 rerota the inmates and train them in morality and in- 

 dustry. Near the city are also Monroe county peni- 

 tentiary, the InhoMBj and insane asylum, which 

 have well-constructed buildings. 



The city has an excellent supply of water for drink- 

 ing and fire purposes. It is derived partly from the 

 river and partly from Hemlock Ijakcs, nearly 30 miles 

 south. The receiving reservoir has a capacity of 

 85.ouo.00o pilous, and the distributing reservoir a ca- 

 pacity of 4">,oo.im There are two gas companies, 

 one on each side of the river. There are ( J hotels. 3 

 national banks. X other banks, 7 daily and 4 weekly 

 newspapers. The leading industry during the most oi' 

 the city's history was flour manufacture, and this is 

 still extensively carried on. There are 11 iron-found- 

 ries iron-bridge-works, cot ton -factories, and manufac- 

 tories of clothing, boots and shoes, furniture, cigars 

 and tobacco. India-rubber goods, carriages, glass, per- 

 fumery, agricultural machinery, 8teain-engin< 

 There are large breweries, fruit-canning establishment*. 

 Coal is largely distributed from this port to other places 

 on the Lakes. The fertility of the ( Jenc.-ec Valley has 

 greatly contributed to the prosperity of Rochester, and 

 the nursery business is extensively carried on. 'I i,. 

 city was settled about 1810, and incorporated in ls:!2. 

 Its property is valued at $75,5l4.27o ; the public debt 

 in $5, 5 15, 000, and the expenses lor the year ISM'I were 

 $1,123.40(1. The population in isso was 89.3(>o. 



ROCHESTER, UNIVERSITY OF. The move- 

 ment to establish a University at Rochester originated 



with prominent Baptists of the State of New York 

 and first took definite shape in an effort to remove 

 Madison University from Hamilton, N. Y., to Roch- 

 C-IIT. An organization was first efl'i ctcd Sept. !'. 

 l.v'io. under a provisional chatter yranled by the Board 

 <>f llcvetit.-. at which time the tnt- -d the 



usual officers, appointed an executive committee con- 

 sisting of V mcml>ci> of their own body, created C pro- 

 fessorships, and adopted a com-, of instruction. N" 

 president was elec'-ed. The actual work of instruction 

 began on the first Mondav in November. 1H50. The 

 first catalogue reported s instructors and 71 students. 

 In July. 1851, a class of Id was graduated. On Feb. 

 14. I >.)!. a permanent charter had been granted by the 

 Regents which vested the control of the institution in 

 a self perpetuating Board of Trustees 24 in miml>cr 

 holding office for life, and which conferred upon the 

 institution "all the ] privileges and powers conceded to 

 any college in thi> State." 



The executive duties of the president were per- 

 formed by I>r A. C. Kendriek, the eminent Greek 

 scholar and cxegete, who had been elected to the chair 

 of the Greek language and literature. Coming from 

 Madison University with a reputation already estab- 

 lished, he gave to Rochester for over thirty years the 

 full strength of his splendid powers, and. with the ex- 

 ception of Pres. Anderson, has been more completely 

 identified with the history' of the University than any 

 other member of iti faculty. On April f>, ls. r i3. Martin 

 B. Anderson, of New York, then editor of the New 

 Y"rk Rrnirdi i-. the leading paper of the Baptist de- 

 nomination, was elected president of the institution, 

 and entered upon his duties in the fall of the same 

 year. To no one man does the University of Rochester 

 owe so much as to Pres. Anderson. His moulding and 

 shaping influence has been constant and pre-eminent iii 

 all the factors of substantial growth, notably in the de- 

 velopment, expansion, and organization of the course 

 of study, metlioils of instruction and discipline, and 

 the characteristic features referred to below. 



One of the moM potent influences in determining 

 the organization and location of the institution was the 

 fact that the wealthy and populous district known as 

 n New Yoik. with a population as early as 

 1850 of half a million, was at that time almost wholly 

 wanting in facilities for higher education. This 

 contains the immediate constituency of the UnivetMU ; 

 but it has always drawn a considerable pen-em 

 its students from the country at large, and its last cata- 

 logue (1887-88) shows that II States and Territories, 

 as well as (icrmany and England, are rcpn 

 among its students. 



The founders of the University acted from the deep- 

 seated conviction that higher education should he dis- 

 tinctively Christian carried on under influences which 

 would tend to develop and strengthen the moral and 

 religious life. Most of them were Baptists, and this 

 denomination has always controlled the institution. 

 20 out of 24 members of the first Board of Trustees 

 being connected with it The movement was, how- 

 ever, not sectarian in any exclusive sense. From the 

 fit -t. i lie enterprise enlisted the hearty and effective co- 

 operation of eminent citizens of other denominations. 

 and such have been among its most munificent bene- 

 factors. Its spirit, management, anil instruction have 

 been entirely free from sectarian influence. Other de- 

 nominations are liberally represent! d in its board of 

 trustees and faculty of instruction, while students of 

 all faiths, including Catholics and Jews, freely avail 

 themselves of its privileges. 



The limits of this article forbid any but the briefest 

 reference to its numerous benefactors. The list of 

 those who have contributed $.10011 or upward to its 

 various purposes includes over 30 names. A much 

 larger number have given smaller sums, while many 

 have given business or professional services invaluable 

 to the institution. Full information regarding the 

 men who have founded, endowed, aud administered 



