This is my twentieth birthday. Anna wanted to write a poem for the occasion and this morning she handed me what she called “An effort.” She ...

Hon. William H. Lamport went down to Virginia to see his son and found that he had just died in the hospital from measles and pneumonia. The...

Grandmother went to Aunt Mary Carr's to tea to-night, very much to our surprise, for she seldom goes anywhere. Anna said she was going t...

P. T. Barnum delivered his lecture on" The Art of Money Getting" in Bemis Hall this evening for the benefit of the Ladies' Aid...

The members of our society sympathized with General McClellan when he was criticised by some and we wrote him the following letter:  CANAN...

Caroline Cowles Richards A number of the teachers and pupils of the Academy have enlisted for the war. Among them E. C. Clarke, H. C. Kirk, ...

The terrible battle of Gettysburg brings to Canandaigua sad news of our soldier boys of the 126th Regiment. Colonel Sherrill was instantly ...

Charlie Wheeler was buried with military honors from the Congregational church to-day. Two companies of the 54th New York State National Gua...

The U. S. Sanitary Commission has been organized. Canandaigua sent Dr. W. Fitch Cheney to Gettysburg with supplies for the sick and wounded ...

Lucilla Field was married in our church to-day to Rev. S. W. Pratt. I always thought she was cut out for a minister's wife. Jennie Drape...

Anna and I had a serenade last night from the Academy Glee Club, I think, as their voices sounded familiar. We were awakened by the music, a...

I visited Eureka Lawrence in Syracuse and we attended commencement at Hamilton College, Clinton, and saw there, James Tunnicliff and Stewart...

The President has called for 300,000 more brave men to fill up the ranks of the fallen. We hear every day of more friends and acquaintances ...

The 126th Regiment, just organized, was mustered into service at Camp Swift, Geneva. Those that I know who belong to it are Colonel E. S. ...

The New York State S. S. convention is convened here and the meetings are most interesting. They were held in our church and lasted three da...

Darius Sackett was wounded by a musket shot in the leg, at Maryland Heights, Va., and in consequence is discharged from the service. SOURC...

Edgar A. Griswold of Naples is recruiting a company here for the 148th Regiment, of which he is captain. Hiram P. Brown, Henry S. Murray and...

I read aloud to Grandfather this evening the Emancipation Proclamation issued as a war measure by President Lincoln, to take effect January ...

Washington's Birthday. — Patriotic services were held in the Congregational Church this morning. Madame Anna Bishop sang, and National ...

Everybody came out to church this morning, expecting to hear Madame Anna Bishop sing. She was not there, and an " agent" made a “s...