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	Corning - LoveToKnow 1911
		Corning is served by the Erie, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and the New York Central and Hudson River railways.
		Corning is one of the principal markets in New York state for tobacco, which is extensively produced in the surrounding country.
		There were settlers on the site of Corning as early as 1789, but it was not until 1848 that it was incorporated as a village under its present name, given in honour of Erastus Corning, the railway builder.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Corning (247 words)

	Mayor Erastus Corning
		Corning's loyal aide, Bill Keefe, had told Amore on short notice that there was room in the mayor's official car, the Buick with the "A" license plate.
		Corning had been hospitalized for the past seven months, spending much of that time in the intensive care unit, breathing with the aid of a respirator because of complications from emphysema and chronic lung ailments, as well as intestinal and coronary disease.
		As a result, since boyhood, Erastus Corning 2nd felt obliged to wear the uniform his father had tailored for him, and he spent a lifetime struggling to honor the suit of his father's memory and, at the same time, trying to shed its confining shape.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/g/grondahl-corning.html (4745 words)

	Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Corning
		Corning left Troy for a larger field of operations and located at Albany, New York, where he entered the hardware and iron firm of John Spencer and Company, at that time one of the principal mercantile houses of Albany.
		Corning, whose strict integrity, incessant industry, broad and practical business experience, rendered him a most valuable head for that great corporation that has been such an important factor in the development and prosperity of northern and central New York, as well as adjacent states.
		Erastus Corning's moral and intellectual qualities were in harmony; his principles commanded the respect and confidence of legislative, commercial and business circles in which he moved.
	www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/corning.html (2802 words)

	Erastus Corning 2nd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Erastus Corning 2nd (October 7, 1909 - May 28, 1983) was a mayor of Albany, New York.
		His great-grandfather, Erastus Corning, was an industrialist who founded of the New York Central Railroad and served as Albany's mayor from 1834 to 1837.
		The Erastus Corning Tower, the tallest building in Albany and the tallest in the state outside New York City, is named for him, as is the "Corning Preserve", a nature trail and fishing site on the western banks of the Hudson River in Albany.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erastus_Corning_II (582 words)

	Erastus Corning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Erastus Corning and Co. was much more than what modern readers think of as a hardware store.
		When the Utica and Schenectady Railroad was chartered in 1833, Corning got himself a seat on the board and became a major investor, and was soon president of the road.
		As president of the Utica and Schenectady, Corning organized in 1851 a convention of the owners and presidents of the other eight operating railroads, which combined roughly connected the cities of Albany and Buffalo, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erastus_Corning (1329 words)

	Albany, New York Encyclopedia Article @ Llanview.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Erastus Corning, a noted industrialist and founder of the
		Erastus Corning II, served as mayor of Albany from 1942 until 1983, the longest single mayoral term of any major city in the United States.
		Erastus Corning Tower stands 589 feet (180 meters) high and is the tallest building in New York State outside New York City.
	www.llanview.org /encyclopedia/Albany,_New_York (2608 words)

	Erastus Corning Summary
		Erastus Corning was born on Dec. 14, 1794, in Norwich, Conn. He was an all-round entrepreneur; at one time or another and frequently simultaneously he was a merchant, iron manufacturer, railroad contractor, railroad president, banker, land speculator, and politician.
		Corning was a primary actor in the negotiations which eventuated in the formation of the New York Central Railroad and was chosen the first president.
		Corning became the main lobbyist for the proposal in the legislature, and despite being a Democrat made a personal appeal to Thurlow Weed, leader of the Whigs, who controlled state government at the time.
	www.bookrags.com /Erastus_Corning (1809 words)

	Albany Politics
		When Erastus Corning II was elected Mayor in 1942 for the first of his eleven terms, he was O'Connell's protegé, a smiling patrician Protestant face the working-class, predominantly Catholic Democrats presented to the public.
		Corning would eventually gain, while becoming the United States's longest-serving Mayor, a high measure of power in his own right, and after O'Connell's demise the genial grandson of Erastus Corning I would run the machine himself from the Mayor's office.
		Erastus's great-grandfather was the original Erastus Corning, maker of Albany's greatest industrial fortune in the Erie Canal years; his father was Edwin Corning, the blueblooded Episcopalian who allied with the Irish Catholics in 1921 to forge an unbeatable urban coalition.
	www.lofaber.com /albany/politics.html (2800 words)

	Corning Wear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Imprisoned corning wear and alone, far from her animal friends corning wear and her cottage in the woods, Araine is in despair.
		Erastus Corning Tower - The Erastus Corning Tower, also known as the Mayor Erastus Corning II Tower or simply the Corning Tower, is a skyscraper located in downtown Albany, New York.
		Corning (Amtrak station) - The Corning, California Intermodal Transit Station is located at 1081 Solano Street in downtown Corning.
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	Cathedral of All Saints: History - America & Albany
		Corning was, and begged him to come back at once with me and secure his father's consent, which he did.
		Corning, and the agreement was drawn up which ended in the purchase of the land.
		Corning, (Erastus Corning II 1819-1893), who had already given me $25,000 toward the $50,000 I had to raise, concluded to buy the rest of the land on that side of Elk Street up to Swan, which he did, and shortly after we began the building where it now stands.
	www.cathedralofallsaints.org /history_04.html (860 words)

	Albany, New York Encyclopedia Article @ Kiriakis.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When the land was taken by the English in 1664, the name was changed to Albany, in honor of the Duke of York and Albany, who later became King James II of England and James VII of Scotland.
		Erastus Corning, a noted industrialist and founder of the New York Central, called Albany home and served as its mayor from 1834 to 1837.
		His great-grandson, Erastus Corning II, served as mayor of Albany from 1942 until 1983, the longest single mayoral term of any major city in the United States.
	www.kiriakis.com /encyclopedia/Albany,_New_York (3930 words)

	Albany County Hall of Records
		Erastus Corning 2nd, the longest serving mayor of a major American city, was born October 7, 1909 into a wealthy and politically experienced family.
		As a child Erastus was educated at the Albany Academy for Boys and Groton School before attending college at Yale.
		Corning would be re-elected by major landslides for the rest of his career, except in 1973 when a prominent businessman, Carl Touhey, ran a well-financed campaign and came within 3,200 votes of unseating the powerful mayor.
	www.albanycounty.com /departments/achor/corning.asp?id=977 (428 words)

	Erastus Corning Tower Information
		The Erastus Corning Tower, also known as the Mayor Erastus Corning II Tower or simply the Corning Tower, is a skyscraper located in downtown Albany, New York.
		In addition, the Corning Tower is the tallest building in New York State outside of New York City.
		Erastus Corning II, the building's namesake, was the Mayor of Albany, New York for an unprecedented 41 years from 1942-1983.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Erastus_Corning_Tower (126 words)

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		When the land was taken by the English in 1664, the name was changed to Albany, in honor of the Duke of York and Albany, who later became King James II of England and James VII of Scotland.
		Erastus Corning, a noted industrialist and founder of the New York Central, called Albany home and served as its mayor from 1834 to 1837.
		His great-grandson, Erastus Corning II, served as mayor of Albany from 1942 until 1983, the longest single mayoral term of any major city in the United States.
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	Value Capture as a Policy Tool in Transportation Economics:
		IN THE POST WORLD WAR II ERA, the pent-up consumer demand of the American population was nowhere more manifest than in the acquisition of motor vehicles.
		The bulk of the land that would be taken was in the rural towns of Guilderland and Colonie, still part of Albany County which the mayor controlled.
		A sliver of Albany extended out further to the west, the locus of the earliest waterworks servicing the city, originally developed by the first Erastus Corning who was President of the New York Central Railroad and, not coincidentally, also mayor a century earlier.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-74643767.html (4426 words)

	British Clematis Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		She managed to propagate the form from a large piece of stem that she was given.
		Mrs Corning was the wife of Erastus Corning II, the Mayor of Albany in New York State, and well connected.
		Although the precise origin of the plant is unknown, 'Betty Corning' is assumed to be a hybrid of Clematis crispa and Clematis viticella.
	www.britishclematis.org.uk /ccbettycorn.html (374 words)

	THE BIRTH OF A POLITICAL ALLIANCE: THE CORNINGS AND THE O'CONNELLS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Erastus Corning Jr., the father of Edwin and Parker, frequently visited the saloon of "Black Jack" O'Connell.
		Corning was drawn to the saloon because of the O'Connell's reputation in the Capital District for breeding, raising, and fighting gamecocks.
		Edwin Corning was the youngest of the sons of Erastus Corning Jr.
	www.albany.edu /history/HIS530/democraticparty/cornings.html (1131 words)

	Frequently Referenced Individuals \| Bibliographies \| Resources \| Monitor Center
		Corning began his career as an industrialist with a small iron manufacturing company located in Albany, NY.
		Thomas Holdup Stevens, II Stevens entered the U.S. Navy as a midshipman in 1836.
		He was linked to firms and capitalists such as Corning, Horner and Co.; Erastus Corning and Co.; Corning and Winslow; C. Bushnell; and Thomas F. Rowland.
	www.monitorcenter.org /resources/bibliographies/reffindividuals (2683 words)

	On The Centennial Trail
		Although the Centennial of Corning and Clay County (nee Clayton) was still 18 years away, the celebration of 20 years of library service in Corning, in 1955, prompted J. Oliver, Jr.
		A legend that he returned to Corning in 1883 when Jay Gould came through Corning enroute to meet paramour at the Iron Mountain and Cotton Belt crossing to found the new county seat of Greene County, Paragould, cannot be verified.
		Erastus II, Lord Mayor of Albany, N. Y., has been invited to visit Corning and be speaker at the Centennial 4th of July Picnic and Homecoming.
	www.rootsweb.com /~arclay/couriercentennialtrail2.htm (700 words)

	Corning - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Corning, an incorporated town of Nemaha county, is located on the Missouri Pacific R. about half way between Centralia and Jetmore, in Illinois township, 14 miles south of Seneca.
		Old Corning was settled in 1867, about a mile and a half west of the present site.
		Two stores and two dwellings were all there was to the town when it was moved to the railroad by McKay, who bid in some school land and gave the railroad company half a section in consideration of its locating a station at this point.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/archives/1912/c/corning.html (247 words)

	Welcome to the Committee on Open Government
		In the case of a request for access to an official document of the City, the City shall be the sole determiner of whether and to what extent such access shall be granted.
		"The late Erastus Corning, II, was Mayor of the City of Albany for some 42 years until his death in 1983.
		It is readily inferable from the record that Corning kept essentially exclusive control of his papers during his lifetime" [113 AD2d 217, 218 (1985)].
	www.dos.state.ny.us /coog/ftext/13226.htm (3371 words)

	Classic Ii Littmann S.E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Erastus Corning II - Erastus Corning II was a mayor of Albany, New York.
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		The respected classic, now in a handy paperback edition Originally published in 1971, Harry Van Trees’ Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory, Part II is one of the classic references in the area of nonlinear modulation theory and analog communication.
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	Clematis Gallery 49 - International Clematis Society
		It is said to have been spotted by the "real" Betty Corning in someone else's garden, one day in the early 1930s when she was out for a walk.
		Reading about her is fascinating, but more than a little sad: it is hard to resist the impression that she stepped straight out of a novel by Henry James.
		Born and bred in old-line Philadelphia, and an aristocrat to her finger-tips, in 1932 at the age of twenty she made an outwardly brilliant marriage to the scion of the storied Corning family of Albany, New York and within a very few years found herself the First Lady of that city.
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	Boating on the Hudson - July 2003
		At the center of the plaza are several tall agency buildings, the 42-story Corning Tower and the unmistakable “Egg” performance center.
		Refl ection pools and modern art adorn the area and it is a choice location for photographers as well as festivals such as the Fourth of July fi reworks and regular music performances.
		Erastus Corning II was the longest standing mayor of Albany, with 42 years in offi ce.
	www.boatingonthehudson.com /backissues/july2003/tidesend.htm (1162 words)

	Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Garden Legends -- The Personalities Behind Three of America's Favorite Plants
		Married to Erastus Corning II, the longest-serving mayor of Albany, New York (from 1941 until he died in office in 1983), Betty was also well known, and her position may have provided the entrŽe needed to acquire the plant that now bears her name.
		Erastus and Elizabeth met in Northeast Harbor, Maine, where their families had neighboring summer homes.
		Betty Corning was proud of her namesake and shared it with many botanical gardens and arboreta with the hope it would become more available to gardeners.
	www.bbg.org /gar2/pgn/2002su_gardenlegends.html (1555 words)

	Erastus Corning, II (1909 - 1983) - Find A Grave Memorial
		Great grandfather, Erastus Corning, was successful businessman who founded New York Central Railroad and served as Albany mayor, alderman, state senator and US Representative.
		During mayoralty, it was common knowledge that he did not reside at his Albany voting address but at home called Corning Hill in town of Bethlehem, just yards from Albany city line.
		In often-repeated story, when asked by reporter trying to obtain a definite answer what was his favorite color, he replied "plaid." Tallest building in complex, Corning Tower, is named for him, as is Corning Nature Preserve on Albany's Hudson River waterfront.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3229 (361 words)

	Albany, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Erastus Corning Tower stands 589 feet (180 meters) high and is the tallest building in New York State outside New York City.
		Erastus Corning II served as mayor of Albany from 1942 until 1983, the longest single mayoral term of any major city in the United States.
		The Erastus Corning Tower flanked by The Egg.
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	Documenting Labor Inside and Out:
		It was the first strike since the beginning of World War II and was called to increase wages (which increased only one-third as much as the cost of living during the war).
		Mayor Erastus Corning II refused to recognize the union as a bargaining agent.
		Non-union Albany employees (except for elected officials) were awarded one-time bonuses of up to $250 less than two weeks after Mayor Erastus Corning II won the democratic primary race for mayor and after Corning had fought for months to keep unionized employees from receiving raises.
	library.albany.edu /divs/speccoll/documentinglabor/timeline1.htm (10259 words)

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