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ago [1895] it ceased operations, and the buildings have remained idle, except for temporary occupation of the Water Street front as a county jail in 1902."85 NOTES 1Laura C. Holloway, Famous American Fortunes and the Men Who Have Made them (Philadelphia, 1885), p. 219.

2Elizabeth H. Haight, ed., The Autobiography and Letters of Matthew Vassar (New York, 1916), p. 21.

3/ bid., p. 22.

4Idem.

5Holloway, p. 219.

6Benson J. Lossing, Vassar College and its Founder (New York, 1867), pp. 18-19.

7/bid., pp. 19-20.

8Autobiography, p. 24-.

9Edmund Platt, The Eagle's History of Poughkeepsie, from the Earliest Settlements, 1683 to 1905 (Poughkeepsie, 1905), p. 85. loAutobiography, p. 31.

11/bid., pp. 26-7.

12Lossing, p. 23.

13Autobiography, p. 27.

14/ bid., p. 28.

15Holloway, p. 221.

18AutobiograPhy, pp. 29-30.

17Platt, p. 85.

18Autobiography, pp. 32-3.

19 The Poughkeepsie Eagle; Souvenir Number: The Bridge and Its Connections, October, 1889.

20Honoway, p. 222.

21Lossing, p. 27.

22Platt, p. 85.

231-10noway, p. 222.

24Idem.

25Idem.

26Lossing, p. 30.

27Autobiography, p. 33.

28Lossing, p. 33.

29Honoway, p. 223.

30Platt, p. 85.

31The Poughkeepsie Enterprise, November 11, 1909.

32James Parton, Triumphs of Enterprise, Ingenuity and Public Spirit (New York, 1871), p. 93.

38Lossing, p. 33.

84Honoway, p. 223.

85Platt, p. 86.

88AutobiograPhy, p. 33.

37Platt, p. 104. p. 117.

89/bid., p. 108 40/bid., p. 110.

41/bid., p. 112.

42/ bid., pp. 139-40.

43/ bid., p. 119.

44/ bid., p. 108.

45 Holloway, p. 223.

46Nancy Freeman, "A Life of Mr. Vassar," Vassar Alumnae Magazine, (December, 1938).

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