Philadelphia cream cheese was invented in 1872 by a man named William Lawrance but not in Philadelphia but Chester Ny. It was marketed as Philadelphia cream cheese because at that time Philadelphia Pa was well known for there high quality Dairy farm in 1880 Lawrence partnered with A.L Reynolds years later they sold to the Phoenix cheese company then in 1982 they merged with Kraft and is still vary popular till this day
This 4628 square foot 5 bedroom 3 !/2 bathroom in Nyack Ny home was bought by George and Helen Ackley in the 1960s they raised 4 children in this home and lived there for 31 yrs in the early 90sthe Ackleys decided to sell and a man named Jeffery Stambovsky in the end the sale would fall through and not for what you would expect on top of the 6 Ackleys there are 3 ghosts Ackleys made it clear that the home was haunted to the buyer didn't believe them or something and went forward but when he to look at the house in person the town let him know the home was on a 5 house walking ghost tour of the city Stombovsky sued Hellen and her realtor for fraudulent misrepresentation and tried to get out of contract . When it came to closing day Stombovsky didn't show forfeiting his $32,500 down payment on the $650,000 home. The court said that because the home was well known for being haunted the defendant Stambovsky went back on his word and his case was thrown out Stambovsky appealed it with the New York supreme court and won not its called the ghostbuster ruling is now taught in law schools
A robber baron is a derogatory name for a person who becomes rich and powerful at others expense whether it be low wages or fraud.
J P Morgan is one of the biggest robber barons. He started a number of Rail Systems Steel company's and General Electric.J P Morgan bought Carnegie steel for $480 million in 1901 (converted to 15,416,640,00.00 today) making it the first billion dollar corporation and making him richer than John D Rockefeller. John D built his empire by building a monopoly called Standerd oil how he did this was with outrageous cousts to ship or hed just drive them out of business. In 1890 he owned 90% of petroleum in the U.S. Cornelius Vanderbilt who was an industrialist and did shipping and rail. Henry ford was also a Robber baron and made cars available to the everyday man. Even thought they were the richest men in America and were thought to be corrupt alot of them donated money to charities or started collages like Vanderbilt University in NY
Grace Brown was born in South Otselic Ny on March 20th 1886 to a dairy farmer named Frank Brown and his wife Betsy, The 5th of 9 children. When Grace was 18yrs old she moved to Cortland NY and lived with her older sister Ada so she could work at the brand new Gillette skirt factory that was built in 1906 by Noah Gillette. While working in the factory Grace met Noah's nephew Chester Gillette who was born to Frank and Louisia who were part of the salvation army and with their religious values they had no use for worldly goods or money and it made it hard for Chester to get a good education. When Chester was 19 he moved to Cortland to live with Noah. Noah paid for Chester to go to Oberlin preparatory in Ohio after doing poorly Chester went back to Courtland to work in the factory Chester found Grace Brown attractive enough to have a sexual relationship but had his eyes on a socialite named Harriet Benedict from a wealthy ny family. In the spring of 1906 Grace discovered she was pregnant and begged Chester to marry her in July they decided to take a trip to the Adirondacks Grace thought he was going to surprise her with a wedding. The couple met in DeRuyter took a train to Utica then a train to Tupper Lake where they stay were Chester used an false name Carl Graham to match the monogram on his luggage but then went to Big Moose Lake.
July 11th they rented a row boat and went out for the day but did not return so the owner of the boat rental sent a search party by steam boat eventually finding the boat overturned a child saw a mass in the water when it was pulled up it was the body of the missing woman but the man is nowhere to be found. When Grace's family was notified they never heard of a Carl Graham but knew of Chester Gillette, two men saw Chester walking in the woods in a suit trying to get to Eagle Bay. Chester was found at the arrowhead hotel in Inet Ny laughing and bragging about a drowning that wasn't reported yet. The trial took place in Herkimer county Chesters uncle Noah would not pay for his lawyer so he had a public defender and said grace killed herself, Chester was convicted of premeditated murder. He was sent to the electric chair on march 30th 1908 at Auburn prison in Auburn ny. Chesters final resting place is in Soule cemetery in Sennett Ny
