History of Gouverneur, New York, USA

Gouverneur, a post-township of St. Lawrence county, New York, 26 miles S. W. from Canton. Population, 2783.

GOUVERNEUR, a township in St. Lawrence co., in the state of New York, 181 m. NW of Albany. Pop. 2,538.

SIX MEN KILLED AND OTHERS INJURED NEAR GOUVERNEUR, N. Y.

GOUVERNEUR, N. Y., May 3. - At 11:30 o'clock this morning a terrible explosion occurred in the boiler room of the Whitney Marble Company's works about a mile from this village. The boiler room is in the saw-mill, and it contained two boilers of fifty-horse power each. The boilers had been out of repair since Wednesday, and Oliver Dashneau and Joseph Olive, of Watertown, had been sent on to fix them. Their work was nearly completed, and when steam was made this morning the gauges marked 90 pounds on one and 15 pounds on the other. Dashneau and Olive were on top of the boiler with the lowest pressure when it exploded with a tremendous report. Both men were fearfully mangled. The trunk of Dashneau's body was discovered hanging over a beam in the débris. His arms and limbs were scattered about the building, but his head has not yet been found.

Olive's head was torn off at the upper jaw. Both bodies were entirely stripped of...

The Town of Gouverneur - Organized in 1810.

THIS town was erected by an act of the Legislature passed April 15, 1810. It comprised the original township of "Cambria," No. 10, lying in the extreme southwestern corner of the ten towns and was under the jurisdiction of Oswegatchie. It was patented by the State to Alexander Macomb, December 17, 1787, after which it passed through various owners to Gouverneur Morris between the years of 1798 and 1808, and in honor of whom the town was named. The territory was somewhat dimished by the erection of Macomb in 1841. The first town meeting was held at the house of John Spencer, where the following officers were elected: Richard Townsend, supervisor; Amos Comley, town clerk; Rufus Washburn, Isaac Morgan, Pardon Babcock, assessors; Amos Comley, Benjamin Smith, Ephriam Case, commissioners of highways; Jonathan S. Colton, Isaac Morgan, fence viewers; Israel Porter, pound master. A portion of the surface of the town is rolling, while in other...

Gouverneur, goover-noor', often pronounced güv'er neer', a post-village of St. Lawrence co., N.Y., in Gouverneur township, on the Oswegatchie River, and on the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad, 34 miles S. of Ogdensburg, and 36 miles N.E. of Watertown. It contains 5 churches, 2 banks, the Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, 3 newspaper offices, and manufactures of iron, machinery, lumber, &c. Iron ore, marble, fluor-spar, heavy spar, serpentine, and spinelle are found in the vicinity. Pop. in 1890, 3458; of the township, 5851.

ARTHUR SMITH MEETS DEATH AND FIREMAN EDWARD BEALS IS PROBABLY FATALLY INJURED AS RESULT OF ACCIDENT NEAR GOUVERNEUR.

Gouverneur, Nov. 8. - One of the worst freight accidents in the history of this division of the R. W. & O. railroad occurred this morning at 6:10 o'clock, in the vicinity of the St. Lawrence Marble quarry, in which ARTHUR SMITH, of Gouverneur, a brakeman, was killed, are EDWARD BEALS, a fireman, received injuries which will, it is believed, prove fatal.

The accident was a head-on collision between shifter engine No. 1027 and through freight engine No. 2133, carrying 35 loaded freight cars. The shifting engine was running light.

Just who is to blame for the accident is not known and the railroad officials are distrubed about the matter. The shifter engine and the crew, in charge of JAMES MURPHY, conductor, in the absence of Engineer JOHN McCORMICK, was taken out by Fireman BEALS are started across the river to pull our some cars at, the J. J. Sullivan quarry....

Gouverneur, a banking post-village of St. Lawrence co., N.Y., in Gouverneur township (town), on the Oswegatchie River and on the New York Central and Hudson River R., 34 miles S. of Ogdensburg. It has manufactures of iron, machinery, marble, talc, wood-pulp, lumber, etc. Pop. in 1900, 3689 ; of the township, 5915.