The following is an extract from the 1869 Gazetteer and Business Directory of Niagara County, NY in the Lockport portion of the Gazetteer of Towns.
“There is not a progressing improvement in the city partaking as largely of commendable enterprise as the Glenwood Cemetery, located in the northern part of the city. It is characterized by irregular and approachable hills, intervening ravines and extensive flats. The location is beautiful and romantic, and, as a resting place for the dead, appropriate and retired. The rapid increase of population in the city made it a necessity to procure some other location for a cemetery. The spot selected was the Cold Spring Cemetery, where memory may still linger over the graves of esteemed friends and respected citizens, and where rests the remains of Jesse Hawley, to whom De Witt Clinton gave the credit of the first intimation of the construction of the Erie Canal, in a series of articles published in 1807, under the signature of “Hercules,” in the Ontario Messenger. The benevolent public spirit of few individuals, gave the first impulse to the needed changes. Public sentiment justly bestows the merit of originators to Joseph T. Bellah, Hon. George W. Bowen and Dr. J. H. Helmer; by whose solicitations, some forty other citizens, became interested, subscribing the sum of $5,000, which was appropriated to the purchase of 80 acres, for the sum of $7,000. An organization was perfected under the statute, October 13th, 1863, and is now controlled by the following board of officers: -Joseph T. Bellah, President; D. A. Van Vankenburgh [should be Van Valkenburgh], Vice President; G. W. Bowen, Secretary; J. H. Helmer, Treasurer; and an efficient board of resident trustees; $26,000 has already been expended for well advised and judicious improvements. The skill of a talented engineer, Fred. E. Knight, has been made available in laying out broad avenues, convenient approaches to the various lots, combining the beauty of simplicity with attractive interest. Twenty acres of the ground now laid out, under the superintendence of the able and energetic Geo. Wood, show a rapid, permanent advance of improvement. The avenues are underlaid with the most substantial stone sewers. Among the most attractive marks of respect, is the appropriate monument to the memory of the late Ex-Governor Washington Hunt. Another, in beautiful form, denotes the resting place of William P. Daniels, who is remembered and esteemed as an enterprising business man, identified with some of the most extensive projects of public improvement, whose industry and capacity, secured for himself and family more than a needed competence.”
The above page from the 1869 Niagara County directory was found on HathiTrust at: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/yale.39002005939427?urlappend=%3Bseq=91
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