History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . pleted their new church edifice, farther northon Broadway. The Rev. Father Patrick McGuirewas appointed to the pastoral oversight. The churchis reported to have a membership of fourteen hundred. In 1854 the name of the village was changed fromDearman to Irvington. It was mainly due to theinfluence of Mr. George 1). Morgan and the H. Grinnell. The former requested the lateGovernor Morgan, who was then president of theHudson River Railroad, to perm
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . pleted their new church edifice, farther northon Broadway. The Rev. Father Patrick McGuirewas appointed to the pastoral oversight. The churchis reported to have a membership of fourteen hundred. In 1854 the name of the village was changed fromDearman to Irvington. It was mainly due to theinfluence of Mr. George 1). Morgan and the H. Grinnell. The former requested the lateGovernor Morgan, who was then president of theHudson River Railroad, to permit the name of therailroad station to be called Irvington. and to be sogiven on the time-table, and the latter requested thePostmaster-General to substitute Irvington, in placeof Dearman, as the name of the post-olliee. It was,of course, gratifying to Mr. Irving in one way, al-though he expressed his regret that so good a neigh-bor as Mr. Dearman should be thus supplanted, andhe wrote to Mr. George D. Morgan a modes) letter,conveying at once his thanks and his regrets. The village was incorporated under the name ofIn ington in ARDSLEY. RESIDENCE OF CYRUS W. FIELD,IRV1NGTON-ON-THE-HUDSON. GREENBFRGH. 1!»1 The [rvington Free Library was founded in thewinter of 1865. Its present number of books is twothousand. It owes its origin to the efforts of 10. Phinney, George L). Morgan and JohnE. Williams. A new and finely-appointed pnhlie-school edificewas erected on F Street in 1S72, the land and build-ing costing about forty thousand dollars. The schoolemploys seven teachers. The village is supplied with water by the Irving-ton Water-Works, completed May I, 1884. Thewater is derived from an artesian well six hundredfeet deep. The reservoir into which the water ispumped covers an area of almost an acre, and istwenty feet deep. The capacity of the reservoir iseight million gallons, equal to a supply for all theCitizensof 1 rvington for twohundred days. It affordsal
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