. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . which, not proving pleasantor profitable, was dissolved and its business closed. At this time he became interested in real estate andtook an active part in laying out and straightening someof the streets in New York, notably the upper part ofWilliam street. Being attracted to Long Island, he with his brother-in-law, George W. Thrall, purchased three farms lying eastand south of the old Howard House, on the Jamaicaturnpike; laid the same out in streets and blocks, plantedtrees
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . which, not proving pleasantor profitable, was dissolved and its business closed. At this time he became interested in real estate andtook an active part in laying out and straightening someof the streets in New York, notably the upper part ofWilliam street. Being attracted to Long Island, he with his brother-in-law, George W. Thrall, purchased three farms lying eastand south of the old Howard House, on the Jamaicaturnpike; laid the same out in streets and blocks, plantedtrees, built houses, and named the locality East NewYork. Happy was he in later life to walk through a thenbusy and thriving town, with streets traversed by bothsteam and horse railroads, and with an enterprising andprosperous population of 15,000 people. In 1846 he was instrumental in drawing, and after twoyears of diligent, persistent work, succeeded in havingadopted one of the general manufacturing laws of theState of New York, under which to-day a vast amountof individual capital and enterprise is associated in the. ^^/L^ c^ (^m^. development of the Statesresources; the capitalistsworking for their own notonly, but for the good ofhumanity at large. A libra-ry of over 50 letter booksto-day attests his untiringzeal and persistency. He became thoroughlywrapped up in the develop-ment of the shoe manufac-turing interests, and wasinstrumental in inducingprominent practical shoemanufacturers to removefrom New England to NewYork. With a few nearfriends in 1860-61 hefounded the East NewYork Boot, Shoe andI>eather ManufacturingCompany, now officeredby his children and mak-ing an average of 3,000 pairs a day, their worksbeing carried on at Albany,New York. Mr. Pitkin, although liv-ing beyond the allottedthree-score and ten, wasever earnest in advocatingthose principles whichwould tend to elevate theworking classes; and hewrote : As long as I amblessed with unimpairedfaculties of body an
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