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• A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who Was Taken by the Indians, In the Year 1755, When Only About Twelve Years of Age, and Has Continued to Reside Amongst Them to the Present Time, by James E. Seaver (Gutenberg text)
• A Century in the Comptroller's Office, State of New York, 1797 to 1897, by James A. Roberts (Gutenberg ebook)
• In and Out of Rebel Prisons, by A. Cooper (Gutenberg ebook)

• Empire state notables, (New York, N.Y., H. Stafford, [c1914]) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life and Adventures of Nat Foster, Trapper and Hunter of the Adirondacks, by A. L. Byron-Curtiss (HTML at threerivershms.com)

• The heroes of Albany. (Albany, S. R. Gray, 1867), by Rufus W. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• Binghamton, Its Settlement, Growth and Development, and the Factors in its History, 1800-1900 (Boston: Century Memorial Pub. Co., 1900), by William S. Lawyer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)
• The dead of the present war. (Buffalo, M. Taylor, 1862), by John C Lord (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cattaraugus County: (Little Valley, N.Y., J. Manley, 1857), by John Manley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cattaraugus County: (Little Valley, N.Y., J. Manley, 1857), by John Manley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The inventors and inventions of Cayuga County, N.Y., (Auburn, N.Y., The author, 1882), by Cyrenus Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Chautauqua County, New York, from its first settlement to the present time. With numerous biographical and family sketches. (Buffalo, Printing house of Matthews & Warren, 1875), by Andrew W. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. John P. Downs, editor-in-charge, and Fenwick Y. Hedley, editor-in-chief, assited by a large corps of sub-editors and advisory board. (Boston, New York [etc.] American historical society, inc., 1921), by John Phillips Downs (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York; With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Co., 1880), by D. Hamilton Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biographical sketches of the distinguished men of Columbia County, (Albany, Weed, Parsons and company, 1851), by William Raymond (page images at HathiTrust)

• The home of Cooper and the haunts of Leatherstocking. By Barry Gray [pseud.] (New York, Russell Brothers, 1872), by Barry Gray (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Cortland county, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, edited by H.P. Smith. (Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & co., 1885), by H. P. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biographical Review: This volume contains Biographical Sketches of The Leading Citizens of Delaware County New York (1895) (HTML at dcnyhistory.org)
• The History of Delaware County (New York: W. W. Munsell, 1880) (HTML at dcnyhistory.org)
• Biographical review. (Boston, Biographical review publishing company, 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Centennial History of the Town of Dryden, 1797-1897, ed. by George E. Goodrich (PDF files at nysed.gov)

• Commemorative biographical record of Dutchess County, New York, (Chicago, J. H. Beers & co., 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)

• History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York; With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Co., 1880), by D. Hamilton Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketches of Franklin county and its several towns, (Albany, J. B. Lyon company, printers, 1918), by Frederick Josel Seaver (page images at HathiTrust)

• Franklinville, N.Y. in Pictures and Story (c1914), by Roy W. Van Hoesen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tagging Along: Memories of My Grandfather, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. (Geneseo, NY: Published at Milne Library, SUNY College at Geneseo, c2013), by Stuart Symington (PDF and Epub with commentary at geneseo.edu)

• Dear old Greene County; embracing facts and figures. Portraits and sketches of leading men who will live in her history, those at the front to-day and others who made good in the past [by F. A. Gallt] (Catskill, N.Y., 1915), by Frank A. Gallt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical review ... containing life sketches of leading citizens of Schenectady, Schoharie and Greene counties, New York ... (Boston, Biographical review publishing company, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890. (Syracuse, N.Y., The Syracuse journal company, printers and binders, 1890), by Hamilton Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Jefferson County in the state of New York, (Albany, J. Munsell; Watertown, N.Y., Sterling & Riddell, 1854), by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of Livingston and Wyoming counties, New York ... (Boston, Biographical review publishing company, 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1687. History of Livingston County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. (Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & co., 1881), by James Hadden Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Livingston County, New York, from its earliest traditions to the present, (Jackson, Mich., W. J. Van Deusen, 1905), by Lockwood R. Doty (page images at HathiTrust)

• A silver gray's r. r. reminiscences. (New York, [Fishkill Standard print, 1908]), by Inglis Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)

• 1806-1906. Biographical sketches of the Madison County bench and bar; (Oneida, N.Y., The Madison County historical society, 1911), by Brownell Fitch Tompkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Mohawk Valley, Gateway to the West, 1614-1925: Covering the Six Counties of Schenectady, Schoharie, Montgomery, Fulton, Herkimer, and Oneida (4 volumes; Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1925), ed. by Nelson Greene
  • Volumes 1-3 (third volume in alphabetized order under "Biographies"): illustrated HTML with commentary at schenectadyhistory.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of Montgomery County : embracing early discoveries, the advance of civilization, the labors and triumphs of Sir William Johnson, the inception and development of manufactures, with town and local records, also military achievements of Montgomery patriots / rev. and edited by Washington Frothingham. (Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of the City of New York (12th edition, 1855), by Moses Yale Beach (searchable page images at Google)
• "New World A-Coming": Inside Black America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1943), by Roi Ottley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wealth and biography of the wealthy citizens of New York city, comprising an alphabetical arrangement of persons estimated to the worth $100,000, and upwards, (New York, The Sun office, 1845), by Moses Yale Beach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prominent families of New York; being an account in biographical form of individuals and families distinguished as representatives of the social, professional and civic life of New York city. (New York, The Historical company, 1897), by Lyman Horace Weeks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des deutschthums von New York von 1848 bis auf die gegenwart. (New York, T. Lemke, 1891-92), by Theodor Lemke (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Mamie Rose: The Story of My Regeneration, by Owen Kildare (Gutenberg ebook)
• 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s, by Max Millard (Gutenberg ebook)

• History of Niagara County, N. Y.: With Illustrations Descriptive of its Scenery, Private Residences, Public Buildings, Fine Blocks, and Important Manufactories, and Portraits of Old Pioneers and Prominent Residents (New York: Sanford and Co., 1878) (page images at New York Heritage)

• Sheriffs of Oneida County, (Utica, N.Y., P. E. Kelly, printer, 1890), by Isaac P Bielby (page images at HathiTrust)

• Documentary History of Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County, N.Y. (1881), by E. M. Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Centennial address relating to the early history of Schenectady, (Albany, N.Y., Van Benthaysen printing house, 1879), by John Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)

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