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Upstate New York: Niagara Falls
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York. Her father Daniel Cady was a lawyer who later became a judge on the New York Supreme Court. Stanton graduated from Troy Female Seminary in 1832. Through her cousin Gerrit Smith she became involved in the temperance and anti-slavery movements; in 1840 she married the abolitionist Henry B. Stanton. Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first woman's rights convention, which met in July, 1848 in Seneca Falls, where Stanton lived with her husband and seven children. Stanton was a liberal thinker who challenged women to overcome any barrier of state or church that limited their sphere.
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In the more mountainous eastern part of Upstate New York, the valleys of the Hudson River and the Mohawk River were historically important travel corridors and remain so today. However in the different area of Buffalo, New York the area is very flat, as it use to be a glacial lake. The only "hills" in Niagara County, New York are the Niagara Escarpment, which formed the Falls.
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Paulina Wright Davis (1813-1876) was born in Bloomfield, New York and lived in Niagara Falls, LeRoy, and Utica before moving to Providence, Rhode Island, after her second marriage in 1849. Davis was active in petitioning the New York State Legislature during the 1830s for a married woman's property law. An early participant in the woman's rights movement, she helped organize several conventions. In 1853, Davis began publishing the woman's rights newspaper, The Una. Shown is volume 1, number 1, February 1, 1853.
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National Grid will have -- following the acquisition of Niagara Mohawk -- approximately 10,000 employees in its regulated electric and gas businesses in New York and New England. National Grid's goal is to achieve workforce reductions across the entire National Grid USA organization by 500 to 750 positions -- over a period of four years -- through natural attrition and voluntary programs. National Grid has achieved targeted merger savings and efficiencies in its previous U.S. mergers on a similar basis. A joint National Grid -- Niagara Mohawk integration team will manage the cost reduction program and facilitate sharing of best practices.
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There is so much to do when you visit Upstate New York. Enjoy warm weather hikes and cold weather skiing throughout the Adirondack Mountains. Go boating, swimming and fishing in the Finger Lakes and take in the breath-taking beauty of Niagara Falls. Plan a week-long vacation or a weekend getaway… it’s a trip you’ll remember.
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