“Without Walter A. Wood, Hoosick Falls would not have been, as it is today, the most prosperous village in the American Continent.”
Rensselaer County Standard November 1878
Industry and Influence in Hoosick Falls
Joseph Dorr (1760-1833) Early entrepreneur and civic leader
Seth Parsons (1785-1845) Businessman and first Village President
Capt. David Matthews (1747-1811) State Line House and American Revolution
Walter A. Wood (1815-1892) Inventor and businessman
Levi Chandler Ball (1809-1875) Proprietor Phoenix Hotel
Charles A. Cheney (1835-1912) Town Library Benefactor
Warren Montgomery (1866-1940) Early hotel magnate
William F. Carey (1878-1951) Engineer and industrialist
Cleveland Dodge (1922-2007) Founder Dodge Industries
The Miller Family Millers Grocery and museum benefactors
Edith Craig Reynolds (1877-1971) Famed orator and town benefactor
Delmer Runkel (1856-1936) Financier and community activist
Dr. S. A. Skinner (1824-1905) Town physician inventor
Frank Stevens (1864-1941) Co-founder Thompson Paper
William David Thomas (1880-1936) Town pharmacist
Harry Weir (1886-1963) Civic and business leader
Walter A. Wood III (1907-1993) Explorer and geographer
Harris S. Hawthorne (1832-1911) Civil War hero
Hoosick Falls Fame
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
-Grandma Moses
Nathaniel Shipman The real Natty Bumppo
Henderson Edward Van Surdam (1881-1982) Football player and sports reporter
Anna Mary Moses “Grandma Moses” (1860 – 1961) Folk artist
Harriet Hoctor (1905-1977) Famed ballet dancer
Will J. Kennedy (1872-1948) Stage entertainer
See also Recorded Interviews
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