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New York State Archives New York (State). His numerous reports to the Legislature are an authority on the questions with which they deal.

In 1882 he was chosen one of the New York State delegates, with the then Governor Cornell, to attend the first American Forestry Congress, where Mr. Colvin read one of the most important papers. He has delivered numerous lectures and written many papers on scientific subjects, engineering, astronomy, geology, chemistry and physics, besides articles in the magazines.

Colvin was not a real widely known part of the Adirondack history. Bureau of Real Property Surveying--Public lands Parks--New York (State) Mountains--New York (State) Conservationists series This series consists of field books created by Verplanck Colvin during his survey of the Adirondack region. He knew Jillisky as a researcher with little to say if it didn’t involve the legendary surveyor.

Burdick brought Jillisky to speak about Colvin at St.

Lawrence University’s 1980 Adirondack Conference on the shores of Upper Saranac Lake. He said the clerk gave a poor accounting of Colvin, including that there was no value in the work for which Colvin had devoted some 40 years of his life. In the acknowledgement section, he said he was much obliged to Jillisky.

“I learned that Jillisky had just completed a full-length volume detailing Colvin’s life and work,” Van Valkenburgh wrote.

Jillisky’s book provided the basis for my short biographical work and also served as a standard against which I was able to confirm other data I had in hand.”

Jillisky’s manuscript pointed out conflicts and contradictions with his subject.

Verplanck Colvin's father, Hon. Andrew J. Colvin, studied law in the office of Martin Van Buren and Benjamin F. Butler, and was corporation counsel of the city of Albany, district attorney of the county, and State senator. Processing Information The original field books in this series were borrowed from the State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and microfilmed by State Archives staff in 1995 as part of a cooperative reformatting project, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Andrew J. Colvin married as his second wife Margaret Crane Ailing, daughter of Prudden Ailing and Maria Halsey Ailing, of Newark, N. J. It was at the residence of Col. John Ford, uncle of Maria Halsey Ailing, that Gen. George Washington, by invitation, made his headquarters in Morristown, N. J., during the Revolution, and John Ailing, of Col.

J. Baldwin's Regiment of the Continental army and great-grandfather of Prudden Ailing, in another regiment (of whom Mr. Colvin is a lineal descendant), assisted in the defence of the city of Newark, fighting face to face with the British. Also included is digital copy of an undated typescript index of the volumes prepared by Francis B.

Rosevear, primary author of Colvin in the Adirondacks: A Chronology and Index (1992). Webb’s biography, “Footsteps Through the Adirondacks: The Verplanck Colvin Story,” was published four years later by North Country Books Inc.

In her work, Webb, who died in 2001, credits Jillisky for his contributions to her book and cites his manuscript.

His was a project that was just too large, according to those who read at least parts of it, including retired professor and author Phil Terrie, St.

Lawrence University’s Burdick and Van Valkenburgh.

Webb’s book, 185 pages of text and photos, fell well within the limits of a publisher’s comfort zone.

“She did something that was well done but also important,” said North Country Books owner Robert Igoe, who closed his business earlier this year. “Colvin was perhaps the first individual to wrestle with these problems,” Jillisky wrote.

At the time of his death on July 12, 1992, Jillisky had few possessions, topped by a used Pontiac valued at $300, according to public records.

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