I wonder if anyone on the Troy Irish Genealogy List or the Rensselaer County List can shed any information on who Lucy A. Wood Rowe was. On Sunday, I marched in the Troy Flag Day Parade with the Troy Lodge of Elks. While momentarily stopped in the parade route, I was impressed with the building at 77-79 Fourth Street, just opposite Proctor's Theatre. Across the front of this impressive four story building was the inscription: LUCY A. WOOD ROWE MEMORIAL The brick and stone building was quite interesting architecturally with it's balustrade across the roof, four two story columns with Corinthian capitals and 3 one story columns with similar capitals. After living in Troy the first 34 years of my live I really never noticed this beautiful building. Bill McGrath Clifton Park, NY

Bill, If you "Google" Lucy A Wood Rowe, you will find a link on the second page of "hits" that will take you to the obituary of William H Rowe as published in the NY Times on April 22, 1898. It states that William H Rowe was President of the Wayside Knitting Mill Company of Troy and was widely known as a philanthropist. Checking the 1880 Federal census for the City of Troy on Pat Connors' website www.connorsgenealogy.com I found that William H Rowe had a young daughter named Lucy. I would assume she died young and the building in Troy was dedicated to her memory. If you take a closer look at the building, there might be a cornerstone indicating the year it was erected. Lynn