“ Immediately north of Poughkeepsie is the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane (1871) ; in the city are the Vassar Brothers' Hospital (1878) , with which a nurses' training school is connected; the Vassar Brothers' Home (1881) for aged and infirm men; the Poughkeepsie Orphan House and Home for the Friendless (1847) ; the Old Ladies' Home (1870) ; the Pringle Memorial Home (1899) , for aged and indigent men, and the Adriance Memorial Library (45,000 volumes in 1909) . The city is a manufacturing centre of considerable importance ”

“ Other educational institutions are the Lyndon Hall School (1848) for girls, Putnam Hall (for girls) , St Faith's School (Protestant Episcopal; removed in 1904 from Saratoga Springs, where it was founded in 1890) , Riverview Military Academy (1836) , and Eastman Business College, one of the largest commercial schools in the country, founded in 1859 by Harvey Gridley Eastman (1832–1878) . ”