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Local History
STEPHEN MCNALL
Dates of Interview:
August 15, 1984
Location of Interview:
Henrietta, NY
Interviewer:
Cynthia Goldstein
Length of Transcript:
16 pages
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Biographical Summary
Stephen McNall was born on September 4, 1906 in Rochester, New York. He spent his childhood in Henrietta, New York as his parents, George and Elizabeth McNall, operated the family farm in town beginning around 1908. After studying economics at the University of Rochester, he worked as an Assistant Manager in merchandizing for the Woolworth Company in New York City. After three years in that position, he returned to Henrietta to operate the family farm upon his father’s illness. He became Treasurer for the Rush-Henrietta School District beginning 1950. Stephen McNall died on December 19, 1990.
Interview Highlights
McNall speaks about the first McNall ancestors in the United States; recreational activities for youth in Henrietta during his childhood; shopping venues in Henrietta in the 1920s and 1930s; transportation; particulars about the McNall family’s farming operation; growth in Henrietta from a rural to suburban community; housing development in Henrietta; growth of the public school system in Henrietta.
Interview Excerpt
“Of course the transportation when we were really young - we didn’t have any automobile, it was all horse transportation. Buggies and - horse and buggy in the summertime and uh, (pauses) sleighs in the wintertime. And I noticed – we weren’t equipped to handle the – remove the snow. There was no thought given to removing the snow at that time. In the wintertime, when the drifts came, the horses and sleighs would go over these drifts. And I remember when I used to be what they called “pitch hills”. You go over the drift and down and back up on the other side… You had to be very careful.” (p. 8)