{"id":3173,"date":"2017-08-14T11:30:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2017-07-07T16:14:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T23:14:19","slug":"is-an-oswego-spirit-haunting-the-ny-governors-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/?p=3173","title":{"rendered":"Is an Oswego Spirit Haunting the NY Governor’s Mansion?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Or, Take A Peek Into The Haunted Mansion<\/h5>\n

Is an Oswego Spirit Haunting the NY Governor’s Mansion?<\/h1>\n

Written by Steve Yablonski in June 2017<\/p>\n

You can read the full article below or click here<\/a> for the original post<\/p>\n

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Is Gov. Andrew Cuomo being haunted by the ghost of a former Port City pastor?<\/p>\n

At some recent public events, the governor has taken to playfully discussing spooky happenings at the Executive Mansion, his 160-year-old Eagle Street home.<\/p>\n

He claims he doesn\u2019t believe in ghosts, the noises the mansion makes in the dark of night still \u201ccreep him out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s me alone when I\u2019m in the house because my family\u2019s in Westchester,\u201d Cuomo said in an interview with the Albany Times Union early last month, alluding to the home he shares downstate with his partner, Sandra Lee. \u201cThe kids are in school. So it\u2019s me alone. There are stories that this house is haunted. Now, I don\u2019t believe in ghosts, and I\u2019m a big tough Italian guy. But I\u2019ll tell you \u2013 it gets creepy in that house and there are a lot of noise that go on and you are very alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps he is being visited by Gov. Charles Evans Hughes\u2019 father.<\/p>\n

The elder Hughes died in the Executive Mansion in December 1909, \u201cfollowing a recent stroke of apoplexy,\u201d according to the New York Times.<\/p>\n

Whether there were any other deaths in the mansion before it came into the state\u2019s possession in 1877 is unknown. At the very least, none were recorded.<\/p>\n

A native of Wales, the 77-year-old arrived in the United States in 1855 and preached at churches in Oswego, Brooklyn, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, according to his obituary.<\/p>\n

The Reverend David C. Hughes was the pastor of the West Baptist Church on the corner of West Third and Mohawk streets in Oswego, according to Justin White, president of the Oswego County Historical Society.<\/p>\n

The church was an offshoot of the First Baptist Church, which was located on the east side in Washington Square.<\/p>\n

The West Baptist Church was formed in 1853, but the current church that stands today was built in 1867.<\/p>\n

\u201cHalf the cost was financed by Thomas Kingsford, which allowed for a more substantial ornate church,\u201d White said. \u201cIt was designed by Andrew Jackson Warner of Rochester, who also designed the Richardson-Bates House and the Oswego Ladies Home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rev. Hughes was the pastor during the construction of the \u201cnew\u201d church and was the pastor from 1866 to 1869.<\/p>\n

\u201cMinisters often traveled from one church to another and did not stay in one place for long,\u201d White said. \u201cThe building of a new church would have been an important legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

What makes this even more interesting is that he was the father of the Hon. Charles Evan Hughes, who had an equally amazing life, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was the Governor of New York State, the Secretary of State under President Harding and then Chief Justice of Supreme Court under President Hoover. He also ran for president in 1915,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n

Charles Hughes was a child when he lived in Oswego; started school in the Port City and became a \u201cscholar\u201d of the church Sunday school.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the stained class memorial windows replaced the original windows in the church by Haskin Glass Studios of Rochester, Hughes donated one the called \u201cGethsemane\u201d in memory of his father for his time in Oswego at the minister of West Baptist Church,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n

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