Oliver Kane (1767-1842)

He lived in Albany in, "a splendid old-fashioned house called Kane's Place or the Mansion, quite in the country apparently, although in the heart of Albany... There was a fine lawn in front of the house and fine old trees, with lots of white-crested pet pigeons flying and strutting about. You entered from the lawn into quite a large room with piano, chairs, sofas, etc., etc.". His fortune was estimated at $200,000 on his death in 1842.