?■■.■: Glass _£l2/]_ Book_JL2jLL. / k - J, '^7 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY NEW YORK EDITED HV HON. HARLO HAKES ASSISTED m I. C. ALDRICH AND OTHERS SYRACUSE, N. Y. U. MASON .V COMPANY, PUHl.lSHbKS \ %>• ■v- ^ . I»l% PREFACE. In the preparation of this historical and biographical record earlier works bearing on the history of this section of the State have been consulted, and also many original sources of information. A careful review of the work, from beginning to end, disclose? the fact that more than two thousand persons have been interviewed in the quest of authentic data, hence it cannot be assumed that the present volume is a mere compilation from previous jiuhlications. 'i'he work is now ])la(jed before the people of the county, and the editor, writers and ])ub- lishers have no apology to make, believing none is needed. At the same time they have not the temerity to claim this to be a faultless volume, but assert for it reasonable and substantial accuracy. The arrangement of the subject of the county's history will be found novel, yet convenient and interesting. The editor and the writers take this opportunity to express thanks for generous as.sistance on the part of the best informed men of the region, and the publishers also acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the public spirited citizens of the county at large for the hearty support that has made the work possible. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. County Organizations — Albany — Tryou — Montgomery — Ontario — Steuben- Claims to Pre-historic Occupation — Early Discoveries and Explorations- The French— The Dutch— The English CHAPTKR II. French and English Rivalry — The Indian Occupation — Iroquois Confederacy — The Senecas — The Jesuit Fathers among the Indians — Events Precedingand During the French and English Wars — Overthrow of French Power in Amer- ica — The Delaware Village near Canisteo i] CHAPTER III. Events Preceding the Revolution — Pontiac's League — Action of the Senecas — The Revolutionary War — Sullivan's Campaign — Brief Reference to the Indian History and Antiquities of Steuben County.. _ 14 CHAPTER I\'. After the Revolution — An Era of Peace — Controversy between Massachusetts and New York — The Hartford Convention — The Phelps and Gorham Pur- chase — The Lessee Companies — Settlement of Difficulties — The Surveys — Sale to Robert Morris — The Pulteney Association — Charles Williamson — Foundation of Land Titles in Steuben County — The Anti-Rent Conflict. . . •i(\ CHAPTER V. Division of Montgomery County — Creation of Ontario and Steuben Counties — Brief Allusion to Baron Steuben — His Life and Services — The Original Terri- tory of Steuben County Divided into Towns — First County Officers — County Buildinys — Second Jury District — Steuben County Civil List M vi CONTENTS. CHAPTER VI. The Civil Divisions of the County - - - 39 CHAPTER VII. The Civil Divisions of the County. — 82 CHAPTER VIII. The Civil Divisions of the County - 104 CHAPTER IX. The Civil Divisions of the County — 1H(I CHAPTER X. The Civil Divisions of the County.. - 150 CHAPTER XI. The Civil Divisions of the County. . 1<)4 CHAPTER XII. Events Preceding and During the War of 1812-15— Companies Organized in Steuben County— Results of the War— The Conflict with Mexico— The Steu- ben Companv — Population of the County by Decades 185 CHAPTER XIII. Steuben County in the War of 1861-65 15*0 CHAPTER XIV. The Bench and Bar.. - - 205 CHAPTER XV. The Press '^^" CHAPTER XVI. The Medical Profession. - — -- 337' Churches PART II. BIOGRAPHICAL. PART III. FAMILY SKETCHES INDEXES. Historical Biojjraphies l-'aniily Sketches. Portraits CONTKNTS. vii CHAPTER XVIl. Cities, Villages and Hamlets. .,4;; CIl.\I''|-i:i< .Will. Cities, Villages and Hamlets. . q()o CHAPTER XIX. Cities, Villagesand Hamlets .j.,.^ CHAPTER XX. Cities, Villages and Hamlets ClIAl'TER XXI. 387 ■.i-A 1-70 I .5(11 507 514 515 529 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. CHAPTER I. County Organizations— Albany— Tyron — Montgomery — Ontario — Steuben — Claims to Pre-historic Occupation — Early Discoveries and Exjjlorations — The French — The Dutch— The English. The State of New York, for the purpose of more conveniently admin- istrating the affairs of local government, is divided by law into counties, and the latter are further subdivided into towns. Municipal govern- ments, Hkewise, are provided for cities and villages, securing to them separate officers and tribunals for the management of their peculiar affairs, and other privileges, varying with their respective charters. Under the Dutch dominion the only divisions were the city and towns. Counties were erected, for the first time, by the act of 1683, and were twelve in number, Albany being farthest west in the colony of New York and in its jurisdiction extending over the region now of Steuben county, although no civilized occupancy was then known in this part of the province. Tryon county was erected in '1772, from Albany, and comprised the country west of a north and south line extending from St. Regis to the west bounds of the town of Schenectady; thence running irregularly southwest to the head of the Mohawk branch of the Delaware, and along the same to the southwest bounds of the present county of Broome; thence in a northwesterly direction to Fort Bull, on Wood Creek, near the present village of Rome. All the region west of the 1 2 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. line last mentioned was Indian territory, unoccupied by the wiiites, except incidentally, and not subject to county jurisdiction. On the 27th day of Januarj-, 1789 (after the close of the Revolution, and after the settlement of the controversy between the States of Massa- chusetts and New York, growing out of conflicting grants and charters by the cfown), the county of Tyron, then known, however, as Mont- gomery, was divided, and that part of the State which had been ceded to IMassaciiusetts, so far as the pre-emption right was concerned, was erected into a separate county by the name of Ontario; and from the latter, on March S, 1796, the count} of Steuben was formed and there- after duly organized. The history of Steuben county properly begins with the time of its creation, and a narrative of the events of the territory within its bound- aries, previous to such erection, must be associated with the history of the older counties of whicli it once formed a part. In fact the aboriginal occupation of this region is inseparably connected with that of the whole Phelps and Gorham purchase, and is auxiliary to though not co-ex- tensive with it. The claim has been made on the part of many well-informed persons that there have been found in various localities in Steuben county evidences of a pre- historic occupation; that there have been discovered certain relics and implements of peculiar construction the like of which are now unknown, and that they must have been left by a race of peo- ple different from the red sons of the forest, the period of whose occu- pancy long antedated the coming of the ancestors of the famed Iroquois. Tins claim, in the writer's view, is a mistaken one True, there have been unearthed tools and utensils which were never in common use among the Indians, but we must remember that the Jesuits and their followers traversed this region more than a century and a half before any civilized white settlement was made; and we must also remember that the crude and to us unaccountable implements were then in the hands of comparative ancients, and were the product of a period in which was known but little of the mechanical arts as we see and under- stand and use them at the present time. None of the Indian tribes had a tratlition that run to the time of the Mound builders, and while there may be ill-dcfined outline possibilities of such a presence from which the student of arcluuology may theorize on this subject, we see nothing /^ EARLY DISCOVERIES. 3 in the claim referred to wliich is inconsistent with the modern theory of continuous Indian occupation. Four hundred years ago the first Spanish adventurers landed on the shores of the American continent. S;iih'ng under the patronage of Spain, Cliristopher Columbus, the Genoese, in 1492 made his wonderful discoveries, an event generally designated as the discovery of America, although the first Europeans to visit the western hemisphere were Scandinavians, who colonized Iceland in A. D. 875, Greenland in 983, and about the year 1000 had cruised soutluvard as far as the Massachu- setts coast. During the ages tliat preceded these events, no grander country in every point of view ever waited the approach of civilization. With climate and soil diversified between the most remote extremes ; w ith thousands of miles of ocean shores indented by magnificent harbors to welcome the world's commerce ; with many of the largest river.s of the globe draining its territory and forming natural highways for commerce ; with a system of lakes so immense in area as to entitle them to the name of inland seas; with mountains, hills and valleys laden with the richest minerals and almost exhaustless fuel ; and with scenery unsurpassed for grandeur, it needed only the Caucasian to transform a wilderness in- habited only by savages into the free, enlightened republic, which is to day the wonder and glory of the civilized world. Following close upon the discoveries of Columbus and other earl)' explorers, various foreign powers fitted out fleets and commissioned navigators to establish colonies in the vast but unknown continent. These events, however, will be briefly treated in this work, and only those will be mentioned which had at least an indirect bearing upon our subject. In I 508, Aubert discovered tile St. Lawrence Rivei, and 1524, Francis I, king of France, sent Jean Verrazzani on a voyage of expl(, ration to the new world. He entered a harbor, supposed to have been that of New York, where he remained fifteen daj's ; and it is believed that his crew were the first Europeans to land on the soil of what is now the State of New York. The Gallic explorer cruised along the coast about 2,100 miles, sailing as far north as Labrador, and giving to the whole region the name of " New France " — a name by which the French possessions in America were ever known during the dominion of that 4 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. power. In 1534 the same king sent Jacques Cartier to the country, and he made two voyages, on the second bein<^ accompanied with a number of French nobihty, all of whom were filled with high hopes. and bearing the blessings of the church. This party was determined upon the col- onization of the country, but, after passing a severe winter at the Isle of Orleans, abandoned their scheme and returned to France. As a be- ginning of the long list of needless and shameful betrayals, treacheries and other abuses to which the too confiding natives were subjected, Cartier inveigled into his vessel an Indian chief who had been his gen- erous host, and bore him with several others into hopeless captivity and final death. Cartier again visited New France in 1540, but no further attempts in the same direction were made until about 1589, when the re- gion, particularly its Canadian portion, was made a place of banish- ment for French convicts; but even thii scheme failed, and it remained for private enterprise to make the first successful effort toward the permanent occupation of the country. The real discoverer and founder of a permanent colony in New France was Samuel de Champlain, a man born with that uncontrollable instinct of investigation and desire for knowledge of distant regions which has always so strongly charac- terized all great explorers. His earlier adventures in this country have no connection with this work, and it is therefore sufficient to merely mention that in 1608 he was sent to the country and founded Quebec. To satisfy his love for exploration, Champlain united with the Cana- dian Indians and marched into the unknown country to the southward, and the result was the discovery of the lake that bears his name. The party also invaded the land of the Mohawks, in the country of the Iroquois, and a conflict followed between the Algonquins, aided by Champlain, and a portion of the Iroquois, in which the latter were defeated with the loss of two of their chiefs, who fell by the hands of Champlain him- self. Thus was signalized the first hostile meeting between the white man and the Indian. Low as the latter was found in the scale of intelligence and humanity, and terrible as were many of the subsequent deeds of the Iroquois, it cannot be denied that their early treatment could foster in the savage breast any other feeling than that of bitterest hostility. It seems like a pathetic page of romance to read Champlain's statement CONFLICTING GRANTS. r, that "The Iroquois are greatly astonished, seeing two men killed so instantaneouslj'," one of whom was their chief; wliile the ingenuous acknowledgment of the Frenchman, " I had put four balls into my arquebus," is a vivid testimony of how little mercy the Iroquois nation were to expect from their northern enemies and the pale-faced race which was eventually to drive them from their domain. It was an age, however, in which inii^ht was appealed to as right more frequently than in later years, and the planting of the lowly banner of the Cross was frequently preceded by bloody conquests. It is in the light of the prevailing custom of the old world in Champlain's time that we must view his ready hostility to the Indian. Let us also turn briefly to other events which have had an indirect bearing on the settlement of this part of the country. A few weeks after the battle between Champlain and the Indians, Henry Hudson, a navigator in the service of the Dutch East India Company, anchored his ship (The Half-moon) at the mouth of the river which now bears his name. This took place September 5, 1609. He met the savages and was hospitably received by them ; but before his departure he sub- jected them to an experimental knowledge of the effects of intoxicating liquor — an experiment perhaps more baneful in its results than that in- flicted by Champlain with his new and murderous weai)()n. Hudson as- cended the river to a point within less than a hundred miles of that reached by Champlain, then returned to Europe, and, through the information he had gained, soon afterward established a Dutch colony, for which a charter was granted in 1614, naming the region "New Netherlands." The Dutch dominion, however, was of brief duration. Indian hos- tilities were provoked through the illatlvised action of Governor Kieft, whose official career continued for about ten years, being super- seded by Peter Stuyvesant in May, 1647. The latter was the last of the Dutch governors, and his firm and equitable policy had the effect of harmonizing the discontent existing among the Indians. On the 12th of March, 1664. however, Charles II of England granted by letters patent to his brother James, the Duke of York, all the country from the River St. Croix to the Kennebec in Maine, together with all the land from the west bank of the Connecticut River to the east side of Delaware Bay. The duke sent an English squadron to secure the 6 LANDMARKS OP' STEUBEN COUNTY. gift, and on the 8th of September following, Governor Stuyvesant capit- ulated, being constrained to that course by the Dutch colonists, who preferred peace, with the same privileges and liberties accorded to the English colonists, rather than a prolonged and perhaps uncertain con- test. The English changed the name of New Amsterdam to New York, and thus ended the Dutch dominion in America. Meanwhile, in 1607, the English had made tlicir first permanent settlement at Jamestown, Va., and in 1620 planted their liistoric colony at Plymouth Rock. These two colonies became the successful rivals of all others in that strife which finally left them masters of the country. On the discoveries and colonizations thus brief!)- noted, three great European powers based claims to a part of the territory embraced in the State of New York; first, England, by the reason of the discovery of John Cabot, who sailed under commission from Henry VII, and on the 24th of June, 1 497, reached the coast of Labrador, also that made in the following year by his son Sebastian, who explored the same coast from New Foundland to Florida, claiming a territory eleven degrees in width and indefinitely extending westward; second, France, from the discoveries of Verrazzani, claiming a portion of the Atlantic coast, and also (under the title of New France) an almost boundless region westivard ; tiiird, Holland, which based on Hudson's discoveries a claim to the entire country from Cape Cod to the southern shore of Delaware Bay. CHAPTER n. French and English Rivalry — The Indian Occupation — Iroquois Confederacy — The Senecas- The Jesuit Fathers Among the Indians— Events Preceding and During the French and English Wars— Overthrow of French Power in America — The Dela- ware Village near Canisteo. After the final overthrow of the Dutch in the New Netherlands, the region now included within the State of New York was still held and claimed by three powers — one native and two foreign The main colonies of the French (one of the powers referred to) were in the Canadas, but through the zeal of the Jesuit missionaries their line of INDIAN OCCUPATION. 7 possessions had been extended south and west of the St. Lawrence, and some attempts at colonization had been made, but as yet witli only- partial success. Indeed, as early as 1620, the Jesuit fathers labored among the Senecas in this re<^ion. and evidences are not wanting to show that missionaries carried the banner of the Cross into what is now Steuben county. In the southern and eastern portion of the province granted to the Uuke of York were the English, who with steady yet sure advances were pressing settlement and civilization westward, gradually neariiig the French possessions. The French and luiglish were at this time, and also for many years afterwards, conflicting [)Owers, each studying for the mastery on both sides of the Atlantic ; and with each succeeding outbreak of war in the mother countries, so tiiere were renewed hostilities between their American colonies. Directly between the possessions of the French and the territory of the English lay the lands of the famous Iroquois Confederacy then more commonly known as the Five Nations. By the French they were called " Iroquois," but by the Dutch they were known as " Maquas," while the English called them "Mingoes;" but however variously they may have been designated, they were a race of savages whose peculiar organization, prowess on the field of battle, loyalty to friends, as well as barbarous revenge upon enemies, together with eloquent speech and stoical endurance of torture, have surprised all who are conversant with their history. When, during the latter part of the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth centur\-, the foreign navigators visited the American con- tinent, they found it in possession of two formidable races of savages, between whom there was no unity ; and yet while open hostility was suppressed, they were nevertheless in a constant state of disquiet, each being jealous of the other and at the same time doubtful of its own strength and fearful of the results of a general war. One of the nations occupied the region of the larger rivers of Pennsylvania, and also that on the south and west To the Europeans they were known as the " Delaware?," but styled themselves " Lenni Lenapes," meaning " Original People." The other nation occupied, principall)-, the terri- tory which afterwards formed the State of New York, and is known in history as the " Iroquois Confederac)'," or the hive (and subsequentlj ) the Six Nations. 8 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. The confederacy originally comprised five nations, which were located from east to west across the territory which now forms our State, be- ginning with the Mohawks on the extreme east, the Oneidas next, and the Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas following in the order named. Each of the nations was divided into five tribes, and all were united in common league. The Senecas occupied the territory west of the lake named from them, and were the guardians of the western door of the "Long House," from which we correctly infer that they were the most numerous and likewise most formidable in battle of any of the con- federates. The government of this remarkable confederacy was exercised through councils, and in the peculiar blending of their individual, tribal and national interests lay the secret of the immense power which for more than a century resisted the hostile efforts of the French, which caused them for nearly a century to be alike courted and feared by the con- tending French and English colonies, and which enabled them to sub- due the neighboring Indian tribes, until they became really the dictators of the continent, gaining indeed the title of "The Romans of the New World." There is, however, a difference in the opinions of writers as to the true military status of the Iroquois. In the forest they were a terrible foe, while in the open country they could not successfully con- tend with disciplined soldiery ; but they made up for this deficiency, in a large degree, by their self-confidence, vindictiveness and insaitable desire for ascendency and triumph. While the Iroquois were undoubtedly superior in mental capacity and more provident than their Canadian enemies, and other tribes, there is little indication that they were inclined to improve the condition in which they were found by the Europeans. They, and especially the Senecas, were closely attached to their warrior and hunter life, and devoted their energies to the lower, if not the lowest forms of enjoyment and gratification. Their dwellings, even among the more stationary tribes, were rude, their food coarse and poor, and their domestic habits and surroundings unclean and barbarous. Their women were degraded into mere beasts of burden, and while they believed in a Supreme Being, they were powerfully swayed by superstition, by incantations, by medi- cine men, dreams and visions, and their feasts were exhibitions of debauchery and gluttony. ^ffra^i/y^^iJ^ THE JESUITS. 9 Such, according to the writer's sincere belief, were some of the more prominent characteristics of the race encountered by Champlain when he came into the Iroquois country nearly three centuries ago, and wel- comed them with the first volley of bullets, a policy that was pursued by all his civilized successors. It is not denied that the Indians possessed a few redeeming traits, but they were so strongly dominated by their barbarous manner of life, that years of faithful missionary labor by the Jesuits and others were productive of but very little real benefit. It may be added that whatever is true of any one of the Five Nations, or (as they became in 17 12) the Si.x Nations, is equally true of all others. The Senecas occupied the region of Western New York, and it is with them that we have particularly to deal in this narrative. They were, perhaps, as peaceful and domestic as some others of the confederacy, yet all the early efforts for their civilization and conversion to Christian- ity were unsatisfactory and discouraging. No strong, controlling influ- ence for good was ever obtained among them previous to the time of Sir William Johnson, and even then it is doubtful whether they were not moved more by the power of purchase than by love of right. When Champlain opened the way for French dominion in America the task of planting Christianity among the Indians was assigned to the Jesuits, a name derived from the Societ)- of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1539; but while their primary object was to spread the gospel, their secondary and scarcely less important purpose was to ex- tend the French dominion. In 1736 Canada was restored to F"rance, and within three years from that date there were fifteen Jesuits in the province. They increased rapidly and extended their influence to a large number of Indian nations in the far west, but more particularly to the Mohawks and Senecas, they being the more powerful tribes of the Iroquois, and holding positions of influence in the confederacy. Still, energetic as they were, the French carefully avoided for a longtime any close contact with the Senecas, and while the Jesuits came to the region about 1620, it was not until 1640 that Fathers Breboeuf and Chaumo- not succeeded in establishing a foothold among them. In 1667 Went- worth Greenhalgh, an Englishman, visited the Indians, counted their villages and inhabitants. He reported the Senecas as having one thousand warriors, and the confederacy [^about twenty- si.x hundred. 2 10 LANDMARKS 01 STEUBEN COUNTY. However, in 1669, under the influence of La Salle, the Seneca country was thoroughly explored, and in 1678 the same adventurous Frenchman was commissioned by Louis XIV to discover and occupy the western part of New France, to build forts and defenses, though at his own expense, being granted in return the right to trade in furs and skins. Under La Salle's authority, Father Hennepin, the famous priest and historian, visited the Seneca country, and from his record has come the greater portion of all that has been written by later authorities on the subject of Seneca history and tradition. For a period of nearly half a century after the discoveries of La Salle the French maintained a nominal though not substantial ascendency in this region of country. They gained favor with a few of the Senecas, but the great body of the tribe, true to their league, were little inclined to forget, much less to forgive, the wrongs done by Champlain, and every movement of the French was watched with suspicious interest During this period the Iroquois invaded Canada and plundered Montreal, and in retaliation Denonville visited vengeance upon the Seneca country in 1687, burned the villages and destroyed much property. This victory was a great achievement for the French, for it gave them a strong foo>- hold in the lake region and made them for the time masters of the country, and the Indians concentrated their population in the eastern part of their domain. This advantage, however, was only temporary, and upon the withdrawal of the French troops the Senecas repossessed their former territory. Repeated invasions by the French and Canadian Indians at last awakened the English colonists to the conviction that they must unite in an effort against the enemy, and accordingly a convention was held in New York in 1600, at which it was resolved to combine their strength for the subjugation of Canada; but through lack of efficient organiza- tion the expedition for the first year was a failure. During this period, known as the English revolution, the Iroquois continued their incur- sions against the French and were perhaps more dreaded than the Eng- lish. The Jesuits were driven from the Seneca country and for many years abandoned the field through fear of the thoroughly maddened Indians. The war was terminated bj' the treaty of Ryswick, in 1697, and while it established a peace between the French and English, it practically GROWTH OF FRENCH INFLUENCE. U left unsettled the status of the Iroquois, and there were no certain pro- visions concerning the land of the Seiiecas, which were directly in dis- pute between the contending nations. Both claimed sovereignty over the whole Iroquois country, and treaty indentures were offered in sup- port of the claims of each ; but the Iroquois themselves repudiated alike the claims of Yonondio and Corlear, as they denominated the respective governors of Canada and New York. When France disputed the claims of luiglatid and appealed to the council at Onondaga, a stern, savage orator exclaimed: "We have ceded our lands to no one; we hold them of heaven alone." Thus the powers wrangled over the country which was but a little time before the undisputed domain of the Iroquois. Whether much importance should attach to the treaties in which these untutored savages were pitted against the intelligent Europeans, either French or Englisii, is questionable, and especially so when we consider the methods often adopted in later years to induce the Indians to sign away their domain. Be this as it may, it is now generally be- lieved that in the intrusion of France upon the possessions of the Iro- quois, " at the sacrifice of so much blood and treasure, justice and the restraints and faith of the treaties were subordinate to the lust of power and expediency." (Watson.) On the accession of Anne to the British throne as successor to King William, in March, 1702, what was known as Queen Anne's War was soon begun. It continued until the treaty of Utrecht, April 11, 1713, but though felt in the colonies, the province of New York fortunately escaped its bloody consequences. During this conflict, the Iroquois maintained a strict neutrality, thus gaining the respect of the contend- ing governments. The French, however, profited by this neutrality, and were given an opportunity to strengthen their line of positions and fortifications. Moreover, being at peace with the Iroquois, their mis- sionaries and political leaders visited the Indians in safety, and the result was a friendly relation between them and the Senecas and a por- tion of the Cayugas. So firmly indeed did the wily F"rench emissaries ingratiate themselves into the Seneca confidence that the latter were nearly persuaded to take u[) arms against the English, and only the wonderful power of the bond of union existing in the confederacy re- strained them. 12 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Tlie encroachments by the French upon the territory of the Enghsh and their alHes (the Iroquois), was one of the chief causes of the so- called French and Indian War. As early as the year 173 i, the surveyor- general of the Canadas made extensive surveys of the region claimed to be New France, and on the early French maps were shown some of the important streams and localities now within the county of Steuben. The territory was divided into vast tracts, and granted as " seigniories'' to various proprietors, as rewards for service to the crown, or for other consideration. While the French were in possession of New France their influence over all the Indians within its limits became paramount, and they at last disputed with the English the alliance of the latter with the Iro- quois. WHether due to the influence of Joncaire, or to some other cause, is not fully known, but the French succeeded in lodging them- selves firmly in the affections of the Senecas, and while they were poor colonizers their missionaries possessed the peculiar faculty of ready assimilation with the savage and half-civilized races, thus gaining an influence over them. The efforts of Joncaire were materially aided by his half-breed sons. Chabert and Clauzonne. Among the earlier Jesuits and French emissaries among the Iroquois, some of whom visited the Seneca country, were Fathers Breboeuf, Chaumonot, who have been mentioned, and also Fathers Bablon, Isaac Jogues, Simon Le Moyne, Francis Joseph Bressani, Julien Garnier, Jacques Fremin, Jean Perron, Francis Boniface, Father Hennepin and Francis Vaillant de Gueslis. These were followed in later years by such noble and wholly unselfish workers as Talbot, Henry Barclay, John Oglivie, Spencer, Timothy Woodbridge, Gideon Hawley, Eleazer Wheelock, Samuel Kirkland, Bishop Hobart, Eleazer Williams, Dan Barnes (Methodist), and others of less distinction, all of whom labored faithfully for the conversion of the Indians. All, however, were forced to admit that their efforts as a whole were unsatisfactorj- and discourag- ing ; and even subsequent eftbrts to establish education and Christianity among the Indians, while yielding perhaps sufficient results to justify their prosecution, have constantly met with discouraging obstacles. In March, 1744, war was again declared between Great Britain and France, and the former power at once prosecuted measures for the conquest of the French possessions. The Mohawks took up arms with EXTINCTION OF FRENCH POWER. 13 the English, while the Senecas, notwithstanding their affection for the French, were uinviUing to mak-e war against their friends at tiie eastern extremity of the Long House. The contest from 1744 to 1748 had an important object in the pos- session of tile Mississippi Valie\-, which the English claimed as an ex- tension of their coast discoveries, and the French by right of occupancy, their forts already extending from Canada to Louisiana, and forming "a bow, of which tlie English colonies were the string." At this time the English colonies contained more than a million inhabitants, while the French had only about sixty thousand. The Iroquois would not engage in the war until 1746, and were disappointed at its termination, as they had compromised themselves with the allies of the French (the Canadian Indians), and therefore the question of Iroquois supremacy was renewed- and intensified. In April, 1748, was concluded the ineffective, if not actually shameful treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, and while it was a virtual renewal of the treaties of Ryswick and Utrecht, it left unsettled the disputed questions regarding the Iroquois territory. After two years of nominal peace the nations again had recourse to arms, and while the French were at first everywhere victorious, the tide of contest turned in favor of tlie I^nglish with Sir William Johnson's invasion of western New York, the result of which was the fall of Niagara and the evacuation of the entire region by the now humiliated French. The domination of France was ended by the fall of Quebec, Septem- ber 18, 1759, thus leaving the English masters of all Canada, for the surrender of Vaudreuil on the 8th of the next September was an inev- itable result. However, a formal peace was not established until 1763, when, on the lOth day of February, the treaty of Paris was signed, by which h'rance ceded to Great Britain all her possessions in America. Applied locally, this war had but little importance except as the ter- ritory of Steuben county formed a part of the French possessions. The chief seat of operations was farther west and north and any pilgrimages to this locality were merely incidental. Records and tradition both inform us that during the period of the French and English wars, there came to dwell in the vicinity of Canisteo a fragment of one of the tribes of the Delawares, and that to their num- ber were added several deserters from the British army and other 14 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. renegades from the eastern colonies. They were the source of much annoyance to the colonists and especially to the Indian traders, for they maintained themselves chiefly by a system of outlawry and plunder, and did not hestitate at committing murder in accomplishing their nefarious work. In 1762 these brigands were charged with the murder of two traders, British subjects, which offense, with other an- noyances, so aroused the colonists that Sir William Johnson dispatched a force of one hundred and forty of his faithful Iroquois, and a few sol- diers, to punish the offenders, destroy their habitations and drive them from the region. In this connection the statement may be made that the Delawares were permitted to come among the Iroquois after they had been con- quered and completely subjugated. The conquest of the Delawares was made between 1640 and 1655, and from the latter year the Iroquois were masters and recognized as the owners of all the territory formerly held and occupied by the Delawares and their ancestors, the Lenni Lenapes. CHAPTER III. Events Preceding the Revolution — Pontiac's League — Action of the Senecas — The RevoUitionary War — Sullivan's Campaign — Brief Reference to the Indian History and Antiquities of Steuben County. Notwithstanding the results of the war between the French and the English, and the disappearance of the former from the region, the west- ern Indians were still disposed to remember them with affection and were yet inclined to wage vvar upon the English. The celebrated Pontiac united nearly all these tribes in a league against the redcoats, immediately after the advent of the latter ; and as no such confederation had been formed against the French during their years of possession, the action of Pontiac must be attributed to some other cause than mere hatred of all civilized intruders. In May, 1763, the league surprised nine out of twelve English posts and massacred their garrisons, and there is no doubt that the Senecas were involved in the slaughter, and THE JOHNSONS. 15 were also active in the fruitless attack upon Fort Niagara. They were unwiih'ng to fight against their brothers of the Iroquois, but they had no hesitation in killing I^nglish soldiers when left unprotected, as was soon made manifest in the awful butchery at Devil's Hole in Septem- ber, 1763 Becoming at length convinced that the F"rench had really yielded tlicir possessions in this country, and that Pontiac's scheme was a failure, tiie Senecas agreed to aljandon their Gallic friends and be at peace with the English, and in April, 1764, Sir William Johnson had little difficulty in concluding a peace treaty with eight of the refractory chiefs; and at the same time Sir William succeeded in winning the affections of all the Six Nations and enlisting tliem under the banner of the king But the Senecas, true to their instincts, sullenly held aloof and only ratified the treaty under compulsion of threatened annihila- tion. However, the baronet proved the firm friend of the Senecas and did his utmost to redress their grievances, and besought them to remove their isolated villages to their chief seats in the province, that they might be more completely under his protection. Ere this could be done, however, public attention was attracted by unmistakable disturb- ances in the political sky, low at first, but growing rapidly louder and more angry until at length there burst upon the country that long and desolating storm known as the Revolutionary war. This contest had an important bearing on the early history and settlement of Steuben county, yet the events of that memorable period may be briefly nar- rated in this chapter The war in fact began with the battle of Lexington, in April, 1775, but before the actual outbreak, as the danger of hostilities increased, the Johnson influence showed itself clearly on the side of the king. Sir William loved America and was himself an important factor in its early and best history. Had he lived his interests and affiliations might have impelled him to espouse the American cause, but his sudden death ended an im[)ortant career, and his position and influence descended to his son and nephew. Sir John Johnson, and his brothers-in-law, Guy Johnson and Daniel Glaus, were creatures of the king, having no senti- ment in common with the people, being evidently imbued with aristo- cratic notions Sir John succeeded to his father's military title and position among the Iroquois, though never to his popularity and influ- 16 LANDMARKSS OF TEUBEN COUNTY. ence, and in his efforts was seconded by Colonel Guy and Claus, all of whom sought to completely alienate the Indians from the whig colon- ists, and also to bring into submission all of the settlers who might yield to their influence. Prominent among the latter were John and Walter Butler, and also Joseph Brant (the Mohawk chief), all of whom became infamous from their bloody deeds during the Revolution, and yet their pillage and slaugiiter were generally ascribed to the instigations of the Johnsons. The •' Continental Congress," as it has ever been termed, was held at Philadelphia in September, 1774, and having adopted a declaration of rights, it added a petition to the king and an appeal to the people of Great Britain and Canada. The New York Assembly alone did not sanction these proceedings, and instead addressed a remonstrance to parliament, which was treated with disdain. In 1776 the war had become national instead of colonial, and on the 4th of July American independence was formally declared. The policy of the Americans had been simply to secure the neutralit)- of the Indians, but their success was limited to the Oneidas, while the British made undisguised efforts to unite them in close alliance with the royal cause. One of their officers exclaimed, " We must let loose the savages upon the frontier of these scroundrels to inspire terror and make them submit." The Senecas held off for a while, but the prospect of both blood and British gold was too much for them to withstand, and in 1777 they, with the Cayugas, Onondagas and Mohawks, made a treaty witli tiie British at Oswego, agreeing to serve the king through the war. John Butler established himself at Fort Niagara and organized a regi- ment of tories Icnown as Butler's Rangers, at the same time inciting the Indians to deeds of violence on the American frontier. The most prominent chief of the Iroquois during the war was Brant, or Thayendenaga, a Mohawk, who had received a moderate ICnglish education under the patronage of Sir William Johnson. The conspicu- ous Seneca cliiefs during the same period were Farmer's Brother, Corn- planter and Governor Blacksnake. At the massacre at Wyoming the author of the " Life of Brant " says the chief in command of the Senecas was Guiengwahtoh, supposed to mean the same as Guiyahgwahdoh, " the smoke-bearer." This was the title of the Seneca afterward known as " Young King," but the latter was then too young to have been at SULLIVAN'S EXPEDITION. 17 Wyoming, yet his predecessor (maternal uncle) might have been there. Hrant was certainly not there. At Cherry Valley the Senecas were present in force, together with a body of Mohawks under Brant, and also a parties of tories under Walter Butler. These sudden and unexpected attacks upon the frontier settlements and the merciless slaughter of their inhabitants, determined Congress and General Washington to set on foot an expedition, having for its ob- ject a retaliation upon the Indians, and especially the Senecas. The campaign of August and September, 1779, devolved upon General John Sullivan, who at that time was an officer in the American army. The full force organized for the expedition amounted to 5,000 men, who were formed in three divisions. Sullivan commanded in person the division that marched through and laid waste the Indian villages in the Seneca region, and in the execution of his plans, sent a detachment of troops within the limits of the present county of Steuben and destroyed a small settlement supposed to have been located near the site of the present village of Painted Post. According to established authorities, other points within the county were visited, buildings burned and grow- ing crops and orchards destroyed. However, the invaders were determined to lay waste the larger and more populous Seneca villages, and soon passed on up Seneca Lake to Kanadesaga and thence westward into the heart of the Genesee country. No opposition was encountered except at Newtown, and as a result of the expedition forty villages were reduced to ashes, 160,000 bushels of corn destroyed, besides large quantities of vegetables of various kinds. Another and more beneficial result of the campaign was the temporary though entire evacuation by the Senecas of the eastern part of their domain, and they were compelled to seek protection from the British at Fort Niagara ; nor could they be persuaded to return to their former habitations during the remaining years of the war. The warriors, how- ever, were kept active by Butler and frequently marauded frontier settlements, though without the serious results of former years. The other events of the war had no important relation to this imme- diate vicinity, other than to acquaint the eastern people with the value and general fertility of the whole Genesee country, and this materially hastened settlement and dcvel(>i)ment in later years. The surrender of 3 18 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Lord Cornwallis in October, 1781, was followed by a virtual cessation of hostilities, but not until the fall of 1783 was peace formally agreed upon between Great Britain and the revolted colonies, the latter hence- forth to be universally acknowledged as the United States of America. By the terms of the treaty the boundary line between the British pos- sessions and the territorj' of the United States was established along the center of Lake Erie and the Niagara River, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence, and thence northeastward to the Atlantic coast. For several years afterward, however, the British maintained armed posts on the United States side of the line and their officers continued to exercise an influence over the Indians which was both prejudicial and annoying to the State and general government. Thus far in our narrative little has been said of the Indian occupants of the immediate territory now forming Steuben county. In truth this locality was an unimportant portion of a vast country, located between the possessions of the Delawares and the Iroquois, and prior to the con- quest of about 1650 was debatable ground. Mr. Minier, in his historical address, says the valley ofthe Cohocton, prior to the invasion of Sullivan, was little known, but informs us that the Moravian missionaries prose- cuted their labors in the vicinity as early as 1750; also that in the locality ofthe present village of Painted Post was the Indian village of Assinisink, where dwelt Jacobus, the Muncy chief, which fact confirms our previous statement that the Delawares were suffered to live in the valley after their subjugation. In the valley Zeisberger found the " pyramids of stone which appeared to have been made with human hands," the largest of which was about " three stories " in height. These pyramids were at what is known as the Chimney Narrows, and are still preserved. The county possesses few antiquities and has never been specially rich in aboriginal history. The valleys ofthe Chemung, Tioga, Conhoc- ton and Canisteo Rivers, and also the vicinity of Lake Keuka, were favorite resorts of the Indians for fishing and hunting, and along the banks of each, and elsewhere in the region, were well defined Indian trails. In a preceding paragraph we have noted the destruction of one ofthe villages ofthe region by Sir William Johnson's Mohawk warriors, and reference has also been made to Sullivan's campaign in 1779, the THE "PAINTED POST." 19 result of which was the devastation of all that was valuable to the Indian occupants at that time. In this connection mention may also be made to the historic landmark which has been preserved in name and fact to the present day, the famous post from which the village of Painted Post received its name. The " post by the river" was in tlie Indian tongue called Te-can-nes-to, and concerning it Stone says: "The Painted Post was a noted landmark in the early settlement of Western New York, and in the history of Indian affairs long before. It was literally a post of oak timber planted in the ground upon the bank of Cohocton Creek, within the boundary of New York, but near the Pennsylvania line. It was painted in the Indian manner, and tradition avers that it was a monument of great antiquity, erected to commemorate the death of some celebrated war chief whose name has been lost in the lapse of years." A second ac- count has it that the post was erected by the Indians to designate a spot where councils were held, and was painted a bright retl that it might be more easily discovered. This account, however, is regarded as purely mjthical, as no councils of any importance were known to be held in this locality. The investigations of Judge McMaster undoubtedly brought to light the true story of this historic landmark, but according to his narrative, the post was erected to mark the burial place of Captain Montour, the son of Queen Catiiarine, who was wounded during the summer of 1779, and who died at this point while his party were returning from an ex- pedition to the settlements on the Susquehanna. The original post was standing in 1792, though much decayed. The white settlers erected a new post in 1803, and at various times during later years the people of the town have done some act of public spiritedness in pre- serving this interesting relic and its memories. In the vicinity of Avoca the early settlers found abundant evidences of the former occupation, among them fragments of weapons, utensils, implements and other indications of the Indian period. It is also claimed that a village was within the limits of the town, which is undeniably true although it must have been small and of little importance. Wiien this town was first settled by the whites the Indians were quite numerous, and the same may also be said of many other localities in the county ; but wherever found they were of little or no benefit to the 20 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. pioneers and are remembered as a generally shiftless, begging and an- noying class. The town of Canisteo abounds in Indian recollections, and the reminiscences of the Stephens family are well known by nearly all the older residents. The valley of the Canisteo was a resorting place of some note among the Indians as fish and game are said to have been abundant in the locality. The vicinity of Hornellsviile also has its In- dian traditions and reminiscences though they were unimportant in his- tory. Here dwelt the noted chief Shongo, who took part in the massacre at Wyoming, and who was regarded with some fear about the time of the second war with Great Britain. In Greenwood was a salt spring of great value to the early settlers, while the Indians made use of its water many years before, and even after the advent of the whites. In the Indian language the Conhocton River was known as Ga-ha-to, meaning "log in the water." The valley of this stream was called " Do-na-ta-gwen-da," and meaning " an opening within an opening." Lake Keuka in the Seneca, was " Ogoyago," " a lake with an elbow." CHAPTER IV. After the Revolution — An Era of Peace— Controversy between Massachusetts and New York — The Hartford Convention — The Phelps and Gorham Purchase — The Lessee Companies— Settlement of Difficulties— The Surveys — Sale to Robert Morris The Pulteney Association — Charles Williamson — Foundation of Land Titles in Steuben County— The Anti-Rent Conflict. The close of the Revolutionary war and the return of peace marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the vast Genesee country, for the Indian occupation soon afterward terminated, and the pioneers from New England, Pennsylvania, with many others from the eastern part of this State, and a few foreigners, became the possessors of the territory. They were a hardy and patriotic class, and under their energetic efforts lands were cleared and the forests gave place to farms of rare fertility, thus developing the agricultural resources at least to the extent which supplied domestic requirements. However, soon after the war was ended it was found that the treaty agreement had made no provision for the Indian allies of Great Britain. CLAIMS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW YORK. 21 The English authorities offered them lands in Canada, but all the tribes except the Mohawks preferred to remain in New York. The United States treated them with great moderation. Although they had twice violated their pledges and without provocation had plunged into a war against the colonies, they were readily admitted to the benefits of peace, and were even recognized as the owners of all the lands in New York over which they had previously ranged. The property line, as it was called, previously drawn between the whites and the Indians, ran along the eastern boraer of Broome and Chenango counties, and thence to a point seven miles west of Rome. In October, 1784, after two other ineffectual attempts, a treaty was made at Fort Stanwi.x (Rome) between three commissioners of the United States and the sachems of the Six Nations. The Marquis de La Fayette was present and made an address, though not one of the commissioners. Red Jacket, the noted Seneca, was present, but did not really take part in the council. Brant was not present, though he had been active in a council with Governor Clinton a short time before. Cornplanter spoke for the Senecas, but Sayengeraghta or " 04d King" was the recognized Seneca sachem. This treaty fixed the western boundary of the Iroquois territory, beginning at Lake Ontario, four miles east of the Niagara River, and running thence southerly across the lands of the State to the Pennsylvania line. The several councils held with the Indians resulted in the purchase of vast tr;icts of their land, but in each case the authorities made them just compensation In this manner matters progressed favorably for a time, but rather unexpectedly there arose a controversy involving questions of title and right to purchase from the Indians, all of which was due to the imper- fect understanding on the part of the crown regarding the situation or extent of the territory of America. The colonies of Massachusetts and New York had charters under which each could claim not onl\' all cen- tral and western New York, but also a strip of land running from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The charter to the Pljmouth colony of Massachusetts was made in 1627, while that to the Duke of York was made in 1664, and after the overthrow of the English dominion in the United States and the organization of the States themselves, the au- thorities of each naturally began an inquiry into the extent of their possessions, that definite and permanent boundaries might be estab- 22 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. lished. The conflicting character of these grants was known even before the Revohition, but not until after the formation of the States did the matters in dispute become at all complicated. However, that a settlement might be reached both States ceded to the United States all .claim to the territory west of a line drawn south from tlie western ex- tremity of Lake Ontario, being the present western boundary of Chau- tauqua county. After divers negotiations regarding the remaining part of the dis- puted territory, commissioners from the two States interested, and from the general government, met at Hartford in December, 1786, to en- deavor to harmonize their claims. It was then and there agreed that Massachusetts should yield all claim to the land east of the present east line of Ontario and Steuben counties, while west of that line New York should have the political jurisdiction and sovereignty, while Massachu- setts should have the title, or fee simple, of the land, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. That is to say, the Indians could hold the lands as long as they pleased, but were only allowed to sell to the State of Massachusetts or her assigns. This title, thus encumbered, was called the pre-emption right, literally, the right of first purchase. While, these events were taking place a combination (a "ring," it would now be called, or perhaps "a syndicate") was formed by capitalists in New York and Canada, to obtain control of the Indian lands in this State. Two companies were organized, the one known as the New York and Genesee Land Company, of which John Livingston was the manager, and the other the Niagara Genesee Land Company, composed largely of Canadians, with Col. John Butler at the head, and associated with him were Samuel Street, Captain Powell, William John- son and Benjamin Barton. As the State forbade the sale of Indian lands to individuals, these companies, working together, sought to evade the law by a lease, and so great was the influence of Butler and his associates that in 1787, the Six Nations, or some chiefs and sachems claiming to act for them, gave the New York and Genesee Company a lease of all their lands, except some small reservations, for a term of nine hundred and ninety nine years. The consideration was to be $20,000, and an annual rental of $2,000. At the next session of the Legislature the lessees applied for PHELPS AND GORHAM PURCHASE. 23 a confirmation of their lease, but tlie intent to evade the law was too plain ; the petition was promptly rejected and the lease declared void. The lease having been annulled, the promoters of the scheme next proposed to procure a conveyance by the Indians of all their lands in the State, provided the latter would reimburse Livingston and his asso- ciates for all their expenses, and to convey to them half the land ; which specimen of efifrontery can seldom be surpassed in these pro- gressive days, considering that Livingston, Hutler and company would have secured several million acres of the finest lands in America as a free gift. However, this proposition was also rejected. In 1788 Massachusetts sold all her land in New York, about six and one-half million acres, to Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham, acting on behalf of themselves and others, for $1,000,000, to be paid in three equal annual payments, the purchasers having the privilege of paying in Massachusetts currency, then worth about twenty cents on the dol- lar. The purchase was of course subject to the Indian right of occu- pancy. Oliver Phelps, the active manager of the " Phelps and Gorham Pur- chase " enterprise, made an arrangement with Livingston, who agreed, doubtless for consideration, to assist in negotiating a treaty with the Indians. But meanwhile there arose a disagreement between Living- ston's and Butler's companies, and when Phelps reached Geneva, or Kanadesaga, where the council was to have been held, he learned that Butler and his associates had assembled the Indians at Buffalo Creek, and had persuaded them not to meet with either Livingston or Phelps; and learning that Butler had greater influence with the savages than Livingston or himself, Phelps proceeded to Niagara, came to a satis- factory arrangement with them, and then procured a council at Bufifalo Creek. Although in no manner pertinent to this narrative, the statement may be made incidentally that this council was in many respects a notable assemblage, and a meeting in which that shrewd Yankee, Oliver Phelps, found himself pitted against not only a number of the most cunning land sharpers of the whole country, but as well against the most crafty representatives of the Indian race. Among the notables present, whose names can be recalled, were Joseph Brant, the Mohawk chief, famed both for his cunning and inhuman ferocity; John Butler, the once active 24 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. man o{ the lesser land company, and formerly colonel of Butler's Rang- ers ; Rev. Samuel Kirkland, the agent of Massachusetts, a man of noble character and varied experience. At this meeting he also acted as one of the interpreters. William Johnston was another of the inter- preters present. Oliver Phelps was a Connecticut Yankee by birth, a son of the Bay State by adoption, and a New Yorker by subsequent residence. He was an active participant in the Revolution, and was now, as the agent of an association of Massachusetts speculators, negotiating for the pur- chase of a principality. He was a shrewd, persistent, enterprising, politic, typical business man of the day, and to the time of his death was regarded with profound respect by the residents of the Phelps and Gor- ham Purchase. In his representative capacity, and associated with Na- thaniel Gorham, Mr. Phelps once owned all the territory now compris- ing Steuben county, and the titles established by him have been the foundation for all subsequent real estate transactions in the shire. Still, Steuben county was but a small part of the vast purchase negotiated by this remarkable proprietary. Among the Indian owners of the land were present Honayewus, the Seneca chief, who had then lately received the name of " Farmer's Brother." There, too, was also Sagoyewatha, "The Keeper Awake" (a tribute to his oratorical powers), the far-famed Red Jacket. Another was Capt. John O'Bail, or Abeel, more widely known as Cornplanter, half white by blood, yet thoroughly Indian by nature. Sayengeraghta, "Old King," or "Old Smoke," was also present but not active in the council. As is well known, the eastern boundary of the purchase began at the eighty-second milestone on the Pennsylvania line, thence ran due north to Lake Ontario. The west line ran from the lake up the Genesee to the mouth of the Canaseraga, thence due south to the Penns)'lvania line. This was the " Phelps and Gorham Purchase," and included about 2,600,000 acres. The price was left by the complaisant aborigines to Colonel Butler, Joseph Brant and Elisha Lee (the latter Mr. Kirkland's assistant), and was fixed at $5,000 in hand, and $500 annually, forever. This was about equal to $12,000 in cash, or half a cent an acre. Within two weeks after the council Colonel Butler called on Mr. Phelps by letter for a conveyance of 20,000 acres of land, in accordance with a fii^ /2)* Q^ji^^'^yyf-^ PHELPS AND GORHAMS SURVEY. 25 previous arrangement, to be deeded to persons desi<^nated by Rutler; from which it is fair to infer that as the colonel had been one of the com- missioners to fix the price of the main purchase, this transfer looks as if some of the Indian operations of that era would not bear more close investigation than those of later years. While Oliver Phelps was busily employed in his negotiations with the Indians, and in compromising with the annoying claimants in tiie lessee companies, Mr. Gorham was engaged in preparing for the sur- vey of the east and west boundary lines of the purchase as preliminary to the survey of the general tract. I-'or this work the services of Col. Hugh Maxwell, an engineer of good repute, were engaged, and the work was done during the year 1788; not, however, by Colonel Max- well, or even under his immediate direction, for he was taken ill about the time the work was begun, and the line was in fact run by his assist- ants and subordinates. The survey into townships was also begun in 1788, and completed in 1789, and was made from the eastern boundary. So far as the character of the surface would permit, the townships were supposed to contain the contents of six miles square. Running from south to north, and six miles apart, were first surveyed the range lines, and throughout each of these, at the end of every six miles, monuments were placed, and by running lines at right angles with the range lines, at the designated points, there would be included six miles square, (thirty-six square miles) or a township. The statement may be made in this connection that the survey into townships in the southeast part of the Phelps and Gorham purchase was made by Augustus Porter, F"rederick Saxton and their assistants. In explanation of the sjstcm of surveys adopted for the Phelps and Gor- ham purchase, which, by the way, was afterward employed generally in the Western States and Territories, it may be stated that the present town of Caton comprises, substantially, township i, range i ; Lindley, township I, range 2; Tuscarora, township i, range 3 The town of Corning comprises township 2, range 1 ; Erwin, township 2, range 2. In 1789 the Phelps and Gorham proprietary found themselves in a financially embarrassed condition. The Massachusetts currency, which, at the time the purchase was made was worth only about twenty cents on the dollar, had, through the organization of the affairs of the State and the assistance afforded by tiie general government, advanced in 26 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. value to nearly par, and the proprietors themselves had made enormous outlays and expenditures in surveying and developing their lands. In addition was the unlooked for expense of the contingent of persons who claimed to have assisted in bringing about a peaceful settlement of difiR- culties, and who were persistent in their demands for money and lands. The result was that the proprietors were unable to meet their obliga- tions, although at this time they had disposed of nearly one- half of their vast estate. Many of the townships, however, had been conveyed to stockholders in the association in exchange for their interests in the company. In this emergency Phelps and Gorham petitioned the Massachusetts Legislature, asking that they be released from [payment of the entire principal sum, and e.xpressed a willingness to pay lor that part of the land to which the Indian title had been extinguished, and surrender the tract west of the Genesee and the mill seat tract. This proposition was acceded to. Again, in the early part of 1790 our proprietors effected a sale to Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution and a man of large means and influence, of all the unsold portion of their purchase within the lines we have previously described. At this time Phelps and Gorham had disposed of about fifty townships, among those in what is now this county being Campbell, Canisteo, Corning, Erwin. Hornells- ville and Lindley. The lands transferred to Mr. Morris embraced about one million two hundred and sixty-four thousand acres, for which he paid ^30,000, New York money. After becoming fully possessed Mr. Morris proceeded to investigate the character and condition of his purchase, and soon discovered that a fraud had been practiced in running the eastern boundary line. For the purpose of accurate information, he engaged Adam Hoopes to ex- plore the country, and particularly to re survey the east boundary and determine ■ upon the accuracy of the disputed line. However, before this could be done, Mr. Morris's agent in England negotiated a sale of the tract to a company of English capitalists, comprised of Sir William Pulteney, John Hornby, and Patrick Colquhoun. Charles Williamson acted in the capacity of agent for the purchasers and received the deeds in his own name, which the actual vendees, being aliens, could not hold. (This prohibition, however, was soon afterward removed.) The deed to Williamson was executed April 11, 1792, and in March, 1801, CHARLES WILLIAMSON. 27 the then unsold lands were conveyed to the Pulteney Association. The titles to land in this coiinr)', other than in tiie towns specially mentioned in the preceding parayiraph, have generally descended from the Pulte ney Association, Pulteney estate, the Pulteney heirs or the Hornby estate, as variously termed. Under the new proprietorship the eastern boundary line was resur- veyed, though at the e.xpense of Mr. Morris. A material deflection from the correct course was discovered, more serious north than in this county, which, as is well known, is bounded b\' the line on the east. In the association the Pulteney interest was nine-twelfths of the whole, the Hornby two twelfths, and the Colquhoun one twelfth. Captain Williamson was a Scotchman by birth, and in 1792 became a citizen of the United State<. He had served in the British army and during the war then recently ended had gained a fair knowledge of America and the natural resources of the country. In connection with the trust reposed in him by the English capitalists, Captain Williamson came to the United States in December, 1791, remaining for some time in Pennsylvania, and locating for his business operations at Bath in the early part of 1793. We have no place in this chapter for the thousand and one enterprises set on foot and carried to a successful completion by Captain Williamson, but it may be said in this connection that the early settlement and development of what is now Steuben county was largely due to his efforts To be sure he had at his command almost unlimited resources and means, and he made generous use of both. In fact his principals soon complained of the seemingly prodigal expendi- tures made by their agent and were disposed to call him to account, but whatever was done in the way of improvement was of great benefit to the inhabitants of the region in general, and of the townships owned by the association in particular. The town and village of Bath owed all their earl)- prosperity to the generosity of Captain Williamson. Howe\er, this subject will be further mentioned in connection with our allusion to the several towns of the county, hence may be only casually treated in this chapter. An interesting and quite important element of local history was the outgrowth of the Pulteney and Hornby titles, although the period of its occurrence was more recent than that referred to in the preceding narra- tive. We refer to the event which has ever been known as the "Anti- 28 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. rent Conflict," which was occasioned by the inability of the settlers to pay for their lands under the contracts of purchase made with the agents of the proprietors. And we may also add that the sentiment prevailing at the time was not confined wholly to Steuben and Allegany counties, but e.xisted in the region known as the Holland Purchase, and also in other localities in the eastern part of the State. The causes which led to this unfortunate situation were numerous, and chief among them was the construction of the Erie Canal, thus affording to the settlers north of us superior facilities for the transporta- tion of agricultural products to market in which the inhabitants of this region could reap no benefit. The lands here were generally poorer in quality than those to the northward, and were cleared and fitted for cultivation only after much labor and expense. The price of all pro- ducts of the soil was much depreciated and the \ ield not abundant. The proprietary contributed to the distress of the struggling purchasers by the practice of adding to the principal sum to be paid all arrearages of interest and charging interest on the whole. In fact the inhabitants became discontented with their condition, and the sentiment became rampant throughout the region ; and being utterly disheartened, showed little disposition to effectually relieve themselves, but rather were given to the habit of commiserating one with the other until the situation be- came really serious. In their distress thej- assembled a convention, to meet at the court-house in Bath on the 19th of January, 1830, " to take into consideration the condition of the settlers on the Pulteney and Hornby estates " in the counties of Steuben and Allegany. In the convention were delegates from many of the towns of this county, as follows : Addison. — William Wombough, Lemuel B. Searls, David Shumway, Eber Scofield and Daniel Burdick. Alfred. — Edward Green, Daniel Babcock, Spencer Sweet, Richard Hall and Clark Crandall. Bath. — William Woods, James Warden, John Corbitt, Peter Hunter, Melvin Schenck, Caleb P. Fulton and Elisha Hawks. Cameron. — Jacob Thayer, Joseph Loughry, Isaac Santee, Sheldon Porter and Hiram Averill. Coliocton. — Paul C. Cook, David Weed, Elnathan Wing, Peter Haight and Alfred Shattuck. THE ANTI-RENT CONVENTION. 29 Canisteo — Henry D. Millard, William Stephens, Jeremiah J^aker, George Santee and Moses Hallett. Dansville. — Thomas M Bourn, Peter Covert, Annis Newcomb, Leeds Allen and Martin Smith. Erwin. — John E. Evans, Samuel Ervvin and John Cooper, jr. Greenwood. — Levi Da\is, Thomas Johnson, Anson Cook, VVilliani J. Strong and Randall Pease. Hornby. — Isaac Goodsell. Samuel Oldfield, Josiah Wheat, Francis Northway and Levi Nasii. Horttellsville. — Oliver Coon, Othniel Call, Oliver Pettibone, Jabez Lamphere and John J Sharp. Howard. — Daniel U. Bennett, Byram L. Harlow, William Goff, John D. Collier and Jacob G Winne. Jasper. — William Hunter, Benjamin Heliker, Ira Smith, Uzal M. Mynderse and Hincklej' Spencer. Pai'ited Post. — Robert H. Hoyt, Joseph Gillett, Charles Wolcott, jr., William Webster and Henry D. Smith. Prattsburg. — Stephen Prentiss, Gameliel Loomis, Josiah Allis, Ira C. Clark and Joseph Potter. Pulteney. — David Hobart, William Sagar, Barnet Retan, Daniel I^en- nett and Seth Weed. Troupsburg. — Samuel Cady, Samuel Griggs, Joshua Slater, Jesse Wilden and Nathan S. Ha)'es. Urbatia. — Henry A. Townsend, John Sanford, jr., John Powers, Elias Ketchum and Dyer Cranmer. Wheeler. — Jonathan Barney, Nathan Rose 2d, Abram J. Quacken- bush, David Barney and John C. Overhiser. Waytie. — Latham F"itch, John H. Sherwood and Thornton F. Curry. Woodhull. — Caleb Smith, Samuel Stroud, Asher Johnson, Jeffrey Smith and Martin Harder. Representatives were also present from several towns in adjoining counties, and in many respects the assemblage was one of the largest and most noteworthy of any held in the count)' during its early history. The court-house was not large enough to hold the delegates and inter- ested spectators, hence the meeting was held in the Presbyterian cluircli. An organization was effected by the selection of Henry A. Townsend, chairman, and Edward Howell and George C. Edwards, secretaries. 30 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTT. After mucli deliberation and discussion and the adoption of a series of resolutions setting forth the unhappy condition of affairs, the convention caused to be sent to Col. Robert Troup, agent of the Pulteney estate, and to John Greig, agent of the Hornby estate, a memorial or petition asking that the proprietary take some action for their immediate and effectual relief The memorial was dated January 20, 1S30, and on the 14th of March following Colonel Troup replied at length and suggested a plan of re- lief ; and while the latter tended to lessen the burdens of the settlers, it did not in fact satisfy their desires. Further meetings vvere held, some of them general and others local, and the ultimate result was generally beneficial to the suffering inhabitants, although the hoped for blessing was so long delaj'ed by the detail of proceedings and formalities as to have lost much of its savor. The settlers succeeded in obtaining a moderate reduction in the price of tiieir lands, and the product of their farms was accepted as payment of principal or interest at fair cash values. Still, there has ever been expressed a doubt as to the propriety of the proceeding or whether any substantial and lasting benefit was derived therefrom. CHAPTER V. Division of Montgomery County — Creation of Ontario and Steuben Counties — Brief Allusion to Baron Steuben — His Life and Ser\-ices — The Original Territory of Steuben County divided into Towns— First County Officers— County Buildings— Second Jury District — Steuben County Civil List. On the 27th day of January, 1789, the Legislature passed an act dividing the mother county Montgomery, and out of its territory the region of coimtry in this State west of Seneca Lake was erected into a separate county by the name of Ontario. This vast tract of rich and fertile land became known to the American colonists during the closing years of the French war, and the constant passage of troops along the frontiers during the Revolution likewise afforded an excellent opportu- nity for the observing New Englander to determine upon the general desirability of the whole region as a place of permanent residence and ERECTION OF STEUBEN COUNTY. 31 profitable agricultural employment. Indeed, so well known was the character of the Genesee country, that within two years from the time Phelps and Gorham concluded their historic purchase, we find the hardy pioneer clearing the forests, developing the lands, and paving the way for future prosperity. So rapidly were the towns taken and settled, that the proper management of affairs made necessary the creation of a new county west of the lake, and the act mentioned was the result. After the lapse of seven short years the same necessity led to the erection of another county, and, therefore, through the energetic efforts of Charles Williamson, agent of the Pulteney association and others, Steuben count)- was formed from Ontario, the act therefor being passed and approved on the 8th day of March, 1796. At the census taken in 1790 the districts comprising the new jurisdiction contained only two hundred inhabitants; in 1795 about one thousand, and in 1 800 a total of two thousand. Within its present boundaries Steuben county con- tains about one thousand three hundred square miles of land, and is among the largest civil divisions of the State. The county was named in honor of F"rederick William Augustus, Baron Steuben, who with several other titled and honored foreigners gave substantial aid to the American cause during the first war with Great Britain. The life and services of this distinguished and patriotic " Knight of the Order of Fidelity " are worthily recorded in the pa<;es of history and need no reproduction here, yet, as a brief tribute to his memory, we may state that Baron Steuben, previous to his departure for America, was aid de camp to Frederick the Great, Kins; of Prussia. Under Congress and General Washington he was major-general and inspector- general in the American army, serving during the Revolu- tionary war. " Fsteemed, rtspected and supported by Washington, he gave military skill and discipline to the citizen soldiers, who (fulfilling the decrees of Heaven) achieved the independence of the United States." Baron Steuben was born in one of the German provinces about the year 1730. He came to the United States on the 1st of December, 1777, where he ever afterward lived. He died on the 25th of Novem- ber, 1795. Steuben county, as originally constituted, was materially larger in area than at the present time, having surrendered portions of its territory 32 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. to other jurisdictions, which we may briefly note. On March 1 1, 1808, the seventh range of townships was set off to Allegany county, which was created April 7, 1806. The part in the fork of Lake Keuka was annexed to Ontario county, February 25, 1814. A part of Dansville was attached to Livingston county, February 15, 1822, and a part of Reading to Yates county in 1824. Another part of Reading was set off to Schuyler county on the creation of the latter, April 17, 1854. When Steuben was erected its territory was divided into six towns or provi- sional districts, and known respectively as Bath, Canisteo, Dansville, Frederickstown, Middletown and Painted Post. Of these original divi- sions the names of only two are now preserved as towns of the county. Bath originally comprised the entire northern portion of the county, including the towns now known as Bath, Urbana, Wheeler, Prattsburg, Pulteney, Avoca, Howard, and a portion of Cohocton Dansville com- prised all that is now Dansville. F"remont, Wayland, and part of Howard and Cohocton. Frederickstown included Wayne and Bradford in this county, and also Harrington and Starkey in Yates county, and Tyrone, Reading and Orange in Schuyler county. Middletown comprised all that is now Addison, Rathbone, Thurston, Tuscarora, Woodhull, and parts of Troupsburg and Jasper. Canisteo comprised the present town so named, also Greenwood, West Union, Huntsville, Hornellsville, and parts of Jasper and Troupsburg. After the erection of the county a complete organization was effected with little difficulty. The first officers were William Kersey, first judge ; Abraham Bradley and Eleazur Lindley, associate judges ; George D. Cooper, county clerk ; William Dunn, sheriff; Stephen Ross, surrogate. In accordance with the determination of the most influential element of the county, the village of Bath was designated as the seat of justice, and the agents of the proprietary made generous provision for the county buildings and other public purposes. The first court-house was completed and occupied for court purposes on the 1st of June, 1796. The building was of frame, one and one- half stories high, with two wings, and served the necessities of the county until 182S, then being superseded by a more substantial brick structure, the latter, however, being destroyed by fire in October, 1859. Following the disaster, in i860, the present attractive court-house was erected. In 1796, also, the fir.st county jail, a log building, was erected PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND INSTITUTIONS. 33 and stood in the rear of the subsequent stone jiiil, the latter standing at the northwest corner of the square. The next jail was built in 1845, and, in turn, was replaced with the present brick building, erected in 1882, at a total cost of nearly $30,000. The new clerk's office was built in 1872, at a cost of about $1 1,000, and the surrogate's office in 1886, at an expense of $8,707.77. As the county increased in population and commercial importance, the convenience of the inhabitants demanded a division into jurj' dis- tricts for court purposes. Consequently, on the 19th of July, 1853, an act was passed making the desired division, and designating the now city of Corning as the seat of justice of the second jury district of the county. From that time courts have been held alternately at Bath and Corning. However, during the legislative session of 1888-89 ''" at- tempt was made to secure the passage of an act establishing a western jury district in the county, the proposed seat to be at Hornellsville, and although the act was passed by both houses of the Legislature the bill failed to become a law through lack of the executive approval. The court-house at Corning, a substantial and attractive brick building, was built during the years 1853 and '54, and cost $14,000. Having referred to the general buildings and properties, in this con- nection we may also properly make some brief allusion to another im- portant institution of the county, that in which are kept and supported the unfortunate poor. At the annual session of the Board of Super- visors held in November, 1833, it was "Resolved, that a poor-house shall be established in the county of Steuben for the reception of the poor of said county, and that all distinction between the county poor and town poor be abolished, etc.;" also " that Messrs. Knox, Reynolds and Towsley be a committee to ascertain where a farm can be had for the use of the poor, etc." In December following the supervisors directed the superintendents of the poor to purchase the farm offered by Ephraim Barney, and also appropriated tlie sum of $4,000 for the purpose of paying for the farm and the erection of a poor-house build- ing. The county farm is located in the town of Bath, about two miles north of the village. From the humble beginning noted above the present excellent institution for the care of the county poor has grown. The property consists of a large and well tilled farm, while the build- 34 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY ings, of brick, stone and frame, are ample and comfortable. This de- partment of the county government receives the same careful attention as do all others. Now, having referred to the various properties and interests of Steu- ben county, it is proper that a record be made of the names of persons who have been identified with the county in its civil and political his- tory. In other words, it is fitting that we publish a complete list of officers who have represented this county in Federal, State or local government ; Presidential Electors — John Lloyd, 1828; Grattan H. Wheeler, 1840; John D. Higgins, 1844; Ferral C. Dininny, 1852; JamesAlley, 1864; Horace Bemis, 1868; John McDougall, 1876; Amory Hough- ton, jr., 1880; Anthony L. Underbill, 1884; James B. Day, 1892. Representatives in Congress. — Daniel Cruger, 18 17-19; William Woods, 1823-25; John Magee. 1827-29, and 1829-31; Grat'an H. Wheeler, 1831-33; Edward Howell, 1833-35; John T. Andrews, 1837-39; Williams Hubbell, 1843-45; David Rumsey, jr , 1847-49, and 1849-51; Robert V. Van Valkenburgh, 1861-63, and 1863-65; C. C. B.Walker, 1873-75; John N. Hungerford, 1S75-77; David P. Richardson, 1878-80, and 1880-82; John Arnot, 1882-84; Ira Daven- port, 1884-86, and 1886-88; John Raines, 1888-1890, and 1800-92; Charles W. Gillett, 1892-96. Lieutenant-Governor — Robert Campbell, of Bath, elected November 2, 1858. Mr. Campbell was also regent of the university, appointed February 2, 1846, vice John A. Dix, resigned. Canal Commissioner. — Stephen T. Hayt, of Corning, elected No- vember 6, 1866. Canal Appraiser. — Henry H. Hull, of Bath, appointed April 5, 1855. Superintendent of Banks. — Daniel C. Howell, of Bath, appointed February 3, 1870. State Senators — Vincent Matthews, 1798-1804; Henry A. Towns- end, 1811-15; Grattan H. Wheeler, 1829-32; George Huntington, 1836-40; William M. Hawley, 1848-49; William J. Gilbert, 1851; Andrew B. Dickinson, 1854-55 ; John K. Hale, 1856-57; Samuel H. Hammond, i860 61 ; Stephen T. Hayt, 1 864-66 ;G.T. Harrower, 1872- Tl ; George B. Bradley, 1874-76, and 1876-78 ; Ira Davenport, 1878- 80; Charles E. Walker. 1892-93. CIVIL LIST. 35 Members of Assembly — Charles Williamson, 1798-1800; James Faulkner, 1804; John Wilson, 1805-07; George Hornell, 1808; Henry A. Townsend, 1809; John Knox, 1810-11; Jacob Teeple, 1812-13; Daniel Criiger, 1814-16; William B. Rochester, 1817-18; John Dow, 1819-21 ; Grattan H. Wheeler, 1822; George McClure and William Wooils. 1823 ; George McClurc and Grattan H. Wheeler, 1824; John Kennedy and Janus McBurney, 1825 ; D. Cruger and G. 11. Whecltr, 1826; Paul C. Cook and George iMcClure, 1827; Dugaltl Cameron and William Woods, 1828; Randall Graves and Henry Phocni.v, 1829; Andrew H. Dickinson and Josiah Dunlap, 1S30; Paul C. Cook and Josiah Dunlap, 1831; Edward Howell and John McBurney, 1832; William Hunter and William Kernan, 1833 ; Joshua llealey and Will- iam Kernan, 1834; Jeremiah Baker and Joshua Healey, 1835 ; Lemuel B. Searles and Henry Switzer, 1836; Henry G. Cotton, John I. Pop- pins and Benjamin Smead, 1837 ; Samuel Griggs, David Hall and Mannini^ Kelly, 1838; Andrew G. Chatfield, Abram M. Lybolt and Johnson N Reynolds, 1839; Richard Brower, Andrew G. Chatfield and Abram M. Lybolt, 1840; A. G. Chatfield, William S Hubbell and Samuel A. Johnson, 1841 ; Aaron W. Beach, P'rancis E. Erwin and Ziba A Leland, 1842 ; Morris Brown, Francis E. Erwin and Ziba A. A. Leland, 1843; John Jamison, Asa McConnell and JelTrey Smith, 1844; William C. Rogers, Ansel C. Smith and Jacob Van Valken- burgh. 1845 ; A. G. Chatfield, Otto F. Marshall and William C. Rogers, 1846; Hiram Chapman, William Diven and William Hunter, 1847; Abel Kendall, John G Mercereau and Alex. H. Stephens, 1848; Abram J. Quackenboss, John G. Mercereau and John K. Hale, 1849; Edwin F. Church, Ferral C. Dininny and James Alley, 1850; Charles G. Higb>-, James M. Miles and Joel Carrington, 1851 ; R. B. Van Valkenburgh, l^enajah P. Bailey and Nathaniel M. Perry, 1852 ; Dryden Henderson, John McBurne}- and Henr)' H. Bouton, 1853; John F. Williams, B P. Bailey and Obediah Stephens, 1854; Seth B. Cole, Sylvester Smith and Peter C. Ward, 1855; Goldsmith Denniston, Albert C. Morgan and Harlo Hakes, 1856; R. B. Van Valkenburgh, George T. Spencer and Solon O. Thacher, 1857; R. B. Van Valken- burgh, Washington Barnes and William B. Jones, 1858 ; Abel Flveland, Wickh.im R. Crocker and John T. Plato, 1859; David B. Bryan, Henry Sherwood and Samuel M Alley, 1862 ; John W. Taggart, Henry 36 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Sherwood and Horace Bemis, 1863; William E. Bonham, Alexander Olcott and J. Harvey Stephens, 1864; William E. Bonham, Alexander Olcott and Horace Bemis, 1865 ; William B. Boyd, Aniaziah S. McKay and Frederick M. Kreidler, 1866; William B. Boyd and Christian Minier, 1867; John F. Little and Lyman Balcom, 1868; Monroe Brundage and Samuel Mitchell, 1869; James G. Bennett and John Davis, 1870; Thomas M. Fowler and James B. Murdock, 1871; Thomas M. Fowler and Stephen F. Gilbert, 1872 ; Stephen D. Shattuck and Charles F. Houghton, 1873; Stephen D. Shattuck and Lucius C. Pierson, 1874; William B. Ruggles and Jerry E. B. Santee, 1875 ; William B. Ruggles and Jerry E. B. Santee, 1876 ; Azariah C. Brundage and George R. Sutherland, 1877-79; John W. Davis and Russell M. Tuttle, 1880; Charles S. Longwell and Russell M. Tuttle, 1881; Orange S. Searle and Allen A. Van Arsdale, 1 882 ; Orange S. Searle and Andrew B. Craig, 1883; George E. Whitman and Andrew B. Craig, 1884; George E. Whiteman and Charles D. Baker, 1885; Franz S. Woll and Charles D. Baker, 1886; Azariah C. Brundage and Charles D. Baker, 1887; Azariah C. Brundage and Milo M. Acker, 1888; Charles H. McMaster and Milo M. Acker, 1889; Peter B. Pealer and M. M. Acker, 1890 ; Grattan H. Brundage and M. M. Acker, 1891 ; Gor- don M. Patchin and Herman E. Buck, 1892-93; Willoughby W. Bab- cock and Merritt F. Smith, 1894-95. Justices of the Supreme Court. — Thomas A. Johnson, April 7, 1847, to November 7, 1865 ; David Rumsey, appointed January 7, 1873, vice Johnson, deceased; elected for full term in November, 1873; William Rumsey, elected November 2, 1880; re-elected; George B. Bradley, elected November 6, 1883 ; appointed judge Second Division, Court of Appeals, January 21, 1889 ; now on General Term bench, County Judges. — William Kersey, appointed March 31, 1796; James Faulkner, February 16, 1804; Samuel Baker, January 18, 1813 ; Thos. McBurney, April 15, 1816; James Norton, h'cbruary 7, 1823 ; George C. Edwards, January 13, 1826; Ziba A. Leland, January 9, 1838; Jacob Larrowe, April 17, 1843 ; William M. Hawley, January 30, i S46 ; David McMaster, elected June, 1847; Jacob Larrowe, November, 1851 ; David McMaster, 1855 ; Washington Barnes, 1859 ; Guy H. McMaster, 1867; George T. Spencer, 1871; Guy H. McMaster, 1877; Harlo Hakes, 1883 and 1889; Frank H. Robinson, 1892. CIVIL LIST. 37 Surrogates. — Stephen Ross, appointed Marcli 31, 1796; Henry A. Tovvnsend, March 24, iSoo; George McClure, March 25, 1805 ; John Metcalf, April 6, 1813; James Read, April 8, 1815; Samuel Baker, April 10, 1817; VVni. Read, March 20, 1821 ; James Brundage, March 28, 1823; Wm Woods, January 8, 1827; Robert Campbell, January 31, 1835: David Rumscy, jr., January 24, 1840; Ansel J. McCail, February 3, 1844, county judge from June, 1847, to January, 1884; Guy H. McMaster, elected November, 1885; John F. Little, appointed to fill vacancy, September 19, 1887 ; M. Rumscy Miller, elected No- vember, [888, and November, 1894. County Clerks. — George D Cooper, appointed March 31, 1796; Henry A. Tovvnsend, February 1 i, 1799 ; John Wilson, March 21, 1807; Henry A. Townsend, February 8, 1808; Dugaid Cameron, February 16, 1810; Henry A. Townsnd, February 11, 181 1 ; John Wilson, Feb- ruary 13, 1815; Edward Howell, March 19, 1818; John Metcalf, Feb- urary 19, 1821 ; and elected in November, 1822; David Rumsey, 1829; VVm. H. Bull, 1832 ; Wm. Hamilton, 1838 ; Paul C. Cook, 1844; Philo P. Hubbell, 1850; Chas. W. Campbell, 1853 ; Samuel M. Alley, 1856; Orson Moshier, 1859; Oscar J. Averell, 1862; Allen Van Orsdale, 1865 ; Nirom M. Crane, 1868; Henry C. Faucett, 1871 ; Archie E. Baxter, 1874; Lucius A. Waldo, 1877; Wm. W. Wilson, 1880; Jacob H. Lansing, 1883; James A. Drake, appointed to fill vacancy, Novem- ber 12, 1885; Robert K. Faulkner, 1886; Edward P. Graves, 1889; James H. Giffin, 1892. Sheriffs. — William Dunn, appointed March 31, 1796; John Wilson, March 3, 1800; Dugaid Cameron. February 22, 1804; Jacob Teeple, February 16, 1808; Howard Bull, March 22, iSiO; Cornelius Young- love, March 25, 181 1 ; Thomas McBurn^y, March 7, 1812 ; Benjamin Wells, February 23, 1813; Lazarus Hammond, March 2, 1814; Geo. McClure, February 28, 181;; Henry Sliriver, March 2, 1819; John Magee, February 19, 1821, and elected November, 1822; John Ken- nedy, 1825; Alva Ellas, 1828; Geo. Huntington, 1831; Jno. T. Andrews, 1834; Henry Brother, 1837; Hiram Potter, 1840; Hugh Magee, 1843; Henry Ikother, 1846; Oliver Allen, 1849; Gabriel T. narrower, 1852; Lewis D Fay, 1855; Orange Seymour, 1858; Ed- win R. Kasson, 1861 ; Wm. N. Smith, 1864; Willis E. Craig, 1867; Wm. B. Boyd, 1870; Holland B. Williams, 1873; Frank D. Sherwood, 38 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. 1876; Erastus P. Higgins, 1879; PLsek Page, 1882; Henry Baldwin, 1885; Oscar B. Stratton, 1888; George Hollands, 1891; Leslie D. Whiting, 1894. District Attorneys — This office was created April 4, i8oi,andthe State comprised seven districts (Steuben county bting in No. 7). Each county was constituted a separate district in April, 18 18. Previous to this year the seventh district was represented as follows : Wm. Stewart, appointed March 2, 1802; Daniel W. Lewis, March 9, 1810: Wm. Slewatt, February 12, 1811 ; Vincent Matthews, March 12, 1813; Daniel Cruger, April 17, 181 5; Daniel Cruger, June 11, 1818; John Cook, February 19, 1821 ; Henry Welles, October 22, 1824; Edward Howell, February 7, 1829; B. W. Franklin, 1834; Edward Howell, June 21, 1836; Lazarus H. Read, March 4, 1840 ; Andrew G. Chat- field, December 2, 1845; Morris Brown, June 20, 1846; Alfred P. Ferris, elected June, 1847; Robert L, Hrundage. November, 1850; Jos. Herron, 1853 ; John Maynard, 1856 ' Chris. John McDowell, 1859 ; Harlo Hakes, 1862; John H. Butler, appointed 1865, elected Novem- ber, 1S65 and 1868; Alphonso H. Burreli, 1871 ; Ellsworth D. Mills, 1874 and 1877; Daniel L. Benton, 1880; Irving W. Near, 1883; Frank H. Robinson, 1886 and 1889; William W. Clark, 1892. County Treasurers — An act of the Legislature, passed December 16, 1847. authorized the election of a county treasurer in each county of the State; previous to that time the office was appointive by the super- visors. James R. Dudley, elected November, 1848 ; Perry S. Donahoe, 185 I ; Alex. Hess, 1857; Peter Halsey, 1858 ; John T Allen, 1861 ; Peter Halsey, 1864; Theodore A. Silsbee, 1873; Sebastian G. Lewis. 1876; Frederick L. French, 1882; S. Smith Fairchild, 1885; Zenas L. Parker, 1888; Gameliel T. Conine, 1894. School Commissioners — By an act passed April 17, 1843, supervisors were directed to appoint county superintendents of common schools, but the office was abolished in 1847. During its operation, Ralph K. Finch and Alanson S. Phillips filled the office in Steuben county. Previous to 1857, school commissioners (an office which succeeded county superintendent) were appointed by the supervisors, but since that year have been elected. The incumbents of the office in the several districts of this county have been as follows: First District. — Geo. McLean, Stephen Vorhis, Eli H. Brown, R. R. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 39 Calkins, ]rominent towns, Avoca has little to present in the way of important early events, yet it is said that William McWhor- ter and Michael Buchanan 2d, were the first children born ; that Michael Buchanan died in 181 1; that James McWhorter and the widow Buchanan were married in 1812 ; that in 1809 Henry Kennedy built the saw mill at the place called Goff's Mills, while Eleazur Tucker is credited with having built the first saw mill in the town, though at a now unknown date. William Goff built the first grist mill in 1812. Alonzo Simmons kept the first store. Tucker, above mentioned, built a saw mill on the river in 1825. Previous to 1S12 there were but two teams of horses in the town. The first framed dwelling in Avoca was built by James McWhorter. Iilders Buzzell and Elisha Brownson were the first preachers. Such were the early events of town history in Avoca, but they took place long years before the town itself was formed or even contem- plated. Settlement here was of much the same character as in other parts of Bath and Howard ; there were the same hardships and the same pleasures as attended pioneership elsewhere in the county. Dur- ing the war of iS 12-15, the same excitement existed here as lower down the valley, and the immediate presence of the Indians occasioned a feeling of fear and uncertainty not experienced in some other locali- ties. But the period passed without serious disturbance and the return THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY". 47 of peace witnessed great strides in settlement and prosperity. A little later came the anti-rent conflict, but this was the cause of not more than temporary embarrassment to local interests. Settlement, growth and development in this part of Conliocton valley was so rapid that as year.'^ passed a new town was considered desirable, yet not until about I 840 \vas the subject seriously discussed; and still three years more passed before the older towns were called ujjon to yield portions of thtir teriitory to the new formation. Thus, when the organization was in fact effected the affairs of the locality were all in order, the hamlets had been built up and established, and the simple act of election of town officers was the only necessary thing to be accomplished The records show that the first town meeting was held at the house of James G. Barto, on May 12, 1S43, at which time these officers were elected : Henry A. Louck. supervisor ; Jesse Louck, town clerk ; Oliver Rice, Sinuon Holmes, Luther Tilton, justices; John Donahe, John L. Robords. Marcus Peck, assessors; James Gorton, John Collier, John T. Allen, highway commissioners ; Jonathan Silsbee and Abram Turner, overseers of the poor; Perry S. Donahe, collector. In this connection it is also interesting to note the succession of supervisors from the time of organization to the present, viz.: Henry A. Lourks, 1843; George W. Burnham, 1844-48; Henry H. Bouton, 1849-52; Jos. I. Burnham, 1853; H. H. Bouton, 1854; Henry Goft, 1855 ; Salmon Waterbury, 1856-57; Joel Carrington, 1858-59; Henry A. l.oucks, i860; A. M. Waterbury, 1861 ; J. H. Nicholson, 1862-63 ; Salmon H. Palmer, 1864-66; Joel Carrington, 1867-68; I.J. Haskin, 1869; S. E. Haskin, 1870; I J. Haskin, 1871 ; F. N. Barney, 1872; I J. Haskin, 1873; D. E. Hoadley, 1874; Thomas Cotton, 1875-76; N. B. Chase, 1 877-80 ; Thomas Cotton, 1881-82; C.Patterson, 1883; Lawrence Saltsman, 1884; C Patterson, 1885; Jerry Hall, 1886; A. J. Arnold, 1887-88; Lemuel Matthewson, 1889-90; A.J. Arnold, 1891-92; A. L. Zielley, 1893-95. The town officers for the year 1895 are Alex. L. Zielley, supervisor; J. L Ilunii, town clerk; George C. Silsbee, Thomas J. Redhead, George A. Fo.x and Ripley C. Oxx, justices ; A. C. Wagner, Martin Brown and James Robinson, assessors; Joseph Ells, collector; Ljman Arnold, overseer of the poor; John E. Olmsted, highway commis- 48 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. sioner ; Orton Dye, Frank Shultz and Fred L. Peck (did not qualify) commissioners of excise. When set off and organized in 1843, the inhabitants of Avoca num- bered about 1,660, and, according to the enumeration of 1845, the number was 1,668. In 1850 it had fallen to 1,574, but during the suc- ceeding ten years increased to 1,885, the greatest population in the history of the town to that time. In 1870 the number was 1,740, and in 1880 was 1,843 I" 1890 Avoca contained 2,242 inhabitants, show- ing a somewhat surprising growth in the pretty little village of Avoca, a historical sketch of which will be found elsewhere in this work. From what has been stated in this brief chapter it will be seen that the early and perhaps the most interesting history in this town was made while its territory formed a part of the older divisions from which it was created. Yet, notwithstanding this, it may truthfully be said that the greatest strides in advancement and prosperity have been made during the last half century, and many of them may be placed to the credit of the last twent}' five years. The construction of the railroad (now the Erie) through Conhocton valley was the one event which above all others contributed to local welfare, and the more recent building of the D. L. & VV. road only added to the progress then being made, and also stimulated the inhabitants to greater exertions. The result of local energy and thrift are apparent, for Avoca enjoys the pleasant reputation of being one of the best and most productive towns in all Steuben. It lies well within the "potato belt" and produces remarkably in that and also in general farm crops under careful atten- tion. This condition of things has built up and made Avoca village what it is, and the hamlets of the town have shared in the general pros- perity. The only event of general importance in the history of the town, outside of ordinary affairs, was the period of the war of 1861-65, dur- ing the terms of office of supervisors Waterbury, Nicholson and Palmer, all of whom were prominently identified with the "war measures" adopted and the hearty support accorded to all efforts of raising troops and creating bounty funds. During the war, Avoca sent into the service a total of one hundred and twenty three men, and exceeded her quota by a fair number. Of a truth it may be said that no town in the region displayed more patriotism or public-spiritedness during that THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 49 terrible four years than did Avoca, and none niaiie more free and gen- erous provision for the payment of bounties to recruits. The early history of the schools of Avoca was a part of the record of the older towns and furnishes little of interest to this chapter. At the organization meeting, John B. Stevenson and John Conner were elected commissioners, and Charles W. C. Howard and Addison Niles inspec- tors of common schools. After the erection of the town its territory was regularly divided into new districts, formed to suit the con\enitnce of the inhabitants, and these have been changed in later years as neces- sity required. As now constituted the town contains eleven school districts, and fifteen teachers are annually employed. During 1894, four hundred and sixty nine children attended school. The value of school property is estimated at $9,445. The town received of public moneys, $1,852.14, and raised by local ta.x $3,582.09. Four trees were planted during the year. Bath. — On the 15th of April, 1793, Charles Cameron and a party of pioneer woodsmen landed from their flat boats and made a camp near where the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western station now stands in the village of Bath. This was the advance guard of civilization in an uninhabited and comparatively unknown region, and the adventurers themselves were sent hither at the direction of Charles Williamson, the latter the owner of almost a principality, though in fact he was only the representative of a syndicate of capitalists whose only aim was personal gain. Yet Charles Williamson was vested with almost extraordinary authority and power and lavishly did he expend his principals' money in improving and developing the country in which he afterward lived for several years. Captain Williamson reached Bath very soon after the arrival of Cameron and companions. They came from Northumberland, Penn- sylvania, by water and brought supplies and provisions for both sub- sistence and the founding of a settlement. At that time we are told this region was a vast, dense forest, inhabited only by wild animals and a few scattered fragments of the once powerful Seneca Indians. The latter had signed away tiicir domain to the Phelps and Gorham proprie- tary, and through a series of transfers the lands had come into the ownership of the Fulteney associates, whose agent Williamson was and 7 50 LANDMARK.'^ OF STEUBEN COUNTY under whose direction was now to be undertaken the development and sale of this vast estate. If we correctly interpret his character there was nothing of the nig- gard in Captain Williamson, nor did he enter half-heartedly into any of his many enterprises; and while he was ever mindful of the rights and interests of his principals, he also kept faith with his promises to settlers, thus gaining their respect and admiration. True, he was charged with prodigality and unnecessary expenditures in the use of the revenues of his principals, yet no person who knew the genial captain ever believed he acted or dealt solely for personal purposes or gain. The Pulteney as- sociates, being foreigners and non-residents, were never in a position to fully appreciate the situation of affairs on their territory in New York, nor the fact that their agent was engaged in an effort to settle quite un- desirable land in competition with some of the most fertile and beautiful tracts for which Western New York is and ever has been noted To accomplish this it became necessary for the agent to make outlays in building a principal thoroughfare of travel from far across the Pennsyl- vania border into the very center of the region sought to be disposed of at best advantage. And it became necessary, too, to found a new village in the region, and to this end the pioneers were sent up the Conhocton and pitched their camps on the site of the village of Bath. Captain Williamson had previously made headquarters at Northumber- land, from which point he did effective work, but the necessities of the occasion and the situation of the lands in New York demanded a change, hence his action in founding the settlement which soon afterward be- came the shire town of one of the largest and most important inland counties of this great State. "The first comers," says Mr. McCall's address.^ "were not roman- cers, but .s-tern workers who braced themselves for the toils and priva- tions before them. Thomas Rees, jr., the surveyor, with his corps of assistants, began at once to plot the village, locate the streets and squares, and number the lots, while Cameron and his helpers, after clearing the ground and making rustic cabins in which to shelter them- selves, proceeded to erect a log building on the south side of Pulteney * Ansel J. McCall is conceded authority on all matters of local histury, and the writer has made free use of his valuable manuscripts and excellent memory in the preparation of this chapter. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THK COUNTY. 51 Square, of sufficient capacity for the accommodation of Captain William- son's family and the transaction of his official business. On the north side of Morris street, about twenty rods west of the square, they erected a log structure for John Metcalf's hostelry. James Henderson, the mill- u rit;ht, sought a mill site on the Conhocton (now owned by John Baker and occupied b\' his flour mill) and with his crew began building a saw mill to furnish boards for tloors, doors and roof for the new land office, hotel and other structures being put up. It was the first saw mill in the town, and was completed on the 25th of August. Captain Williamson in a few days was on the ground in person, super- intending operations and cheering the faint hearted by his presence and stirring words " In the Cameron party of pioneers and builders of a county town were these persons: Andrew Smith, familiarly called " Muckle " Andrew, in allusion to his remarkable size and strength, and grandfather to John L. Smith ; William McCartney, the pioneer of Dansville ; Hector Mc- Kenzie, who died in the West Indies and Henry Tower, an afterward prominent business man, all of whom came from the vicinity of Cap- tain Williamson's home near Balgray, Scotland. There were also Thomas Corbett, pioneer at Mud Creek ; Thomas Rees, jr , the sur- veyor who plotted the village and likewise made many surveys in the vicinity, all of which have ever been regarded as a standard ; Alexander Ewing, who afterward settled at Mt. Morris ; William Ewing, also a surveyor, who moved to Ohio ; John Metcalf, the pioneer tavern-keeper, and one of the village worthies ; James Henderson, the millwright • Samuel Doyle, an old patriot of the Revolution, and whose descendants still live in the vicinit}-, and Joseph Arbour, Richard Armour, John Scott, Charles McClure, Peter Loop, Mr. Upton, Benjamin Patterson, the hunter, and Joseph Bivens, who kept the first tavern at Bloods, now Atlanta. Most of these were Scotch Irishmen from the West Branch, and came to the new settlement chiefly as laborers and me- chanics, yet many of them became permanent residents, developed into useful and capable men, and were in all respects worthy citizens and upright men. But these were not all, as well verified records, the results of untiring research, have preserved the name of still other pioneer town builders under the direction of the active agent of the Pulteney associates. In 52 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. this connection may be named Hector McKay, William Lemon, Samuel Ewing, John and Samuel Ewart, George Moore, George Baittie, Francis Conway, William Carroll and Robert Biggars, the latter the tanner who in 1793 purchased thirteen acres on the south side of Morris street, west of the cemetery, whereon he built a tannery. Otliers of the same period were Obediah Osborn, the mill builder; George McCulIough, the blacksmith ; Robert Hunter, the schoolmaster; Jacob Gleiidenning, Andrew Shearer, Dr. Schott, Gottleib Dougherty and one Paul. Henry McEUvee, " a stalwart young Scotch-Irishman," as described by Mr. McCall, " (always called Harry) made his entry into the new town on New Year's day, 1794." and thus describes the condition of municipal settlement as he found it: "I only found a few shanties in the wood. Williamson had his house near the site of the present land office, and the Metcalfs kept a log tavern on Morris street nearly oppo- site the (present) Mansion House. I went to the tavern and asked for supper and lodging; they said they would give me neither, for their house was full. I could get nothing to eat. An old Dutchman was sitting there, and he said to me: 'Young man, if you will go with me, you shall have some mush and milk and a deer-skin to lie on, with your feet to the fire, and another to cover yourself with.' We went up through the woods to where St. Patrick Square now is. There the Dutchman had a little log house." In the following spring this same McElwee made the first substantial clearing, being the Pulteney Square, also four acres in rear of the agent's house for a garden. (For the culti- vation of this garden Williamson imported a gardener from England, named Dominic Ouinn.) McElwee left a single pine tree in front of the agent's house for a " Liberty Tree." It was trimmed so as to leave a tuft at the top, and it " bid defiance to the elements until after 1820," and was soon afterward blown down. The pioneers who came to the settlement during 1794 may be men- tioned about as follows: George McClure and James Moore, from Northumberland ; Isaac Mullender, with his wife, three sons and three daughters, direct from Scotland ; Richard Cuyler, John Shearer, Rich- ard Carpenter, Dr. William Petrie (the surgeon of the settlement), John Wyman, William McElwee, Frank Scott, Gustavus and Brown Gilles- pie, Joseph and Robert Dunn, Robert Sterret, James McFarland, Sam- uel and John Mettler, Samuel Baker, Amos Stone William Barney, THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 63 William and Eli Read, and Samuel McKenzie. These settlers were both mechanics and farmers, tlie former seeking work in the little ham- let, and the latter selecting lands in the region on which they might establish houses and farms. All, however, before acquiring title, were of necessity compelled to repair to the land office and make their con- tracts. Williamson treated them with the greatest generosity, offering the land at reasonable prices and extending help to those not able to build for themselves. By his uniform kindness Williamson won the esteem of all who came to his settlement. When Charles Williamson began his work of improvement and settle- ment there was little civil organization or jurisdiction attempted in this remote part of Ontario county. In 1 79 1 the provisional district of Painted Post was fojmed, yet, being practically uninhabited, there was no need of the exercise of civil authority over the region. The district mentioned included all that is now Steuben county, and in 1793, Jede- diah Stephens, of Canisteo, was elected supervisor. However, in 1794, at the January sessions, through Williamson's influence, a new district was created embracing all the territory west of the second range of townships, and was named Williamson. Bath was included in the new formation, but where or when the district meetings were held is not now known. The now growing settlement was much in need of post and stage ac- commodations, for down to this time Captain Williamson had employed his own post-riders to and from Northumberland, 140 miles distant; and the trips were made once in two weeks. A permanent post office, with all necessary facilities for transmission of mails, was established at Bath in 1800. This year. 1794, was eventful in still another direction, for the new yet now flourishing settlement was threatened with l^ritish invasion and subjection ; but through the energetic and determined action of Captain Williamson, suggested by the governor of the State, the proposed invasion was sta)xd until the federal government took charge of the affair and effected a speedy settlement of the dispute. However, in protecting his rights and interests. Captain Williamson caused a block house to be built in Bath, while young McClure raised a company of militia for defensive purposes. The succeeding year, 1795, "opened brightly," using Mr. McCall's words, for the Genesee country, the doughty agent vigorously 54 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. pushed improvements, and settlers came pouring in from all quarters. Among them were Robert Campbell, Alexander McDonald, John Mor- rison, DugaJd Cameron, Daniel Cruger, Dr. D. B. Stockton and William Kersey, all of whom were prominently identified with subsequent events of local history, and some of whom, as well as their descendants, occu- pied positions of trust and importance. In March, 1796, the county of Steuben was erected from the south part of Ontario, and was named in honor of Frederick William Au- gustus, Baron Steuben, through the influence of Col. Benjamin Walker, a close friend of Charles Williamson. The colonel had been the aide of Baron Steuben, who had just died, and Walker was residuary legatee under his will. Through the undisputed influence of Captain Williamson, Bath was designated as the shire-town of the new county, and forthwith provis- ion was made for the erection of county buildings. Fully mentioned elsewhere, no extended reference to them is necessar\- at this time. However, in accordance with the authority of the erecting act, the Court of Sessions divided the territory of the county into six towns, one of which was the town of Bath, the subject of this chapter. As constituted at that time, it was bounded on the north by the county line; east by Lake Keuka and Fredericktown ; south by Painted Post and Middle- town, and west by Dansville. Bath was now the capital town of Steuben county, and was so named in token of respect for Lady Henrietta, Countess of Bath, the daughter of Sir William Pulteney, the chief owner in the land association, whose representative and agent was Capt. Charles Williamson. The first move of the land agent was to establish a newspaper, not only for the dissemination of news, but for the main purpose of properly advertising the new county and setting forth the desirable qualities of land and climate, in the hope of inducing settlement and increasing the revenues of his principals. (Even at this early day the owners were annoying their agent with demands for returns, and were indirectly charging him with unnecessary expenditures). William Kersey, the newly appointed judge, an attache of the land office, was sent to Pennsylvania to pur- chase the necessary equipment for a printing-office, and the result was the issue October 19, 1796, of the first number of the B;ith Gazette and THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 55 Genesee Advertiser, the first newspaper printed in this State west of Oneida county In the same year, also, the colonel erected a frame building on the northwest corner of Puiteney Square for use as a public school, and so completed the race track that widely advertised fairs and races were held on the 20th of September. A public hall or theater was likewise built in due season and Bath was brou<^ht into prominence as a desira- ble place for all kinds of entertainments; and to the present day the county town of Steuben is noted for the excellence of its annual fairs. The chief object of these improvements was. as Mr. McCall says, "to attract attention to the purchase and its new metropolis." He was anx- ious to make rapid sales of the land in his charge, and he knew that it was necfssary to create some excitement which would draw strangers to look at them. Weld, an English traveler, visited the town in 1796, and described Bath as the "principal town in the western part of the State, containing about thirty houses, and increasing verj- fast." Among the settlers in the town in 1796 were Dr. B. F Young, Dr. Sluilts, Philip Gilman. George D. Cooper, William Cook, Daniel Curtis, James Edie, James Miller, Fisher Whitney. John Woodward, Josiah Wright, David Jones, James Love, Leonard Beaty, George Dixon and Finla McClure. Organization and Officers. — The first town meeting in Bath was held at the house of John Metcalf, on the 4th day of April, 1797, at which time these persons were elected to office: Charles Cameron, supervisor; James Edie, town clerk ; William Aulls. Patrick McKell, Hector Mc- Kenzie, commissioners of highways; Gustavus Gillispie, collector; Amos Stone, George Dixon and Abijah Peters, constables ; Daniel Cruger, and Patrick McKell. overseers of the poor; Amos Eggleston, Joseph Inslie, William Read, John Woodward, Henry Bush, Henry McElwee and Jacob Phillips, overseers of highways ; Eli Read, Andrew Sinith, James McKell and Thomas Streeter. fence viewers ; Robert Bigger, Samuel Miller and Samuel Baker, assessors ; Samuel Baker and Silas Beers, poundmasters ; George D. Cooper, John Sheather, Charles Williamson and Benjamin F. Young, commissioners of schools. However interesting for purposes of reference might be a complete succession of all town officers, such is deemed inadvisable in this work, and the reader will therefore be content with the list of supervisors 56 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. clerks and justices of the peace, these being recognized as the chief offices in the town government. Supervisors. — Charles Cameron, 1797-98; George McCIure, 1799- 1801 ; Henry A. Townsend, 1802 ; Samuel Baker, 1803-5 ! George McClure, 1806-7 ; Howell Bull, 1808; Henry Kennedy, 1809; James Faulkner, iSio; Cornelius Younglove, 1811 ; Thomas Aulls, 1812-14; Howell Bull, 181 5; Elisha Hanks, 1816-17; William Woods, 1818 ; Samuel Baker, 1819-20; Elisha Hanks, 1821-23; Henry Wells, 1824; John W. Fowler, 1825-26; James G. Higgins, 1827-28; George C. Edwards, 1829-30; Reuben Robie, 1831-32; William J. Neally, 1833- 34; Henry W. Rogers, 1835; William Hamilton, 1836-38; D. Mc- Master, 1839 ; Robert Campbell, jr., 1840-44 ; Chester Whitaker, 1845 '• John W. Fowler, 1846-49; John Ostrander, 1850-51; Paul C. Cook, 1852-54; David McMaster, 1855 ; William Howell, 1856-57; Alva E. Brown, 1858-60; H. H. Hull, 1861 ; William Howell, 1862; John L. Smith, 1863-64; Uavid Rumsey, 1865-71; Samuel Balcom, 1872; William Rumsey, 1873; G. H. Brundage, 1874-75; Henry Faucett, 1876; James Faucett, 1877; Orange Seymour, 1878-82; John F, Little, 1883-85; James Faucett, 1886; John F. Little, 1887; W. H. Nichols, 1888-90; J. F. Little, 1891 ; W. H. Nichols, 1892-95. Town Clerks. — James Edie, 1797-98; Charles McClure, 1799; Henry A. Townsend, 1800-1 ; Charles McClure, 1 802-3; Henry A. Town- send, 1804; Howell Bull, 1805; Henry A. Townsend, 1806; Howell Bull, 1807 ; Thomas Metcalf, 1808; Howell Bull, 1809-14; John Met- calf, 1815-18; William H. Bull, (819-21; John W. Fowler, 1822-24; Reuben Robie, 1825-28; Lewis Biles, 1829; Reuben Robie, 1830; William S. Hubbell, 1831 ; William H. Bull, 1832; Franklin Metcalf, 1833; William Hamilton, 1834; Alex. Hess, 1835; N. W. Gardner, 1836-37; George Edwards. 1838-42; Alex. Hess, 1843; Peter Swart, 1844; Perry S. Donahe, 1845-51; James R Dudley, 1852; John Palmer, 1853; Charles H. Howell, 1854; Peter Halsey, 1855; James Lindsay, 1856-57; James R. Dudley, 1858; James Lindsay, 1859-1884; William W. Lindsay, 1885-95. Justices of the Peace. — Henry W. Rogers, 1830; Oliver Rice, 1831 ; William Hamilton and George Wheeler, 1832 ; George Wheeler, 1833 ; John D. Higgins, 1834; Oliver Rice, 1835; William Hamilton, 1836; George Wheeler and Henry Pier, 1838 ; Oliver Rice and A. D. Read, (^j ^ /^y-^yzy\ ^ '-^ crn. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 57 1839; Ziba A. Leland, 1840; Chester VVhitaker, 1841 ; George Hunt- ington and William S. Mullioilen, 1842; Nathan Barney, 1843; Will- iam S. Mulhoilen, 1844; Chester Whitaker, 1845; James Shannon, 1846; Arnold D. Read, 1847; William S. Mulhoilen, 1848; Chester Whitaker and Luther R. Hopkins, 1849; Nathan Sawyer, 1850; Arnold D. Read, 1851 ; Henry Pier, 1852; Chester Whitaker, 1853; James Lindsay, 1854; Arnold D. Read, 1855; Henry Pier, 1856. Chester Whitaker, 1857; James Lindsay, 1858; Arnold D. Read^ 1859; Henry Pier, i860; E. W. Buck, 1861 ; James Lindsay, 1862; Joseph B. Westcott, 1863 ; Abram C. Bryan, 1864; Charles L. Bailey, 1865: Dwight Ostrander and James Lindsay, 1866; Augustus F. Barnes, 1867 ; Frank Hardcnbrook and Abram C. Bryan, 1868; F"rank Hardenbrook and Henry J. Norris, 1869; James Lindsay, 1870 ; Hiram R. Hess, 1871 ; Hamilton Lane, 1872 ; Frank Hardenbrook and Henry J. Norris, 1873; James Lindsay, 1874; Hiram R. Hess, 1875; Horace L. Lewis, 1876 ; Prank Hardenbrook and Henry J. Norris, 1877 ; James Lindsay, 1878; Hiram R. Hess, 1879; Frank Orcutt, 1880; Frank Hardenbrook, Frank Wayland and Frank Orcutt, 1881 ; James Lindsay, 1882; Edwin R. Kasson, 1883 ; Otis H. Smith, Valentine Brother and Edgar Knight, 1884; Frank Hardenbrook, Edwin R. Fuller, William W. Lindsay and Daniel Brian, 1885 ; John S. Bosenbark, 1886; Otis H. Smith, 1887; William W. Lindsay, 1888 ; John K. Bancroft, Edwin R. Fuller and Frank Hardenbrook, 1889; John K. Bancroft, 1890; Clar- ence Willis, Frank Hardenbrook and Edwin R. Fuller, 1891 ; William W. Lindsay, 1S92 ; Frank Hardenbrook and William H. Kearney, 1893 \ John K. Bancroft, 1894; John A. Adams, 1895. Town Officers, 1895. — In the present connection may also properly be given the names of the town officers as the list stands at this time, viz.: William H. Nichols, supervisor ; William W. Lindsay, town clerk ; Frank Hardenbrook, of Savona, William W. Lindsay, of Bath, John Bancroft, of Sonora, William H. Kearney, of Kanona, and John A. Adams, of Bath, justices of the peace ; John Hedges, Thomas Rob- inson, jr., and George K. Bowlby, assessors; Stephen Read, collector ; James M. Thomas, highway commissioner; James Faulkner and Joseph Kleckler, overseers of the poor ; William H. Davison, Jacob E. Bedell and Washington Sutherland, excise commissioners 58 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Returning again to the events of early history, all authorities con- cede that the greatest growth and benefit accrued to the town through the designation of Bath as the seat of justice of the county, while the organization of the town itself was an important though auxiliary factor in promoting its early welfare. The name " County Seat " alone was a sufficient inducement to attract settlement, and professional men, merchants, mechanics and agriculturists alike hastened to the village^ hoping to be first in their class and thus became early established in general favor and popularity. The court-house was completed in 1797, and during the same year Captain Williamson organized a splendid regiment of militia, he being appointed its lieutenant- colonel, from which fact he was ever afterward styled "Colonel" Williamson. In 1798 the first bridge across the Conhocton was built at Bath, and in the same year a raft of lumber was safely sent down the river to Baltimore market. Among the settlers in this year were Henry A. Townsend, Joseph Grant, William Howe Cuyler, John Wilson, James Woodruff and Daniel Bennett. In March^ 1800, Swing & Patterson built an ark eighty feet long by twenty wide, loaded it with wheat and lumber and shipped it to market at Baltimore. Other similar ventures followed, with equal success, to the great satis- faction of Colonel Williamson and the entire towns people, and the re- sult was the construction of several storehouses at convenient points along the river. In 1 801 the Legislature having passed an act authorizing aliens for three jears to take title to land in this State, Colonel Williamson con- veyed the unsold portions of the townships, previously held by him in trust, to his principals, and then resigned his agency position. In 1799 he had begun the erection of a grand country seat on his so-called Springfield Farm, a mile and one half below the village, near Lake Salubria (now Lake Williamson). It was the largest private dwelling in Western New York, and when completed was placed in charge of Major Presley Thornton, a kinsman of General Washington and a former officer in the Revolution, who had just come from Virginia with a young wife of rare beauty and attainments. She was long known as " The Madam," from her graceful and commanding ways. The colonel made his home with them after he retired from the agency, and dispensed THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 59 hospitality with a generous hand, and the place became famous for its brilliant assemblies. Major Thornton died in 1806, and Colonel Will- iamson soon afterward left for Europe and never returned. He died in 1808. As we have stated, Major Thornton came to Bath in iSoi, and was placed in charge of Colonel Williamson's mansion. He brought with him X'irginia customs and many of the adjuncts of southern life and manners. Among the family belongings were several house slaves, servants rather than laborers, yet bondmen and women. This is be- lieved to have been the first formal introduction of slavery into Bath, although other and perhaps earlier settlers may have numbered a slave man or woman among their servants. And in this statement there is nothing surprising, not even unusual, for slaves were then the property of owners, the subjects of sale and traffic in the South and some other States, yet is understood as contrary to the statute laws of New Yoik. However, in the town of Bath slaves were treated as chattel property, and were bought and sold, occasionally under process of law and the apparent sanction of the courts. 1 his practice, too, was continued for several j'ears. Capt. William Helm came to the town in 1801, from Prince William count)', Va., with his family and a retinue of about forty slaves. He purchased a number of farms, and set his slaves cultivating them. He built a fine mansion on the site of the present First National Bank, and also rebuilt the old grist mill near the bridge. Captain Helm was un- fortunate in business, his property was seized by the sheriff and several of his slaves were sold to satisfy executions. One was purchased by Dugald Cameron for $30, and was set free in 18 19. This slave was Daniel Cooper. This is only one of the many instances of slavery existing in this town during the earl)' years of the century, and the fact reflects no dis- credit or stain upon any person or family. It was the recognized cus- tom of the period, and that there were more slaves owned in Bath than in many other localities only shows that a large number of the aristocratic and wealthy early residents of the town came from slave States, as commonly called. In the year I 800 there were twenty-two blacks in the county, and all were slaves. In 1810 the colored in- 60 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. habitants numbered Ii6, of whom 87 were slaves. The early town records, noticeably from 1800 to 1820, contain frequent reference to slave ownership, as births, sales and acts of manumission were required to be recorded. Among the other slave owners in Bath, there may be mentioned John Fitz Hugh, Samuel Hanson Baker, Howell Bull, Dugald Cam- eron, Henry McElwee, Capt. Samuel Erwin (of Painted Post), Ira Pratt, Daniel Cruger, Thomas McBurney and others. From all that is stated on preceding pages the reader will discover that the town of Bath was early and rapidly settled, and with a class of pioneers who were in all respects desirable to a new community. Under theinspiring influencesof Williamson the result was to be expected, and in the brief space of less than ten years he succeeded in building up a fine and substantial village, a county seat, while within its boun- daries, and those of the town surrounding it, were accumulated nearly five hundred inhabitants. As shown by census statistics, the town of Bath, in 1800, had a population of 452, the result of only seven years colonization. In 18 10 the number had increased to 1,036, and in 1820 to 2,578. The inhabitants in 1830 numbered 3,387, and 4,915 in 1840. Ten years later there were 6,185 persons living in the town, and 5,129 in i860. In 1870 the number was 6,236, and in 1880 was 7,396. The census of 1890 showed the town to contain 7,881 inhabitants, though the count of 1892 gave but 7,057 population. As now constituted Bath is by far the largest in area of the civil divisions of Steuben county, containing by actual survey 57,100 acres of land. The original town was even larger, but, like many others, has surrendered portions of her territory to later creations. Pulteney was taken ofif in 1808, and parts of Howard and Cohocton in 1812. A portion was set off to form Wheeler in 1820, and another part to Urbana in 1822. Still another reduction helped to form Avoca in 1843, and and in 1852 Cohocton received an annexation from the mother town. Savona was organized as a town, December 30, 1859, 3"^ was con- solidated with Bath, April 8, 1862. The early history of Bath was uneventful except as the usual mo- notony of pioneership was varied by the rapid strides which marked the settlement of the region. The settlers were peaceable and law-abiding, THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 61 yet fond of entertainment and pleasure. Public houses and places of resort were numerous, and in the year 1824 no less than twelve persons were licensed to keep tavern and sell " strong and spirituous liquors ;" the number of licensed places in the town in 1825 was fourteen. The war of 1812-15 was an event of much importance in local annals, and tiie occasion of some excitement and alarm. Bath was the rendezvous for the newly organized companies and regiments raised in the county, and several of her citizens played prominent parts on the frontier. General McCiure, Majors Cruger and Gaylord, Captain Read and Lieutenant Kennedy rendered efficient service. Two companies were drafted on Pulteney Square in 181 3. The town and village of Bath were also the chief seat of operations and discussion during that period in which took place the anti-rent con- troversy, and although the people of this immediate vicinity were but little affected by the tumult and e.xcitement of the occasion, this was the central point and the place of meeting of the disaffected element. Tlie town was represented in the convention of January, 1830, by William Woods, James Warden, John Corbitt, Peter Hunter, Melvin Schenck, Caleb P. Fulton and Elisha Hawkes. However, this embryo strife was soon passed into history and peace and general prosperity prevailed. Nothing further of importance occurred to disturb the serenity of domes- tic life until the outbreak of the war of 1861-5, and during that long and disastrous struggle the town of Bath made a record which stands through all time as one of the brightest pages in her history. Still we cannot in this place refer at length to the military records of the town, the subject being fully covered in another chapter of this work. Yet, the statement may be made that during the war the town furnished for the service a total of 500 men. Before closing this chapter it is appropriate that at least passing men- tion be made of the schools of the town at large, although much that might be said in a general way will be found in the history of the vil- lage of Bath in another part of this volume. However, on this im- portant subject the old records afford little reliable information, and of the character and condition of the districts previous to 1847 nothing is known. At the first town meeting in 1797 George D. Cooper, John Sheather, Charles Williamson and Benjamin F. Young were elected 62 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. commissioners of common schools, yet, in 1793, the year in which tlie town was founded, a school was opened in Bat!) and Robert Hunter was the master. The first school house stood on tiie northwest corner of Pulteney Square, and was built previous to 1800. The first convey- ance of land for school purposes was that of October 4, 1803, by Sir William Pulteney to Samuel Baker, William Read and Eli Read, being fifty acres in Pleasant Valley. That region then formed a part of Bath. On February i, 1815, the Duke of Cumberland and others conveyed to the trustees of District No. 5 two acres of land in lot 33, now in the town of Wheeler. On December 29, 1812, Henry A. Townsend con- veyed to the trustees of Bath school a lot on the north side of Steuben street, and here a school house was built in 18 13. The territory of Bath was divided by the first board of commissioners into five school districts, and each district had three trustees. Later records are imperfect and defective, but from the results of Mr. Kings- ley's research we learn that a school was early established at Kanona, and that in the " White School house " in old district No. 2, William Howell taught in 1826. The first school house in the southeast part of the town was built of logs, near the four corners, where the Marshall Stewart house stands John Wicks was one of the earliest teachers in that section. In 1847 the number of school districts in the town was twenty- seven, of which sixteen were entire and eleven joint with districts of other towns. As at present constituted the districts number twenty- five, located and known, respectively, as follows : No. i, Savona, organized 1891 ; No. 2, Harrisburgh Hollow; No. 3, Irish Hill; No. 4, Unionville ; No. 5, Bath; No. 6, East Union; No. 7, Chamberlain's; No. 8, Kanona; No. 9, Mt. Washington; No. 10, Wolf Run; No. 11, Babcock Hollow; No. 12, Eagle Valley; No. 13, Spaulding's Bridge; No. 14, Sonora ; No. 15, Freeman Hollow; No. 16, Veley District; No. 17, no distinguishing name; No. 18, Oak Hill; No. 19, Cossville ; No. 20, Campbell Creek; No. 21, West Union ; No. 22, Knight's Settle- ment ; No. 23, Buck's Settlement ; No. 24, Moore Settlement ; No. 25, Bowlby District. The total value of school property in the several districts is estimated at $56,745. During the last current year the town received public moneys to the amount of $5,660.51, and raised by local tax for school purposes $6,547.13. Sixty trees were planted by pupils in 1894. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF TBE COUNTY. 63 The villages and hamlets of the town are subjects of special mention in another department of this work. However, we may state in this connection that the town has two incorporated villages, Bath and Savona, both conveniently situated on the line of the Erie and Delaware and Lackawanna Railroads, and well known among the municipalities of the county. Kanona is in the northwest part of the town, also on the railroads and a place of importance in the region. Unionville is a small hamlet situated about three miles southwest of Bath. In the department of this work devoted specially to ecclesiastical history, will be found a record of each of the church organizations of the town. Bkadkord. — On the eastern border of Steuben county, lying north of Campbell, south of Wayne, and east of Bath and Urbana, is a district known as Bradford, having an area of 14.500 acres of land. This town was created as a separate division of the county on the 20th of April, 1836, and was formed from the uld town of Jersej', now known as Orange in Schuyler county. The surface is a hilly upland, broken by the valley of Mud Creek. Mud Lake is a small though pretty little body of water situated in Schuyler county, near the Steuben line, and it was on the outlet of this lake that Philip Bartles and John Harvey made a settlement in 1793, and two years later, at the suggestion of Charles Williamson, built both saw and grist mills. These industries had much to do with the development of the region. During the early period of the history of the region the outlet was a navigable stream, and in 1798 Mr. Bartles rafted one hundred thousand feet of lumber to Baltimore. Benjamin Patterson and one Brocher were noted hunters in this locality and supplied many of the settlements with both bear and deer meat. Tliey were said to have killed during a single season as man_\- as two hundred deer and a dozen bears. Among the other pioneers and early settlers in this then wild and un- inviting region were John Hemiup, Samuel S. Camp, Abram Rosen- berg, Capt. John N. Hight, Henry Switzcr, John Schrinner, Thomas Rolls, Michael Schott, Daniel Bartholmew, Henry A.xtelle, Ezekiel Sackett, George Schnell, Stephen Edwards and a Mr. Smith, the christian name of the latter having been forgotten. These pioneers were chiefly lumbermen, though their ultimate purpose was the de- 64 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. velopment of the land for farming purposes. Several of them built mills and became proprietors. Nearly all were from the lumber regions of Pennsylvania and came to the new region hoping to better their condition. They were chiefly Germans by birth or extraction, and were, withal, a hardy, persevering and industrious class of men and women. The descendants of many of them still live in the county, but the pioneers are all gone. Another element of the early settlers were New Englanders, while still others were from New Jersey. Lacy Hurd, John Moore and Jesse Munson were Vermont Yankees ; Capt. John Phelps came from Con- necticut ; James Longwell was from New Jersey, though an Irishman by birth. Still other settlers were John Zimmerman, David Woodward, Caleb Wolcott, John Inscho, Abel Eveland, Elias Thomas, James D. Morris, Rumsey Miller, David Dennis, E^van F. Thomas, John Kish- paugh, Charles and Benjamin Whithead, Daniel Taylor, John Stilts, Caleb Roch, Philip Morse, and others perhaps equally worthy of men- tion but whose names are lost with the lapse of years. The land being at length cleared of its valuable timber growth, good farms were developed, and this part of the old town of Jersey became an agricultural region, and while it produces well in return to the proper efforts of the husbandman, it has never been noted for superior excellence in this respect. However, the farmers are generally prosperous and many fine farms are found in the town. During the early history of the town, and while its lands formed a part of the older town of Jersey, the inhabitants felt the serious effects of the so-called anti-rent war. In the Bath convention Jersey was rep- resented by her strongest men, a portion of whom lived in the district afterward forming Bradford. They were Abraham M. Lybolt, Gilbert Reed, Caleb Wolcott, Peter Houck and Henry Switzer. Six years after this event, or in 1836, the town was set off and made a separate division of Steuben county, and was named in allusion to and in honor of General Robert Bradford. A portion of its territory was an- nexed to Orange, April 17, 1854. The first town meeting was held at the dwelling of John Zimmerman on the fourth Tuesday in Ma>, 1836, at which time these officers were cho.sen : Supervisor, S. Snell ; town clerk, Charles McFane ; collector, Thomas Rowles ; justices, James Wolverton and James Bradley. THE CiriL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 65 The supervisors of Bradford, from tlie time of its organization to the present, have been as follows: S. Snell, 1836-37; William H. Seybolt, 1838-39; J. C. Cameron, 1840; Joseph S. Fenton, 1841 ; James Barkley, 1842-43, and 1849; Hosea Longweli, 1844; William l-!ovier, 1845-46, and 184S ; John Phelps, 1847; Charles Hubban, 1850; Will- iam Phelps, 1851-52; John D. Seybolt, 1853-54, and 1860-61 ; John F. Havens, 1855-56; Lewis Bennett, 1857, '(>•], and '71 ; Jesse Mun- son, 1858-59, and 1863-66; Edgar Munson, 1862; B. B. Switser, 1868; Frank AuUs, 1869-70; Theron Cole, 1872; Alonzo Eveland, 1873-74, and 1881-86; J. M. Gilmore, 1875-76; Isaac Esterbrook 1877; Ephraim Bennett, 1878-80 ; P>ank Aulls, 1887 ; Philip Vawger, 1888 and 1891 ; Frank Hedges, 18S9-90; S. A Zimmerman, 1892-95. The officers of the town for the year 1895 are S. A. Zimmerman, supervisor ; David Whitehead, Albert W. Dodge, W. C. Stetler and L. E. Bartholmew, justices ; John C Svvitzer, Arthur Gilmore and John O. Dennis, assessors. Bradford is one of the few towns of Steuben county in which there has been a noticeable decline in population, indicating clearly that the agriculturists of the region have suffered in common with those of the whole country. When fir.win, but soon learned that he was on Colonel Erwin's lands, consequently he left that locality and 88 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. built a new cabin opposite the Chimney Narrows, on the south side of the Chemung. Thus was made the pioneer settlement in the present town of Corning, although many years elapsed before this name was applied to the region. The town was originally a part of one of the provisional districts of Ontario county, and was organized in 1793 under the name of Painted Post Three years later Steuben county was created, the old district name was retained, and its territory included all that is now Hornby, Campbell, Erwin, Corning, Caton and Lindley. By reason of important early events the present central portion of the township of Corning was a locality of much note, although no hamlet worthy the name was built up until nearly half a century afterward. The important events alluded to were in the nature of land operations and had a direct bearing on the early history of the town. In the spring of the year 1 790 an association was formed for the pur- pose of purchasing from the Phelps and Gorham proprietary a large tract of land in this part of Ontario county. The members comprised Frederick Calkins, Caleb Gardner, Ephraim Patterson, Justus Wolcott, Peleg Gorton and Silas Wood, and their purchase, substantially, was the present town of Corning, or township 2, of range i. All of these purchasers, except Mr. Wood, settled on the land and began improve- ments as early as the year 1792. However, there appears to have been some dissatisfaction in the company, growing out of what was said to be an unequal division of the land, and on the 15th of March, 1792, a number of the members, with others who purchased from the company, reconveyed to Mr. Phelps 10,040 acres of land ; and on April 4, fol- lowing Peleg Gorton likewise deeded to Mr. Phelps 2,000 acres of land in the town. During their brief ownership, the proprietors caused a survey of the town to be made, after which the apportionment was effected, and when the feeling of disaffection arose the matter was referred for settlement to William Jenkins, Eleazer Lindley and John Bendy. The adjustment made b>' these arbiters proved satisfactor_\- to the interested owners, and thereafter the question of land titles in Corning was permanently settled. Then improvements began, one of the first and most needed of which was the erection of a grist mill on Post Creek, near Ephraim Patterson's DWIGHT A. FULLER. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 89 house, by Colonel Henderson and Mr. Payne. Two years later, 1795, Benjamin Eaton opened a store on the highway between Corning and Knoxville. The next year Charles Williamson, ever alert in the inter- est of his estates, puichased a tract of land on the north side of the Chemung and began the erection of a large and well-appointed public house, one which in appearance and size far outstripped any then in the Genesee country ; and one which has withstood the ravages of time for almost a century. This hostelry was long known as the "Jennings Tavern," John Jennings having been its owner and proprietor from 1813 to 1834, but the original landlord was Henjamin Patterson, the famous hunter and guide of the region in after years. Patterson came to the house in June, 1797, and on his arrival found these residents in the vicinity: David Fuller, Stephen Ross, Eli and Eldad Mead, George McCullough, Howell Bull, afterward prominent in Bath history; Benjamin I-laton, Mrs. Nehemiah Hubbell, widow of Ichabod Patterson ; Jared Irwin, Jonathan and Jeduthan Rowley, Abraham and Dr. Phineas Brad- ley, Eliakim Jones, Enos Calkins, Frederick Calkins, and the Grotons, Wolcotts, Rowleys, the latter three living farther east. Besides these settlers there were in the valley and elsewhere James Turner, William Knox, Hezekiah Tlunber, Samuel Shannon, David Hayden, Joseph Grant, Jonathan Cook and David Trowbridge. Knoxville (now part of the city), says a cotemporary writer, " was founded and named after Hon. John Knox, who came to the place about 1795. He led a distinguished and active life, reflecting the high- est honor upon the community in which he lived. His residence, in which he kept public house, was located on the second lot below the Methodist church (1876) in Knoxville. It was in this house that the original Painted Post Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons occupied rooms, and where it flourished till 1827." Ansel McCall moved into the town in i S04, and in the next year erected both saw and grist mills, on the south side of the river, near and below the canal dam. Centerville, according to the same authority as noted above, formed part of the large farm of Judge Thomas McBurney, who, in 1824 or '25, laid out village lots, and also set up a high post which he claimed to be on the site of the original Painted Post. Hon. Philo P. Hubbell kept a 12 90 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COONTY. large hotel, while other early business men were Fidelis Ferenbaugli, saddler and harnessmaker ; Z. F. Wilder, blacksmith; John Arnot and H. H. Matthews, storekeepers ; Charles L. Mills and Charles E. Osborne were also prominent business men of the place. At Centerville Judge Thomas A. Johnson began his legal career, and Ansel J. McCall, now of Bath, taught the first school. The old " Mallory House" was built about 1824. and in one of its wings the "Bank of Corning" began business in 1839. The act authorizing the construction of the Chemung Canal was passed April 15, 1829, and the work of building was finished in 1833. -^ State dam was built across the river at the lower end of the village, and a "feeder" was constructed to Horseheads, a distance of fifteen miles. Thus have we briefly narrated the events by which this town was brought into e.xistence and subsequently developed and built up, until it became in all respects the most progressive and firmly established town in Steuben county ; not, perhaps, the most populous, but one which from every point of view may justly lay claim to the title of metropolis of the shire. In general fertility of soil, natural advantages, thrift, enterprise and general progressiveness, the town of Corning, in- cluding of course the chartered city within its limits, is one of the best civil divisions in this part of the State. However, retrospecting briefly, let us note some of the changes in the original territory of the town called Painted Post. The first reduc- tion in area was made in 1826, when Erwin and Hornby (including Campbell and Lindly) were set oft', after which the town contained but two townships, numbers i and 2, range i, or, a§ now constituted, Corn- ing and Caton. The latter was separated from the mother town in 1839, leaving to Painted Post a single township, number 2, range i. The old name was continued until March 31, 1852, and then changed to Corn- ing, in honorable allusion to the enterprise of the " Corning Company," the acknowledged leader in which was Erastus Corning, of Albany, N. Y. This subject, however, will be more fully treated in the history of the city of Corning. Reduced to its present area. Corning contains (inclusive of the citj') 24,200 acres of land ; and land which agriculturists regard as ricli and fertile as can be found in all Steuben county. Noting its physical char- THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 91 acteristics, the wide valley of the Chemung, extending northwest and southeast through the center of the town, together with several lateral valleys, divide the uplands into rounded hills and narrow ridges. Its principal stream is the Chemung River, tributaries of which are Borden, Post, Narrows, Clump Foot and Wiiifield Creeks, as known a quarter of a century and more ago. The soil on the liills is a heavy, slaty loam, and in the valleys a fine quality of sandy and gravelly loam, occa- sionally intermixed with clay. These elements are desirable for suc- cessful agricultural pursuits, and in response to the proper efforts of the husbandman yield abundantly in general crops, and as well in vegeta- bles and tobacco. The assessed valuation of the town, in real and per- sonal property, is $761,760 ; in real, $719,260, and personal, $42,500. One of the most noticeable incidents of local history in Corning has been the constant and healthful increase in number of inhabitants in the town. In proof of this we may have recourse to the census tables, by which we learn that in 1800 the sparsely settled town of Painted Post had a population of 262, and during the next ten years the number had increased to 950. The census of 1S20 gave Corning 2,088 inhabitants, but the reductions in territory which were made in 1826 also took many inhabitants, and the consequence was that in 1830 the town had 974 population. However, during the succeeding ten years the num- ber was increased to 1,674, while the census of 1850 showed the popu- lation to be 4,372. In i860 it was 6,003, '" '870 was 6,502, in 1880 was 7,402, and in 1890, was 10,188. The city of Corning was created by act of the Legislature in I 890, and, according to the count of 1892, had a population of 10,025. In the same year the town had 1,838 in- habitants. As we have noted, the town was organized under the name of Painted Post, in the year 1793, then comprising one of the districts or towns of Ontario county. When Steuben county was erected, in 1796, and its towns formed. Painted Post was continued though somewhat reduced in area. In 1826 still other and greater portions of territory were taken in forming other towns. Previous to this time officers had been regularly elected and were chosen from the township at large. A com- plete Siiccession of these early ofificers, or at least the supervisors, would be desirable, but it is impossible owing to the absence of reliable records. 9S LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. However, having recourse to published documents, and relying some- what upon verified recollections, we are able to furnish a reasonably accurate list of supervisors from the year 1823, as follows ; Thomas McBurney, 1823-24; John Knox, 1825; Thomas McBur- ney, 1826-27; John Knox, 1828-29; Henry H. Matthews, 1830-32; Daniel Gorton, 1833-34; William Bonham ; 1835; Samuel K. Wol- cott, 1836; John McBurney, 1837-38; Henry H. Matthews, 1839; Thomas A. Johnson, 1840-41; John McBurney, 1842-43; John Sly, jr., 1844; Thomas A. Johnson, 1S45-46; H. B. Noyes, 1847; Jona- than Brown, 1848; Benjamin P. Bailey, 1849-50; Daniel B, Cump- ston, 1851; William Irvin, 1852; Simeon Hammond, 1853 ; John May- nard, 1854; Charles Packer, 1855; Benjamin P. Bailey, 1856; Stephen T. Hayt, 1857; Charles C. B. Walker, 1858; Stephen T. Hayt, 1859- 63; Nelson Cowan, 1864-66; Henry Gofif, 1867-68; John Vischer, 1869; Austin Lathrop.jr , 1870-77; Nelson Cowan, 1878; S. C. Robert- son, 1879-80; L. C. Kingsbury, 1881-83; Stephen T. Hayt, 1884; L. C. Kingsbury, 1885 ; H. C. Heermans, 1886-87 ; L. C. Kingsbury, 1888 ; B. W. Wellington, 1889; James L. Packer, 1890-92 ; R. F. Clark, 1893 ; Myron W. Robbins, 1894-95. The town offiers for the years 1895 ^""^ ^s follows : Myron W. Robbins, supervisor ; Frank H. Johnson, town clerk ; Egbert Shoemaker, W. H. Sweetland, H. W. Van Etten, and Wm. Gofif, justices of the peace; Henry Teak, commissioner of highways; P. A, Rouse, Peter Coven- hoven, and G. W. Barnard, assessors ; J. W. Calkins, overseer of the poor. About the time the town of Painted Post was divided (in 1826) the in- habitants of the county were much disturbed on account of the feeling of unrest and dissatisfaction occasioned by the attitude of the Pulteney As- sociation in the land controversy just beginning. However, in this par- ticular locality little of the prevailing distress was felt, for the lands of Painted Post generally were very desirable and much sought. Still, act- ing in common with the entire region, this town assembled in meeting and selected representatives to the historic Bath convention, as follows : Robert H. Hoyt, Joseph Gillett, Charles Wolcott, jr., William Webster and Henry D. Smith. From this time (about 1830) forth no disturbing event occurred to THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 93 mar rlie harmony of local growth and progress. Soon after ihc settle- ment of the controversy the Corning Company was organized and laid the foundation for what is now a flourishing city, and on every hand were evidences of prosperity. All interests were enlarged, railroads, one following another, were constructed through the town and Corning became indeed an important community in the southern part of New York. The ne.xt period of importance in local and general history was that commonly mentioned as the war of 1861-65, during which the martial spirit of this town was put to the test and not found wanting. A reference to the military roster of the town discloses the fact that Corning, town and village, furnished for the service a total of 324 men, who were scattered through the several regiments raised in southern New York. During the war the village was an important seat of operations and its close proximit}' to Elmira gave an additional interest to rapidly occurring events. In another chapter particular reference is made to the several companies recruited in the town and to their service at the front. Record and tradition alike are almost silent regarding the early schools in this important town, and the unfortunate loss of town books leaves us quite in the dark as to the time when the town was first ap- portioned into school districts. Yet we know that the pioneers were not neglectful of the educational welfare of their youth, for as early as the year 1793 Samuel Colgrove opened a school in the town. In later years, as the town was divided and other jurisdictions created, it became necessary to as frequently redistrict the remaining portions of Painted Post, or Corning, and when the village assumed proportions of impor- tance excellent academic institutions were established. These naturally drew attendance from the town at large, a condition of things which ex- ists even to tlie present time, for the superior excellence of Coming's schools is known throughout the southern tier. As at present disposed, the town is divided into sixteen districts, and during the last school year 2,428 pupils attended school in both town and city. The value of school buildings and property is estimated at $108,230, and the assessed valuation of the town and city is $4,200,445. Forty-eight teachers are employed annually. The joint town and city received public moneys to the amount of $7,981.06, while there was 94 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. raised by local tax the additional sum of $24,143.24 Eleven trees were planted in 1894. DansVILI,E — Originally, this town composed all the territory that is now Dansville, Fremont, Wayland and portions of Howard and Co- hocton It was one of the original towns of the count}-, formed in March, 1796, and was named from Daniel P. Faulkner, an early and spirited citizen familiarly known as Captain Dan. Parts of Cohocton and How- ard were taken off in 18 12, a part of Wayland in 1848, and of Fremont in 1854. A portion was also annexed to Sparta in 1822, and a part of Cohocton was re-annexed April 26, 1834. Reduced to its present limits, Dansville contains 30,000 acres of land. The surface is chiefly upland divided into ridges by the narrow valleys of small streams. The declivities of the hills are steep and their summits are 300 to 400 feet above the valleys. The streams are the head branches of Canas- eraga Creek, flowing north, and of Canisteo River, flowing south. The soil is a sandy and gravelly loam in the east and north, and gravel underlaid by hardpan in the southwest part of the town. Notwithstanding the fact that the early settlement of this town was much delayed by reason of the uninviting character of the land, it ap- pears that when once begun the population increased rapidly, and in 1810 there were 666 inhabitants in the district. There seems also to have been made a mistake regarding the fertility of the land in this region as later years and persistent effort developed the fact that Dans- ville possessed natural resources almost equal to any portion of the county. To-day, as a potato pioducing section it leads all others in this part of ihe State ; and William C. Healey is one of the most ex- tensive farmers and growers. In proof of this statement we may quote from the words of a writer of local history in 18 12, as follows: "This is an excellent tract of land, well and variously timbered, and the soil is various though commonly good for a rich farming country. There is a large marsh in the west part, and Loon Pond, near the center, is about one mile broad. There are three grain mills, four or five saw mills, an oil mill, paper mill, full- ing mill, and a carding machine." Speaking of the locality of Dans- ville village, the same writer says: "The valley embracing this settle- ment contains 3,000 acres of choice lands and the soil is warm and pro- THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 95 ductive. There is a road from Bath to Dansville that leads diagonally across the center of this town, and another between Dansville and On- tario county leads across the northern part." At about this time there were lOO taxable inhabitants in the town. The pioneers of Dansville were Isaac Sterling and Samuel Giison (some authorities say Gibson) who made a settlement about a half mile ■east of Burn's Station in the year 1804. These settlers were followed very soon afterward by James, John and Major Jones, Frederick Fry, William Young, Thomas and Nathaniel Brayton, Tisdale Haskin, Thomas and John Root, Joshua Healey, Charles Oliver, Joseph Phelps, Hlisha Robinson, William C. Rogers, Jesse Bridge, Jqsiah Pond, Joseph Cobb, Martin Smith, Newman Bell, Putnam Rich, better known as Put. Rich, Judge David Demeree, Jehial, Gross and James Gates, Arad Sheldon, Silas Brookins, Isaiah Goodno and Venare Cook. The settlers were principally Vermonters from Addison and Rutland counties, from the old towns of Pittsford, Benson, Orwell, Shoreham, and Salisbury. They were descendants of Green Mountain stock and left their homes in that rich localit}' for an uncertain future in an undeveloped countrj'. However, as Vermonters, they were men of great determination and by their efforts early succeeded in placing Dansville among the first towns in Steuben county. As early as 1806 pioneer Isaac Sterling opened a public house on the old Arkport and Dansville road, and as this was a much traveled highway it is said that within a very few years there was a tavern at every mile on the road, and the woods were alive with noisy oxteamsters who hauled staves to Arkport, from which point they were boated down the Canisteo to market. Indeed settlement must have been rapid for in 1811 James Jones opened a school not far from Doty's Corners. Rufus Fuller built a saw mill in 18 16, and four years later built a grist- mill and another saw mill, taking the stones from Oak Hill. The grist mill was carried away by high water about 1823. The settlement by the Vermont colony was begun in 18 15 and continued for the next five years at which latter time pioneership ceased, as the population in 1820 was 1,565. However, among the other pioneers and early settlers we may men- tion the names of Osgood Carleton, 181 5, Jesse Churchill, tavern- 96 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. keeper in 1 8 16, Timothy Atwood, surveyor and schoolteacher, William S. Lemen, whose son James P., born March, 1816, was the first white child born in the town. Chauncey Day settled in 1816. The locality known as Sandy Hill was settled principally by Germans, among whom Alexander Leib, John Hayt, Alexander Green and Jacob Kurtz, sen. and jr., were the first comers. The patriarch of this locality was John Brail, whom every one knew as " Grandpap Brail." He came to Dans- ville in 1817. Among the early German families in this locality were the surnames of Bolinger, Rider, Kersh and Schu. On Oak Hill a set- tlement was made in 1816-17 by Moses Hulbert, Joshua Williams, Daniel, George and Hubbard Griswold, William C. Rogers, Thomas Buck, George Butler and Joshua Woodward. One of the first mar- riages in the town, June 16, 1818, was that of Cyril Buck and Philena Hall. Dr. Thomas M. Bowen settled east of Beachville in 18 19 and was an early postmaster at South Dansville. Eli Carrington, Timothy, Nathaniel and Meyer Wallace, Vermonters, joined the settlement in 1820. Here Arad Sheldon opened a tavern, and the place soon became a business center. It was named Beachville, after Aaron, Robert and John Beach, brothers, who were prominent tavern and store keepers. With settlement thus rapidly accomplished, Dansville earl)' became an important division of the county. Its greatest population was at- tained in 1840, the inhabitants then numbering 2,725. However, by subsequent reductions in its territory, and the natural decline in popu- lation and interest noticeable in nearly all purely agricultural towns, Dansville has a population, according to the enumeration of 1892, of only 1,544. The organization of Dansville was effected on April 4, 1797, at which time the town contained its original area, and before anj' reductions to its territory had been made. At that time the population could not have numbered more than 200 inhabitants. The meeting was held in the village of Dansville at the house of Samuel Faulkner, at which time James Faulkner and Isaac Van Deventer were elected overseers of high- ways, and David Fuller, collector. The first records of the town are somewhat obscure and imperfect, yet we know that in 1799 Daniel P. Faulkner was elected supervisor, James Hooker, town clerk, and Alex- ander F'ullerton, William Porter and John Phoenix, assessors. The first THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF TFIK COUNTY. 97 justices, who of course at the time were appointed, were Isaac Van De- venter. 1807, Jonas Cleiand, 1809, Stephen Haight, 18 10, and Jolin Metcalfe, 181 1. The town officers for the year 1895 are as follows: Lorenzo Hul- bert, supervisor ; C. C. Wood, town clerk ; L. K. Robinson, D. G. Haynes, Philip Webb and C. Byron Wallace, justices of the peace ; D. H. Griswold, Alexander Smart and Wendell Gessner, assessors ; Valen- tine Weber, collector; Daniel Eveland, highway commissioner ; John C. Grobe, overseer of the poor; John Haight, Peter Schubmehl and Charles O. Currey, excise commissioners. The supervisors of Daiisville, in succession, have been as follows : Daniel P. Faulkner, 1799; Alexander Fullerton, 1799, to fill vacancy; Jacob Van Deventer, 1800; Amariah Hammond, 1800, to fill vacancy ; Samuel Faulkner, 1801 ; Amariah Hammond, 1802-06 ; Richard W. Porter, 1807-08 ; Jared Irwin, 1808, to fill vacancy; Samuel Cuthbert- son, 1809; Jared Irwin, iSio; Jonathan Rowley. 18 1 1-12 ; Wm. R. Rochester, 1813; Thomas McWliprton, 1813-15; James Faulkner, 1816-18 ; Joshua Hcaley, 1819 and i 82 1-26 ; James Faulkner, 1820; Charles Oliver, 1827-32; Natiianiel Brayton, 1833; Aaron W. Beach, 1834-36; Joel Carrington, 1837-39 ; Timothy Wa'lace, 1840-42; Joshua Healey, 1843 ; Charles Oliver, 1844 and 1847-48 ; Leeds Allen, 1845- 46; Joel Carrington, 1849-50, and 1854; Luther White, 1851-53; Wm. W. Healey, 1855, '58 and '60; Eli Carrington, 1856-57; Wm. A. Woodard, 1859; Chas. S. Ackley, 1861-62; Wm. W. Healey. 1863; Dyer L. Kingsley, 1864-68 ; Benj F. Kershner, 1869 ; Warren Wallace, 1870-71; Fred. M. Kreidler, 1872; Morgan H.Carney, 1873-74; Lewellyn S. Healey, 1875-76 ; Chas Oliver, 1877-80 ; D. Campbell, 1881; J. McWoolever, 1882-83; Morgan L. Miller, 1884; Peter S. Pealer, 1885-86; C. M. Ackley, 1887-89; C. S. Kreidler, 1890-91; Lorenzo Hurlburt, 1892 ; Ira G. Day, 1893 ; Lorenzo Hurlburt, 1894-95. From first to last, the social and industrial history of Dansville has been rich and inttresting, although during the last thirty years there has been witnessed a gradual decline in population in the town. The first important event in local annals was the anti-rent conflict, in which the people felt a deep anxiety, for their interests were greatly affected by the distress prevailing at tluit time throughout the region. In the 13 98 LjiNDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY measures for relief the leading men were actively engaged, and in the ]5ath convention of January, 1830, the town was represented by Thomas M. Brown, Peter Covert, Annis Newcomb, Leeds Allen and Martin Smith. However, this disturbing period had hardly passed before there was visited upon the people here the dreadful cholera scourge of 1834, as H result of which many persons in the town met premature death. Nothing further of a serious nature took place to disturb the serenity of town affairs and progress until the outbreak of the war of 1 861-5, dur- ing which period the patriotism and loj'alty of Dansville were tested and found true. Many of the brave sons of the town were enlisted among the volunteer regiments of the county, and several still sleep in southern graves. Due care and attention have also been given to the spiritual and edu- cational welfare of the youth of the town, and during the period of its history no less than five church societies have been organized and edi- fices provided for religious worship. In 181 1 James Jones opened a primitive school in the town, although several years passed before dis- tricts were formed and schools provided for each. However, at a much later period, two academic institutions were founded at Rogersville, the principal village of the town, and from that time Dansville occupied a front rank among the educational localities of the entire region. As at present disposed, the town is divided into fourteen districts, each of which is provided with a comfortable school house. During the school year 1893—4, fourteen teachers were employed, and 357 children were in attendance. The value of school property in the town is estimated at $6,000. The town received of public moneys, $1,610 83, and raised by tax, $1,701.94. Fourteen trees were planted in 1893. Among the religious societies of this town which have passed out of active existence, we may mention the Evangelical cliurch, organized in the German settlement on Oak Hill in 1863, and also the Catholic mission, established in the same locality as early as 1834. A Baptist society was also formed in Dansville about 1S20, but this, too, is among the things of the past. Erwin. — On the 27th day of January, 1826, the town of Painted Post (formed March 18, 1796,) was divided and a portion of the territory set ofT was erected into a new town by the name of Erwin; and so called in THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTV. 93 allusion to Col. Arthur Erwin, formerly of Bucks county, Penn., who had been an officer in the Revolutionary army, and by whom tiie town was purchased from the Phelps and Gorham proprietary. However, from the original town of Erwin, Lindley was taken off in 1837, and a part of Corning was re annexed in 1856. As then constituted and now existing, this town -contains 23,300 acres of land, of as good quality for general agricultural purposes as can be found in Steuben county. The physical features and natural characteristics are remarkable and quite dift'erent from those of the county at large. The land surface is nearly equally divided between high rolling uplands and the low valleys of streams. The more elevated lands are from 400 to 650 feet above the valleys. In the southern part of the town the waters of the Canisteo unite with the Tioga, and in the northeast part the latter stream unites with the Cohocton and forms the Chemung River. In all respects Er- win may justly be regarded the best watered division of this large county. The valley.s of the streams vary in width from one to two miles, and the soil is a fine quality of alluvium. However, notwithstanding all the various advantages of location, and the general fertility of soil, both on hills and in the valleys, it is only within the last score of years that the forest growths have been removed, and there are still in the town a few desirable timbered tracts. This town contains, according to accredited authority, one of the most historic landmarks of Steuben county — the famous " Painted Post," the subject of rhyme and story ; and concerning which all students of arche- ology and the Indianologists as well, were at loss in satisfactorily basing and proving their theories. However, this subject is so fully treated in one of the early chapters of the present work that nothing more than a brief allusion to it is necessary at this time. The town abounds in In- dian history and traditions, well authenticated in many cases, and purely mythical in others, and all have been treated and frequently enlarged upon by past writers, wherefore in this narrative we propose to deal only with the civilized white settlement, tracing briefly the interesting record of growth and development to the present time. In the summer of 1789, Col. Arthur Erwin set out from his home in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, accompanied with a good number of help- ers, bound for Canandaigua, the seat of operations of the Phelps and LofC. iOO LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTy. Gorham proprietary. This adventurous pioneer came with a determi- nation to locate in the Genesee country, and brought with him a fair drove of cattle to be turned into cash or used as stock on his proposed purchase. At that time the fact was well known that Samuel Harris, trapper and Indian trader, had a cabin within the limits of the pres- ent village of Painted Post, and here Colonel Ervvin stopped to rest his cattle. The location and general outlook pleased the colonel, and he immediately resumed his journey to Canandaigua, reaching which he at once enquired if township number two, range two, was in the market, and, if so, at what price. Phelps charged and Erwin paid the gross sum of ^^1,400 New York money, for the township, turning his cattle in part payment and cash for the balance and thus became the owner of the town afterwards named for him, the subject of this chapter. Three years previous to this event, or in 1786, Samuel Harris built a cabin on the village site, and employed himself in trapping, curing and dealing in furs, and trading among the Indian occupants of the region. He was not in any sense a pioneer and made no attempt at clearing or improving the land. According to Judge Mcl\Iaster, the Harris cabin was subsequently burned. In 1789 this pioneer adventurer moved to a point near the foot of Cayuga Lake. Augustus Porter, surveyor for Phelps and Gorham, made the Harris cabin his headquarters while lay- ing out the townships in this part of Ontario county. The settlement in fact of the town began in 1788, for account of which we have recourse to a previously published narrative, as follows : In 1788 came Eli Mead and George Goodhue and their families. In 1789 came David Fuller and family; in 1790, Bradford Edgeton. Will- iam Hincher. James Shaw, with their families, and David Cook, whose family came in 1792. Col. Arthur Erwin, the owner of the township, came in the very early spring of 1791 with the intention of making it his permanent home. On his return to Bucks county for his family, he had reached his possessions then in Luzerne county, and while sitting in the house of his tenant, Daniel McDufife, he was assassinated by a squatter, who immediately made his escape on a stolen horse. In 1791 came John Wyman and family, Capt. Samuel Erwin, then unmarried, and Major Arthur Erwin, both sons of Colonel Erwin. In 1793 Eldad THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTT. 101 Mead became a settler, and in the following year John Mulliollen and several others were added to the settlement along the rivers. The year 1796 witnessed the arrival of Hugh I'',rvvin, another son of Colonel Erwin, while among the settlers of 1797 were Joseph Grant, Jacob Turnei-, Homer and Asher Lane and John Kemp, nearly all of whom brought families. Among the other early settlers in our town were Benjamin Patterson, famed throughout the region for his hunting proclivities, and as well for liis generous hospitality as a tavern-keeper; and as a story teller and general entertainer he was without a peer in the town. Prominent also among the pioneers were John E. Evans, who taught the first school in the town, and was at one time postmaster, also George Young and Edward Cooper, all of whom were identified with the town in its early history. Referring briefly to some of the first events of local history, it may be stated that Samuel Erwin built the first saw mill, in 1820, and the the first grist mill in 1823, while David Fuller opened the first public house in 1792. John E. Evans began teaching school in 1812, and among his pupils were Robert and John Patterson, Gen. F. E. Erwin, Gen. William D. Knox, John Erwin, Col. F. E. Young, Thomas Wheat, Arthur H. Erwin, John McBurney, Samuel Shannon, Philander Knox and others, each of whom occupied positions of trust and responsibility in after years. The war of 1812-15 was an important period in local history, and one not without interest to the people of the town. Among those drafted for service were Abner Trowbridge, Edmund C. Cooper, James Gillen and Thomas Wheat. Joseph Gillett held a lieutenant's commission, and was wounded in battle. Judge Thomas McBurney was another com- missioned officer. Edmund C. Cooper sent a substitute in his place. Uaniel MuUhoUen enlisted twice, and finally lost an arm in the service. The town of Erwin, having within its boundaries parts of four con- siderable rivers, has several times been subjected to serious inundation, and some of these occasions have passed into history as notable events, hence worthy of at least passing mention. In the fall of the year 1817 there came what has ever been known as the "pumpkin" flood, by which crops, cattle and many buildings were swept away. In 1833 the 102 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. waters of both Conhocton and Tioga were swollen to an unusual de- gree, and some damage and still more excitement was the result. Next came the great flood of 1857, which also proved disastrous, and finally that of St. Patrick's day, 1865. The interest of Colonel Erwin in this town was an entire one, and had that worthy pioneer lived to witness the execution of his plans here indeed would undoubtedly have been a municipality of considerable commercial importance; but his unfortunate and untimely taking off unsettled all plans for the future of the town, although his sons sliowed commendable ability and zeal in settling the affairs of the estate and holding intact its value. After Colonel Erwin's death the property was divided among his ten children, of whom Samuel, Francis, Arthur, Rebecca and Mrs. Mulhollen became residents of the town The estate was divided by a commission comprising John Konkle, Eleazer Lud- ley and Henry McCormick. In this narrative thus far progressed we have generally alluded to the town under its present name — Erwin — although as a matter of fact the territory remained a part of Painted Post until 1826. After being set off, the first town meeting was held March 7, of the year mentioned, at the dwelling of Daniel Rooks, jr. Ethan Pier presided on this occa- sion and Capt. Samuel Erwin was elected supervisor, and John E, Evans, town clerk. From that time it is interesting to note the succession of supervisors, the principal town office, viz.: Samuel Erwin, 1826-29; Abner Thurber, 1830-32; John Cooper, jr., 1833; Chauncey Hoffman, 1834-35; A.C.Morgan, 1836; Francis E. Erwin, 1837-38; Arthur Erwin, jr., 1839-42; William J. Gillett, 1843-48; Arthur H. P>win, 1849-50; Ira P. Bennett, 1851; Uri Balcom, 1852-53; Samuel Erwin, 1854; Arthur H. ILrwin, 1855-62; William J. Gilbert, 1863 ; Wm. C. Bronson, 1864-67 ; Alanson J. Fox, 1868; W. C. Bronson, 1869; Lyman Balcom, 1870 ; Ira P. Bennett, 1871 ; Charles J. Fox, 1872-74; Francis Erwin, 1875; W. S. Hodg- man, 1876; Francis Erwin, 1877-80; Charles Iredell, 1881-33; Thomas R. Peck, 1884; W. S. Hodgman, 1885-88; F. E. Bronson. 1889-90; George W. Campbell, 1891-95. In this connection we may also properly furnish the list of town of- ficers for the present year, 1895 '• George W. Campbell, supervisor; J. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 103 D. Orcutt, town clerk ; J. S. Tobias, S H. Howell, W. C. Morse and George Uunklee, justices ; Hiram P. Badger, L. Kinsella and C. D. Rouse, assessors ; Frank Berry, collector and overseer of the poor; F. C. Wilcox, iiighway commissioner; E. D. Bonhani. W. A. Allen and E. E. Erwin, excise commissioners. Soon after the separate organization of Erwin, the inhabitants of the entire region were much disturbed on account of the land controversy of about 1830, but as this town was entirely outside the interests of the Pultney Association, the serious effects of the conflict were not felt here. However, the event was the subject of much discussion in the accustomed resorts, and the town was represented by delegates in the famous Bath convention. This duty was delegated to John E. Evans, Samuel Erwin and John Cooper, jr. In i860 Erwin contained 1,859 inhabitants, yet, during the war of 1861-65, the town is credited with having furnishing a total of two hundred and ten men for the service, or about ten and one-fourth per cent of the population. A history of the several companies in which were Erwin volunteers will be found in another chapter of this work. During the period of its history, there have been built u]) and estab- lished within the limits of this town several villages or hamlets, known, respectively, as Painted Post, an incorporated village and as well one of the most interesting and historic localities in the county ; Gang Mills, a hamlet southwest of the principal village and brought into existence about 1832 ; Cooper's Plains, a hamlet and post-office in the north part of the town ; and Erwin, a station on the Erie road and established about 1873. The village of Painted Post and also each of these ham- lets will be found mentioned in the chapter devoted to municipal hi.'^tory. In concluding this chapter we may with propriety refer briefly to the census reports and from that source glean some facts relative to the population of Erwin at different periods. In 1830 the inhabitants in the town were 795 in number, while in 1840 it had decreased to 785. During the ne.xt ten years the increase was remarkable, the census showing the population to be 1,435. ^" 1S60 the number increased to 1,859, and in 1870 to 1,977. The greatest number of inhabitants was reached in 1880, being 2,095, but a decrease followed, the number in 1890 being 1,884. According to the count of 1892, Erwin's popula- tion was 1,843. 104 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. CHAPTER VIII. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. Fremont. — In the year 1854, about the time of the organization of the Republican party, the creating powers were petitioned to form a new town in Steuben county, and in accordance with the request there was erected the present town of Fremont, so named in allusion to John C. Fremont, who at that particular time was a conspicuous figure in national politics. The town was erected on November 17, and the older divisions Hornellsville, Dansville, Wayland, and Howard surren- dered portions of their territory to the new formation. The new town contains 19,600 acres of land, and is located in the northwest part of the county. Its surface is a hilly upland and forms a part of the divid- ing ridge between the Canisteo and Conhocton Rivers. The soil is chiefly a shaly loam, derived from the disintegration of the surface rocks. The pioneer of this town was Job B Rathbun, a native of Connecticut, but a former resident of Dansville in this county. Mr. Rathbun moved into what is now Fremont in 18 12 and built the first dwelling house in the town, and from his settlement the locality soon became known as " Job's Corners." About the same time Abel H. Baldwin moved in from Otsego county, e.xchanging one hilly region for another. Next came Thomas Buck and family from Washington county. John A. Buck married Rebecca Baldwin, and their son, Charles E , born Novem- ber 12, 1816, was the first birth in the town. The first death was that of the wife of Amos Baldwin, December 12, 181 5. Among the other early settlers may be recalled the names of Ira Travis, in the valley of Big Creek ; Solomon and Jacob Conderman, from whom has descended several prominent men in the county; John Bartholomew, in the southeast part of the town ; Lemuel Harding, in 1816; Oliver Harding, a patriot of the Revolution ; Samuel Sharp, who ^?^^, ^ THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 105 located west of Harding's. Harding's Hill was so named from the fam- ilies just referred to Eiislia Strait was the first settler in the north part of the town, coming here in 1815, and was followed in 1816 by Edward Markham and Francis Drake, who located south of him. In 18 19 Jerry Kinney, George Nutting, Barnet Brayton, Henry Cotton, and Leonard Briggs made a colony settlement at the head of the west branch of Neil's Creek. Here they found a camp of about twenty Indians, who were engaged in hunting and fishing. Alexander Kelly made the first clearing where Haskinville is located. Other and later settlers, yet worthy to be mentioned in these annals, were James Rider and William Haskins, from Saratoga count\', also William Holden, Gideon Majnard, Silas Benjamin, Stephen Holden (1816), Lewis Canfield, Daniel Upson, Michael G. Helmer, Edward Pat- terson, Elisha G. Stephens, founder of the village called Stephen's Mills, Richard Timmerman, and others who were in some manner iden- tified with the history of the town while its territory formed a part of the older divisions. As we have noted the town was organized as a separate jurisdiction in 1854, then having a popidatioii of about i, loO inhabitants. The first town meeting was held in Mr. Stephen's hotel at the Center, on Febru- ary 13, 1855, at which time these officers were elected: Elisha G. Stephens, supervisor; Franklin Dart, town clerk; Jason Ranger, Solo- mon Gates, Ebenezer H. Mason, justices of the peace; Randall F. Beecher, Isaac P. Haskins, Morrison Harding, assessors; Hiram Culver, Norman Eldridge and William Haskin, highway commissioners ; James R. Babcock, collector; Cornelius Condernian, overseer of the poor. The town officers for the year 1895 ^^""^ ^^- J- Harding, supervisor; E. R. Kilbury, town clerk ; J. M. Kelly, Seymour Jones, D. D. Wild and Melvin Nipher, justices of the peace; A. D. Huvener, assessor; E. H. Helmer, collector; R. C. White, overseer of the poor; Clark Haight, highway commissioner; Smith E. Harding, A. D. Osborn and Levi B. ICvans, excise commissioners. The supervisors of Fremont have been as follows: Elisha G. Stephens, i855-i;6; Lorenzo N. Rider. 1857-59; Jason Ranger, 1860-61 ; 0th- niel Preston, 1862-63 ; Samuel E. Haskin, 1864; William B. Stephens, 1865-66; W. B. Rathbun, 1867; William B. Stephens, 1868; Esek 14 106 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Page, 1869-72; Ira Carrington, 1873-74; De Merville Page, 1875; Calvin Bullock, 1876; L. H. Benjamin, 1877-78; W. H. Bowen, 1879- 80; S. S. Cotton. 1881-82; C. K. Mason, 1883; S. S. Cotton, 1884; M.J. Harding. 1885-86; Joel Killbury, 1887; G. S. Van Keuren, 1888- 89; Harrison Russell, 1890-91; S. S. Cotton. 1892; M.J. Harding, 1893-95. In 1855 P'remoiit had a population of 1,1 19, and in i860 had 1,117. In 1870 the number of inhabitants was again 1,119, ^"<^ i" 1880 had increased to 1,274, but in 1890 had fallen to 1,047 I" 1892 the popu- lation was i,o8S. This is peculiarly an agricultural town, and as such compares favor- ably with other adjoining divisions; and while there has been made some attempt at manufacture this pursuit has never added materially to local prosperity. In the growth of hay, grain, potatoes, apples, and dairy products lies the success of the people of Fremont. Unlike many towns of the county, Fremont has not suffered seiiously from disturbing causes. To be sure the anti rent conflict had an effeet somewhat prejudicial to local interests, yet at that time settlement was not far advanced and the territory of the town belonged to the older divisions of the county. The sturdy agriculturists steadfastly ad- hered to their legitimate occupation in life and gave small heed to the annoyances of the period. However, during the war of 1861-65, a truly martial spirit pervaded the entire community, and Fremont sent into the service no less than one hundred and three men, who were scattered through the different companies organized in the county. This was certainly a remarkable record, especially when we consider the fact that in i860 the population of the town was but 1,117. Previous to 1855 the school interests of Fremont were a part of the history of older towns, but in the year mentioned, under the local com- missionership of George Collins, jr., the town was divided into districts, nine in number, while the children of school age numbered 457. From this beginning the present school system of Fremont has developed. The districts now number ten, and the children about 300. Ten teach- ers were employed during the last current year. The value of school property is $4,395. The town received of public moneys, $1,183.78, and raised by tax $1,43 1.61. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 107 Among the several nanied liamlets or settled localities of P'remont, that known as Stephen's Mills or Fremont Center, is the largest. It is located near the center of the towr.. Ilaskinville is in the northeast part, Niel's Creek is in the southeast part. Big Creek in the south part, and Job's Corners in the east part of the town. Big Creek is a post- office station, D. D. Weld, postmaster. Neil's Creek is also a post- office, Matthew N. Silsbee, postmaster. Here also is tiie feed and cider mill of P. Pettis. Job's Creek has a grocery kept by B. R. Chiibbuck. Haskinville and Stephen's Mills and also the churches of this town are elsewhere mentioned in this volume. Greenwood. — This town was formed from Troupsburg and Canis- teo, January 24, 1827, and inchuletl all that is now West Union as well as Greenwood. The former was taken oft" in 1845, "i"*^ -^ P'"t "f^ Jas- per was annexed in 1848. As at present constituted Greenwood con- tains 24,700 acres of land, the greater part of which is rolling upland. Bennett's Creek flows northerly through the east part of the town, in a valley from two to six hundred feet below some of the hilltops. The soil is a clayey and gravelly loam. When the land proprietors began to develop this region, for the pur- pose of inducing settlement in what was then supposed to be an unin- viting wilderness of forests, they cut a road up the creek through this town to the Pennsylvania line. However, no settlement was made im- mediately after the completion of the work, nor until after the construc- tion of the highway leading from the Thomas neighborhood to the then famous salt spring in the town we now call Greenwood. The In- dians made salt at this spring long before the advent of the whites and the locality was a favored spot in the aboriginal period ; and the spring was no less prized by the white-faced pioneers, and at an early day an attempt was made to manufacture salt here by PZzekiel Burger and a Mr. Matthews. The second road was cut through in 1820, and in the spring of the ne.xt year we find Alexander H. Stephens and Anson Robinson clear- ing land and building a saw mill within the limits of the town. This was the pioneer settlement, though the family of our chief adventurer, Mr. Stephens, did not come till the mill was completed. P^zra and John H. Stephens next came up the valley to the town, after which 108 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. settlement progressed rapidly, for the lands were cheap and well tim- bered, and the soil fertile. In 1823 the family of Deacon Daniel Man- ning came, and in the same year Eleazer Woodward became a settler, and built a small tannery near the Stephens mill. Both of them came from New Hampshire. The next settlers were Dennis Sanford, Seth Norton, Stephen Pow ell, all along the ridge, and Hiram Putnam, John H. Hayt, Joseph and Josephus Batchelder and Jacob Manning, along and near the creek. Guy Wardwell settled on the strip annexed from Jasper. Collating and noting briefly some of the other early families we may recall the names of Levi Davis, Ira and Randall Pease, Christian Cobey, John Holt, James Henshaw, Daniel Ward, Benjamin Chamberlain, Hugh Carr (whose wife taught the first school), Phineas Stephens, Uriah F. Stephens, Col. John Stephens, Enoch Ordway, Ezra Lovejoy, Amos Lewis, Josiah Richardson, Stephen, Lyman, Amos and Jesse Wilmot. Lyman Wilmot built a grist mill at the place called Rough and Ready. Still later comers were George Updike, Benjamin Edwards, William Atkins, John Rogers, John J. Ducher, Enos Smith, John Balsby, Rich- ard Krusen ( a pioneer tavern-keeper and also land agent, and witlial a man who did much to bring settlement into the town), Ezekiel and Hiram Burger, William Burrows, Joshua Goldsmith and others, all of whom were located in the town as early as 1830. So rapid indeed was early settlement in this extreme portion of the county that the convenience of the inhabitants demanded a separate organization and a new town, and the result was the division of Canis- teo and Troupsburg and the creation of Greenwood, comprising orig- inally the territory we have previously described. The population of the new formation at that time did not exceed 700, notwithstanding the extent of territory, about 55,000 acres. The first town meeting was held at the house of Levi Davis, on March 6, 1827, and the following officers were elected: Levi Davis, supervisor; Anson Cook, town clerk; David Murray, Randall Pease, and Uriah F. Stephens, assessors ; Richard Kruzen, Uriah Ingley and Aden Lewis, commissioners of highways ; Jacob Manning and Jacob Bess, overseers of the poor ; Abram V. Olmsted, Joseph Batchelder, Thomas Johnson, commissioners of schools ; Francis Strong, Josiah THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 109 Haywood and Moses Clausen, inspectors of schools ; John H. Stephens, collector. The town was named by Alexander H. Stephens, one of its most influential early citizens, and through his efforts the strip from Jasper was annexed to Greenwood. Referrinij briefly to some of the important ear!)- events of town his- tory, may be mentioned the first mill, built by Alexander Stephens in 1821-23 ; Levi Davis built a log house in 1824, and opened tavern in 1825. He also kept a small stock of goods, and dispensed good whis- key at twenty cents per gallon. The first post-oflice was in Mr. Davis's store, and mail was brought from Hornellsville on horseback. This was about 1828 or '29. Mr. Davis was for a time partner with Ira Davenport. In 1 830 David Foote and Redmond Ferguson began the manufacture of furniture and coffins, and in the same year B. F. Brundage built a carding and fulling mill. This was burned in 1846, and was replaced with the flouring mill. In 1835 James (" High Jimmy ") McCormick shipped to market the first butter from Green- wood. Alvin Mead is said to have brought the first wagon into the western part of the town, in 1827. Daniel McCormick built a grist mill at Rough and Ready about 1832. The first birth was that of Charles C. Stephens; the first marriage that of Hiram Putnam and Lucinda Stephens; the first death that of Ezra Cobey. The supervisors of Greenwood have been as follows : Levi Davis, 1827-29 and 1831-32; Thomas Johnson, 1830; Randall Pease, 1833; Anson Cook, 1834-36 ; Jos. Davenport, 1837-38 ; John J. Holt, 1839- 40; Alex. H. Stephens, 1841-47; Elijah Guyon. 1848-51; John Davis, 1852-54, 1856-59, 1864, 1869, 1872-73; Augustus Mailory, 1855; Israel M. Brundage, i860. 1862-63, 1870; Daniel Manning, 1861 ; H. H. Mailory, 1865-66, 1875-81 ; R. H. Sheffield, 1867-68; John S. Hartrum, 1871 ; Merrit F. Smith, 1874; P. A. Mead, 1882; Valentine Reiman, 1883-85; G. D. Woodward, 1886-87; N. E. Coston, 1888. 1890; M. F. Smith, 1889; John S. Young, 1890-91 ; L. G. Burton, 1893-95. Town officers, i8.;5: Lynn G. Burton, supervisor ; Eugene Brun- dage, town clerk ; John S. Young, George M. Woodward, John K. Miller and Edward H. F"erris, justices ; H. W. Young, J. D. Northrup and W. H. Taylor, assessors; Willis Scribner, collector; John N. 110 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Hovey, overseer of the poor ; Dudley B. Ersley, highway commis- sioner ; Ira Clark, Reuben Stephens and Freeman Rogers, excise com- misioners. There lias been little change in the population of Greenwood during the last half century, and the number of inhabitants has not increased or diminished to the extent of two hundred in the last thirty- five years. In 1830 the town had 899 inhabitants, and 1,138 in 1840. Ten years later the population was 1,185, ^""^ '" i860 was 1,306. In 1870 the number was 1,394, and 1,386 in 1880. It was 1,312 in 1890, and 1,241 in 1892. Three j'ears after the separate organization of Greenwood, the people of the region were much disturbed and directly affected by the anti- rent conflict and the discussions of its period. In the convention at Bath in January, 1830, we find as delegates from Greenwood a num- ber of her leading men, among them Levi Davis, Thomas Johnson, Anson Cook, William J. Strong and Randall Pease. Mr. Davis was one of the committee appointed to prepare and present to the agents of the proprietary the memorial for the relief of the distressed settlers. During the war of 1861-65, Greenwood furnished a total of seventy- five men for the service. A history of the various companies to which belonged volunteers from the town will be found in another department of this work. In the course of its history there has been built up and established one thriving and prctt)- little village, and also two hamlets of less note, known, respectively as West Greenwood and Rough and Ready. The first mentioned village, and its institutions, will be treated especially in the municipal history, in this volume. Hartsville. — On the 7th of February, 1844, the town of Hornells- ville was divided, and township No. 3, of range 6, Phelps and Gorham purchase, was erected into a separate town by the name of Hartsville. Either by design or mistake this township was originally sold by Oliver Phelps to the company of proprietors who purchased Canisteo and Hornellsville. These purchasers sought to secure Nos. 3 in the fifth and 4 in the sixth range, but through some cause the deed of convey- ance described townships three in the fifth and sixth ranges. However, before many improvements were made in this town the error was dis- covered and corrected. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. Ill Geographically, I lartsville is located on the western border of Steuben county and south of the center. It contains 23,200 acres of land and is regarded as one of the best dairy towns of the county. Tlic land sur- face is generally hilly and somewhat broken, though there is compara- tively little waste or useless land in the town. Bennett's Creek flows northerly through the east part and Purdy Creek has its course from west to east across the north part and discharges into Bennett's Creek in the town of Canisteo. The first settler in this locality was Benjamin Brookins, who made an improvement in the year 1809, but, becoming discouraged, left for other parts before the pioneer in fact of the town made his beginning. Joseph Purdy, an earnest and hard working Irishman, located in the north part in 1810, and for a time occupied the cabin abandoned by his predecessor ; and records inform us that Purdy was the onl)' settler in this then remote region until the year 1819. Still, during'this period the pioneer made a good beginning and cleared a good farm. His name is worthily preserved in the town, by the name of the principal stream and also the name of the post office at the Center. In 18 19 Jesse Palmater, Perry and Andrew Potter and William D. Burdick came to the town, settling in the northwest part. Daniel P. Carpenter came in 1822, driving with an ox team, and located half a mile south of the Center. Frank Powell came the same year and settled near the site of the cemetery as afterward established. The settlers in 1823, as near as can be determined, were William Hudson, John Granger and Ebenezer and Robert G. Martin, while in the next year came Joseph and James Thompson. John Hood came in 1826, and is remembered as having been and old "war of 1812 " survivor. He organized the town militia company and was its captain ; Nathaniel Williams was its lieutenant, and Oliver Coon ensign ; F"erris Clawson, sergeant. General training day was a notable occasion, and Carpenter's lot was the scene of many a hard fought battle against the common foe — Yankee ginger-bread and hard cider. In 1825 William Allison, the head of a numerous and prominent family in the county during later years, settled near the Carpenter place. James Howell and John Martin joined the settlement in 1828. Othniel Call came during the same year and located on what was named for 112 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. him " Call Hill." He was followed later on by Joseph, David and Orlando Call, thus creating the Call settlement. Francis and Micah Kennedy came in 1829, and James Classen, John Henry, and David Whiting in 1830. Among the later settlers were Henry Acker, Reu- ben and Charles N. Hart, Simeon Baker and h's sons James, Ephraim and Simeon, jr., Thomas Stout, Ralph Amidon, George L. Puffer, David Phelps and others, all coming in gradually and adding to the settlement until the lands were quite well taken up. Many of these settlers gave their first attention to clearing the lands, hence were engaged more or less extensively in lumbering ; and it has been claimed that between 1825 and 1840 there were no less than fourteen saw and shingle mills in operation in the town. The forests were reasonably well cleared about 1850, after which Hartsville became an agricultural district. To this end nature has favored the people here, for the soil, a shale and clay loam," is good and yields well in return to proper cultivation. The lands are especially adapted to grazing and the growth of hay, hence here we have an important dairy town in this part of the county ; and the village of Canisteo and the city of Hornellsville are always good markets. According to conceded authority, the first events of town history in Hartsville were these: the first birth, that of Sarah A. Carpenter; the first marriage, that of Robert G. Martin and Mary A. Gleason ; the first death, that of an infant child of Ebenezer Martin, all in 1823. The first school was taught by the daughter of Joseph Purdy. Daniel P. Car- penter opened a store in 1825, and built the first saw mill in 1827. Robert G. Martin built a mill, where the recent Allison mill stood, in 1832, and soon afterward William Allison built another. R. F. Allison put in the first steam power in the town. The first tavern keeper was Henry P'risbee, 1849; the second, Joseph Henry, in 1851. The town was organized in 1844, and in 1845 had a population 759, or just twenty- three less than the population as shown by the census of 1892. The greatest number of inhabitants was in i860, being i 154. Hartsville was so named in honor of Charles N. Hart, for many years one of its foremost men and identified with its best history. The first town meeting was held in February, 1844, and the officers elected were Charles N. Hart, supervisor; F,rastus S. Beard, town clerk ; James THE ClVir, DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 113 Beard, Jonatlian Pettibone and Elizur Sage, assessors; Silas Palmater, Jonathan B. Ptirdy, Reuben W Willard and Henry Acker, justices of the peace ; Israel Adams, Edmund Cook and Levi C. Henry, highway commissioners. The supervisors of HartsviUe, in succession, Iiavc been as follows: Charles N. Hart, 1844-45; James Beard, 1846-47; I'diiiund Cook, 1848-49; Erastus Beard, 1850; Francis Kennedy, 1850-51; James Beard, 1852-53; E. Cook, 1854; Jas Beard, 1S55 ; C. C. Purdy, 1856; Jas. M. Cook, 1857-58; Shepard Amidon, 1859-60; Richard F. Allison, 1861-66; Silas Palmer, 1867 ; R. F. Allison, 1868 ; Lyman A. Cook, 1869-70; R. F. Allison, 1871-72; James A. Almy, 1873; Joseph Vickers, 1874-75; James B. Hendee, 1876-77; Langford Whitford, 1878; Milo M. Acker, 1879-80; James A. Almy, 1881-82; Charles Amidon, 1883; Jacob Vickers, 1884-85; S. B. Van Buskirk, 1886; Wm. Clark, 1887-88; Wm. C. Acker, 1889-90; N. P. Flint, 1891-92 ; Wm. C. Acker, 1893-95. The officers for the year 1895 are as follows: William C. Acker, supervisor ; Floyd E. Carney, town clerk- ; Aaron Kennedy, R. Clark, Scott Van Buskirk and M. S Amidon, justices of the peace; James A. Almy, Fremont Hendy and W. A. Vickers, assessors ; J. W. Norton, highway commissioner; M. D, Westcott, collector; Leroy Johnson, overseer of the poor; Alexander Todd, Eli Woodworth and Charles Comstock, commissioners of excise. The martial spirit with which Captain John Hood inspired his citizen soldiers during the good old daj's of general training seems to have been enduring and to have awakened a spirit of patriotism truly com- mendable, for we find that during the war of 1861-65 'he town of Harts- viUe contributed a liberal quota of men. They were attached to several regiments formed in the county, and a more complete record of their services will be found in another chapter. When first formed from Hornellsville the schools of this town were a part of the system then in operation, but after the separation was re- arranged in districts to suit the convenience of the inhabitants. The districts were nine in number, each provided with a school. As at present arranged HartsviUe has eight districts, and the total number of children in the town of school age is about 225. Eight teachers are 114 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY employed during the school year. The value of school property is $3,190, and the assessed valuation of the districts is $251,535. In 1893-94 the town received from the public school funds the sum of $907.26, and raised by local tax $1,027 67. Hornby. — About the closing years of the war of 1812-15, a few families of limited means, yet filled with determination and energy, sought to make a settlement in the extreme eastern jjart of the town of Painted Post. Asa and Uriah Nash, former residents of Otsego county, came to this region in the year 1814, and located in townsiiip number 3, of the first range, thus founding what became known in later years as the " Nash settlement." This part of the town \\ as then supposed to contain much undesirable land, for which reason sales were slow and few indeed were the pioneers who cared to undertake its settlement and improvement. However, the Nash families began their improvement in the nortli part of the township, and after testing the quality of the land it was found wholly desirable, altliough hilly and rolling. Other settlers soon came in, among those of the year 18 15 being Edward Stubbs, Samuel Adams, Ezra Shaw and Jesse Underwood. In the same year the " Piatt settlement " was founded in the southwest part of the town, the settlers in which locality being Jesse Piatt, John Robbins and A masa Stanton. In 1816 the "Palmer settlement" was likewise established, its pioneers being Aden Palmer, James Gardner and Ches- ter Knowlton. In this manner these pioneers, and their followers soon afterward, made not only a complete settlement of what is now Hornby, but also succeeded in developing the natural resources of a comparatively unde- sirable region, .making many good farms and comfortable homes. This beginning had the effect to attract others to the vicinity, and dur- ing the next few \ears there came Penjamin and Hiram Gardner, Isaac Goodell, John St. John, Aaron Harwood, John Sa}er and Jacob Good- sell with his two stalwart sons Daniel and Henry. Still, these determ- ined pioneers had to contend against many difficulties. Theirs was a wild region, the habitation of wild animals of manj- kinds, some of which were particularly destructive to growing crops and yard fowls and occasionally to cattle. To exterminate them the settlers devoted much time to hunting and from this region has been handed down many THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 115 famous stories of wonderful achievements on tlie part of local nimrods. However, after the forests were cleared and farms opened tlie more an- noying animals disappeared and only the ordinary obstacles of pioneer life were to be overcome. Referring still further to the subject of early settlement, let us recall the name of pioneer Hodge in the eastern part of the town, and also in the same locality the later comers, Samuel Lilly, Wm. W. Cole, Martin Lane Benjamin Lewis, jr. Other earl)- comers, equally worthy of mention, were Theodore Hendrick, John Harrison, Wendall Rhoda, Seneca Burnap, Thomas Jewett, Parnach Haradon, Marcus Gaylord, John Bixby, Josiah Wheat, Caleb Gardner, William Easterbrook, Jonas Ward, Andrew B. Dickinson, Henry Gardner, ail of whom were settled previous to the division of Painted Post and the formation of Hornby. This was done in 1826, the original town comprising all that is now Hornby and Campbell, the latter being set oft from the former in 1831, taking half its territory. As then and since constituted, Hornby con- taining 25,200 acres of land, an excess over the thirtj-six square miles supposed to be included in township 3, range i. In 1830, four years after the organization of Hornby, the inhabitants of the district numbered 1,365, and in 1 S40, Campbell having been formed in the meantime, the population was 1,048. In 1850 the num- ber was 1,314; in i860 was 1,291; in 1 870 was 1,202; in 1880 was 1,209, 3nci in 1890 was 1, 01 i. Thus we discover that in more recent years this town, in common with other similarly situated localities, has suffered a material reduction in population, owing to the same causes prevailing elsewhere — the decline in interest and profit in agricultural pursuits and the tendency of the young people of both sexes to seek employment in cities and large villages. The first election of town officers in Hornby was held at the tavern kept by Mr. Shaw, also at Knowlton's and Dickinson's stores, and is remembered as covering a period of about three days. This was in 1826. The officers elected were Andrew B. Dickinson, supervisor; Josiah Wheat, town clerk; Hiram Gardner, collector ; Alonzo Gaylord, Milo Hurd and Jonathan Fellows, justices of the peace; Amasa Stan- ton, commissioner of highways ; Hiram Gardner, constable. A more complete list of first town officers is impossible owing to the imperfect condition of records. Il6 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. The supervisors of Hornby, ''n succession, have been as follows : An- drew B. Dickinson, 1826; Rice Nash, 1827; A. B. Dickinson, 1828- 29; Daniel Clark, 1830-31; A. B. Dickinson, 1832-37; W. H. Gay- lord, 1838; Amasa Stanton, 1839-41 ; David Smith, 1842-44; Flavel W. Morrow, 1845 ; Peter Rhoda, 1846-47 ; Willis H. Gaylord, 1848; F. W. Morrow, 1849; John T. Stanton, 1850; Peter Covenhoven, 1851-52; John T. Stanton, 1853; F. W. Morrow, 1854; Wm. A. Arnistrong,_i855 ; F. W. Morrow, 1856-58; George Adams, 1859-60; N. B. Stanton, 1861-64; J. H Ferenbaugh, 1865 ; Asem Eddy, 1866- 67; James B. Humphrey. 1868; Samuel Easterbrook, 1869-70; J. H. Ferenbaugh, 1871-73; Samuel Easterbrook, 1874-75; Samuel C- Erwin, 1876-77; Alfred Roloson, 1878-81 ; Thomas Oldfield, 1882- 83; Daniel Rogers, 1884-85; Albert Duvall, 1886-87; Thomas Old- field, 1888; J. H. Ferenbaugh, 1889; J. A. Stanton, 1890-92; E. J. Easterbrook, 1S93-95. The officers for the year 1895 are as follows: E. J. Easterbrooks, supervisor ; C. C. Roloson, town clerk ; W. J. Underwood, H. D. L. Adams, F. L. Rogers and W. S. Lilly, justices of the peace; Oren Roloson, W. J. Wasson and P. B. Humphrey, assessors ; James E. Armstrong, highway commissioner ; John D. Scott, overseer of the poor ; James McCarty, collector. During the first fifteen years of civilized white settlement and life in Hornby, the inhabitants had little else to distract attention than their constant efforts to e.xterminate the wild animals then infesting the region. This people were not subject to the embarrassing incidents of the war of 1812-15, nor were there troublesome Indian neighbors to add to the difficulties attending pioneer life. However, only four short years after the organization was effected there came the anti-rent or land controversy, the first serious period in local history; yet even this had not the distressing effect felt in many localities as the lands here were purchased at moderate prices, and only the difficulties of realizing ready cash on sales of crops confronted or annoyed the settlers. In all the events of the time local residents took a deep interest and some of them an active part. Meetings were held and the subject thoroughly dis- cussed, and its result was a delegation to the Bath convention in Janu- ary, 1830, attended by Isaac Goodsell, Samuel Oldfield, Josiah Wheat, THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 117 Francis Northway and Levi Nash. Delegate Goodsell served on the committee appointed to petition the agents of the PuUeney and Hornby estates, and in all respects was a worthy and competent representative. This town was named in respectful allusion to John Hornby, who was an extensive land owner in the Genesee country ; in fact was the holder of a two twelfths interest in the noted Pulteney association. After this period had passed nothing noteworthy occurred to disturb the serenity of domestic life until the outbreak of the war of the Rebel- lion, during which period the town is credited with having furnished for the service a total of fifty one men. These were scattered through the several commands recruited in the county, and a more full narration of their services will be found in another chapter of this work. The one event which more than all others has contributed to the welfare of Hornby was the construction and operation of the Syracuse, Geneva and Corning railroad, the line of which passes across the south- east part of the town. The company was chartered August 27, 1875, and was opened for traffic December 10, 1877. The entire town is benefited by tliis tiioroughfare of trade, and to it the little hamlet called Ferenbaugh almost owes its e.xistence. The mention of this post-office and station leads to the observation that Hornby has three settled hamlets, established for the convenience of the inhabitants of the town They are designated by the names of Hornby, or Hornb)' Forks, Dyke, and F"erenbaugh. Of these Hornb)- Forks is perhaps the largest. Each has a post-office. The hamlet first mentioned has a good school and the Baptist and Presbyterian cluirches. Dyke has a school and a Wesleyan Methodist church. Speaking of schools recalls the fact that the first school in this town was taught by Jane C. Leach in the days of early history, while another early teacher was Aionzo Gaylord. Soon after the formation of the town in 1826, the territory was divided into districts, but five years later, after Campbell was set off, redistricting became necessary. Since that time only such changes have been made as the public convenience demanded. The districts are now twelve in number, and the school property is estimated to be worth $5,300. The school population is about 235. In 1894 the public moneys apportioned to Hornby amounted to $1,35440, and there was raised by local tax the additional sum of $1,429.14. 118 LAKDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. HORNELLSVILLE — In the early part of the year 1789 Solomon Bennett, Capt. John Jamison, Benjamin Crosby, Uriah Stephens, and possibly Elisha Brown, left the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania and proceeded by way of the Susquehanna and Chemung Rivers to visit the Phelps and Gorham purchase, for the purpose of investigating the character of the region, with the ultimate intention of making for them- selves and their families permanent homes in the new countrj'. On reaching the historic locality known as Painted Post, the party journeyed up the Conhocton several miles, but not finding the lands suited to their desires, returned, and next proceeded up the valley of the Canisteo to the present town of Hornellsville. In this vicinity a careful examination of the lands was made, and here the party decided to purchase and es- tablish a settlement. Accordingly, a company was organized, comprising Solomon Bennett, Elisha Brown, James Hadley, John Jamison, Arthur Erwin, Uriah Stephens, jr., Joel Thomas, Christian Kress, John Stephens, William Bennett, Uriah Stephens, sr., and William Wynkoop. Solomon Bennett and Elisha Brown were delegated to visit Oliver Phelps at Canandaigua and purchase from the proprietary two townships — No. 3 in the 5th range and No. 4 in the 6th range, but through an error they in fact pur- chased townships numbers 3 in the 5th and 6th ranges, and the mistake was not discovered until after some improvements had been made in the township first mentioned ; and when the company applied to Mr. Phelps for a correction of the error that shrewd proprietor made a new con- veyance only after taking from the north side of number 4, range 6, a strip of land one mile in width. The corrected deed was executed on the 17th day of September, 1790 We may further state by way of ex- planation that township 3 of the 5th range comprises substantially the present town of Canisteo, while number 4 of the 6lh range in the same manner constitutes the division of the county now known as Hornells- ville, although now within its boundaries are included portions of other townships. As constituted by this conveyance the town last mentioned was six miles from east to west, and five miles north and south. However, since its organization as a separate town (April i, 1820), Hornellsville has surrendered portions of her territory to other formations; Harts- THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 119 ville was taken oft" in 1844, and a part of Fremont in 1854 Mornells- ville, within its present boundaries, contains 26,200 acres of land. The new proprietors, immediately after their purcliase, proceeded to draw lots for lands in the township, which for this purpose was divided into twelve parts. This disposition of the lands (which now would be quite novel, but was then common) resulted in James Hadley secur- ing Lot No. I ; John Jamison (or Jemingsen), No. 2 ; Arthur Er- win. No. 3 ; Ciiristian Kress, No. 4 ; Joel Thomas, No. 5 ; Uriah Stephens, jr.. No. 6; John Stephens. No. 7; William VVynkoop, No. 8 ; Uriah Stephens, sr., No. 9; Thomas Bennett, No. 10; Elisha Brown, No. II ; Solomon Bennett, No. 12. The pioneer and early settlement of this town Vv.is accomplished while the territory formed a part of the still older town of Canisteo, and for the purpose of designation, the region of which we write was known as "Upper Canisteo;" a name which was in fact continued until the separate organization of the town of Hornellsville. There has long existed a difference of opinion among writers of early local history as to the year in which the first permanent settlement was made in this town, and according to the reminiscences of Deacon Mowrj' Thatcher, of honored memory, the date may be recorded as 1790 instead of 1793 ; and drawing information from all reliable sources, the present writer feels bound to accord the honor of pioneership to Benjamin Crosby, who, in the year 1790, located on the site of the present city of Hornellsville. His lands comprised 1,600 acres, and his dwelling is believed to have stood where now is built the Hotel Osborne. Richard Crosby, son of the pioneer, came at the same time, and his house was located near the creek, just north of tlie Mr. Hough's, on Maple avenue. Oliver Harding is believed to have been the second settler, following soon after pioneer Crosby, and .located between Main and Genesee streets, near Hakes avenue. He was the nearest neighbor to Mr. Crosby. Later on he moved to Harding Hill, in Fremont. The Stephens family was also prominent among the pioneers, Uriah, sr., being the head, although Uriah, jr, attained greater prominence in local history. His name is still well preserved in the county. "On July 9th, 1793," says Mr. Near, "John Stephens, who drew 120 LANDMARKS OP STEUBEN COUNTY. great lot No. 7, conveyed this lot, containing 1,600 acres, to George Horneii, for a consideration of ;^i 1 1." From the same authority we also learn that Judge Hornell built the first mill on the site afterward occupied by the Thacher mill, being the first grist mill west of Elmira, except the Bennett mill at Canisteo. According to the researches of Miles W. Hawley, Mr. Hornell had previously visited this region in the capacity of trader among the Indians, and thus became acquainted with the locality in which he perinanently settled in 1792, although he did not purchase the Stephens lot until the ne.xt year. Judge Hornell, as afterward known, made a small clearing at the upper end of Main street, near the intersection with Washington street. In 1800 he built the first tavern in either town or village, and by his enterprise and public spiritedness almost at once became the leading man of the upper Canisteo region. He was identified with many measures which bene- fited the public rather than himself, hence the honors that were after- ward bestowed upon him were worthily deserved. The town, the village, and the present city of Hornellsville have been successively named in his honor. He was one of the early associate judges of the county, also one of the first postmasters, and was in the Legislature in 1808. Judge Hornell died during the fever epidemic of 1813, which swept so disastrously throughout this region. These were the earliest settlers in the town, and in fact the Crosbys, Hardings, Stephens and Hornells were about the only settlers previous to 1 8 ID on what is now the city site. However, in the upper part of the valley the lands were taken quite early, and from Mr. Hawley's papers we learn that Judge Hurlbut and his son John located at Ark- port as early as 1797, and made improvements. Among the other settlers in the same locality were Nathan Corey, Stephen Webb, Joel Atherton, Joseph Corey, while later comers were William Hyde, Elias Van Scoter, Julius Cleveland, Captain Abbott, John P. Ryers, John Pitts, Silas Stephens, Willis Hyde, William Sharp, Capt. Andrew Morris and others. Arkport became a place of some note at an early day, due largely to the efforts of Judge Hurlbut, who built a public house in 1798, a saw- mill and storehouse in 1800, and in the same year launched the famous "ark" on the waters of the Canisteo, and transported the first cargo IK' \^ J. H. KEHLEK. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 121 of grain from this region to Baltimore. Referring to the other early settlers in the town, we may mention Nathaniel Thacher, father of Deacon Mowry Thacher, who came from Troupsburg in 1810 and set- tled a mile below the village site, near the Arnot grist mill. He was also a strong man in the new region, and was frequently elected to positions of trust and honor. Deacon Thacher was only a boy when his father moved into the valley, and possessed the fortunate faculty of retaining early memories of the town, and from his reminiscences have come many of the most interesting facts of local history. Still other and perhaps later settlers, worthy, however, of mention were Dugald Cameron, John R. Stephens, Medad Bostwick, Andy L. Smith. James Dildine, Martin Adsit, William O'Connor, Jonathan Nicholson, Orson Sheldon, Abram Cadogan, Jesse Eddy, John Peak, Nathaniel Finch, Rufus Tuttle and Peter Labour, all of whom were in some manner identified with the development and growth of the town more than half a century ago. Settlement on the hills which abound in the town was naturally de- layed to a time later tlian the occupation of the valleys In the locality known as Wellever Hill, near the Hartsville line, the first settler was Mr. Cahran, followed later on by David Wellever. Andrew Hender- shott, Samuel Hathaway, Peter Best, John Meeks and James Spencer. Alanson Stephens made a clearing on the hill overlooking the city. In the Crosby Creek neighborhood the first settlers were Leonard Drake, Jerry Davis, William D. Burdick, Richard Peterson, Samuel and Thomas Burnett, Asa Whitford, Isaiali Bartlett and F.lisha Potter. Among the first occupants of the region of Pennsylvania Hill were James Dildine, James McMichael, William Emery, A. Sutton, Daniel Sutton, Ira Hyde and Gilbert Wright. The well known Webb district was settled by Col. John R. Stephens, Stephen Webb and Bazey Baker. Matthias Reed was the first settler in the Winfield neighborhood, where the Win- fields, Clevelands, Burches, Belts, Keefers and Newsons afterwards located. On the turn[)ike road between this town and Bath, Major Burnett made a settlement in 1808, and later on there came here John Beattie, Jonathan Nicholson, Dudley Robinson, William R. .Stephens, Samuel Jones, Henry Chapman, Nathaniel Finch, Nathan Osborne and others. 16 122 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. The first birth in the town is said to have been that of William Stephens, in December, 1792 ; the first marriage, that of Reuben Crosby and Jenny McQueen, in 1799; and the first death, that of a child of Judge Hornell. The judge built the first saw and grist mill, kept the first public house, and also the first store. The first school was taught by Abigail Hurlbut in 1796. Early settlement in this part of the Canisteo valley was somewhat slow, as the census reports inform us that in 1800 the entire town had only 510 inhabitants, in 18 10 but 656, and in 1820 the number was 891. However, the inhabitants of the Upper Canisteo country felt the necessity of a separate jurisdiction, and accordingly had recourse to the Legislature, and the result was the creation of a new town named Hor- nellsville, a tribute of respect to the memory of one of the foremost men of the region. The erecting act was passed April I, 1820, and within the limits of the new formation was all the territory of the present town of Hornellsville, together with Hartsville and a portion of Fremont. The former was separated from this town in 1844, ""id the latter ten years later. The full organization was completed at a meeting of the freemen held at the house of Martha Hornell, widow of the pioneer, on the first Tues- day in March, 1 82 1, at which time these officers were elected: Ira Davenport, supervisor ; John R. Stephens, town clerk ; John Hurlbut, George Hornell and James Harding, assessors : William B. Bostwick, collector; Elijah Stephens and Stephen Webb, overseers of the poor; Stephen Coon, Asa Upton and Samuel Harding, highway commis- sioners ; Christopher Hurlbut, Arvin Kennedy and George Hornell, in- spectors of schools ; James Taggart, William Stephens and Amos Graves, commissioners of common schools; William B. Bostwick, David Whit- ney and William Webb, constables; Amasa Thacher, Justus Harding and William Stephens, jr., fence viewers. Having become fully organized, the authorities of the town, acting in harmony with the leading inhabitants, at once set about the develop- ment of all local interests, establishing a prosperous condition of affairs on every hand as the best and strongest inducement to attract other settlers. The result was an immediate and thenceforth constant growth in population and business interests, and whereas the entire jurisdiction THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. V2Z of Canisteo had a population of 891 in 1820, the town of Htinit-llsviUe contained 834 inhabitants in 1825. In 1830 tiie number had increased to 1.572, and ten years later to 2,121. In 1850 the population was 2,637, 3'id 4-230 in i860, desjiite the fact that during the last two dec- ades one full town and a portion of another had been formed from the territory of this town. Again, in 1870 the census gave Hornells- ville a population of 5,837, and in 1880 of 9,852, During the next decade, in 1888, the city was entirely separated from the mother town, taking therefrom nearly 10,000 of her inhabitants; still, in 1890, the town had a population of 1,939. Including the population of the city, which lies wholly within the geographical limits of the town, the num- ber of inhabitants now living in the joint districts is conservatively estimated at 14,000. The history of the city, from the time when pioneers Crosby, Hard- ing, Hornell and their early associates made the first i-.nprovement, forms an interesting element of the history of the town at large ; yet, according to the plan of this work, they are separated and each is made the subject of a distinct chapter. The busy little hamlet of Arkport will also be found mentioned in another part of this volume. In this connection it is interesting to note the succession of leading ofificers of the town ; that is, the supervisors, town clerks and justices of the peace. Supervisors — Ira Davenport, 1 82 1-22 ; John R. Stephens, 1823-25 ; Thomas Bennett, 1826-27 ; James McBurney, 1828-3 i ; James Dyke, 1832-33; James McBurney, 1834-35; I^a Davenport, 1836-39; Hugh Magee, 1840-41 ; John R. Morris, 1842-44; Thomas Major, 1845-47; Martin Adsit, 1848 ; Aaron Morris, 1849-50; Elisha G. Stevens, 185 i- 52 ; VVm. Bennett, 1853-54 ; Lewis D. Benton, 1855 ; Marcus E. Brown, 1856-57; Alanson Stephens, 1858-59; Philip Van Scoter, 1860-61 ; J. H. Stephens, jr., 1862-64; John A. Major, 1865-66; Chas. F. Smith, 1867 ; J. W. Robinson, 1868; Arza P. Breeze, 1869 ; John McDougall, 1870-72; Walter G. Rose, 1873-74; Miles VV. Hawley, 1875-77; S. E. Shattuck. 1878; Samuel Mitchell, 1879; Esek Page. 1880-82; J. William Nicholson, 1883 ; M. \V. Hawley, 1884; Walter G. Rose, 1885 ; George Holland, 1886; Avery McDougall, 1887 ; Miles W. Hawlev, 1888; Henry Colgrove, 1889; L. C. Healy, 1890; Henry Colgrove, 1891 ; L. C. Healy, 1892; William S. Hurlbut, 1893-95. 124 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Tozvn Clerks. — John R. Stephens, 1821-22 ; George Hornell, 1823 ; Samuel Thacher, 1824; WilHam Stephens, jr., 1825; Otis Thacher, 1826-28; Augustus Newell, 1829; Thomas Bennett, 1830; John Morris, 1831; Jno. R. Morris, 1832; Thomas J. Reynolds, 1833; Martin Adsit, 1834-39; Charles Lefferts, 1840; Andy L. Smith, jr., 1841 ; Hiram Bennett, 1842-44; Rufus Tuttle, 1845 ; Andy L. Smith, jr., 1846; Rufus Tuttle, 1847; Daniel Bullard, 1848 ; William H. Doty, 1849; Nath. Blakesley, 1850-52; Marcus E. Brown, 1853-55; Chas. E.Baldwin, 1856; Nathan Nichols, 1857; Miles W. Hawley, 1858; Theo. Badger, 1859; Nathan Nichols, i860; Joseph Laiiphear, 1861 ; C. C. Reynolds, 1862; Elmon D. Smith, 1863; Peter P. Houck, 1864; M. W. Hawley, 1865-72; Wm. H. Greenhow, 1873-77 ; Joseph Cam- eron, 1880; Niles L. Harrison, 1881 ; Wm. H. Reynolds, 1882-83; Jos. Cameron, 1884-86; Harris C. Sawyer, 1887-88; Julius Weber, 1889-90; Wm. Ford, 1891-92; James F. Deeter, 1893-95. Justices of the Peace, (elected). — John Pitts, Jabez Lanphear, 1830; Jno. R. Stephens, 1831 ; Ephraim Wood, 1832 ; Chas. N. Hart, 1833 and 37; Jno. Baldwin, 1834 and 38 ; Stephen Abbott, 1835 ; De.xter Strait, 1836; Jno. Pitts, 1838-39,1844; David Crandall, 1839 and 40; Chas. Lefferts, 1841 ; Elisha G. Stephens, 1842; Israel Adams, 1842; Sid- ney Frisbie, 1843; Nathaniel Finch, 1844, 1848 and 1849; Hiram Bennett, 1845, 1850, '54, '61 and '65; Benj. T. Hoyes, 1846; Ethan Coats, 1847; Andrew Morris, 1847-51 ; John Hurlbut, 1848, '56, '60: Wm. E. Haight, 1852; James Atley, 1853; Jno. M. Wisewell, 1857; Homer Holliday, 1855, '59, '63, '68 and '73 ; Richard C. Major, 1858 ; Wm. W. Osgoodby, 1862; James McWoolever, 1864; F. Colgrove, 1865; S. M. Thacher, 1866; S. D. Pitts, 1866; Stephen F. Gilbert, 1867; Rodney Dennis and Henry Howard, 1869; Chas. E. Beard, 1870, '74; H. F. Howard, 1871, '75, '79, '83; Martin V. Doty, 1872; Orson Mosher, 1876; Edwin J. Cox, 1877; Henry L Walker, 1878- 79; Fay P. Rathbun, 1870; John Griffin, 1880; Wm. E. Haight, 1882; Irving Paine, 1884; James H. Clancy, 18S5 ; Lot Reznor, 1886; Warren W. Oxx, 1887; Frank Kelley, 1888; Chas. P. Emery, 1889; M. A. Emery and D. C. Hopkins, 1890; W. E. Ellis and D. L. Dungan, 1891 ; J. L. Kellison, 1892; Norman Bennett, 1893; Chester Halbert and A. A. Sewell, 1894; W. E. Ellis, 1895. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 125 Present Town Officers (1895). — William S. Hurlbut, supervisor; James F. Deeter, town clerk ; Wells E. Ellis, Chester Halbert, J. L. Kellison and Adelbert A. Sewell, justices; Nelson Ayres, Thomas Burris and Henry Colegrove, assessors; Austin C. Hill, overseer of the poor; John W. Wood, collector; Lot Reznor, highway commissioner; Henry Lovee, Hiram Ellis and Frank Waddington, excise commission- ers. The civil histor)' of the town of Hornellsville, from first to last, forms an interesting and instructive chapter in the annals of Steuben county. The pioneers of this special region had to contend with the same ob- stacles and the same discouragements as did those of other localities, and the lands here were not more in\'iting than in other parts of the Canisteo valley. The first comers found a few patches of cleared land and the Indians were still occupants of the soil. Within the present boundaries of the town were several places where stood the rude hab- itations of the red man, and while the latter were not hostile, they were never particularly friendly, and yielded to the advances of civilization with ill-disguised feelings of reluctance. During the war of 1812, the remaining Indians were regarded with distrust and apprehension by the settlers, as it was feared they might again return to their old alliance with the British. However, after the danger of an outbreak had passed, the arts of peace engaged the undivided attention of the inhabitants, farms were cleared, new lands were developed, and aa era of pros- perity prevailed on every hand. Preceding and during the period of the so-called Anti-rent Con- flict, the public mind was much interested, but as the Pulteney and Hornby associations had no interests in this town the people here for- tunately escaped the embarrassments caused by it. In fact the dis- turbed condition of affairs elsewhere had the effect of attracting settle- ment to this town, and during the five years between 1825 and 1830, the population of Hornellsville was nearly doubled. The one great event which above all others contributed to the \^\^o- motion of local interests, was the construction of the New York and Erie railroad. The preliminary surveys were made by De Witt Clin- ton in 1832, and the company was organized in 1833. The fiist work of construction in this town was done in 1841, though nearly ten j-ears 126 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEK COUNTY. elapsed before the road was in operation. On Sunda\-, September i, 1850, the first train of cars was run into Horncllsville. The road was completed to Dunkirk, May 14, 185 I. With this great consummation the prosperity of the town was assured, and later railway interests only added to the general welfare. With soil that ) ields profitably in return to proper cultivation, it is only in the natural course of events that Hornellsville ranks well among the agricultural towns of the county ; and in the production of potatoes, as a special interest, the locality is unsurpassed. The military record of the town is one in which the whole people feel just and pardonable pride. With a population of 4,230 in i860, we find credited to the town during the period of the war a total of almost 425 men in all branches of the service. In a preceding chapter of this volume special reference is made to the xarious companies and regi- ments to which this town contributed, and the memory of the volun- teers is kept alive in the hearts of every patriotic citizen of the town by the monuments erected in their honor. Howard. — On the i8th of June, in the year 1812, the towns of Bath and Dansville surrendered portions of their territory to a new formation called Howard. However, it was not long before the new creation was itself called upon to } ield a part of its area to still later subdivisions, as it contributed to Avoca in 1S43, and to Fremont in 1854. Thus remaining, and as at present constituted, Howard contains 34,900 acres of land, all devoted to the peaceful arts of agriculture and kindred pursuits. It is an interior town, lying west of the shire town, and its surface is chiefly a rolling upland, forming a [lart of the ridge which divides the Conhocton and Canisteo rivers. The streams are small, and in the northeast part arc two small ponds. The claim has been made by recent and reliable authorities that the first settler in this town was one Hovey, who made a clearing of a few acres and then abandoned the field. His inipiovenunt, it is also said, was taken in 1805 by Mr. Travis and his family, and the latter were in fact the pioneers of the town. However, other authorities assert that the pioneer was Abraham Johnson, who located in the vicinity of Towlesville in 1806. Charles McConnell was about the next settler, and located on what afterwards became known as the Alkali Bennett THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 127 farm. At that time Asa McConnell, son of Charles, was only seven years old, and he grew up in the town and afterward rose by his own efforts to a position of importance in Hornellsville and the county; and his sons are among the foremost business men of that enterprising city. From this time on settlement increased rapidly, and within the next few years there came and located in various parts of the town Saimicl Baker, Reuben and Abrani Smith, Joel and Abel Bullard, Daniel N. and Jacob I^ennett Job Rathbun, and his three brothers, all, it is be- lieved, during the year 1S09. In 18 10 William Allen, John Iloagland, and Daniel Smith joined the settlement, and Israel Baldwin came in 181 1. Russell Burlison came in 1S12. In this year the town was set off and given a separate organization, at which time pionecrship had virtuallj- ceased. Still, among the prominent later comers were Jonas and Seth Rice, Benjamin, Thomas and Isaac Bennett, Jonathan Ketchum Hamilton Parkhill, John Stephenson, David Walker, Andrew Baker, George and James Stewart, Richard Towle, Reuben Hammond, Isaac Brasted, Joseph Lam, Oliver Parkhill, R. F. P'erris, Simeon Baker, David Rathbun, Jabes Beebe, and others perhaps equally worthy of mention, but whose names are lost with the lapse of years. Jonathan Ketchum built the first framed hotel in the town, and suoii afterward put up a small tannery. The first tavern was built of logs, by Isaac Bennett, and the second by Benjamin Bennett. Randall and Calvin Graves built the first store, and this was the only industry of its kind in Howard until Calvin Whitwood settled there, in 1831. He was succeeded by James and George Alley, and the latter became success- ful merchants and weie also owners of a grist mill east of the village. They soon left the town and were succeeded by Aaron McConnell, also a successful merchant. h'rom what has been noted it will be seen that the lands of Howard were settled at a comparatively early day, and by a class of men who were in every sense thrifty and progressive. In this respect we make no new disclosure, for this town has always been noted for the substan- tial character of its men as well as its institutions. Occup) ing a some- w hat remote locality from the established trading centers, and possess- ing no suitable facilities for manuf.icturing enterprises, the inhabitants of Howard have iiecessaril}' been farmers, and to this pursuit have bent 128 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. their untiring energies ; and to-day the result of early thrift and indus- try is apparent, for here are found some of the best farmers in Steuben county. When set off in 1812 the population of the new district was hardly more than 300, and in 1814 the exact number of inhabitants was 366. In 1820 it was 1,140, and in 1830 was 2,464. Ten years later the maximum population was reached, being 3,247 in 1840, and 3.244 '" 1850. In i860 the number was 2,746, and 2.122 in 1870. The num- ber in 1880 was 2,131, and in 1890 was 1,938. According to the count of 1892, Howard had 1,885 inhabitants. The first town meeting in Howard was held in April, 18 13, at the house of Simeon Bacon, at which time a complete board of officers was elected. However, the records of this town, previous to 1823, have been lost or destroyed, in consequence of which the list of first town officers cannot be furnished. The present officers {1895) ^""^ ^s follows : D. Ray Bennett, supervisor ; Frank H. Sharp, town clerk ; Joseph Miller, A. L. Cole and A H. Baldwin, justices of the peace ; L. J. Franklin, Thomas Coots and James Crozier, assessors; A. W. Barton, collector; Calvin Bullock, highway commissioner; John A. Drake, overseer of the poor ; Alexander McChesney, Martin Higgins and J. W. Carr, excise commissioners. The supervisors of Howard since 1823, have been as follows: Israel Baldwin, 1823; Daniel N. Bennett, 1824-25 ; Wm. Goff, 1826-27; Green Hern, 1828-29; Daniel N. Bennett, 1830-31; H. N. Rathbun, 1832; John W. Whiting, 1833-34; William Goff, 1835-36; Issachar Goodrich, 1837; C. E. Belden, 1838-39; James Alley, 1840-42; Asa McConnell, 1843; John Hamilton, 1844-45; D.N.Bennett, 1846-47; Joseph I. Burnham, 1848; Ira Lane, 1849-50; Ansel House, 1851; Alkali Bennett, 1852-53; Ansel House, 1854; Moses S. Bennett, 1855-56; Alonzo Graves, 1857-5S; Ansel House, 1859; Alkali Ben- nett, 1860-61 ; A. T. Parkhill, 1862-63 ; John F. Shaver, 1864; Alkali Bennett, 1865-66; A. M.Cole, 1867; Alkali Bennett, 1S68; Aaron McConnell, 1869-71 ; John G. Shaip, 1872-73; Josiah House, 1874-75; J. C. Hoagland, 1876-77; George Bennett, 1878; William H. Willis, 1879-80; Andrew Sharp, 1881-82; O. F. Bennett, 1883-84; Alonzo Van Wie, 1885-87; A. U. Brown, 1888; R. F. Parkhill, 1889-91 ; E. L. Stewart, 1892-93; D. Ray Bennett, 1894-95. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 129 Among tlie early residents in the east and southeast part of this town was a considerable colony of Irish Presbyterians; good, strong, earnest and active men and women, who iiave devoted themselves to agricul- tural pursuits, and many of whom have built up fine farms. This town and its people was peculiarly affected by the disturbances of the anti- rent period, and, lying next west of the shire-town of the county, there was perhaps a more active participation in public events than was shown in localities more remote. The delegates from Howard in the Bath convention were Daniel N. Bennett, who at the time was supervisor, Byram L. Harlow, William Gofif, John D. Collier and Jacob G. Winne. During the period of the war of 1861-65, this town raised for bounties, and for the purpose of recruiting troops for the service, a total of $3,021 72; and in addition to tliis the county raised, upon the credit of the town, the sum of $42,450. So near as can be ascertained the town furnished about 160 men for service during the war. According to local tradition the first school in tiie town was opened about the year 181 5 in the little log school iiouse standing near the residence of Aaron McConnell. About the same time another school was started at Howard Flats, and still a third in Towlesville. About 1820 the town was first divided into districts and provision made for a school in each. In the principal village an academy was founded and built in 1835. It was an excellent institution, well equipped and sup- plied with an efficient corps of instructors. However worthy may have been this enterprise it finally met the fate that fell upon many similar schools and it was therefore discontinued. As at present constituted Howard has seventeen school districts, each provided with a comfortable school house. The total value of school property in the town is estimated at $9,420. During the school year 1893-4, the town received of public monejs $2,o8r,and raised by local tax $1,929.58. P^orty-two tree; were planted by pupils in 1894. 17 130 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY CHAPTER IX. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. Jasper. — On tlie 24th of January, 1827, all that part of the towns of Canisteo and Troupsburg which were included in township 2, range 5, of the Phelps and Gorham purcliase, were erected into a separate town, and named Jasper, in honorable allusion to Sergeant Jasper, whose courageous conduct at the battle of Fort Moultrie, S C, June 28, 1776, received public commendation. However, in 1848 a strip of land half a mile in width was taken from this town and annexed to Greenwood. Geographically, Jasper is located in the southwest part of the county, and contains 31,300 acres of land. The surface is a hilly and broken upland, some of the elevations reaching more than 2,000 feet above tide water. The streams are small brooks, and the soil is slaty, gravelly and clayey loam. From the hills of Jasper, in years past, there has been taken a quality of stone specially adapted to the manufacture of grindstones, but remote from the railroads of the county, and from commercial centers, the natural resources of this town have never been fully developed. Its inhabitants are, and for all time during the period of its historj' have been farmers ; earnest, honest, steady and hardworking husbandmen, who, notwithstanding the disadvantages of location and the difficulty attending successful cultivation of the land, have succeeded in establishing for themselves a satisfactory and even comfortable con- dition of affairs, and the town to-day ranks well among the best farm- ing sections of the county. The settlement of Jasper was begun in 1807, while the territory formed a part of the original town of Canisteo. The pioneer seems to have been Nicholas Brotzman, sr., or Prutzman, as once known, who came from Tioga county, Pa., and penetrated the dense forests that bordered on Canisteo River and Tuscarora Creek, until he reached the spot where he afterward lived. This pioneer was a German, and was THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 131 perhaps was one of the most persevering of the early settlers in this whole region. His cabin was built near Marlatt's Corners of later years. Adam Brotzman settled at the Five Corners in 1809, where a man named Morle}- had made an original clearing. The surname Brotzman is still represented in the town. Andrew Craig, sr , was a settler in this town as early as i8io, coming from Philadelphia. He was land agent for the proprietary and other- wise influential and prominent in early local history. From him de- scended a large family, some of whom attained positions of trust in the count)'. Mrs. Craig made the first butter which was marketed from Jasper, but in much later years this town has become noted for the ex- cellence of its dairy product. Ebenezer Spencer was another pioneer, coming from Cayuga county, though a Connecticut Yankee by birth. He bought 400 acres of tim- bered land in Jasper at fourteen shillings an acre, and eighty-four acres of cleared land at twenty shillings per acre. Mr. Spencer was a man of means and also of prominence in the new community ; was a great hun- ter and trapper, and with his memory are associated many interesting stories. Uzal McMindes and John Marlatt came to the town in 1810, both from New Jersey, and Gideon Marlatt came one year later. All were prominent in early times, and their names are still preserved in the town. Other early settlers were Andrew Simpson, in 181 2; Adam Wass in 18 16; Henry Whitman in 18 19; Rice Wentworth in 1820; Hial Wood in 1821 ; Elisha Peak, about 1821, also Ezra Banks, who is said to have chopped more than 500 acres of woods in the town, being assisted only by his sons. In the same connection may be mentioned the family of A. Fuller Whittemore, also John Deck and Solomon Deck, John Moore, Israel S. Osgood, George I. Shawl, Alva June, Moses Dennis, a Revolutionary soldier, Enoch Ordway, John Hadley and his family, Dr. William Hun- ter, the first physician, Samuel Dennis, Earl Stone, Henry Prentice, Deacon Joshua Sargent, Ephraim Lyons, carpenter, David Woodward, Charles Lamson. William Purdy, Peter Drake, Abraham Freeland, Thomas Waight, Christopher Dennis, I larvey Andrews, Daniel Purdy, and some others, all of whom were settlers in the town previous to 1835, 132 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. and are entitled to be named among those who laid the foundation for later successes by their descendants. In 1830, and about that time, the settlers in Jasper were much dis- turbed over the events of the so-called anti-rent conflict, and as this town had come from the Pulteney or Hornby association, the inhabit- ants felt a direct interest in the result of the measures adopted at the time. The people held meetings and discussed the subject quite freely, and sent delegates to represent the town in the convention at Bath. These delegates were William Hunter, Benjamin Heliker, Ira Smith, Uzal McMynderse (or McMinders), and Hinckley Spencer. However, the events of this period, being general rather than local, are narrated in an earlier chapter. Referring briefly to the first events of town history, we may note the fact that the first settler was Nicholas Brotzman ; the first birth that of Sally Brotzman ; the first marriage that of Samuel Gray and Polly Simp- son ; the first inn or tavern was kept by Nicholas Brotzman, and the first school was taught by Amanda Smith. However much delayed may have been the early settlement in this part of the county by the hilly and uninviting character of the region, we nevertheless find a population of 500 in township two of the fifth range as early as the year 182?. We may also note the establishment of one small village and at least two minor settlements, for the people of this locality have ever been noted for their independence and self- reliance. Herein lies the great secret of their success in life, in the face of obstacles that would have completely discouraged the pioneers who settled on the rich plain lands of the Genesee country. As we have stated the town was set off from Canisteo and Troups- burg in 1827, the local population then being nearly 600. The first town meeting was held at the dwelling of Andrew Simpson, on the first Tuesday in March, at which time these persons were elected to fill the several town offices, viz.: Andrew Craig, supervisor ; William Hunter, town clerk ; Uzal McMindes, Oliver Pease, sr., and Samuel Dennis, assessors; Jonathan Schenck, collector; John G. Marlatt, Elijah Peake, and Benjamin Helliker, highway commissioners; Ira Smith and Ste- phen Towsley, overseers of the poor ; Henry Phenix, Enoch Ordway, and Joseph Dutton, commissioners of schools ; Ira Simpson, Jonathan THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 133 R. Prentice and William Hunter, inspectors of schools. At a general election held in November of the same year, Oliver Pease, Stephen Towsley and Ira Smith were chosen the first justices of the peace in the town. The succession of supervisors in Jasper has been as follows: Andrew Craig, 1S27-32: Stephen Towsley, 1833-36; William Hunter, 1837- 39; J. R. Prentice, 1840; John G. Marlatt, 1841 ; J. R. Prentice, 1842; William Hunter, 1843; Andrew Craig, 1844-45; William Hunter, 1846; Alvah June, 1847-51 ; Darius Simpson, 1852; J. R. Prentice, 1853 ; Jesse L. Bartow, 1854; J. R. Prentice, 1855 ;' Jonathan Schenck, 1856-57; Ira D. Hotchkiss, 1858-59; Henry C. Prentice, 1 860-62 ; AmosT. Woodbury, 1863-65 ; Willis E. Craig, 1866 ; Samuel F. Den- nis, 1867-69; George D. Woodward, 1870-71; Samuel Dennis, jr., 1872; Willis E. Craig, 1873; James S. Outman, 1874; W. E. Craig, 1875-76; Asa Spencer, 1877-78; A. A. Van Arsdale, 1879-81; J. Sumner Sargent, 1882-87; S. B. Hardy, 1888-92; Nathaniel P. Hun- ter, 1893; Ezra Chatfield, 1894-95. The present town officers ( 1 895) are Ezra Chatfield, supervisor ; C. E. Brown, town clerk ; A. A. Van Arsdale, Byron Crosby, J. M. Simpson, Arthur Lamson, justices ; C. G. Hutchinson, Collins Talbot and John T. Dunnigan, assessors; Dennis Williams, highway commissioner ; John Murphy, overseer of the poor ; John E. Schenck, collector ; James Tur- ner, J. B. Sargent and Adelbert Curtiss, excise commissioners. When first separated from the mother town Jasper had about 600 inhabitants, and in 1830 the number was 657. In 1840 it increased to 1,187, ^"*^ '" 1850 to 1,749. In i860 the maximum number was reached, 1,850, but in 1870 had decreased to 1,683. I" 1880 the pop- ulation was 1,806, but the next ten years showed a decrease, the census of 1890 giving the number of inhabitants as 1,690. Notwithstanding these several and somewhat noticeable fluctuations in population, the town of Jasper is as stable and substantial and relia- ble in its productions and institutions as any similarly situated civil division of the county. There is but little of the speculative in the characteristics of the people; everything has been built " from the stump," and there are but few evidences of premature decay. During the years of early history the pioneers of Jasper were not un 134 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COTTNTY. mindful of the spiritual welfare of their families, and even before the town itself was set off we find three full and complete church societies in existence. They were the Baptist, organized in 1817; the Presby- terian, in 18 1 8, and the Methodist Episcopal, the earliest meetings of which run to about the same time. In later }ears other societies have been formed and there are now five organizations, the Wesleyan Meth- odist and North Jasper Methodist in addition to those already noted. Also during these years there have been built up several hamlets in the town, though none has attained the corporate character. Jasper village is the chief center of business in the town, and will be found particularly mentioned in the municipal history in this work. ■ The other hamlets are hardly more than cross-road settlements. Half a century ago the named hamlets were Jasper Four Corners, Jasper F"ive Corners, West Jasper and South Hill. The more recent names of post-offices have been Jasper, North Jasper, West Jasper and Hampshire, tlie latter so called from the fact that many of tiie early settlers in the locality of roads 17 and 18 were from New Hampshire; and the average New Englander naturally delights in preserving memories of his native State. As an agricultural town Jasper has for many years ranked well among the divisions of the county, but in point of manufactures it has gained no special prominence, the disadvantages of location operating adversely- Still, we may recall the once important steam flour mill built away back in 1848 by Nelson Johnson; the Knapp tannery, afterward Au- gustus Van Asrdale's ; the Savage tannery, run by Andrew Savage. The Craig mill was built and run by A. B. and W. A. Craig, in 1866. We may also mention the Walrath mills, built in 1881. LiNDi.EY. — "Township i, range 2, Phelps and Gorham Purchase." This was a fair description of this town one hundred and five years ago, when Col. Eleazer Lindsley came from New Jersey and made an exten- sive purchase of land in the Genesee country. Still there has ever ex- isted a doubt as to the amount of land actually acquired by Colonel Lindsley from Oliver Phelps in 1790, some authorities asserting that his purchase included the entire township, while others claim tliat his title covered only the southern half of number one, range two, and that the other proprietors took title directly from the proprietary, John Ryess THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 135 taking the northwest quarter, and Judge Garrettson tlie northeast. However, with all respect for the opinions of competent authorities, the present writer is inclined to accept the theory of Colonel Harrower, that the township was purchased from Oliver Phelps by Colonel Lindsley, John Ryess and Judge Garrettson ; that a commission made a fair and equitable division of the territory according to the respective interests of the vendees; and that Colonel Lindsley was awarded the south half and the others the upper quarters as noted above. Other authorities contend that Lindsley bought the town at sixpence per acre, and sold the north half to the persons mentioned at one shilling per acre. In seme respects Lindley differs in physical features from other towns of the count)', and while these characteristics are not specially impor- tant, they are at least noteworthy. Extending north and south the en- tire length of the town is the charming and fertile valley of the Tioga, from any point in which the observer is at once attracted by the de- lightful view about him. The river valley averages about a mile in width, while on either side the hills rise to a height varying from five hundred to six hundred feet. When the doughty colonel made his first visit to the region he found evidence of cultivation along the bottom lands, and the general fertility of the soil was at once apparent. Small wonder, therefore, that he preferred the exhilarating atmosphere of the combined hills and valley rather than hazard the uncertanties of settlement in the lake region farther north in Ontario county. And if we may believe well verified tradition Colonel Lindsley found a clearly marked Indian trail running along the river through the township, indicating that this was a thoroughfare of travel between the Seneca country on the north and the land of the Delawares on the south ; and evidences are not wanting to show that the Moravian missionaries frequented the valley while traveling from their Pennsylvania homes to the villages of the Senecas and the subjugated tribes suffered to dwell within their vast domain. It is also a known fact that the Tioga valley was a favorite fishing and hunting resort of the red men, and that some of the small tribes had villapjes and cultivated fields scattered along the river. Such was the situation in this region one hundred and more years ago. Col. Eleazer Lindsley, the proprietor of tow nship one, range two, was a native of Connecticut, born December 7, 1737. During the Revolu- 136 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. tion, he was active in serving on the side of the Americans, and was an officer in the regiment commonly called the " Jersey Blues," for, before the war, he had moved to New Jersey. It is not known why Colonel Lindsley left his comfortable home in New Jersey to brave the trials and hardship of pioneer life in the new country, nor may we properly enquire into the motives which actuated his movements, and it is suffi- cient to say that his coming to the region was fortunate for local inter- ests, as he showed himself to be a worthy citizen, kind and generous in his nature, and public spirited in all measures for the welfare of the val- ley and its people. In the Lindley colony, as it has been called, were about forty persons, many of them relatives of the proprietor. They left New Jersey in the spring of 1790, making their journey in wagons and on horseback to the Susquehanna River at Wilkesbarre, thence came in boats to the purchase, arriving and landing at the Tioga Flats on the 7th of June. In the party were Colonel Lindsley and two sons, Satnuel and Eleazer, also five son-in-laws, Dr. Mulford, Ebenezer Backus, Capt. John.Seelye, Dr. Hopkins and David Payne. Nearly all brought families, while in the party were several slaves. This was unquestionably the first introduction of slavery into the south part of Ontario county, a novel though not un- known institution. It is said that Colonel Lindsley gave a slave to each of his children, and further, that only a few years passed before all were set free and provided for, .for slavery was soon regarded as inim- ical to our State institutions and also forbidden by law. In the new settlement Colonel Lindsley was an important personage, an earnest Christian, and a worthy leader. In 1793 he was elected to the State Legislature, opening the way, it is said, to a career of useful- ness in public life, but, unfortunately on the 1st of June, 1794, he was stricken ill and died. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Miller, died November 20, 1806. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Linds- ley kept public house, the first in the valley between Bath and VVill- iamsport. In addition to those whose names have been mentioned, we find the Lindsley colony to contain other persons, among them Joseph Miller, a substantial farmer of the valley and whose descendants still live in the county. David Cook also formed one of the pioneer party of 1790, I i i THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 137 and, like the colonel, was an old Revolutionary soldier. He made a comfortable farm in the valley on the east side of the river, and, with Robert Patterson, another pioneer, is entitled to the honor of having planted the first apple tree in the town. Among the other early set- tlers, though possibl)' not pioneers, may be mentioned the names of Abner Thurber, another Revolutionary patriot, Benjamin Harrower, Simeon Rorapaugh, Thomas Clark, Ira Lyon, Elam Watson, James Sherwood, James Ford. Lyman Truman, Jared Butler, William Chilson, Parker B. Crandall, Henry and Ethan Pier, Russell and Julius Tremain, Joseph Upham, Elijah Knapp, Abram Kinney, Hezekiah Collins and others whose names are now forgotten. The Piers, theTremains, Uphams, and several others, settled in tiie north part of thetown, near Krwin Center, as it was for many years known, but now called Presho. Benjamin Har- rower became tlie owner of a 2,000 acre tract of timber land and built a " gang mill " at the Narrows. John P. Ryess came from the eastern part of this State about the year 1810. He, too, was an extensive landowner, having some 3,000 acres. Among other early residents in the town were Silas Cook, Frederick Heckert. Jeremiah Mulford, Joseph Miller, Michael R. Thorp, surveyor, Mr. Waller, and possibly others. All these came into township number i previous to the division o Erwin, and many of them while the territory was included within the still older town of Painted Post. They were an industrious and ener- getic set of men, and under their persevering efforts the lands were cleared, fine farms were developed and comfortable homes were built. For many years the chief occupation of the settlers was lumbering, and in this industry the locality long held a prominent position. At that time the Tioga valley was subject to frequent sudden inundation and on several occasions the settlers and lumbermen suffered serious damage. In the spring, and often in the fall, of each year came the rafting sea- son, events of importance and activity throughout the entire valley. As we have stated, Lindley, previous to its separate organization, formed a part of Erwin, and possibly was the more important portion of tlie town. The center of business was at the liamlet called Erwin Center (now Presho), for here was about the geographical center of the town. In 1836 the number of inhabitants in the south part was about 600, and 18 138 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. they generally favored a separation from the mother town. The result was that on the I2th of May. 1837, township i, range 2, was erected into a new town, and named " Lindsley " in compliment to Col. Eleazer Lindsley, its acknowledged pioneer and founder. As then and still constituted the town contains 23,000 acres of land. The original name of this town was " Lindsley " but through an error in making the record the " s " was omitted, making the name " Lindley," which has since been accepted without question. The first meeting of freemen was held in the school house at the Center, on February 6, 1835, and these officers were elected: Benjamin Harrower, supervisor ; Chauncey Hoffman, town clerk ; Silas Cook, William Seelye and Jonah Davis, justices of the peace; Ansel C. Smith William Lindsley, Jere- miah Upham, assessors; G. A. Ryerss, Thomas Clark and Benjamin Patterson, commissioners of highways ; W. A. Lindsley, collector. In this connection may also be furnished the succession of supervisors of this town, viz.: Benj. Harrower, 1838; Wm. Lindsley, 1839-40; Silas Cook, 1841 ; Ansel C. Smith, 1842-43 ; G. T. Harrower, 1844; James G. Mercereau, 1845-46; Henry A. Miller, 1847; Samuel J. Mercereau, 1S48-49; Gabriel T. Harrower, 1850-51 ; Ansel C. Smith, 1852; Eber Scofield, 1853; Samuel Heckart, 1854; A. B. Lindsley, 1855; G. T. Harrower, 1856-57; Henry G. Harrower, 1858; A. C. Morgan. 1859-60; Eber Scofield, 1861-63; Wm. Moore, 1864-65; Eber Scofield, 1866; S. M. Morgan, 1867; Eber Scofield, )868; Wm. Moore, 1869—70; Mason Hammond, 1871; Wm. Moore, 1872 ; Jas. C. Orr, jr , 1873 ; G. T. Harrower, 1874-75; Wm. Moore, 1876; T. J. Presho, 1877; James A. Rogers, 1878; W. H. Hill, 1879-80; T. J. Presho, 1881 ; Jas. C. Orr, jr., 1882-83; Marcus Stowell, 1884; Wm. Moore, 1885-87 ; Marcus Stowell, 1888-89; Wm. Moore, 1890; Marcus Stowell, 1891-95. With the same propriety we may also furnish the names of the town officers for the present year, 1895, viz.: Marcus Stowell, supervisor; Wm. Hutchinson, town clerk ; H. C. Hill, Henry Stowell, Ira Knapp and C. J. Starner, justices of the peace; Oliver Camp, J. Brinnan and J. Starner, assessors; James L. Colder, overseer of the poor; John Brinnan, highway commissioner, George Snyder, James Harris and James Colder, commissioners of excise. THE CIVrL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 139 The population of Lindley by decades has been as follows : 1840, 638; 1850,686; 1860,886; 1870, 1,251; 1880, 1,563; 1890, 1,537; 1892, 1,455. As Lindley was one of the towns purchased directly from the Phelps and Gorhani proprietary, its inhabitants were less affected by the anti- rent controversy than in other localities. In fact at that time, while Lindley, or Erwin, had a number of settlers whose farms were encum- bered, and while the whole town suffered somewhat from the depressions of the period, there was less of actual distress here, in the Tioga valley, than was noticeable elsewhere in this part of the Genesee country. Erwin was represented in the Bath convention of January, 1830, but none of the delegates was from township number i, of range 2. With a population of 886 in i860 the town of Lindley is credited with having sent into the service a total of 125 men, a record equaled by few towns in this part of the State, and an indisputable evidence of patriotism and loyalty on the part of its inhabitants. Glancing back into the early history of this township, we may note the fact that the first white child born was Eliza Mulford, August 10, 1792; the first marriage was that of David Cook, jr., and Elizabeth Cady ; the first school was taught by Joseph Miller, in 1793, near the State line ; the first tavernkeeper was the widow of Colonel Lindsley ; the first saw mill was built by Colonel Lindsley. The death of this pioneer was about the first event of its kind in the town. A writer of local history in i860 said: "There is no church, no hotel, nor place where liquor is sold in the town." Previous to the separation of Lindley from Erwin, the local schools were a part of the system then in operation in the latter town, but, at the organization meeting in 1838, the electors chose D. P. Harrower and T. L. Mercereau as inspectors of common schools. Soon after this the territory of this town was divided into school districts and provision made for a school in each. Erom that time this department of local government has received the same generous attention as have all others, and the schools of Lindley now rank well in the county. The districts now number ten, and during the last current year tliiiteen teachers were employed. The value of school property is estimated at $6,945. The amount of public school moneys received was $1,55 1.57, and the town raised by tax $1,868 83. 140 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. That the reader may not be misled by a preceding statement to the effect that in i860 Lindley was without a church, we may here remark that several church organizations have had an active and useful exist- ence in the town, the Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, Free Methodist and Independent, as respectively known. At the present time there arc at least two societies, the Methodist and Free Methodist, both of which are mentioned in another department of this work. PraTTSBURG. — Captain Joel Pratt little thought that his original ex- tensive purchase of land in the Genesee county vvould some time become a part of one of the most progressive towns in the region. Tradition furnishes us little information as to the reason of Captain Pratt's first visit here in 1799, yet we know that this doughty pioneer was a man of firm determination, of strong character, and equally firm in his puritanic ideas of Christian propriety and observance. He had in mind the idea of establishing a settlement somewhat in the nature of a religious colon)', yet without the fanatical elements which generally accompany such enterprises. Joel Pratt, so all writers agree, first visited this region on horseback in the year 1799. and in the year following came with his son Harvej', and other assistants, and cleared and sowed with wheat 1 10 acres of land. In the course of time the grain was harvested, threshed and shipped to market, via the Canisteo, Chemung and Susquehanna Rivers, where it brought the handsome return of $8,000 cash. Thus encour- aged by his first efforts. Captain Pratt made all necessary preparations, and in 1801 brought several members of his family to the region where all became permanent settlers and useful residents. However, the honor of being the first settler in what is now Prattsbutg must be ac- corded to Jared Pratt, who came with his young wife from Spencer- town, Columbia county, in Februarj', 1801, traveling the entire distance on an ox sled. He settled on the road leading to Bath. Uriah Chapin also came from Columbia county, though not until 1802, and located on the Wheeler part of the territory. Rev. John Niles came in 1803, for the purpose of opening a farm, and in connection therewith to do such work of a missionary character as his enfeebled health would permit. He conducted the first religious services in the town and was treated with great consideration by the scattered inhabitants, and was presented with an eighty acre tract of land by Captain Pratt. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 141 In 1802, June 16, Joel Pratt and William Root became the qualified owners, or agents, of a large tract of land, and took upon tliemselves the task of developing and settling township No. 6, of the 3d range. The agreement was made with Col. Robert Troup, the agent of the Pulteney estate in New York. Captain Pratt engaged in this enter- prise with the worthy intention of settling and improving the land, while his associate, Mr. Root, only sought to increase his wealth. Hence it was only natural that a disagreement should follow, and the final result was that Mr. Root retired from the partnership, if such it was. In 1806 the Pulteney proprietary made a new agreement for the land, the purchasers being Joel Pratt, Joel Pratt, jr., and Ira Pratt, who took the unsold portion of the township. However, notwithstanding his best eftbrts. Captain Pratt found himself unable to meet his obliga- tions to the Pulteney agents, hence in 181 i was obliged to surrender the unsold lands to his vendors. During his proprietorship. Captain Pratt did much to improve and settle the town, and had he been less generous his venture would have been more successful from a speculative point of view. Through his in- fluence the town was settled with a class of pioneers not found in every community, and whose residence and society was very desirable from every standpoint. They were chiefly Congregationalists, and were devoted to religious observances in a noticeable degree. They were not bigots in any sense, but upright Christian men and women. How- ever, let us recall the names of some of the pioneers and learn to whom the present generation is indebted for the substantial foundation upon which this town and its institutions have been built and maintained. In 1804, so near as can be ascertained, the settlers were William P. Curtis, Ponieroy Hull, Samuel Tuthill and Salisbury Burton, while the year 1806 witnessed the arrival of a number of families, among them those of Enoch Niles, Rufus Blodgett, Jesse Waldo, Judge Hopkins, John Hopkins. Ebenezer Rice, Robert Porter, Gameliel Loomis, Samuel Hayes, Abiel Lindsley, Moses Lyon, Urial Chapin, Asher Bull, Roban Hillis and Stephen Prentiss Other early settlers were Warham Parsons, Aaron Cook, Michael Keith, Thomas Riker, William Drake, and others whose names have been lost with the lapse of years. Some of these settlers were identified with " first events " of town 142 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. history, without a mention of which no record is deemed complete. In 1804 Joel Pratt erected the first framed barn in the town, and Joel Pratt, jr., and Ira Pratt were the first merchants Aaron Bull kept the first public house. The first white child born was Marietta, daughter of Jared Pratt. The first marriage was that of Isaac Pardee and the daughter of Deacon Waldo. The first male child born was Charles Waldo. A post route was established between Geneva and Bath, through Prattsburg, in 1808, and mails were carried on horseback once each week. In that year a post-office was established at Prattsburg, and Joel Pratt, jr., was the first postmaster. Judge Robert Porter built the first grist mill about 1807, and the second was built on the road to West Hill by Joel Pratt in 18 18. Still later builders of mills were Horatio and Lewis Hopkins (the Cole mill), and they also built the fourth mill. The fifth mill was built by Henry and Ralph Hopkins, sons of Horatio, and was located in the village. It is a stone mill, and was built in 1887. Saw mills, too, have been numerous in the town in times past, located in various places, but chiefly on the main stream. Among the owners of such industries may be mentioned J. V. Stone, James Sturtevant Wm. P. Curtis, J. H. Downs, Hopkins & Howe, H & L. Hopkins, A. and O. Waldo, H. Hodgkin, J. De Golier, J. Hervey Hodgkin and Messrs. Prentiss, Blodgett and Fay. As the forests were cleared these mills lost their usefulness and were abandoned, and the once heavily wooded tracts were turned into fine farms, and the result has been that Prattsburg became an agricultural town in the fullest sense, and one which has ever ranked well among the civil divisions of Steuben county. As now constituted Prattsburg has an area of 30,600 acres of land and is therefore among the larger towns of the county. As originally formed on the 12th of April, 18 13, it was much larger in area, as nearly half of Wheeler was taken off in 1820. \\'ithin the original territory of Prattsburg in 1800 were 132 inhabitants, and as evidence of rapid growth under the direction of Captain Piatt the further statement may be made that in 18 14 the population was 615. Therefore it is not sur- prising that a new town formation was desirable, and not less surprising or desirable that the name of the new creation should be given in honor of its founder and promoter, Capt. Joel Pratt. The first town meeting WILLIAM M. I-ULKHRSON. I i THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 143 was held on the 1st day of March, 1814, and Joel Pratt, jr., was elected supervisor. A full board of town officers was also chosen, but from the fact that an unfortunate fire burned the early records the names of all first officers cannot be ascertained. However, gleaning facts from other records, the supervisors from 1827 to the the present time are as follows : Supervisors: Robert Porter, 1827; Burrage Rice, 1828-34; Daniel Burroughs. 1835-36; Aaron Pinney, 1837-39; J. H. Hodgkin, jr., 1840; John L. Higby, 1841-44; John F. Williams, 1845; John C. Higby, 1846-48; Aaron Pinney, 1849-50; Joseph Lewis, 1851 ; John Anderson, 1852; John P\ Williams, 1853; Joseph Lewis, 1854; G. Denniston, 1855-57; Joh" F- Williams, 1858-63; Wm. B. Pratt, 1864-69; H. B. Williams, 1870; D. W. Baldwin, 1871; Martin Pinney, 1872-75 ; Henry A. Hopkins, 1876-77; Martin Pinney, 1878- 80; I. L Turner, 1881-82; J. A. Middleton, 1883; Martin Pinney, 1884; W. W. Babcock, 1885; I. L. Turner, 1886; W. W. Babcock, 1887; G. W. Peck, 1888; W. M. Fulkerson, 1889-90; R. N. Van Tuyl, 1891-92 ; William M. Fulkerson, 1893-95. To this succession we may properly add the present town officers, viz; William M. Fulkerson, supervisor; R. E. Deighton, town clerk; Dr. James A. Bennett, Jay K. Smith, Henry E. Allis and Wm. E. Weld, justices of the peace ; Robert A. Walker, M. V. Drake and Henry Horton assessors; Aaron H. Putnam, commissioner of high- ways ; Philip Geiss and Freeman Avery, commissioners of highways ; Stewart Dillenbeck, collector. Prattsburg has a substantial and fixed population, yet, in years past the town has suffered a decrease in number of inhabitants in common with the interior towns of the State. When set off and organized the local population was 615, and in 1820 the number had increased to 1,387. In 1830 it was 2,402, and 2,455 in 1840, while the year 1850 witnessed a population in the town of 2,786. The maximum was reached in i860, the number then being 2,790, but in 1870 the popu- lation had decreased to 2,479. I" 1880 it was 2,349, and in 1890 was 2,170. The pioneers and early settlers in Prattsburg were noted for their piety and Christian example, and were fully mindful of the spiritual 144 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. and educational welfare of their children. As early as the year 1803 they organized a religious society which eventually became the Presby- terian church. However, a record of this and all other church organ- izations of the town will be found in another department of this work, hence needs no further mention here. Still, in the present connection the reader will pardon a brief allusion to one of the early residents of the town, Dr. and Preacher Marcus Whitman, whose life and works are still well remembered by our older inhabitants. Dr. Whitman lived for a time in Prattsburg and Wheeler. In 1835 he went as a mission- ary to what is now the State of Washington, and in Walla Walla valley he established a mission among the Indians. He made the journey across the continent on several occasions, and through his efforts the now State of Washington was saved from cession to Great Britain. Dr. Whitman and wife, also thirteen other whites, were massacred by the Indians in 1847. One of the most troublesome periods in the early history of Pratts- burg was that in which took place the anti rent conflict ; and although the inhabitants of this particular locality suffered less than many others, they were nevertheless much disturbed by the excitement of the time. The local delegates to the Bath convention were men in whom the whole townspeople had every confidence and who guarded well all Prattsburg interests. They were Stephen Prentiss, Gameliel Loomis, Josiah Allis, Ira C. Clark and Joseph Potter. The war of 1861-65 was another disturbed period for the people of our otherwise quiet and temperate townsfolk, but when the call for troops was made no town responded more nobly or generously than this. During the years of that great struggle Prattsburg is credited with having sent into the service a total of nearly two hundred men, 170 of whom enlisted directly from the town, while the others joined commands raised elsewhere than in this county. The educational interests of Prattsburg have ever received the thoughtful attention of local authorities, and in the village there was established at an early day an academic institution of more than ordin- ary importance. In the village chapter further allusion will be made to the academy, and it only remains for us to here mention the town at large. When set off and organized as a town, the electors made neces THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 145 sary provision for the maintenance of schools and legularly divided the territory into convenient districts. These have been changed from time to time as necessity required, and a uniformly excellent standard has ever been demanded and upheld. As at present constituted, the town at large is divided into fifteen districts, in each of which a school is maintained. During the school year 1894-5, twenty teachers were employed and 535 children attended school. The school property of the town is valued at $18,500. In the year mentioned the town re- ceived public moneys to the extent of $2,390.62, while there was raised by local tax the further sum of $3,385.45, Twenty- four trees were planted by pupils during the year 1894. PULTENEV. — In the extreme northeast corner of Steuben county, on the west side of Lake Keuka, is situated the town of Pulteney ; so named in honor of Sir William Pulteney, the principal owner in the familiarly known Pulteney Association. The district of which this brief chapter treats contains 19,600 acres of land, and in some respects is one of the most interesting towns of Steuben county. Its people are engaged in diversified pursuits, those living west of the ridge being farmers, while the inhabitants and land owners on the east side of the town are almost exclusively engaged in the pleasant and profitable em- ployment of grape and fruit growing and wine making. ThesQ latter industries have given Pulteney an enviable prominence in this vast vine- yard region, which, together with the importance of the lake front and all its kindred attractions, have combined to make this town possess an unusual interest in the history of the county and its vicinity. However, Pulteney did not become a civil division of Steuben county until 1808, when Bath surrendered to the new creation all that is now this town, and also Prattsburg and a part ^at least of Urbana. The former was set off from Pulteney in 18 13, and the latter in 1848. Pioneership and settlement in this hilly and then uninviting locality began with the present century and increased rapidly until the popula- tion was sufficient to justify a separate organization. The story of early times is perhaps best told in the words of a reliable and well known local writer, from whom we quote as follows : This portion of Steuben county was a part of the original Phelps and Gorham Purchase; was sold to Robert Morris, and by him to the 19 146 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Pulteney associates. Pulteney was surveyed in 1793 by William Bull, and was on the market at that time at eighteen and twenty cents an acre. About the first settlers were Samuel Miller, John Van Camp and G. F. Fitz Simmons, who came in or about 1800, but who were soon afterward followed by James and George Simms, Henry Hoffman, Abraham Bennett and Shadrack Norris, all during the year 1805. The next year there came Samuel and Nathaniel Wallis, John Ells, William White, James Daily, Erastus Glass, Harmon Emmons and Seth Pierce. From this time on settlement became more rapid and pioneership was virtually at an end. Still, we may properly refer to some of the first events of town history as they stand recorded and understood. The first marriage was that of Christopher Tomer and Jane Miller, in 1 809; the first death that of the child of James Daily, in 1806. The first saw mill was built in 1810, and the first grist mill in 18 14, both by Melchoir Wagener, an early settler and a man of influence and importance in the region. In 1807 Shadrack Norris opened the first tavern, and in 1808 Augustus Tyler began storekeeping, while Polly Wentworth opened a school in the settlement. The descendants of several of the old families still live in the town, and occasionally some relic of early times is observed, for only a few years ago the remains of the old Wagener mill-race were still visible ; also the scattered and decaying fragments of the saw mill itself. But later generations of occupants live in a different and perhaps more progressive period, and have little reverence for the old and useless structures of three-quarters of a century ago, yet they love to see recollections of them on printed records. Pulteney of to-day is far different from the old town of iSio, and along the lake front few indeed, if any, of the old farm lines and habitations have been preserved. Where once was a vast agricultural region, with desirable eastern slope, we now have almost numberless vineyards and fruit farms, in size varying from five to fifty acres. According to the reminiscences of Mr. Risenger, grape culture as a special industry was begun in 1854, when he and Samuel L. Wagener planted a vineyard in Pulteney, the ultimate outgrowth of which is the splendid grape and wine producing interest which ramifies throughout the lake regions, and in many places extends far back into the inland districts. However, at the time Wagener and Risenger planted their THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 147 vines, J. \V. Prentiss had a number of producing plants, yet was making no special effort in the direction of what might properly be termed grape culture. As is elsewhere noted, this town was formed and organized in 1808, and at that time the territory was comparatively well populated. In fact, in 1810 the inhabitants numbered 1,038, and 1,162 in 1820. In 1813 Prattsburg was created and took largely of both population and area, the inhabitants of the district set off numbering 615 in 1814. In the same region in 1800 there were 132 persons. The first town meeting in Pulteney was held at the dwelling of Jesse Waldo on the first Tuesday of March, 1808, at which time Urial Chapin was elected supervisor; Aaron Bell, town clerk; Aaron Cook, Elias Hop- kins and Nathan Wallis, assessors ; William Curtis, collector, together with a full complement of minor officers. Urial Chapin held the office of supervisor four years and was, with Robert Porter, Stephen and John Prentiss. John Hathaway, Josiah Dunlap and others, a leader in the affairs of the town at an early day. However, in this connection it is interesting to note the succession of supervisors in the old town of Pulteney, which has been as follows: Urial Chapin, 1808-09 and 1811-12; Robert Porter, 1810; Stephen Prentiss, 1813 ; John Hathaway, 1814; John Prentiss, 1815-20; Josiah Dunlap, 1821-29; John N. Reynolds, 1830-38; Robert Miller, 1839- 46; Jared T. Benton, 1847 and 1851; Ira Hyatt, 1849-50, 1852 and 1856-57; John A. Prentiss, 1850; Robert Miller, 1853; Josiah Dunlap, 1854 ; John N. Reynolds, 1855 ; Samuel Fitzsimmons, 1858; Josiah W. Eggleston, 1859; Wm. H. Clark, i860; Geo. Coward, 1861-63 ; Harry Godfrey, 1864; J. J. Reynolds, 1865-71, and 1873; Odel C. Cross, 1872 ; S. B. Lyon, 1874 and 1876-77 ; John Gilson, 1875 ; A. H. Den- niston, 1878-80; J. D. Stone, 1881 ; S. B. Lyon, 1882-84; James H. Giffin, 1885-87; Philip Paddock, 1888-89; Edward D. Cross, 1890-95. The officers of Pulteney for the year 1895 are: Edward D.Cross, supervisor; Guy D. Finch, clerk: H. R. Hess, J. B. Hadden, J. H. Os- born and J. T. Bachman, justices; W. H. French, J. C. Barber and Darius Tyler, assessors; S. E. Stone, overseer of the poor; F. H. Ar- nold, collector. In 1892 this town had 1,693 inhabitants, and it is estimated that 146 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. about one-half of this population are at least indirectly interested in grape growing or its associated industries. The people in the west part of the town are agriculturists, with no special product to attract more than ordinary interest. From the earliest generation of occupants here the region has produced farmers, all devoted to the arts of peace, and there have been built up many fine farms as the result of continued perseverance and industry. During the period of the war of 1812, the entire townspeople were somewhat alarmed for the safety of their families and property, but fortunately no untoward event took place to mar the tranquillity of domestic life. However, during the period com- monly known as the anti-rent conflict, at a time when the population reached 1,700 and more, and when the town was possessed of many strong men, public excitement ran high, and we find Pulteney an active factor in the measures proposed for the common welfare. In the nota- ble Bath convention, in January, 1830, the town was represented by David Hobart, William Sagar, Barnet Retan, Daniel Bennett and Seth Weed. This period also passed without serious disturbance, other than temporary embarrassment, and until the outbreak of the war of 1861- 65 the history of the town was uneventful, other than was disclosed by the general advancement of local interests. It was during the years following 1850, and from that until about 1880, that the special interest of grape, wine and fruit culture began to attract attention to the locality. This brought to Pulteney an enviable notoriety ; spread abroad the re- markable resources of the town ; increased the value of lands on the lake front, and was in all respects the source of much advantage to the whole people. One of the chief auxiliary interests connected with the grape product is the manufacture of wines of various grades and quali- ties. The chief seat of these operations is in the vicinity of Hammonds- port, yet the business established by J. S. Foster more than a quarter of a century ago is worthy of at least passing mention. It is a fact of local and general history that the product of the Pulteney cellars are "true to name, pure and unadulterated." Such is, in brief, a general historical view of the town at large. Still, in this connection it is proper to call attention to the general stability of all local interests and institutions. Even in population there has always been maintained a substantial degree of uniformity and gradual THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 149 growth. The present population is estimated at 1,700; in 1840 the number of iniiabitants was 1,724. In i860 tlie records disclose the tact that the population was only 1,470, and but 1,393 tc years later. How- ever, during the war of the Rebellion, Pulteney sent into the service a total of 1 10 men, a patriotic record, and one not frequently exceeded in similar towns. The history of the schools in this town are incomplete and somewhat defective. It is known, however, that the first school was opened and taught b)- Polly W'entworth, in the year 1808. y From this humble be- ginning the present system and condition have grown and developed, and at this time Pulteney compares favorably with the towns of the county generally. As now disposed there are eleven districts, with a school house in each, in which fourteen teachers were employed during the last school year. The value of school property is estimated at $8,325. About $1,680 of public money is annually received for school maintenance, while the town raises by tax for like purpose about $2,300. The ecclesiastical histor)' of Pulteney forms an interesting element of local annals, though the absence of reliable records embarrasses the efforts of the enquirer. It is said that the first religious services were held by Close-Communion Baptists, followed soon afterward by the Methodists ; and that there were also Seventh Day Baptists and Chris- tians in the field at an earl)' day. The now called Second Baptist Church of Pulteney was organized in 18 14, the church home being located at South Pulteney. The church has a membership of 105 per- sons. At Pine Grove is another Baptist society. At Pulteney village is a Presbyterian and also a Methodist Episcopal church, each engaged in evangelical and praiseworthy work. 150 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. CHAPTER X. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. RathboNE. — William Benham and William Hadley were indeed brave pioneers of the Canisteo valley an hundred years ago when they made the first settlement in the wild and uninviting region now called Rathbone. If record and tradition be true, these men came to the valley in the year 1793, and had not even the companionship of one another, for Benham built his cabin on the east line of the town, while Hadley was on the west side. Notwithstanding this, each made a suc- cessful location, paving the way for other settlers and opening the land for cultivation. Of necessity thepioneers were lumbermen, for we are told that when Benham and Hadley first visited the locality nothing was in view except woods and rocks and the noiseless waters of the Canisteo. And we are also told that the stillness of night was almost invariably broken by the noises of wild animals, while rattlesnakes were frequently unwelcome visitors to the settler's log cabin. Such was the character of this region a century ago, but with steady advances the pioneers cleared the forests, cultivated the land, and finally destroyed all the objectionable elements of wilderness life. Yet all this was not accomplished by the single efforts of pioneers Benham and Hadley, for others soon came to the locality and gave material assist- ance in developing the resources of the town. As early as the year 1804 Samuel Benham had built and opened a public house, and Abel White furnished the settlers with game and fish. In 1806 Solomon Tracy and Benjamin Biggs made an improvement on the site of Rath- bonville, and, among other things, built a large double log house. On the opposite side of the Canisteo, Isaac and Jonathan Tracy built the first saw mill in the town, and in 18 16 a grist mill was added to the industries of the vicinity. Among the other early settlers were Peleg Cole, Martin Young, THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 151 Moses Powers, Jacob Cook, Zephaniah Townsend, Thomas Maybury, Zeno Sellick, John Sellick, John Helmer, from whom Helmer creek re- ceived its name, Jonathan Rowley, Benjamin Northrup, founder of the Northriip settlement, Thomas Allen, Jacob Cole, Harvey Fiiltz, Seth Cook and others whose names are now forgotten. These were the lead- ing men of this part of the valley previous to 1825, and at least thirty years before the town was set off and separately organized. Recalling briefly some of the more important first events of town history, we may note that the first white child born here was Luther White, that event taking place June 4, 1804. In the same year Luther Benham opened a tavern. The first marriage was that of Peleg Cole and Polly Tracy. Moses Powers taught the first school, and General Rathbone opened the first store in 1842, although previous to that time he was an extensive lumberman and land owner. Isaac Tracy built the first saw mill in 1 806 The first school house was built of logs, and the second on the same site, was of frame, built in 1852. Previous to its separate organization, Rathbone formed a part of the older towns of Addison, Cameron and Woodhull. On the Phelps and Gorham purchase it includes portions of townships two in the third and fourth ranges, and being set off contains 20,600 acres of land. Geo- graphically, the town lies near and south of the center of the county. Its principal water course is Canisteo river, while the north branch of Tuscarora creek flows across the southwest corner. The uplands are from three hundred to four hundred feet above the valleys. The first settlers were attracted to this part of the valley by the magnificent growth of forest trees, and naturally lumbering was the chief occupation of the early inhabitants. This brought to the region an entirely desir- able class of residents and for many years peace and plenty were the lot of the people. So deeply indeed were the settlers engaged in clear- ing the forests and rafting timber to market that they gave little heed to the founding of villages or establishing trading places until about fifty )ears ago. At that time Addison was the common trading and marketing center for the whole region, and there, too, the lumbermen were wont to visit for the transaction of their business, and not until Ransom Rathbone opened a store in this town in 1845, also secured a post-office, that a hamlet was founded in what is now Rathbone. Still, 152 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. for at least twenty- five years previous to 1845 this was a very busy locality, as mills lined the Canisteo on both sides. Through the efforts of General Rathbone and a few other leading ope- rators in this part of the valley a new town was created, on March 28, 1 850, and was named Rathbone in allusion to the person just mentioned. On the 6th of May following the electors assembled in town meeting and chose officers as follows: William R. Rathbone, supervisor; George W. Young, town clerk ; Israel Horton and Stephen Gloyd, justices of the peace; Edmund L. Peckham, superintendent of common schools; Lucius Parker, commissioner of highways ; George Northrup, Jonathan Bromley and William C. Cummins, assessors ; Abram Rogers and James Northrup, overseers of the poor; Samuel Edmunds, collector. This first town town meeting appears to have been an event of great importance in local annals, for there were present 243 persons who cast votes. This would indicate a total population of about 1, 000. There was no federal census of the town previous to i860, at which time the population was 1,381. The subsequent fluctations in number of inhab- itants is best shown by quoting from the census reports. In 1870 the population was 1,357 > ''^ 1880 was 1,371 ; in 1890 was 1,269, ^nd in 1892 was 1,226. The supervisors of Rathbone since 1850 have been as follows : Wm. H. Rathbone, 1856; Cormander H. Cole, 1857; Wm. R. Rathbone, 1858; George Northrup, 1859-60; A. H Kinney, 1861 ; George C. Lloyd, 1862-64: John Miles, 1865; George W. Young, 1866-73; James Northrup, 1874; John Kenally, 1875-77; Moses Northrup, 1878; Horace Mather, 1879-83; John Toles, 1884: Horace Mather, 1885 ; N. Northrup, 1886; C. S. Whitmore, 1887; Norman Northrup, 1888-91; G. S. Goff, 1892-93; John McWilliams, 1894-95. The present town officers are John McWilliams, supervisor ; Jesse F. Cole, town clerk; N. P. Young, D. W. Gloyd. John Toles and William McCaig, justices of the peace ; George M. Lloyd, F. S. Chapel and George E. Meering, assessors ; Wm. Bailey, collector ; Richard Mc- Caig, overseer of the poor ; William Young, collector; Kitchell Lyon, Levi Perry and B. F. Chapel, excise commissioners. During the war of 186 1-65, the town is credited with having furnished a total of one hundred and seventy- four men for the service. They wr^\ WALTHR I.. MOORE. A THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 153 were scattered through the several commands recruited in the county, noticeabl)- in the 23d, 86th, and 107th regiments of infantry. A more full record of the services and composition of each of these regiments will be found in the military chapter in this volume. Previous to the formation of Rathbone the schools of the vicinity were a part of the system in use in the older towns from which this was erected. At the first town meeting in Rathbone Edmund L. Peckham was elected superintendent of common schools, and soon after the or- ganization the territory was divided into districts according to the re- quirements of the inhabitants. At present, the districts are twelve in number, each provided with a comfortable school. The town contains a school population of about 375. The value of school property is es- timated at $6,990. Thirteen teachers were employed during the last school year, and for maintenance the appropriation of public moneys amounted to $141 7, .94, while the town raised by local tax the additional sum of $1,654.36. Tuentysi.K trees were planted by pupils in 1894. Rathboneville and Cameron Mills are the hamlets of this town. The former is located near and east of the center, and the latter in the north- east part, near the Cameron line. Both are on the line of the Erie rail- road, to the construction of which in 1850 they owe their chief impor- tance. The road, too, is benefited by the villages, for they are shipping points for agricultural products and lumber of no mean importance. However, for further record of the hamlets of Rathbone, the reader is directed to the municipal department of this work. Thurston. — On the 28th of February, 1844, the Legislature divided the town of Cameron, and taking 22,000 acres ofif the east side created a new town, naming it Thurston, in honor of William B. Thurston, an extensive land owner in the region who did much to promote local im- provement and de\'elopment. Geographically, this town occupies a central position in the county, and within its borders are observed several of nature's unusual dispen- sations. We refer particularly to the deep gulf, which is almost impass- able except at a single point at the south part, and here is found about six acres of rich flat land. In this locality was built the Yost saw mill. The gulf is 400 feet deep in places, and was originally filled with a dense growth of hemlock and hard timber. Another natural curiosity 20 154 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. of Thurston was in the vicinity known as Cranberry or Friend's Pond, being a bottomless body of water, half a mile wide, and at one time adundantly supplied with fish. In the bogg}' lands around the pond there grew cranberries, to which the settlers helped themselves unstint- edly, and from this product the name Cranberry Pond was applied. Among the early settlers in this part of the town were many who were of the society of Friends, hence that name. On the high lands in the northwest part of the town Luke Bonny and William Smith made the first settlement in 1813, and from the pioneer first mentioned the locality was ever afterward known Bonny Hill. He also cut the road into the town from Bath, and was in many respects a leading man in the region. Anderson Carpenter settled on the hill in the same year, but was killed by a falling tree in 18 17. Other early settlers in the same locality were Amos Dickinson, 1814, Joseph Fluent, 1817, David Smith, 1822, Harvey Halliday, Jacob Parker, John and Boanerges Fluent, John Stocking, Harlow Smith, Moses De Pue, and others whose names are lost with the lapse of time. Among the settlers in the south of the town we may mention Stephen Aldrirh and his sons Warner, Thomas, Stephen and George, who came in 1822 and located near the pond. Still others were Stephenson Pugsley, William and James Jack, Samuel Fisk and also Amos, Elias and Boralis Fisk. Seth Cook and Arnold Payne were also early set- tlers. In the same connection and worthy to be named among the older residents of what is now Thurston, were James Jerr)', M. O. Keith, John Vandewarker, Henry Forburg, William Hawley, Fenner Eddy, tanner in the town in 1832, Paris Wneelock, Lifus Fish, John Corbett, Edwin Merchant, founder of the settlement called Merchantville, Josephus Turbell, Alva Carpenter, Harley Sears, O. P. Alderman and others, all of whom were identified with the giowth of the town if they were not pioneers Many of these old residents of Thurston were lumbermen, and were attracted to the locality by the remarkably fine timber that stood on the land. In olden times Stocking Creek and Michigan Creek enjojed about the same relative importance as did the Canisteo and Conhocton River regions. But as the lands were stripped of their forest growths good farms were developed and Thurston became recognized among THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OK THE COUNTY. 155 the agricultural towns of the county. However, to the present day lumbering has been recognized as one of the industries. These extensive interests led to tiie founding of several hamlets, and less than forty years ago the isolated town of Thurston had five small villages, known as Merchantville, Bonny Hill, Risingville, Thurston and South Thurston. Now the post offices of the town are Thurston and Risingville. The first child born in the town was Irma Smith in 1813 ; the first marriage was that of Joseph Fluent and F"anny Dickinson, in 1818 ; the first death was that of Anderson Carpenter, in 18 17; the first school was that at Bonny Hill, taught by Caroline Vinan ; the first store was kept by Harlow Sears at Merchantville; the first saw mill was built by Paris VVheelock, on Otter Creek. The first meeting of electors of the town was held on April 2, 1844, and the following officers were chosen : Joseph Cross, supervisor ; Noble H. Rising, tov\ n clerk ; John S. Depew, Henry Briggs, Peter D. Edsell and Arnold Payne, justices of the peace ; Henry Rising, James Ostrander and Fenner Eddy, assessors ; William Jack, Amos Fluent and Jared Goodell, highway commissioners; John S. Eddy, collector; Stephen Waitman and Abijah Youmans, overseers of the poor. The supervisors of Thurston have been as follows : Joseph Cross, 1844; Fenner Eddy, 1845-48; John S. De Pue, 1849-50 and 1856-65; Noble H. Rising, 1851; Cornelius Bouton, 1852-53; John Royce, 1354-55; Oliver P. Alderman, 1866; Alva Carpenter, 1867 and 1869- 71; James Jerry, 1868 and 1875-76 and 1879-80; Lewis Masters, 1872-73; Lyman H. Phillips, 1874, 1881-85 and 1890; William Richt- myer, 1877-78 and 1888-89; E. J.Jerry, 1886; W. H. Rising, 1887 and 1891 ; G D. Wilson, 1892; E. J.Jerry, 1893-95. The town officers for the year 1895 are as follows : Emeron J. Jerry, supervisor; Lorenz Angst, town clerk; W. H. Guernsey, T. C. Mor- row, A. H. Kennedy, J. F. Eddy, justices of the peace; J. A. Filkins, T. C. Morrow, and J. W. French, assessors; S. W. Jessup, collector; A. B, Merrill, overseer of the poor; William V. Creveling, highway commissioner; J. D. Parker, Joseph Shearer, jr., and R. B. Rising, excise commissioners. In 1845 the population of Thurston was 576, and in 1850 had in- 156 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. creased to 726. Ten years later the inhabitants numbered 1,100 and 1,215 in 1870. In 1880 the population was 1,336, but dropped to 1,113 '" 1890. In 1892 the town had 1,084 inhabitants. During the war of the Rebellion, Thurston sent ninety-eight men into the service. From early records we learn that the first school in this part of the town of Cameron was taught by Caroline Vinan on Bonny Hill in 1818. However, previous to 1844 the general school history of Thurston was a part of the annals of the mother town, but still we may state that in 1828 $100 was appropriated to build a frame school house, and that in December of that year the town voted " that all hardness and quarrel- ing in the district shall cease from this date, and we shall live in peace as neighbors ought to do." At the present time Thurston has eleven school districts, and eleven teachers are employed annually. The num- ber of children who attend school is 302. The value of school property is $5,550. In 1893-94 the town received of public moneys $1,286.33, and raised by local tax $1,121.66. TroupSBURG. — In the southwestern part of Steuben county is located a civil division by the name of Troupsburg, so named in honor of Robert Troup, agent for the Pulteney Association. It was perhaps fortunate for Colonel Troup that this jurisdiction was created in 1808, for had that event been delayed twenty years it is doubtful whether the inhabitants would have been so well disposed to honor the former patron of their region. During the anti-rent conflict in 1 830, and about that time, the agent, by reason of his trust capacity, was compelled to assume and maintain a somewhat determined attitude regarding the lands owned by his principals, and the settlers were not generally satis- fied with the measures of relief offered them. However, all things con- sidered, the town was worthily named. Moreover, it has always been regarded as one of the important towns of the county, notwithstanding its remote locality. Within its present boundaries Troupsburg contains 35,700 acres of land, being second in size in the county. As originally formed from Middletown and Canisteo, the town contained a vast area, eighteen miles long, east and west, and about ten miles wide. At that time it included half of township i, of range 4, also Nos. 1 in the 5th and 6th THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 157 ranges, with the fourth part of No. 2 in the 4th range. An early writer of Troupsburg history says of the town in 181 i : " No. i in the 5th range is an e.Kcellent township, the hills low, and the timber maple, birch, bassuood, walnut, &c. It has good mill sites on Tuscarora and Troup Creeks. No. 2 in the same range is also good, as is No. i in the 6th range, the timber oak, walnut, elm, basswood, birch and maple. This town has been settled only since 1805, and is yet very wild. It has good iron ore." In the course of time, however, Troupsburg was called upon to sur- render portions of her territory to other formations. Parts of Green- wood and Jasper were taken off in 1827; part of Woodhull in 1828, while a portion of Canisteo was annexed to this town on April 4, 1818. Therefore the original town of Troupsburg included at least portions of the present towns of Woodhull, Troupsburg, West Union, Greenwood and Jasper. It is a well known fact that in the town are some of the most elevated lands in the county, if not in the entire region, reaching at times the extreme height of 2,500 above tide. The settlement called High Up is indeed appropriately named. Troup's Creek is the principal water course. Among the earliest settlers in Troupsburg were Andrew Simpson, Ebenezer Spencer and Andrew Craig, all of whom raised families and were active and highly respected men in the region. Simpson did the the blacksmith work lor his few neighbors, while pioneer Craig was en- ergetic in developing the early resources of the region. He made and marketed the first butter sent from the town, and it was his custom to take the season's products from the neighborhood and journey to Phila- delphia to make his sales. The Marlatt family was also prominent in the locality, some of its descendants, as well as those of the Craig family, gaining positions of importance in county affairs. Alanson Perry settled here in 1808, and Judge Mallory came about the same time. This, too, was a prominent family in the new region, and from them the locality known as Mallory's Settlement was named. We may also recall the name of Caleb Smith, Rev. Robert Hubbard, Nicholas Brutzman, Nathaniel Thacher, Jesse Lapham, Philip Cady, Elijah Hance, Reuben Stiles, Daniel Martin, Abner Thomas (the first school 158 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNXr. teacher, in 1809), Elihu Cady, Maj. Samuel Cady, Squire and Andy Reynolds, Lewis Hayes, Jonathan Rogers, Capt. George Martin (who built an early grist mill on Troup's Creek). Zadoc Bowen, Elder David Smith, Alanson Perry, Richard Phillips, James Carpenter, John Miller, and others now forgotten. All these were in some manner identified with early town history, many of them having descendants now living in the county, enjoying the fruits of the toil and example of their pio- neer ancestors A cotemporary writer has said : The early settlers of this region were drawn hither by all the variety of motives which in all parts of the country induce the pioneer to seek the frontier; but the great prevailing motive was cheap land and long payments. The Pulte- ney and other estates were crowding their lands upon the market, and inducing settlement by low prices and long credit. Twenty shillings cash or three bushels of wheat per acre v\as the standard price of the land, with ten years, or longer if desired, for payment. After 1809 the migration was quite rapid and the lands were rapidly put under con- tract, the settlers finding it about all they could do to support their families and pay the taxes, and very few of them did more. However, the changes of four score years have indeed been wonder- ful. The old pioneers are all gone ; the troublesome times have passed away, and on all sides is seen the appearance of comfort and thrift ; fine and well cultivated farms, and tasty dwellings, good out-buildings and splendid orchards, ;ill unmistakably tell of the energj^ and perseverance of the sturdy pioneer and the equally industrious descendant. As we have stated, in 1808 the few inhabitants of this then extensive region founded a town, and named it Troupsburg. The first election of officers was held at the house of Daniel Johnson, in what is now Woodhull, in March, and these persons were chosen : Daniel Johnson, supervisor ; Samuel B. Rice, town clerk ; Stephen Dolson, Brown Gillespie and Elijah C^ady, assessors; Uri Martin, Wm. Worley and Nathaniel Mallory, commissioner of highways ; Rezen Searse, collector and constable; Daniel Johnson, overseer of the poor; Elijah Cady, second poormaster; Caleb Smith, fence viewer. The supervisors of Troupsburg, in succession, have been as follows : Daniel Johnson, 1808-12; Charles Card, iS 13-19; Samuel Cady, 1820- 22; Adna B. Reynolds, 1823-25; Asher Johnson, 1826-27; Samuel THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 159 Griggs, 1S28-33; Wm. Card, 1834 ; Joshua Slayler, 1835 ; Win. Card, 1836; Orange Perry, 1837-38; Alexander Tucker, 1839; Levi Grin- olds, 1840-42 Samuel Griggs, 1843 ; Bradsliaw White, 1844 ; Nath- aniel Mallory, 1S45 '< Ale.xander Tucker, 1846; Levi Grinolds, 1847-48; Wm. Ten Broeck, 1849-50; Levi Grinolds, 1851-52; Wni. Ten Broeck, 1853-54; James B Murdock, 1855-58; Eleazer Fenton, 1859-60; Samuel Olmstead, 1861 ; Wm Carpenter, 1862; Eleazer Fenton, 1863 -64; James B. Murdock, 1865 ; Eleazer Fenton, 1866; John G. Lozier, 1867-71 ; W. N. Griggs, 1872-73; Nathaniel M. Perry, 1874-75; Willis White, 1S76-77 ; W. N. Griggs, 1878 ; Alfred Williams, 1879-80 ; Wm. 11. Perry, 1881-82; W N Griggs, 1883-84; Thomas R. Park, 1885-86; Charles Marlatt, 1887-88; Hiram Olmsted, 1888-90; D. W. Hober, 1891-92; N. M.Brooks, 1893-95. In 1 8 10, two years after its organization, this jurisdiction had a total population of only 292 inhabitants, but during the succeeding ten years the number increased to 650. In 1830, then being somewhat reduced in area bj- other tow n formations, the inhabitants numbered 666, and 1,171 in 1840 In 1850 the population had still further increased to 1,754, and in i860, to 2,096. Ten jears later it had reached 2,281, and in 1880 was 2,494, 'he greatest number in its history. The popu- lation according to the census of 1890, was 2,174, and in 1892 was 2171. During the period of local history known as the anti-rent conflict, the inhabitants of Troupsburg were not only much interested in occur- ring events, but were directl)' concerned for the safety of their lands, and if local tradition be reliable, here was a veritable hotbed of dissatisfaction and discontent, though the excitement of the time did not carry the peo- ple beyond a vigorous discussion of the several measures proposed for their relief In the notable Bath convention the Troupsburg delegates were Samuel Cady, Samuel Griggs, Joshua Slayter, Jesse Wilden and Nathan S. Hayes. Mr. Griggs was one of the committee chosen to present to the proprietary the claims of the suffering settlers. Another noteworthy fact in connection with the historj- of this town, was the record made by its volunteers during the war of 1861 65. The roster discloses the fact that Troupsburg furnished for all branches of service a total of 222 men, who were chiefly distributed among the sev- 160 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. eral regiments recruited in this county, while a number enlisted in other localities and a few in Pennsylvania. Gleaning from old records, we learn that the first child born in this town was Poll)' Young; the first marriage that of Zebulon Tubbs and Sarah Rice, and the first death that of Jeremiah Martin. Lieut. Rey- nolds opened the first public house, four miles from the Center, and Icl.iabod Leach kept the first store two miles from the village. George Martin built the first grist mill at the village. Through the same chan- nel we also learn that the first school was taught by Abner Thomas, a liitle east of Troupsburg village. This mention naturally leads us to speak of the school system of the town at large, although imperfect records preclude the possibility of reliable information on this subject. Again, the several changes and reductions of territory necessitated fre- quent rearrangement of the old districts, no record of which seems to be preserved. As at present constituted, the town has eighteen school districts, including the academic school at Troupsburg village, in which were employed during the last current year, twenty teachers. The whole number of children attending school was 644. The value of all school property is $6,910. The town received public moneys to the amount of $2,276.78, and raised by local tax $1,595.24. Forty trees were planted during the school year. Troupsburg has been called the town of man)' villages, but. this is in no sense surprising when we consider the topographical features of the region. F"rom the very earliest settlement the inhabitants established trading centers to suit their convenience, and in so large a town, and one so broken by valleys and ridges, the founding of frequent hamlets was but an act of prudence. Troupsburg village, or Center, is of first importance and is situate near the center «f the town, while the West, South and East villages occupy the situations suggested by their re- spective names. High Up is the post-ofifice name for West Troupsburg, and Young Hickory is in the southwest part of the town. TUSCARORA. — In many respects Tuscarora resembles Lindley in natural physical features, the one being crossed from south to north by Tuscarora Creek, while the Tioga River has the same course through Lindley. Both towns have the same character of hill ranges, the soil generally is much the same, and each has the advantages of a line of THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. Ifil railroad intersecting its territory. Yet the early settlement of these towns was quite dissimilar, Lind'ey by a well equipped colony and Tuscarora by a pioneer with limited means and no companions, but an abundance of determination and energy that stood him in good stead in after years. According to conceded authority, the pioneer of township i, range 2, was William W'ombaugh, a former resident and native of New Jersey, who came to the Tuscarora valley in 1804 and purchased 187 acres of land. He engaged in lumbering quite extensively for the time, and also cleared a tract of land and raised grain. The latter commodity was much sought by later settlers, and the neighborhood of Wom- baugh's Mills early became a place of importance in local annals. In 1806 pioneer Wombaugh built a grist mill on his land in the valley and this, in connection with his other enterprises, made him in all respects the leading man of the region ; a prominence well earned by an honest and industrious life, and all honors which came to him were worthily bestowed. In truth, the Wombaugh family were for many years millers and farmers, later generations succeeding the pioneer in his chosen pursuit. Among the early settlers in the valley of Tuscarora Creek were Amos Dolph, who located at the place called Carrtown, and still later as Addison Hill, in the southwest part of the town. Amos Towsley settled between Wombaugh's and the Hill in 18 16. Jesse Rowley came in 1804, a few months after Wombaugh, and settled at the "forks" of the creek. In the Rowley family were thirteen children, three of whom were natives of this valley. Jemima Rowley was the first child born in the town, the date being February, 1806. She became the wife of John Plimley. In 1816 Samuel Colgrove settled above Wombaugh's. About this time, from 1814 to 1818, settlement in this locality was quite rapid, and among the families who came during the period several may be mentioned. Still, a few came at an earlier date. Daniel Strait, an old Revolutionary soldier, came in 1809. Asabel Thomas came in 1816; Joseph Gile settled on the Hill in 1824; John C. Orr located in the northeast part of the town about 1816. Other members of the Orr family soon followed and from them the name "Orr Settlement" was given. They were an earnest and hard- working family and deserved 21 162 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY the position they held in the community. In the Mine Creek neigh- borhood Daniel Burdick and Andrew Crovvl were early settlers. Rev. David Short, remembered for his zeal and earnest sincerity in endeavor- ing to promote the welfare of the Close Communion Baptist church, settled in 1823 near the State line, in the south part of the town. The Northrup settlement was made in 1825 by Warren and Benedict Northrup. Among the other early settlers in the soutii part were Rev. Aaron Baxter and family, also Alfred Nichols and Simeon PVeeman, all members of one household. About 1830, Elder Baxter succeeded in gathering a number of settlers and forming the so-called Chenango county colony, and, still further, in forming a religious society with forty- six members. In his colony were James Sprague, MigemanTaft, David Hart, Samuel and Enoch Mack, Eliba Albee, David Hart and Samuel Smith, all of whom were welcome comers to the sparsely settled town and by whose labors the lands were cleared and good farms opened. The same statement may be made of Justus Wright, John Webster, Capt. Joseph Manley, and others whose names are lost witli the lapse of years. These early inhabitants of the Tuscarora valley were a hardy and determined set of men, to whom the ordinary privations of pioneership were not a discouraging obstacle. At that time their township formed a part of the older jurisdiction of Addison, the village being several miles distant, while the county seat was at least twenty- five miles away. However, glancing back into the early history of the mother town, we find frequent mention of residents in township i, range 3, some of whom attained positions of prominence in local affairs. A visit to the valley of Tuscarora Creek will at once convince the observ- ing traveler of the fact that the settlers here built " from the stump," and "builded firmly." Indeed, it was no small loss to Addison to be bereft of these lands as part of her jurisdiction, yet necessity and the public convenience demanded a division of the mother town. How- ever, before this was done Tuscarora passed through many periods of civil and political disturbance, notabl)/^ the war of 181 2, and still later the anti rent controversy, though local interests were little affected by either event. The proposition for tl'-e new town came regularly before the Board of THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE C0UNT7. 163 Supervisors on the ijtli of December, 1859, and, meeting with no serious objection, was carried, and the new creation was called " Orrville." This name, however, was soon changed to " Tuscarora," in alkision to the sixth nation of the Iroquois confederacy, who were received by Indian adoption in 1712. Hy designation, the first meeting of electors in the new town was held on the 14th of February, i860, at the dwelling house of Oliver Moore, at which time officers were chosen as follows : Jesse \V. Rowley, supervisor ; George W. Webb, town clerk; Myron M. Manley, James Lemunyan and Charles VV. Robinson, justices of the the peace ; Lorenzo VVetteniiall, Joseph Oakden and Lansing Hand, assessors; Philip VV. Perkins, commissioner of highways ; G. H. P'ree- mati, collector. In i860, the year following that in which the town was formed, the inhabitants of Tuscarora numbered 1,566, the greatest number attained during the period of its history. In 1870 the population was 1,528; in 1880 was 1,534 I '1 1890 was 1,438, and in 1S92, as shown by the State count made that year, was 1,393. The succession of supervisors (chief town officers) in Tuscarora has been as follows: Jesse W. Rowley, i860; Nehemiah Manley, 1861 ; Jesse VV. Rowley, 1862; William Wombaugh, 1863-74; Mordecai Casson, ji-., 1875; Jesse VV. Rowley, 1876; George Freeman, 1877-80; C. 11. Rowley, 1881-82; Edward Young, 1883; A. S. Hamilton, 1884- 85 ; J. E. Lemunyan, 1886; G. H. Freeman, 1887-89; Edward Young, 1890-91; A. S. Hamilton, 1892-95. Tne officers of the town for the year 1895 are A. S. Hamilton, super- visor; Atwood Weeks, town clerk ; Cornelius J. Smith, Jason McMinds, John Casson and Frank Baxter, justices of the peace; William Murray, Henry Smith and Charles Bottum, assessors ; James Simpson, collector ■ Edward Young, overseer of the poor ; Albert Lemunyan, commissioner of highways; Austin Benedict, A. Andrews and Hugh McTamany, commissioners of excise. The educational system of Tuscarora previous to the formation of a separate jurisdiction of course was a part of the system then employed in Addison from which this town was taken ; but after the separation the new town was divided into districts and a school maintained in each. 164 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. As now constituted the districts are fourteen in number, and the whole number of children in the town is 323. Eleven teachers are annually employed. The total value of all school property is $4,440, and the assessed valuation of the districts in 1894 was $430,585. The town contains 22,400 acres of land. In the year last mentioned Tuscarora received of public school moneys $1,318, and raised by school tax $1,228. Seventeen trees were planted by pupils in 1894. During the period of the war of 1861-65, Nehemiah Manley, Jesse W. Rowley and William Wombaugh held the then very responsible and difficult position of supervisor, and, during their respective terms of office, were intimately identified with the war measures adopted by the town. Tuscarora was known as one of the loyal regions of the county, and responded freely and promptly to every call for volunteers, exhibit- ing a truly loyal and martial spirit. The town furnished for the service a total of 155 men, scattered through tlie several regiments recruited in the county, while a number joined Pennsylvania commands. CHAPTER XI. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. Urbana. — In the spring of the year 1793, William and Thomas AuUs left their former home in Lancaster, Penn., determined to establish for themselves and family a permanent abode in the new yet widely known Genesee country. They visited Geneva and Bath, both of which were primitive settlements, and finally made their way toward the head of famed Lake Keuka. This journey naturally led the travelers into the beautiful Pleasant Valley country where they found lands suited to their wishes, and here the senior Aulls located his purchase and built a cabin on what has been known as the Decker farm. This was the first civil- ized settlement within the present town of Urbana, although the country had been frequently traversed between Bath and other southern settle- ments, and Geneva and Canandaigua. Through the valley was the principal Indian trail leading to the head of the lake and thence down THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 165 the same on botli east and west sides After clearing and planting suf- ficient for the necessities of his family during the coming winter, the senior Aulls returned to Pennsylvania and brought the other members' of his household to their new home. In the fall of the same year (1793), Samuel Baker also built a cabin and made an improvement in the locality, and in the spring of the fol- lowing year, brought his family to the valley, accompanied or closely followed by Richard Daniels and Amos Stone William Read came about the same time and has been mentioned as the third settler in the town. Other pioneers were Abram and Jonas Brundage, John Faulk- ner, Captain Shether and Eli Read. The Faulkner improvement was purchased in 1807. by Cornelius Younglove. Captain Shether pur- chased and located on the site of the present progressive village of Hammondsport, his deed bearing the date 1796, and his lands embrac- ing 146 acres. The property was afterward transferred to William Root and by the latter to Lazarus Hammond, and from the last men- tioned we have the name — Hammondsport. Recalling briefly the names of other early settlers and residents in this locality, may be mentioned Daniel Bennitt, Robert Harrison, Caleb Chapman, the proprietor of the first log tavern at North Urbana, Stephen Kingsley, Abram Depew, John Walters, Obediah Wheeler, Reuben Hall, Andrew Layton, Erastus Webster, David Hutches, Samuel Drew, John Daniels, Samuel Townsend, Joseph Rosencranz, and others whose names are now lost. Many of these early settlers were natives of New England and several of them had served during the Revolutionary war, a few as officers in the service. The first birth in the town was that of Samuel Baker, jr.; the first marriage that of Jonathan Barney and Polly Aulls in 1794; the first death that of John Phillips, 1794 ; Eliphalet Norris taught the first school in the valley in 1795 ; Caleb Chapman kept the first tavern at North Urbana; Henrj- A. Townsend opened the first store at Cold Spring in 1815; John Shether built the first saw mill in 1795, and Gen. George McClure built the first grist mill in 1802. From what has been stated the reader will at once discover that the the early settlement of this part of the county was accomplished rapidly. In truth, in all the vast area of land in Steuben no portion possessed 166 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. greater beauty or more natural advantages than did this locality at the head of the lake and extending thence up the fertile Pleasant Valley. ' This prominence has continued to the present day, although the character of the occupancy and the pursuits of the inhabitants have materially changed. Urbana has become a vineyard and fruit township, and as such enjoys a State-wide and enviable reputation. Even to the tops of her highest hills, some of which have an altitude of a thousand feet, the vineyards e.xtend, and in all localities are fine farms and inviting places of abode and pleasure. These natural advantages have combined to make this town one of the most valuable and also one of the most interesting in the whole Genesee country. Indeed, so rapidly were the lands taken up by early settlers that in 1825 there dwelt in the town no less than 966 inhabitants, and at that time the hamlet we now call Hammondsport was only a scattered settle- ment, while lake traffic was so limited as to be hardly a factor in local growth. On the 17th of April, 1822, the town of Urbana was set ofif from Bath and given a separate organization. In 1839 a part was re- annexed to Bath, while in the same year a portion of Wheeler was an- nexed to Urbana ; also a small part from Pulteney on April 12, 1848. As now constituted this town contains 25,200 acres of land, and has a population (1890) of 2,590. The organization meeting was held in the school house in Pleasant Valley, on the first Tuesday in March, 1823, at which time officers were elected as follows : Henry A. Townsend, supervisor; Lazarus Hammond, town clerk; Andrew Layton, Henry Grififin and Abram Brundage, assessors; Obediah Wheeler, Reuben Hall and Abram Brundage, com- missioners of highways ; Samuel Baker and William Read, overseers of the poor; Caleb Rogers, Stephen Kingsley and William H. Ennis, constables In this connection it is also proper to furnish the succession of super- visors, as follows : Henry A. Townsend, 1823-31 ; John P. Popino, 1832 and 1835-37; William Baker, 1833-34; Amasa Church, 1838; Jacob Larrowe, 1839 ; Obediah Wheeler, 1840-41 and 1844; Peter Houck, 1842-43; Wm. Baker, 1845; Aaron Coggswell, 1S46; J. J. Poppino, 1847-48 and 1850; John W. Davis, 1849; John Randel, 1851-52; A. S. Brundage, 1853; M Brown, 1854; Orlando Shepard, 1855-56; THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 167 John Randel, 1857 ; John W. Taggert, 1858 and 1860-62 ; Joseph A. Crane, 1859; Benjamin Myrtle, 1863-65 and 1869-71 ; Absalom Hadden, 1866-68 and 1872; G. W. Nichols, 1873-75; 1^- Longwell, 1876; Charles L. Bailey, 1877-78; B. F. Drew. 1879-80; Adsit Bailey, 1881-85; H. J. Moore, 1886-87; J- H. Keeier, 1888; George H. Keeler, 1889-90; H.J. Moore, 1891-93; II. M. Champlin, 1894-95. The town officers for the year 1895 ^""^ Harry M. Champlin, super- visor ; Lemuel J. Benham, town clerk ; Benjamin J. Wright, Frank H. Hunt, George W. Mubbs and David Longwell, justices of the peace ; Joseph Smith, collector ; George Austin, overseer of the poor ; Robert L. Snow, high\\a\- commissioners; Theodore Hamilton, George Vrooman and Eugene La Rue, excise commissioners In the preceding portion of this chapter there has been narrated a brief account of the civil history of the town of Urbana. It began that history with the organization in 1823, and from that to the present time the record of the town has been one of almost con- tinuous and uninterrupted progress. Noting its gradual growth, we may state that in 1825 the population of the town was 966, and in 1830 had increased to 1,288. During the next ten years the inhab- itants increased in number to 1,884, ^"d in 1850 to 2,079. I" i860 the number was 1,983, and 2,082 in 1870. Ten years later the pop- ulation was 2,318, and still further increased to 2,590 in 1890 Ac- cording to the enumeration made in 1892, the town had a population of 2,542. During the famous anti-rent conflict in 1830, and about that time, the inhabitants of this town were quite seriously affected by the dis- cussion of the period, and some of the men of Urbana were prominently identified with the proposed measures for relief The delegates to the Bath convention were Henry A. Townsend. John Sanford, jr., John Powers, Elias Ketchum and Dyer Cranmer. Again, during the war of 1 861, the record of the volunteers from the town forms a bright ]iage in local history, for no less than 200 men of Urbana were enlisted in all branches of the service. At that time the population was 1,983, and the records show that fully ten per cent, of the whole number were contributed to the town's quota. No less interesting is the history of the educational system of the 168 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. town at large, for the fact is well authenticated that the inhabitants of Urbana have ever made generous provision for the support of public schools. As early as the year 1823 Edward Townsend, Franklin Baker and William Read, commissioners of common schools, divided the town into school districts, seven in number, and a school was at once es- tablished in each. In 1827 the town received of public moneys $59.76, and a like amount was raised by local tax. In this manner the system was established, and from it the present condition of schools has grown. As now constituted the town has twelve districts, and each has a suitable school house. During the last current year eighteen teachers were employed. The value of school property in the town is estimated at $19,450. The amount of public moneys received was $2,219.75. and the town raised by tax the additional sum of $5,440.83. Still further referring to the subject of early schools in Urbana, we may quote briefly from Mrs. Bennitt's narrative: "In 1795 the agent of the Pulteney estate gave to William Read, Amos Stone and Samuel Baker, and their heirs, fifty acres of land for school purposes. After- ward by an act of the Legislature, it was made over to the trustees and their successors in office, and at the present time is doing the work in- tended by Charles Williamson. The first school house was built in 1795, and Eliphalet Norris was the first teacher. Mr. Williamson's offer of land for school purposes was made to other districts to induce settlement, but Pleasant Valley people were the only ones who took legal measures to secure the land." In this chapter not more than a passing allusion has been made to the pleasant and progressive village of Hammondsport, nor to any of the institutions of the corporation. In accordance with the plan of this work, such mention is reserved for another department, to which the attention of the reader is directed. (See Municipal History.) In the same manner, also, in the Ecclesiastical history will be found men- tion of the several church organizations of the village and town. Wayland. — This town is one of the younger civil divisions of the county, and was formed from Cohocton and Dansville, April 12, 1848. A part of Fremont was taken offin 1854, and as now constituted Way- land contains 23,400 acres of land. Its surface is an upland, rolling in the north and moderately hilly in the south, yet possesses natural re- MARTIN PINNtY. THE CiriL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 1G9 sources far superior to many of the interior towns of the county. The higiiest ridges approximate i,8oo feet above tide, and form a portion of the vvaterslied between Lake Ontario and the Susquehanna. Loon and Mud Lakes are situated in the rich valley in the south part of the town, but their waters flow in opposite directions. Loon Lake has a sub- terranean outlet for half a mile and when it comes to the surface the volume of water is sufficient to form a valuable mill stream. The town was named not in honor of Rev. Dr. Francis Wayland of Rhode Island, as has been stated, but in allusion to the hymn called " Way- land," which Mr. Patchin sang at a fortunate moment. Many of the early settlers in this town were Germans, the pioneer being Adam Zimmerman, who in 1806 settled where the railroad depot now stands in the village. The other pioneers were Capt. Thomas Bowles, Mr. Bowen and John Hume, who came in the year 1808, also Mr. Hicks, in 1810, and Thomas Begole in 1814, all locating in the north part. The Loon Lake vicinity was settled in 18 13 by Salmon, James and Elisha Brownson, Isaac Willie, Osgood Carleton and Solomon Draper. The central portion was settled at the same time, its pioneers being Demas Hess, John Hess, Samuel Draper, Benjamin Perkins (for whom Perkinsville is named), VValtcr Patchin, founder of the settlement known as Patchin's Mills ; and others whose names are now forgotten. Peter Shafer located on the road leading to Dansville, and for many years kept tavern and did blacksmithing. Among the early settlers, as we have intimated, was a strong con- tingent of Germans ; hardy, determined, and active men, not easily dis- mayed or discouraged by obstacles, for half-hearted pioneers could never have gained a substantial foothold in Wayland, as we are told that this region was hard to settle and develop. In the early popula- tion was also a fair proportion of New Englanders and a few Pennsyl- vanians, and all seem to have worked earnestly and unitedly, and to-day the results of well expended energy is apparent, for in point of resources and general productiveness Wayland ranks well up among the towns of the county. Circumstances, too, have done much for our town, as the railroads have afforded facilities for the shipment of products which the majority of towns do not possess. Small wonder is it, therefore, that in this extreme northwest corner of the county we find as early as 1825 22 170 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. a stable and progressive settlement, with mills and fine farms in active operation and an era of prosperity prevailing on every hand. Referring briefly to some of the early institutions of VVayland, we may state that the first saw mill was built by Benjamin Perkins ; the first grist mill by Dugald Cameron and Abijah Fowler, in 1816. Samuel Taggart kept one of the first taverns, in 1827 ; the first store- keeper was James L. Monier, in 1830; the first school was taught by Thomas Wilbur, in 181 1. Erastus Ames was the noted hunter of the region. Dr. Warren Patchin built a hotel at Patchin's Mills in 1824, and for him the hamlet was named. The grist and saw mills here he also built, and they were kept in operation by his son for many years. The saw mill was built in 1820; the grist mill two years later. The plank road from Patchinville to Dansville was constructed about 1842. Outside of these old industries Patchin's Mills, or Patchinville, has not attracted any considerable attention to the history of the town. The same may also be said of the locality known as Loon Lake, although in connection with the latter, during recent years, an attempt was made to establish a summer resort, but with indifferent success. Wayland in the north part, and Perkinsville near the center of the town, are thriving villages, and are the centers of rich agricultural regions. The town at large yields well in farm products, potatoes being the special crop grown and affording excellent returns. In pursuance of the act creating the town the meeting for the elec- tion of officers was held at the house of Cameron Patchin, May 2, 1848, and resulted as follows: John Hess, supervisor; Samuel W. Epley, town clerk ; M. M. Patchin, Amos Knowlton, Chauncey Moore and Gardner Pierce, justices; R. M. Patchin, David Poor and David Brownson, as- sessors. The statement may be made that Supervisor Hess and Justices Patchin and Knowlton were previous officers of the mother town, and were continued in the new creation under the erecting act. The succession of supervisors in Wayland is as follows: John Hess 1848-50, 1852 and 1855-57; Daniel Poor, 1851 ; David Poor, 1853; M. M. Patchin, 1854; James G. Bennett, 1858-63, 1866 and 1875-76; James P. Clark, 1864-65 and 1867 ; James Redmond, 1868 and 1870- 71; H.A.Avery, 1869; Martin Kimmel, 1872-73 and 1879-80 ; Jacob Morsch, 1874 ; F. E. HoUiday, 1877 ; John M. Folts, 1878 ; G. E. Whit- THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 171 man, 1881-83; H. J. Rosenkraiis, 1884-85; J. P. Morsch, 1886-87; Andrew Granger, i888; W. W. Capron, 1889; J. B. Whitman, 1890- 92 ; H. S. Rosenkrans, 1893 ; John P. Morsch, 1894-95. The officers for 1895 are John P. Morsch, supervisor; George Nold, town clerk; Peter 11. Zimmerman, H. S. Rosencrans, Peter Didas, jr., and Wm. Schuts, justices ; John E. Bennett, F. E. HolUday and VVm. Wolfanger, assessors; Henry Schumaker, collector ; John A. Schwingle, overseer of the poor ; Martin Kimmel, jr., iiighway commissioner ; G. D. Abrams, Sylvester Dodge and C. S. Fults, excise commissioners. Notwithstanding the fact that Wayland is regarded as one of the most progressive towns of the county, the truth remains that the population in 1892 was not so large as in i860. Then the inhabitants numbered 2,809, as against 2,375 at the last enumeration. This somewhat un- natural condition is accounted for in the fact that the young men have left the farms for city life, and that all agricultural interests during the last twenty-five years have materially declined ; and whatever growth has been shown is confined chiefly to the villages of Wayland and Perkinsville, both enterprising municipalities within the limits of the town. During the war of 1861-65 Wayland contributed to the regiments of this State a total of 239 men, certainly a splendid record, though many of the volunteers enlisted in adjoining counties. Previous to 1848 the schools of Wayland were a part of the history of the towns from which it was formed, and when this town was organ- ized its territory was divided into nine districts, in each of which a school was provided. Then the school population was about 1,000 children. There are now eleven districts, with 400 children attending school, outside Wayland village. There are also employed fourteen teachers. In 1893-4 t'le town raised by tax for school purposes the sum of $3,104.83, and received of public moneys the sum of $1,635.85. W.WNE. — In 1793 Frederick Bartles, or Bartels, built a mill on the outlet of Mud Lake, and the grateful agent, Charles Williamson, in whose employ Bartles was, caused the original town of Frederickstown to be named in allusion to the industrious German pioneer. The town as formed March 18, 1796, comprised all that is now Wayne, Bradford, Barrington, Starkey, Tyrone, Reading and Orange. On the 6th of 172 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. April, 1808, the name Frederickstown was dropped and Wayne adopted in its stead ; and so called in honor of General Wayne, better known, however, as " Mad Anthony " Wayne, the famous Indian fighter whose deeds of valor are recorded on the page of history. By frequent reductions in its territory, caused b\' the formation of various towns, Wayne now has an area of only 12,400 acres, and is the smallest in size of the civil divisions of Steuben county. Its location in the extreme northeast corner of the county, though somewhat remote from the county seat, is nevertheless favorable, as it has a desirable water front on Lake Keuka on the west and Lake Waneta on the east. The entire western slope forms almost one vast and entire vineyard, while the hill tops and eastern portions have excellent agricultural lands. The soil is a gravelly and slat}' loam underlaid with hardpan. The pioneers of this locality made their improvements as earlj' as the year 179 1, the first settlers being Zepaniah Hoff, Henry Mapes, Widow Jennings and Solomon Wixson, while Enos, Jonas and James Silsbee, Abraham Hendricks, Joshua Smith, John Holdridge, Elijah Reynolds and Ephriam Tyler came at such an early day as to entitle them to mention as pioneers. Among the other earlj^ settlers we may recall Ephraim Sanford, from Pennsylvania, a former Revolutionary soldier, also Anthony Swarthout, Jabez Hopkins, Aaron Olmstead, the black- smith and tool- maker, Thomas Bennett, Thomas Margeson, Henry Houck, Isaac Northrup, Edward Baker, Israel R. Wood, Joseph Bailey (another old Revolutionary survivor), George Hunter, John Earnest, blacksmith, Simeon Hackett, John Teeples and others. Charles Williamson, agent for the Pulteney Association, expended considerable money in improving farms in this locality, and in the progress of his work gave employment to a number of men. He also placed tenants on several of the farms in the hope of ultimately effect- ing a sale of his lands, but the action of his proprietors in stopping his operations was the cause of much feeling, and the abandonment of the improvements, in many cases, to the great loss of merchants doing busi- ness in Bath who had " trusted " these tenants for goods sold them. But, notwithstanding the embarrassments and obstacles against which the early settlers of Wayne were obliged to contend, the town increased quite rapidly in population and the development of the resources of the THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTT. 173 region, and the year 1800 foimd the number of inhabitants in the district to be 258. Ten years later the number was 1,025, and in 1820 was 3,607. However, during years following, the frequent divisions of the original territory of Wayne reduced the population very materially, and in 1830 the number was only 1,172. In 1840 it was 1.377; '" 1850 was 1,347 ; in i860 was 944; in 1870 was 891 ; in 1880 was 827, and in 1890 was 889. As has been stated the town was set off as a separate jurisdiction, March 18, 1796. although it appears that no organization was effected until 1801 ; at least the records disclose no town meetings previous to that time. The first supervisor was Benjamin Wells, and the first clerk- was Joshua Smith, the latter holding office continuously for seven years. The succession of supervisors has been as follows : Benjamin Wells, 1801-3 ; John Dow, 1804; Jacob Teeple, 1805-7; Joh" Teeple, 1808- 16; William Kernan, 1817-18; John Teeple, 1819-21; David Hall, 1822; Win. E. Wells, 1823-26; Geo. Hunter, 1827-29; Wm. Birdsall, 1830-31 ; Geo. Hunter, 1832-33; Matthew McDowell, 1834-35; Or- lando Comstock, 1836-37 and 1840; Jno. P. Lozier, 1838; Jacob Teeple, 1841 ; Levi Knox, 1842; Daniel W. Sunderlin, 1843; Harvey Hill, 1844; Andrew D. Swarthout, 1845-47; Jno. B. Mitchell, 1848- 49; Geo. Schuyler, 1850-51, 1854 and 1861 ; Joseph Eveland, 1852; Joseph Roat, 1853 and 1867-68 ; Ansel H Williams, 1854; Robert Biggars, 1855 ; Amos Wortman, 1856-57; Jno. B. Birdse)^e, 1858-59; Jno. J. Earnest, i860; Bela Bonny, 1862; Joel Wixson, 1863-64; Chas. D. Wells, 1865-66: Thos. E. Walsh, 1869-70; Chas. K. Miner, 1871-74 ; James Wi.xson, 1875 and 1877; Solomon R. Wixson, 1876 and 1878; Madison Cameron, 1879-82; D. Swarthout, 1883-84; Ly- man Aulls, 1885-93; Anson Wright, 1894-95. The officers of Wayne for the year 1895 are as follows: Anson Wright, supervisor ; James M. Washburn, town clerk ; D. Hover, Thomas Bailey, George P. Lord and James H. Pitcher, justices ; Chas. C. Campbell, Thomas Anderson and W. E. Swarthout, assessors ; P'rank Covel, collector; Solomon R. Wixson, highway commissioner ; Thomas Best, overseer of the poor ; Hiram Rapplee, Arthur D. Graw and Almon Barrett, excise commissioners. As at present constituted Wayne is one of the most interesting and 174 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. favorably situated towns of Steuben county, and in the development of its natural resources it has become one of the best vineyard districts in the region. Added to this is its value as an agricultural town, while the building up of large hotels and pleasure resorts along the Keuka front have combined to increase local prosperity. In the early history of the county the town was hardly more than a passive factor, yet the people of Wayne have ever enjoyed the reputation of making their presence felt in all measures tending to the public good. In the great anti-rent conflict of 1830, and about that time, the local inhabitants took a prominent part in the passing events, and they were worthily represented in the Bath convention by Latham Fitch, John H. Sher- wood and Thornton F. Curry. During the war of the Rebellion, as commonly known, where true patriotism as well as loyalty and states- manship were essential elements of success, the town proved equal to every demand made upon it and furnished for the service a total of eighty- five men; a record certainly praiseworthy when we consider the fact that in i860 the inhabitants numbered only 944. During the period of its history, there have been built up within the town two small hamlets, known as Wayne village and Wayne Four Corners, while the chief importance of Keuka is derived from its ship- ping advantages during the warm months. In winter it is an almost deserted locality. These villages, with their respective interests, are mentioned in another department of this work. West Union. — On the 25th day of April, 1845, tlie State Legisla- ture divided the town of Greenwood, and taking substantially township one, of range six, erected it into a separate jurisdiction under the name of West Union Then, and now, the new creation contained 23,900 acres of land, being nearly as large as the mother township from which it was formed. It was the design of the promoters of the new town scheme to adopt the name Green, in allusion to the mother town, but as Chenango county had a town named Greene the petition was changed and the name of Union adopted. This also was found to be in conflict with the name of an existing town in Broome county, therefore West Union was accepted as the designation of the new formation. The town occupies a position in the extreme southwest corner of the county, Pennsylvania line being its south boundary with the Allegany THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 175 county line on the west. Rexville, the only village of any note in the town, ia distant thirty miles from Bath and nineteen miles from Ilornells- ville. Tlie land surface is hilly and broken, the highest summits being about 2,500 feet above tidewater. Bennett's Creek is the principal stream. The soil is a heavy, slaty loam. The pioneer settlement of the town of West Union, then, however, known as Troupsburg, was begun about the year 1821, when Abraham \'. Olmstead came from Delaware county and made a clearing on the site of the present village of Rexville. Later on Mr. Olmstead erected the first tavern in the town, and his son Walter B. was born November 4, 1823. also the first event of its kind in the town. About the same time, probably in 1821, came Jonathan and John Mattisoii and David Davis, and located in the east part. The other pioneers were William Burger, also from Delaware county, Frederick Hauber from Pennsyl- vania, Uriah and B. Ingley, Vencent Compton and his sons William and Vincent, Adam Young, William Bray, John Wiley, William Fisher, Benjamin Wilkes, William and Ephraim Young, Henry Young, Daniel Hamilton, David Baker, Stephen Boyd and others whose names are now forgotten. Henry Young settled at West Union Corners. John Wiley settled near where the hamlet of Wileysville was afterward built up. In the north part of West Union there settled about the year 1840 a number of hardworking Irishmen, from whose coming there eventually grew a strong settlement. Among the first of them were John Sheehaii, Dennis Malone, Luke Fox and others. Some of the later settlers in the town at large were Philip Failing, Mr. Bigelow, Abel Mattison, David Sherman (the pioneer dairyman of West Union, and also first supervisor of the town) Alvin Chapin, Alexander Keenan, Daniel Hamilton, Charles and Daniel Rexford and others now forgotten. It is a well known fact that settlement in this particular locality was materially delayed, a large share of the land being owned in I"3ngland and by heirs who were under age. The settlers in this township in 1830 were somewhat affected by the distress prevailing among the occu- pants of the Pulteney and Hornby estates, but at that time this territory formed a part of Troupsburg, and the settlers in that town were the most active in all local proceedings. The delegates to the Bath con- 176 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. vention were Samuel Cady, Samuel Griggs, Joshua Slayter, Jesse Wil- den and Nathan S. Hayes. Referring briefly to the first events of town history we may mention that Walter B. Olmstead was the first white child born; Abram Olm- stead kept the first tavern in a log house on the village site; the first marriage was that of John Hauber and Jane K. Hauber, May i8, 1832; Uriah Stephens taught the first school, about 1830; Jesse Jones and Dr. Cyrus Knight were about the first storekeepers ; John Wiley built the first saw and grist mill in 1849-50. The erection and organization of a new town in the southwestern part of Steuben county was an absolute necessity. In the old town of Greenwood, the center of population and business lay in the northern part of that jurisdiction, and nearly all the principal officers chosen for the town also lived in the same locality. The result was the inhabitants of what is now West Union were denied privileges and improvements to which they were justly entitled. This being the case, the residents in the neglected locality petitioned for the erection of a new town, and West Union was the result of that action. The first election of town officers was held at the house of John Hauber on May 6, 1843. The officers elected were Da\id Sherman, supervisor ; Moses Forbes, town clerk ; Jeremiah B. Millard, Cornelius Rosa and William H. Olmstead, justices of the peace ; David Collins, Peter A. McLean and Marcina Cummings, assessors ; Jeremiah B. Millard, Jeremiah Ingley and Alvin Chapin, commissioners of highway; Thomas F. Hubbard and Henry B. Baker, overseers of the poor ; Walter B. Olmstead, collector. David Sherman held the office of supervisor twelve years, and Moses Forbes was town clerk for six years. A succession of the several town officers would be interesting in this connection, but unfortunately in 1 88 1, at the time the cheese factory was burned, the town records were also destroyed. The officers for the year 1895 are as follows : W. P. Cary, supervisor ; U. E. Vanfleet, town clerk ; A. W, Barney, George Dennison and Andrew Boucher, justices of the peace; Palmer Warfield, Norman Haseltine and Josiah Sanders, assessors; Hiram Barney, collector; Philip R. Sanders, overseer of the poor ; Archie McAllister, highway commissioner ; David Smith, John Lewis and William Anderson, com- missioners of excise. THE CIVIL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY. 177 West Union had a population of 1,150 in 1892. When organized in 1845 ^''^ inhabitants numbered 539. Five years later the number was 950, and in i860 had increased to 1,392, the greatest population in the town's history. In 1870 the number was reduced to 1,264, 3"e reader should be pre- pared for the events of town history which are contained in succeeding chapters. Turning briefly from the subject of strife and war, let us note the march of progress and development in Steuben county throughout the hundred years of its history that are past. Glancing over the census reports, it is seen that the greatest comparative growth in population was between the years 1800 and 1810, and again between 1810 and 1820. However, this growth is best presented by extracting from the census reports the number of inhabitants in the county at the beginning of each decade, as follows: 1800, 1,788; 1810.7,246; 1820, 21,989; 1830, 33,975; 1840, 46,138; 1850, 66,938; i860, 66,690; 1870. 67,717; 1880,77,586; 1890,81,473. The population of the county in 1892 was 82,468. 190 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. CHAPTER XIII. STEUBEN COUNTY IN THE WAR OF 1861-65. At half- past four o'clock on the morning of April 14, 1861, a shot was fired from a Confederate battery in Charleston harbor, and struck Fort Sumter, which was held by a Federal garrison. Three days after this outburst of treason President Lincoln issued a proclamation calling upon the Union States to send to the national capital 75,000 militia for its defense. On the i6th the State Military Board of New York held a meeting, and Governor Morgan at once sent a message to the secretary of war assuring him that the quota required of this State would be immediately mustered into service. The governor also at once issued orders, acting in concert with the military board, and called upon the militia for seventeen regiments of 780 men each. The result was that in a very few days the State of New York sent 13,906 effective men to Washington ; and it is an historical fact that the opportune arrival of these troops saved the government buildings from attack and possible destruction. Under the several calls, general, special and by draft, both in army and navy, this State furnished an aggregate of 502,765 men, and Steu- ben county provided its full quota. It is to be regretted, however, that the exact number cannot be given, as the State authorities were so remiss that no complete roster has ever been published. The history of the volunteers of Steuben county from the first blaze of hostile cannon until secession was buried at Appomattox by the sur- render of Lee's sword, forms one of the most brilliant chapters in local annals. To picture their services it will be necessary to refer to the records of the regiments to which they were attached, which forms an unbroken chain of evidence to demonstrate the loyalty and patriotism of the country's soldiery; and as other generations read the pages re- cording their services, from 1861 to 1865, it will inspire them to pre- serve sacred the patriotic sentiment of " country first, citizen afterward." THE CIVIL WAR. 191 During tlie course of the war, Steuben county furnished men for twenty-nine different regiments, although in several of them the repre- sentation was quite small. They may be enumerated substantially as follows: Cavalr)' regiments, 6th, 22d, 2d Mounted Rifles, and the 1st and 2d Veteran Cavalry. Artillery, Batteries E and K, 1st, 4th, loth, 13th, 14th, 16th, and the 28th Independent Battery. Engineers, isth (new) and 50th. Infantry, 23d, 34th, 35th, 78th, 86th, looth, io2d, 104th, 107th, 141st, i6ist, 175th, 179th, l88th, and 189th. In this work these regiments may be treated briefly, the writer being constrained to this course by reason of the fact that nearly every coin ■ mand has a published history, exhaustive and in detail, with complete roster both of officers and men. In view of tiiis it is unnecessary to cumber the present chapter with repeated histor\', but ratiier to furnish an outline of the composition and organization of the several regiments recruited in whole or part in the county, with the official list of battles of those of greatest importance or having the strongest contingent of men from the county. Twenty-third Regiment of Infantry. — The synonyms of this com- mand were "Southern Tier Regiment," and " Southern Tier Rifles." It was accepted and numbered by the State, May 16, 1861 ; was organized at Elmira, and there mustered into service for two years, July 2, 1861. The three years' men, and a few others, were transferred to the 80th N.Y.Vols. May 29, 1863. The companies were recruited about as follows: A at Bath, B at Cuba, C at Oswego, D at Corning, E at Waverly, F and K at Elmira, G at Hornellsville, H at Cortland, I at Watkins. The regiment left the State July 5, 1861, and served at and near Washing- ton from Jul)- 7, 1 86 1, and afterward joined with the Army of the Potomac, to which it was attached until Maj-, i 862, then transferred to the department of the Rappahannock. It next served with the Army of Virginia until January, 1863, and still later in Patrick's Provost Guard Brigade. It was stationed at Aquia Creek, Va., from April 29, 1863, and was discharged and mustered out, under Colonel Hoffman, May 22, 1863, at Elmira. The losses of the regiment were ten killed in action ; seven died of wounds; two officers and fifty-three enlisted men died of disease and other causes ; and five men died in the hands of the enemy. 192 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. The battles in which the 23d took part were as follows : Near Fall's Church, Va., August 14. 1861 ; Ball's Cross Roads, August 27 ; Mun- son's Hill, August 31 ; Ball's Cross Roads, September 14; Bowling Green Road, May 18, 1862; Orange Court House, July 26; General Pope's Campaign, August 16; Rappahannock River, August 21— Sep- tember 2 ; Sulphur Springs, August 26 ; Gainesville, August 28 ; Grove- town, August 29; Bull Run, August 30; Fairfax C. H., August 31 ; South Mountain, Md., Septemper 14; Antietam, September 17; Fred- ericksburg, December 11— 15. The town of Bath furnished Co. A, the officers of which were : Cap- tain, Theodore Schlick ; first lieutenant, Cornelius F. Mowers ; second lieutenant, George E. Biles. The town of Corning furnished Co. D, officered by Capt. Luzerne Todd ; first lieutenant, Newton T. Colby ; second lieutenant, William H. Jones. The officers of Co. G, the Hornellsville contribution to the regiment, were Captain Frank B. Doty ; first lieutenant, Ira Cone ; second lieu- tenant, John Prentiss. Thirty-fourth Regiment. — This command was recruited principally in Eastern New York and was commonly called the " Herkimer Regi- ment." However, Steuben county contributed two companies, E and I, raised at Addison and Hammondsport, respectively, though both Urbana and Pulieney contributed to its strength. The officers of the Addison company were Captain Henry Baldwin ; first lieutenant, James R. Carr ; second lieutenant, Edwin F. Smith. The latter was promoted first lieutenant December 23, 1861, and Henry W. Sanfoid followed him in both positions. George W. Wildrich, of WoodhuU, was pro- moted second lieutenant December 23, 1861, and resigned April 10, 1862. In Co. I Capt. William H. King was brevetted lieutenant- colonel of U. S. Vols., and Second Lieut. Monroe Brundage was pro- moted captain February 10, 1863. The other officers were first lieu- tenant, Alfred T. Atwood, and second lieutenant, Monroe Brundage. The 34th was mustered into service for two years, June 15, 1861, and on June 8, 1863, its three years' men were transferred to the 82d In- fantry. It left the State July 3, 1861, and served in and about Wash- ington, in Gorman's Brigade, Stone's division, until October 16. Its THE CIVIL WAR. 193 later service was with the Army of the Potomac until June 30, 1863, when tlie regiment was mustered out at Albany. During its service, the Tiiirty- fourth lost one officer and sixty-five men. killed in action ; two officers and twenty- si.v men died of wounds ; from disease and other causes, one officer and sixty- seven men ; aggre- gate losses, one liundred and sixty- two. The regiment took part in the following battles: Seneca Mills, Md., September i and 16, 1861; Uranesville, September 17; Goose Creek, Va., October 22 ; Siege of Yorktown, April 5, to May 4, 1862 ; Tyler House, May 24 ; Fair Oaks, May3i-June i; White House, June 16; Seven Day's Battle, June 25— July 2; Peach Orchard, June 29; Savage Sta., June 29; White Oak Swamp, June 30; Glendale and Malvern Hill, July i ; Antietam, Md., September 17 ; Fredericksburg, Va., December i 1-15 ; Marye's Heights and Salem Church, May 3, 4, 1863. Thirty- Fifth Regiment. — The towns of Corning and Urbana furnished Co. F for this command, which in the service was known as the Jeffer- son County Regiment. It was mustered into service June 11, 1861, and was mustered out at Elmira, June 5, 1863, having lost from all causes a total of one hundred men. The early part of its service was in the defenses of Washington, and afterward chiefly with the army of the Potomac. The battles in which the regiment participated were these: Hall's Hill, Va., August 27, 1861 ; Gen. Pope's campaign, August 16— Sep- tember 2, 1S62: Rappahannock River, August 21; Sulphur Springs, August 26; Near Gainesville, August 28; Grovetown, August 29; Bull Run, August 30 ; Fairfax C. H., August 31 ; Near Fairfax C. H., September 4 ; South Mountain, Md., September 14; Antietam, Sep- tember 17; Fredericksbiirgh, Va., December 11- 15. Seventy-Fighth Regiment. — In the service this regiment was variously known as the " Seventy-eighth Highlanders," " Cameron Highlanders," and also " First Regiment, Eagle Brigade." It was organized in New York city April 26, 1862, by the consolidation of the men enlisted by Col. Samuel K. McElliott for the Lochiel Cameron Highlanders, the original 78tii regiment, and of those enlisted by Gen. G. A. Scroggs for his, or part of the, 4th Regiment, Eagle Brigade, with the men en- listed by Col. Daniel Ullman f(jr the 1st Regiment, Eagle Brigade, with 25 194 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. the latter as colonel. It was mustered into service for three years be- tween October i, 1861, and April 12, 1862. Co F of the 78th was recruited in Bath. Its service began at Washington in May, 1862, and was afterward with the army of Virginia and the army of the Cumber- land. The total losses of the regiment amounted to 133 men. The 78th took part in the following engagements : Charlestown, Va., May 28, 1862; Harper's Ferry, May 28-30; Cedar Mountain, August 9; Pope's Campaign, August i6-September 2 : Sulphur Springs, Au- gust 23-24 ; Centerville, September i ; Antietam, September 17 ; Near Hillsboro, October 6 ; Near Ripen, November 9 ; Hillsboro, December I ; Chancellorsville, May 1-3, 1863; Gettysburg, July 1-3; Wau- hatchie, October 28-29 ; Chattanooga and Rossville campaign, Tenn., November 23-27 ; Lookout Mountain, November 24 ; Missionary Ridge, November 25 ; Ringgold Gap, November 27 ; Atlanta campaign. May 3-July 12, 1864; Mill Creek Gap, May 9 ; Resaca.May 14-15; Dallas, May 25-June 4; Kenesaw Mountain, June 9-July 2; Pine Mountain, June 14-15; Golgotha, June 16-17; Gulp's Farm, June 22; The As- sault, June 27. Eighty Sixth Regiment. (Steuben Rangers). — In many respects this was one of the most notable commands raised in this part of the State, and the fact that during its service at the front its losses aggregated 325 men indicates that it was one of the hardest fighting regiments sent out by the State. Its history is best recalled by the accompanying list of battles, hence needs no detail in this place. The Eighty-Sixth infantry (Veteran), Col. B. P. Bailey, was orga- nized at Elmira, November 23, 1861, and was there mustered into ser- vice for three years November 20-23 On the 2ist of June, 1864, a portion of the 70th N. Y. Vols., was transferred to this regiment. The companies comprising the 86th were recruited as follows : A at Syra- cuse ; B at Addison ; C at Corning ; D at Hornellsville ; E at Elmira; F at Lindley; G at Canisteo ; H at Troupsburg ; I in Steuben county generally, and K at VVoodhull. The field and staff officers were as follows : Colonel, Benajah P. Bai- ley, Corning; Lieutenant- Colonel, Barna J. Chapin, Dansville; Major, Seymour G. Rhinevault,Woodhull; Adjutant,Charles W.Gillet, Addison; Quartermaster, Byron Spence, Starkey, Yates county ; Surgeon, John THE CIVIL WAR. 195 F. Jamison, Hornellsville ; Assistant Surgeon, Farand Wylie, Bath; Chaplain, Jonathan Watts, Corning; Sergeant Major, Henry \V. Fuller, Corning; Quartermaster Sergeant, Samuel Leavitt, Elmira ; Commis- sary sergeant, George P. Baker, Corning; Hospital Steward, William Sayer. Band: Horatio G. K. Anderson, leader ; John J. Brown, Reuben E. Stetson, George E. Gray, Mortimer W. Rose, Isaac L. Kress, Walter W. Slingerland, John M. Tenny, James A. Wilkey, George Bridgeden, William G. Wright, Estcs T. Sturtevant, George J. Benjamin, Rankin B. Rose. The company officers were as follows : Co. A. Captain, Benjamin L. Higgins; First Lieutenant, William H. Gault ; Second Lieutenant, Prentice Holmes, and eighty-three non-commissioned officers and pri- vates. Co. B. Captain, William B. Angle ; I'^irst Lieutenant, Charles W. Gillett, promoted Adjutant by order of Col. Bailey ; Second Lieu- tenant, Hiram J. Blanchard, and ninetj-five non-commissioned officers and privates. Co. C, Captain, Jacob H. Lansing ; F'irst Lieutenant, Leonard Scott; Second Lietenant, Joseph H.Tull, and ninety-tuo non- commissioned officers and privates. Co. U, Captain, Daniel S. Ells- worth ; First Lieutenant, Arthur S. Baker; Second Lieutenant, Lemi H. Crary, and eighty-nine non-commissioned officers and privates. Co. E, Captain, Thomas F". Shoemaker ; First Lieutenant, John G. Copley ; Second Lieutenant, George A. Packer, and ninety- five non-commissioned officers and privates. Co. F, Captain, Henry G. Harrower; First Lieu- tenant, Samuel M. Morgan ; Second Lieutenant, Michael B. Stafford, and ninety-one non-commissioned officers and privates. Co. G, Cap- tain, James Bennett ; First Lieutenant. Nathan S. Baker ; Second Lieu- tenant, John Fulton, and eighty-four non-commissioned officers and privates. Co. H, Captain, William Ten Broeck ; First Lieutenant, Will- iam G. Raymond ; Second Lieutenant, James Carpenter, jr., and ninet)'- five non-commissioned officers and privates. Co. I, Captain, Amos W. Sherwood; First Lieutenant, Jackson A. Woodward; Second Lieuten- ant, Foster P. Wood, and eighty non-commissioned officers and privates. Co. K, Captain, Seymour G. Rhinevault, promoted major, November 22, 1861 ; First Lieutenant, Charles H. Wombaugh, promoted captain November 22, 1861 ; Second Lieutenant, John N. Warner, and ninety- six non-commissioned officers and privates. 196 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. The Eighty-sixth left Elniira November 23, 1861, and proceeded to Washington, thence was attached to Casey's division, second brigade, army of the Potomac. In January, 1862, the regiment formed a part of Smith's division, third brigade, but in February was re-attached to Casey's command. The early part of the year 1862 was uneventful, but about the middle of August the 86th took part in Gen. Pope's Vir- ginia campaign, from which time on until final muster-out on June 27, Il)65, it was almost constantly engaged, and a reference to the appended list of engagements will disclose the fact that the regiment participated in some of the most severe battles of the war, and at times suffered serious losses. During its service the 86th lost by death, killed in action, six ofificers and ninety- two enlisted men ; of wounds received in action, seven ofificers and sixty- two enlisted men ; of disease and other causes, two ofificers and one hundred and fifty- one enlisted men; total, fifteen ofificers and three hundred and ten enlisted men. Of these seventeen died in the hands of the enemy. The battles and engagements in which the regiment took part were as follows : Gen. Pope's campaign, Va., Aug. i6-Sept. 2, 1862; Bull Run, Aug. 30: Manassas Gap, Oct. 18, and Nov. 5-6; Fredericksburg, Dec. 11-15: Chancellorsville, May 1-3, 1863; Brandy Station, June 9; Gettysburg, July 1-3; Wapping Heights, July 23; Auburn, Oct. 13; Kelley's Ford, Nov. 7 ; Mine Run campaign, Nov. 26-Dec. 2; Locust Grove, Nov. 27 ; Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864; Spottsylvania C. H., May 8-21 ; Po River, May 9-10; Laurel Hill, May 10; Salient, May 12 ; North Anna, May 22-26; Tolopotomy, May 27-31 ; Cold Harbor, June 12; Before Petersburg, June 15 and April 2, 1865 ; As- sault on Petersburg, June 15-19, 1864 ; Weldon Railroad, June 21-23 ! Deep Bottom, July 27-29; Strawberry Plains, Aug. 14-18; Poplar Spr. Ch. Oct. 2; Boydton Plank road, Oct. 27-28 ; Hicksford Raid, Dec 6-1 1 ; Hatcher's Run, Feb. 5-7, 1865; Petersburg Works, Mar. 25 ; Appomattox campaign, Mar. 28-Apr. 9; White Oak Ridge, Mar, 29-31 ; Fall of Petersburg, Apr. 2 ; Deatonsville Road, Apr. 6 ; Farm- ville, Apr. 7; Appomattox C. H., Apr. 9. One Hundredth Regiment (Veteran). — The Steuben county contin- gent of recruits in this regiment was exceedingly small, comprising a few men from Greenwood who were members of B company. Between THE CIVIL WAR. l'J7 September, 1861, and Januarj-, 1862, the regiment was mustered into service for three years, and at the front was known as " Second Regi- ment, Eagle Brigade," and also as "Third Buffalo Regiment." Its ser- vice began with the siege at Yorktown, in April and May, 1862, and closed with surrender at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. During the ser- vice this regiment lost 397 men. One Hundred and Second Regiment (Veteran). — The town of Avoca furnished a " corporal's guard " for D company in this command. The regiment was familiarly known as the " Van Buren Light Infantry," under Col. Thomas Van Buren. It was a consolidated regiment, or- ganized January 27, 1862, and mustered in for three years. Its service was severe although the losses were not heavy. The regiment served in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Georgia and North and South Caro- lina. Aggregate losses, 156 men. One Hundred and Fourth Regiment (Veteran). — Co. E of this regi- ment was raised in Groveland, Cohocton and Burns. The command was otherwise known as the " Wadsworth Guards," and also the " Liv- ingston County Regiment." The men were mustered into service be- tween September, 1861, and March, 1S62. Service at the front began with Cedar Mountain, August 9. 1862, and from that time to the mus- ter out, July 17, 1865, was arduous and at times severe. The total losses to the regiment, from all causes, was 237 men. One Hundred and Seventh Regiment (Campbell Guards) — On the 1st of July, 1862, President Lincoln issued a call for 300,000 volunteers, and about the same time, in carr3ing out the wishes of the executive. Secretary Stanton requested Congressmen Pomero)', of Cayuga, Diven, of Chemung, and Van Valkenburg, of Steuben, to repair to their homes and recruit a regiment. Mr. Van Valkenburg was authorized as colonel on July 18, and on the 13th of August, following, the One Hundred and Seventh was mustered into service for three years, being the first regiment organized in this State under the call mentioned, for which it was honored by the State in being made the recipient of a handsome banner. The regiment was raised in the counties of Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben, A, B, C, D and E at Palmira ; F at Addison, Cameron and Campbell; G at Elmira, Bath and Hammondsport ; H at Havana and F,lmira; I at Corning, Wayland and West Union; and K at Hor- 198 • LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. nellsville, Howard, Elmira and Canisteo. About two- fifths of the entire regiment came from towns of Steuben county, from which fact it is proper that we here furnish the names of its commissioned officers, viz.: Field and Staff. — Colonel, Robert B. Van Valkenburg ; lieut. -colonel, Alexander S. Diven ; major, Gabriel L. Smith ; adjutant, Hull Fanton ; quartermaster, E. P. Graves; Q. M. sergt., L. B. Chidsay ; chaplain, Ezra F. Crane ; surgeon, Patrick H. Flood ; asst. surgeon, James D. Hewitt ; sergt. major, John R. Lindsay ; com. sergt., Henry Inscho ; hospital steward, John M. Ford. Officers Co. F. — Captain, James H. Miles ; first lieut., J. Milton Roe ; second lieut., John F. Knox. Co. G : Captain, John J. Lamon ; first lieut., G. H. Brigham ; second lieut., Ezra Gleason. Co. I : Captain, Newton T. Colby ; first lieut., Benjamin C. Wilson ; second lieut., Na- thaniel E. Rutler. Co. K : Captain, Allen M. Sill; first lieut, John M. Goodrich ; second lieut., Alonzo B. Howard. The regiment left the State August 13, 1862, and served in Whipple's division, defenses of Washington, from August; thence in 3d brigade, 1st division, 12th corps, Army of the Potomac, from September 12, 1862; in the 2d brigade from August, 1863 ; in the same brigade and division, 20th corps. Army of the Cumberland, from April. 1864; and it was honorably discharged and mustered out under Col. Nirom M. Crane, June 5, 1865, near Washington, D. C. During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, two officers and fifty men ; of wounds received in action, two officers and thirty-six men ; from disease and other causes, 131 men; an aggregate of 221, of whom five enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy. The One Hundred and Seventh took part in the following engage- ments, and suffered losses as indicated. Antietam, September 17, 1862, loss 63 ; Chancellorsville, May 1-3, 1863, loss 83 ; Gettysburg, July 2- 4, loss 2 ; Jones Cross Roads, July 11-12; near Williamsport, Md., July 14; Atlanta Campaign, May 3-September 2, 1864; Resaca, May 14-15, loss 7 ; near Cassville, May 19-20; Dallas, May 25-June 4, loss 165 ; Kenesaw Mt., June 9-July 2 ; Golgotha, June 16-17 ! Nozes Creek, June 19—20; Gulp's Farm, June 22, (loss in last five battles, 10); Peach Tree Creek, July 20, loss 19; Atlanta, July 21-August 26, loss THE CIVIL WAR. 199 9 ; Sherman's Savannah campaign. November 1 5-December 2 i ; March to the Sea, November i 5-December 10; Montieth Swamp, December 9; Savannah, December 10-20; Izzard's Mill, December 19 (loss in the campaign, 59) ; Campaign of the Carolinas, January 26-April 26, loss I ; Rockingham, N. C, March 8, loss i ; Fayetteville, March 15, loss 2; Averysboro, March 16, loss 46; Bcntonville, March 19-20; Raleigh, April 23 ; Bennett Mouse, Va., April 26. One Hundred and Forty- first Regiment — This was another of the important commands for which this county furnished a considerable contingent of troops, and was raised under the same urgent necessities which called for the 107th. It was recruited under authority granted to Col. Samuel G. Hathaway, August 14, 1862, in the then twenty-seventh senatorial district of the State It was organized at Elmira, and there, on September 11, 1862, was mustered into service. The Steuben county contribution was scattered through several companies, about as follows: A portion of Co. B was from Hornby; D was raised at Corn- ing ; E at Bath, Corning, Erwin, Thurston, Avoca, Campbell and Wheeler ; F at Hornellsville, Fremont and Dansville ; G at Rathbone, Addison, Tuscarora, WoodhuU and Elmira ; H at Canisteo, Howard, Greenwood, West Union and Bath. Among the field and staff officers were several from Steuben county, wherefore the personnel of that de- partment is appropriate, as follows : Colonel, Samuel G. Hathaway, jr. ; lieut.-col., James C, Beecher ; major, John W. Dininny ; adjutant, Robert M. McDowell ; surgeon, Joseph W. Robinson ; asst. surgeons, O. S. Greenman and M. T. Babcock. Officers Co. B. — Captain, Andrew D. Compton ; first lieut., Stephen F. Griffith ; second lieut , Robert F. Hedges. Co. D : Captain, Charles A. Fuller ; first lieut, William Merrill ; second lieut., Joseph Townsend. Co. E : Captain, William K. Logic ; first lieut., John A, Shultz ; second lieut., E. J. Belding. Co. F: Captain, Andrew J. Russell; first lieut., John Barton ; second lieut., William L. Collins. Co. G : Captain, Dan- iel N. Aldrich ; first lieut., John W. Hammond ; second lieut., John H. Rowley. Co. H : Captain, William A. Bronson ; first lieut., Stephen S. Roscoe ; second lieut., James W. Smith. The regiment left the State September 15, 1862, and served at Laurel Hill, and in the defenses of Washington until December. Its active 200 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. duty began at the siege of Suffolk, Va , and was afterward continued in Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carohnas until final muster out on June 8, 1865. During the period of its services, the regiment lost six officers and 243 enlisted men, the most disastrous battles being Resaca, Dallas, Golgotha and Peach T'-ee Creek. The official list of battles of the 141st were as follows: Siege of Suf- folk, Va., April i6-May 4, 1863; Diascund Bridge, June 16; Crump's Cross Road.s, July 2 ; Wauhatchie, Tenn., October 28-29; Chattanoo- ga and Rossville Campaign, November 23-27 ; Missionary Ridge, No- vember 25 ; London, December 5 ; Atlanta Campaign, May 3-Septem- ber 2, 1864; Resaca, May 14-15; Dallas, May 25-June 4; Ackworth, Junes; Kenesaw Mt., June 9-July 2 ; Golgotha, June 16-17; Nose's Creek, June 19-20 ; Gulp's Farm, June 22 ; Peach Tree Creek, July 20 ; Atlanta, July 21-August 26 ; Sherman's Savannah Campaign, Novem- ber 15-December 21 ; March to the Sea, November 15-December 10 ; Monteith Swamp, December 9; Savannah, December 10-21; Cam- paign of the Carolinas, January 27-April 26, 1865 ; Chesterfield, March 3; Averysboro, March 16; Bentonville, March 19-20, Aiken's Creek, April 10; Smithfield, April lo-ii ; Raleigh, April 13 ; Bennett House, April 26. One Hundred and Sixty first Regiment. — Notwithstanding the fact that previous to September, 1862, the patriotism and loyalty of Steuben county had been fully tested in raising troops for the service, it was destined to be still further taxed for the same cause. Tiie 107th and 141st were only recently organized and sent to the front when, on Sep- tember 6th, Col. Gabriel P. Harrower was authorized to recruit another regiment in the Twenty-seventh Senatorial District. So promptly in- deed did the recruiting officers apply themselves to their duty that on the 27th of October, the i6ist was mustered into service for three years, although the command did not leave the State until December 4, following. In this regiment we find a strong contingent from Steuben county. Co. A was recruited at Urbana, Pulteney, Prattsburg and Wheeler ; D was recruited at Bath ; a small portion of E at Hornellsville ; F at Bath and Howard ; G in part at Corning ; H at WoodhuU, Jasper, Greenwood and Troupsburg ; I at Cohocton and Avoca, In organiz THE CiriL WAR. 201 ing the regiment a number of field and staff officers were taken from this county, the personnel being as follows: Colonel, Gabriel T. Harrower ; lieutenant-colonel, Marvin D. Stil- wcll ; major, Charles Straun ; adjutant, William B. Kinsey ; quarter- master, Marcus E. Brown ; surgeon, Lewis Darling ; assistant surgeons, Joseph iS. Dolson and Charles M. Pierce ; chaplain, Thomas J. O. Wooden. The officers of the companies recruited chiefly in this county were as follows: Co A, captain. B. V. Van Tuyl ; first lieutenant, John Gibson; second lieutenant, S. S. Fairchild. Co. D, captain, George E. Biles ; first lieutenant, James M. Cadmus; second lieutenant, T. Scott De Wolf. Co. F, captain, John Slocum ; first lieutenant, John F. Little ; second lieutenant, James Faucett. Co. G, captain, Edmund Fitz Patrick; first lieuteuant, John P. Worthing. Co. H, captain, Willis E. Craig ; first lieutenant. Nelson P. Weldrick ; second lieutenant, George B. Herrick. Co. I, captain, Samuel A, Walling; first lieutenant, Myron Powers ; second lieutenant, Edwin A. Draper. As we have stated, the l6ist left the State in December, 1862, and first served in Grover's division. Gulf department, being transferred thence to Augur's division, 19th Corps. In the extreme South, active service began at Clinton Plank Road, La , in March, 1863, and from that time until final muster out at Tallahassee, Fla., November 12, 1865, was one of the fighting commands of the division. The most severe losses were these:. Siege of Port Hudson, 17; Bayou la Fourche, 53 ; Sabine Pass, 30; Sabine Cross Roads, 87. The total lo.sses of the i6ist were 306 men. List of engagements: Clinton Plank Road, La., March 15, 1863; Plain Store, May 21 ; Siege of Port Hudson, May 23-June 17 ; Bayou la Fourche, July 13; Sabine Pass, September 8; Vermilion liayou, October 9 and November 1 1 ; Carrion Crow Bayou, October 1 1 ; Red River Campaign, March lO-May 22, 1864; Sabine Cross Roads, April 8; Pleasant Hill, April 9; Cane River Crossing, April 23; Mansura, May 16; Spanish Fort, Ala., March 27-30, 1865 ; Fort Blakely, April 3-9; Mobile, April 10. One Hundred and Seventy fifth Regiment (5th Regiment, Corcoran Brigade). — To this command the town of Hornby contributed a few 26 202 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY recruits, members of Cos. D and E. The local contingent was very small, hardly sufficient to warrant more than a mere mention in this chapter. One Hundred and Seventy ninth Regiment. — This command was organized at Elmira, and its companies were mustered into service be- tween April and September, 1864. The Steuben county contribution to the regiment comprised less than one hundred men, recruited in Hornellsville, Cohocton, Bradford and Dansville, and scattered through Cos. C, F and H. The service of the 179th was confined wholly to Virginia, with the Army of the Potomac, and generally with the 9th Corps. However, during its brief service, from June, 1864, to April, 1865, the regiment lost 191 men, twenty-five of whom died in the hands of the enemy. One Hundred and Eighty eighth Regiment. — This command was recruited with headquarters at Rochester, under authority given to Colonel Chamberlain, succeeded by Col. John E. McMahon, on Septem- ber 20, 1864. So far as it related to this county the regiment had no special prominence, yet a number of towns furnished recruits, notably Corning, Hornby and Tuscarora, the men being in Co. F. The iS8tli left the State October 13, 1864, and served in the 2d Brigade, first division, 5th Corps, losing an aggregate of ninety men. One Hundred and Eighty-ninth Regiment. — On September 26, 1864, Col. William A. Olmstead, succeeded by Col. William W. Hayt, received authority to recruit this regiment, and in its composition we find a fair contingent of Steuben county volunteers. Co. A was re- cruited at Bath ; C at Wheeler, Bath, Avoca, Kanona and Urbana ; G at Cohocton, Avoca and Wayland ; H at Bath. Among the regimental officers were two from this county, viz., Col. William W. Hayt, of Corning, and Quartermaster J. L. Brown, of Corning. In the same manner we may note the officers of local com- panies: Co. A, captain, John Stocum ; first lieutenant, B. N. Bennett; second lieutenant, John W. Brown. Co. C, captain, Burrage Rice ; first lieutenant, Dwight Warner; second lieutenant, Mortimer W. Reed. Co. G, captain, William Washburn ; first lieutenant, Edwin A. Draper. Co. H, captain, Nathan Crosby ; first lieutenant, Hiram F. Schofield ; second lieutenant, L. G. Rutheford. THE CIVIL WAR. 203 Cos. D, E, G and K left the State September i8, and the others October 23, 1864. The regiment served in the 2d Brigade, 1st division, 5th Corps, and, commanded by Allen L. Burr, was honorably dis- charged and mustered out June i, 1865, near Washington, D. C. Dur- ing its service the 189th lost a total of eighty officers and men. It took part in the following engagements : Before Petersburg, Va., November I, 1864, and April 2, 1865; Hicksford Raid, December 11, 1864; Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865 ; Appomattox campaign, March 25-April 9; White Oak Ridge, March 29-31 ; Five Forks, April i ; Fall of Petersburg, April 2 ; Appomattox C. H., April 9. Sixth Regiment of Cavalry (" Ira Harris Cavalry," " Second Ira Harris Guards"). — This regiment was organized under special authority from the war department as the Ira Harris Guard, at New York city, and was, after having been turned over to the State, November 20, 1861, designated the Sixth Regiment of Cavalry, N. Y. Vols. In Co. C of the 6th were men from Cohocton, Hornellsville and Dansville ; in Co G men from Hornellsville, an aggregate of about forty men. Twenty-second Regiment of Cavalry ("Rochester Cavalry"). — In this regiment, which was raised largely in Monroe and counties east of it along the Central Railroad, were a few recruits from Steuben county, members of Co. G, and recruited in Bath, Urbana and Prattsburg. The local contingent, however, did not include more than about thirty men Second Regiment of Mounted Rifles (" Governor's Guards"). — This regiment was originally intended as an infantry command, but the order for its organization was modified and constituted a cavalry regi- ment. The local contribution was very light, comprising a few men from Prattsburg, who were members of Co. M. First Veteran Cavalry. — This regiment was organized at Geneva during the summer of 1863. Co. D contained a few recruits from Prattsburg, and L a few from Hornellsville. Second Veteran Cavalry (" Empire Light Cavalry "). — On June 23, 1863, Colonel Chrysler was authorized to reorganize the 30th Infantry, then recently discharged, as a regiment of cavalry, to be called the Empire Light Cavalry. On July 20 it was changed to " 2d Regt., Vet. Cav." The regiment was raised almost wholly in the eastern part of 204 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. the State, yet the towns of Addison and Bath furnished a few recruits for Co. G. First Regiment of Artillery (Light, Veteran). — Battery E, captain, John Stocum, principally recruited at Bath, Avon and Mitchellville, was mustered in the U. S. service September 13, 1861, at Elmira. It served in the 4th, 5th and 6th Corps, Army of the Potomac, until final muster out June 17, 1865. Battery K, Captain Lorenzo Crouse, had a few recruits from Jasper, and also served chiefly with the Army of the Potomac. It was mustered out June 20, 1865, at Elmira. Fourth Ref^iment of Artillery (Heavy ; Veteran). Hornellsville and Canisteo furnished men for Co. C of this command. This regiment also served with the army of the Potomac. In addition to the several regiments already specially mentioned Steuben county furnished still other volunteers, though the representa- tioli in each was quite small. Among the commands to be noted in this connection was the Tenth Heavy Artillery, in which was a small contribution from the county ; also Thirteenth Heavy Artillery for which Greenwood furnished a few recruits, also the F"ourteenth Heavy Artillery, in which Bath was represented; also the Twenty- eighth Inde- pendent Battery of Light Artillery, in which were men from Avoca, Campbell, Cohocton, Howard, Wayland and Urbana. In the Fifteenth Regiment of Engineers (Veteran), though better known as the " New York Sappers and Miners," were a few recruits credited to Dansville and Lindley. In the Fiftieth Regiment of Engineers (Veteran), other- wise variously known as " Stewart's Engineers ; " " Independent Engi- neers," and also " Sappers, Miners and Pontoniers," the Steuben locali- ties from which came recruits were Addison, Bath, Painted Post, Savona and Hornellsville. THE BENCH AND BAR. 205 CHAPTER XIV. THE BEXCII AND BAR. In the early history of tlie colony of New York the governor was in effect the maker, interpreter and enforcer of the laws. He was the chief judge of the court of final resort, while his councillors were generally his obedient followers. The e.xecution of the English and colonial statutes rested with him, as did also the exercise of royal authorit_\- in the province ; and it was not until the adoption of the first constitution, in 1777, that he ceased to contend for these prerogatives and to act as though the only functions of the court were to do his bidding as servants anti helpers, while the Legislature should adopt only such laws as the executive should suggest and approve. By the first constitution the governor was entirely stripped of the judicial power whicli he possessed under the colonial rule, and that power was vested in the lieutenant- governor and Senate, also in the chancellor and justices of the Supreme Court; the former to be elected by the people, and the latter to be ap- pointed by the council This was the first radical separation of the judicial and legislative powers, and the advancement of the judiciary to the position of a co ordinate department of government, subject only to the limitations consequent upon the appointment of its members by the council. The restriction, however, was soon felt to be improper, though it was not until the adoption of the constitution of 1S46 that the last connection between the purel\- political and judicial parts of the State government was abolished, and with it disappeared the last re- maining relic of the colonial period, h'rom this time the judiciary be- came more directly representative of the people. The development of the idea of responsibility of the courts to the people, from the time when all its members were at the beck and nod of an irresponsible master, to the time when all judges (even of the court of last resort) are voted for directly by the people, has been indeed remarkable. 206 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Let us look briefly at the present arrangement and powers of the courts of the State, and then at the elements from which they have grown. The whole scheme embraces the idea of first a determination of tiie facts and the law by a trial court, then a review by a higher tribunal of the facts and law, and ultimately of the law by a court of last resort. To accomplish the purposes of this scheme there has been devised and established, first, the present Court of Appeals, the ultimate tribunal of the State, perfected in its present form by the convention of 1867 and 1868, and taking the place of the old court for the trial of impeachments and correction of errors. The Court of Ap- peals as first organized under the constitution of 1846 was composed of eight judges, four of whom were elected by the people, and the remain- der chosen from the justices of the Supreme Court having the shortest time to serve. As reorganized in 1869, and now existing, the court consists of a chief judge and six associate judges, who hold office for the term of fourteen years. This court is continually in session at the capitol in Albany, except as it takes a recess on its own motion. It has full power to re\'iew the decisions of the inferior courts when properly before it. Five judges constitute a quorum, and four must concur to render judgment. If four do not agree, the case must be reargued ; but not more than two rehear- ings can be had, and if then four judges do not agree the judgment of the court below stands affirmed. The Legislature has provided how and when decisions of inferior tribunals may be reviewed, and may in its discretion alter and amend the same. Under the revised constitution of 1894, the Legislature is authorized to further restrict the jurisdiction of this court, and the right of appeal thereto. By the same revision it has been specially pro\'ided that from and after the 31st day of Decem- ber, 1895, the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals, except when the judgment is of death, shall be limited to questions of law, and no unani- mous decision of the appellate division of the Supreme Court, unless in certain specified cases, shall be reviewable in the Court of Appeals. Upon the reorganization of this court in 1869, its work was far in arrears, and the law commonly known as the "judiciary act" provided for a Commission of Appeals to aid the Court of Appeals; and still later there was organized a second division of the Court of Appeals to THE BENCH AND BAR. 207 assist in the disposition of business of the general court. The h'mita- tions and restrictions placed upon appeals to this court by the consti- tution of 1894 and are in part designed to relieve it from future similar embarrassments. Second in rank and jurisdiction to the Court of Appeals stands the Supreme Court, which is niatie up of many and widely different ele- ments. It was created b\- the act of representative assembly in 1691, was to be establisiied in the city of New York, and was composed of a chief justice and four assistant justices to be appointed by the governc r, and was empowered to try all issues, civil and criminal, or mixed, to the same extent as the English courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer (except in the exorcise of equity powers), and should have power to establisii rules and ordinances and to regulate practice of the court. It haii juri>diction in actions involving one hundred dollars and over, and to revise and correct the decisions of the inferior courts. An appeal lay from it to the governor and council. The judges made an annual circuit of the State, under a commission issued by the governor, and giving them iiisi prius, oyer and terminer and jail delivery powers. By act of 1691 the Court of Oyer and Terminer was abolished, but in conformity to the courts of Westminster, its name was retained to desig- nate the criminal term of the Supreme Court. At first the judges of the Supreme Court were appointed by the governor and held office during his pleasure. Under the first constitution the court was reorgan- ized, the judges being then named by the council of appointment, and all proceedings were directed to be entitled in the name of the people. By the constitution of 1821 many and important changes were made in the character and methods of the court. The judges were reduced to three and appointed by the governor with the consent of the Senate, to hold office during good behavior, or until sixty years of age. They were removable by the Legislature on the vote of two-thirds of the Assembly and a majority of the Senate. Four times a year the full court sat in review of their decisions on questions of law. By the con- stitution of 1846 the Supreme Court was abolished, and a new court, of the same name and having general jurisdiction in law and equity, was established in its place. Its members were composed of thirty-three jus- tices, to be elected by the people By the judiciary act of 1847 general 208 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. terms were to be held at least once in each year in counties having more than 40,000 inhabitants, and in other counties once in two years ; and at least two special terms and two circuits were to be held yearly in each county except Hamilton. By this act the court was authorized to name the times and places of holding its terms, and those of the Oyer and Termi- ner, the latter being a part of the Circuit Court and held by the justice, county judge and two justices of sessions. Since 1882 the Oyer and Terminer has consisted of a single justice of the Supreme Court. How- ever, under the sweeping changes made by the constitution of 1894, Circuit Courts and Courts of Oyer and Terminer are abolished from and after the last day of December, 1895, and all their jurisdiction shall thereafter be vested in the Supreme Court. Provision is also therein made for an appellate division of this court, to cousist of seven justices in the first, and five in each of the other three judicial departments into which the State is divided. The appellate division is invested with the jurisdiction previously exercised by the Supreme Court at general term, and the general terms of the New York County Common Pleas, the Superior Courts of the cities of New York, Brooklyn and Bufifalo, and such other jurisdiction as the Legislature may confer. From the justices of the Supreme Court the governor shall designate those who shall con- stitute the appellate division, and also the presiding justice thereof, the latter to act during his term of office, the others for the term of five years. In this court four members shall constitute a quorum, and three must concur to render judgment. Legislative enactment in 1895 desig- nated the city of Rochester as the place in which the appellate division shall sit in the fourth department of the State (which includes Steuben county), the other department capitals being New York, Brooklyn and Albany. The judiciary article of the constitution of 1846 was amended in 1869, the Legislature being authorized to provide (not more often than once in five years) for the organization of general terms consisting of a pre- siding justice and not more than three associates, but by the laws of 1870 the then organization of the general terms was abrogated, and the State was divided into four departments, and provision made for hold- ing general terms in each. By the same act the governor was directed to designate from the justices of the Supreme Court a presiding justice THE BENCH AND BAR. 209 and two associates to constitute a general term in each department. Under the authority of the constitutional amendment adopted in 1882, the Legislature, in 1S83. divided the State into five judicial depart- ments, and provided for the election of tvi^elve additional justices to hold office from the first Monday in June, 1884. The constitution of 1894 provided for the election of twelve more justices of the Supreme Court, three to reside in the first, three in the second, and one in each of the other six judicial districts of the State. The Court of Chancery of the State of New York was an heirloom of the colonial period, and had its origin in the Court of Assizes, the latter being vested with equity powers under the duke's laws. The court was established on February 16, 1683, and went out of existence by limita- tion in 1698 ; was revised by ordinance in 1701, suspended in 1703, and re-established in 1704. Previous to that time matters in equity were heard in any of the courts organized in conformity to the duke's laws. At first this court was unpopular in the province, the assembly and col- onists opposing it with the argument that the crown had no authority to establish an equity court in the colony. Their reasons were that quit-rents upon the sale of lands belonged to the crown as a prerogative ; that through the neglect of the governors these rents had been allowed to fall in arrears, and the Court of Chan- cery was resorted to for their collection. Furthermore, the governors, almost without exception, were adventurers, or men of impaired for- tunes, who accepted these appointments with the hope of enriching themselves The methods they pursued in making their office profit- able consisted of granting patents of lands and receiving from the grantee a gratuity (or bribe) in proportion to the value of the land granted — a palpable fraud upon the rights of the crown. As a result the grantees were fearful that proceedings might be instituted in the Court of Chancery by the attorney general to revoke the grants. And thus the Court of Chancery was a menace to the security of the land owners, and incurred their bitter opposition. Under the Constitution of 1777, the Chancery Court was reorganized, and by the reorganization of 1778 masters and examiners were desig- nated by the council of appointment, while registrars and clerks were appointed by the chancellor ; and the latter licensed all solicitors and 210 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. counsellors of the court. Appeals lay from the Chancery Court to the Court for the Correction of Errors. Under the constitution of 1821 the chancellor was appointed bj' the governor, and held office during good behavior, or until sixty years of age. Under the second constitution equity powers were vested in the circuit judges, and their decisions were reviewable on appeal to the chancellor. The equity character, however, was soon taken from the circuit judges and vested in the chancellor alone, and the judges after- ward acted as vice-chancellors in their respective circuits. The Consti- tution of 1846 abolished the Court of Chancery, and its powers and duties were vested in the Supreme Court. ]^y an act of the Legislature passed in 1848, and entitled the "Code of Procedure," all distinction between actions at law and suits in equity was abolished, so far as the manner of beginning and conducting the same were concerned, and one uniform method of practice in all actions was adopted. In June, 1877, the Legislature enacted the " Code of Civil Proceedure," to -take the place of the code of 1848, and by this many minor changes in the practice of the court were made. These are, in brief, the changes through which the Supreme Court has passed in i's growth from the prerogative of an irresponsible governor to one of the most independent and enlightened instrumentalities for the protection and attainment of rights of citizens of which any State or nation, ancient or modern, can rightfully boast. So well is this fact understood by the people that by far the greater amount of business which might be done in inferior courts at less expense is actually taken to this court for settlement. Next in rank to the Supreme Court is the County Court, held in and for each county in the State, at such times and places as its judges may direct. This court had its origin in the English Court of Sessions, and, like it, had, at one time, only criminal jurisdiction. In 1765 Andros granted a charter. The ma)'or with four aldermen was authorized to sit as a Court of Sessions. He did not, however, organize a separate crim- inal tribunal, but continued as before to discharge criminal and munici- pal business at the regular sittings of the court. By an act called an act to "settle courts of justice," which was passed in 1683, a Court of Sessions, having power to try both civil and criminal causes by jury. THE BENCH AND BAR. '^'11 the former witliout limitation as to amount, was directed to be held by three justices of the peace in each of the counties of the province twice a year, with an additional term in Albany and two in New York. In the city of New York it was held by a mayor and four aldermen. By the act of 1691 and the decree of 1699, all civil jurisdiction was taken from this court and conferred on the Common Pleas. By the radical changes made by the constitution of 1846, provision was made for a County Court in each county of the State except New York, to be held by an officer designated the " county judge," and to have such jurisdic- tion as the Legisluture should prescribe. Under the authority of this constitution County Courts have been given jurisdiction in various classes of actions, and have also been invested with certain equity powers in the foreclosure of mortgages, the sale of infants' real estate, and also to partition lands, admeasure dower and care for the persons and estates of lunatics and habitual drunkards. The judiciary act of 1869 continued the existing jurisdiction in all actions in which the de- fendant lived within the count)- and the damages claimed did not exceed $1,000. The constitution of 1894 likewise continues the court and increases its power in extending the amount of damages claimable to $2,000. Like the Supreme Court, the County Court has its civil and criminal sides. In criminal matters the county judge is assisted by two justices of sessions, elected by the people from among the justices of the peace of the county. It is in the criminal branch of this court, known as the "Sessions," that minor criminal offenses are disposed of, and all indict- ments, except (or murder or some very serious felony, are sent to it for trial from the 0>er and Terminer. The constitution of 1894 abolishes Courts of Sessions, except in New York county, after the 31st of De cember, 1895, and its powers and jurisdiction are thereafter to be vested in the County Court. By the codes of 1848 and 1877 the procedure and practice in this court are made to conform as nearly as possible to the practice of the .Supreme Court. This was done with the evident design to attract litigation into these minor courts and thus relieve the Supreme Court. In this purpose, however, there has been a failure, as litigants much prefer the shield and broader powers of the higher courts. Under the code county judges perform some of the duties of a justice 212 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. of the Supreme Court at Chambers. The County Court has appellate jurisdiction over actions arising in Justices Courts and Courts of Special Sessions. Appeals lie from the County Court direct to the General Term. The old court of Common Pleas of the State of New York, the oldest tribunal of the State, which survived the changes of two constitutional revisions, was another heirloom of the colonial period, and was estab- lished originally under the charters of 1686, for the counties of New York and Albany, and was made general to the State by the act of 1691. Under the first constitution the number of judges was various, there being as many as twelve in some counties, but the act of 1818 limited the judges to five in each county, including the first judge. The constitution of 1 82 1 continued the court, and its judges were appointed by the governor and Senate and held office for the term of five years. This court, except in the county of New York, was abolished by the constitution of 1846. Surrogates' Courts, one of which exists in each county of the State, are now courts of record, having a seal, and their especial jurisdiction is the settlement and care of estates of infants and of deceased persons. The derivation of the powers and the practice of these courts is from the Ecclesiastical Court of England, also in part through the colonial council which existed during the rule of the Dutch, and exercised its authority in accordance with the Dutch Roman law, the custom of Am- sterdam, and the law of Aasdom, the Court of Burgomasters and Schep- pens, the Orphan Masters, the Mayor's, the Prerogative, and the Court of Probate. The settlement of estates and the guardianship of orphans was transferred to the Burgomasters in 1653, ^"'^ soon after to the Orphan Masters. Under the colony the Prerogative Court controlled all matters relating to the probate of wills and settlement of estates, but in 1692, by act of the Legislature, all probates and granting of letters of administration were to be under the hand of the governor or his dele- gate, and two freeholders were to be appointed in each town to care for the estates of persons dying inestate. Under the duke's laws this duty had been performed by the constables, overseers and justices of each town. In 1778 the governor was divested of all of this power, except the appointment of surrogate, and it was conferred upon the judges of the Court of Probate. THE BENCH AND BAR. 213 Under the first constitution surrogates were appointed by the council of appointment, and under the second by the governer with the approval of the Senate. The constitution of 1 846 abolished the office of surrogate in all counties having less than 40,000 population, and conferred its powers and duties on the county judge. By the code of civil procedure, surrogates were invested with all the necessary powers to carry out the equitable and incidental requirements of tiieir office. In its present form, and sitting weekly, this court affords a cheap and expeditious medium for the care and settlement of estates and the guardianship of infants. The only remaining courts which are common to the whole State are the Special Sessions, held by justices of the peace for the trial of minor criminal offenses, and justices' courts with a limited civil jurisdiction. Previous to the constitution of 182 1 (modified in 1828), justices of the peace were appointed, but since that time they have been elected. The office and its duties are descended from the English office of the same name, but are much less important, and under the laws of this State it is purely the creature of the statute. This brief survey of the courts of New York, which omits only those that are local in character, gives the reader some idea of the machinery provided for the use of the members of the bench and bar. The organization of the courts in Steuben county vvas accomplished with little ceremony and still less difficulty. The county itself was erected by act of the Legislature, passed March 8, 1796, and on the 21st day of June following, the first court of Common Pleas vvas held at Bath. The officers of the county at that time were William Kersey, first judge, and Abraham Bradley and Eleazer Lindsley, assistant.s; Stephen Ross, surrogate; George D. Cooper, clerk; William Dunn, sheriff. In the same year in which the county was organized the court- house and jail were erected. On the 19th of July, 1859, an act of the Legislature divided Steuben county into two jury districts, the northern and southern, and the court house for the latter was erected at Corning, during the years 1853-54. Still further, for the convenience of the in- habitants generally of the west part of the county, an earnest efibrt was made to establish a third jury district with court buildings at the city of Hornellsville ; and while the act passed both houses of the Legislature it 214 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. failed to become a law in not receiving the executive approval. This was manifest injustice to the people in this section, as a fair proportion of the business of the county, whether legal, commercial or industrial, is transacted in the locality of which Hornellsville is the center; and the final result will undoubtedly be the erection of a new county from Steuben and Allegany with the seat of justice at the city mentioned. However, it is hardly within the province of this chapter to refer at any length to the several count)' buildings in which courts ha\e been held, as that subject is more fully treated in another part of this work ; but it is our present purpose to mention the names of those persons who have been connected with the courts and the administration of law in the county from its earliest history to the present time. The bar of Steuben county has ever been noted for its strength. On the bench and at the bar of the courts have been men of the highest pro- fessional character and of great moral worth. Of the leading legal minds of this State Steuben has furnished a liberal proportion, many of whom have attained distinction and some have become eminent. They have been characterized by strict integrity as well as rare ability — qualities which have made for them a high place, not only in the courts, but also in the legislative halls both of the State and Nation. In this chapter the writer aims to avoid personal allusion to or com- ment on the abilities and characteristics of the lawjers of the county, pleading as an excuse the entire lack of space and the utter impossi- bility to do full justice to a subject so unlimited. It is fact well known that this county has produced some of the ablest lawyers of the State, but to separate the few from their fellows equally worthy of notice, per- haps, and eulogize them to the neglect of the many would lead to com- plications and consequent dissatisfaction. However, it is proper that we make same passing allusion to two members of the old bar who at- tained positions upon the Supreme Court Bench. We refer to Thomas A. Johnson and David Rumsey Thomas A. Johnson was a native of Massachusetts, born at Blanford, May 15, 1804, but during his childhood, his parents settled in Broome county, N. Y. Young Johnson was educated in the common schools, after whicii he read law with Judge Monell at Greene, Chenango county. After admission to practice, Mr. Johnson located at the hamlet j'ears THE BENCH AND BAR. 215 ago called Centreville, near Coining, but some years later moved to the suburb of the city known as Knoxville, where he ever afterward resided. Early in his professional career our subject developed an active interest in public affairs, and this naturally drew him somewhat into politics, tiiough never to the serious neglect of his practice. He loved the pro- ftssion and was devoted to it, hence was an able and successful lawyer, but in connection with his practice he engaged in several mercantile and and manufacturing enterprises. In 1847 '^^''- Johnson was elected justice of the Supreme Court in tlie Seventh Judicial district, and was twice re- elected, holding this oflice, which he honored with his ability and graced with his quiet, native dignity. Judge Johnson was appointed to a posi- tion on the Court of Appeals bench in 1847, and again in 1856 and 1864. He was appointed to the General Term bench in December, 1870. Judge Johnson died December 5, 1872. David Rumsey was born in Salem, Wasliington county, December 25, 1810, and was the son of David Rumsey, the latter a settler in Bath in 1 8 16. In the county seat David, jr., acquired his early education, and also studied law in the office of Henry Wells, a prominent Bath lawyer. Mr, Rumsey was admitted to practice in 1832, and soon after- ward formed a law partnership with William Woods, which continued until the death of the latter in 1837. Five years later he became part- ner with Robert B. Van Valkenburg. In 1846 Mr. Rumsey was elected to Congress, and was re elected in 1848. In January, 1873, he was appointed by Governor Dix justice of the Supreme Court, and was elected to the same ofifice in the following fall. He contiuued to per- form the duties of that office until 1880, when he was disqualified by age, and was succeeded by his son, William Rumsey, who now occu- that high position. Of Judge Rumsey a cotemporary has said : "With a thorough knowledge of law David Rumsey possessed the rare faculty of grasping the thoughts of jurors and leading them along by plain methods of logic and reasoning to the conclusion he desired." Besides Judge Johnson and David Rumsey, Steuben county has furnished two other incumbents of the office of justice of the Supreme Court. William Rumsey, of Bath, and George B. Bradley, of Corning, both of whom are now on the bench and with years, perhaps, of useful- ness before them. 216 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Judge Rumsey was elected justice of the Supreme Court, November 2, 1880. He was a native of Bath, and extensively known throughout Central and Western New York, Previous to his election to the bench Judge Rumsey was an active attorney of the county seat, well known in local political circles, though in no sense a seeker after political pre- ferment. On May 6, 1887, he was appointed by the governor one of the commissioners to examine the bill entitled "An act to establish a Code of Evidence," an appointment purely honorary, yet nevertheless gratifying because of the confidence expressed in the designation. George B. Bradley, who for more thon forty years has been an active factor in professional and public life, and who now retires from the bench by reason of the age limitation, was born in Greene, Chenango county, February 5, 1825. His young life was spent on a farm, and his ele- mentary education was acquired in the district schools and also in Ithaca Academy. In 1845 he began reading law with Judge Monell, of Greene, but finished with James Crombie, of Fulton, Oswego county, He was admitted to practice in 1848, and in the same year located at Addison, remaining a single year, thence practicing four years in Woodhull, but locating permanently at Corning in 1852. Judge Brad- ley's life and public career are made the subject of special mention elsewhere in this work, and here we may only say that he was elected to the Supreme bench, November 6, 1883, and is now a member of the General Term. In another chapter of this work the reader will find a complete suc- cession of the incumbents of the offices of justice of the Supreme Court, county judge, surrogate, sheriffs, district attorney and county clerk, all of whom were officers of the court during the term of their service. They are proper subjects of mention in this chapter, but being noted in the civil list need not be repeated here. Record and tradition alike have it that George D. Cooper was the pioneer lawyer of this county, having settled in Bath in 1895. He was the first county clerk. The first term of the Common Pleas was held on June 21, 1796, and it is said these lawyers were in attendance : Nathaniel \V. Howell, of Canandaigua ; Vincent Matthews, a lawyer of much fame in Western New York, and an afterward resident of Bath ; William Stuart, who appeared in the capacity of deputy attorney- > THE BENCH AND BAR. 217 general, to perform the duties of tlie office we now call district attorney. There were also present lawyers William R. Ver Planck, David Jones, Peter Masterson, Thomas Morris, Stephen Ross and David Powers. This mention recalls the old bar of the county, in connection with which we ma}' mention some of the prominent early practitioners in the courts, although, for reasons already given, this mention must necessarily be brief. Samuel S. Haight was an early lawyer at Rath, having an extensive practice, and taking an active part in public affairs William Howe Cuyler, came to Rath from Albany, and is remembered as a scholarly and dignified lawyer, fashionable in attire and fascinating in manners. He was killed in service during the war of 1812. Gen. Daniel Cruger, also of Rath, was a leading lawyer and an influential politician. He, too, was in the war of 18 12, and served with honor as major of in- fantry. In 1 8 16 he was elected to Congress, but in 1833 he moved to Virginia, where he died in 1843. William R. Rochester presided at the trial of Robert Douglass (charged with murder, convicted and hanged), and was an able exponent of the law. He practiced for a time as part- ner with William Woods. He was elected to Congress in 1822, and in 1823 was appointed Circuit judge for the eighth district. Judge Roch- ester met a tragic death, being drowned while on a voyage to F"lorida. Ziba A. Leland was a graduate of Williams College, and a lawyer of much force and ability. He came to Rath in 1822, and in 1838 suc- ceeded Judge Edwards on the Common Pleas bench He died in Saratoga county about 1873. I'-dward Howell came to Rath from Delaware county in the early part of the year I 81 I, and later read law with General Cruger. He was one of the factors in local political afifairs, and, as a lawyer, "stood for many years at the head of his pro- fession in this part of the State." In 18 18 he was appointed county clerk, followed by an appointment as postmaster at Rath. In 1829 he was appointed district attorney; was member of assembly in 1832, and member of congress in 1833-35. Mr. Howell died in 1871. Schuyler Strong came to Rath from Orange county, and was partner with William Woods, and still later with Mr. Howell. He was the lead- ing lawyer for the defense at the famous Douglass murder trial, being then associated with Mr. Howell and Judge Leland, William Woods 2S 218 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY was one of the early distinguished lawyers of the county seat ; a native of Washington county, and a graduate from the office of Judge Samuel Nelson. Mr. Woods was a successful and popular lawyer, and was honored with important political offices ; was in the State Legislature in 1823 and 1828; member of Congress from 1823 to 1825; surrogate from 1827 to 1835. Mr. Woods died in 1837, ^t the age of thirty- seven years. David McMaster, one of the best known and popular lawyers and judges of his time, and for many years recognized authority on all questions of local history, was a native of Otsego county, born in 1804, and was graduated from Hamilton College in 1824. He began the practice of law in Bath with Henry M. Rogers, in 1827, and continued actively until 1847. Other partners were Judge Leland and L. H. Read. Mr. McMaster was the first count}' judge and surrogate elected under the Constitution of 1846, and was re-elected in 1856. Judge McMaster died May 6, 1888. Henry Welles was one of the oldest members of the old bar, and was also a patriot of the war of 181 2, he raising a company and serving with credit on the New York frontier. He was born on October 17, 1794, and came to Bath previous to his enlistment. He read law with Vincent Matthews, and after being ad- mitted to practice continued actively in professional life for many years. In 1824 he was appointed district attorney, and as such prosecuted Douglass. In 1829 he resigned the position, and after about ten years moved to Penn Yan. He was elected one of the justices of the Supreme Court for the seventh district under the constitution of 1847. Vincent Matthews, whom we have incidentally mentioned, was a native of Orange county, born June 29, 1766. He was the friend and associate of Col. Robert Troup, and afterward became intimate witii some of the leading men of the State. Mr. Matthews became a lawyer in 1790, and in 1793 moved to Elmira, and at once became a promi- nent figure in professional and political life, holding a number of impor- tant offices. His residence in Bath began in 18 16 and continued until 1 82 1, when he moved to Rochester, and continued his brilliant career. He died in 1846. Among the other early lawyers of the county seat were Dominick Theophilus Blake, a well educated young Irishman, full of native humor. THE BENCH AND BAR. 219 in many respects the wag of the bar, on account of his rich brogue, yet a good lawyer. He remained here only a sliort ime. Cuthbert Harri- son was another of the pioneer lawyers, well educated and possessed of good sense, and withal, as General McClurc said, " a good natured, clever fellow." Henry W. Rogers came to Bath about 1827, and for a time taught school, but afterward read law with Henry Welles. Later on he prac- ticed as partner with David McMaster, and afterward with Joseph G. Masten. This latter firm moved to Buffalo about 1836. George C. Edwards came to the local bar in 1818, andin 1825 was appointed Coninion Pleas judge, holding that office until his death in 1837. He was author of the well known work, " A Treatise on the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace " Robert Campbell, jr , son of pioneer Robert Campbell, was born in 1808, and received his early education at Hobart College. He read law with Cruger & Howell, and was admitted to practice in 1S29. Among his law partners in later years were General Cruger, Samuel H. Hammond and Guy H. McMaster. Mr. Campbell is remembered as an earnest and conscientious lawyer, a man of education, and a polished gentleman. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1S46, and was elected lieutenant-governor in 1858; and re elected in i860. He became Regent of the University by appointment February 2, 1846. Samuel H. Hammond, for a time the law partner of Mr. Campbell, practiced in Bath from 1836 to 1842. He was a son of Lazarus Ham- mond, founder of the village of Hammondsport. Mr. Hammond was admitted to practice in 1831. hi 1843 he moved to Albany, but re- turned to Bath in 1857 and became partner with A. P. P'erris. In 1859 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1864 he moved to Watertown, and died there in 1878. L. H. Read, who practiced in Bath for several years, was a native of Pleasant Valley, and studied law with Edward and William Howell. In 1839 he was partner with Judge McMaster. In 1850 he was appointed chief justice of Utah, where he served upon the bench, then resigned and returned to Bath, where he soon after- ward died. William Howell, brother of Edward Howell, practiced law in Bath more than fifty years, and is remembered as a man of culture and refinement, and a successful lawyer. Joseph G. Masten was the 220 Landmarks of steuben county. son in-law of Dugald Cameron, and a lawyer of prominence. He came to Bath about 1832, and for a time was partner with Mr. Rogers. He went to Buffalo about 1836, and died there in 1872. Washington Barnes was also a pioneer at Painted Post, whose election to the county judgeship brought him to Bath in i860. After his term expired he practiced in partnership with Mr. McCall. Alfred P Ferris was edu- cated in the old Franklin Academy at Prattsburg, and studied law with Judge Leland and S. H. Hammond. He was admitted to the bar in 1843, ^^^ practiced at Bath until the time of his death in 1888. Mr. Ferris was district attorney from 1847 to 1851. Guy H. McMaster was born in Bath in 1829, and, like his father, David McMaster, always felt a deep interest in local annals, being author of two standard works, entitled respectively, " Old Continentals," and " Pioneer History of Steuben County." Mr. McMaster was liber- ally educated, and was a graduate of Hamilton College, with the class of '47. He became a member of the local bar in 1852. In 1863 he was elected county judge and surrogate, and was re-elected in 1867 and 1877. In 1883 he was elected surrogate, that office being then separate from the county judgeship. He died September 13, 1887. William B. Ruggles was born in Bath in 1827, and graduated from Hamilton College in 1 849. He was for many years one of the strongest lawyers in the county. He was elected to the assembly in 1876 and '^7, and in the latter year was appointed deputy attorney-general. On March 14, 1883, Mr. Ruggles was appointed state superintendent of public instruction, and also was appointed deputy superintendent of insurance. William E. Bonham read law with Washington Barnes, and for many years was a member of the county bar. In 1864 and '65 he was in the Legislature. Perry S. Donahe came from Avoca to Bath in the early forties. He read law with A. P. Ferris, and after being admitted to practice, was a member of the local bar until his death in 1879 He held the office of town clerk and county treasurer. Robert B. Van Valkenburg, born in 182 1, was for many years a prominent lawyer, a valued and respected citizen, and also a brave officer in military service during the war of 1861-65. He read law with David Rumsey, and was admitted to practice in 1841, and he afterward THE BENCH AND BAR. 221 married Mr. Rumsey's sister. He was prominently associated with nearly every public enterprise in the county ; was also a leading poli- tician, and was in Congress in 1861 and '62. He raised and commanded the 107th N. Y. Vols., but resigned his commission on account of the serious and fatal sickness of his wife. In 1867 our subject was appointed minister to Japan, and in 1872 was appointed justice of the Supreme Court in Florida, in which State he died in 1887. Vincent Matthews Coryell was admitted to practice in 1822, and was for a short time partner witli Judge Welles. However, Mr. Coryell abandoned the profession for the clergy. Anson Gibbs practiced in Bath in 1821-22. John Cook was another member of the old bar, at the county seat, and was district attorney in 1821. William E Bonham, a native of Erwin, read law with Washington Barnes at Bath and be- came his law partner later on. He also practiced in Hornellsville, and was in the Legislature in 1864-65. In mentioning the various members of the old bar of Steuben county, one other name is suggested as specially worthy of notice, although still in professfonal work to the extent at least of gratifying his own inclina- tion and the frequent importunities of former clients Ansel J. McCall, of whom a suitable biography appears elsewhere in this work, was a native of Erwin, born January 14, 18 16. He prepared for college at Prattsburg, entered Union, and was graduated in 1838. He read hiw vvith David McMaster and also with Hammond & Campbell, and, after admission in 1842, became law partner with Washington Barnes; sub- sequently with A. P. P'erris. In 1843 l^'- McCall was appointed sur- rogate, and held office until 1847. Notwithstanding Mr. McCall's asso- ciation with the old bar of the county, and he remembers nearly all of its members, the writer feels more disposed to mention him as one of the present rather than the old bar. Referring briefly to some of the members of the old bar in towns out- side of the county seat, mention may be made of Charles H. Thomson, who came to Corning in 1850 and read law in the office of George J. Spencer. He was admitted in 1883, and became partner to his instruc- tor. Mr. Thomson was a good lawyer and an active Republican ; was postmaster from 1861 to 1872 ; for many years chairman of the Repub- lican county convention, also member of the State committee. 222 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. George T. Spencer became a member of the county bar, and took up his residence in Corning in 1841. He was in the Legislature in 1857; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1867, and county judge from 1872 to 1877. Other early members of the bar and in prac- tice in Corning were William Irvine, who came in 1849. ^"<^ who was elected to Congress in 1858. He was colonel of a cavalry regiment during the late war, and was made adjutant-general in 1865. Joseph Herron was an active lawyer at Corning from 1847 ^o 1856, and was district attorney two years, begining in 1854. John Maynard came to Corning about 1850, and practiced until his death in 1865. He was elected district attorney in 1856. Henry G. Cotton began his law prac- tice at Centerville but soon moved to the village, when he became part- ner with Thomas A. Johnson. Later on he moved to Illinois. John P. Shapley succeeded to Judge Johnson's practice when the latter was elected to the Supreme bench in 1847. Mr. Shapley died about 1850. Henry Sherwood lived and practiced law in Corning from i860 to 1870. He was in the Legislature in 1862. He died in 1875. Alvin F. Payne was partner to Mr. Sherwood, and practiced in Corning from 1863 to 1868, when he moved to New York. Charles H. Berry came to Corn- ing and began law practice about 1850, but five yeais later went to Minnesota. C. N. Waterman, who eventually became judge of the Su- preme Court of Minnesota, practiced in Corning from 185 i to 1853, being partner with Mr. Berry. Isaac C. Herridon became a member of the Corning bar about 1855 ; George N Middlebrook came about 1850; Azariah Longuell in 1864; George R. Graves in i860. Other practic- ing attorne)'S of the same place, though of later date, were Jacob H. Wolcott, William K. Logie, A. Hadden, E. B. Ross, John W. Brown and C. D. Baker, none of whose names now appears on the court calender. Andrew G. Chatfield was one of the first lawyers at Addison ; was member of assembly four terms, 1839, '40, '41, and '46, and was elected district attorney in 1845. F. E R. Cornell was also a former lawyer at the same village, and, like Mr. Chatfield, afterward removed to Minne- sota, where both became prominent. Ferral C. Dininny, John W. Dininny, and James Durkin are also to be mentioned among the pioneer lawyers of Addison. In Hornellsville one of the earliest and most prominent members THE BENCH AND BAR. 223 of the legal profession was William M. Hawley, a native of Delaware count}', born February 13, 1802. Mr. Hawley acquired his legal edu- cation in the office of George Miles, of Allegany county, and in 1837 came to Hornellsville to practice law. He is remembered as a strong, conscientious, and perfectly candid lawyer; a formidable legal oppo- nent yet never boastful of his \'ictories. In January, 1846, Mr. Hawley was appointed first judge of Steuben county, but was succeeded by David McMaster in 1847. I" '^'^^ f^" of th'" year Judge Hawley was elected to the State Senate from this county, and served one year in that capacity. Returning to Hornellsville our subject resumed practice and continued till about the time of his death, February 9, 1869. John K. Hale was for more than twenty years the leader of the Hor- nellsville bar, and was, moreover, one of the pioneers of his profession in the western part of the county. Mr. Hale was a native of Maine, a typical down-easter, it is said, and was keen, bright, straightforward and reliable. Coming to this county, he located first at Addison, and from there came to Hornellsville in 1836. He was State Senator in 1856-57, but soon after his term expired he moved west. Thomas J. Re}nolds came to Hornellsville in i 819, and if his legal practice began at that time, he was tlic undoubted pioneer of the pro- fession in the town. Later on he was partner with Mr. Hale, and after- wards with R. L. Brundage. Mr. Reynolds is remembeied as a natural rather than an educated lawyer, yet bright, interesting and a worthy foe in legal contest. With his legal practice Mr. Reynolds engaged in lum- bering and succeeded in accumulating a competency. R. L. Brundage became a member of the Hornellsville bar in 1S46. He was born in New Jersey and came with his parents to Bath in 1824, thence moved to Greenwood in 1830. Mr. Brundage read law with John K. Hale, at Hornellsville, and was admitted to practice in 1846 In 1852 he was elected district attorney, and after the expiration of his term was employed by the Erie Railroad Company. John Baldwin was another of the early lawyers of Hornellsville. He read law and entered the legal profession in Livingston county, and came to Hornellsville in 1835. At one time he was partner with Will- iam M. Hawley, but an untimely death cut short a career of usefulness and undoubted honor in the profession. Mr. Baldwin died in 1843. 224 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Harlo Hakes, senior member of the bar in Hornellsville, was a na- tive of Delaware county, born September 23, 1823. His elementary and legal education was acquired principally in Delaware county, yet he finished his law studies with Judge Harris, of Albany, and also in the Alban)' Law School. He was admitted to practice in 1853, and in the same year came to Hornellsville, where he has since resided. Among his political holdings, the first of note was a term in the Assembly in 1856 ; district attorney one term, beginning January i, 1863; appointment in 1867 as registrar in bankruptcy for the 29th congressional district; elected county judge in 1883, and again in 1889, but retired in 1893 by reason of the age limitation. However, Judge Hakes still continues in active practice. Horace Bemis was for many years one of the most popular lawyers of Hornellsville, and who, outside of professional life, was an active figure in both State and county politics Mr. Bemis was a native of Vermont and acquired his legal education in that State. He was admitted to practice in New York State in 185 i, and in that year came to Hornells- ville. Politically, Horace Bemis was a strong Republican, and as such represented the third Steuben district in the Assembly in 1863 and 1865. In 1868 he was presidential elector for this congressional dis trict on the Republican ticket. James H. Stevens, who for several years was the law partner of Judge Hakes, was born in Dansville in 1821, and was admitted to the bar in 1852, after a thorough general and legal education. He came to Hor- nellsville in 1853. Among the other practicing attorneys of Hornellsville, who are worthy of mention as formerly members of the county bar. w ere Will- iam E. Bonham, of the old firm of Bonham, Near & Piatt, and who represented the third Steuben district in the Assembly in 1864 and '65 ; and who also practiced for a time in Bath. There was also Daniel L. Benton, who was district attorney from 1881 to 1884. There was also Rodney Dennis, strong, bright, capable and honest, and who served one term of county school commissioner, beginning in 1865 His untimely death ended a useful and interesting career. Henry N. Piatt is also to be mentioned in the same connection, though he does not appear to have figured much outside of professional life. •:^ f^M /7^^A^.^^c/^ Publi4h.n| X < THE BENCH AND BAR. 225 The Present Bar. — In both personal character and professional ability the bench and bar of Steuben county always held distinction, and did our space permit the subject would be entitled to more extended notice.. Under such limitation, however, our record will only include personal mention of the members of the i)resent bar of the county ; in which de- termination we are supported by the profession in general, and its younger representatives in particular, who have yet to make their life records, and who fell that extended mention belongs more appropriately to the close of labor than to its beginning. In Steuben county there is a great variety of business interests, and hence there is a fair prospect of success on the part of any energetic lawyer; and while the legal business ordinarily centers at the county seat, in Steuben the seat of justice happens to be located in a compara- tively small municipality, which offers less inducement to a hwyer than either Corning or Hornellsville, while, from a business point of view, Addison, Canisteo, Wayland and Hammondsport are rivals of Bath. The lawyers of the county seat at the present time are M. Rumsey Miller, Charles L. Kingsley, James R. Kingsley, C. F. Kingsley, John F. Little, Reuben R. L>on, Robert M. Lyon, Ansel J. McCall, James McCall, L D. Miller. Humphrey McMaster, VV. H. Nichols, J. F. Park- hurst, R. E. Robie, Thomas Shannon, Clarence Willis, Lucius Waldo, P'rancis B. Wood. In Addison the attorneys are H. D. Baldwin, D. M. Darwin and H. W. Sanford. The Adrian attorney is J. D. Millard. At Atlanta are counsellors Isaac N. Baker and F. B. Beecher. In Avoca are Earle W. Bozard and A. M. Spooner. In Bradford the resident lawyer is Albert J. Wright. Emmet B. Rose practices at Campbell. Canisteo has five attorneys, A. H. Burrell, A. M. Hunell, A. W. Burrell, F. H. Robinson (county judge), and Eli Soule. The attorneys of Co- hocton are Samuel J. Depew and C. W. Stanton. Lawyers of Corning. — Daniel F. Brown, Warren J. Cheney, Edwin C. English, A. S. Kendall, Wm. F. McNamara, Ellsworth D. Mills, Egbert Shoemaker, George T. Spencer, Wm. J. Tully, I'Vancis A. Williams, Leslie W. Wellington, P'rancis C. Williams. In Greenwood Silas Kellogg is the only practicing lawyer, while Hammondsport has three, Walter Drew, James G. Sebring and Monroe Wheeler. 29 226 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Hornellsville. — Milo R'l. Acker, Hiram A. Baker, Charles E. Beard, Wesley Brown, Shirley E. Brown, Wm. C. Bingham, Wm. S. Charles, Lewis H. Clark, Chas. J. Clark, James H. Clancy, Charles Conderman, Chas. A Dolson, J. B. Finch, John M. Finch, Adelbert Ferry, John Griffin, Harlo Hakes, Homer Holliday, Miles W. Hawley, Frank Kelley, W. S. Newman, Irvin VV. Near, George N. Orcutt,Warren W. Oxx, De Merville Page, Murray E. Page, James A. Parsons, Fay P. Rathbun, James H. Stevens, jr., C. W. Stevens, J. E. B. Santee, J. F. Wetmore, Elbert M. Worth. W. A. Dawson is in practice at Kanona; J. S. Tobias at Painted Post ; James Flaherty and J. K. Smith at Prattsburg ; E. T. Hollis and P. Masten at VVoodhuU, and C. C. Bill, VV. W. Clark and Henry V. Pratt at Wayland. CHAPTER XV. THE PRESS. It is surprising, when searching our libraries, to discover how little has been written of the "Art preservative of all Arts," and the educator of all educators. While printing has been the chronicler of all arts, profes- sions and learning, it has recorded so little of its own history as to leave even the story of its first invention and application wrapped in mystery and doubt ; and we only know that from the old " Ratnage press," which Faust and Franklin used, capable of producing only a hundred impres- sions per hour, we have now the ponderous machine which turns out one thousand printed papers per minute. In glancing over the pages of history we discover the gradual devel- opment in the arts and sciences; we notice they go hand in hand — one discovery points to another, one improvement in the arts leads to others continually, and the results of the last few centuries show that observations of no apparent use led to the most important discoveries and developments. The falling of an apple led Newton to unfold the theory of gravitation and its relation to the solar system ; the discovery THE PRESS. 227 of tlie polarity of the loadstone led to the construction of the^^^mariner's compass; the observation of the muscular contraction of a frog led to the numerous applications of galvanic electricity ; the observation of the expansive force of steam led to the construction and application of the steam engine; the observation of the influence of light on the chloride of silver led to the art of photography ; the observation of the communication of sound by the connected rails of a railroad led to the invention of the telephone; the impressions cut in the smooth bark of the beech tree led to the art of printing — the art which transmits to posterity a record to all that is \aluable to the world. Thus is progress discernible in every successive generation of man. Gradually has he advanced from a state of barbarism and ignorance to a degree of perfection which gives him almost absolute dominion over all elements, and in the pride of glorious and enlightened manhood he can exclaim with Cowper : I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all 'round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and tlie brute. The printing office has well been called the " Poor Boy's College," and has proven a better school to many; has graduated more intellect and turned it into useful, practical channels, awakened more active, de- voted thought, than almost any alma mater. Many a dunce has passed through the universities with no tangible proof of fitness otiicr than his insensible piece of parchment, called the "sheepskin." There is some- thing in the very atmosphere of the printing office calculated to awaken the mind to activity' and inspire a thirst for knowledge. Franklin, Stan- hope, Beranger, Thiers, Greeley, Taylor, and a host of other names illustrious in the world of letters and science, have been gems in the diadem of typography, and owe their success to the influence of a print- ing office. The newspaper has become one of the chief indexes of the intelli- gence, civilization and progress of the community in which it is pub- lished, and its files are the footprints of the advancement and refinement of the period of its publication ; and the printing office is now deemed as essential as the school house or church. In a great measure it has 228 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. taken the place of the rostrum and tlie professor's chair, and become the great teacher. No party, organization, enterprise or calling is now considered perfect with its " organ " — the newspaper. The history of the press in Steuben county dates back to the year 1796, the same in which the count}' itself was created and organized. Charles Williamson furnished the idea and the means by which the Rath Gazette and Genesee Advertiser first proclaimed the attractions of the region to the outside world, and William Kersey and James Edie managed the editorial and mechanical departments of the publication. However, this paper continued publication only about four years, and passed out of existence about the time Captain Williamson closed his relations with the Tuheney associates. The second newspaper of the county seat was the Steuben and Alle- gany Patriot, the first number of which appeared in December, 1S16, under the control of Capt. Benjamin Smead. " The Patriot," says Mr. Richardson,' " remained in the Smead family up to April 4, 1S49, when it passed into the hands of William C. Rhodes, who continued its pub- lication as the Steuben Farmers' Advocate. " The office and plant were burned January 30, 1857. Mr. Rhodes sold the good will of the paper to P. S. Donahe, who, on May 31, 1857, resumed publication, Ansel J. McCall filling the editorial chair. However, in the summer of i860, A. L. Underhill became owner of the Advocate, and the office and paper were subjected to radical changes, resulting in a greatly improved condition. This paper is still owned and published by members of the Underhill family, although on the i6th of September, 1895, it passed into the management of a corporate company, with a capital of $10,000. The Advocate is one of the truest exponents of Democratic principles in Steuben county, and is, as well, one of its strongest papers. In September. 1S19, the Western Republican made its first appear- ance in Hath, under the editorial control of Erastus Shepard. In No- vember, 1822, the name was changed to Steuben Republican, but after a struggling existence of less than three years (February, 1822) publi- cation was discontinued. ' The writer ackn.\viia>;t!. iicccss to the compilations of George \V. Richardson, of Bath, in preparing the history of the local press. Mr. Richardson is regarded as undoubted authority on the subject, and has corrocteil nmny errors made bv earlier historian.s. THE PRESS. 229 Tlie next venture in the journalistic field was the Steuben Whig, a campaign paper published in 1828, by William M. Swaine, who after- ward published the Pliiladelphia Ledger. In the same year David Rumsey issued the first number of the Steuben Messenger, but in 1830 sold out to S. M. Eddy, and the latter, in turn, disposed of the paper to W. 1'. Angel. He changed the name to Constitutionalist, and con- tinued it until 1834. when Charles Adams became proprietor. In 1 84 1 Adams sold to R. L. Underbill, but still later owners or persons inter- ested were M. F. Whittemore & Co., R. H. Van Valkenburgh, and George B. Richardson and John Dowe, the latter in 1843, ''""^ ^Y whom the name was changed to Steuben Democrat. In 1844 publication was suspended, but the paper was revived in 1848 by L. J. 15rush, who, in 1849, sold to George H. Hidwell, am! lie continued it till 1852. Next came the Primitive Christian, a religious paper, edited by Rev. Jabez Chadwick and printed by Richardson & Dowe, and issued monthly. The Rose, a literary month!)', also made its appearance in 1844 J. C. Vincent, editor, and Richardson & Dowe, printers. Mr. Vincent en- listed as a soldier in the Mexican war, upon which publication ceased. The present Steuhen Courier, the leading Republican organ of Northern Steuben counts-, 1i;r1 its origin in a newspaper founded under Whig influences, and for the special purpose of promoting the political aspirations of Henry Clay. For its conduct Henry H. Hull was called to Bath, and he associated with him M. F. Whittemore of the defunct Constitutionalist After two years Mr. Whittemore retired, and Mr. Hull conducted the paper alone until 1856, when Charles G. Fairman took an interest and remained nine months. In 1854, when the Re- publican party was organized, the Courier advocated its principles ami became its chief organ in the county. This standing it has ever since maintained, altliough frequent changes in ownership have been made during its subsequent history. However, in 1890, the Courier Com- pany, Limited, was formed and has since owned and conducted the paper, employing a competent editor and a full corps of assistants. In 1854, Jennie. and Caroline Rumsey founded and edited the Tem- perance Gem, procuring the assistance of the Advocate office in com- position and press work. This paper was afterward moved to F.lmira. About two years afterward, on January i, 1856, the Steuben American 230 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTT. was issued by A. L. Underhill. P. S. Donahe became its owner in 1857 and merged the paper in the Farmers' Advocate. The Saturday News was estabhshed by Enos W. Barnes, who issued the first number April 25, 1868. It lived less than six months. The Tri-weekly Con- servative made its first appearance in August, 1868, under tlie editorial management of Charles Clute. It was a spicy little sheet, yet short lived, about equal to its cotemporary, the News. The Batii Echo was the undertaking of Clute & McCall, and was published four or five months during the year 1874. The same may also be said of the Bath Sunday News, which was published about si.x months, of the year 188 1, by L. R. Smith & Co , the editor being A. Ellas McCall. The Bath Plaindealer, recognized to- day as one of the best weekly family newspapers published in Steuben county, was founded in 1883, the first number being issued May 5. Its owners were A. Ellas Mc- Call, Orson L. Drew and William Black. The Plaindealer soon found its way into popular favor, yet it never courted notoriety in any respect. It is conservatively yet liberally conducted and has a large circulation. Of the original firm. Drew and Black both withdrew in 1884, since which time Mr. McCall has been sole proprietor. The Savona Review, a bright, interesting and newsy weekly paper published at Savona by T. C. Wall, was established in 1888 (May 19) by S L. Ward, and then known as the Savona Rustler. Having referred at some length to the newspapers, past and present, of the county town, we may with propriety mention those which have had an existence in the other towns of the county. In the village and town of Addison are two good representative newspaper publications, known respectivel)', as the Advertiser and the Record, advocates of the two great political parties of the nation, and withal interesting and in- structive family journals. In March, 1858, after several previous inefiec- tual attempts, the Addison Advertiser was brouglit into permanent ex- istence, and while it freely discussed all political questions, it did so from a distinctly independent standpoint. However, before a year had passed the paper became as earnestly Democratic as it was previously independent During the war the Advertiser was perfectly loyal, and so zealous was.it in support of the administration that it became essen- tially Republican. In 1872 it favored the Greeley movement, and four THE PRESS. 231 years later supported Tikleii. Again, in 1881, it returned to tlie Re- publican fold under the management of Amos Roberts, its jjresent owner. Many indeed have been the changes in ownership of the Ad- vertiser, and we may note them about as follows: Henry M. Johnson, founder, assisted by Col. Henry Baldwin ; Johnson, Dow & Bates, July, 1865, to January i, 1866; Johnson & Roberts; George H. Hollis, Jan- uary 30, 1873; Amos Roberts, 1881. The Addison Record was founded December 3, 1881, by O. B. Ireland, who was succeeded by F. B. Orser and George Jones, and the latter in turn b)' M. Kinne. On the ilth of June, 1S86, C. B. Mowers, the present owner, purchased and has since conducted the paper; and has made it the organ of the Democratic party in this part of the county. On the 17th day of May, 1879, VV. T. Coggswell issued the first number of the Avoca Advance, the first and only newspaper published in the town. It has continued to the present time and always received a fair share of the public patronage. Its successive owners have been W. T. Coggeshall, Martin A. Hoadley, Alvin Wood, Fred C. Dean, Coggeshall & Silsbee, and George C. Silsbee, the latter becoming sole owner in March, 1888. The Canisteo Times was established January 25, 1877, in the enter- prising village of Canisteo by S. H. Jennings, and almost at once met with popular favor and generous support. On April I, 1886, the plant was sold to F. B. Smith, who in turn disposed of it Frank A. P'ay, the present editor and publisher. The Canisteo Tidings was originally a paper of Troupsburg, estab- lished in 1890, as Farmers' Weekly, by Elmer E. Reynolds. The paper was removed to Canisteo in. 1894. Potter, Mulhollen & Co. were former proprietors, but it is now owned and successfully managed by James N. Osincup and Clarence C Proctor. Away back in 1859 William Waite Warner started a little paper in Cohocton, the first venture of its kind in the town. It was called the Cohocton Journal, and was a good though short lived paper. No further attempt at starting a paper was made until 1872, when H. B. Newell brought the Cohocton Herald, but he soon sold out to James C. Hewitt and the latter changed the name of the paper to Cohocton Tribune. The next owner was William A. Carpenter (in 1875) ^Y 232 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. whom the name was changed to Cohocton Valley Times, as now known. In 1878 Edward A. Higgins became owner, and was, in November, 1889, succeeded by S. D. Shattuck. The Times, under the careful and energetic management of editor Shattuck, is known as one of the best and most widelj' circulating weekly papers in the upper Conhocton region, and is in all respects an interesting family newspaper. The Cohocton Index was moved to Cohocton village from Atlanta in 1893, but previous to that time had been published in the latter village under the name of Atlanta News. Hyatt C. Hatch was its founder and owner until 1892, when the present management was established. V. L. and R. M. Tripp are competent newspaper men, and under their united efforts the Inde.x has taken a favorable position among the weekly publications of the county. The Corning and Blossbuig Advocate was the first venture in jour- nalism in Corning, and was established in 1840, soon after the opera- tions of the " Corning Company " had become an assured success. However, the Advocate had but a brief life in this locality, as in 1841 it passed into the hands of Henry H. Hull, and by him was united with the Steuben Courier, a newspaper of the county seat. After the removal of the Advocate to Bath, in 1843, there was no newspaper published in Corning until 1847, when Thomas Messenger founded the Corning Journal, a paper which has been in continuous and active existence from that until the present time, and one which, throughout the long period of its history, has recorded as many public changes and events, and yet has experienced as few in its own man- agement and personnel, as any paper in the southern tier. Further- more, the Journal has been productive of as much good to every worthy interest as any newspaper of the region, and has ever been devoted to the advocacy of purity in home and public life. In July, 1851, A. W. McDowell and Dr. George W. Pratt purchased the Journal, and since April, 1853, the person last mentioned has had sole and almost con- stant charge of its conduct and management, and being practically re- lieved only within the present year. This experience and record in journalism has few equals; and today the newspaper guide and direc- tory retains the old pioneer name — '' Corning Journal, George W. Pratt, editor and publisher." The daily edition of the Journal was begun in A • ■^ GEORGE W. PRATT. II il THE PRESS. 233 1891. From July, 1869,10 November. 1874. T. S. De Wolf was inter- ested in the paper, and Harry H. Pratt soon afterward became as''-oci- ate editor. The Journal, in both daily and weekly editions, is a Re- publican paper, representing and advocating true party principles; and is the recognized organ of the party in the county and State. The Corning Democrat has its origin in the Corning Semi-Weekly Sun, a paper established and published by M. M. Ponieroy and P. C. Van Gelder, beginning in 1853. i\lr. Pomeroy, both in Corning and elsewhere, became a noted writer, and was for many years familiarly known as "Brick" Pomero)-. However, in 1S54 the Sun passed into the hands of Rev. Ira Brown, who published it weekly as The Southern Tier Farmer. At later periods the paper was managed by C. T. Huson and Frank B. Brown, as partners, under whom the name Corning Dem- ocrat was adopted. From November, 1859, to June, 1885, the paper was owned by Mr. Brown, but since that time the firm name of F. B. Brown & Son as appeared as editors and publishers. The daily edition of the Democrat was first published in 18S4. Both daily and weekly editions are Democratic in politics, emphatic, perh.aps, in utterances, yet consistent and representing the best interests of the part)' in county. State and Nation. The Corning Independent made its appearance in local journalism in Corning in December, 1874, under control of P. S. De Wolf, but in 1876 was sold to Dr. A. J. Ingersoll who continued it as a Greenback paper, though under the editorial management of Uri Mulford. The paper suspended publication in 1879. The Evening Chronicle, a daily newspaper, independent in politics, was started in Corning on May 4, 1891, by Edward Mott, and enjoyed a brief season of public attention. Among the other temporary newspapers of the vicinity of Corning, we may mention the Painted Post Gazette, established in i8.|6, by Mr. Fairchild and continued a few months. The Painted Post Herald was founded by Ransom Bennett and B. M. Ilawley in 1848, and continued a single year. The Painted Post Times was begun in October, 1870, by Wm, C. Bronson, H. C. Higman and S. H. Ferenbaugh, and was continued with indifferent success until 1877. The first attempt to start a newspaper in llornellsville was successful, 30 234 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY and the paper then founded }ias been in continuous and successful ope- ration to the present time. On the 3d of November, 185 1, Edwin Hough established the Hornellsville Tribune, and it was, as Mr. Tuttle says " the faithful chronicler of the progress of the vicinity. At first an independent paper, it became Democratic for about two years, but es- poused the Republican cause with the organization of that part)' and remained so until its sale in 1869 to D. R. Shafer." From that until the present time the Tribune has been Democratic in politics, firm and undoubted in its utterances, yet consistent throughout, and to-day the paper, both daily and weekly, is regarded as the organ of the party in the county, and one of its strongest exponents in the southern tier. Says Mr. Tuttle: "The Tribune has been published, successive!)-, by Edwin Hough, Hough & Kinney, Hough & Baker, E. Hough & Son, Hough & Beecher, E. H. Hough, D. R. Shafer, Greenhow & Son, and W. H. Greenhow, he now being sole owner and publisher." In 1870 John and \V. H. Greenhow purchased the paper, and in 18S0 the first mentioned sold his interest to Charles F. Peck. W. H. Greenhow became owner of the Tribune in December, 1884. The daily edition of the Tribune was first issued February 4, 1S7S, as an afternoon paper. The National American was established February 13, 1856, by D. C. Pruner and C. M. Harmon, but in September, 1858, passed into the hands of Charles A. Kinney who changed its name to The Canisteo Valley Journal Three years later, January, 1861 , the paper was sold to R. S. Lewis, and he made it Republican in politics. However, in 1862 its publication was discontinued. The Democratic Vidette was formed by Burdick Bros., September 28, 1 865, and was thereafter published successively by Burdick & Cooper, John M. Rilo)' & Co., A. J. Riley & Co., and Wilham H Baldwin. The owner last mentioned, who was a writer of more than ordinary force anti ability, sold the paper to Thacher & Tuttle, who changed its name to The Canisteo Valley Times, and made it Republican in politics from January 10, 1867. Concerning its subsequent history, Mr. Tuttle says, " Others connected with the editorial management of the Times were Johnson Brigham, H. S. Tomer, and John W. Mack." Following the retirement of Mr. Thacher, in 1877, the Times has been published, in turn, by R. M. Tuttle, Tuttle & Brigham, Johnson Brigham, Tomer, R. M. TUTTLE. THE PRESS. 235 Dolson & Jackman, Dolson & Mack, J. S. Dolson, and the Times As- sociation, the latter now owners and publisliers, with Russell M. Tuttle as editor, and A. H. Bunnell as business manager." The Times is the organ of the Republican party of the count)' at large, and not of any faction of the party ; holding firmly to Republican principles and not easily swayed by party prejudices and contentions. In all dejiartments the paper, in both editions, is well edited ami managed, and is received favorably throughout the southern tier. The daily edition began with the Daily News, published first by Benzinger & Osincup, Octo- ber 22, 1877. Tuttle & Brigham purchased it February 25, 1878, en- larged and materially improved it, and changed the name to Daily Times. Originally this was an evening dail\', but became a morning paper in September, 1883 The Saturday Herald, one of Hornellsville's best weekly newspapers, had its origin in an advertising sheet issued by several prominent mer- chants of the then village, conspicuous among whom was M. A. Tuttle. The paper was called the Economist, and was published every week for about a year, being then purchased by Graham & Dawson and changed n name at least, to the Hornellsville Herald. It soon espoused the cause of Prohibition and was ably edited by Mr. Graham. However, in 1876, E. H. Hough purchased the paper, who, with his son, under the style of Herald Publishing Company, now conduct it. The change in name to Saturday Herald was made in March, 1893. The Reveille, a paper devoted to the interests of the Greenback party, began publication in Hornellsville on January 19, 1878, under the man- agement of J. Willett Smith, the press work, however, being done in the Tribune office. After two weeks James D. Adams bought the Reveille, brought a printing equipment from Andover, and continued the paper under the name of the Greenback Champion for a year when publication was suspended. Soon afterward Daniel Healey purchased the material and produced the Invincible, and the latter gave way in June, 1881, to The Daily Independent, an evening paper under the management of Tolan Bros. & Shattuck. It suspended December 25, 1881. The Steuben Signal, a Prohibition newspaper, was established April 4, 1883. under the direction the "Signal Publishing Company," and was published five years before suspension. 236 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. The Era, a Labor party paper, was established in 1887, by S. H. Jennings, and continued one year. The Daily Press, another and in fact the last new venture in Horn- ellsville journalism, was established March 9, 1889, by the Press Pub- lishing Company, consisting of John Tolan and Leon Hough. The paper was printed on tlie Herald press. In February, 1890, Mr. Tolan purchased a printing outfit and continued the Press as sole proprietor. It was an independent evening paper, and remained in existence, though with many vicissitudes, until 1894 when publication ceased. The Prattsburgh News, a bright, lively and interesting weekly news- paper published by P. C. Howe's Sons, was established December 12, 1872, by P. C. Howe & Sons, and was successor to the still older local paper known as the Prattsburgh Advertiser, which Caleb B. Hoke founded several years before. The News is an excellent family paper, devoted especially to the interests of the north part of the county. Its directory feature is valuable, while its market reports give it a large and deserved circulation. The Hammondsport Herald was established May i, 1874, by Mrs. Benjamin Bcnnitt and Mrs. E. B. Fairchild, ladies well known in local literary circles, and both interested in the welfare of the Pleasant Valley region. After a year of successful management Mrs. Bennitt retired from the paper, and at the end of another year (in December, 1876,) Llewelyn H. Brown purchased a half interest in the Herald. In 1876 Mr. Brown became and has since been sole owner and publisher of the paper. It is issued weekly and is an independent family journal, enjoy- ing a good circulation and advertising patronage. The Union Advertiser, published at Wayland by H. B. Newell, was established in the fall of 1863 by its present proprietor, although for a time the paper was owned by Newell Brothers. It is an independent family newspaper, devoted to general news and a thorough representa- tion of Wayland interests. The Wayland Register made its initial appearance in Wayland village on the 1st of May, 1889, under the editorial management of C. F. Dean. This, too, has been a successful venture in local affairs and received generous support. It is now edited and published by Bert Goodno. The Southern Steuben Republican was founded in 1879 by R. C. Park •^■V *CJl.».<-s n.Hu. i Sons.'*"'* Y^^^^^^t-tf^-i^-^^^?^^-, THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. 237 under the name of Steuben Sentinel, having its office at Troupsburg, but in iS8o removed to Woodhull. It was formerly an independent paper, hut now, as the name implies, advocates Republican principles. CHAPTER XVI. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. The medical profession of Steuben county has preserved but little of its history, and while there are a few meagre records by which we may learn the proceedings and membership of the medical societies that have been formed, there are no data upon which can be based a history of the development of the profession. The great advance in all branches of art and science during the last century has indeed been marvelous, but in none has there been greater progress than in medi- cine and surgery. This science which now sheds its light throughout the civilized world began with Hippocrates nearly twenty-three hundred years ago, and he first treated of medicine with the simplest remedies, relying chiefly on the healing power of nature. He wrote extensively, and many of his works were translated and served as a foundation for succeeding litera- ture of the profession. The greatest advance in medical science, how- ever, has been made during the last one hundred years, and chiefly dur- ing the last half century. Evolution and development are the watchwords of ihe nineteenth century, and it is no longer universally believed that this world was created by supernatural power, for many of our deepest thinkers, men of the most profound understanding, believe it has been gradually un- folded by the action of natural causes. Hut, not wishing to be accused of heresy, it may be stated that whether the theory be according to Darwin, or Haekel, or Spencer, or some other philosopher, the law will be the same in any case, and away back, beliind " protoplasm," " germ- inal matter " and " cellular germ," there still exists abundant proof of a "first great cause," of an " infinite wisdom," for the depth of which Ian- 238 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. guage hath not expression. A flood of light on this question is now pouring forth upon the world, but its acceptation as a convincing truth rests with the individual. Physiologists no longer believe with the practitioners of the sixteenth century that the plants have a direct and controlling action on the body, the sun upon the heart, or the moon upon the brain ; nor do they now believe that the vital spirits are pre- pared in the brain by distillation. On the contrary, modern physiology teaches that the phenomena of the living body are the results of physi- cal and chemical changes ; the temperature of the blood is now ascer- tained by the thermometer, and the different fluids and gases of the body are analyzed by the chemists, giving to each its own properties and functions. There are now known to botanists more than 160,000 plants, of which a large proportion are constantly being added to the already appalling list of new remedies. Few of these drugs possess little, if any virtue, except as their sale adds to the profits of the dealer. The ancients were not so well supplied with drugs, and hence resorted to other meth- ods. It was a custom among the Babylonians to expose the sick to the view of passers-by in order to learn of them whether they had been afflicted with a like distemper and by what remedies they had been cured. It was also a custom of those days for all persons who had been sick to put up a tablet in the temple of Esculapius, whereon they gave an account of the remedies by which they had been restored. Prior to Hippocrates all medicines were in the hands of the priests, and were associated with numerous superstitions, such as charms, amulets, incan- tations, sympathetic ointments, and the like. And we may here add that all this credulous superstition of early ages, born of ignorance, has not been fully wiped out by the advanced education of the present day. One of the latest appeals to the credulity of the masses is the so-called " Christian Science," and also " Faith Cure," but so long as filth brings fever prayer will not interpose, and the persons seeking to popularize this means of cure are either deceived themselves or are deceiving others. It is not our purpose, however, to treat of ancient or more modern medical history, and though a review of the progress in this science, from the time of Greek or Roman medical mythology, would be inter- i C. S. PARKHIl.l. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. 239 esting and instructive, it is hardly pertinent to the medical history of Steuben county, and our introductory observations are merely to sug- gest to the reader the difference betuen the ancient and modern means of healing. Previous to the present century the State of New York, unlike Penn- sylvania and New England, had done very little to encourage science, and there were no schools of medicine worthy of the name nearer than Boston or Philadelphia. Few young men could then afford to go so far to qualify themselves for a profession which offered but little pecuniary inducement, hence the prevailing custom was for the medical aspirant to enter the office of some neighboring physician and read for two or three years, at the same time accompanying his tutor in hi-; professional visits and learn his methods of practice. At the end of the term the young doctor would seek some promising field and begin practice. The legislation which then regulated the practice of physicians was so defective as to be really worthless. In I006, however, an act was passed repealing all former laws in reference to the profession and at the same time authorizing a general State Medical Society, and also county societies Under the provisions of this law a medical society was organized in Steuben county, but at what precise date we are unable to determine, as the earliest records are not to be found. It is confidently believed, however, that the society was formed about the year 18 15, though this belief is founded almost wholly on tradition. Among the earlier members, previous to 1820, may be mentioned John D. Higgins, Willis F. Clark, Warren Patchin, Samuel Gorton, James Faulkner, Enos Barnes, John Warner, James Warden, Andrew Kingsbury, John P. Kennedy, Daniel Gilbert, Jacob Chatterton, Lyman N. Cook, Philo Andrews, Walter Wolcott, Thomas M. Brown, Noah Niles, Samuel Southworth, Simeon H. Goss and Joel Luther. The later members, yet all previous to 1830, were Robert F. Ho)t. Jonathan Lockwood, Samuel Scofield, Silas B. Hibbard, James Cutler, George W. Turner, Gustavus A. Rogers, Samuel B. Chidsey, Isaac L. Kidder, Milo Hurd, Levi S. Goodrich, David L, Wicks, Daniel II. Orcutt, M. C. Kel- logg, E. R. Pulling, Israel Chissom, Isaac Wixom, T. E. Ganesvoort, J. L. Livermore, F. E. Bateman, William Hunter, Samuel Olin, Levi 240 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Fay, David Hotchkiss, Nathaniel Sheldon, Manning; Kelly, Zenas S. Jackson, Sampson Stoddard, Winthrop E. Booth and David Ward, the latter being admitted to membership in the society in 1830. The Steuben County Medical Society, in its early history, is remem- bered as having been an exceeding prosperous organization, and was at one time vested by law with seemingly extraordinary powers in the matter of receiving members, licensing practitioners and dismissing recalcitrants. It also had the power to establish fees and regulate, arbitrarily at times, the conduct of physicians and compel membership and obedience to its rules. Yet, during the long period of its existence, the society passed through many vicissitudes and has been threatened with complete disintegration, but an organization has ever been main- tained, and now its affairs are in a healthful condition (emblematic, per- haps, of the professional object of its members). However, even for the purposes of this record, the writer is embarrassed in not having access to the secretary's books, and is compelled to obtain the appended list of members from the publisiied reports of the State Medical Society. The officers for the year 1895 ^""s as follows: President, Burtis R. Wakeman, Hornellsville ; vice-president, Willis S. Cobb, Corning; sec- retary and treasurer, Chester K. Stewart, Bath. Members. — H. R. Ainsworth, Addison ; M. L Allen, Hammonds- port; A. A. Aldrich, Addison; Eli Allison, Wayne; Henry A. Argue, Corning; M. T. Babcock, Hammondsport ; J. A. Bennett, Prattsburg ; H. M. Bourne, Corning; C, M. Brasted, Horrnellsviile ; T. O. Bur- lison, Bath; Franklin Burr, Corning; George Conderman, Hornells- ville ; Amelia A. Christie, Hornellsville ; Willis S. Cobb, Corning ; D. F. Cridler, Hornellsville; A. H Cruttenden, Bath; Mrs. A. A. Dol- son, Hornellsville ; J. S. Dolson, Hornellsville ; Lewis Fitzsimmons, South Pulteney; T. B. Fowler, Cohocton ; F. S Gallagher, Naples; A. L. Gilbert, North Cohocton; H. Gilbert, Hornellsville; H. S Gil- lett, Savona; I. L. Gofif; Cohocton; W. T. Green, Hornellsville; W. W. Green, Prattsburg; Joseph Hoare, Corning; G. C. Hubbard, Hor- nellsville ; John S. Hubbs, Hammondsport ; M. B. Hubbs, Addison ; C. O. Jackson, Cameron; Ambrose Kasson, Bath; R. R. Kelly, Hor- nellsville; Arthur Kendall, Corning; George W. Lane, Corning ; H. G. Mace, Wallace; Thomas F, McNamara, Hornellsville; J. D. Mitch- ^ ^M'^z^^^ « THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. 241 ell, Hornellsville; H. B. Nichols, Pultene)-; S. R. H. Nichols, Corning; W. E. Palmer, Hornellsville ; C. S. Parkhill, Hornellsville ; Myron H. Parkhill, Howard ; R F. Parkhill, Howard ; C. Patterson, Avoca ; Thomas H. Pawling, Bath; M. M. Perry, Trotipsburg ; Charles R. Phillips, Corning ; Benjamin Pickett, Canisteo ; A. D. Robbins, Corning; C. B. Robertson, Towlesville ; Denton W. Rodgers, Hornells- ville; Robert J. Scott, Prattsburg ; VV. Sheffield, Jasper; I. P. Smith, Bath; W. W. Smith, Avoca; B. M. Spencer, Hornellsville; C. P. Stevens, Wallace ; Chester T. Stewart, Bath ; P. K. Stoddard, Pratts- burg; Stephen M. Svvitzer, Bradford; C. J. Tower, Savona ; J. H. Trumbull, Hornellsville; Burtis R. VVakeman, Hornellsville; Eugene E. Webster, Hornellsville; Seymour C. Williamson, Canisteo; E. Winne, Haskinsville ; F. A. Wygant, Cohocton. In the year 1867 the disciples of Similia Siinilibns Curaittiir in Steu- ben county sought an organization for the general welfare of their school of medicine and its representatives. In the early history of the county nothing whatever was known of homeopathy, and when the first physicians of this school came into the region they were regarded with distrust and suspicion by friends of the old school of practice, while the allopathists themselves regarded the newcomers as intruders and quacks. Indeed, homeopathy has been compelled to work its way through hardships and difficulties almost equal to those encountered by our pioneers in gaining a substantial foothold in a country inhabited only by enemies. But by steady advances in the hands of careful and competent representatives, this method of treatment has come to be re- garded with popular favor, and is recognized as sound and rational. The organization referred to was effected on the 25th of May, 1861, and its result was the "Steuben County Homeopathic Medical Society," with these officers : A. De Wolfe, president ; W. S. Purdy, vice presi- dent ; James M. Cadmus, secretary; B. F. Grant, H. S. Benedict and P. S. Hollett, censors. The society maintained an active and successful existence for several years, and its members were chiefly from the eastern and northern por- tions of the county, with a few from the vicinity of Hornellsville ; but with the formation of the Southern Tier society there followed a decline in interest in the afifairs of the local society, with ultimate disintegration. 31 242 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. The Southern Tier Homeopathic Medical Association of the State of New York was organized at a largely attended meeting of homeopa- thists held in the city of Elmira on the 20th of January, 1874. Its members were chiefly from Chemung, Steuben and Schuyler counties, with a few from Tioga and Broome. This society has preserved intact its organization originally made, and built substantially upon a lasting foundation by procuring an incorporation on the i6th of April, 1878. However, the general rather than local character of this society makes it imprudent to furnish other than a mere outline of its history. The Hornellsville Academy of Medicine was organized December 17, 1873, and continued in e.xistence nearly ten years, and was dissolved through natural causes during the summer of 1883. The last meeting was held August 6, 1883. The objects of the society were worthy, the membership fairly good, but through imperfect organization and lack of interest, it was decided to terminate the e.xistence of the body. However, the medical profession of Hornellsville and vicinity soon felt the need of a professional organization other than the county society ; the well being of the fraternity demanded such and the best medical practitioners were heartily in favor of the plan. The result was a meet- ing of the local physicians at the Page House in Hornellsville on the 3d of December, 1888, at which time the Hornellsville Medical and Surgi- cal Association was formed ; and this formal organization was soon afterward made complete by incorporation under the State laws, there- by giving the association a standing in the State Medical Society, and also in the American Medical Association. The first officers were Dr. Clare S. Parkhill, president; John G. Kelly, vice-president; Chauncey G. Hubbard, secretary and treasurer. The presidents, in succession, have been as follows : C. S. Parkhill, 1888; John S. Jamison, 1889; John G. Kelly, 1890; James E.Walker, 1891 ; Joseph S. Dolson, 1892 ; C. R. Bowen, 1893 ; Charles R. Phillips, 1894; Lyman B. Smith, 1895. The association has thirty- two members, regular practicing physicians in this and the adjoining county of Allegany. The officers for the year 1895 are as follows: Lyman B. Smith, president ; Charles Con- derman, vice-president : Roy Dunham, secretary and treasurer; Drs. Palmer, Brasted and Wakeman, censors. J. G. KELLY. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 243 CHAPTER XVII. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. The Village of Bath. — In 1793, when Charles Cameron and his party of pioneers disembarked from their flat boats and canoes and began the first improvements near Pulteney Square, the village of Bath was founded in fact, although some time passed before the hamlet was given its name. Whether Captain Williamson at that time had in mind the establishment of this as a county seat is a subject of speculation, with the weight of opinion in favor of the idea, for his plans were complete, and Thomas Rees, jr., the surveyor of the party, evidently acted under direction to be thorough in his work, and when all was done no change of importance was required and only subsequent additions to the village plans were made. Williamson was possessed of excellent judgment and, moreover, was a man of large ideas, hence naturally gave heed to the possibilities of the future. His estate was a vast tract of land, extending in all direc- tions from this central point, and here he decided to make the seat of his extensive operations. He knew that the best results were to be ob- tained through organization of the territory into a separate county, and within three years from the time Cameron's men felled the first tree we find the little hamlet of Bath the seat of justice of Steuben county. The first court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the peace was held at the land office on June 21, 1796, and in the same year a newspaper, that indispensable adjunct of municipal prosperity, was founded. A school house was also built, a place provided for informal religious gath- erings, and that outdoor amusements might be encouraged, a race- track was constructed. Weld, the English traveler, who visited the set- tlement in 1796, wrote : " Bath is a post and principal town in the west- ern part of the State of New York. Though laid out only three years ago, yet it contains about thirty houses; it is increasing very fast. 244 [LAJSTDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Among the houses are several stores and shops, well furnished with goods, and a tavern that would not be thought meanly of in any part of America. The town [meaning the village settlement] stands on a plain, surrounded on three sides by hills of moderate height. The plain is almost wholly divested of trees, but the hills are still uncleared and have a very pleasing appearance from the town. At the foot of the hills runs a stream of pure water over a bed of gravel, which is called Conhocton Creek. There is a very considerable fall in the creek just above the town, which affords the finest seats for mills possible. Extensive saw and flour mills have already been erected upon it." Such was a superficial view of the surroundings of our pretty little hamlet a century ago, and to the familiar eye of an observer the present beautiful village of Bath is discernible, the scene in many respects being undisturbed. The magnificent and heavily wooded hills on the south are the same to the eye to-day as an hundred years ago, and a home and nature loving people have endeavored to spare and preserve as far as possible the landmarks and reminders of early life. Notwithstand- ing all this, Bath has been a progressive village and all desirable im- provements have been encouraged and promoted. Its people have been conservative, yet generous in all worthy undertakings. Circum- stances and location have in a measure combined to retard its progress during the last half century, yet all municipalities cannot become im- portant and large commercial centers, and there is little manifest desire to have Bath partake of such character. The residents are content with their surroundings and conditions, and there is an indescribable some- thing that always attracts the visitor to the place, makes him contented while there, and causes a pang of regret at departure. " In 1804," says Mr. McCall's address, "William H. Bull came, with his father, Howell Bull, from Painted Post, and has furnished the mem- oranda from which has been made a bird's-eye view of Bath in that year." Also, in 181 1, Edward Howell and his brother William came to Bath, and from the latter we have an accurate pen description of the village in that year, viz.: "In 181 1, the only streets in Bath were Morris, Lib- erty, and West Steuben from Pulteney Square to its junction with Morris street. There were nine dwelling houses on the north side of Morris street, extending from the square to Stewart's Hill. There was Village of Bath in 1804. 1 — Log house, formerl}' printing office of the Bath Gazette. 2— Bull's Tavern. 3 — Log house. 4 — Helm's residence. 5 — Frame house, afterwards occupied by Rev. J. Niles. 6 — Log house. T — H. A. Townsend's house. 8 — McClure's house and store. 9 — Grocery. 10 — Court House. 11 — Turner's house. 12— Jonathan T. Haight, lawyer. 13 — Log house. 14 — Pulteney Land Agent's residence. 15 — Land office. 16 — Liberty tree (blown down in 1825). 17— Bath Jail. 18 — School house. 19— D. Cameron's house. 20- Metcalfs Tavern. 21 — Blacksmith shop. 22— Theatre. 23 — Helm's grist and saw mills. 246 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. only one house on the south side of the street. On the south side of the square was the agency house and the land office, and back of them were several long low houses, built of logs and sided with clapboards, which had been used as servant's quarters. On the south side of West Morris street, from the land office to where the Erie depot stands, were four or five dwelling houses, and near the depot was a small frame dwelling and a blacksmith shop. On the north side of Morris street (west of the park) were six dwelling houses, viz.: Ira Pratt's, Metcalf's Tavern, John McCalla, D. Cruger, and on the corner. Spring's Tavern. On the opposite corner on Steuben street, was the stone jail building, and south of it a small store building. On the north side of the park, on the two opposite corners of Liberty street, were the Townsend house on the east, and the Captain Helm house on the west There were also some small buildings and a barn extending up to the old cemetery. East of the Townsend house was a row of small frame build- ings, occupied for stores and shops. On the east side of the park was the court-house and a frame building used for a school. The jail was the only building on the south side of Steuben street, while several were on the north side, among them being the ' Old Theater,' also a large square frame building. On the east side of Liberty street were a dwell- ing of frame, another of logs, and the Niles house, while opposite were the Gazette printing office, the Howell Bull tavern and a log house." Such was the municipal condition of Bath four score years previous to the centennial celebration, and from these primitive elements has the village grown. In another department of the work the reader will find a brief outline history of the town at large, in which mention is made of all the pioneer occupants of the village ; but that the situation during the days of settlement may be made clear, attention is directed to the accompanying map taken from the printed proceedings of the centen- nial celebration in 1893 It appears that an attempt to incorporate the village was made as early as the year 1816, and the measure was in fact adopted although the organization under it was not perfected. At this time Bath was a place of more than ordinary importance among the villages of the Gen- esee country while several of our now large cities were unknown even in name. During the twenty years following 18 16, many and various CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 247 improvements were inaugurated and successfully established, and the village continued to grow and enlarge in every direction. A contem- porary writer has furnished a brief outline of some of the more impor- tant events of this period, and those of a local character are deemed worthy of reproduction here. On the ist of October the County Medi- cal Societ)' was organized, and in June, 1819, the first Agricultural Society was likewise brought into existence. In 1820 the Western Republican began publication, and in the same year Vincent Matthews and William B. Rochester formed a law partnership. Also in this year a semi-weekly stage line was established between Bath and Owego. In 1824 Colonel Bull erected the first brick dwelling in the village On March 2, 1825, the Presbyterian church was dedicated, and on the 29th of April of the same year Robert Douglass was hanged on Gallows Hill. This first execution was a remarkable event in local history, beside which the visitation of the extreme penalty of law upon Ira Appo, about twelve years afterward, was of minor importance. In 1826, the Indians Sundown and Curlyeye were tried for murder, but acquitted, and in the same year the Episcopal church was organized. In 1827 the brick court-house was built to replace that originally erected by Captain Williamson. In 1828, the Steuben Messenger and the Steuben Whig were founded, the former an anti-Masonic, and the latter a cam- paign paper started to oppose General Jackson. In 1829 William S. Hubbell was appointed postmaster. In March, 1831, the Bath and Crooked Lake Railroad Company was organized, with a capital of $20,- 000, but under this charter nothing was done, and rail communication between these terminal points was not secured until the construction of the Bath and Hammondsport Railroad in 1874. In March, 1832, the old Steuben County Bank opened its doors for business, and in the fol- lowing year William P. Angel issued the first number of the Constitu- tionalist, the office of which, together with several other business build- ings, was destroyed by fire in June, 1837. The village of Bath was regularly incorporated and completely or- ganized in 1836, the act of the Legislature being passed May 6 of that year. The first meeting for the election of ofificers was held at the Franklin House, June 7, and resulted as follows : John D. Higgins, Ten Eyck Gansevoort, Benjamin Smead, Moses H. Lyon and John T. 248 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Andrews, trustees; Ziba A. Leland, John M. Campbell and Henry Brothers, assessors ; Robert Campbell, jr., treasurer ; Levi C. Whitney, clerk ; Elisha Hempstead, collector, and O. W. L. Warren, constable. The first village president, elected by the trustees, was Ten Eyck Gan- sevoort, and the last, so elected in 1851, was R. B. Van Valkenburg. By an act of the Legislature passed January 20, 1 851, our village changed its character quite radically, and by a charter became entitled to elect the village president, and was otherwise vested with broader powers than under the old regime. Under the charter the first officers were elected April 6, 1852, and were Robert Campbell, president; Joel H. Rice, George S. Ellas, Alfred P. Ferris, Lansing D. Hodgman, trustees ; John Bramble, Paul C. Cook and Moses H. Lyon, assessors ; Alva E. Brown, treasurer ; Benjamin C. Ward, collector, and William E. Bonham, clerk. Such is the character of municipal organization in Bath at the present day, although the Legislature has so amended the village charter as to permit the election of officers other than noted above, and has granted greater powers than those conferred under the original act. The fire department, as a complete and' properly equipped branch of local goverment, was brought into existence by the trustees on Decem- ber 17, 1839, although previous to that year an informal organization was maintained by the villagers for the prevention of fire. At that time the old company was dissolved, and the trustees organized a fire engine company, the personnel of which was as follows : Lewis Biles, foreman ; J. McBeath, assistant; R. L. Underhill, clerk, and members, Moses H. Lyon, William H. Bull, L. H. Read, Daniel Miller, John O. Goodsell, Charles Adams, Bernard Fox, W. Secor, Reuben Robie, James Shannon, Benjamin D. Lilly, A. F. Ellas, G. A. Rogers, William Hamilton, Thomas Metcalf, James Moore, A. Babcock, Lewis Shoemaker, William A. Biles, James R. Dudley, A. R. Gould, Nathan Stevens, R. H. Gra- ham, John R. Gansevoort and David McMaster. In later years the organization was radically modified, and as the growth and necessities of the village demanded, changes were made to conform to the existing condition of affairs. However, the present effi- cient volunteer fire department is the outgrowth of the primitive organ- izations mentioned above, and the construction of a water supply sys- CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 249 tern has materially advanced the efficiency of the organization and less- ened its labors. As now constituted the department comprises three companies, known respectively as Edwin Cook Hose Co. No. i, Frank Campbell Hose Co. No. 2, and Rescue Hook and Ladder Co. No. i. The Bath Water Works Company was incorporated in 1887, with a capital of $72,000, owned chiefly by non-residents. The supply is obtained from a large reservoir on Magee Hill, and by a combined pumping and gravity system is distributed throughout the village. There are about eight miles of main pipes, seventy- eight fire hydrants, and about 275 taps. The village officers for the year 1895, (to whom, with their prede- cessors in office, is due great credit for the admirable government of the last score and more of years) are as follows : Hiram W. Brundage, pres- ident ; Bernard M. Wynkoop, clerk; Orland W. Sutton, Edward E. Aber, William H. Scrafford and Matthew E Shannon, trustees ; Will- iam A. Dutcher, treasurer; Hoyt Butler, collector; Clarence Willis, police justice; Charles A. Ellas, Thomas Fogart)- and Andrew Crook, assessors. Among the various institutions of the county seat, the schools have ever received the same careful attention and generous support that has characterized local interests in all directions. The subject, too, is one which has been extensively treated by local writers of known repute and standing, and it is impossible at this time to enlarge upon what is al- ready of record or to improve upon what has been said. The writer therefore acknowledges access to the sketches of Clarence Willis and Charles F. Kingsley, both recognized authority on the subject treated. Says Mr. Kingsley : In the very first year of the settlement of the town of Bath a school was established, and here Robert Hunter was the schoolmaster. The first school house was built on the northwest corner of Pulteney Square, where the furniture store stands, but when built records afford no accurate information. Mr. Dixon was the teacher in 1805. Elam Bridges taught school in a little frame building near the old clerk's office as early as 181 1. In December, 18 12, Henry A. Townsend and wife conveyed to the trustees of the Bath school a lot on the north side of Steuben street, near the end of the Beekman sash factory of later years. In 181 3 a school house was built on this lot at 32 250 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY the expense of district No. 5. This building became known as the " Old Academy," and its upper portion was for a time used by the local Ma- sonic societies. This school was burned in 1824, and was replaced with the once well known "Red School house," the latter being, it is said, the first school organized in the village under the district system. However, the Red School was burned in September, 1849. and the lot on which it stood was afterward the subject of long and expensive liti- gation. On the 8th of July, 1846, a Union school was founded by the consol- idation of districts Nos. 2 and 5 in the village, and forms the present district No. 5. Adam Haverling donated to this district the site on which the present Haverling Union P'ree School stands. On April 13, 1847, ^ contract was made between the district trustees and Sylvanus Stephens, by which the latter agreed to erect a school building on this lot, at a cost of $2,180.66. This was done and school was first opened in the building May 15, 1848. However, this structure was burned January 29, 1866, and in its place was erected the present substantial and attractive academy building, at a cost of about $25,000, including $900 paid for the lot in front of it on Liberty street. In 1887 Ira Davenport gave to the district a lease of an acre of land lying north of the old school grounds. The principals of the Union District School from 1848 to 1868, were Mr. Hathaway, Emerson J. Hamilton, Charles W. Gulick, James Buell, James A. Broadhead, William S. Hall, C. C. Wheeler, J. H. Strong, J. C. Higby, Henry A. Smith, Z. L. Parker and J. Horace Crum and Edward Wilson, joint principals. At a meeting of the qualified voters of the district held August 6, 1868, the present Union Free School was formed, and G. H. McMaster, L. P. Hard, L. D. Hodgman, R. Hardenbrook, Abram Beekman and Samuel Ensign were duly elected members of the Board of Education. On the 7th of September, 1868, Haverling Union Free School with its academic department was opened to the public, and it at once took rank with the leading schools of the State ; a position which it has maintained to the present day. The principals since 1868 have been Zenas L. Parker, Lewis M. Johnson, E. H. Lattimer and Levi D. Miller. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 2S1 Tlie present Board of Education comprises L. D. Hodgman, Abram Beekman, Charles F. Kingsley, Clarence Willis, W. S. Burns and W. P. Sedgwick. Mr. Hodgman is cliairnian and Mr. Kingsley secretary of the board. Another of the established institutions of Bath is the Agricultural Society, a county rather than local organization, yet a fixed adjunct of the shire town, hence to be mentioned in this chapter. The present Steuben County Agricultural Society was organized in 1853, although for a number of years previous to that time annual fairs and exhibitions had been held, and a formal organization may have been in existence. In fact Charles Williamson was the originator of fairs in old Steuben, yet his successors in office and influence failed to awaken the same interest in such exhibitions as did that worthy pio- neer. In 1841 a county agricultural society was brought into existence at a public meeting held in Bath, and its first officers were Otto F. Marshall, president ; John Cooper, jr., Israel Wood and Erastus Skinner, vice presidents; Wm. S. Hubbcll and Ziba A. Leland, secretaries; Henry Brother, treasurer. This society was continued for about four years, though with rather indifterent success from a financial point of view, and then dissolved. The last fair, that of 1844, was held on the river flat, southwest of the land office. On the 1 8th of May, 1853, a public notice was given, as required by law, to the effect that a meeting would be held in Bath on the 22d of June following, for the purpose of legally organizing a county agricul- tural society. At the time mentioned an organization was perfected and these officers chosen for the following year: Goldsmith Denniston, president; O. F. Marshall, J. B. Mitchell, J. B. Dickinson, Lyman Bal- com, R. S. Davis and John Van Wie, vice-presidents; Geo. Edwards, treasurer; R. B. Van Valkenburgh, corresponding secretary, and Geo. S. Ellas, recording secretary. The first fair was held at Bath on the I2th and 13th of October, 1853, in an open field on Robert Campbell's farm. In 1854 the society leased a portion of its present admirable grounds, and. depending largely upon annual exhibitions to build up a purchas- ing and improving fund, it was not until 1862 that the property was deeded to the trustees. It is deemed unnecessary in this place to note 252 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. one and all of the many improvements made by the society, for almost every person in Steuben county is perfectly familiar with the grounds, the buildings, the famous log cabin, and every other noticeable building within the inclosure. The fair, also, needs no complimentary reference in this chapter, as the annual meeting at Bath is known tiiroughout the entire State ; and it goes without saying that in this village is the best and most successful county fair in Western or (^entral New York. This success has been due to the untiring efforts of the officers and managers annually elected, in view of which it is proper that we note the succession of presidents, viz : Goldsmith Denniston, Uri Bal- com, Lyman Balcom, Daniel Gray, John W. Taggart, Grattan H. Wheeler, Samuel Balcom, Robert B. Wilks, Frank J. Marshall, Chas. H. Robie, Samuel E. Haskin, Azariah C. Brundage, Nathaniel B. Stan- ton, Martin W. Noble, Joseph M. Hopkins, Daniel B. Curtis, Lemuel Mathewson, Lewis C. Kingsbury, Lyman Aulls, Amos Jewett, Sanford A. Gardiner, James L. Packer, Chas. A. Reynolds, Edward C. Cook. The present (1895) officers are Edward C. Cook, president; John C. Switzer, G. D. Wilbur, H. T. Connor, J. B. Giffin, George Wolcott, Robert Kellogg, David H. Ackerson and D. B. Bryan, vice-presidents ; Major A. C. Brundage, secretary ; Thos. N. Smith, treasurer, and John W. Moore, general superintendent. The New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Bath, although an institution of the State rather than local, is nevertheless a proper subject of mention in this chapter. In fact the location and erection of the buildings in our county town was the result of generosity and enter- prise on the part of the people of Bath and its immediate vicinity. After several futile attempts to found a soldiers' home in this State an effective act was passed by the Legislature in 1876, approved by Gov- ernor Tilden on May 15. An organization was perfected and the con- stituted committee received proposals or offers of land for a site. Of course the public-spirited citizens of various localities made generous offers to the commissioners, but of them all that at Bath was considered the most desirable. The land comprised the well known Rider farm, 220 acres in extent, in addition to which was j cash offer of $6,000 to be used in the erection of buildings. On Wednesday, June 13, 1877, the corner-stone of the home build- CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 253 ing was laid, and on the 23(1 day of January, 1879, the institution was opened for the reception of inmates. The formal transfer of the prop- erty from the commissioners or association to the State was completed in pursuance of an act of the Legislatnre, passed March 1 1, 1878. As is well known, the object and purpose of the home is to provide for the care, maintenance and relief of soldiers and sailors from the State of New York, who served in the Union army or navy during the war of i86i-5,and received an honorable discharge therefrom, and who from an\' cause stand in need of the care and benefits of a soldiers' home. The Board of Trustees is composed of nine members, exclusive of the governor and attorney-general, who are ex-ofificio members. The board establish rules and regulations for the management of the home, its officers and inmates, and they submit a detailed report of their pro- ceedings to the Legislature each year. The personnel of the present Board of Trustees is as follows: The governor and attornej'-gcneral, ex-officio, and Hosea H. Rockwell, John Palmer, Oliver B. Caldwell, O. H. Smith, Halbert S. Greenleaf, George H. Blackman, Frank Campbell, Edwin S. Jenney and Horatio C. King. The officers of the home are Gen. Wm. F. Rogers, superintendent ; Maj. S. H. Leavitt, adjutant ; Dr. T. O. Burleson, surgeon ; Dr. E. C. Pixley, assistant surgeon ; Capt. Frank P. P"rost, quartermaster. The Davenport Home for Female Orphan Children, one of the noblest charities of the State, is beautifully located in the south part of the village of Bath. It was the free and voluntary gift of Col. Ira Dav- enport, his own and original idea, the revelation of his generous heart and nature ; and unaided and unadvised, except by those of his own family, he founded and built the home and endowed it abundantly so that is not in any manner a charge ujion the generosity of the public. The building was begun in 1861, and two years later the association was organized. The first inmate was received July 19, 1864. The property was conveyed by Col. Davenport to the home association, and to the managers is assigned the pleasant duty of conducting its affairs. The endowment fund now aggregates more than $200,000, and the an- nual income is about $12,000. At present the home has sixty three inmates. The late John Davenport, who died May 5, 1895, ^^s at that 254 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. time president, and was succeeded by Ira Davenport. Roth were sons of the founder of the institution. The trustees and managers are Ira Davenport, Mrs, Sherman S. Rogers. Mrs. John Davenport and James Lyon. Matron, Mrs. Jemima L. McPherson. The Bath Centennial Celebration, June 6 and 7, 1893, was one of the most notable events in local annals. The preliminarx- arrangements for this occasion began in January, and nothing was left undone to make perfect desirable features. At the first public meeting, General Averell was chosen chairman, and James R. Kingsley, secretary. For the pur- pose of carrying out the detail of arrangements a large general com- mittee was appointed, and also sub-committees, and, with complete unity in opinion and action, all things were done " decently and in order." On Sunday, June 4, in the several churches of the village were conducted appropriate religious services with historical sermons (from these ser- mons there has been compiled a history of each of the local churches. See Ecclesiastical history in another department of this work), followed in the evening by a union service in the Casino, and address by Prof Levi D. Miller. From the published proceedings we quote the order of exercises : Tuesday, June 6, Prayer, Rev. L. M. Miller, D.D., of Ogdensburgh, N Y. Address of Welcome, bj' President of the Da)', Reuben E, Robie. Poem, Prof Zenas L. Parker. Captain Charles Williamson, a sketch, by James McCall. History of Bath for Fifty Years, Ansel J. McCall. Evening Elxercises, Prayer. Reminiscences — by Wm. E. Howell, J. R. Whiting, Rev. L. M. Miller, D.D., Irving W. Near, Edward H. Butler and Clark Bell. Schools, Charles F. Kingsley, Physicians, Dr. Ira P. Smith. Lawyers, Charles H. McMaster. Editors, George B. Richardson. Soldiers, Major John Stocum. Wednesday, June 7. Sunrise Salute of Cannon and Bells. Parade of all the Schools of the Town to the Fair Grounds (about 1, 000 children, headed by five bands of music, participated in this novel and interesting event). CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 255 On the Fair Grounds, 10.30 A. M. Prayer, M. N. Preston. Letters of Regret, read by Secretary R. R. Lyon. Address and Presentation of Portrait of Charles Williamson, by Jas. McCall. Acceptance on behalf of Trustees, Byron L. Smith. Oration, Sherman S. Rogers, of Buffalo. Change of Name of Lake Salubria to Lake Williamson. Benediction. 2.00 P. M. Parade of Fire Department, Civic Societies and General Trades Display ; Capt. W. W. Lindsay, Marshal ; Messrs. L. H. Bal- com, Hoxie W. Smith, Wm. J. H. Richardson and S. J. Wilkes, Aides. 8.00 V. M. Old Time Reception at the Casino. The following list shows the formation and the companies in the line of the parade : Capt. W. W. Lindsay, Marshal. Soldiers' and Sailors' Home Band, si.xteen men. Custer Post, G. A. R., eighty men. General Barry Post, G. A. R., No. 248, seventy-five men. Keeley Club of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, seventy men. L. H. Balcom Assistant Marshal. Hammondsport Cornet Band, sixteen men. Royai Arcanum, Chapter No. 344, of Bath, forty men. Knights of the Maccabees, No. 71, of Bath, forty men. Boy's Society, " Character Builders of St. Thomas church," forty-two in line, led by Rev. B S. Sanderson. Wm. J. H. Richardson, Assistant Marshal. Prattsburgh Cornet Band, fourteen men. Bath Fire Department, Chief McNamara, First Assistant Cotton, Second Assistant Parker. Rescue Hook and Ladder Company, twenty six men, P'oreman A. L. Lilley. Hook and Ladder truck gaily decorated and carrying a log hut with Indians, representing 1793 at one end, while at the other end was a boat containing four little girls representative of the year 1893. Samuel E. Wilkes, Assistant Marshal. 25G LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Cohocton Cornet Band, twenty men. Edwin Cook Hose Company, twenty-eight men, Foreman John Donahe. Hose Company's cart completely covered with flowers, and two little children riding on top dressed in Continental costume. Hacks containing Mayor Gould, Trustees Smith, Phillips, Aber and Sutton, City Attorney Waldo and Clerk Shannon. Hoxie W. Smith, Assistant Marshal, followed by a long division rep- resenting the business interests of the Town and Village. Personnel of the several committees under whose division the celebra- tion was arranged and most successfully managed : General Committee : Gen. VV. VV. Averell,W. W. Allen, R E. Robie, A. J. McCall, H. W. Bowes, J. F. Little, O. H. Smith, Abram Beekman. W. E. Howell, J. F. Parkhurst, R. R. Lyon, James R. Kingsley, Rev. M. N. Preston, Rev. B. S. Sanderson, Rev M. C. Dean, Rev. V. P. Mather, Rev. J. J. Gleason , Rev. B. VV. Swain. Gen. Averell was Chairman of the Committee, and James R. Kingsley, Secretary. Sub-committees : — Invitations — A. J. McCall. Reception of Guests — Augustus de Peyster. Entertainment — Abram Beekman. Literary Exercises — John F. Little. Finance — Reuben R. Lyon. Decorating Village — John McNamara. Schools — Clarence Willis. Procession and Bands — William H. Hallock. Evening Reception — Augustus de Peyster. Publication and Printing — John Underbill. In their preparations the Committee were given most valued assist- ance by the Ladies' Committee, made up as follows : Executive Committee — Mrs. James Lyon, Chairman ; Mrs. Ansel J. McCall, Mrs. Wm. Rumsey, Mrs. George W. Hallock, Mrs. J. F. Park- hurst, Mrs. B. F. Young, Mrs. M. Rumsey Miller, Mrs. Agustus de Peyster, Mrs. John Davenport, Mrs. W. W. Averell ; Miss Jeanette M. Hodgman, Sec'y. t\ CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS 257 Invitations — Mrs. Thomas J. Wiiiting. Reception and Care of Guests — Mrs. William H. Nichols. Entertainment, Seats and Grounds — Miss Katharine Bowes. Literary Exercises — Miss Mamie McBeath. Finance — Mrs. Charles F. Kingsley. Decoration of Village and Grounds — Mrs. Abram Beekman. Schools — Miss Anna P'reeman. Procession and Bands — Mrs. Alfred Case. Evening Reception — The Executive Committee. Publication and Printing — Miss Cassia VV. Hull. As a business and manufacturing center Bath has attracted little attention in commercial circles. True, mercantile interests are now and in the past have been sufficiently represented, and there has always been enough of competition to prevent the possibilities of monopoly. In the early historj' of the town, General McClure and some of his asso- ciates were very active in starting and maintaining manufacturing enter- prises, yet indifferent results were the reward of their best efforts, and later generations have shown only a passive interest in building up Bath with factories. And it is also true that many of the present busi- ness men, bankers and capitalists have generously contributed money to various manufacturing industries, but the results generally have been discouraging rather than satisfactory. In this work it has not been thought advisable to mention by name the merchants of Bath ; they need no such advertisement to display their wares as nearly all are patrons of the local press. However, we may mention, among manufacturing interests, the harness and saddle factory, started about 1890 by Fred Morris, but now and since July, 1893, operated by the Bath Harness Company. Another industry worthy of note is the Smith & Griegson Shoe Company, whose plant was destroyed by an unfortunate fire during the spring of 1895. The business of the company, however, was at once established and con- tinued. Among the fixed manufacturing industries of the village may be mentioned the planing mills and general wood working establishments of Abram Beekman, and also William H. and Robert J. Davison, the firm being also extensive contractors and builders. Joy'sjsteam flouring mill 33 258 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY may also be mentioned in the same connection. Messrs. Hardenbrook & Co. formerly operated a large foundry and machine shop, among their specialties being stoves, plows and general castings. The old plant occupied by Loomis & McMath as a wagon factory is now owned by WilUiam Allen. The Applebee Horse Collar factory has moved to Corning, and the Bath Jacket Can Manufacturing Company, after dis- asters, went out of business. The record of the banking institutions shows in more favorable light so far at least as substantial results and capable management is con- cerned. The pioneer financial concern of I^ath was the old Steuben County Bank, incorporated by the Legislature March 9, 1832, the di- rectors being John Magee, president, and William W. McCoy, Reuben Robie, Edward Howell, Constant Cook, James Faulkner, Andrew B. Dickinson, Chauncey Hoffman, Charles Butler, Henry S. Williams, Henry B. Gibson, Ansel St. John, and William S. Hubbell, directors. The bank first opened for business, October 24, 1832, in the old Land Office building, but in 1833 moved to the new bank building erected for its use, and where it afterward continued throughout the period of its useful and successful career. The presidents, in succession, were John Magee, William W. McCoy, John Magee, D. C. Howell, Ambrose S. Howell, D. C. Howell, and William E. Howell. During the time of the last mentioned president, the bank went into voluntary liquidation and soon passed out of existence. George W. Hallock's bank was established January i, 1849, and for a period of nearly half a century has been known among the safe finan- cial institutions of the State. William H. Hallock became partner with the founder in 1879, a relation which was maintained to the death of the latter, February 10, 1895. The bank, however, is continued on the same safe basis established by Mr. Hallock many years ago. It is now owned by Mary H. and William H. Hallock. The latter is now cashier ; John M. Farr, assistant cashier, and C. E. Bennett, teller. The present First National Bank of Bath was originally organized as The Bank of Bath, April 1 1, 1854, with a capital of $50,000. Constant Cook was its president, and H. H. Cook, cashier, by both of whom its affairs were managed, and successfully although frequent changes in location were made. However, in 1S58, the business was removed to CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 259 the new bank building at the corner of Steuben and Liberty streets. On tile 14th of December, 1863, the State charter was dissolved and the bank at once reorganized under the name of First National Bank of Bath (No. 153) with a capital of $50,000 (soon afterward increased to $100,000). The first officers were Constant Cook, president; H. H. Cook, cashier, both of whom, with L. D. Hodgman, E. C. Cook and W. W. Allen composed the board of directors. Judge Cook died on the 24th of February, 1874, and in April following Henry H. Cook was elected to the presidenc)'. At this time, also, W. W. Allen was ap- pointed cashier, which offices they hold at the present time. The direc- tors are H. H. Cook, L. D. Hodgman, E. C. Cook, M. R. Miller and W. W. Allen. This bank has a surplus of nearly $45,000. No com- ment upon its management or business is required at the hands of the writer, for the First National Bank of Bath is too well known in bank- ing circles and in the business world to suggest even the desirability of compliment. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Bath opened its doors for busi- ness January i, 1880, the owners and managers forming a partnership, comprising J. F. Parkhurst, Abram Beekman, Thomas R. Rutherford, William M. Nichols, and Frank Campbell. The present partners and owners are Messrs. Beekman, Parkhurst, and Campbell. This is a private banking house, safe and reliable, and enjoys a full share of public confidence. The City OF Corning — On the 26th day of October, 1825, that great thoroughfare of travel and traffic — the Erie canal — was completed and opened for its intended use, and great and immediate benefit ac- crued to the towns and villages along its route. During the ten years next following this event, the legislature was constantly besieged with applications for charters and for pecuniary assistance in the interest of other similar enterprises, nearly all of which were intended to be au.xil- iary and tributary to the canal first mentioned, and to cross the State from north to south, penetrating the vast lumber tracts of Southern New York and the unlimited coal fields of Northern Pennsylvania. Capital- ists and merchants in Albany and New York, and also in the more prominent manufacturing centers of New England, were desirous tliat these lateral waterways should be established, for they eagerly sought 260 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. both coal and lumber for business and speculative purposes, which commodities were not provided by the main canal. In 1825 the Dela- ware and Hudson Canal company was chartered, and in 1828 the canal itself was opened. This brought southern products to Rondout, on the Hudson, affording partial relief, yet still another inlet was needed. While the canal last mentioned was in process of construction, a prop- osition was laid before the legislature contemplating another canal, ex- tending southward from the head of Seneca lake into the extensive coal and lumber fields of Northern Pennsylvania, by way of the Chemung and Tioga rivers, but the scheme nearly failed through the adverse posi- tion taken by Col. Samuel Young who seemed to have authority to pass upon the necessity or desirability of the enterprise. However, at this juncture, Captain Vincent Conklin took his team of horses and drew a fine load of Blossburg coal to Albany in order to satisfy the doubtful mind as to the value of the coal deposit of that region. In Albany the redoubtable Conklin found an interested listener in Edwin Cresswell, editor of the Argus, and the result was an earnest advocacy of the canal project on the part of that paper. Better yet, on the 15th of April, 1829, a bill was passed authorizing the construction of the Chemung canal, extending from Watkins to Elmira, with a navigable feeder, or branch, between Horseheads and Knoxville. The work of construction was at once begun, and was completed in 1833, and by it, and other public enterprises soon afterward carried to successful completion, the village and city of Corning became a possibility. Without them it is doubtful if the original hamlet would ever have been more than a cross- roads settlement. This great consummation attained, pubHc attention was soon attracted to the vicinity of the canal terminus on the southwest. The Conhocton, the Canisteo, the Tuscarora and the Tioga brought here their rafts of superior quality lumber, while the Tioga contributed in addition both lumber and coal, all of which found ready cash markets in the east. These things naturally drew attention to our locality, and it is not sur- prising that Albany capitalists sought investments in so promising a field. The operations of the Corning Company were no less important as factors in early municipal history than was the the canal, yet the com- CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 261 pany followed the canal and was dependent upon it just as later improv- ments were the outgrowth of the land operations. It was the combina- tion of all these elements that laid the foundation upon which the mu- nicipal structure was subsequently built, improved and enlarged ; and to-day we note the result in one of the most metropolitan yet cosmo- politan cities in interior New York, built up and firmly established, well ordered and situated, and containing all the requisites for future advanced prosperity. The Corning Company was formed in 1835, in Albany, and comprised in its membership Erastus Corning, Thomas VV. Olcott, Joseph Fellows, Watts Sherman, Hiram Bostwick, Ansel Bascom, Bowen Whiting, William A. Bradley and Levin I. Gilliss, who associated for the purpose of acquiring and developing lands in this State, particularly in Steuben county, and for such other speculative purposes as were desirable. The company first purchased at Painted Post, but their title failed, and they ne.xt obtained 340 acres of land on the west side of the Chemung, with- in the present city limits. It was at first thought the selection of land made by the company was unfortunate, being on the west side of the river, but whether so or not the location proved most fortunate for sub- sequent interests as bridges were built and thus the whole town was benefited. Indeed these first years of village history witnessed many improve- ments and wonderful changes, and in 1836 there was sufficient impor- tance in the settlement to warrant a name for the hamlet. It was called Corning, in honorable allusion to Erastus Corning, founder in fact of the company and one of the chief promoters of the enterprise. The purchase tract was surveyed and laid out into lots, and all needful things were provided to build up a progressive settlement. However, one of the first acts of the company was to ascertain the possibility of a successful line of railroad between the canal terminus and the rich Bloss- burg coal fields. To be sure, the Tioga river afforded moderate facili- ties for transportation at certain periods, yet it proved a somewhat slow and occasionally unreliable thoroughfare of traffic. To overcome the objections a survey was made to the State line, up the valley of the river, and being practicable the energetic companj' constructed the road to that point, and there joined with the road built by a similar company 262 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. of Pennsylvania operators. In 1839 the first locomotive traversed the Tioga valley, and the future success and growth of our little village became assured. Reference to the railroad statistics of the State discloses the fact that this road was built by the " Tioga Coal, Iron Mining and Manufactur- ing Company," connecting the bituminous coal fields of Pennsylvania with the Chemung canal, but gives the year of organization as 1841. However, in 1852, the road was sold and the name changed to Corning and Blossburg railroad. It is the same more recently known as the Blossburg, Corning and Tioga railroad, the " Cowanesque Branch," and also as the Fall Brook road. In 1840 the preliminary surveys for the Erie railroad were made in this vicinity, yet ten years passed before the road was in fact completed. In the expectation that this line was to be immediately built local capital invested largely, and the delay which followed worked disaster to all business interests. The road, however, was completed to Corning in January, 1850. Two years later the Buffalo, Corning and New York railroad (now Rochester division of the Erie) was completed to Corning, atTording additional facilities through the Conhocton valley. Still later railway lines, which have added to the general advancement of local interests, were the Syracuse, Geneva and Corning, chartered in 1875, and opened in 1877 ; the Del- aware, Lackawanna and Western, opened in 1882 ; and the Addison and Pennsylvania, also opened in 18S2. The old Corning and Olean Company was chartered in 1852, with a capital of $850,000, but tlie road was never built. Returning to purely local history, let us briefly note some of the prominent factors in the development of early interests Col. H. VV. Bostwick was of course active in the operations of the Corning company, and was its resident manager. Other enterprising residents were Dr. William Turbell, Lawyer Thomas A. Johnson, Laurin, P. J. and Wm. M. Mallory, Major S B. Denton, Nelson L. Somers, H. G. Phelps, B. P. Bailey, John A. Parcell, B. W. Payne, Daniel G. Comstock, George T. Spencer, E. P. Rogers, S. T. Hayt, Hiram Pritchard, Wm. J. Arnold, Charles Clark and others. Previous to 1840 the hamlet had no post- office nearer than Center- ville, but in the year mentioned Postmaster Philo P. Hubbell kindly CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 263 moved the Painted Post office to Corning. In 1841 the name of the office was changed to Corning and Major S. B. Denton was appointed postmaster. Also in 1840 Charles Adams contributed greatly to local interests in establishing a newspaper, called the Corning and Hlossburg Advocate. The second paper was the Corning Sun, founded in 1853 by Mark M. Pomeroy and P. C. Van Gelder. Churches were erected and religious societies were organized, the village Presbyterian in 1842, and the second of the same denomination three years later. The Prot- estant Episcopal church followed in 1854, while the Methodist Episco- pal workers were in the field as early as 1839, The Baptist and Cath- olics were here about the same time, 1842. In 1842, according to a reprinted article from the Corning and Bloss- burg Advocate, the village contained about 500 inhabitants, and was considered '' a smart town," but the failure of the first Erie railroad en- terprise had a depressing effect on all local interests and some of them suffered seriously. The road was completed to Corning from the cast in December, 1849, but at that time, notwithstanding all adverse extents, the local population had increased to 1,300, and the village had been regularly incorporated. Referring again to the article in the Advocate, we learn that the law- yers of the village in 1842 were Johnson & Covell, George T. Spencer, and also Col. H. W. Bostwick, the latter president and attorney of the Corning Company and constantly engaged in furthering the interests of his principals rather than occupied in general legal practice. Terbell & Brownell were physicians, the former being also proprietor of a drug store which has since been continued by some member of the familw S. B. Denton kept a shoe store, and was also at one time proprietor of the old Corning House, a well known hostelry standing on the site now occupied by the Dickinson House. H. H. VVyman was the village liv- eryman. The old Bank of Corning was then in successful operation, having be- gan business January 12, 1839, under a hundred-year charter, yet its existence covered a period of less than thirty years. However, it out- lived by more than a year the Corning Company which dissolved in 1855. Jared A. Redfield was a dry goods merchant, and Loveland & Arnold were in the same line of trade. Bailey & Gray kept a stock of 264 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. general merchandise, while L. Davenport was hatter, but later on opened a book store. Charles Clark was builder and contractor, and some of the structures built by him are still standing, though most of the frame business buildings have been removed by fire or the ever progressing hand of man. G. W. Hanmer kept general store, C. H, Powers was the jeweler, and Loomis, Fuller & Co. kept a large supply of boots, shoes and leather. James B. Lower was a manufacturer of cars and did an extensive business in the village. David Baker was the brickniaker, and his product is still discernible in many of the older buildings of the vicinity. Dr. Janles Cutler practiced medicine in Knoxville, which place then rivaled Corning. Later on, however, the village founded by Judge Knox became a suburb to rapidly growing and constantly extending Corning, and finally was absorbed by the city incorporation. It now constitutes the Fifth ward, and is, withal, the largest and most impor- tant outlying district of the municipality. However, for the purposes of this outline narrative Knoxville will be treated as a part of Corning. The old and well known firm of W. & F. Thornton dealt in dry goods ; W. B. Scudder had a stock of general merchandise ; W. & J. Treverton, and also J. F. Geen sold paints, oils and glazier's goods; D. R. Davis was the village barber; M, J. Pace made and sold bakestuffs ; J. S. Jamison taught writing school ; Pew & Paddleford were livery- men ; N. L. Somer & Co sold hardware ; W. L. Waller dealt in dry goods; and H. G. Phelps and H. Pritchard were proprietors of the local flour and grist mills. Over in Knoxville Dyer Ford sold groceries and patent medicines ; D. J. Shaw dealt in dry goods and Yankee notions, but later on built and opened the Corning Exchange. Such, substantially, was the condition of mercantile interests in the village half a century ago, but succeeding years worked wonderful changes. Within the next ten years, following 1842, the village suf- fered severe losses by fire and many of the best business places were completely destroyed. These disasters led to the formation of fire com- panies as a partial means of preventing still further conflagrations and their consequent loss, and the liberality of the business men was sorely taxed to provide fire apparatus, which could not be purchased at the expense of the town at large. Having a population of about 1,200 in CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS 3C5 1848, many public improvements were necessary, and the town sliowed little inclination to pay an expense from which persons outside the vil- lage received no direct benefit. Therefore the interested citizens deter- mined to produre an order of incorporation. The petitioners were Horace G. Phelps, James C. Davis and Joseph Herron, who made application to the Court of Sessions on the 31st of August, 1848, and on the 6th of September, following, Judge McMaster granted the order of incorporation, subject to ratification by the electors of the incorporated district. The election for this purpose was held on the 25th of October, and the result showed i 18 votes for and 5 against the proposition. The first election of village officers was held January 12, 1849, and resulted as follows : Horace G. Phelps, Laurin Mallory, George T. Spencer, Aaron H. Foster and James S. Robinson, trustees. On the organization of the board, Mr. Mallory was chosen president, and Thomas Messenger, clerk. However, in 1858, the powers of the muni- cipal body were increased through charter enactment, after whicii time the office of president became elective instead of appointive. The village trustees, under the first order of incorporation, were nec- essarily compelled to inaugurate many public improvements. They were the legislative and executive power of a municipality of i ,300 inhabitants, and with mercantile and manufacturing interests of greater importance than is usual in such villages. The highways were in great need of attention, and sidewalks must be laid and lights provided. Soon after- ward the Erie railway was completed to the village and police protec- tion was imperative. About the same time the locality was visited with a series of disastrous fires, by which many of their prominent business blocks were destroyed. So seriously was the loss felt in the community that the trustees, on the fourth of January, 185 i, adopted a resolution by which a regular fire department was organized ; and within one week from that time Rescue Fire Co. No. i, and Rescue Hose Co. No. I, also Rough and Ready Fire Co. No 2, and Rough and Ready Hose Co. No. 2, were brought into existence, and ~soon afterward equipped with the necessary apparatus for extinguishing fires. The name Rough and Ready was changed to Neptune, and in 1857, Alliance Hook and Ladder Co. was organized. This was the nucleus of the present fire 34 266 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. department of the city, an organization surpassed by none and equaled by few among the volunteer organizations of the State. In 1862 the department was incorporated under the State laws, and upon organization Alfred Jones was elected president, and George W. Pratt, secretary. As the village and subsequent city enlarged both in population and business importance, so, also, was the department in- creased in members and efficiency, until it was a distinct branch of mu- nicipal government, controlled by a full board of officers, as follows : Marvin Olcott, president ; G. D. Gorton, secretary ; W. L. McGeorge, treasurer. The chief engineer is F. L. Clute ; 1st asst., W. H. Christie ; 2d asst., J. Lazarus. The fire wardens are W. B. Walker, E. B. Sey- mour and D. F. Fero. In the same year in which the first village officers were elected the Erie Railroad was completed to Corning and opened for traffic This was by far the greatest acquisition in local interests and contributed largely to early prosperity. Within another year or two the road was completed to Hornellsville and points farther west, thus giving the vil- lage a trunk line of railroad with all its accompanying advantages. In 1852 the Rochester branch was also opened, and the products of both Canisteo and Conhocton valleys poured into the village on their way to Eastern markets. The Chemung Canal was in full and successful operation at the same time. In less than another quarter of a century the Syracuse, Geneva & Corning Road was ready for business, afford- ing ready connection with the New York Central Road and also points in New England. In view of these things it is not surprising that Corn- ing was a business center of much importance previous to the outbreak of the late war, and when peace was restored renewed activity added still other interests to the village. In 1868 the now celebrated glass works were removed from Brooklyn to Corning, bringing to the village at least one hundred experienced workmen, many of them having fam- ilies. One industry led to another, each succeeding family increased the importance of the municipality, and we find as early as 1888 popu- lation and volume of business sufficient to warrant a city charter, with all its attendant prestige and advantage. Of this the people began to speak at least two years before the act in fact passed the Legislature, and among the more prominent factors in bringing about the desired WILLIAM W. ADAMS. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 267 result were I'". D. Kingsbury, P'rankliu N. Drake, Amory Houghton, jr., Harry C. Heermans, John Hoare, sen., E. D. Willis, F. R. Brown, Stephen T. Hayt, George W. Pratt. Q. W. Wellington, Dwight A. Ful- ler, George B. Bradley and others. Tiie bill creating the city became a law and received the executive sanction on the 20th of March, 189O. Within the city limits were about 1,800 acres of land. The first election of city officers was held April 2, 1890, with result as follows : William E. Gorton, mayor ; D. F. Browne, recorder ; L. B. Robinson, chamberlain; Thomas O'Brien, overseer of the poor ; George Hitchcock and Thomas Hiffernan, justices of the peace ; William A. Foster, Peter Griffin and S. C. Robertson, supervisors. Aldermen : John Peart and William Hunt, First Ward ; John W. Fedderand Will- iam T. Brady, Second Ward; E. Clisdell and William T. Rubright, Tliird Ward ; John Cogan and James McMahon, Fifth Ward; George Clark and Albert Pritchard, Fifth Ward. Mayor Gorton found the work of organizing the several departments of city government to be a rather arduous undertaking, yet he applied himself industriously to the duties of his office, and within a very short time all branches were working smoothly and well. Doctor Gorton's term of office covered two years, and his administration of affairs proved very acceptable to the people. In 1892 Benjamin W. Wellington was elected mayor, and showed himself to be an entirely capable and efficient public officer. His was the first Republican term in the mayoralty, the change contemplating several new appointments, yet all were satisfactory and worthy. Under Mayor Wellington the new city hall was built, in 1893, ''t ^n expense of nearly $40,000. The present mayor, William W. Adams, was elected in the spring of 1894, and although a new man in public office, his administration has been clean, careful and conservative, with an aim to promote tiic wel- fare of the city rather than for personal advantage. In all departments of city government Corning has been fortunate in the selection of officers, and to-day ranks among the best and most liberally conducted municipalities of the State. To a great extent poli- tics is subordinate to the public good, the heads of departments and commissioners being chosen with reference to fitness rather than party 268 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY affiliation. The popular plan of delegating the control of the several arms of city government to constituted commissions has shown bene- ficial results in the aptly called " Crystal City." However, let us here note the names of present officials connected with local government, and then refer briefly to some of the more important branches which have made for our city its e.xcellent standing. Mayor, William W. Adams; city clerk, William L. McGeorge ; cham- berlain, John Greentrup ; city attorney, E. D. Mills; street commis- sioner, Rufus C. Palmer; city engineer, Harry C. Heermans ; recorder, W. J. Tully ; acting recorder, George Hitchcock; chief of police, James Ryan ; captain of police, John Brennan. Aldermen : C. H. Lovell, George Walsh, First Ward; Dr. H. A. Argue, C. H. Duerlin, Second Ward ; Valentine Rettig, W. J. Cheney, Third Ward ; Peter Farrell, T. F. Reilly, Fourth Ward ; Dr. G. W. Lane, A. A. King, Fifth Ward. Assessors, S. B. Nichols, N. D. Rowley, P. D. Haradon ; justices, George Hitchcock, B. F. Marriott ; overseer of the poor, James Peart. Police commissioners — James A. Drake, Henry Beck, Edward P. Graves, C. G. Cole. Sewer commissioners — F. D. Kingsbury, president ; H. P. Sinclair, secretary ; O. W. Wellington, treasurer ; Samuel T. Hayt and Thomas Dwyer. Excise Commissioners — W. T. Brady, Joseph F. Moore, Charles W. Hayt, W. J. Tully. Board of Health— C. A. Rubright, E. W. Bryan, M. D., John B. Dailey, H. M. Bourne, Charles W. Fassett, J. L. Miller. W. S. Cobb, health officer and clerk of the board. Fire Department Companies — Alliance Hook and Ladder Co , No. i ; Pritchard Hose Co., No. i ; Crystal City Hose Co., No. 2 ; Independ- ent Hose Co., No. 3 ; Corning Protectives, No. 4 ; Magee Hose Co., No. s. The educational branch of city government in Corning is one in which every loyal citizen feels a just pride, and for the maintenance and sup- port of the public schools the local authorities make generous provision. In this action the board of education has ever received the approval of the taxpayers, as the appropriations are worthily applied, and there is no evidence whatever of prodigality. The present admirable school CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 269 system is the outgrowth of a beginning made as early as the year 1839, when a public meeting was held at the house of S. B. Denton, at which time Judge Johnson, William L. Waller and Charles Clark were chosen trustees of old district No. 14, of the then town of Painted Post. A school house was thus provided, in fact two of them, but in later years a consolidation of school interests was eftected. On April 13, 1S59, a special act of Legislature constituted a board of education in district No. 9, which, of course, was the village school district. At that time the free school system was put in operation, although the academy build- ing was not completed and occupied until September i, 1873. This structure, known as the Corning Academy, or High School, needs no extended description in this place ; it stands to-day a monument to the generosity of an intelligent public. The building has been repaired and enlarged as occasion has required, and within the last year nearly $30,000 has been expended in enlargements and sanitary improvements. In district No. 9 are three good schools, one of which is the academy just mentioned. When the city was created it included within its lim- its district No. 13, town of Corning, or at least so much of that district as comprises the present Fifth Ward. This was formerly Knoxville, and by the acquisition Corning gained another excellent school. However, this district is separately supported, receiving no support from the city other than from its own territory. Its affairs are controlled by a sepa- rate board of education and at the expense of the district known as No. 13. The personnel of the board of education in district No. 9 is as follows : Amory Houghton, jr., George R. Brown, Edward Clisdell, O. P. Robin- son, David S. Drake and William E. Gorton Officers of the board : Amory Houghton, jr., president; George Hitchcock, secretary ; Q. W. Wellington, treasurer. Superintendent of schools, Leigh R. Hunt. The board of education in district No. 13 comprises Luman S. Con- over, Dr. George W. Lane, Charles Billinghurst, I'rank H. Viele, Will- iam A. Pierce, John McBurney and T. H. Cole, jr. Corning is abundantly supplied with pure and wholesome water for domestic and public purposes. The system was established in 1871 and '72, at an expense of about $25,000, but for some reason it was a con- stant source of expense instead of profit to the village. Further im- 270 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. provements entailed additional outlays of money until the public had invested nearly $40,000 in the plant, and yet the concern was con- tinually a source of expense. In order to be relieved of this burden the trustees oftered to lease the works, but without success for some time, and not until young Harry Heermans, law student, determined to establish it on a paying basis. He associated with T. L. Lawrence, and the two leased the plant and system for thirty years, beginning Janu- ary I, 1877. Their capital consisted chiefly of energy and good judg- ment, and within three years the works were on a self-sustaining basis. Soon afterward a profit was realized, and to-day. notwithstanding the large outlays for extensions and maintenance, tlie firm are lessees of one of the best enterprises in Steuben county. The city is well supplied with excellent water from a large reservoir on the hill on the south side, while connected with the system is a pumping station of equal utility. From 500,000 to 800,000 gallons of water are pumped daily, and the number of taps is about 800 The Corning Gas Company was incorporated August i, 1862, to furnish the village with gas for illuminating purposes. This is an im- portant adjunct of municipal welfare although electric lighting has in a measure displaced gas. The officers of the company are C. S. Cole, president ; F. D. Kingsbury, treasurer and general manager ; E. B. Seymour, secretary. Superintendent, W. H. Christie. As a manufacturing and mercantile city, Corning ranks exceedingly well among the industrial centers of the State This fortunate con- dition of affairs is largely due to the railroad facilities, by which the local product is easily and quickly shipped to markets in any direction. Indeed our enterprising city has two recognized trunk lines of railroad the Erie and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, while the Fall Brook system is so complete and important to local interests as to be of equal value with the lines mentioned. In addition the Fall Brook Company have here their central offices for business management, while their construction and repair shops furnish employment to hun- dreds of workingmen. One of the most important industries of Southern New York is the Corning Glass Works, which, with its allied interests, furnishes em- ployment to about 1,000 persons, and also, through its pay rolls, HARRY C. HEERMANS. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 271 provides the means of subsistence to at least 3,000 more. In Corning these works were established by the removal of the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works in the year 1868, being induced to such course through the representation of Elias llungerford that coal, rents and employees could be procured in this village at less expense than in the former location. At that time the company comprised Amory Houghton, sr., Josiah Oakes, George P. Bradford and Amory Houghton, jr. As an inducement to the removal, the village, through individuals, took $50,- 000 of stock, while the company took $75,000, and also brought to Corning 100 regular and skilled employees. A reorganization was effected at the time of the removal and the concern became known as the Corning Flint Glass Company. For three years at least the com- pany did business at a heavy loss, finding the Cumberland coal not suited to their purposes, and being brought into direct competition with the large Pittsburg factories; and in 1871 it became necessary to dispose of the local plant, which was purchased by Nathan Gushing, of Boston, and placed in charge of Amory Houghton, jr., as manager. With an exceedingly doubtful future before him, Mr. Houghton began the operation of the works, on borrowed capital, running economically, devising and introducing specialties, endeavoring in every way to place the works on a paying basis. Subsequent results showed the wisdom of his policy, for the end of the year showed a small profit. In 1872 Mr. Houghton purchased the works and became the sole proprietor. Three years later, in 1875, the "Corning Glass Works" was incorporated with a capital of $50,000, Amory Houghton, jr., president and treas- urer; Charles F. Houghton, vice president, and Henry P. Sinclair, sec- retary. From the time of the purchase in 1872, under the new man- agement, this enterprise has been successful from every point of view, and is now regarded as the leading industry of Corning and one of the most noted in the State of New York. As originally established in 1868, the works covered two acres of ground, and employed about 150 men, boys and girls ; as now constituted the works cover six acres, and employ regularly about 400 persons, and occasionally as many more. Connected with this splendid industry are the cutting shops, although under different ownership and management, but taking the raw product from the glass works and finishing it so beautifully that Corning is known throughout the land as the "Crystal City." 272 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. The well known glass cutting firm of J. Hoare & Co., whose wares are sold throughout the United States, and in many foreign countries as well, was the outgrowth of a business established in Corning in 1868, by John Hoare, he coming to the village with the Brooklyn Flint Glass works. Mr. Hoare began in a small way and increased the capacity of his shops as rapidlj' as the demand for his|products increased, and it is a fact well known that the output from the Hoare works is among the best in the world, while the proprietor himself was the pioneer manufac- turer of rich cut glass in this country ; and he was the first man who ever turned glass in a lathe, and also the first who ever made glass for store window sashes. At the noted exhibitions of fine goods at Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, Mr. Hoare was awarded the first prize in each case, and generously turned over the exhibit to his principal cus- tomer in each city. At the Columbian Exposition he was awarded four medals for superiority, in design, finish and general beauty. The works of J. Hoare & Co. are an important industry in Corning and furnish employment for about 250 persons. In 1890 T. G. Hawkes & Co. was incorporated for the purpose of carrying on a general business in cutting and selling fine glassware. However, since 1880 the name of T. G. Hawkes has been known in local manufacturing circles, and during the period from that until the present, the product of the Hawkes factory have found their way into almost every civilized country where fine cut glass is appreciated and used. Previous to 1880 Mr. Hawkes was an employe of John Hoare, but in the year mentioned began business for himself in Corning, in a small way at first, but enlarging the capacity of his shops as demand for for his product has increased ; and in the short space of fifteen years he has built up a business that requires the employment of 245 workmen. As evidence of the superior excellence of his goods, we may state that at the Paris Exposition, in 1889, the Hawkes exhibit was awarded the grand prize in open competition against the entire world. Nearly all the articles comprising that exhibit were eagerly sought and taken by the nobility of Europe. Among the other substantial manufacturing industries of this pro- gressive city we may mention the Corning Brick and Terra Cotta Works, which, in its special product is a noted concern in the country. STEPHEN T. HAYT. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 273 and one of great importance in local circles, employing many persons in its various departments. The officers of the company are C. A. Rubright, president ; H, O. Dorman, vice-president ; C. W. Rubright, general manager, and Morris E. Gregory, secretary. The Southern Tier Mills are also worthy of special mention, and were built in 1868 by Hayt & Olcott, the firm being succeeded by Mr. Hayt in 1869. The buildings were burned in 1879, and immediately rebuilt, with brick, far more substantial than the old building, and equipped with modern machinery for the manufacture of flour. The present capacity of the mills is 200 barrels of flour per day. The Preston and Heermans foundry and machine shops were estab- lished in 1867. The Corning Iron Works were founded in 1889 t>y William E. Gor- ton and manufactures all kinds of cast iron work and railway specialties. The officers of the company are William E. Gorton, president, and E. D. Mills, secretary and treasurer. The company was incorporated in 1893 ; capital $100,000. The Corning Lumber Company is another substantial business enterprise of the city, officered as follows : Glode Requa, president ; George W. Foster, secretary ; W. H. Clark, treas- urer. The Corning Manufacturing Company are builders of the popu- lar "Victor Warm Air Furnace." The officers are E. P. Graves, presi- dent ; V. Haischer, secretary, and E. R. Stasch, superintendent. The Corning Stone Company, whose extensive works are southwest of the city, was organized many years ago. and is therefore one of the old in- dustries of the locality. They produce fine building and dimension stone. The officers are Jared Pratt, president ; E. C. English, secretary and treasurer. The Corning Stove Company manufactures the well known Garnet stoves and ranges, do a large business and employ many workmen. The officers are George W. Drake, president; L. D. Streeter, vice president; L. H. Drake, treasurer. The Hood Furnace and Supply Company, manufacturers of hot air furnaces, is another staple industry of the city. Its officers are C. S. Hood, president ; W. A. Adams, vice-president, and James C. Hood, secretary. In addition to the industries thus specially mentioned are many others of less magnitude, yet all combine to promote local growth. In mer- cantile pursuits all branches appear to be well represented, with compe- 39 274 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. tition in each line of trade sufficient to prevent monopoly. The stores, blocks, and public buildings of Corning surpass those of any other municipality in the county, and the number of commercial men who daily register at the principal hotels indicate a heavy volume of trade in retail as well as wholesale houses. Much of this prosperous condition is due to the energetic efforts of the Board of Trade, which comprises a number of the best and most liberal men of the city. The board is a large body in point of membership, and its object is to promote the growth and welfare of the city in every direction. The officers are Stephen T. Hayt, president; Quincy VV. Wellington, vice-president; William Walker, treasurer; John L. Lewis, secretary; and O. W. Wellington, Amory Houghton, jr., S. T. Hayt, George J. Magee, Austin Lathrop, T. S. Pritchard, George W. Pratt, George Hitchcock, John Hoare, Thomas G. Hawkes, William Walker, John Peart and Justin M. Smith, trustees. The city is well supplied with hotels, in fact appears to have more public houses than the demand requires. The traveling patronage is distributed among the three principal houses, the Dickinson, the St. James, and the Wellington, the first mentioned being the largest and best equipped. The history of Coming's banks, past and present, may be briefly stated. The old Bank of Corning, the pioneer of the financial institu- tions of the village and city, was organized and began business June lo, 1839, being then founded and supported chiefly by the Corning Com- pany. Its career covered a pej-iod of about twenty years, with varied successes and reverses, yet useful on the whole. It went into liquida- tion about 1856, and its currency was redeemed by stockholders, who also paid the depositors. Ne.xt came the George Washington Bank, organized under the State law by J. N. Hungerford and George W. Patterson, with $50,000 capital. This bank first began business in Concert block, and later on built and occupied the present P'irst National Bank. The life of the George Washington Bank was comparatively brief. Mr. Hungerford withdrew from the concern in 1859, and organ- ized what was known as the "J.N. Hungerford Bank," which he continued until his death. His e.\ecutor, Mr. Hadden, took the assets and un- dertook to pay the creditors, but his tragic death only served to further U44^yLf^ ^^2%^^^^^^ CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 275 complicate the affairs of the bank, and it finally passed out of existence in 1883, and was soon forgotten. The Corning Savings Bank was organized by Cole & Tliompson about 1856 or '57, and did business about five years. The banking house of Q. W. Wellington & Co., known throughout the entire State as an entire!)' safe and reliable jirivate bank, was organ- ized under the laws of New York, on the 1st of September, 1862, and issued currency until the arbitrary provisions of subsequent legislative enactments necessitated redemption and retirement of its bills. The members of the original firm were Quincy VV. Wellington and Samuel Russell, jr. After four years Mr. Russell withdrew, and Mr. Welling- ton operated the bank as sole owner until 1884 when his son, Benjamin W. Wellington, acquired an interest and became partner. However, the old firm stj'le of 0. W. Wellington & Co. has ever been the desig- nation of the bank's management, and its standing in financial circles is too well understood to require any comment in this chapter. Glancing over the last report of the condition of business in the bank, we notice a surplus of nearlj' $105,000 ; undivided profits, $38,000, and an aggre- gate of deposits, $690,000. Of a truth this bank needs no further com- ment at the hands of the present writer. The First Nantional Bank of Corning was organized in May, 1882, by the late Franklin N. Drake, assisted by Judge Bradley, C. C. B. Walker and others. However, Mr. Drake was the leading spirit of the enterprise, a large stockholder, and held the office of president from the organization until the time of his death, December 28, 1892. He was then succeeded by his son, James A. Drake, the present chief officer of the institution, and at the same time Judge Bradley was elected vice- president. The first board of directors comprised F. N. Drake, O. W. Bump, George B. Bradley, Kdwin C. Cook, James A. Drake and C. C. B. Walker. The original capital was $50,000, later on increased to $100,000, but subsequently reduced to the amount first mentioned. The first cashier was O. W. Bump, who was succeeded by James A. Drake, and on the election of the latter to the presidency, D. S. Drake was appointed in his place. This bank is an entirely safe, successful and well managed institution, enjoying the confidence of business men throughout the region. Its accumulated surplus amounts to $75,000. 276 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. The present directors are James A. Drake, George R. Bradley, D. S. Drake, C. M. Hyde, C. E. Drake and G. W. Bump. By an act of the State Legislature, passed July 19, 1853, the village of Corning was designated as the seat of justice for the second jury dis- trict of Steuben county. This was a fortunate event in the early history of the place and one which contributed much to local growth and im- portance. The court-house was built during the years 1853—4, at an expense of $14,000. It stands on a commanding elevation of land just outside the business center, and is a comfortable structure though now quite old and hardly in keeping with the beautiful dwelling properties in the vicinity. However, the supervisors of the county have authorized an appropriation of $10,000 for a new court-house in the district, to which the city will undoubtedly add a considerable amount for the same purpose. The First Presbyterian church of Corning, as now designated, was originally organized as the Presbyterian church of Painted Post, and lo- cated at Knoxville. The society was formed in iSio, but not until 1832 was a church home provided A second edifice was erected in Corning village in 1842, and in 1843 the name was changed to First Presbyterian church of Corning, and incorporated as such. The pres- ent substantial church edifice was built in 1867. A second Presbyte- rian church was organized in Corning in 1845, by withdrawing mem- bers from the mother society. The only pastor of the new church was Rev. Horatio Pettingill, D. D. The offshoot united with the parent church in 1849. The succession of pastors of this church has been as follows: Clement Hickman, 1812-16; Thomas Lounsbury, 1821-23; Mr. Gilbert, 1823-25; Reuben Sanborn, 1826-27; David Harrower, 1827-29; David Higgins, D.D.,1829-31 ; John Barton, 1832-35 ; John Smith, 1835-38; F. VV. Graves, 1838; Samuel M. Hopkins, D.D., 1840- 42; Joshua B. Graves, 1842-47; Job Pierson, 1847-49; A.L.Brooks, 1848-51 ; R. E.Wilson, 1851-55 ; Darwin Chichester, 1856-59; Will- iam A. Niles, D.D., 1858-72 ; Anson G. Chester, 1872-75 ; M. L. P. Hill, 1875-82; John S. Bacon, acting pastor from 1882 to 1893. Rev. Dr. Alfred J. Hutton, the present pastor, was installed in February, 1895. This church has 300 members. Its elders are Uriah D. Hood, Cyrus S. Hood, Charles E. Benedict, Edward Clisdell, and Francis A. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 277 Williams. The deacons are Rollin P. Perry. Noble Hill, and C. W. Ecker. Trustees, George B. Bradley, William W. Adams, John H. Lang, H. C. Heermans, David S. Drake, Alfred M. Gannon, Edward ClisdcU, F. D. Kingsbury, and H. P. Sinclaire, jr. Christ church, Episcopal, and its parish, in Corning, were organized April 2, 1 841, by Rev. Richard Smith. The Corning Company donated to the church a lot on West Market street, on which a chapel was built, and subsequently used until the erection of the stone edifice on the cor- ner of Walnut street and East avenue in 1854. However, the congre- gation and society at length outgrew the church home, and during the years 1893-94 the present beautiful church edifice was erected. This is without question one of the most elegant and complete church struc- tures in the southern tier, and was built at a total cost of about $75,000. The memorial windows are noticeable features of the interior, among them that privided by Mrs. Amory Houghton, jr., in memory of her father, Alanson Bigelow ; also that furnished by Marvin Olcott in mem- ory of his parents ; by William Bigelow in memory of his children ; by Charles F". and Mrs. Houghton in memory of their daughter ; together with three others in the chancel, furnished by the Chancel Guild. The rectors of Christ's church, in succession, have been as follows : Richard Smith, M. A. Nickerson, J. Field, James Eaton, G. M. Skinner, F. J. R. Lightbourn, N. Barrows, E. Z. Lewis, L. D. Ferguson, Lucius Sweet- land, William Montgomery, Joseph Hunter, E. S. Wilson, S. R. Fuller, Roy McGregor Converse, and Walter Coe Roberts, the latter the pres- ent rector, who came to the church in April, 1888. The communicat- ing members in Christ's church number 274. The wardens are John Hoare and Joseph J. Tully ; vestrymen, Q. W. Wellington, Aniory Houghton, jr , Charles F. Houghton, J. B. Maltby, Thomas G. Hawkes, R. H. Canfield, Austin Lathrop. E. A. Kreger. Methodism in Corning began as early as the years 1832, although not until 1 839 was the Corning circuit formed. The first house of wor- ship was built in 1839, the second in i860, and the third, the present large and beautiful church edifice, during the years 1893-94. It stands on the site of the old church, and cost $40,000. This church has more than 800 members, and is the oldest in Steuben county. The present pastor, Rev. Henry C. Woods, began his services here in 1891. 278 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. St. Mary's church, Roman Catliolic, of Corning, was the outgrowth of early missionary services conducted by Rev. Father Patrick Bradley about the year 1842. Seven years later a church edifice was built, but the larger church, the present edifice, was begun in 1866 and was in course of construction for several years before completion. In 1873 the bishop of the diocese purchased the old State Arsenal on the hill, which was converted into a convent for use of the Sisters in charge of the parochial school connected with St. Mary's parish. In December, i860, Father Peter Colgan, present priest in charge, was appointed to St. Mary's. The Baptist church of Corning was organized August 24, 1841, with twenty-four original members. The church edifice was erected in T849 and 1850, and dedicated May 8th of the year last mentioned. The church numbers 242 active members, and is under the present pastorate of Rev. P. W. Crannell. A Free-Will Baptist church was organized in Corning in 1865, but is not now in existence. Other and more recent organizations in the city are the Congregational, Free Methodist, and German Lutheran. The First Congregational church of the Fifth ward was formed as a society in September, 1889, with thirty-seven members, but now numbers about 200. Rev. Nathaniel E. Fuller has been the pastor since organ- ization. The Free Methodist church was organized in 1894 and built a house of worship during the same year. The German Lutheran So- ciety, also recently formed, purchased and now occupy the old church edifice of Christ church The pastor is Rev. W. Stern. Painted Post Lodge, No. 117, F. & A. M., was organized under dis- pensation from the Grand Lodge, in June, 1808, with John Knox, mas- ter. This lodge at one period in its history was known as No. 203, but in 1856 the number was changed to 117, which, it is understood, was the original designation. The membership numbers 196. The past masters have been as follows: John Knox, 1808-14; Joseph Gillett, 1815-17; John Knox, 1818-21 ; Henry Stearns, 1822; Laurin Mall- ory, 1823-25 ; Daniel E. Brown, 1826-31. No further record of the lodge is extant previous to 1846, and it is probable that there was a suspension of work during that period. The masters since 1846 were Samuel Boyer, 1846-48 ; B. P. Bailey, 1849-53 ; William A. Spencer, '^9t^-JAfnnRfiu0Jl W^r*/'"^ "^JiEitOT MSSyiEMKFCTi) lS»]iS^^%^ CJOILdlS.^^o CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 279 1854; J. B. Lower, 1855-57; J- H. Lansing, 1858-59; C. May Gam- man, 1860-61; John levers, 1862-65; F. E. Spaulding, 1866-67; C. II. Thomson, 1868-69; T. S. Pritchard, 1870-71 : H. A. Balcom, 1874 W.J. Bryan, 1875-76; J. J. TuUy, 1877-78; J. S. Earle, 1879-80 A. D. Robbins, 1881 ; C. E. Greenfield, 1882 ; James Hoare, 1883-84 A. J. Etheridge, 1885-86; W. F. Sheehan, 1887-88; A.J, Etheridge 1889; G. B. Hill, 1890; W. F. Sheenan, 1891 ; John Comosh, jr., 1892 E. B. Seymour, 1893-94; W.J. Cheney, 1895. Corning Chapter, No. 190, R. A. M., was chartered February 7, 1866, and now numbers about 125 members. The past high priests have been as follows: Charles H. Erwin. 1866; C. S. Cole, 1867-70; Ed- ward Clisdell, 1871 ; G. W. Fuller, 1872-74; J. H. Hitchcock, 1875-76; T. S. Pritchard, 1877-82; C.E.Greenfield, 1883; A. D. Robbins, 1884; J. S. Earle, 1885 ; W. A. Wicks, 1886; G. B. Hill, 1887; W. E. Van- derhof, 1888; W. F. Sheehan, 1889; T. S. Pritchard, 1890; James Hoare, 1891 ; T. S. Pritchard, 1892-93 ; John Comosh, jr., 1894-95. Corning Council, No. 53, Royal and Select Masters, was instituted June 5, 1 87 1. The Thrice Illustrious Masters have been as follows: H. A. Balcom, 1871-74; C. H. Thomson, 1875-77; A. D. Robbins, 1878-81 ; T. S. Pritchard, 1882-84; G. B. Hill, 1885-86; W.A. Wicks, 1887; J. S. Billington, 1888; C. V. Hutchins, 1889; John Comosh, jr., 1890; H. C. Austin, 1891 ; C. E. Greenfield, 1892; Hugh H. Ken- dall, 1893-95. The Masonic bodies of Corning also include four Scottish Rite organ- izations, to which we may also briefly refer in the following order: Corning Consistory, S. P. R. S., 32', instituted September 14, 1866. Post Commanders — Charles H. Thomson, 33"^, 1866-78; Frank D. Kingsbury, 32", 1879-81 ; George W. Fuller, 33°, 1882-84; Truman S. Pritchard, 32", 1885-87; A. D. Robbins, 32°, 1888-90; Charles E. Greenfield, 32°, 1891-93; Hugh H. Kendall, 33°, 1894-95. Corning Chapter, Rose Croix, A. A. S. Rite, was instituted Septem- ber 14, 1866. The past masters have been as follows : Austin Latlirop, 32°, 1866-67; Frank D. Kingsbury, 32", 1868-79; Charles H.Thom- son, 33"^, 1880-82 ; Daniel F. Brown, 32'=, 1883-85 ; George W. Fuller, 33°, 1886-89; Truman S. Pritchard, 32'', 1890 95. Corning Council, Princes of Jerusalem, A. A. S Rite, was instituted 280 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY September 14, 1866. The past M. E. Sov. P. G. M's. have been as fol- lows: George M. Smith, 32^, 1866-68; Robert J. Burnham, 32", 1869- 71 ; Frank D. Kingsbury, 32°, 1872-73; Daniel F. Brown, 32°, 1874- 82; Charles H. Thomson, 33°, 1883-85; Frank D. Kingsbury, 32^^, 1886-89; Hugh H. Kendall, 33°, 1890-94; George B. Hill, 33°, 1895. Corning Lodge of Perfection, A. A. S. Rite, was instituted Septem- ber 14, 1866. The past T. P. G. M's. have been as follows: Henry A. Balcom, 32°, 1866-79; Joseph H. Hitchcock, 32°, 1880-82 ; Ahaz D. Robbins, 32°, 1883-85; Daniel F. Brown, 32'', 1886-90; Joseph C. Moore, 33", 1891-94; Egbert Shoemaker, 32°, 1895. The City of Hornellsville — When pioneer Benjamin Crosby and his immediate followers came into the Upper Canisteo country they little thought the lands on which they settled would ever become the site of a prosperous village, and much less a thriving metropolitan city ; and it is equally doubtful if even those enterprising early settlers George Hornell, Dugald Cameron or Ira Davenport ever contemplated such a substantial growth and development as the locality enjoyed as the result of their first efforts. "Yeoman" Benjamin Crosby purchased from Solomon Bennett, " gentleman," great lot No. 8, for three hundied pounds, and George Hornell bought of John Stephens lot No. 7, for one hundred and eleven pounds, each tract containing 1,600 acres of land and lying, in part at least, within the present city limits. However, the earlier growth of this locality was by no means rapid, but rather by steady yet sure advances did the village succeed the hamlet and the city in turn supersede the village. The first beginning in this direction was made by Judge Hornell when he built the grist mill on the site of the now called Thacher mill, followed by the erection of the tavern which he maintained as a public house. \'et we are told that when Mr. Hornell came to the place there were about seven or eight dwellings on the village site. In 1809 the turnpike road from Ithaca to Olean was opened, thus giving an impetus to local growth ; and about the same time, possibly before, several flat boats and arks were built, laden with grain and other products of the region, and trans- ported to Baltimore and other available markets. This led to the con- struction of several warehouses along the river front in the hamlet. In 1815 Col Ira Davenport came to the settlement and opened store in a CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS 2S1 building constructed by him for that purpose, and he has been men- tioned as the first merchant of the town. Soon afterward, in iSi6, Dugald Cameron built a saw mill on the island, near the old stone quarry, just above the bridge, which locality, it is believed, became known as " Cameronia." The statement has also been made that a post-office was established here under that name with IVTr. Cameron as postmaster, but much doubt exists regarding the accuracy of the name. So near as can be determined at this time the first post-office was established here soon after the completion of the turnpike, under the name of " Canisteo," and was so continued until February, 1823, and then changed to " Hor- nellsville." In confirniation of this assertion, we quote from Judge Hul- burt's description of the place in 1812, in which he says: "The settle- ments are of recent date and still retain their first local names. At Hornell's Mills, on the Canisteo, is a ferry and a road of pretty exten- sive travel ; here is located the Canisteo post office." (See Spafiford's Gazetteer, ed. 1 8 1 3). In a later edition the same authority says : " There are two post offices, Hornellsville, as it will soon be called, but now Can- isteo post-office, and Ark Port post-office;" also "There is a small village at Ark Port of some fifteen or twenty houses, and another at Hornellsville of about the same number, a store, a grist mill and a saw mill." According to Deacon Thacher's reminiscences, the residents of the hamlet in 1823, were Amasa Thacher, Rufus or Bulrock Mason, Du- gald Cameron, Thomas Bennett (tavern keeper). Squire Livermore, Truman Bostwick (who kept a stage house), Ira Davenport (merchant), Andrew L. Smith (tanner), William B. Bostwick, and the Hornell prop- erty — the tavern and grist mill. At that time there were eleven houses, including the mill, on the village site. The Cameron mill was located farther north, about half a mile. Mr. Adsit's recollections are no less interesting, and he remembers the village when it contained only twenty- six houses. The first brick building was erected by Colonel Davenport in 1828, followed soon afterward by others. Mr. Adsit built a large brick building in 1841. The period of greatest growth and prosperity in the early history of the village was that between 1820 and 184O, although it is impossible to recall the one thousand and one events that contributed to local ad- 36 282 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. vancement during that time. The town authorities at this period showed a commendable zeal in helping to build up the village, and in 1832 purchased from Major Thomas Bennett two and three-fourths acres of land on the south side of Main street, for the purpose of a public square. In 1834 the town voted $iOO to improve the square, and in 1836 William Bostwick was paid $1 1 for digging the stumps out of the same tract. This was the origin and inception of Hornellsville's present beautiful park, the most attractive spot, perhaps, within the city limits. The later improvements, the pagoda, the fountain, and tasteful arrangements of walks, together with other adornments, are due to the generosity of local government and the liberality and public spiritedness of the citizens. The most fortunate event in all the history of Hornellsville, and that which has contributed most largely to both early and more recent pros- perity, was the construction of the Erie railroad, with its attendant shops and business departments. Rumors that a railroad was in con- templation became current in this locality soon after 1830, and within the next year or two the surveyors appeared in the valley, though the people here were in much anxiety lest the road should be actually built through the Conhocton rather than the Canisteo valley ; and it was not until the coming of the famous old " pile driver " that the inhabitants of Hornellsville were fully assured that the line through this valley had been accepted by the company. The preliminary surveys were made in 1832, and in 1833 the company was organized. The work of con- struction was begun in this vicinity in 1841, but not until the first day of September, 1850, did the first locomotive appear in the village. The line of road then built was what is now locally termed the Sala- manca or Western division of the N. Y. L. E. & W. railroad. The At- tica and Hornellsville railroad, now known as the " Buffalo road," was incorporated May 14, 1845. Other companies were allowed to pur- chase its stock, and in April, 185 i, the name was changed to Buffalo and New York City railroad. Still later, through various transfers and processes of law, this line, with the western branch, became merged in the present Erie system. The Attica and Hornellsville road was built in 1852. It was not the mere building of a railroad through the village that CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 283 contributed so much to itsearly welfare, although that consummation was an important factor in advancing local interests ; but the greatest bene- fit was derived through the establishment of a division terminus at the place and the erection of shops for purposes of construction and repairs to railroad equipment. There is now paid out montlily in Hornellsville by the Erie company an aggregate of about $60,000, three-fourths of which remains in the city ; and there are generally employed here in one capacity or another from 800 to 1,000 men, while the terminal fea- ture iiiatcriall}- makes this place the temporary home of perhaps 200 more men. Incidentally we maj- mention the fact tiiat construction of the first railroad through the village was due largely to the persevering efforts of Judge Hawley, Rufus Tuttle, Martin Adsit, T. J. Reynolds, John K. Hale, T. J. Magee, Walter G. Rose, Charles N. Hart, and others asso- ciated with them in promoting local interests. Within the last half score of years the city has been given the advantage of still another line of railroad, from which the merchants and manufacturers of the locality are the greatest beneficiaries. We refer to the construction and opera- tion of the road built b)- the Rochester, Hornellsville and Lackawanna Company, now known, however, as the Central New York and West- ern. This road proper runs from this city to Hornellsville Junction, thence over the line of another company to Wayland, where it connects with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, thus affording direct connection with Rochester on the west, as well as important points east. The road was built and completed during the fall of 1887, and was brought about through the unselfish efforts of Judge Hakes, Benton McConnell, George N. Orcutt, Irving W. Near and Charles Adsit. Returning again to the subject of early history, the fact may be noted that in 1832 the Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal churches were organized, each of which, together with all other religious societies are more fully mentioned on later pages of this chapter. In 1833 the " little red school house " was built and stood near the site of the Tribune building. The Park School property was secured by the district in 1844, and soon afterward a school was opened there. This subject, however, will be fully treated in a later portion of this chapter. Soon after the completion of the railroad the inhabitants began to 284 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY discuss the subject of incorporation. In this matter Dr. John H. Lillie was a leading spirit, and as he found a local population of 1,814, when a short time before there were only 700, it was evident that the people were entitled to advance from the hamlet to the village character. James B. Finch made the necessary surveys, and on the 28th day of June, 1852, the "Village of Hornellsville " became a body corporate and politic, through the order of the court of sessions of Steuben county. The first election of officers was held on August 30 following, at which time John H. Lillie, Thomas Snell, J. T. Wilbur, Richard Durbin and William R. McCormick were chosen trustees. The board elected Dr. Lillie president, and Horace Bemis, clerk, together with all other officers authorized by law. " The first board of trustees," says Mr. Tuttle's article, " was enter- prising and progressive. It legislated for a turbulent element and had to build everything ' from the stump.' Sidewalks were the first enter- prise undertaken, and on September 27, a special election was held, which voted to build walks on Main, Canisteo, Genesee, Cass, Taylor and Albion streets." However, in the course of the next fifteen years following the first in- corporation, the growth in population and the advancement of all local business interests demanded that broader powers be accorded the munici- pal government. Therefore, recourse was had to the Legislature, and on the 9th day of April, 1867, an act was passed, entitled '"An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the village of Hornells- ville." This charter fi.xed the village boundaries as they had previously ex- isted under the former government, and divided the territory into five wards. The officers provided under the act were a president, a trustee from each ward, police justice, three assessors, a collector, clerk, treas- urer, superintendent of streets and not more than three policemen ; the clerk, superintendent of streets and policemen to be appointed by the board, and all other officers elected by the people. Under this charter government the affairs of the village were con- ducted for a period of about twenty years, when, in accordance with an express demand, the Legislature in 1888 passed an actincorporating E. F. WILLETS. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 285 the " City of Hornellsville," thus advancing our once little hamlet to a municipality of the highest grade. Subsequent amendments have been made to the city charter, providing for contingencies and improvements not contemplated in the original act. At the first city election held in 1888, these officers were chosen: IWayor, James B. Day ; aldermen, Patrick Broderick, Robert Carberry, George H. Dove, Edward F. Houser, E. H. Lanphear, Thomas C. McCarthy, Charles F. McGuire, Thomas Ryan, T. J. O. Thacher, Edward Tolan, Charles D. Walters, and Otto Walther ; city clerk, Harris C. Sawyer ; recorder, Wm. C. Bingham ; chamberlain, VVm. K. Smith ; overseer of poor, Aaron Ross ; commissioners of excise, Eda N. Alden, Frank Tanner and Wm. 11. Reynolds ; sealer, Nicholas Schu. Mayor Day was re-elected in 1890, and was succeeded in 1892 by Edward F. Willets, the latter being also re-elected in 1894. The city officers for the year 1895 are as follows: Edward F. Willets, mayor; Henry L. Nash, city clerk; Winfield S. Newman, recorder ; E. L. Dolson, city attorney ; M. V. Sherwood, chamberlain ; J. W. Shelley, overseer of the poor; J. M. Harding, street commissioner; aldermen, T. H. Coleman, E. Y. Butler, First ward,'; E. H. Lanphear, G. A. Waldorf, Second ward ; E. Powers, John McDougall, Third ward ; John Haire, E. H. Nelson, Fourth ward ; W. E. Curtiss, G. A. Prentiss, Fifth ward ; Charles Conderman, Frank A. Jones, Sixth ward ; supervisors, George B. Elwell, Alfred E. Bovven and Charles J. Clark ; justices of the peace, Frank Kelly, Lewis H. Clark and Frank J. Nelson ; assessors, David Wellever, Wm. B. Van Dusen, Hiram H. Carney. The Police Commission was established under the charter and is one of the efficient departments of government. The present commissioners are Morris Smith, president; and G. 11. Dore, Matthew Dewey and D. E. Fleming. Chief of police, Michael Hickey ; captain, Edward B. Shepard. The city Fire Department was first organized on September 25, 1852, under the village government. Charles Mcllvaney was chief en- gineer, E. J. Richardson and Charles Strawn, assistants. From this primitive organization the present department has grown and developed, and at this time is better equipped and trained than ever before in its 286 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. history. This branch of city government was placed on secure basis by the act of incorporation, passed April 29, 1875. The present de- partment consists of Maple City, Emerald, Prindle, and Erie Hose companies, each well housed and equipped ; also Babcock Hook and Ladder Company, who operate the " truck," and one good Silsby steamer. The latter, however, is not frequently called into service, as the excellent water supply system of the city affords all needed pressure for both fire and domestic purposes. The officers of the fire depart- ment are Frank L. Howard, chief engineer; John j. Baker, first assist- ant ; and Henry Lundrigan, second assistant; F. A. Jones, secretary. The Sewer commission was created by special act of the Legislature, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a complete system of sewers for the city. The commissioners are J. B. Kennelly, president ; G. P. Rishel, secretary ; and F. G Babcock, VV. A. Stephens, S. E. Brown and F. T. McConnell. The Park commission was also constituted by special act of the legislature, and the electors voted for the park scheme on May 6, 1 89 1. The first commissioners, F. G. Babcock, F. D. Sherwood, Patrick Enright, R. K. Faulkner, Benton McConnell, and Charles Adsit, purchased the Jones Driving Park property, some twenty-one acres, and subsequently added to its area by other purchases. This property is located on Seneca street, and is leased to the Farmers' Club. The present park commissioners are C. Cadogan, president ; J. VV. Nichol- son, secretary ; E. S. Brown, P. Enright, M. E. Page and J. O. Adsit. The city excise commissioners, provided by statute, are W. H. Pran- gen, president ; H. R. Wagner, secretary, and P. Houck, treasurer. The City Hall was built in 1877, on Broad street, and here all the business of the municipality is transacted. Hornellsville is bonded to the extent of $162,500, of which $100,000 is for sewers, $12,500 for pavements, and $50,000 for the park. The first pavement was laid in 1893- St. James Mercy Hospital receives annually from the city excise funds the sum of one thousand dollars. This mention naturally leads us to refer at some length to this most praiseworthy institution, its origi- nator and founder, and the persons connected with its management. The Rev. Father James M. Early was appointed to the pastorate of • CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 287 St. Ann's church and parish in November, 1879, and from that time until his death was one of the most earnest and unselfish Christian workers in this field. Soon after his pastorate began Father Karly often expressed a desire to establish a hospital in HornellsviJle, and in his will made generous provision for that purpose. However, during the month of February, 1890, through the assistance of F. G. Babcock, Father Early purchased the once known Van Scoter property, on Can- isteo street, souti), for which he paid $5,000 cash. The necessary im- provements and modifications were at once made to the building, and soon afterward tiie property was deeded to a board of trustees, consti- tuted and incorporated for that purpose, under the name of trustees of St. James' Mercy Hospital. According to the provision made by the founder, the board shall be composed of, ex officio, the bishop of this diocese of the Roman Catholic church, the rector of St. Ann's parish, two Sisters of Mercy, and the mayor of the city ; also four citizens of Hornellsville. The first trustees were designated by Father I'^arly, and comprised the iw officio members and Harlo Hakes, Joseph Cameron, James M. Welsh, and Dr. J. G. Kelly. The trustees organized on March 3, 1890, and elected Judge Hakes, president; Sister Dolores, vice-president ; Joseph Cameron, secretary, and Mr. W'elsh, treasurer. These officers, except tlie vice president, have been continued in their respective positions to the present time. The first matron was Sister Mary Catherine ; the present matron is Sister Angela. The good work accomplished by this institution, the outgrowth of tli-j generosity and philanthropy of Father Early, needs no recital here. The rich and poor alike receive the same kind treatment and attention at the hands of the devoted sisters who have direct control of the hos- pital. The institution is supported by popular contribution and the city fund referred to. The annual expense of maintenance amounts to about $3,000. The staff of medical attendants has been organized through the efforts of Dr. Kelly, and comprises the physicians of the city. Another of the important and interesting departments of municipal government is the educational system, at present perfected to a degree that places it in favorable comparison with that of any city in the State, and far in advance of many of them. We are told that the first 288 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. school of the then hamlet was opened through the efforts of Judge Hornell about iSio, and that Sarah Thacher was its first teacher. The building stood near the corner of Main and Arkport streets. The next school was that of district No. 7, predecessor to the Central school, and was maintained in a log house on lower Canisteo street. The first building erected for school purposes was also a log struc- ture, and stood at the lower end of Main street. Here at one time George Hornell, jr., taught. The third school stood near the "Canisteo block," and among its early teachers were Rev. Samuel \\ hite, James Osborne, Mr. Case, Mary Morris, Pamelia Stephens, Deacon Thacher, and later John S. Livermore, Dr. Thomas, Orange McCay and others. In 1833 the " little red school " was built on the Tribune building site, and was burned in the great fire of 1868. The early pedagogues here were Washington Cruger, Samuel Porter, H. V. R. Lord, Samuel Street, Hiram Bennett and others of later date. In 1844 the district purchased the Park school site, and tlie first school house built there was also used for town hall and theatrical per- formances. But notwithstanding its various uses here were taught youths and misses who are now our best business men and most cul- tured women. Recalling a few of the many names possible of mention, let us note Judge Solon O., T. Dwight, Safford M. and T. Scott Thacher ; also Col. Frank B, Doty, Martin and Levi Doty, Emmett and Charles Reynolds, Maxwell Cameron, Scott Belden, Matthew Hale, Russell M. Tuttle, the Prindle boys, and the Bennetts, Stephenses, Caldwells, Mor- rises, Browns, Popples, Hawleys and a host of others. The first teacher here was Rev. O. B. Clark who opened his school in February, 1845. The old building was modified, enlarged, and in fact replaced, but to- day the site is occupied with one of the most modern, convenient and attractive school buildings in the southern tier. It is known as the Park School, and bears the year mark " 1886." The present educational system was adopted in 1872, and the aft'airs and management of schools is vested in a Board of ICducation, authorized to levy and raise a tax sufficient for all purposes of main- tenance, additions, repairs and equipments, independent of any other branch of city government. The plan of naming each school was adopted in 1888. The city now has five public schools, viz.: The Park II CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 289 School, built 1886, having 213 pupils; the Lincoln School, on Canisteo street, attendance, 400 ; the Columbian School, built 1893, cost $20,000, located on I'earl street, 319 pupils; the Irving School, formerlj' First ward school, 265 pupils ; the Hryant School, formerly Sixth ward, 249 pupils. The present Board of liducation is comprised of J. E. B. Santee, president; Stephen Hollands, J. W. Nicholson, F. C. Prindle and Cass Richardson. The secretary of the board is Joseph Cameron. Members of the board are elected from the city at large, and hold office for a term of five years The city schools are under the superintendence of W. R. Prentiss, appointed in 1887 as successor to Robert Simpson. In this connection we may also properly mention some of the past and present private schools which have been opened in the village and city; among which were those of Rachel Bennett, Hannah Wilbur, Harriet Waldo, Mrs. Van Court. Mrs. Schuyler, Helen Thacher. In August, 1862, Mrs. B. A. McNall (Belva Lockwood) organized a young ladies' school in the M. E. church. She lived here several years and had a good school. Mary Dwight also had a good private school, and as well had Professor Ford. Dr. Jamison taught penmanship in the Park school. St. Ann's Union Academic School, parochial in its general character, and attached to and sustained by the parish of St. Ann's church, was founded during the pastorate of Father M. Creedon, which began Oc- tober 1 r, 1863. This is a large school, numbering 435 pupils, and is under the State regenc)'. The teachers are selected from the Sisters of Mercy, nine of whom devote themselves wholly to the work of educa- tion. The only other educational institutions of the city are the Busi- ness Colleges, of which there are two, both well conducted and afford- ing excellent opportunities in their special branches. The ecclesiastical history of Hornellsville, town and city, is alike rich, interesting and instructive, and although the local churches are men- tioned in another department of this work, they are of sufficient im- portance to tills chapter to demand more than a passing allusion to them in this place, even at the hazard of repetition. Gleaning information from all sources, we learn that as early as 1799 religious services were held at the house of Judge Hornell by Robert 37 290 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Logan, a Presbyterian, and that about the same time Rev. Jolin Diirbin, Methodist, preached in a log house in Main street. From tiiis time forth occasional services were lieKl in the little settlement by ministers of different denominations, but not until about the year 1830 does there appear to have been made any successful effort at church organization ; and as the Methodists and Presbyterians were originally in the mission- ary field about the same time, so, also, their society organizations were at about the same date, the former slightly in advance. The present Park Methodist ICpiscopal church had its inccptinn in the little primitive meetings held during the early years of the century, and a society came into existence in the year 1S30. The members met in dwellings and school houses until strong enough to erect a church home. This was accomplished in 1832-33. The second edifice was built in 1864-5 (cost $9,500), and the present structure in 1878-9. From first to last the church has ever increased, steadily and surely, and now it has a membership of 700, with 171 probationers. During the history of the mother society, two other churches have been formed in the city, each drawing a portion of its original membership from the Park organization. The pastors of the church have been Revs. Asa Story, 1830; \V. D. Gage, 1835; Robert Parker, Nelson Hoag, 1837; Ira Bronson, Nelson Hoag, 1838; Samuel Church, 1839; D. B. Lawton, 1840; V. Brownell, 1841 ; Philo Tower, 1842; W. E. Prindar, 1843 ; Sheldon Doolittle, 1844; W. E. Prindar, 1846; John Knapp, John Spink, 1847-48; Carlos Gould, 1849; S. B. Rooney, 1850; James Wilson, 1851; A. S. Baker, 1852; James Ashworth, 1853; N. A. De Puy, 1854; H. N. Seaver, 1856; W. C. Huntington, 1857; "j. I^- Jacques, 1859; J. Walters, J. B. Knott, 1861 ; E. P. Huntington, 1862; C. M. Gardner! 1863-66; C. P. Hart, 1S67; Thomas Stacy, 1868; W. C. Mattison, 1870; E. Wildman, 1872; C. C. Wilburn, 1873; K. P. Jervis, 1S74; L. A. Stevens, 1877; C.W.Winchester, 1878-80; S.W. Lloyd, 1881-83; J. E.Williams, 1884-86; E. H. Lattimer, 1887-89; Ward D. Piatt, 1S90-92 ; L. A. Stevens, 1883; Ward B. Picard, 1894. The trustees of this church are William O'Connor, Charles W. Kress, Joseph L. Schaumburg, F. G. Schutl, S. M. Townsend, James H. Stevens, George Hollands, John D. Mitchell. Superintendent of Sun- day school, L. B. Crandall. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 291 The East Avenue Methodist Episcopal church society was organized and the edifice built during tiie year 1885, and though but ten years old is an entirely progressive body, liaving 190 full members, and 33 probationers The pastors have been Revs. F. S. Roland and F. H. Van Kuren, the latter now officiating. The South Side M. E. church was organized about the 1st of Janu- ary, 1895, by certain withdrawing members from the Park churcii ; not, however, with the approval of the mother society. The new organiza- tion has a small though neat edifice at the corner of Canisteo and Van Scoter streets. The members number about fifty persons, and are under the pastoral charge of Rev. George S. Spencer. The First Presbyterian church of Hornellsville was organized by Revs. Moses Ordway and Moses Hunter, on July 10, 1832. The original members were twelve persons who presented letters of dismis- sal from other churches, and sixteen received on confession of faith. The first trustees were James McHurney, Ira Davenport, Samuel Mul- lioUen, Truman Hostwick, Philander Hartshorn and Otis Thachcr. After the church and society were organized attention was at once given to providing a church home. For this purpose Dugald Cameron donated two lots on Main street, each 4x8 rods in size, and here the edifice was built, at a cost of $3,000. The original building was 39x40 feet, with side and end galleries. The several subsequent enlargements to the building were made in 1862, 1871, 1875 and 1877, the latter being the lecture room addition. The manse was purchased during the pas- torate of Dr. Pettengill, and stood on Main street. Tiiis property was sold in 1862, and in the spring of 1873 the society purchased the prop- erty now occupied by the pastor. This churcli is among the strongest religious organizations of the city, both in influence for good and in membership. The members on the roll now number 472, and in the Sunday school are 267 attendants, and 32 teachers. The ministers, supplies and pastors, in succession, have been as follows: Moses Ordway, July 10, 1832; George P. King, Sep- tember, 1832 ; Moses Hunter, March, 1834; vacant from March, 1835, to October, 1837 ; Henj. Russell, October, 1837; Samuel W. May, sup- ply, 1839 ; John W. Hopkins, first pastor, 1839-41 ; Charles H. Smythe, 1841-42; Elias S. Peck, 1842-43; Thos. M. Hodgman, 1843-45; 292 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Foster Lilly, 1845-48 ; Horatio Pettengill, second pastor, June 10, 1 849-September, 1857; F. W. Graves, 1857-58; Ira O. De Long, 1859-60; Milton Waldo, 1 861-71 ; W. A. Niks, April, 1872-April 7, 1884 ; Edward M. Deems, installed May 10, 1890, the present pastor. Elders, Nathan Piatt, T. Scott Thacher, Geo. W. Seymour, C. H. Hub- bard, Alex. Davidson, Geo. H. Miller, Wm. A. Tracey and C. H. Glady. Superintendent of Sunday school, Alex. Davidson. The Hartshorn Presbyterian church was organized February 26, 1891, and was the outgrowth of the mission Sunday school and chapel founded in 1883 through the generosity of Charles Hartshorn. About two months before his death Mr. Hartshorn deeded the chapel property to his wife, who, in turn, conveyed it, without consideration, to the trustees of the newly organized society. The present members number about sixty- five, and in the Sunday school are eighty attendents. The pastors have been Revs. William Veenscoten, George F. D'anforth and Andrew Brown, the latter now officiating. St. Ann's church, Roman Catholic, was organized as a parish and a church home provided in 1849, under the pastoral charge of Father Michael O'Brien. However, masses were said in this region as earl)- as 1843, by Father Benedict Bayer, followed in 1844 by Father McAvoy, the latter continuing his missionary labors in this field until 1849. Next came Father O'Brien, under whom the little chapel on Cass street was built, and the churcii placed upon a substantial footing in the village. Then, following through the successive pas- torates of Father McCabe, Daniel Moore, Joseph McKenna, Terrance Keenan, and James McGlew, under each of whom the church constantly increased in members, we reach the year 1863, during which four priests were in the parish. Fathers John Lawton, W. A. Gregg, R. J. Story and M. Creedon. The latter came in jDctober of that year, and during his earnest labors here the first portion of the large edifice on Erie avenue was erected and St Ann's Academic school was founded. He died in 1870, and was followed bj' Father Wm. J. McNab. Francis Clark came in 1873, and was in turn succeeded, in November, 1879, by Rev. James M. Early, who, during his pastorate, enlarged the church and also founded St. James Mercy Hospital. Father Early died in February, 1890, and was succeeded by James O'Loughlin, and the CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 293 latter by Rev. Arthur Barlow, who came to the parish June lo, 1893. The parish of St. Ann's contains about 700 families, or a total of 3,500 persons. The earliest missionary work of the Protestant Episcopal church in this field began about the year 1850, when Rev. Asa Griswold read services to the few adherents of the church then living in the locality. Tiiese informal services were continued for a year or two. the Metho- dist edifice being occupied for a time, and later the old Washington Hall which burned about 1859. On the 6th of March, 1854, a meeting was held for the organization of the parish of Christ's church, and the election of wardens and vestrymen. At this meeting were present Martin Adsit,John M. Wisenell, Truman Warner, Nirom M.Crane, John Jamison, Aaron Morris, Wm. H. Chandler, Chas. Strawn, Peter C. Ward, Thomas Snell, Russell Pardee, George Huckett, Charles L. Prindle and Charles K. W. Baldwin. On the 20th of March following, the church was duly incorporated under the name of " Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Christ's Church in the town of Hornellsville, County of Steuben." The first officers were Rev. James A. Robinson, rector; Aaron Morris and Charles L. Prindle, wardens ; and Peter C. Ward, Martin Adsit, William H. Chandler, Charles Strawn, George Huckett, T. Jefterson Magee, Thomas Snell and Nirom M. Crane, vestrymen. The corner stone of the church edifice was laid in Ma)-, i860, and the church was consecrated by Bi.shop De Lancey, on April 10, 1862. The first service in the new church was on Christmas day, i860. The old edifice still stands and is kept in such excellent repair that to day it is one of the most attractive structures of its kind in the city. Rev Llojd Windsor became rector January i, 1859. and died in the performance of his duty during service, on June 30, 1889. His rectorate therefore covered a period of more than thirty years. In another department of this work will be found a biographical sketch of the life of this beloved rector and esteemed friend, but here we may sa\' that his memory is preserved in the beautiful memorial window in the diancel. The present rector, Rev. Edwin S. Hoffman, came to the city in March, 1890. In the parish are about 160 families, and the communicating members number 262. The church raises annually between four and five thousand dollars. The present wardens are Martin Adsit and 294 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTT. Judge Harlo Hakes. The vestrymen are Dr. J. S. Jamison, Don L. Sharp, John K Chapman. C. B. Windsor. L. W. Rockwell and Henry E. Gilpin. The parish societies are the Woman's Missionary Auxiliary, Ladies' Guild, The Unity, St. Agnes' Guild, Daughters of the King, and the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. The First Baptist church of Hornellsville was organized October 17, 1852, with fifteen constituent members. For seven years the society held its meetings in Union Hall, and it was not until the pastorate of Henry A. Rose (1856-59) that the brick edifice on Church street was built. The church now numbers 430 members. The present trustees are J. W. Nicholson, W. E. Tuttle, Alfred E. Brown, Herbert M. Hor- ton, S. D. Pitts, E. M. Le Munyan. Deacons, S. D. Pitts, O. S. Palmer, Aaron Brown and M. Tuttle. The pastors, in succession, have been Thomas S. Sheardown, 1852; William Luke, 1854-55; Henry A. Rose, 1856-59; John B. Pittman, 1859-61 ; Jacob Gray, 1861-63; A. G Bowles, 1863; Isaac C. Seeley, 1864-67; Joel Hendrick, 1867-72; D. Van Alstine, 1872-79, followed by T. J. Whittaker, A. Coit, Jesse A. Hungate, and Will C. Gates in the order named. Mr. Gates came to the pastorate about November i, 1894. The South Side Baptist church was established as a mission of the mother church in the year 1884, but was granted a separate organiza- tion and pastor on September 18, 1893. At that time the members numbered seventy-six; in 1895 the membership is 155, while the Sun- day school has 153 pupils. The first pastor was Elder G. W. Grimm, succeeded in May, 1894, by Rev. George H. Thompson. The deacons are Isaac Thomas, Jacob Hodge, Frank Towner and A. C. Boyce. The Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's church was organized in 1885, and the edifice erected in 1 886, and in its membership numbers about fifty families. In the Sunday school are ninety pupils. The parsonage was built in 1893. The church was organized by Mr. Miller, and under the pastorate of Carl Graf the house of worship was built. The later pastors have been Revs. Edward Schuelke, A. Brown, and M. O. Poole. Among the other religious societies which in the past have had an existence in the city, may be mentioned the First Universalist church, organized May 23, 1868, by Rev. A. G. Clark ; also we may recall the \ il CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 29.'> Jewish congregation, Ahaval-Achini, organized in June, 1876, by Rabbi Israel Erlicli. and which passed out of existence about 1892. The Seventh Day Baptist believers formed a society in the village, April II, 1877, but this, too, is among the things of the past. In 1849, "hen Martin Adsit was engaged in mercantile pursuits, he began in a small way to do a banking business in the rear of his store. This was the first attempt in this direction and met with such approval in business circles that it rapidly grew into importance. Mr. Adsit con- tinued this branch until 1 863 and then organized the First National Bank. In the meantime Samuel Hallett opened a private bank in the village, which in March, 1856, developed into the Bank of Hornellsville, an incorporated concern with $100,000 capital, and authorized to issue currency. This bank did business several years, under the management of Mr. Hallett and Frank McDowell, and finally went into liquidation. The First National Bank of Hornellsville was organized in November, 1863, by Martin Adsit, Ira Davenport, and others, with a capital of $50,000, authorized to issue $200,000 of stock. Business began May I, 1864, at the corner of Main and Canisteo streets, and was subse- quently moved to the present building on Main street. The first offi- cers were Ira Davenport, president, and Martin Adsit, cashier. After two years Mr. Adsit succeeded to the presidency, and Charles Adsit was elected cashier. Tiiese respective offices they have continued to fill. The present capital of the bank is $100,000; surplus, $20,000. The officers are Martin Adsit and Charles Adsit, president and cashier, and Ira Davenport, vice-president; also Martin Adsit, Ira Davenport, E. J. Adsit, S. G. Adsit, Charles Adsit and F. A. Bull, directors. After the afifairs of the old Bank of Hornellsville were wound up. the firm of N. M. Crane & Co. began banking in the same building, and continued through a long period of years. Nirom Crane was the active man of the concern, and S. H. Crane was for a time its cashier. The firm failed July 31, 1893. The present Bank of Hornellsville was organized and opened its doors for business on h'ebruary i, 1875. Its capital is $50,000; surplus, $20,000. The officers are F". G. Babcock, president; W. E. Pittenger, cashier ; C. C. Babcock, assistant cashier ; F. G. Babcock, C. C. Bab- cock and Mrs. Elizabeth Babcock, directors. This institution is organ- ized under the laws of this State. 296 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY The Citizens' National Bank was organized and began business in 1 88 1, with a capital of $125,000, which, however, was subsequently reduced to $100,000. The first president was John Santee, followed by Charles Hartshorn, and the latter succeeded (October 17, 1887) by Charles Cadogan The surplus and undivided profits of the Citizens' liank aggregate $25,000. The present officers are Charles Cadogan, president; J. K. B. Santee, cashier; Charles Cadogan, George N. Or- cutt, C. H. Hartshorn, John M. Finch, J. B. Woodbury, D, K. Belknap, C. F. Strack, F. D. Sherwood, George D. Terry and J. E. B. Santee, directors. Tradition (we have no positive record) informs us that Judge Hornell was the first postmaster at this place; that the office was established soon after the opening of the old stage road in 1809, and that the name of the office previous to 1823 was Canisteo. In the year mentioned it was changed to Hornellsville. So near as local authorities can determine the postmasters in succession have been as follows : George Hornell, Ira Davenport Dr. Manning Kelly, John R. Morris, John K. Hale, Maj. Thomas J.Reynolds, Martin Adsit, Andy L Smith, Dr. Luman A. Ward, E. G. Durfey, J. W. Shelly, S. M.Thacher, Fran- cisco M. Cronkrite, William H. Greenhow, George L. Tubbs and Will- iam H. Murray. The Hornell Library, in which every patriotic person in the city feels a just pride, was the outgrowth of a series of lecture courses inaugur- ated for public edification and entertainment about the year 1866. The profits of a third course were saved and the young men having the matter in charge determined to establish a library in the village. These managers became also managers of the library association formed in 1868, and were Miles W. Hawley, I, W. Near, Dr. E. J. Johnson, Stephen F. Gilbert, S. M. Thacher, N. P. T. Finch, J. W. Shelley; Charles Adsit, president ; John M. Finch, vice-president, and N. M. Crane, treasurer. Horace Bemis secured the passage of an act author- izing the trustees to have the excise moneys of the village, amounting to about $1,500. This sum. however, was afterward reduced to $500. The association now receives annually about $1,500. On March 3, 1888, the Jewett Club building on Canisteo street was [)urchased at a cost of $8,000. The library nou cojitains 10,000 ^\ \ CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 297 volumes. The free circulation system was adopted in 1889. The present officers are De M. Page, president ; Dr. C. S. Parkhill, vice- president ; James M. Welsh, secretary and treasurer. Managers, J. \V. Burnliam, Cass Richardson, C. W, Etz, \Z. D. L. Robertson, William H. Van Dusen, J. E. B. Santee, Dr. C. G. Hubbard, R. M. Tuttle. Librarian, Miss Isabella A. Charles, assisted b)' Miss Mary A. Windsor. The Steubrti Sanitarium Association, although not a public institu- tion of the city, is nevertheless noteworthy as one of the factors in municipal and individual welfare. The building, situate in the north part of the city, is located on a commanding elevation, and is provided with every essential requisite to health and comfort. In November, 1894, the Sanitarium passed under the care of Dr. J. E. Walker, as superintendent. Soon after he with others purchased the establishment, and have made it one of the most successful medical and surgical insti- tutions in the country. It has among its consulting stafifsonie of the highest talent in Western New York. The most complicated medical and surgical cases are given all the advantages known to science. The Forty- seventh Separate Company, N. G. S. N. Y., was organized September 30, 1 89 1. The first officers were Avery McDougall, cap- tain ; T. G. Babcock, jr.. first lieutenant, and Wm. S. Charles, second lieutenant. The company numbers seventy-five men, well uniformed and equipped and thoroughly drilled. In April, 1893, the State appro- priated $32,000 for the erection of an armory in the city, and added $12,000 a \ear later. The county also contributed $12,000 to the building. The armory, one of the largest and most attractive public buildings in the county, was begun October 19, 1894, and was com- pleted during the summer of 1895. The Hornellsville Co-operative J.oan and Savings Association was incorporated and organized in 1888, and is under the supervision of the State banking department. As a purely local concern it is worthy of notice, and as an investment is far preferable to man\' of the outside companies which promise greater returns. The Hornellsville Water Company is a local improvement concern, though owned by foreign capital. The water system of the city as 298 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY is exceptionally good, the supply abundant, and results satisfactory. The works were constructed in 1882, water being taken from springs (through a large reservoir) in the town of Fremont, six miles from the city, and elevated at least 250 feet above city base level. The Hornell Gas Company have about six miles of street mains in the city. Its capital stock is $40,000 The officers are Mrs. Jane A. McDougall, president; John McDougall, secretary, and F. G. Babcock, jr., treasurer. The American Illuminating Company was organized in 1886; capi- tal, $78,000. Officers: J. M. Finch, president; J. E. H. Santee, treas- urer ; L. T. Mason, secretary and manager. The manufacturing and mercantile interests of this city are measur- ably proportionate to its population and other adjuncts of the munici- pality. The statement has frequently been made that in manufactures Hornellsville is somewhat behind other similar cities, yet in the light of years of travel and observation, tlie writer is inclined to the belief that this city compares favorably with others of its population throughout the region, and, coupled with the vast railroad interests found here, ever in operation, stands in advance of many in the southern tier Among the important industries of the day may be mentioned the McConnell Company, whose extensive wood working establishment employs 200 workmen. This was the outgrowth of an older business started many years ago by Morris Smith, and purchased' b)' Asa McConnell and Ben- ton McConnell in 1868. After several changes in proprietorship the company was incorporated, and now, under the name abrtve noted is the largest manufacturing enterprise of the city and one of the largest and best of its kind in the country. Benton McConnell is president ; Floyd T. McConnell, general manager; Claude Hallett, secretary-, and Claude Jones, treasurer. J. M. Deutsch & Co. are manufacturers of furnituie, and in connec- tion with their works is also the Woodward F"ence Wire Co., which to- gether form an extensive plant and furnish employment to forty or fifty men. Mr. Deutsch began business here in 1866 as one of the firm of Deutsch & Tschachtli, and in 1871 occupied the Barclay factory build- ing of still older date. The O'Connor tannery was established in 1865 by William O'Connor, CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 299 and since that time has been in successsul operation, and now employs about fifty men. The firm now consists of Mr. O'Connor and his son, George \V. O'Connor. The well known Thacher Mills on Main street occupy the site where Judge Hornell started his primitive mill previous to 1800. The present mill was built by the late Judge Thacher and is now owned by J. T. O. Thaclier, though leased by G. VV. Morris. William Richardson's large boot and shoe factory is also one of the old industries of the place and was established in 1871. Here nearly 175 employees are furnished with work. The Hollow Cable Manufacturing Co. began operations in 1873, and from that to the present time have been recognized as one of the leadmg business houses of the city. The company was organized in 1888 with Othaniel Preston, sr., as president, Henry C. Preston, treasurer, and Othaniel Preston, jr., secretary. Since the death of O. Preston, sr., (March 27, 1893) the business has been conducted by the sons men- tioned. They employ about twenty-five men. The St. Julian Gear Co. was established in 1880, by Charles O. Rose for the manufacture of wagons and carriages. Here about thirty men are employed. A. T. Prindle & Son is a firm of tanners and the outgrowth of a business founded in this city in 1861 by A. T. & M. Prindle. The present firm employs about thirty men. In the same connection we may also note the Underwear Manufac- turing Co., commonly known as the White Goods factory, at the corner of Canisteo and Loder streets, which was established July i, 1888. At full capacity this factory employs one hundred hands, chiefly women and girls. The members of the firm are F, D. Sherwood, George D. Terry and W. F. Sherwood. The firm succeeded the company in 1891. The Rockland Silk Mills were started in 1887 by Edwin S. Brown who came to Hornells\ille from Paterson, N. J. The present factory was built in 1894. Here are employed in all departments 1 10 persons, two-thirds of whom are young women. The product of these mills is " organzine " and " tram," or warp and filling. In 1889 John O. Adsit established m the city a large general machine shop and foundry. This he conducted till about January i, 1895, when 300 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Daniel H. Rogers succeeded. Here are employed about twenty work- men. The Truss and Cable Fence Wire Co. was established in 1889, for the manufacture of fence wire, the patent of Dr. Lee Rishel. In the works are now employed about twelve men. The present proprietors are Charles O. Rose and George P. Rishel. The Merrill Fabric Glove Company, for the manufacture of silk gloves and mitts, was established during the winter of 1890-91, and is among the leading industries of the city. Employment is furnished here for about one hundred men. The Preston Brick Company was organized in i8,0O by Othaniel Pres- ton and his sons for the manufacture of brick from the shale rock found in this vicinity. This firm furnishes employment to twenty-five men. It is estimated that the city of Hornellsville has a total of about 250 merchants and persons otherwise interested in such mercantile "pursuits as are incident to every well ordered municipality ; and while every branch of trade is well represented, neither public or private interests appear to have suffered through over-competition. In mercantile cir- cles the business men of this city are honorably regarded. Statistics prove that at least ninety per cent, of merchants fail at some time during their busines career, and while such disasters are not unknown in Horn- ellsville, it may be said that the general average of failures have not been increased by the experiences of local merchants. The city possesses the necessary elements of prosperity in almost every direction. It has a fine opera house, and several large halls for public assemblages. In the matter of hotels, too, the city is fortunate, having at least three public houses that are regarded as first class. These are the Osborne House, named for its original founder, though burned and rebuilt in 1874. It was the property of VV. C. Brainerd, of Buffalo. The Page House, owned by Esek Page and sons, was built about 1 87 1 or '72, on the site of the still older Hornellsville Hotel. The name Page House was adopted in 1887. The Sherwood House was formerly the Schu House, though now greatly enlarged and im- proved. It is owned by F. D. Sherwood and George N. Orcutt. The street railroad system of the city is worthy of special mention. The now known Hornellsville Electric Railroad was begun in May, CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 301 1892, and the city branch was in operation on August 5th following, with five motor cars. The Canisteo division was begun on October 23, 1892, and finished on December 30th thereafter. The equipment now consists of eight motors and five trailers. Power is furni.shed by the American Illuminating Company. The railroad company employs twenty- five men. Evening Star Lodge, No. 44, F. & A. M., was chartered June 11, 1816, although the history of the Masonic fraternity in this city ante- dates that time. Informal meetings were held and as early as January, 1 8 14, and there may have been some work done here under dispensa- tion. So near as can be ascertained the first officers were Andrew Simpson, W. M.; Timothy Perry, S. W., and John Stephens, J. W. Among the other earl)- members were James Jones, Nathaniel Thacher and William Mulhollen, while visiting brethren were Andrew Morris, Uriah Stephens, William Hyde, Samuel O. Thacher, Elias Perry, Sam- uel Lenox and Samuel Darby. The lodge, it appears, was originally an institution of Canisteo proper, and first came to Upper Canisteo in 18 17. Notwithstanding its vicissitudes, which have also been a part of the record of all pioneer Masonic societies, this lodge has been an endur- ing institution, its aggregate enrollment numbering several hundred members. The present number is about 125. The past masters have been H. E. Huvinger, \V. L. Collins, G. H. Dore, W. W. Howell, J Mounce, W. H. Sims, A. M. Lewis, C. E Evans, jr., H. D. Leach, John Mc- Dougall. Present officers, H. T. Harris, W. M., I. S. Lanning, S. W., W. U. Rixford, J. W., H. H. Carney, treasurer, W. H. Sims, secretary, O. S. Palmer, chaplain, Joseph Mounce, S. D., Gee Becker, J. D., M. Hill, S. M. C, G. B. Daley, J. M. C, F. Donahue, tiler. Hornellsville Lodge, No. 331, F. and A. M., was chartered June 24, 1854, and throughout the period of its history has enjoyed a constant and healthfiil growth. It has now nearly 225 members. The past masters have been E. G. Gilbert, H. P. Johnson, Robert Laughlin, J. I. Bentley, P. C. Hufstader, L. S. Boardman, George W. Griswold, S. Os- soski, P. M. Nast, jr., Don L. Sharp, F. A. Jones, William S. Charles, Avery McDougall. The officers for 1895 are: Joseph Schaul, W. M.; Samuel Erlich, S. W.; O. E. Elwell. J. W.; S. Ossoski, Treasurer; Don L. Sharp, Secretary ; L. W. Rockwell, S. D.; William H. Prangen, 302 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY J. W.; O. W. Pratt, S. M. C; G. I. Blackmer, J. I. C; W. E. Waldorf, Organist ; F. Donahue, Tiler. Steuben Chapter, No. loi, R. A. M., was chartered February 23, 1825, and has since had an active organization in the city. Its members now number 141 Masons. The past high priests are : Morrison Harding, H. E. Buvinger, H. P. Johnson, G. W. Griswold, L. S. Board- man, H. O. Fay. D. L. Sharp, P. C. Hufstader, P. M. Nast, jr., S. Os- soski, W. H. Sims, F. A. Jones and S. Lang. The present officers are : W. H. Prangen, H. P.; C. E. Evans, jr., K ; John McDougall. S.; John I. Bentley, Treasurer; O. W. Pratt, Secretary; W. H. Van Dusen, Chaplain. Hornellsville Council, No. 35, R. and S. M., was chartered February I, 1870. The present membership is 72. The officers are W. H. Sims, T. 111. M ; O. E. Ellwell, Dep. T. 111. M.; I. S. Lanning, P. C. of Work; W. E Waldorf, Recorder; W. H. Prangen, Treasurer; J. S. Norton, Captain of Guard ; J. I. Bentley, Con. of Council; W. H. Van Dusen, Chaplain. De Molay Commandery, No. 22, K. T., is another of the higher Masonic organizations of the city, and in membership is one of the strongest, the number now being 150. The past eminent commanders have been H. E. Buvinger. A. H. Bunnell, W. L. Collins, H D. Leach, G. W. Griswold, W. H. Prangen, J. I. Bentley, .S. F. Smith, F. H. Robinson, George T. Rehn, Louis S. Boardman, The present officers are: F. A. Jones, E. C; W. H. Sims, Gen'l'o ; Avery McDougall, Capt. Gen.; J. I. Bentley, Ex-Prelate; G. A. Waldorf, Treasurer; W. E. Waldorf, Recorder; F. A. Jones, Trustee. The other Masonic organizations having an abiding place in the city are Hornell Consistory, No. 40, S. P. R. S., 33^, attached to which are Rose Croix Chapter, 17-18^; the Council of Princes of Jerusalem, 15-16°, and Lodge of Perfection, 4-14°. The Masonic Hall Associa- tion was incorporated in 1869, and is designed to care for the property and interests of the order in general in the city. Odd Fellowship in the city is well represented in four substantial organizations, being Oasis Lodge, No. 251, Steuben County Lodge, No. 331, Canacadea Encampment, No. 117, I. O. O F., and Canton Loyal, No. 153, P. M. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 303 The principal officers of Oasis Lodge are : VV. J. Haliett, N. G.; Alfred Webb, V. G.; W. W. White, permanent secretary. This lodge lias 150 member. Steuben County Lodge has a membership of 190, and is officered as follows : N. G., R. H. Foster ; V. G.. A. L. Shannon ; recording sec- retary, A. L. Harrisim ; permanent secretary, W. A. Tracy ; treasurer, F. J. Hutchinson. Canacadea Fncampnient has about eii^hty members, and is governed by these officers: C P., F. J. Abbott ; 11. P., A. M. Webb ; S. W., A. Seal; J. W., G. F. Avery; scribe, R. H. F'oster ; permanent scribe, H. S. Pettibone ; treasurer, G. G. Wafer. Canton Loyal, P. M. No. 43, has thirty five members. Its present officers are: Captain, \V. H, Owm ; lieutenant, G. G. Walzer; en- sign, W. I"". Simms ; clerk, R. H. Foster ; accountant, J M. Peterson. CHAPTER XVIIL CITIES. VILLAGES AXU HAMLETS. The Village ok Addison. — In the south part of the town of Addison, at the confluence of Tuscarora Creek with the Canisteo. is an enterprising and constantly growing incorjjorated village of about 2,200 population, named after the town in which it is located. It has been said that Addison stands in much the same relation to Corning as Can- isteo bears to I lornellsville. In truth there may be some force in this remark, for Canisteo and Addison have long been regarded as sister villages, settled originally by the same sturdy stock, and whose de- scendants appear to have been imbued with similar traits and like worthy purposes. Both villages have the advantages of the Erie Rail- road ; both have the Canisteo River, and while the western village has Bennett's Creek, Addison has the Tuscarora. Still, beyond the fact that every friendliness exists between the inbabitants of these villages, there is nothing in common between them. William H. Jones was one of the pioneers of the town, also of the vil- 304 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY lage, and kept one of the early hotels north of the river, on the " Pumpelly Lot," as conimonly known. Solomon Curtis laid out a part of the village lots on this side, and William W'ombaugh was another conspicuous factor in early history, though his lands lay south of the river. The latter was a man of means as well as enterprise. He built saw and grist mills, a log distillery, carding machine, and otherwise con- tributed largely to early village history. Yet, for several years the few mills and many public houses were about the only visible evidences of village settlement. However, Addison was a hamlet of much impor- tance in the region, and so great was the volume of business that a post- office was established here as early as 1804. Lumbering was for many years the leading industry, hence here was the rendezvous for buyers and dealers, while raftsmen were counted by hundreds. There were John Loop, Shumway& Glover, Wilcox, Birdsall & Wetherby, all lum- bermen and merchants, and all in active business as early as 1830. Later on came John and Peter P. Loop, Caleb Wetherby and Reed A. Will- iams, who were partners in business and large operators. These were followed by Thompson & French, who built a store at the corner of Wall and Railroad streets. This firm sold out to William R. Smith and Eli Fitch Later business men and merchants were Ransom Rathbone, S L. and Joel D. Gillett, A. Cone, C. E. Gillett, George Wells. E. L. and E. R. Paine, George Graham, N. W Mallory, Thomas and Benja- min Phillips, Merriam & Haynes, Dr. Bradley Blakeslee, Ezra J. Brewer, Hiram Sleeper, and others, whose names are now lost, but all of whom were active figures in town and village life and by their efforts contributed not a little to early local prosperity. These men laid the foundation for the village and a later generation of inhabitants completed the municipal superstructure, a,nd to day the joint efforts of both builders are rewarded in one of the most cosmo- politan villages of Steuben county; and it is no idle or fulsome compli- ment to say of Addison that it is now regarded as tlu: best village of the county, interest for interest and resource for resource. In 1854 the population and business interests of the village were so large and of such a character that it became necessary to partially sep- arate it from the town at large ; local improvements were necessary and the town, not being directly interested, was not willing to bear any CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 305 part of the expense. Tlierefore tlie people of tlie hamlet availed them- selves of the general laws relating to village incorporations, and in Jan- uary, 1854. by an order of the Court of Sessions, Addison became a body politic and corporate, authorized to elect officers, inaugurate local improvements and levy and collect taxes to meet the expenses thereof. At the first election of officers the trustees chosen were Frederick R. Wagner, Bradley Blakeslee, Parley Guinni[), Stephen Lewis, White and Thomas Paxton. At the first meeting of the trustees Dr. Wagner was elected president, and I. V. L. Meigs, clerk. This limited municipal government was found sufficient for temporary purposes, but as the village grew in population and business importance, broader powers and more thorough government became necessary, and the result was a special act of the Legislature, passed April 12, 1873, granting a charter to the " Village of Addison," including within its boundaries specified territory, and dividing the latter into two wards. The Canisteo was the dividing line The first officers under the char- ter were J. V. Graham, president; John W. Clark, clerk; Chaun- cey D. Hill, treasurer; Sanford Elmor, collector; Daniel D. Hickey and E. S. Mead, trustees of First ward, and Lorin Aldrich and James D. Goodley, trustees of Second ward. In this connection it is also proper to note the names of the officers of the village for the year 1895, v'^- George Crane president ; George J. Ameigh, George Wetherby, George Allison and S. M. La Grange, trustees; E. E. Burdick, clerk; George J. Truell, treasurer. According to the present disposition of business Addison is well provided with mercantile and manufacturing interests, with good churches, five in number, exceptionally excellent schools, two sound banking houses, and all other institutions which contribute to municipal welfare. There are also two good and representative newspapers, the Advertiser, a Republican paper, founded in 1858, and the Record, established in 1880, and the exponent of Democratic doctrines, general and local. The present fire department comprises Phoenix and Wells Hose Companies, and Baldwin Hook and Ladder Company, all well equipped with good apparatus, and liberail)' supported by the village and people. The Addison Water Works Company was established in 1889, the 39 306 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. water supply being taken from a reservoir elevated above the village level. It is a private enterprise and owned b)- foreign capital. In the montli of December, 1847, twelve prominent men of Addison formed an association for the purpose of founding and building an acad- emy. They purchased a four-acre tract of land north of the village, on which, in 1848, the building was erected. The promoters of this worthy enterprise were Henry Wombaugh, Rufus Baldwin, Joel D. Gillett, Elihu Wittenliall, Erastus Brooks, Orange Se)mour, William H. Gray, Bradley Blakeslee, William Bradlej-, James Baldwin, William R Smith, and Arthur Erwin. The original academy was in all respects a worthy institution and was well supported, but the building was destroyed by an unfortunate fire in October, 1856. Subsequently another association of citizens established a private academic school, and the latter con- tinued in fairly successful operation until the organization of Union Free School District No. i, in the year 1878. The first Board of Edu- cation comprised Jesse K. Strock, John F. Turner, George Farniiam, John W. Dininny, James M. Wood, John Mitchell, David Darrin, Henry S. Jones and William A. Smith. In connection with this school was an academic department, and upon a substantial and generously supported basis it has ever since been maintained. At the public expense an excellent school building was erected in 18S8, and the Grammar School on Tuscarora street in i 889. The present Board of Education is comprised of William T. Moran, president ; Fred C. Tabor, W. O. Feenaughty, William A. Storey, Dr. George Crane, Daniel D. Hickey, Arthur P. Hill, H. W. Sanford, sec- retary, and S. V. Lattimer, treasurer. The financial institutions of the village are the Addison Bank and the Baldwin Bank. The former was established by incorporation, May 17, 1856, with a capital of $50,000, and with William R. Smith and Charles H. Henderson as active owners and managers, the former president and the latter cashier. The corporation was dissolved about 1861, and fram that time the bank has been conducted as a private enterprise. The bank building was erected in 1873. The Baldwin Bank began busi- ness in January, 1874, under the ownership of James Baldwin and Charles D. Williams, wiiich proprietors were succeeded in April, 1880, by Henry Baldwin and Mrs. Sarah Weatherby. This bank is now HENRY BALDWIN. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 307 operated by James Baldwin, and, like its cotemporary in the village is a safe financial institution The churches of Addison are also worthy of at least a mention in this chapter although a more detailed history of each will be found else- where in this work. Those at present existing are Protestant and Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, Hajitist and Roman Catholic, each holding regular services, well organized and instruments of good in the community. All branches of mercantile business appear to be well represented, but lack of space prevents us from an individual mention of each mer- chant. However, it is pardonable that the manufacturers should be specially noted, for Addison enjoys the pleasant notoriety of having several industries of importance. In this connection we may mention the sash, door and blind factory, lumber yard and general wood-work- ing establishment of Park, Winton & True ; the large foundry and ma- chine works of E. S. Chatfield ; the "A. & P." machine shops; John Schmitt's brewery ; the Owen planing mill, and the extensive roller flouring mill of Curtis & Paxton. F". H. Wheaton owns the electric light plant, furnishes light for the streets and buildings, and also operates the pump house. The principal hotels of the village are the "Ameri- can " and the " Wyckofif." Addison Hili, is a small settlement in the southwest part of Tus- carora, containing a post-office, a (ew dwellings, a store and a black- smith shop. The local storekeeper and postmaster is Fayette V. Howser ; the blacksmith, William Crowell. The Village of Arkport. — This pretty and busy little hamlet of about 400 population is located in the extreme northern part of the town of Hornellsville, in the vicinity where Chistopher Hurlbut made his first settlement, and from which point the famous ark was sent down the Canisteo in 1800, laden with grain. Judge Hurlbut was the founder of the place, the builder of the first mill and hotel, and also proprie- tor of the ark. Although this village has never attained either popula- tion or business interests sufficient to justify incorporation, it is never- theless a place of some importance in the county, and as a shipping point for agricultural products it is quite noted. It is a station on the Buffalo division of the Erie, and also on the Central New York and 308 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Western Railroad. Since the construction of the road last mentioned the business interests have materially increased. Arkport has two churches, Presbyterian and Methodist Protestant, and an excellent school. In 1894 the village, with some adjacent ter- ritory, was formed into a Union Free School district, superseding the old system formerly in operation. The members of the Board of Educa- tion are L. C. Healy, president, and N. O. Wheeler, Hiram Ellis, A. A. Sewell, Henry Colgrove, and Charles Lawrence. The school building is of brick and frame, substantially built, and is regarded as one of the best rural schools of the county. Three teachers are employed. The industries of Arkport comprise the large planing mill, the feed and grist mill, the Stephens wagon factory. The business men are Taylor Brothers, general store; Daniel Curry, store; M. Weber, gun store ; Willis Ellis, grocer ; Hiram Ellis, hardware ; Healy & Daven- port, produce dealers and feed mill ; Colgrove & Son, produce dealers ; William M. Hurlbut, lumber dealer ; A. M. Eiband, large planing mill; Stephens' wagon factory; James F. Deeters, harness shop; Ira Haga- dorn, wagon shop; Marshall Emery, jeweler ; H. L.Gillette, druggist; Calvin Hawkins, proprietor of Hawkins House, and J. D. Taylor, post- master. Atlanta. — Thirty-five years ago a writer of local history said: "Blood's, a hamlet, is a station on the railroad, one mile from North Cohocton. It is named from Calvin Blood. This is rendered an im- portant station on the railroad from its connection with the Canandai- gua Lake route. A daily line of stages runs to Naples, at the head of the lake, and a steamer plies daily between the latter place and Canan- daigua." A still later writer describes Blood's Station as a thriving little hamlet on the railway and point of departure for the stage route to Naples and Canandaigua ; and further says a post-office was estab- lished at Blood's, April 21, 1871, through the instrumentality of Asa Adams, who was the first postmaster. From this we may correctly infer that the residents of this locality were compelled to repair to the north hamlet for their mail previous to 1 871, when the post-office was located at Blood's. However, long before this the hamlet was one of the recognized centers of the town, and one of importance in various directions. But from these elements there has grown a thriving village. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 309 and in the course of time, in fact at a quite recent date, the old name of " Blood's" or " Blood's Station," was discontinued and in its stead the more euphonious designation of " Atlanta " was adopted. The railroad, and the diverging stage route to Naples, gave Atlanta an importance forty years ago, and from that time to the present there has been no retrograde movement, and to-day the hamlet stands prominent among the several villages of the town. However, a disaster came to local interests during the month of September, 1895. ^nd by it several large buildings were burned to the ground. The principal sufterers from this fire were John Dunn, H. W. Hatch, L. D. Hodgman, L. R. Partridge, Henry Clark, and T. J. Cornish. The business interests of Atlanta at the present time are represented substantially as follows: D. C. Borden, T. J. Cornish, and J. C. Whit- more, grocers; J. Radish, drugs; W. E. Waite, hardware; Wheaton & Wells, meat market ; G. Kesler and Frank Davy, blacksmith.s ; John Spencer and Byron Hayes, feed mills; F. Parks, clothing; John Lang- don and John Dunn, hotel keepers. The Free Methodist church of the town is located in this village, and in the matter of schools there is an association with North Cohocton in a union free school and district. The school house is located between the villages, convenient to both. The Village of Avoca. — It is extremely doubtful v.hether pioneer Buchanan ever contemplated the possibility of an attractive and flour- ishing village near the point where he located in 1794 and opened a public house. Still this worthy frontiersman lived to see a post settle- ment where Avoca now stands, though the locality was then commonly known as "Buchanan's," also as " Eight Mile Tree." It was the begin- ning made by the pioneer that led to the founding of the settlement and subsequent village, and the store opened by George and Alon/.o Simons made the latter a fi.xed fact. Yet the Simons Brothers' stock of goods comprised only a small quantity, the whole amount being brought to the place on two pack horses. In 1818 the settlement had attained sufficient importance to justify a school, hence one was started at that time, and about nine years later the Methodists built a small meeting house in the hamlet. However, the name Avoca was not given the village until the latter 310 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. was well founded, and was adopted, it is said, at the request of a young lady of the settlement, she at the time being on her death- bed. Among the hamlets of the valley this was for many years one of minor impor- tance; a convenient stopping place on the stage route, a post-office point of some little note, but previous to the construction and operation of the Buffalo, Corning and New York Railroad in 1852, Avoca enjoyed none of its present prominence. But even railway companies are capa- ble of ungenerous actions, and exorbitimt freight charges sometimes have a tendency to delay municipal growth. Such was the case with Avoca for many years, but a competing line, as the D., L. & W. Rail- road proved to be, relieved the abuses of the past and gave additional impetus to all local enterprises. Manufactures were established, busi- ness interests were enlarged and increased, and even the farmer reaped a full share of the profits created by this new thoroughfare of travel and transportation. In 1883 the village was incorporated and its first officers at once made provision for such conveniences and protection as villages require. The ordinances provided for streets regularly laid out, for sidewalks, lights, and also the health of the inhabitants. A good supply of pure and wholesome water was obtained from a reservoir located about two miles northwest of the village, and with this assured increased fire protection was a natural consequence. Thus suitably provided witli all the ele- ments of municipal convenience, and with a location in the most beau- tiful part of Cohocton valley, the observer is both pleased and sur- prised at the attractions and business thrift which seem to prevail on every hand. To-day Avoca has a population of about one thousand inhabitants, and is well supplied with business and manufacturing enter- prises. Of the milling interests we may note the Avoca Milling Com- pany, and the firm of Billings, Beals & Company, flour manufacturers, the saw mill of M. A. Hoadley, and the cigar factory of W. N. Clutchey. The mercantile interests are represented as follows: Smith & Hoad- ley, C. W. Marlatt, and W. R. Sutton, general merchants ; J. M. Willis, grocer ; Robert Gay, grocer and baker ; D. S. Jolly, restauranter ; W. H. Fultz and J. Hall, clothiers ; J. B. and M. A. Sturdevant, hardware dealers; J. W. Griswold and Frank Gilmore, jewelers; Baldwin & Mattice, furniture dealers; E. D. Hess, druggist; A. White, photog- CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 311 raplier ; Charles Cropsey, druggist; J. Towner and Gallup & Abbej-, meat dealers; B. Palmer, shoe shop; A. L. Richards, D. Roberts, wagon makers; G. O. Noxon, broom maker; Milo Sharp and Henry Zignfuss, harnessmakers ; W. C. Loucks, L. S. Veeder and J. C. Hovey, hotel keepers. In the same connection may be mentioned the Avoca Advance, an enterprising weekly iiewsijapcr, established about 1878. and since March, 1S88, owned and published by George G. Silsbec. The officers of the village for the year 1895, are as follows: J. B. Sturtevant, president ; Walter H. Wood, J. Hall and Oscar C. Billings, trustees ; William R. Sutton, treasurer ; J. H. Shaffer, collector. The Board of Water Commissioners comprises J. Hall, president ; Walter H. Wood, secietary; Oscar C. Billings, treasurer, and J. B Sturtevant, commissioner. The public institutions of the village comprise the graded school, also the ]5aptist. Evangelical Lutheran, and Methodist Episcopal churches. The history of Avoca religious societies will be found in a later cha[)ter of this volume. Bradfoud Village. — This little hamlet is located in liie northeast part of the town of the same name, and while it has never attracted any special attention as a business center, it is nevertheless a convenient trading point and sufficient for the needs of the inhabitants of the sur- rounding country, h'rederick Bartles was the first settler in the village, the builder of the first mills, and proprietor of the first store. As at present constituted the business interests comprise three or four good stores, and also the hotel, mills, shops and other lesser industries inci- dent to rural villages. Here also are three churches and a good school. The churches are the Baptist, Methodist and Protestant Episcopal, each of which is mentioned elsewhere in this work. BUENA Vista. — Buena Vista is a pleasantly situated hamlet located in tlie south part of the town of Howard, and was established as a post- office and trading center for the convenience of the inhabitants. Its business interests are few, comprising the general store of F. W. Spencer and the blacksmith shop of W. E Drake. Here is located the Wesleyan Methodist church. Burns. — Ikirns is the name of a small hamlet and station on the line of the l{ric and also the C. N. Y. & W. railroads, to the construction of 312 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY which it owes its greatest importance. The merchant of this place is P S. Jones, who also holds the office of postmaster. Cameron Village. — During the early history of the town, the vil- lage was the center of trade and population, and here for many years there assembled the worthies of the vicinity and the numerous lumber- men who operated in the region. In the town chapter we have re- ferred to the primitive industries which led to the founding of a village settlement, and also to its subsequent growth and final decline in im- portance. The first store was kept by Andrew Erwin, an Irishman, and Martin Rumsey was another early merchant at the Corners, as then known. Still later business men were Ebenezer Van Tuyl, John Cherry, S. M. Rogers, Herman Swift, Morgan & McKay, Peter Chase, Swarth- out & Pierson, and others. The village is built on a narrow strip of land in the Canisteo valley, and is surrounded by high hills. A main street runs through the ham- let, parallel with the river, and along this the buildings and principal residences are built. The present mercantile interests are the stores of J. D. Wheeler, Mrs. William Hallett, and F. L. Hawley. The later industries of this immediate vicinity are the Cameron f5our, feed and custom mills and the Boyd saw and feed mills. The Adamson saw mill is located three miles north. Cameron Mills. — The original designation of this hamlet was " Hubbardville," and so named from Daniel Hubbard who came from Broome county half a century or more ago and built the first flour mill in the town. He also opened a store for the accommodation of his customers, and naturally a post-office was established there. This part of tile town was in Cameron, and as the milling interests were impor- tant, the name of Cameron Mills was adopted. Furthermore another post-office by the name of " Hubbardsville" was in existence in Madi- son county. The present Cameron mills are owned and operated by J. T. Beck- with. The merchants here are Crawford Bros., and Watson Northrup. Dr. J. W. Blades has a drug store. Postmaster, James Crawford. The public institutions are the district school and Methodist Episcopal church. A Catholic chapel was built here several j'ears ago. It is at- tended from Addison by Father Noonan. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS 313 Campbell Village. — This little hamlet is located near the center of the town of the same name, and was brought into existence by the earliest settlers, who built mills on the Conliocton River. The first grist mill was built by Gen. John Knox and Archie Campbell in l8i2, and stood across the raceway from the present Beniis mill. In 1846 a com- bined saw and grist mil! was built by Marcus Wheelock for Andrew Langdon. In 1855 the business interests of Campbelltown. for the vil- lage was once so called, comprised three saw mills, one flouring mill and two tanneries. At tiiat time there were about twenty dwellings and one church in the hamlet proper. The present industries are the saw mills of John P. Clark and Floyd Fuller; the grist mill owned by the Bemis estate, established in i860 ; and the hay-press and hay and grain business carried on by R. P. Myhers, the latter established in 18S5. The merchants of the village are Bowlby & Piatt, A. B. White, J. L. Van Kirk, George C. F. Sharp, John M. Clawson, George N. H. Piatt, Mrs. E. B. Williams. H. B. Willard, John Worden (barber), John Eggabroat. postmaster, Emmet B. Ross. The Bank of Campbell began business in July, 1877, with George R. Sutherland, president, and VV. S. Clark, cashier. The Village of Canisteo. — In the general division of the lands of township 3, range 5, Col. Arthur Erwin drew lot number one, but soon afterward exchanged lots with Solomon Bennett, the latter being the first settler at the place afterward called Bennettsville. Lot No. i covered substantially the present village site, but previous to the white occupancy here stood the Delaware Indian town which had been dig- nified by some writers with the name of "Kanestio Castle." This an- cient village is said to have contained about sixty hewed log houses, with stone chimneys in each, and to have been the home or seat of operations of a noted "Delaware King," known as At-weet-sera. The place was destroyed in 1765 by direction of Sir William Johnson. The honor of having been the pioneer on the village site may be ac- corded to Colonel Erwin or Solomon Bennett, probably the latter, as he opened the first store and kept the first hotel. The first blacksmith was Nicholas Doughty, a well educated German and worthy citizen. How- ever early may have been the founding of the village, it did not attain a standing of any importance among the municipalities of the county 40 314 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. previous to the year 1850, at which time the Erie Railroad was put in operation. This gave impulse to the growth of the place, but not until the year 1868 did it become a manufacturing center, when Lawrence Allison built the,large boot and shoe factory, furnishing employment to nearly one hundred persons. This was followed by another similar fac- tory, a planing mill, sash, door and blind factory, bent wood works and a chair factory; and within the next five years the manufactured pro- duct was worth $i,ooo,000 a year. In 1868 the village proper had but 350 inhabitants; ten years later the population reached 2,000. The Canisteo Academy was one of the most praiseworthy institutions ever founded in the village, and one which has endured and enjoyed a successful existence to the present day. It was built by popular sub- scription to the capital stock, at an entire cost of $17,500. The insti- tution was chartered March 15, 1868, and its first Board of Trustees^ who were also in fact its founders, were Lewis F. Laine, Henry Hamil- ton, Commodore P. Chamberlain, Nathaniel C. Taylor, George Riddell, John H. Consalus, Joshua C. Stephens, Edward P. Bartlett, Mortimer Allison, Lucius A. Waldo, John Davis and Richard Allison. The build- ing is of brick, three stories high and beautifully situated on an eminence overlooking the village. It was finished and opened in September, 1871. The present attendance at the academy averages about 125 pupils annually, the patronage being drawn from the county at large and even beyond its borders. The present trustees and officers are: Lucius A. Waldo, president; F. H. Robinson, vice-president; W. E.Stephens, secretary; George L. Davis, treasurer, and Herman E. Buck, Oran Lathrop, A. N Burrell, N. S. Baker, William H. Ordway, William G. Porter, Charles Mead, William P. Bailey, O. O. Laine, S. P. Marsh, Ira W. Hall, Enos Smith, Mortimer Allison and J. E. Shaut. The academy has an endowment fund of $2,000. As years passed and the population and business interests of the village increased, there was created a demand for improvements and expenditures in which the town at large were but little interested, and for which the outside taxpayers were not disposed to contiibutc. To provide the necessary revenues the village residents determined to pro- cure an order of incorporation under the laws of the State, therefore. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 315 in 1873, the Court of Sessions made an order incorporating the Village of Canisteo. Thus our interesting little place threw off the hamlet and adopted the municipal character. The first village election was held May 16, 1873, at which time these officers were chosen : Lucius A. Waldo, president; Mortimer Allison, L. P. Weed, Smith Eason, trustees ; Daniel Upton, collector; William H. Mead, treasurer. William E. Stephens was the first clerk ; Hiram J. Colgrove, police constable ; Hiram C. Whitwood, street commis- sioner. One of the first duties ol the trustees was to provide sidewalks through the principal streets, which being done, a system of lighting was adopted and a fire department organized, the latter the nucleus of the present efficient body. The present department comprises Canisteo Hook and Ladder Co., No. i, Waldo Hose Co., No. 1, Drake Hose Co., No. 2, Weed Hose Co, No. 3, and a company of fireprotectives. How- ever, the steamer seems to have lost its usefulness since the construction of the water supply system, hence its company disbanded, and the "Truck" was purchased in its stead. The steamer, a good La France engine, is held in reserve for any emergenc)'. The fire department building was erected in 1880. The Canisteo Water Works system and company is another of the worthy institutions of the village, and another evidence of local thrift and progress! veness. The works were constructed in 1887, at a cost of about $45,000 Water is obtained from a reservoir on one of the hills outside the corporation limits, while the source of supply is a series of springs in the vicinity of the reservoir. The company has laid seven miles of mains through the streets of the village and have 219 taps and fifty-one fire hydrants The officers of the company are: O. O. Lane, president ; De M. Page, secretary, and W. G. Porter, secretary. The Canisteo Electric Light and Gas Company, and the Fuel Gas Company, are also worthy of mention among the local improvement companies of the village, and though not yet fully developed, are prom- ising of good results in the future and will undoubtedly add materially to the business importance of Canisteo. The Union Free School of Canisteo enjoys the reputation of being one of the best and most thorough institutions of its kind in this part of the county. Many years ago the old district system was aban- 316 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY doned and in its stead the people voted for a Union Free School, with an academic department. Tne present Board of Education com- prises H. S. Beebe, Elijah Hallett, W. B. Taylor. A. H. Burrell, William D. Carter, Harrison Crane and I. E. Lyon. With these and other kindred institutions added to the ordinary local interests, it will be seen that Canisteo is a village of importance among the municipalities of the county. However, still further advances are expected in the near future, for on the roadbed of the old Canisteo and Whitesville Railroad Company there is promised to be built a line of railway from the village up Bennett's Creek to Oswayo, via Rexville and Whitesville. For this enterprise the people of Canisteo have pledged the sum of $20,000. As at present constituted Canisteo enjoys the reputation of beingone of the most pleasantly situated and best governed villages in the county. As a manufacturing center it has considerable importance and all mer- cantile interests are well represented. It is a temperance village in which there are no saloons. The principal manufacturing industries are the large tannery of Richardson, Crary & Co., formerly Richardson & Shaut, built in 1880; the tannery of Charles Flohr's Sons, established in 187s by Charles Flohr. Flohr's custom and merchant mills were started about the same time but are now discontinued. The Canisteo Sash and Door Works is a large concern employing about one hundred men, and were originally known asthe Vorhis Planing Mills, established in 1868. The present company is comprised largely of non-resident capitalists. W. D. Carter, successor to H. Carter & Sons, is proprietor of an extensive foundry and machine shop. This industry was founded in 1873. The Canisteo Shoe Co. abandoned the village in May, 1895, t^'^us taking from our little municipality one of its most important industries. L. Allison & Co. began the manufacture of boots and shoes in the vil- lage about fifteen years ago, the firm being succeeded in 1884 by the Allison Boot and Shoe Co. The Levi S. Davis shoe factory was one of the important local industries and was originally established by Isaac Allison. The Weed Saw and Stave mill was established by L P. Weed in 1854. The Canisteo Spoke Works were started by Stephens Bros, about 1882. John Carroll, the present proprietor, succeeded to the CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 317 business in 1886. Among the other local industries may be mentioned the Hub and Spoke Works of Thomas Slosson ; the wagon factory of Alfred Slosson ; the pearl button factory of D. A. Tucker & Son; the chair factory of Taylor Bros, and the planing mill of Shell I. Wilkins. The village has half a dozen hotels, prominent among which are the Canisteo House, the Commercial House and the Riverside House. The general merchants are E. Clarkson & Rro. and Felix D. Clossey. The dry goods merchants are William Riddell, C. E. Smith and G. J. San- ders. The grocers are George Walker & Co., T. K. Brownell, James Roblie, L. Davison, L. P. Rice, Charles Mead, Ralph Dunham and Mrs. Baker. The druggists are J. W. Mitchell, E. L. Hess and George P. Reed & Co. Furniture dealers, Stephens & Hitchcock, and E. A. Carter & Son. Hardware dealers, O. O. Laine, W. P. Goff, and Burrell & Carroll. Jewellers, E. H. Miner & Co., Bate McKean, and William Dudley. Bakers, T. N. Wallace, Miner Merwin and Frank Hallett. Tinsmiths, F". J. Kearns and Wells Trowbridge. Boot and shoe dealers, H. E. Ruck, John A. Wirt and T. K. Brownell. Meat markets, John Bailey and J. Bert Williams. The Bank of Canisteo was established in 1876, and did business in the building at the corner of Main and Depot streets. The officers were Mortimer Allison, president; Lawrence Allison, vice-jDresident, and and W. W . Ball, cashier. However, in 1883, the banking interests in the village suffered seriousl}' through financial disaster, although the affairs of the bank were not wound up until the next year. The present substantial banking house of Porter & Davis, the members of which are W'illiam E. Porter and George L. Davis, began business in the early part of 1884. Among the fraternal and social organizations of the village may be mentioned Morning Star Lodge, No. 65, F. & A. M., which was char- tered about 1840, although it was the outgrowth of old P^vening Star Lodge, the latter being established in this village as early as 18 14 or '15. In this connection also, we may mention the Men's Association, a relig- ious organization, entirely informal in its character, yet one of the most deserving and praiseworthy institutions in the village. The officers of the village for the year 1895 are as follows : Herman E. Buck, president, and O. O. Laine, L Edward Lyon, A. H. Bunell 318 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY and William E. Flohr, trustees ; John Jackson, clerk ; George L. Davis, treasurer; Seymour B. King, collector. Population in 1890,2,071. CatoN Village. — This pretty little hamlet is attractively set among the hills, near the center of the town, where hardly more than half a century ago was a dense growth of mixed hardwood timber. The first store was opened here in 1849 by W. D. Gilbert, while near the four corners was still earlier established the post office called Worm- ley, Samuel Wormley, postmaster, and also tavern keeper. As a vil- lage Caton has little importance, yet for the convenience of the in- habitants of the vicinity a mill and one or two stores have been main- tained here for many years. The present merchants are C. B. Snyder and A. J. Whitney, the latter also being owner of the mill. The Caton Mill was built by Whitney & Deyo in 1880. The local postmaster is Osceola Gilbert. The Village of Cohocton. — On the 4th day of July, 181 3, at a general celebration participated in by the inhabitants of the town of Cohocton, at their established trading center, a large liberty pole was raised, and from this event the settlement was named Liberty. This name was continued through all generations and years of progress and de- velopment until July, 1891, when an order of incorporation was pro- cured, by which 941.20 acres of land were declared to be a body cor- porate and politic and to be known by the name of the " Village of Cohocton." Having attained this dignified character the old name of " Liberty " was dropped. However, the new designation, Cohocton, has been the established post-office name from a time far back in local history. At the election at which the voters decided upon the question of incorporation, 141 votes were in favor of such action and eighty-nine against the proposition. Liberty, or Cohocton, has witnessed many changes during the period of its existence, from the time when Jonas and James Cleland came into the region and made their first imi^rovemcnt, but the real fact or event which led to the founding of the settlement is not disclosed by published record, and tradition (the historian's final resort) furnishes nothing definite upon the subject. However, it is believed that the necessity of a convenient trading center in the town led to the hamlet, and subsequent lumbering, milling and accompanying mercantile inter- i ALBERTUS LARROWE. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 319 ests, ill fact established its permanency. Here, previous to the construc- tion of the railroad, was a central lumber point and the railway com- l)any found profit in building a station at the place. One industry led to another and in the course of a few years a hamlet of importance had been built up. I'Orty yeafs ago the place had half a dozen good gen- eral stores, three public houses, a good school, and several church societies. In 1859 William VV. Warner established the Coliocton Jour- nal, through which paper the town and its advantages were widely ad- vertised throughout the county. Between 1840 and i860 the village enjoyed an excellent reputation as a lumbering and farming locality, hence subsequent growth was natural. In 1875 business interests were increased at least threefold be\ond those of a quarter of a century be- fore, and at the present day they are greater than at any time in vil- lage or hamlet history. Let us note briefly the principal institutions and interests of Cohoc- ton. and otherwise obtain a fair pen view of this enterprising municipal- ity. There are six churches, viz.: St. Peter's Roman Catholic, St. Paul's Lutheran, Zion Lutheran, Universalist, Presbyterian, and Methodist I''piscopal. The village has an excellent graded Union P'ree School, the affairs of which are under the direction of a Board of Plducatioii, comprised as follows: P. J. Rocker, president; C. W. Stanton, secre- tary; and J. L. Goff, Asa McDonnell, A. H. Wilcox, James Fox and W. E. Adair. The water supply was secured and system completed in the fall of 1893. This department is controlled by three commissioners, Charles Oliver, Merritt Dusenbury and A. Weld The officers of the village are W. E. Adair, president; L L. Goff clerk; J. L Bartheline, T. B. Fowler, Webster Edmunds, trustees; E. B. Slayton, treasurer; P. A. Seeley, collector. The trustees are the village assessors Noting briefly the village interests of the village, we may mention the A. Larrowe Milling Company, and the Model Roller P'lour Mill, both large and successful industries. Wilcox & Son are coal dealers, also proprietors of a saw mill. The local druggists are Miraiu Wygant and Hill & Vorhees ; the dry goods houses are those of F. R. Harris, Shults & Shiefen, and Foults Bros.; the grocers are W. J. Becker, K. L. Jenks, Henry Michael, A. Dewey, and J. L. Bottleman ; the hardware dealers, 320 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. George W. Peck & Co., and M. Kimmel & Son ; boot and shoe dealers, R. J. Rocker (also clothier), Fults Bros, (also clothing), and Henry Snyder; jeweler, James M. Reynolds; baker, Henry Smith; furniture and undertaking, T. S. Crosby & Son ; produce dealer, Charles Keefer ; coal dealer, George E. Wagner; music dealer, W. E. Adair; cigar manufacturers, Frank Crew, J. S. Schubmehl & Co., and Frank 15. Folts ; bottling works, Fred Lamb ; photographers, Messrs. Hoffman and Chubbuck ; meat markets, C. Sherman, and Henry Finch. There are also two barber shops, si.x blacksmiths, one wholesale liquor store (Casey & Lickey), and four hotels. The village also has one good private bank, an institution of years standing and known for the careful methods of its managers, W. J. Shults & Co. There are two good newspaper publications having a seat of opera- tions at Cohocton — the Times, owned by S. D. Shattuck, and the Index. Hyatt C. Hatch, proprietor. (See Press chapter for more extended mention of newspapers.) Thus it will be seen that Cohocton, the successor of the old hamlet of Liberty, is in all respects a well ordered village, supplied with all the requisites of flourishing municipalities. On every hand are evidences of thrift and enterprise, while within are the substantial elements of success. Cooper's Plains. — In the north part of the present town of Erwin, near the Campbell line, John Williams settled about the year 1795. Local tradition has it that Williams was a " Hessian " soldier in Bur- goyne's army and was included in the surrender at Saratoga in 1777. When the Genesee country was opened to settlement, Williams came to the region and made a residence in the then town of Painted Post. Among the later land owners or settlers in this locality were Judge McBurney, Alson Pierce and the Cobbs, all as early as 1814 and 1815. Finally a settlement was started and a post station established, the post-office being, it is said, a shmgle nailed to a tree, under which let- ters and papers were placed. Judge, or as otherwise known. Dr. Cooper, came to this part of the town in 1828, and was in fact the founder of the hamlet. In 1841 he built a large residence and laid out into lots a part of his farm. Albert CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 321 Mulligan opened a store, Col. Uri Balcom built a saw mill, and Anson Buck opened public house. Thus the hamlet was founded, but after the timber lands had been cleared business began to wane, and only as a station in a fertile region on the line of the Erie and D. & W. Rail- roads has the place any importance. CUKTIS is a small settlement on the railroad, southeast of Campbell, where in 1835 Col. Balcom built a saw mill. The post-office was es- tablished here in 1875. The present postmaster is Jerome J. Quinby, who also has a general store. In 1854 the firm of Howell, Curtis & Co. built a large tannery at this place, and for one of the partners the post-office and village were named. The tannery was burned in 1858, and rebuilt by Curtis Bros. It was burned a second time in 1869, but immediately restored. The concern is now owned and operated by the U. S. Leather Company. At the post office called East Campbell, Eugene Smith has a grocery. The postmaster is Harmon Stevens. Dyke is a post hamlet near the center of the town of Hornby, and was established August i, 1889, for the convenience of the people of the vicinity. Here is located the " Shady Grove " district school and the VVe.sleyan Methodist church. The merchant here is Manley L. Baker, who is also postmaster. E.A.ST TroUI'SRURG is a post-office in the east part of the town where is a small settlement and one or two industries. In this locality, also, is the East Troupsburg Baptist church. The local postmaster is Stephen C. Brewer. This hamlet has a store and a few other interests of lesser importance. Erwin. — In the southwest part of the town of Erwin, on the line of the Erie Railroad, is a small hamlet known as Erwin. The station was built in 1873, and about that time E. E. Townsend was appointed post- master. The present postmaster is James VV, Thompson. FereNBAUGH. — This hamlet, a post office and station on the line of the now called Fall Brook road, was named in allusion to one of the prominent families of Hornby. The hamlet itself is small, its industries few, yet as a shipping point for farm produce it has some prominence. The merchants here are h'erenbaugh Bros. The postmaster is John H. Ferenbaugh. Freeman. — This little hamlet is situated near the center of the town 41 322 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. of Tuscarora, and includes about thirty dwellings, a church, two stores, a district school, recently built, a saw and feed mill, and a few shops. The hamlet was named for one of the old and prominent settlers of the localit)'. The present merchants are Atwood Weeks and William H. Whitcomb ; blacksmiths, Martin Andrews and Levi Chase ; shoemaker, George Mullen. Postmaster, William H. Whitcomb. Gang Mills. — This hamlet was a place of much importance during the lumbering period of town history in Erwin. A firm comprised of Isaac Gray and Piatt and Dana purchased, about 1832, a 4,000 acre tract of timber from the William Erwin estate, and built and put in operation a large saw mill. The locality afterward became known as Gang Mills, but with the devastation of the forests the importance of the settlement also departed. Gibson's Landing (Catawba P. O.). — This is a pretty little hamlet on the lake front, and, during the period of canal-boating on the lake, was an important shipping point. It is now a summer resort, enjoying an excellent standing in that respect, and still possesses a certain prom- inence from a commercial standpoint. The Lake Keuka Wine Cellars are near the hamlet. The officers of the company are George H. Keeler, president; R. R. Soper. vice-president; Monroe Wheeler, treasurer, and Charles G. Wheeler, secretary. Goodhue Lake is the name of a post hamlet situated in the north- west corner of the town of Addison, near the small body of water of the same name. A post-office was established here for the convenience of the inhabitants of this locality, and naturally a little trading center has been built up. William A. Jimmerson is the merchant and post- master at this place. Here also is a district school. GEORGE GIBSON. CITIES, TILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 323 CHAPTER XIX. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. The Village of Greenwood. — This little hamlet of about 250 in- habitants is situated in the southeast part of the town of Greenwood, on what is known as Bennett's Creek, and distant ten miles from Canisteo. It contains three churches (see church history), several stores and shops, and a number of manufacturing industries. Mail reaches here daily from Canisteo. The merchants of the village are George M. Webster & Co., large general stock; N. E. Coston, general store ; Woodward & Young, gen- eral store; Shaw & Austin, and J. M. Cheesman, hardware; and S. A. Scribner, harness dealer. The manufacturing interests are the machine shops, foundry and planing mill owned by George M. Woodward ; the wagon and carriage shops of T. E. Mallory; the wood-working factory of Byron Rugar, and the lumber business of G. D. Woodward. The town at large has eleven school districts, No. 2 comprising the village school. This is a school of advanced standing, a Union Free School, with an academic department. Here are employed a principal and two assistants. The Village of Ham^IONDSPORT. — In the year 1802, Gen. George McClure purchased several hundred acres of land in Pleasant Valley near Cold Spring, on which he caused to be built a saw mill, fulling mill, flour mill and carding machine. About the same time he also opened a store on the site of Hammondsport, and by all his operations laid the foundation for what has now become one of the most progress- ive villages in Steuben county. General McClure also built the first vessel on the lake, the Sally, a small schoner of about thirty tons burden, and thus was the pioneer in opening Lake Keuka to navigation. The schooner is said to have been built in 1 803. However, it remained for a later comer to found the village in fact. :i'24 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Capt. Jolin Slicther was the orit^ina! settler on the village tract, in 1796, and a [joition at least of his lands afterward passed to Judge Lazarus I lani- niond. This was in 1807, and about the same time the purchaser came to reside on the land. lie at once saw the possibilities of a village at the head of the lake, hence laid out a series of lots, and also donated a pleasantly located tract of land for a public park or square. Still many years passed before the settlement assumed the proportions or character of a settlement, and even as late as 1825 the lands in the vicinity were used chiefly for farming purposes. In the year last mentioned, William Hastings opened a well stocked store, and Lemuel D. Hastings acted in the capacity of clerk. In the following fall Ira G. Smith, of Prattsburg, built a store and soon after- ward a number of business interests were tstablished about the public stpiare. In 1 830 the Crooked Lake canal was begun, and finished the next year, and from this time Hamnioiulsport became a place of con- siderable importance in the commercial world and the future success of the village was assured. Among the varied industries of early and even later days, was that of boat building. The Keuka was put upon the lake in (835, a steamboat of good capacit)-. Others followed in suc- cession, as necessity reciuired, or as competition suggested, until at length historic and beautiful Lake Keuka became known for the num- ber and quality of her steam craft. In 1831 General McClure built a saw and plaster mill in the village, also a good dwelling ft)r his own use. John Randel came in 1833, and built a store, and was a prom- inent merchant and citizen for the ne.Nt quarter of a century. The stone n>ill was built in 1835-6, by Meredith Mallory, and though the enterprise was not successful as a business venture, the old mill iMiild- ings became one of the conspicuous laiulmarks of the region. Among the early business men of Hammonilsport, in atldition to those already mentioned, we may recall the names of A. M. Adsit, Delos Rose, William Hastings & Co., Adsit & Co., J. W. Davis, Lemuel D. Hastings, and G. W. Nichols. The first school house was built in 1827, and stood where St. James' church was afterward erected. The large and attractive stone school house was erected for academic pur- poses in 1858. J. W. McLaure)' was it principal for the first si.\ or more years. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 325 One of the most desirable public improvements, 'and one which has proven of the greatest material advantage to the village, was the con- struction of the Bath and Hammondsport railroad, begun in 1872 and opened for traffic in 1874. \iy the opening of this thoroughfare of travel and traffic the county seat and the interior of the county were given direct and rapid communication with the Erie Canal and the New York Central railroad, while the benefit to Hammondsport inter- ests were greatly increased. I'or this short road the town of Urbana bonded to the extent $40,000, and the village $30,000. In fact they built the road or at least furnished the means with which it was con- structed. As the hamlet grew and increased in population and im|3ort.ince, the inhabitants became desirous to make improvements and establish insti- tutions which were not directly beneficial to the town at large, and to which the people of the hitter were not inclined to contribute. There- fore it was determined that a corporation should be established, ami to this end Delos Rose, .S. 15. h'airchild, William Hastings, S. Watrous, I lenry Heiiham and Ik'njamin Hennitt petitioned the court for an order of incorporation under the provisions of the law. The order was granted and Hammondsport became a body corporate and politic on the i6th of June, 1856. The area of the village at that time was about 172 acres, and within its boundaries were 530 inhabitants. At an election held June 29, 1856, the electors ratified the cor|5oration measure by a vote of forty- seven to thirty-four. Thus it is seen in this case, as in nearly all other similar movements, the opponents were a strong mi- nority of the voting element. However, the spirit of progress and en- terprise prevailed and the village of Hammondsport took a place among the municipalities of .Steuben county. The first election of village ofticcrs was held November 22, 185G, and resulted as follows : Trustees, William Hastings, John Randel, J. N. Crane, J. W. Davis, Clark j^ell ; assessors, Orlando Shepard, Uenjamin Bennitt ; collector, Lewis Wood; treasurer, John Watrous; clerk, B. Frank Drew. In January, 1871, a village charter was granted Ham- mondsport, and our little municipality increased and broadened her ])0wers and advanced her corporate character. The first meeting for election of officers under the charter was held March 21, 1871, and 326 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Absalom Hadden was elected president ; George W. Nichols, Allen Wood and Walter L. Moore, trustees; Benjamin F. Drew, treasurer, and George C. Wise, collector. The first clerk of the board of trustees was William W. Wright ; David Burch, police constable, and J. B. Van Auken, chief engineer of the fire department. At this time the fire department was carefully reorganized and be- came an important adjunct of the village. In fact all departments of local government were then firmly established and Hammondsport advanced to the degree of a municipality of the second class. The present department consists of a good horse power fire engine, a hook and ladder, and also a hose company. In 1894-5 ^ water works system was established, the source of supply being the abundant springs on the well known Scofield farm. Fire hydrants have been distributed throughout the streets, placed at convenient points, and with simple gravity pressure the village has excellent fire protection, and is, more- over, supplied with pure and wholesome water for all domestic pur- poses. The plant complete was constructed at a total cost of about $25,000, and is owned by the village. Hammondsport enjoys the pleasant notoriety of being one of the most attractive and desirable residence villages in Steuben county. Situated as it is in the very midst of a vast vineyard region and on the head waters of charming Lake Keuka, added to which may also be mentioned a rich agricultural and fruit producing country, all elements combine to make this one of the most delightful localities in the Genesee country. The people, too, are known to be hospitable, entertaining and progres- sive. The manufactures are chiefly wine and other products of the vine and fruit tree. The officers for the year 1895 are as follows: Trevor Moore, presi- dent; Henry Frey, Milan H. Hall, Phineas H. Casterline, trustees; G. W. Hubbs, clerk, and Aaron G. Pratt, treasurer. The president and trustees constitute a board of village assessors. The estimated popula- tion of the village is 1,000; in 1890 the number was 934, and in 1880 was 775. The manufacture of wines may be regarded as the staple industry of the village and its immediate locality, and in this production much cap- ital is employed, while directly and indirectly hundreds of workmen are i^ ^^'^ ryy-^^ /^ht^ CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. '327 engaged. So great indeed is this industrj- that we may briefly refer to some of the more important wine producing companies. The Urbana Wine Company "was organized in 1865, having an original capital of $250,000. The present capital is $100,000. The extensive cellars arc located on tiie west side of the lake, four miles below the village. Among the many and various grades of wine manufactured here may be specially mentioned the famed " Gold Seal," a purely dry wine much prized by epicures. The ofificers of the company are Harlo Hakes, president ; D. M. Hildreth, vice-president : H. A. Switzer, secretary ; W. W. Allen, treasurer, and John W. Davis, general manager. It is only a just compliment to say that much of the success achieved by the Urbana Wine Compan>- is due to tlie untiring efforts of Mr. Davis. The Pleasant \'alley Wine Company may be sufficiently introduced to the reader by the mere mention that at its cellars is manufactured the noted " Great Western," an exceedingly choice dry wine. The works are located at Rheims, a small hamlet and station on the line of the Bath and Hammondsport railroad, and less than two miles south of the village. This company was organized in i860. Its officers are James Lyon, president ; De Witt Bauder, secretary and treasurer, and Jules Masson, superintendent. The Germania Wine Cellars are located between Hammondsport and Rheims, but, like the others, is regarded as a village industry. The proprietors here are Frey Brothers (John and Gottlieb), who are own- ers of a large and well established plant Jacob Frey established the business of which this company is the outgrowth about thirty- five years ago. The cellars of the Columbia Wine Company are. also located at Rheims, and are owned by Henry Frey and J. S. Hubbs. Here is con- ducted a large and successful business, though the industry itself is of more recent founding than some of those mentioned above. The Hammondsport Wine Company is distinctly an industry of the village, and was incorporated October 24, 1880. Its capital is $50,000, and the output is justly noted for purity and general excellence. The officers of the company are Edwin S. Underbill, president ; G. I. Allen, treasurer; G. H. Wheeler, secretary, and II. G. Layton, superin- tendent. 328 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY The Port Glen Wine Company's cellars are also to be mentioned and are in all respects worthy of patronage. They are under the proprie- torship of A. F. Bricout. Auxiliary to these leading industries are several manufactories de- voted to box, package and basket making, all furnishing employment to workingmen and women, and contributing in some degree to the general welfare. H. M. Champlin has a good roller flouring mill, with a capacity for the manufacture of fifty barrels of flour per day. Another flourishing industry is a broom factor)-, located just outside the village limits. On the inlet are a number of busy enterprises, chiefly box or basket factories, while the latest acquisition up the stream is the State Fish Hatchery. For the convenience of the inhabitants living in the town south of the village post offices have been established at various places. One is at Rheims, with DeWitt Bander postmaster, while a second, still further up the stream, is called Taggart ; John W. Kirkham, postmaster. In the village of Hammondsport is an excellent school, for the people of this town have ever been noted for generosity in the matter of afford- ing proper education to the youth of the locality. A reference to the town history will disclose the fact that as early as 1795, long before a village was thought of, Messrs. Reed, Stone and Baker were given by Charles Williamson fifty acres of land for the benefit of a public school. This tract was afterward deeded to trustees, this being one of the few towns in which the people received the full benefit of the donor's gen- erosity. The first village school stood where St. James' church was built, and was erected in 1827. The academy was built in 1858, and aud was afterward used by the district under the Union Free School system. The present members of the board are J. W. Keeler, Will S. Wood, J. S. Thorp, H. Y. Rose, H. J. Moore and Mrs. Matilda Bennett. All branches of mercantile business appear to be well represented in Hammondsport, and there is little evidence of overcompetition. There are several hotels, the largest being the Fairchild House, near the land- ing. The others are the Steuben House, the Park Hotel and the Grand Central. At present the excise commissioners have granted eight vil- lage licenses. The merchants are "Rothschild & Oloskey, clothiers; C. A. Champlin, general merchandise; George H. Keeler, hardware; CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS 329 Frank Crookston, grocer ; George Vroom, grocer ; Orson Brundagc, grocer; Jolin R. Brown, shoe dealer ; Mr. Brough, clothier; James H. Smellie, druggist; L I. Rose & Son, dry goods; F. W. Fawcett, furni- ture dealer. At Lakeside the business men are George M. Chapman, grocer; H. J. Moore, druggist; E. K. Chapman, baker. The Bank of Hammondsport, as now known, is the outgrowth of a banking business started in the village in 1876 by H. C. Ainsworth, as a branch of a still older business in Prattsburg. At one time the firm of bankers was Ainsworth & Co. The bank was continued unin- terruptedly until 1894, and was then purchased by John J. Frey and Aaron J. Pratt, by whom it is now conducted under the firm name of F're\' & Pratt. The members of this firm are tried business men, prompt and reliable in all their transactions. Their office contains one of the best banking equipments in the county, ami is provided with a remarkably secure safe and a correspondingly strong and firmly con- structed vault. The church history of Hammondsport is interesting and worthy of record, for a perusal of which the reader is directed to another depart- ment of this work, wherein will be found at least a brief sketch of each organized church society in the county. HarmoNYVILLE (Pulteney P. O.). — This little hamlet, severally known as indicated above, is pleasantly situated in the northeast part of the town, yet among the villages of the county possesses little im- portance It is on the main thoroughfare leading from Hammondsport to Branchport, and about a mile distant from the lake. A trading cen- ter was established here many years ago, and until lake traffic drew trade to the eastward was the most important hamlet of the town. The public buildings here are the Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal churches and the district school house. The merchants are G. VV. Peck & Company, general store; F. N. Goodrich & Company, general store ; Coryell & Connell, general store; A.J. Nichols, drugs, etc. The man- ufacturing interests are few, chiefly basket and box factories to supply the demands of the grape and fruit growers. Haktsvii.le Center (Purdy Creek Post- Office), is a small hamlet situate north of and near the center of the town, on the upper waters of Purdy Creek. The first business in this locality was done a 42 330 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. mile above the present hamlet, near where a cheese factory was built. Joseph Henry opened the Center House in 1851, and two years after- ward this became the business center. The post-office was located at Charles N. Hart's dwelling. J. D. Russell established a permanent store here in 1868, since which time two stores have generally been in operation. The present public buildings are the school house and the Baptist and Methodist Episcopal churches, both of which are mentioned elsewhere in this work. The merchants are F. E. Carney and F. W. Spencer, proprietors of general country stores. Here, also, is a saw and feed mill, owned by William Donaldson. The other local interests are the blacksmith shop of Mr. Fuller and the harness shop of James Goodno. D. A. Oaks is proprietor of the Call Hill cheese factory. Another similar industry in the town is in process of erection. The postmaster at Purdy Creek is Scott Van Buskirk. Haskinville. — This little hamlet is situate in the northeast part of the town of Fremont, and was named for William Haskin, early settler and progressive citizen. At this place William Holden had a shingle mill as early as 1834, and soon afterward sold out his improvement to Mr. Haskin; and the latter built here the first tavern in the town in 1836. Around this the village was built up. Its early interests com- prised the hotel, a store, cheese factory, shoe and blacksmith shop, to- gether with about twenty dwellings. The present business interests are the store of Silsbee & Bowen, the hotel of Eli Chase and a few small shops. The postmaster is Ziba C. Silsbee. The Wesleyan Methodist church at this village is mentioned elsewhere in this volume. HiGHUP is the somewhat characteristic post-office designation of a locality in the northeast part of the town of Troupsburg, which was formerly known as East Troupsburg. Other than enjoying an elevated situation, and being surrounded with thrifty farmers, this place pos- sesses little general importance. The present postmaster is Samuel S. Wyckoff. Hornby, — This is perhaps the largest and greatest among the ham- lets of the town of the same name. Its public buildings comprise the Presbyterian and Baptist churches, the district school, and the town hall (for here the town business is transacted). The residences number about thirty. The leading industry comprises the flour, feed and saw CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 331 mills of C. G. Wheat & Son. The merchants are M. A. Eddy, A. W. Howell, and C. L. Smith, proprietors of good, well stocked general stores. The local postmaster is Clark L. Smith. Ho\V.\RD. — This little hamlet is located in the south part of the town, and is perhaps the principal business center. The village begin- ning was made by the opening of a store and the erection of the saw and grist mill mentioned in the history of the town. As settlement progressed other industries were established, an academy was founded, two churches were built, hotels were opened, and the so-called Howard Flats became a place of some importance in local annals. However, the population of the village proper has not at any time exeeded 250 inhabitants, and now has less than that number. The present business interests of the village comprise the general stores of Goff & Swain and D. Ray Bennett ; the saw mill of J. W. & M. M. Bennett; the cheese factory of Bennett & Glover, and the black- smith shops of Frank H. Sharp and Horace Bennett. There are also two hotels, the National, kept by Judson Wells and the Central House, William Burleson proprietor. iNCLE.siDE. — This pleasantly situated little hamlet was primarily known as Riker's Hollow, and so-called after an old family in that locality. The merchants here are John D. Avery and Wyman Drake, the latter being also postmaster. Dr. William M. Fulkerson, supervisor, is a resident at this place. Three miles south of this hamlet, in Lyon's Hollow, so-called, is the saw mill of Edward Drake. At Ingleside is an M, E. church. The Vill.\GE of Jasper. — This pretty little hamlet of perhaps 350 population, is the chief center of trade in the town, and the story of its early history is best told in the words of another : " The old business portion of Jasper known as the Five Corners, was centered around Adam Brotzman's tavern, and contained, besides the tavern, a saw mill, two stores and a post-office, the latter the first in town, and William Gardner postmaster. The office became an object of contention be- tween the rival corners, and during John G. Marlett's term, became " Marlatt's Corners." Near this place Harvey Phoenix opened the first store, and was succeeded in 1834 by Edward Craig, who moved the goods to Five Corners. Andrew Craig was soon afterward made post- 382 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY master and brought the office to the store. Thus the village was founded, and later interests gradually increased the local population to its present number. The merchants of to-day are D. C. Hunter, gen- eral store; J. W. Wallace, general store; Andrew Murphy, hardware; Charles B. Hilborn, general merchandise; C. E. Brown, furniture and undertaking ; H. B. Andrews, market, F. S. Viele and M. N. Samett. The village also has a good school, three churches (elsewhere mentioned in this work) and the shops and lesser business enterprises incident to similar hamlets. Kanona. — According to the recollections of Irving W. Near, the pioneer in fact of t'lie little village called Kanona was Col. Henry Ken- nedy, yet at this point as early as 1794 a tavern was kept by John Mahon. In 1795, the year in which Duke de Liancourt travelled through this region, a small settlement had been built up on the village site. Col. Kennedy, however, made a substantial improvement here, and from him the place became known as Kennedyville. Among the other early settlers here were Brigham, Elijah and John Hanks, in 1804, and Jeremiah Wheeler in 1805. These settlers were Vermonters, drawn to the locality by the cheapness and fertility of the land. P>astus Glass came to Kanona about 1806, and built a sawmill about three- fourths of a mile below the village. Clinton Nixon built a saw mill and tannery in the village in 1830. Among the early prominent men of the locality were Russell Kellogg, George Dawson, Samuel Tyler, Zera Bradley, and Oliver Allen, all of whom are now dead. Mr. Near also informs us that about 1836, a new class of people came to the locality, many of them from the Mohawk Valley. Also from the same authority it may be stated that Ann Parker taught the first school in this district, in a school house built in 18 10, on the site now occupied bv business blocks. The Universalists were the first religious denomi- nation in this part, followed by the Christians, and the two built a union meeting-house. The Presbyterian church was built in 1831, but was afterward transferred to the M. E. Society, by whom services have ever since been maintained. The name of the post-office was changed from Kennedyville to Ka- nona in 1852, through the efforts of Brigham Hanks and Reuben Robie. The name then adopted was the Indian designation of Five Mile Creek, CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 333 and means " rust)- water." The first railroad, now the Erie, was built through the town in 1853, from whicli time everything relating to travel and transportation was changed. The D., L. & W. Road was opened for traffic in 1882, and the Kanona and Prattsburg road in 1889. These thoroughfares of travel have built up Kanona and made it a vil- lage of some note in the Conhocton Valley. Here are about seventy- five dwellings, several good stores, shops and ail other industries found in similar villages. Keuka. — A hamlet on the lake of the same name derives whatever importance it possesses from its value as a shipping point for grapes and various other kinds of fruit grown in the region of which the hamlet is the center. The Keuka House and the Helvetia are prominent public hostelries, while the nearby resort known as Grove Spring, with its large hotel, adds to local prosperity. The general store at Keuka is owned by A. C. Waggoner, who is also postmaster. LiNDLEY. — When this town was erected from Erwin the center of business was transferred from Erwin Center, or as now known Presho, to Lindley, and the clerk's office has since been maintained there. This event, together with the fact that the hamlet is situated near the center of a rich agricultural region, and is a natural trading point, has given to it whatever importance it has. Here are two churches, Methodist Episcopal and Free Methodist, the town hall and district school. The merchants are H. F. Hill and Dr. J. McManus. Postmaster, Marvin Stowell ; William Hutchinson, blacksmith and town clerk. Lynn. — This place is hardly more than a post office station, and is located in the southwest part of the town. The postmaster is Aaron Porter Borden. Here is a store, school house, and a Methodist Episco- pal church. MiTCHEl.l.svii.i.E is the name of a small hamlet and post-office situated in the southeast part of the town of Wheeler, near the Urbana line. The office was established here for the convenience of the inhab- itants of this part of the town, and naturally a trading center was soon built up. The hamlet contains one general store, a Methodist church, the district school and a few shops. Mail is received by stage from Rath. NeiI-'s Creek is a post office and hamlet in the extreme western 334 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY part of the town of Avoca ; a convenient center in the heart of a pro- ductive farming community, but of no considerable importance among the villages of the county. The postmaster at this point is Matthew N. Silsbee. North Cohocton, the companion hamlet to Atlanta, distant north one mile from the latter, is a pleasant little burg on the lines of railroad which cross the town. Forty years ago the settlement con- tained one church, a store, a few shops, and about thirty dwellings. The first merchant was Solomon Hubbard, succeeded by William A. Gil- bert. At the present time the churches are the Methodist Episcopal and the VVesleyan Methodist, while the business interests comprise at least a dozen substantial stores, about as follows : Wetmore Bros., gen- eral merchandise ; E. S. Carpenter, druggist ; C. E. Moose ; W. L. McDorn & Co., general store; C. A. Greisa, furniture and undertaking; J. P. Wetmore, clothing; John Wood and M. Peck, blacksmiths; C. B. Stoddard, wagonmaker; H, Nye, flour and feed; Ira Wagner, hotel. The North Cohocton and Atlanta Union School and district, as now known, was established in 1872, and the academy building, south of the village, was erected in 1874, at a cost of $4,000. About 200 pupils are in constant attendance at this school. The present school board comprises H. W. Hatch, president; R. P. Moulton, secretary; A. R. Wetmore, treasurer ; and Beech Drake, W. C. Waite and S. M. Decker. Principal, M. C. Plough. North Urbana. — This small hamlet is situated in the eastern part of the town of Urbana, near the Wayne town line and about a mile distant from Lake Keuka. As a business center the place has little im- portance, yet its location in a rich vineyard and agricultural region, makes it a convenient post-office point for the people of both towns. Here are generally maintained two churches and a district school. The local postmaster is J. W. Wheeler. Painted Post. — This pretty little village was incorporated under the laws of the State on the i8th of July, i860, but away back in the early years of the present century a settlement was made on the site and some business was transacted. As early as the year 1801 a post- office was established and Howell Bull was the first postmaster. He CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 335 was succeeded b\- Thomas McBurney, F"ebruary i8, 1805, and the latter was in turn superseded by John K. Evans, February 4, 18 17. According to Charles H. Erwin's history of the village, Francis Erwin erected a frame hotel on the village site in 1822, that being the first frame building in the village. During the same year Capt. Sam- uel Erwin built a framed store, and John Arnot, late of Elmira, was its first tenant. In 1812 the Erwin House was erected. " In 1824," says the same authority, " John VVygant cut the sheet-iron Indian," which long graced the village, perched upon a painted post. In 1848 A. H. and E. F. Erwin, with I. P. Bennett and Henr>' S. Brooks, erected an extensive foundry and machine shop, also a large business block of three stores Tiiis was perhaps the leading enterprise of the village for its time and had the effect to add materially to local growth. Indeed, so vast and varied were business interests at this time that a banking house became necessary, and Asa Foster and Cephas Piatt purchased and removed to the village the old Cayuga Lake Bank, of Ithaca. This was in 185 1. In 1850 the New York and Lake Erie Railroad was put in operation between Corning and HorncUsville, and two years later the Buffalo, Conhocton Valley and New York Railroad joined with the Erie at Painted Post. The Western Union Telegraph Company completed its line in 1855, and by this and the railroads the then little hamlet en- joyed commercial advantages equal to any municipality in the southern tier. The "Empire" block was built in 1841 ; a Masonic Lodge was installed in 1850, and the Corning, Painted Post, Cooper's Plains and Monterey Plank Road Company was organized in 1852. Eight ye^rs later, or in i860, tiie village became incorporated, officers were elected, improvements inaugurated and carried to completion, and the result was a permanent 4nd attractive village, supplied with business and manu- facturing interests, and inhabited by a thrift)-, energetic and public- spirited class of people. However, this prosperous condition has not been established without local misfortunes and disasters, for at least twice in its history has the village been visited with destructive fires; the first in May, 1861, and again in February, 1873. But the burned buildings were in due time restored and the loss was only temporary. 336 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. The Painted Post Gazette was the first newspaper of the village, es- tablished in 1846 by Mr. Fairchild. The second paper was the Herald, founded by Ransom Bennett and B. M. Hawley. The Times made its first appearance in 1 870, under the management of W. C. Bronson, H. C. Higman and S. H. Ferenbaugh. The first school in the village, which was also the first in tht- town, was that taught by John E. Evans ; and the first school house was built of plank on land furnished by Capt. Samuel Ervvin. About 1848 or '49, Arthur Erwin built a large frame building on the south side of the river, and this was used for a district school until 1868, when the large and commodious brick school house was erected. About this time a union free district was organized, including the village tract and surrounding territory. The school has always been admirably managed and liberally supported, and now ranks among the best institutions of its kind and grade in the county. The present Board of Education comprises Dr. J. G. Webster, president ; W. F. Bronson, secretary, and F. H. Loomis, T. F. Minier and W. A. Allen. Referring briefly to the business and mercantile interests of this thrifty little village, it may be stated that all branches appear to be well represented, with little evidence of over competition. However, we are forced to remark that Painted Post is too near the city of Corning for the best results to local merchants, but, notwithstanding all this, we find several substantial business houses here, which may be noted about as follows: D. Forer & Son, and G. J. Blakeslee, large general stores; S. W. Gorton, grocer ; Orcutt & Loomis, druggists ; Ira Stiles, jewelry ; W. F. Bronson, hardware ; James Berlon and G. Wheadon, meat mar- kets ; B. C. Wood, gunsmith ; A. H. Wood, taxidermist ; Wm. Beebe and J. Johnson, shoe shops; A. B. Hurd and William Hill, wagon shops; E. A. Stout, G. L Mclntyre and C. Van Gelder, blacksmiths. The manufacturing interests comprise the widely known Weston En- gine Company, manufacturers of steam heaters and steam engines, without question the leading industry of the town. Stanton & Brew- ster and W. S. Hodgman have lumber mills, and Mr. Hodgman is also proprietor of a good flour and feed mill. F. J. Townsend manufac- tures a wire fence stretcher. The banking house of A Weston & Co. is the only institution of its kind in the town. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 337 The village officers of Painted Post are A. E. Gokey, president ; J D. Orcutt, clerk ; L. B. Hodgman, treasurer ; A. E. Gokey, G. W. Fritts, J. \V. Borst and D. 11. Lee, trustees. Perkinsville was so named in compliment to Benjamin Perkins, an early settler and prominent man in the western central part of the town. He built the first saw mill in the town. However, the hamlet did not attain to a position of more than passing importance previous to the opening of the D., L. & W. railroad, which naturally gave impetus to all local interests ; and the still more recent construction of the C. N. Y. & \\^ road, as now known, added to the prominence of the hamlet. The merchants here are Frank Bricks, Stephen Bricks and Peter Kuhn, gen- eral stores ; John Ritz and George A.Didas, boots and shoes ; Mrs. T. M. Fowler, grist mill. The hotels are the Steuben, the Miller, the Per- kinsville, and the Lackawanna. John Smith is a manufacturer of cigars ; Nicholas Mather has a market, and W. F. Schubmehl and Mr. Schoon- over are local blacksmiths. Postmaster, Peter Didas. One of the Wayland Portland Cement companies has its seat of manufacture at this place. The churches are the Catholic and Lutheran. CHAPTER XX. Cri'IES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. The Village of Prattshurg. — In the eastern central part of the town of Prattsburg, at the northern terminus of the Kanona and Pratts- burg railroad, is situated an incorporated village, named for the town, and both in honor of and allusion to the chief promoter and founder in fact of the original settlement, Capt. Joel Pratt. The village, in its hamlet character, antedates the town in name if not in history; but it is doubt- ful if even Joel Pratt ever contemplated the founding of a village settle- ment, as a part of his chief enterprise, further than to establish a con- venient trading center for the accommodation of the scattered inhabi- tants. Joel Pratt, jr., and Ira Pr.itt first drew attention to the settlement by opening a store, and in 1806 or '7 Aaron Bull opened a tavern in a 43 338 - LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. log house. Judge Porter also built a good mill. A public square was laid out and in i8oS three log houses were built around it. In the same year Prattsburg was designated as a post-office station, and post riders began regular trips betwen Geneva and Bath, passing through the set- tlement. However, through some political maneuvering, the route was afterward changed to the east side of Lake Keuka, to the great sorrow and inconvenience of residents of the village. Still, after a time a sys- tem was re-established and mails came regularly to Prattsburg. But the one event which, above all others, contributed to the welfare of our vil- lage was the construction and operation of the Kanona and Prattsburg railroad ; a recent consummation, to be sure, yet none the less welcome or desirable. The work of construction was begun July 29, r888, and the first train passed over the completed road October 9, 1889. Pratts- burg capital made the road possible, and Prattsburg enterprise pushed it to a successful completion ; and the whole of northern Steuben county reaps the benefit of its operation. Returning again, however, to the early history of the village, we find that in 1803 the inhabitants of the locality organized a religious society, and provision was also made for a primitive school. The road to Bath was laid out in 1805, and two years later roads were built to Crooked or Keuka Lake and to West Hill. From this time Prattsburg became the principal trading point of the region and a future village was assured. A cemetery was also laid out in 1 806. From these humble elements has grown the present village of about 800 inhabitants, and we may say, as does its enterprising newspaper — The News, " it is one of the most beautiful villages of Steuben county, the northern terminus of the railroad, which, by connecting with the Erie and the D., L. & W. railways, renders the place easy of access. Daily communication is also maintained with the Northern Central, and the steamers on Lake Keuka." Still further the same paper continues: "The merchants and business men of Prattsburg are wide-awake and among the most enterprising business men of the State, and are finan- cially safe and reliable. . . There are four regular church services — Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and Catholic, while various young peoples' societies hold regular meetings." In 181 2 the most important of these four schools of the town was CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 339 that maintained in the village, following which others were opened and thereafter continuously supportd. Mowever, the necessity of a school of more advanced standard became apparent, and as its result there was founded and incorporated, on February 23, 18^24, the Franklin Academy, This school at once took rank among the successful academic institu- tions of W'estern New York and for a period of nearly half a century enjoyed a prosperous existence. In 1868, under the provisions of the Union PVee School law, the institution changed its character and thence- Franki.in Acahismv, Prattsburg. forth became known as the P'ranklin Academy and Union Free School ; still maintaining, however, its old standard of excellence and promi- nence. Its management and affairs passed from the trustees to the newly constituted Board of Education. The faculty comprises a prin- cipal, preceptress, and four assistants. The members of the present board arc H. J. Pinneo, president ; H. G. Skinner, jr., secretary, and Frank Hall, Byron Chisom, Henry Horton, Seymour Coggswell, W. G. Dean and William Howe. Treasurer, E. K. Smith. 340 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. As the village grew in population and commercial importance the necessities of public improvement demanded that the hamlet character be laid aside and that the little berg take upon itself the more dignified title of corporation. To this end a petition was presented to the court of sessions, with result that on the 8th of November, 1848, Judge Mc- Master made an order of incorporation as required by law, subject to ratification by the electors of the described territory. This was done at a subsequently held election. Still later, on the 20th of February, 1877, at an election held for that special purpose, the freemen voted to procure a village charter, accord- ing to the provisions of the law. This being done, the powers and authority of the corporation were materially enlarged, and by it Pratts- burg became a municipality of the second class. The first trustees and officers under the charter were E T. Watkins, president ; and Wm. S. Foster, A. H. Van Housen, Henry A. Ackerson ; Wm. W. Green, clerk ; A. K. Smith, treasurer. The village officers for the year 1895 are as follows: Frank Hall, president ; James Coryell, Frank Flaherty and Angelo Walker, trustees ; Charles H. H. Boyd, collector ; W. F. McLean, treasurer ; Benjamin Castor, street commissioner; W. G. Dean, police justice; William F. Wilcox, clerk. The business and mercantile interests of Prattsburg have advanced and kept even step with progress in other directions, although as a manufacturing village circumstances and location have prevented any prominence beyond the supply of domestic demand. In trade circles all branches appear to be well represented, with sufficient competition to prevent the possibility of monopoly and its consequent exactions. The merchants and other business houses may be mentioned about as follows: Coggswell Bros., John Van Tuyl, W. A. Watkins and J. L. McCarrick, dealers in general merchandise ; G. V. Conine, mens' fur- nishings ; Wurth & Flaherty, and Jacob T. Smith, grocers ; Barnum Cole, flour and grist mill ; George W. Peck & Co., and Flynn & Walker, hardware ; C F. Hayes and W. G. Look, druggists ; Z. J. Terry and John A. Shea, furniture dealers and undertakers ; D. R. Edmond, jew- elers ; Charles L. Baker and Bailey & Knapp, meat dealers; F. D. Gillett, baker ; Mrs. S. D. Cornell, Miss Lina C. Graves and Mahn & CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 341 Stoddard, milliners ; M. C. Curran, restaurant and bakery; Philip Geiss, tailor ; C. L. Pullar, dentist ; Coryell & Clark and W. P. Dean, hay dealers ; Flint H. Lewis, coal dealer ; Frank Hall, general insurance ; H. B. Howe, market gardener ; John C. Clary, cooper ; H. J. Pinneo, painter; V. H. Cook, wagonmaker ; Germain Clark, saw mill; G. H. De Witt, photographer ; D. R Myers, harnessmaker ; J. H. Keeler, harnessmaker ; B. P. Austin, painter; George Bancroft, livery; Frank Relyea, landlord. The Piattsburg Creamery, one of the most complete of its kind in the region, was built in the spring of 1895. It is managed by Charles H. Higbee and Frank Flaherty. The attorneys of the vil- lage are James Flaherty (also postmaster), J. K. Smith and Harvey D. Waldo. The banking house of C. P. Smith was originally established in 1861, while that of W. F. McLean has been in operation since 1880. The society organizations of the village are Prattsburg Lodge, No. 583, F. & A. M.; Prattsburg Lodge, No. 598, L O. O. F.; Gregory Post, No. 649, G. A. R; Prattsburg Grange, No. 112, P. of H.; K. O. T. M., Prattsburg Tent, No. 230 ; Banner Lodge, No. 533, L O. of G. T., and the Prattsburg Cornet Band, F. F. Neff, leader. Of Protective F"ire Company, S. D. Cornell is foreman, and G. W. Howe, secretary. Presho. — This little hamlet was for many years known as Erwin Center, and previous to the division of the old town of Erwin, in 1848, was a place of considerable importance in local aft'airs. The town meet- ings were held here and other business was attracted to this central part of the town as then constituted. It was also a lumbering center of note forty and more years ago. and after the forest growths were cleared and agriculture became the chief pursuit of the inhabitants, it became a shipping point on the commonly called Blossburg railroad. The recent name — Presho — was given in allusion to a prominent family of that part of the town. T. J. Presho is now the local storekeeper and post- master. Here is located the Methodist Episcopal church, the district school, and the saw mill of H. M. McCullough. Ratuboneviii.E. — In the year 1842 Gen. Ransom Rathbone came to the Canisteo valley to engage in manufacturing and shipping lumber. Unquestionably he was a man of excellent judgment in business affairs, for his efforts here were fairly rewarded. Not a pioneer in the locality, he nevertheless opened the first store in the town, secured a post sta- 342 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. tion, was active in organizing the town itself, and, in return for his ser- vices, the latter was named in his honor, as well as the hamlet. Half a century ago this was the center of an extensive lumber region, where many enterprising operators were engaged in lucrative business. This led to the starting of other industries, and a little energy and push created a village settlement. Among the persons engaged in milling and kindred pursuits, were Orman S. and Keyes Whitmore, who began in 1845. Ten years later Henry Rathbone built a fair sized flour and grist mill. In the year first mentioned General Rathbone opened his store and secured the post-office. A meeting house for religious wor- ship was soon erected, a school house was opened, and by these insti- tutions the village was created. The operation of the railroad only added to local prosperity, and Rathboneville became an established and permanent fact; and to-day it is the principal village of that town. The population of the " ville," as briefl)' called, is hardly more than one hundred and fifty, yet here is a busy hamlet. The leading indus- tries are the saw and grist mills of F. J. Brady ; the hay press of E. M. Cafferty ; large general stores of M. P. Young and J. F. Boyer ; tobacco store and barber shop of town clerk, Jesse F. Cole; the blacksmith shop of W. S. Wilson, and the hotel (Magnolia House) kept by H. Bird. The public institutions are the district school and the M. E. church. The Village of Rexville. — In 1849 Charles and Daniel Rexford came into the valley of Bennett's Creek and built a saw mill on the site of the village named for them. They also erected the first frame build- ing in the town and opened a tavern which was called the " Eagle." These enterprising brothers were also instrumental in bringing about many improvements in the settlement and were in all respects useful and progressive citizens. However, they sold the tavern to James McCormick and soon afterward left the village. In 1855 Jesse Jones and Dr. Cyrus B. Knight opened a store in the village, and soon after- ward a mail route was established through this part of the valley. Thus the village settlement became a fact, and although never having more than 200 population it is a business center of some importance. The public buildings are the Methodist Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches and the district school. The merchants are Failing & Co., CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 343 Mrs. Sarah P. Harden, Joseph McKeon, Bernard Harrigan anil John McCorniick. Postmaster, John P. Harden. The manufacturing indus- tries of the village are the combined saw and grist mill, built in 1872 and 1876, owned by Mortimer Richey ; the cheese factory owned by O. Snyder and operated by Edwin Carpenter, and a few other small shops. RlSlNe;viLl,E. — This hamlet is located in the southwest part of the town about three miles from Thurston village. It was named in allusion to Noble A. Rising and was brought into existence by the erection of a large mill in the year 1852. The mill was built by Josephus Turbell and was one of the most complete of its kind in the county at that time. Harley Sears opened a store near the mill in 1853, a school and church were established about the same time and Risingville soon became a settlement of some importance. The post-office was established in 1853, Noble H. Rising, postmaster. The only business interests of the village of the day are those carried on by E. J. Jerry. ROGEKSVii.LE. — Among the earliest settlers on the village site were Jonas Bridge, Prosper Booth and Daniel Handy, who with John Miller built a flour mill in 1822. The post-ofnce, which down to about 1848, had been located at Beachville, was removed to this village, and at the same time William C. Rogers moved to the old store from Beachville and opened therein a select school which soon afterward became the academy. In 1850 a foundry was established by R. W. and D. Dans, near the store, for the manufacture of stoves and farming implements. The Rogersville Academy, a notable institution during its palmy days, was organized in 1849, and the buildings were erected in 1852. The Rogersville Union Seminary, an institution designed for the higher edu- tion of young ladies, was incorporated by the regents January 28, 1853. However, both of these institutions lost much of their old time impor- tance with the gradual enlargement of the public school system of the town. At its best Rogersville had a population of about 250 inhabi- tants. Twenty years ago its business interests comprised three or four stores, a good hotel, three blacksmith and two wagon shops, a broker's office and a flouring mill. There were also the academy and the semi- nary and the Methodist Episcopal and the Universalist churches. The present business interests of the village are the well stocked 344 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COTJNTT stores of Henry Weirmiller and Mundy & Root, general merchants ; the flour and feed mill of Byron Wallace, and the saw mill of Jacob Kurtz. The post-office designation of this village is South Dansville ; postmas- ter. Dyer L. Kingsley. SaVONA Village. — On the 30th of April, 1833, the village of Savona was incorporated, and thereafter became separated from the mother town of Bath so far at least as local government was concerned. The name of this little village is all that now remains of the once known town of Savona which was annexed to Bath in 1862. Had the town scheme been perpetual, our village would have been its principal trading center and metropolis, yet notwithstanding the annexation, the life of the place, both in hamlet and village character, has been one of con- tinued growth and prosperity. With the natural attractions of the county seat and the superior trading facilities offered by the enterpris- ing city of Corning, business interests in Savona have been compelled to establish themselves against opposing circumstances, yet they have grown with other branches of village life and are now firmly established. In fact Savona enjoys the same advantages of location as does Bath, and like it is in the center of a rich agricultural region. The Erie and D. L. & W. railroads are built through the village, affording excellent shipping facilities both east and west. The Conhocton also contributes its share in promoting the public welfare. It is not frequent that two incorporated villages are built up within the limits of one town, as in Bath, and both be prosperous, while the first established and incorporated happens to be a county seat. From this condition of things we may conclude that there is much of enterprise and progressiveness on the part of the younger village and its inhabitants ; at least the residents and business men of other localities claim this for Savona, and as the opinion is disinterested it carries the conviction of truth. From old records it is learned that this part of the town of Bath was for many years within the general region called Mud Creek, from the fact that that stream discharges into the Conhocton at the village site ; and in the early history of the town this point of junction was an im- portant center to lumbermen and boatmen on both streams. The pio- neer of this locality was Thomas Corbitt, 1793, followed by John Dole- son and Henry McElwee in 1794, and soon afterward by Henry Bush CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 34.'i and others. A post-office and trading center was established here about i823,Elisha McCoy being of one the early postmasters. Among the other early settlers in the locality were John Moore, David Whitaker, Uriah Hughes and others now forgotten. The water privilege offered by Mud Creek and the Conhocton had much to do with the founding of a village in this part of the town, and it only remained for the industrious inhabitants of that time and of later years to enjoy railroad facilities when that popular thoroughfare of transportation and travel superseded the slow current of the streams. Within a stone'sthrow of the the school house in the village can be found at least half a dozen substantial citizens who remember the infancy of Savona, and also the once wide popularity of Mud Creek. However, all is now changed by the the march of progress, and where only a few years ago was a struggling hamlet is now a flourishing village of si.x hundred inhabitants. The public buildings comprise the Baptist and Method'st churches, and the village school. A Union school district was org..nized in 1891, and the Savona school now compares favorably with any of like size in the county. The board of education is composed of Charles Peterson, Daniel Collier and A. Burt. The village officers are John P. Hedges, president, and Will Sanford, Jerome Freeman and George Stinson, trustees, T. C. Wall, clerk, and W. E. Joint, treasurer. The business interests comprise the grist mill of George Allen, the sash and blind factory of George Scripture, the planing-mill of Clarence Hubbard and the "patent sluice" factory of Charles Davis. The mercan- tile interests include two good general stores, Sanford & Stinson, and William Stevenson ; two drug stores, W. H. Ward and G. U. Sexton ; one hardware store W. E. Joint ; one furniture and undertaking store, A. Gushing ; a jewelry store W. M. Shutts ; two hotels, three black- smiths, a carriage shop, a cigar factory (John Ward), a music store, meat market, barber shop, two milliners, and several shops, such as are usual to country villages. Savona has one good, live newspaper, the Savona Review, well edited, and published by T. C. Wall. SONORA. — This hamlet is a small post-office settlement in the north- east part of the town of Bath, and three miles north of Savona. Haifa- a century ago Sonora and Savona were regarded as sister hamlets, the 44 346 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COTINTY. advantage and location, however, being with the latter. The store of P. A. Bryant, a blacksmith and carpenter shop, comprise the business interests of the place. Here, also, is the school of district 14, and a Methodist church. South Addison. — In the early history of the north part of the present town of Tuscarora, Amos Carr made a settlement and improve- ment, and from him the locality was designated Carrtown. However, when a post- office was established in the little hamlet which was built up, the name South Addison was adopted, and has since been continued. About a mile from this settlement was built in 1856 a large tannery, around which another cluster of dwellings was built. The present in- stitutions of South Addison comprise the nearby school and the M. E. church. The Addison tannery was built in 1856, by Robert Hammond, and although twice partly burned, it has been an important industry of the town. It was bought in 1865 by W. Stratton, from whom it became known as Stratton's tannerj'. In 1893 it became a part of of the large syndicate called the United Leather Company. South Bradford is a hamlet situate in the south part of the town of Bradford, and on the highest land in the town. JoelHallock cleared the first land on the village site. Increase Cooley was the first store- keeper, and Moses Ellas the first hotel- keeper. The present interests comprise two stores, a few small shops, while the public buildings are the Baptist and Methodist churches and the district school South Howard. — This is a post-office station located in the south- east part of the town. Postmaster, Samuel T. Hoagland. South PulteNEY, or Bluffport, is a hamlet and post-office in the southeast part of the town of Pulteney. South Troupsburg is a post-office hamlet in the south part of the town of Troupsburg. The postmaster here is James B. Murdock. This place has a general store. Stephens Mills. — This little hamlet, otherwise known as Fremont Center, was named in allusion to Elisha G. Stephens, who for a period of more than half a century was identified with the best interests and • history of the town. In 1833 Mr. Stephens purchased the Upson farm, near the center of the town, and engaged extensively in milling, lum- JAMES B. MURDOCK. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 347 bering and farming, and as a result of his industry the village settle- ment was built up. He also established the hotel and secured the post- ofifice for this place. The hotel he built in 1854, and in 1839, on the death of his daughter, caused the pretty cemetery to be laid out. In the village are three churches, tlie Methodist Episcopal, Advent and Evangelical, the latter just outside the village proper. The merchants at the center are N. Davis, E. R. Killbury, B. Pickle & Son and E. L. Welsh. The industries are the mill, established by Mr. Upson, and now owned by Jesse L. Spaulding; W. B. Stephens' saw mill and shoe last factory, and the blacksmith shops of J. A. Kester and L. Clark. The local postmaster is John Helmer. Thurston Village. — This hamlet is situated in the east part of the town on Michigan Creek, and until a comparatively recent day was known as Merchantville. In 1841 Edwin Merchant bought the village site and opened a blacksmith and wagon shop between Hawley's farm and Eddy's tanner}'. In 1845 he built a saw mill, and in 1854 Alva Carpenter and O. P. Alderman bought a stock of goods of Harley Sears and began doing business. From that time Merchantville has been a trading point and business center. Mail is received daily from Camp- bell station. However, Thurston village has lost much of its oldtinie importance and now numbers hardly more than 100 inhabitants. Here is located the Methodist Episcopal and Christian churches, the district school house, two stores, a few shops and about twenty-five dwellings. The merchants are J. \V. Colson and J. M. Alderman. Postmaster, Frank Allerton. TfjWLESViLLE. — This hamlet is located about a mile west from the town line, on the Turnpike road, and was named from Richard Towle, a prominent early settler in the vicinity. This place has two churches, the Baptist and Methodist Episcopal, a school, four stores and one or two shops. The merchants are H. Clark McChesney, Hollie Hoagland and Will Boughter, general stores; G. R. De Groat, hardware. Black- smith, George Wyckoff. Troupsburg Village is a pleasantly situated hamlet, near the cen- ter of the town and on Troup Creek. Independent of the surrounding country, the hamlet has little history, for its founding and subsequent growth were almost wholly due to the necessities of the inhabitants of 348 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY the locality; and not at any time during the period of its history has the local population exceeded 250. Pioneer George Martin, better known as "Captain" Martin, made the hamlet beginning here when he built the saw mill on the creek many years ago. This improvement was followed by the country store, then a public house, and finally the the small shops incident to such places completed the village settlement. However, as the hamlet grew in importance and the surrounding township became freely settled, an academy was founded which en- joyed for many years a prosperous existence, and afforded educational advantages not obtainable in all towns. After its destruction by fire the academy was followed by a graded district school of excellent standing among the institutions of the county. As at present constituted the business interests of Troupsburg comprise several well appointed gen- eral stores, saw and feed mills, several blacksmiths and wagon and repair shops, a good hotel and about forty dwellings. The Methodist Epis- copal and Baptist churches are also located here, and will be found more fully mentioned in another department. The postmaster at Troupsburg is Benjamin F. Ford. Wallace. — This is a small hamlet situated northeast of Avoca, in the Conhocton Valley, and on the line of the Erie and Delaware, Lack- awanna & Western Railroads. To these lines of travel the hamlet owes its greatest prosperity and almost its very existence. The local post- master is J. H. Cotton. Wayland Village. — The town of Wayland was brought into ex- istence chiefly through the efforts of John Hess and Myron M. Patchin, and the village in an equal measure was brought into life by the energy of James G. Bennett, also one of the leading men of the town. He secured the consolidation of the previously existingpost-offices of Patch- inville and Begola, under the name of Wajland Depot, in 1848, by which designation the place was known until 1884, when the word "Depot" was dropped. As Mr. Jervis has said, "The building of the Erie Rail- road determined finally the location of the village and assisted in its growth. The nearest station to Dansville, all the traffic from that en- terprising village passed through Wayland ; and the old stage coach, with its four horses and Captain McHenry in charge, is vividly re- membered by the older citizens — the four horses reduced to one and the CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 349 old coach exchanged for a 'buck-board' made its last trip over this his- toric route on July 20, 1889." However, later railroad constructions added greatly to local advancement. The now known Delaware, Lack- awanna & Western road was built tlirough the town and opened for traffic in 1882, and the Rochester, Hornellsvilie & Lackawanna began business January 25, 1888. By the latter the village was given direct communication with Horneiisviile, and the tiiree thoroughfares of travel and transportation combined to make this village one of the most im- portant railroad points in the county. The village, too, has profited by these roads, and if we may be guided by the prophecy of observing men the future of Wayland is to be one of continued prosperity and substantial growth. In 1877 the population and business interests were such as to create a demand for incorporation. Consequentl)' in April of that year the Court of Sessions made an order by which the place advanced from the hamlet to the village character. The first officers were elected on May 22, 1877, and were as follow? : H. S. Rosenkrans, president; N. N. St. John, Guy Bennett, Henry Schley, trustees ; Torrey S. Beeman, col- lector ; George Morehouse, treasurer. C. C. Tinker was the first clerk. The present officers are : Geor£;e C. Whitman, president ; B. Kusch,jr , Frank Kester and W. W. Capron, jr., trustees and assessors ; P. H. Zimmerman, clerk; Frank K. Smith, treasurer; S. B. Young, collector. The incorporation of the village was an absolute necessity, for at that time the population appro.ximated 600, and improvements were needed which could not be secured at the general expense of the town. The trustees first caused suitable sidewalks to be laid, then secured a system of street lighting, and provided against some of the annoying elements incident to hamlets. A small though efficient fire department was organized, the present apparatus being a good truck. Champion Hook and Ladder Co., comfortably housed in Music Hall. The Union School of the village is one of its best institutions, aca- demic in character, and standing in the front rank among the schools of the county. The present trustees are W. W. Clark, Julian A. Mor- ris, William Flory, George C. Beitzel and R. C. Nicl. The business interests of Wayland are noted for their stability, and notwithstanding the disastrous fire of 1883, by which many buildings 350 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY were destroyed, the present condition of affairs is an improvement upon the former. In truth, there is much progressiveness and public- spiritedness on the part of this German and American municipality and its people. There are a number of good hotels, among them the Bryant House, kept by O. F. Leiders ; the Commercial, by N. Schu, jr.; the Central, by Shepard Rowell ; the Wayland, by Thomas Cramer ; the Engel, by Frank Engel, and the Rauber, by J. N. Rauber. The mercantile interests are represented substantially as follows : Dry goods, J. I. Sterner, A, L. Morley, C. Gottschall & Son ; grocers, John C. Mehlenbacker, Weinhart Bros., Kausch Bros., T. K. Smith, W. N. Deitzel, Mrs. M. Rauver ; hardware, M. Kimmel & Son, Geo. E. Whlteman & Co.; druggists. Guile & Snyder; baker, Gunderman & Huppes ; furniture, J. A. Rosenkrans, agent ; boots and shoes, George Nold, G. Zeilbeer & Son ; meat markets, George Fox, Frank Reufern- barth ; jewelers, A. J. Pardee, J. M. Purcell ; undertakers, V. Kausch, jr., Rosenkrans & Tinker ; cigar dealers and makers, Sherman Bassler, A. M. Hartshorn ; wholesale liquors, Edward Tyler ; coal and produce, W. W. Capron, jr., H. W. Hatch & Son, B. J. Scott & Son; bankers, Morris & Morris, a private bank, established in 1887. The Wayland Register and the Union Advertiser, are enterprising weekly newspapers published in the village, the former by Bert Goodno, and the latter by H. B. Newell. Among the manufacturing industries of the village the cement com- panies demand first attention. The Wayland Portland Cement Com- pany began the manufacture of a superior grade of cement in 189 1, and almost at once gained great popularity with their product in the market. The works were burned July 4, 1892, but were immediately rebuilt. This concern manufactures 300 barrels of cement daily. A second company under the same name is ready to begin business, and also promises to become an extensive industry in the village. The pro- prietors of the company first mentioned are T. Millin & Co. Messrs. SchafTer and Wolf are proprietors of a combined planing and saw mill, and are also contractors and builders. The second saw mill is owned by W. F. Kiel. The village blacksmiths are B. J. Scott, Frank Kester, J. M. Ryder, William Drumm, H. Teed and E. Harter. The flouring mill at Patchinville is owned by J. P. Morsch. MARTIN KIMMHL. CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS 351 In addition to the business interests already enumerated, we may mention as elements of municipal life four organized church societies, the Methodist Episcopal, Evangelical, Roman Catholic and Christian ; also tlie customary social and fraternal organizations, prominent among which is Lodge 176, I. O. O. F. The principal entertainment hall is Wienhart's Opera House. The population of Wayland village in 1880 was 605, and 679 in 1890. Wayland Depot is a hamlet on the D., L. & W. Road. Here are two hotels and the station, but no business interests of any impor- tance. Wayne Villa(;e is a pretty little hamlet lying in the northeast por- tion and partly in the adjoining county of Schuyler. As a trading center the village possesses some commercial importance yet a fair pro- portion of business interests are outside the boundaries of this town. The more recent enterprises are embraced in three good general stores, two feed mills, a saw mill and basket factory, and a few shop.s. Here, also, are two hotels, a good school, and the Episcopal, Baptist and Methodist churches, the latter being referred to elsewhere in this work. The postmaster at Wayne is Edson Bailey. Wayne Four Corners is a settlement and trading center in the south part of Wayne, having a few business interests of various kinds. The postmaster here is C. A. Castner. West Caton. — A post-office was established at this point in 1S88 (May 29). The hamlet is situated in the northwest corner of the town. The merchant here is S. E. Ouackenbush, and the mill proprietor C. D. Barnard. The mill was built in i860. Postmaster, S. E. Quacken- bush. Wheeler Village. — This little hamlet is pleasantly situated near the center of the town of the same name, and although it has never attained to a position of an)' special prominence among the villages of the county, it is nevertheless an important trading center and also an excellent shipping point on the line of the Kanona and Frattsburg Rail- road. The necessity of a trading post within the town led to the build- ing up of the hamlet and a post-ofiice was established here many years ago. Levi Gray was the first postmaster, followed by Daniel Gray, O. v. Marshall and Ephraim Auils in the order mentioned. The busi- 352 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. ness interests of the hamlet are few, yet sufificient to supply all local demands. The merchants are E. K. Derick and Fred F. Lewis, while the other interests are embraced in the few small shops incident to country hamlets. However, the saw mill owned and operated by Charles M. Renchan is one of the largest industries of its kind in all Steuben county. The village church and district school are the only public buildings worthy of note. The Villa(;e of VVoodhull. — This is one of the most important of the unincorporated villages in the county, and is situated near the center of a large farming district, hence attracts trade of such character as to materially advance all local interests. Moreover, the village is noted for its delightful situation and beautiful surroundings. The first beginning on the village site was made in 1806 by Caleb Smith, builder of the first mills in the town. Micajah Sherwood was also an early settler here and largely instrumental in building up the hamlet. Jus- of the Peace Calvin Searles was an early comer here, as also were Joseph Tubbs, landlord ; Levi Tubbs, carpenter and shoemaker ; Lyman Rosier, blacksmith ; Ichabod Leach, merchant and potash manufac turer ; Ira Smith, storekeeper, and others. In these primitive indus- tries was laid the foundation of the village, and after the separate or- ganization of the town the little hamlet became the chief center of trade. The village is on both sides of the Tuscarora, the stream being spanned by » substantial bridge. The public buildings of the village are the churches (elsewhere mentioned) and the public schools. The merchants are E. & D. Colvin, C. W. Tubbs, N. B. Payne, Gee & Stroud, general stores; J. S. Warner and J. C. Husted, druggists; James A. Walker and George A. Candy, hardware ; E. & D. Colvin, and White Brothers, meat markets; F. S. Prutzman and M. E. Colvin, jewelers; H. P. Smith & Son, furniture dealers. The local lawyer is E. T. HoUis; the milliners are Mrs. Payne and Mrs. HoUis ; the blacksmiths are Ran- dall Prutzman, Jacob Salisbur)', Samuel Colgrove, ; wagon shops, W. P. Perry, M. P. Wilson, and Frank Olin ; barber, S. H. Barrett, who is also town clerk. The hotels are kept by James R. Lautz and Edward Potter. Woodhull is also the seat of publication of a good family newspaper, CITIES, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. 353 the Southern Steuben Republican, edited and published by R. C. Park. This paper was founded in 187935 the Steuben Sentinel and independ- ent in politics, but eventually becoming a Republican paper, changed its name to Republican. In addition to the business interests noted, the village and its imme- diate vicinity is the seat of several manufacturing industries, also worthy of mention. They are the furniture factory of William Benjamin; the saw mill and feed mill of Lamson & Rartle ; the saw, feed and cider mills of James W. Miller; the saw and grist mills of Baldwin & Stryker, and the cheese factories of George Harris and William Wildrick. In addition to these are the lesser interests and industries, all of which combine to establish a prosperous suburban village. The postmaster of WoodhuU is S. L. Wildrick. The Woodhull Academy and Union School is the pride and glory of every loyal inhabitant of the town, and is indeed a worthy institution. It was built in 1868 and designed for academic purposes, the most prominent of its supporters being Hamilton Marlatt, and Orrin B. Baxter, the former donating the site on which the building was erected. The academy was incorporated under the statute, but was soon after- ward deeded to the district and established as a Union Free School, with an academic department. The first principal was Prof Jeffreys. The present principal is Miss Belle Ingersoll. The members of the Board of Education are Delancy Colvin, S. L. Wildrick, N. P. Matson, Hiram Ten Broeck, and William Carpenter. Young Hickory is a post-ofiRce and trading hamlet in the south- west part of the town of. Troupsburg, where is one or two industries. Postmaster, Nathan E. Wallace. 45 354 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. CHAPTER XXI. CHURCHES. The Presbyterian church at Arkport was organized in 1852, although services of this denomination had been held in the locality for many years previous. About the time of organization and building the church edifice this society was very strong in the south part of the town, and although the church has ever continued to work, during recent years there has been a noticeable decline in interest and membership, the number now being about 1 10 The Sunday school is large, having 170 pupils under the superintendency of John Hurlbut The present pastor. Rev. Erwin C. Hull, came to this church in April, 1885. The trustee are William S. Hurlbut, Lot Reznor, Norman O. Wheeler, Seth M. Huntly, Henry Sharp, Michael Webber, James P. Wolever, Henry Colgrove, Wright Newsom. The Methodist Protestant Church at Arkport was organized in July, 1884, and was the outgrowth of a class formed many years ago on Pennsylvania Hill. In the same year also, the neat church edifice was built, at a cost of about $2,500. Rev. F. A. Snow was their pastor, and was followed by W. T. Edds and O. P. Wildey, the latter now offi- ciating. The membership is about 100, and the trustees are G. C. Syl- vester, Arthur Hathaway, M. A. Emery, Harrison Osborne, and Ira McMichael. The First Presbyterian church of Hornellsville was organized July 10, 1832. (See history of city of Hornellsville.) The First Methodist Episcopal church (Park church) of Hornellsville was organized in 1830. (See history of city of Hornellsville.) St. Ann's Roman Catholic church of Hornellsville was organized in 1843. (See city history.) The First Baptist church of Hornellsville was organized in 1852. (See city history.) CHURCHES. 355 Christ's church, Episcopal, of Hornellsville was organized March 6, 1854. (See city history.) The East Avenue M. E. church, Hornellsville, was organized in 1885. (See city history.) The South Side M. E. church, Hornellsville, was organized 1895. (See city history.) The Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's church, Hornellsville, was organ- ized in i860. (See city history.) The Hartshorn Presbyterian church, Hornellsville, was organized in 1890. (See city history.) The South Side Baptist church, Hornellsville, was organized Septem- ber 18, 1893. (See city history.) The Jasper Baptist church was organized on the 9th of February, 18 1 7, its original members being Nathaniel and Rebecca Seelye, Bed- ford, William and John George, Charles and Phebe Card, and Lurena Harrington. Fourteen were added to the church in June, 1817. This organization was effected in Troupsburg, which then included this local- ity in part, and the society was first known as Troupsburg Baptist church, but later changed to Jasper Baptist church. The first church house was begun in 1834, and finished in 1841. The church at present is included in the Canisteo River Association, and is small, having but forty-two members. The church property is valued at $1,500. The pastor is Rev. A. W. Mettlar The First Presbyterian church of Jasper was organized October 29, 1829, with twenty-five members, although as early as 1825 Enoch Ord- way formed a Presbyterian Sunday school, and in 1828 a society was organized to form Sunday schools throughout the town. The church was annexed to the Presbytery of Bath and afterward of Chemung, but was restored to the Bath Presbytery in 1847. As the first regularly in- corporated religious society in the town, this church received the "gos- pel lot " from the Pulteney Association. The first house of worship was built in 1844, but was burned in 1846. The second building, located in the Hampshire settlement, was erected and dedicated in 1847, t>ut was abandoned in 1872, on the completion of the large and attractive edifice at Jasper village. This church now numbers 108 members, and is under the pastoral charge of Rev. Charles McCarthy. 356 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. The First Methodist Episcopal church of Jasper was the outgrowth of early class meetings held by Mrs. S. A. Grinolds and Mrs. Smith, be- ginning about 1818, and soon afterward a church organization was effected, although a house of worship was not built until about 1834 or 1835. The present edifice at Jasper village is an attractive and com- fortable building, and, with the parsonage, is valued at $7,^.00. The church has 130 members, and the Sunday school 195 attendants. The pastor is Rev. John Wootton. The Talbot Creek or North Jasper M. E. church is an offshoot from the village church, and is a part of the same charge, under the same pastorate. The members number about forty persons. The First Wesleyan Methodist church at West Jasper was organized in March, 187 1, at the " Gully" school house, by Rev. Mr. Sinabaugh. There were less than half a dozen original members, but the number is now grown to sixty- one. The church house was built in 1874, and dedicated February 14, 1875. This society is now without a pastor. The Presbyterian church of Woodhull was organized October 15, 1 83 1, by Rev. Isaac Flagler, with sixteen original members. The first pastor was Rev. Warren Day, followed by Rev. Mr. Pomeroy. This society received the " gospel lot " from the Pulteney Association for the first organized church in the town. In 1861, in association with the Methodist society, this church erected an edifice at Hedgesville. The Union Baptist church of Woodhull was organized in March, 1858, and was the result of a union of two older societies, known as the Woodhull Baptist church, formed November 20, 1835, and the Newville Baptist church, organized in June, 1849. The united societies caused to be erected the church edifice at Woodhull in 1856. This is now and for many years has been one of the strongest churches of the town, the present members numbering 123. The pastor is Rev. G. W. Barnes. In the Sunday school are eighty pupils, under the superintendency of J. C. Husted. The Methodist Episcopal church of Woodhull dates its history back to a little earlier than 1840, although an organization was not eftected until 1846, when a church was built in Woodhull village. A second organization was effected in 1848, and in 1 861 a church edifice built at Hedgesville, in union with the Presbyterian society. The M. E. CHURCHES. 357 churches of VVoodhull now number 148 members and nine probationers. The present pastor is Rev. J. L. King. The Free Baptist church ofWoodhull was organized about 1834, with seven original members. The second church was organized February 18, 1852, at which time eleven persons constituted the membership. The house of worship was built at an expense of $2,000, and was dedi- cated in August, 1875. The Methodist Episcopal church of Greenwood was organized in 1827, under the class leadership of Enos Mead. Methodist services, however, were held in this vicinity as early as 1825-26, by Rev. Asa Orcutt. The society maintained an existence for nearly twenty-five years, meeting in convenient places, but in 185 i a reorganization was effected and the affairs of the church established upon a more secure basis. The edifice in the village was built by popular contribution, and cost $5,000. It was dedicated September 14, 1876 This church has an active membership of ninety-nine, with nineteen probationers. In the Sunday school are 108 pupils. The present pastor is Rev. D. E. Stiles. The Universalist churcli of Greenwood was organized in 185 I, and the house of worship in the village was erected in 1852. The first meetings of this denomination were held in the old stone school house. The society is now without a pastor. The First Christian church of Greenwood was formed February 19, 1876, by Rev. John H. Cheeseman, who began his work in the town about 1871. The original members numbered seventeen persons, but materially increased. In 1878-9 the church edifice on Main street was erected. The pastor is Rev. E. D. Chapman. The Methodist Episcopal church at Rexville was not organized until within a quite recent date, although Methodist meetings and services were held in this locality as early as 1 831, and were continued regularly until the society was formed. The church edifice in the village was built in 1870 and dedicated in August of that year. St. Mary's church, Roman Catholic at Rexville, was regularly organ- ized as a parish about the year 1869, although several priests had said masses and conducted services in this field regularly since 1845. Father McMuUen moved his residence from Greenwood to Rexville about 1870 358 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. and within the next two years a church edifice was built. The structure was burned February 13, 1877, and immediately replaced with the present edifice. A parochial school was established in this parish in 1889, but soon afterward discontinued. The present pastor of St. Mary's is Rev. Dr. H. J. McConnell. The Presbyterian church of Canisteo was formed in 1836, but after a few years of struggling existence the society dissolved. No special effort at reorganization was made previous to July, 1849, when Rev. Horatio Pettengill began preaching in the village, and the result of liis labors was a complete organization on March 20, 1852, with B. C. Richey, N. C. Taylor, W. B. Jones, Peter Myers, T. J. Magee and Wm. H. Mead as constituent members. A lot was purchased from the Pultenex' estate on which to erect a church edifice. The cost was $1,360. The corner stone was laid in May, 1852, and the church was dedicated February 15, 1853. The edifice was enlarged and remodeled in 1877. This is one of the large and influential religious societies of the town, the present membership numbering 308; the Sunday school has 361 attendants, and is under the superintendence of Benjamin Stephens. The present pastor, Rev. Duncan Cameron, has been with this church nearly eight years. The Methodist Episcopal church of Canisteo village, the mother of the M. E. churches in the vicinity, was formally organized about the year 1850, although Methodist meetings were held in the town about as early as 1800. and were continued with some degree of regularity through all the years down to the time of organization. The first trus- tees were Jeremiah Baker, Stephen Taylor, John H. Consalus. E. L. Gray, C. P. Chamberlain and Wm. B. Jones. The church edifice was built in 1856, dedicated in 1857, and rebuilt in 1875. The present members number 221, and in the Sunday school are 330 pupils. The pastor is Rev. O. S. Chaniberlayne. The Baptist church of Canisteo was organized as a branch of the mother church at Hornellsville. November 30, 1876, although Baptist services in the town were held many years previously, and at Adrian a society had an existence. The original members of the new society numbered fifteen, and Rev. C. K. Bunnell was the first pastor. The fine brick edifice was was built in 1880 The first Baptist society in the CHURCHES. 369 town was formed in 1866. The present membership is 134. Pastor, Rev. E. P. Rrighani, settled in 1890. Clerk, T. K. Brownell. St. Joachim's church, Roman Catholic, at Canisteo, was organized about 1883, and the church edifice built at the same time, on a lot donated by Mr. Vorhis. This parish includes about forty families, and is attended from St. Ann's at Hornellsville, Rev. A. R. Barlow, pastor. The Methodist Episcopal church at Fremont was organized as a class in 1 83 1, although the first meetings of this denomination in the town were held as early as 1828 in various localities. As a result of these early missionary labors three separate classes or societies were formed in tlie town and were located at Rig Creek, Briar Hill and at Fremont Center. At the latter place a substantial church edifice was built in 1873. The Methodist charges in Fremont are now supplied by Rev. E. S. Wilcox. The Wesleyan Methodist church of P'remont was organized as a class at the Gulf school house in 1 831, and the Haskinville circuit was formed in 1855. The church edifice at the village was dedicated in December, 1876. The present pastor is Rev. James Bowen. The Evangelical Lutheran church at Fremont Center was erected in i860, although missionary preachers came among the German element of population in this town as early as 1828; and their services were continued with some degree of regularity until the society was formed. The membership in this church is constantly growing. The last pastor was Rev. Mr. Dayton. The P"irst Advent Christian church of P""remont was organized in 1870 by Rev. William Fenn, of Rochester, who first preached in a tent on the flat south of the present meeting house. The present edifice was built in I 87 1. The pastor is Rev. PI. S. Jiskok. The Cameron Presbyterian church was built in the south end of Cameron village in 1853, ^nd its society received the Pulteney donation of 100 acres of land to the first organized church of the town. The society passed out of existence many years ago and the Baptist organ- ization purchased its meeting house. The Methodist Episcopal church in Cameron was founded in 1812, when Rev. Abner Chase preached in the house of Phones Green in the Canisteo valley, and in the services conducted in after years by other 360 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY missionary workers in the same field. The first regular organization was effected in 1834. by Rev. Ira Bronson. Isaac Santee was the first class leader. The first church building was constructed in 1842, being a store remodeled for the purpose of worship, and was located at West Cameron. It was deeded to the society by Luther White in 1865. From this humble beginning the church in the town has been built up, and now, within the limits of Cameron are four organized Methodist societies, each with a comfortable house of worship, and all under the charge of Rev. W. D. Allen. They are located, respectively, at Cam- eron, West Cameron, North Hill and South Hill. The village class was formed in 185 i, with thirteen members. The South Hill church was built in 1872. The members of the church in the town number 100, with ten probationers. The Baptist church of Cameron was constituted in 1847, although meetings of the denomination were held in the town several years pre- viously. The society purchased the old meeting house formerly occu- pied by the dissolved Presbyterian church, the building being removed to a more suitable location and rededicated in October, 1871. In the south part of the town is located the East Cameron Baptist church, which was dedicated June 3, 1861. The association records give this church a membership of fifty-one persons, many of them residents of Woodhull. The Baptist clergymen in the town are Revs. C. E. Stuart and A. W. Mettlar. The Christian church of Cameron was organized about the year 1850, and the edifice in the east part of the town was built in 1854. The Roman Catholic church at Cameron is of recent organization, and is attended from Addison by F"ather M. Noonan. A Presbyterian church and Sunday school were organized in the southeast part of the county, in the town now called Caton, about the year 1825. Meetings were held in Gilbert's mill, also in barns, for sev- eral years, and in 1833 ^ house of worship was completed. Rufus and William L. Howe and Stephen L. Gregory built the edifice. After a struggling and feeble existence of about thirty years this society dis- solved. The Methodist Plpiscopal church in Caton had its inception in the class formed in 1833 by Thomas Wheat, a local preacher. The society CHURCHES. . 361 was formed soon afterward and meetings were held in school houses and dwellings until 1840, when the house of worship at the Center was com- pleted. It was dedicated in 1842. The second church edifice was dedicated January 16, 1868. The present pastor of this church is Rev. D. B. Kellogg. The Caton Baptist church was organized August 23, 1832, as the First Baptist church of Painted Post, and in 1840 became known under its present name. In 1842 the church was made a separate charge. The first edifice was erected on the hill, overlooking the village, near where the old cemetery is located. The second house of worship was built in 1862. The present membership numbers fifty-one persons. Pastor, Rev. L. D. Ayers. The Free Methodist church of Caton was organized in 1865, and about the same time the house of worship was built in the northeast part of the town. Pastor, Rev. G. T. Labrum. The First Baptist church of Campbell was organized as a branch of the Savona society, in 1870. In 1873 the house of worship was built. At present this church is a joint charge with Erwin, the total member- ship being 153. I'astor, Rev. J. C. Stowell. The Catholic church at Campbell is a recent organization, and in its parish includes all the Catholic families of the vicinity. It is attended from Bath. The F"irst Presbyterian church of Campbell was organized February 14, 1831, and was the outgrowth of the older society known as the Campbell and Mud Creek church, the history of which dated back to the year 1812 The church edifice was built in 1833. and was replaced with a more substantial structure in 1867; dedicated February 4, 1868. The society has a good parsonage. The present members number abont 125 persons. Pastor, Rev. E. P. Salmon. The Methodist Episcopal church'of Campbell was formed as a class about 1827, and as a society soon afterward. However, it was not until 1869 that the society purchased and occupied the old Presbyterian church building, which was remodeled and improved. It was dedicated January 21, 1869, This church has i 14 members and probationers, and a Sunday school of ninety- five pupils. The pastor is Rev. D. L. Pitts. The Methodist Episcopal church in Thurston has comprised three 46 362 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. separate charges. The first class was formed in the Bonny Hill district about the year 1825, and for many years was a part of the Bath charge. A church edifice was built and dedicated in 1843. The Methodist Episcopal church of Risingville was organized about 1850, and its church edifice erected in 1864. The class at Merchantville was formed previ- ous to 1850 and its church edifice was built in 1861. The churches last mentioned are under the pastoral charge of Rev. D. L. Pitts. The Clinton church of Thurston was organized March 26, 1836, at Smith school house in Bath, but in 1842 was transferred to West Hill in Thurston, The church edifice was dedicated June 27, 1852. The members number about seventy- five. This society is now without a pastor. The Methodist Episcopal church in Wayland dates back in its history to the first years of settlement in the town by the pioneers, yet the absence of reliable data precludes the possibility of furnishing data of either organization or subsequent growth. Two sepaiate charges have been established, the one at Loon Lake and the other at Wayland vil- lage, the latter a large and growing church both in influence and numer- ical strength. The present members number ninety persons, with 100 pupils in the Sunday-school. The present pastor is Rev. W. O. Feet. The German Evangelical church of Wayland dates its organization back to about the year 1868, and a house of worship was built about the same time. The new edifice in the village is a substantial and com- fortable structure. The society is strong in members and influence. The present pastor is Rev. J. W. Thompson. The Christian church of Wayland was organized in 1864, and a chapel was built during the same year. This society is without a resident pastor. The German Lutheran church, St. Peter's at Perkinsville, was orga- nized in 1845, ^^^ includes in its membership about 150 of the German families in this part of the town. The house of worship and the parson- age are valued at about $5,000. Pastor, Rev. R. Krause. The Church of the Sacred Heart, Roman Catholic, was organized in 1850, its parish including the catholic families (many of them German) in that part of the town. Connected with church is a parochial school, having seventy pupils, under the instruction of three Sisters of Mercy. The priest in charge of the parish is Rev. Father A. L. Huber. CHURCHES. 363 St. Joseph's church, Roman Catliolic, at Wayland village, was orga- nized as a parisli in 1880, and regularly incorporated the following year. The parochial school was organized in 1884. It has sixty-five pupils undor the instruction of three Sisters of Mercy. Pastor, Rev. C. Kaelen. The First Baptist church and society of Hartsville were organized on the second Sunday in November, 1838, the original members being ten in number. This is a comparatively large society and has a comfor- table meeting-house at Hartsville Center. It numbers about ninety members but at present is without a pastor. In 1894 this church did not report to the association. The First Methodist ICpiscopal church in Hartsville was organized by Rev. James HemingwEy in June, 1825, with Lewis Clark and Robert Martin, stewards. The substantial church edifice at Hartsville Center was built and dedicated in 1870, and adjoining it is a comfortable par- sonage. The church numbers fifty-nine members and six probationers, and in the Sunday-school are forty-five pupils. The present pastor is Rev. George L. Spencer of Hornellsville South Side M. E. church. The Seventh Day Baptist church of Hartsville, was organized in 1836, by Hiram P. Burdick, and was the outgrowth of his early and boyhood christian teachings and life. The meeting-house in the west part of the town was built in 1856, and cost $2,800. The East Troupsburg Baptist church was organized in 1857, as- sociation minutes, although Baptist services were held in the locality as earl)' as 1835, and early meetings were held in dwellings and school- houses. The " Chenango Settlement " church was built and dedicated in 1875. This church now numbers ninety-six members, and is under the pastoral care of Rev. J. W. Lyon. The Troupsburg Baptist church was organized in 1844, the result of the labors of Rev. Mr. Wade. The edifice at the Center was built in 1874. The present membership in this church is 128, with fifty-two pupils in the Sunday- school. Pastor, Rev. I. H. Beman. The Troupsburg Free- Will Baptist church was organized in 1850, and numbered about forty persons. The Methodist Episcopal church in Troupsburg dates its history back to the year 1819, when pioneer Uzal McMindes formed and led a class at the houses of Mr. Douglass and Samuel Rice. Samuel Griggs 364 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY and Samuel Cady were later class-leaders. This society was donated the " Gospel lot " by the Pulteney association, being lOO acres of land. The church edifice at the Center was built in 1872. The Methodist members in this town number 108, and in the Sunday-school are ninety attendants. The present paster is Rev. F. H. Rowley. The Methodist Episcopal church of Dansville was the outgrowth of early meetings on Oak Hill as early as the year 1817. Parker Buell and James Bronson were the first preachers, and Robert Butler the first class leader. An organization was perfected about the same time and in 1819 the first log church in the town was built. This old building was abandoned for the new church edifice at Rogersville which was dedicated July 19, 1841. In 1862 a new church on Oak Hill was built and dedicated. This is one of the largest churches in the town the members numbering 230. The Sunday-school has 150 attendance. Pastor, A. R. Cheverton. The First Baptist church of Dansville was organized about the year 1820 with ten members but after a struggling existence of about half a century, during which the society suffered from factional differences, the organization was dissolved. The Universalist church of Dansville was organized about 1850, chiefly through the eftbrts of Rev. Asa Upson. The church edifice was built in the village in 1852. This society, like some others in the town, has experienced a life of vicissitudes and for a time no meetings were held. It was revived, however, and placed upon a more substantial basis. Its present pastor is Rev. H. P. Morrell. The Baptist church of Howard village was organized February 6, 1826, with nine members, and Rev. B. B. Brigham, first pastor. The house of worship was erected in 1835, and substantially repaired in 1877. Present members, eighty-eight; pastor. Rev. D. J. Allen. The Baptist church at Towlesville, in the town of Howard, was orga- nized in 1844, and has since had a prosperous existence. The mem- bers number eighty-three, and the society is at present under the pas- toral charge of Rev. Mr. House, successor to Rev. C. Saulsbury. The Presbyterian church of Howard was organized in 1834, and dur- ing the same year built a comfortable house of worship. The church has a large membership and its services are well attended. The pastor is Rev. Mr. Webster. CHURCHES. 365 The Methodist Episcopal cliurch of Howard is among the older re- ligious organizations of the town, dating its history back to the pioneer days. The present pastor is Rev. Mr. Piercy. The Wesleyan Methodist church at Buena Vista is also to be men- tioned among tlie substantial church organization of the town of How- ard. The pastor is Rev. F. S. Lee. The Wayne Baptist church was constituted in 1 794, and is therefore one of the oldest religious organizations of the region. Rev. Elphraim Todd was the first pastor and served in that capacity for thirty years, until 1S23. This church has been a member of several associations, the Chemung, Cayuga, Ontario and Steuben, in succession. The pres- ant members number fifty nine, and the church property is valued at $1,500. Present pastor. Rev. C. Townsend. St. John's church, Protestant Episcopal, of Wayne, was organized as a parish November 20, 1871, although the mission was established in 1840. Services have been held here frequently, though not regularly. In 1872 the society purchased the Presbyterian church edifice, which was consecrated in September, 1875. St. John's now has twenty- two communicating members. The Presbyterian church of Wayne was organized December 21, 1809, by Rev. John Lindsley, missionary, under the General Assembly. However, after an existence of about half a century the society was dis- solved in 1869, and the church edifie was sold to St. John's church. The Methodist Episcopal church of Wayne was formed February 28, 1837, although class meetings had been held in the town at a much earlier date. A church house was provided in 1839. The Baptist church of Bradford was organized in 1834, having si.Kty constituent members, and about the same year a church house was erected. In 1835 the church was admitted to membership in the Steu- ben Baptist Association. The present members number 1 14, and the church property is valued at $3,500. The South Bradford Baptist church was organized July 29, 1848, and the church edifice was completed and dedicated during the following year. It is a member of the Steuben Association. The present membership is eighty-five. The First Methodist Episcopal church of South Bradford was organ- 366 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY ized as a class in 1826, on Oak Hill, and the church organization was perfected on February 23, 1847. The original members numbered thirteen; the present members number 136, with thirty-two probation- ers. However, this number includes the members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Bradford, which was formed April 26, 1876. The houses of worship are at Bradford and South Bradford, respectively, and constitute a single charge. St. Andrew's church, Protestant Episcopal, was formally organized on the 8th of June, 185 i, although previous to that time services had been held with some degree of regularity by clergymen from Ham- mondsport and elsewhere. A comfortable church edifice was erected and consecrated in 1866, during the rectorate of Rev. J. T. Gushing. The present rector of St. Andrews is Rev. Henry S. Dennis. St. James' Episcopal church at Hammondsport was formally organ- ized June 15, 1829, although as early as 1825 the Rev. W. W. Bostwick labored as a missionary in this field. He also became the first rector of the newly organized parish, and continued in that relation until 1842 ; and during his rectorship, in 1832-33, the first church edifice was built, and on August 28 of the latter year the church was consecrated by Bishop Onderdonk. The cornerstone of a new church edifice was laid by Bishop Coxe, April 18, 1876, and the consecration services were held June 12, 1877. This latter structure fell a victim to the elements on August 2, 1894, and was at once replaced with the present edifice, a handsome building of Warsaw bluestone. The corner stone was laid June 8, 1895, and the entire cost of the edifice was about $13,000. The first rector, Mr. Bostwick, was succeeded in 1842 by Rev. Philemon E. Coe, a deacon, and he in turn was followed by Rev. Erastus Spaulding, the latter serving from 1843 to 1849. Rev L. VV. Russ came ne.vt, 1849-50, followed by Rev. Charles Woodward, 1850-52. Rev. Robert N. Parke was rector from 1853 to 1855, succeeded by Rev. Daniel E. Loveridge, 1855-70. Rev. James Stoddard was rector from 1870 to 1873, and Rev. John T. Gushing during 1875-74, Rev. H. B. Gardner came in 1875 and remained until 1880, then being followed by Rev. John V. Stryker, who died April 6, 1892. The present rector, Rev. Thomas Dirck, came to the parish in June, 1892, and under his pastoral direction the new and beautiful church edifice has been erected. St. CHURCHES. 367 James' church is one of the most vvorthj- institutions of northern Steuben county. The present communicating members number 1 16 persons. The wardens are Joiin W. Davis and Charles C. Halsey ; and the ves- trymen, Henry O. Fairchild. Trevor Moore, H. J. Moon, D. C. Hauder, George B. Lyon, H. Y. Rose, Will S. Wood and F. C. Fawcett. The Presbyterian church of Hanimondsport was organized September 14, 183 I, and its first pastor was Rev. Mr. P^lagler. The original mem- bers were seven in number. A lot was donated, and William Hastings built a church edifice for the society. A second church house was erected in 1847. This building still stands and is in good repair. The present membersiiip in this ciiurch is large — about 200 — and the Sun- day school has about 1 10 pupils. The present pastor, Rev. Charles L. Luther, came to Hammondsport in June, 1895. St. Gabriel's church, Roman Catholic, Hammondsport, dates its his- tory to about the year 1840, when missionary priests said occasional masses in the village. Three years later a parish and church were organ- ized, and in 1847 purchased and occupied the edifice formerly owned by the Presbyterian societ)'. The present St. Gabriel's cluirch was built in 1886, and is certainly a substantial structure. Tiiis parish is quite extensive, including parts of several towns — Urbana, Pulteney, Wayne and Bradford. The present [jriest in charge of the parish is Rev. James O'Shea. The Baptist church in the town of Urbana includes two separate organizations, the one known as the Urbana Baptist church, formed in 1835, with a present membership of fifty-seven persons, and the South Urbana church, formed in 1891, now having thirty-eight members. Pastor of the latter church, Rev. A. B. McConnell. The Methodist Episcopal cluirch in Urbana, ever increasing and growing both in strength and influence, comprises two societj' organi- zations and two charges, and a total membership of 232 and twenty- seven probationers. Two churches are maintained, at Hainniondsport and North Urbana, respectively, and the fair value of the church prop- erty is $6,500. Pastor, Rev. John Segwalt. The Presbyterian church in Wheeler enjoyed its most successful period of history and progress during the first half of the present cen- tury. The early settlers were chiefly Presbyterians and tliey secured 368 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. the services of a minister who preached for them as early as about the year 1810, although not before 1824 was there any regular organization effected. Among the first ministers were Revs. David Harrower, James Hotchkin and David Higgiiis. The church itself was organized August 30, 1825, and was at once received by the Presbytery of Bath. How- ever, the after life of the society witnessed many vicissitudes and dis- couragements, although its membership included many of the most in- fluential families of the town. The legal organization was perfected in 1832, under the name of the " First Presbyterian Society of Wheeler " The first church edifice was built in 1832. and the second in 1867, both at the Center. The Methodist Episcopal church of Wheeler dates its history to about the year 1840, and had its beginning in a small class. But from this germ there has grown a very strong organization, now numbering in the town four separate charges and societies, and four church edifices. They are known, respectively, as the Wheeler Center church ; the Wheeler Hill, or First M. E. church of Wheeler; the Hemlock M. E. church, and the Mitchellville M. E. church. The total membership in these churches is large and the societies themselves are increasing in strength and usefulness. The members number more than 150 persons, and all the charges are under the pastoral care of Rev. G. R. Harvey. The Wheeler church was originally built in union with the Presbyterian society, but later the edifice passed into the ownership of the Metho- dists. The Presbyterian church of Prattsburg had its origin in the religious service held at the house of Jared Pratt in the year 1803, and on the 4th of June, 1804, Timothy Field organized a Church of Christ in the district of Bath, at the house of John Niles. The original members were Joel Pratt, John Niles, Samuel Tuttle, Pomeroy Hull, Salisbury Burton, William P. Curtis, Martha Tuttle, Dorcas Niles, Mary Hull, Hannah Niles, Sarah Curtis, Lydia Beach, Mary Pratt, Olive Burton and Almira Tuttle. In 1806 the society determined to erect a house of worship, for which purpose a site was selected on the public square in the village. Here was built the first Congregational church of Pratts- burg, but as the edifice was soon found to be quite too small, enlarge- ments were subsequently made. On the i6th of November, 1807, the CHURCHES. 369 church society was regularly and legally organized under the name of the .Prattsburg Religious Society. Rev. James H. Hotchkiss was in- stalled pastor August i6, 1809. On October 12, 181 2, the society voted to accept the doctrine of the Presbyterian church, and on the 2 1 St of September, 1813, was received into the Presbytery of Geneva. In 1825 a new church edifice was built, on land donated by Judge Porter. Rev. George R. Rudd became pastor in 1830, and two years later the parsonage was erected. This church is undoubtedly the strongest in the town and has a total membership of 200 persons. The pastor is Rev. G. W. Warren. The first Methodist Episcopal society in Prattsburg was organized in 1829, at which time also a chapel was built. The organizers of the mother church were Dr. Noah Niles, Aaron Bull and Bishop Tuttle, who withdrew their membership from the Prattsburg Religious Society. However, the Methodist organization was dissolved about 1840, and the meeting house was sold for debt, but the class remained, and in 1847, through the efibrts of Rev. James Hall, the society was revived, reorganized, and placed upon a substantial basis. A church edifice was built on the south side of the public square in 1847, but was destroyed by fire in 1853. After this the society again declined although occa- sional services were held. A third organization was effected in 1869 and the present M. E. church of the village is its outgrowth. Moreover, Methodism has spread throughout the whole town, and in addition to the mother church, there are now two others, those at Ingleside and Lynn. The members of the village and Lynn churches number 150 and are under the pastoral care of Rev. B. F. Hitchcock. The Ingle- side church is a joint charge with North Cohocton, under the pastorate of Rev. D. C. Nye. The Baptist church of Prattsburg was organized on West Hill, about the year 1821, and Elder Nehemiah Lamb was its first pastor. A log meeting house was built in 1822, but after its destruction by fire, in 1833, was replaced with a substantial frame edifice and located a mile east of the old site. In 1842 the society divided, the members uniting with four separate organizations. There was formed the First and Second Baptist churches of Prattsburg, also the Prattsburg village Bap. 47 370 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. tist church. The house of worship of the latter was built in 1845. Its members now number forty-two persons. Pastor, W. A. Huntington. The Roman Catholic church at Prattsburg has about seventy-five families in the parish. It is attended from Hammondsport by Father O'Shea. The Christian church at Ingleside is under the pastorate of Rev, Mr. Carr. The First Presbyterian church of Bath is one of oldest religious soci- eties in the whole Genesee country, and was organized as early as the year 1S06, although previous to that time public worship had been held in the town. In 1802 Rev. Seth Williston conducted services in the old school house at the corner of Pulteney Square. On January 6, 1806, an organization was perfected by Rev. John Niles, and was named "The Bath Religious Society." Still later, January 3, 1808, a modification of the former organization was made, and there was formed "The Church of Christ in Bath, Presbyterian Congregation," and four- teen persons entered into covenant and subscribed the constitution. The church adapted Congregational form of government, and appointed Joseph Inslee and Samuel S Haight as deacons. Rev. John Niles was installed pastor on July 7, 1808, and on the iSth of September, 1811, the church completed its presbyterial organization by electing five elders viz.: William AuUs, Elias Hopkins, Samuel S. Haight, Henry A. Townsend and Howell Bull; and at the same time removed its con- nection from the Congregational association and united with the Presby- tery of Geneva. Mr. Niles died September 13, 18 12, and was succeeded by Rev. David Higgins in January, 1813. During Mr. Higgins' pas- torate, the first church edifice was erected, and was dedicated March 2, 1825 The third pastor. Rev Isaac Piatt, began his service June 4, 1 83 1, and resigned in 1844. He was followed by Rev. L. Merrill Miller, and the latter by Rev, George D. Stewart in 1851. Still later pastors were Revs. William E. Jones. James M. Harlow (stated supply), James M. Piatt, 1869; and M. N. Preston, the present pastor, whose labors began December i, 1884. The new church edifice on the south side of the " Square" was built during the year 1876, and was first occupied for service on February 22, 1877. It is proper to mention in this connection that in 1837 this church CHURCHES. 371 was divided by the dissensions in the Presbyterian church at large, and the result, locally, was the withdrawal of certain members and the or- ganization of "The Presbyterian Church of Bath (Congregational)." In 1 84 1 the new society erected a house of worship on Liberty street, where now stands the Purdy Opera House. The building was burned in 1871. During its separate existence, the pastors of the church were Revs. William Strong, Orris F'raser, Hiram Gregg, Samuel Potter, Sabin McKinnej', Loren W. Russ, George Hood, Edwin Benedict, H. E. Johnson, C. H. Delong and William Dewey. St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal church at Bath was organized as a parish at a meeting held April 19, 1826, yet for several years previous to that time stated services were held by Rev. Caleb Hopkins, he being persuaded to visit this missionary field through the good oflfices and in- tercession of Mrs. Elizabeth Hull Townsend. This worthy woman has ever been regarded as the founder of the church in the village and its vicinity. The early services of the church were held in the court-house, but in 1836 a lot was secured on the southeast of Pulteney Square, and here a church edifice was built. The first regularly appointed clergy- man in the parish was Rev. William W. Bostwick, who conducted his first services here May 23, 1825, and who continued the pastoral relation until 1840, when he resigned. Rev. Phineas L, Whipple became rector soon afterward, but an untimely death cut short his career of useful- ness in 1844. The succeeding rectors have been Revs. Wm. D. Wil- son, Levi H. Corson, Almon Gregory, Oran Reed Howard, Abner Piatt Brush and Benjamin S. Sanderson, the latter the present rector, who assumed his duties on the ist of May, 1890. During Mr. Whipple's rectorship the "churcii plot " in the cemetery was secured, and during Mr. Gregory's term many improvements were made to the church prop- erty. The parsonage was provided in 1852. In 1854, and again in 1859, the church edifice was materially improved, and in 1869 the new and beautiful edifice at the southeast corner of Washington Square was erected. The first society of the Methodist Episcopal church in Bath was formed on the 3d of October, 1822, and on September 4 following the articles of incorporation were filed in the county clerk's office, naming John Whiting, Simpson Ellas, George Wheeler, Jeremiah Baker and S74 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Darius Reed as the first board of trustees. The frame of a church home was put up in 1823, and although not completed until 1826, this was the first church edifice projected in Bath, and was used by the Protestant Episcopal and Baptist societies. In 1865 it was found neces- sary to enlarge or rebuild the church, and the officers resolved upon the latter course. Prompt action was taken and on May 16, 1866, the corner stone was laid for the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, by which name it has ever since been known. In 1835 Bath was made a separate charge, and Rev. J. G. Gulick was appointed pastor. The subsequent pastors, in succession, were Revs. Chandler Wheeler, Wm. Hosmer, E. Dowd, Daniel B. Lawton, Philander Powers, David Ferris, Earl B. Fuller, S. W. Alden, J. K. Tuttle, Augustus C. George, E. G. Townsend, Nathan Fellows, Andrew Sutherland, C. M. Gardiner, M. N. Beers, George E. Havens, W. C. Mattison, Wm. Manning, A. F. Morey, J. T. Brownell, S. McGerald, E. T. Green, R. D. Munger, George Stratton, James Moss, E. E. Chambers, D.D., K. P. Jervis, T. E. Bell, E. G. Piper, and M. C. Dean, the latter the present pastor. The Bath Village Baptist church was organized March 16, 1S42, at a meeting held in the Methodist meeting house, together with an ecclesiastical council. The constituent members numbered thirty-one persons. The first pastor was Rev. M. Rowley, who remained from 1842 to 1845. The later pastors have been as follows: Revs. H. Spencer, B. F. Balcom, B. R. Swick, J. Parker, E. C. Brown, P. Col- grove, E. F. Crane, D. B. Olney, E J. Scott, J. D. Barnes, E. Savage. H. H. Cochrane, J. W. Taylor, I. W. Emery, J. C. Cubberly, P. S. Vreeland. The present pastor, Rev. V. P. Mather, settled with the church in 1890. The first edifice of this church was erected in 1844, and was enlarged in 1859. Extensive repairs were made in 1870. It was destroyed by fire in 1887, and rebuilt the same year at an expense of $12,000. St. Mary's church, Roman Catholic, at Bath, dates its history to about the year 1846, when Rev. Thomas McEvoy visited Bath and found about ten Catholic families in the vicinity. In the following year Father Sheridan was placed in charge of the Catholic families along the Conhocton as far west as Dansville. In 1850 Father O'Flaherty added Bath to his charge. The early services were usually held at the CHURCHES. 373 house of James Manley, but in 1850 Bartliolomew VVilks erected a building suitable for a church. In 1861 the parochial residence was built. In 1862 a Catholic school was established in the basement of the church, and was continued about five years, until the school building was completed. In August, 1886, the property adjoining the school estate at Bath was purchased by W. B. Ruggles, for $3,300, and on this site in the years 1891-2 and '93 an elegant church structure was erected. The corner stone was laid May 8, 1892, and on St. Patrick's day, 1893, the first services were celebrated within its walls. The suc- cession of pastors in charge of St. Mary's parish and church has been as follows: Tiiomas McEvoy, Father Sheridan, Edward O'Flaherty, Charles Tierney, John Donnelly, Joseph McKenna, T. Cunningham, Patrick Burns, John Castaldi, Michael Steger, J. M. McGlew, P. Mazu- ret, L. Vanderpool, M Darcey, J. J. Ba.xter and J. J. Gleason. On the 24th of February, 1889, Father Baxter was transferred to Buffalo, and Father Gleason was appointed to the Bath church. Father Gleason died during the spring of 1895, and the parish is now (June, 1895) without a priest. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion church of Bath was organized about the year 1838 or '39, by Rev. John Tapkin, whose custom it was to walk to Bath from Canandaigua, Elmira, Owego and Binghamton. Among the early pastors who preached to the colored people in Bath were Revs. J. A. Logan, J. I'. Thompson, John Thomas, M. H. Ross and C. A. Smith. The present pastor. Rev. B. W. Swain, came to Bath in June, 1890, and found the ;ift"airs of the church in an unfortunate condition, but succeeded, after much labor, in re-establishing and build- ing up the society and placing it upon a secure and permanent basis. A large new church edifice is now in process of erection. The First Presbyterian church of Addison was organized in Septem- ber, 1832, by a committee of the Bath Presbyter)', comprising Revs. A. Donaldson and E. D. Wills. There were seven original members, and Porter Phelps and Elihu Wittenhall were elected ruling elders. Meetings were held in the Curtis school house previous to the erection of the first church edifice, in 1838. The first pastor, as the records dis- close, was Rev. Daniel B. Butts, who served in that capacity from 1835 to 1839, and was followed by Revs. Lewis Hamilton, Darius A. Will- 374 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY iams, A. H. Parmalee and others, in the order named. The new church liome of tliis society was built during 1881 and '82, and was dedicated in April of the year last mentioned. The present members number about one hundred and sixty-five. Tiie pastor is Rev. David Mackay. The Church of the Redeemer, Protestant Episcopal, of Addison vil- lage, dates back in its history to about the year 1847, when Rev. Gardner M. Skinner came as missionary to the region. He was fol- lowed by other zealous laborers, among them Robert N. Parke, and he succeeded in organizing the parish in April, 1854. F"rom this time the history of the church has been a record of continued success and growth, and the present healthful church is its outgrowth. A church edifice was completed, paid for in full, and consecrated by Bishop De Lancey on the 5th of April, i860. In this parish are about sixty- five Episcopal families The present rector is Rev. W. H. Hawkin. The Methodist Episcopal church in Addison dates its origin back to the early history of the town, and when organization took place two societies were formed, the one in 1835 and the other in 1841. In the latter year a church home was provided, the earlier services being held in the Presbyterian church edifice which the M. E. society aided in erecting. By a disastrous fire the M. E church was destroyed, and was replaced with the comfortable structure now occupied by the soci- ety. It was dedicated in 1876. The Methodist members in Addison number 284, with twenty-five probationers in addition The present pastor is Rev. A. W. Decker. St. Catharine's church, Roman Catholic, at Addison, was organized in 1854, by Father Cunningham, the zealous priest at St. Mary's, at Corning. The parish included all the Catholic families of the vicinity, and from its earliest historj' this church has grown and enlarged. The church edifice was built in 1854, but not until 1866 was Addison made a separate charge. The elegant new edifice in Curtis Square was erected in 1887. This church and parish are under the pastoral care of Rev. Father M. Noonan. The First Baptist church of Addison was organized May 6, 1869, under the faithful eftbrts of Rev. C. W. Brooks. The first pastor, how- ever, was Rev. S. D. Merrick, who settled in October, 1869. During CHURCHES. 375 his pastorate the "chapel" was built (in 1871). The total membership in this church is 146, and the church property is valued at about $3,500. The present pastor is Rev. W. A. Billings. The F.vangelical Lutheran church of Avoca was originally organized April 9, 1842, and after a period of about twenty-five years was sub- stantially reorganized, adopting, on the latter occasion, a new constitu- tion. The church was regularly incorporated July 26, 1868, since which time it has been one of the permanent institutions of the Conhocton valley. The comfortable church edifice was dedicated January, 1870. The Baptist church of Avoca was organized January 13, 1847, with thirty-three constituent mrmbers Rev. Horace Spencer was the first pastor. The early meetings of the society were held in a school house and other convenient buildings, and not until the year 1852 was a church iiome erected. This church numbers eighty-eight members, and is attached to the Steuben Association. The pastor is Rev. J. E. Wilson. The Methodist Episcopal church at Avoca is one of the largest socie- ties of the town and vicinity, and in its history dates back almost to the days of pioneership in the town, although a regular organization was not effected until a conijjaratively recent date. The church now num- bers 115 members and fifty- five probationers, including those of a joint charge in an adjoining town. The pastor of both churches is Rev. W. E. Searles. The Presbyterian church of Cohocton dates back in its history to the primitive and informal meetings held in the town as early as the year 1802, although it was not until October 8, 1809, that an organization was effected, and then Congregational in form of government. On the lOth of April. 1823, the church became Presbyterian On April 6, 1 8 10, Elijah Parker was chosen deacon. Revs. Aaron C. Collins and Abijah Warren were among the first preachers engaged, and in 1818, Robert Hubbard was pastor, being followed in that capacity by Revs. William Stone, Aaron C. Collins, Statham Clary and others On P'eb- ruary 3, 1830, the first meeting house was erected, and the second was built during the summer and fall of the year 1872. This church is to- day one of the largest in the town. Its pastor is Rev. Mr. Swan. The Methodist Episcopal church in the town of Cohocton in its his- 376 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. tory, from first to last, has comprised three distinct organizations and the same number of houses of worship. The mother church, known as the M. E. church of Cohocton, was organized in 1829 while the church at North Cohocton dates its earliest meetings as far back as 18 16, though not then fully organized. The class from which sprung the Lent Hill M. E. church was formed in 1831, and the meeting house was built in 1834. The society was known as the " First Union Soci- ety of Cohocton and Prattsburg." The church house for the society first mentioned was provided soon after 1830, and the building was substantially remodeled in 1872. This church seems to have experi- enced many changes during the period of its history. It was reorgan- ized in 1845, and was made a separate charge (" Liberty charge "), in 1873. According to the Conference report there are two Methodist charges in the town, at Cohocton and North Cohocton, respectively. Of the first the pastor is Rev. T. F. Parker, and of the latter, Rev. D. C. Nye. The First Universalist church of Cohocton was regularly organized in September, 1859, although for a number of years previous to that time those of this faith had held meetings in the town. A meeting house was begun in i860 and completed and dedicated in 1863. The pastor of this church is Rev. H. P. Morrell. The Catholic church (St. Peters) of Cohocton, was erected in 1861. Rev. Father M. Steger was the first missionary priest to read mass in the town. The present priest in charge is Rev. Father M. Krischel. St. Paul's church, German Lutheran, of Cohocton was organized in 1 861, by former members of the Lutheran church at Perkinsville. The newly formed society at once erected a small house of worship, and also chose as trustees Philip Zimmer, Henry Schuriegel, Henry Hengle and Philip Bortz. The present pastor of this church is Rev. Mr. Pfiefter. The Evangelical Lutheran Zion church of Cohocton was an offshoot from St. Paul's church, formed in 1869 by members of the old society who severed their relations from it. The meeting house was built dur- ing the same year. The pastor is Rev. Mr. Rummell. The Free Methodist church at .Atlanta is under the pastoral care of Rev. M. S. Babcock. The Wesleyan Methodist church at North Cohocton is under the pas- toral care of Rev. W. F. Dutcher. CHURCHES. 377 The Presbyterian church of Painted Post was organized about 1835, and the church edifice was built in 1840. This was the first religious society in the village and has had a continuous existence to the present time. The pastor is Rev. J. Robinson. The Methodist Episcopal church at Painted Post was organized about the year 1850 and at the same time a church home was built. This is now a large church numbering 200 full members and probationers, with a proportionally large Sunday school. The present pastor is Rev. Arthur Osborne. The Baptist church of Erwin, at Painted Post, was organized in 1854, and in i860 a chruch was erected. The present membership is eighty- eight. Pastor, Rev. C. G. Dilworth. The Baptist church of Hornby dates its history back to the year 1820, when Elder Beebe preached and labored in this missionary field, hold- ing services on Nash Hill. However, it was not until several years later that a formal organization was effected. The Baptist families in the society number about thirty-five members, and the church property is valued at $2,000. The present pastor of the local church and society is Rev. O. N. Fletcher. The Presbyterian church of Hornby was organized at the Knowlton school house, September 14, 183 i, by a committee from the Presbytery of Bath. The original members numbered twenty-one, who were re- ceived into the church by Rev. B. B. Smith. The first pastor, however, was Rev Mr. Barton. A substantial church edifice was built in 1852, located at Hornby village. The Wesleyan Methodist church at Dyke, in the town of Hornby, was organized in 1843, and for several held meetings in the Knowlton school house ; and still later in the Presbyterian meeting house. On March 4, 1877, the society dedicated a new church edifice near the lit- tle hamlet now called Dyke. The Methodist Episcopal church of Hornby was organized as a class in 1843, by Rev. James Hall. The church was divided, a por- tion of its members withdrawing and forming the Wesleyan so- ciety. A Methodist Episcopal reorganization was efi'ected about 1863, under the leadership of Rev. A. H. Shurtliff and A. P. McCabe, the latter being class leader. Meetings were held in the church edifices 48 378 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. of other denominations for several years. This society does not now report to the annual conference. The First Baptist church of Lindley was organized June 13, 1841, under the missionar)' labors of that indefatigable worker, Rev. Thomas Sheardown, but despite of the efforts in its behalf the society existed less than a quarter of a century, and was dissolved about 1864 The Free Methodist church of Lindley was organized in 1866, and a church edifice was built at Lindleytown w-ithin the next two years. The present pastor is Rev. Mr. Kelly. The Independent church of Lindley was organized May 20, 1875, with about fifty constituent members. In 1877 the society became Baptist in religious doctrine. It does not now report to the association. The Methodist Episcopal church in Lindley was organized at the Center in 1850, but did not become a separate charge until 1866. Still later another church of the same denomination was formed at Lindley, and two charges existed in the town. The church at Presho, and also that at Lindley, are under the pastorate of Rev. E. D. Compton. The Methodist Episcopal church in Rathbone comprises two charges and two organized societies, the one at Rathboneville, under the care of Rev. J. W. Miller, and the other at Cameron Mills, an au.xiliary charge. The first class in this vicinity was formed about 1831, and in 1845 l^'is "Town Line church" was erected. A class was formed in Rathboneville about the same time, and in 1850 a church edifice was built. The Roman Catholic church at Cameron Mills is an outmission from Addison and is attended by Father M. Noonan. The Methodist Episcopal church in Tuscarora dates its history back to about the year 1825, although not until 1833 was a class formed. The first meeting house was built in 1849, but was subsequently aban- doned. The church in the town now forms a part of four charges, South Addison, Addison Hill, Orr Hill, and one other. The total membership is 186, with forty-five probationers. The pastor is Rev. R. S. Clark. The Free-Will Baptist church of Tuscarora was organized in 1826, with nineteen members, as a Free-Communion church, but changed to Free- Will character in 1842. The church edifice in the valley was built in CHURCHES. 379 1847, ^n<^ w^s repaired in 1866, and again in 1886. The pastor is Rev. Mr. Streeter. Baptist meetings are also held in the southeast part of the town, and a .society has been formed there. (For history of the churches of Corning, see city chapter.) BIOGRAPHICAL. BIOGRAPHICAL. WILLIAM FINDLAY ROGERS. Gen. William Fi.\dl.\v Rogers, superintendent of the New York State Soldiers- and Sailors' Home at Bath, was born in the town of Forks, near Easton, Pa., March 1, 1820, and is a son of Hon. Thomas J. Rogers, who came from Waterford, North of Ireland, to this country with his father, Joseph, in 1786, settling in Philadelphia, where the latter engaged in manufacturing. Thomas J. Rogers learned the printer's trade and subsequently compiled a Biographical Dictionary for use in public schools. He represented the old Tenth Pennsylvania Legion in Cotigress three terms and served as brigadier-general of the State militia in the war of 1813, marching with his command to a point near Baltimore to repulse a threatened attack of the British. He was a life-loug Democrat, and died in 1832, aged fifty-two. His wife was Mary Win- ters, daughter of Christian Winters, of Easton, Pa. Gen. William F. Rogers, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the public schools and early learned the printer's trade at Easton, Pa., whence he removed to Phila- delphia. In 1846 he went to Buffalo, N. Y., and entered the office of the Buffalo Courier. There he became an active and prominent member of the local militia, which he joined in 1840, and rose through all the regular gradations from private to major-general, a position he held until the division system was abolished. At the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1801 he volunteered with his company (Co. C, 74th Regt.) in the Union cause for ninety days, but the secretary of war declined troops for that period, and he immediately enlisted in the 21st N. Y. Vol. Inf., which was composed of ten companies and organized at Elmira, and of which he was elected colonel. Leaving Elmira on June 8, 1801, the regiment with Colonel Rogers at its head proceeded to Washington and camped at Kalorama Heights, whence they crossed Long Bridge and took station at Fort Runyan. There the gallant colonel was placed in command and remained until after the battle of First Bull Run. The organization then moved to Arlington Heights, where it was brigaded with the 2l)th N. Y. Militia and 23d and Srith N. Y. Inf. under General Wadsworth. At the open- ing of the campaign in March, 1802, they marched to Centerville, which they found evacuated, and returned to Alc.vandria to take steamers for the Peninsula, but this [ilan was changed. While McClellan was advancing up the Peninsula Colonel Rogers's detachment returned toward Centerville under McDowell, but before the march was completed turned toward Washington, the rebels having made a dem- onstration on that city. Colonel Rogers participated with his command in the Mary- 4 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. land and Virginia campaigns and was mustered out with the regiment in Buffalo in in May 18G3. At about the same time he was appointed commissioner of enrollment for the 30th New York Congressional district and soon afterward received the appointment of provost-marshal with headquarters in Buffalo, from which he was relieved for politi- cal reasons at the close of the year 1863. In 1864 he was appointed auditor of the city ; in 1866 he was chosen comptroller ; and in 1868 he was elected mayor. While mayor of Buffalo he was instrumental in establishing the present beautiful park system, one of the finest in the United States, and in his official capacity appointed the first Board of Park Commissioners, thirteen in number, of which he was ex officio a member, and of which he was made the first president. At the close of his term as mayor he was elected secretarj- and treasurer of that board and held those posi- tions until he resigned in 1887. He was also secretary and treasurer of the Buffalo State Hospital while that institution was in process of construction and resigned those offices in the fall of 1885. In 1885 General Rogers was elected to the 48th Con- gress, and during his term was chairman of the Committee on Printing and a mem- ber of the Committee on War Claims. In October, 1887, he was elected by the board of trustees superintendent of the New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Bath, which position he still holds, and where he has since resided. He was one of the founders of that institution in 1879, a member of the committee charged with selecting the site, a member of the building committee, and one of its trustees from its inception until 1887. The Home was originally started by the G. A. R. of the State. Voluntary subscriptions were solicited from the different G. A. R. Posts and the people, and about S80,00J were contributed. The town of Bath donated the farm upon which the institution is located and .$10,000 additional to the building fund. A portion of the present hos- pital and barracks A, B, and C were partially completed when the funds were ex- hausted. The G. A. R. commissioners then went before the Legislature and pro- posed that the State complete the home and maintain it as a State institution, which proposition was accepted. Since then the State has maintained it, the U. S. govern- ment contributing SI per capita for the average number of inmates in each year. General Rogers has been president of the State Military Association and is past department commander of the G. A. R. He was the organizer and charter member of Chapin Post, No. 2, G. A. R. of Buffalo, the second post organized in the State, and is a member of Bidwell-Wilkinson Post, No. 9, of Buffalo. He is a member and past master of Hiram and Demolay Lodges, F. & A. M., past high priest of Buffalo Chapter, No. 73, R. A. M., and past commander of Lake Erie Commandery, No. 20, K. T. He was married, first, to Miss Caroline M. Waldron, of Houesdale, Pa., who died in 1846. He married, second, in 1849, Miss Phebe Demoney, of Buffalo, who died at the Soldiers' Home in Bath in October, 1890. By his first marriage General Rogers had one son. Franklin, a printer of Washington. His second wife bore him three children: Mary W. (Mrs. William C. Brown), of New York city; Florence N. (Mrs. Charles N. Armstrong), of Buffalo; and Thomas J., a prominent civil engineer of Buffalo, who was engineer In charge of the Soldiers' Home during the laying out of the grounds and construction of the reservoir and water works. 1 ^ ^4-*'^ y 'AT f ?«f»r .<, .j^y 1 y^^^ 1 ' -^ ■ '^!c aJ^jiji^S^BI^^^^^^^^Br BIOGRAPHICAL. 5 FRANKLIN J. MARSHAL. Franklin J. Marshal, only survivinjj; son of the late Gen. Otto Frederick Marshal (which see), was born on the Marshal homestead in Wheeler, Steuben county, where he has spent his active life, on November 25, 1829, and received his education in the public schools of his native town and at Alfred University in Allegany county. He succeeded his distinguished father upon the paternal farm and worthfly continued the laudable enterprises inaugurated by that pioneer. He became a progressive farmer, an extensive breeder of thoroughbred merino sheep, and latterly a heavy grower of tobacco, carrying on all these various interests with great sagacity and ability. He was one of the earliest tobacco growers in town, and established a busi- ness in this line which has more i-ecently been largely increased by his only son, Otto F. , the present supervisor of Wheeler. Mr. Marshal inherited the native characteristics of the German race. Enterpris- ing, public-spirited, and honest, liberally endowed with the attributes which marked his father's notable career, he chose the life of a husbandman w-ith innate knowledge of its requirements, and succeeded beyond the average degree. He attained the dis- tinction of a representative farmer and won the approbation of all classes of citizens. He has long been an active and influential member of the Steuben County Agricul- tural Society, and for one year served as its president. His advice upon various mat- ters has been frequently sought and freely given, and his friends are numbered by the score. For many years he was an influential factor in politics, often a delegate to political conventions and for several years supervisor of his town, serving with credit and fidelity. October IT, 1854, Mr. Marshal was married to Miss Valora E. Smith, of Avoca, Steuben county, by whom he has two children: Dollie V. and Otto F. The latter was born on the Marshal homestead in Wheeler on August 5, 1860, and obtained his education at the Franklin Academy in Prattsburg. He has spent his life upon the original farm, where he is heavily interested in growing tobacco and breeding regis- tered merino sheep. He is a member of the Steuben County Agricultural Societv, and is serving his fourth term as supervisor of Wheeler. JOHN G. KELLY, M. D. Dr. John G. Kelly was born in Bergen, Genesee county, N. Y., February 12, 1857, the third son of a family of seven children of James Kelly, a farmer and stock breeder of Genesee county. He was educated in the common school, Bergen High School and Brockport State Normal School, where he taught school two terms in the academic department. He took up the study of medicine in tne fall of 1881, enter- ing the medical department of the University of Buffalo from the Normal School, and graduating from that institution February 26, 1884. He was interne in the Sis- ters' Hospital of Buffalo the last two years of his medical school attendance, and April, 1884, came to Hornellsville, where he has since been engaged in regular prac- tice of his profession, and has won the highest esteem and respect of his numerous 6 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. friends and acquaintances. In 1888 he became identified with the drug firm of George T. Reed & Co. , now composed of G. T. Reed, Franklin D. Sherwood and Dr. J. G. Kelly. He is a member of the Hornellsville Medical and Surgical Asso- ciation, Steuben County Medical Association, the Erie Railway Surgeons' Associa- tion and the New York State Railway Surgeons' Association. He is the chancellor of Branch 33, C. M. B. A., and ex-president of the A. O. H., and was a delegate to the State Convention in 1894. June 1, 1887, he married Theresa Henneberg, of Port Jervis, N. Y. , by whom he has five children. In politics the doctor is a Democrat, and represented the Third Ward in the Board of Alderman in 1891-92; was health officer in 1886-87. He is chairman of the Democratic City Committee at the present time. He has been president of the St. James Mercy Hospital staff of physicians since its organization ; also he is one of the trustees of the hospital. JOHN D. CONDERMAN. John D. Conderman was born in Warren, Herkimer county, N. Y., September 30, 1820. He was the son of Adam J. and Elizabeth Conderman who were of Dutch Protestant descent. His forefathers were among a colony of Dutch who left their country on account of religious persecution. Their fleets became separated in their voyage to this country, some landing on the coast of New England, the others enter- ing New York harbor from whence they migrated up the Hudson and out the Mo- hawk locating in Herkimer county. In 1834 Adam J. Conderman together with his family consisting of his wife and ten children, five sons, Abraham, David, John D., Caleb and Hiram, and five daugh- ters, Mary, Margaret, Eliza, Rachel and Cathenne, moved to what was known as Dutch street in the town of Fremont, Steuben county, N. Y., where his family grew up and where he spent the major portion of his remaining days, dying at the home of his son John D., at the age of eighty-six. He fought in the war of 1813 and his father, John Conderman, the namesake of John D., was an officer in the Revolu- tionary war. John D. Conderman, at the age of twenty-six, married Aseneth Spaulding, daugh- ter of George and Elizabeth Spaulding, then residents of the town of Howard. N. Y., and purchasing a farm on tlie cross road from Dutch street to what was known as the Big Creek Post-office, erected a log house and began life in common with pioneers of that day. Here he lived and raised his family consisting of four sons. Frank Conderman, who is the present owner of a large farm on Dutch street which has never been owned out of the Conderman family, being settled by John Conderman in 1815. Lavurn D. Conderman who now resides in Fremont Center, and who also is the owner of a large farm adjoining his father's old homestead. Charles Conderman, a practicing attorney and counsellor at law in Hornellsville, and George Conderman, a practicing physi- cian and surgeon in Hornellsville. John D. Conderman was a man of exemplary habits, very energetic and industrious, possessed of a very keen intellect and extra good judgment and being blessed with a BIOGRAPHICAL. 7 wife who proved herself a helpmate, always willing and capable of doing her share in their voyage through life and to whose foresight and good counsel a large share of their ultimate happiness and success was due, passed a life of almost continued success resulting in the accumulation of a goodly fortune as a result of their toil. He never sought political distinction but was always looked upon as one of the staunchest and representative men of the town, so much .so that his home was made the headquarters of salesman and drovers who availed them.selves of his judgment in buying all kinds of stock but more especially to horses, for horses being one of his hobbies of life, his farm was always well stocked with the finest horses that the coun- try afforded. This business, though obsolete now, was one of considerable moment in those days, and was a means of profit which together with good management and economy .soon made him the owner of 1,000 acres of Fremont's choicest lands. During the Anti-Renter Insurrection his ideas of justice would not permit him to sympathize with them in their position taken, thus provoking their wrath which was aggravated by their appreciating the strength his influence might have exerted if directed in their interest, they threatened him with all kinds of bodily and personal injury, as the burning of buildings, etc., and even did go so far as to shoot his horses while running in the pastures. But right triumphed at last, for while they were spending their time and means fighting their claims he had paid for his home and several farms besides. In 1874 he removed to Hornellsville, N. Y., where his remaining days were pleas- antly spent in looking after his large property interests and educating his sons. He died July 17. 1890, leaving his widmv and four sons to survive him. MARTIN PINNEY. Martin Pinnev, a life-long leading citizen of northern Steuben and for more than half a century one of the foremost residents of Prattsburg, was born in that town on the farm now owned by Purlee Fisher on the 16lh of April, 1836. His father, Aaron Pinney, son of Philander, was born in Galway, Saratoga county, N. Y., August 28, 1801, and came to Prattsburg in 1822, where he married Miss Sophronia, adopted daughter of Jeduthan Higby ; in 18.54 he removed to the village, where his wife died in 1872, and where his death occurred in 1881. He was supervisor of the town sev- eral years. Martin Pinney was the eldest of their nine children, and was reared on the paternal farm, where as a youth he worked summers, teaching school winters. At the Franklin Academy, where he finished his education, he bore the reputation of a progressive and faithful student. At an early age he began his long and success- ful mercantile career as a clerk at Bath and Avon, and in the fall of 18.5;! he returned to Prattsburg, where he established himself in business in the old " Kremlin Block " in partnership with William B. Boyd and James J. Hotchkin under the firm name of W. B. Boyd & Co. Upon the death of Mr. Hotchkin and the retirement of Mr. Boyd two years later, Mr. Pinney formed a partnership with H. B. Williams, as Pinney & Williams, which continued a long time. In 1860-61 he built the handsome brick Pinney block and carried on a successful mercantile trade there from April 1, 1861, for twenty-eight years. 8 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Mr. Pinney was especially prominent in the development of the village of Pratts- burg, to the cause of which he gave much time and untiring energy. His faith in its future was unswerving, and his zeal in promoting its material interests never faltered. In this respect he became the leading and influential citizen of the place. Being a heavy taxpayer, and intimately identified with its growth and prosperity, he was ever foremost among the representative inhabitants in fostering and encouraging every movement which had the welfare of the village at heart. He was the chief promoter of the Kanona and Prattsburg railroad, and to him more than to any other man is due the inception and construction of that line from Kanona northward. As the business of his village increased in volume he intuitively foresaw the necessity of such a road, and long before it was started he put forth every energy for its consum- mation, even to involving his entire fortune in the interests of the project. He was the prime mover in organizing the company, and upon its incorporation was elected its president, a position he held until shortly before his death. He lived to see the line completed and distributing its benefits to the town he honored with his residence and business ability. Mr. Pinney was also prominent in various other connections. A life-long Demo- crat he was for several years the supervisor of Prattsburg, and in local politics bore the distinction of a leader. In education he always took an active interest, particu- larly in planning for the prosperity of the academy, in which he personally looked after matters of detail. He was for a number of terms a member and president of the Board of Education, and for along time a trustee of the Presbyterian church, of which he was a regular attendant and liberal supporter. A great reader of the Bible he was a devout christian, and in various ways fostered and encouraged the cause of religion. Dignified, courteous, and simple in manner, honest, kindhearted, and generous, he won hosts of friends and bore the respect, esteem, and confidence of every one. He was a devoted husband, and found in his home the height of enjoy- ment. He lived the life of an upright citizen, and left an indelible impression of his eventful and successful career upon the community. Mr. Pinney was married, first, on October 20, 18.i8, to Miss Electa Jane Gillett, who died in 1863. October 20, 1865, he married Mrs. Fannie Lewis Smith, whose death occurred September 18, 1893. On February 14, 1894, he was married to Mrs. Elsie J. Combs, who survives him and occupies the handsome homestead in Pratts- burg village, where he died on Sunday morning, July 1, 1894, at the age of a little more than sixty-eight years. GEORGE HOLLANDS. George Hollands was born in Sussex county, England, on January 9, 1841. His parents, WilHara and Charlotte Hollands, with a family of six children, came to this country in the year 1850. Soon after their arrival they found their way to Mansfield, Tioga county, Pa., where they have since resided. Four more children were born to them after their arrival to this country. They are still livmg and enjoying reason- ably good health and are in their eighty-fourth and eighty-first year of age respec- tively. George Hollands, the subject of this sketch, at the age of eleven years found BIOGRAPHICAL. 9 a home with a respectable farmer, with whom he was to live until he was twenty-one years of age, with the understanding that he was to receive a common school educa- tion and when he became of age he was to have a good suit of clothes and §100 in money. Before arriving at the age of maturity, however, the war broke out, and in- September, 1861, he left the farm and enlisted in Co. B, 101st Pa. Vols., and served in the army for the period of three years and ten months, during which timelje was engaged in many important battles. He was wounded in the battle of Fair Oaks on May ;51. 1802, and was taken prisoner at the surrender of Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 180-1. Pie was an inmate of Andersonville and Florence prisons until the following December, and has never recovered from the exposure and suffering of that terrible summer. He was shipwrecked in the Potomac River while on his way to join his regiment in April, 180.5, and was only saved from a watery grave by clinging to the mast of the ship all night, where he was picked up in an exhausted condition by a United States gunboat, the following morning. He was discharged from the service in July, 1865, having risen from a private to the rank of first lieutenant. Soon after the close of the war he embarked in the grocery business at Hornellsville, under the firm name of Hollands & Fletcher, occupying what was then known as the old " Mamouth Store," opposite the Park. On January 2, 1860, he married Lydia Bailey of Mansfield. Pa. Five children were born to them, viz : Minnie, now the wife of Charles A. Smith of Middletown, N. Y. ; Eva and Robert, who died of diphtheria in October, 1870; George Hollands, jr., who was born in November, 187."), and who is now at the age of twenty years, carrying on an extensive grocery business in the village of Bath, under the firm name of Geo. Hollands, jr., & Co. ; and Burr R. Hol- lands, who was born in June, 1878, and is now being educated as a pharmacist. Mr. Hollands is an enterprising citizen, a man of .sober and industrious habits and a prominent member of the First M. E. church of Hornellsville. He has always been a prominent and active member of the Republican party and has had the honor of representing his ward as village trustee for six years prior to the organization of the city. In 1879 he was elected to the important office of county superintendent of the poor, in which capacity he served for three years. In 1886 he very ably repre- sented the town of Hornellsville on the Board of Supervisors. He was commander of Doty Post, No. 226, G. A. R., for two years, 1889 and '90. He was one of the in- corporators of the Hornell Sanitarium Co. and for several years a director and treas- urer of said company. In the fall of 1891 he was elected sheriff of Steuben county, which office he very satisfactorily filled for the term of three j-ears. A few months after his retirement from the ofiice of sheriff he, in company with Mr. O. L. Thomp- son, purchased the interest of J. W. Bachman of Hornellsville, N. Y., in the drug trade, and at the present time are carrying on a very prosperous business under the firm name of Thompson & Hollands. FURMAN GARDNER. Flrman Gardner, one of the leading pioneers of the town of Wheeler, was born in Albany county, N. Y., November 7, 1793, being an only child and was left an orphan at a very early age. When seven years old he was brought to this then B 10 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. wild and picturesque section by Capt. Silas Wheeler, from whom the town subse- quently received its name, and with whom he lived until he attained his majority. On June 17, 1817, he married Miss Elizabeth Myrtle, eldest child of Philip and Mar- garet Myrtle, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1799, and who came here with her parents in 1800, settling on the farm now owned by D. Z. Gibbs. The newly married couple located on the farm now owned and occupied by their son, William Gardner, where they spent the remainder of their lives. He died June fi, 1S5(), and his wife on December 22, 1883. Mr. Gardner was one of the hardest working men in town. Endowed with a robust constitution he cleared his forest farm, mainly with his own hands, convert- ing it from an unbroken wilderness into a pleasant and fruitful home, and addmg to it from time to time until he owned 170 acres. He was industrious and prosperous, and systematically followed the business of agriculture upon what might be termed modern methods. He was long regarded as one of the best farmers in town. His first house was a log cabin, rude and inconvenient, but suitable for those days. This was finally superseded by a more pretentious frame dVvelling, and this in turn eventually gave place to the present house, built and occupied by their son William. Thus three habitations for the family have been erected on the same site, two of them by the subject of this sketch. In the common affairs of life Mr. Gardner always took a keen interest, and in fur- thering every worthy movement he gave both time and means. While a young man he served hts country as a soldier in the war of 1812, and in later years he was active as a substantial citizen in public matters, particularly in the cause of religion. In politics he was a lifelong Whig, but never sought office nor official distinction. He was long a prominent member and liberal supporter of the Wheeler Presbyterian church, and throughout a useful life bore the respect, esteem and confidence of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner had born to them six sons and four daughters, namely: Sarah (Mrs. Ezra Haire), widow, born May 9, 1818, of Wheeler; Silas, born Aprd 2, 1820, deceased; Rebecca (Mrs. A. J. Raplee), born September 18, 1823, a widow, of Hillsdale, Mich. ; Polly, born March 31, 1825, died August 2, 1827; Henry, born Oc- tober 5, 1828, of Wheeler; Addison, born October 16, 1832, of Bath Mich. ; William, born May 25, 1834, of Wheeler; Benjamin, born March 2, 1837, died August 22. 1839; Thomas, born August 14. 1839, of Wheeler; and Harriet (Mrs. William Rose), born August 16, 1842, of Bath, Mich. Mrs. Gardner practically spent her entire life in the town of Wheeler, and witnessed its transformation from dense forests to a prosperous community. She related in later years many interesting stories of the Indians and pioneer times, when settlers did not enjoy the benefits of modern civilization. She was one of the original mem- bers of the Pre.sbyterian church in 1835, as was also her husband, and remained a communicant of that body until her death. Endowed with rare personal qualifica- tions she was a true woman, a consistent and devout Christian, and a worthy help- mate and mother. FUKMAN GARUNhR. BIOGRAPHICAL U GEORGE C. McXETT, M. D. Georof C. McNf.tt, M.D , of Kath, youngest child of the late Col. Andrew J. Mc- Nett, was born in Buffalo, X. Y., July 11, 18r)T. His paternal grandfather served as a commissioned officer at Sackett's Harbor during the war of 1812and gallantly saved the garrison from capture by the British; for this act he was subsequently placed in charge of the post and neighboring lighthouses. Col, Andrew J. McNett, a native of Henderson, Jefferson county, born in October, 1819, completed his education in Belleville Union Academy,' studied law with Augustus Ford at Sackett's Harbor, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. Settling in Buffalo he formed a partnership with Hon. Hiram Barton, the mayor of the city. He became a recognized leader of the Democratic party there, and was elected alderman of the Seventh ward in 1855, dis- trict attorney in 1856-57, and member of assembly in 1858. In the Legislature he was made chairman of the Committee on Railroads. In 1859 he settled in Belmont, Allegany county, where he practiced his profession until 18G1, when he enlisted in the Vicl N. Y. Vols, as captain. June 12, 1863, he resigned that post and was com- missioned lieutenant-colonel of the 141st Regt. Vols., and was mustered out June 25, 1865. He participated in many of the principal battles of the war and lost an arm at Peach Tree Farm on July 20, 1804. In the fall of 1860 he was commi: sioned a cap- tain in the 44th U. S. Infantry, assisting m the reconstruction of Virginia and act- ing as mayor of the cities of Lynchburg and Suffolk. He was subsequently appointed judge-advocate of the Washington district, serving under Generals Emory, Canby, and Brooks. He was placed on the retired list with the rank of colonel on Decem- ber 10, 1873. Colonel McNett was repeatedly supervisor of Belmont, president of the village, and was a candidate of his party in Allegany county for congressman, judge and surrogate, assemblyman, and district attorney, and never failed to reduce the majority of his opponent in a Republican stronghold. He died in Belmont on March 8. 1895. He married Miss Abby Clark, daughter of John Clark, a wealthy citizen of Belleville, Jefferson county, who survives him. as do also their three children: Priscilla (Mrs. J. E. Norton), of Rutherford, N. j. ; James H., of Horncllsville; and Dr. George C. , of Bath. Dr. George C. McXett attended the Union School of Belmont and completed a four years' course at Alfred University in 1876. He received the degree of M. D. from the medical department of the University of the City of New York in 1881, and im- mediately afterward began the practice of his profession at Belmont, where in the same year he joined the Allegany County Medical Society, of which he is still a mem- ber, and of which he was president. In the winter of 1883-84 he took a post-graduate and polvclinic course at the Post- graduate School in New York city, and in 1886 he removed to Bath, having received the appointment of surgeon to the Soldiers' Home. He filled that position with dis- tinguished ability until 1889, since which time he has been engaged in general prac- tice, making surgical operations and disease of the nervous system a specialty. Dr. McNett is one of the leading members of the medical profession in Western New York. As a citizen he has always taken a keen interest in public affairs and en- courages every project which promises benefit to the community. For the past two years he has been health officer of the village of 15ath. He is a member of the New 12 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY York State Association of Railway Surgeons and is also a prominent Mason, being a member of Belmont Lodge, No. 474, F. & A. M., Wellsville Chapter, No. 143, R. A. M., Corning Consistory, 32° Scottish Rite, and Ismaiha Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He has held all the chairs in the order and was past master of Bel- mont Lodge, "and is also a member of the Elks, No. 63, Elmira. June 1, 1882, Dr. McNett married Mary Agnes Stewart, daughter of Dr. E. S. Stewart, a prominent physician and banker of EUicottville, Cattaraugus county. They have one child, Celia. HENRY W. FERINE. Henry W. Ferine, of Bath, the oldest merchant in Steuben county, was born in South Dansville, N. Y., July 3, 1821, and is the eldest of seven children born to Will- iam Ferine, jr. His grandfather, William Ferine, sr., came to this country from France about 1750 and took an active part as a cavalryman in the Revolutionary war. He first settled in Washington county, N. Y., whence he moved at a verj^ early day to Dansville, Livingston county, where he followed farmmg upon land now occupied by a large portion of the village, of which he was one of the founders. William Ferine, jr., was born February 25, 1792, in Livingston county, and settled in South Dansville; he subsequently returned to Dansville and died there in May, 1879. He was one of the founders, a prominent member and long a deacon of the Dan.sville Pres- byterian church, and married Miss Abigail K. Whiting, daughter of Col. John Whit- ing, of Bath. She was born August 29, 1801, and died February 11, 1858. Of their seven children Henry W., the eldest, and Clarence (born February 3, 1842), the youngest, of New York city, are living. Henry W. Ferine was educated in the public schools of Dansville and the high school of Bath, where in 1835 he entered the employ of Hon. William S. Hubbell, a leading dry goods merchant, with whom he remained five years. He was then a clerk for four years in the same business for Timothy Whiting, with whom in 1844 he formed the partnership of Whiting & Ferine, which continued until 1847, when Mr. Whiting retired. In 1848 Mr. Ferine became associated with his brother, William W., under the firm name of H. W. Ferine & Co.. and continued thus till 1860. In 1862 he took in Moses Davison and William H. Nichols as partners under the style of H. W. Ferine & Co., which continued for three years. He carried on the business alone until 1892, w^hen he formed the present firm of Ferine & Davison by taking in his former partner, Moses Davison. Mr. Ferine has been in continuous trade in Bath since 1844, and is the oldest merchant in Steuben county. He commencedon a small scale and gradually increased his business until he became the most extensive mer- cantile dealer in that village, doing more at one lime than all the other merchants combined. He built the Ferine block in 1861-02, and upon occupying it es- tablished the first department store in the county, which he has continued uninter- ruptedly to the present time. An establishment of that character in a place like Bath was then a novelty and many were the predictions of its failure, but Mr. Ferine has successfully demonstrated the feasibility of the enterprise and with great skill has made it a permanent and profitable concern. /C ':^^ (tK-^^Z^^^^^tt-^-^-r/ BIOGRAPHICAL. 13 Mr. Ferine has built more structures in Hath than any other one man. He has erected four imposing business blocks and three of the finest dwellings in town, and has always taken an active interest in local affairs, particularly in public improve- ments. He is heavily interested in various enterprises of a general and private na- ture, and is one of the largest ta.xpaycrs ni the village. He was one of the prime movers in securing the Erie railroad and the Soldier's Home, and to these and many other institutions he has given freely. No movement which promises benefit to the community is consummated without his aid and encouragement. He has always been a Republican and somewhat active in politics, and for several years served as village trustee, two of which he was president. He is one of the represen- tative and influential citizens of the town and county, and and is ever ready to ad- vance the material interests of the people, especially in the cause of education and religion. August 28, 1W47, he married Miss Elizabeth S. Read, daughter of Capt. James Read, of Bath, a lady of great refinement of beauty of character, who died March 27, 1894. They had three sons; James R., born Augost 3, 1848, died November 5, 1864; William H., born December 3, IS.iO, died May 10, 1874; andCIarence R., born March 3, 1867, died September 16, 1869. ALANSON STEPHENS, Ai. ANSON Stkphf.ns, eldest son of Benjamin Stephens, was born in Hornellsville, on a farm on December 8, 1820, and is the oldest living native of the town. His .great-grandfather, Uriah Stephens, born in 1724. came with his son Elijah from the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania to what is now the town of Canisteo, Steuben county, in 1789, settling on lot 8 on the 2.5th of December of that year, and being one of the original seven owners of that township. Uriah Stephens died there Au- gust 14, 1800; his wife was born in 1731 and at the time of her death was ninety-four years old. Their son Elijah succeeded to the homestead and reared a large family of children, of whom Benjamin, the father of the subject of this sketch, died June 4, 1837, aged thirty-eight, being born in Canisteo in 1799. The family is of Engli,sh descent, and is one of the oldest and most respected in Steuben county. Its mem- bers have for one full century taken an active part in business, social, and official life and in various capacities have served their townsmen with fidelity and distinc- tion. Benjamin Stephens married Arathusa Hamilton and had born to him six children, all living, as follows: Alanson, Elijah, Daniel, Albert, Helen, and Cordelia. Mr. Stephens settled in the town of Hornellsville and died here, as did also his wife. Alanson Stephens received such meagre educational advantages as the public schools of his native town afforded. His early lile was spent principally in hard work upon his father's farm, where he acquired the robust constitution and thrifty habits which later proved of inestimable value. While a youth he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner and followed that occupation about six years, when he decid- ed to embark in more promising fields of employment. He engaged extensively in lumbering in Hornellsville, and during several years cleared some 1,500 acres of 14 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. heavy pine timber in the town, manufacturing it into lumber on the premises and shipping the products to distant markets. He had a large saw mill on the Canisteo river that was twice burned and twice rebuilt under his ownership, and there he met with two or three serious accidents which threatened his future activity. He con- tinued this business until his supply of timber was exhausted, when he turned his energies to agricultural pursuits, which have since largely engrossed his attention. He owns three farms, aggregating about 500 acres, all lying just south of the city, and upon the one he occupies he settled in 1852. In 1^80 he started a meat market in Hornellsville which was continued about twelve years by his son, Walter A. Stephens. Mr. Stephens has been a lifelong Democrat and is the oldest school official in point of service in the county. He served as school trustee of the village of Hornellsville for eighteen consecutive years, or until the village board of education was organized, when he became a member and the first president of that body. He held both of these positions for fifteen successive years, completing a continuous service of thirty- three years. During that period he had charge of the erection of the First ward and Lincoln school buildings and the reconstruction of the Sixth ward and Park school houses. No man has taken a deeper or a more active interest in the development of local education than has Mr. Stephens, and no one has devoted more time and energy to the cause. He was loan commissioner for the State for three years, high- way commissioner of his town for eleven years, and supervisor of Hornellsville two terms. He was one of the organizers and first membersof the Hornellsville Farmers' club, and as superintendent had charge of the grounds and construction of the buildings, etc. , at the time of its inception. Ever since then he has been actively identified with that organization. In various other movements — in religious and social matters, in public affairs, and in numerous business relations — Mr. Stephens has been a foremost promoter. He was married in 1841 to Miss Catherine Doty, of Hornellsville. She died March 7, 1863, aged forty-one, leaving five children, viz.; Christopher B., born April 19, 1844, died in 187C; Thaddeus A., born September 1, 1845; Walter A., born March 6, 1853; William D., born October 10, 1854; and Catherine E., born September 25, 1856, who married September 7, 1876, Henry M. Bennett, who with Alanson Stephens conducts the meat market previously mentioned. Mr. Stephens married for his second wife, in July, 1881, Mrs. Fhilena Pickard, of Hornellsville, EDWARD F. WILLETS. Hon. Edward F. Willei s, who has filled the office of mayor of the city of Hor- nellsville since March, 1892, was born in the town of Ledyard, Cayuga county, N. Y., and is the youngest of three .sons of Abram Willets, a native of Queens county, who spent the last years of his life on a farm upon which the subject of thisskctch passed his infancy and youth. He completed his education at Poplar Ridge Seminary, and at an early age engaged in mechanical pursuits, which he followed for five years. He then entered mercantile bu.siness in Lake Ridge, Tompkins county, and later in BIOGRAPHICAL. 15 Fleming. CayuRa county, and thence in 1857 removed to Angelica, .Mlegany conntv, where he was engaged in lumbering for a time. Leaving there he operated a saw and flouring mill in Belmont until 1877. when he went to Bradford, I'a.. and engaged in the oil business, with which he has ever since been identified. In 1883 Mr. Willetts removed to Hornellsville, where he has since resided. He has been a life-long Republican, and for many years an active and influential factor in political affairs. He was for four years supervisor of the town of Amity, Allegany county, and while a resident of that county served also as internal revenue collector four years. After coming to Hornellsville he represented the city for four years on the Board of Supervisors, and in 1893 was elected mayor, to which office he was re- elected in 1894. In all these positions he has served with satisfaction to his con- stituents. As mayor he has been instrumental in effecting many notable and sub- stantial improvements, which testify to his progressive spirit and enterprise. Dur- ing his occupancy of the office of mayor the present electric street railway system was placed in operation, the sewer system was constructed and two miles of brick pavement w-ere laid in the city. Mr. Willets was the first Republican mayor of Hor- nellsville and the second elected since the city's incorporation. Mr. Willets was married in 1856 to Miss Amelia Smith, of Ledyard, Cayuga county. They have no children living. JOHX \V. DAVIS. John W. Davis, the eldest child of Orlando Davis, and the grandson of a sol- dier of the war of 1812. was born in Sherburne, Chenango county, M. Y., Octo- ber 5, 1820, and received his education in the public schools and academy of his na- tive town. His father drove a team from Hartford to New Haven, Conn., iluring the war of 1812, and late in life moved to Yates county, X. Y., where he died in Jan- uary, 1880, aged eighty-six years. He married in 1819 Mrs. Fanny Adsit, widow of Leonard Adsit and daughter of Noah Davenport, a prominent farmer and merchant in Columbia county. She had five children by her first husband, viz.: Albert, Arunah M. , James M. , Martin and Alma ; by her second marriage she had three sons : John W. Davis, the subject of this sketch; Charles D., of Yates county, and George, who died, aged thirteen. She died April 28, 1871, at the age of eighty-six. John W. Davis came to Hammondsport, Steuben county, in 1837, as clerk for his half-brother, A. M. Adsit, who was engaged in general merchandising and forward- ing. He remained in that capacity until 1842, when he was admitted to partnership under the firm name of Adsit & Davis, which continued till 1851, when Mr. Adsit moved to St. Lawrence county and Mr. Davis became sole owner of the business. He then increased the scope of his operations and carried on a large mercantile, pro- duce storage and forwarding trade alone until 1877. when he closed out one of the most extensive and successful concerns ever prosecuted in Hammondsport. He was a heavy dealer in lumber, grain and wool, which he shipped to eastern markets. He was the principal owner and manager for a considerable time of a line of some twelve freight boats that ran between Hammondsport and New York, which was in- stituted by A. M. Adsit at the opening of the Crooked Lake Canal. In this business 16 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Mr. Davis was remarkably successful, and acquired as wide a reputation as his vil- lage in days when it was noted as one of the leading and most important grain and lumber markets in the State. He was by all odds the heaviest operator in produce in the county, and discontinued the trade only when the grape industry superseded all other interests. In 1881 Mr. Davis became a director and general manager of the reorganized Ur- bana Wine Company, one of the largest corporations of the kind in this famous sec- tion, and these positions he has ever since held. He has been interested in farming and grape growing since 1865, and owns and occupies the place upon which the first grape vines in town were set. These were planted more than sixty years ago by Rev. W. W. Bostwick, and have continuously borne excellent fruit. Mr. Davis has long been one of the prominent and extensive viniculturists of this locality, and to him much of its fame as a grape section is due. He was largely instrumental in bringing about the construction of the Bath & Hammondsport Railroad, and upon the organization of the company was elected its first secretary and director, which latter office he still holds. He has also been a director in the Lake Keuka Naviga- tion Company most of the time since its inception, and has always taken an active interest in the material prosperity of his village and town. Mr. Davis is a Republican and has been a prominent factor in local politics, though not in the sense of a politician. He was supervisor of Urbana in 1848, member of Assembly in 1880, and was one of the first board of trustees of the village of Ham- mondsport, an office he held several years. He has also been president of the vil- lage and was one of the prime movers in effecting its incorporation. He has been a member of St. James's Protestant Episcopal church about forty-five years, and has served successively as vestryman, junior warden and senior warden much of that time. To this parish he has given valuable services, especially during the erection of the new edifice, which cost about §15,000, and which is one of the finest village structures of the kind in the country. As chairman of its building committee, com- posed of able and representative men, he has had the principal charge of its con- struction during the summer and fall of 189.J, and to him is largely due the efficient management which has characterized the work- August 10, 1848, Mr. Davis was married to Miss Sarah Hunt, of Dansville, N. Y., daughter of Richard Hunt, of Illinois. She died July 3, 1894, aged seventy-two. WALTER LULL MOORE. Walter Lull Mocire, son of Nathaniel Moure, was born in the town of But- ternuts (now Morris), Otsego county, N. Y., November 1, 1815. He was reared a farmer, a business he followed there until 1863, and obtained his education in the public schools of the neighborhood. Endowed with the sterling characteristics of a worthy parentage, he imbibed the qualities which make the successful man and re- spected citizen, and from an early age pursued a career of quiet but marked useful- ness. On September 7, 1842, he was married to Miss Esther Adelia Fairchild, of New Lisbon, Otsego county, who was born April 29, 1822. Before this, on February FARY B. BEHCHER. BIOGRAPHICAL. 17 24, 1838, he was commissioned by Gov. William L. JIarcy a lieutenant in the 251st Regt., infantry, 2d Brigade, 6lh Division, New ^ ork State Militia, and on August 8 of the same year was promoted captain, which position he resigned July 14, 1842. In 1863 he came with his wife and four children to Hammondsport, Steuben county, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying January 7. 1893. His estimable wife preceded him on December 29, 1876, beiug killed in the memorable railroad accident at Ashtabula, Ohio, of that date. Arriving at Hammondsport, Mr. Moore engaged in viniculture, a business he prose- cuted with marked success until his death. He was one of the pioneer grape grow- ers in that now famous section, and for mauy years carried on an extensive vineyard. About 1865 he also engaged in the manufacture of cabinet ware and grape boxes in partnership with his brother-in-law, S. B. Fairchild, under the firm name of Fair- child & Moore, and continued about five years, when the firm sold out to Fairchild Brothers. Mr. Moore was a man universally respected and esteemed, not only for his busi- ness qualifications, but also for his many social attributes. He was a life-long Demo- crat in politics, but never an officeseeker. Public-spirited and enterprising, he lib- erally encouraged and supported all worthy movements of general benefit, and took a keen interest in the welfare of village and town, especially in religion and educa- tion, being for a time school trustee, and during nearly his entire residence in Ham- mondsport a vestryman of St. James's Protestant Episcopal church. His children were Anna (Mrs. Elbert McMinn), born March 3, 1845, died May 12, 1884; Trevor, born April 13, 1846, president of the Central New York Grape Grow- ers' Union during its existence, and a heavy shipper of grapes, of Hammondsport; Hobart J., born December 14, 1850, a prominent druggist of Hammondsport; and Clara A. (Mrs. J. C. Mitchell), born September 11, 1854, of Chicago. FARY B. BEECHER. Farv B. Bi-.echf.r, of Atlanta, Steuben county, is a lineal descendant of one of the immortal band of Pilgrims who sailed for this country in the Mayflower in 1620. This paternal ancestor had three sons, Hezekiah, Lines, and Lyman, and from the latter descended Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. '1 homas K. Beecher, and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. To the posterity of Hezekiah Beecher belongs the subject of this sketch and his father, Randall F. Beecher. The latter came from Madison county, N. Y. , about 1840, and settled on a farm in the town of Fremont, Steuben county, where he also practiced as a licensed veterinarian, and where he died. He married, first, Miss Serepta Cass, who bore him three children ; Andalusia, Nason, who died in the Union army in the Rebellion, and William Henry, deceased. His second wife was Wealthy Doneha, who was the mother of one son, John D., who served in the Civil war and afterward settled in Allegany county. For his third wife Mr. Beecher married Statira Sanford, by whom he had ten children who attained maturity. Wealthy, of Buffalo; Orrin H., a teacher at Lima. N. Y. ; Eunice (Mrs. Lewis B. Ward), of Fremont, Steuben county; Mark H., of Buffalo; Fary B., the c 18 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. subject of this sketch; Luke A., a furniture dealer in Atlanta; Amenzo J., aeon- tractor and builder in Buffalo; Murray C, who died in Chicago in 1894; Scott M., of Buffalo; and Gertrude C. Fary B. Beecher was born on his father's farm in Fremont, Steuben county, June 2, 1856, and received his early education in the public schools of his native town. He attended the Rogersville Union Seminary for a time then taught school several years. Deciding upon a professional life he eiitered the otiice of O. S. Searl, of Cohocton, where he became a faithful disciple of Blackstone, and from whence he was admitted to the bar in 18H1. He immediately settled in Atlanta, where he has very successfully practiced his chosen profession ever since. Mr. Beecher is a staunch Democrat and active in the councils of his party. He takes a keen interest in local affairs, in the advancement of his village and town, and is prominently identified with its material growth and prosperity. He is a member of and has held nearly every office in Kanawha Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Atlanta, and has taken the past official degree of the District Grand Commandery and also in 1893 the Grand Lodge degree at Buffalo. He is also a prominent member of the Atlanta Presbyterian church. Mr. Beecher was married in 1881 to Miss Emma E. Johnson, of North Cohocton. They have four children: Don L., Dana C, Una M., and Marion. OTTO FREDERICK MARSHAL. Gen. Otto Frederick RL\kshal was born in the village of Zeisar, Prussian Saxony, Germany, August 14, 1791, being the only son of Daniel Marshal, field chaplain, who enjoyed the favor of Fredeiick the Great, the sovereign of that country.' Upon the death of his royal patron in May, 1799, father and son came to the United States, landing in Boston, whence they took a stage to New York city, where they arrived in June. There Daniel Marshal, being a talented linguist, opened a select school, and also invested his small means in German linen, ivory combs, and other notions, opening a modest store at the Bowery in Chatham street. In the spring of 1801 he gathered his effects together and started for the interior of the State, taking a sloop to Albany, where he procured transportation to Schenectady. He there purchased a small boat, took aboard his baggage and supplies, and with his son poled his rude craft up the Mohawk River to Utica, then a frontier village. There was a German settlement about a mile from the village, and ten miles below another. The elder Marshal had taken orders, and was therefore qualified to preach, and for several years ministered to the spiritual wants of these settlements in their own language. About a year after their arrival in Utica he purchased a lot on Genesee street, erected a house, and opened a small store. In 1800 a German farmer persuaded him to visit with him the Genesee country. They came to Geneva and were advised by the agent of the Pulteney estate there to apply at the office m Bath. Marshal did .so, • Several autograph tetters of Frederick tlic Great to l^aniel Marshal, as -well as one from General Washington, are in the possession of the pioneer's great-grandson. Otto K. Marshal, of Wheeler, by whom they are highly prized. jj^s^PSBI^'v^, l^ y ^] h %l J. H. LHWIS. BIOGRAPHICAL. 19 and found a lot on Five Mile Creek, in Wheeler, which suited him. Part of it was owned by Valentine Bear, a (lerinan, who sold his right and improvements to Mar- shal. He also purchased an additional forty acres adjoining, and then returned to his home in Utica. In 1809 he disposed of his house and lot and closed out his little store, preparatory to his removal to this county. He waited till the ICth of February, 1810, for sleighing, and then engaged a party to bring hmi and his son, with his goods, to his lauds in Wheeler, where they arrived on the 22d of that month where the general ever afterward resided, a period of more than eighty years. The father soon after hi-i settlement here married a young widow. On the 27th of May, 1812, he died. February 10, 1814, Gen. Otto F. Marshal married Miss Dolly Neally, a sister of the late Samuel Neally. There were born to them three sons and two daughters. Oue son, Frank J. Marshal, of Wheeler, survives him. He died January 10, 1891. General Marshal was one of the most distinguished men the town of Wheeler ever honored as a resident. His first service in the State militia was as third corporal in 1810, and he rose by regular gradation until his apjiointment as major-general of the 30th Division on June 20, 1833, a position he held until he resigned in 1845. He took a becoming pride in that organization, was regarded as a model officer, and was present as a commissioned otticer at the execution of Robert Douglass in Bath. By the gift of his townsmen he held every town office from pathmaster to supervisor e.KCept constable and collector. He was long a justice of the peace and about twelve years county superintendent of the poor, and in 1837 was appointed postmaster of Wheeler. In 1846 he was elected to the State Legislature and served creditably his term. He was also commissioner of deeds many years. He was a life-member of the Steuben County Agricultural Society and never failed to have an attractive exhibit at its annual fairs. He was literally the father of that .society by virtue of great efforts for its organization and his unceasing anxiety for its welfare and continued usefulness. No other man ever did so much for that body or contributed so largely towards its permanent exi.stence. At the time of his death be was its oldest and most honored member. In all the affairs of life his great desire was always to aid his fellow-citizens and promote their best interests in word and deed. He was plain and simple in his manners, as becomes an American by birth as well as by adoption. He was frank and cordial in his deportment, without roughness or bluster. Always hopeful, always cheerful, slight in form and spare in habit, his great age was due as much to his social qualities as tc a vigorous constitution. His memory of men and events was wonderful. It is doubtful is he ever forgot a person he once knew, or was unable to recall some incident connected with him. He attained the great age of nearly ninety-nine years and five months, and died universally respected, esteemed, and beloved. JACOB H. LEWIS. Jacob H. Lewis, third son of Herman and Margaret (Thompson) Lewis, was born in Brunswick, Rensselaer county, N. Y., January 10, 182G, and came with his parents to the town of Wheeler, Steuben county, in 1828. His father was born of Holland 20 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Dutch parentage in the Mohawk valley on April 28, 1787. and served for a time in the war of 1813; he was a life-long farmer, and with the exception of a few years spent in Yates county, Avoca, and Bath, lived in Wheeler from 1828 until his death on January 5, 1873; his wife, Margaret Thompson, daughter of Daniel Thompson, who came to this town in 1840, was born July 12, 1797, and died August 19, 1860. Their children were Daniel D., born October 10, 1818, died December 23, 1893; Jane, born May 24, 1820, died October 2ll, 18()0; Catherine, born February 9, 1832; John M., born February 9, 1824; Jacob H., the subject of this sketch; Barbara, born Feb- ruary 10, 1828. died November 4, 1881; Emeline, born January 3, 1831, died March 23, 1857; Lemuel, born March 7, 1834; Mary E , born February 29, 1836; and George W., born November 7. 1839. Jacob H. Lewis was educated in the public schools of Wheeler, where he has lived since the age of two years. He was reared upon his father's farm, and early mani- fested an inclination for an active life. When fifteen he began farming for himself and at nineteen he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed successfully for ten years. He then purchased a farm of 113 acres, wh'ch he sold twelve years later, and he then bought a farm of 135 acres on Wheeler hill, a part of which he still owns. While farming he also bought sheep and shipped them to western markets. In 1885 he moved to Wheeler village and engaged in general merchandising, which he con- tinued with marked success until 1894, when he turned the business over to his only son, F. F. Lewis, and retired permanently from active life. Mr. Lewis is a Democrat in politics and has always taken a prominent part in town affairs. Public spirited, enterprising, and sagacious he encourages every worthy movement with a degree of liberality that characterizes a progressive citizen. He was assessor nine years, town clerk two years, and supervisor two terms, and in all these capacities distinguished himself for rare fidelity and uprightness. He was one of the chief promoters m Wheeler of the Kanona and Prattsburg railroad, to which he donated considerable land for right of way. In other minor enterprises of a private and public nature he has been equally prominent, and in matters affect- ing the social and moral welfare of the community his influence is often felt for the good. February 12, 18.54, Mr. Lewis was married to Miss Belinda Hankinson, second daughter of Joseph and Susan (Myrtle) Hankinson, of Wheeler. They have one son, Fred Francis Lewis, born December 1, 1855, who married Miss Kate Cook, daughter of Adam Cook, on April 5, 1882. JOHN H. KEELER. JoH.N' H. Kkeler was born at Mauch Chunk, Pa., January 1, 1822, and inherited the sturdy characteristics of a Holland Dutch ancestry. When a young man he came to Penn Yan, N. Y., where he acquired a common school education. He early learned the trade of tinsmith in Waterloo, Seneca county, and about 1848 removed to Hammondsport, N. Y., where he entered the employ of Randall & Neil, stove foun- drymen and tinsmiths, whose business he very soon bought out. This was the prac- tical beginning of a long a useful career. He manufactured stoves, plows, tinware, BIOGRAPHICAL. 21 and agricultural implements until about 1805, when he sold the foundry and devoted his attention to a vineyard near the village. In January, 1870, he purchased the hardware store of Allen & Brownell and placed his sons, John W. and George H. Keeler, in charge under the firm name of J. H. Keeler & Sons. Mr. Keeler died May 17 of that year, and about four years later the mercantile business was sold to Robie & McNamara, who a year afterward was succeeded by George H. Keeler and O. H. Younglove. This firm was followed by George H. Keeler, the present pro- prietor. John H. Keeler was a lifelong Republican and an ardent advocate of the princi- ples of his party, but he never became an office seeker nor a politician. He devoted his time and energies solely to business and acquired unusual success. He was one of the first vineyardists in this now famous grape section, and practically demon- strated his faith in its future by founding the valuable vineyard owned by his two sons. In social and business life Mr. Keeler was a man of strict integrity, endowed with the attributes of a respected and successful citizen, and esteemed for his many excellent qualities of head and heart. He took a keen interest in all movements conducive to the welfare of his town and village. In 1845 he was married to Miss Sarah E., daughter of William McConnell, of Sugar Hill, Schuyler county, who was the mother of his five children, three of whom died in infancy. She met a sudden death in the memorable railroad wreck at Jackson, Mich., on October 13, 1893, while on her way to the World's Columbian E.\position at Chicago. Their surviving children, born in Hammondsport, are John W., born June 19, 1849, and George H., born September 17, 1853, both of whom are representative business men and leading citizens. John W. Keeler was educated in Hammondsport Academy, graduating in 1868, and became a clerk for K. Church & Co., hardware dealers, of Bath, with whom he remained until 1879, when he returned to Hammondsport, where he has since been engaged in viniculture. In 1894 he was appointed one of the original Board of Water Commissioners to establish the present water system for the village, and in Decem- ber of that year was made superintendent, which position he now holds. He was married in 1877 to Miss Lizzie P., daughter of Dr. John Read, of Bath. They have three children; John W., Daisy L., and Lois R. George H. Keeler was graduated from Hammondsport Academy in 1873, and en- gaged in viniculture until 1879, when he became a dealer in general hardware, which business he still continues. He was one of the originators of the Lake Keuka Wine company in 1886 and has served as its president ever since. He is al.so an extensive grape grower and farmer. A Republican in politics he has held neatly every town office, serving as town clerk, highway commissioner, and supervisor thre2 terms, and president of the village four years. He has also been chief of the fire department for ten years, and has always taken an active interest in public affairs. He married in 1875 Miss Eva D., daughter of John Quick, of Hammondsport. They have six daughters, viz.: Sarah E., Lottie J., Mary L., Bessie V., Georgia May, and Flor- ence D. 22 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. MARTIN KIMMEL. Mautin KiMMF.i. wds born in Bavaria, Germany, February 13, 1831, came to America in 1847. and settled in South Dansville, Steuben county, where he worked by the month for eight years. He inherited the progre';sive characteristics of his race, and in early youth obtained as thorough an education as the limited means of his parents permitted, but the knowledge with which he is endowed to-day was largely acquired in the practical affairs of life and in personal application to minutest details. Determining to start himself upon a business career he purchased a stump machine and profitably manipulated it two seasons. He then formed a partnership with William Cotton and bought a steam saw mill at Haskinsville, but one year later became sole owner. In 1860 he moved the mill to Wayland and con- tinued it with different partners until 1805, when he purchased and moved on to a farm of 176 acres one-half mile west of the village. Later he bought '220 acres ad- joining and owns now in all about 400 acres of the best farming land in town. In 1884 he bought the site and erected a brick block in Wayland, and in it opened a large hardware store, first under the name of Martin Kimmel & Co. This he still carries on, the present firm being Martin Kimmel & .Son, which was formed in 1887. In 1890 he also started a hajxlware store in Cohocton under the same firm name and still continues it. This store is managed by Peter Kimmel, while the one in Wayland is in charge of John Kimmel. Mr. Kimmel has long been one of the representative men of the town, which he served four years as supervisor. He has always taken a keen interest in local affairs, and in various movements his aid and influence have been exerted for the general wel- fare. He was married in 1855 to Miss Catherins Gross, of Perkinsville, who died in 1862, leaving three children, namely: Joseph, of Dakota, born in 1856, married Addie Steinhart, of Dansville, N. Y., and has two children, Joseph and Laura; Margaret, of Wayland, born in 1860, married Peter Yohon, and has four children, Clara, Mar- tin, Katie, and Peter; and Mary, of Wayland, born in 1862, married John Quantz, and has five children, Mary, Martih, Peter, George, and Katie. Mr. Kimmel mar- ried for his second wife Mrs. Clara (Foot) Kirk, and they have ten children : Martin, born December 28, 1864, married Mary Shultz, and had three children, Josephine, Katie, and Agnes; John, born April 32, 1867, married Mary Engel, and has two chil- dren, Victor and Leo; Frank, born August 17, 1809, married Lizzie Munding; Peter, born November 24, 1871, married Catherine Mertz; Catherine, born November 24, 1878; Anna, born February 1, 1876; Clara, born April 22, 1878; Jacob, born May 7, 1880; Lizzie, born September 19, 1882; and Lena, born March 19, 1886. HARLO HAKES. Hon. Harlo Hakes was born in Harpersfield, Delaware county, N. Y. , Septem- ber 33, 1833. He spent "his time until about twenty-eight years of age upon his fath- er's farm, attending school winters until he was seventeen, and was for eight suc- cessive terms a teacher. In the year 1851 he entered the office of Rufus King, of BIOGRAPHICAL. 23 Davenport, Delaware county, as law student, where he remained two years. He then became a student with Judge Harris, of Albany, and after attending one course of lectures at the Albany Law School, was admitted to the bar, in l.S,j;!, and in May of the same year settled in Hornellsville, where he has remained in the practice of his profession until the present time. In the year 1855 Mr. Hakes married Mary, youngest daughter of J. D. Chandler, of Hornellsville. Their children are M. Evelyn, Hattie V., and Carrie M. Mr. Hakes was chosen to represent his assembly district in the State Legislature for the year 1856, and served on the judiciary committee during the term. In 18t)2 he was elected district attorney of the county, which he held for three years. Dur- ing the year 1865 he associated with him in the law business James H Stevens, jr., a gentleman of fine legal ability. This firm enjoyed a very large law practice in this and surrounding counties during the term of partnership. In the year 1867 Mr. Hakes was appointed registrar in bankruptcy for the Twenty- ninth Congressional District. He has been somewhat active in political circles, and interested in questions affecting the changes in our nation's history. He was origi- nally a member of the Whig party, and was a delegate to the Baltimore Convention that nominated Bell and Everett for president and vice-president, since which tmie he has been a supporter of the Republican party, and its representative of the Twenty-ninth Congressional District of New York, as a member of the Cincinnati Convention in 1876 that made Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes the Republican nominee for the presidency of the United States. In addition to his professional and official duties, he has been thoroughly identified with the growing interests of the city of Hornellsville, and largely interested in real estate. In 1873 he o])ened " Hakes avenue," connecting Main and Genesee streets, and donated it to the then village, and since that time has purchased and improved that portion of the city known as " Riverside Place," connecting Main with Elm street, where he has built several substantial dwellings. In 1883 was elected to the c ffice of county judge for Steuben county, for the term of i-ix years, and in 1889 the confidence of the people was again expressed by re- electing him by an emphatic vote to the same office. His keen perception, sound judgment, strict integrity and fair dealing have secured to him a large measure of success and the confidence of the community. RU.SSELL M. TUTTLE. ^ RussKi.i. M. Tlttle was born in Almond, Allegany county, N. Y., January 12, 1840. and has been a resident of Hornellsville since 1842. He was a son of Rufus Tuttle, who was for more than thirty years a prominent business man and a re- spected citizen of Hornellsville. He was married November 7, 1807. to Ervilla, daughter of the late Dr. Levi S. Goodrich. He received his education at the Hornells- ville public .schools, at Alfred Academy, and at the University of Rochester, where he was graduated in 1862. In August, 1862. he enlisted in the 107th Regiment, New York \'olunteers, and 24 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY served with the Army of the Potomac, in the Atlanta campaign, and in the "march to the sea." He was promoted to second and first lieutenant, and at the close of the war received an honorary commission as brevet captain United States Volunteers. He was on staff duty nearly two years, as topographical engineer and A. A. A. G., with Generals T. H. Ruger and W. T. Ward, of the Twentieth Army Corps. Mr. Tuttle was elected president of the village of Hornellsville in 1808, and repre- sented the Second Assembly district of Steuben in the Legislatures of 1880 and 1881. He has taken especial interest in the organization and management of the Hornell Library Association. His chief interests have been in the newspaper and printing business. He was an editor and proprietor of the Hornellsville Times from its establishment in 1867 to 1879, and again from 1888 to the present time. CLAIR S. PARKHILL, M. D. Dr. Clair S. Parkhh.l was born in Howard, Steuben county, N, Y., November ITi, 1842. The youngest son of David Parkhill, his boyhood was spenton the homestead farm and in attendance at the district school. His father, David Parkhill. was born in Minden, Montgomery county, 1804, and came with his parents, Timothy and Anna (Rurey) Parkhill, to the town of Howard in 1818. In 1823 he married Eveline, daughter of Reuben Ferris. Their children were Delia, Willard, Albert (deceased), Dr. Reuben F. , Ann and Dr. Clair S. In 1876, David Parkhill moved to Hornellsville, where he died November 8, 1892. The Parkhill family traces its ancestry to a French lad taken from the wreck of a vessel in the English Channel. The boy was adopted by an English gentleman, who had a country seat situated in a large park at Torquay, England, known as Park Hill. Being unable to make his name known to his rescuers, the boy was called Parkhill, after the name of this manor, where he was taken to reside. He grew to manhood, married, and lived at Havershaw, England. His two sons joined King William III., Prince of Orange, in the war between Catholics and Protestants in Scot- land and Ireland, 1688-97. After the war one of these sons remained in Scotland, the other settled in Derry county, Ireland. During -the early part of the seventeenth century four brothers of one of these families, of the Scotch branch, landed at Plymouth, Mass., one brother and sister remaining in Ireland. The names of those who immigrated to this country were Nathaniel, the father of Timothy Parkhill ; David, James and Hugh. Two brothers and their families remained for some years in Massachusetts, but subse- quently Nathaniel moved to Vermont, thence to Springfield, Otsego county, N. Y. James and Hugh remained in the New England States. Descendants of these four brothers are widely scattered over the United States. Burk's History of Peers puts the Parkhill family down as of Scotch origin. At the age of fourteen Doctor Parkhill entered Kaverling Union School at Bath. From there he returned to the farm and remained there until eighteen years of age. In the fall of 1862 he entered Michigan University, where he studied for two years, and then returned to his native town and entered Albany Medical College, from CALVIN E. THORP. BIOGRAPHICAL. 26 which he was graduated llecember 24, !«()(!. He began llie practice of the profes- sion with his brother, Reuben F., in the town of Howard, and continued with him for seven years. September, 1873, he came to Hornellsville and took up the prac- tice of the profession in this city, where we now find him, one of the leading physi- cians of this county. The doctor is a member of the American Medical Association, the New York State Medical Association, the New York State Medical Society, president of the New York State Railway Surgeons' Association, member of the Association of Surgeons of the Erie system, the surgical section of the Medical Legal Society of New York city, the Steuben County Medical Society, and member and ex-president of the Hor- nellsville Medical and Surgical Association. He is also the company's surgeon at Hornellsville for the N. Y. , L. E. & 'W. Railway, and president of the medical and surgical staff of the St. James Mercy Hospital. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Evening Star Lodge, No. 44, and one of the supporters of the R. R. Y. M. C. A., and a member of the Presbyterian church. In 1884 he served as presi- dent of the village and was a member of the Board of Education four years. March 20, 18H7, he married Marjory P.. daughter of William Rice of Howard. Hy this marriage he had four children: Louise, the wife of Blake B. Babcock ; Carrie, who died at three years of age; Walter, who died at seventeen years of age; and one who died in infancv. CALVIN E. THORP. Cai.vin E. Thuri' was born in Otsego county, N. Y., May 37, 1829, and is a son of Nelson Thorp, who took up a tract of land and settled on Potter Hill, in the town of Cohoctou, Steuben county, in 1837. Nelson Thorp was a stirring man of considerable influence, and engaged extensively in lumbering, and later in fanning. A Whig in politics, -he took an active interest in local affairs, and held .several important town offices. His wife was Lucy Snyder, and their children were Calvin E., James N. and George, Mary and Charles, deceased. Calvin E. Thorp was educated in the district .schools of Cohocton, and at the age of twenty-one went out to work by the month. In 1852 he engaged in lumbering on his lather's land, having a saw mill, which he successfully carried on for several years prior to leaving home. About 18(i.') he settled where he now resides, and since then he has been a heavy dealer in live stock, wool, carriages, agricultural implements, etc. He is one of the leading citizens of the town of Cohocton, and has always taken a lively interest in public affairs, and e.specially in politics. A staunch and unswerving Republican, he has held several town offices, and was first elected super- visor in 1879. and served in all three terms. He was a charter memberof the Cohoc- ton Lodge of Odd Fellows and has been a member of Liberty Lodge, No. 510, F. H: A. M., about forty years. Mr. Thorp was married, first in 1853, to Miss Luna M. Carrington, who died April 3, 1873. leaving tive children: Oscar D. , of Buffalo; Charles M., a farmer of Cohoc- ton; Walter E., of Hartland. Mich. ; Jennie M. (Mrs. Frank M. Larrowe), of Cohoc- ton; and George A., a general dealer in Cohocton. He married, second, Jennie S. Myers, of Cohocton, in 1874. D 26 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. HIRAM W. HATCH. HrRAM W. Hatch was born in the town of Cohocton, Steuben county, January D, 1846. His grandfather. Matthew Hatch, a man peculiarly fitted by nature for pio- neer hfe, left Whitehall. N. Y., in 1812, and settled in Bath, where he resided one year. In 1813 he settled on a farm on Lent Hill in the town of Cohocton, being the third to locate on that elevation, which was named from its first white settler, Abram Lent, whose daughter Matthew Hatch married. Mr. Hatch had five sons and one daughter, viz.: Sylvanus, Philip, Barnabas C, Matthew, jr., Hiram, and Cerisa (Mrs. William Hyatt). Barnabas C. Hatch became a prominent and influential citi zen of Michigan, where he served as county judge, member of assembly, etc. The other sons settled on Lent Hill and were respected and thrifty farmers. Sylvanus Hatch was a captain in the old State militia, a life-long farmer, and a man of ster- ling character, whose aid and advice were often sought upon matters of importance, and who was universally esteemed for his many excellent qualities. He was born in Whitehall, N. Y., June 11, 1802, and died in Cohocton in 1874, and was buried in the Hatch burying ground on Lent Hill. He was married in 1839 to Miss Emily Peck, who survives him and resides in Atlanta. She was born July 11, ISllt. Their only son was Hiram W. Hatch, the subject of this sketch. Hiram W. Hatch inherited all the ennobling and thrifty characteristics of his respected ancestors. Born and reared on the parental farm, where he formed those, habits of integrity and practical labor which have marked his life, he early became imbued with the attributes of a successful career and put forth every energy to secure the results of such advantages as his surroundings aftorded. He finished his public school education in the old Naples Academy and remained on the homestead assisting his father until 18T0, when he settled in the village of Atlanta and engaged in the hardware trade, which he successfully contmued till IXHl. In 1871 he also engaged in the produce business, dealing in grain, potatoes, wool, etc. In this he became an extensive operator, succeeding beyond the average dealer, and with it he has ever since been prominently identified. He is also extensively engaged in farm- ing, owning several farms in this and adjoining counties. In 1884 his son, Hyatt C. Hatch, became his associate and in 1893 the firm name of H. W. Hatch &• Son was adopted. In September, 1895, his son-in-law, C. Gilbert Lyon, and cousin, William E. Otto, were admitted as partners and the firm became Hatch, Otto & Co. Their business extends along the lines of the Erie and D. L. & W. Railroads throughout Western New York and the firm is one of the most extensive operators of the kind in this part of the State. They handle immense quantities of potatoes, grain and wool annually, involving transactions aggregating hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr. Hatch commenced a business career before he had reached his majority. While still a farmer with his father he dealt quite heavily in live stock, in which he was remarkably successful. In his commercial life he has followed the strict rules of integrity which underlie all honorable dealing, and has won the respect and good will of every one with whom he has had business relations. His natural business qualifications and the confidence impo.sed in him by the community have brought him a large measure of success. He is a man of unusual public spirit and his sub- stantial aid and generous support have always been freely given to any public im- HIRAM W. HATCH. BIOGRAPHICAL. 27 provement that merits his sanction. Ilis career, both commercially and socially, has been marked by uninterrupted success. He is honest and truthful, kind, courte- ous, and popular, prudent and sagacious, trustworthy, vigilant, and upright, and his life has been founded upon those principles of integrity and fairness toward his fel- low men which invariably prove resjionsible for such success as he has attained. His counsel is esteemed by all who care to profit by it in practical affairs. In the several stations of life he has exhibited those sterling qualifications that contribute so much toward his own personal success, and by his genial way has won a warm place in the hearts of his associates that is equally gratifying to them and to himself. He was the fir.st president of the Atlanta and Xorth Cohocton Building and Loan Association, and since its organization has been president of Erie and Niagara Land Company of Bath, which owns valuable real estate in Buffalo. His interest in public affairs has led him to a considerable extent mto politics. A Republican of the staunchest char- acter he served as highway commissioner several years, as supervisor two terms, and often as delegate to county, district, and State conventions, and also as a member of the Republican town and county committees manyyear-S. Although not a member he was long a trustee of the old Atlanta Baptist church and in 1894 became one of the first board of trustees of the new Presbyterian church, which he joined as a com- municant, and of which he was among the founders, 'i'o this worthy cause he has contributed generously and largely made possible the construction of the elegant new edifice, and as a trustee he was a member of the building committee during its erection in 180.5. He has always been deeply interested in educational matters and locally he has served as a member of the Hoard of Education for fifteen years being president of that body most of the time He was largely instrumental in placing the present academical department of the Atlanta Union School under the Regents. In his home Mr. Hatch is especially fortunate. He has practically spent several win- ters in the South, and in travel finds both recreation and knowledge, for he is a shrewd observer as well as a practical man. > Id 1866 Mr. Hatch was married to Miss Celestia Bush, daughter of John Bush, of Naples, N. Y. They have three children: Hyatt C. Minnie L. (.Mrs. C. Gilbert Lyon), and Mary E., all of Atlanta. Hyatt C. Hatch was born in the town of Cohocton in 18fiT, and received his educa- tion in the public schools and in the Atlanta LInion School. At the age of seventeen he became associated with his father in, business, and shortly afterward entered Eastman's Business College of Poughkeepsie, from which he was graduated, the highest in his class, in April, 1887. He continued his business relations with his father and in 1893 the firm name of H. W. Hatch & Son was adopted. Besides this he has personally carried on various business relations, principally in real estate, in which he has been very successful. He was elected one of the first elders of the At- lanta Presbyterian church in 1894 and has officiated as superintendent of its Sunday school since its organization. In politics he is a staunch Republican and a member of the Republican town and county committees. He was elected supervisor of Co- hocton in February, 1893, and re-elected in February, 1894, for two years — an office he filled with great satisfaction. He was married August 24, 1893, to Miss F. Edith Armstrong, daughter of Seth W. Armstrong, of Oaks Corners, Ontario countv. They have one son, Bernis Warner Hatch, born September 19, 1894. 26 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. LORENZO HULBERT. Moses Hulbert, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Hampshire county, Mass., August 7, 1770, and was of the fifth generation in direct descent from Sir Justice George Hulbert, who in 1632 was made a knight of the order of the gar- ter for bravery in battle, and who settled in New England early in the seventeenth century. Moses Hulbert, after a brief residence at Fort Ann, Washington county, K.Y., came to the town of Dansville, Steuben county, in 1816, and located on a farm on North Oak Hill, where he lived the remainder of his life, dying about 1846. He followed both farming and coopering. He married, first. E.xperience Birge, who was born April 35, 1776, and their children were Harriet, born April 8, 1796; Almira, born April 38, 1800; and Cornelius, born March 6, 18lt2. His second wife was Esther Hannum, who was bom January 17. 1775, and their children were Julius, born Octo- ber 26, 1805; Lester, born July 6, 1808; Justus, born November 13. 1810; Elmina. born October 23, 1812; and Joel Coleman, born November 12, 1815. Julius Hulbert, born m Fort Ann, came to DansviUe with his parents, and on April 9, 1828, was married to Eliza Brown, who was born in New Hampshire in October, 1804, and died January 22, 1894. Immediately after his marriage he purchased the farm ad- joining his father on the south, upon which Lorenzo Hulbert now resides, and there he lived until his death on Sept. 14, 1874. He first built a log house in the pine forest and finally cleared the entire farm. He was a man of a retiring disposition, prominent in educational matters, for many years a member of the M. E. church, and long a drummer in the old State militia. His children were Velina, born De- cember 16, 1829, married L R. Trembly August 16, 1848, and died in Washington, D. C, January 4, 1892; Moses, born August 5, 1833, married Laura J. Boylan Sep- tember 10, 1856, enlisted in the 188th N. Y. Vols., and died in Richmond, Va., May 17, 1805; Esther A., born December 11, 1835, married D. V. Sutfin January 1, 1856. and died in Dansville February 5, 1868; and Lorenzo, bom February 18, 1843. Lorenzo Hulbert, the youngest and only surviving member of this pioneer family, was reared upon the parental farm and completed his education at Rogersville L'nion Semmary, which at that time was a flourishing institution. He succeeded bis father upon the homestead and has always resided there. He was largely instrumental in organizing Oak Hill Grange, No. 574, P. of H., and served as its master for five years, declming a re-election, but accepting the office of secretary. He has been sec- retary of the Steuben County Grange for five years and county deputy and inspector for three years. A staunch Republican he was elected supervisor of Dansville in 1892 and again in 1894 for two years — a compliment for both himself and his party in that Democratic stronghold. In November. 1895, at the annual session of the Board of Supervisors, he was the prime mover in organizing the Steuben County Supervisors' Association, of which he was elected president. In all these positions Mr. Hulbert has served with great credit and ability, and with entire satisfaction to his constituents. September 28, 1869, Mr. Hulbert was married at Ha.skinsville, N.Y., to Miss Abbie M. Burdett, daughter of P. S. Burdett and Mary Curry his wife. She was born at Rogersville, N. Y., in 1851. Their children are L. Clyde, born November 9, 1875, and Lena M., born June 10, 1883. The family for three generations has manifested musical talent of a high order. /^f^^^^ DAVIU S. WAITE. BIOORAPHICAL. 29 DAVID S. WAITE, Duty \Vai i k, one of the pioneers of Steubeu county, was born in Rhode Island in 1785, and with his wife Hannah and three children moved from Petersburgh, Rens- selaer county, N. Y., in the spring of 1814, into the north part of the town of Cohocton, settling on what was then called the Halfway place, between Bath and Dansville, which contained a tavern kept by Arunah Woodard, buildings consisting of an L shaped log house, log barn, and a frame lean-to shed for travelers' horses. The location is about three miles south of the north line of Steuben county, and about two miles south of the great water divide between Lake Ontario on the north and the Chesapeake Kay on the south. Then there wasno nearer route between Bath and Dansville, and shaded, rough and muddy log paths made travel so difficult that the journey could not be made in one day. The tavern shed and signpost are preserved to the present day by David S. Waite, who lives on the place on which his father settled eighty-one years ago. One apple tree, which bore two apples the first year is still bearing fruit, and vi-as the only one on the place at that time; the trunk two feet above the ground is five and a half feet in circumference. ' The next farm on the north is supposed to be the first settled place in the town of Cohocton. Richard Hooker, a wealthy Marylander, came on to it, according to the statement of Thomas, a son, in 1T92, with eight horses and a half of a bushel of gold and silver, thinking that feed could be bought; but nothing could be obtained for feed nearer than Painted Post, and four of the horses starved to death the first winter. Thomas said that at that time he was five years old, and that an Indian boy came from the woods and played with him. Mrs. Hooker soon died, and the familv moved to Naples. One-half mile south, by the side of a brook, John Kirkwood first made a beginning, but sickness drove him away. The brook took his name. This town and vicinity was then called the Genesee country. There was an abundance of wolves, deer, opossums, hedgehogs, or porcupines, and some Indians. Sheep had to be yarded near the house every night. What little was cleared was brushy, and one could not see a fourth of a mile along this main river road. Eighty-one years ago was the beginning of highway surveys in Cohocton. The Arunah Woodard hotel was soon turned one part into a pioneer's dwelling, and the other into a neighborhood .school room, supported by subscription ; there were no school districts then. By a contract made in 1814 between Duty Waite and his neighbors, Mr. W'aite agreed to teach the school and board himself forgl2 per month. The maximum numVier of scholars was sixteen. The supporters were Duty Waite, 2; Abel Karringlfm, 3; Thomas Rogers, ;5; Benjamin Rogers, 1; Arunah Woodard, 2; William Woodard. 1; Daniel Raymond, 1; Daniel Raymond, jr., 1; Cornelius Crouch, 1; and Chauncy Atwell, 1. At that time no settlement had been made at what is now called Cohocton, but about five years later it was called " the Four Cor- ners," and in ten years more. Liberty. Eunice, the oldest child, is still living at South Jacksim, Mich. ; William W. became inured to the .severities of pioneer life, which developed his powers into a persevering, successful business man as farmer and trader; Wealthy was an accomplished school 30 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. teacher. Two others. Ruth and Eliza, married farmers and spent most of their lives on farms. Sarah now lives in Horton, Mich, as a physician's wife. David S., whose portrait accompanies this narrative, lives on the old homestead where he was born, seventy years ago. An incessant and thorough laborer at farming and surveying, in middle life he devoted much time in teaching and superintending schools. Clark (J. has from youth practiced civil engineering, first in building the Krie railroad, then in Pennsylvania, and later in Kansas, .going there during the first border troubles, and has there constantly followed his profession as railroad or city engineer to the present time. Phoebe and Murray died while young. Mary resides near Grand Rapids, Mich., as a farmer's wife. A large, industrious, persevering family, acting well their parts in behavior, usefulness and in the responsibilities of pioneer life. (iEORGE GIBSON. Gf.orgf. Gibson was born near Ovid, Schuyler county, N. Y. , in 1S17, and is a son of Ira and Harriet (Coryell) Gibson, who came with their family to Pulteney, Steu- ben county, in 1825. Ira Gibson was born in Schuyler county in 1797, had eleven children, and died in 1886. His wife's death occurred in 1849. Coming to Pulteney he settled on a forest farm in an almost unbroken wilderness, and lirst erected a rude log cabin. He cleared his purchase, and lived to .see the .section become one of the most famous and prosperous in Western New York. George Gibson's education was limited to the common schools. At the age of fifteen he became a driver on the canal from Penn Yan to Albany, and soon afterward was employed on a boat as steersman or deck hand. A little later he was promoted to captain of the lake boat J. Price, of Geneva which ran between Hammondsport and New York, and which was owned by A. M. Adsit, of Hammonds- port. In these various capacities he continued for thirty years, when Mr. Adsit sold out. Meantime Mr. Gibson purchased the site of his present residence and hotel, at Gibson's Landing, and also 100 acres along the shore of Keuka Lake, paying §23 per acre. He then took up his residence there. This tract was covered with heavy forests, which he converted into lumber, railroad ties, and ship timber. Having cleared a large part of it he sowed it with wheat and nearly paid for the land the first year. Later he built a warehouse on the lake shore, bought grain and handled freight for the interior of the State, and in 1863 erected his present warehouse on the site of the first structure. In 1864 he built his present residence and in 1887 the Gib- son House, grading and beautifying the grounds, and making it one of the finest and most popular summer resorts on Keuka Lake. He also set out an excellent vine- yard and became a member of the Keuka Lake Wine Company, which in 18t)0 con- structed the famous Keuka Lake wine cellar, one of the largest in that celebrated grape section. In all these important enterprises Mr. Gibson has been invariably successful; his large .business interests have contributed enormously to the material prosperity of both town and count)'. In politics he is an unswerving Repul^lican ; he has held various town offices and for eleven vears served as highway commissioner. lie was a member of the com- ^^^ ^m^ 1 "m I^^^ZSk) s 7 y 1 m^'^^]'!^- y 1 ' FRANKLIN t. DAY. 1 BIOGRAPHICAL. 31 mission which laid out the road along the west shore of the lake, a road that has aided largely in developing that strip of fertile laud. In lsT5 he was appointed agent of the United States Express Company at Gibson's Landing, and shortly after- ward was given the agencies of the Adams, the American, and the Wells, Fargo & Co., which he held until the spring of 189."), when he resigned in favor of his grand- son, Ira (i. Gibson. In 1881. under the administration of President Garfield, Mr. Gibson was appointed postmaster at Catawba, the post-name of the ofHce at Gibson's Landing, and continued in that position with great credit for fourteen consecutive years. Mr. Gibson was married iu 1842 to Miss Ann Leary. who was lx)rn in New York city in 181'', and who died in 1870. They had two children, Edward and George K. In 1881 he married, second, Arvesta Bailey, daughter of John S. Bailey, and a native of Pulteney. FRAXKLIX E. DAY. Fk.vnki.in E. D.w, eldest son of Paul E. and Polly (Blodgett) Day, was born in Bennington, Vt., in 1810, and cameTiTthe town of Wayland, Steuben county, in 1821. Paul E. Day, who was born in Medfield, Ma.ss. , in 1785, moved with his wife and family to Genesee county, N. Y., in the winter of 1814, settling two and one- half miles west of Leroy. In the spring of 1819 they removed to Seneca county and thence two years later to the town of Wayland (then Cohocton), Steuben county, where Mr. Day died in 1850. In the spring of 1824 the family settled on the farm DOW owned by Charles F. Day. Mr. Day's children were Franklin E., the .subject of this sketch; Washington W., deceased, born in 1812; William P , deceased, born in 1814; Jackson J., born in I.SIO; Calphurnia, born in 1819; Mary J., born in 1821, died in 1894; Jonas B., born in 182i5; Laura L., born in 1825; and Rilev, born in 1828. Paul E. Day, the pioneer, built the first wool-carding and cloth-dressing mill iu the town in 1826, the carding machinery being added in 1833, when it was rebuilt by his son Franklin E., who erected his first saw mill in town in 1841 and rebuilt it in 1853. The first named establishment was continued until 1846. when it was converted into a saw mill, which is now operated by the pioneer's grandson, Charles F. Day. The father of Paul E. Day was Joseph Day, who came from England with four brothers and settled on the Connecticut River near Hartford, Conn., where thev followed the avocation of weavers and carders of wool; his grandsons, Washington W. and Will- iam P.. mentioned above, were prominent physicians. Franklin E. Day came into possession of the property at I'atchinsville in the spring of 1838 and resided there until 1868, when he removed to Rochester, where he has since been engaged in dealing in real estate and in building, residing at 204 Frank street. He always manifested a keen though quiet interest in the affairs of the town, and for several years served efficiently as highway commissioner of Wayland. He was a charter member of the Cohocton Lodge of Odd Fellows, long a prominent member of the Wayland Methodist Episcopal church, and now a member of the Brick church of Rochester. He was a representative farmer, and was also exten- sively engaged in lumbering, in both of which he was remarkably successful. 32 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Mr. Day was married on January 3, 1836, to Miss Matilda Chase, daughter of Thomas Chase, of Cohocton, who died February 3, 1871, leaving two children: Or- leans W., born October 30, 1838, died March 21, 1887; and Mary M., born February 0, 1841, who married Rev. D. M. Stuart, a Presbyterian clergyman now of National City, Cal. For his second wife Mr. Day married, in 1872, Mrs. Harriet A. Lee, of Rochester, who died July 10, 1890. Orleans W. Day married Miss Julia A. Mather, who was born in Geneseo, N. Y., January 28, 1836. He was engaged in mercantile business for several years, but finally moved on to the farm and took charge also of the saw mill. His children were Charles F., born in 1862; William W. , born in 186it; May E. (Mrs. William J. Faulkner), born in 1872; Harry W., born in 1875; and Amelia, born in 1878. LYMAN vSHEPARD. LvM.VN SiiKF.\Kii, son of William and Sophia (Powers) Shepard, was born on a farm in the town of Cohocton, Steuben county, June 6, 1826, and died there April 11, 1891. His grandfather, Kzra Shepard, son of Jonathan and Meriani (Strong) Shep- ard, came to that town with his family prior to the war of 1812 and settled on the farm now owned by Godfrey Marshall, building a log cabin on the site of the present orchard, and died there. Ezra Shepard married Mary Boyce and reared to maturity ten children, of whom William B. was born December 18, 1794; married Sophia Powers, and died June 23, 1865. The children of William and Sophia Shepard were Polly (Mrs. Silas Hurlburt), born June 23, 1818, deceased; Riley, born April 10, 1824, deceased; Lyman, the subject of this memoir; Jerome, born May 13, 1829, died in November. 1888; Sophia, born December 8, 1833, died unmarried; Milton, born April 9, 1835, deceased; Asahel, born March 4, 1838, of Atlanta; Maria E. , born Decem- ber 21, 1842, married Franklin Scnbner, and resides in North Cohocton; and three who died in infancy. Lyman Shepard was a lifelong farmer and was reared on his father's farm in Co- hocton, in which town he always resided excepting three years in Dansville. He was educated in the public schools and first settled on the place now owned by Dr. A. L. Gilbert, formerly owned by his- father-in-law, Reuben Clason, and in 1872 re- moved to the old William Waite home.stead, where he died In connection w'ith his farming he also engaged quite extensively m buying and shipping live stock, which he continued until about 1880, first with Lewis Layton and afterward with William Culver. In this as well as in all other occupations he was eminently successful, and won the respect and confidence of every one with whom he came in contact. He was a man of great perseverance and native energy, a steadfast believer in the principles of honesty, uprightness, and integrity, and a worthy and representative citizen. Although a Republican and later a Prohibitionist in politics, he never sought office, yet he always manifested a keen interest in local affairs and generously contributed towards ever\" movement which promised benefit to the community. Alone and un- aided he carved out his own fortune and lived to enjoy the accumulations of a profit- able career. He traveled quite extensively, spending a winter in Florida and two LYMAN SHEPARU. BIOGRAPHICAL. 33 winters in California, and beinj^ a close observer ac). Dr. Jamison was married May 26, 1846, to Miss Lavinia, daughter of Abijah New- man, of Schuyler county, N. Y. , who died October 22, 1887. Their only child is Newman Catlin Jamison, agent of the Pullman Palace Car Company at Hornell.s- ville. CAPTAIN SILAS WHEELER. Thk first settlement in the town of Wheeler was made by Captain Silas Wheeler in the year 1800, and the town is named after him. He was a descendant of Captain Timothy Wheeler, who was born in England in HiO-t, and was a nephew of Governor Brooks of Massachuseets. The parents of Silas Wheeler, Jonas Wheeler and Percis Brooks, both natives of Concord, Mass., were married October 13, 1743, and Silas Wheeler was born March BIOGRAPHICAL. 39 7, 1753, at Concord, Mass. He was married in Providence county, R. I., tcj Sarali (Jardner, and they remained there nearly a year with the bride's parents. Before the year was ended the famous fight at Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775, took place, in which battle many kinsmen of Silas Wheeler took part in defense of their homes. An "army of observation," consisting of three regiments, was at once organized in Rhode Island, and m a few weeks marched to Prospect Hill near Bos- ton. General Nathaniel Green was commander of one of the regiments raised in Providence, and Silas Wheeler was a private in that regiment. These three regi- ments formed what was known as the "Rhode Island Brigade," and were present at the battle of Bunker Hill. After Washington assumed command of the troops before Bos- ton, a body of eleven hundred men was selected from hisarmy to make a descent upon Quebec. This body was intended to co-operate with General Montgomery's army, which had set out for Quebec by the way of Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence River. Washington selected Benedict Arnold to command the eleven hundred men, with the orders to march through the Maine woods. Amoiig the first to volunteer in this body was Silas Wheeler, who was appointed 3d corporal in Captain Simeon Thayer's Company. On Se]Jtember 13, 177.5, Arnold .started with his men from Cambridge, and on November 3 they reached Sertigan in Canada, in a .state of starvation. For several days this little army had been without provisions of any kind. Caleb Haskel, in his journal of the expedition recorded at the time, says: "No- vember 1, 1775, set out weak and faint, having nothing to eat; the ground covered with snow ; traveled fifteen miles and encamped. Eat part of a hind quarter of a dog for supper; we are in a [jitiable condition. November 2, set out early this morn- ing very much discouraged, having nothing to eat or no prospect of anything; we are so weak and faint we can scarcely walk, obliged to lighten our packs, have been upon short allowance for sixteen days. November 3, about two o'clock we espied a house, then we gave three huzzas, for we have not seen a house before for thirty days. The village is called Sertigan, the people are all French and Indians." The day before the army reached Sertigan Captain Dearborn, afterward Major- General Dearborn, gave his Newfoundland dog to the men, and although the dog had been a great favorite with all the command, he was at once killed and eaten without bread or salt. Judge Henry, of Pennsylvania, in his journal, says: "One spoonful of the dog stew was ([uite enough for me," but Captain Wheeler often said that nothing ever tasted better to him than this meal eaten as it was after a fast of five days. Many men of this little army died of hunger, some |in four or five minutes after making their last effort and lying down. Corporal W'heeler had with him fifty golden guineas, and in his fight for life he threw them away, in order to lighten his load, and a comrade picked them up and carried them until he fell from exhaustion. December 1, Arnold reached Quebec, but it was not until the night of Dec. 31 that the assault was made. Corporal Wheeler's company was in the assault, took one barrier of the fort, and captured 130 prisoners, but were unable to reach the second barrier, or to retreat. Meantime Montgomery had fallen and Arnold was wounded ; and after holding their position for four hours, his men were captured and taken to the Daui)hine Prison in Quebec. This prison was burned down in 1810. The American prisoners were kindly treated by Sir Guy Carlton, afterwards Lord Dor- 40 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Chester, "the savior of Canada;" but smallpox broke out in the prison, and great suffering ensued, and in JIarch an attempt was made to escape but failed through the treachery of John Hall. The prisoners were placed in irons and su kept for two months. Corporal Wheeler was treated with exceptional severity, because it was re- ported that he had taken part in the capture and burning of the British armed sloop " Gaspe." In August, 1770, the prisoners were paroled, and on August 12 Corporal Wheeler's company left (Juebec for New York and arrived there September 12, but finding New York in the possession of the British, they proceeded to Elizabethtown, N. J. Captain Thayer, in his journal, says that he landed at Elizabethtown on September 30, with nine rank and file, one lieutenant — all that returned of the eighty-seven men of his company who left Cambridge a year before. From Elizabethtown Corporal Wheeler went to Rhode Island to join his young wife, and was soon exchanged as a ])risoner. He at once re-enhsted in the "Rhode Island Brigade," in Colonel John Fopham's regiment. This brigade served three years in the Continental Army. Many of the Rhode Island troops were permitted to volunteer for service on the sea, and under this permission Silas Wheeler went on board a privateer which was cap- tured by a British man-of-war. The prisoners were treated as pirates, were taken to Ireland and confined in prison at Kinsale for more than a year. Henry Gratlan, the great Irish orator and patriot, was in deep sympathy with the Americans in their struggle for freedom, and in some way Silas Wheeler was placed in communication with him, and was assured that if he could escape from prison, shelter and aid would be furnished by Lord Grattan. Wheeler planned and made his escape over the walls of the prison ; and amid a shower of bullets aimed at him by the guards, he made his way to Grattan, and the latter gave him clothing and money, and secured his passage to France, and when asked how he could be repaid, answered: "If you should have a son, give him my name, and bring him up to love liberty and his fel- low man." Soon after Captain Wheeler took passage for America, and lost no time in making his way to Rhode Island to his wife, who for nearly two years had not heard from him and had supposed him dead. It was during his service with the Rhode Island Brigade and before he went on the privateer that he was made a captain. He remained in Rhode Island until the close of the war; and on August 25, 1783, his only son was born, and to him the name of Grattan Henry was given. Soon after the close of the'' war Captain Wheeler moved to Albany county; then in 1798 to Steuben county. He was a man of great energy and perseverance, but liberal and generous and never a money maker. His son, Grattan H. Wheeler, who came with him to Wheeler, was a man of great busi- ness ability, and largely through his efforts ard good judgment, the great Wheeler farm of 5,000 acres was secured and improved ; upon that farm Captain Wheeler lived until his death in 1838. He never forgot his early sufferings from hunger, and athis house every one who came was invited toeat and drink. He planted fruit trees by the roadside, and raised tobacco for the free use of the wayfarer. He had three chil- dren, two twin girls born during the Revolutionary war, both of whom lived- and died in Wheeler, Ruth as the wife of Nathan Rose and .Sarah as the wife of William Holmes. A sketch af his son, Grattan H., appears in another place. Captain Wheeler was induced to settle in Steuben county by a Mr. Preston from Westerloo, who had purchased township G; and upon his return to Albany county, GRATTAN H. WHtHLER, Sr. BIOGRAPHICAL. 41 had spread the most glowing accounts of the fertility of the Conhocton Valley. The captain located on the Wheeler farm, so many years occupied by him and his son, Grattan H. His first trip to mill is worthy of record. There were at the time when he had occasion to go to mill but three institutions in the neighborhood where grinding was done: At the Friends' Settlement at Dresden, at Bath and at Naples. The mill at Bath had suspended operations. Captain Wheeler made a cart, the wheels of which were sawed from the end of a curly maple log; the box was in keeping. Restarted for Naples with a yoke of o.\en attached to this cart. The young men went before them with axes and chopped a road ; and the clumsy chariot tame floundering through the bushes, bouncing over logs and scrubbing the tree stumps. The first day they reached a point near where Prattslwirg now is — six miles, and on the second day reached the mill at Naples. GRATTAN H. WHEELER, Sr. Hon. GK.\Tr..\N H. Wiii;i;i.er was a son of Capt. Silas Wheeler, and was born August 25. 1783, in Rhode Island, and removed with his father to Albany county and thence in 1798 to Steuben county. He developed into a man of great business and executive ability; and, as stated in the sketch of Capt. Silas Wheeler, it was through his ability and efforts that what is known as " the old Wheeler Farm," of 5,000 acres, was secured and improved. He was a very successful farmer, stock raiser, lumber- man, and general business man ; he also became one of the most prominent politi- cians in Steuben county and vicinity. In 1822 he represented Allegany and Steuben in the Assembly ; in 18~4 he was elected and in 1826 re-elected to represent the countv of Steuben in the Assembly; and as State senator he represented the Sixth Senatorial District, then composed of the counties of Broome, Chenango. Cortland, Otsego. Tioga and Steuben, during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831. In the year 1831 he ran against Hon. John Magee for Congress, defeating Mr. Magee. He served two years in Congress from this district, which was then composed of Steu- ben, Allegany and Cattaraugus counties. He was an enthusiastic supporter of Gen- eral Harrison in the campaign 1840, and was elected one of his presidential electors. After 1840 he retired from active participation in politics and devoted his energies to his large business interests, which had been growing even during his political career. He died on his farm in Wheeler in March. 18.52, from an acute disease, being a very vigorous man up to within a few days of his death. He was twice married, first to Fanny Baker, daughter of Samuel Baker of Canisteo, and after her death, to Eliza AuUs, the youngest daughter of William Aulls, the first settler in Pleasant Valley. To him and his first wife were born three children: Silas, who died in 1845 at Wheeler; Grattan H., who resides at Hammondsport, N. Y. ; and Sarah, who mar- ried Jesse Brundage and resides upon her farm about two miles from the village of Bath. She was the mother of Frank, Grattan H., and Capt. Monroe Brundage. There were born to his second wife and him eleven children, all of whom are dead but Kliza Armstrong, of Tiffin, O, r 42 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. GRATTAN H. WHEELER. GR.vn AN H. Wheelkr was born in the town of Wheeler March 12, 1813, the son of Hon. Grattan H. Wheeler and the grandson of Capl. Silas Wheeler, sketches of whom appear elsewhere in this book. Grattan H. Wheeler lived on the farm with his distinguished father, and during the period while the latter was absent at Albany and Washington, assisted in the management of the large farm and business. He was married in 1837 to Nancy D. Sayre of Wheeler, and soon after their marriage they settled upon a farm about one mile from the old Wheeler homestead. He lived in Wheeler until the year 1857, during which period he accumulated a farm of about 1,500 acres of land, and also built up a large lumber business. He was a first-class farmer in every respect and a great stock raiser, having brought into Wheeler some of the best blooded sheep and cattle in the county of Steuben ; and while there he had the reputation of having one of the finest flocks of sheep and the best herds of cattle in the county. In politics he was a staunch Whig, and was a justice of the peace and supervisor of the town of Wheeler; he also held many offices and positions of trust. In 1857 he became satisfied that there was a future for the grape industry in the adjoining town of Urbana, and on Decemlier 9 of that year he removed from the old home to a farm one mile west of Hammondsport. He began there at once the business of farming, sheep raising and the grape industry. He at once planted a vineyard, which was then the fourth vineyard planted in that town; and in the year 1860 he was one of the active spirits which organized the first wine company and built the first large wine cellar in the State of New York, and in fact east of Ohio. He had great faith in the future of the Lake Keuka and Pleasant Valley grape region, and he believed that the wine industry would eventually develop into a large business. Time has proved the accuracy of his judgment and belief. He was elected the first president of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company, and served in that capacity for nine successive years, when he sold his stock therein at a large profit and established a cellar, which was known as the Hammondsport Wine Company, and he continued that business until the year 1878, the present Ham- mondsport Wine Company having succeeded to his business name. Since the formation of the Republican party he has been an active Republican. In 1858 he was a candidate for member of assembly in this district. He is at present living at Hammondsport and in active work ; and at the age of nearly eighty-three years, is in good health, his mind as bright and active as ever. There were ten children born of this marriage with Nancy D. Sayre, namely: Fanny, Sarah, Eliza, Graham H., Emma, Monroe, Nannie, Charles G., Nellie, and Mary. Fanny became Mrs. H. D. Rose and now resides at Rochester, N. Y. ; Sarah married Lieutenant Layton, who was killed in 1863 in battle, and then in 1887 she married Lieutenant Cranston, of the regular army ; she is living at Elmira. Eliza married Major H. Gardner and resides at New York city. Emma is the wife of R. R. Sopher, the proprietor of the Elmira Gazette, and resides at Elmira, N. Y. Nannie married Major Norton and died in 1880. The three sons reside at Ham- mondsport. Nellie also married Major Norton ; and Mary married G. E. Mendel, and both reside at Wheeling, W. Va. *^ GRATTAN H. WHEELER, JR. BIOGRAPHICAL. 43 At one time Mr. Wheeler was the president of the Ohio River Coal Company, and operated that company for years on the Ohio River ; he was also president of the Steuben County Agricultural Society for several terms and aided materially in the early growth of that society, and was recently elected a life member thereof. For many years he was an officer of the Franklin Academy at Prattsburg, and later president of the Hammondsport Academy. He has always been active in educa- tional matters, a man of public spirit and closely identified with all which tended towards the progress of mankind. His wife was a woman of lovely character. She died May 27, 1889. MONROE WHEELER. Monroe Wheeler, the second son of Grattan H. and Nancy D. Wheeler, was born on the old Wheeler farm in the town of Wheeler, August 16, 1849, and lived there with his parents until they moved to Urbana, December 9, 1857. He was educated at Hammondsport Academy and Michigan University, and studied law his first year at Elmira with Judge G. L. Smith, and Senator Uavid B. Hill. The firm was then Smith & Hill. He spent the last two years of his law course with D. & W. Rumsey at Bath N. Y., and was admitted to the bar at Roch- ester, N. Y. , October 22, 1874. For three years thereafter he was managing clerk of the law firm of Rumsey & Miller at Bath. On October 24, 1879, he married Miss Emma G. White, of Cohocton, N. Y. , and on November 1 of that year he opened a law office at Hammondsport, where he has ever since practiced. During which time he has built up a large and profitable practice, and is now considered one of the best lawyers of his age in the county. He has always been an active Republican and one of the leaders of his party in the county for the past twelve years. He has placed many others in office, but he prefers for himself the practice of law to office holding. He has been village attorney for many years and counsel for the large wine com- panies at Hammondsport, and also attorney for the railroad and steamboat com- panies there. He is also treasurer of the Lake Keuka Wine Co. He has an adopted daughter and two young, sons. HARRY C. HEERMANS. H.\RRv C. Heerm.vns is a native of West Virginia, born at Fellowsville, Preston county, June 3, 18.52. He is the son of John and Nancy Heermans, both natives of Luzerne county. Pa. The family moved to Corning from Scranlon, Pa., in 1863. Mr. Heermans was graduated from the Corning Free Academy in the class of 1870, after which he entered Wesleyan University in the regular classical course, grad- uating in 1875 and receiving in course an honorary degree in 1878. After leaving col- lege he began the study of law in the office of Brown & Hadden at Corning. In 1877 he became identified with the real estate business by entering the office of the 44 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Fellows estate, of which his father was the sole trustee. In the latter portion of the year 1876 the trustees of the village of Corning vainly sought to make some disposi- tion of the local water works system, originally constructed for fire protection only, and which was then a source of continual vexation and expense to the village. Proposals were asked for and none received. Then Mr. Heermans, with Thomas Lawrence, proposed to lease the plant for a term of years and assume all responsi- bility for its proper management, extension and maintenance, though he met with discouraging advice from his best friends and the strongest possible objection from his father. Plowever, he acted independently and determined to operate the works and if possible place the system on a paying basis. The lease was made by the vil- lage authorities to him and his partner. Thereupon, by the investment of private funds and in the face of many ob.stacles and discouraging objections the works were placed on a successful basis. In the history of the city of Corning the reader will find a more complete and de- tailed narrative of the origin and development of the water supply system, but we may here state that whatever this system has become the whole credit therefor is due to Harry C. Heermans and his partner, Thomas Lawrence. During the term of eighteen years the city has been abundantly supplied with pure and wholesome water, ample fire protection has been furnished without cost to the city and in all respects Corning has a water system as complete and reliable as any municipality of equal size in the State. Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Heermans is constantly engaged in the man- agement of the Water Company he has other important business interests in the city and elsewhere. The firm of Heermans & Lawrence are well known in this section as contractors in steam heating and plumbing work and supplies. He is a member of the firm of Heermans & Co., druggists, formed in 1882 and now doing business in Corning. He has been president of the Ontario Land Co. of Duluth, Minn., since its organization in 1886, now controlling large properties in various States. He is also president of other land companies and corporations in the Western States. In the management of these concerns he has been successful. In 1878 Mr. Heermans first acted as city engineer of Corning and has ever since been more or less identified with that department of local government. In 1884 he was employed to report a sewer system for the village, which was constructed in 1886 and years following, acting at the time of construction as consulting engineer. In 1886 he devised a plan and constructed the water works system of Wellsboro, Pa., and in 1893 a similar works in Westfield, Pa. He is now city engineer in charge of the pavements, sewers and street railway work. He was for several years chief engineer of the fire department and is one of the managers of the Corning Library Association. In politics he is a Republican, firm in his advocacy of party principles, yet never so radical in expression as to offend his political opponents. In 1886 he was elected supervisor of the town and re-elected in 1887, in the latter year serving as chairman of the board. Mr. Heermans is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Corning and one of the trustees of the society. He has been twice married; first in 1878 to Ella Weston, daughter of Abijah Weston, of Painted Post. She died in 1880. In 1886 he married Annie L. Townsend, daughter of Edward E. Townsend, of Erwin. Four children GEORGE RENCHAN. BIOGRAPHICAL. 45 have been born of the second marriage: Ruth, Joseph Fellows, Jerome Townsend. and Helen De Kay. Mr. Heermans has ever been identiticd with the progressive spirit of the city of Corning and has been active in the work neces.sary to .secure new enterprises in the town. (iHORCE RENCHAN. Gf.orc.k Renchan was born in the town of Wheeler, Steuben county, N. Y., the 23d of Sejitember. 1814. His advantages for an education were limited to the com- mon schools of his town, which he attended during the winter terms until he was eighteen years of age, and one term after he became of age. He then commenced the carpenter's trade without serving time as an ajiprentice, and built houses, barns, mills, etc., and met with unparalleled success. Many of the buildings he constructed are still in existence. He continued this occupation until he was thirty-five years of age, when he bought the farm on which he now resides and which he has occupied ever since. On the 31st of January, 1849, he married Sarah Rose, a daughter of Sherman H. Rose, of the town of Wheeler. Mr. Renchan has done a large farming business and is still engaged in that notwithstanding his advanced age. He has kept as many as four hiuidred .sheep, and up to the time of the change in the tariff by the Democratic party during the second term of Grover Cleveland as president, since which time the production of wool has been un])rofitable, and he has abandoned that branch of farming. He has done, also, a large business in the manufacture of lum- ber. In 1852 he built a large steam saw mill (one of the largest in the State), on his farm, and operated it about twenty-five years. The products of the mill, consisting of lumber, lath and shingles, were immense, exceeded by no other mill in the State. It is now operated by his son, Charles M. Mr. Renchan in politics has been a Republican since the formation of that party, and a staunch .supporter of its measures. Has never been an aspirant for public place or honors, but during the great civil war he was active in his support of the government, and worked untiringly with others in securing volunteers to fill his town's quota, giving liberally of his means for paying bounties and buying substi- tutes. Mr. Renchan united with the Methodist church of Wheeler Center about fifty years ago, and has been a liberal supporter of the same all these years. 'Our subject is a noble example of the self-made man. Commencing life with absolutely no advan- tages such as are enjoyed by the great majority of the youth of our country, he has hewn his way to a success that is highly creditable, and has been attained only by the most determined effort and untiring industry, and now at the advanced age of eighty-one years is a most remarkably well-preserved man, and in the possession of his faculties to a wonderful degree. Mr. and Mrs. Renchan have had but one child that has grown to maturity, a son, Charles M., whose biography appears elsewhere in this work. By adoption, when she was seven months old, Mr. Renchan has a daughter, Dell, who is now the wife of C. C. Cook, agent of the 1^., L. & W. R. R. at Kanonah, Steuben county, N. Y. 46 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY DWIGHT A. FULLER. DwiGHT A. Fi'LLER was bom in the village of Cazenovia, Madison county, on the 38th day of June, 1815. His young life was spent in the same vicinity and at the little hamlet called New Woodstock, where he learned the trade of tanner. In sell- ing the product of the tannery young Fuller frequently visited the Chemung valley, Elmira, Corning and Addison being the principal points for trade. At the village first named he saw an opportunity to start a leather business and at once made prepara- tions to move there, but when he arrived he found the field had been taken in the meantime, and not caring to enter into competition, and declining an offer of a part- nership, he came to Corning. This was in 1846, from which year to the time of his death, with the exception of a single year, he was a resident of Corning or its immediate vicinity, and was identified with the best interests and history of the growing village. However, in Corning Mr. Fuller did not follow his trade to any considerable extent, as in 1847 he became connected with the grocery business, and continued it until his store was burned in the disastrous fire of May, 1850. This was a serious loss to him, as well as to manv other local merchants, and we ne.xt find him landlord of the old Western House, then the principal hotel of the village, standing at the corner of State and Market streets. This hotel was succeeded by the Terrett House on the same site, of which Mr. Fuller was also proprietor until about 1857, when he sold out and moved to Illinois. After a year in the West, during which time he was engaged in business as commission merchant, he returned to Corning and opened a grocery in the Cowley block, and for several years afterward was an active merchant of the vil- lage, and was also one of the proprietors of the old Arcade. In 1865 George W. Fuller leased the Dickinson House, throughout the period of its history the leading hotel of the village and subsequent city. Mr. Fuller, our sub- ject, took an earnest interest in the success of the house and gave much attention to its management. About the year 1870 he became the owner of the well-known Fuller farm, now within the city limits, on which he afterward lived, supplying the hotel with products of the farm. In fact these properties were managed together in the common interest of the owners ; and we may truthfully add that in no family in Corning has there been shown more devoted loyalty among its members than in the Fuller household. The interest of one has been the common interest of all, there- fore, when on May 18, 1890, the destroyer invaded the home circle and removed the head of the family the blow came upon the surviving members with unusual severity, although at the time of his death Mr. Fuller had passed the allotted "threescore years and ten." Although a man of naturally quiet and conservative habits, Dwight A. Fuller was known for many years as one of the most genial, hospitable and generous landlords in the Southern Tier. In the capacity of host and entertainer he showed to the best advantage, yet within the sacred precincts of home his true and loyal nature was fully displayed. He was public spirited and generous, especially kind to the poor, and many indeed were the occasions on which he gave relief to distressed applicants of which tne public never heard. He was also much interested in Corning and its institutions, and while he was an infiuential man in local affairs he never sought BIOGRAPHICAL. 47 political prefermeut. However, in 1860, he was appointed postmaster by President Buchanan, succeeding the late Charles C. B. Walker, holding ofhce one year, and being in turn succeeded by Col. C. H. Thompson. In 1839 Dwight A. Fuller was married to Jane Merrick, of New Woodstock. Of their six children only two are now living, George \V. Fuller and Dwight L.- Fuller, owners and proprietors of the Dickin.son House. Their aged mother is also a mem- ber of the household and is cheerfully furnished with everything that can in any way contribute to her personal comfort. WILLIAM \V. ADAMS. William W. Adams, mayor of Coming, was born in the town of Otsego, Otsego county, August 14, 1843. He came to Coming with his parents in 1850, where he acquired his education in the public schools. At the age of nineteen years he entered the employ of the Fall Brook Railway Company, where by close application to his duties he was advanced in standing, now occupying the position of general store- keeper and chief accountant in the motive power department. He has been vice- president of the Hood Furnace and Supply Company since its organization, and is also a director of the Corning Loan Association. Mr. Adams is a member and one of the trustees of the First Presbyterian church. He has always been an active Republican, believing firmly in the party and its prin- ciples. Although not an aspirant for political honors, he was tendered the nomina- tion for mayor at the city convention in 1894, and after some hesitation was induced to accept. As mayor he has been careful, conservative and conscientious, nol shirk- ing any responsibility, and having at heart only the interests of the city, regardless of party. On the (ith of January, 1870, William W. Adams was married to Frances E. L)e Wolf, only daughter of Hiram De Wolf, one of the pioneers of Corning. O. W. WELLINGTON. QuiNCV WiNTiiRoi' Wki.i.ington, who for more than thirty years has been known in banking and business circles in the Southern Tier, was a native of the old historic town of Moriah. Essex county, N. Y., born December 27, 1832. Ilis father was Samuel Barney Wellington, a native of Vermont, born September 7, 1805, and his mother was Amelia Green, born in Saratoga county, June 39, 1813. Samuel and Amelia were the parents of seven children, of whom our subject was the second in order of birth. Samuel B. Wellington was a lumberman and that pursuit brought him from Ver- mont into Essex county, N. Y.,and still later, in 1849. he moved his family to Tioga, Pa., where he afterward lived and died. During the long course of his business life, Mr. Wellington accumulated three fortunes, but just as frequently reverses came and swept them away, and he died possessed of little means, yet was ever known as a man 48 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. of straightforward honesty and integrity. Quincy W. Wellington, the subject of this sketch, attended school until he was fourteen years old, and then found a position as clerk in a store in Tioga. He was employed in this manner until 1852, when he formed a partnership with C W. Etz, under the style of Etz & Wellington, general merchants. He lived in Tioga until the death of his father, on March 1, 1854, then sold out his interest and moved to Corning. For three or four years he wasemployed as clerk in the office of the Erie railroad company, and in 1859 became clerk and book- keeper in the George Washington bank. Three years later, in 1863, our young man left the bank and in partnership with Samuel Russell, jr., organized y. W. Welling- ton & Co.'s Bank, which has withstood the ravages of time and financial disaster and panic, and to-day stands among the most solid and safe financial institutions of this State. Its capital is $100,000, with a surplus and undivided profits amounting to 8145,000 additional. In 1866 Mr. Russell retired from the firm and Mr. Wellington contmued its management as sole owner until 1884, when his son, Benjamin Wick- ham Wellington, became his active partner. According to the report of the condi- tion at the close of business, September 28, 1895, the resources of the bank amounted to the sum of §929,000, and the deposit account aggregates almost $690,000. At first the business of the Wellington bank was necessarily small, but by careful investments and good judgment, the owner's means increased, and the field of opera- tion became enlarged until it extended throughout the county and even beyond its borders, and yuincy W. Wellington soon became known as one of the most success- ful business men and bankers of the region. Although constantly occupied with the affairs of the bank, our subject has nevertheless found time for other duties than purely personal concerns, and has given .substantial co-operation to every enterprise which tended to promote the interests of the town and county. Unselfish and un- stinted have been his contributions for all public purposes, and no deserving charity ever appealed to him in vain. Although a firm Republican in political preference, Mr. Wellington has not taken an active part in that field of action, yet is well in- formed on all the leading questions of the day. He is a regular attendant at Christ church and one of the vestry. On the 13th day of May, 1857, Quincy W. Wellington was married to Matilda B. Wickham, the daughter of Benjamin C. Wickham, of Tioga, Pa. Of this marriage six children have been born, viz; Benjamin W., now partner with his father; Catherine Amelia, of Corning; Samuel Barney, who died in infancy; Adalaide Louise, wife of Alanson Bigelow Houghton; Sarah Etz, of Corn- ing ; and Emily Clara, who died in infancy. THOMAS G. HAWKES. Aiior 1 the middle of the sixteenth century, during the dark and unfortunate period of the Reformation, in which all Western Europe was swept by a succession of re- ligious wars, strifes and contentions, and in which Protestant Christians were intol- erantly treated and prosecuted and frequently burned, Thomas Hawkes suffered death at the stake. His gravest ofTen.se against the papal authority and decree was a deep-seated conviction of right, a sincere Christian faith, and an upright Christian example by which both faith and life were evinced; and nowhere was his character '^^9^'t^^^^^^^'tr^ BIOGRAPHICAL. 49 more strikingly manifested than in Ihc noble defense of his course when arraigned before both the bishop and the earl. His trial was the hollow mockery of justice which marked the era; he was condemned, and on the lOth day of June, A. U. 1555, was put to the stake. Mediaeval history informs us that Thomas Haw'kes, the martyr, was of Saxon origin, born in Esse.x. "in calling and profession a courtier, brought up daintily, and like a gentleman." One hundred and twenty years after this event (in 1726) John Hawkes, the settler, direct descendant from Thomas Hawkes, the martyr, left Worcestershire, England, and invested largely in lands in Ireland. He founded Monteen Castle, in County Cork, a noted estate in later years, and here he lived in affluence and comfort, one of the landed gentry. The settler had three sons, John, Charles, and William, and one daughter, Katherine. John Hawkes, eldest son of the settler, was born at Monteen Castle in the year 1727, and afterward became the owner of large estates in County Cork, one being Surmount, on which some of his descendants have ever since lived. He attained addi- tional prominence as a captain of the Sup])lementary Yeoman Corps, an organization admirably equipped and liberally supported, yet serving without compensation. From this connection John Hawkes was dignified with the title of captain. He, too, lived in ease and affluence and was a man of education and dignified bearing. Indeed, pride without vanity, refined tastes, and dignity of demeanor, have been dominant traits of character in the Hawkes family in Ireland from the tmie of the settler to the present owner of Surmount. The martyr was a man of refined culture and learning. Capt. John Hawkes was twice married; first to Abagail, daughter of Henry Prettie, esq., and neice of Sir John Mead of the town of Kinsale. She bore him one daugh- ter, Katherine.' His second marriage was with Bridget, eldest daughter of Samuel Wakeley, alderman of the city of Cork.^' Four sons and five daughters were the issue of this marriage, among whom .Samuel, father to yuale Welsted Hawkes, was the fourth child. Samuel Hawkes married Sally Penrose, fourth daughter of Samuel and Mary (Randall) Penrose, of Waterford, County Cork, both representatives of families of position and inriuence among the gentry of Ireland." To Samuel and Sally Penrose Hawkes were born nine sous and two daughters, Quayle Welsted being the sixth son and seventh child. Samuel Hawkes founded Hawkemount, another noted estate in County Cork, where his life was passed, and where he reared his large and interest- ing family. (Juayle Welsted Hawkes. present owner of Surmount, was born in County Cork eighty-four years ago, yet despite his age is still a splendid specimen of physical manhood, also retaining much of his former mental vigor, and still delights to follow the hunt, showing all the apparent zeal of half a century ago He married Jane Gib- bons, second daughter of Thomas Gibbons, banker, of Fitz William Square, iJublin. The issue of this marriage was nine sons and four daughters, all of whom, save two, ' Katherine Hawks married Herbet Gillman, esq., whose claujfhter Ellen married Sir Samuel Moore. ' Bridget Wakely's mother, Sarah Hale, was seeond daughter to .Sir Matthew Hale, chief justice of the Court of King's Bench; he was born at Alderley, County (lloucester, um. ' See " Burke's Landed (ientry of Great Britain and Ireland." so LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. are now living. In order of birth they are as follows: Samuel, a highly educated and successful physician of Wansted, a suburb of London, and who died May 21, 1891; Sarah Anne, Thomas Gibbons (of Corning, N. Y.), Quayle Welsted, Devonsher Penrose, John Gibbons, Henry, John Pim Penrose, Catherine Chamney (deceased), William, Richard Welsted, Mary Gibbons and Elizabeth Lombard. Thomas Gibbous Hawkes was born at Surmount, September 2.5, 1846. He was educated at Queen's College, city of Cork, where he remained two years, studying civil engineering, but before his course was completed, impelled bjj love of adventure and a desire to visit the United States, he came to New York in company with a former classmate, who was then purser on the steamer. Landing in the city, our young man was possessed of just ten pounds; half of which he was obliged to spend to replace his overcoat which he had the misfortune to lose. He was pleased with the city and the business manner of its people and looked about earnestly for em- ployment but found none. He then determined to return home, and accordingly went to the steamer to arrange for his passage when chance brought him into acquaintance with John Hoare, then senior partner in the firm of Hoare i.^- Dailey, practical glass-cutters doing business in the city m connection with the Brooklyn Flint Glass Company. This meeting resulted in the employment of young Hawkes in the works of the firm, in the capacity of draughtsman, with whom he remained imtil 1868, when he came to Corning with the company. However, after the removal Mr. Hawkes continued with Mr. Hoare's cutting department until 1880, as employee, though during a portion of the time he had an interest in the business. Indeed, this young man was so constitued by nature that he could not long rest satisfied in the position of draughtsman. He proved faithful to every duty assigned him and when not otherwise engaged it was his custom to take the product of the shops and sell to the trade in large cities. More than this, he became thoroughly acquainted with every detail of the art of glass cutting, in which direction there seems to have been an inherent trait in his character. Digressing briefly from the general narrative, the statement may be made that Thomas Hawkes, of Dudley, was one of the most prominent of the old Midland glass masters, for whom the claim is made, says the Pottery Gazette (an English trade journal), that he was the first to introduce deep cut glass into England. It was " Hawkes of Dudley " who built the three grand gas chandeliers which attracted so much attention at the once famous Highbury Barn dancing rooms. From the " History of glass making in .Staffordshire" we learn that in 1805, Thomas, George and Abiathar Hawkes were glass manufacturers; also that "Abiathar was a candi- date for Dudley prior to the first election in 1832, but retired from the field. Thomas Hawkes was M. P. for Dudley, February, 1834-July, 1845, when he resigned." In explaining their retirement from business life, the Gazette says: " T. Hawkes, Dud- ley, worked three works in that town. His family have been absorbed in the aris- tocracy, and trade now knows them not. Thomas was the last of three brothers." We need only add that the brothers Hawkes of Dudley were related to the an- cestors of Thomas G. Hawkes, of Corning. Their arms and crest were the same. In the year 1880 Mr. Hawkes became proprietor of a glass cutting works in the vil- lage of Corning, beginning in a small way for his means were limited, and this was his first venture in a comparatively new field of action and one in which success de- pended alike on careful management and superior quality of product ; and in the BIOGRAPHICAL. 51 light of subsequent results we may well say that he made no mistake in judgment when he chose his pursuit and undertook its supervision in every department. A substantial fortune is the reward of bis industry and business capacity, while the fact that the " Hawkes goods" in rich and deep cut glass are known and received as standard almost throughout the world, establishes a character for probity and integ- rity which is priceless. It is a known fact, too, with the trade that the output of T. G. Hawkes & Co. requires no examination whatever on the part of the purchaser. It is not surprising, therefore, that the shop which in 1S80 employed less than twenty workmen has enlarged in fifteen years to furnish almost constant employment to nearly two hundred and fifty men. As evidence of the perfection attained in the manufacture of rich glass wares in these shops, the statement mav be made that at the famous Paris Exposition in 1.SS9, in competition with the world, the Hawkes ex- hibit was awarded the grand prize. Many of the pieces comprising that display were purchased by the nobility of Europe, and several of them by members of royal families. Two other noted pieces of glassware, the product of the Hawkes .shops, which have attracted attention on both sides of the Atlantic, were the crystal bowls described in the Pottery Gazette as the "finest pieces yet made by any manufacturer, and for beauty and perfection of cutting they are une.xcelled." One of these bowls was owned and highly prized by the late George W. Childs, philanthropist and jour- nalist. To accomplish the results indicated in the preceding narrative, it must be seen that the business life of Thomas G. Hawkes has been one of constant activity, for all departments of his now extensive shops are under his immediate personal supervi- sion. Notwithstanding this, he has found time for other duties, especially those de- signed to promote the welfare of Corning and its people. A glance at the records of various local institutions discloses the fact that for two years he filled the position of chief engineer of the fire department, and that he is now an active member of the Board of Trade, also vice-president of the City Club. He is a consistent member of Christ church, and one of its vestry. He is a strong Republican and pronounced Protectionist, yet takes part in politics only in the interest of friends. His public spiritedne.ss, too, is undoubted, as every measure for the public good finds in him a generous friend and liberal supporter. But it is at the fireside, as well as in the office, when unburdened of care and work, that his most pleasing traits are exhibited. His devotion to parents and home and family, his pride of ancestry, his genial char- acter, his loyalty to friends, his well trained mind, his literary taste, all combine to make him one of the most interesting of companions. Indeed, the love of birthplace and parents impels Mr. Hawkes to make annual visits to Surmount, frequently accompanied with wife and children ; and within a recent date he has become the owner of Inniscarra House and lands, conveniently situated between Surmount and the estate of Sir George Colthrust of Blarney Ca.stle. On the 15th day of June, in the year 1876, Thomas G. Hawkes was married to Charlotte Isidore, second daughter of the late Walter Bissell, of Corning. Of this marriage three children have been born : Samuel, Charlotte Jane and Alice Luella. This is not the place wherein to write of the domestic virtues of those whose lives are sketched, but if a kind and indulgent husband and parent are to be reckoned as a subject of comment, then the sweet word "home " never had better exemplification than in the household of Thomas Gibbons Hawkes. 52 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. JOHN HOARE. John Hoare, more familiarly known, however, among his intimate friends as Captain Hoare, was a native of Ireland, born in the city of Cork, April 12, 1822, and was the oldest but one of the large family of children of James and Mary (Courtney) Hoare. He learned the trade of glass cutting with his father in Belfast, and after- wards, at the age of twenty years, left Ireland for England, where (in Birmingham) he worked as journeyman for Rice Harris, proprietor of the old establishment at the Five Ways; also for Thomas Webb, at Wordsley ; after this acting as foreman and traveling salesman for the finii of Edward Lacey & Son, of Birmingham. He was also foreman for Lloyd & .Summerfield (The Park Glass Company), one of the oldest glass houses in England. In 1848 Mr. Hoare began business for himself, and in 1853 came to New York with his family, the extent of his finances on landing at Phila- delphia being just half a sovereign. However, he was one of the most skillful and experienced glass cutters then in this country, hence had no difficulty in finding a good situation. In New York he began work for E. V. Haughworth & Company on Broadway, and after one year, with five partners, formed a glass cutting firm, he, however, being the active man of the concern. After two years Mr. Hoare bought the interests of two members of tne firm and then organized under the name of Hoare & Burns. This partnership continued until 1855, when our subject purchased and became proprietor of the glass cutting department of the Brooklyn Flint Glass Company, buying its tools and machinery. In the same year the old and well known firm of Gould & Hoare was formed, and continued until 1861, then being succeeded bv Hoare & Dailey, who were in business until 1868, when the senior partner came to Corning. However, Mr. Hoare retained for several years his business interests in New York city, at the corner of White and Elm streets, and also at Greenpoint, Long Island. In 1868 Captain Hoare moved his glass cutting business from Brooklyn to Corning, upon the formation of the Corning Flint Glass Company, and has since been a resident of the city, although the firm still maintains an office and salesroom in New York city. The business career of our subject in Corning is too well known to re- quire any extended comment in this sketch, yet the statement must be made in full justice to him that among the men who have contributed to the establishment of the splendid industry of glass making and rich glass cutting in Corning, none is entitled to greater honor than John Hoare. In every department and detail of the art of glass cutting Captain Hoare is skilled, whether as designer or practical cutter. Indeed, in many respects he was a pioneer of the industry in America ; he was the first man who turned glass in a lathe, and to-day his strongest and most formidable competitors in business are men who learned the art of designing and glass cutting in his shops and under his personal instruction. In the several exhibitions in which the Hoare wares have been displayed, they have always been awarded the highest prize. We refer especially to the State exhibits in Boston, Philadelphia and Balti- more, and in each case the prize article was presented to Mr. Hoare's principal customer in each city. At the World's Fair in Chicago, the famous Columbian E.\- hibitiou, in 1893, the display made by the Hoare shops was awarded four medals, Nos. 2915, 2916, 2917 and 2918, for first, rich quality of cut glassware; second, 'ttnp^ .11- '■'■^ / <^ BIOGRAPHICAL. 53 artistic designs; third, perfection i>f finish, including depth of cutting; fourth, symmetrical shapes. Notwithstanding Mr. Hoare's seventy-three years, he is still an active man. Whether m the shops, at the fireside, or at the lodge, he is always the same genial and entertaining companion and generous host. He takes but little part in the political affairs of the city or county, yet is a thorough Republican and Protectionist. He became a member of the Masonic order in 18.").5, joining Star of Bethlehem Lodge of Brooklyn, and has since advanced through the highest branches to the thirty- second degree. He has also taken all the degrees of Odd Fellowship, and is a mem- ber of the Knights of Honor. In Brooklyn, in 1861. he joined the National Guard; was a member of the Military Association at Albany, and in England became a Forester. Captain Hoare has been a vesti-yman in Christ church for more than twenty years, and for several years has been senior warden. He is regarded as a public-spirited and upright citizen. On the 16th of November, 1845, John Hoare was married to Catherine Dailey. Of this marriage eight children were born, si.x of whom grew to maturity, and four are now living. The six are James, of the present firm of J. Hoare & Company; Catharine, who married William J. White; Minnie, wife of William H. Sayles; John, jr.. who died at the age of thirty, while he was the valued superintendent of the cutting works; Timothy, who died at thirty-one; Joseph A., a physician of Corning, and the only son who adopted an occupation other than some branch of glass cutting. FRAXKLIX X. DRAKE. In the town of Milton, Chittenden county, Vermont, on the 1st day of December, 1817, Franklin Nelson Drake was born. His father was Elijah Drake, a farmer in modest circumstances, yet hard working and industrious. He died in 1829, when Franklin was only twelve years old. His mother was Polly Tambling, a most esti- mable woman, native of Lee, Berkshire county, Mass. After the death of her hus- band the widow married Christopher Cadman, and the family soon joined the tide of emigration to the Genesee country in New York State, settling at Le Roy, Genesee county. Here the youth of Franklin was spent, at .school only a short time, for he was the seventh son in a large family and was early put to work. At the age of fif- teen years he began as clerk in a drug store in Le Roy, remaining there three years, after which he spent one year in the west. Still another year was spent in a drug store in New York city, when he returned to Le Roy and with the little amount he had saved from his wages opened a grocery and hardware store in the village. This was the goal of his ambition at the time, but the changes of the succeeding fifteen years opened to him the possibilities of still greater successes in larger and perhaps more hazardous fields of business action. After fourteen years of fair success as mer- chant Mr. Drake disposed of his stock at Le Roy, and in partnership with H. D. Graves and Harrison Harvey, under the firm name of H. D. Graves & Co., purchased a large tract of timber land in the tmvn of Cohoclon, Steuben county, and soon be- gan operations as manufacturers and dealers in lumber, shipping their product to 64 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTT. northern markets for sale. Their first mill was about three miles from Cohocton village (then known as Liberty) on the road leading to Loon Lake. However, a change was .soon made in the personnel of the firm, Graves and Harvey retiring and Z. Waterman becoming partner with Mr. Drake. But Mr. Waterman proved an unsuccessful lumberman and operator, and the result was his early retirement from the firm, leaving our subject sole owner and proprietor. Ttown to this time and throughout the several changes in partnership relations the business had been reason- ably successful, yet it was by no means as extensive as Mr. Drake desired it to be, for he saw that larger and more rapid operations meant grand success from a finan- cial point of view. His partners did not hold the same opinion, hence the change in the firm. In the early part of 18til the firm of F. N. Drake & Co. was organized, the partners being Franklin N. Drake, George W. Drake and Thomas Warner. The operations of this firm were the most extensive of all in the history of lumbenng in the Conhoc- ton valley. The senior partner was the active manager of the enterprise, and he was earnestly assisted by his associates, neither of whom was at all timid in making large investments. At one time in its history the firm operated six mills, the annual output from which aggregated 15,000,000 feet of pine and hemlock lumber. They continued business throughout the period of the war. when prices were high in every market, and the result of their management was a substantial fortune for each of the partners. In 1866 the firm wasdissolved. Franklin N. and George W. Drake retiring, and Mr. Warner continued the business. Although F. N. Drake sold his interest in the lumbering enterprise in the Conhoc- ton valley, and in the next year, 1867, took up his residence at the village of Corn- ing, he by no means retired from active business pursuits. To be sure he then pos- sessed a fortune, but he had also demonstrated the fact that he possessed the capacity to originate and successfully direct large enterprises, and his past experiences only served to stimulate him to still greater exertions in future operations. While in busi- ness in Cohocton Mr. Drake had joined a company in the purchase of a large tract of timber and coal lands near Blossburg, Pennsylvania, the development and operation of which called for the construction of a railroad in order to secure the best results. This led to the organization of the Bloss Coal-Mining and Railroad Company, of which Mr. Drake was the general superintendent, or, as he was in fact, active man- ager of the whole enterprise. Still further, in carrying out the objects of the organization, in 1867 Mr. Drake purchased the Tioga Railroad, and waseleetedpresident of that reorganized company. Through his efforts, in 1876, the line of the road was extended to the city of Elmira, thus giving it an additional value both in frieght and passenger traffic and otherwise materially improving its condition. However, in 1871, the Bloss-Coal Mining and Railroad Company was sold to the Blossburg Coal Company, and of the last men- tioned corporation Franklin N. Drake was elected president ; which statement im- plies the ownership of a controlling interest in the capital stock of the company, and also the actual direction of its policy and business. Such was the case, and the re- mark is frequently made in financial circles that whatever measure of success was accomplished through the enterprise, it was due almost entirely to the energy, sagac- ity and excellent judgment of the managing officer. During the years 1870 and '71 Mr. Drake was director of the Erie railroad, yet his chief attention was given to the BIOGRAPHICAL. 55 management of the several companies previously mentioned. However, all these various railroad interests were sold to the Erie road in 1881. Mr. Drake was ever awake to the interests of Corning, and every measure tending to promote the general good found in him an earnest advocate and generous supporter. In 1882 he organized the First National Bank, with a capital of .$.5(1,000, and was elected its first president, holding that office uutil the time of his death. December 28, 1892. Except for the united efforts of Mr. Drake and Amory Houghton, jr., it is doubtful if Corning would ever have posses.sed the beautiful opera house which now ornaments the city. Like instances of his public spiritedness and liberality might be counted by the dozen, but are not deemed essential in this place. Such is a brief resume of the principal business operations of Franklin N. Drake. If it indicates anything it is that he was a remarkable man in his capacity to grasp and successfully direct large enterprises. In such undertakings, the details of which would distract and paralyze the powers of men less favorably constituted for such operations, he seemed to see the end from the beginning. He looked over his ground, formed his own judgment with rapidity and almost certain accuracy, and after that proceeded to the execution of his plans with the serene confidence that all would end according to his expectations. He was, as must be seen, a very busy man; but his manifold interests never worried him; in all these his power was sufficient for any emergency and his time adequate for all requirements. While not a man of finished education, for his early opportunities were indeed limited, his fund of general know- ledge was comprehensive and useful, and was underlaid with sound common sense and an excellent judgment of men and affairs. Behind all this was a character noted wherever his name was known for sterling integrity that causes his name to be loved and revered. Although a close reader and observer of all that took place in public life he was not iictive in politics. However, while living in Cohocton, Mr. Drake served two years, (1863-1864) as member of the Board of Supervisors. Franklin X. Drake married (in 1840) Abigail, daughter of Giles Manwarring, of Bethany, Genesee county. To them were born three sons and three daughters, of whom only two sons reached manhood. Of these Henry attained the age of twenty- six years, and died in 1873. Except for the work of the destroyer, the domestic life of Mr. Drake was all that could be desired, as he pos.sessed both means and disposi- tion to provide his family with every luxury which adds to the pleasure of home. GEORGE B. BRADLEY. Gf.ori;k Bi-x Kwrni Bk.mu.ia, who now retires from the Supreme Court bench by reason of having attained the age limitation of seventy years, and who carries with him into retirement from the judicial office he has filled so well and honorably the sincere admiration and respect of the entire bar of the State, has been associated with the legal profession in Steuben county for almost half a century. In 1848, the same year in which he was admitted to practice. Judge Bradley came to Addison, thence in the course of a few months moved to Woodhull, practicing law at the latter place about four years. In the fall of 18.")2 he located permanently at Corning and at once began active practice in the rapidly growing village. 56 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY George B. Bradley was born in the town of Greene, Chenango county, N. Y., on the 5th day of February, 182.5, and was the younger of two children of Orlo F. and Julia (Carter) Bradley. His father was a farmer, and George was brought up to farm work, attending district school m the winter. However, he did succeed, wholl)' through his own exertions, in obtaining a two years' course of .study at the old Ithaca Academy, after which he began reading law in Greene, using Judge Monell's office and library. He finished his studies at Fulton in the office of James Crombie, and at O.swego in May, 1848, was admitted to practice. He then came to Steuben county, practicing a few months at Addison, where his sister then lived. In his early professional career Judge Bradley showed commendable zeal and activity and was soon recognized among the leading young lawyers of the Southern Tier. In the conduct of his legal business he was methodical, cautious, and some- times laborious, and it has been said by lawyers who knew him well that he never went into court with a case unless it was thoroughly prepared for trial. However, it was his policy to discountenance rather than promote litigation, and a glance at the old court calendars shows his name as attorney for the defense far more frequently tlian for the plaintiff; and in his intercourse with clients, mature deliberation always preceded counsel. Before the jury he addressed himself to the understanding of his hearers instead of appealing to their passions, and approached the subject m hand with dignity and self-possession, and in the light of principle and common sense. Naturally a lawyer of such characteristics, and also pcssessing the respect, confi- dence and esteem of his fellow men, could not well avoid being drawn somewhat into the arena of politics, though the principles he has maintained and advocated have not been in accord with those of the dominant party in the county. Neverthe- less he has been pressed into the field as the Democratic candidate (though seldom of his own choice), when personal and professional influence and popularity, it was hoped, might turn the scale ot doubtful contest. hi 185Hour subject was nominated for Congress in the district composed of Steuben and Livingston counties, and was defeated by William Irvine. In 1871 he was the Democratic nominee for the State Senate in the district then comprising the counties of Steuben, Chemung and Schuyler, and was defeated by Col. Gabriel T. Harrower, though by a very small majority. In 1873 he was again in the field for the same office, and was elected by more than two thousand majority. He was re-elected in 187.'). Two years later he was defeated by Ira Davenport, the rich and popular can- didate of the Republican party. He was a member of the Constitutional Commis- sion of 1872-73. In 1878 Mr. Bradley was the Democratic nominee for the office of Judge of the Court of Appeals, but was defeated at the polls by George F. Danforth, one of the ablest lawyers and most popular candidates in Western New York. In 1883 our subject was nominated and elected Justice of the Supreme Court, and soon after assuming the duties of his office, which began June 1, 1884, he was appointed one of the Justices of the General Term in the Fifth Department, comprising the seventh and eighth judicial districts. However, in January, 1889, under the consti- tutional provision creating the court. Judge Bradley was designated one of the mem- bers of the Second Division of the Court of Appeals. With that body he served until its business was completed and the court dissolved in the fall of 1892, after which he was on the Circuit until the fall of 1893, when he succeeded Judge Macomber on the General Term bench. By the Constitution of 189i5 the__Generalj Terms of the Su- BIOGRAPHICAL. 57 preme Court from and after the ;ilst day of December, 1895, were superseded by what is termed Appellate Division in four departments, and at the same time, by reason of having attained his seventieth year. Judge Bradley retires from the bench. What more need be said, or what more tilting tribute can be written upon an hon- orable professional career than a plain statement of fact; a lawyer possessed of a clear and deep understanding of law; a counsellor prudent and careful, ever ready, but not hasty; shrewd and able to see quickly the vital points of a case; and ever res])ectful to the rulings of the court. Possessing these qualities as a lawyer, he was eminently fitted for the more exalted station on the bench, As a judge he was self- possessed, dignified, courteous, firm in his rulings, logical in his reasoning, kind and forbearing toward the profession generally, and the young lawyers in particular; hence his popularity and the many expressions of respect and esteem on the part of his colleagues on the bench and the laymen of the law. During the long period of his legal practice Judge Bradley had only two partners; first D. K. Brown, under the style of Bradley iV Brown, and second, A. S. Kendall, the firm being Bradley & Kendall, and in partnership from 1861 to 1884. In 1850 George B. Bradley married Hannah E.. the daughter of John Lattimer, of WoodhuU. They have no children. In religious preference Judge Bradley inclines to Presbyterianism, but is not a member of the church. He is, however, one of the trustees of the First Presbyterian church of Corning, and a regular attendant at service. STEPHEN T. HAYT. SrKPiiKN Thi KsioN H.WT, who has been well known ui business and political cir- cles \n Steuben county for nearly half a century, was a native of Putnam county, born in the town of Patterson, on the 5th day of June, 1823. He was the son of John C. and Martha T. Hayt, of Patterson originally, but later of Ithaca, from which vil- lage the family came to Corning in 1833, when our subject was only ten years of age. John C. Hayt was a physician by profession, well educated and holding a good prac- tice, but poor health compelled him to abandon that avocation, and he afterward gave his attention to lumbering. He is vi-ell remembered by a few of the older resi- dents of Corning, where he lived until 1854. Stephen T. Hayt was brought up at the same kind of work in which his father was engaged, and his somewhat limited early education was acquired in the school at Knoxville. At the age of seventeen he went to Elmira and worked as a clerk in a general store, remaining there three years, then returned home and was a storekeeper before he was twenty-one. After seven years of fairly successful life as merchant, Mr. Hayt went into the lumber business, buying and selling, dealing extensively as one of the firm of Hayt &: Towner, as known in this region, and Towner & Hayt, as designated in Albany, where his partner managed affairs. This firm continued its business operations until 1868, and was then dissolved. In the same year, in partnership with Mr. Olcott, Mr. Hayt built the Southern Tier Mills, at Corning, but in 1869 our subject became sole proprietor, and for the next ten years carried on an extensive flouring business H 58 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. under the old process of manufacture. In 1879 the buildings were destroyed by fire, but were replaced during the year with the present large brick mill, equipped with modern machinery, having a capacity of 2U0 barrels of flour per day, and being one of the most complete industries of its kind in the Southern Tier. These mills occupy the chief attention of Mr. Hayt at this time, although in connection with the busi- ness he IS a also a successful farmer and tobacco grower. Notwithstanding a very active business life in ordinary affairs, Mr. Hayt has been a more than passive factor in Steuben county in politics. In fact he was for many years a leader of the Republican party and one of whose counsel and advice were always for the public and the party's good. His first vote was for James K. Polk in 1844, in the memorable campaign in which the successful candidate was pitted against Henry Clay. In 1848 he was classed with the "barn-burners," favor- ing Van Buren, and in 1853 supported Franklin Pierce. Four years later Mr. Hayt was a strong Fremont advocate, and from that until the present time has been an earnest Republican, entertaining clear and well settled convictions on all public questions, and is perfectly candid in expressing them. Yet his Republicanism was not so intense as to prevent him from supporting Mr. Greeley in 1872. Mr. Hayt was a delegate to the National Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln in 1860: to the convention that nominated General Grant in 1868; to the convention that nominated James G. Blaine in 1884, and to the convention that nominated Benjamin Harrison in 1888. In 1863, and again in I860 he was nominated and elected to the State Senate. During his first terra he was on-the committee on canals, also on roads and bridges; and during his second term was chairman of the committee on canals. In 1866 he resigned the senatorial office and was elected Canal Commis- sioner of the State, holding that position three years. In addition to these offices, we may state that Mr. Hayt has held many positions in the county and town, and has ever shown an active and generous interest in all local affairs, particularly in such measures as have tended to promote the welfare of Corning, both town and city. The records show that he has been town and city supervisor twelve to fifteen terms, and held many other offices of local importance. Despite his active political career he has never seriously neglected his personal affairs, and his long business life has been .substantially rewarded in a deserved competency. On the 19th of November, 1856, Stephen T. Hayt was married to Margaret C. Townsend, of Palmyra, Wayne county. Of this marriage eleven children have been born, eight of whom are now living. WILLIAM E. GORTON. The surname Gorton stands forpioneershipin Steuben county and in the Chemung valley. The pioneer of the family was Peleg Gorton, a native of Rhode Island, but a resident of Rensselaer county during the closing years of the last century. So near as can be ascertained, Peleg Gorton made a purchase of land in the Chemung valley in 1796 or '97, where he intended to settle, but on his return to the east he was unfortunately killed by a runaway team. However, a number of his sons were /6!^^^^> ^v. BIOGRAPHICAL. 69 settlers in this region in 1797, among them being Peleg, jr., Rufus, Benjamin, and Moses. Rufus Gorton, the pioneer ancestor of that branch of the family of which we write, was one of the earliest settlers in the valley, and engaged .somewhat exten- sively in lumbering, and was also proprietor of the old and historic Hammond & Johnson Mills. He is remembered among the pioneers as an enterprising and in- dustrious citizen, well endowed with energy and determination. However, he went farther west and was one of the pioneers of Michigan, in which State he died about the year 1868. In his family were seven sons and two daughters, among whom Samuel was the fourth in the order of seniority. He was born in the old town of Painted Post (now Corning) in April, 1802, and when old enough learned the trade of millwright. He also went to Michigan where he worked at his trade, and also at farming, He married Sarah Ann Daley, of Millport, Chemung county. N. Y., of which marriage two sons were born, only one of whom grew to maturity. Alonzo Hiram Gorton, surviving son of Samuel and Sarah Ann Gorton, was born in the town of Painted Post on the 18th of May, 1828. His youth was spent on a farm in Michigan, and his opportunities for acquiring a practical education were in- deed limited. He learned the milling and also the carpenter trade and gained a thorough understanding of car building, therefore, after his return to Steuben county he easily obtained a position in the employ of the Fall Brook Coal Company. He proved himself competent, reliable and honest and was advanced step by step in the company's work until he became general superintendent of the Fall Brook system, a position held by him for twenty-seven years, and until the time of his death, April 26, 1886. In 1850 Mr. Gorton married Maria Louise Alexander, of the town of Webster, Washtenaw county, Mich. They had two children, Alexander Alonzo, who died in infancy, and William E. of Corning. William E. Gorton, founder, president and manager in fact of the Corning Iron Works, was born in Corning village, October 19, 18.54. His elementary education was acquired in the local schools, and he graduated from the Academy in 1872. He then entered the State Normal School at Mansfield, Pa., where he remained about one year, then taking a graduating course at the famous Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Later on he began a course of medical study under the in- struction of Dr. Updegraff, a noted practitioner and specialist of Elmira, and after three years of thorough elementary work, entered the Ilahnemannian Medical Col- lege of New York city, taking a full three years' course in tliat institution, and from which he was graduated with honors in 1878. After graduation Dr. Gorton received a most flattering and tempting offer to locate and practice in the metropolitan dis- trict, but an acceptance would have necessitated a considerable outlay of money, and also would have been at variance with his plans, hence the offer was declined, and our young physician returned to Corning; not, however, to enter active professional life, as a disciple of Hahnemann and the theories of similia similibus curantur, but laying aside his title of " M. D.," Mr. Gorton became clerk in the offices of the Fall Brook Company. The president of the road soon appointed him to the position of assistant superintendent, which he held and satisfactorily filled for three years, then resigned and engaged in railroad construction, operating principally in the South, as one of the contracting firm of Griffin &: Gorton. Among the lines of road which this firm built, in whole or in part, may be mentioned the Charleston, Cincinnati & 60 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Chicago, a part of the Piedmont Air Line extensions in North and South Carolina, and also the Roanoke & Southern, in North Carolina The business of the firm was reasonably successful, and was, it seems, more congenial to the tastes and inclina- tion of Dr. Gorton than either professional work or a subordinate position in the em- ploy of a company or an individual. In truth, if we correctly interpret the dominant characteristics of William E. Gorton (and persons who knew him best say we are right), he is a man who prefers to direct and manage enterprises according to his own judgment, and in his own way, rather than carry out the orders of an em- ployer. In 1889 otir subject returned to Corning, and in the .same year established the Corning Iron Works, was its active manager, and when the company was incorpor- ated in 1893, became president. During the time he was in the South, Mr. Gorton was a member of the local drug firm of Gorton & Terbell. The iron works is now numbered among the leading industries of the city. William E. Gorton, during his lifelong residence in Corning, has taken an active part in all public enterprises. During the period of the war, even before he had reached his tenth year, he gained the title of " Drummer Boy of the Southern Tier." for it was his practice to keep the " drum rolling " at the recruiting offices in the region." In politics he is a Democrat, and was brought up under Democratic in- fluences, and while not a seeker after public office, he was nevertheless elected the first mayor of Corning under the city charter, his Republican opponent in that can- vass being Joseph J. Tully, concededly the most popular man in his party in the town. As the first executive officer of the city, the duty of organizing the several departments fell upon him, and subsequent results have shown that his appointments were satisfactory and for the best interests of the taxpayers. In 1893 Mr. Gorton was nominated by the Democratic convention as its candidate for the State senate, but declined to run. While not a church member he was brought up under Presljy- terian influences. On the 18th day of April, 1877, William E. Gorton was married to Clara Belle Stevens, daughter of Peabody Stevens, of Buffalo. Five children have been born to this marriage, four of whom are now living. They were Ethel Louise, Belle, Alonzo Hiram (deceased). William Edward, and Gretchen. CHARLES a. DEXISOX. Ch.\ki.es G. Dkmson was known in business and political life in Corning for a period of nearly forty years, and at the time of his death, July 2, 1892. he held the respect and confidence of every business man in Eastern Steuben county. In poli- tics Mr. Denison was firmly and emphatically Democratic, serving only the best in- terests of his party, and never expressing his opinions or sentiments in a manner calculated to create unfriendliness. Therefore he was exceedingly popular with his Republican neighbors, and when a candidate for office he always received a large complimentary vote from the opposition party. By his consistent position and frank, open methods, Mr. Denison became a recognized leader of the Democracy in the county, and one in whom the party at large had full confidence. ALLEN WOOD BIOGRAPHICAL. Bl Charles G. Denison was born in Montrose, Pa., ou the 23d of May, 1828, and was the son of Dr. Benadam Denison by his marriage with Eunice Williams, that being his second marriage. At the age of twenty years Charles first came to Corning, where he found employment in the store of G. D. Williams, one of the pioneer mer- chants of the village. In the spring of 1855 Mr. Denison married, and soon after- ward moved to Tioga, Pa., where he went into business as general dealer in mer- chandise. But his means and experience were limited, and despite an earnest, honest endeavor his business life here resulted in failure. In 1858 he returned to Corning and soon afterward established a general coal business, dealing as whole- saler in large omery when he fell. He was four times taken prisoner, twice by land, and twice upon the high seas, as a roving privateersman. After his second capture upon the coast of Great Hritain he was confined in jail and condemned to be hanged as a pirate. He escaped by the aid of the distinguished orator and statesman, Henry Grattan, who procured for iiim a passport, and secured a passage to l' ranee, whence he returned to America. He settled in the town of Wheeler (then included in Bath) in 17!t!l. Captain Wheeler died in \H'2H. aged seventy-eight, at the home of his son, (Jraltan H. Wheeler. His children were the son, IJraltan H., and twin daughters named Ruth and Sarah. Ruth married Nathan Rose, ime of the pioneers of Wheeler. Sarah married William Holmes, who made the first clearing on what is known as the Harney farm, on the opposite side of the creek from the home of her sister. The first child born to them was Elizabeth, who afterwards married John Larrowe, who was born and brought up on the farm adjoining that of her father, and from where they removed to Cohocton. There were four sons born to them, Franklin, Albertus, Marcus Dwighl, and Will- iam Wheeler. They, appreciating the benefits of education, were determined that their boys should have all the educational advantages within their reach. These were necessarily most limited, consisting princijially of winter schools. A Presby- terian minister, a Dr. Johnson, was boarded for one winter, that the boys might de- rive the benefit of his college education. 'During their minority the boys worked for their father on the farm. Soon after attaining his majority, Albertus invested his scanty savings in a timber tract, in company with his brother Franklin. Their earn- ings were invested and reinvested until they had purchased several large and valua- ble tracts, iirinciiJally from the Pulteney estate, and had a good water power ,saw mill located just aljove the village. They built several miles of the first fence along the Krie Railroad running through the town, furnishing the lumber and doing the work for seventy-five cents per rod. The principal market for their lumber was in Canandaigua. It was hauled to the landing, near the head of Canaudaigiia Lake, where it was put into rafts, and would then wait for the wind to blow from tlic south to blow it to Canandaigua. The market for farm produce was either Dansville on the Genesee Valley Canal, or Hammondsport on Keuka Lake. Elizabeth Larrowe died in 1863. John Larrowe died in 1867. His remains were interred in the plot of ground, which he had already dedicated as a family cemetery. He left his farm to his two surviving sons, Albertus and Marcus Dwight. Albertus bought the interest of the latter in IsiiS, and has since owned the homestead, known as the Larrowe farm, situ- ated one-eighth of a mile below the village of Cohocton. The larger jiorlion of it is now within the cor])oratioii limits. Mr. Larrowe was made a Mason in 1858, at Naples, He was one of the charter members of Liberty Lodge No. 510, being its first master, and occupied this position for several terms thereafter. Mr. Larrowe has been an enthusiastic Re])ublican since the parlv was organized 72 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. He was supervisor for two or three years, and has always felt an interest in the wel- fare of his party. In 1866 Mr. I.arrowe bought from David H. Wilco.N the Liberty Mills, a small water power mill, fitted with i\\'t> runs of stone, using wooden peg gears and the rude ma- chinery of that period. The graft] was hoisted to the top floor by a rope running over a pulley in the roof, and a man at the other end. Two years later the mill was re- modeled and operated as a cu.stoni mill, making a specialty of buckwheat flour in its season, and from that time until 1889, Mr. Larrowe continued the manufacture of buckwheat flour, di'opping out of the custom work entirely. The Larrowe Milling Co. was formed at that time, and two years later changed to a corporation, with A. Larrowe as president, operating the largest buckwheat mill in the world, equipped with the most modern machines and appliances, many of them built after Mr. Lar- rowe's own plans. He has always been a firm believer in pure food products, and Larrowe's kiln-dried buckwheat flour is one of the very few brands which have never been adulterated. Mr. Larrowe has been a tireless worker, and has always enjoyed the respect and confidence of all his business associates and acquaintances and a host of friends. Though most of the active work of the concern is now performed by younger men, much of the success enjoyed by the Larrowe Milling Co. Ltd., is attained by his sug- gestions and counsel, for which his ripe experience so well fits him. Mr. Larrowe was married to Harriet A. Kellogg, daughter of John Kellogg of Co- hocton, on February 23, 18.i4, who died in December, I860, leaving two sons, John and Charles. On the '23d of February, 1863, Mr. Larrowe was married to Julia A., daughter of lames Draper of Cohocton, who died January 4, 1864, leaving one son, James Erwin. Mr. Larrowe was married April 28, 1875, to Katherine, daughter of Shepard P. Morgan, of Lima, by whom he had three children, Elizabeth A., Albertus, jr., and Dwight Morgan. Dr. Larrowe was one of the organizers of the Universalist church. The site of the present residence of Mr. Larrowe is the same as that on which stood the house, in which were born the Fowler family, the eminent phrenologists, Orson, Lorenzo and Sarah, now Mrs. Wells. And the large elm on the lawn was set there by these brothers when it was a slender sapling, the size of their wrists. GEORGE W. PRATT Was born in Milo, Yates county, m 1821. He was graduated as a physician at Geneva Medical College in 1845, and practiced in Corning for several years, remov- ing to .Mar.shall, Mich., in 1849. He there became editor of the Statesman, a weekly Whig paper, but returned to Corning in 1851, and in July of that year became the editor of the Corning Journal, and part proprietor. Less than two years later he became sole proprietor. In September, 1891, he founded the Corning Daily Journal which has had a remarkable circulation in a city of about 12,000 inhabitants, the average circulation for the past two years being 1,500 copies. Mr. Pratt was for one DANIHL F. YOUNG. BIOGRAPHICAL. 73 term a loan commissioner of Steuben county. He was for half a dozen years the canal collector for the port of Corning, when the Chemung Canal was in operation. He has been twice the postmaster of Corning, serving each time the term of four years. He was a member of the first board of managers of the St. Lawrence State Hospital, Ogdensburg, being appointed by Governor David H. Hill, which board made all the contracts for the erection of buildings and purchase of site. He was also the petition clerk of the House of Representatives of the 41st Congress. DANIEL F. YOUNG. D.v.NiEi. F. Young, youngest of four children of Frederick and Eli/.al)eth (Youug- love) Young, who were born, lived, and died in Frey's Bush, Montgomery county, X. Y., was born in that town February 16, 1817. Reared on a farm he was a self- made and a .self-educated man, his education being obtained principally in public schools. He taught school for a time and also learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed as an employee of his brother-in-law, the late John I. Timcrman. He early developed strong scholarly habits and a metaphysical mind and manifested de- cided inclination for a literary cai'ecr. In 184.') he was offered and accepted the edi- torship of the Montgomery Phenix. then the only paper published in Fort Plain, N. Y., the proprietor being that well-known deaf mute, Levi S. Hackus. At the same time he also commenced the study of law under Wagner & Webster, attorneys and counsellors, but soon abandoned that profession for the more congenial editorial work, which he continued as editor of the Phenix for thirteen years. In 1848 he was appointed deputy postmaster at Fort Plain under Henry C. Adams, but shortly after- ward resigned to accept the post of clerk to William Dale, division superintendent of the Erie Canal. A little later he became a clerk in the Fort Plain Hank and was subsequently made its cashier, a position he heUl till after the close of the war. when he resigned on account of ill health. He then retired from active business and de- voted the remainder of his life to the care of his property and family and to literary pursuits. Mr. Young's connection with the newspaper press did not end with his career as editor, but continued till his death, which occurred in Jasper, Steuben county, August 18, 1892. He was first a Whig and later an ardent Republican, and the leading journals of his party often bristled with political and other articles from his able and versatile pen. The tiles of the Mohawk Valley Register, the New York Mail and Express, and many Steuben county papers contain the products of his fertile and ac- tive brain. (Sifted alike in prose and poetry he was a strong defender of right and justice, of temperance legislation, and of the jjrinciples of Republicanism. He was opposed to the saloon and also to all third party mcjvements, and always had the courage of his convictions and the honesty to boldly express the views espoused. He was an excellent writer — clear, concise, logical, and witty, a close thinker, tena- cious in belief, possessed of the qualities of a strong character and highly cultivated mind, and especially fond of grappling with metaphysical subtleties. On the ques- tion of the Freedom nf the Will, in which he was profoundly interested, and on .1 74 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. which he wrote much but published little, he belonged to the school of Jonathan Edwards. In metrical composition he had abilities of a no mean order. He wrote a number of poems which clearly indicate his high intellectuality and the beautiful thoughts that filled his mind. During his later years he was in the habit of writing a poem on each occurrence of his natal anniversary, and most of them appeared in print. His last effort, entitled "Seventy-five," was inscribed "To R. W.' and con- tained nine stanzas, of which the final two are as follows: ' ' I keep m)- frail bark near the shore, And smile to see my fellows strive ; With feebleness I ply the oar — The pulse runs low at seventy-five ! "But still God's wond'rous world is fair — He scatters mercies large and free — He plants his beauties everywhere. And life is still a joy to me." In the spring of 1885 Mr. Young settled in the village of Jasper, Steuben county, where he bought a handsome residence, which was burned September 12, 1891. Hither he had brought from the Mohawk valley his large and valuable library and literary treasures, which were totally destroyed. He felt this loss keenly, largely from the fact that age prevented him from making another collection of those "silent" and ever available " friends," for he prized them as only a true book lover prizes books. He was held in high esteem and retained the confidence of all who knew him. July 14, 1883, Mr. Young, while residing temporarily at Painted Post, was married by Rev. Joseph H. Young, rector of St. Joseph's Episcopal church, Dansville, to Miss Anna Rust Miller, daughter of Ur. William and Mary (Seeber) Miller, natives respectively of Johnstown and Canajoharie, N.' Y. She survives him, and in 1894 married F. S. Viall, formerly a business man of CanLsteo and now a merchant in Jasper, where Mrs. Miller also resides. Dr. Miller lived in and died in Johnstown, Fulton county. His father. Dr. James W. Miller, prominent in the early history of that place, married Sarah, daughter of Amaziah Rust, of Revolutionary fame. LEONARD S. LAMSON. Leonard S. L.i.mson's ancestors came from England to this country in the l7th century and settled in New Hampshire, where members of the family became sub- stantial farmers and mechanics. His grandfather, Charles Lamson, emigrated to the town of Jasper, Steuben county, from Hadley, Mass., in 1825, and located upon what has ever since been the Lamson homestead. Here amid the environments of a rich agricultural section Leonard S. was born, a son to Sylvester and Sarah (Dennis) Lamson. Sylvester succeeded his father on the farm and died in 1S72; his widow survives him and resides with her son, the subject of this sketch. Leonard S. Lamson was educated in the common schools and Alfred University. January 4, 1864, he enlisted in Co. I, KJth N. Y. Heavy Artillerv, and served till the ■» BIOGRAPHICAL. 75 close of the war. being detailed at General Tracy's headquarters in Elniira as clerk. After the war closed he returned to the parental farm in Jasper, where he resided four years, when he moved to Woodhull and settled on the homestead of his wife's family. There he remained a farmer until 1877. when he took up his residence in Woodhull village. At the same time he purchased an interest in the saw, planing, and feed mill, in which he has ever since carried on a successful business. Mr. Lamson has for several years been a prominent factor in politics in both town and county. He is an active Republican, a trusted leader in the councils of his party, and influential advocate of sound party principles. In 1890 and again in 1891 he represented the town of Woodhull on the board of supervisors, where his efficient labors on behalf of his constituents were recognized and appreciated. In 1S9.5 he was elected clerk of Steuben county by a handsome majority. He is a prominent member and was for two years commander of J. X. Warner Post, No. .")65, G. A. R., of Woodhull, and is also a member of Tent 174, K. (). T. M. He is an active mem- ber of the Presb\terian church of Jasper, and has always taken a deep interest in the welfare and prosperity of his town. Kvery worthy object which promised to become beneficial to the community or jiromote general advancement receives his generous aid and support. Mr. Lani-son was married on January 23. 1864, to Miss Clara A. Millard, of Wood- hull, by whom he has four children ; Prof. George R. , graduate of the Geneseo State Normal School, and a school teacher; Fred L., a graduate of the Rochester I'niver- sity; and Annie E. and Clara L., at home. J K ROME B. MALTBV. Jerome B. M.m.tbv, the third of five children of Curtis and Caroline (White) Maltby, was born in the town of Orange, Schuyler county, N. Y., on the 19th day of June, 1841. During his youth Mr. Maltby enjoyed the usual restrictions of farm life and shared the misfortunes of the average boy as to educational opportunities. Having attained manhood, in 1862 he went west intending to ])ermanently locate; after crossing the plains with an emigrant train he worked at gold mining in Idaho and spent one winter in San Francisco — saving from his earnings about thirteen hundred dollars. Returning east in 1864 he entered the milling business with A, Richmond at Millport, Chemung county, N. Y. A year later he came to Corning and purchased a third interest in the mercantile business then conducted by his brothers Charles R. an;50,000 at the time of his death, which occurred May 2, 1868. In 1824 Colonel Davenport married Lydia, eldest daughter of of Hal church, under Hishop Bedell. In Septem- ber, 1W7. he removed his family to Gambler, Ohio, where he was appointed tutor in Greek in Kenyon College, and where he pursued theological studies in Bexley Hall preparatory to his canonical examinations, which he took in the spring of 18H8. He went to Youngstown, Ohio, as assistant minister to the Rev. Frederick B. Avery, immediately following the close of college in June, and was ordained deacon by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Peterkin, of West Virginia, in August, and three months later, No- vember 2."), 1888, two days after his twenty-ninth birthday anniversary, he was ordained priest by the Rt. Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, IJ.I)., bishop of Pittsburg. March 1, 1890, he became rector of Christ Episcopal churcli, Honicllsvillc, N.Y., where he has remained to the present time. Hurlbut, Williams., was born in the village of Arkport, February 4, 1820. -Phe ancestry of this family dates back to English origin Thomas Hurlbut was the founder of the family in this country. Thomas came to this country fnmi England about 1030 and settled in Connecticut. His successor was Samuel, then Stephen and John the senior, John, junior, who was the father of Christopher, the first of the family to locate in Steuben county. Christopher was bom at Groton, Conn., May 30, 17.57. Served in the Revolutionary war. After the war he settled in Wyoming Valley and remained there until 1797, when he located at Arkport at the old home- stead, which is still in the hands of the family. John, the son of Christopher, was- born in Wyommg Valley October 21, 1784, therefore was in his thirteenth year when they came to this town. He always followed farming and was a man who gave his whole attention to his personal interest and was never prominently identified witli political and public affairs. He was lieutenant in a military company and .served on the Canada line in the war of 1812. He married, Scpteiuber 13, 1814, Priscilla Sharp, a daughter of William Shar]), a native of Staten Island, who came here in 1812. They were the parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters. Only two sons of the family are livmg. William, the second .son, was educated in the common schools of this town and has always followed farming as the leading in- dustry of his life. At twenty-one years of age he began teaching and for seven years followed it, in the winter season only. His whole life has been spent in this town, and he has been identified with its growth and i)rosperity. In the winter of 1893 he was elected supervisor and re-elected in 1894, and is now serving his third year as a member of the Board of .Supervisors. He was married in 1849 to Miss Susan Cary, daughter of Johnson Gary, of this village. Of their six children, one died in infancy. Cary died at the age of fourteen. Caroline E. died at the age of eighteen, and Mrs. Martha H. Sewell, their oldest daughter, died May 1, 1890, at thirty-five years of age. Charles H. Hurlbut is a resident of New Whatcom, Wash- ington, and is engaged in the practice of law in the law firm of Harris & Hurlbut; and Fanny Bell is the wife of A. H. Huntley, a farmer of this town. Mrs. Hurlbut, the beloved wife of William, was a woman of great excellence of character; she died April 2, 1891, aged sixty-nine years. Hurlbut, John, was born in Arkport, October 1, 1821. He was educated in the common schools. He remained on the farm with his parents and taught school win- 44 Landmarks of steuben county. ters from eighteen years of age for about five years. About 1885 he added to his farm duties the dealing in fanning implements, lumber, coal, lime and salt, which business is under the managament of his son, William M. He was married in 1851 to Miss Mary Major daughter of Col. Thomas Major, one of the early settlers of this town. They are the parents of three children: William M. Hurlbut, one of Arkporfs most enterprising men; John E., died in 1890 at thirty years of age; and Mary, wife of E. D. Snow of Rutland, Vt. Mr. Hurlbut has been a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church of Arkport for forty years, and superintendent of its Sun- day school continuously for the same period. He was the leading spirit in the organization of the " Hornellsville Farmers' Club." Has always been on the Board of Directors and served as president tliree years. Hamilton, W. L., was born in Campbell, April 14, 18fi0. John D. Hamilton, his father, was bnrn in the town of Dix, Schuyler county, and came to the town fif Campbell in 18;i(i. He was a shoemaker by trade, and in 185."> established the Curtis tanneiy. He sold this business, and built a tannery in Campbell in IS.'iT. At pres- ent the Campbell tannery is abandoned, and W. L. Hamilton is manager of the Curtis tannery for the United States Leather Company, whose office is in New York city. John D. Hamilton married Harriet Lowell, by whom he had two children : W. L., and Sarah, wife of Frank Pope, of Pittsbin-g, Pa. W. L. Hamilton was the owner of the Curtis & Emporium tannery up to 189:^, also the owner of an acid fac- tory and lumber interest located m Pennsylvania. He married Mary E., daughter of C. F. Piatt of Painted Post, by whom he had one daughter, Harriet. In politics he is a Republican. Hubbard, Chauncey G., M.D., was born in Cameron, this county, October Ifi, 1845, a son of Chauncey P., of Pittsfield, Mass., who was born in 1803, and came to Steuben county in 1828. He died April 10, 1804, at Fredonia, N. Y. His wife sur- vives, in her eighty-ninth year. Of their nine children seven survive, of whom Chauncey G. was educated in All'red University and Corning Academy. In 18(i9 he commenced the .study of medicine, and entered the University of Ann Arbor, Mich., where he attended lectures one year, and in 1S70 entered the medical department of the University of the City of New York, graduating therefrom in 1871. He was appointed physician at Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum, remaining one year. In 1873 he located at Hornellsville, where he has ever since enjoyed an extensive prac- tice. He was coroner six years, member of the Board of Health seven years, and in 189i was appointed surgeon for the Erie Railroad. He is a member of the New York Slate Medical Association, of the Steuben County Medical Association, and was one of the founders of the Hornellsville Medical and Surgical A.ssociation, of which he was the first secretary. He has been a manager of the Hornellsville Li- brary for twenty years, an elder of the Prsebyterian church, a member of the Y. M. C. A., and of various temperance organizations. In 1880 he married Florence N., daughter of the late Henry Prentice of Jasper, and they have two sons, Chauncey P. and Harold C. Before his death, the father of our subject, with his wife, cele- brated the sixty-second anniversary of their marriage. Hargrave, Prof. James B., was born in Ontario county, N. Y., March 10, 1845. George Hargrave, his father, was a native of England, and came up the Hudson FAMILY SKETCHES. 46 River and settled in Ontario county, and in 1854 came to the town of Cameron, Steuben county, and settled on land which was left his wife and enjjajLfcd in farm- ing, and died in 18S(), aged eighty-six years. He married Sophia Halcomh, by whom he had eleven children — nine of whom are living. Professor Hargrave's pre- liminary education was obtained at Woodhull Academy, and in 1868 he was chosen from that nistitution to go to Bath, Steuben county, for examination for the State scholarship, and in September of that year was appointed, and entered Cornell Uni- versity, where he remained until 1872, being the first one from Steuben county. He has been a teacher most of his life, and in 18~."i he entered the law department of Union University at Albany, and in 1876 graduated and taught one year, and in 1877 came to Canisteo, were the law (irm of Sole &• Margrave was formed. He however was induced to take charge of the school in that village, where he has re- mained most of his time since, and at present is principal of the same school. In 1878 he married a teacher in the same school, Alary A. Forrest of Livingston county, who died May 2, 18!)4. They have one adopted son Edward W. Hargrave. Mr. Hargrave was candidate for member of assembly in 1892. Mrs. Hargrave received the largest number of votes cast for the free ticket, offered by the New York Press, to the ^Vorld's Fair. Mr. Hargrave is a prominent member of the L (). O. F., and the Encampment. Hicks, Alfred E., was born in the town of Litchlicld, Bradford county. Pa., March 2.1, 1849, the second son of Alfred Hicks, who is a now a resident of Osage, Iowa. He remained with his father on the farm until si.xteen years of age, and secured an education in the c|)li<>n of the city charter, and lias been connectud with the Board of Education as trustee and secretary of the board from 1868 to thci>rcsct time. Joy, Lewis H. , was born in BuflFalo, N. V., November 28, 1833. Walter Joy. his father, who moved to Buffalo in 1825 and was prominently identified with the );rowtli of that city, was a native of Onondaga county, and it was his grandfather. Captain Thaddcus Joy, who built and conducted the first canal boat through the Erie canal , his son, Walter, succeeding in canal and lake transportation. Lewis B. was educated ill Buffalo, and in 18!)8 erected the first oil refinery in that city, being associated with William T. Wardwell, now treasurer of the Standard ( )il Company. The firm after- ward engaged in the same business in New York, disposing of their plant to the Standard Oil Company in 1864, when Mr. Joy returned to Buffalo, engaging in the steamboat and railroad transportation business until 1880, when he came to Bath and purchased the Steuben mills. In 1874 he married Caroline, daughter of William II. Bull, by whom he had one daughter, Mary; Walter, Mrs. Jennie Meeker and Kate P., are children by a first marriage. Mr. Joy is one of the representative busi- ness men of this county, identified in advancing its best interests and in the leading events of the day. Jimerson, Hibbert T., is a native of Orange, Schuyler county, formerly Bradford, Steuben county, born in 1847, son of Abram and Sally Ann Rolfe Jimerson. The parents lived and died in Schuyler county, and Mr. Jimerson was raised on a farm, and in 1871 married Bertha Ilendrick and located on his present farm of one hundred and eighty acres. He follows general farming, dairying, and sheep husbandry, lie was highway commissioner in 1889. Jewett, Amos, was born where he resides in Hornby, in 1833, Eon of Thomas and Sylvia Haradon Jewett, natives of Vermont and Massachusetts. The father came to Steuben county in 1818 locating first within the present limits of the town of Campbell, moving two years later to Hornby and on Mr. Jewett's farm about 1820. The mother came with her parents about 1823; they died in 1873 and 1877 aged seventy-nine and seventy-seven, respectively. Mr. Jewett is one of a family of seven children, six of whom were raised to maturity. In 1863 he went to the Pacific coast, prospecting and mining there till 1867, when he returned home and spent about four years here. lie then spent a couple of years traveling through the South and then located permanently. In 1868 he married Sarah L., daughter of Riifus Piatt, a native of the town of Campbell. They have three children; Lizzie, Laura L., and Thomas P. He has one hundred and fifty acres of land, it being a part of the old homestead. He was the candidate of his [)arty for the State Legislature in 1890; was president of the Steuben County Agricultural Society in 1890 and 1891; has represented his county in some half dozen political and agricultural State Con- ventions, and has held various other positions of honor and trust. Kimball, William A., was born at Methuen, Mass., July 28, 1827. He was edu- cated in the common .schools and remained with his father on the farm until eiglit- eeu years of age. In 1843 he engaged in railroading for eleven months on the track of the Boston and Maine Railroad, and then engaged as fireman, a position which he occupied only twenty-two months. In the spring of 1849 he was made engineer of the Great Falls and Steamboat train running from Bangor to Boston, and re- 48 LANDMARKS OF STEUBKN COUNTY. mained with tliat company till Jauuary 1, 1S51. January !•) "f the same year he came to Ilornellsvillc on a jjrospecting tour of the Erie Railroad. He was i^iven a position as engmeer with the company, and returning, sold his Massachusetts prop- erty and brought his family to this city. He took the first train out of Hornellsville February 6, 1851, on the Western Division, and continued until May 14, and May 15 he run one of the first trains over the Dunkirk Division, with such passengers as President Fillmore, Daniel Webster and Homer Ramsdell, then president of the railroad. He continued as engineer with this company until July 1, 1863, when he was promoted to passenger conductor, which position he held until January 7, 1888. He was engineer of the train that hauled the iron and woodwork for the first bridge at Portage. He has been employed under thirteen different superintendents of the Western Division. The second day that train No. H was put on the road. May 2.', 1851, a switchman threw the switch under his train at Allegany station, and Mr. Kimball and his fireman received slight injuries. He has a most remarkable record of keeping clear of accidents and never had a letter of reprimand, but many congrat- ulatory and complimentary letters. He was one of the founders of the old United States Insurance of railway conductors in Boston. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1864, and a Knight Templar since 1869. In 1848 he married Nancy A. Morrill of Wilmington, Mass., and they have two sons, William Frank, now running a locomotive on the Dunkirk, Allegany & Pitt.sburg Railroad, and George L., now employed in the Erie Railroad shops in this city. Klock, James N., was born in the town of Manheim, Herkimer county, N. Y., March 2, 1840. Peter A. Klock, his father, came to Steuben county in 1866, and set- tled at Coss' Corners. He married Catharine, daughter of Peter Woolever, and was identified through life as a farmer, and died in 1874, aged seventy-one years. James N. was educated in the common schools. He has made a study of the weather and its changes since 1859, and since 1890 he has been giving special attention to the science of Electro-Planetary-Metcorology. The basis of his theory is in the positiim of the inferior and superior planets relatively to the earth and its .satellite and the sun, of which there are over 260 different positions taken into consideration. At the present time he is able to make an accurate forecast of the coming changes of the weather. In 1860 he married Irena, daughter of John Strough, by whom he had four children: John P., N. Julian, Melvin L., and Mrs. Olive C. Conine. Koyle, Frank H., M.D., CM., L. R. C. P. & S., M. C. P. & S., was born in Athens, Ontario, Canada, April 6, 1864, a son of Hon. Turner Koyle, inspector of public works of Ontario. The grandfather Koyle was a physician and a judge, a soldier and an officer of the Continental army in the war of 1812. The maternal ancestry is Scotch, the name being Purvis. The great-grandfather was aid-de-camp to Sir Isaac Brook, commander of the king's forces in Canada. On his death the grand- father of our subject was adopted by Lord Simcoc, governor-general of Canada, and lived with him until he was of age, and until Simcoc left for England. At this time hs owned abont one-half of what is now the city of Toronto. He died in 1891. The father of our subject died January 29, 1895, Frank H. was educated in Athens, Cobourg Collegiate Institute, Brockville Collegiate Institute, then spent two years iii the art cour.se in Queen's University, Canada, where he took up the study of medi- cine in 1884, graduating w-ith honors in 1888. He began practice in Lowell, where 1 FAMILY SKCTCHES. 49 he was engaged in active work fi)f five years, then spent three years in New York city, practicing in three of the leading eye and ear hospitals, and taking private in- struction with Prof. Herman Knapp, and with Prof. E. B. Dench, also with Profess- ors ^tyles and iJelevan, on the nose and throat. January 1, 1895, he located at llor- ncllsville. Dr. Koyle is a Mason and a K. of P. Kelly, Dr. John G., was born in Bergen, Genesee county. N.Y., February 13, ISoT, the third son of a family of seven children of James Kelly, a farmer and slock breeder of Genesee county. He was educated in the common school, Bergen High School, and Brockport State Normal School, where he taught school two terms in the academic department. He took up the study of medicine in the tall of 1881, en- tering the medical department of the university from the Normal School, and grad- uating from that institution February 27, 1884. He was interne in the Sisters' Hos- pital of Buffalo the last two years of his school attendance, and in April, 1884, came to Hornellsville, where he has ever since been engaged in regular practice of his pro- fession, and has won the highest esteem and respect of his numerous friends and acquaintances. In 1888 he became identified with the drug firm of George T. Reed & Co., now composed of G. T. Reed, Franklin D. Sherwood, and Dr. J. G. Kelly. He is a member of the Hornellsville Medical and Surgical Association, and the New York State Railway Surgeons' Association. He is the chancellor of Branch ;i;i, C.M.B.A., and ex-president of the A.O. H., and was a delegate to the State conven- tion in 1894. June 1, 1887, he married Theresa Henneberg, of Port Jervis, N. Y.. by whom he has five children. In politics the doctor is a Democrat, and represented the Third ward in the Board of Aldermen, in 1891-93; was health officer in 1886-87. He is chairman of the Democratic City Committee at the present time. He has been president of the St. James Mercy Hospital staff of physicians since its organization ; also he is one of the trustees of the hosjiital. Kennedy, John S., was born at Corning, N.Y., in 1868, son of Thomas Kennedy, who has charge of the Fall Brook freight house as foreman. He was educated at Corning Free Academy, graduating in 188.1. Mr. Kennedy began work in the Fall Brook offices in 1885, and since 1881 has been claim clerk in the auditing department, and was city clerk of the city of Corning in 1893-93. In 1894 he was elected super- visor as a Republican in a strong Democratic district. He has been city member of the Republican County Committee for the past two years, and in 1893 was a candi- date for the Assembly nomination in the Second Steuben District. He has for six years been the Corning correspondent of the Elmira Daily Advertiser, having charge of the Ci^sta! City news department. Lewis, Truman W. , was born in LHysses, Tompkins county, N. Y., December 3, 1819, and is the fifth of thirteen children born to Abram and Hannah (Frink) Lewis, both natives of Stonington, Conn., who came to Cortland county, N.Y.. about 1812, being pioneers of the town of Salem. In 1833 they came to Troupsburg, where he died in 1857, and she in 1881. He was a hatter by trade, but followed farming most of his life, and was a soldier in the war of 1813. His grandfather, Nchemiah Lewis, was a native of Connecticut, and settled in Petersboro, w^here he died. In old age he drew a pension for sen'ices rendered in the war of the Revolution. The Frink family were also natives of Connecticut, and settled in Cortland county, where they X 50 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. followed farming. Truman W. Lewis was reared on the farm, and has also followed farming* ~Itrf832)ie came to Troupsburg, where he slill resides. In 1890 he sold the farm to his son Silas and retired, but still lives on the farm. In 1844 he married Sarah, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Pease) Sluyter, early settlers of the neigh- borhood called Sluyterville. Mr. Sluyter was one of the leading men of the place, and was supervisor and justice of the peace for many years. He built a foundry and carding mill and was an active business man. To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have been born these children : Francis, born September 25, 1858, and died June 6, 1859; Mabel, born December 26, 1862, and died Februar>- 22, 1875; Helen M., born October 29, 1846, wife of William Rutherford, a farmer of Potter county. Pa.: Emma, born March 1, 1848, wife of Horton Wood, a farmer of Brookfield, Pa. ; John, born March 10, 1850, a farmer of West Union ; Charles, born March 13, 1853, a farmer of West Union ; Silas, bom October 3, 1860, and Alonzo, born December 6, 1862, farmers of Troupsburg. Mrs. Lewis died in 1893. Mr. Lewis has been assessor six years, and in 1863 he enlisted in Co. A, 184th N. Y. Yols., and was honorably discharged June 30, 1865. He was at Fisher's Hill, Cross Keys, Cedar Creek, and at the siege in front of Petersburg. Leavitt, Major S. H., was bom in Jersey Shore, Lycoming county. Pa.. F-ebruary 11, 1840. Henry C. Leavitt, his father, has been identified with the city of Elmira, and married Catharine, daughter of Russell Thompson, one of the leading families, when that city was known as Newtown. He died there in 1878 S. H. Leavitt re- ceived a common school education at the old academy in Elmira; at the breaking out of the rebellion he enlisted as a private, November 23, 1861, in the 86th N. Y. Inf., Steuben Rangers, and was at once made quartermaster-sergeant, and after the second battle of Bull Run, exchanged positions for that of orderly sergeant of Co. C, at the request of Capt. J. H. Lansing, afterwards brigadier-general. At the battle of Chancellorsville. Va.. May 1, 2, and 3, 1863, for gallantry, was promoted to second lieutenant. He was engaged in the following battles: Fredericksburg, Ya., Decem- ber 14, 1862; Chancellorsville, May 1, 2, and 3, 1803; Beverly Ford", June 9, 1863; Gettysburg, Pa., July 2 and 3, 1863; Wapping Heights, July 23, 1863. In August, 1863. was put on detached service and sent to Elmira, where he remained for several months, taking charge of small detachments of recruits to the different departments in the field. He returned to his regiment in February, 1864, and took part in the Wilderness campaign, and participated in the following battles; Wilderness, May 5 and 6, 1864; Po River, May 10, 1864; Spottsylvania, May 12-18, 1864; Anderson Farm, May 19, 1864; North Anna River, May 33 and 34, 1864; Tolopotomy Creek, June 4 and 5, 1864; Cold Harbor, June 6-12, 1864; Petersburg, Ya., June 16, 1864; continually engaged during the siege and charge on works at Petersburg, June 19, 1864; Jones House, Ya.. June 22, 1864; Deep Bottom, July 27 and August 8, 1864; Hatcher's Run, October 27, 1864, and March 25, 1865; Five Forks, April 1, 1865; Amelia Springs, April 6, 1865; Near Farinville, April 7, 1865, and at Gen. R. L. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, C. H.,Ya., April 9, 1865. Was promoted to first lieutenant July 19, 1864; captain, September 27, 1864; major, February 1, 1865. Was A.D.C. on the staff of General De Trobriand, and carried the order of General Lee's sur- render to regimental commanders in the brigade. In 1868 he married Miss Jennette Ramsdell, daughter of George F. Ramsdell, of Livonia, Livingston county, N. Y. FAMILY SKETClIlilS. 5l He was appointed adjutant of the N. Y. S. S. and S. Home in August, 1887, which position he now holds. Lyon, Reuben R., was born in Bath. March 2, 1857. James Lyon, his father, was also born in Bath. His grandfather. Moses H. Lyon, was a native of Lyons Farms. New Jersey, and came to the town of Bath in 1811. He was a manufacturer of har- ness, etc.. and engaged in dealing in real estate. The family settled in Prattsburg in 1790. and were of English descent. Moses H. married Sarah, daughter of David Benton. James Lyon married Harriet, daughter of Reuben Robie, and has been identified as a farmer and dealer in real estate. Reuben R. was educated at Haver- ling Union School, and graduated from Hamilton College in 1879, and also from the Law School in 1880, and then entered the law office of Elihu Root and Willard Bart- lett. In 1882 he came to Bath and began his present practice, in 1886 was appointed loan commissioner of Steuben county and re-appointed in 1890. In 1885 he married Emma L.. daughter of Hon. William Kemp of Troy. N. Y., by whom he had two children, William K. and Harriet. Loomis, Frederick H.. was born in the town of New Hudson, Allegany county, N. Y., February 1, 1843. Reuben H. Loomis, his father, was a native of Tompkins county, and moved to the western part of the State over sixty-five years ago. locat- ing m New Hudson, where he spent the greater portion of his life. He died Sep- tember 16. 1864. at fifty-four years of age. He was town clerk for New Hudson for twenty-four years. He was prominently identified with the Presbyterian church. His mother. Lydia M. Littlejohn, was a native of Herkimer county; she died Au- gust 22. 1880; they had five children, three now living. Fred was educated in the common schools and at Rushford Academy, and his first employment was as a clerk in a dry goods store in Cuba at the age of eighteen. He, four years later, engaged in the hardware store of H. A. Mead, where he spent six years. In 1874 he removed to Hornellsville. being offered a position in a grocery house there, but the house not being able to pay the wages he could demand, he opened a grocery at the corner of Elm and Broad streets. Three years later he removed to No. 20 Canisteo street, where he was engaged until October, 1892, when his health failed him and he was obliged to retire, and sold his business to O. W. Dunham. Mr. Loomis is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and a trustee (or over four years. He was married February 22, 1867. to Miss Susie A. Neff. the daughter of the late Joseph E. Neff, the well known landlord of the St. James Hotel of Cuba, who died May 8, 1H92. Mr. and Mrs. Loomis have two children. Lyon. I. Edward, was born in York, Livmgston county, N. Y.. Decembers. 1859. Ira G. Lyon, his father, was also born in Livingston county. He was a farmer, and married Henrietta P., daughter of William Powers, by whom he had four children: C. P. Lyon, manager of machine works in Rochester; W. P. Lyon, salesman; How- erd, who is a professor in the Oneonta State Normal School; and I. Edward Lyon, who was a teacher for a number of years, and for four years principal of the public school at Canisteo, and for seven years traveled as a salesman, handling a line of school text books. He was educated at the Geneseo State Normal School, from which he graduated in 1881. He married Lyra Langley. July 15. 1885, who died in 52 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. April, 1892, and for his second wife he married Annie W. Campbell, of Cohoes, N. V. Mr. Lyon is now a dealer in coal, wood, hay, etc. He is also a member of the board of village trustees, and also Board of Education. He is a member of Morning Star Lodge, No. 65, also of Mountain Lodge of the L O. O. F. No. 503. Lane, Dr. George W. . was born in Schuyler county, in 1858, and graduated from Buffalo University in 1886, and since 1888 has practiced medicine at Corning. When locating here he also established himself in the drug trade, but sold this interest in 189.5. He is a member of the Steuben county Medical Society and Corning Academy of Medicine. He has several times been on the Board of Education, and was elected alderman in 1894. Mead, Charles H., was born in Cauisteo, December 28, 1867, son of William H., who was born in Dutchess county. William H. Mead was a farmer and came to Can- isteo and bought what is known as the Allison Flats. He married Dorlesca Whit- wood, of Truxton, Cortland county. She now lives with Charles H. Charles H. Mead has conducted one of the leading groceries in the village for five years, carry- ing a full line of goods. He was educated at the Canisteo Academy and graduated from Warner's Business College in 1890. Mr. Mead is a member of Morning Star Lodge of Masons, No. 65. Mason„ Phineas P., was born on the farm where he now lives, November 5. 1854. son of Enoch L. and Mary A. (Richmond) Mason. Enoch was one of four children born to Elias and Abigail Mason. Elias Mason was a ju.stice of the peace and the first supervisor of the town of Cameron, which office he held for a number of years. Squire Mason settled here in the year 1813, and was a very active worker in the M. E. Church. Enoch had two children ; Orlim J., deceased, and Phineas P. Orlim J. married Margaret McChesney by whom he had three children : Edward P., Mary R. wife of Clayton McAdam, and Grace. He was also justice of the peace. He was a member of the town and county Grange and was master of the lodge for a number of years. Phineas P. married Mary E., a daughter of Charles and Sarah (Johnson) Roosa, natives of this town. Mr. and Mrs. Ma.son have one child, Leila B., wife of Thomas R. Campbell. Mr. Mason is assessor of the town at the present time. He is a member of the town and county Grange and has been its secretary for a number of years, and was one of the directors of the Patrons Fire Relief Association of Steuben and Livingston counties for three years. McCuUough, Ralph, was born in Norwich. Chenango county, N. Y., December 21, 1824, and is the fifth of ten children born to Alexander and Abigail (Skinner) Mc- CuUough, natives of Norwich. James McCuUough was one of the first settlers in Norwich, where he took up 200 acres of land and purchased 100 more. He was justice of the peace in the town of Preston for many years, and was four years in the Revolutionary war, and was the oldest son of James McCuUough. Alexander McCuUough came to Addison, Steuben county, about 1830, where he purchased land and engaged in lumbering, and in 1832 was drowned in the mill pond while floating logs. Mrs. McCuUough died at Preston in 1846. Ralph McCuUough was reared on the farm, but when twenty-one years of age he went on the Susquehanna Riveras pilot in the lumber business, where he remained fourteen years. In 1859 he came to Troupsburg where he and his sisters have since resided. He has made a specialty PAMILY SKETCHES. 53 iif dairy farming, bill now gives his attention to liay. He was formerly a niemher of I,<.dge No. 118, R & A. M. at Addison. Parkhill, Dr. Clair S., was born in Howard, Steuben county, N. Y., November ir>, 1S42, t-tie jtjungest son of David Parkhill. His boyhood was spent on the homestead farm and in attendance on the district school. At the age of fourteen he entered Haverliug Union School at Hath. Kroni there he returned to the farm and remained there until eighteen years of age. In the fall of 1862 he entered Michigan Univer- sity where he studied for two years, and then returned to his native town anil entered Albany Medical College, from which he graduated December 24, 1860. He began the practice of the profession with his brother, Reuben F., in the town of Howard and continued with him for seven years. September, 18TJi, he came to Hor- nellsville and took up the practice of the profession in the city where we now find him one of the leading physicians of this county. The doctor is a member of the Steuben County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society, is a member and has been president of the Hornellsville Medical and Surgical A.ssociation, is a member of the New York State Medical Association, the American Medical Associa- tion, the Erie System Association of Railway Surgeons, is present vice-president of the New York State Railway Surgeons' Association, member of surgical section of Meduo-Legal Society of New York city, and is also the company's surgeon at Hor- nellsville for the N. Y. L. E. & W. Railway. He is president of the medical and surgical staff of the St. James Mercy Hospital, and is advisory member of the board of trustees. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Evening Star Lodge, No. 44, and one of the supporters of the R. R. Y. M. C. A., and a member.of the Presby- terian church. In 1884 he served as president of the village, and in 1884 was a mem- ber of the Board of Education and served four years, the last its president. March 20. 1867, he married Marjory P., daughter of William Rice of Howard, who was drowned at Smiths Pond in January, 1866, by whom he had four children; Louise, the wife of Blake B. Babcock ; Carrie, who died at three years of age; Walter, who died at seventeen years of age ; and one who died in infancy. McMichael, Ira, was born on a farm in the west part of the town of Hornellsville, May 30, 1854. Philip McMichael, the father of Ira, was also born in this town April 16, 1826. James McMichael, a native of Pennsylvania, came to this section of the country about 1820, thus orignating the name Pennsylvania Hill; and the family have ever since been residents of this section. James married Betsey Kline. Philip was the second of three sons, and besides were four daughters. Philip mar- ried Mary Hyde, a native of this town, daughter of Ira and Sally Cleaveland Hyde. J>he died August 16, 18!)2. Ira was the oldest of six children — two sons and four daughters, two sons and three daughters of whom are still living. Ira was educated in the common schools and Alfred University. He taught school winter terms, farming in the summer for five years. November 1, 1881, he bought the Burris King-Kriddler farm of sixty-eight acres, which he has increased by purchase of twenty acres of the Thomas Bennett farm. He has cleared eight acres of land and built new out buildings and made many valuable improvements to the property. He was married March 15, 1877, to Miss Marcia Batchelder, daughter of Lowell and Julia (Peak1 Batchelder of Jasper. They have been the parents of three children' 64 Landmarks of steuben county. The first one died in infancy; Ethel Belle is now in her seventeenth year; Edwin Lee will be ten June 28, 1895. Mr. McMichael is the agent of this section for farm- ing implements and wagons. Mead, W. F., was born in Greenwood, November 1, 1844, son of Alvin Mead, a native of Connecticut, who married Sarah Ann Kruzen of New Jersey, (born January 1, 1806), by whom he had seven children. Enos Mead (born June 5, 176i. died Sep- tember .'), 1818), father of Alvin, came from Connecticut to Newfield, thence to Green- wood in 1828, being one of the first settlers. His wife was Prudence Anderson, born January 13, 1763, and died June 9, 1847. Richard and Jennie Kruzen also came from New Jersey to Newfield, thence to Greenwood in pioneer times. Enos Mead and Richard Kruzen were soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Alvin Mead (born January 5, 1803, died December 25, 1881) settled on the farm now owned by W. F. Mead, where his wife died on May 16, 1880. He was a Democrat in politics, and was postmaster at West Greenwood twelve or sixteen years, and justice of the peace for many years. W. F. Mead was reared on the farm and has always followed farming. He has a farm of 1.50 acres. In 1875 he married Julia, daughter of Albert and Lufany (Richie) Pease, by whom he had three children: Frank G., Bertha L.. and Ray E. Miller. Dr. L. D., principal of Haverling Free Academy at Bath for the past twen- ty-three years, was bom in Augusta, Oneida county. May 15, 1847. Curtis Miller, his father, was also of Oneida county, and their family trace their descent from Ben- jamin Miller, who came from England and setted in Middletown, Conn., in 1635. On his mother's side Mr. Miller is descended from Samuel Duncan, wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill, and Peter Stanhope, both of Massachusetts. He spent his boyhood in hard work upcjn the farm, attended the common school, for the most part in the winters only, prepared for college in Whitestown Seminary, and was graduated from Hamilton College in 1862. He then began his life work of teaching, which ex- tends over a period of more than a third of a century. As prmcipal of Medina Acad- emy, Little Falls Academy, Delaware Academy, Forestville Free Academy and Haverling Free Academy, he has shown himself an earnest, faithful and able worker, and he is recognized as one of the most successful teachers in the State. Besides his school work, during the years 1878-80, he read law in the oflfice of the late Judg^ Rumsey and was admitted to the bar in 1881. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Hamilton College in 1886. In 1863 Mr. Miller was married to Elizabeth M. Markham, daughter of James Spencer Markham, of Ashtabula, Ohio, and Marietta Yale, of Vernon, N. Y. On her mother's side, Mrs. Miller is descended from Elihu Yale, governor of Connecticut and the founder of Yale College. Mr. Miller has four chil- dren: William W., A. B., principal of the Monticello Union School and Academy; Edwin Stanton, farmer, Oneida county, N. Y. ; Friend H., A. B., principal of Horse- heads Union School and Academy; and June E.. at home. In addition to his pro- fessional work Mr. Miller has a great love of agriculture, and his farm of nearly two hundred acres in Kirkland, Oneida county, is the retreat in which he finds health and strength to enable him to do his professional work. McCormick Bros. — The leading firm of general merchants in Kanona is composed •f M. H. and J. D. McCormick, natives of Bradford county. Pa. Their father, James, was a native of Ireland and came to the United States in 1834, settling in Tompkins FAMILY SKETCHES. 55 county. He has since lived in Bradford county, Pa., and Steuben county, N. Y., where he has been identified as a merchant and farmer. James McCormick married Anna, daughter of Matthew Hill, and now resides m Bradford county. Pa. In 1HS2 M. H. McCormick was appomted to a position in the Hornellsville post-ofUce. In 1885 he established a drug and grocery business in Kanona, in partnership with Ur. F. H. Lawrence, who retired in 1888, when J. 1). McCormick came intothe firm. In 1887 a general line of dry goods, crockery, boots and shoes, hats, caps, etc., were added to the stock. McCormick Brothers are among the enterprising and energetic men of the town, taking an active interest in educational affairs. Mosher, Fred R., was born in Dansville, Livingston county, N. Y., April 2, 18()(). He was educated in the common schools and at si.vteen years of age entered the em- ploy of the Erie as telegraph operator, working extra Buftalo Division, and was the operator at Castile until 188:i, when he came to Hornellsville and was first in the tel- egraph office and then in the train dispatcher's office. April 20, 1887, was made assistant train dispatcher, and was regular dispatcher September 19, 1887, holding the office until February 12, 1893, when he was promoted to the position of chief dis- patcher, holding that position until January 1. 1894, when he was made train master at the death of Henry Frank. Mr. Mosher was married, June 28, 1890, to Miss Matie Averj-, daughter of Mrs. Julia Avery of Erie Avenue. Marsh, S. P., was born in the town of Lee, Oneida county, June 14. 1880. He was a son of Joseph Marsh, a blacksmith, who carae to Woodhull from Oneida county in 1833 when the country was new and wild beasts roamed the forests. These were very hard times, and had it not been for the Pultney estate, which furnished flour to the settlers, they would have suffered for lack of food. This fiour was distributed among the people according to the size of the family, and the Pultney estate waited for their pay until crops could be raised. People in those days workedfor fifty cents a day. On account of the wolves, pens had to be built near the house to keep the sheep in at night so that they might be safe. Joseph Marsh afterwards moved to Jasper, where he continued to work at his trade and farming until he died, April 1, 1872, at the age of sixty-seven years. S. P. Marsh was the eldest of eight children, and had always been a farmer up to the time of the late war, when he enlisted, Sep- tember 26, 1864, in the 161st N. Y. Vols., and was discharged from the service Sep- tember 20, 1865. He is a member of G. A. R., Post No. 194. In 18.59 he married Anstis E. Boardman, by whom he has two children : L. Gertrude, stenographer and typewriter for Judge Robinson, and Villa F., now in Boston studying music. Mr. Marsh has lived in Canisteo for thirty-five years, and has been chief of police in the village two years, and deputy sheriff under four administrations. Murdock, James B., was born in Delaware county, N. V., January 2, 1814, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Palmer) Murdock. After the death of Mrs. Murdock, Edward removed from Delaware county to Tioga county. Pa., where he died. Edward Mur- dock was a farmer and a Baptist minister. James B. was brought up on a farm, and though his schooling was limited he acquired a good education by home reading. He was engaged in teaching for nearly ten years and was also interested in a saw and grist mill for a time. He came to Troupsburg in 1843, where he purchased 500 acres of land, and in 1847 engaged in the mercantile business and is still continuing 56 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN CODNTY. in the same. April 23. 1837. Mr. Murdock married Sarah Wambough, by whom he had nine children: Jane E., William, Edward, Elizabeth, Henry, Martha, AdeKne, Mary and Emma. Mr. Murdock has been supervisor of the town live years, postr master almost continually since ISoO, and has held other minor offices in the town. He represented his district in the Assembly in 1872. McKay, James S., was born in Ireland, in 1817, and came to the L'nited States in 1836. He settled in Bath and learned the trade of a miller, which business he fol- lowed up to 1891, when he was compelled to abandon it on account of failing health. He has been superintendent of the poor for fifteen years and held other prominent positions. He married Hester Hamblin of Bath, by whom he had four children. In politics he is a Democrat. Mark, Alfred, was born in the town of Pomfrct, Chautauqua county, September Hi, 1831. Aaron Mark, the father of Alfred, was a native of Massachusetts, and came to this State when a young man. He was a resident of Rochester when it was only a small village. He afterward moved to Chautauqua county where he took up farming and spent the remainder of his life. Alfred was the second son of a family of seven children. He was given a good common school education and remained on the farm with his parents until reaching his majority. November 8, 1852, he entered the cm- ploy of the Erie R. R., for the first four months as brakeman, and from that time as fireman with H. G. Brooks and R. R. Hamlet, occupying that position for two years and four months. August, 1854, he was given control of his first engine which was No. 77 of the old Swinburne class, hauling the way freight. He run this train until the fall of 185t> and then, October 4, he left the Erie R. R. to take an engine on the Ohio & Miss. R. R., where he remained until 18()1, when the war broke out, and then came back to Dunkirk. He was then given charge of engine 51, the first coal burner ever on the Western Division, and the first of that class to enter the city of Hornells- ville. He ran that for three years, and then took Xo. 120 on ])assenger service. He was also for years the engineer of No. 63, the engine that holds the record of the greatest number of miles in the United States. Mr. Mark returned to Hornellsville in 1879 and has since madethis his home. November 15, 1860, he was married to Miss Carrie Snider of Cincinnati. Ohio. They have two daughters, Emma M. Mark of Rochester, and Lutie B. , wife of David E. Fleming. McNamara, William F., was born in Corning in 1860, and graduated from the Coming Free Academy in 1875, and from the Albany Law School in 1884^ having won the first honors of his class in both institutions. He was admitted to the bar in the latter year, and has since been engaged in the active practice of his profession as an attorney and counselor-at-law. He was clerk of the old village of Corning in 1880. and corporation counsel in 188,5-86. He was a candidate for member of assembly on the Democratic ticket in 1885, and again in 1887, and spoke throughout the State in the presidential campaigns of 1884-88. Miller, Martin Rumsey, was born in Bath, April 24, 1848. Rev. L. M. Miller, D.D., his father, was a native of Rochester, and was Presbyterian minister for forty years in Ogdensburg, and fifty years in the ministry. He married Lydia, daughter of David Rumsey. M. R. Miller was educated at Ogdensburg, and graduated from Hamilton College in 1868, and from Albany Law School in 1869, when he came to FAMILY SKETCHES. 57 Bath and entered the employ '<( I'. •S: W. Runisey afterwards the firm of Rumsey & Miller. In 188G he formed the partnership of Miller i: Xicliols, which still continues. He was elected surrojjate in 1888, re-elected in 18',)4. In 1870 he married M. Louise, daughter of Henry H. Cook, of New York. They have four children, Henry C, Lena L., Louise and Janet. Minicr, Thornton F.. was born in Bradford county, Fa., December 6, 1824, son of Ge( rjie and Susan Minier. George Minier was in the Wyoming massacre. His grandfather, Daniel Minier, was an officer in Sullivan's army, and was in the battle of Newtown August, 1779. Thornton F. is a trusted employee of the Erie R. R. Co., and has been in continuous service since 1852, and has been agent at Painted Post since 1870. In early life he was in the mercantile busine-^s in Elmira, and later a clerk in a wholesale house in New York city. He is a cousin of T. L. Minier, who was general paymaster of the Erie Co. in 18r)0 and 18.52, and who represented the district in the State Senate in 1870 and 1871. Thornton F. married May, daughter of Deacon John Watts, by whom he has one child, Mary Ida. Mr. Minier is a trustee of the school, and takes great interest in education. He delivered the historical oratiim at the dedication of the Indian Memorial Monument at Painted Post, June 21, 1894. He is a Mason. Coss, D. M., was born in New Jersey, and came to Steuben county about 1820 with his father, William Coss, and settled at Coss Corners, four miles from Bath. D. M. Coss was engaged in lumbering, stock dealing and farming, at one time owning (iOO acres of land. He retired from business in 1868 and moved to the village of Bath. John W. Moore was born in Yates county, N. Y., March 23, 1835, a son of Samuel Moore, a grandson of James Moore, who was one of the pioneers of Bath, where he conducted a grist mill as early as 1820. In 1863 J. W. Moore came to Bath and was married to Eliza A. Coss, April it. They have three sons: Edward S.. Dan C. and Charles H. For the last twenty-five years he has lived on the old homestead, farm- ing and dealing in stock. For the past seven years he has been superintendent of the Steuben Agricultural Society. Moore. Edwin B., was born in Canisteo, April 2!, 1822, and was educated in the common schools. He is a farmer and lumberman, and has follf)wed the latter busi- ness over forty years. He married Helen L Bunker, daughter of Warren and Sarah Bunker, of Rensselaer county, N. Y., born January 7. 18.:i2. They have had three children: Joseph A., born April 7, 18.")S; James W. (decea.sed), born June 4, 1861; Edward B., jr., born October 3, 18(>.'). who lives at home with his parents. Mrs. Moore is member of the Christian church. Newman, Smith H., was born in the town of Lima, Livingston county, N.Y., July 27, 1840. Isaac Riley Newman, the father of Smith was also a native of Livingston, and he was a son of Joel Newman, a farmer and one of the pioneers of Livingston county. Isaac Riley Newman kept a hotel in East Avon, Livingston county, for over thirty years and died in Hornellsville in 1885. Smith was the oldest of a family of three children. He was given a common school education, and being reared in a hotel, it was natural he should take that as an occupation. His first hotel business was the management of the Knickerbocker Hotel at Avon for one summer, and during the war conducted a restaurant at Avon Springs, and then became proprietor b 58 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEX COUNTY. of the American Hotel in Lima for four years; then was landlord of the Wilson House at Batavia, and then spent three years with his father. In 1876 he opened the Xewman House m Avon and conducted it for four years, and in 1880 became pro- prietor of the Highland House at Dansville, which he conducted for four years, and in 1884 came to Homellsville. where he took the proprietorship of the Osborne House, and is now serving his eleventh year as landlord. He was married in 1861 to Miss Frances E. Hall, of Avon, Livingston count)-. They have no children. Nixson, Joseph, was born in Chemung county, N.Y., June 17, 1838, son of James Nixson, a native of Sussex county, X. J., who married Susan Kimble. He died in 1846. in his thirty-seventh year. Joseph was educated in Haverling Academy, after which he taught school for some time, and then returned to Chemung county He was elected super\'isor in February, 1865, and tilled the town quota of eighteen men on the last call for recruits, and was re-elected in 1866, serving two years. In 1871 he came to Bath and purchased part of the D. M. Coss property, to which he after- ward added the Jonathan Towle farm. In 1860 Mr. Xixsou married Sarah Gunder- man, and they are the parents of two sons: James and William. He is one of the successful farmers of the town, and has served as assessor, and a member of the Board of Auditors. Noble, Martin W., was born in Bath. August 22, 1828. Lay Xoble, his father, was a native of Otsego county and came to Steuben county in 1828. and the family trace their descent from Thomas Noble, who came from England m 1632. Lay Noble married Lucinda Brooks, and his life was identified as a farmer and cabinetmaker, and he died in 1879, in his eightieth year. Martin W. Noble was educated in the common schools, and his life has been identified as a farmer and stock raiser, mak- ing a specialty of fine sheep. In 1854 he married Lucinda J., daughter of Peter Hunter, by whom he had three children: Albert. Clarence, and Mary. Mr. Noble is born in Hammoudsport, July (i, 1852. George W. Nichols, bis father, was a native of Yates county, where the family were pioneer settlers. He married Clarissa, daughter of William Hastings, whose ancestors came to the United States from England in Iti'iO George W. Nichols was identified in the mercantile business at Hammoudsport, and died in 1884. in his fifty-ninth vear. Williatn H. was educated at Lima Seminary, and graduated from Rochester Uni- versity in 1874, and then entered the office of William Ramsey and M. R. Miller. In 1879 he was admitted to the bar. and in 1880 formed the firm of Miller &: Nichols, which still continues. In 1885 he married Caroline, daughter of C. D. Champlin. and is one of the leading business men of his county, serving as supervisor for seven years, and chairman of the board for two years and a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1894. Northrop, W. H., was born in Oswego county, N. Y. ; came to Corning in 1887. and was appointed passenger agent for the Fall Brook Railway Company in 1888. He had previously been connected with the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad of Florida. In 1888 he married Miss Frances Brown, of Elbridge. ( )nondaga county, N.Y. Nowlen. George F., was born in Avon. N. Y., June "29, 1864. George H. Nowlen. his father, was also a native of Avon, where his grandfather, Capt. Asa Nowlen. settled in 1812; he was engaged in the merchant marine trade, and was one of the proprietors of the stage line from Albany to Buffalo, before the building of the rail- road, (ieorge H. Nowlen married Helen, daughter of J. W. Fowler, and through life has been identified as proprietor of the Avon ; ulphur Springs. George F. was educated at Avon and Rochester, and in 18S9 came to Bath and formed a partnership with T. W. Gould, plumber, steam heating and electrical supplies. Mr. Nowlen is one of the representative business men of his town, identified in advancing its best interests and in the leading events of the day, and having learned his business of Samuel Sloane, of Rochester, has made it his life's study to the exclusion of all other interests. Olmsted, Samuel, was born in C(jlumbia county, N. Y.. December 15, 1829, the youngest of six children born to Samuel and Lydia(Wellman) Olmsted, both natives of Sidney, Delaware county, N.Y., born in 1789 and 1796 respectively. The parents of Samuel, sr., were Samuel and Lorena (Bunce) Olmsted, he a native of East Had- dam. Conn., and she of Columbia county, N.Y. The great-grandfather of Samuel (our subject), Samuel Olmsted, came to East Haddam. Conn., in 1767, afterward settling in Columbia county. NY., and received a deed of land from King George of 60 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEX COUNTY. England. He was in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars. The father of our subject was reared on a farm at Canaan, where he was engaged in farn:ing until 1S5T, when he came to Troupsburg, where he died in July, 1872. Mrs. Olmsted died in 1846. Samuel, jr.. was reared on the farm and was for six years engaged in railroading, since which time he has followed farming. His farm consists of 200 acres and he makes a specialty of dairying. In 1859 he married Abigail D., daughter of Henrj' and Louisa (Bartow) Bates, both natives of Greene, Chenango county, born in ISOli and 1810 respectively. Mr. Bates is one of the pioneer settlers of Troupsburg, having settled here in 1835. Mr. and Mrs. Olmsted have had five children; Lydia L., born October 21, 1859, and died July 3, 1863; Nettie, born Sep- tember 10, 1863, wife of G. H. Symonds, a farmer of Troupsburg: Emily, born March 27, 1865, wife of Millard M. Paul, a carpenter of Woodhull; iLoreno M., born January 22, 1874, and died April 19, 1880; and Phoebe D., born November 20, 1877. Mr. Olmsted has been assessor, and postmaster of East Troupsburg for twentv one years. Powell, Edmund K., was born iu the town of Chemung, Tioga county. Septem- ber 9, 1821, son of Frost Powell, who was born in Dutchess county. The parents moved from Tioga county to Hartsville in 1723, and settled near where Edniand now lives, on what is known as the Daniel Tucker farm, clearing a space of about 100 acres. Frost Powell married Rebecca Gleason, by whom he had si,\ children; Caro- line, Asa, William, Edmund, Charlotte, and Lucy. At the present time only three of the above are living. Edmund K. was educated in the schools at Hartsville, is a farmer by occupation and is the owner of 100 acres of land. He was married, first, to Mary Baird, by whom he had one son, George R. Powell, a druggist by profes- sion. The second time he married Francis Baird, and they had one daughter, now in Canisteo. His thinl wife was Sarah E M )ore, and two children were born to them: James, and Angelinc L. The latter graduated from the Academy at Canis- teo, and has been engaged in teaching. Mr. and Mis. Powell are members of the M. E. Church. Paul. John, was born in Irwin, Steuben county, N. Y., June 8, 1829, and is the ninth of ten children born to Ira and Mary (Pierce) Paul, both of Massachu.setts, who came to Prattsburg in 1805, thence to Painted Post, and in 1833 settled in Jas- per, whence they removed to Erwin iu 1842, where he died in 18H, and she in 1850. The maternal grandfather, Abner Pierce, of ilassachusetts, settled at Prattsburg where he died. He wa^j a blacksmith by trade. John Paul was reared on the farm after which he engaged in the lumber business for seven years, but his main occupa- tion has been dairy farming. In 18.50 he married Almeda Johnson of 0.\ford, by whom lie had eleven children; Sarah S., born February 20, 1851, wife of James C. Ford, a machinist of Knoxville. Pa. ; Matilda, born January 16. 1853, wife of H. J. Miller of Troupsburg; Frances R. born February 19, 1854, wife of R. E. Pruksman of Woodhull: Millard W., born April 21, 1858, a carpenter and joiner; John P., born April 23, 1861; Charles A., born February 16. 1864, a carpenter of Woodhull; Ida J., born April 17. 1866. died December 22. 1894. and was the wife of G. W. Tisk ; Fred E.. born June 26. 18()9. a teacher and scaler of logs in a saw mill in Potter county. Pa. ; George P., born May 5. 1S73. and died aged one year and ten months; .Arthur H.. burn Mav IS, 1S75. a teacher who was educated at Woodhull and State li f FAMILY SKETCHES. 61 Normal School. Mrs. Paul died August 8, 1894, and he married the second time in April. 189."i. Miss Rosine A. Gridley, of Guilford, Chenango county. Ordway, Enoch, came here from New Hampshire. His wife was Hannah Whiting, by whom he had three children: Luther. Charles and Enoch. He was a farmer in the town of Jasper and was a member of the Presbyterian church there, devoting a great deal of his time to church work. Enoch, jr., married Hester A., a daughter of William and Sallie (Travis) Clark, by whom he had three children: Brunette, wife of Leslie U. Whiting; Minerva, wife of Edson H. Prentice, and, second, Byron H. Backus; and May, wife of James B. Scutt. Mr. Ordway is engaged in farming. He is an attendant of the M. E. Church and is a member of the Grange and an e.\-gate- keeper and ex-chaplain. Peck. James Milton, was born in the town of Howard, Steuben county, N. V., March 14, 183;$, son of William R. Peck, a native of Massachusetts, who came to New Vork when he was sixteen years of age. His father, James Peck, took up a farm of eightv acres in the town of Howard, where he lived most of his life. He died in 184.i. William R. bought a farm of lifty acres near the homestead and later fifty acres more. He died in the town of Avoca, Match 10, 1895, at eighty-five years of age. The mother of James Milton, Joanna Head, was a native of Rhode Island. She died August 14, 1885, leaving three children. An interesting story is told of Mr. Peck as to how he went to New Berlin, 3(10 miles east, and collected S300 for his uncle and got his dog, making a successful journey on foot at an expense of thirty- six cents. lames, the eldest son, was educated in the common schools and followed farming fur nine years. November 2, 1866, he entered the employ of the Erie Rail- road Company as first watchman, then in the shop six years, and four years as fire- man. November 4. 1876, he suffered an accident in the yard at Hornellsville, by which he lost his left arm, and then was made foreman of the transportation gang, remaining in their employ until Christmas, 1891. Since that time he has been on the farm of 100 acres, purchased in 1872, on lot 5 in the town of Hornellsville, where he now resides. In 1880 Mr. Peck commenced raising Jersey stock and butter making, and has made exhibitions at State and county fairs for ten j'ears and always was awarded a premium, and has been considered the best butter maker of this section. He has been trustee of schools and road overseer. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for twenty years. In 1855 he married Mary A. McClary, daughter of Jame.s McClary, and they have four children: James R., of Rochester; Laderna, a boiler maker of Hornellsville; Sarah, wife of R. Hcm])bell, a farmer of Hornellsville; and Marcus, a fireman on the Erie Phillips. W. H., D.D.S., was born in Union Hall, Franklin county, \'a. 11 R. Phillijis. his father, came to Bath in 188(>, and engaged in the profession of dentistry. He married F^amelia A. Redncr, and now resides in Penn Yan. W. II. Phillips was educated at Howard Academy and Haverling Kree School at Bath, and graduated from Baltimore Uental College in 1888, and then established his pre.sent practice in Bath. In 1886 he married Lizzie, daughter of Dr. James Black, by whom he had three children: William H., Edgar W., and Leon R. William H. is one of the leading members of his profe.ssion, serving as trustee of the village, and taking an intelligent interest in educational and religious institutions, and identified in ad- vancing the best interests of his town and townspeople. G2 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Parker. J. Elliott, is descended from an old Massachusetts family and a son of John A. Parker, a farmer, who came from Chenango county to Jasper, Steuben county, in 18-10, where he remained eight years. He then went to Woodhull, where he purchased a country hotel which he conducted for several years, then built a saw mill, but later engaged in farming. He died in 1893, six days after his wife passed away. She was Betsey M. Gates, of Chenango county, whose father came from Vermont. They left three children : Horatio, a farmer, of Rathbone ; Mary, wife of John F. Dawson, of Woodhull ; and J. Elliott. The latter was born in Woodhull in 1857. He first engaged in farming, teaching school in the winter. Since coming to Addison in 1888 he has operated a hay pressing plant on Front street, carrying on an extensive business. He uses steam power and employs several men. In 1893 he established the East end coal yard, which does a good business. Mr. Parker married, in 1888, Lida A., daughter of Robert E. Harder, a farmer, by whom he has three children; Eva May, Elmer N., and Reba M. He is a member of the Masonic order. Patchill, O. C.,was born in Corning, educated there, and since December. 1877, has been in the employ of the Fall Brook Railroad Company as chief time-keeper and head clerk. O. C. Patchill, his father, was born in Philadelphia in 1831, and came to Corning in 1853, where he was master mechanic for the Fall Brook and Blossburg & Corning Railways, which position he held until his death, which occurred July 13, 1885. Pierce, William O., was born in Olean, Cattaraugus county X.V., July 31, 18i6, the son of William B. Pierce, of Olean, who in early life was a mechanic and later engaged in mercantile pursuits. William was educated in the common schools, and his first occupation was in connection with his father, who was then conducting a bakery. This was about 1878 or 1879. He remained with him until 1884, and the firm was composed of his brother and himself until 1886 ; that year they sold and William removed to Hornellsville, where he established the business which has grown from a very small start to assume a great factor in the business enterprise of the city. The Telegram Bread is known in every house in this city and is truly celebrated. He also makes a specialty of salt-rising bread. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church. He was married, June 22, 1883, to Sadie, daughter of John K. Chapman. They have two children, Raymond Chapman, now in his eighth year, and Bernice Rose, in her fifth year. Preston, Othaniel, was born in the town of Howard, Steuben county, August 6, 1850. The history of the life of the above can be found in the chapter of manufac- turers, with which he has been prominently identified. He was for three years a trustee of the village before the city was organized. He is a member of the Episco- pal church. Was married to Sarah Elizabeth, oldest daughter of P. C. Hufstader. They have four children, one son and three daughters. The son bears the family name of Othaniel. Phillips, Mrs. Margaret. — Libbius Phillips was born in Addison, March 16, 1829. In the early part of his life and at the time of his marriage in 1855 to Margaret Young, of Addison, he was engaged in an extensive lumber business at Canisteo, where he achieved a great success in this enterprise and acquired a con.siderable for- FANflLY SKETCHES. . 63 tune. A little later he was subjected to financial reverses, but by his integrity and faithful devotion to his work he promptly recovered himself. For a number of years he was a resident of Pennsylvania, where he was landlord of a hotel at Fall Brook. He was associated with the Red Men, and also a member of the Masonic fraternity for nearly twenty-five years. The last years of his life he was engaged in farming and hotel- keeping. He died in lf-88, aged sixty years. He had one brother, Ran- som, and one sister, Mrs. Selh Mullen, both residents of Addison. Park, Rufus C. was born in Woodhull, June 12, 1845. He was the second of a family of nine children born to Albert and Matilda (Coats) Park. Albert Park was born in Binghamton, March 10, :817, and Mrs. Park was born in Manlius, Onondaga county, July 28, 1824. Thomas, grandfather of Rufus C, was a native of Armenia, Dutchess county, and one of the leading farmers, owning about 300 acres of land. He afterwards moved to Big Flats, where he died. Albert E. went from Armenia to Connecticut, where he lived for a number of years and then came to Woodhull, settling on what is now known as the Holden place. He and his brother Elijah built a saw mill here. Albert then went to Canisteo and built a .saw mill, where he was engaged in lumbering for twenty years. He afterwards went to Big Flats, where he purchased a farm and lived a few years, then moved to Lawrence, Tioga county. Pa., where he purchased a farm and remained about five years. From there he went to Jasper, where he was engaged in lumbering. He then moved to Whitney's Point, where he died in 1890. His wife died August Ki, 1872. Rufus C. w^as reared in the lumbering business. He was educated in the ccjiiimon schools and Eastman's Busi- ness College, from which he was graduated in 1805. He engaged in lumbering for a short lime, but in 1880 established the Steuben Sentinel at Troupsburg. In 1881 he moved to Woodhull, and in 1891 changed the name of the paper to the Southern Steuben Republican. He owns the building where he now is, on the bank of the Tuscarora Creek, lie is now justice of the peace. He is a member of Restoration Lodge No. 777, F. & A. M.. 'Woodhull Tent No. 174, K.O.T.M., and E.A.U. No. 26. June 19, 1879, Mr. Park married Sarah, daughter of Jacob and Mary A. (Smith) Bishop, of 'I roupsburg. They have five children; Lynn, horn November 28, 1883; Earl, born August 4, 1885; F"rank, born February 7, 1889; Luella, born December 9, 1891; and Allen B., born February 6, 1894. In connection with his printing office, Mr. Park carries on a book bindery and also has charge of the N. Y. & P. A. Tele- phone, and is known as a successful, progressive business man. 4 Page, De Merville. was born in Cohocton, October 13, 1853. In 185(i his parents removed tothe town of Fremont. Mr. Page took a preparatory course in the Rog- ersville Union Seminary, and graduated from Cornell University in 1872. He studied law with Hakes and Stevens, and after a course in the Albany Law School, was admitted to practice in 1874, and remained with Hakes and Stevens until 1879. In 1880 the partnershi]) of Hakes and Page was formed, and Milo M. Acker was admit- ted about 1885. and the business was afterwards conducted under the firm name of Hakes, Page and Acker, this firm continuing until January 1, 1891. Mr. Pageisnow practicing with his brother, Murray E. Page. When a resident of the town of Kre- mont, Mr. Page represented that town for one year in the Board of Supervisors. In 1880 he was the Democratic candidate for district attorney, and in the fall of 18!l(» was the candidate of his party for member of congress. 64 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Pease. Frank L., was born in Livingston county in 1848, was raised in Allegany county, and in 1868 came to Corning, clerking in a dry goods store for three years, and then was on the road as a salesman for seven years. In 1878 he embarked in his present business, forming with M. Schenck the present firm of Schenck & Pease. He was town auditor two terras, village clerk four years, and the first city clerk, resigning after the first year. In 1878 he married Clara, daughter of the late Dr. Granger, of Lawrenceville, Pa. Ferine, H. W., was born in South Dansville, June 2, 1821. William Ferine, jr., was a native of Livingston county, and was the son of William Ferine, sr., who came from France about 1750. taking an active part in the war of the Revolution. William Ferine, jr., married Abigail, daughter of Colonel Whiting, and was identi- fied as a farmer and took an active interest in the Presbyterian church of Dansville, and died in his eighty-seventh year. H. W. Ferine was educated in the common schools, and in 1840 entered the emploj' of Hon. William Hubbell, of Bath, which position he held for five years, and then entered the employ of L. C. Whiting, where he remained for four years, and in 1846 formed the partnership of Whiting (ii: Ferine, which continued up to 18.50, when Mr. Whiting retired. In 1847 he married Eliza- beth, daughter of Captain James Read. Mr. Ferine is one of the representative men of his town, having erected the larger portion of the business buildings of the town. Robbins, Myron W. , was born in Caton in 1845, son of James N. and Lydia (Siilson) Robbins, natives of Broome county. James N. Robbins came to Caton in 1827, there being then but seven families residing in the town. He was local preacher and farmer, and died in 1890, aged seventy-two years. Mrs. Robbins lives with her son. Mr. Robbins is the only survivor of the family; a brother, Ephrin L.. died in 1889. .He married in 1868, Emma J. Wellman, who is a native of Otsego county, and came to Caton when a child. Mr. Robbins enlisted in Co. G, 150th N. Y. Vols., and was honorably discharged at the close of the war; he has served as assessor one term, and was elected supervisor in 1894. He has three children, Adah M. , Bennie E., and Clarlton A. Rumsey, Peter B., was born in Delaware countv, X. Y., October 0, 1844, son of Simeon K. and Miranda (Bogart) Rumsey, who settled in Thurston in 1856. Peter B. is one of eleven children, nine of whom are residents of this county: Emily I. Davidson, Charles W., deceased, Ann Eliza Cleveland. Hattie C. Aldrich, Peter B., Addison J., George, Edward, and Sarah E. Peter B. Rumsey married Alice J., a daughter of Asher and Catherine Northup, of Thurston, by whom he has three children: Edith, Claude, and Lawrie P., all natives of Cameron. Mr. Rumsey has been a member of the Masonic Lodge since he was twenty-four years of age. He is a charter member and first secretary and second treasurer of the North Camei'on Grange. He spent his early life in lumbering, but is now engaged m farming, own- ing a farm of 145 acres. Reznor, Lot, was born in Canandaigua, Ontario county, N, Y., November 2, 1838. John Reznor, the father of Lot, was also a native of Ontario county. His boyhood was spent in Cauandaigua, and became the agent for the Hornby and Gregg estates when only a young man. In 1862 he removed to Hornellsville, where he had the care of their interests in this section, and spent the balance of his days in this county. FAMILY SKETCHES. 65 Always interested in school work and a trustee of schools. He died January 29, 1870. Lot was the oldest son of a family of four children. He was educated as were the farmers of tifty years ago, attending the common schools until ten years of age. He started on his life of work, at (irst employed in the ofKce of the Ontario County Times, occupying the jHjsition as devil for one year, and then spent five years in the commission business in Philadelphia. He was employed in a hardware store in Can- andaigua until the breaking out of the war. May, 18(il, he enlisted in the ll^th Regi- ment N V. Vols., and spent two years with that regiment and two years with the loth Cavalry, serving to the close of the war. He left the battlefield to locate in Cleveland, Ohio, where he spent three years in oil refining, and in 1868 he located in Arkport, where he established a general store and conducted a very successful busi- ness for eighteen years. Robie, Reuben Edward, was born in Bath, September 24, 1843, son of Hon. Reuben Robie, who was a native of the town of Corinth, Orange county, Vt. The family trace their descent direct from John Robie, of Castle Donnington. Leicestershire, England, who died in 1515, the first member of the family in this country having been Henry Robie, who landed at Dorchester, Mass., in 1689. and the same year went to Exeter, N. H., and afterwards to Hampden, X. H., where he died. Hon. Reuben Robie came to Bath in 1820, and was engaged in the mercantile business for over fifty years. He was member of congress in 1851-52, and held numerous other offices of public trust. He died January 21, 1872. His wife, Nancy Whiting, whom he married April 29, 1824, and who died February 18, 1876, was a descendant of the Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Boston, England, who settled at Lynn, Mass., in 1636; her father. Col. John Whiting, came to Bath in 1815 from the Slate of Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Robie had twelve children, five daughters and seven sons: Nancy Jane, Har- riet Alvira, Lydia, Olive, John Whiting, Jonathan, Charles Henry, James Whiting, Mary, Reuben Edward. Joel Carter, and James Lyon. Four of the s<.ns and one of the daughters are now living. Reuben Edward was graduated from Hobart College in 1864. then entered the law office of Hon. David Ramsey, was admitted to the bar in 1866, and afterwards entered into i)artnership with Hon. David Rumsey and George S. Jones, and later with Hon. William Rumsey. February 2. 1881. he married Annah Watkins, daughter of William Babcock. of Canlim. 111. He still practices his pro- fession at Bath. Reynolds, H. J., son of C. J. Reynolds, who was a native of Corning, a farmer and florist, and who died in IJ^OI. Mr. Reynolds and his mother, Jennie G. Reynolds, conduct the greenhouse, which was established by his father in 1872, and have 6, Odd feet of glass. Rockwell. L. Wilson, was born in Oleau, N. V., November 2, 1855. Lemuel Rock- well, father of L. Wilson, was a musician, and for a number of years a teacher of the profession in this city. He died in 1873. L. Wilson was educated in the city schools of Hornellsville, where the family removed in 1861, and his first occupation at thirteen years of age was as a clerk in the store of Adsit & Tuttle. In 1879 the firm of M. A. Tuttle & Company was organized, with Mr. R. as the company. In 1S8;1 he removed to Wellsville, organizing the firm of Rockwell Brothers, which still ex ists; 1886 he organized another firm of the same name in Cortland, and in 1880 re- I 66 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEX COUNTY. turned to Hornellsville. and in 1890, with M. A. Tuttle, organized the present tirm of Tuttle & Rockwell. In 1890 Mr. Rockwell with Mr. Merrill, and his brother, J. L. Rockwell, organized the company and founded the Merrill Fabric Glove Company, a private company, the firm being Rockwell, Merrill Sz Rockwell. Mr. Rockwell was one of the organizers of the Citizens' National Bank of Wellsville, and is at present a director and one of its largest stockholders. He was married in 1nS4 to Miss Lizzie Smith of Wellsville, who flied January 12, 1892. leaving one child, Robert F. Rock- well, n(jw m his ninth year. Rogers, William Findlay, was born in Forks Township, near Eas^on, Pa., March 1. 1820, son of Thomas J. Rogers, who came from Waterford. Ireland, with his father. Joseph, who settled in Philadelphia about the year 1786. Thomas learned the art of printing and after attaining his majority, settled in Easton, where he established a weeklv newspaper, and compiled and published a Biographical Dictionary for the use of public schools. He married Mary, daughter of Christian Winters of Easton. He participated m the war of 1812 as an officer m the Pennsylvania militia, in which he attained the rank of brigadier-general. He represented the Tenth Pennsylvania District, known as the Tenth Legion, in Congress for three terms. William F. also learned the art of printing and sought employment in Philadelphia. In 1846 he re- moved to Buffalo and entered the ofHce of the Buffalo Courier as foreman of the com- posing room ; and also took an active part in the militia organizations of the city. At the brcakin,g out of the Kebellion he was captain of Co C, T4th Regiment, and was among the first to volunteer under the first call of the president His company was mustered into the Union .service for two years, and with nine other companies, rendezvoused at Elmira; and on the organization of the Twenty-first Regmient he was unanimously elected colonel. His re.giment served in the Virginia and Mary- land campaigns and was mustered out in May, 1863, when he was appointed com- missioner of enrollment and subsequently provost-marshal of the Thirtieth District. In 1866 he was elected comptroller of Buffalo; in 1869 mayor, and was one of the projectors of the magnificent park system of that city. He appointed the first board of park commissioners, and while mayor was president of the board, and at the ex- piration of his term, was elected its secretary and treasurer. While in the military service of the State, he was by election promoted through all the grades to that of ■major-general. He was brevetted brigadier-general U. S. V., served as department commander in the Grand Army of the Republic; was elected to Congress in 1885, ■serving one term. In 1887 he came to Bath as superintendent of the New York State .Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, having been one of the committee to select its location, and connected with it as trustee from its organization in 187i . Robinson, O. P., was born in Otsego county in 1847, and came to Corning when two years of age. He began clerking when fourteen years of age, and about 1876 founded his present business as dry goods dealer, Mr. Gamman becoming a member of the firm in 1891. Mr. Robinson is one of the trustees of the School Board. He married Mary L. Clark of Corning. Rishel, Dr. (jeorge P., was born in Millville. Columbia county, Pa.. January 23, 1849. His ancestors came from Alsace-Lorraine previous to the Declaration of In- xlependence. The greatgrandfather was a Revolutionary soldier: the father for FAMILY SKETCHES. 67 more than forty years an eminent practitioner of tlentistry, and a resident of Illinois at the lime of his tiealh, which occurred in 1S7."). Dr. George P. received his educa- tion in the IIij;h Schools ot Bloomshurji;, Pa., and CambridKe, 111., and beRan the practice of dentistry in 18(i8. He is a graduate of the Philadelphia Dental College, from which he received the degree of 1). D. S. in 1882; he is a member of the Seventh District Dental Society of this State, and has made some able contributions to dental literature. Dr. Rishel arrived in Hornellsville January 5, 1872, and three years later married Ada W., daughter of Morris Smith of that city. He is the inventor of the •Truss and Cable Fence Wire," and of the complicated machinery employed in its maiuifacture, and is a member of the Truss and Cable Fence Co. He has been a member of the Board of Sewer Commissioners since 1892, and as secretary of that body has rendered valuable service in the city. Reynolds, Norman, was born in Marcellus, Onondaga county, November 18, 1825, is the only survivor of si.\ children born to John and Anna (Graves) Reynolds, he a native of Tioga county, and she of Marcellus. John Reynolds learned the wagon- maker's trade, but gave it up for the millwright's trade, which he followed in Wayne county for manv years, after which he came to Allegany county, where he died May 17, 1848. ilrs. Reynolds died in Greenwood in 1870. Norman Reynolds learned the cabinetmaker's trade, at which he worked for eight years in Greenwood and Rough and Ready. He was on a farm five years and m 1884 located in Greenwood, where he still resides. October 28, 1849, he married Pheobe A., daughter of Orson Abbott of Wellsville, N. Y , by whom he had two children: Marion F., born June 22, 18.'i;i. died July 26, 1853; Norman A., born February 23, ^8•l^ Mrs. Reynolds died August 2(1. 1S.")3. Mr. Reynolds married for his second wife Martha A. Trowbridge of (Jrcenwood, by whom he had five children; Helen M., born February 27, 18.")5; John W., born July 31, 1857; Flora K.. born July 11, ]8.i9; Rissie Y., born Septem- ber 2.i. 1867; and Vera Belle, born March 28, 1877. and died Ai)ril 11, 1880. Sep- tember 10. 1861, he enlisted in Co. B, 86th N. V. Vols., and was honorably discharged July 8, 1865. He was in second battle of Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Wapping Heights, and Wilderness, where he was wounded May 10, 1864, and was also wounded in front of Petersburg, September 18, 1864. He is a mcniber of Will- am C. White Post. G. A. R., of which he is at present chaplain. Rose. Walter (J., was born in Coventry, near Hartford, Conn., October 2. 1814. Horace Rose, the father of Walter, was a native of Connecticut, born in 1788. He was a man of the best education and in his younger days was a teacher. In 1825 he moved to New Y'ork State and settled on a farm in the town of Hartwick, Otsego county, N. V., where he made his home until the fall of 1844, when he brought his family to Steuben county and settled in the village of Hornellsville, and died here February 8, 1862. The mother of our subject, Marcia Edgerton, was born in Con- necticut in 1789, and died in Hornellsville in 187.") at eightv-six years of age. To them si.\ children were born, all of them gone but Walter. He was given a good common school education, and his (irst occupation was serving as an apprciitict- to the tinsmith trade. Three and a half years later when he was twenty-one he started as journeyman and was two and a half years at the bench. In 1838 he formed a copartnership with his former employer in Hartwick, and was a member of the firm for four years. He then started for himself and conducted a dry goods business un- 68 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. til the emigration of the family to this county. April 9, 1845, he had his goods all here and ready to start in business, where his residence is now located. The busi- ness then was the manufacturing of tinware and dealing in stoves, which gradually grew into the dealing in all classes of hardware and farming implements. The busi" ness increasing, in 1848 Jlr. Rose removed to the north side of Main street where their present place of busine.ss is. At that time there were but two stores on the north side of Main street, that of Charles Baldwin, a drug store, and one dry goods store. Mr. Rose has ever since been engaged m business in this city. He has occu- pied many positions of honor and trust in this town. He was a director of the Bank of Homellsville and was nine years assessor and was five years supervisor of the to\\Ti. About the close of the war Mr. Rose purcha.sed thirteen acres of farm land on Canisteo street, which he opened up for village residences and erected twenty to twenty-five buildings. The three beautiful residences on Main street and many of the stores of the village have been built by him. He was married in 1838 to Jliss Glovina Olendorf of Hartwick, Otsego county', who is still spared to his partnership. The three children of this union are John R., a partner in the store, and Charles ().. a manufacturer. Annie, the only daughter, was drowned in 1869. Sluyter, Alonzo F. M., was born in the town of Troupsburg, December OT, 18il, the thirteenth of a family of fourteen children born to Joshua and Elizabeth (Pease) Sluvter. They came from Delaware to Troupsburg, built a carding mill, and cleared a farm near the village of Sluyterville. Mr. and Mrs. Sluyter both died in southeast West Union, he June T, 1869, and she June 27, 1881. The grandfather, Allabartus, lived and died in Delaware. Alonzo Sluyter was educated in Troupsburg and then engaged in farming. In 1861 he married Mary, daughter of Ira Carr, by whom he liad seven children; George H., liveryman, Harrison Valley, Pa., born in 1860; Emily, wife of Edward Dailey, a farmer of West Union, born August 2, 1868; I. Joshua, born November 8, 1870; Charles F., born April 28, 1876; William O,, born August 19 1878: Evelyn C, born June 10, 1882, and Mary E., born July 30, 1885. Mr. Sluyter came to West Union with his parents in 1861 and carries on a farm of 327 acres. In February, 1864. he enlisted in Co. H, 86th N. Y. Vols., and was hon- orably discharged in October, 1865. He was in the battle of the Wilderness, where he was wounded and was then transferred to the 2d Battalion V. R. C. Mr. Sluvter and family are members of the Methodist church. Seelcy, Norris, was born in Addison, X. Y. , August 14, 1842, the oldest of thrte ■children born to Stephen and Sabra (Johnson) Seeley. Stephen Seeley was born De- cember 22, 1816, in Oxford, Chenango county, N. Y. , and his wife June 2. 1822, in Otsego, N. V. She died April 26, 1877 Stephen was the oldest of si.\ children born to John and Susan (Wells) Seeley, natives of Connecticut and Massachusetts, respec- tively. John Seeley settled at Oxford, where he died in 1839 and Mrs. Seeley in 1859. Stephen Seeley came to Troupsburg in 1855, where he still resides on the farm, having retired from active business in 1879. N'orris'Seeley was reared on the farm and helped to clear the farm he now owns, having purchased it in 18 9. He has 117 acres and makes a specialty of hay and dairy products. In 1868 he married Lodema Griffith, who was born in Otsego county, Augu.st 25, 1847. She is a daugh- ter of Lorenzo and Eliza (Moak) tiriflith. natives or Otsego and Schoharie counties. li FAMILY SKETCHES. 69 respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Seeley have three children; Stevia L., born October l:{, 1872; Ida S., born March 15, 1S75; and Cassie V.. born July 2, 1889. Stephens, Adsit B., was born in Canisteo on the farm he now owns, Sejiteniber 1, 1857, son of William B., who was born in this town in 1815. William, the grand- father, was born in 1777, and settled on what is known as the Thomas Hallett farm, where he kept an inn. William B. Stephens married Lydia M. Abbe, of Canisteo, by whom he had three children; Sophia A., Libbie M., and Adsit B. The latter spent his early life in teaching school and working at his trade in a printing office. For the last twelve years he has devoted his time to farming, making a specialty of small fruit growing. In 1880 he married Clara B. . daughter of Jonathan Knapp, i>( South Canisteo, by whom he has three children; Ross W. , aged twelve years; Agnes May. aged eight years; and Vina Belle, aged three Mr. and Mrs. Stephens are members of the M. E. church. Shannan, M E.. was born in Bath, iJecembcr ;{|, 18411. Matthew Shannan, his father, was one of the early settlers in the town of Bath, being identified as a farmer, and married Martha Fancett, daughter of Robert Fancett. He died November 13 1875, in his seventy-fifth year M. E. Shannan was educated in Bath, after which he entered the employ of James Fancett, and in 1885 he established a grain, pro- duce, coal and agricultural implement business, in which he continued up to 1893, since which time he has dealt in real estate. Mr. Shannan is one of the representa- tive business men of his town, serving as trustee and taking an intelligent interest in educational and religious institutions, and in advancing the best interests of his town and townspeople. Stocum, John, was born in Pulteney, Steuben county, April 27, 1825. James Sto- cum, his father, was a native of Putnam county, and came to Pulteney about 1815, and followed farming. He married Catherine, daughter of Samuel Townsend, who lived to be ninety-seven years of age. James ftocum was drow-ned in the Cohocton River in 1825. John Stocum was educated in the common schools and came to Bath in 1840. a poor, friendless boy, where he learned the furniture and undertaking- trade, which he has carried on for fifty years. In 1847 he married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of John Metcalf, of Bath, who died in 1858. In 18(50 he married Susan B.. daugh- ter of Josiah Townsend of Elmira. In 1861 he raised his first company, Battery E. 1st X. Y. Light Artillery, going out as captain; he was beaten out of this battery through trickery. In 1862 he raised Co. F, Gist N. Y. Inf., which at that time pre- vented a draft being made in the town of Bath ; he served a j-ear, and being invalided by sun stroke and typhoid fever, returned home September 3, 1864; he was with this company and regiment at the siege and surrender of Port Hudson. Upon his re- turn home in 1864 he raised his third and last company, being Co. A, isiltli Regt. During his service in this regiment, on January '1, 18(i5, Capt. Barrage Rice was killed by guerrillas ; it was not long before the long roll was beating in the camp of the 189th ; after a march of eight miles a halt was ordered and Captain Stocum de])Ioved Co. A as skirmishers, and advancing through the woods for a mile, found the body, and after a spirited fight, with the guerrillas, brought it back to camp; it had been stripped naked and shot once through the waist and twice through the head ; on the i:Uh it was embalmed at City Point and sent home in charge of Lieutenant Warren. 70 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. On Sunday, the ever memorable 9th (if April. Captain Stocum. with Companies A and F on the skirmi.sh line, drove into Appomattox the last rebel battery and picket line General Lee sent out. Of all the men in Steuben county, none did his duty more faithfully and bravely than Captain Stocum. He received an honorable dis- charge May 80. 186.5, with rank of major, and returned to Bath and resumed his fur- niture and undertaking business Stephens, Hiram A,, was born in the town of Canisteo, November 'iH. 1839, son of J. H. M. Stephens, who was born in the town of Addison, November I'i, 1806, and moved with his parents to Canisteo when eight years old. He was a farmer, also carpenter by trade. He married Ermina, daughter of Benjamin and Susanna Bennett of Howard. They were the parents of nine children: Susanna, Frazier, Hiram A., Henry M., Rachel E. (deceased), Ellen, Mandane, Bruce (deceased), and C. B. Stephens, M.D. His parents both died at the old homestead, his father on April 6, 1883, and his mother May 25, 1883; they were buried in the cemetery near by where many by the name of Stephens are interred. A suitable monument has been erected to mark their last resting place. Hiram A. was educated in the district school in the town of Canisteo, attended school during winter terms, and assisted on the farm the remainder of the year, until he reached the age of twenty-one, after which he attended school at Rogersville and Pi'attsburg Academies. He taught thirteen terms, in which profession he met with good success. He went to Michigan in 1866 and spent five years in the lumber business. He married Mrs. Marj' E. O'Hara of Wallace, July 17, 1881. He has kept a general store at Wallace for fifteen years; in this vocation he has been successful, having built up a large trade. Mr. Stephens has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for over thirty years; he was made a Mason in Canisteo Morning Star Lodge No. 6.5, and is now a member of Avoca Lodge, No. 6'i3. Stratton, George W., one of nine children of Thomas and Clari.ssa Stratton, of whom seven are now living, was born at Fallsburgh, -Sullivan county, in 1840. Until eighteen years of age his boyhood days were spent in assisting his father on the farm, and in attending the common school of Fallsburgh, where, as a village stu- dent, he acquired his education. He then entered a store in Tioga. Fa., as a clerk, and his work there promised the active business life which has followed. At twenty- one years of age he enlised in Co. K, 23d Regt. N. Y. Vols., and after serving three months w^ith that regiment he was discharged for disability and came home. Hav- ing recovered his health a year later, his desire to serve his country led him to enlist in Co. A, 143d Regt., with which he remained until the close of the war, when he engaged in the tanning business here. He has been a faithful worker, and for fifteen years was proprietor of the Goodhull Tannery, and at present is not engaged in any mercantile business, but is devoting his attention to his farm interests. Mr. Strat- ton is a solid substantial citizen, and a Republican, but not a seeker for political preferment. In 1S71 he married Julia, daughter of Frederick Thurber. She is a descendant of Dr. Sidney Powers of Lawrenceville, a widely known practitioner. She is also a member of the Presbyterian Church. They have two daughters to help disburse the hospitalities of the handsome, modern residence, erected in 1801 on Front street. FAMILY SKETCHES. 71 Smith. Edward H., was born in Warren county, N. V., son of Ezra B. and Laura Smith. He married Ellen B. . a daujjhter of Erastus Bronson, and settled at Painted Post in 1857. Have had two children, Carrie, wife of Fred Kingsbury of Corning, both now deceased, and Carl B. Smith, M.D., of Binghamton, N. V. Ed- ward H. was with Fox, Weston & Co., for twenty-five years. He is at present post- master at Painted Post. Has been commissioner of highways of the town of Erwin eight years; member of the Board of Education twenty-one years; trustee of the Presbyterian church twenty years, and is at present an elder of the same. Stevens, Ralph, was born in the town of Campbell, October 5, 1838. He is the son of Jonas Stevens, who was born in the town of Sangerfield, Oneida county, March IS, 1803, and came to the town of Campbell in 1806, where he resided up to his death, which occurred September 2.5, 1887. He married Eliza- beth, daughter of Jedediah Miller of L^lysses, N. V.. by whom he had five children: George. Hannah, Harmon, Ralph, and Jane. Ralph .Stevens was educated in Campbell, and afterward engaged in farming and lumbering. In 1862 he enlisted in the 107th N. Y. Yols., and served about three years. He was wounded in the battle of Dallas, where he lost his right leg, and returned home in March, 186.5, and since then has devoted his time to farming. lie married Margaret Gilmore of Tioga county. Pa., by whom he had six children; Jennie M., William B., Sherman M., Benjamin J., Adaline R., and Edward K. For his second wife he married Miss Jane Jacobus of Urbana. Mr. Stevens has filled the minor offices of the town, is a mem- ber of Knox Post, No. .549, Mason Lodge, No. 7.5.5, and K. of H. No. 372. In poli- tics he is a Republican. Scribner, L. D., was born in Andover, April 20, 1840, son of Daniel Scribner, a native of Connecticut, and one of the leading farmers of Andover. He spent his last days in Greenwood, where he died in 1895, aged eighty years. He married Augusta Ellis, a native of Massachusetts, by whom he had four children. L. D. Scribner set- tled in Greenwood in 1865, where he has since been engaged in farming. In 1864 he married Lucretia, daughter of William Young of Greenwood, by whom he had seven children: Fred M., who died March 27, 1874, aged eight years; Willis S., furniture -\. He- was educated in the city schools and engaged in farming as an occujiation In iy7K. in company with his brother, Christopher B,, he started a market in the city of Hornellsville, which is still known as the Stephens market, being ni>w conducted by the father, Alanson Stephens, and his brother-in-law, Mr. Bennett, Walter withdraw- ing from the firm in (October, 1894, as he had become deeply interested in real estate transactions in the south part of the city. In 1891 he bought a part of the old Van Scotee farm, which he has laid out in lots and made many valuable improvements and erected nine of the most beautiful cottages of the city. On this same property there is now being erected the South Side M. K. church at an expense of S1(),()()0. Mr. Stephens is a member of this church and chairman of the board of trustees. Ik- is a member of Hornellsville Lodge No. UHl, F. and A. M , Steuben Chapter, the Council, Conimandery and Consistory. Me was married in 1878 to Miss I loni .M. Carroll, of Hornellsville. Stanton, Jerome I., was born at (neat Bend, Susquehanna county, Pa., on Xovcni- ber 18, 1841. It may truthfully be said of him, " He bore the yoke in his youth." Shortly after the removal of his parents to Wyoming county in 1834 he was necessi- tated to begin his intimacy with hard work, which brought with it the scanty wages of six dollars per month. He continued at work iu country stores until 1862, when he enlisted in the 17lh Pa. Vol. Cavalry. He bravely remained at his post througli nineteen engagements, and with the added experience of prison life in the winter of 1864-5. On returning to his regiment he was promoted to the rank of' sergeant- major, and onlj- doffed his uniform for a more peaceful vocation when the war had closed. After his return home lie engaged as traveling salesman for a large firm, and in 1871 succeeded his employers in the business, with headquarters at Painted Post, X.V. In 1879 he sold out to Fish S: Holmes, who removed the business to Elmira, N.V., after which he purchased the planing mill property at Painted Post and en- gaged ill the lumber business, which he has developed to large dimensions, and in the same year his conversion took i)lace under the jiastorate of Rev. James Moss. In 1888 he was elected as a lay delegate to (leneral Conference, and was one of the organizers of the Prohibition party in New York State, and is an earnest worker in the cause. A career so heavily handicapped and in its outgrowth rising to such achievements, combined as it is with simplicity and ])iety, deserves genuine ad- miration. Spencer, Hon. tleorge T., was Ijorii in Saybrook, Conn., November 0, 1H14, and was educated at Lee's Academy, Madison, Conn., and at Amherst and West- field Academies in Massachusetts, and graduated from Yale in 1837. He studied law with Governor Ellsworth at Hartford, Conn., and John G Forbes, of Syracuse, and admitted to the bar in 1841, and has since been practicing his profession in Corning. In 1857 he was a member of the Legislature, and in lS(i7 a member of tin- I 74 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEX COUNTY. State Constitutional Convention, and from 1872 to 1878 county judge and surrogate of Steuben county. Sly, Robert O., was born in the place where he now lives in 1846, son of George and Lovina Irvin Sly, natives of Corning and Watkins. The grandparents came from Richmond, Ya., and Connecticut, paternal and maternal respectively. Mr. Sly has always resided on the old home place consisting of 250 acres of the original 370 acres. In 1872 he married Sarah Cutler, a native of Corning, and their children are as fol- lows; George Elliot, Mary Lovina, Idalia, Aletha. Shaip, John G., was born in Co.xsackie, July HO, 182.5, son of Lawrence 1. Sharp of whom an account will be found in this volume. He came to his present residence when nine years of age. The homestead consists of 147 acres of land. He was educated in the academy in Howard, and has since devoted his time to farming. He married Harriet, daughter of Lott Forrister, one of the first settlers of the town, formerly of Connecticut. They had two children, Floyd L. and Ettie M. He mar- ried the second time, Juliet, daughter of Russell Boughten, and they were also from Connecticut. Mr. Sharp held the offices of assessor six years, commissioner of high- ways six years, and supervisor two years. He has been salesman for the cheese fac- tories twenty-seven years. He is a member of the Masons, Lewis Lodge No. 104. In politics he is a Democrat. Symonds, J. H., was born in Oxford, Chenango county, N. V., April 19, 1841. and is the second of eight children born to George and Sarah (Wilson) Symonds, both natives of Chenango county. The grandparents, John and Lucy Ann (Chesbro) Symonds, came from Hartford, Conn., to Chenango county when the country was new, where they engaged in farming. He died September 30, 1872, and she De- cember 17, 1865. George Symonds was a stonecutter and jobber in Chenango county, apd died April 22, 1892, and she in January, 1S75. The maternal grand- father, Daniel Wilson, came from West Chester to Chenango county, where he died in 1864. He was a carpenter by trade, and a soldier in the war of 1812. J. H. Svmt>nds began farming when eighteen years of age, which business he has always followed. In 1866 he bought a farm in Chenango county, which he sold, and in 1871 came to Troupsburg, where he now owns 120 acres of land and makes a specialty of dairy farming. In 1864 he married Julia A., daughter of John M. and Mary (Holmes) Wilcox, of Chenango county, by whom he had these children : Elmer G., born in 1864, a farmer of Troupsburg: Martin J., born February 26, 1868, who died dn 1878; Lida May, who died in February, 1893, aged seventeen years; John Ray, who died September 21, 1880, aged three months; Archie W., born September 15, 1882; John E., born January 20, 1884; Clifford E., born August 28, 1890. Mr. Symonds has been highway commissioner, and in 1892 was appointed postmaster at East Troupsburg. Stroud. Jacob P., was born in Sussex county, N. J., April 15. 1824, a son of Jacob and Mary (Probasco) Stroud, of Stroudsburg, Pa., the former being named after Colonel Stroud, a brother of the grandfather of the subject, Samuel Stroud, who came from England and finally settled in Woodhull in 1826, where he died. The father of the subject died in 1877, and the mother in 1852. Jacob P. was educated in the pub- lic schools, and followed lumbering and farming. In 1868 he engaged in the mer- FAMILY SKKTCHES. 75 cantile business, which he continued till 1S71, when he returned to fanning;. A year later he rebuilt the store, and engaged again iu business until he was burned out, then sold monuments for Field , 18511; Sarah A., born November IT, IM")! ; Martin M., born October IS, ISH:!; J. Frank, bnni Jauiuiry '.'•"i, 185"); and Emma born March I'J. 185H. Spoor, Fred C, was born in Luzerne county, now Scranton, I'a., December 10, 18. O. F. He and his family are members of the Methodist church. Sherwood, Micajah V., was Ixirn in Cameron, this county, June s, lS4;i, a son of James, who came to Cameron from Pulteney when a young man. The latter was a member of the Freewill Baptist church, and of his ten children si.\ reached maturity, of whom our subject was the youngest son. He was given a good education, and his first work was at farming. The death of his father occurred in 18.");!, and he contin- ued on the farm till the age of seventeen, when he entered the employ of his brother, Franklin D., in the general store, remaining till the outbreak of the war. August -1, 18()2, he enlisted in Co. F, 141st N. Y. Vols., and served during the war, serving at the siege of Suffolk, Baltimore Cross Roads, Lookout Mountain, Wauhalchic Valley, Resaca. and many other important and decisive battles; he was promoted to first lieutenant and commanded his company from Atlanta to the end of the war and mustered them out. He received an honorable discharge at Elmira, June 8, 1805. Returning to HornellsviUe he was for a short time in the store, and was in 18<')!t a]>- pointed to the railway mail service, which position he held till December 29, 18»;!, when he was injured in an accident at Dunkirk, and has since resided in this city. In 1894 he was elected city chamberlain, and he is a Mason of prominence in his lodge. His wife was Ada Virginia Kassick, of Michigan, and they have one child. Walter V. Sims. William H., was born in Tamaqua, Schuvlkill county, I'a., June 25, 185:!, the second son of a family of si.\ children of John Sims, a painter, who died Novem ber 10, 18H]. William was educated in the common schools, and at fifteen years of age he began an apprenticeship at the machinist's trade in the P. iV R. shops, which he spent four years at and then si.\ months was in a shop at Williamsport, and from 76 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. there went to Delano where he was foreman of a department for seven years. In May. 1882, he came to Hornellsville and entered the employ of the Erie R. R. Com- jjany. at first as regular machinist and now occupies the position of assi-stant foreman. Mr. Sims was married in 187.5 to Miss Angelina Jeffery of Delano, Pa. They have been the parents of five children, One died in infancy. Harry \V. is an apprentice at the Times office. George J. is a clerk in Epstein's clothing store. Charles J. was drowned in Canisteo river, March 11, 1887, four years and .seven months old. Alice E., the only daughter, was born February 17, 1892. Mr. Sim's mother is still living, now in her eighty-first year, and has been blind for forty-five years, and resides with William H. Smith, Dr. Lyman B., was born in Masonville, Delaware county, N. V., May 24. 1852, the youngest of a family of five children of Stillman Smith, deceased, a fanner of that county ; he was educated in the common schools of his native county and Chic- opee Falls High School of Massachusetts. At twenty years of age he took up the studv of medicine with Dr. Baker when he was in Delaware county, and entered the medical department of the University of New York in September, 1872, and gradu- ated in February, 187."). He first took up the practice of the profession until October, 1875, in his native town. He then located in ^Voodstock, Ulster county, where he was engaged for fifteen years. He sold out in the spring of 1890, and in the fall entered the Polvclinic Post-Graduate school in New York citj'. where he attended lectures until January, 1891. He then located in Hornellsville in partnership with Dr. M: J. Baker, which existed until Baker's death in December, 1892, since which time he has been alone. In politics the doctor is a Kepublican. and was supervisor of Woodstock in 1880. He is the president of Hornellsville Medical and Surgical Association. He is one of the house staff of St. Mary's Ho.spital. Heis also a mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity and a Knighl Templar. September 1.5, 1875, he mar- ried Estella S. Brown of Masonville, Delaware county, by whom he had three chil- dren : Milton Baker, a member of the graduating class and president of the class of of Hornellsville Academy; Lizzie, and Edith Sarah. Sanderson. Rev. Benjamin .Smith, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 2, 1858. Sidney Sanderson, his father, was a native of Middlebury, Yt, but in boyhood moved to New York city, where for nearly sixty years he wasactively engaged in mercantile pursuits, having been one of the original members of the Produce E.Nchange. He married Mary Ann, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Smith of the mercantile marine service. The subject of this sketch is their youngest son. Receiving his preparatory training at the Brooklyn Polytechnic (graduating in 1875), he received the degree of B. A. from Amher.st College in 1879. His theological studies were pursued at the •General Theological Seminary {Protestant Episcopal), New York city, from which he was graduated in 1882, receiving from this institution two years later (1884) the de- gree of Bachelor of Sacred Theology for special excellence in his studies. In his senior vear he also won the Sevmour Prize for extemporaneous speaking. Ordained deacon. June, 1882, and priest May, 188S, he was from 1882 to 1885 assistant minister in St. John's, Boston, Mass., rectorof Trinity church, Wethersfield, Conn., 1885-1886; rector of St. Stephen's, New Hartford, N. Y., 1886-90, during which time he was instrumental in having built in a distant part of his cure, the handsome St. George's i"hapel. a memorial of the late Hon. Geo. W. Chadwick. May 1, 1890, he assumed FAMILY SKETCHES. 77 his present charge of St. Thonia.s' church in Bath, a strong and influential parish. He is also a member of the standing committee of the diocese. In 1887 he married Agnes, eldest daughter of Wilson and Ellen Dibblee of Boston, Mass., by whom he has four sons. Sutton. Dr. Orlando W., was boru in Waverly, X. Y.. December 2.5, 18.|i(. Ivlwin \V. Sutton, his father, was a native of New Jersey, and was of English descent, who married Huldah Hopkins, and was engaged in merchant tailoring; he died in 1887 in his sixty-fourth year; his wife and four sons survive him, of which Dr. Sutton is the eldest. He began the study of medicine in 186.5 after .serving eight years as deputy postmaster at Bath and for two years in the railway mail service. He completed his studies and graduated at the Eclectic Medical College in the city of New York. He is one of the leading Republicans of the county, and is secretary of the Republican Cuuntv Committee, one of the trustees of the village of Bath, and a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners; also secretary and treasurerof the Southern Tier Medical Society. He is serving his third term as coroner of Steuben county; he is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Maccabees organization. In 1877 Dr. Sutton married Susan, daughter of Daniel W. Coss, by whom he has one child, Frederic C. He is one of the enterprising men in his ]irofession. and during his practice has been very skillful and successful. Stanton, Eunice M. — Amos B. Stanton was born in June, 1827. He was a carpen- ter by trade, which business he followed until 1861, when he enlisted in the 86th N. Y. Vols. , and June 16, 1864, was killed in the front at Petersburg. He held the office of first lieutenant in his company, and was a fearless and true officer and soldier, always ready to come to the front in time of battle. He married Eunice M:, daugh- ter of John and Cynthia Crosby, by whom he had two children, Mrs. Iza E. Roosa, and John Stanton, who is a prosperous farmer in this town. Mrs. Stanton has four grandchildren, Lewis O. and Eloise Stanton, and Lottie S. and Stanton Roosa. Santee, Jerry E. B., son of the late John Santee, of Hornellsville, was born at Cameron, February 28, 1850. He attended the Alfred and Cornell Universities, and I'nion College, Schenectady, and in 1875 graduated from the latter institution with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He studied law in the office of Hakes & Stevens, and was admitted in September. 1873. He subsequently practiced with Miles W. Hawley, under the firm name of Hawley & Santee, and later in the firm of Dennis, Santee & Sewell, the latter now judge of Delaware county. Mr. Santee was a mem- ber of the State Legislature in 1876 and 1877, has held the office of city recorder, and for many years has been a member of the Board of Education, taking an active part in educational matters, and rendering valuable services in advancing the interests of the public .school system of the city. On account of failing health he was obliged, some years since, to give up the general ])ractice of law, and become casliicr of the Citizens' Nati;aged in farming and is also interested in the manufacture and sale of an implement fur stretching fence wire. He is a member of Montour Lodge. Xo. IBS. • r. &• A. M. Tubbs, George L., was burn in the town of Espcrjince, Schoharie county, Novem- ber 6, 1836. Jesse A. Tubbs, the father of George, was a native of that county, born April 10, 1810, and is still living on the farm just outside of the above town. For lifty-five years he has been a prominent man of that county, supervisor during the war and holding many minor offices. The mother of (leorge, Mary McDuffy, also a native of that county, died in the fall of lH!t;{ at eighty-nine years of age. Thev were the jnirents of two sons. J. Nelson Tubbs, a civil engineer of Rochester, re- cently appointed inspector of canals, and George L. He was educated in the com- mon schools and Fort Plain Academy. He was for six years engaged in the hard- ware business in his native town, and in 187H he went to Rochester where he was engaged in the building of that city's water works. Since that time he has been en- gaged in similar work at Mount Morris, Norwich, Chenango county, Hornellsville. and Cuba. .-Mlegany county. Coming to Hornellsville in the spring of IHH'i he has since made his home here, and was for five years interested here in this work Feb- ruary Ki. ISIIO. he was appointed by President Harrison postmaster of this citv, holding the office until October 1, 1894. On his retirement on that day he was ap- pointed by the Board of Health in.spector of i)lumbing, which he has since held. Mr. Tubbs was married in 18(i0 to Miss Lina Denise. They have one daughter, Cora, wife of Fred Lockwood. She is now money order clerk at the post-office. Thomas, A. L., was born at Rathboue, June 23, 1835. John Thomas, his father, came to that town in 1829, and was for many years a river man, of wide renown for herculean strength and energy. He died in 1H42, leaving a family of five children. Mrs. Thomas died rocentiv at Prattsburg, N. Y., aged nearly eighty years. Mr. Thomas was reared amid lumber and farming interests, dependent upon his own energy from an early age, and when about twenty-five he came to Addison, and was for si.\ years an employee of McKay &• :Hliss. In \XGti he (.pened a grocery store at No. 20 Tuscarora street, and continued that business until 1891), when he re- modeled the building and became a wholesale and retail dealer in liquor and cigars. October l.">, 1S71, he married Mrs. Emily Harrington, daughter of Djuiiel Barber. Taddcr, Charles (deceased), was born in Nuuda, Livingston county, N. V.. .March 5, 1H34. James Tadder, the father of Charles, was a native of Connecticut, and a descendant of Mayflower slock, born in 1789, and served as an officer of the war of 1H12 and sold his military grant in one of the Western States about IN.")T. He was one of the pioneers of Livingston county and made his home there until 1857. That year he removed to West I'nion, where he died in October, l.s<)l. The mother of Charles, Margaret Weedright, was a native of Strasburg, (iermaiiy, and married Mr. Tadder in 1827. They were the parents of seven sons and one daughter. Five of the sons did gallant service during the war, and only two of them are living — William, of Pittsburg, and George, now a successful inventor of the oil section of 82 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEX COUNTY. Pennsylvania. Charles was educated in tlie common schools, and beinjj a sou of a mechanic, he took up mechanic's and iron-worker's trade. On September 10, 1872, he moved to Hornellsville, where he for eleven years and four months was superin- teudeiit of the moulding department of the Rawson foundry. He then went to Corning with Rawson &- Thatcher and spent three years in that city, and it was while there he contracted a cold which developed with most serious complications and caused his death September 13. .1887. He was married, Augu.st 24, 185G, to Miss Kate O'Donnell, of Livingston county, and they were the parents of five children: Arthur Charles, proprietor of the Parlor Grocery of Hornellsville; M. Sophronia, wife of Andrew Morris, of Hornellsville; George William, a railroad man of Chicago, 111. ; Ada Winona, wife of Frank Allen Bateman, who died April 11, 1894, in Los Angeles, Cal. The fourth child, David Le Mur, died February 10, 1868, at four years of age. V Tuthill, Henry G., was born in the town of East Otto, Cattaraugus county, NY., in 1833. Until nineteen years of age he continued to reside in the county and then went to Nunda, Livingston county, and learned the trade of a cabinetmaker. In the fall of 1856 he removed to Corning, where he became foreman in the extensive fur- niture establishment of W. F. Townley & Co. In 1857 he purchased a half interest in the business, and in the same year he married C. A. Townley. a sister of the pro- prietor. Disposing of his interest m the business, he returned to Nunda, and in September, 1861, raised a company of volunteers and was elected captain of Co. A. 104th Jiegiment N.Y.Vols. This regiment was assigned to duty in General Duryea's brigade, and was engaged in most of the battles of the Army of the Potomac. He was severely wounded in the battles of Antietam and Gettj'sburg. In September, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel for braverj' at the battle of Antietam. At the close of the war he was brevetted colonel of the regiment for long and meritorious services, he remaining in the service until October, 1866. In 1868 was elected superintendent of the poor of Steuben county, serving three years. For a number of years he was superintendent of Walker & Lathrop's e.Ktensive .sash, door and blind factory, resigning his position to engage in a profession for which he had been preparing himself for a number of years, that of an architect. He is a very competent and thoroughly practical architect, and a member of the Western New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and is achieving very gratify- ing success in his chosen profession. Among the notable buildings designed by him might be enumerated the Methodist Episcopal church, and magnificent stone resi- dence of Joseph A. Drake, of Corning, N. Y. He is the father of five sons, two of lliem being graduates of Cornell University, and are filling re.sponsible positions as teachers. In 1869 he organized the first G.A.R. Post in Corning and was elected its commander. He is a member of various societies, among which is Painted Po.st Lodge No. 117, F. & A. M., Red Men, Knights of Honor, A.O.U.W. and Knights and Ladies of Honor. His office is in the Ansorge block. Corning, N.Y. Van Wie, Mrs. Martha. — Jonas \'an Wie was born in Montgomery county, N. Y. . April 15, 1831. John Van Wie, his father, was a native of Montgomery, and was one of the early .settlers of that town. Jonas was educated in the common schools and began life as a farmer. In 1S.58 he married Martha, daughter of Ansel Ilowse. of Howard, and in 1865 he came to Bath and engaged in the grocery business, after- FAMILY SKETCHES. »3 wards mamifacturinir cigars, in which he was engaged at the time of his death, which occurred July 21, 1S.achusetts. Ejihraini Leach settled on the farm he now owns in the southwestern part of Troupsburg in 1844, and, excepting one year which he spent in Wisconsin, has resided there since. He has two farms, one of 112 acres where he resides, and another near by of 108 acres. He has filled the office of assessor. He married Rox- anna Potter of Troupsburg, who died, and in 1860 he married Margaret, daughter of .Mon/.o and Clarinda Hendricks, who came from Greene to Chenango county where they engaged in farming. Mrs. Hendricks died in 1881, aged sixty-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Leach have one daughter. Sarah H., and one son. Ephraim. who died in 1877. aged nine years. Baily, Devoe. was horn in Troupsburg, in 1848, and is the son of T. W. and Jane fBishop) Baily. The grandparents. Stephen and Hulda (Whitney) Kailv, were natives of Orange county. N. Y.. he born January 11, 176."), and she in 1769. T. W. Baily was twice married, first to Esther Cole, by whom he had three children. .She died in 18.3.5. and in 1839 he married Jane, daughter of Charles and Betsey (Harder) Bishop, he of Little Falls, and she from near Albany. Stephen A. Baily, brother of Devoe, was first lieutenant of Company H. 86th N. Y. Yols.. wounded at Fort Steadman, front of IVlersburg, and died in general hospital on David's Island, New York Har- bor, April 8, 1865, and buried in Young Hickory cemetery. He was twenty-five years of age, and the G. A. R. Post at Troupsburg is named in his honor. T. W. Baily came to Barrington. Yates county, and thence to Troupsburg in 1833 where he died. He located first at West Troupsburg. where he engaged in farming and mer- cantile business, and in 1862 came to Young Hickory where he engaged in farming and milling business, and was also postmaster more than twenty years. He died in 1893. and Mrs. Baily still resides at Young Hickory. Devoe Baily was educated at Troupsburg Academy, and has always made farming and milling his principal occu- pation. He now works the homestead farm and has the mill built bv his father. In 86 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. 1872 he married Aurilla, daughter of Randall and Olive (Card) Cady of Troupsburg, by whom he had two children : Lela J., of Knoxville, and Minnie B. , wife of Silas Lewis. They also have two adopted sons, Fred and Willie D. Mr. Cady died May 25, 1888, and his wife in 185-. Brundage, H. W , was born at North Urbana, October 'i. 1843. James Hrundage, his father, was a native of Painted Post. He married the daughter of Erastus Fol- som, and was identified as a farmer. He died in April, 1880, in his eighty-second year. H. W. Brundage was engaged in farming until 1881, when he moved to Bath and engaged in the mercantile business, groceries, crockery, boots and shoes; in 1876 he married Flora P. Warner, who for several years was a teacher in Haverling school. Mr. Brundage is one of the conservative men of his town, elected county superinten- dent of the poor for two terms of three years each, and in 1884 was elected village trustee and in 1895, mayor. Tanner, John H., was born in Bath, Steuben county, N. Y,, February 6, 1851, and is the only living child of Amos and Cornelia Schoonmaker Tanner, natives of Pulte- ney and Eastern New York. The paternal grandparents, John and Vmnie Edgett Tanner, were pioneer settlers of Pulteney, where he lived and died : \'innie died at the home of Amos in Bath. Amos was born in 1804, and married Sallie Gay, of Pulteney, and later came to Bath, where Mrs. Tanner died. For his second wife he married Cornelia Schoonmaker, by whom he had two children; John H. and Sallie J. Mrs. Tanner died in 1863. Mr. Tanner married the third time, Mary Olmstead, and she died in June, 1882, and Mr. Tanner, in 1877. Mr. Tanner came to Troupsburg in 1861 and settled on a farm, where he remained until his death. He was a strong- abolitionist, and assisted in freeing the slaves. He was a deacon of the church at Towlesville and at Troupsburg for a long time. In politics he was a Republican, and justice of the peace for many years. John H. was educated in Troupsburg and Woodhull Academies, and commenced his business career as a farmer on the home- stead, has been in the stock business, and traveled two years in the interest of N. H. Miller's School of Commerce, in building up the Hornellsville Branch. In 1882 he bought a farm in Troupsburg, where he now resides. He rents the farm and travels in the interest of Victor Ha.ssher's Marble and Granite Works, at Corning. Mr. Tanner married, in 1872, Mary E. Benton, of Troupsburg, and they have four chil- dren: Amos B. , Mary, Lelia, and John H. jr. Mrs. Tanner died Decembers. 1885. For his second wife he married Florence, daughter of Henry and Emma Klice Ed- gett, who was born in Prattsburg, N. Y. , December 14, 18.54, and they have one daughter Emma. Van Scoy, Mrs. Margaret, is the widow of the late Harrison Van Scoy, who was of (ierman descent, and came here at seventeen years of age, following the occupation of a lumberman. He was vestryman in the Church of the Redeemer, a zealous and faithful worker in all that effected the upbuilding of his church, and much of its material prosperity was due to his efforts, which were untiring. In 1851 he married Margaret, daughter of the late James Wilson of Binghamton, who was of Scotch de- scent and a farmer. She has no children, but cherishes the memory of her beloved husband and revered father who died September 17, 1887, being taken ill while on a visit here, which was quite an undertaking for one ninety years of age. Mr. Van FAMILY SKETCHES. 87 Scoy died July 4, 1893, having just completed his allotment of three score years and ten of a life as unassuming as it was full of integrity and usefulness. \'an Sickle, John M., was born in the town of Reddington, Hunterdon county. New Jersey, December 13, 1820. Andrew Van Sickle, the father of John, was also a native of New Jersey, born in the .same county, March 23, 1797, and took up farm- ing as an occupation. In 1822 he emigrated to New York State and located in Lan- .sing. 'romi)kins county, where he lived for eight years, and in 1830 moved to Green- wood. Steuben county, where he had a large farm of 330 acres, and made his home the balance of his life, dying ttiere. November 6, 1848. He was a man who devoted his whole life to his home and his family. The mother of John, Ellenor Melick, was also a native of New Jersey, born September 12, 1799, died April 6, 1867. They had six children of which John M. was the second son, and is the only one living. He was educated in the common schools and Alfred Universitv, and soon began to as- sist on the homestead farm. At twenty-three years of age he bought a farm of 112 acres in the town of Alfred, where he made his home for twenty years, increasing his possessions by purchase until he owned about 350 acres. In 1864 he sold his farm. In 1863 he removed to Hornellsville where he was enabled to have the comforts of a village and still attend to his duties. He had farmed long enough, as the sorrows of his homestead made him desirous of getting away from the associations that brought them to mind. Since coming here he has been interested in the planing mill about two years, the grocery trade about one year, and had a small farm near here for three years. He has now retired from all active business and is now taking the u ell de- served rest his early manhood earned for him. He was married in Allegany county, N. Y. , July 4, 1842, to Ethyliuda, daughter of Uriah Nichols of Massachusetts. They have been the parents of three children ; Robert L. Van Sickle, born July 20, 1843, educated at Alfred University and gave promi.se of being an honor to the name, when he was called up higher, November 23, 1863. Charles A., born May 29, 1848, is a railroad man of Batavia. Emma, the youngest child, was born January 18, 1858, and died August 20. 1863. Another bereavement for Mr. Van Sickle has been added to his lot. as his partner of life's joys and sorrows was taken from him August 1, 1892, leaving him to plod the balance of life's journey alone. Wilcox. Bradford, was born in Campbell, January 1, 1840. Isaac Wilcox, his father, was born in Vermont, near the Green Mountains, and came to Chenango countv in 1815, with his father, Archibald Wilcgjs. He moved from Chenango county with Culuey Balcom, when eighteen years of age, and lirst settled in Curtis. He married Margaret Tanner of Campbell, by whom he had three children; Bradford, Jane, and John T. Mr. Wilcox was educated in the district .schools of Curtis. He is a farmer and engineer, and now owns a farm of ninety-three acres. He married Frances I'arker, of Bridgeport, Conn., by whom he had one son, Edwin C. Wilcox. Windsor, Francis, father of Charles B., was a native of New York citv, and at the time ef his death in Augu.st, 1861, he was living on his farm near Railway. N. J. Charles, who was the third son of a family of seven children, was educated by private tutors and at Canandaigua Academy, and after leaving .school was engaged in the insurance business in Geneva, New York city, and later in Pittsburg, going from there to Kansas, in 1872 returning, and was for a time a resident of Canaseraga and 88 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. traveling throughout the State as a special agent of insurance companies. In 18S'> he located in Hornellsville and established a general insurance agency, which busi- ness he is still following. In 18S9 he married Cirace A. Noble, daughter of William E. S. Noble of Prattsburg, this county, by whom he had one child, Burtis Noble Windsor, now five years of age. Wheeler, Oscar, was born in the town of Troy, Bradford county. Pa., August 10, 1858. Oscar was the fourth son of a family of eight children of Stephen Wheeler, a farmer of that county. He was given a common school education which he has im- proved by reading and study. He remained with his parents on the homestead until eighteen years of age and was then employed with different farmers until twenty- three, when he was married. In 1877 he came to Hornellsville, and after his mar- riage he rented the farm of seventy two acres on Lot No. 3, town of Hornellsville. He still rents the farm, and January 1, 1894, he bought the Thomas Bennett farm of 100 acres on Lot No. 'i, twenty acres of which he sold and the balance he is conduct- ing for the production of potatoes principally. He is a member of the Methodist church of Arkport, also a member of Arkport Grange, No. 179, of which he is an officer, and a member of the Equitable Aid Union. He was married March 1. 1883, to Delia, youngest daughter of John and Lovina Travess Morgan. They have three children; Sybil, Carl, and Merritt. Willis, William H. , was born in the town of Bath, May 30, 183a, .son of Harry Willis, who was horn in Connecticut, October 12, 1804, and was the son of William Willis, who was also born in Connecticut. Their ancestors lived on the old Charter Oak farm, where the charter of Connecticut was hid. The family came to Bath in 1820, .settling near the town line between Bath and Howard, where they cleared a farm of 370 acres. The father and grandfather both died on this place. Harry Willis mar- ried Eunice Hern, of Howard, and they had eight children: Philander G., Leander v., William H., Henry, Ellen, James, Sophia, and George. At the present time only four are living. William H. was educated in the public schools and Alfred Academy, and is a farmer by occupation. He has a farm of 100 acres of fine im- proved land. He married Nancy, daughter of Major John W. Whiting, of Howard. Thev had four children ; Clarence, a lawyer of Bath, who read law with C. F. Kingsley, of Bath, was admitted to the bar in 1878, and has been practicing ever since; Sarah W., who married A. T. Abbey of Watkins. and they had one child; John W., who married Emma J. Wyckoff, of Hath, and Angeline, who married A. J. McKibbin, of Howard. Mr. Willis has held the office of supervisor for two years. He is a member of the M. K. church. Mrs. Willis died September 20, 1894. Wakeman, Dr. Bertis Rupert, was born in the city of Hornellsville, July 12, 1867. Bennett Wakeman, his father, was a native of Harpersville, Broome county. Dur- ing the war, he served in the navy until 18(i5, coming in the following year to Hor- nellsville, where he received an appointment as tireman on the Susquehanna Divis- ion of the Erie Railway. After serving in that capacity for six years he was given charge of an engine and is now one of the leading engineers on the road. In 18.57 he married Bethiah M. Edson, a native of Otsego county, and of this union the doctor is the only living child. Young Wakeman began his education in the Hor- nellsville Academy, from which he graduated in 1880, and immediately became u FAMILY SKETCHES. 89 student at Cdi'iiuU University. With a view towards his subsequent niedieal career, lie took a seieiitifie course and graduated with honors, obtaining the degree of B. S. in 1889. The following year was spent in Minnesota, and was aljout equally divided between teaching school in a Scandinavian district near Glencoe. McLeod county, and reportorial work on one of the pr< minent Diilulh daily newspajicrs. In the fall of l.S9(l. he became a medical student at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, from which he graduated with the degree of M.l). in 1893. Throughout the inter- vening three years, he was one of the collaborators on the Foster Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary, being in charge of the departments of comparative anatimiy, zoology, pharmacy and chemistry. After graduation he was one of the successful candidates in the competitive examination for positions on the house staff in the h »spital connected with the college, and also received the appointment of ambulance surgeon from the Brooklyn Board of Health. In the early part of April, 1894, after having spent a year in the above positions, Ur. Wakenian located in Hornellsville, where he has built up an extensive and successful practice. In June, 1894, he was elected a member of the attending staff of St. James Mercy Hospital, and in the fol- lowing September received the appointment as consulting surgeon to the Steuben Sanitarium. With the beginning of 189.'», he was appointed surgeon to the Krie Railway. He is a corresponding member of the King's County (N. Y.) Medical So- ciety, President of the Steuben County Medical Society, Fellow of the As.sociation of Erie Railway Surgeons, and a member of the Hornellsville Medical and Surgical Association. Willis, Clarence, was born in Ht)ward, July ijl, 1802. His father, William H., was born in the town of Bath, May SO, 1832, and his father, Harry Wyllys, was a native of Tolland, Tolland county. Conn., and the family trace their descent from William Wyllys, who settled in Connecticut in 165U. William H. Willis married Nancy, daughter of Major John Whiting, who was prominent in the affairs of the town, hav- ing received his commission as major under Dewitt Clinton in 1827. William H. Willis was a farmer by occupation and held the offices of supervisor and asses-or. Clarence Willis graduated from Haverling Academy in 1871, then began the study of law with Ruggles &: Little and later with Charles F. Kingsley, and was admitted to the bar in 1878. In 1881 he was elected justice of the peace, and in 1890 police justice, which position he still holds. In 1890 he married Mary A., daughter of Jacob Billington. Mr. Willis is prominently identified in the I. O. O. F. and A. P. l). D. G. M. of Steuben county. He has been a member of the Board of Education tor seven years, and is vestryman in the St. Thomas Episcopal church. He received the honorary degree of A. B. from Hobart College in June, 189.'). Wolcott, John E. , was born in the old town of Painted Post, in 18:i , son of Samuel K. and Hannah (McNulty) Wolcott. -The father was one of the Forty-niners who went to California and died there. Mr. Wolcott has resided at his present [jJace for thirty years. He has 110 acres, and makes a specialty of breeding and raising horses. In IH."),") he married Phiebe E. Berry, who was born on the place where lliey now live. She is a daughter of Samuel F. Berry and a sister of Attorney-Cieneral Berry of Minnesota Her parents were pioneers in the town of Catoii, and died there. They have on', child, Edward E., who is in business at Joilet, Illinois. 90 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Willets, Edward F., was born in Ledyard, Cayuga county, N. Y., January 16, 1838, of Quaker parentage, the youngest son of a family of six children of Abram Willetts, a native of Queens county, who spent his last days on his farm in Cayuga county; he was educated in the common schools and Poplar Ridge Semmary, and his first occupation was in mechanical pursuits, which he followed for five years and then engaged in the mercantile business at Lake Ridge, Tompkins county, and later in Fleming, Cayuga county. From there in 1857 he went to Angelica, Allegany county, where he was engaged in the lumbering business, and then in the milling business in Belmont, both grain and saw mill, until 1877, when he went to Bradford in the oil industry, and in 188o came to Hornellsville, continuing in the oil business. His political record includes four years as supervisor of Amity, Allegany county, and four years supervisor in the city of Hornellsville. In 1892 he was elected mayor of the city of Hornellsvile. the first Republican mayor of that city, and re-elected in 1894, filling the office with satisfaction to his friends and constituents. He has ■always been a Republican, and was revenue collector five years while a resident of Allegany county. In 1856 he married Amelia Smith, of Ledyard, Cayuga county. Waters. Almon, was born in the town of Horicon, Warren county, N. Y. , Febru- ary 37, 1837, and settled in Cameron in 1858. He is a son of Howard and Laurie (Putnam) Waters. He married Agnes, a daughter of George and Marian (Cuthill) Wream, who were natives of Scotland and residents of Schuylkill county. Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Waters have four children; Carrie A., Clayton H., Miriam L. , and Robert J., all school teachers except Miriam. Carrie A. attended school in Bath and is a graduate of Elmira College. Almon Waters is an active worker in the North Cam- eron Grange and was one of its early masters, and is at the present time overseer of the town and county Grange. He has been assessor of the town for six years and was supervisor in 1891. Williams, Francis A., was born at Prattsburg, March 25, 1834. He graduated from the Univer.sity of Rochester in 1860, then was principal of the academy at Wellsville, N. Y. , and afterwards of the academy at Port Byron, N. Y. In 1863 he was admitted to the bar at the General Term of the Supreme Court held at Roches- ter in December, 1863, and commenced the practice of his profession at Corning in January, 1864, and is still in active practice. In 1865 he was elected justice of the peace and held that office until January, 1870, afterwards he was assistant district attorney of the county, and in 1889 was the Democratic candidate for county judge of the county but was defeated by Hon. Harlo Hakes. In 1862 he married L. -Jane, the daughter of Solomon Clark of Hammondsport, a graduate of the Mt. Holyoke Seminary, by whom he has had five children; Mary, an A. B. , from the University of Michigan, and now a teacher in Lake Erie Seminary at Painesville, Ohio; Francis C, a lawyer practicing at Corning, and a graduate from the Univer.sity of Rochester in 1888 ; Clarke Benedict, a graduate from Princeton in 1890, a student for two years at Leipsic, Germany, and now professor of mathematics at Kalamazoo College, Michigan; Jane, an A. B., and gi-aduated from Wellesley College'in 1894, and now instructor in psychology and English at Lake Erie Seminary; and Elizabeth, now a student at Lake Erie Seminary, Painesville, Ohio. Wettlin, William A., was born in Rochester, May 14, 1807. Daniel Wcttlin, his FAMILY SKKT0IIK3. 91 father, was a native of Germany, coming to this country with liis parents when a lad of fourteen or fifteen. His jjeople located in Rochester and Uaniel learned the florist's trade, which he followed until the last two years, and is now living retired in Newark, New Jersey. He removed to Uornellsville in 1879, when he bought the green-house and flower gardens established here by Lewis T. Charles in 1878. William was educated in the city schools of Rochester and Hornellsville and grew up with his business. In 1889 his father left Hornellsville and located in Newark and William has since conducted the l)usiness alone. The green-house of his occupation has 10,00(1 square feet of glass and forcing beds outside. He is the leading florist of this city. The last three years Mr. Wettlin has made many very valuable improve- ments and rebuilt the whole establishment. His sole interests are with his business. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity l"or three years, and Hornellsville Lodge No. 331. Waldorf, George A., was born in the town of Riclimond, Schoharie county, N. Y., April 13, 1852, the oldest son of George E. Waldorf, at that time a farmer and deputy sheriff of Schoharie county. George was educated in the common schools, and his first occupation after leaving school was with the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. Railroad, as ,brakeman for two years, then became baggageman, and for fifteen years as conductor on a Pullman car. In 1874 he came to Hornellsville to engage with the Pullman Company, and on his returning from railroad service he took up the business we now find him in. In 1883 he bought out the interests of F. J. Hutch- inson of the jewelry firm of Hutchinson & Cobb, jilacing Cobb in charge. The store is now located in the old Crane Bank building. He was married at the age of seven- teen to Miss Ella J. Slater of Schoharie county. They have two sons: Edwin D. Waldorf, who is in the store, and Milo W. Waldorf, machinist and foreman in the Merrill Fabric Glove Company. Westlake, Harrison, was born at Horselieads, N. V., December 6, 1S22, sou of John E. Westlake, the well known lumberman, and nephew of Col. Jacob West- lake. John E. came to Addison about 18.")"), engaging in a mercantile business, and was the builder of the brick block comprising the Wyckoff Hotel and stores. Harrison Westlake has now retired from active life, having been largely en- gaged in farming besides keeping a general store at Horseheads and Addison, with real estate interests. February 14, 1843, he married Sophia Humphrey, of Hor.se- heads, and they have one son, John A., who was formerly a phy.sician at Elmira, where he held the position of coroner, but is now managing a sanitarium near Wash- ingto;i, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Westlake are implicit believers in Siiiritualisni, and he has quite a local reputation as a healer of disease, Waldo, Lucius A., was born in Otsego county, October 24, 1825. Erastus G. Waldo, his father, was a native of Connecticut, and came to this State at an early day and settled in Otsego county. He died in Steuben county, in Prattsburg, aged eighty- one years. He was a merchant, keeping a general store. Lucius A. Waldo was also a merchant, starting in business at twenty-four years of age in Allegany county, where he remained for two years, and then came to Canisteo, where he car- ried on that business for twenty-five years, and in the meantime was conducting a lumber and stave business, and at the present time is conducting a farm of 103 acres 92 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. and lumbering. March 5, 1801, he married Emeline M. Southworth, who died April 21, 1880, and for his second wife he married Jennie Lewis, of Prattsburg, Steuben county, by whom he liad one son, Lucius A. Waldo, jr., who was born March 30, 188:1 Mr. Waldo was supervisor of Canisteo for three terms, and was the first presi- dent of the village after it was incorporated, which office he held for three terms. He was elected county clerk in 1848 for one term. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Morning Star Lodge No. 65, of Cani.steo, and was master for nine years; also has been a Knight Templar for a number of years. Wallace, Joseph W. , was born in the town of Hartsville, February 11', 1847, son of Nathaniel Wallace. Joseph was reared on a farm and was educated in the coramcm schools. He followed farming for some years; was also engaged in buying and sell- ing stock, wagons and wool. He has traveled the Western States quite extensively as salesman ; spent about two years in the oil fields of Pennsylvania and New York. In 1882 he engaged in the drug business at Jasper, N. Y., with Dr. E. E. Wallace, under the firm name of Dr. E. E. Wallace & Bro., which was continued for five years, when he purchased the doctor's interest in the business and added a full line of dry goods, groceries, boots, shoes, etc. Mr. Wallace was appointed postmaster under Harrison, June 15, 1889, and resigned the office March 6, 1893. The vacancy was filled November 9, 1893. Mr. Wallace is a member of the Morning Star Lodge No. 65, F. & A. M., Canisteo, N. Y. In December, 1887, he married Edith K. Ellis of Arkport, N. Y., by whom he has one son, Sheldon E. Wallace, born June 4, 1891. Lamson, Leonard S. , was born in Jasper, May 0, 1844. He was the second of a family of eight children born to Sylvester and Sarah (Dennis) Lamson. Sylvester was born in Hadley, Mass., November 10, 1819. Mrs Lamson was born in Han- cock, N. H., December 4, 1820. Charles, grandfather of Leonard S. , was also a native of Hadley, Mass., and came to Jasper at a very early date, where he was engaged in farming. The family is of English descent and trace their ancestry back to Thomas Dennis, of Ipswich, England, who came to America in 1638. Sylvester Lamson was a farmer and came to Jasper when six years old, and lived and died on the farm his father settled on. He died September 20, 1873, and Mrs. Lam.son now resides on the old homestead with her son, Arthur S. Leonard S. was reared on the old homestead and educated at Alfred University. While at school he enlisted in the 16th Heavy Artillery in January, 1864, and served until the close of the war. He was detailed as clerk at post headquarters under Gen. B. F. Tracy at Elmira, N. Y. At the close of the war he engaged in farming and followed it for twenty years. He then came to Woodhull and purchased a farm of 180 acres, and soon after purchased the saw, planing, and feed mill, and has been in partnership with George W. Bartle. Mr. Lamson was assessor of Jasper for three years and supervisor of Woodhull in 1890-91. He is a member of J. N. Warner Post No. 565 and Woodhull Tent No. 174, K. O. T. M. January 33, 1864, Mr. Lamson married Clara A., daughter of Philo and Eliza Millard, of Statkey, Yates county. Mr. and Mrs. Millard came to Woodhull in 1850, where Mrs. Millard died. Mr. and Mrs. Lamson had four children: George R. , born June 3, 1869, graduated from Geneseo Normal School in 1894, now teaches at Almond, N. Y. ; Fred L. , born December 9, 1870, educated in Rochester Univers- ity, married Delia Hathaway, of Woodhull; Anna E., born February 7, 1874, a stu- dent at Rochester Free Academy; and Clara L. , born August 13, 1883, now at home. FAMILY SKETCHES. 93 Heermans, Harry C. , was born at Fellowsville, Preston county, West Virginia, June 3, 1852, son of John Heermans (now deceased) and Nancy Heermans, natives of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, and grandneiihew of Joseph Fellows. He moved to Corning with his parents in ISO."), in 1870 graduated from the Corning Free Acad- emy, and in 1875 from Wesleyan University, classical course. In 1875-7G-77 he read law in the office of Brown &• Hadden of Corning but was never admitted to the bar. In 1876 he became identified with the affairs of the Fellows estate, acting as confi- dential clerk of his father who was then trustee; acting in this capacity for several years until the closing up of its affairs. In 1877 witli Thomas Lawrence he secured a thirty years lease of the Corning Water Works system, and since that time has been a successful manager of these works. In 1882 Mr. Heermans became a mem- ber of the wholesale and retail drug firm of Heermans & Co., in Corning. Since 1886 has been president of the Ontario Land Co., of Minnesota, which has been very suc- cessful from its organization, and now controls large properties in various States of the Union. In 188fi he was supervisor of the town of Corning on the Republican ticket and was re-elected in 1887, acting as chairman of the board for that year. He became identified with the Corning Fire Department in 1881, and acted as chief of the department for several years. Has been president of the Corning Library As- sociation since 1887. He has large landed interests in the State of Washington and for several years has spent a portion of his time in that State Since 1893 he has been president of the Greigsville Salt and Mining Company of Scranton. Pa. In 1878 he married Ella, daughter of Abijah Weston of Painted Post, N. Y., who died in 1880. In 1885 he married Annie L., daughter of Edward Townsend of Erwin, by whom he had four children: Ruth, Joseph, Jerome, and Helen De Kay. In 1870 he acted as city engineer of the village of Corning, and in 1881 w-as engaged by the vil- lage to preiiare plans for a complete system of sewers. Agitation upon this question followed, and in 1880 appropriations were made for the con.struction of a system of sewers for the village under these plans In 1880 he made plans for the construc- tion of the Wellsboro, Pa., Water Works, and had charge of the construction of the same. In 1887, as village engineer, he had charge of the plans and construc- tion of the pavements of the village. He acted as village engineer until 18i)0, in which year he was absent in the West. He was re-elected city engineer of Corning in 1893, and is now (1895) acting in that capacity. In 1893 he and his partner con- structed a fine brick block at the corner of Erie avenue and Pine street in Corning, where the offices of the Water Company are now located. In 1893 Mr. Heermans planned and constructed a system of water works for the village of Westfield, Pa. Politically Mr. Heermans has been a life long Repulilican. Bruen, Arthur N., was born at Rockaway. Morris county, N. J., Octol)er 29, 1850, son of James II. and Emily T. (Kclsey) Bruen, he a native of Madison, N. J., and she of Tennessee. The grandfather, Alexander Bruen, lived and died in Madison, N. J. James H. Bruen, father of Arthur N., was reared on a farm and in early life learned the tinsmith's trade, and was very successful. He retired from the tin and hardware business in April. 1878, aad was succeeded by his elder son, James Wright Bruen, in company with William E, Bunnell, and the business is now continued under the firm name of Bruen &• Bunnell, plumbing, hardware and coal business being included. He was twice member of assembly, and the second time was endorsed by both 94 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. tickets, being one of the leading citizens of the village. He was for many years treasurer and trustee of the Presbyterian church and later one of the elders. His wife was a daughter of John B. Kelsey, a native of New Jersey, who excepting four years in California and a short time in Tennessee, lived in New Jersey, where he died at eighty-eight years of age. His wife was Delia Conger, a native of New Jersey, where she lived and died. They had fifteen children, of whom thirteen lived to have families of their own. James H. Bruen, father of Arthur, died in May, 1885, and his wife lives in Rockaway. Arthur N. was reared in Rockaway, and at four- teen years of age went to the academy at Morristown, was graduated from this place in 1867, after which he worked one year at home. In September, 1868, he entered Princeton College, from which he was graduated in 1872, after which he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, where he remained until the winter of 1873, when he went to New York city and engaged in work for the American Tract Society until July, 1873. In September of the same year he re-entered Princeton Seminary, com- pleted that year and spent the vacation in missionary work in Ontario, Canada, hav- ing charge of two churches, and then went to New York city and entered the Union Theological Seminary. In Febi-uarj', 1875, he went to California with his parents and returned in August of the same year and was graduated from the Union Theo- logical Seminary in 1876. He was invited to come to Jasper as a candidate for min- ister in the Presbyterian church, and May 21, 1876, he settled in Jasper and took charge of the church, also of the HedgesviUe church at at Talbot Creek (North Jas- per). He remained in Jasper three years and then located in HedgesviUe, and had charge there and at Elk Creek in Woodhull. also had services in Woodhull village. In 1881 he left HedgesviUe and retvirned to Ja.sper (but continued .services at Elk Creek, and during that time a church, valued at §2,000, was built), where he has since lived. In 1882 he retired from the ministry and had a store in Jasper for about five years. He has dealt largely in real estate and at present owns considerable in the town. He has been superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday school for six years. He was a member of the A.O.U.W., al.so of the I.O.G.T. April 7, 1880, he married Carrie E. Metcalf, a native of Jasper, and a daughter of Uri Metcalf, and Mattie R. Drake, he a native of Ulster county, N. Y., and she of Jasper. N.Y. He was born October 21, 1822, died July 31, 1865, and his widow married Andrew Murphy, a mer- chant of Jasper. Mr. and Mrs. Bruen have si.\ children; Mattie E., born June 8, 1881; Harvey M. : bom April 26, 1884; Myra K., born October 18, 1885; Charles A., born August 18, 1887; Hugh W., born December 6, 1889; and Irene M., born July 1, 1893. Truesdell, Joseph R. (deceased), was born in the town of Guilford, Chenango county, N.Y., January 24, 1825. George A. Truesdell, his father, was in early life a teacher and later settled down as a farmer. Joseph, the eldest of a family of si.\ children, spent his boyhood on the old homestead farm, and was educated in the common schools and Gilbertsville Academy, and was yet a young man in his teens when he entered the medical department of the New York College. Graduated at twenty-one years of age, he began the practice of his chosen profession in Pharsalia, Chenango county, where he remained until 1848. That year he removed to South New Berlin and was engaged in the practice of his profession there until 1852. In October of that year he located in Hornellsville where he established a practice that FAMILY SKETCHES. 95 was destined to make him one of the leading practitioners of this count)'. In 185i) he retired from active service and became a partner with Ezra Bowen in a drug store where the store of Carney &• Sharp is now located, and about lSO;i Mr. Truesdell bought the Alley store, known as the Blue Front store. The firm of Bowen He Trues- dell continued until I8S1, when Mr. Bowen sold his interest, Mr. Truesdell continu- ing alone until 1X84. when he sold to Kennedy &: Son. On his retiring from the drug store he gave up all active business and lived a retired Hfe until his death, which oc- curred July 2H, 1S!)3. Mr. Truesdell was a member of the Presbyterian church and a maa who always commanded the utmost respect of the whole community. In 1848 he married Rebecca Mathewson, of South New Berlin, who died April 17, 1879, leaving two daughters. Ella M. and Josephine M., who still occupy the old family residence on Broad street. Ringrose, Thomas, was born in Prattsburg, December 31, 1887. John Ringrose, his father, was born in England m 1796, one of three children. At fourteen years of age he was apprenticed to learn a trade, but at seventeen years he came to the United States, coming direct to Geneva, N.Y., where he worked on a farm for three years for ten dollars per month. He then went to Canandaigua, where he lived until 1834, when he removed to the town of Prattsburg and purchased a farm of 170 acres, which he cleared and where he lived until 1870, when he removed to the vil- lage of Prattsburg and purchased a small farm f)f forty-five acres and here spent his remaining days. He married Esther, daughter of Dennis Herrick, of New England, by whom he had four children: Thomas, John, Lucy and Victoria (deceased). Thomas Ringrose has spent his life chiefly in the farming business; from 1858 to 1867 he spent his winters in the lumber woods of Michigan, on contract work, working a large crew of men, and his summers were spent on his father's farm in Prattsburg, which he rented. At his father's death he came into possession of both of the home- steads, to which he has added, and now owns si.x farms of over 500 acres. In 1894 he erected and conducted a jjlaning mill, and in 1895 he added a saw mill. He was one of the original stockholders of the Kanona & Prattsburg Railroad, to which he con- tributed several hundred dollars. In December, 1867, he married Mary, daughter of John and Lucy Ann (Allerton) Koon, by whom he had five children: Charles L., John F. , Ester A., Thomas E. and Mary B. Miller, J. B., was born in Addison, N.V., April 11, 1849, son of Andrew and Orinda (Eldredge) Miller, she of Nelson, Pa., and he of O.xford, Chenango county. They came to Addison about 1848, and in a few years went to WoodhuU, where Mr. Miller died in 1871, and his wife in May, 1893. J. B. Miller was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He is a farmer and owns thirty-five acres of land, which he bought in 1878. In 1885 he built a fine residence, and a barn in 1889. He is a member of North Jasper Grange No. 539. April 8, 1886, he married Catherine Walrath. a native of Jasper and daughter of Abram Walrath, of Jasper, N.V. By a previous marriage to Melissa Doty he has two children, Delbert and Elva. Waldo, James A., was born in Prattsburg in 1830, son of Otis Waldo, who was born in Bridgewater, Conn., in 1795. Otis Waldo was the third son and fourth child of nine children bom to Deacon Jesse Waldo, of Massashusetts, who settled in Prattsburg in 1805, and here raised his family. The seven oldest sons were farmers 96 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. by occupaliou, with farms adjoining, and the youngest was a minister. Otis Waldo was a farmer and hnnberman, and married Fannie, daughter of Deacon and Miriam Cook, of Prattsburg, by whom he had fo>!ir children: Otis H., deceased, who was attorney and president of the Milwaukee & Northern Railroad; Martha M., who died in infancy; Abigail F., deceased; and James A., who has spent all his life in Pratts- burg as a farmer, excepting four years spent in Wisconsin in the mercantile and grain buying business, and for sorrie years he was interested in the improvement of farm stock, particularly horses and cattle, and now possesses very fine specimens of each as the re.sult of his labors; and Mrs. Waldo is much interested in the production of high grade butter. In politics Mr. Waldo is a Republican of pronounced opinions. In February, 1855, he married Margaret A., daughter of John M. and Susan (Bellows), Wheaton, of Washington county. Their children are Fannie C, an artist of con- siderable ability; Mrs. Anna M. Millspaugh, of Prattsburg; Elizabeth, deceased; and Otis. Mr. Waldo ranks as one of the leading successful farmers of the tow-n, owning the homestead farm of 300 acres, and another one of 100. Clark, Almon P., was born in Troupsburg, N. Y., September 1, 1846, and is the youngest of four children born to John and Harriet Perry Clark. Mr. Clark is a native of Madison county. N.Y., born May 12, 1803; and Mrs. Clark of Troupsburg, born September 1, 1809 The paternal grandparents, Joseph and Abigail Booth Clark, were pioneers of Troupsburg. He was born June 10, 1773, and came from Madison county to Bath in 1813, and to Troupsburg in 1823, where he died Septem- ber 8, 1861. She was born August 18, 1777, and died January 19, 1854. The mater- nal grandparents were Alanson and Rachael Mallery Perry, who were born in Middletown, Rutland county, Vt., he born in 1782, and she in 1785. They came to the town of Troupsburg in 1809 and settled at Highup, where they lived and died, his death occurring March 14, 1849, and hers October 6, 1842. The father of Alan- son, Eliakim Perry, was born in Connecticut and went to Vermont, where he mar- ried a Miss Downes. John Clark war reared on a farm, and owned one in the town of Bath, which he traded for one in the town of Troupsburg, where he came in 1876. He was postmaster at West Troupsburg about twenty years. Mr. Clark died April 35, 1884, and Mrs. Clark August 17, 1883. Almon P. was educated at Troupsburg and Alfred Academies. In September, 1874, he married Susan, daughter of Ira and Louisa Erway, of Bath, and widow of E. B. Miller, by whom she has one son, Ira Miller, a traveling salesman of Elmira. The grandparents of Mrs. Clark, Peter and Susan Brown Monell, came from Schuyler county, and settled in Bath, where they both died. Mr. Clark has always followed farming, has 135 acres of land, and makes a specialty of dairying. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are members of the Baptist church at Troupsburg. Bower, Charles E., son of John G. and Catherine (Seibold) Bower, is the first in order of four children, namely: Carrie M. (Mrs. J. P. Storch), John L., and Nellie L. (Mrs. Charles Smith). His parents came to this country from Germany in 1851 and settled in Southport, Chemung county, where he was born, January 4, 1856. In 1879 he bought a farm of 150 acres, where he now resides. He was united in marriage to Elzina, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Chapman, of Bath, in 1881. This union was blessed with two children: Walter (deceased), born February 28, 1882, and Charles S., born May 30, 1890. lu 1889 he erected a creamery, which business he is FAMILY SKKTCHES. 07 successrully carrying on. manufacturing about IMI.UUO pnundK of butter annually. IIih wife died in 18ti:t. ami in IN95 he mnrrieil Carrie Morse, dmiRhter of Mr. and Mrs. K0IK.TI Ma.s»n, of I^ Roy. I'a. He is n nii-nilKT nf tin- I'atrims nf Iiidnstr\', and of the M. E. church. Tcrr\'. George I)., was born in the t<.\vii m Wheeler, l)ecenilK."r 11, leCiO. (leorije \V. Terr)-, his father, was also a native of this county, bom in I'ultency, Septemlier i4. 1824. His father was Kenncs Terry, a native of Uutehess county: the latter s*-!- tlcfl in the town of Pulteney in 1H16. The maternal grandfather of (Jeorgc W., James SherwiKMl, was a soldier of the war of the Revolution ami also in the war of 1H12. (icorge W. Terry was a butcher and dealer in stocks and u succcssfiil business man. In 1H23 he moved to Homcllsville, and was one of the greatest benefactors of this city. He hod been here only a few years when he bought four acres of lonoses. Mr. Terry owned at the time of his death nearly l.tM'O acres of land In lH7:t Mr. Terry bought a half interest in the Alley llouring and grist mills on East Main street, and in 1878 pur- chased the other half interest of S. I'. Arnol, and owned it at the time of his death. Mr. Terry was one of the early Mas'>ns of this town. He was for three years an o-sses-sor of this town and was for seven years an alderman of this city, elected for four terms, and held tlie office at the time of his death, which occurred in September, 1884. The mother of George I)., Henrietta Trcnchard. was a native of the town of Wheeler, she died in 1870. George was the oldest of four children and the only son to reach adult age. He was educatetl in the coiiimog sch>r ;.-ite to town and county conventions, and served a- aMirinnn for three years. He has been a memlier of the Masonic frater- nity for thirteen years. Evening Star Lodge No. 44, .Steulien Chapter 101, and l)e Molay Commundery No. 22 lb- ""•- niorncd in 1871 lo Mi&s Rebecca Volnctt Ar- 98 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. wine, of this town; they have four children; Eugene, associated with his father in business; Samuel Arnot, now a student; Mabel and Myrtle. Mrs. Terry died July 20, 1893. Mr. Terry was married to his present wife, Miss Carrie E. Myers, of Hor- nellsville, N. Y., July 3, 1895. Dennis, Seymour W., was born in Jasper, on the farm he now owns, September 30, 1855, son of John and Ruth (Wasner) Dennis, natives of Pennsylvania, and came to Jasper in 1852, and .settled on the farm now owned by his son, where he died No- vember 8, 1865, and his wife in 1891. .Seymour W. was reared on a farm, educated in the common schools, and after the death of his father, had the care of the family consisting of mother and six children. He has remained on the old homestead and now owns 187 acre.s. In 1878 he married Effie, daughter of Serl and Eliza (Sharp) *raft, by whom he had three children: Loretta Maud, Leon S., and Carrie E. Whiteman, J. C, was born in Jasper, October 24, 1849, son of Henry and Martha (Sanford) Whiteman, natives of Jasper and Dryden, Tompkins county, N. Y., re- spectively. The grandfather, Henry Whiteman, was one of the first settlers of Jas- per, where he died in 1866. Henry Whiteman, father of J. C, went to Brooklin, Jefferson county, Pa., where he died in June, 1891. J. C. Whiteman was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, after which he engaged in farming and now owns a farm of 240 acres, a part of which was left to Mrs. Whiteman by her father. November 4, 1877, he married Marion, daughter of A. B. and Jane (Langley) Phillips, natives of Otsego county, who came to Jasper in 1843 and .settled on the farm now occupied by Mr. Whiteman, where he died in 1883, and his wife in 1880. Mr. Phillips cleared his farm and was a prosperous farmer. He was assessor several terms. Mr. and Mrs. Whiteman have two children: Charles A., and Florence J. Baldwin, Horace Dyer, was born at Sherburne, Chenango county, N. Y. , June 24, 1838. Horace Baldwin, his father, was a native of Goshen, Conn., and was a suc- cessful teacher during early manhood, and taught at Canandaigua, N. Y., in 1822. Later he engaged in the mercantile business at Norwich, N. Y., and in November, 1840, settled in WoodhuU (early called Newville), Steuben county, and was one of the first merchants in the village, where he died in 1854. During his residence in Norwich he married Penelope Allen of North Kingston, Rhode Island, by whom he had two children, Horace Dyer, and Clarendon, who is now in Woodhull and en- gaged in farming. Mrs. Baldwin died in 1879, aged eighty-three years, and was highly respected, being a woman of great nobility of character. Horace Dyer Bald- win graduated from Alfred University in 1863, and began the study of law with Hon. F. C. & Colonel J. W. Dininny of Addison, N. Y., and prior to entering college had taught school for several years, farming on the homestead in the intervals and working out by the day during the season of haying and harvesting, for the neces- sary means to aid in paying his board and tuition while attending school. He en- listed at Addison, N. Y., April 27, 1861, in Capt. Henry Baldwin's Company E, 34th Regiment New York State Infantry Volunteers, and was discharged at Seneca Mills on account of disability incurred in the service. Blair, William, was born in Greenwood, N. Y., February 5, 1829, son of William M. and Celinda (Wheeler) Blair, natives of New England. The maternal grand- father was at the battle of Bunker Hill. William M. Blair was a farmer and came FAMILV SKEK^HES. 99 from Tompkins county to Greenwood in the early days. He went to Michigan where he died in 1847. Mrs. Blair lives at Litchfield, Mich., aged ninety-six years. Will- iam Blair was reared on the farm and educated at Knoxville, and in 1849 he located on the farm of 147 acres which he now owns, where he has made a specialty of dairy farming. He is a Republican in politics, and was assessor for three years. In 1857 he married Eliza, daughter of Hiram and Mary (Terpentine) Burger, of Greenwood, bv whom he had three children; Elvie, who died at the age of nine years; Carrie E. , wife of Monroe Tyler, a farmer of Greenwood; they have one child, Rubic; T. N. Blair, who is a farmer on the homestead. Stickney, Julius, was born m Shoreham, Vt., in 1838, the eldest of a family of eleven children. Mis father, Tyler Stickney, was one of the pioneer Spanish Merino .sheep breeders of the State, and originated that famous strain of blood known in years after throughout the country as the Rich, Robinson and Stickney blood. In 185.J he attended the first sheep .show ever held in the United States at Bath, and was awarded the first premium of $4t) on a two year old ram, and at the end of the fair sold the ram for §3.50 to parties in Livingston county. He subsequently spent some time in introducing the Vermont Merinos throughout the Western States. In 1857 he married Eliza M., daughter of Eph. and Catharine (Myrtle) AuUs, by whom he had these children: Eph. I., Timothy, and E. E., all farmers in Wheeler; Cora Stickney Lewis, of Prattsbufg; Julius J., Thomas D., Kate M., Emma A., Sarah and Carrie of Bath. His wife died in 1857,. and he married for his second wife Miss Minerva E. Brown, a native of Vermont, by whom they have one son, Howard B, He settled on the farm where he now resides in 18)57, and has succeeded by unlim- ited push and perseverance in bringing a wild and unimproved farm of about 450 acres to a high state of cultivation. He has served the town as supervisor three terms, and has held most of the other town offices. Mr. Stickney was the original director and stockholder of Wheeler of the K. and P. Railroad, and served as such until the road went into the hands of a receiver, Robertson, S. C, was born in Unadilla, Otsego county, N. V., October 18, 1815. His father, Niel Robertson, was a native of Hebron, Conn., coming from that place to Unadilla in 1814. Mr. Robertson spent most of his early life in Unadilla, coming to Corning in 1851, where he conducted a meat market for several years, was also a general merchant a few years, then purchased his farm in what is now called the Fifth ward. After a time he laid out the greater portion of his land in building lots, putting up houses for .«ale and rent, and contributing much to the improvement of the place. Mr. Robertson has been trustee of the schools in Corning for several years, always being interested in the educational and religious welfare of the city, and every enterprise tending to improve and build up society, and is possessed of strict integrity in all his business relations. For several years he has been chosen supervisor, and has filled various town offices. He has been a member and liberal suppofter of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years, and always sustained an official relation to it. Bellinger, George N., was born in Herkimer county in 1824. Andrew Bellinger, his grandfather, was a native of Montgomery county, and when only six or eight years old, during the Revolutionary war, he and his younger brother were captured loo LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. by the Indians, and the latter was killed by them on account of his crying. He was held a captive for six years, during which time he became a favorite of the chief of the tribe, who gave him a rifle, canoe, and provisions, and with directions what course to pursue, and where to avoid other tribes, bade him good-bye and released him, and he made his way home to his parents, who had mourned him as dead. He became a prosperous farmer, was married three times, and reared five sons and four daughters, and died at the age of eighty years. Andrew, his father, was born in the town of Danube, Herkimer county, and was a farmer by occupation, having pur- chased part of his father's farm, which he lost soon after. He then engaged in teaming, and later spent about three years doing contract work in the construction of the Erie canal, and then returned to farming and removed to Oswego county, where he purchased a farm and resided two years, and not being successful he re- moved to Oneida county, and there rented land for a time, when he migrated to Illi- nois, where he died ten months later. His wife was Catherine House, of Montgomery county, and their children were John, George, Nancy, Catherine, Jeremiah, Mary, Jacob, Amanda, Libby, Philip and Caroline (twins, deceased). His wife remamed in Illinois, where she died in 1885. George N. assisted his father until he was twenty- one years of age, when he began working in Herkimer county, in a linseed oil mill for one year, when he rented a dairy farm and manufactured cheese and butter, and after four years he returned to the oil mill. In 1852 he removed to the town of Wheeler, and bought a partially cleared farm, and eight years later sold and removed to the town of Addison and bought seventy acres of timber land with a saw mill and engaged in the manufacture of lumber. In December, 18G3, he enlisted in Company A, 8th New York Heavy Artillery, and served until the close of the war, participating in the battles of Spottsylvania, Wilderness, and Cold Harbor, where he received a wound in the foot, and was sent to the Columbia Hospital, at Washington, and was later transferred to the Elmira Hospital, where he received his discharge. In 1866 he removed to the town of Wheeler and purcha.sed his present farm, and has since been successfully engaged in farming. In 1845 he married Margaret, daughter of Christjohn and Catherine Bonsted, and native of Herkimer county, and they have two children: Mrs. Martha Merrills, of Monterey, and George. Mr. Bellinger is a member of the Avoca Grange, the P. of H Lodge, in which he has held several of- fices, and the Marcy G. A. R. Post. He is a member of the Lutheran church, of which he was trustee nine years. McConnell, Asa, son of Charles McConnell, was born in Orange county, N. Y., in 1801. When he was seven years of age his father " moved west " and settled at Howard Flats, Steuben county, on a farm of 160 acres, then an unbroken forest and the haunts of various wild beasts. He served as soldier in the war of '812, and was the father of a large family, Asa being the oldest, and final possessor of the farm, now a beautiful stretch of meadow and grain land; the highway which passes through it being bounded by rows of grand old maple trees, marking the spot where this large family was reared, but who wandered away from farm life to the manufacturing in- dustries now so closely associated with their name. Asa McConnell. besides being a farmer, was a politician and a staunch Democrat. He was an old time lawyer, and filled the office of justice of the peace, of supervisor, and in 1844 represented his dis- trict in the State Legislature. He was always interested in public affairs, genial. 1 FAMILY SKETCHES. In] kind-hearted, earnest, industrious, and numbered eighty-seven years. In 18(i7 Mr. McConnell moved to Hornellsville and, forming a partnership with his sons, bought in isys of Morris Smith a small though well e.stablished planing mill, sash and blind factorv, the beginning of the present mammoth plant of the McConnell Co. In 1879 Philo F. withdrew from the lirm and opened .salesrooms in London, England, where he continues a prosperous business. The remaining members of the firm, Benton and Floyd T. , continued the business under this name until 1891, when a stock com- pany was formed, and a large number of the employees were given an interest in the now "McConnell Manufacturing Co." They carry from seven to ten millions feet of lumber, employing some two hundred and fifty men, and their trade extends over the United States, England, South America, South Africa and Australia. Equipped, as their factories are, with every conceivable convenience and with machinery of the latest improved patterns, this industry is one in which the community justly lakes great pride as one of the largest and most complete of the kind in the world. Lewis, Christopher E., was born at Newport, R. I., in 18;i8, son of Christopher D. and Julia A. (Murphey) Lewis, natives of Connecticut and Rhode Island, who, in 1842, came to the present farm. C. D. Lewis, the father of C. E., is now ninety-one years of age. He came here with Father Beriah Lewis in 1825. but did not locate here till 1842. The mother of C. E. Lewis died in 188."). Mr. Lewis married Jane Thurston, daughter of Alfred Thurston, in January, 18(i2. Mr. Lewis is one of a family of four children, the others being Julius M., a resident of Iowa ; Julia E. , wife of the late \Vm. M. Wolcott ; and Harriet L. , wife of George Chumard. C. E. Lewis, who occupied the old homestead, makes a specialty of raising sheep. He has shorn and put on the market over 1.000 pounds of wool annually for thirty-five years. He is a well known, ijiHuential citizen in the town and county where he lives, has held many important offices, and is well up in Masonry, being a 32d degree member. Nelson, Edward H., was born in Owego, Tioga county, N. Y., July 31, 1869, son of Charles Nelson, also a native of Tioga county, who acquired a world-wide reputa- tion as a bridge builder. He was the foreman of the work of building the Portage Bridge and the Passaic Draw Bridge, and was also the foreman in charge of the erec- tion of the great iron frames on the Centennial grounds at Philabelphia, in 1870. In 1877 he located in Hornellsville, and dealt in fruit and vegetables, and in 1881 took charge of the Eagle Hotel, which he conducted until the time of his death, which occurred September 20, 1889. His wife, Johanna Whitmire, was a native of Germany, and died March 21, 1890. They were the parents of two sons and two daughters. Edward H. was educated in the city schools, and his first occupation was in the store with his father, and was then with J. J. Simmons for one year, and afterward em- ployed in different stores until 1886, when he went into the Erie machine shop, four years of which time he was traveling advertising agent for the Hornellsville Expo- sition. In the fall of 1890 he established a fruit, confectionery, tobacco, and cigar store at the corner of Franklin and Canisteo streets, which he has since successfully conducted. In the spring of 1893 he e.stablished a bottling works on Franklin street, where he manufactures a full line of soft drinks and conducts the bottling of ale and lager, with a yearly output of from six to eight thousand dollars' worth, and is also the agent for the Lang Brewery of Buifalo. In ])olitics he is a Republican, and in the spring of 189.5 was elected in the Fourth ward, where the Democratic majority 102 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. IS normally about sixty, by a majority of eighty-four. He is also one of the council committee, and is chairman of the police and sewerage committees. He is a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F. In 1892 he married Maud, daughter of J. R. Lamphear. Covenhoven, Daniel R., son of Peter Covenhoven, was born in Hornby, Steuben county, N. Y., March 28, 1830. His father was born in Root, Montgomery county, N. Y., April 22, 1803; in October, 1823, he settled in Hornby; he married Sarah M. Rooks March 28, 1828; she was born at Northumberland, Saratoga county, N. Y. , in 1800. Of this union six children were born, two of whom are now living; Thomas N., and Daniel R., who are farmers in Hornby. Daniel R. Covenhoven married Nancy M. Shults, March 30, 1859; she was born at Palatine, Montgomery county. January 1, 1847. Of this union four children were born, two of whom are now living, Grace and Genoa. In 1884 Daniel R. Covenhoven located on one of his farms, joining the city of Corning on the north. His mother, Sarah M., died May 19, 18G3, aged sixty-three; his father, Peter died February 12, 1895, aged ninety-one; his wife, Nancy, died September 16, 1893, aged fifty-two years. Brown, Charles A., was born in the town of Howard, December 5, 1829, son of Thomas and Lucinda (daughter of Aaron Borden) Brown. Charles A. was one of twelve children: Israel, Levi, Charles A., Aaron, Jane Chisholm. Elizabeth Hunt, McCord, Ezekiel, Phebe Merrill, Electa Ann Conners, Mahala Miller, and Lucinda White. Thomas Brown was a lumberman and farmer and in early life was a school teacher. Charles A. married Matilda, a daughter of Abel White, by whom he has four children: Eva Talbott, Ella Dickenson, Chauncey E., and Sarah Jackson. Mr. Brown is engaged in farming. He is a member of the M. E. church of Talbott Creek. He has held several school offices. McChesney, Moses, was born in Bath, July 4, 1847. Hugh McChesney, his father, was a native of Ireland and came to the L^nited States in 1841 and settled in Bath, where he has been identified as a farmer for fifty-five years. He married Mary A., daughter of Thomas Davison. Moses McChesney was educated in the common schools, and in 1864 enlisted in Co. A, 189th Regt. N. Y. Vols., and took part in the battles of Hatcher's Run, South Side Railroad, Stony Creek, Weldon Railroad, and was one of the skirmish line to receive the flag of truce at the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House, Va., and he received an honorable discharge in 1865, when he returned to Bath and resumed his business as contractor and builder, the firm of Clough & McChesney having erected several buildings at the Soldier's and Sailor's Home, some of the finest private residences in Bath, and the New York State Fish Hatchery at Cold Spring, N. Y. In 1875 he married Maggie, daughter of James and Mary Kellogg of Howard, b)' whom he had one daughter. May. Mr. Mc- Chesney is one of the leading men of his town, serving as excise commissioner two terms, trustee two terms, and commander of Custer Post No. 81. Parkhurst, Hon. John F., was born in Wellsboro, Pa., February 17, 1843, son of Dr. Curtis Parkhurst, who was a native of New Hampshire, and one of the pioneer settlers of Lawrenceville, Pa., a member of the Legislature, and serving as sheriff of his county. He married Jane A., daughter of Ambrose Kasson, of Utica, N. Y. He died in 1872, in his seventy-eighth year. John F. was educated by private tutors, and in 1863 began the study of law at Bath with Guy H. McMaster, was admitted in FAMILY SKETCHES. 103 1865, and in 1872 formed the partnership of McMaster & Parkhurst, wliich continued up to the time of Judge McMasters death in 1887. since which time he has carried on the practice of the firm, and since the death of Harvey Hull in 1890 has found time to edit the Steuben Courier. He is the vice-president and part owner of the Farmers' and Meclianics' Bank of Hath, and for the past six years has been chairman of the Repub- hcan county committee, and for four years a member of the State executiveconimittee. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Re])ublican National Convention held at Chicago, and in 1892 he was chosen by the Republican State Convention alternate delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention held at Minneapolis, Minn. In 1893 he was elected State delegate-at-large to the Constitittional Convention for 1894, and served as a member of Judiciary and Suffrage committees, and was chairman of the com- mittee on county, town, and village officers. In 188() he married Alice, daughter of Judge Guy McMaster, and they are the parents of one son, Guy McM. Parkhurst. Borden, Aaron Porter, was born in Prattsburg, N. Y. , in 183(5. Porter A. Borden, his father, was born in Cayuga county, in 1802, one of ten children, and came to Prattsburg in 1830 and settled on a farm. He was a member of the State militia, and married Maria Benenway, a native of Dutchess county, by whom he had twelve children. He died in 1887, aged eighty-seven years, and his wife in 1861, aged sixty years. Aaron P. Borden remained with his father until he was twenty-one years of age. when he engaged in teaching .school, which he continued for a number of years during the winter, and attending the Franklin Academy during the summer. In 1867 he bought his present farm, which he has since superintended, and in connec- tion with the farm he carries on an extensive fire insurance business. He has been postmaster of Lynn post-office, in the town of Prattsburg since 1882. In 186.') he married Cynthia R. McConncll, who was born in Italy, Yates county, a daughter of Alexander and Rosina (Gillett) McConnell. Mr. Borden is a member of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 538 of Avoca. Mrs. Borden is a member of the M. E. church, Epworth League, and a strong advocate of the temperance cause. Jabez Gillett, Mrs. Bor- den's grandfather, was a pioneer in the town of Prattsburg, coming here in 1817, and was one of the founders of the Franklin Academy in Prattsburg. Kendall, Dr. A. A., was born at Corning, Steuben county, N. Y., was educated in Corning Academy. In 1879 he graduated from the University of Buffalo, and .spent one year in hospital practice in New York city, since which time he has been practic- ing in his profession m Corning. He is a member of the Steuben County Medical Society, and the Corning Academy of Medicine. Baker. Dr. Milton J., was born in Sidney, Delaware county, N. Y., March 30, 1842. He was the third son of Milton Baker, a farmer and a native of Connecticut. He was educated at Unadilla Academy and at the University of New York, graduating with the degree of C. B. in 1860. He began the study of medicine when nineteen years of age with Dr. Sweet of Unadilla and also with Dr. Beckwith in Connecticut. He entered the medical department of the L'niversity of New York in 1861, and while a student he, in 1864, enlisted in the army and was immediately made hospital steward at Hilton Head, South Carolina. At the close of the war he returned to college and finished his studies the following year. He spent three years in the hos- pital service, and began the practice of his profession in Ma.sonville, Delaware 104 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. county, where he was engaged until 1874, when he joined Dr. J. H. Ripley in New York city. After spending two years in the city, in 1876 he located in Hornellsville, when he became one of the most prominent members of the profession. He never married. Dr. Baker died December 21, 1892. Luther, Byron J., was born in the town of Hartwick, Otsego county, N. Y., June 9, 1838. Joseph B. Luther, the father of Byron, was a native of Connecticut, who came to Otsego county at a very early age. As a young man he was a blacksmith, but on coming to ( tsego county he took up farming, which he ever after followed and accumulated an extensive property, owning at the time of his death seven farms. Of his family of ten children, B. J. was the seventh son. Joseph B. Luther died in 1855. The mother of Byron, Betsey Mathewson, was a native of Rhode Island. She died in 1865. B. J. was educated in the common schools and made his home on the farm until eighteen years of age. In 1856 he went into a dry goods and grocery store as clerk, which position he occupied until 1865 He was then in business for five years with Boyce W. Hawver in the same line, and the spring of 1874 he came to Hornellsville and bought out the interest of D. C. Casterline in the drug firm of Casterline & Robertson, and has ever since been engaged in business in this city. The spring of 1876 they located at No. 9 Opera House Block on Broad street, and for nearly twenty years they have been located in this one place. He was married in 1871 to Maria S. Baker of Unadilla, N. Y. They have no children. Marlatt, Charles, was born in Troupsburg, N. Y., March 3, 1861, and is the oldest of two children born to Henry O. and Eunice Kettle Marlatt. The grandparents were Gideon and Nancy Stephens Marlatt. Gideon came from New Jersey at an early day and settled in Jasper, being one of the pioneers of the town, and from there he removed to Troupsburg, where he spent his last days. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade. The great-grandfather, Gideon, sr., also came from New Jer- sey and settled in Jasper, where he lived and died. He was a shoemaker by trade. Henry O. was reared on a farm, and farming has been his occupation. Charles was educated in the academies of Troupsburg and Woodhull, and commenced his business career as a teacher, and was in the mercantile business for three years. In 1883 he married Jennie L., daughter of F. D. and Hannah Olmsted Wilcox, of Troupsburg, and they have two children; Harry and Cassie. Mr. Marlatt has been town clerk for three years, and supervisor for two years, and in January, 1894, was elected school commissioner of the Third District, Steuben county, which office he now holds. He is a member of the Troupsburg Tent, No. 339, K. O. T. M.. and the McClellan Lodge, No. 649, F. & A. M., at Troupsburg. Allen, James, was born in the town of Wheeler, in 1836, and has devoted his life to farming, remaining with his parents until he was twenty-one years of age, when he started for himself, his first purchase being forty acres of land, to which he later added sixty acres from time to time. In 1862 he enlisted in Company E, 141st N. Y. Vols. , and served until the close of the war, and was engaged in the battles of Resaca, Dalton, Cassville, Ga. , Wahatchie Valley, Tenn., and was with Sherman on his famous march in the Twentieth Corps. He was sick in a hospital at Nashville six months, and upon his return from the war he engaged in clearing his land of the timber and stumps, and otherwise improving his farm, and took his parents to his FAMILY SKETCHES. 105 home and cared for them during the last years of their lives. Stephen Allen, his grandfather, was a native of Rhode I.sland. and lived and died in Montgomery county, where he engaged in farming, and his younger days were spent as a sailor on a coasting vessel. He .served a short time in the Revolutionary war in the place of a neighbor who had a leave of absence, he being but a mere boy at the time. He reared eight children. Caleb Allen, father of James, was born in Montgomery county in 1801, and came to Wheeler in 1826, where he settled in the western part of the town, and cleared his farm from the forest. In 1838 he returned to Montgomery county, where he spent five years, after which he returned to Wheeler and spent his remaining days in this town and Avoca. He served as justice of the peace in Wheeler eight years, and four years as justice in Avoca. He married Catherine, daughter of John F. Putman, a pioneer of Steuben county, by whom he had three children: Catherine, James, and William, who died in the army hospital. He had three chil- dren by a former wife: John B., deceased, Jane, and Maria. He died in 1888, and his wife in 1886. James Allen has served his town as assessor three years, commis- sioner of highways one term, and is an active member of the Avoca Grange Lodge, P. of H., of which he has been secretary four years, also master, lecturer, gate- keeper, etc., and is a member of the Marcy G. A. R. Post of Avoca. In 1867 he married Belinda M. Wheeler, a teacher in the town of Wheeler, and daughter of Seth Wheeler, by whom he had children: Huron, Homer G., and Glena. His wife died in January, isya. She was an active and able worker in the Grange Lodge in Avoca, and filled all the offices attainable by women in that lodge frnni time to time. Silsbee, George C, was born in the town of Avoca, (lctol)er 30, 1857. His grand- father, James Silsbee, was the first station agent in the village for N. Y., L. E. & W. R. R., also established the fir.st grist mill in the town, and the family date back to the fir.st settlers. Horace Silsbee, father of George C, was born in Avoca, and married Ruth, daughter of J. D. Griswold, by whom he had one son, George C, who was educated in the schools of Avoca, after which he was clerk in the store of Oscar Smith, and later became postmaster of the village, which office he held for six years. In 188n he bought the plant of the Avoca Advance, a weekly paper of prominence in the village, and he is also engaged in the real estate business. August 4, 1881, he married Jennie, daughter of Henry Burns, of North Cohocton, by whom he had one daughter. Mr. Silsbee is at present justice of the peace, serving his third term, is a member of the Avoca Lodge of Masons, No. ol9, and of Avoca Lodge I. O. O. F. Rhodes, Halsey A., was born in Chemung county in 1830, the following year came to Caton with his parents, Silas B. and Mary L (Babcock) Rhodes, locating on the present home place of Mr. Rhodes about 183!), where his father died in 1862 aged sixty-three years, and his mother died aged seventy-nine years. In 1862 Mr. Rhodes enlisted in the 5()th New York Engineers, serving till the close of the war. After the war he married Mary A. Fuller, who died in 1801, aged forty-eight years, leaving three children. Nelson F., Frank H., and Clara E. He afterwards married Sarah Bowman, born Grist, his present wife. Brown, Merwin E., was born at Painted Post, Steuben county, December 7, 1851. Gardner Brown his father, was born in Waterbury, Conn., and came to Steuben 106 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. county about 1835, and settled in Painted Post, where he was a carpenter and lum- berman, which business he followed up to 1864. From Painted Post he came to Prattsburg, where in engaged in farming, after which he went to Bloods, and from there to Cohocton ; from there he came to Wallace, where he died in 1884 aged sixty- nine years. He married Dorothea A. Marks, of Pennsylvania, by whom he had ten children: Sanford, Augustus, Elvira, Louisa, Dora. Mary, Henry, Hattie, Merwin, and Estella. Merwin E. engaged in farming up to 1877, and since that time has been buying and selling grain, potatoes, etc. He married May E., daughter of Joseph Wilson, of Ontario, Canada, bj' whom he had one daughter, Florence. Mr. Brown has filled the numerous offices of the town and is at present assessor, and is a member of the I. O. O. F., Wallace Lodge No. 519. Sharp, Andrew, was born in Columbia county, N. Y. , November 2.5, 1829, son of Garrett Sharp, who was bora in Columbia county, a descendant of the old Dutch pioneers who settled along the Hudson River. He came to the town of Howard in 1841, where he purchased a farm, which now belongs to Andrew. At that time it was partly cleared and consisted of 149 acres, then known as the John Hamilton farm. He married Dorcas, daughter of Andrew Whitbeck, of Columbia county, and they were the parents of six children: Andrew, Caroline, Isaac, Sarah, Mary E., and Albert. Isaac and Albert are deceased. The latter enlisted in the 189th X. Y. Vols., was taken sick and died near Petersbui;g. Andrew Sharp was educated in the town of Howard, and has devoted most of his time to farming. He owns a farm of 2(i9 acres, and for the last few years made a specialty of hay and dairj- products. He married Elinor P., daughter of Joel BuUard of Howard, and they have four children : Edward H., who married Kate McDaniels; Emma, wife of Henry McAdam; Albert B., and George I., who remain at home. George is a graduate of Haverling Union School. Albert is a graduate of the School of Commerce at Elmira. Mr. Sharp was supervisor of the town for two years. In politics he is a Republican. He has been elder in the Presbyterian church for thirty years, Scott, Adelbert A. , was born in Columbia county. May 26, 1842. Abraham H. Scott, his father, was a native of Schoharie county, and came to the town of Orange, now Schuyler county, after which he came to Steuben county in July, 1842, and in 1864 he came to the town of Campbell. He married Samantha M. Pitts, of the same county, by whom he had nine children. Adelbert A. Scott is a farmer, and is the owner of the homestead farm of si.Kty acres. He married Calista A., daughter of Ellis Dunk- lee, a farmer, and one of the pioneers of the town, by whom he had two children : James W., and Ben B., both farmers. Mr. Scott has been poormaster, and has held other minor offices. He is a member of the Baptist church, and also of the K. of H. Zeilley, Alex L., was born in the town of Avoca, April 18, 1854, son of Oliver Zeilley, who was born in Palatine, Montgomery county, in 1827, and came to the town of Avoca in 1846, and settled at what is known as the Pond settlement on a farm of 200 acres, and retired from active business in 1876. He married Amelia Shults, of Avoca, and one son was born to them, Alex, v.'ho was educated in the dis- trict schools and the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. In 1891 he entered the milling business at Cohocton, and remained there until 1893 when he came to Avoca, and became one of the founders of the Avoca Milling Company, now located in the village FAMILY SKETCHES. 107 of Avoca, which makes flour under the roller process with a capacity of 200 barrels per dav. Mr. Zeilley is president and secretary of the company. He married Libbie, daughter of William Vrooman, and they have two children; Willie D., and Olhe. Mr. Zeilley held the office of commissioner of highways in 1878, since then having held the office of trustee of the village, and in 1893 was elected supervisor, and re-elected in 1894 on the Republican ticket. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. No. 538. Bozard, Earle W., was born in Cattaraugus county, N.Y., January 24, 1862. Henry M. Bozard, his father, was born in Tioga county, N. Y., and moved to Cattaraugus county when a boy, where he resided until recently, when he removed to the city of Rochester, N.Y. He married Mary Barker, of Cattaraugus county, by whom he had four children: F. Adell, Earle W. , Mary M. and Ray R. Earle W. was educated in the Union Free School at Olean, N.Y., was two years with Miss Mary L. Pettit in a private school, finishing at Franklin ville Academy, after which he began reading law in December, 1882, with Hon. Edwin Hicks at Canandaigua. N.Y., and was admitted in January, 188(i. He moved to Avoca in December, 1888, where he has since been in the practice of law. He married Nellie W., daughter of John F. Clark, by whom he has had two children, Anna Mae and John Earle. AVakeman, Rev. Joel, was born in Dutchess county, N. Y., in 1809, educated at Franklin Academy and the Auburn Theological Seminary, and served as pastor at Almond for twenty-three years. He recruited 20(1 men for the army, and served as captain of Co. H, 130th Regiment, until discharged on account of disability. He was appointed chaplain of the chapel at City Point for invalid soldiers during the winter of 1805. Dr. Wakeman married Abigail Judson, in 1838, who died in April, 1890. May 20, 1891, he married Irene Coleman. Dr. Wakeman is the author of a number books. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Almond twenty-three years, is now eighty-five years old and able to preach. Dunkee. Ellis, was born in Vermont, June 1, 1S15. Eli Dunkee, his father, was also a native of Vermont, where he died in 1847. Ellis Dunkee came to the town of Campbell when twelve years of age and learned the carpenter trade, which business he has followed for some years, and now owns a farm of 100 acres. He married Lucina Bixby, of Camjjbell, by whom he had eight children: Eli. Melvina, Emma, James, Lansing, Parden, Clare, and Calista. For his second wife he married Mrs. Margaret Havens, daughter of William McCan, of Chemung county. He is a mem- ber of the Baptist church, and in politics is a Republican. Robinson, John, was born in Minden, Montgomery county, November 30, 1820, son of Joseph and Nancy (Walwrath) Robinson. Mr. Robin.son died in Cameron, Steuben county, April 4, IHOfj, aged seventy-two years, and his wife died at the same plate, October 30, lS(i2. John Robinson was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, after which he learned the blacksmith trade, which he followed until the war broke out. In 1843 he came to Jasper and worked at his trade until 1861, when he moved on to the farm of 142 acres, which he now owns and which he cleared. He has been commissioner of highways and poormaster. July 4, 1.H43, he married Margaret House, a native of Herkimer county, who came to Cameron with her parents, George J. and Elizabeth (Ule) House, when a child, by whom he had eight 108 Landmarks of steube.nt county. children: John, jr., who was in the late war. where he lost his sight; A. Elizabeth, Matilda. Norman H., Frances A., Olive, Jessie, and George. Higby, John C, was born in Prattsburg, N. Y., in February, 1839. His great- grandfather, John Higby, came from Lee, Mass., and settled in Ballston. Saratoga county, prior to the Revolutionary war. He married Mindwell Lewis, by whom he had thirteen children; and he died in Ballston, aged ninety years. Their son Lewis was a sailor in the Revolutionary war, was captured by the Indians and tories, and carried a prisoner to Canada, where he remained for nearly two years. The mother and smaller children were also captured by Indians and rescued His grandfather, Jeduthun Higbj-, was born in October, 1775, at Ballston, N.Y., and in January, 1801, he married Salvia Strong, by whom he had five children: Livy S , John L., Myron T., Marcus T. C, and Charles G., also one adopted daughter, Sophronia Kelley. He was a soldier in the war of 1813, ranking as lieutenant, and after the burning of Buffalo held a captain's commission. In 1818 he moved to Prattsburg, and settled on a farm two miles west of the village. He was one of the vestrymen upon the organization of the First Episcopal church at Auburn, N.Y. He was killed in the town of Pulteney in 1820 by a tree falling across his wagon. His wife died in 1863. Charles G. Higby, father of John C, was born in Brutus, Cayuga county, in September, 1812, and was educated in the common schools and Franklin Academj', Beginning at the age of sixteen, he taught school for six con- secutive winters, and in the summer worked on the farm he had purchased. At twenty-four years of age he married Phoebe Jane, daughter of John and Rhoda C. Bramble, of Prattsburg, b}- whom he had three children: Jeduthun, who died in in- fancy, John C, and Lydia L. He at once settled on his farm, to which he added 150 acres of timber land, and in 1841 he engaged in the milling and lumbering busi- ness in connection with his farming. He was school superintendent of the town under the old law for many years, and in 1851 was assemblyman from his district in the State Legislature, and advocated the passage of the free school law. He was also trustee of the Franklin Academy for many years. Mr. Higby and wife were members of the Presbyterian church of Prattsburg. For many years, until the time of his death, he was a trustee and elder of the church. He died in 1885. John C. Higby was graduated from Hamilton College in the class of '61, and then spent two years as teacher in Bath, after which he returned to his farm, where he remained most of his time until 1890, when he moved to his father's homestead, where he now resides. After the war he served one term as justice, and from 1871 to 1873 inclusive served as school commissioner, being the first Democrat elected to that office in his district. In 1869 he married Lucy, daughter of Rev. B. C. and Susan J. (Ammer- man) Smith, by whom he had three children: Charles G., Celia Jane, and Coleman Smith. Charles G. Spent one year in HamilUm College, later assi.sted on the farm, and is now the able manager and secretary of the Prattsburg Creamery Company, of which he is the largest stockholder. Celia J. was teacher in Franklin Academy, and in June, 1895, he was graduated from Olivet College Mich. Coleman is now taking a classical course at the same college. The entire family are now Presbyterians. Jones, J. B. , was born in Addison in 1851, son of L. A. Jones, also a native of this place, where he lived for nearly eight years, being engaged in farming and hnuber- ing. He was also a pilot on the river in early days, also a carpenter and joiner FAMILY SKETCHES. 109 by trade, and held many prominent town oftices, deputy sheriff being one of them. J. B. Jones's boyhood was spent here, and he first eni^aged in the marlset Ijusiness, but for the past fourteen years has dealt in ice, and is also chief engineer at the Krie pumping station, which position he has held since 1H87. He married Mary A., daughter of George W. Young. Mr. Jones is a member of the Maccabees, and also has a membership in other fraternities and benevolent organizations. Horn, Edwin J., was born at Scranton, Pa., in December, 1811, of German parents, and had only the advantages of a limited common school education, which, however, were supplemented by a vigorous intellect and persistent research in the several fields of art, literature and mechanics. lie removed to Addison, N.Y., about the year 1840 and became associated with Capt. Stephen Lewis, in the manufacture of steam engines and general foundry and machine work, being very successful in that enterprise, and in later years owning and conducting the whole business, which had grown into proportions creditable to himself, and of great interest to the village. Mr. Horn also took an active part in public affairs and held many important offices, as village trustee, member of the Board of Education, and for several years repre- sented his town in the county legislature. At the commencement of the war of the Rebellion he was known as a War Democrat and gave his whole influence for the success of the Union cause and later allied himself with the Republicans and re- mained a zealous worker in that party till the day of his death, January 19, 1884. In 18()0 he married for his second wife, Eveline, daughter of the late Simon Brown, of Addison, who still survives him. Wheeler. Orlando D., was born in Wheeler in March, 1853. Silas Wheeler, his father, was also born in Wheeler in 1811, and died in 1855. He was an e.xtensive lumberman and farmer, and at the time of his death owned 1,600 acres of land. He was a man of strong literary and .scientific tastes, and possessed a fine library. He married Fidelia Frisbie, who was born in Middleburg, N. Y., in 1831, and died in Wheeler in 1883. Their children were: Don D., Myanda, William L., Grattan H., and Orlando D. Grattan H.. grandfather of Orlando D., was actively identified with the early history of this town where he was an extensive lumberman and farmer, owning at one time a tract of 8,000 acres of land, a large portion of which he cleared of the timber which he manufactured into lumber. His father, Capt. Silas Wheeler, was the first settler, and for him the town was named. He was born in Concord, Mass., in March 1752. He was a captain in the Revolutionary war, and at one time was taken prisoner by the English and transferred to Kinsale, Ireland. He was aided in his escape by Lord Henry Grattan, who, when parting with Wheeler, asked him to name his first son after him. Orlando D. Wheeler was educated at Hammondsport Academy, Franklin Academy, Piatt.sburg, and Lima Seminary. At an early age he displayed unusual business ability. When but si.\teen years of age he began business for himself, and has since been engaged in the various pursuits of railroad, merchant, and farm life. He has been in business in the West at two dif- ferent times, once in Illinois and later in Kansas. From Kansas he returned to Wheeler and purchased part of the original Wheeler family estate, where he now resides. Mr. Wheeler is a man of sterling character and a disposition that endears him to all who know him well. His habits of life are above reproach. In politics he is a staunch Republican and has always voted according to his Republican principles. 110 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. In 1ST2 he married Minnie E., daughter of Richard Lewis, a well known resident of Prattsburg. They have one child, a daughter, Delia S. , who graduated at sixteen years of age from Franklin Academy. Prattsburg, N.Y. In June, 189.5, she graduated from Elmira College, receiving the degree of A. B. In accordance with the prom- inent traits of her family, she is a young lady of scholarly attainments and great strength of character. Wilcox, Aurin, was born in Corning, in 1842, son of Abel Wilcox, a native of Otsego county, one of the pioneers, and a wagon-maker by trade, who lived and died in Caton. Aurin Wilcox is a farmer and also learned his father's trade. In 1874 he married Hattie Breese, a native of Caton, and daughter of A. B. Breese, a native of Chemung county, who came to Steuben county at an early day and to Caton in 1834; he built the first grist mill in Caton and died in 1880; aged seventy-two years; the first saw mill was built by his father-in-law, S. F. Berry. A. B. Breese was twice married, his second wife being Nancy H. Huchins of Hartwick, Otsego county, N. Y. NilesD., a soldier brother of Mrs. Wilcox, died in Salisbury prison, N. C, an- other brother, N. Le Grand, died when twenty-four years of age. E. K. Breese is a resident of Michigan. Leland S. of Chicago, Henrietta M., w'ife of B. Frank Rhodes of Syracuse, and Stella C. Hill of Corning. Pritchard Hiram, was born in Tioga county. Pa., in 1818, son of Calvin and Anna Kennedy Pritchard and of Welch descent. He attended the district and Lawrence- ville schools till 18133, spent one year at Factoryville, Pa., learning the miller's trade, continuing in that business until 1H36, when he came to Corning being employed by Robert Land in the old mills, which after a couple of years he rented. In 1843 he gave up milling and opened a feed store, and a year later a general store, under the firm name of Clark & Pritchard, doing a large business for two and a half years. He then entered Payne & Olcott's foundry, and in 1850 went toSinnemahoning, Pa., having charge of a saw mill and lumbering business there until 1853. Following this he was engaged in very successful lumbering interests at Middlebury, a couple of years, and in 1856 began the lumber trade in Corning. In 1863 he purchased an interest in the above named foundry, which he retained about five years. He has since this time retired from active business pursuits. In 183G he married Lucinda Searles. He was president of Corning in 18fil and ]80'.3 and again in 1886. During his first term of service he succeeded in having the Erie Railroad Company build the Pritchard canal, which been a great protection to the business part of the city from the overflow of Monkey Run Creek. His wife died in 1888, aged seventy-one, leav- ing three children: Truman S. Pritchard, Mary M. Sayles and Albert Pritchard. Alden, Mrs. M. J. — Dewitt C. Alden was born in Howard in 1829. and was edu- cated in the same town ; and when a young man came to Bath, where through life he was identified in the mercantile business. In 1859 he married M. Josephine, daugh- ter of Lawrence V. Church, who was among the pioneers of the village of Bath. Mr. Alden was a man of high moral purpose, taking an intelligent intere.st in educa- tional and religious institutions, and ever gave his influence towards advancing the best interests of his town and townspeople. In 18S2 President Arthur appointed Mr. Alden postmaster at Bath, which oftice he held four years, and filled most accommo- datingly and to the entire .satisfaction of its patrons. He died August 11, 1891. i FAMILY SKETCHES. Ill Gillette, Herbert S., was born in Jasper. February 9, 1863, son of Ralph Cillette, who came from Bradford county. Pa., to Jasper, a dentist by profession. The family are of French ancestry. Herbert S. was educated at Nelson and ^'"aduated from from Mansfield in 1882, was valedictorian of his class, then studied medicine at Ann Arbor, was graduated from the Long Island College Hospital in 1887, and began active practice at Greenwood. N. Y. In 1890 he came to Savona.^and in 1894 took a post-graduate course at Post-Graduate Medical School of New York city. In 1884 he married Adeline, daughter of William Reynolds, and they are the the parents of two sons and three daughters: Robert, Ernest, Ethel, (Jertrude, and Florence. Ur. Gillette was elected president of Steuben Medical Society in 1894. Keyser, James F., was born in the town of Avoca, July i), 1849. Frederick Keyser, his father, was a native of Montgomery county, and came to Steuben county in 1840, settling in Kanona, and afterwards moved to Avoca. He married Eveline, daughter of Benjamin Dilenbach, by whom he had three children, James F. , Mrs. Eliza Wag- ner, and Mrs. Maggie Clark. He was (me of the best known contractors and builders m Steuben county, and died in 1888 in his seventy-fourth year. James F. married Nora, daughter of William Waggoner, by whom he had one child, (iertrude. Mrs. Keyser died May 16, 1892, Jones, Horatio E. and Horace D., are the sons of Edmund Jones, who was a na- tive of tJreene county, and came to Steuben county in 1847, settling in the town of Thurston. In 18.il he married Mary E., daughter of Aaron C. Voss. Mr. Jones de- voted his time to farming and lumbering. Horatio F. and Horace D. were educated in Thurston, and in 1882 came to Bath, and in 188.'5 purchased the Jerome Smalledge property, and since that time have been actively engaged in lumbering and farming. In 1878 Horatio E. married Hattie M., daughter of Job G. Campbell, and they are the parents of one son, Raymond C, and one daughter, Fannie D. In 1881 Horace D. married Emma, daughter of James Jack, and they are the parents of three chil- dren: Ward E. , Martina M., and M. Frances. Brown, Mrs. H. S. — Alva E. Brown was born in Bath, April 16, 182.i. John Brown, his father, was among the early settlers in Bath. Alva E. married Sarah, daughter of Major W'illiam Hamilton, by whom he had three children, Mrs. Helene Halsey, Mary Lizzie and Margaret. Mr. Brown was one of the repre.sentative men of his town, identified in its progress and welfare, and serving as supervisor for three terms. He was prominently identified in St. Thomas church and in educational and tem- perance interests. He died in 1868, in his forty third year, the result of a railroad accident. Dudley, Henry C, was born in Bath, December 22, 1837. Moses Dudley, his father, was a native of Bangor, Maine, and came to Bath in 1814, and settled on the farm which is now occupied by his descendants, and the family trace their descent from Squire Jeremiah Dudley, who came to Bath with a family of seventeen children, sIr. Rodgers has been justice of sessions two years and justice of the peace twenty years. He is director of Farmers Alliance Co-Oper- ative Insurance Companv, Steuben county, and is also a member of Lodge 558, F. & A. M., at Andover, and the K. O. T. M. of Andover. Lane, A. Eugene, was born in Hornby in 1856, and is a son of David H. and Mianda C. Weed Lane, who came from Erie county. Pa., about 1860. The father died in 1857, aged forty, the mother resides with A. Eugene. In 1880 he married Lottie Thomas of Schuyler county, and in 1883 located where he now lives on the FAMILY SKETCHES. 115 farm of 130 acres. In connection with farming he follows bridge building for the Vulcan Road Works. His children are: Norma S., Ray T. , and Ralph D. Smith, D. D., born m the town of Lodi, Seneca county, N. Y., August 33, 1843, is the oldest of eleven children born to Elijah and Elsie Ann Dilts Smith both of Seneca county, N. Y. Mr. Smith died June 28, 1S87. Mrs. Smith is still living in the town of Sweden, Pa. The grandparents, Elijah and Abigail Wilson Smith, came from the town of Greenwood to West Union about 1840. He was a sculptor and mason by trade, and a soldier in the War of 1812 He died in Bradford and she in Fremont. Both were members of the M. E. church. David D. was reared on a farm and settled in the town of West Union in 1H()8 where he has since resided. In 1868 he married Amelia N., daughter of J. W. and Sallie Young Barber, farmers of West Union. He died May 2, 1894, aged seventy nine. To Mr. and Mrs. Smith were born five children: Ada, born November 20, 18()8, wife of George Sluyter, a Iivcr\'man of Harrison Valley; Jay Hile, born March 7, 1871, a farmer; Bertha, born September 10, 1872, wife of Grant Brownell, of Troupsburg; Mable, born April 21, 1878; and Sarah Edith, born August 21, 1889, and died April 24, 1890. D. D. Smith enlisted in Company C, 67th New York Volunteers, April, 1861, and was honorably discharged October, 1862. He was at Little Bethel, Williamsburg, and wounded by gun shot at Fair Oaks, May 30, 1862. Mr. Smith is now e.xcise commissioner. He is a member of William H. White Post, No. 561, G. A. R., at Greenwood. His farm consists of 14.") acres, and he makes a specialty of dairy farming. Jay Hile Smith married Miss Eva Myrtle Sherman of Troupsburg, March 7, 1894. Dutcher, James R.. was born at Penn Van, May 23, 18.')1. Henry Dutcher, his father, was born in Schoharie county, N. Y. , May 9, 1827. He was a machinist by trade and later became the owner of a farm in Yates county. He married Sophia, daughter of Adonijah Kirkham of Schoharie county, by whom he had these chil- dren: George of Corning, William also of Corning, Mrs. Kenfield of Avoca, Delia of Dundee, and Charles, present residence unknown. James R. was educated in Penn Van. Dundee and Haramondsport, graduating from the High School of Penn Yan. He was engaged in the railwav mail service for twenty-one years, apprenticed in 1874, and still continues in the service, and prior to that time was in the post-office in Avoca. He married Ida A., daughter of Clark Charlesworth of Avoca, by whom he had these children: Charles A., Oliver C, and Clarence C, deceased. Mr. Dutcher is a member of Avoca Lodge of Masons, No. 673. Pierce, Byron, was born in the home he now owns, which was built by his father, April 15. 1839. Alson Pierce, his father, came to the town May 23, 1815, and settled on the place which is now occupied by his son. He cleared sixty acres where at one time the old Williams Hotel stood. The family dates back to Capt. Michael Pierce, of England. ALson Pierce married Silvia Corbin of Vermont, by whom he had four children; Benjamin C, born in 1820, died 1844; Mary A., born May 21, 1823; Mar- tha A., born October 25. 1825. Byron was educated in the district school, and at eighteen years of age commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Kloyd Morse of Painted Post, and graduated from the Buffalo Medical College in 1860. In June, 1862, he entered the service as assistant surgeon, where he remained for six months, when his business called him home, and he resumed his practice, farming and manu- lie LANDMARKS OF STEtJBEN COUNTY. facture of lumber, and at present is out of practice. In 1870 he married Sophia E. Stilson of Delaware county, N. Y. , by whom he had six children: Lucia S., born born October 11, 1871; Helena E., born March 29, 1873; Benjamin S., born May 14, 1874; Frank F., born March 11, 1876; Alfred C, born March 22, 1878; Clarence J., born December 31, 1888. He is a member of the Baptist church, and in politics is a Republican. Ackerson, David H. , was born on Wheeler Hill, in Februarj', 1838, son of Henry Ackerson, a native of New Jersey, born in 1792, who, when a young man, came to the town of Pulteney, bought a tract of land in the woods, and cleared him a farm. He later removed to the town of Wheeler, and some years later removed to the town of Prattsburg, where he remained five years, continuing his farming, then retired to the village of Bath where he spent his remaining days. He served for a short time in the 1812 war. He married Lydia Uptigrove, a native of New Jersey, by whom he had these children; Mary A., Catherine, Eliza, Martha, Charles, and David H. The latter was educated in the common school : his mother died when he was fourteen years of age, and he then began life for himself at farm work, and from that time has led an active, energetic life. When twenty-four years of age he purchased a farm in Pulteney, thence he removed to Starkey, Yates county, where he conducted a large stock farm for Clark Bell for two years, when he moved to Wheeler and some years later to the village of Bath, to educate his children in the school at that place. He again returned to Starkey and bought a fine farm, but sold it and returned to Bath, and in the fall of 18>i6 returned to Wheeler and purchased a farm of 300 acres near the village, where he has since resided. For a number of years he was an e.x- tensive sheep grower, and also interested in raising fine horses. Mr. Ackerson is a member of the Steuben County Agricultural Association, in which he has held offi- cial positions. In 1860 he married Sarah D., daughter of Ephraim Aulls, who occu- pied and spent his life on the homestead now owned by David H., and Mr. Aulls was for forty years poormaster in the town of Wheeler. Thomas Aulls, his father, came to the town of Urbana w'ith his father, William Aulls, in 1793, and in 1800 came to Wheeler and settled m the forest. Mr. and Mrs. Ackerson have two children: Herbert, who is head accountant in the oflfice of Bacheller, Johnson & Bacheller, in New York city; and Mrs. Kate M. Allen of New York city. Mr. Ackerson also owns a farm of eighty acres in the town of Bath. Shader, William Henry, was born in the town of Wheeler on the farm he now owns, January 13, 1862. John Shader, his grandfather, was a native of Massachu- setts, born in 1803, in early life was a shoemaker, and came to Steuben county about 1840, and to the town of Wheeler in 1845, where he spent his remaining days as a farmer. He married Mary Drum, who was born in Columbia county, N. Y., in 1802, daughter of Nicholas and Margaret (Houk) Drum, by whom he had these children: Adam, James, Clara, Caroline, David, and William. He died in May, 1885; his wife died October, 1877. Adam Shader, father of William Henry, was born in Columbia county in 1829. He was a farmer, and about 1853, in partnership with a brother, James, purchased a farm of 110 acres in Wheeler, and later added thirty-five acres, which they paid for after years of energetic toil. He married Elsie M. Smith, July 4, 1858, who was born in Ohio, daughter of George W. Smith, by whom he had one child, William Hcnrv, and Mrs. Shader died November 4, 1862, when he was nine u Family sketches. 117 months old. Mr. Shader died April 9, 1876, and from that time William Henry was obliged to care for himself. When twenty-one years of age he purchased his step- mother's portion of the farm, where he has since resided. In April, 1884, he married Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Otis Smith of -Savona, now of Hornellsville, by whom he had one child, Floyd, born October 31, 1887. Fox, Oliver R. , was born in that portion of the town which was later called Avoca, in 1835. Joseph Fox, his grandfather, was born of German parents. He was a farmer and a prominent man in his town, much interested in public affairs, and filled many town offices. He was a .soldier in the War of 1812, and spent most of his life in Montgomery county, where he reared seven children. Peter Fox, father of Oliver R., was born in Montgomery county in 1808. He is a carpenter by trade, and came to the town^f Wheeler in 1834, and purcha.sed a tract of wild timber land where he plied his trade at one dollar per day, hired men to chop and clear his land for fifty cents per day, and thus cleared his first farm of ninety acres, which he later sold, and in 1856 purchased his present farm of 150 acres where he has since resided. He served as poormaster many years, and is a member of the Grange Lodge at Avoca. He married Lany Shaut, who was born in Herkimer county, a daughter of Jabob Shaut, by whom he had six children: Almira, Chauncy, Oliver R., Mary J.. Harvey, and John, all dead except Oliver and Harvey. His wife died in 1803, aged eighty-three years. Oliver R. has spent his whole life with his father, assisting him in clearing and paying for the farm : he now assumes full charge and operates the farm and cares for his aged father. For many years he raised sheep and cattle, later years his chief crop has been potatoes. He has served as justice of the peace continuously for twenty years, and is a member of the Grange Lodge in Avoca, in which he has served in several official capacities. In 1864 he married Eliza Graves, w-ho was born in Prattsburg, a daughter of the pioneer, Almeron Graves, by whom he had one son, John. She is also a member of the Avoca Grange Lodge. . Olmstead, James E., was born in the town of Wheeler, on the farm he now owns, in 1845. Erastus Olmstead his grandfather, was born in Connecticut, and later moved to Montgomery county where he devoted his life to farming. He was a prominent Mason, and held many offices in his lodge. He married Jane Coven- hoven, by whom he had ten children, all of whom lived, except one, aged sixty- six, to be over seventy years of age. He died about 1852, aged eighty-.six years, and his wife about 1865, aged eighty-nine. James F., father of James E., was born in Montgomery county in 171)8, and "m the fall of 1820 he moved to Wheeler where he took up land which was then a forest. The following year he and his brother John took up 100 acres and worked together several years, and later James added .sixty-three acres. Their first autumn in the town they cut two acres of timber and boarded four miles from their work. He assisted in the building of the Lutheran church of Avoca, in which tie was later made deacon; he al.so filled other othces in the church. He married Harriet, daughter of Emanuel Gunsolous, by whom he had these children: Jane, Elizabeth, Hannah, IJimis, Sarah, who died at eighteen years of age, and James. He died in August, 1883, and his wife in February, 1884. James E. has spent his life on the homestead, which he now owns, and cared for his par- ents. During the year 1875, in connection with his farming, he run a grocery wagon through the country, and for some time later engaged in buying and butchering 118 LANDMARKS OF STEDBEX COUNTY. cattle and supplying Hornellsville market from one to two tons of meat a week. He has been elected overseer of the poor for three terms. He is a member of the Ma- sonic fraternity. Avoca Lodge, No. 673, and was the organizer of the Avoca Grange Lodge, P. of H. in 1876, of which he was the first master, to which office he was elected several years. In 1868 he married Dema, daughter of Benjamin and Jane (Fero) Voorhees, pioneers in Steuben county, by whom he had these children: Elmer H., Hattie J,, who died at nineteen years of age, James B., and lona. The Olm- stead family is traced back in America to 1632, when James and Richard Olmstead came from England on the ship Lion. Hall, Royal A., was born in Corning, N. V., September 1, 1841, and is a son of George H. and Mary J. (Spaulding) Hall. George H. was born in 1811 and died in Troupsburg in February, 1887. Royal A. was educated at thg Troupsburg and Alfred Academies, and was then engaged in teaching for a while. He has since followed farming. In 1866 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. J. B. Murdock (mentioned elsewhere), by whom he has three children : Emma E., wife of Ira Miller, of Elmira; W. B., of Syracuse, who married Anna, daughter of Rev. A. J. Hurd; and Mazie, who is at home. Mr. Hall settled on the farm he now owns in 1867. It consists of 175 acres, and he carries on general farming, January 1, 1864, he enlisted in Co. H, 96th N. Y. Vols., and was discharged February 6, 1866. He was clerk in the post-office department for three months. He went to Yorktown and joined the Butler expedition up the James River to City Point, and was wounded at Drury's Bluff, May 16, 1864, and was in the hospital until February. 186.5. Mr. Hall is a member of Post Bailey No. 361, G. A. R., and McClellan Lodge No. 649, F. & A. M. Cooley, Charles, was born in Hartford, Conn., July 31. 1820. He was the second son of Hanan Cooley, a furnace man and moulder of the New England States, who moved from there to Rochester, vi^here he built the first foundry of that city. Charles learned the moulders' trade and followed it all his life. He was engaged in many different cities until 1870, when he came to Hornellsville and took charge of the iron moulding in the Erie shops. He died September 29, 1887. He was married January 18, 1840, to Miss Lucy Louisa Martell, of Canada, and they have been the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living; Mrs. J. ^V. Corbin, of Friendship, N. Y. ; Mrs. L. D. Hazard, of Hornellsville, N. Y. ; Mrs. Isaac Carley, of Galeton, Potter county, Pa. ; Mrs. Frank McPhee; Edmund C. Cooley, a machinist of Dunkirk, N. Y. ; Charles H. Cooley, a machinist of Brockville, Pa. ; and Walter M. Cooley, an engineer of Alaska, now engaged in the gold mines of that country. Edmund C. Cooley bought the Wright farm of forty acres in the spring of 1886, now occupied by Mrs. Cooley. Frank C. McPhee was born in Tioga county, Pa., January 17, 1854. Daniel McPhee, the father of Frank, was a farmer. He was for a few years a resi- dent of South Addison, Steuben county, N. Y. Frank was the fifth of a family of eleven children. He was educated in the common schools, and has been for twenty- one years a sash cutter of McConell Mills in Hornellsville. He was married March 14, 1881, to Miss Mary C. Cooley, daughter of the late Charles and Lucy Loui.sa (Martell) Cooley. Mr. and Mrs. McPhee have one son, Nelson Lawrence, now in his fourteenth year, a student of Hornellsville Academy. Bentley, John L., was born in Elmira, September 24, 1829, a .son of Darius, a native FAMILY SKETCHES. 119 of Rensselaer county, who came to Chemung in 1814, and owned a large tract in wliat was then a part of Elmira. He was prominent in town and county affairs, and was known as Judge Hentley. He died at the age of ninety-four. Of his si.x surviving children John L., the third son, was educated in the public schools and by private teachers, and his first occuption was on a farm. His father was a surveyor, and John did considerable work in that line of business. He was one of the civil engineers of the Cananda'.gua and Niagara Railroad at the age of twenty-five. He then engaged in railroading, and for seventeen years was conductor on the western division of the N. Y., L. E. & \V. R. R. In 1873 he formed a partnership with George Griswold, which lasted a year, and in 18T4 the store was burned, and afterwards our subject continued the business alone. Mr. Griswold rebuilt, and Mr. Bentley moved into his store, which he conducted until 1875, then sold out to Mr. Griswold, and bought the store of Seymour & Davis, and in 1888 removed to his present location, 91 Main street, conducting a grocery and crockery store. He served as alderman for five years, and als) as assessor, and was city engineer for two years. For thirty years he has been a ijromintnt Mason, and has passed the chairs of the Blue Lodge, Council and Commandery. In 18.55 he married Jane Shute, of Horseheads, and their children are Edward S., a clerk, and Harry S., a partner in the business. Bowlby, George K. , was born in the town of Bath, June 15, 1855, son of James N. W. Bowlby and Emily King Bowlby. James N. W. Bowlby, a native of Drydcn, Tompkins county, N. Y.. who came to Steuben county in 1837 with his parents, James and Catherine Bowlby. George K. was educated at Haverling Academy. In 1878 he married Sarah, daughter of Edward S. Hardenbrook, of Bath; they are the parents of three sons, James Edward, George Albert, and Charles Ernest. Mr. Bowlby was elected assessor in 1895. Burt, John M., was born in Warren county in 1831, son of Amasa Burt, who came from Warren county to Chemung county in 1845, and to Steuben county m 1854, where he died in 1875, aged seventy-five years. He married Sarah Ward, who died in 1878, aged seventy-one years. In 1851 John M. Burt went to Minnesota, where he engaged in the mercantile business until 1858, and has since resided on the farm. While in Minnesota he was clerk of the House of Representatives. He has 105 acres in his home place and also owns a farm of 140 acres in Chemung county, and has real estate interests in Minnesota. He has never married. His sister. Miss Cordelia, lives with him, while another sister, Mrs. Lucius Tuttle, lives on an ad- joining farm. Stuart, Morey, was born in Cameron and married Jane, a daughter of George and Martha Punches. Their children are daughter Frances and son Winfred. Mr. Stuart is a school teacher, having taught for thirteen years. He is also engaged in farming. He is excise commissioner of the town, justice of the peace, etc., having been in office most of the time since he was twenty-one years of age. His father, Girdon Stuart, married for his first wife Katie I^each, by whom he had two children: Malissa and Amos. October 9, 1841, he married Sarah Winship, by whom he had eleven children: John, George, Henry, Norman, James, Kate, Amelia, Samuel, Dewitt, Morey, and Lula. Girdon was a member of the Baptist church. He was a carpenter and builder in early life, but was engaged in farming the latter part of his life. 120 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Angel, Prentis, settled in Urbana with his wife (Dollie Mitchell) and family of nine children; Sylvester, Silas, Lucy, Thomas, Betsie, Hannah, Calvin, Prentis and Abner. 'I homas married Axie Pope, by whom he has seven children: Almira, Alonzo, Edwin, Julia, t-arah. James, and Prentis. Thomas married Elma Stratton (deceased), by whom he had five children: Helen, Abner, Mary, Isabelle, and Fanny. Prentis married Lois, a daughter of Silas and Lucetta Babcock, by whom he had five children: Ray, Fred, Bert, Floyd, and Walter. Mr. Angel followed railroading in early life, but is now engaged in farmmg on a farm of 104 acres. Heseltine, Eugene A., was born in the town of Independence, Allegany county, N.Y., October 18, 1843. Ezekiel Heseltine, his father, was a native of New Hamp- shire, born September 30, 1799, in the town of Dairyfield, now the city of Manches- ter. He came to New York State in the fall of 1816 and settled on a farm in Middle- sex, Yates county; then went to Independence in 1831, and to Hornellsville in 1860. His death occurred December 21, 1886. Harriet E. Allen, mother of Eugene A., was a native of Barnstable, Mass. She died October 20, 1848. They also had one other son, Leonidas B., who was shot at the battle of the Wilderness, May 10, 1863, and died June 9. He was a member of Co. D, 86th N.Y.Vols. Eugene was educatedin the common schools of his native county, and at the breaking out of the war was one of the early volunteers for his country's service August 29. 1861, he enlisted in Co. D, under Captain Ellsworth, in the 86th N.Y S.Vols , and was with this regiment three years. He was at Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and in all the engagements under General Grant from May to September, 1864, and Colonel Lansing has written on his discharge, which is dated September 4, 1864, that he was a good soldier, always willing and faithful in the discharge of his duties. Returning home, he was made adjutant of the COth Regt., N.Y. S. M., and was also given a commission by Governor Fenton as brevet second lieutenant, N. Y. Vols. After the war he came to Hornellsville and was engaged in the mercantile business about seven years, after which he became interested in farming. In 1876 he bought a farm in the town of Hornellsville. to which he has added until now he has 1.57 acres handsomely located on the line of the Hornellsville and Canisteo Electric Railway. July 16, 1873, he married Olive P., daughter of Rev. E. P. Huntington, then of Phelps, N.Y. Mr. Heseltine was the founder of the New York State Breeders' Asso- ciation, organized in February, 1891, of which he is vice-president. He was also the first owner in this county of the imported Percheron horse, and of Red Polled cattle. Barrett, William W., was born in New Jersey, January 13, 1838, son of John and Mary (Westervelt) Barrett, who settled in Bath in 1842 and had four children: Julia, John W., Mary, all deceased, and William W. William W. married Lovina J. Niles and has two children: Moses J., who married Eva Jackson; and Jerome W., who married Fannie Parker and has two children: Clarence and Blanche. Moses J. Barrett has three children Pearl, Lawrence, and Ethel. William W. is an active temperance advocate and is a member of the Good Templars, also the Town Grange. Brewster, C. A. — Gilbert Brewster, his father, was born at Red Creek, N.Y. sixty- six years ago, of old English ancestry, and came to Addison soon after attaining his FAMILY SKETCHES. I'Jl majority. He was by trade a machinist and farmer, and married Martlia, daughter i>f the late Wilham Wombough, by whom he had four children, of whom Charles and Gilbert are the only survivors. She died in 1886. William Wombough occupied a central position in the early annals of Middletown, now Addison, having been not only one of the first comers here, but a man of wonderful energy and character, and at one time owned nearly 2 000 acres of land in and about Addison. He built grist, ci-.rding and saw mills in the vicinity, and it is related that in order to equip his fir.st mill with machinery, he made a trip to Philadelphia with a team, and he thought little of an overland trip to Syracuse for a load of salt. C. A. Brewster, a grandson of William Wombough, was educated in the common schools and Cornell University, after which he occupied a clerical position in the lialdwin Bank, until the formation of the firm of Brewster Brothers, dealers in hardware, etc. In 1890 the firm dis- solved, and Mr. Brewster thenceforward devoted his time and attention to his whole- sale lumber business at Corning and Painted Post. He has served his town as village trustee, and in other positions, which he filled with great credit. Zeliff. Samuel J., was born in the town of Burns, Allegany county, N.Y., June 10. 1832, and is the son of Joseph ZelifT, who was born in France, and came to the United States in 1812, when a young man. Settled in Pennsylvania, then near Ark- port, Steuben county, they took up land for a farm consisting of 108 acres, where they remained until a few years ago. The homestead is known as the Albert Kllis farm. The antecedents of Samuel J. have always followed farming. He was edu- cated in the district schools of South Dansville, but has greatly improved his educa- tion by his judicious reading. Mr. Zeliff for a time was engaged in dealing in agricultural implements, but now devotes his entire time to farming, owning a farm of ITio acres mostly of improved land. Mr. Zeliff married, first, Theoda, daughter of Sidney Frisbey, of Hartsville, who was one of the first settlers of that town. They had one daughter, Emma IJ., who married Milton Grey, of Hammondsport, N. Y. Mr. Zeliff married, second, Ann K., widow of George O. Henry, of Hartsville, by whom he had two children : Clayton and Merton, both living at home. Mr. Zeliff has served as highway commissioner, excise commissioner, and assessor. The heads of the family are members of the M. E. church. Morgan, S. Maurice, was born in the town of Lindley, November 6, 1839, son of Albert C. and Catherine Barnard Morgan, who settled in Lindley in 1828 and 1830. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan were the parents of five children: Harriet A., Sarah E., Nellie A., Catherine A., and S. Maurice. The latter was married to Helen B. Williams, and they have one child, Rose W. S. Maurice enlisted in Co. F, 86th N.Y. Vols., September, 1861, and was commissioned first lieutenant, Co. F, 86th N.Y. Vols. ; May, 18G2, was appointed aide-de camp to John C. Robinson in Kearney's Division, Army of the Potomac, afterwards served in First Division, Third Army Corps, also Second Division of First Army Corps, and February, 1864, was appointed assistant adjutant-general, U.S. Vols. , and was assigned to the Second Division of Fifth Army Corps, was appointed adjutant-general in First Army Corps in May, 1864. He was captured May 30, 1864, at Cold Harbor, and confined in Libby Prison, Rich- mond, Va., Macon, Ga., Charleston, S. C, and Columbia, S. C, and was paroled for exchange from Columbia, Escaped from Columbia prison and was free fourteen days. He holds a commission as brevet lieutenant-colonel, given by President P 122 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Lincolu for meritorious services in the field. He is now commander of the G. A. R. Post at Lawrenceville, Pa. Putnam, Aaron H., was born in Steuben county, N. Y., July 2, 1838. He is the son of Aaron V. and Mary Putnam, and grandson of David Putnam, of Holland descent, who came from that country with his family and settled in Montgomery county, N.Y. He was a Revolutionary soldier and noted Indian fighter under Gen- eral Van Rensselaer. After his return from the war he was captured by Indians, killed and scalped. Aaron V. was born in Montgomery county in 1790. He was a soldier in the war of 1813, and married Mary Rose in 1820. To them was bom twelve children. He was a blacksmith by trade, and in 1832 came to Prattsburg and settled on a farm where he plied his trade in connection with his farming, they re- maining on the farm they settled in Prattsburg until their death, both living to the advanced age of eighty-four years. Aaron H. Putnam was the eighth of this family of children and remains on the homestead farm of 130 acres, to which he has added 175 acres. Politically Mr. Putnam is a Democrat and has ahvaj'S adhered to the principles of that party. He has held the office of commissioner of highways, and assessor at different times. In 1806 he married Ada, daughter of Dwiglit Graves, of Prattsburg, by whom he had eight children: Cora, Ella, Mae, Arthur, Lillie, Aaron, Clara, and Dwight, all living except Clara, the youngest daughter, who died at the age of four years. The girls are school teachers, and the boys remain at home on the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam are both members of the Ingleside Grange, in which they have both held offices. Stewart, George Edmund, was born in the town of Howard in the place known as Dubhn, February 20, 1854, son of George W. Stewart, who was born in Ireland, and came to the United States when about seventeen years of age, and became a farmer. He married Sarah A., daughter of the Rev. Adonijah Ford of the town of Howard, and they were the parents of five children; George E., A. P., Abby L., Sarah M., and Eugene, all of whom live in the town of Howard except A. F. , who lives in Hor- nellsville. George Edmund was first a teacher, and afterwards worked for the N.Y., L. E. & W. R. R. Company as car repairer, but for many years has devoted his time to farming. He acquired his education in the district schools and was also in the Haverling Academy for three years. He married Lydia Jane, daughter of Orren W. Emerson, a farmer of Bath. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have one daughter, Nora Irene, aged fifteen years. She is now attending the district schools. Mrs. Stewart died November 6, 1893, aged forty-one years. Olmsted. Milton, was born in Avoca March 18, 1843. John Olmsted, his father, was bom in Connecticut, February 23, 1800. In childhood he came with his parents to Montgomery county, N. Y., and when twenty-one years of age came with his brother James to Avoca, Steuben county, and settled on the farm now owned by his son, which was then a wilderness. He bought land and cleared the farm on which he spent the remainder of his life, and on what has since been known far and wide as Olmsted Hill. He afterwards purchased two different farms in the .same locality which has since been owned by his sons. He married Amanda Edwards, formerly of Montgomery county, but who came to Avoca with her people some years later than the Olmsteds. She died in 1863, after which he married Lucinda Van Wie, FAMILY SKETCHES. 123 widow of the late John Van Wie of Howard. She died in 1881. He lived to the ad- vanced age of eighty-eight year.s, and died July 6, 1888. The result of the former marriage was ten children, of which Milton, the subject of this sketch, was the eighth. Three died in childhood; the remainder grew to manhood and womanhood, and six are still living. Milton Olmsted received the education and common school training common to farmers' sons of that time, after which he engaged in farming which business he has followed all his life. In 18(W he was married and went to Schuyler county, where he resided until 1886 when he returned to Avoca and came into possession of the homestead farm and cared for his invalid father until the latter died two years later. He married Esther S., daughter of Isaac W. Fero of Beaver Dams, Schuyler county, and grandfather of the late Chester Knowlton of Hornby. (Both pioneers of Hornby, Steuben county, the former assisting his parents to locate and clear land in what was at that time Hornby, but now Orange Schuyler county). The fruits of this marriage were two daughters: Alida T. and Iva Viola. The old- est (Alida) is now a nurse in the hospital at the Soldiers' Home at Bath. The young- est is with her parents at their home on Olmsted Hill. Mr. Olmsted is a member of the Grange and a Knight of the Maccabees and politically is a Prohibitionist. Bennett, Oscar F., was born in the town of Howard, September 3, 1832, on the farm he now owns and occupies. He is a son of Benjamin B. Bennett, who was a descendant of Jacob Bennett, who settled in this town in 1808, in what is known as the Howard Flats, and was the seventh settler of the township, which at that time comprised a great part of Fremont, and a portion of Homellsville and Avoca. This family are extensive land owners. Benjamin Bennett married Mariette Mapes, and no children were bom to them. He married the second time, Mary A. Armstrong, and seven children were born to them: David, Adelia, Amanda, Oscar F., as above, Asenith, Omer, and Mary. The occupation of Oscar F. has been farming with the exception of two years when he was proprietor of the Lyman Jones hotel in Howard Flats. He married Maria Huganer of Fremont, and they had one son, William, who married Maud Burle.son, and they have one daughter, Neola. Mr. Bennett was supervisor of the town in 1883-4, being elected over a Republican majority of nearly 100. He is a member of the Masons, Lewis Lodge, No. 104. Wagner, Hiram R., was born in the town of Wheeler February 22, 1847. Ingle- hardt Wagner was a native of Jlontgomery county, and came to Wheeler in 1818 when he was eighteen years of age. He took 100 acres of land in the normal condi- tion, which he cleared of wood and made a farm, and made his home there the bal- ance of his days. He died in April 1865. His mother was Chri.stina Collier; she died when Hiram was only old five yearsof age. Hiram was the next youngest son of a family of ten children that reached adult age. He was educated in the common schools, and his first occupation was a clerk in the law office of C. F. Kingsley at Bath, where he was employed eighteen month.s. In 1870 he came to Homellsville and was employed with his brother in the hotel business. In 1873 he engaged in the insurance business, which he followed for two years, and was two years with Miles W. Hawley, and was then for thirteen years bookkeeper and superintendent of Terry's flouring mill. In 1892, in partnership with Edgar Boynton, he bought out the Loucks bakery and grocery .store, at the corner of East Washington and North Church streets, where the firm of Wagner & Co. is still engaged. Mr. Wagner in 1^4 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. early life was a Democrat, but now a strong Prohibitionist. In the city election of 1895 he was elected to the office of excise commissioner, the first member of temper- ance principles ever elected in this city. He also filled the office of collector in 1883 and 1887 and was two years a member of the Board of Health. He has passed all of the chairs of the A. O. U. W., and been three times elected delegate to the Grand Lodge. He was married in 1872 to Celestia Snell of Avoca. They have one child, Floyd, a student of Hornellsville Graded Department. Mr. Wagner has been a member of East Avenue church for seven years and five of that time a trustee, and is the present superintendent of the Sabbath school. Young, Benjamin F., was born in Boston, Mass., September 27, 1822. His father, William, was a native of London, England, who moved to Halifax, Novia Scotia, then came to the United States, settling at Geneva. Here he entered the employ of Sir William Pulteney's estate in the Geneva Land Office. From Geneva he came to Bath in 185(5, at which time the two land offices were consolidated. In 1863 he was succeeded by his son, Benjamin F. Young, who still remains in charge. William Young married Jane T. Brabiner of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Entering the land office as a clerk he was subsequently made agent with full power of attorney of the Pulteney estate with Joseph Fellows. He died at his son's home, Ontario, N. Y. , aged seventy-one years. In 1845 Benjamin F. Young married Helen A., daughter of Elisha Johnson, of Rochester, N.Y. They had three sons and five daughters: William H., Frank J., Joseph F., Mrs. Emily H. Thorp, Mrs. M. Lillian Chitry, Helen B., Ada L., and Elizabeth J. Mrs. Helen Young died in November, 1873. In 1882 Mr. Young married Lucy L. , daughter of the late Daniel Knight, of Bath, by whom he has one son, Daniel K, Mr. Young is one of the leading business men in Bath and has been an ofhcer in the Episcopal church for nearly fifty year.s. Young, Peter, was born at Rathbone, in 1833, son of Martin B. Young. He first engaged in lumbering and farming He married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Ostrander, of Penn Yan, Yates county. Martin B., who was born in a log house in Addison, in 1804, and died at the home of his son Peter in 1885, was of German descent, his father coming here at an early age. Mr. Young devoted his time to lumbering and speculating and was financially successful. In 1827 he married Martha Craw- ford, of Rathboneville, and they were the parents of five children: Sarah, widow of the late Harvey Burgett, and resides in Sayre, Pa. ; William, a farmer of Rathbone ; Margaret, widow of the late Libbius Phillips, of this place; Mary, widow of the late John Kinneley, and resides at Elmira; and Peter. Foster, Mrs. E. L. — Eddy L. Foster was born in the town of Barringtou, Yates county, m 1848. William Foster, his grandfather, a native of England, came to America in 1770, and was a soldier in the Revolution. During his younger days he was a blacksmith by trade, but devoted the latter part of his life to farming in Yates county and Wheeler, to which place he removed in 1805. Lindley, the father, was a carpenter and farmer, and spent his life in Yates county. When eighteen years of age he purchased a farm, which he owned at the time of his death, which occurred in 1888. He married Betsey Mapes, of Dutchess county, and their children were Jeremiah, Marilla, William, and John. For his second wife he married Abigai I Campbell, by whom two children were born: Mary J. and Lindley. The third time FAMILY SKETCETES. 125 he married Margaret Eddy, and to this union were born five ehildren: lUilda, Kddy L., Frank, Charles M., and Minor. His wife survives him and resides on the home- stead in Yates county. Eddy L. remained with his father until twenty-five years of age when he engaged in the vineyard and farming bu.siness, and in 1876 came to the town of Campbell, where he purchased a farm, and thirteen years later removed to the town of Wheeler. In lSi)l he purchased his present farm of 260 acres, it being the original Grattan-Wheeler homestead. For a number of years he followed the lumbering business in connection with farming, and for the past twelve years was successfully engaged in buying and shipping cattle and sheep. Mr. Foster was a Republican, and held the ofiice of assessor, and for some time was a member of the Grange. In 1873 he married Lola Straight, who was born in Bradford, Steuben county, a daughter of Samuel and Sally Straight. Mr. and Mrs. Foster had these children : Minor, Burr, Belle, Edna, Charles, Flossie, and Eddy W. On May 30, 189.5, Mr. Foster was accidentally drowned while in bathing in a creek that (lowed through his farm. Soule, Eli, was born in Euclid, Tompkins county, N. Y., January 20. 1829. His father's family resided in the city of New York before the war of the Revolution. His father, Lambert Soule, removed from Orange county to Tompkins about June, 1820. and married his mother, Cathernie Rickey, in 1827, and settled on a farm in the town of Euclid the next year, where he resided till his death in 1880. Eli Soule spent his minority on his father's farm, was a student of law in the ofiice of Boardman & Finch at Ithaca, N.Y., was admitted to the bar in 1860, commenced practicing at Canisteo in 1S63, where he yet remains. He was married to Miss Jane Ferris of Galesburg, 111., in 1871. Smith. Mrs. Zidana. — The subject of this sketch was born September 18, 1,827, on the homestead farm, which was settled by his grandfather, Andrew Smith, who had come to this country from Scotland in 1791, and who was associated with Captain Williamson in the clearing of land for cultivation, and the construction of roads. Jackson Smith was the son of Charles, thesecond son of theearly pioneer. His early life was passed at home on his father's farm, during which time he spent several months at Lima Academy (Livingston county), where he learned the science of land surveying. This art he i)ut into practice a great deal, and a very large number of the roads and boundary lines of the surrounding country were laid out by him. In 1858 he married Zidana, the daughter of Samuel Le Gro. Mr. Le Gro was a shi]) carpenter in Maine in his younger days, but had come to Bath in 1814, where he helped erect some of the first houses in the village. He married Bet.sey, daughter of Jeremiah Dudley for his first wife, by which union seven children were born, Mrs. Smith being the third eldest. For his second wife Mr. Le Gro married Almira Tiff- any. To Mr. and Mrs. Smith were born nine children, seven of wnom are living: Mrs. Jeannie A. Downing, William C, Sherman T., Hoxie W, , Fred D., Nellie L. , J. Lee. In 1863 Mr. Smith purchased the Alexander Freeman property, a few miles below Bath and adjoining the old homestead farm, where he passed the remainder of his life, engaged in the occujiation of farming. Besides adding many acres to his original purchase he expended a large |)ortion of his income and wealth in the edu- cation of his children, five of whom have graduated from Cornell University. He was a man of a very quiet and reserved disposition, caring nothing for public office 126 LANDMARKS OF STEtJBEN COUNTY. or public mention. He believed in training his sons and daughters by his own ex- ample of hard labor, strict honesty in all dealings and charity to the poor, and realized that he could leave them no more valuable legacy than these traits and a thorough education. Though directly connected with no religious circle, he always had a strong leaning towards the Universalis! faith, trusting fully in the kindness and mercy of his Maker and believing that " by your works, ye shall be judged." In his home and family circle, only, was he satisfied to be, and although he took no part in public affairs, yet he was well read and conversant with the topics of the day, being always found on the side of Americanism and temperance. In politics, he was a Republican, having always voted with the party of his first belief. He died of strangulated her- nia, November 26, 1889, in his sixty-third year. Davis, Edwin F. , a native of Caton, who is the state electrician, is the son of Dan- iel and Bates Davis, natives of Massachusetts, who were married there and settled in the town of Caton in 1844, where they are stil residing. Mr Davis at the age of twenty-one went to Massachusetts a short time, and was then in the milling business in Pennsylvania one or two years, also following the carpenter's trade about ten years in the Fall Brook shops. He then followed photographing about three years in Corning and had the telephone exchange in his gallery, by which he became interested in electricity. He was afterward with the Edison Electric Company during the New Orleans Exposition and continued with them several years, after which he went with the Westinghouse Company about three years, contracting and establishing plants all over the counti-y. He put in the electrical plant for three State prisons. Sing Sing, Auburn, and the Clinton Prison, and has since had charge of them. Bailey, John S. , was born in Urbana, N. Y. , June 8, 1826. His grandfather Bailey wasa native of England, and came to Philadelphia about 1774, and during the Rev- olutionary war he aided very materially the American cause by furnishing the sol- diers with provisions. His son Barila was an officer, connected with William Henry Harrison on the frontier. Nicholas Bailey, father of John S., was born in Philadel- phia in 1778, one of nine children, and at fourteen years of age he was apprenticed to learn the wheelwright trade, and served until he was twenty-one years of age. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, ranked as corporal, often detailed to hunt desert- ers, and after the war he plied his trade. In 1821 he moved to Urbana, Steuben county, and from then until his death he followed the carpenter's trade and saw mill building. He sold his soldier's land for thirty dollars and took his pay in soleleather and built the first store in Hammondsport. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Perry of New Jersey, by whom he had these children : Lewis, Sarah, Nelson, John, Artemas, Edwin, Bradley and Margaret. Mrs. Bailey died in September, 188."), aged eighty-five years. John S. Bailey remained with his father until twenty- one years of age, when he engaged work on the canal, and a year later purchased a small tract of land, farming summers and lumbering winters. In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, 161st Regt., but was discharged soon after on account of sickness. In July, 186ii, he was drafted, paid his draft, and in 1864 he again enlisted in Company C, 188th Regt., and served until the close of the war. He was at the battles of First and Second Hatcher's Run, Wcldon Raid, and received a tlesh wound in the leg at Hatcher's Run. In the spring of 1863 he was detailed to drive and care for the tent and provision wagons of General Gregory, and in 1867 he purchased his present farm. FAMILY SKETCHES. 127 He married Eveline, (laughter of John Clark, a pioneer ofPulteney, by whom he had these children: Arvesta, Franklin, Hettie who was drowned when nineteen years of age, Bandis. Eva, Chauncy, and Georganna. Campbell, William M., was born in Bath. May 19, 1822; he was the youngest child of Robert Campbell, who was a native of Scotland and came to Bath in 1795. Will- iam M. was married in 184(i to Francis Miller, daughter of Samuel Millerof Williams- ville, Erie county, N. Y. , by whom he has four children, two sonsand two daughters. He has always followed the occupation of farming, and still lives on the home he made fifty years ago. Minard, J. H., was born in the town of Locke, Cayuga county, November 4, 1842, and is the fourth of six children born to Henry T., and Annie (Hill) Minard, both of Cayuga county, and who came to Troupsburg in 1846 and settled on the State road, where they died, he April 22, 1807, and she July :!, 1848. The grandfather, Henry Minard, died in Locke. The paternal grandfather, Thomas, was a soldier in the Rev- olutionary war. J. H. Minard has always followed farming, and now owns a farm which he bought in 1881. In 186() he married Cornelia, daughter of Lewis and Julia (Martin) Olmstead, by whom he had three children: Lewis H., who bought the Clark farm, which joins the homestead, which he works in connection with the home farm ; Gertie, wife of George Fox, who died July 25, 1886; and Lizzie E., wife of Bradshaw White. Mr. Minard enlisted September 17, 1861, in Company E, 7.5th N. Y. Vols., and was honorably discharged November 25, 1864. He was Port Hudson, all through the Red River cam])aign, and was wounded at Winchester by a minnieball, Septem- ber 19, 1804, and prior to this was on duty every day. He is a member of Post Baily No. 351, G. A. R. Emery, Frank H., was born on the farm where he now lives in the town of Horn- ellsville, January 19, 18.59. James P. Emeiy, the father of Frank H., was also born in this town. The grandfather of Frank, Wm. Emery, was a native of Pennsylvania, and came to this countrj- about 1824. James P. Emery was a farmer and March 17, 1852, bought a farm of 103 acres on lot 28, where he spent the balance of his days and died November 12, 1870. He was twice married, first to Elizabeth who bore him two children, neither of whom is now living. His second wife and mother of Frank H. Emery', Mary C. Labour, was the mother of three sons. Eugene and Albert both died in infancy. Frank H. was educated in the common schools, attending in summer tilj fifteen, and the winter time until nineteen. He has always been a farmer, and was the manager for his mother until twenty-one years of age; he then bought the in- terest of his half sister's children in the farm, and is now the proprietor of seventy acres in his own name and his mother's one-third interest. His principal product is potatoes; he also conducts a dairy of seven cows. He has always taken an active interest in the success of the Democrat party and its principles. He has made many valuable improvements to the property since coming into possession, and has one of the finest properties of the town. February 29, 1894, he wasmarried to Miss Clara Oliver, daughter of the late Horatio Oliverof Almond. Richardson, C. W., was born in Bath, May 7. 1848. John Richardson, his father, was also born in Bath. John Richardson, sr., his grandfather, came from Maryland to Bath in 1808, and was head miller for Mayor William Helm and was afterwards 128 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTT. identified as a farmer. John Richardson, jr., married Sarah, daughter of Samuel Oxx, and followed in his father's footsteps, making farming his life work. He died in 1893, in his sixty-sixth year. C. W. Richardson was educated at Haverling Acad- emy, and for eleven years gave his attention to the manufacturing business, and in 1887 invented the celebrated loose bottom tins, now so widely known as the " Per- fection CakeTins,"and at once began their manufacture, which he is now carrying on, together with a large line of housefurnishing specialties, under the firm name of Richardson Manufacturing Co. In 1875 he married Delia, daughter of R. W. Davis, by whom he had two children. Ross, Emmett B., was born in Springfield, Bradford county, Pa., January 20, 1853. Andrew J. Ross, his father, was born in Burlington, Bradford county. Pa., in 1826, and came to Steuben county in the spring of 1868, and settled in the town of Camp- bell, on the Mead's Creek road. In 1850 he was married to Mara Grace, of Sprmg- field, Bradford county. Pa., by whom he had six children: John \V., Emmet B., Dallas F., Bruce E. , Olin and Andrew. The two last named died in infancy. Em- met B. remained at home, attending the public schools at Burlington, Pa., Cooper's Plains and Painted Post, N. Y., and the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute at Towanda, Pa., until he was seventeen years of age, when he began teaching, which vocation he followed for three years. In the spring of 1873, when he w-as twenty years of age, he commenced reading law with Messrs. Bradley and Kendall, in Corning, N. Y., remaining with them until the spring of 1876, when he was admitted to the bar, after successfully passing the required examinations before the General Term of the Su- preme Court then sitting at Rochester, N. Y. After his admission to the bar he practiced law at Corning, N. Y., until 1882, when he located at Campbell village, where he has since remained in the active practice of his profession. In the fall of 1876, he was married to Miss Alice Palmer, daughter of Joseph G. Palmer of Cooper's Plains, N. Y., by whom he has three children: Raymond C, Vance O., and Glenn P. In politics Mr. Ross is a Democrat. He has tw-ice been honored by the voters of Campbell with an election to the supervisorship of the town by handsome majorities, although the town has a large Republican majority. In 1887 he was the candidate of his party for member of assembly in the First district of Steuben county. For several years he has been a member of the Board of Education at Campbell, and is now the postmaster there. Beckerman, Herman D., was born Ankura, Hanover, Germany, in 1834. Herman H., his father, was an only son, a farmer by occupation, who married Marie Kock, by whom he had these children : Herman, Dietrich, Margaret, Anna, Arnold, Eliza- beth, and Minnie, all of whom, including the father, came to America, but the father returned to Germany after two years' residence here. Herman D. landed in New York in 1854, when twenty years of age, and was married three days after his arrival to Mary Krumpleman, who came over on the same ship from Germany. He engaged employment in a sugar refinery, where he remained for three years, when he went to Illinois and engaged in farming, having purchased, through his brother, 160 acres of his land, and two years later, having found the title to the land worth- less, he returned to New York where he again engaged in the sugar refinery at an advanced salary and with a better position, where he remained four years longer. The next seven years he spent as cartman, when he purchased a team and engaged FAMILY SKETCHES. 129 in the business for himself, and being successful in this, he purchased more teams and went in more extensively for seven years, and while thus engaged he purchased a tract of 113 acres of heavily timbered land in Wheeler, where he now resides, and in 1875 removed to this place and began clearing and farming. He has added to his original purchase from time to time, and now owns SOS acres of fine farm land, one farm of 154 acres lies in the town of Avoca, and on his home farm he has made many imi)rovements, and erected buildings essential to a well equipped farm. He has received several injuries from vicious horses, at one time having an arm broken, and at another seven ribs and both collar bones, yet he recovered and attends actively to his business. His wife died in April, 1869, before he left New York. Their children are Elizabeth, wife of T. P. Sharer of New York, Peter, Jacob, and Anna, who died when twenty-two years of age. Peter resides on the Avoca farm, is married and has five children. Jacob resides on the home farm, is married and has one son. Everett, Charles H., was born in 1859. in Wheeler, on the farm which was known in the early days of this country as the Wheeler deer lick, where the old hunters used to go to hunt deer. His grandfather, Jesse Everett, was born in Massachu- setts, in April, 1784, a cousin of Edward Everett, and came to Wheeler about 1815, and settled in the forest. He was a great hunter, and as the country became more settled, he moved farther into the wilds and settled on the farm on West Creek which is now owned by Charles H. He cleared a great deal of land in this town, and reared six sons. Levi Everett, father of Charles H., was born in Wheeler in 1817, where he spent his life as an active and successful farmer. He married Miss Caro- line Sampson, daughter of Christian and Catherine Bonstead of Herkimer county, by whom he had these children: Mrs. Alida Billings of Wheeler, and Charles H. Mrs. Everett had one daughter by her first husband, Ellen Sampson, now Mrs. Castor of Avoca. Charles H. Everett has spent his life thus far on the farm of 160 acres, which he came into possession of after the death of his father, and which he ably and successfully operates. He takes much interest in the breeding of fine grade Jersey cattle, and chickens; the latter he raises in large numbers. In 1884 he married Carrie A. Smith, a music teacher of Campbell, and daughter of Silas S. and Eliza (Everett) Smith, by whom he had one child, Nellie. Her grandfather, Barna- bas Smith, was a pioneer settler in the town of Campbell, and the Everett family is noted for their interest in the temperance cause. Thacher, T. J. O. — Nathaniel Thacher, the grandfather of the pre.sent generation, was a native of Rhode Island and came with his family to Troupsburg about 1807. He was a shoemaker by trade. Judge Otis Thacher, the father of the present gen- eration, was born in Gloucester, R. I., August 6. 1801). Otis Thacher suffered all the hardships of the early pioneers. He took up farming, and his father first owned the Hart farm, coming here in 1810. Nathaniel Thacher conceived the idea of moving to the West, and going through the south, died at Florence, Alabama, August 24, 1824. Judge Otis Thacher was a self-educated man. He was only twenty-five years of age when he bought a farm of one hundred acres, where the first ward of the city of Hornellsville is now. He was appointed as associate judge of the county in 1840, and was one of the founders of the Presbyterian society of this county, and the prime mover of the Presbyterian church. He was one of the leaders of the Masonic 130 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTT. fraternity of the county until the Morgan excitement, when he withdrew from the organization, He was always foremost in educational institutions and was one of the trustees and the procurer of the charter of Alfred University. He was an old- time Whig, and was the census taker of eight towns in 1851. He continued in farm- ing the whole of his life, but in 1860 built what is now the Valley Roller Mills. He died March 14, 1868. He was a wise counselor and an impartial judge. He mar- ried Hannah K. Graves at the age of twenty-six, when she was twenty-three. She was a daughter of Deacon Amos Graves, the owner of the large farm in what is now the second ward. They were the parents of five sons and two daughters, onlj' three now living: Judge Solon C. Thacher, of Lawrence, Kansas, who represented this district in the Legislature for one term in 1857, and moved to the West the year fol- lowing and has since been candidate for L^nited States senator two term.s, governor one term, and has filled the position of State senator, and is now district judge. T. Scott Thacher, the next youngest living, was born July 29, 1833, and has always made his home here; educated in the common schools and Alfred University, and following farming until 1856 when he took charge of the mill, conducting it until 1872, since which time he has been engaged in the manufacture of mowers and reapers now located in Corning. He has always been prominently identified with church work and has been a deacon for thirty years He was unfortunate in being injured in the mill at the age of twenty-eight, but it has not deterred him from being one of the most active business men of this county. He has always been char- itable to a fault and has an unlimited number of friends. Mr. Thacher tells of buy- ing two hundred bushels of wheat in 1866, for which he paid §3.60 per bushel. No- vember 16, 1873, he married Sarah M., daughter of Charles N. Hart, by whom he had four children. Theodore J. O. Thacher, the youngest .son of Judge Otis, was born November 15, 1844. Ed\icated at Alfred University and Union College, and has been engaged in mercantile pursuits most of his life. From 1869 to 1876 he was on a ranch in Kansas. The latter year he returned and engaged in the manufacture of brick. In 1882 he bought back the old Thacher mill, conducting it until 1891, when he exchanged with George W. Jlorris for farm land in Michigan. After spending one year in that State he returned to his native town, and in November, 1894, opened a real estate office in Hornellsville. Mr. Thacher was alderman for the First ward for five years. He was one of the organizers of the Hartshorn Pres- byterian church, and Sabbath school superintendent for fifteen years. While a member of the City Council he was the first to agitate the question of pavements. In 1873 he married Agnes M. Goodwin of Michigan, who died December 1, 1883, leaving one son, W. F. Goodwin Thacher, now in his sixteenth year and a student of Alfred LTniversity. Acker.son, Charles N., was born in Pulteney, February 25, 1826. Henry Ackerson, his father was a native of New Jersey and came to Steuben and settled in the town of Pulteney in 1813, and his life was spent as a farmer; he was a man who took an active interest in school and church matters and in the development of his county. He married Lydia L'pdegrafl; of Orange county, and died in 1866. in his seventieth year. Charles N. was educated in the common schools, and in 1854 he married Ruth, daughter of Sherman H. Rose, by whom he had three children; Frank H., Burton S., and Mrs. Helen Beekman. Charles N. is one of the representative busi- FAMILY SKKTCriES. 131 ness men of Steuben county, taking an intelligent interest in educational anther, her family will never cease to mourn her loss. Powers, Edward, was born in Newark, N. J., November 8, 1857. John Powers, the father of Edward, is a native of Ireland, and came to this country in 1847. He learned the trade of tailor in his native land, and was located in Newark until 1868. That year he removed to Dunkirk, where he entered the employ of Mead McCamp- bell & Co., and continued in such for about one year, when the firm went out of ex- istence. He then moved to Corning, Steuben county, where he entered the employ of Sam Wellington. Young Edward about this time started to learn the business of his father, under who.se careful training he became an expert tailor, and in 1873 he came to Hornellsville where he entered the employ of Lehman & Ryan, and after- wards with Adsit & Son. He spent one year in Ithaca, and returning to Hornells- ville in 1881, he became a member of the firm of Ryan & Powers, which existed about two years. After this venture Mr. Powers kept a small concern on Main street until his present venture, which he started in 1887. Mr. Powers is the leading tailor of the city and commands a large portion of the trade of the surrounding country; he employs from fourteen to eighteen hands in his shop, which is over his .spacious store on Broad and Canisteo streets. Mr. Powers has always taken an active inter- est in politics, and although being a strong Republican he has been twice elected to represent his w-ard— the third — which is Democratic, as alderman. He was married FAMILY SKETCFIES. 139 in 1879 to Miss Rose O'Connor of Hornellsville, by whom he had five children, three of whom are living: Anna, a student at St. Ann's Academic School; Mary and Frances; John, who died in 1887 at the age of six; and Edward Early, who died in 1891. being only one year old. Smith, Thomas N., was born in the town of Pulteney, August 6, 1844. His father, Philip T. Smith, was a native of Putnam county, son of Thomas Smith, and grand- son of Philip Smith, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Philip T. came to Steuben in 1840, settling in Pulteney, and married Aner, a daughter of Niles Dean, whose ancestors came from England in the " Mayflower. " Mr. and Mrs. Smith had but one child, a son, Thomas N. In 18.")8 they moved to Bath, and in 185 J to the farm near Kanona. Before coming to Steuben county, Mr. Smith was engaged in contracting and building; but after coming here he engaged in farming. He died in 188G, aged eightj-four years. Mrs. Smith died in 1895, aged seventy-five years. Thomas X. was educated at Bath, Painted Post and Prattsburg, and has made an intelligent and scientific study of farming, breeding short-horn cattle and Chester White swine. For the past three years Mr. Smith has served as treasurer of the Steuben County Agricultural Society, and in the fall of 1894 was the Democratic can- didate for county treasurer, but was defeated by his Republican rival. Prentice, Jonathan R., was born in Hancock, New Hampshire, in 1795, and came to Steuben county in 1823 with his father, Henry Prentice, and bought land m the town of Jasper. They returned to New Hampshire, and the following spring he, with his brother, William, returned on foot. They cleared ten acres of land and sowed wheat. They owned together 160 acres, but Mr. Prentice sold his interest and moved on to another section in the valley, where he spent the balance of his life. He was one of the organizers of the township, and was for a number of years the supervisor. He was one of the founders of the First Presbyterian church of the town, and was clerk of the school district for a great many years. He reared a family of three children: Henry C, who went to Kansas, where he died in 1887, at the age of fifty-eight; Mrs. George D. Woodward, of Greenwood, N. Y., and William R. The latter was educated at Alfred Universilj' and remained on the farm until twentv-one. He was three years in the army as a member of the 161st Regt. N. Y. Vols., enlist- mg as a private and rising to first lieutenant, and then captain of Co. H. After ihe war closed he was engaged in mercantile business for eight years, then took up teaching, first at Alfred, and then three years as principal of a grammar school at Elmira, N. V. In 1887 he was engaged to fill the position of superintendent of schools and principal of the academy of Hornellsville, which position he has since occupied. White, William W., was born in the town of Ossian, Livingston county. May 27, 1842. James G. White, his father, was a farmer, and of his family of ten children, William W. was the si.xth. He was given an education in the common schools and at fourteen years of age entered Rogersville Seminary, where he took up the study of medicine with some of the most noted physicians of Steuben and Livingston coun- ties. He taught school for nine years in different towns in Livingston and Steuben counties, and was also one j'ear a teacher in Michigan. He also spent some time lumbering on the Allegany River and then started a market in Dansville. Livingston 146 LAiSTDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. county, which he conducted a year, and then went to Canaseraga where he engaged in the same business. Tne reason we do not find Mr. White in the medical profes- sion was that at the time of the first diphtheria epidemic he was one of the afHicted ones, and by that prevented from entering Ann Arbor University. About this same time he was married, and the cares of having a family were all he could carry. November, 1870, he moved to Hornellsville and established a sewing machine and organ agency, in which he was engaged for about three years. His first experience in real estate business was in Canaseraga about two years, and he continued it after locating in Hornellsville. About 1878 he was elected constable on the Democratic ticket, and held the office about twelve years. He has been twelve years conducting a real estate business in this city, and in 1887 added insurance and an employment agency to his already extensive business He has always been a general dealer in all kinds of real estate, especially Southern; has been notary public for about eight years. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., and retired member of other organiza- tions. March 6, 1861, he married Harriet Scherer of Dansville, by whom he had one child, William W. White, jr., now in his twentj' first year, a student of Hornellsville Business University. An adopted son, John Acker, in his thirtieth year, an em- employee of the Richardson Shoe factory, was for many years a member of his family. He is also an artist of more than usual ability. Pierson, Horace G., was born in Canoga. Seneca county, N.Y., September 24, 1858. Jesse B. Pierson, his father, was in early life interested with his father in wagon and carriage manufacturing, and was afterward interested in the Cayuga Lake Bending Works, of which he was superintendent. He has now retired from active busi- ness. Simeon, the grandfather of Horace, was a native of Morristown, N. J. The family originally were of English stock. In the middle of the seventeenth century a certain Abraham Pierson, a preacher of the gospel, joined a party of Hollanders then about to embark for America. In 1650 the little band landed in New Jersey and called their new home Newark, in remembrance of the old home of their pastor. Rev. Pierson. Thomas Pierson, son of Abraham, was born October 10, 1667, and received his early education from his father afterwards going to Europe to complete his studies. When he returned to America he became the first president of Yale College. His statue maj' now be seen on the college campus. It is through his son Timothy that the subject of this sketch is descended. The ancestors of this family are fitly represented in the present day by Horace G. Pierson. When a man of such ex- emplary habits, business ability, and a mind for the good things of this life is found in these days, it is pleasant to trace those points of character most to be admired in the training and natural tendencies of the early man, to the line, who have long passed away, but who have left behind them that which is more lasting than earthly wealth. The maternal ancestors of Horace G. , by name Mandeville, have long been residents of Seneca county, and the mother is still living. Horace is the oldest of a family of three sons. He was educated in the Union Springs High School, and afterwards attended the William Business College at Rochester, from which he grad- uated in 1877. He was for a short time with his father, and then went as clerk in the drug store of E. M. Hart, at Union Springs, remaining there for two years, he then went with Heermans & Co., at Corning, and was in their employ over five years. In November, 1883, he was married to Julia Alexander, niece of Mrs. Alonzo FAMILY SKETCHES. 141 Gorton of Corning. In January, 1886. he came to Hornellsville and bought the Truesdell drug store on Main street, where he has since been engaged. He has made many improvements in the store; with a discarding of all the old stock and thoroughly filling the store with late pharmaceutical products, Pierson's Pharmacy is to-day the headquarters of everything generally carried in a first-class drug store. December 1, 1893. he bought the drug store at 144 Canisteo street, which he has fitted up, and made the pride of the people of the south -iide. Mr. Pierson has been one of the benefactors of Hornellsville by investing in building and improvements in the residence portion of the city. His social interests are with the First Presbyterian church. Higgins, Justin V. R. , was born on a farm in the town of Hornellsville, December 29, 1854. Russell Higgins, the father of our subject, was a native of Otsego county. When he came to Steuben county he located in the town of Howard and made his home there until about 1850. He then located on a farm en Penn Hill, where he spent the balance of his days, and died there in 1855. Justin was the youngest of a family of seven children, all living to-day. He was given a common school educa- tion, and remained with his mother on the old homestead farm until 1860. Mr. Higgins then bought the Ward farm of twenty acres, and later bought additional land and has increased the farm to 115 acres, on which he raises principally potatoes and grains. Mrs. Higgins died the spring of 1891. Justin was married in 1879 to Miss Mary Ellis, daughter of Albert Ellis of South Dansville. They have one child, Florence E. , now in her fifteenth year. A son of his brother, John Ellis, Roy, forms a part of Mr. Higgins's family. Woodruff, John B., was born in the town of Allegany, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., October 10, 1858. CharlesC. W., thefather of John, was a native of Orange county, born near Graycourt. May 24, 1802. and learned the shoemaker's trade ; after he was of age he came to East Bloomfield, where he married Caroline Reynolds of Spring- water. They went from there to Cleveland, O. , and from there came to Cattaraugus county, where he died, August 16, 1879. Mrs. Woodruff died November 6, 1879. They were the parents of six children. The three living are Clinton D., a farmer and mechanic of Cattaraugus county: Mrs. Mary Pierce of Cattaraugus county, and John B. , our subject. He was educated in the common schools and his first occupa- tion was lumbering and farming, which he followed until the breaking out of the war. August 21, 18()1, he enlisted in the .ith N.Y. Cavalry and served until Decem- ber 16, 1863, then re-enlisted in the same regiment, serving until July 19, 1865. This regiment was in 171 engagements, and was with the Army of the Potomac. At the close of the war he returned to the home of his parents, and November 12, 1865, he removed to the town of Hornellsville and was employed in working a farm on shares until April 25, 1872, when he bought the William McMichael farm of fifty acres, to which he has added twenty acres, now having a fine farm of seventy acres. He was married March 27 1864, to Miss Louisa A. Weatherby, daughter of Richard Weatherby, a farmer and pump manufacturer of Wirt. Mrs. Woodruff died Sep- tember 23, 1894, at fifty -two years of age, leaving four children: Miles S. Woodruff, a farmer; Miss Minerva E., Laura C, and Charles F., who assist in the conducting of the homestead farm. 142 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Parker, Prof. Z. L., was born February 10, IHli), in Charlemont. Franklin county, Mass. Capt. James Parker, his father, was a farmer. He married Lucretia Fales, daughter of Jeremiah Fales, and died at eighty-seven. Zenas L. was the youngest of a family of si.x boys and four girls. He was educated in the common schools and academy of Massachusetts, and after teaching in his native State for eleven years, he came to Ithaca, N. Y., and taught five years in the public school. In 1856 he came to Corning, where he remained as principal of the public schools until 1865, when he came to Bath and had charge of the public school for four years. The Corning and Bath schools became union schools during his administration. He then engaged in fire and life insurance and built up a good business. He was school com- missioner of the First District of Steuben county from 1870 to 1873. In 1888 he was elected to the responsible office of treasurer of Steuben county for three years, and re-elected to the same office, and upon his retirement in 1894, complimentary reso- lutions were passed by the Board of Supervisors in recognition of his long, honest and efficient service to the county. In 1852 he was married to Nancy J. Warfield, daughter of Job Warfield, by whom he had two sons, George H. and Eugene F. Mr. Parker has attained prominence as a poet. In 1892 he was the unanimous choice of the literary committee to deliver the poem at the Centennial Celebration of the foundation of the village of Bath, and for many years he has written a poetical resume of the events of the ending year, which have always been received with favor. Many are the events and occasions, the history of which he has reduced to verse, long to be remembered by the present generation and which will make his name lasting to the generations to come. In early life Mr. Parker became active in church work, and from 1857 to the present time has been an elder in the Presbyterian church, first in Corning and for the last twenty-five years in Bath, where his religious character and his able advocacy of temperance, morality and religion, have given him a wide and lasting influence. Jack, Allan T., was born March 15, 1831, and is a sim of William and Hannah (Giffe) Jack, who came to Thurston from Maryland in 1820. They were the parents of nine children: James, William, John, Harvey, Allan T., Christie, Mary Barrett, Rachel Rumsey, and Harriet Martin. William Jack in early life \va.s a cooper, but he afterwards became a farmer. Allan T. married Loranah, a daughter of George W. Lane, by whom he has four children: Harvey, who graduated from Baltimore Medical College and practices in Canisteo; George N., a graduate of the Buffalo Medical College, practicing in Depew, N. Y. ; Griffe W. , a fanner; and Lucile, de- ceased. Allan T. is engaged in farming and owns about 100 acres of land. In early life he followed lumbering and railroading. Schutz, William, was born January 1, 1842. Daniel Schutz, father of William, was born in Germany in 1802. In Germany, March 1, 1838, he married Catherine Leibenguth, who was born in Germany, in 1807, and they emigrated to America in the same year and settled in Wayland on the place where his son now resides. He was a glazier by trade but followed farming in Wayland. They had four children: Daniel, who was born January 3, 1839; Margaret, who was born July 25, 1840, wife of Frederick Wagner, and resides in Ossian. They have eight children: Peter, Catherine (deceased), William, John, Fred, Daniel, Margaret, and Emma; William, as above; and Jacob, who was born April 15, 1844, and resides in Naples. William FAMILY SKETCHES. 143 Schutz received a common school education and has been a great reader of current literature. He engaged in farming until 1863, when he enlisted in Co. B (Captain Parsons), 97th Regt. N. V. Vols. (Col. Charles C. Whelock, of Oneida county). He took part in the following battles; Wilderness and all the battles of Army of Potomac to Lee's surrender, siege of Petersburg, and Appomattox, where Lee sur- rendered. Mr. Schutz has held several town offices, and has held the office of justice of the peace fourteen years, elected the fourth term. He is a member of Wayland Lodge No. 17(), I.O.O.F., also a member of Theodore Schlick Post, G.A.R., No. :il4. February 6, 1868, at Wayland, N.Y., he married Louisa Folts, who was born in Way- land, May 10, 1847, by whom he had eight children: Katie, born Decembers, 1868, and married William J. Brown, jr., they have one child. Pearl; William, born May 22, 1870; Lizzie, born January 1, 1872; John, born September 28, 1873; Louisa, born March 26, 1875; Daniel, born June 14, 1878; Herman, born April 4, 1881; and Amelia, born April 23, 1885. Bardeen, Jennie, was born September 17, 1846. Her father, Simeon Clark, was born in Genoa, Cayuga county, in 1820. He moved to Ohio, then returned east and settled in Howard, where he died June 21, 1873. He married Adaline Davy, who was born September 3, 1825. Jennie Bardeen was educated in Hornellsville, and July 30, 1865, she married George Bardeen, who was born at Prattsburg, August II, 18:i4, and died February 1, 1892. He was a carpenter by trade, but fol- lowed farming as a business, and had a farm of 100 acres, located on Big Creek. His father, Lybbyna Bardeen, was born in Otsego county, and came to Prattsburg, thence to Kanona, and from there he located on a farm at Big Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Bardeen had eight children: Minnie B., born November 26, 1866; Addie, born May 12, 1868; Myrtle born July 17, 1869, and died Januaay 8, 1870; Lybbyna, born August 26, 1873; Earl, born April 14, 1875, and died June 12, 1876; Deatton, born July 13, 1879; Leon, born September 25, 1881; and Glenn, born April 21, 188.5. Mr, Bardeen's first wife was Eliza Leonard, by whom he had one child, William, who was born in Howard. Nold, George, was born in the province of Fulda, Germany, January 19, 1850, where he attended the schcols for seven years. At eighteen years of age he emi- grated to this country and settled in Perkinsville, town of Wayland, where he worked at shoemaking for John Ritz for four years, having previously worked at the trade for four years in the old country. In 1872 he rented the Zimmerman store on Najjles street, employed two men, and carried on business there for two years. In 1874 he bought the store on East Naples street, which he now occupies, of Ira Bush, for *!1,00(', and employed from two to four men for nine years, when the building burned, and he erected the first brick building in Wayland, and carried on the boot and shoe business. In 1884-85 he held the office of town clerk, was again elected in 1893, and again in 1894 for a term of two years. He has been one of the trustees of the Way- land Union School for three years, is a member of the C. M. B. A., Branch No. 101, and has been president of the Wayland Dime Saving & Loan Association, which was incorporated March, 1888, with assets of S80,(j00, for seven years. At Perkins- ville, June 4, 1871, he married Mary Ritz, who was born June 4, 1853, in Perkinsville, y W'honi he had these children: Anna, who was born May 1, 1873; Maggie, who was born November 20, 1874; Joseph, who was born January 16, 1876; Katie, who 144 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. was born July SJ, 1878; Ida, who was born April 3, 1881; Lena, who was born May 21, 1883; and Edward who was born September 1, 1885. Joseph works at the trade with his father Mrs. Nold died July 10, 1893, and he married second Frances E. Bick, born September 6, 1852, daughter of Valentine and Mary Bick. Her parents kept the Bick House and for some time the Exchange Hotel. At the time of her marriage Mrs. Nold was employed at the Jacksor^ Sanitarium, DansviUe. Northrup, Alfred, was born in Newton, Sussex count}', N. J., January 2, 1826. He was a son of Joseph Northrup, born near Newton in 1801, and grandson of Moses Northrup, who was born in Connecticut and came to New Jersey where he died. Joseph Northrup married Alice Van Sands, of Connecticut, coming to Rathbone in 1826. The journey was made in a heavy two horse wagon, taking fifteen days; when they reached the Canisteo river, at a place called Sanders, there they took off half the load and with a man at each wheel with a hand-spike to hold the wheels so the horses could rest every few minutes, and the mother walking and carrjdng the child Alfred, they started up the hill. After going about six miles over terrible rough and muddy roads, they arrived at the door of the only house on the hill, where lived a Mr. Finch. The house was of logs, the floor was of split logs, but there was a glow- ing fire on the hearth, and warm hearts and loving hands to minister to the needs of the now fainting mother. Here they remained until they could put up a house for themselves. The next year Thomas Allen, wife and four children, Elexander Camp- bell, wife and four children, John Hull, wife and two children, also, two hired men, came from New Jersey, and in Mr. Northrup's house of two rooms they all lived for more than three weeks, while they built for themselves homes in the wilderness. It was twenty miles to the nearest flouring mills, and the forests abounded in deer, bear, wolves, wild-cats and rattle-snakes. The children of to-day can scarcely realize what privations and hardships their ancestors had to endure in order to leave them homes of comfort and even luxury. Joseph Northrup remained for ten years, then returned to New Jersey, where he died thirty-two years later, after accumulating a handsome property. He sold his farm in Rathbone to his brother, Benjamin, of New Jersey. Alfred was ten years old when he returned to New Jersey with his father, but when twenty-six years old returned to Rathbone and settled on the farm now owned by his widow, consisting of 212 acres. Here Mr. Northrup died September 28, 1891. De- cember 12, 1852, he married Lucy J., daughter of Zachariah and Anna (Wadsvvorth) Cutting, natives of Onondaga county. N. Y. Mr. Cutting came to Cameron in 1846, where he died. His wife died in Rathbone in 1877. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Northrup; Joseph, of Cameron; Clara D., wife of Willard Talbot, ., was born in Massachusetts, September 21, 1807, and grew to manhood in Pratt.sburg, where he spent his life farming and lumbering. He married Samantha Curtis of Massachusetts, by whom he had two children, Charles D. and Joel C. His first wife died, and in March, 18;-9, he married for his second wife, Clarissa Weld, a native of Delaware county, by whom he had nine children: Ada, Hart D., Adelia, Weld and Willard (twins), Hannah, Bradley, Isadore, and Ithel. He died in 1867, and his wife May 10, ]H9.5. Hart D. Graves began life as a farmer, and at twenty- one years of age started for himself, and in connection with his farming has for many years dealt extensively in stock, and since 1S7.") has added to his other interests the breeding from Lexington stock thoroughbred race horses. He and his wife now own three large farms, and in 1880 he moved with his family to the village of Pratts- burg, where he purchased a residence and retired from his more active life, attend- ing to his business interests in the village. In 1865 he married Mary, daughter of Josiah and Mary E. (Williams) Putnam, by whom he had five children: Carrie L., wife of Geo. W. Howe of Prattsburg, Lina C, Mrs. O.lella Cook, of Prattsburg, Dwight W., and H. Dana. Clark, John J., was bom in Wheel-^r, in July, 1887. John Clark, his grandfather, was a native of Massachusetts, and came to Wheeler in 1806 and settled on a tract of 200 acres of land, for which he paid in part by cutting a road six miles through the forest, and later he cleared this land. He reared a family of six children, and died at seventy-five years of age. John Clark, his father, was born in Wheeler, on the homestead, in 1809, where he devoted his whole life to farming, and accumulated 146 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTT. some property. He was eccentric, but kind and generous to the poor and needy. He was a member of the State militia, and was openly oppcsed to secret societies. He married Phoebe Upthegoes, by whom he had two children : Anna, deceased, and John J. He died in 1884, and his wife in 1847. John J. began life as a farmer on the farm on which both he and his father were born, which he conducted for twenty years, and also had charge of farms in Wheeler and Prattsburg, and in 1886 he moved to his Prattsburg farm. He has for many years been interested in the breeding of horses, and still owns the homestead farm. He is a member of the Masonic fratern- ity, Prattsburg Lodge, No. 583. In 18r)8 he married Persis, daughter of Darwin and Mary (Archibald) Cheeney, by whom he had one child, Anna. Mrs. Clark was a member of the Star Masons, in which she took an active interest. She died in 1891. Hopkins, Mark H., was born in Prattsburg, Steuben county, N. Y., in March, 1855. His great-grandfather, Capt. Consider Hopkins, was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1723. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and died m 1795. He was a descendant of one of two brothers by name of Hopkins, who came from England. His grandfather, Mark Hopkins, was also bom in Hartford, and removed to Oneida county, thence to Prattsburg in 1806, and settled on the farm which is scill owned by the family, where he built a log house, and in 1814 erected the frame house which is now occupied by Mark H. and his mother. He was one of the founders of the Franklin Academy and one of the trustees for many years. He married Lydia Merrill, by whom he had two children; Elisha and Lydia. Mrs. Hopkins died in 1794, and in February, 1802, he married for his second wife, Sarah Kellogg, by whom he had seven children: Ralph, Erastus, Eliza C, Emily M., Ralph W., Joseph Mark, and Hiram. He died in 1843, and his wife in 1852. Joseph Mark Hopkins, father to Mark H., was also born on this farm in Prattsburg, April 19, 1815. He received a fair education in the common schools and at Franklin Academj- where he taught one term, and for many years after reaching his majority, on account of ill health, he spent but little time on the farm. He was early identified with the society of Odd Fellows, and was district deputy grand master in 1853-54, and visited officially the various lodges of the county, and prior to that time had represented the society in the Grand Lodge of Northern New York several times. March 30, 18 "4, he married Laura A., daughter of Henry G. and Laura (Hopkins) Linsley of Prattsburg, who was born October 26, 1831, and by whom he had three children; Mark H., Charles E., of Syracuse, and Harriet E. In July, 1860. he became a member of the Masonic fraternity in Prattsburg, and for ten years following the death of his father he was trustee of Franklin Academy, and took much interest in educational matters. He was prominently identified with the Prattsburg Grange Lodge from time to time since its organization in 1874, was for several years elected master, and was worthy master of Steuben County Council. In January, 1879, also in 1880 he was elected president of the Steuben County Agri- cultural Society, and a few years later he was elected an honorable. He died Feb- ruary 10, 1893. Mark H. Hopkins continued to conduct the large farm of over 200 acres, where he has spent his life, with the exception of some little time spent in traveling in the Southern and Western States. He is one of the charter members of the Prattsburg Grange, of which he was for ten years secretary, and is past-master, and in 1888 was vice-president of the Steuben County Agricultural Society. Drake, ^L L., was born in Jasper December 23, 1852, son of Allen and Lucinda FAMILY SKETCHES. 147 (Andrew) Drake, he a native of New Jersey, born March 3, 1810, and she of Steuben county. The grandfather. Peter Drake, came to Jasper in 1829, where he died in 1862, aged sixty-five years. Allen Drake, father of M. L. , was a farmer and owned 700 acres of land, and was an exter.sive wool dealer. He died February 27, 188), and his wife survives and resides with her son. M. L. Drake was reared on a farm, ed- ucated in the common schools and WoodhuU Academy, after which he engaged in farming. He now owns 200 acres of land, a part of the old homestead, and follows general farming. He is a member of Jasper Tent No. 100, K. O. T. M. December 31. 1873, he married Emma WycofF of Jasper, by whom he had three children: Eddie A., Blanche, and Farley W. Dennis. Andrew F., was born in Jasper, N. Y., March 21, 1847, son of Franklin and Martha (Lamson) Dennis. Andrew F. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and Hammondsport Academy. He followed farming and lum- bering, but is now engaged in farming, and owns 500 acres of land. He makes a specialty of stock raising and hay and has about 120 sheep. He is a member of the Banner Lodge of North Jasper, No. 589. In 1870 he married Clara Crossman of Cameron, N. Y , by whom he had three children: Clarabell, born October 28, 1871 ; Anna Dell, born November 28, 1872; and Oscar Ray, born May 15. 1883. Dearlove, Charles Wilber, was born in Italy. Yates county, N. Y., in 1845, son of William Dearlove, a native of Yorkshire, England, born in 1789, who came to the United States in 1816 and settled in Geneva. In 1847 he located in Steuben county, where he spent his last days. He was a Republican and Abolitionist and interested in the underground railway. His wife was Sarah, daughter of William Swales, of England who came to the United States and settled on w-hat is now the " Experi- mental " farm at Geneva, N. Y. Their children were William, George, Mary, John, Charles, and Annie. He died in 1888, aged 90, and his wife in 1891, aged 80. Will- iam and Charles are the only surviving members of this family. Mr. Dearlove's first occui ation was as a fireman in a saw mill, and tw'O years later he engaged in farm- ing, to which he has since devoted his time. He now owns his father's homestead and the farm on which he resides, and he makes a specialty of a large variety of pota- toes, on which he has established a State reputation, taking the first premiums at many of the fairs on both quality and variety. He is a Prohibitionist, and in 1893 was appointed county statistician, which office he now hold-s. In 1866 he married Erva, daughter of George Barnes, and their children are: John, Leona, Erva, George, and Bessie. Mr. and Mrs. Dearlove are members of the Prattsburg P. of H., No. 112, of which he has been master for several years. He is also a member of the I. O. G. T. Their son John has taught school during the winter terms for the past eight years, is an active worker in the temperance cause, and is county chief of the I. O. G. T. Orcutt, James D., senior partner of the drug firm of Orcutt & Loomis, was born in the town of Erwin, July 24, 1853. His father, Daniel Orcutt, established the drug business in Painted Post in the year 1856, and was doing a thriving business at the time of his death, under the name of D. Orcutt & Son. James D. continued the business after the death of his father, and in 1883 admitted Mr. Fred H. Loomis in partnership, since which time the firm has been known under the name Orcutt & 148 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTI?'. Loomis. Since early manhood Mr. Orcutt has been identified with all the mo\-e- ments for the advance of the affairs of the town and village, holding from time to time various offices of honor and responsibility. Harris, Joseph, of the firm of J. Harris & Sons, composed of Joseph, Marcus, and H. T. Harris. J. Harris came to Hornellsville in 1869. He is a native of Krakau, Austria, and came to this country in 1852 when thirty-one years of age. He was first located in New Orleans, from there going to Corning, X. Y.. where he, together with B. Erlich, established a dry goods store under the firm name of Harris & Erlich, and in 1868 they removed to Elmira in the same business. In 1869 the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Harris coming to Hornellsville and establishing a store at the location now occupied by F. B. Alley for cafe. The business was continued at this location until February, 1890, when it was moved to the brick and brown-stone block on the south side of Main street, which was built specially for the firm's occupancy, and which is at present the largest and finest store building in the city. In 1858 Joseph Harris was married to Eliza Erlich, by whom he had nine children. On the other two members of the firm the management of the business now largely devolves. Both are members of Fraternal Societies; Mr. H. T. Harris being present master of Evening Star Lodge Xo. 44 F. & A. M., one of the oldest in the State. Brown, William H. — John H. Brown was born in the town of Wheatland, Monroe county, March 8, 1823. James W. Brown, his father, was a native of Tyrone, Ire- land, and came to the United States in the memorable year of 1812, and was an eye- witness of the battle between the Constitution and Guerriere. He first settled in Monroe county, where he worked at his trade as a miller, which business he followed all his life, and where he died in 1834 at the age of fifty-five years. He married Jane Hughey of Cavan county, Ireland, by whom he had seven children: Susan, Will- iam, John, Mary, James. Robert, and Joseph. John H. Brown is a farmer and lum- berman, and married Anna E., si.ster of Dr. Jamison of Hornellsville, by whom he had SIX children, Marianna, John D., Minnie, William H., Jennie, and Laura. Will- iam H. is the owner of the homestead, and married Annetta Farnham, by whom he had six children: Goldy, Rebecca. Ira, Anna, Ruth, and Harry. John H. Brown has filled the office of supervisor for two terms, and served several terms as highway commissioner and justice of the peace. Olmsted. Hiram, was born in Masonville. Delaware county, X. Y., March 29, 1827, and is the seventh of twelve children born to William R. and Elizabeth (Holmes) Olmsted; he a native of Sidney, Delaware county, N. Y., and she of Chenango county. William R. was a farmer and lumberman and settled in Addison in 1831, and in Troupsburg in 18 S8, where he died in March, 1867, and his wife in March, 1873. Hiram Olmsted was reared on the farm and assisted his father in the lumber business while young, but has always made farming his principal occupation, hav- ing made a specialty of sheep raising and dairy farming. In 1862 he married Laura, daughter of William and Olive M. (Bartoo) Tenbroeck, both of Chenango county, who came to Troupsburg in 1840 where they engaged in farming. Later they re- moved to Moreland, Schuyler county, where Mrs. Tenbroeck died in 1881. Mr. Ten- broeck now resides in Corning, X*. Y. By patient industry and prudent living Mr. and Mrs. Olmsted have made a success of their chosen occupation, and are now well- Family sketceies. us to-do and very highly respected by all who know them. Mr. Olmsted's great-great- grandfather fought in the war of the Revolution, and was made a commissioned officer because of the valiant service he rendered his country. Mr. Olmsted comes naturally by a strong national spirit, having inherited it from his ancestors who par- ticipated in the struggle for national freedom. He has always been a strong believer in the principles of the Republican party, and was supervisor of his town in 1889-90, filling this as well as other positions of trust with entire credit to himself. Mr. aud Mrs. Olmsted have two children: Albert H., who is in business in Rochester, N. Y.. and Mary, who is a successful teacher. Albert H. was married in 1894 to Sarah Grace, daughter of Marcus Marcellus and Sarah Adelia (Hurd) Cass of Wat- kins, Schuyler county, N. Y. Gorton, William, son of Silas, was born in the town of Corning, in 1822. The grandfather, Peleg Gorton, was one of the original six purchasers of the town ; he resided in Rensselaer county and was killed by a runaway team before he could move here. William has always been a farmer, and since 1881 has owned and re- sides on what is known as the old Gibson farm. In 1863 he married Helen Thomp- son, also a native of Steuben county, and they have had five children: William H. Clay, who died in 1880, aged sixteen years; Robert L. ; Silas; Wesley; and Agnes. Walker, J. E., M.D., onlj' surviving son of H. L. Walker, formerly farmer and brick-maker of Nunda, N. Y- Received k common school education, subsequently attended State Normal School at Geneseo. Commenced teaching at sixteen, en- tered the office of Dr. A V Walkins as medical student at eighteen years of age. Graduated from Cincinnati Medical College in 187(). Commenced practice in Ark- port immediately after. Spent the winter of 1883 and 1884 in New York in post- graduate work. Did an extensive general practice until 1892, when he sold out his drug store and bu.siness and went to Buffalo. Was physician at the Sterlingworth Sanitarium for a j'ear. Went abroad for special work in 1893. Took courses in bacteriolo£fy and microscopy in King's College, London, also worked in the Bromp- ton Hospital, for diseases of the chest, for .some time. Visited the hospitals of Paris and Cologne. Spent a short time in Berlin, going from there to Vienna, where he remained some months doing special work. Was made a member of the Interna- tional Medical Congress at Rome in 1894. Returning home he made a tour of the United States, going through nearly every State in the Union and visiting all the health resorts from the Atlantic to the Pacific, studying the climatology of each. He is now superintendent of the Steuben Sanitarium of Hornellsville He is a member of the Hornellsville Medical and Surgical Association, Steuben County Medical Society, New York State Medical A.ssociation, also the American Medical Associa- tion, a member of Hornellsville Lodge F. and A. M., Steuben Chapter, Demolay Commandery, and a noble of Ismalia Temple, Buffalo. Hill, n. B. , was born in the town of Fleming, April 20, 18;i7, and is the third of seven children born to Cyrus B. and Candace (Bierce) Hill; she of Delaware and he of Cayuga county, N. Y. The grandparents, James and Phoebe (Spencer) Hill, came from Cayuga county to Troupsburg when the county was new. He spent his last days in Canisteo where he died in 1871 ; shs died in Troupsburg in 1859. He was a soldier in 1812. The great-grandfather, Eleazer Hill, came from the east and was a 150 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. pioneer of Cayuga county. Cyrus B. Hill, father of H. B., came to Troupsburg in 1843, and settled on a farm. He .spent his last days with his son, where he died in September, 1889. Mrs. Hill died in 1875. H. B. Hill has always followed farming, and now owns a farm of fifty-one and one-half acres. In 1846 he married Mary, daughter of Ambrose and Caroline E. {Bonney)Conkey, by whom he had one daugh- ter, Armie M. The grandfather, Luke Bonney, was one of the first settlers of Bon- ney Hill which was named for him. Ambrose Conkey was a phj'sician and notion peddler. Mr. Hill enlisted April 29, 1861, in Company I, 19th N. Y- Vols., which regiment was transferred to the 3d N. Y. Artillery, June 2. 1863. He was at Wash- ington, Williamsport, Harper's Ferry, and Fredericksburg, taking part in the en- gagements at Fort Macon, Goldsboro, Whitehall, and many other skirmishes. He is a member of Post Bailey, No. 351, G. A. R. Dillenbeck, Stephen, was born in the town of Stark, Herkimer county. March 2, 1830. Jonas M., his grandfather, a farmer, whose parents were from Holland, reared six sons and four daughters: Isaac, Jacob, Abraham, Jonas, Moses and Solo- mon, Betsey, Mary, Susan, and Laura. Isaac, his father, was born in Herkimer county, and came to the town of Wheeler in 1841, where he purchased a partly cleared farm, on which he lived the remainder of his life. He was a member of the Lutheran church. He married Anna, daughter of Peter House, who was a soldier m the Revolution, and their children were, Alexander. Mary, Aaron, Peter, Stephen, Catherine, Lana Ann, Cornelius and Isaac. He died in 1880, aged eighty-two, and his wife, in 1866, aged sixty-six years. Stephen engaged in farm work when eight- een years old, which he followed for several years, and in 1860 he purchased his present farm of eighty acres, which at that time was thickly covered with heavy timber, but which he has since cleared and cultivated. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Co. I, 161st New York Vols., and served until the close of the war, having partici- pated in the battles of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Cane River, and several minor engagements, and during the siege of Port Hudson he was doing detail duty at Ba- ton Rouge. He lay sick with the typhoid fever in the LTnited States hospital at New York for three months, and suffered with other ailments while in the South. After his return from the war he devoted his attention to farming, and since 1886 has raised many fine grade Jersey cattle. He is a member of Marcy G. A. R. Post, at Avoca, of which he has been chaplain six years. He is now a member of the Avoca Methodist church, but for thirty years or more has been an official member of Wheeler church. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry J. Eckles, a native of Herkimer county, January 22, 1856, and their children are George F., who was a teacher in the country and village school but is now a farmer; Rose Ellen; Henry I., a widower, having one son and two daughters; Bertha J. ; Charles G. ; and John C. Mrs. Dillenbeck is also an active member of the Methodist church. Cole, Hiram L., was born in Greenwood, in July, 1856, son of David D. Cole of Howard, who came to Greenwood in 1853, where he resided until 1894. He mar- ried Harriet Bunker of Tompkins county, in 1853, who died in 1892, by whom he had four children. He married for his second wife, Mrs. Earbar, widow of John Barbar of Fremont, and now resides at Fremont on a farm of 100 acres. He also owns 188 acres in Greenwood. Hiram L. Cole has always been engaged in farming and deal- ing in fast horses, and has owned Lemington, Lady Proctor, Nina, and many others. FAMtLY SKETCHES. lol In 1880 he married Cora Case, who died in 1887, by whom he had one daughter, Hattie. He married for his second wife Octavia Cole of Wellsville by whom he had one son, Lloyd, born June 4, 1889. Mr. Cole is a Democrat. Cameron, Rev. Duncan Cameron, the present pastor of the Presbyterian church of Canisteo, was born Pictou county. Nova Scotia, November 80, 185.5. He was edu- cated at Pictou Academy, N. S., Wabash College, Indiana, Dalhousie College, Halifax, N. S., and Auburn Theological Seminary, Auburn, N. Y., where he grad- uated in 18.S4. After his graduation he spent three years in missionary service in South America. On his return in 1878 he settled in Canisteo. In February, 1888, he was married to Frances A., daughter of the well-known Prof. Mortimer L. Brown of Auburn, who founded and conducted the Young Ladies' Institute of that city for over thirty years. Webster, George M., was lx>rn in Owego, Tioga county, X. Y., October :!, 1855, and is the youngest of five children born to M. L. and Elizabeth A (Johnson) Webster: Charles L. who was a member of Co. K, 52d Mass. Vol. Militia, F. ,S. Greenleaf, commanding officer, and died at Baton Rouge July 10, 18C3; Mary K., Sarah M., Odell G., and George M. M. L. Webster was a contractor and builder in Owego, N.Y; was born in Yermont, February 28. 1802; died March 26, 1881. Eliza- beth A. was born in the city of New York, August 31, 1816. George M. was reared in Owego, N. Y., obtained his education in the Owego Academy, and here com- menced his business career as assistant bookkeeper in the hardware store of Houk, Dougherty & Truesdell, after which he was bookkeej^er for Keeler & Houk, contrac- tors and builders. He was then in the Tioga county clerk's office for six years, then for ei.ghteen months in the china store of Sweet & Wilson, representing Mr. Wilson in settling up the business. He was next bookkeeper for the wholesale house of Thompson & Parkhurst of Flmira, N. Y., for which firm he traveled for two years. In May, 1886, he bought out G. D. Woodward of Greenwood and has since been en- engaged in general mercantile business. Is also interested in farming. Mr. W. is a member of Sentinel Lodge, F. & A. M. No. 151, also of Tent No. 110, K. O. T. M. On January 7, 1886, he married Mary A., oldest daughter of John and Laura A. (Osborn) Davis. John Davis was born in Dryden, N.Y., October 10, 18.4. Laura A. was born in Owego, N.Y., NovemberlS, 1830, died July 26, 1889. He came to Green- wood with his father, Levi, in 1825, when he grew up and became the foremost man of the town. He was a Democrat and though in a Republican town, he was super- visor for eleven years and in 1870 was elected member of assembly. He died October 25, 1S83. Mr. and Mrs. Webster have two children: George D., born March 28, 1H89, and Clarence L., born June 19. 1890. Huber, Rev. Aloysius L., born in Zeilarn. Bavaria. Germany, May 9, l,s: 2. He studied a cla.ssical course at Passau for seven years, in a Koenigl. Studienanstalt, a royal institution of the city of Passau, where he remained until 1883. At twenty-one years of a.ge he emigrated to America and finished his theological studies in St. \'in- cent's Seminary, Westmoreland county, Pa. In 1889, when he was ordained priest, he acted as assistant priest for one year and three months in St. Boniface church, Buffalo. N. Y., and was rector of three different missions: Strykersville one year, Bennmgtou Center and East Bennington for one year. January 14, 1893, he was 152 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. appointed by the bi«;hop as rector of the Sacred Heart church of Perkinsville, N. Y. This village is named after Mr. Perkins, the first settler of the place, which is hoped to be progressing on account of the new Portland Cement Works. Park, John M., was born in Broome county, February T, 1826, son of Henry and Ann (Holden) Park, he a native of Dutchess county, and she of England. Mr. and Mrs. Park both died in Broome county, aged sixty-one and fifty-five respectively. The grandfather, Rufus Park, was a native of Dutchess county, but died in Broome county. Henry Park was a farmer bj' occupation. John M. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He was engaged in lumbering for ten years, but for the last ten years has lived in WoodhuU. He lived in Addison and Rathbone before coming to Woodhull. In 1855 Mr. Park married Sarah A., daughter of Jacob and Arvilia (Nichols) Cole, he a native of Washington county, and she of Oneida. They came to Addison at an early date and died in 1873 and 1867 respectively, Mr. and Mrs. Park have two children : Emma, a stenographer of Harrisburg, Pa.; and Henry, who married Mary Youngs, of Rathbone, by whom he has one son, Harry. Brasted, Orlando W., was born in the town of Howard on the farm he now owns and occupies, January 30, 1853, son of Levi W. Brasted, who was born in the town Howard on the farm owned by his father, John C. Brasted, one of the pioneer settlers of the town. John C. Bra., was born in the town of Richmondville, Schoharie county, N. Y., March 20, 1860. He was educated in the common schools and Utica Business College. His first occupation after leavmg school was bookkeeper for Bacon & Pillmore, of Rome, N. Y., which position was held by him for several years. In 18S,5 he became one of the proprietors of a general store in the village of New York Mills, under the firm name of Wilson & Waldorf. After conducting this business for two years, he sold out his interest and entered the employ of the Pullman Palace Car Com- pany, where he remained one year. After leaving the Pullman Company he ac- cepted a pi>sition as cashier for the Wells, Fargo Express Company, at Hornellsville, N. Y. The spring of 1S91 he resigned, to accept a position as bookkeeper with the Hornellsville Water Company. In June, 189;), he was elected a member of the board of directors, and made superintendent, which positions he now holds. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1890, Hornellsville Lodge 331, F. & A. M. ; Steuben Chapter 101, R. A. M. ; Hornellsville Council S.'i, R. and S. M. ; DeMolay Commardery 22. Knights 'iemplar; and has for the past four years acted as organist for all the Masonic lodges in the city of Hornellsville; also is recorder of Hornells- ville Council 35, R. and ^. M., and DeMolay Commandery 22, Knights i emplar; a member of Orient Tent 21, K. O. T. M. ; Samuel Campbell Council 1090, Royal Ar- canum : and Park Methodist Church. hebruary 10, l!-86, he married Lizzie J. Hughes, of New York Mills, by whom he has three children: William Edward, jr., Walter H., and Mable Edna. Page, Ebenezer, was born in tlie town of Scio, Allegany county, N, Y , December 19, 1S47, the oldest son of Charles and Matilda Mayeron Page, a farmer and now a resident of Hornellsville. Ebenezer was given a common school education, and be- came a farmer by occupation. In his twenty-second year he bought the old home- stead farm in West Almond, and conducted that until January, 1879, when he ex- changed it for one half of the old McBurney farm of 165 acres, and has added to this by the purchase of the John Santee farm of 100 acres, and also owns 100 acres pur- chased of the Hartshone estate in the fall of 1894. In June, 1^89, he bought sixty- two acres of the Jeff McGee farm on lot 10, and also owns 100 acres on Crosby Creek, purchased of the Oliver Cleveland estate. Mr. Page has always conducted a dairy farm, and now has (ifty-eight head of stock, besides nine horses. He conducts a milk route in Hornellsville. Mr. Page was married three times, first, to Clara, a daughter of Oliver Cleveland, who died in May, 1876. His second wife was Elethra Cleveland, sister of his first wife, and her death occurred March 26, 1892. The pres- ent Mrs. Page was Mary L. Orvis, daughter of Daniel H. Orvis, of this town. He has two children: Clara A., a student of Hornellsville Academy, and Frederick, a student of Bryant School. Durnian, Richard, was born in Tyrone, Ireland, April 13, 1835, and came to the 164 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. United States in 1850 and settled in the town of Bath. In ISOO he married Elizabeth L., daughter of James T. Stewart, by whom he had two children, A. C, and Adelle. In 1857 he bought the Dunsmore lot, in 18G1 the Amos Tanner lot, and in 1878 the Jesse S. Aber farm, having 155 acres of farm land, and making a specialty of raising stock, and buying, feeding, and shipping same to New York. Mrs. Durnian died in 1890, and for his second wife he married Rosamond M.. daughter of Isaac Ross. Fancett, Samuel R. , was bom in Bath, September 15, 1856. His father, Richard, was born December 8, 1809, in County Mayo, Ireland, and came to Bath in 1838. He married Fannie, daughter of Roberts. Fancett, December 29, 1842. He was a farmer by occupation and greatly respected by all who knew him. He died August o, 1888, aged seventy-nine years. September 29, 1886, Samuel R. married Emma, daughter of John Hall, by whom he has two daughters, Florence D. and Mabel B. Mr. Fan- cett is one of the leading farmers of the town. Rosa, Andrew Yates, was born Schenectady, N. Y., in 1828, son of John Rosa, born in 1808, a contractor, who built considerable of the Erie Canal. He built the old basin at Schenectady and assisted in building the New York Central Railroad. He married Mary Eliza, daughter of Andrew Yates, of Glenville, Schenectady c-ounty, and their children were Andrew, Deborah, Harriet (deceased), J. E. and John Rosa. He died in 1841, and his wife in 1866. Andrew's grandfather, James Rosa, a native of Schenectady, was a stage superintendent, and in later years became assistant superintendent of the Albany and Schenectady horse railroad. He took charge of buying the horses and hiring the men. Andrew has led an active life, having been for twenty- eight years a locomotive and steamboat engineer, and engineer in Sacra- mento valley in California. At the age of seventeen he entered the Thomas Rogers locomotive works, at Paterson, N. J., where he served his apprenticeship, since which tune he has served in the shops of the New York Central Railroad, also as engineer, and later as engineer on the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Rail- roads, and numerous other roads. During 1865-66 he was engineer on the steam propeller, James McBride Davison, which plied between Wilmington and Fort Fisher and Cape Ann River for the government. In 1867 Mr. Rosa journeyed to California via Panama, where he engineered and served for a time as foreman of railroad shops stationed at Wadsworth, Nevada. In 1869 he returned to Schenectady as engineer on the New York Central, and in 1871 came to Prattsburg and located on his present farm, but was called to engineer on the Midland River Railway, where he spent three years, thence to Missouri for a time. He then returned to Prattsburg where he has devoted his attention to general farming, and the breeding of Jersey cattle and fine driving horses. In 1862-63 he owned boats on the Erie Canal. He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge in New Albany, Ind. In 1870 he married Mary Jane Brown, of Schenectady. Stephens, Joshua Chapman, was born in Canisteo, May 30, 1816. Nathan Stephens, his father, was born December 8, 1783, and May 11, 1790, came with his father, Jedediah Stephens, to Canisteo and settled on a farm of 400 acres. He married Rachael, daughter of Elisha Gilbert of Addison, by whom he had five children, Elisha G., Jedediah, H. M., Ebenezer C, and Franklin. He lived on afarm, known as lot No. 10, 1st division, until his death, which occurred April 4, 1862. August 3, FAMILY SKETCHES. 165 1845, Joshua C. married Hannah, daughter of Harris Abbe of Canisteo, by whom he had seven children: Ira G., James A., Harris M., Nathan J., Rachel J., Emma H., and Mary M. Three of the sons are carpenters and joiners, and James A. is at home on the farm. A fact worthy of notice is that not one of the sons weighs less than 200 lbs., and is said to be the strongest and most robust family in the town. Mr. Stephens has held the office of supervisor and other minor offices, and is a mem- ber of Morning Star Lodge of Masons, No. 65, also of Steuben Chapter. Hall, Alexander, was born in Campbellford, Ontario, June 21, 1862, the son of James Hall, a farmer of that town. Alexander was educated in the public schools of his native town, and after spending a short time on the farm and as a maker of cheese, he took up the study of dentistry in the fall of 1889 in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, at Cincinnati, graduating from there with the degree of D. D. S. March 9, lf<92. He first began the practice of his profession at his home in Ontario, where he remained until May 5, 189:{, on which date he located in Hfirnellsville where he established an office at 59 Main street, where he has made rapid advance- ment in the good will of the people and a rapidly increasing practice proves his ability as an honored member of the profession. He was married, December 21, 1892, to Miss Nettie McCann. They have one child, Mary Lewella Hall in her sec- ond year. The winter of 189:J-94 Dr. Hall spent at the Ohio Medical University as general demonstrator on operative and posthetic dentistry. Mackie, Frank G., was born in the town of Avoca, July 15, 1855, son of Robert Mackie, who was bom in Glasgow, Scotland, and came to the United States in 1820, and first settled with his father, William Mackie, in Paterson, N. J., and in 1824 came to Avoca, Steuben county, where he has since resided on a farm of 320 acres, his principal crops being potatoes, barley, rye, and oats. Robert married Jane Howard, and they have two children: Sophia and Frank G. The latter was edu- cated in the town of Avoca, and is a farmer by occupation. He married Hannah, daughter of Joseph Eells, of Avoca. Mr. Mackie has filled the office of assessor for one term. Cram, Mrs. I'ermelia. — The late Simon B. Cram was a native of Chenango county, son of Isaiah Cram, and was raised on a farm in Caton. He served three years in the 50th New York Regt. In 1870 he married Permelia Whitmore. a native of the town of Hornby. He died in 1886, leaving five children : May, Jennette, Roscoe, Preston, and Bertrand. They have a well improved farm of 126 acres. Davis, Daniel, one of West Caton's well known and oldest citizens, tt-asborn in Massa- chusetts in 1816, and in 1838 went to New Orleans, locating in Southern Mississippi, where he followed the trades of carpenter and builder. He then came to Steuben county, locating on his present place, known as the Pail Factory place, where he has since resided. Dexter Davis, a brother, had come here a year before to manufacture lumber and wooden pails, pun:hasing lots number 1 and 24; another brother, Norris, came with Daniel in 1843, and the three continued the business of manufacturing pails for five or six years, when Mr. Davis succeeded to the ownership of the entire place, which he still possesses, excepting forty-five acres. In 1844 he married Ruth Bates, of Ma.ssachu setts, and they have three children: Edwin F., Lucy E., and Mary E. Mr. Davis was justice of the peace previous to 1880 for sixteen years. 166 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Lawrence, F. H., M. D., son of Hiram Lawrence, who was a native of Rochester and one of the first merchants of Hornellsville, was born in Ark port, April 14, 1858. His father, Hiram, married Jane, daughter of James Hill of Bradford county. Pa., removed to Arkport and died in 1867 in his fifty second year. F. H. Lawrence was educated at Rogersville Seminary, was graduated from Alfred University in 1878, and studied medicine with Dr. J. E. Walker, of Arkport N. Y. In 1881 he was grad- uated from Cincinnati Medical College and located in Kanona, N. Y., making a specialty of hernia. In 1892 he married Jessie, daughter of John Bonney. Dr. Law- rence has held the office of postmaster, and is at present a member of the United States Pension Board located at Bath, N. Y. Wilkes, Harriet M. — Robert B. Wilkes was born in Ireland in 1830, and came to the United States in the following year with his parents, Bartholomew and Ann, who settled in Bath. Robert was educated in Bath, and in 1800 married Harriet M., daughter of General F. E. Erwin, by whom he had eight children: Sophia, Mrs. Anna Hunter, Robert B.. H. Jane, Francis E., James S., Mary E., and Samuel E. Robert B. was one of the representative farmers of his town, identified in promoting its best intersts and the welfare of the people, and was elected president of the Steu- ben County Agricultural Society. He died in 1876. Burrell, Allen M., was born in Lansing. Tompkins county, N. Y., April 8, 1828.' He spent his early life on a farm in Greenwood, Steuben county, but later engaged in carriage building with his brother in the village of Greenwood, which business they conducted for seven years; during this time he read law with Hon. Martin Grover and Lewis Simons, who at that time were practicing law at Angelica, Alle- gany county, and in the fall of 18.54 he came to Hornellsville in the oflSce of Hon. John K. Hale, who was then practicing at that place, and in December of the same year was admitted to the bar at Rochester. In June, 1855, Mr. Burrell married Mary A. McClay, whose father conducted a large dairy in West Greenwood, and on May 10, 1860, moved to Canisteo, where he still practices hi.s profession. Mr. and Mrs. Burrell have had seven children, two of whom died when small, and five are now living: Glen, a hardware merchant; Harry, a farmer; Ella, their only daughter, married Fred C. Goff, who is now a stockholder and general manager of a shoe fac- tory at Racine, Wis. : William is engaged in said factory, and Charles is now study- ing law with his father. Stone, James D., was born on the farm he now owns and on which he resides in 1826. James Stone, his grandfather, was a volunteer in the Revolutionary war, and took part in a battle in which the Tories were routed, and during which conflict he was wounded in the hand by a bayonet. Before the war he was a farmer by occu- pation, residing in Montgomery county, and later located in Northumberland county, Pa., and in 1804 removed to Yates county, X. Y., and in 1810 settled in Pulte- ney, where he and his sons cleared a farm of 160 acres. His wife was Tamer Davis, and they reared si.\ sons and two daughters. Mr. Stone died in 1832, aged seventy-eight, and Mrs. Stone in 1833. Thomas Stone, the father of James, was born in Montgomery county in 1790, and came to Pulteney with his father. He served in the War of 1812, and fought at the battle of Queenstown. For some time, while a young man, he cut wood for the salt works at Liverpool, Onondaga county. FAMILY SKETCHES. 167 and finally settled on the farm now owned by James D., which was then a wilder- ness. For many years he was a deacon in the Freewill Baptist church. In 1820 he marrried Betsey, daughter of Joseph and Lydia Stewart, who were pioneers in Pulteney. He died in 1870, and his wife in 1881. James D. has always devoted his time to farming, and has made many improvements on the homestead, and also owns another farm and vineyard of several acres, and for several years was inter- ested e.\tensively in breeding and dealing in sheep. January 24, 1850, he was united in marriage to Jane daughter of JoFin and Martha Harwood, of Prattsburg, and their children are George, of Syracuse, who is in the steam fitting business, Emmet, a farmer in Pulteney; Flora, wife of Charles Hill of Pulteney; and Satie, wife of John McConnell of Pulteney. They are members of the Freewill Baptist church, of which Mr. Stone is deacon, and Mrs. Stone is a member of the Ladies' Aid Society, of which she is secretary and treasurer. In politics Mr. Stone is a Democrat and has served his town as a member of the board of supervisors, constable, collector, and overseer of the poor. Bradley, Thomas, was born in Hammondsport in 1S.")0. He learned the stone and brick mason's trade with his father and located in Cornmg in 1885. Among the many prominent buildings which he has built may be mentioned the new City Hall, Episcopal church, the Drake block of Corning, and Col. John Magee's residence at Watkins Since 1890 he has also had all the stone and bridge work of the Fall Brook Railroad. Patrick Bradley, his father, was a native of Ireland, and located in Steu- ben county in 1844 at Hammondsport, and died in 1890. Barney, Richard \V., was bom in Mount Morris, Livingston county, August 24, 1834. George W. Barney, his father, a direct descendant of Commodore Barney, of Revolutionary fame, was a native of Herkimer county, and came to Livingston county about 1830 and established a mercantile business in Mount Morris which he conducted a great many years. The later years of his life he held the office of post- master, made such by Lincoln and served under Johnson. He was for twelve years superintendent of the poor and insane of Livingston county. He died in June 1884, at seventy-six years of age. Mary Peterson, the mother of our subject, was of Holland descent and a native of Cayuga county, was born in Scipio, February 28, 1814, and is still living in Mount Morris. Of the six children that reached adult age from this union Richard was the oldest son. He was educated in the common schools and Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, now known as the Lima Univer- sity. After finishing his education he spent two years in his father's store, and then was engaged in the same business in the wholesale department in New York city for five years, after which he returned to Mount Morris, where he spent two years as a law student in the office of Hastings Sz Bingham as a means of recreation. The early days of the war he was with Scott's Band in the Army of the Potomac, and in 1862 became a regularly enlisted member of Co. I of the 13Gth N. Y. Vols., going as quartermaster-sergeant. He was transferred to the 17th Vet. Reserves in 1864, and served at headquarters with Col. A. J.Warner till the close of the war, when he was discharged under general orders. Returning to his native town he remained only a .short time and then went to Ottawa, Kansas, where he engaged in real estate dealing until 1873, when he returned to New Vork State and took up the study of dentistry with iJr. iJaboU of Buffalo, N. Y. In 187() he began the practice of the 168 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. the profession at Owasco, N. Y., and in the spring of 1878 he located in Hornells- ville, where he has ever since been engaged in the practice of the profession with continued success and a constantly increasing practice. He is the inventor of an automatic dental vulcanizer which is a great improvement in the vulcanizing of den- tal plates. He is also interested in farming in Mount Morris, N.Y. In 1867 he mar- ried Fannie Thomas of Rockland, Me., who lived but two years after marriage. His present wife was Clara M. Bacon of Princeton, Ills. Peet, Rev. Wilbur C, traces his ancestry back for two generations. His paternal grandfather was Hiram Peet, who lived for many years in Pentield, Monroe county, N. Y., where he died. He married Eunice Mason, of Pentield, by whom he had three children: Sophronia, wife of Norman C. Peet, now ling in Penfield; Deborah, wife of H. \V. Sherburne, of Rochester, N. Y. ; and Silas C, father of Wilbur O., who was born in Penfield in 1821 and died January 4. 1891. He lived and died on the same farm. He was one of the founders of the West Webster M. E. church, of which he was a member and officer for many years. He married Eliza Jane Sim- kins, who was born in Eastern New York, and still lives in West Webster, N. Y. Their children were Prof. Hiram L., born March 10. 1848, superintendent of the city schools of Yankton, South Dakota; Rev. Wilbur C, bom in Webster, N.Y., Septem- ber 9, 1850; R. A., M.D., born in West Webster, N.Y., January 23, 1853, died March 30, 1883; J. C. , business manager of Green's Fruit Grower, a horticultural magazine, published in Rochester, N. Y., born February 25. 1855; and Mrs. E. G. Dickinson, born November 19, 1858, of East Saginaw, Mich. Wilbur O. spent three years in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminar)', where he prepared for college. He spent three years in Genesee College, Lima, N.Y., the fourth year being spent in Evanston, 111., at Northwestern University, from which he was graduated in 1872. He graduated from the theological seminary known as Garrett's Biblical Institute, same place, in 1874. He joined tne Genesee Conference and in October, 18TG, was ordained deacon in Rochester by Bishop Ames. Two years later he was ordained elder by Bishop Merrill in Jacksonville, 111. Aside from three years between 1877 and 1880, when he was a member of the Illinois Conference Mr. Peet has always been a member of the Genesee conference. During the three years spent in Illinois while pastor of the M. E. church of Petersburgh, he met and married E. Jenny Frackelton, who was born in Petersburgh, October 9, 1853. They have three children; James Clinton, born November 25, 1880; Mary, born January 28, 1889; and Robert Leslie, born March 5, 1891. Rauber, Jacob N., was born in Wayland, N. Y., November 22, lS-")6. His father, Mathias Rauber, was bom in Prussia, Germany, in 1816, emigrated to the United States in 1852, and settled in Wayland. He is a farmer by occupation, and in 1841 he married Margaret Brick, who was born in Prussia, by whom he has these chil- dren: Catherine, born December 14, 1843, and married Philip Conrad, deceased; Nicholas, born March 5, 1845; Mariah, born August 20, 1847, and married Cris. Klein of Wayland; Lizzie, born February 25, 18,50; Peter, born January 28, 1852; Jacob X., born November 22, 1856; and Margaret, born May 1, 1859, and married Nicholas Schu, jr., and resides in Wayland. Jacob N. was educated in the common schools of Wayland, after which he engaged in the hotel business, and run the Way- land House for three years. In April, 1890, he bought the old Chase property. FAMILY SKETCHES. 169 situated on East Naples street, where he erected the building which he now occupies. In connection with the hotel business he also runs a bottling business. He has been a member of the Wayland Hook and Ladder Company for ten years, and is now an honorary member. At Perkinsville, May 2.5, 1880, he married Elizabeth Gross, who was born in Wayland, February 15 1808. Shults, Gertrude. — Philetta Jane Bush, widow of the late Ira Bush, was born in Prattsburg, N Y. . April 3, 1820. Ira Bush was born at Milton, Saratoga county, N.Y., October 1, 1818, and died at Wayland, September 9, 1870. He was of Dutch and French descent, and settled in Wayland in Decemijer, 1806, where he carried on a mercantile business for about three years, when he retired from business. He was a broker for several years before his death. At Prattsburg, N.Y., November 12, 184.5, he married Philetta Jane, one of a family of five daughters and one son of Rogers and Lydia Abel Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Bush had four children: Gertrude, who was born at Wheeler, Steuben county, N. Y., December 14, 1846, and married Alonzo Shults, January 15, 1868. They have two children: I. J., who was born May 25, 1870, school secretary of the New York State Reformatory at Elmira, and is a graduate of Buffalo Normal School; Clyde E., who was born April 13, 1876, a grad- uate of (ieneseo Normal School, and is engaged in Alley's store in Hornellsville. Anna Amelia, who was born at Wheeler, N. Y., July 23, 1849, and September 26, 1871, married Everett M. Fowler, who died February 24, 1894; Ira Eugene, who was born at Prattsburg, N.Y., February 21, 1859, and died December 9, 1803; and Frank Adsit, who was born at Bath, October 1, 1800, and died June 14, 1800. Peter Bush, father of Ira Bush, was born July 19, 1785. He is of French and Dutch descent. In Dutchess county, N.Y., June 29, 1806, he married Elizabeth Dubois, who was born in Dutchess county. September 24, 1788, and died March 3, 1871, by whom he had eleven children: Abram, born September 23, 1808, and died in Illinois in 1889; Amelia, born September 22, 1810, and died January 18, 1818; Jane Ann, born July 14, 1812, and died September 15. 1841 ; Gideon, born June 3, 1814, and died in Bath March 15, 1840; Mary, born July 1, 1816, and resides at Cohocton, wife of Levi Mallette; Ira, as above; Elizabeth, born February 2, 1820, and resides in Hazelton, Iowa; Margaret, born January 6, 1828, and died January 9, 1823; Abigail, born January 30, 1824, and resides in Warsaw, Ind. ; Alfonzo, born March 15, 1830, and resides at Beatrice, Neb. ; and Elenore Ann, born August 25, 1828, and died April 39, 1848. Mr. Bush died at Avoca, N.Y.. August 19, 1866. Elizabeth Dubois, grand- mother of Ira Bush, was born March 10, 1759. Stewart, Richard F'., was born in Pulteney in 1819. Joseph and Lydia (Stuart) Stewart, his grandparents, were born in Litchfield county. Conn., of Scotch parents from the North of Ireland, where they grew to maturity and were married, thence they removed to Whitestown, N. Y., and in 1810 came to Pulteney and settled at what is now known as Stewart's Corners, and cleared a large farm. They had fifteen children ; Joseph, William, John. Lyman, Spencer (who died at twenty-two years of age), Selden, Lydia, Eliza, Hannah, Betsey, Rhoda, Polly, Statira, Harriet, and Arnold, who died at two years of age. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and lived to be over eighty years of age. Selden .Stewart, father of Richard F. , was born in Whitestown, N. Y., in September, 1782. He came to Pulteney in 1811 and took a lOO-acre farm adjoining his father's farm, which he cleared of the timber. 170 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. where he spent his life. He married Polly Parker, by whom he had eight children: Julia Ann, Melinda, Louisa, Elsie, Richard F.. L\Tnan, George, and Jane. He died in September, 1843. Richard F. remained with his father until he was twenty-one years of age, and at twenty-two years of age he began lumbering and farming sum- mers, qnd for several winters was engaged by contract in hewing ship timbers. In 1860 he engaged in the grape culture, which business he hassuccessfully followed to the present time. He was a member of the State militia, first elected as fourth corporal, and promoted along the line to that of captain, which office he held when it dis- banded. In politics Mr. Stewart is a Republican, and has held the office of constable ten years, collector two years, and overseer of the poor fourteen years. In 1845 he married Sarah Ann, daughter of John Francisco, who was bom in Middlesex, Mass., by whom he had two children ; Olive who died at four years of age ; Viola, wife of Farcelles Mothersell, of Urbana. Mis wife died in 1885, and he married for his second wife Mrs. Charlotte (Nichols) Camp, of Seneca Falls. Horton, Menzo L., was born in Pulteney, December 16, 1873, son of Philetus C, who was born in Pulteney in 1852. Philetus O. was a son of Richard F., born in Pultney in October. 1825, son of William, who was born in Orange county, N. Y., in 1795, one of six sons and two daughters born to Thomas Horton, who was of English descent, a descendant of a Horton who settled on Long Island in the latter part of the sixteenth century. He came to Pulteney in the early days, settled in the forest, and cleared a 300 acre farm. William, great-grandfather of Menzo L., devoted his life to farming in Pulteney. and was school superintendent, a.ssessor of the town, etc. His wife, Eliza, was a daughter of Joseph and Lydia Stewart, of Pulteney, and they reared six sons and two daughters. He died in 1888 and his wife died in 1878. Richard F., grandfather of Menzo L., has devoted his life to farming in Pulteney and from 1883 to 1887 ran a mail route from Hammondsport to Penn Yan. His wife was Philena Lincoln, of South Bristol, Ontario county, whom he married in 1849, and their children are Lucius, Philetus, and Ada. He has served as assessor, collector, and commissioner of highways. Philetus O. at the age of eighteen learned the painter's trade, which he has since followed. He has a pleasant home in Pulteney and conducts a five acre vineyard. He has served as collector for two terms and has been one of the Town Board since he was twenty-one years of age. At the age of twenty he married Irene, daughter of James Brush, of Pulteney, and their children are Menzo L., Le Verne, Linn D., and Claire. Menzo L. was educated in Pulteney and at the age of seventeen began teaching school. The year 1892-93 he spent in teaching near Lincoln, Nebraska, and from 1883 to 1895 he taught at Catawba. Mr. Horton is a young man of enterprise and public spirit, with indications of a bright and successful future. Merring, Henry C, was born in New Jersey, November 28, 1852, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Grossman) Merring. natives of Sussex county, N. J., who came to Rath- bone and settled the farm Henry C. now owns. Here they lived until 1886, when Mr.s. Merring died and he went to Arnot, Tioga county. Pa., to live with his daugh- ter, where he died January 12, 1887. Henry C. was educated in the Woodhull Acad- emy, then taught school for five terms. He has also followed lumbering and is now engaged in farming, owning nmety-one and one-half acres of land. He has served his town as constable, inspector of elections, and collector. He is a member of KAMir.V SKETCHES. 171 Hedgesville Tent No. 277 K. O. T. M. April 5, 1887, Mr. Merring married Addie, daufjhter of George C. Lloyd, of Rathbone, by whom he has had two children : Har- rison L. and one who died in infancy. Mr Merring is interested in breeding Berk- shire hogs and Bronze turkeys. Faulkner, Robert K., the son of William and Sarah J. Faulkner, was born October fi, 18-12, at South Dansville, Steuben county, N. Y. William Faulkner, the father, was a native of Steuben county and was bom October 1, liiVi, at South Dansville, and died January 12, 1875. Sarah J. Killbury, his wife, a native of South Dansville, is living at the age of seventy-four, a woman of decided character, and, from her, the subject of this sketch inherited his rare force and executive ability. They were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are still living. Robert K., the oldest son, was educated in the common schools and at Ames's Business College at Syracuse; he followed farming for about two years in South Dansville, and in 1867 removed to Hornellsvills where he engaged in the flour and feed business. He soon after became associated with W. H. Willett, under the firm name of Faulkner & Willett, in the wholesale and retail grocery^ business ; the firm having a wide and favor- able reputation in this business and as proprietors of an extensive creamery establish- ment. Mr. Faulkner also owned and managed, during the latter years of his life, a valuable farm, and dealt in live stock. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and for several years chief of the Hornellsville fire department. He took a decided interest in public affairs and was prominent in local and county politics, and wasone of the acknowledged leaders of the Republican party in his section. In 1883 and 1884 he was president of the then village of Hornellsville, and in 1886 he waselected county clerk and served for three years, and at his death he was president of the Hornellsville city sewer commission. He died April 23, 1892, leaving his forceful stamp on these offices. In 1865 he married Celia E., daughter of J. B. and Eliza J. Phelps. Mr. Phelps "was a native of South Dansville and was a farmer by occupation. He was born June 27, 1815, and died February 13, 1887. Eliza J. Haskins, wife of J. B. Phelps, was born in the town of Galway, Saratoga county, N. Y. Her father, Samuel Haskins, came to Steuben county in 1827. Mrs. Robert K. Faulkner, who is now living in Hornellsville, is the only surviving child of this union, a son, Joseph W. Phelps, having died October 27, 1886, at thirty-four years of age, leaving a widow and one child, Gertrude. Fults, Henry, w-as born in Chenango ccnnily, N. V., January 7, l»4i*, a son of Nel- son and Mary E. (Brown) Fults, natives of Herkimer county, N. Y., and Connecticut, town of Brookline, respectively. The grandfather, Jacob Fults, was a native of Ger- many and came to Herkimer county in the early days, where remained until 1829, when he removed to Morris, Otsego county, where he died. The maternal grand- father, Rufus Brown was a native of Connecticut and died in Otsego county, N. Y. His wife, Mary Williams, was also born in Connecticut. The maternal grandfather of Mary E. Fults, William Williams, was one of the signers of the Declaration of In- dependence. Nelson Fults settled and cleared the farm, where Henry now lives, dying there June 27, 1885. Henry Fults was educated in the WoodhuU Academy. His first wife was Rachel Sanford, who died in January, 1880, leaving one child. May C, born in 1876. In November, 1883, Mr. Fults married Bertha Anna Dorathy, of Wayne, Steuben county, N. Y. She was a daughter of M. J. and Mary (Sullivan) 112 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Dorathy, nativ'es of Canada and Ireland, respectively. Mr. Dorathy served three years in the late war and was wounded; and died in a few weeks after being dis- charged from disease in 1864. His widow now resides in Canisteo. Bill, Christian C, was born August 1, 1859. John Bill, his paternal grandfather, was born in Germany, emigrated to this country in 1834, and settled in Rochester, N. Y., where he remained two years. In 1836 he moved to Wayland and purchased ninety acres of land. He was one of the pioneers of the town of Wayland. He had but one son, John N. , who died April 17, 1893, father of Christian C, who was born in Germany in 1831, and emigrated to this country at three years of age. He sub- sequently owned his father's farm. In March, 1864, he enlisted in Co. C, 179th N.Y. Vols., and was discharged in June, 1865. In Dansville, N. Y., in 1849 he married Louisa Bauer, who was born in Germany in 1833, and emigrated to this country when thirteen years of age. They had seven children: Catherine, Louisa M., John, deceased, Christian C, Henrj' J., Julia M., and William, deceased. Christian C. was educated in the common schools of Wayland, and was graduated with the Ham- ilton College law class of Jlay 27, 1881. He studied with W. W. Clark and was ad- mitted to the bar in the spring term of 1881. He has an office in Wayland where he has practiced for fourteen years. He has been village treasurer of Wayland for one year, and has been delegate to the Republican nominating convention, district and county, numerous times. He is a member of the J. F. Little Camp Sons of Veter- ans, No. 195, of which he was one of the organizers. At North Cohocton, September 23, 1883, he married Ida L. Wilson, who was born in Naples, April 2, 1863, by whom he has one child, Florence Pearl, who was born December 31, 1884. Souerbier, Albert. — His father, Casper J., was born in Hesse, Germany. He mar- ried Elizabeth Lam, a native of German 3-, in 1834; to them were born two sons, Albert, in 1836, and Julius, in 1888. Albert's mother died in Germany in 1839, and his father, Casper J., married again in 1841, Elizabeth B. Greg, also a native of Ger- many, to whom were born nine children: Sawbinnia, Theresa, Adam, Joseph, Mary, Frederick B., George, John, and Clara. Casper J. emigrated to this country- with his family in 1846, and settled in the town of Dansville on ninety acres of land that he purchased. He sold his farm in 1866, and moved to the town of Cohocton, where he died November 5, 1875, at the age of sixty-nine years. His second wife now resides at Rochester, N. Y., at the age of eighty-two. Albert commenced life for himself when but seventeen years of age by working in the lumber woods, till the war of the Rebellion in 1861, when he enhsted December 13, 1861, in Co. D, 104th N. Y. Vols., known as General Wadsworth Guards, for the term of three years. He was discharged December 9, 1864, on account of a gun shot wound in the right foot re- ceived at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1S63. After his return home from the service he located at the village of Wallace, Steuben county, N. Y., where he married Anna Mary Myers, daughter of John and Helen Myers, January 3, 1865. who was born in Bavaria, June 30, 1844, by whom he has seven children: Frank G., born February 9, 1867; John B., January 28, 1869; Lewis J., October ^, 1870; Frederick K., August 1, 1873, who died April 1, 1874; William A., born Februarys, 1872; Helen T., January 17, 1876; and Julia A., March 21, 1880. Albert moved to the village of Wayland in 1869, where he engaged in the business of keeping a saloon and restaurant, which business he has followed ever since in the village of Wayland. FAMILY SKETCHES. 173 He has held the office of village treasurer for two years, treasurer of the Cham])i<)n Hook and Ladder Company for seven years, and quartermaster of Theo. Schlick Post, No. 314, G. A. R., for the last eight years, of which he is a member. His son, Frank G., is employed by the Wells, Fargo Express of Jersey City, N. J., and has been for the last eight years, and his son, Lewis J., is employed by the same com- pany and in the same office, and has been for the last five years. His son, John H., IS now and has been for the last eight years, assistant train dispatcher on the Erie Railroad at Rochester, N. Y., and his son, W. A., has been for the last two years and now is employed by the same company as telegraph operator at Kanona, N. Y. Angst. Lorenz, was born in Tioga county. Pa., p-ebruary 28, 1858, son of Charles and Catherine (Weber) Angst, both natives of (lerniany, who came to Tioga county. Pa., he in lH.5.5and she in 1852, where they were married July 4, 1855, and came to Campbell in 1859. He worked in the tannery for J. 1). Hamilton & Co. twenty-one vears. He moved his family to the town of Thurston in 1875, where his widow and family have a farm of eighty-four acres. Lorenz Angst was reared in Campbell and educated in the common schools and the Union Graded school of Campbell. He has clerked in Risingville and has also clerked in Campbell for some years, and is also engaged in farming; he is a Populist in politics, and in 1894 was elected on the Dem- ocratic ticket for town clerk. White, Royal S., was born in Cayuta, Schuyler county, April 30, 1832, son of Hiram and Cornelia White, who had eleven children, six daughters and five sons. Royal S. being the youngest except one daughter, Adelia. Hiram White emigrated fnjm Connecticut, and was one of the first settlers in Cayuta, then known as Pony Hollow, which derived its name from being a wind-fall where General Sullivan, in his march from Ithaca to Elmira, pastured hishorses. Cayuta at that time was in Tioga county, afterwards Chemung county, now Schuyler county. The parents of Cornelia Van Etten, mother of R. S. White, came from Germany and were the first settlersin Van Ettenville, Chemung county, from whom Van Ettenville takes its name. Royal S. in early life was a lumber inspector at Albany, N. Y., but since 1865 has been en- gaged in farming. He enhsted in Chicago, 111., September 16, 1861, under Capt. Wm. Medill, brother of Joe Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, in Co. G, 8th 111. Cavaln,-, and was in the following engagements: Rappahannock Station, Beverly Ford, Williamsburg. Hanover Court House, Mechanicsville, Beaver Dam Creek, Cold Harbor. White Oak Swamp, St. Charles Court House, Malvern Hill, South Moun- tain, Antietam, Gettysburg, Snicker's Gap, besides a great many skirmishes. He was taken prisoner in the fall of 1861 near Snicker's Gap on the Shenandoah River, taken to Libby prison, where he remained most of the winter of 1861-62 until ex- changed. He was mustered out of service in June, 1865. He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Wilson) Campbell of the town of Cameron, by whom he had four children, two sons and two daughters, now living. He has been super- visor of Cameron three terms and assessor for twelve consecutive years. He is a member of Hallett Post of Cameron, and the F. & A. M. lodge at Cameron Mills. Coston, N. E., was born December 20. 1851, in the town of Greenwood, and lived on a farm until 1883, when he opened a store in the village of Greenwood, where he is now located. Mr. Coston's paternal grandfather, John G. Coston,- was a native of 174 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Tompkins county, but in later life removed to Greenwood, where he died; his son, Hiram A., was a farmer by occupation, and was married to Mary E. Jameson, of Livingston county. He died April 27, 187.5, leaving five children surviving him- Mrs. F. A. Robinson, N. Emmet, Mrs. Mary Williamson, Charles A., and Hart A. N. E. Coston was married in 1882 to Addie, daughter of Elias and Olive (Miner) Williamson of Greenwood; they have three children: Glen M., PittV., and Mary. Mr. Coston has always been a Democrat; he was supervisor two terms, from 1888 to 1890, and has served as postmaster several years under President Cleveland's ad- ministration. Murray, William H., was born in the city of Hornellsville, July 26, 18.54. John F. Murray, the father of William, was a native of Ireland and came to this city about 1851 at the building of the Erie Railway. He was formerly a resident of Massa- chusetts and came with the contractors who were building the railroad, and was the superintendent of pile driving for all bridges between here and Attica. He died December 8, 1868. William was the eldest of a family of eight children. His ad- vantages of securing an education were limited, but he attended the city schools and the parochial school. The death of his father placed the burden of the support of the large family on him, and at the age of fifteen he went on the railroad, rapidly rising in the shops and yard, becoming yard master, which position he occupied for three years. January 1, 1883, he was appointed deputy sheriff under Sheriff Page, which he occupied for six years, being reappointed by Baldwin. In 1888 and 1891 he was the Democratic nominee for sheriff of Steuben county. On the erection of the city of Hornellsville, March 1, 1889, he was appointed chief of police, which office he resigned to accept the position of postmaster, to which he was appointed by President Cleveland October 1, 1894, and which position he still holds. Mr. Murray was one of the founders of the Fire Department of this city, was for several terms its chief engineer, and is still on the active roll of his company. He was married in 1876 to Miss Catherine Magnor of this city. They have five children. Pipe, James B., was born in Seneca, Ontario county, in 1853. James Pipe, his grandfather, was a laboring man and reared two sons and two daughters. Samuel Pipe, father of James B., was the eldest child, a farmer by occupation, who came from England to the United States in the spring of 1851, and landed in Castle Gar- den, coming direct to Geneva, N. Y., where he lived for twenty years, and in 1871 came to Prattsburg, where he purchased 600 acres of land. Ten years later he moved to Ingleside, and in 1894 he came to Waterloo, where he has for many years devoted his time to the practice of veterinary medicine. He married Lois Mamby, who died in August, 1894, by whom he had four children: Maria, wife of L^riah F. Probasco of Ingleside; Samuel W., James B., and Mrs. Emma L. Castor of Pratts- burg. He is the only one of the family who came to America. James B. Pipe was educated in the common schools, and remained with his father until 1873, when he purchased 190 acres of his father's farm, on which he has since resided, and where he has been actively and successfully engaged in farming and potato growing. He is a member of the Lynn M. E. church in Prattsburg. He served the M. E. church of Wallace as pastor two years, receiving his license as local preacher in 1881, and also served the Wheeler charge one year. In February, 1873, he married Harriet Carhart, a well-Tinown teacher in the Prattsburg district schools, who was born in FAMILY SKETCHES. 175 Syracuse, a daughter of Hachaliah and Elizabeth (Shults) Carhart (both deceased), by whom he had five children: Alnara, wife of L. C. Cook of Avoca; Hart C, Elma, Frank B.. and Inez. Mrs. Pipe is a member of the M. E. church, and the W.C.T.U. iMr. Carhart was a carpenter and cooper, and the last twenty years of his life was spent in farming, and he came to Prattsburg in 1857. Capron, \V. W., son of Sylvester Capron. was born at Springwater, February 6, lH;i9, where he attended school, and afterward took a course of instruction at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y., for two years. He commenced business for himself when twenty-one years of age, and engaged in farming for three years, and then became a partner with George A. Pierce in the dry goods business at Spring- water, where he remained one year. He then traded the stock of goods for a half interest in two flour mills at Springwater, and later traded the same for the Perkins- viUe flour mill and timber lot of fifty acres, but afterward sold the latter and moved to Wayland and in 1868 became a produce dealer. Mr. Capron was elected super- visor of Wayland in 1889, and has been trustee of the village for two years. Febru- ary 27 he was appointed port warden of the port of New York by Governor Morton and entered upon his duties March 16, 1895. He married Emily, daughter of John Wiley, a member of the State Legislature of New York State during the Civil war. Her mother was Julia B. Hyde, born in Granville county. North Carolina. They have one son, W. W. Capron, jr., born October ;51, 1H69. He attended Lima Sem- inary one year, aad Aurora Military Academy for three years, where he was grad- uated. Mr. Capron is a member of the Phoeni.x Lodge No. 115, and of F. & A. M. of Dansville. Wolfe, Anton, was born in Germany, January 2, 1854. John J. Wolfe, father of Anton, was born in Germany, and died in Wayland, N. Y. , October 14, 1878, aged sixty-five years. He emigrated to this country in 1856, and .settled at Buffalo, N.Y., where he remained for over two years, when he moved to Savona, N. Y., where he remained for seven years. In 1867 he moved to Wayland, where he was employed by the Erie Railroad, for whom he worked twenty-one years. While in Germany he married Mary Ann Dassing, who was born in Germany and died in Wayland, N. Y., March 22, 1883, aged fifty-four years. They had these children: Anton, as above, and three who were born in this country: Frank L., who was born May 25, 1857, and resides in Wayland; Mary Christina, who was born October 14, I860, wife of William Mead, and resides at East Aurora, NY. ; and Helen Frances, who was born in 1863, wife of Otta F. Leader, and resides at Wayland. Anton Wolfe was educated in the public schools of Wayland, and attended the German school at Perkinsville one year. He worked at farming in his younger days after which he was engaged as engineer of stationary engines for seven 'years. He worked at Baltimore, Md., one vear, after which he returned tcj Wayland and run the engine in the Kimmel & Morris mill for seven years. He worked in the sash, door and blind fac- torv of George Ueitzel for three years, after which he bought a half interest in the Kimmel & Morris mill, Jacob Shafer owning the other half, which they run under the firm name of Shafer & Wolfe,- doing custom sawing, planing and matching, and re- tail lumber, shingles, lath, paints and oils. He has been village collector two terms. At Wayland, June 27, 1876, he married Caroline Barbrich, who was born in Ger- many, October 29, 1852, by whom he has six children: John A., who was born in 176 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTr. Wayland, March 24, 1877; Helen F., who was bom March 22, 1878; Frederick Wil- helm, who was bom April 24, 1880; William, who was bom July 12, 1881; Joseph Anton, who was born July 29, 1883; and Anna Louise, who was bom April 5, 1886. Yocum,' Nicholas, was bom in Germany, March 1. 1825, son of John Yocum, who was born in Germany in 1800, emigrated to America in 1851, and settled in Way- land, where he purchased a farm at East Wayland and there died in April, 1883. He married Margaret Shults, who was born in Germany in 1802. and who died in 1870. They had eight children: John, who resides in Indiana; Nicholas, who was born in Germany, March 1, 1825; Christian; Barbara, w-ife of Anthony Marks; John, who resides at Dansville; Catherine, wife of Cins Crine; Peter, who resides at Dansville; Matthew, who followed lumbering for fifteen years, then purchased a farm and followed farmmg. In 1854 Nicholas married Lena Holzer, by whom he had four children: Barbara, Frank, Nicholas, and Lena. Comstock, Charles, was born in Allegany county, N.Y. May 13, 1854, and was the son of Martin Luther Comstock, who was born in Otsego county, N.Y. He came to Allegany county in 1835, where he followed his trade of wagon and carriage builder. He married Naomi Atlams of Vermont and they had ten children: Luisa, Thomas, James, Lillian, Frank, Nancy. Etta and Charles. Charles Comstock is a blacksmith by trade, and at present is the owner of two farms in the town of Hartsville. He married Charity E., daughter of John Oaks of Hartsville, who was one of the first settlers in that town. They had two children : Clara and Daniel. In politics Mr. Comstock is a Republican. Burdm, James Henry, was bom in Madison county, N.Y., October 13, 1834, son of John Burdin, who was born in one of the Eastern States, and came to the town of Hornellsville in 1835. He was a farmer and dealt in cattle. He married Betsey, daughter of Daniel Ackley, of Connecticut, one of the pioneer .settlers of the county, and they had four children : Spencer D. , James Henry, Timothy D. , and Julia A. Spencer and Julia are deceased. James H. is a farmer, owns a farm of ninety acres, He married Sallie A., daughter of Abel H. Baldwin, of Howard, one of the first settlers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin lived to be nearly 100 years old. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Burdin were the parents of three children; Scott K., John A., and Ida M. Scott K. married Charlotte Rankin, of Canada; John A. married Emma Bennett; and Ida married H. E. Brown, of Howard. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of Howard, and of the A. O. U. W. In politics he is a Democrat. Van Wie, Alonzo, was born in the town of Palatine, Montgomery county, Novem- ber 30, 1837. His father, John Van Wie, was a farmer by occupation, and a native of the same county. For more than twenty years he had occupied the same farm upon which Alonzo was born. His wife, Susanna, was the daughter of Henrj' Nehre, and to them were born fourteen children, seven of whom are still living: John, Catherine, Nancy Gertrude, Elizabeth, Alonzo and Henry. Thinking that he could better his condition by moving westward, he sold his farm in Montgomery county, and moved to Howard, Steuben county, where he bought a farm of 200 acres, located a short distance south of the village of Howard, where he resided until his death, which occurred February 3, 1892. The last twenty years of his life were FAMILY SKETCHES. 177 spent with his son Alonzo on a portion of the old homestead, one-half of which is now owned by his son Henry. Alonzo attended the district schools, taught school several terms, and in 1860 was j^raduated from Franklin Academy. He enlisted in the 189th X. Y. Vols., and served until the close of the war, and was never off duty for a day during his army service. In May, 18(i2, he married Sarah E., daughter of Elias Wygant, a native of Orange county, but who moved to Prattsburg, Steuben county, in 1835. She has in her possession statistics of her ancestors as far back as 1754, when her great-grandfather, Thomas Wygant, was born. Mr. and Mrs. Van Wie have one son, Frank E., who was born December 29, 1808, and who is at present a member of the .senior class in Hamilton College. Mr. Van Wie is a Republican and has always taken a keen interest in politics, and for three consecutive terms was elected to the office of supervisor of the town. For thirty-four years he has been a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he is one of the ruling elders. Roberts, Joseph, was born in Sparta, N. Y., January 26, 18:!8. His grandfather, John Roberts, was born in Sparta. Livingston county, N. Y., and died in 1852, aged seventy years. He had three children: Daniel, Elias, and Rufus, Rufus Roberts, father of Joseph, married Elmira , who was born in Sparta, N.Y., and died in 1867, aged fifty-three years. They had these children: Joseph, as above; Amanda, widow of Mr. Wiley; Lyman, deceased, aged fifty-three years; Jane, wife of Lafayette Carney ; James; and Benjamin, who died aged about thirty years. Joseph Roberts attended the public schools of Springwater, after which he engaged in farm- ing, which he has always followed. In 1878 he bought the farm of fifty acres, where he now resides. He was a member of Phoeni.\ Lodge No. 115, F. & A. M., of Dans- viUe, N.Y. At Dansville. X. Y. , he married Sophia, daughter of Valentine and Mar- garet (Cremp) Beck. Mr. Beck died May 10, 188:1 aged eighty-si.x years, and Mrs. Beck died July 1, 1893, aged ninety years. They had eight children, six of whom are living: Mary Wolf, Maria Jacobs, Margaret Young, Sophia, who was born August 12, 1838; Catherine Hoffman, and Helen Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts have eight children: Henry, born March 26, 1859; Mary Shaver, born January 8, 1861; Jacob, born June 1, 1864, and married Florence Glover; Rosa Flashman, born December 12, 1866; Maggie, born August 11, 1809; Fannie Shaver, born April 9, 1872; Melvin, born January 17, 1874; and Charles, born June 5, 1879. Morsch, John P., was born in Germany in 1847. His father, Peter Morsch, was born in Prussia, Germany, emigrated to this country in 1850, and settled in Perkins- ville, where he died in 1880, aged fifty- si-x years. His wife Mary died at Perkinsville in 1870, aged thirty-eight years. They had two children: John P., as above; and Michael, who was born in 1849, and resides in Perkinsville. John P. emigrated to this country with his ])arents when three years of age. He was educated in the common schools of Perkinsville, also attended the Catholic school, where he learned English and (ierman. At fourteen years of age he started for himself by working in the flouring mill, where' he remained for two years, tlience to Hemlock Lake, where he engaged in the same business for one year. He then went to Honcoye, where he worked over five years, after which he went to Patchinsville, where, in company with Joseph Tompkins, they run a mill one year, thence to Perkinsville, where they rented a mill, which they run ten years, after which they dissolved partnership and Mr. Morsch run the mill for two years. In 1887 he bought the Patchiusvillc mill, which 178 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. was the first flouring mill in the county, erected by Dr. Warren Patchin, one of the first settlers, moved there, and run the same until 1889, when it burned. He moved back to Perkinsville and run that mill in partnership with E. M. Fowler for one year, after which he built a new mill at PatchinsviUe, which he has run to the present time. It is now a roller mill. In 1886 Mr. Morsch was elected supervisor of the town of Wayland, on the Republican ticket, and was re-elected in 1887. In 1894 he was elected to the same office for a term of two years. In 1881 he married Mary Bricks, of Perkinsville, where she was born in 1854, by whom he has six children: Katie, John S., Lizzie, Stephen, Anna, and Mary. Goflf, Lucian H., was born in the town of Howard, October 18, 1840, son of Jacob M. Goff, also a native of Howard and now living in Canisteo. Asa Goflf, his father, was one of the pioneers of the town of Howard. Lucian was the oldest of a family consisting of four daughters and two sons. He was given a common school educa- tion until he was fifteen years of age but his real education has been derived from the hard school of practical experience. At the age of twenty-eight he was married, and the same j'Car he bought a farm of 145 acres in the town of Jasper, where he made his home for seven years and then spent four years farming on the eastern shore of Maryland. Returning he bought his old farm and two years later bought the Alexander H. Stephens farm in Greenwood of 150 acres, which he conducted five years. In the spring of 1891 he sold and bought the Judge Thatcher farm of 140 acres on lot 3 in the town of Hornellsville, where he has since devoted his time and attention to the production of vegetables, poultry and dairy products. In politics Mr. Goflf has always supported the cause of temperance and is now a worker of the Prohibition party. He has been a member of the I. O. O. F. two years with Oasis Lodge No. 251. He was married in 1868 to Irene Coston of Canisteo; and they have five children: Adele, John H., Lessie, L. Preston, and Robert C. St. John, Dr. Northrup N., was born in Webster, Monroe county, N. Y., Novem- ber 26, 1829. His grandfather, Northrup St. John, was born in Danbury, Fairfield county. Conn., and died in Webster, Monroe county, N. Y. Niram St. John, father of Northrup N., was born in Danbury, Conn., October 18, 1804, and died in Spring- water, August 2, 1883. He was a farmer by occupation, and married Hannah M. Stratton, who was born in Catskill, N. Y., April 2, 1805, and died February 25, 1895. They had three children: Rosalia J., who was born December 14, 1825, and died June 14, 1846; Northrup N.. as above; and Huldah A., who was born Februarj- 27, 1833. Northrup N. attended the common district schools of Webster, and afterwards moved to Springwater, N. Y. , where he attended school for a time. He studied medicine with Dr. Hiram Hess, in Wayland, for one year, when he took a medical course at Buffalo Medical College, and commenced the practice of medicine at Spring- water. N. Y., where he remained about ten years. He practiced m Atlanta, N. Y., for six years, after which he moved to Wayland, where he has practiced his profes- sion continuously for twenty years. At Springwater. in 1848, he married Ann Howell, who was born November 22, 1828, by whom he had one child, Ella R., who was born July 8, 1854, married Austin Salter, and resides in Springwater; they have one child, Minnie L. March 16, 1866, Mr. St. John married for his second wife, Lucretia Ashley, who was born July 23, 1848, by whom he had three children: Verne A., who was born April 25, 1871; Byrd E., who was born April 25, 1875; and Clare FAMILY SKETCHES. 179 A., who was born March 21, 1881. Verne A and Byrd E. are teachers, now attend- ing the Genesee Normal School, of Genesco, N. Y. Mr. St. John has been president of Wayland eight years, and trustee two years. Millard, Morgan R., was born in the town of Cameron, Novembers, 1824. Reuben \V. Millard, his father, was a native of Onondaga county, X. Y., and came to Steu- ben county in 1804. He married Sallie A. Hooker, of Providence, R. I., by whom he had five children. Morgan R. is a lumberman and farmer, owner of a saw mill and manufacturer of lumber and shingles ; has been justice of the peace twenty years in his town, and practices law to some extent. He married Mary J. Fulton, of Can- isteo, by whom he had two children: John H., who died at twenty-four years of age, and Mrs. A. E. Waight, of Jasper. Mr. Millard is a member of Morning Star Lodge of Masons No. 65, and is and always was an abolition protectionist. In 1888 his wife, Mary J., died, and in 1893 he was married to Mrs. Shell, then a widow. Northup, Norman, was born in Franklin, Sussex county, N. J., son of Benjamin D. and Sarah (Perry) Northup, both natives of New Jersey, who came to Rathbone in 1835, settling on the farm his brother had cleared ten years previously. Here he lived and died. He was one of the founders of the East Cameron Baptist church. He died June 10, 1874, and Mrs. Northup September 7, 1877. The grandfather, Moses Northup, lived and died in Sussex county. N. J. Norman was ten years of age when he came to Rathbone with his father and helped to clear the old home, which he owned and worked until 1892, when he sold fifty acres and retired from active business. In 1853 he married Marilla, daughter of John and Martha H. Har- wood, of WoodhuU, by whom he has five children; Walter, a machinist in Utica; Amelia, wife of Burr Willard, a druggist of Campbell; Hattie, widow of Dr. Garret, formerly of ^Vo(>dhuIl, but died in Alaska, Mich. ; Alma, wife of R. O. Demun, a farmer of Rathbone ; and Arthur, a farmer of Rathbone, who married in 1892, Lou Sanford, and has one child, Isabella. Mr. Northup has been assessor and was super- visor of Rathbone for five years. Reynolds, Chauncey E., was born in Troupsburg, February 2, 1853. and is the third of nine children born to William and Ruth (Metz) Reynolds, he a native of Troupsburg, and she of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandparents were Frederick S. and Betsey Reynolds; Frederick R. came from Massachusetts with his parents. Squire and Patty (Rice) Reynolds, to Troupsburg at an early day, and here the old people lived and died. Squire Reynolds was born in Middlebury, Mass , February 21, 1761. Frederick Reynolds followed farming in Troupsburg, and spent his last days in Jasper, where he died in 1876. Mrs. Reynolds died in 1863. William Rey- nolds, father of Chauncey E., was reared on the farm, and always followed farming. He died in July, 1892. Chauncey E. Reynolds was reared on the farm and for eight- een years followed farming. In 1893 he entered in partnership with Mr. Fitch in the mercantile business at Troupsburg. under the firm name of Fitch and Reynolds. In 1875 Mr. Reynolds married Ella, daughter of John and Minerva Fitch, of Brookfield, Pa., bv whom he had six children: Olive, Fitch, Verna, infant, Harry, and Chauncy. Verna died at the age of ten months; infant at two months. Marvin, Albert C, can trace the genealogy of the Marvins back to 1636, when Rey- nold Marvin settled at Lynn, Conn., the family being of English origin. Mathew, 180 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. his grandfather, was the eighth son of Thomas, who was born at Salisbury, Conn. June 7, 1854, and married Mary Weed, of New Canaan, Conn., by whom he had six children: Abigail, born August .5, 178.1, died at Lansingburg, N. Y., March 4, 1788; Joseph, born May 1, 1787, at Lansingburg, died at Hamden, N. Y., in 18i0; Jared, Thomas, William W., and Lewis. In 1819 Joseph Marvin married Polly Tiffany, who was born December 17, 1801, at Walton, N. Y., and they had one child, Albert C, as above, who was born February 4, 1820. He was educated in the common schools and Delhi Academy, and afterward taught school in Hamden and Meredith, and for the past thirty years has been engaged in farming and lumbering. He has held the office of assessor for three terms, and was a member of the 1. O.O. F. In 1849 Mr. Marvin married Amarilla C. Stetson, of Wayland. and they are the parents of five children: Melvin Kno.x, born March 8, 1850; Anna Amanda, born March 21, 1851, died March 19, 1852; Curtis P., born February 25, 1853, died April 12, 1854; Eleanor Augusta, born March 20, 1856; and Francis E., born December 4, 1864, who resides in Howard. Melvin Knox married Slary C Vogle, who was born January 1, 1851, by whom he had the following children: Genevieve, born March 14, 1872; Albert Curtis, born September 18, 1873, died April 24, 1874; Anna Augusta, born February 12, 1875, died February 6, 1876; Nettie Adell, born August 24, 1876, died July 19, 1881; Katie, born June 15, 1878; Archibald Knox, born June 24, 1880; Lorinda, born March 20, 1882; Clarence, born January 14, 1884; Bell, born January 25. 1887; Lizzie, born December 30, 1888; and Flossie Helen, bom July 15, 1894. Eleanor Augusta married Jacob Mehlenbach, of Salamanca, and they have three children: Nellie, Ethel, and Iva. Francis E. married Ada Hoag and have one child, Edith. Gottschalk, Christian Lewis, married Mary Elizabeth Shafer; both were born in Prussia. Mr. Gottschalk was a foreman in a coal mine there, and came to America in 1833. moved to Pennsylvania and stayed one year, and then came to Dansville and bought a farm on Sandy Hill in 1834, but was obliged to forego a settlement there until the next year on account of cholera, which was raging there at that time. Mr. Gott.schalk died April 1, 1849, aged sixty years. Family Record of Christian Lewis Gottschalk; Lewis, Conrad, William, Louisa Losey, Mary Foltz, Valentine, John, Frederick, Elizabeth Zoldoske, August, all deceased. Henry lives in Missouri; and Christian resides on the Sandy Hill farm in the town of Wayland. Christian Gottschalk was born in 1832 and married Maria E. Weber February 2, 1862. Maria E. was born in 1839. Christian Gottschalk's Family Record: William, born Novem- ber 13. 1863, and died September 10, 1892; Mary Wenz, born September 26, 1865; Lewis C, born November 2, 1867; Rose Amelia, born April 26, 1S69; and Henry Alonzo, born June 13, 1864. Smith, Charles R., was born in Starkey, Yates county, N. Y., September 3, 1829, son of Tolman and Eliza Ann Hathaway Smith, he a native of Niagara county, N.Y., and .she a native of Newtown (now Elmira). Charles's grandfather, Russel Smith, lived and died in Niagara county. When a small boy, Tolman was bound out to John Bordman, by whom he was cruelly treated, and at the age of seventeen he left Mr. Bordman and learned the shoemaker's trade. He afterward learned and worked at the carpenter's trade. In religion he was a Methodist. He died in 1867, and Mrs. Smith in 1893. The matenial grandparents were David and Elizabeth Demeress Family sketches. i8i Hathaway. Charles R. Smith followed the carpenter's trade until 1891, when he engaged in small fruit growing, and has been located in the town of Wayne since 18.50. In 18.54 Mr. Smith married Sarah J., daughter of Moses and Sarah Crooslon, and to them have been born si.x children: Aniasa C, William H., died April 22, 1874, aged seventeen years; Horace, died January 29, 1875, aged ten years; Moses T., Sarah Ann, wife of Henry Slater, and Charles F. In religion they are Methodists. Mrs. Smith died December 2, 1878. Northup, Asher S., was born in the town of Harrington, Yates county, N. Y. , March 7, 1827, son of Eli and Phoebe Osborn Northup, who came to Cameron, this county, in 1830. He died in Bath, in April. 1878, and his wife, September 3, 1873, in Yates county. Asher S. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He spent one year in the oil regums, and lived in Cameron until 185.5. when he bought the farm he now owns. September 3, 1849, he married Catherine E. Allen, who was born in Howard, February 8, 1823, daughter of Samuel and Char- lotte Shoals Allen. Mr. Allen was a soldier in the war of 1812. In 1813 he came from Amsterdam, N.Y,, to Howard on foot with a change of clothes and an ax. He died in Avoca, aged eighty-eight years, and his wife, aged si.Kty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Northup have two children: Alice J., wife of Peter B. Rumsey of Cameron, and they have three children: Edith E., Claude B., and Laura P.; and Byron A., who was graduated from the school at Bath and Poughkeepsie Business College, and first clerked in Elmira and was then engaged for three years as clerk at .§1,000 a year in the government Arsenal at St. Louis, and afterwards in the mercantile business at Rockford, 111., and was also with a Chicago Brush Company for three years, and for four years has represented the firm of Strong, Cobb & Co., of Cleveland, at a salary of $17,000. He married Laura Warner of Rockford, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Asher Northup are members of the First Christian church of Cameron, N. Y. 1-ean, William D., was born in Tyrone. Schuyler county, N. Y., August 19, 1829, son of Horace and Euphemia (Doty) Dean. The maternal grandparents came from the East and settled in Seneca county, where they died. Horace Dean, father of William D., was reared in Tyrone and followed shoemaking. In politics he was first a Democrat afterward a Republican, and was assessor many years. He was a member of Tyrone F. & A. M. He died in 1879, and his wife in 1876. William D. was reared in Tyrone, and commenced for himself as a carpenter, which business he followed fifteen years. He came to Wayne in 18(i5 and .settled on the farm of 100 acres he now owns, where he carries on general farming. In 18.52 he married Anna M., daughter of Rev. Jonathan Ketchum of Harrington, Yates county, by whom he had four children: Carrie, who died at nine years of age; Fred C, editor and pro- prietor of the "Portland Enterprise," Portland, Pa. ; Stella, wife of F. A. Loveridge, a vineyardist and liveryman of Cuba, Allegany county, N. Y. ; and Grace, who re- sides at home. In politics Mr. Dean is a Democrat, and is a member of Pleasant Valley Grange. Huganir, Charles, was born May 11, 1840. His father, Adam Huganir, located on the Brayton farm in the town of Howard, and which is now owned by his son, to which he has added until he now owns 2.58 acres, January 29, 1826, he married Catherine Voorhees, a native of Herkimer county, N. Y., by whom he had ten chil- 182 LANDMARKS OF STEDBEN COUNTY. drf^n: David, born Januarj- 12. 1828; Jane Ann, born November 18, 1829; Voorhecs, born August 4, 1831 ; Barbara, born July 2fi, 1883; Maria, born June 9, 1885; Han- nah, born April 21, 1837; Elizabeth, born August 10, 1839; Leonard, born Septem- ber 3, 1841; Pamelia, born March 1, 1843; and Charles, as above, who was educated at Rogersville Seminary, and has always followed farming. At Howard, N.Y. , May 2, 1882, he married Etta Saxton, who died January 11, 1894, by whom he had two children: Lena L., born November 9, 1886, and Guy C, born March 12, 1889. Olcott, Marvin, dealer in real estate, was born at Corning m 1858, and graduated from Yale College in 1881. At the death of his father, Alexander Olcott, in 1887, he took up his real estate business which he conducted successfully for several years. He was one of the first police commissioners, and has been for two years president of the fire department. He married Fanny F. Cook of Albany. His father came from Albany to Corning in 184S, and was in the Assembly for two. terms. Osborn, A. D., was born December 1, 1835. His father, Lewis Osborn, was born in Scipio, N. Y. , and in 1837 he came to Dansville and settled on a farm of 150 acres. He was a mason by trade. He married Samantha Gates, who was born May 20, 1812, and died in July, 1866, by whom he had two children: A. D., as above; and L. M., who was born August 31, 1837. A. D. Osborn received a common school educa- tion, and has always been a farmer, and owns a farm of eighty-nine acres. He is a member of Stephens Mills Grange, No. 308. He has visited a number of the West- ern States, and at one time lived in Hartsville. January 3, 1858, he married Caro- line, daughter of John Ingles, who was born in New Hampshire, October 3, 1832, by whom he had five children: Frances V., who was born January 1, 1859, and died October 20, 1869; Willis L., who was born December 24, 1863, and died October 31, 1869; Albert A., who was born January 21, 1872; and Clara, who was born May 29, 1873. Overhiser, Andrew Peck, was born in Wheeler, August 14, 1822. Conrad Over- hiser, his grandfather, was a farmer and came with his wife Mary from Chittenango, Onondaga county, to Wheeler, about 18;>2, where he died in 1840, and his wife in 1843. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and reared nine children, all of whom grew to maturity and ranged in age at their deaths from sixty to ninety-five years. John C. Overhiser, father of Andrew Peck, was born in Montgomery county, April 1, 1782. He was a farmer, and came to Wheeler about 1816, and settled on a tractof 150 acres of land on West Creek, which was then covered with forest, and after many years of hard toil, with the assistance of his .sons, he cleared the entire farm, cutting the timber and burning it. He w-as twice married. By his first wife he had three children, two of whom grew to maturity, a son who lived to be seventy years of age, and a daughter who lived to be ninety-seven years of age, and one died in infancy. He married for his second wife Ruth French, by whom he had eighteen children, fourteen of whom are still living. He died May 13, 187], aged ninety years, and his wife in 1855, in the sixtieth year of her age. Andrew Peck Overhiser was born August 14, 1822, and remained with his father until he was twenty-six years of age, when he purchased a farm of ninety acres with no buildings and little improved, and to which he has added forty acres, paid for the whole farm, erected suitable build- ings, and made many other nece.ssary improvements. For some years he has raised FAMILY SKETCHES. 183 a great many sheep. He has served as commissioner of highways, and many other minor offices. In December, 1847. he married Kliza, daughter of Henry Ackerson, of Pulteney, by whom he had one child. Lydia Ann. wife of Henry Miller. Alderman, J. M., was born in Schuyler county, N. Y.. January 28, 1847, son of O. P. and Martha M. Conklin, a distant relative of Roscoe Conklin, he a native of Connecticut, and she of New Jersey. They both came to Schuyler county in 1830, and were married at Altay, where J. M. was born. He came to Thurston in 1850, where he has since lived. His father has been a member of the Christian church, and organized and built the Merchantville church, of which he was pastor for a num- ber of years. He was a member of the Blue Lodge in Risingville, and Bath Chapter, R. A. M. He and his wife are now living on a farm in Thurston, aged seventy-six and seventy-five, respectively. Our subject was educated in the common schools, Sonora Academy, and Starkey Seminary, and at the age of fifteen enlisted in Capt. William H. McLain's company, .'5th L'nited States Cavalry. On account of his age his father had him withdrawn, but at the age of sixteen he enlisted again in Co. K, 4th New York Artillery, and served two years and six months. He was in the battle of the Wilderness and under fire until the battle of Spottsylvania, where he was severely wounded in his right elbow, and was then placed in the N'eteran Re.serve Corps, being unfit for field duty, and was then detached as orderly for Gen. Thomas H. Neill. who was president of the board of examiners. Mr. Alderman has been in the insurance business at Merchantville for some years, and was general agent in Pennsylvania for a Philadelphia company in 1870 and 1871. He was in the mercan- tile business at Hedgesville four years, and manager of a lumber companv near Canisteo for four years, and has held his present position five years. He was also in the employ of a lumber company in Texas for three years. He is a Republican and has represented Woodhull and Thursttm in county conventions and was census enumerator in 18il0. He is a member of Loga Post No. 469, G. A. R., and Subor- dinate Union No. 272, E. A. U. October 20, 1868, he married Mary L. Masters, daughter of Lewis Masters of Thurston, and they have had one child. Burr W., who died at the age of seven months. Mr. Alderman has been assistant postmaster at Merchantville for about four years. Is now a merchant at Thurston, N. Y. Burdin, T. D. — Hisgrandfather, James Burdin, was born in Madison county, N.Y., and came to the town of Howard, where he located and followed farming. He died October 11, 1848, aged sixty-nine years, and his wife Mary died January 23, 1860. The father of our subject was John Burdin, who was born in Madison county, N.Y., in 180b, and died December .5, 1861. His wife Betsey A. died December 30, 1882, aged seventy-four years. While he lived in Madison county he was a section boss on the Cherry Yalley Turnpike, but he located on a farm when he came to Hornells- ville in 18;i.j. They al.so kept a temperance hotel on Big Creek, four miles east of Hornellsville. Mr. and Mrs. Burdin were members of the Presbyterian church. They were the parents of four children: Daniel S., who died in 1860, James Henr)', Timothy Dwight, and Julia Ann, died October 3, 1847. T. D. Burdin was born in the town of Hornellsville, May 13, 1838, and was educated in the common schools. He drove on the stage route between Bath and Hornellsville for five years, and has since followed farming. He was elected assessor two terms, and was poormaster three terms. He is a member of the United Workmen No. 249, also of Big Creek • 184 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Grange No. 324. August 23, 1861, he married Mary, daughter of Cornelius Fisher of the town of Fremont, and they have two children: Julia May, born December 22, 1862, wife of Charles A. Stillmau, who works his father-in-law's farm, and is a pattern maker by trade; and Oris E., born June 21, 1867, and died at the age of twenty-two years. Brush, Ilorton L.. was born in this town, March 4, 1853. Thomas Brush, his grandfather, was a shoemaker who came to Pulteney in 1819, and later purchased a tract of timber land, which he and his sons cleared. He was the son of Jacob and Anna Green Brush, whose father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Albert, the father of Horton L. , was born in Pulteney, in July, 1820, and has devoted his time to farming since he became thirteen years of age, and when eighteen he worked out and earned the last one hundred dollars which finished paying for his father's farm ; his time was then given him and he began for himself, purchased his first farm when twenty-two and now owns 105 acres. In politics he is a Republican and served as assessor two terms, and is a deacon in the Baptist church. His wife was Lydia Horton, who was born in Pulteney, and their children were Harmon M., Thomas, who died in 1846, and William, died in 1879, who was a soldier in the late war and fought in the battle of Appomattox, and Marion S. Horton L. was the youngest son, was educated in the common schools, and while a young boy engaged as engineer in a saw mill, and when fifteen years of age took charge of a vineyard, which position he kept until he was seventeen years of age, when he spent two win- ters in Michigan as engineer in a mill. He then engaged in buying fruit, spent three seasons in a commission house in New York city and spent one year each in the em- ployment of the Adams and United States Express Companies on Lake Keuka. ' He has studied electricity for .several years, and since 1891, in connection with his fruit growing and commission business, he has dealt in telephones, constructing them himself. In 1881 he married Lilly I., second daughter of William E. and Nancy Bancroft Horton, who was born in the town of Cameron. She is a member of and teacher of the Baptist Sunday school, and they are both members of the Baptist church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Prattsburg Lodge No. 583, of which he has been chaplain and junior deacon. He is now treasurer of the Yates Baptist Association, having been elected for three years. Hoag, Perry C, was born June 2, 1838. His father, Nathan Hoag. was born in Wayland, and died in 1842, from injury received in a flour mill in Dansville. He married Susan Bowdish, who was born in Wayland, and died in 1882, aged sixty-five years. They had six children : Martha Warring ; Margaret, deceased ; Susan Wells ; Perry C, as above; Nathan; and Harriet Roberts. Perry C. Hoag has followed farming for many years. When four years of age his father was killed and his mother lived with her children among the Shakers at Mount Morris, Livingston county, and she finally married Ira Sherman, of Naples, N. Y. Perry C. enlisted in Co. D, 188th N. Y.Vols , October 5, 1864. He took part in nine battles, and was dis- charged in July, 1865. He is a pensioner. He is a member of Theodore Schhck Post, G.A.R., of Wayland. At Springwater, October 27, 1861, he married Emcline Haight, who was born in Springwater, November 6, 1844, by whom he has four chil- dren: Herman, born September 18, 1862; Arthur, born January 8, 1865, and died December 27, 1891; Idella Warring, born January 7, 1867; and Addie Marvin, born March 14, 1871. • FAMILY SKETCHES. 185 Lake, Charles G. — His grandfather was Robert Lake, who died at sixty years of age. Israel Lake, father of CharlesG., was born in Hector, Schuyler county, N.Y., in 1818, and died at seventy-three years of age. He has always followed farming, and was a member of Big Creek Grange No. 324. He married first Clarissa White, by whom he had these children; Martin (deceased), Mary, Martha, Miranda, Maria, Kstella, Hubbard M., and Melvin. He married second Christian N., daughter of John Wanner, of the town of Sparta, and had one son, Charles G., who attended school at Hornellsville, after which he engaged in farming, and now owns a farm of ninety-one acres on Hig Creek. He is a member of Big Creek Grange No. 324. His mother's first husband was William Magee, and with this union there were six chil- dren: Worden, born June l,!, 18.51 ; Sheldon, born July 11, 18.52, who was killed by a train at Groveland, November 1, 1890; Frank, born October 17, 1853, and died at Stockton, Cal. ; Sarah, bom June 26, 1856; Maggie, born June 28, 1860; and Idell, born June 12. 18f)2. Mr. Magee was a soldier in the late Rebellion, enlisted in the Itilst N. Y. Vols., Co. C, and died at Baton Rouge, La., June 1, 1803. Relan, Nelson, was born in the town of Pulteney in July, 1837. His grandfather, Barnett Retan, was born in March, 1790, and he married Sallie Drew, who was born in November, 1789, and their children were John, born June 23, 1809; Almeron, born in September, 1811 ; Gilbert, born in October, 1813; Hannah, born in Novem- ber, 1815; Susan, born in January, 1818; Rachel, born in February, 1820; Barnett, born in December, 1822; Ebenezer, born in January, 1.825; David, born in March, 1827; Sally Ann, born in July, 1829; and Eliza, born in January, 1830. They were farmers and came to Pulteney with their family in 1818, cleared a farm, on which they spent their remaining days. John, father of Nelson, was a farmer by occupa- tion. !n politics he was a Democrat and served several years as a commissioner of highways. He married Rachel Smart, who was born September 11, 1811, and their children are Susan, born in September, 1831 ; Jeptha, born in July, 1835; Nelson, as above; Sylvester, born in July, 1840; An.son, born in April, 1842. killed in the siege of Port Hudson in 1863; Sylvina, born in JIarch, 1844; Olney, born in February, 1846; and Cynthia, born in October, 1849. Their deaths occurred April 29, 1870, and February 17, 1884, respectively. Nelson was educated in the district schools, and began life for himself as a farmer. In August, 1864, he enlisted in Co. A, 161st X.V. Vols., and served until the close of the war, having participated in the sieges of Mobile and Blakely. In 1866 he purchased his first farm, and in 1S84 he engaged in manufacturing lumber, boxes, and grape baskets in the village of Pulteney, this being the largest establishment of the kind in the county. In 1886 he purchased a resi- dence in the village, where he removed. In 1892 his mill and factory were burned, but the same year he rebuilt on a larger scale, which buildings were burned in June, 189.5. He again rebuilt and commenced work in August of the same year. In addi- tion to the manufacturing interests, Mr. Retan owns several small farms, to which he attends. In 1860 he married Esther S., daughter of Nelson and Julia Pinkerton Hall, and their children are Alice, born in August, 1863, wife of Clarence Fox of Pulteney; Nellie, born in June, 1867, died in January, 1871 ; and Anna May, born in May, 1880. Mrs. Retan died July 13, 1889. For his second wife he married Helen Hall, in De- cember, 1890. Her father. Nelson Ball, was born in Pulteney in 1815, and died in 1871, and was a blacksmith bv trade. Mr. Retan is a member of the Odd Fellows 186 LANDMARKS OV STEUBEN COUNTY. Lodge of Pulteney, the Pleasant Valley Grange of Urbana, and of the Henry C. Lyon G. A. R. Post No. 535 of Pulteney. Rex, Charles N., was born in Wayne county, N. Y., December 11, 1845. Jacob Rex, his father, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1H17, and moved to the town of Way- land in 1850, and settled on the farm now known as the Saxton farm. He is still living in the town of Cohocton. In 1838 he married Olive Hall, who was born in Savannah, Wayne county, N. Y., in 1813, and died in April, 1895. They had three sons; William H., born in Wayne county, March 22, 1843; Charles N., born in Wayne county, December 11, 18-15; and John W., born in Wayne county, November 9, 1848. Charles N. was brought up on a farm and has always followed that busi- ness. In 1875 he purchased the farm where he now resides. At Conesus, N. Y., March 17, 1869, he married Weltha A. Heath, who was born in Conesus, N. Y. , De- cember 2, 1846, by whom he had two children: Myron E., born September 28, 1873, and graduated at the Hornellsville Business and Shorthand College in March, 1893, and Bertha M., born October 4, 1875. Schwingle, John A., was born m Germany, in the Rhine province, in 1829, and at eighteen years of age emigrated to America, and settled in Buffalo with his uncle, Frederick Schwingle, where he remained for three months worknig for him. He then went to Dansville, where he worked by the month for two j-ears, thence to Wayland, where he worked by the month until 1852, when he purchased a house and a lot of fifteen acres, his first home in America. In 1850 he married Louisa Schwingle. who died in 1851, aged twenty-five years. They had one child, Louise who was born June 28, 1851, and who is now the wife of Fred Sorge, and resides at Dansville. They have five children: William, Inez, Edward, Rosa and Clarence. In 1855 Mr. Schwingle married Mary Miller, who was born in Illinois, August 29, 1836, by whom he had these children: H. Franklin, born January 18, 1856; Frederick William, born December 26, 1857; George J., born February 3, 1860; Mary B., born January 24, 1863, died April 9, 1887; Amanda S., born November 21, 1867, died March 23, 1869; Edward C, born July 13, 1865; John A., born October 3, 1869; Ida A., born Decem- ber 29, 1871 ; William M., born June 13, 1874; Albert E., born August 19, 1876; and Emma C. E., born March 26, 1879. These children are all well educated, two of whom are teachers. Mr. Schwingle has owned 152 acres of land, and in 1893 sold 105 acres to his son. He has held the office of assessor three years, and is now over- seer of the poor. He was a member of Dansville Lodge, No. 123, I. O. O. F., and is now a member of Wayland Lodge, No. 176, joined by permit from the Dansville Lodge. Mr. Schwingle's married children are as follows: Frank, who married Laura Hilts, lives in East Sparta, and has one son, Philip; Frederick W. , who married Maggie Lander, and resides on a farm near Loon Lake; George J., who married Sophrona Totten, and has two children. Jay and Emma, and resides in Wayland village; Edward C, who married Mary Kramer, who has one daughter, Margaret, and resides in Dansville, where he owns and runs a hardware store, and is the in- ventor of the Schwingle Potato Hiller, Coverer and Furrower. Wallace, Dr. Edwin E., was born in Hartsville, N. Y., August 7. 1852, son of Nathaniel and Eunice (Davi.s) Wallace, both natives of Livingston county, N. Y. The grandfather, Abner Wallace, spent most of his days in Livingston county. FAMILY SKETCHES. 187 Nathaniel Wallace, father of Edwin E., first came to Canisteo, where he remained a year, thence to Ilartsville in 1S40, where he engaged in farmmg. He linally removed to Hornellsville. He died March '-i, 1887, and his widow resides in the town of Cone- sus, I^ivingston county. Edwin E. Wallace was reared on a farm and educated in Canisteo Academy. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Picket of Canisteo and Ur. Joseph W. Robinson of Hornellsville, and graduated from the medical de- partment of the University of New York City in 1879, and made his own way through college, teaching for several terms, and was awarded the prize for the best examina- tion in materia medica, and therapeutics. In April, 1879, he came to Jasper, where he has since had a very successful practice. In 1887 Dr. Wallace took a post- graduate course in the New York Post-Graduate School. He is a member of the Morning Star Lodge, Xo. 65, F. & A. M. He is also a member of the New York State Medical Society. January '>, 1881. he married Myra Metcalf, of Jasper, by whom he had two children : Allen M. and Maud E. Zinunerman, Sylvanus A., was born in Bradford, June 20, 1831, and is the fifth of seven children born to John and Elizabeth Stocum Zimmerman. John, who was a native of Austria, was taken from his bed at midnight by the Austrian army and pressed into service, and being taken prisoner by the French army, he fought under Napoleon. He was afterward taken prison by the English and sent to Canada to serve in the British army, and in 1812 he was sent out to look for a deserter, and he came to the L'nited States. At Buffalo he received a pass to Canandaigua from General Brown, and from there he made his way to Bartle Hollow, now Bradford, and engaged with Mr. Bartle in the distilling bu.siness. He soon went to Lancaster, Pa., and engaged in the same business, being very successful. He finally returned to Bradford where he built and run a distillery. He died in 1802, aged eighty-two years, and Mrs. Zimmerman died in 1880. Sylvanus was educated in the common schools and the Dundee Academy, and in music at Reading, Mass., and has been a music teacher the most of his life. In 1878 he married Maggie Houck, by whom he has three children Mary E., Sylvanus A., jr., and Hattie. August 29, 1862, Mr. Zimmerman enlisted in Co. G, 23d N. Y. Vols., and served until May, 1863, when he was transferred to Co. B, 80th N. Y. Vols., and sent to provost-general's headquar- ters, where he had charge of the commissary department under Capt. H. P. Clinton, where he remained until the close of the war. He is a member of Lamoka Lodge, F. & A. M. In politics he is a Democrat and has been justice of the peace for eight years and is now notary public, and in 1892 was elected supervisor, which office he still holds. Hall. Jeremiah, was born in Urbana, A\ni\ 22, 1842. Thomas Hall, his father, was born at Williamsport, Pa., August 1, 1813. He was a farmer and came to Urbana about 1834, and later came to Bath, where he lived until his death, which occurred in October, 1893. He married Emily Douglass of Steuben county, by whom he had these children: Mary, Almira, Jeremiah, Ary, Ann, and Frank. Jeremiah was first engaged in farming, after which he worked at the blacksmith trade, which business he followed for twelve years. He was postmaster of Avoca under Harrison for four and a half years, and since 1893 has been in the clothing business in the village. He enlisted in the 107th N. Y. Vols., in August. 1862, and served for a term of three years, returned unharmed in poor health. He owned and conducted a hardware 188 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY*. business in Avoca from 1882 to 1891. Mr. Hall was supervisor one term. He is a member of Avoca Lodge of Masons, No. 673, also of Morey Post, 507. Hardenbrook, George H., was born in Lodi, Seneca county, N. Y., May 15, 1837. Richard Hardenbrook, his father, was a native of Hunterdon county, N. J., and mar- ried Catherine, daughter of Nathan Smith, of Georgetown, Queen Anne county, Md.. and was a manufacturer of boots and shoes in Seneca county until 1844, when he came to the town of Bath and engaged in farming. In 1850 he moved into the vil- lage of Bath, as superintendent of the Whiting & McCass foundry, and afterwards purchased the business, being associated with William Sedgwick. In 1857 the plant was destroyed by fire, and Richard Hardenbrook H: Sons purchased the old Steuben county foundry of Biles & Owens, which is now run by his son, George II.. making a specialty of agricultural implements, mill machinery, and building and repairing engines. In 1862, with Captain Mowers, he raised Co. F, 78th N Y. Vols. , and took part in the battles of Bull Run, Cedar Mountain, Antietani, and numerous others, receiving an honorable discharge in 1865, with rank of acting captain, and in the same year married Mary A., daughter of John McKenzie, of Baton Rouge, La., by whom he had two children, Katherine and M. Aldine. Olmsted, John E., was born in the town of Avoca, August 27, 1853, son of Erastus Olmsted, who was born in the town of Avoca, March 6, 1830, and grandson of John Olmsted, who was born in Montgomery county and settled in this town where he bought land and cleared a farm of 100 acres. October 27, 1852, Erastus married Margaret, daughter of William P. Bellenger, of Montgomery county, who was among the first settlers of this county. They have one son, John E., who was educated in the town of Avoca. He was in the mercantile and produce business from 1876 to 1888 in the village of Wallace, since which time he has devoted his time to farming and to the sale of agricultural implements. He married Estella M. Tripp, of Cohoc- ton, and they have one daughter, Bulah M. Jlr. Olmsted has filled the offices of assessor and highway commissioner. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity of Avoca, No. 673, and Wallace Lodge, No, 519. I. O. O. F. Peck, George W., was born in Lansdown, February 18, 1854. Rev. J. B. Peck, his father, was a native of England and settled in Jefferson county in 1840, and for thirty-five years has been engaged in the ministry of the M. E. church, the larger portion of his work being in Steuben count)-. George W. began, at the age of four- teen, to learn the hardware business, entering the employ of Powers & Wagoner in 1870. In 1875 he formed the partnership of Wagoner & Peck, and in 1876 purchased Mr. Wagoner's interest, and in 1880 he removed to Prattsburg and purchased the hardware stock of (jeorge H. Look. In 1883 he established a branch store at Pulte- ney, and in 1886 purchased the Harris stock at Cohocton. In 1888 he purchased the stock of Hodgraan & McNamara of Bath, and in 1893 established a branch store at Bradford, N. Y. , and in 1894 the business was put into a stock company, under the name of the George W. Peck Hardware Co., starting in 1875 with yearly sales of $4,000, in 1894 the aggregate amount was §150,000. In 1884 he married Flora, daughter of B. Gri.swold, by whom he had four children, George (J.. J. Arthur, War- ren B., and Flora M. Raymond. Joel, and his only son Orville were among the early settlers of the town ■ FAMILY SKETCHES. 189 of Wheeler, clearing and occupying a farm near Wlieeler Center until their deaths, now owned by Elder J. \V. Raymond, eldest son of Orville. Joel Raymond died of an injury received by accident at town meeting February 12, 1850, in his seventy- seventh year. His wife, Lydia. died August 21^, l.'Sr)4, in her eighty-third year. To them were born three children; Hannah, Orville and Tryphena. Hannah married Jacob Thompson of Wheeler, January 1, 1823. To them were born six children: Lydia, Calvin, Catherine, Orville, Joel, and John, all of whom are now living except- ing Calvin and Orville, Calvin having died December !), 18G3, in his thirty seventh year, and Orville, April 30, 1895, iu his sixty-lifth year. Jacob Thompson died May 9, 1868, aged seventy-four years. Hannah, his wife, died July 20, 1880, aged eighty- seven years. Orville Raymond, .son of Joel, married Caroline Smith of Nelson, Madison county, February 17, 1834. To them were born five children: John W., Neheniiah S., Harriet, Mary, and Amasa C, all of whom are living except Mary, who died April 3, 1851. in her eleventh year. Orville Raymond died July 19, 1880, in his eightieth year. Caroline, his wife, died November 25, 1885, in her eighty- fourth year. Tryphena, daughter of Joel Raymond, died October 26, 1876, aged seventy-one years. John W. married Sarah Jayne of Barrington, Cook county. 111., by whom he had these children: Mary C, Silas C, and Ilattie O. (twins), and Daniel A. Silas C. married Carrie Kelley. by whom he has two children, John W. and Kninia L. Mary C. married Dixie Martin of Kanona, Steuben county. Nehemiah S. married Ophelia Lanphear of Nile, Allegany county, and is a farmer in Wheeler. Harriet married Michael Jones, who is also a farmer in Wheeler. Amasa C. mar- ried Emma Robinson of Pulaski, Oswego county, and is a farmer of South Richland, Oswego county. John W. is engaged in the work of the ministry, being a membci' of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. He was a member of the Pennsyl- vania Conference of said order for fourteen years, and president of the conference for the last Hve years of his connection therewith. January 1, 1893, he was trans- ferred to the New York Conference of said denomination, of which he is now a mem- ber and minister. Avery, Chauncy, was one of the pioneers of Steuben county. lie was l)orii June 28. 1798, in the State of Connecticut. He came to New York and married Emaline, a daughter of William Van Brunt of Byron. They were the parents of tliirteen children. He died May 18, 1876; his wife died October 19, 1870. They were pio- neers in the Christian church of which they were members. Their children were Chauncy Stillman, born May 7, 1825: Gilbert Franklin, born January 15, 1828; Cla- rissa M., born October 29, 1832; she married Warren Northrop; he was killed in the Wayland tragedy January, 1871, by Mrs. Mary Hess; Simon G., born December 1','. 1834 died March 20, 1893; Rose C, married Horace Avery, lives in Pennsylvania; William H., born December 13. 1837, died October 7, 1877, leaving a wife and four children in Florida; Nancy M., born April, 1840, died May, 1848; Charles F., born November 24, 1842, died March 20, 1895; John H., born March 2, 1849, married Anna Hayward; they have three sons and a daughter. The others all died in infancy. Chauncy S. married Mary Jane, a daugliter of Augustus Mathers, who was one of the old pioneers of Cohocton (now Wayland); she died August 4, 1866. They had three daughters. Maryette, now Mrs. Abram Van Riper, of Cohocton ; F'rank M., now Mrs. Robert Cole of Hornellsville; and Harriet A., now Mrs. George Pierce of South 190 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Dansville. His second wife was Lucinda R., a daughter of Zina Tripp. In 1873 he purchased the Avery homestead near the IJ. L. and W. depot, where he still resides. He is a member of the G. A. R. Post, and also of the I. O. O. F., Lodge 176, in Way- land. Four of the Avery brothers enlisted in the United States service in our late Civil war. Chauncey S. and Simon were in the last year and took part in a number of hard fought battles; assisted in tearing up the Weldon Railroad, and were pres- ent at General Lee's surrender and witnessed the stacking of the Rebel arms. Gil- bert enlisted in 1862, was in General Bank's division in Louisiana. Charles F. en- listed iu the beginning of the war and was a soldier until its close. He received a bad wound in the face, the ball entering just below the left eye and coining out just below the ear, destroying the sight and hearing of that eye and ear. Besides a com- mon school education he graduated from the Poughkeejjsie Commercial College since the war. He went to Florida and was twice elected by the Republicans to the Legislature of that State. He died of consumption March 8, 1895. Zina Tripp, born April 3, 1789, in Washington county, N. Y. He married Ruth Baudish. She died in June, 1820. They had five children ; none of them ever lived in this county. His second wife was Parthiana, a daughter of Nathaniel Bennett, of Waterloo, N.Y. Their two oldest children died in infancy ; names of the other five were Harriet Eliza, born April 26, 182.5, died in 1848; Lucinda Ruth, born December 21, 1828, married C. S. Avery ; Catherine M. died in Wayland, September 7, 1884. Nathaniel Bonnell, born November 9, 1833, was lost in the woods May 8, and found dead May 11, 1837. Christopher Columbus,' born April 19, 1836, married Rachel Pierce; they were married in March and he enlisted in the United States service the next Sep- tember, 1862. He was in General Banks's division and in his expedition up Red River in Louisiana was in two hard fought battles when our army lost near four thousand and the enemy nearly as many. On the retreat down Red River Admiral Porter's fleet got stuck and could not get down over the falls at Alexandria and Grand Ecore when our boys had to work building dams to raise the water. Christo- pher was among the number working in the water up to their waists and often up to their necks. After the gunboats were off and safe he had to march on a forced march from two o'clock in the moraing until two o'clock the next morning. This broke his constitution and he was sick after it as long as he lived. He was home on furlough at the time of his death, which occurred September 20, 1864. His captain said he was a brave and faithful soldier. He was converted before the war and his chaplain said he was a faithful soldier of the Cross. Zina Tripp and his wife were both converted years ago, but they never united with any church, but their wives were like the (Quakers, not believing in a water baptism or vocal prayer, but in a life hid with Christ in God. He died September 27. 18.59; his wife died August 30, 1870. Sherer, Sylvester. — In the year 1826, Robert Sherer and his wife, Elizabeth Smith, having then only one child, Louisa, a year and a half old, found their way westward through the then almost unknown wilderness, to the place now known as Sherer's Corners, though then miles from any road. Here they cleared a spot, constructed a cabin and established a home, which they occupied till removed by death. In the years that followed there were born to them seven other children: Mary, Sarah, who died in infancy, Lewisa, Daniel, Roliert and Betsey (twins), and Sylvester. Soon FAMILY SKETCHES. 191 after the birth of the last child the wife at:cl mother died, but the father lived to see the seven children grown to manhood and womanhood, himself surrounded by grandchildren, the wilderness turned into orchard and garden, and " made to blos- som as the rose. ' At present there are only three of the immediate family living — Louisa. Robert, and Sylvester, who owns and occupies the homestead, he havmg married Mary Jane Irvin, after serving his country nearly three years, during the Civil war. He enlisted in the 141st Regt. N. V. State Vols., and was with them in each of the fifteen actions in which they were engaged. Some of the most noted were Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Gulp's Farm, and Peach Tree Creek, in which he was wounded on July 20, 1864. On July 20, ISO.'i, a reunion was given to the surviving members of Co. H, of the 141st Regt. of which Mr. Sherer was a mem- ber, by himself and family consisting of his wife and daughter. Bettie, they having buried their son Irvin in the year 1878, at the age of eleven years. Mr. Sherer is a Republican in politics, a member of the G A. R. Abram Allen Post No. 194 Ca- nisteo, N. Y.. and with the family belongs to the M. E. church. In the winter of 1800-61 a religious revival swept this part of the country with the result of the form- ing of the 2d M. E. Societv of the town and the erecting of a church edifice, which in 1890, was remodeled and enlarged. It stands upon ground contributed to the society by Robert Sherer who also paid largely toward the first erection, and is connected with fine cemetery grounds also donated by him to the society and where his remains now rest. Rider, Myron H., was born in Fremont, N. Y., May 18, 1848. His grandfather was born in Massachusetts in 17(>6, and moved to Dutchess county, N. Y., thence to Saratoga county, N. Y., and in 1811 he came to what is now Fremont, where he was one of the oldest settlers. He died in 1803. The father of our subject was born in Saratoga county. N. V., and came to Fremont with his father in 1811. He was a mechanic, but his principal occupaticm was farming. He has a good common school education, and has held the office of assessor of the town. He was also member of the Presbyterian church at Howard. He married Eliza Mosher, by whom he had three children: Harriet .-\., who was born in September, 1831; f)rrin L., who was born in 1833; and Samuel K., who was born in 1836. His wife died in 1830, and in 1838, he married Elizabeth Connor, who was born in Saratoga county, N. Y., in 1811, by whom he had one child, Myron H., as above, who received a common school edu- cation, after which he engaged in farming, and now owns a farm of 126 acres near Haskinsville. At Howard, N. Y., April 20, 1809, he married Eliza J. Cornue, who was born October 11. 184.5, in Prattsburg, by whom he had three children: Archie C, who was born May 24, 1S78; Derry S., who was' born April ."i, 1882: and Carrie S., who was born July 26, 1884. Samuel E. Rider, brother of our subject, served in the Rebellion, in the 141st N. Y. Vols., and died in the service. Patchin. Ira, was born in 1812. His grandfather, Walter Patchin, was born at Hallston Spa, Saratoga county, N. Y., and settled in Wayland about 1814. He pur- chased a tract of land at Patchinsville. He was a Revolutionary soldier and pen- sioner. He died in 18.Vj aged ninety years, and is buried at East Wayland. Warren Patchin, father of Ira, was born in Hallston Spa, Saratoga county, in 178,5, was in the War of 1812, and settled in East Wayland in 1817, and died in 1872. He was the mo.st noted doctor in this locality, having a ride of over fifty miles. He owned 700 192 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. acres of land at one time. In 1803 he married Ruth Cartwright, who was born at Catskill, Greene county, N. Y. , in 1783, and died in 1853, by whom he had six chil- dren: Warren, who was born in 1804, and died in 1879; Jabez, who was born in 1806, and died in 1825; Harriet, who was born in 1808; Ira, as above; Cameron, who was born in 1820; and Minerva, who was born in 1826. Ira Patchin was educated in the common schools and attended the Prattsburg Academy. He was a clerk in the store of J. Hess & Co., of Dansville, for six years, and previously clerked in the store of J. L. Monier, of Patchinsville for six years. In 1853 he purchased the farm where he now resides. At Penn Yan, N. Y., in 1852, he married Elizabeth M. Ellis, who was born in Madison county, N. Y., in 1825, by whom he had two children: Carrie Elizabeth, who was born in 1858, wife of Eugene Wilhelni, and resides in Michigan. They have two children: Eugene B. , who was born in 1886, and Philip, who was born in 1890; and Sprague Ellis, who was born in 1861; and married Amelia C. Hurzler, who was born at Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1867, by whom he had two children- Merton H., who was born in 1890, and Ira J., who was born m 1893. Day, Paul E. , and Polly Blodgett, his wife, moved from Bennington, Vt. , in the winter of 1814, to Genesee county, two and one-half miles west of Le Roy; in the spring of 1819 moved to Seneca county ; left there the following year for Cohocton, Steuben county, now Patchinsville; in the spring of 1824 moved to the farm now owned by Charles F. Day. The children of Paul E. Day were Franklin E., born in 1810; Washington W., born 1812; William P., 1814; Jackson J., born 1816; Cal- phurnia, born 1819; Mary J., born 1821 ; Jonas B. , born 1823; Laura L., born 1825; Riley, 1828. Franklin E. Day married Matilda Chase, daughter of Thomas Chase of Cohocton, January 2, 1836, and came into possession of the property at Patchins- ville in the spring of 1838, where he resided until the spring of 1868, when he moved to Rochester, N. Y., where he now resides. His family consisted of two children, Orleans W., born October 30, 1838, died March 21, 1887; Mary M., born February 5, 1841; she married David M. Stuart, a Presbyterian clergyman, and resides at Na- tional City, Cal. ; Orleans W. married Jvdia A. Mather, who was born at Geneseo, N. Y., January 3^^, 1836; he was engaged in mercantile business several years, sub- sequently moved on to the farm where our subject resides taking charge of it and the saw-mill. The first clothing mill was built by Paul E. Day in 1826, and rebuilt by Franklin E. Day in 1833; first saw mill built by him in 1841, rebuilt in 1853. Or- leans Day's children were Charles Franklin, born Januarys, 1862; William W., born July 31, 1869, and resides in Rochester, being corresponding clerk for Eastman's Kodak Works; Mary E. , born May 12, 1872, wife of William Faulkner of Wayland; Harry W., born April 29, 1876, who is a student in the Medical College, Buffalo; Amelia M.. born August 25, 1879, a student at Rochester Free Academy. Charles Y. Day married Addie H. Nichols, daughter of Edward Nichols of Hatavia, Decem- ber 11, 1884. He is the present owner of the farm and is engaged in farming and the lumber business. Hedges, Benjamin Y., was born in Bradford, N. Y., July 15, 1843, and is the eighth of ten children born to Caleb S. and Nancy (McDowell) Hedges, who came fr.om Barrington to Cameron in 1830, and in 1838 came to Bradford, where they en- gaged in farming. He died December 19, 1884, and his wife in May, 1883. The grandfather, Isaac Hedges, was a blacksmith, and lived and died in Yates county. FAMILY SKETCHES. 193 Benjamin Y. has always followed farming and lumbering; he cleared sixty acres of land where he now lives. He has been a hard uorking man ; in clearing up his land he has burned log heaps all night and for many nights till past midnight. He now owns Iti'i acres of land. He is a Democrat in politics, and has been assessor of Bradford for six years. In 1804 he married Eliza J., daughter of Isaac Sutfin of Tyrone, bj- whom he had three children: Mary A., who died in infancy; Cora, who married David Whitehead, a farmer of Bradford; and Hila, who married N. Van Curen, a farmer of Schuyler county, \. V. Schoetfler, Henry, was born in Deidesheim Rhein Baicrn, (Jermany, in 1S4I>. Martin Schoetfler, father of Henry, was born in October, 171)9. He was a soldier for six years in the Bavarian army. He married Susan Glasscr, who was born in 1805, and died in 1880, by whom he had four children, Martin. Thomas, Henry and Thekla. Henry Schoetfler came to America in 18()7, landing in New York on New Years' day. with but three cents in his pocket. He borrowed twenty dollars and went to Chicago. 111., where he worked two months at gardening, thence to Urbana where he spent three years in a vineyard, thence to Indiana, where he engaged in farming three years, after which he returned to Urbana and spent three years more in a vineyard. In 1874 he purchased his present tract of thirty nine acres, seventeen of which he cleared of timber and of all the stumps and stones and made twenty-live acres of it a vineyard, and has erected large, first-class building.s. In 1870 he mar- ried Johannah Poelhuis, who was born in St. James, Ind., in 185.'), daughter of John B. and Mary (Tevogt) Poelhuis, both of Holland, by whom he had seven children; Anna Mary, Helena, Susanna, Martin A., George H., Randolph J., and J. Apolonia. Dr. Schoetfler is a member of the C. M. B. A. of Hornellsville. Lattimer, John C, was born in Pike county, Pa., July 15, 182:i, son of John and Dorothy (Van Ettan) Lattimer, who came to Woodhull in 183(), where they lived and died, he in 1858, and she in 1844. He was a farmer, and also kept a hotel in early life. John C. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and has since followed farming and now lives on the homestead farm of 120 acres. January 1, 1847, he married Charlotte, daughter of Edward L. and Almira (Gurnsey) Stroud, he born in New Jersey, and she in Connecticut, and they came to Woodhull about 1820, where he died May 18, 1873, and his wife in 1885. He was a Republican in politics, and held minor offices. Gilmer, Joseph B., was born in the town of Bath, N. Y., October 9, 1828, son of William and Eunice (Benedict),Gilmer, he a native of North Hector, born in I80:i, and she of the town of Lodi, N. Y., born in 1804. The paternal grandfather, James Gilmer, was a farmer in North Hector, where he died September 15, 18;!(1, aged sixty- seven years. William Gilmer settled in Bath, three miles east of Savima, in 1825, and lived there until the time of his death in 1877, and Mrs. Gilmer died in 1865. He was a deacon in the Baptist church for a great many years. Joseph B. was reared on a farm and for six years taught school winters and farmed summers. In 1851 he married Melinda, daughter of Rev. J. D. Carr, of Bradford, by whom he had three children: Rose; Charles W. ,a farmer and vineyardist on the old homestead in Bath ; and Ray C, a farmer in the town of Bradford. In 1864 Mr. Gilmer settled on the farm of 100 acres, where he still resides. Mrs. Gilmer died January 2, 1895. y 194 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Rogers, Frederick S., was born in Rochester, \. Y., May 21, 184T, and is a son of Henry T. Rogers, who came to this city from London, England, at an early day, and died here in 1878, his trade being that of a carpenter and builder. Frederick S. was educated in private schools. At the age of sixteen he entered the establishment of the Evening E.xpress, where he remained about six years, having charge of the mail- ing department. About 1868 he entered the hardware store of his father and his brother, James H., which was known as Rogers & Son, and later he was associated with Pollock &• Weaver in the same business. In 1877 he became bookkeeper and financial man for the late John Siddons, manufacturer of and dealer m roofing mate- rials and general iron work. In 1889 the John Siddons Company was incorporated, with John Siddons as president and treasurer; Charles Vogei, vice-president; John O. Vogel, superintendent; and Mr. Rogers, secretary. Upon the death of Mr. Sid- dons in 1890 the ofHcers were Charles Vogel, president; John C. Vogel, vice-president and superintendent ; and Frederick S. Rogers, secretary and treasurer. In 1895 they were changed to Charles Vogel, president and superintendent; Frederick S. Rogers, vice-president, secretary and treasurer; and T. J. Vogel, assistant superintendent. Mr. Rogers is a trustee of the Chamber of Commerce, of which the firm is a member, and he is also a member of Valley Lodge, F. & A. M., of Hamilton Chaper, R. A. M., of Doric Council, R. & S. M., of Monroe Commandery No. 12, K. T. ; also Monroe Commandery Drill Coi-ps, of Lalla Rookh Grotto, and of Damascus Temple, Mystic Shrine Van Keuren, James, was born Jlay 14, 1856. His grandfather, Philip Van Keuren, was born near Newburg, N. Y. , and went to Groton, Tompkins county, thence to Smith Valley, Schuyler county, and finally located in Fremont, Steuben county, where he died in 1862. Tcherick P. Van Keuren, father of James, was born near Newburg, N. Y., in 1815, and died February 11, 1883. He came to Fremont in 1856 and located on a farm one-half mile north of Big Creek post-office, where he engaged in farming and teaching school. He taught school twenty-five years, and held the office of justice of the peace sixteen years. He was a member of the P. of H., No. 324. In 1852 he married Elenore B. Spaulding, who was born in 1825, and died August 29, 1S93. By this union he had five children: Mary F., born September 6, 1854, and married George R. Burdett, December 31, 1878; James, as above; George S., born August 4, 1858; Frank G., born June 1, 1860, and died December 5, 1884; and Fred, born March 26, 1865. James Van Keuren received a liberal education at Hovi-ard public school, and located on and owns the old homestead of 150 acres, where he is engaged in farming. He is a member of the P. of H., No. 324, Big Creek. March 20, 1891, he married Alice, daughter of Harri.son Russel. (leorge S. Van Keuren owns a farm of ninety-six acres adjoining the old homestead. He w-as edu- cated at Canisteo Academy, and has taught school ten terms, and has also held the otBce of supervisor two terms. He is a member of the P. of H., No. 324. December 24, 1892, he married Minnie, daughter of Eli T. Weld, by whom he has one child, Fremont W. , born October 29, 1893. Fred Van Keuren owns a farm of seventy-five acres one-half mile .south of Big Creek post-office. He was educated at Canisteo Academy, and is engaged in farming and teaching school. He is also a memlier of the P of H., No. 324, Big Creek. Marlette, P. W. , was born at Girard. Pa., in 1833. The family arc of I'rench FAMIIA' SKETCHES. 195 descent. His father, William J. Marlette. was born in Schoharie county, and died in Schenectady May 4. 1870, aged seventy-four years. Me was a contractor on public works, railroad, canal, etc. He married Lucy Ann Balch, who was born in Connec- ticut, and died in Iowa iu 186.), aged (i7 years. They had eight children: Maria Bircliard, deceased; James J., deceased; Seneca H. ; Lucy A. Chamberlain ; and P. W.. as above, who received a common school education, and afterwards attended the Pittsticld, Mass.. GvniDasiuni for some time. When twenty-one years of age he was a brakeman on the Williamsport & Elmira R. R., where he remained for si.\ years, and was then conductor on the same road and on the A. & G. W. R. R. si.\ years, after which he engaged in the lumber business, as bookkeeper for Hunt's Run Lumber Co., at Cameron, Pa., for fourteen years. In 1877 he bought the farm at East Wayland, where he now resides. At Bradford county, Pa., in 1864, he mar- ried Julia B. Gliues, born in that county November 29, 183"). Her father, AVinthrop G. Glincs, was born \n Massachusetts in 1803, and died April 23, 1870. He married Harriet M. Beeman, who was born in Connecticut in 1809, and died in January. 1H04, by whom he had these children: Merritt, born in January. 1830; Harriet M.. l)orn m Uecember, 1832, iiud married Or. Patchin; Julia B., wife of P. W. Marlette; Winthrop Y. , jr., born m January, 1836; and Zina, born in September, 1S40. Sanford. William R., was born in Dryden, Tompkins county, X. V., March 18, 1831, son of Peter and Mary L. Gray Sanford, she a native of Lansing, Tompkins county, and he of \'ermont. Peter Sanford came to Cameron in 1842, where he resided the greater part of his life, and later moved to Addison, where he died May 8, 1888. Mrs. Sanford died in Uecember, 1890. William R. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and has followed farming as an occupation, and owns two hundred acres of land in Cameron and Woodhull. November 6, 1894, he came to Hedgesville, where he lives a retired life. He is a Republican, and has been assessor f)f Cameron for nine years in succession. July 19, 181)4, he married Sarah Morgan, a native of Tompkins county, and daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Ozman. Morgan Sanford's grandfather. Evan Morgan, came to Lansing, Tompkins county, at an early date, where he died. To Mr. and Mrs. Sanford have been born three children: Charles, who died in infancy; Morgan R., born February 12, 1862. edu- cated in Addison Union School, from which he was graduated in 1884, and was graduated from Syracuse University in 1888, and is at present a teacher of natural science in Wilbraham. at the Wesleyan Academy; he married Orinda Sexsmith, of Syracuse; and Edwin, born February 12, 1864, who was educated in Addison Union School, from which he was graduated in 1883, and was also graduated from Syracuse University in 1889. He is now a teacher of Latin, elocution, and English at Cayuga Lake Military Academy. Houck, Alonzo, was born in Orange county, X. V., August 1, 1849, son of Henry and Belinda Houck. He has always resided on the homestead, of which he now owns seventy acres, and carries on general farming and grape growing. He is a very successful vineyardist, and has about thirteen acres of grapes. In 1881 he married Margaret Louise, daughter of Andrew and Margaret Dunn, by whom he had two children: Harry A,, who was born January 16, 1SS7; and Ethel M.. who was born Julv 21. 1S9."). Mr. Houck is a member ot tlie Baptist church, and his wife of the Episco])al church. i96 Landmarks of steuben county. Lilly, Willis S., was boru in Hornby, where he now resides, in 1843, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Wolever Lilly, natives of Pennsylvania. They located on Mr. Lilly's present farm in 1820. The parents died in 1883 and 1865, aged eighty-nine and sixty-five. In 'September, 1864, he enlisted in Co. F, 188th N.Y.Vols., serving till the close of the war. lu 186ti he married Cynthia Buck, a native of Schuyler county, and they have two children: Cassin G., and Ro)- O. He is serving a second term as justice of the peace, and has also filled the office of assessor. Shauger, Andrew, was born in Susse.x county, N, J., March 4, 1833, son of George W. and Mary (Dobbins) Shauger, she a native of Haverstraw, N. Y., and he of Morris coimty, N. J., and who died in Sussex county, N. J. The grandfather of our subject, Leopold Shauger, lived and died in New Jersey. His father was a native of Germany. The maternal grandfather, George Dobbins, was of Irish descent, and lived and died in Morris county. N. J. Andrew Shauger was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and worked with his father until he was twenty-one years of age, at farming and burning charcoal. In 1858 he came to Thurston and began working by the month. August 14, 1861, he enlisted in Co. B, 86th N.Y.Vols. , and served until June 4, 1864. He was at second battle of Bull Run, Fredericks- burg, Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, and Gettysburg, and he lost his left leg below the knee, at the battle of Gettysburg. May 6, 1867, he married Hannah (Sutton) Yost, by whom he had one son, George P., who married Lelia M. Jessup, and they have one daughter, Georgia L. He is a farmer and I'esides with his parents. He is a member of Loga Post No. 469, G. A. R. Andrew Shauger is a Republican in politics, and has been collector live years and highway commissioner for one year. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church. Shults, Conrad D.. was born July 23, 1860. John Shults, his grandfather, was born in Germanv, June 24, 1799, emigrated to America in 1849, and purchased the farm of 90 acres where Conrad was born and where he now resides. He died in 18><1, aged 8:5 years. Peter Shults, father of Conrad D., was born in Germany, December 4, 1839, and married Elizabeth Grafl^, who was born in Germany and died April i^, 1892, aged sixty-five years. They had six children: John P., Maggie L., wife of Nicholas Hogg; Conrad D., born July 23, 1860; Andrew L., Peter, deceased; and Mary, wife of Martin Kimmel, jr. Conrad D. Shults was educated in the common schools and at- tended the German school of Perkinsville for two years, after which he engaged in farming. He is a member of Wayland Champion Hook and Ladder Company No. 1. He married Elizabeth Pirrung, who was born in Germany, December 7, 1865, by whom he had four children: Fronia E., born November 10, 1889; Peter J., born February 10, 1892; Anna K.. born September 20, 1898; and William C, born No- vember 15, 1894. Walling, Edgar L., was born in Bradford, August 12, 1858, the youngest of five children born to Asa and Sarah Walling. The other children were Thomas, Daniel, Charles A., and Delia. Asa Walling came to Bradford in 1845 and took up about 200 acres. Edgar L. was reared on a farm and educjitcd in the common schools. He now owns 100 acres of land and follows general (arming. September 23, 1883, he married Melissa, daughter of Stephen and Catherine Jacoby, of Schuyler county, now deceased, he dying in 1883, and she in 1S90. Mr. and Mrs. Walling have one FAMILY SKETCHES. 19" child, Thomas E., Iwrn September 25, 1890. They also have an adopted daughter, Delia. Mr. Walling has been collector and is a member of Farmers' Alliance, and has been deputy sheritT of Steuben county. Swarthout, Minor E., was born in Wayne, N. Y., and is the only son of Wilham B. and Helen M. (Ellis) Swarthout, he a native of Wayne, and she of Barringtoii. The grandparents, Asa and Maria (Krench) Swarthout, were both natives of Wayne, where he lived and died. In 1857 William B. Swarthout, father of Minor E., located on the farm now owned by his son. In 1858 he married Helen M., daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Ellis. Mr. Ellis was born in in 1795, and Mrs. Ellis, De- cember 31, 1789. Mr. Swarthout died in 1888, aged si.\ty-one years. Minor E. Swarthout has always followed farming, and now owns 110 acres of land and is en- gaged in general farming and fruit growing. In 1882 he married Frank, daughter of Dr. Allison, of Wayne. She died November 13, 1891, and January 31, 1894, he married for his second wife Lulu, daughter of Marcenus and Elizabeth (yuacken- bush) Mothersell.of Tyrone, by whom he had one son, Minor Swarthout, jr., who was born December 6, 1894. Mr. Swarthout is a Democrat in politics, and has been assessor six years and collector three years. Zimmerman, Peter H., was born in 1857. His paternal grandfather, Henry Zim- merman, was educated in Trevis, Germany, where he was afterward a teacher in the university for many years, and where he died in 1894. His family consisted of two daughters and three sons, two of whom emigrated to this country: Michael, who was intereste;! in copper mining in Wisconsin, where he died, and Nicholas, Peter's father, who came to the United States in 1848. He settled at Dansville, where he cngaged"in mercantile business for a time, and then moved toPerkinsville, where he kept a general store for a number of years, and was there elected justice of the peace, and was for a time a teacher in the (German school, being a man of tine education, having graduated from the Trevis University in German and Latin. Later he moved to Wayland, where he owned a hotel and continued in office of justice of the peace for a number of years, and was a member of the Catholic church, to which he gave liberally. He married Anna Hoffman, of Perkinsvillc, and their children were Nicholas, deceased; Peter H., C. Nicholas, who was born in 1859, and wa.s .station agent at Perkinsville seven years and now is billing clerk for tlie D., L. & W. R. R, at Buffalo; and Emanuel, who died January 1, 1885, aged twenty- three. Mr. Zimmerman died at Wayland. in April, 1875. Peter H. was educated under tutorship of his father and in the common schools of the town and the Ger- man school. His first occupation was as a clerk in Wayland, and then went to Car- bondale. 111., where he was billing clerk in the railroad office of the Illinois Central, and later came to Wayland, and attended school one year, and in 1878 became con- fidential clerk for Capron & Fowler, produce dealers, which place he now holds. He has held the office of justice of the jieace since January 1, 1885, and in 1887 was appointed notarv, which office he now holds. Me took the federal census of Way- land in 1880, and in 1893 was appointed special e-xaminer of mortgage indebtedness of the Twenty-ninth Congressional District, and in 1894 was elected justice of sessions of Steuben county. In 1883 he married Emilia Conrad, who was born in 1801, and they have five children; Victor, born September 17, 1884; Emanuel .\., 198 LANDMARKS OF STEDBEX COUNTY. born October 2, 18S6; Madge, born September 19, 1888; Beatrice, born February 14, ]8!)2; and Harold, born May W, 1894. MacDowell, Sidney Darrin, was born at Bradford, N.Y., in 1858, of Scotch descent, and a son of Mathew D. MacDowell, a wagonmaker, who married Mary D. Darrin, and by whom he had five children. In 1849 Sidney came to Addison, where he re- ceived his education, and in 1887 purchased the furniture and undertaking business with a partner who had only a nominal interest, Mr. MacDowell always conducting the business himself, of which for the last three years he has been sole proprietor. In i88o he married Mabel, daughter of John Brundage, of Urbana, by whom he had four children: Roy Brundage, born April 2, 1887; Matthew D., born January 27, 1889; Lucy Shepard, born April 28, 1892; and Sidney Monroe, born December 6. 1893. Mr. MacDowell is a member of the Board of Health, is registry clerk, also a mertiber of the Masonic fraternity. Mullen, Seth, was bom in Waterford, Pa., in 1826. and was a posthumous child of John Mullen. He is a genial, unassuming, self-made man, who never went to school a day in his life, but was taught by his pet daughter to read and write, and is con- sidered a fairly well educated man. Previous to his coming to Addison in 1840 he worked by the month, running lumber down the Susquehanna River, after which for twenty-one years he was employed on the Erie Railroad, as a foreman of construc- tion works, and was afterward engaged in farming, but is now retired from activity. When he came to Addison there were only three houses on the upper side of the river, and he has done much toward the promotion of his town, filling the office of highway commissioner with credit for many years, where he has laid out the princi- pal roads and superintended the building of many fine bridges. He was street com- missioner when the village was first incorporated, and has been town assessor for nine years. In 1845 he married Betsy M., daughter of Thomas Phillips, by whom he had three children, one of whom died in infancy; Alice, who died in 1890, mar- ried Ross Jones of Addison, leaving one son. Ray S. The other daughter, Xcllie M. Cowley, resides in Findlay, Ohio, where her husband is United States e.\press agent. Finch, John M., was born in the town of Ilornellsville, January 29, 1841. His father, Nathaniel Finch, was one of the most prominent and widely known citizens of the county. He was born in Greenwich, Conn., in 1798, and for several years prior to moving to Hornellsville, was engaged in surveying public lands in Tennessee and Mississippi. In 1837 he located on a farm just east of the present city of Hornellsville, and in 1845 he moved into the then small village, where he continued to reside until his death in 18(iG. When it was an open question whether the Erie Railroad should be located through the Cohocton or the Canisteo valley. Nathaniel Finch, with other residents of the Canisteo valley, 'interested himself to secure its location through the latter valley, and was largely instrumental in bringing about that result. The acquaintance he then formed with the officials of the Erie road led to his being employed by that company, and until his death — for a period of over twenty-five years— he occupied the highly important position of attorney and gen- eral land agent of the company. John M. Finch was educated in the ])ublic schools uf Hornellsville, and at the old academy in Xunda. X. V. .\t the age of eighteen FAMILY SKETCHES. 199 years he enlered into the service of the Krie Railroad Company, under his father as clerk, and later, as assistant to his father. To fit himself more fully for the particu- lar service that he was engaged in, he studied law and civil engineering, and at the age of twenty-two years was admitted to practice as an attorney. His duties were mostly in connection with the company's real estate and ta.xes, and upon the death of his father in l!S6fi, he succeeded him as attorney and general land agent. Soon after, the work of the office was divided and Mr. Finch continued as general land agent until 1^91, having been in the service of the company for nearly a third of a century. Mr. Finch has engaged in several enterprises, nearly all of which have contributed to the building up and improvement of his native place. The beautiful cemeterv, of which Hornellsville is justly proud, is the work chielly of Mr. Finch, and to him and Andy L. Smith all the credit is due for its present favorable condition. The organ- ization of the Hornell Library was the result of Mr. Finch's suggestion, and he was the first contributor to it, and its first elected member. The first real government the village of Hornellsville had was when Mr. Finch was one of the village trustees, and imdcr a new charter drafted by him, which continued with little change until the city was organized. He has been vice-president of the Citizens' National Bank since its organization, in which he took an active part. He is manager and treasurer of the James Alley Real Estate and Building Company. He is president of the American Illuminating Company, and secretary of the Allegany Gas Company. During the war he was an ardent Republican, but since has shown a leaning toward Democratic principles. Gillmor, James M., was born in the town of Bath, August :il, IH'i'.i, son of William and Eunice (Benedict) Gillmor. William Gillmor was born at North Hector (now •Schuyler county) in ISO!!; his wife in Lodi, Seneca county, 1804. William Gillmor came to Bath in 1824, purchased a farm, cleared the land, built a log house, went went back to Lodi, married and brought his wife to Bath in March, 1825, where they both died. The farm is now owned by his grandson. Mr. Gillmor was one of the founders of the South Bradford Baptist church and was deacon for many years. James M. was reared on the old farm and has always been a farmer. He came to Bradford in IS.'iT, and settled on the farm he now owns of 100 acres. He has all the modern improvements and makes a specialty of raising sheep. January 10, IS.iS. he married Maria Ann, daughter of David and Anna Dennis of Bradford. Mr. and Mrs. (lillmor have three children: Sarah E., wife of D. L. Walling of Bradford; Arthur W., of Bradford; Albert 1)., of Weston, IN'. Y., both farmers. He was super- visor in 1875-76, and has served his town as commissioner of highways, assessor and bond commissioner. He is a member of the Grange at Savona. He, his wife and daughter are members of the BajJtist church at South Bradford. Kent, Henry F., was born in WoodhuU on the farm he now owns, November 80, is:!:i, son of Stephen and Caroline Kent he a native of Jerusalem, N. Y., born May 8, 1803, and she of Middlesex county, born May 11, 1S12. The grandfather was John Kent, a native of Tioga county, and a sou of John Kent who was drowned in the Chemung. River. He came to Woodhull in 1820, from Yates county, and settled on a farm of 190 acres, and he assisted in clearing the farm owned by Henry F. He died in 187it, and his wife died April 28, IH87. He was supervisor four years in suc- cession, and also served as justice of the peace. Mr. and Mrs, Kent were members 200 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. of the Baptist chinch, and his father was the first to preach the Baptist doctrine in Woodhull. Mr. Kent and son with eighteen others organized the first church there, known as Woodhull Regular Baptist church. Henry F. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and Troupsburg Center Academy. He is a farmer by occupation, owning a farm of 228 acres, and makes a specialty of raising tobacco. In 185(i he married Anna M. Rejmolds, daughter of Harry B. Reynolds, one of the most prominent men of Troupsburg Center. Mr. Kent enlisted, August 21, 1862, in Co. H, Ifilst X. Y. Vols., and ser\-ed three years and two months. He is a rnember of J. W. Post, No. 505, G. A. R., and was one of the charter members. Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Kent have had two children: Ida, who died in infancy; and Willie J.', now on his father's farm in the .south part of the town, who married Minnie Hober of Troupsburg Center, and they have had two children: Anna, and one who died in infancy. The maternal grandparents were Caleb and Deborah Sylsby Tyler, he born April 15, 1779, and died December 18, 1863 ; and she was born January 10, 1781, and died March 15, 18-17. Harry B. Reynolds was born December 23, 1800, in Massachusetts, and came to Troupsburg with his parents, when nine years of age, Squire and Patty P. Rice Reynolds, he a native of Middlebury, Mass., born February 21, 1767, and died in Troupsburg Center November 2!), 1824, and she died August 7, 1853. Mr. Rey- nolds was a miller, and also owned a saw mill, and about 200 acres of land. Pohti- Ciilly he was a Democrat, and was justice of the peace. He died April 28, 1884. His wife, whose maiden name was Rebecca Martin, was born June 29, 1801, and died Februarys, 1851, Her father, George Martin, was born October 10, 1766, and died June 4, 1834; and his wife, Chloe Martin, was born March 15, 1766, and died Janu- ary 19, 1851. Orcutt, George N., was born in the town of Troy, Orleans county. Vt., July 13, 1856. The family for many generations both iu the paternal and maternal lines were natives of New England. His father, Dr. Hiram C. Orcutt, who died at Hornells- ville, October 25, 1884, was a type and product of the early New England civiliza- tion. Success attended him in all his relations in life, a success due to his energy, self-reliance and Yankee shrewdness, aided by a rigid morality and a mode of life that reflected in simplicitj' the teachings of his Quakeress mother. Mr. Orcutt's mother, born Helen M. George, has contributed prose and verse to magazines, some of which have been deemed worthy of preservation in published collections. Mr. Orcutt attended the Franciscan College at Allegany, N. Y., and from 1873 to 1877, was a student in the classical course at the University of Michigan, 'rom which he graduated in the latter year, receiving the degree of B. A. He was one of the eight honor graduates in a class of seventy-seven, one of the speakers at the commence- ment exercises, and the historian of his class. He studied law with Horace Bemis at Hornellsville. attended the Columbia College Law School in New York, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1879. He was immediately received in equal partner- ship with Mr. Bemis which contniued until the latter's death. In politics Mr. Orcutt is a Democrat, earnest and active in maintaining the principles of his party. He was married in June, 1882, to Fannie Pardee, of Hornellsville. Their children are Helen R. Orcutt and Russell P. Orcutt. Hall, John II., was born in Pennsylvania, and is the oldest of nine children born to Richard H. and Eliza Jane (Reed) Hall, natives of Tompkins county, N. Y., and Family sketche?:. 201 Pennsylvania, respectively. The paternal grandfather, John W. Reed, was a car- penter in Pennsylvania, who spent his early days in Minnesota. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Benjamin Hall, the maternal }!;randfather, was a farmer in Penn- sylvania, where he died. Richard H. Hall came to Wayne in 1847 and engaged iu farming, buying a farm of 167 acres. He died in 18!)8. and Mrs. Hall is still living at the age of seventy-two years. John H. was reared on a farm and has followed farming and lumbering. He began to run a saw mill at the age of thirteen years. He and his brother Charles now own the homestead. In 18()f> Mr. Hall married Matilda J. Silvernail, by whom he has one daughter, Ella, wife of Henjamin House, a farmer of Bradford. They have one son, Harrison House. Mr. Hall is a member of North I'rbana Lodge, No. 387, K. O. T. M. He and his familv attend the M. E. church. Jamison, D. Stearns, was born in Canisteo, May D, 18(i(l. Daniel Jamison, his father, was also born in Canisteo, on the farm where they now live. He is a de- scendant of the family of Jamisons who are so widely known in that town, and who were early settlers. He married Rosina, daughter of Benjamin Towner, a Baptist minister, by whom he had six children, Hugh, I). Stearns, Carrie, Mitchell, Anna, and Benjamin. Hugh and Bcniamin are in the gold and silver mines in the West. U. Stearns was educated iu the district schools of Canisteo, and married Mary, daughter of J. C. Stephens, one of the first families of the town, whose history dales back to the days when the Indians were in pos.session, aud by whom he had two children, Carrie and Marion. Mr. Jamison was elected iu 1S94 as collector of tlie town, which office he now holds. Castle, Eri, was born in Whitestown, N.V., March K!. IHi:!, son of I'hilo and Mary (Lockwood) Castle, she a native of Chatham, N. Y., and he of Connecticut. The grandfather, Abisha Castle, died in Connecticut. The maternal grandfather, James Lockwood, died in Columbia county. Philo Castle, father of Eri, came to Whites- town, N. Y., where he died in 1814, and his wife, in 1836. Eri Castle was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He came to WoodhuU in 1861, and purchased seventy-five acres of land, where he has since resided. He was a Repub- lican, but is now a Prohibitionist, and was postmaster of East Woodhull for twelve years. He married Olive Gould, daughter of Samuel Gould, mentioned in this work. She died in 1882, and in 1883 Mr. Castle married Mary A. Warn, a native of Chenango county, and daughter of Augu.stus F. and Lucj- A. (Ferris) Warn, by whom he had nine children: Philo S, deceased ; Eri H., deceased; Rachel H . deceased; Mary E., deceased; Philo B., deceased; Olive A. ; Arnold G , deceased; Mary E., and Charles .S., who married Dora Edwards, by whom he had three children : Gertrude, deceased, Fred, and Ina. His wifeii, wlio was born October 3, 1H,54, and lives in Howard. Bronson, James S. , was burn November 14, 1822. His grandfather, Solomon Bronson, was bo/n in Oneida county, and came to Wayland and settled near Loon Lake, where he took up 1,200 acres. He was a Methodist minister, and also followed farming some. He died at sixty-five years of age. James Bronson, father of James S., was born in Oneida county, and came to Steuben county w'ith his father when nineteen years of age. He was a member of the M. E. Conference about forty years, and in connection with his ministry, he farmed it and dealt in lumber, and also was the owner of a store. He was a member of the F. and A. M. He married Lida Pierce, who was born in Otsego county, and died at seventy-five years of age, by whom he had six children- Maria, Lida Ann, Jane, James S., Levi C, and Julyann. Mr. Bronson died at eighty-four years of age. James S. Bronson was educated at Dansville. He has owned two saw- mills and followed farming on a farm located near Haskinville; he has been a correspondent to seventeen different editors' papers, and has been justice of the peace. He married Hannah, daughter of Hon. William C. Rogers of South Dansville. She was a teacher in the public school, and died November 18, 1889. Hathaway, James V., was born in Chemung county in 1833. He married there auii about 1858 came to Corning and has since resided in Steuben county. He fol- lowed canal boating for eighteen years and in 1880 located on his present farm in Hornby. He has 110 acres and follows general farming. In politics he is a Re- |)ublicau. In September, 1836, he married Sophia Hoffman, of Millport, Chemung county. Easlerbrooks, Samuel, of Painted Post, was born in Otsego county in 1816, and came to his present farm in 1821 with his parents, William and Mary Amy Easter- brooks, natives of Rhode Island and New York. The parents died here in 1854. Mr. Easterbrooks has always resided here since 1821. In 1842 he married Catherine Stanton, who died the same year. In 1844 he married Polly Underwood, his present wife. They have two children: Edwin J., and Samuel M. Mr. Easterbrooks has 204 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. filled the offices of assessor and supervisor, the former oflSce six years, the latter four years. He has the original home place of forty-nine acres, to which he has added eighty-nine acres. Hyna, Samuel, was born in the town of Avoca, April 15, 1848. Enoch Hyna, his father, was born in Germany in 1808 and came to America when a young man and began farm work, working out by the month. Later he settled in Avoca, then moved to Wheeler, where he remained for over thirty years, when he retired to the village of Avoca. He married Christana Wenno, by whom he had six children : Maria, George, John, Peter, William, and Samuel. The latter was educated in the district schools and remained on the farm with his father until twenty-three years of age, when he rented a farm, later buying one of 100 acres, to which he has since added seventy-five acres. pe,has bred many fine horses and sheep and has taken special interest in breeding^aloa China hogs. He was one of the first men to g^ow large quantities of potatoes in Wheeler, growing 5,000 bushels in one year. He was an active member of the West Creek Grange until its disbandment in 1876. Mr. Hyna married Alice, daughter of Simeon Wagener, of Wheeler. Their children are Elmer, Clara, wife of William Early of Prattsburg, who has one son, Deyo S. E. Early; and Nellie. Mrs. Hyna is a member of the Lutheran church. Ueyo, Alonzo, one of the well-known influential citizens of Caton, was born in Newfield, Tompkins county, N. Y., in 1835. He came to Caton in 184T, locating on his present place, where he now owns sixty-si.\ acres of well-improved land. He also has other real estate interests in the county. He served as supervisor of the town of Caton during the years of 1875-77, during which time he was appointed sole com- mittee on county poorhouse investigation, and was again elected to the same office in 1892, which he still continues to fill. His report and the consequent action of the Board resulted in a vast improvement in the management of the poor affairs of the county, and a complete change in the sanitary condition of the county poor build- ings, besides the saving of thousands of dollars to the tax payers of Steuben. Mr. Deyo has spent seventeen years of his life in teaching, and has also served twenty- eight years in continuous action as justice of the peace, and was re-elected at the last town meeting for four years more. For many years he has been foremost as legal adviser and counsellor in the town, and his practical judgment and sound sense, com- bined with a degree of legal knowledge not often attained by men outside the pro- fession, eminently qualify him for this position, and his irreproachable character and high sense of moral integrety fit him most admirably for the many private offices of trust which he is so often called upon to fill. He married Charlotte Maria, daughter of Anson and Betsey (Caulkins) Cooper of Caton, who was born in Corning, May 13, 1842, by whom he had seven children: Viola Eunice, born May 3, 1861, wife of Will- iam H. Scott, of Elmira; Minnie Elnora, born April 21, 1864; Bessie Chloe, born Xovember 7, 1867, wife of Willard P. Smith, of Corning; Mary Delphine, born De- cember 26, 1872, wife of Samuel Wilson Adams, of Caton; Willie, bom October 8, 187!); Frank, born Xovember 18, 1882, and died September 25, 1884; and Lottie M., born June 23, 1884. Clawson, John M., was born in the town of Southport, January 30, 1831, son of Ebenezer Clawson, who for the last twenty years of his life was a hotel proprietor FAMILY SKETCHES. 205 of Campbell village, and married Rohanna McHenry, by whom lie had three chil- dren: John M.. Jacob, and Betsey. For his second wife he married Lorelta Reed, by whom he had two children: Martha and Julian. John M. Clawson has spent the most of his life in Campbell in the tannery for J. I). Hamilton. In 1862 he enlisted in 107th N. Y. Vols., as a private, and served until the close of the war; he was pro- moted to second lieutenant May 25, 1865. He married Lucinda R., daughter of Philip and Maria Drake, by whom he had one son, Charlie D. Clawson, a merchant in Pennsylvania. He is a member of Kno.x Post No. 447, and in politics is a Republican. Buck, Herman E., was born in the town of Farmington, Washington county, Wis., May 14, 1847. His father. Benjamin F. Buck, was born in Bradford county. Pa., in 1823, moving to Wisconsin in 1846, returning to Bradford county in 1848, and now resides in the State of Washington. Herman E. Buck enlisted in 1862, in the 75th N. Y. Vols., and served one year and a half, when he was honorably discharged on a surgeon's certiticate of disability. In 1869 Mr. Buck came to Hornellsville, and to Canisteo the following year, where he has since remained, and at the present time is conducting the retail boot and shoe business. In 1873 Mr. Buck was married to Elbertine Shuart of Pennsylvania. They have two children living, Gertrude S. and William E. Mr. Buck has been supervisor of the town, a member of the Legislature, and has held various minor town offices, and at present is president of the village of Canisteo. He is a member of Morning Star Lodge No. 65, F. and A. M., of which he is a past master; he is also a member of Abram Allen Post No. 194, (',. A. R. Carman, Alexander, was boru in the town of Hector, N. Y. , November 19, 1829, son of Abraham and Elizabeth Horton Carman, both of Ulster county, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Carman came to Hector about 1826, and in 1836 moved to Bath, where they .spent the remainder of their days. He was a farmer by occupation, and died April 3. 1876, and his wife in 1864. Alexander Carman was reared on a farm and contin- ued farming and lumbering until about 1870, when he commenced working at car- penter work, which business he followed until about 1881, when he purchased the farm where he now resides and engaged in farming. In 1859 he married Melissa, daughter of Stephen and Jane Horton, of- Bath, by whom he had two children : Rosa, ' who married James Stinson, a farmer; they have three children: Emma, William and Alexander; and Emma, widow of Charles De Waine, who died January 8, 1893, and she now resides with her father, Mr. Carman. Mr. and Mrs. De Waine had three children: Rosa, Ray and Meli.ssa. In October, 1862, Mr. Carman enlisted in Co. D, 161st N. Y. Vols. ; he was at the siege of Port Hudson and a number of other engagements, and was wounded on Cox's plantation, July 13, 1863, and was honor- ably discharged OctoTjer, 1865. Mr. Carman is a member of Knox Post No. .549, (',. A. R. Stedgc. Harrison, was born in the town of Hector, Schuyler county. October 4, 1824. and is the seventh of eight children born to Peter and Betsey Rorabuck Stedge, both of New Jersey. The grandfather. William, was a tanner and currier in New Jersey. Peter learned the tanner and shoemaker trades, at which he worked throughout his life. He came from New Jersey to Chemung county, and then went 206 LANDMARKS OP STEUBEN COUNTY. to Schuyler county, and died at Beaver Dam, aged seventy-two years. He was a soldier in the war of 1813. In 1842 Harrison Stedge married Fairmenia Rhodes, of North Hector, Schuyler county, and they have had six children : Laura, wife of W. O. Preston, a carpenter of Elkland, Pa. ; Mary, wife of Jack Gordon, a mason at Flint, Mich. ; Catharine, wife of James Randall, a carpenter of Watkins; Delia, wife of Henry Crandall, a mason by trade, and a farmer of Cattaraugus county; William, of Corning; and Ernest, a farmer of Bradford. Mrs. Stedge died in 1860. For his, second wife Mr. Stedge married Abigail Chandler, and they have one son, John,, who is a hardware merchat of Harvard, III. Mrs. Stedge died, and he married for his third wife, Susan M. Pickley Benette, widow of Hiram Benette. Mr. Stedge came from Hector to Campbell in 1863, and to Bradford in 1870, where he has a farm of eighty acres, and carries on general farming and a dairy, making a specialty of thoroughbred Durham cows. In politics he is a Republican, and has been assessor. McDougall, John, was born in Paisley, Scotland, July 25, 1833. When eighteen years of age he arrived in this country an almost penniless and inexperienced lad. His first year in America was spent in Brooklyn, and the next in Syracuse. He sub- sequently removed to Oswego, wnere he entered into partnership with a Mr. Avery, a partnership that continued for nearly thirty-five years. The firm built several gas works, among them the one at Hornellsville, which was built in 1801, and Mr. Mc- Dougall was a resident of Hornellsville from that date until his death, which occurred November 2, 1888. He was not only one of the best known citizens of Hornellsville, but his reputation extended throughout the States, both in political and business circles, his frank and honorable nature, coupled with great energy and sagacity, making him a valuable factor in both. He possessed all the characteristics of the hardy, energetic race, whence he sprang. The impress of Mr. McDougall's energy and intellect was left upon every year's growth of Hornellsville, from the time he became a resident here until his death. Besides his many local enterprises, he was interested in chemical works in Allegany with Messrs. Hilton & vSherwood. at Hilton- ville. He formed another partnership with Mr. Keery, of Hancock, and erected at that point one of the largest acid works in the country, known as the Cadosia Chem- ical Works. Mr. McDougall was first president of the R., H. & L. R. R.,and was deeply interested in every public enterprise, to which he lent his influence and con- tributed generously of his means. The "Hornellsville Tribune," in an editorial on the occasion of his death, says: "Here we take opportunity to pay the parting tribute to the memory of a personal friend, and to a citizen whose every heart-throb beat for the prosperity of the people with whom he had cast his fortunes, and for whom he had always a fervent and sincere regard and an honest desire for their prosperity and .success. The one overwhelming desire of his heart was the growth and progress of our beautiful city. Poor in all material wealth, became to Hornells- ville and has grown rich in the esteem, the love and heartfelt resjiect of his neighbors. With open hand and energy of spirit he has embarked in every enterprise that prom- ised to aid in the rapid development of our city, and every enterprise that felt his vigor behind it went on to assured success." Peterson, Jeremiah M., was born in Potter county. Pa., April 26, 18.")!. Jacob 1). Peterson, his father, was a native of Ohio, and came to the town of Avoca in IS.')4. He was an architect and millwright, which business he followed for many years, and FAMILY SKETCHES. 207 if now residing in the town of Woodhull, Steuben county, at the ripe aijc nf ninety years. He married Sarah A. . daughter of William and Harriet Wiley, by whom he had nine children: Jeremiah M., Jacob I)., Amenial. Orin J., Lorevo, Henry O., M.ary M.. Cynthia, and limma. Jeremiah M. wa.s a head sawyer for twenty-five years, and since then has been a jjeneral jobber and dealer in lumber. He married ( )ra Adelia, daughter of Ezra and Margarjjt Strong, by whom he had four children : Dora L. , Gay B., Adelbert J. D. , and Kay. He was elected highway commissioner in 1894. on the Republican ticket, and is a leading member in Mountain Lodge No. 'MS. of I. O. O. F., also of the Canton Loyal, No. 43, of Hornellsville. Piatt, Francis C, was born in the town of Erwin in 1866, son of C. F. Piatt, who was born in Otsego county. N. Y., and settled in Erwin about 1S4."). Francis C. married Jennie, daughter of Henry P. Faulkner, January 7. 1895. Mr. Piatt is owner of the Evans Farm dairy, the largest one in the valley. Erwin, Francis, was born in Erwin in 1834. is a son of Gen. Francis E. Erwin, who was born on the farm now owned by Francis. General Erwin was a grandson of Col. Arthur Erwin. who was the first owner of this town. Francis married a daughter of Bradford Campbell, and granddaughter of Archibald, and they have two children Sophia H., and Arthur B. Mr. Erwin has held the office of town clerk, was supervisor seven years, and justice sixteen years. Covert. Reuben, was born in the town of Greenwood, June 9. 1843, is the si.xth of nine children born to Smith and Mahitable{Luce) Covert, he a native of Holland, N. Y., and she of Long Island. The paternal grandparents were natives of Ireland and settled at Harlem, N. Y. , where they died. The maternal grandfather, David Luce, came from Long Island and settled in Greenwood where he died. Smith Covert worked in woolen mills in his younger days and then followed farming in Greenwood where he settled about 1.S39, and died in 1869. Mrs. Covert died in 188,"). Reuben Covert followed farming until June 19, 1861, when he enlisted in Co. C, 67th N.Y. Vols., and was honorably di.scharged July 4, 1864. He was in thirty-two hard fought battles, among which were Fair Oaks. Malvern Hill, Chancellorsville, Fredericks- burg, Antietam, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Wildnerness. Cedar Creek, etc. Mr. Covert spent eight years in Michigan farming, and in 1882 settled in Greenwood. In 1849 he married Erselia. daughter of Jackson King of Greenwood, by whom he had five children: Norman, iJever, Mary, Mahaly, and Andrew J. Mr. Covert is a member of William C. White Post, No. 161, G. A. R. Goff, Robert H., is a resident of New York city but his summer home has been in Painted Post for the past twenty-one years. He married Mary C, daughter of Free- man Campbell, by whom he had these children: Charles C, Clarence (deceased). Adele, Freeman C, Robert H., jr., and Wallace C. Mr. Goff has been senior war- den of the Church of the Holy Apostles of New York for more than twenty years. In early life he was interested in the mercantile business and was of the firm of Wagstaff &: Goflf. He has a farm of 1,00(1 acres in Tuscarora, near Addison, and also owns the Erwin homestead, where he now resides. He is also interested in the real estate business. Tucker, Smith, was born on the farm where he now resides. June 19, 1835. ICleazer Tucker, his father, was born in Connecticut, and came to the town of Avoca 208 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. about 1820. where he took up land and cleared a farm Qf 150 acres He was a inill- wright by trade, and came two years in advance of his family and built a saw mill on what is called Twelve Mile Creek. He later built a mill at Blood's Corner, from there he went to Texas, returned, and at seventy years of age returned to Texas and the family have never heard from him since. He married Elizabeth Wood of Dutchess county, by whom he has these children; Harriet, Ira, Phoebe, Amos, Smith, and Elizabeth. Smith Tucker was engaged in farming and lumbering for nine years, and since that time has devoted his time to farming. He married Hannah Folwell of Avoca, by whom he had these children : Bayard T. and Gaylord C. Mrs. Tucker died in 1850, and he married for his present wife, Jemima R. Roberts of Avoca. Shults, Elias, was born m the town of Bath, March 3, 18-12, son of ( jeorge H. Shults, who was born in Montgomery county, and was a farmer and hotel keeper. He came to Steuben county in about 1841, and settled in the town of Bath, where he pur- chased land and cleared a farm, which is now owned by the State for the Soldiers' Home. He married Betsey, daughter of Aaron Brown, of Montgomery county, and they were the parents of twelve children: Betsey, John, Aaron, Margaret, David, Jeremiah, Ezenah, George, Elias, Levi, Amanda, and William. Elias is a black- smith by trade, which business he has followed all his life with the exception of a few years s'pent in the war. He enlisted in the 22d New York Cavalry. He married Emma, daughter of Benjamin Decker, of Hammondsport, and they have had two children: Herbert and Elizabeth. For his present wife he married Maggie, daugh- ter of Peter Watson, of Painted Post, and they have two children: Violetta and Daniel, who is a student in the Bath Academy. Mr Shults is a member of the Morey Post, No. 507, G. A. R. Stowell, Henry, was born in the town of Afton. Chenango county. July 17, ]X'):i, son of Richard S. and Almira Vinton .Stowell, who settled in Lindley in 1871. He married Alice, daughter of Theron and Mary Wheat Harris, and they have four children: Claude, Burt, Allie, and Richard. Mr. Stowell is a dairy and tobacco farmer. He has been justice of the peace for three terms. He is a member of Law- rence Lodge, No. 913 of I. O. O. F. , and Encampment, No. 227, of Lawrencevillc. Pa., has passed the chairs in the subordinate lodge and was selected as past grand to represent the lodge at the session of the Grand Lodge held in Philadelphia, May 21, 1895, at the time of dedication of the Odd Fellows' Temple. Mr. Stowell is in- terested in the Lindley Fairview Cemetery Association, having been its president since its organization. Jacobus, Henry, was born in Steuben county, N. Y., May 4, 1824. son of John and Sarah (Bennett) Jacobus. John Jacobus came from Orange county to Steuben county when a young man, and there spent most of his life on a farm. He finally settled on Mt. Washington, Urbana, where he died in 1870. He gave five sons to the Union ranks to save the life of the nation ; Henry, Jesse, Obedias, Bert and Sam. Jesse was killed at the battle of Fair Oaks. Mrs. Jacobus died in 183.5. Henry Jacobus has always followed the trade of painter. In 1850 he married Sarah Scofield, of Urbana, N. Y. , by whom he had one daughter, wife of Manley Crookston, who is a son of Nelson and Sarah (Wixson) Crookston of Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Crookston FAMILY SKETCHES. 200 have four children; Krwiu H., Lela May, Rciia S. , and Carrie K. Mr. Crookston has the homestead farm of seventy-four acres and a vineyard of five acres. He is also working the farm of Mr. Jacobus, which he jiurchased in 1874, and deeded to his daughter in 18!)2, and on which he has since resided. Mrs. Jacobus died in 18."i4. In ISfil Mr. Jacobus enlisted in Co. I, :i4th N. Y. Vols., and was honorably discharged in ISlilJ. He was a Democrat until 1800, when he became a Republican, but is now a Prohibitionist. Stephens, Emmett L , was born January 10, IS4S, at I'.cnuett's Creek, on a farm which was owned in his lifetime by Joshua Stephens, who was killed by the Indians. I)e Witt C. Stephens, his father, married Amanda M., daughter of John Hamilton, one of the oldest families in the town of Howard, by whom he had five children: John U. , Joshua B., Emmett L., Henry L., and Anna. ICniniett L. was educated in the common schools of Canisteo, and was a farmer and lumberman, and later he be- gan the study of law with A. I. Parkhill of Cohocton. then with William B. Jones, also with Eli Soule, and later with A. M. Burrell. In February, 1890, he was elected justice of the peace of the town of Canisteo and re-elected in 1804, wdiich office he now fills. He married Etta, daughter of Delevan Stephens of Hornellsville, and is a member of the I. O. O. F. Porter, William Gordon, was born in Woodhull, October 2!t, 1849, son of William G., who was born in Connecticut and came to Woodhull in 1830. William G., the father, first .settled in Woodhull, engaging in the mercantile business, but moved to Greenwood when William Gordon was .six months old. William Gordon learned the tinsmith's trade. In 18il he married Sabra H., daughter of Alexander II. Stephens, one of the old pioneer families. William Gordon was engaged in the mercantile business for ten years, then moved to Iowa, intending to engage in business with his wife's brother. At the death of this brother he moved to Canisteo and in 1883 the private banking business was started by Porter & Davis, which is still conducted in the village. Mr. Porter has been president of the village, trustee of the academy, and held other minor olihces. He is a member of the Morning Star Lodge of Masons, No. 65. Nichols, Samuel K., was burn in Tuscarora, N.Y., December 1."), 18lil, son of Will- iam Ira and Ann (Kemp) Nichols, he born in Tuscarora, N. Y.. July 10, 182."), and she in Lawrenceville, Pa., October 16, 1827. William Ira Nichols started a poor man and became one of the wealthiest men of the town, and owned 430 acres of land . He died September 6, 1893. The grandfather. Alfred Nichols, was born in Rhode Island, in 1802. He married Sallie Baxter, who was born in Smithfield, in 180.'). He settled in Tuscarora in 182,5, where he died September s, 1881. He was a Democrat in politics, and was assessor and collector. Samuel K. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and graded school of Nelson, Pa,, after which he engaged in teaching for ten years, but now follows farming, and owns eighty acres of laud. He is a Democrat in politics, and has been inspector one year. September 30, 1891, he married Amanda Aldrich, born December 19, 1800, in Tuscarora, N. Y. Oldfield, Thomas, was born in Hornby in 1831, son of .Samuel and Harriet Hurd Oldfield, natives of New Jersey and Connecticct. The father came to Hornby about 1«20 and married here. The parents 8. Elias Fritz received his education in the common schools, and has always followed farming. He is a member of Oak Hill Grange, one of the charter members and first overseer. At Conesus, N. Y., he married Lucretia S. Flint, who was born December 20, 1828, by whom he had five children: Southwick E., born June 21, 1849; Leora G.. born January 30, 1852, and died May 8, 1863; Grata L. Dick, born November 2. 1857; Ca.ssius J., born April 9, 1868; and Adelbert, who died in infancy. Perry, William, was born in Prattsburg, July, 1842. Solnniun Perry, his lather, was a native of Delaware, and came to Prattsburg in 1825 where he took up wild land and cleared bim a farm. He married Eva Huff, by whom he had ten children : Mrs. Mary A. Johnson of Prattsburg, Mrs. Wigdon of Prattsburg. deceased, Mrs. Cather- ine Pickett, deceased, Eli, of California, Mrs. Juliette Johnson, deceased, Solomon, deceased, Mrs. Louisa Washington, of Bath, William P., John of Butte, Mont., and Mrs. Emily Clark, deceased. He died in 1863, aged sixty-six years, and his wife in 1887. William Perry remained with his father until he was twenty-one years of age, when he started for himself as a farmer, which vocation he has followed ever since, and in 1886 he purchased his jiresent farm of eighty six acres where he has since resided. He was the first of thirteen colored men to offer his services to the Union army from the town of Prattsburg, N. Y., and as this State did not acknowledge a colored man at that time, he was obliged to go to Rhode Island to enlist, where in 1863 he enlisted in Co. K, 14th R. I. Heavy Artillery, and served two years, being sent to the (iulf department below New Orleans, where their fighting was chiefiy with guerrillas, and of the thirteen colored soldiers from this town he is the only surviving member. He is a member of the Gregory G. A. R. Post, No. 649 of Pratts- burg. His life as a soldier was a highly honored one, and during his service he was promoted from the first office to that of assistant .sergeant, often filling the office of first sergeant, the highest office obtainable by colored men at that time, and which office he was offered but declined to accept. In 1865 he married Catherine Johnson. a native of Allegany county and a daugliter of John and Samantlia (Hull) Johnson, Ml 218 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. by whom he had four children: Mrs. Maud Wigdon of Prattsburg, Charles, deceased, Leonard, and Mrs Emily Walker of Naples. Leonard resides at home and assists his father on the farm. Hollands, George, was born in Sus.sex county, England, on January 9. 1841. His parents, William and Charlotte Hollands, with a family of si.\ children, came to this country in the year 1850. Soon after their arrival they found their way to Mansfield, Tioga county. Pa., where they have since resided. Four more children were born to them after their arrival to this country. They are still living and enjoying reason- ably good health and in their eighty-fourth and eighty-first years of age respectively. George Hollands, the subject of this sketch, at the age of eleven years found a home with a respectable farmer, with whom he was to live until twenty-one years of age, with the understanding that he was to receive a good common school education ■ and when he became of age he was to have a good suit of clothes and .^100 m money. ^teefore arriving at the age of maturity, however, the war broke out, and in Septem- ber, 1861, he left the farm and enlisted in Co. B, lOlst Pa. Vols., and served in the army for the period of three years and ten months, during which time he was en- gaged in many important battles. He was wounded in the battle of Fair Oaks on May 31. 1862, and was taken prisoner at the surrender of Plymouth N. C. April 20, 1864. He was an inmate of Andersonville and Florence prisons until the following December, and has never recovered from the exposure and suffering of that terrible summer. He was shipwrecked in the Potomac River while on his way to join his regiment in April. 186.5, and was only saved from a watery grave by clinging to the mast of the ship all night where he was picked up in an exhausted condition by a United States gunboat, the following morning. He was discharged from the service in July, I860, having risen from a private to the rank of first lieutenant. Soon after the close of the war he embarked in the grocery business at Hornellsville, under the firm name of Hollands & Fletcher, occupying what was then known as the old "Mamouth Store," opposite the Park. On January 2, 18G6, he married Lydia Bailey of Mansfield, Pa. Five children were to them, viz., Minnie now the wife of Charles A. Smith of Middletown, N. Y. ; Evaand Robert, who died of diphtheria in October, 1876; George Hollands, jr. . who was born in November. 1875, and who is now at the age of twenty years, carrying on an extensive grocery business in the village of Bath, under the firm name of Geo. Hollands, jr., & Co. ; and Burr R. Hollands, who was born in June, 1878, and is now being educated as a pharmacist. Mr. Hollands is an enterprising citizen, a man of sober and industrious habits and a inominent member of the First M. E. Church of Hornellsville. He has always been aprominent and active member of the Republican party and has had the honor of representing his ward as village trustee for six years prior to the organization of the city. In 1879 he was elected to the important office of county superintendent of the poor, serving as such for three years. In lS8(i he very ably represented the town of Hornellsville on the Board of Supervisors. He was commander of Doty Post No. 266, G. A. R., for two years, 1889 and '90. He was one of the incorporators of the Hornellsville Sanitarium Co. and for several years a director and treasurer of said company. In the fall of 1891 he was elected sheriff of Steuben county, which office he very satisfactorily filled for the term of three vears. A few months after his retirement from the office of FAMILY SKETCHES. 219 sheriff he, in company with Mr. I^. O. Thompson, purchased the interest of ]. \V. Bachman of Hornellsville, N. Y., in the drus business, and at the present arc carry- inij cm a very prosperous business under the firm name of Thompson & Hollands. Clark, A. B., was born in Allegany, N. Y., in 1844, son of Henry and Susan (Coon) Clark, who lived and died in Allegany county. At the age of eighteeu Mr. Clark moved to Tioga county. Pa., where, in 18()7, he married Loretta Swinley. He re- sided there till 1878, then purchased and located (ra his pre.sent farm of 110 acres, in the town of Caton, Then- children are Archie E. , Gertrude A., and J. Leland. Bromley, Frank, was born in Bradford county, Pa., in 1833. His father, Jonathan Bromley, was born in New London county. Conn., in 1806, and in 182(i married Polly C. Ray, of Xew London county. Conn., by whom he had si.\ children, two of whom died in infancy; Frank. Elizabeth, Charlotte, and Mira reached maturity. Mr. Bromley moved to Bradford countv, Pa., with his wife about 182T, thence to Tioga, N. Y., some ten years later, and in 1853 he came to Steuben county, with his wife and four children, and settled in the town of Addison (since Rathbone) where he en- gaged in farming and was very successful. He was much interested in educational and political affairs, and was one of the first assessors of the town of Rathbone, and was several times re-elected; this, with frequent terms as school trustee and commis- sioner of excise, comprised his official life. He met his death by accident when eighty-five years of age, while still remarkably vigorous. His second wife and two children, Frank and Elizabeth, survive him. Frank Bromley was educated at Owego, N. Y., after which he engaged in teaching, and was also a carpenter and a farmer. In 1853 he came to Steuben county and engaged in farming. In INIil he married Jane A. McDowell, by whom he has three .sons; Charley F., A. R., and Melvin J. In 1863 Mr. Bromley enlisted in the ^d Regt. N. Y. Yeteran Cav- alry, was discharged in November, 1865, and returned to farming which ill-health compelled him to abandon last year (1894). Elizabeth Bromley married William M. Wood, and they had several children, of whom but two are living. Mr. Wood served during the entire war and took part in the more severe battles. He met his death by accident after his return. Elizabeth remarried and is again a widow and resides with her sons in Tompkins county, N. Y. Charlotte died in Missouri about 1888, and two sons survive her. Mira married Rev. A. G. Cole, and they had two cliildrcn, both of whom survive her. Bull, George R., was born in the town of Bath, in 1H40. ICpharas Bull, his grand- father, was from the Mohawk Yalley, born in 1780, a farmer by occupation, who came to Steuben county about 1812, and settled in the town of Prattsbiirg, where he cleared a portion of a farm, and later removed to the town of Bath, where he owned, at different times, several farms, which he cleared himself During his earlier days he was obliged to go many miles by a path through the wood to the mill, carrying his corn on his back. He died in 1860. Harvey, George's father, was boru in the town of Bath, in 1816, and was a farmer and carpenter by trade. His wife was Lu- cinda Towle, and their children were George R., Henry G., who died in an army hospital during the Rebellion, Robert C, and Mary F. Mr. and Mrs. Bull were members of the Presbyterian church. He was a member of the Odd Fellows. He died February, 1894, and his wife survives him. George R. began life for himself as '220 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. a farmer when twenty-two years of age, in the town of Bath, and in 1871 he removed to the town of Wheeler, where he operated a farm for a few years, and in 1873 pur- chased his present farm, where he has since paid considerable attention to the breed- ing of fine grade Short-horn cattle, and in 1894 he introduced to his flock the Herford breed. In politics he is a Democrat, having been commissioner of highways and has also held other minor offices. He was one of the original organizers of the Grange Lodge and Patrons of Husbandry at Bath, in which he held official positions and later was instrumental in the organization of P. of H. Lodge, of which he was nia.i- ter. In 1861 he married Louisa, daughter of Charles Wagoner of Bath, and thev have three children: Ida E.. wife of George Morgan, of Urbana, George H., and Charles W. Young, Christopher, was born in Corning, N. Y., July 17, 1836, son of William Young, a tailor in that place. Christopher was educated at the district school in Ulster, Bradford county. Pa. At the age of fourteen he learned the blacksmith and carriage trade, serving an apprenticeship of three years. He then started m busi- ness in Hammondsport, N. Y., but in 1863 he enlisted in the 22d N. Y. Cavalry and served to the end of the war, participating in nineteen engagements, some of which were the battles of the Wilderness, White (!>ak Swamp, the Wil.son raid, Winchester, Cedar Creek, and others. In 1859 he married Mahetabel Sweezey, born in Rhode Island in 1841. Of this union three children were born, two daughters and one son; Ida M. in 18.57; Ro.xie in 1870; and Lenord A., 1882. In 1870 they came to Canisteo, where he has been engaged in the carriage and blacksmith business up to the present time. He is a member of Morning Star Lodge, No. (i.'j. F. & A. M., and the A. O. U. W. , Lodge No. 29. Mathewson, Lemuel, was born in the town of Avoca, February 16, 1838 son of Joseph Mathewson, who was born in Providence, R. I., and came to the town of Avoca in 1816, where he began farming, which occupation he followed until his death, which occurred in 1867. He married Zilpha, daughter of John B. Calkins, of Half Moon, Saratoga county, and they were the parents of eight children: Barney, Lemuel, Lucinda, Eunice, Mary, Joseph, Zilpha, and Calkins, six of whom are liv- ing. Lemuel owns a farm of 520 acres, which he manages in connection with the post-office, of which he was postmaster four years under Cleveland's first administra- tion, and also since 1893. He married Matilda, daughter of S. H. Palmer, a farmer of Avoca, and they have two children: Deyo P., who is a medical graduate of the University of New York, and Eveline. Mr. Mathewson was highway commissioner for eight j'ears, supervisor for three terms, president of the County Agricultural Society two years, 1883 and '84, vice-president three years, 1877, '80 and '81, and president of the village of Avoca in 1884. Swon, Oren L., was born in 1845, son of John B. Swon, who was born in Chenango comity, and married Louise Fenton, by whom he had nine children, all of whom are members of the Baptist church. Mrs. Swon's mother was the first white baby born at Tuscarora. Mr. Swon died at Addison in 1888, and she resides at Tuscarora, being sixty-seven years of age. Oren L.'s grandfather, Allen Swon, one of the pioneer settlers of the county, came from England, and toolt part m the Revo- lutionary war, being one of the officers. This family is noted for longevity FAMILY SKETCHES. 221 Mr. Swon married Rebecca Gunn in 1S7:!. lie has alway.s been engaged in farming, either in Tuscarora or Addison, and also makes a business of hay pressing. Carr, George A., was born in the town of Deerfield. Tioga county. Pa., May 1(1, 1S:^7, and is a son of Ira and Ann (Varnell) Carr, natives of Chenango county, N. V., and Philadcl]>hia. Pa. The grandfather came from Ireland to Chatham, Pa., and they worked at the blacksmith's trade. Ira Carr was a farmer of West Union, but spent his last days in Troupsburg, dying November i), 188!t. His wife died in 1883. George A. settled on the farm he now owns in 1858, when he cut the first tim- ber that was cut on the place. He owns ninety-five acres and carries on general farming, making a specialty of dairying. In 18fir> he married Mary A., daughter of D. C. and Susan White, of Harrison, Potter county. Pa., by whom he had two sons: Frank, who died at the age of two years; and Clinton. l)orn in 1874. who now works the farm. In September, 18G1, Mr. Carr enlisted in Co. H, Sfith N. Y. Vols., and was in the battles of Sectember 14, 1835, son of Ira and Joanna (Synnott) Knapp, natives of \ew York, who spent most of their lives in Onondaga county, but died in Ohio. The grandfather lived and died in N'ew York, and his wife in Ohio. Franklin L. had these brothers, of whom three are living: George, who died in the late war; Edward, deceased ; Elijah, deceased; Charles, who lives in Ohio; and James, who lives in Wiseon.sin. Franklin L. was reared on the farm he now <)wns, with an uncle, Richard C. Twogood, who came to 226 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Jasper in 1847. Franklin L. spent forty years in Wisconsin, and in 1887 returner! to Jasper, where he owns a good farm of 103 acres and follows general farming. Mr. and Mrs Knapp had five children: two who died in infancy, one drowned at two years of age, and Richard, who was killed at forty years of age, while sawing tim- ber; he left three children by his first wife; Winifred, Gertrude, and Walter S. ; and two by his second wife; Helen and Mina R. The oldest son of Franklin L. , Edwin B., is a merchant in Waupaca, Wis., and hasone child. Mertie. Timerman, Milton, was born in Montgomery county. N. Y., at Frey's Bush, May 3, 1834, .son of John I. and Maria (Youngs) Timerman, natives of Montgomery county, who caiDe to Jasper in 1848, where they died. The grandfather, John Tim- erman, lived and died in Montgomery county, Milton Timerman was reared in the village of Jasper, and learned the wagonmaker's trade with his-father, which busi- ness he followed si.xteen years in Jasper. ' In 1874 he purchased a farm of 133 acres on a contract and follows general farming. He is a Pruhibitionist \n politics, and has been town clerk and collector. February 11, 1859, he married Elenora. daughter of Benjamin Failing, who came to Jasper about 1840, and now lives with Milton Timerman, and is eighty-six years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Timerman have five chil- dren: Delavan W. , Arthur E. , Maria, i red B., and Charles. Brooks, Noah M., was born in Troupsburg, N. Y., October 31, 1829, and is the youngest of seven children born to Joseph and Margaret Hauber Brooks, natives of Connecticut and New York city. The grandfather, who was a pioneer of Delaware county, N. Y., served seven years in the Revolutionary war. The maternal grand- father, Malica Hauber, who was a Prussian, came with Hessian troops sent over by King George during the Revolution. Mr. Hauber and all of his company deserted the British cause, and in making their escape had to wade nearly to their shoulders in a river full of ice. Joseph Brooks came to Troupsburg in 1822, but soon removed to Erie county, where he settled in Holland Purchase, and two years later returned to Troupsburg where he engaged in farming. He died in 1850, and Mrs. Brooks in 1871, aged eighty-four. Noah M. was reared on a farm, and engaged in farming until 1869, when he was obliged to give up on account of an injury. He then en- gaged in a general mercantile business being six years at South Troupsburg, and six years in Harrison, Pa., and then located in Troupsburg Center, where he is still en- gaged in the same business, making a specialty of clothing and groceries. In 1852 he married Nancy Ordway, who died December 26, 1879. For his second wife he married Jennie Howard, of Troupsburg, and they have brought up one child, Josephine, a daughter of John L. and Eleanor Ferguson Broods, who married Albert Harrington. John L. Brooks, brother of Noah, was a soldier in the late war, a member of the 161st N. Y. Yols., who died at Key West, Fla., of yellow fever. Mr. Brooks has been town clerk three years, and highway commissioner two years, and is now serving his second term as supervisor. Mrs. Brooks is a member of the Meth- odist church. Herringlon, Samuel, was born in Burlington, Otsego county, N. Y., September 11, 1849, son of C. G. and Aldema Wiltse Herrington, mentioned el.sewhere in this work. Samuel Herrington was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He came to WoodhuU when ten years of age, where he has since resided with the excep- FAMILY SKETCHES. 227 tion of four years spent in Osceola, Pa. He owns 184 acres of land. He is a mem- ber of Elkland Lodge. Xo. 800, I. O. O. F., and Borden Tent. K. O. T. M., and is also a member of Osceola Grange, No. U57. October 31, 1875, he married Mary A. George, by whom he had two children: George W., born May 31, 187T, and was ed- ucated in Osceola graded schools; Herbert S. , born September 22, 1879, and was educated in the common schools. Rising, Willis H., was born in Thurston, March 21, 1848, son of Clark A. and Polly A. Thompson Rising, he a native of Herkimer county, N. Y. , and she of Schuyler county. X. Y. His grandfather. Henry Ri>-iiig, was a native of Connecticut, and in 1792 came to Herkimer county, removing to Schuyler county in 1836, and locating in Thurston in 1S39, where he died. He was a farmer and lumberman, and a soldier in the war of 1812. Clark A. Rising came to Thurston with his parents, where he was married, and engaged in farming and lumbering. lie died in 1852, and his widow lives in Thurston, where she owns a farm on South Hill. Willis was educated in the common schools, is a blacksmith by trade, and has also followed farming and luin- ing. In pilitics he is and has been a Dem )crat, and was elected supervisor in 1887, and re-elected in 1891 by a large majority, and has also held the oflice of town clerk for two terms. He is a member of the K. of H. at Campbelltown. also of the Grange at Merchantville. July 31, 1870, he married Alicfe J. Masters of Reading. Schuyler countv, and to them have been born five children: Lewis C, Archie F. , Emma M., Carrie S., and Willis B, The family attend and support the Christian (.hurch, Wilder, Josiah. was born in the Green Mountain region of Vermont, and after a residence of some years in Otsego county where he married Elmira Beadle, he moved to the town of Jasper, where he settled on the June farm in 1835; two years later he settled on the J. H. Boyd place in Cameron, and afterwards moved to the place where his son George now lives. Josiah Wilder was engaged in Uimbering and farming. His children were Eunice, Angeline, Sarah, Hannah. Elizabeth, Charles, William, Liza, Jane, Daniel, George W., and Elmira. His second wife was Betsey, a daugh- ter of Elder Smith, by whom he had one child. Leva J., a resident of Kansas. Josiah Wilder died in February, 1863. George Wilder married Cynthia M., daughter of John and Mary L. (Kellogg) Jackson, by whom he had seven children: Mary H., Maggie L., George R., Charles, Estella E., Edith B., and John C. Mr. Wilder has been justice of the peace and is active in school atTairs. He owns eighty acres of land, and his brother Charles owns fifty-eight acres in the town of Cameron. They are both members of Cameron Post, G. A. R. George W. enlisted in Co. F, ISOth X. Y. Vols., and Charles in Co. F. 31st Wis. Vols. Wiilcott, A. S., is a native of the town of Caton, was born in 1829, son of Judge Xelson and Margaret Hoffman Wolcott, natives of Vermont and Elmira, who were married in Elmira in 1824 and about 1827 located in the town of Caton. He was a gunsmith and farmer and died in 1860, aged fifty eight. The mother died in 1855, aged fifty. Mr. Wolcott and a brother. Jacob II.. of Salt Lake City, are the only survivors of tne family. Failing, Lucian J., was born in Jasper, August 28, 1842, the youngest of eight chil- dren born to Adam and Nancy (Lyon) Failing, early settlers of Jasper. They came to West Cnion in 1850, where he died November 1, 1870, and she in 1874. He was 228 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. assessor of the town for years. The grandfather of Lucian J., Philip Failing, with six brothers and their father were soldiers in the Revolutionary war. The father and one son were taken prisoners and sent to Canada. Lucian J. was reared on a farm and has always followed farming, owning ninety-eight acres, where he settled in 1866. He has made dairying a .specialty. October 25, 1863, he married Maggie, daughter of William R. and Eliza (Mitchell) Brewster, of Greenwood. Mr. Brewster was a cabinet maker and farmer. He died September 18, 1893, and his wife in 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Failing have had seven children: Eliza, died in infancy; Daniel, a farmer of Hornellsville ; William R., of Canisteo, a stenographer, graduated from J. W. Robert's school in Elmira and taught school for two years; Franklin' a farmer; Milton G., Emily, and Andrew R., at home. September 19. 1864, Mr. Failing en- listed in Co. H, 141st N. Y. Vols., and was discharged June 26, 1865. He was at Havenborg, Bentonville, and with Sherman on his "March to the sea." Mr. Failing and family are members of the M. E. Church. Knapp, William S., was born in Warwick, Orange county, N. Y. , February 3, 1814, and is the youngest and only survivor of six children bom to John and Eliza- beth (Sutton) Knapp, both natives of Orange county. John Knapp was a farmer and blacksmith, and spent most of his life in Warwick, but the latter part of his life was spent in Barrington, Yates county, where he died at fifty-six years of age. Mrs. Knapp died at Tyrone, where she was living with her daughter, aged seventy-two years. William S. was reared on the farm, and was engaged in farming and deal- ing in stock. He now lives retired in Bradford, where he settled in 1836, and the same year he married Emily, daughter of Ira and Hannah Crane of Putnam county, but early settlers of Barrington, where they died. Mr. and Mrs. Knapp had five children; Ira, who died in the army, aged twenty-four years; Beldon, who was a prisoner at Andersonville, and died in ten days after reaching home ; Augusta, who was the wife of E. Richardson of Bath, and died at twenty-nine years of age, leaving two children (Beldon and Carrie A.); Aurelia, who was the wife of Charles H. Ide, and died in 1880, leaving five children (William J., Bert B., Ira, Scott, and Emily); and William E., who is a druggist in ilichigan. Mr. Knapp has been a Republican since the party's organization. Mrs. Emily Knapp died February 19, 1891. King, Hammond A., was bora November 23, 1861, the youngest of five children born to William X., who was born in Bradford, June 7, 1824, and Clara (Littell) King. The paternal grandfather, Barzilla King, came to Bradford from Seneca county in pioneer days and was a millwright and carpenter. The parents of Mrs. King were Isaac D. and Lena (Vosburgh) Littell, born in New Jersey in 1793, and Minden, Montgomery county, respectively. Isaac Littell died in 1847. His father, Benjamin Littell, came from New Jersey to Reading, but died in Bradford. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Catherine Switzer, wife of Barzilla King, eame with her parents, Henry and Anna May (Niff) Switzer, from New Jersey to Bradford. Will- iam N. King worked at wagonmaking in his younger days, but has followed farming mostly, and he and his wife now reside in Bradford, Hammond A. King was edu- cated at the Union School of Bradford. December 30, 1885, he married Julia A., daughter of Justus and Mary (Covert) Lamb, by whom he has two children: Charles N., born November 15, 1887; and Clara L., born February IS, 1889. Mr. Lamb is a vineyardist of Hammondsport. In 1886 Mr. King began running a hotel in Bradford FAMILY SKETCHES. 229 and in 1887 purchased the Ellis House, which he now calls the King House, and keeps a first class house. Mr. King has been president of the Board of Trustees of the Union School of Bradford for five years. He is a member of Savona Lodge, I. (). (). F. Peck, Fernando, was born in Reading Center, Schuyler county, N. V., April 9, 1S;!3, son of Tenant and Dorinda (Sutton) Peck, both natives of Reading Center, where they died, he June 1, 1889, and she March 19, 1883. The grandfather of our subject, Jason Peck, came to Reading Center in an early day, where he died. The maternal grandfather of our subject, John Sutton, settled in Reading Center early in life, where he lived and died. Fernando Peck was educated in the common schools, and has always followed farming, but when a boy he learned the masons trade. He located on the farm of 1T5 acres he now owns March 20, 1861, and is a breeder of Jer.scy and Durham cattle. January II!, IBM, he married Mary J., daugh- ter of James Masters, an early settler of Reading, by whom he had two children : ICffie M., who was born June 11, 186.5, who married Willis Corbitt of Thurston, and they have one child, Mary M. ; and Emma J., who was born January 6, 1867, and married Charles F. Weaver. Mr. Peck has cleared most of the farm where he re- sides, and put on all the buildings and all improvements. He was drafted in 1863, and furnished a substitute for three years. He served as road commissioner during the years 1883 and 1884. He is a member of K. of H., also a member of Merchants- ville Grange, of which he is now master, serving his fourth term. Conley, Henry, was born in Fermanaugh county, Ireland, September 22, 1840, a son of James and Margaret (McGuire) Conley, both of Ireland. They came to America about 1870, settling in Dundee, where James was engaged in farming. He died in 1877, and she in 1879. The grandparents, John and Mary (McManus) Conley, died in Ireland. They were Episcopalians. Henry Conley was reared and educated in Ireland and came to America at the age of eighteen. He settled in Tyrone, Schuyler county. N. Y. , and engaged in farming, which he has since followed. He has owned farms in Yates and Schuyler county and in 1872 came to Bradford and !)urchased sixty acres, to which he has since added forty acres. Augu.st 31, 1872, Mr Conley married Alice, daughter of John Bartholomew, by whom he has live chil- dren: John, Ora, James W., Arvilla, and Herbert. Mr. Conley and his family are members of the M. E. church. Xorthrup, John M., is the youngest son of Moses Xorthrup, who was born in Sus- se.x county, N. J., in 1817, and died at Addison, N. Y., June 22, 1894. He was of English ancestry, and came to Rathbone in 1836, where he spent the greater part of his life at farming. After living on his farm forty-three years, he removed to Cam- eron Mills in 1879, and ten years later to Addison. He was supervisor two years, and several years assessor. He married Nancy M. Allen, May II, 1844, who died after some years, leaving these children ; William J. of New York city; Dewitt and Allen of Xorthrup Settlement; Mrs. William Crawford of Cameron Mills; and Moses P., deceased October, 1886. He married again, October 22, 1H,")7, Amy Stroud of Woodhull, N. Y., who survives him. Their children are John M. of Addison, and Elizabeth, deceased wife of Harry Paxton. John M. was born at Rathbone in lHi2, where he first engaged in farming on the old homestead, and was educated at Cook 230 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Academy, Havana, N. Y. In 1886 he came from Cameron Mills to Addison and pur- chased 100 acres of land one mile west of the village, where he gives close attention to his farming interests. On November 18. 1886. he married Clara Carpenter of Academy Corners, who died May 38, 1889, by whom he had two children: Loren M., born September 13, 1887, died ilarch 11, 18S9; and Clara Belle, born May 7, 1889. March 21. 1894, he married Jennie, daughter of George J. Merring, a Rathbone farmer, by whom he has one son, John Herbert, born March 4, 189.5. Brundage Family, The. — The first of the family of whom can be found any trace is Benjamin, who lived in the town of Mifflin near Wilkesbarre, and was twice mar- ried, having by his first marriage two sons, Abram and James, and one daughter. In 1807 Benjamin came from Pennsylvania to visit his sons in Steuben county, N.Y. , and died while there and was buried in Pleasant Yalley Cemetery. James was born in 1765, married Mary Hoffman, and in 1799 he, and his brother Abram, with their families, came to New York State and for a few months located at Elmira, and then removed to Painted Post, where they remained four years. In 1803 they settled in Pleasant Valley, and in April of the same year located where J. S. and Victor now reside. Mr. and Mrs. James Brundage were the parents of fourteen children: Philip, John, Abraham, Benjamin, Polly, Sally, Henry, Samuel B., George S., Catherine, Elizabeth, Uaniel, James M., and Anna. Mrs. Brundage died Octobers, 1815, and Mr. Brunda.ge, in 1839, aged seventy-four years. Abram Brundage was born March 17, 1775, and his wife. Polly Sims, June 26, 1776. They were the parents of ten chil- dren: Benjamin, William, James, Jesse. Charles, Matthew, Hiram, Alfred, Almira and Abram S. Abraham, the third son of James, was born in Pennsylvania, Octo- ber 2. 1794, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was one of the solid men of the community, and accumulated about si-x hundred acres of land in this valley. December 14, 1821, he married Elizabeth, a native of the town of Wheeler and daugh- ter of Azariah Conger of Washington county, N. Y., and to them were born six chil- dren: Mary A., win married John W. Taggart, of this valley; Cornelius Y., who is a farmer of Seneca county, Ohio; John C, who died in 1843 at thirteen years of age; Azariah C. ; Myron H., who died April 9, 1864; and Sam B., who died May 25, 1877. Abraham, died August 19, 1875, and his wife, April 9. 1872. Azariah Conger Brun- dage was born on the old homestead farm, which he now occupies, in the town of Urbana, January 20, 1837. He was educated in the common schools, Franklin Acad- emy, Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and Starkey Seminary, and has always been a farmer by occupation. April 25, 1861, he enlisted in the 34th Regt N. Y. Inf., and was corporal of Co. I, and served with this regiment until the battle of Fair Oaks, where he was wounded by receiving a bullet in the neck, in consetiuence of which he was discharged July 30, 1862. His title of major comes from his being in that office wi'h the Xalional Guard after the war. Politically, he is a Republican and was elected to the State Legislature in the fall of 3877, serving the session of 1878, and re-elected and served the session of 1879. In the fall of 1.883 he was again a candi- date but was defeated, and in 1886 was elected to the same position, and re-elected in the fall of 1887, having been five times nominated by acclamation. He has been prominently identified with the management of the Steuben County Agricultural So- ciety, was two years president, four years vice-iiresident, and is serving his si.xth consecutive year as secretary. He is also president of the New York State Associa- FAMILY SKETCHES. 2:il tion of County Agricultural Societies. He has been a member of the Grange nine- teen years, and was one of the promoters of Pleasant Valley Grange. He helped to organize the Patrons' Fire Relief Association, of which he has been president eight- een years, and assisted in the organization of the State Association for Fire Insur- ance, which was effected in 1881, and in 1887 he was made president of the State As- sociation, which office he held seven years. He has been master of the Grange sev- eral times. He is a member of Custer Post, No. 8, G. A. R., and has been its com- mander and quartermaster, passing the subordinate chairs. He has always been a warm supporter of church and school work. November 18, 18C3, he married Sarah C, daughter of Orville Tousey of Dansville, T^ivingston county, and they have two children: Myron T. and Lizzie. Samuel Baker Brundage, the fifth son of Abraham, was born on the old homestead farm, February 2, 1844, and was educated in the common schools and at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and followed farming as an occupation, being assigned by his father to the management of 275 acres of the old homestead farm. In jiolitics he is a Republican. He was one of the first to take up sheep breeding, and the wool and grain were the principal products of the farm. December 6, 1871, he married Ella J., daughter of Samuel Crum, a farmer of Bath, and they have been the parents of one daughter, Elizabeth, who still makes her home on the old homestead. Samuel B. died May 25, 1877. James M. Brunda.gc, son of James, a native of the town of Urbana, was born February 17, 1813, and suc- ceeded to the old homestead farm, on which he made many valuable improve- ments. In 1853 he set out three acres of grape vines, but his principal products were grain and wool. He was in early life a Whig, but later a Republican. He was for a number of years identified with the Presbyterian church. He was twice mar- ried, first on January 7, 1846, to Jerusha Davis, and second to Eliza A. Hender.son, daughter of John Collin of Avoca, and they were the parents of two sons: George A. and Jay S. Mr. Brundage died October 7, 1889, and Mrs. Brundage, July 29, 1880. George Albert Brundage, the oldest son of James M. and Eliza Hender.son Brundage. was born on the old homestead farm January 28, 1862, was educated in the common schools, and has given his attention to farming and grape growing. He managed the farm until the death of his father and then came into full possession of 124 acres, eight acres of which he has set out to vineyard, and the balance of the farm is devoted to grain and vegetable products. In politics heisa Republican. He is a member of the Order of Maccabees. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church. October 22, 1884, he married Sarah, daughter of William H. Garvey of this town, and they are the parents of two children : Leon Jay, born March 22, 1886, and Chester Monroe, born September 17, 1888. Jay S. Brundage, Son of James M., was born on a farm in the town of I'rbana, October 28, 1867, and was educated in the common schools and at Angelica High School, and has always lived on the old homestead. At the death of his father he was willed 200 acres of the old farm, and the fourth generation of this family now occupy it. He has now a vineyard of thirteen acres, and with the balance conducts a grain and dairy farm, having a milk route in Hammondsport. He has held some minor town offices and has been a school officer. October 27, 1886, he married Linna, daughter of George Thompson of Wheeler, and they have two children: Hiram G., born March 20, 1888, and May, born February 29, 1892. Henry Brundage, son of John, who was a son of 232 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. James, was born on a farm on the south part of lot 12, January 15, 1821. He mar- ried Emily T. Wood. July 2, 1845, and they were the parents of three children : Edward C, Frank W., and Anna. In 1853 he bought a farm of eighty-five acres on lot 8, where he spent the balance of his life, and where he died February 8, 1894. Mrs. Emily T. Brundage still survives, being seventy years of age. Henry was a Republi- can in politics, and was always interested in church and school work, being a trustee of the school. His farm consisted of 115 acres, on which he raised hay, grain, etc. Edward C. Brundage, the oldest son of Henry, was born on the farm where he now resides in the town of L'rbana, August 25, 1854, and has .succeeded his father in the management of the farm. February 14, 1877, he married Ella F. Jessop, a native of Orange. Schuyler county, and they have two children: Henry Amos, born Septem- ber 29, 1878, and Charlie Frank, bora August 2i), 1887. Frank W. Brundage, the youngest son of Henry, was born on the homestead farm, November 25, 1858, and was educated in Haramondsport Union School, and has always followed farming. He was married at the age of nineteen years to Mary C, daughter of John A. Stew- art, .a native of Scotland, who lived in the town of Bradford. Frank settled on a farm in Urbana where he made his home for five years, and in 1884 he removed to Darien, Wis., where he now owns and conducts a farm. He has one daughter, Ina E., now in her sixteenth year. Anna Brundage, daughter of Henry Brundage. is a graduate of the class of '86 of Haverling, and adopted teachin.g as a profession, teaching in the towns of Urbana and Pulteney, and was three years the teacher of the Pulteney village school, and is now the primary teacher of Painted Post Union School. Lewis Brundage was born on the farm where he now resides in North L'r- bana. August 3, 1839. He was given a common school education, and remained with his father on the farm until he was twenty-three years of age, when he went on a farm bv himself in the town of Wayne, where he resided until 1891, with the ex- ception of three \-ears spent on the old homestead, which he bought in 1891. He owns 110 acres, on five acres of which is a vineyard, but tile products of which are mostly grain and hay. In politics he is a Republican, and he has been trustee. In 1861 he married Sarah, daughter of James Covert, a farmer of this town. They have one adopted daughter, Cora. Orson Brundage was born on a farm at North L'rbana, August 26, 1^57, son of James L., who was a son of Ebenezer. He was edu- cated in the common schools and Starkey Seminary and remained with his father '> he married Orrilla, daughter of Henry and Catherine (McDowell) Cronkrite, by whom he had these children: Jona- than, who died in 1863, aged six years; Laura M., who died in 1863, aged four years; Kittle C. , wife of William S. Murray, a teacher by profession and graduate of Syra- cuse University; Fred H., who died in 1869, aged seven years; Olin W., a graduate of Syracuse University, and a teacher by profession; William M., of Wyoming county. Pa., and a teacher b)- profession ; and Anna O., who is a student at Albany State Normal College. Mr. Wood is a member of No. 4.")9, F. & A. M., of Ilam- mondsport. McAdam, Henry. — William McAdam was born March 18, 1827, in Ireland and came to the United States when a small child. His father, James, settled in the town of Howard, near where William now resides, in 1830, where he cleared a farm of 101 acres. He died in 18.59, and his wife in March, 1864. They had a family of three children: John, Thomas, and William, all of whom were born in Ireland. William was educated in the districts schools of Howard, and December 3, 18.51, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Pawling, .son of Henry Pawling, who fought for his country in 1776, was taken prisoner and confined on the PrLson Ship. Henry Pawling, the father of Mrs. McAdam, was drafted in the war of 1812. At that time the population was limited and his wife, Catherine, was compelled to live alone in a log cabin in the woods, and had to keep bright fires burning in order to frighten away the wild animals. Mr. and Mrs. McAdam were the parents of five children : Eva, Henry, Herbert, Hattie. who married W. J. .Stewart and resides in North Carolina, and Clayton. Henry McAdam is a prosjicrous farmer in the town of Howard, owning a farm of 118 acres, mostly all cleared. February 24, 1886, he mar- ried Emma A., daughter of Andrew Sharp, one of the first farmers of the town. They have one daughter. Bertha. Mr. and Mrs. McAdam are members of the Pres- byterian church. Williams, Miles, was born in Tioga county. X. V., February 21, 1825, son of Juliii A., and Nancy Thompson Williams, she a native of Tioga county, and he of Con- necticut. They came. to WoodhuU in 1830, where he died October 9, 1870, and she September 13, 1867. Miles's grandfather, Thomas Williams, died in Tioga county. May 15, 1828, and his wife, Elizabeth, died May 24, 1864, aged eighty-six years. The maternal grandfather was Moses Thompson, who was born September 2, 1771, and died October 26, 1854. Miles Williams was brought up on a farm and educated in the common schools, and now owns 192 acres of land. In 1850 he married Catherine, daughter of Joseph D. , son of Samuel Stroud, who is mentioned in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Williams arc the parents of two children : Joseph, who married Ida Marvin, and they have one child. Leon, born March 5, 1863, and by a previous marriage to Nelhe Burch, they have one child, Wallace, born May 2(1, 1882. Mrs. Williams's 238 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. father, Joseph D. Strond. was born in New Jersey in 1792, and came to Woodhull. His wife was Elizabeth Merring, by whom he had nine children. He died February 28, 1870, and his wife November 19, 1883. He was one of the leading farmers of the town and owned about 600 acres of land. Lang, John H.. son of John Lang, first vice-president of the Fall Brook Coal and Fall Brook Railway Co.'s, was born at Covington, Pa., September 8, 1850. He be- gan his business life as a telegraph operator and mail boy for the Fall Brook Coal Co. in December. 1863, from which duties he was promoted to bookkeeper, and later held the positions of auditor, paymaster, and assistant treasurer, and is now secre- tary of that corporation. In the reorganization of the railway department, July 1, 1893, he was made treasurer of the Fall Brook Railway Co. He has resided in Corn- ing since March, 1880. Foster, William A., was born in Vermont in 1835. When seventeen years of age he began railroad work as fireman and afterwards learned the machinist trade, and then ran an engine for several years, after which he was engaged as foreman of the shops at Fitchburg, Mass., for two years. In 1873 he was appointed assistant super- intendent of motive power for the Fitchburg Railroad, acting as superintendent from 1882 to 1884, and in 1885 accepted his present position of superintendent of machin- ery for the Fall Brook Railroad. Donnelly, Mrs. E. B. — James Donnelly was born in New York city, March 29, 1843. His family moved to Georgetown, D. C. In 1861 he enlisted in Co. I, 34lh New York Infantry, and after his discharge he went to Hammondsport and enlisted in Co. G, 22d Cavalry, and served two years, and received an honorable discharge at the close of the war. In 1871 he married Ellen Benner, and they are the parents of two children: Henry J. and Ellen M. In 1889 he moved to Kanona and kept pub- lic house until his death, which occurred January 39, 1894. ilr. Donnelly was an Odd Fellow and a prominent Mason ; also a member of the Knights of the Macca- bees. Hoagland, John C, was born on the farm where he now lives, October 27, 1839, son of Richard Hoagland, who was born in Montgomery county, and came to the town of Howard in 1830, settled on the farm now owned and occupied by John C. Their ancestry is traced back to the settlement of New Amsterdam, in 1565. Richard was a farmer and lived to be ninety years of age. He married Tabitha Clark, of Montgomery county, formerly of Rhode Island, and they were the parents of eleven children, five of whom are still alive. John C. has always been a farmer, with the exception of three years spent in the army. He enlisted in 1861, and was in the battles of Port Hudson, and the Red River Campaign. He was married three times, first to Tabitha Powell, and three children were born to them: Holand, Clark, and Georgia; his second wife was Jennie Brockney, by whom he had one son, Sumner; third, to Ella Burd. Mr. Hoagland has filled the offices of overseer of the poor for two years, and supervisor for the same length of time. He is a member of the G. A. R., and a Granger. In politics he is an Independent. Stewart, William H., who was born in the town of Howard, April 2, 1843, is the ninth child of a family of eleven children of the late Andrew and Lydia Stewart, FAMILY SKETCHES. 2.39 who were among the pioneer settlers of this town, coming here in 1817. Andrew- Stewart was born October 31, 1805, in Washington county. He cleared a farm of eighty acres where he resided up to within three years of hi.s death, when he disposed of it to a son, E. L. Stewart, who is in possession of it at the present time. William H. Stewart began life poor, out through hard labor and frugality he is the owner of a 110 acre farm, mostly all improved land. He married Nancy J., daughter of Henry Stewart of Howard, and thev have one son, Don Stewart, who resides at home. They are members of the M. E. church of Towlesville. In politics Mr. .Stewart is Independent. Sin Clair, William A., was born April 10. 1832, on tlic homestead, which was settled by his father, John Sin Clair, who came from Vermont in 1820; at that time the pres- ent section was covered by a dense forest, and it was only through his laborious work that it was brought under cultivation and roads were laid out for the conven- ience of the incoming settlers; the one worthy of particular mention is the Turnpike which bounds the farm on the south. In 1823 he married Eltha Dickenson, by whom he had six children, three sons and three daughters, and through life was identified as a practical fanner, taking an active interest in school and church matters, dying in 18,11 at the age of si.\ty-three years. In 1857 William A. married Mary J., daugh- ter of William and Martha Abbott, by whom he had five children: Will A., F. Leo, F. Ueo, Mrs. A. J. Sin Clair, Mrs. F. B. Conine; and has always resided on the homestead, being one of the most prosperous and influential farmers of that locality. Hoaglin, Leroy, was born in Schuyler county, N. V,, September 24, 1839, son of John and F'annie (Redner) Hoaglin, who came to Pennsylvania in 18,52, and to Wood- hull in 18U3, where they still reside. Leroy Hoaglin began working by the month, and in 1803 he enlisted in Co. G, 2d N. Y. Vet. Vol. Cavalry, and served until No- vember, 1865. He was at the battles of Red River, Mobile, Blakely, and all other battles the regiment took part in. He now owns 110 acres of land. He is a Repub- lican in politics, and held the office of assessor four years, elected the second term. He is a member of Restoration Lodge, No. 777, F. & A. M., also a member of J. N. Warner Post, No. 56.5, G. A. R. In 1867 Mr. Hoaglin married Elsie Thompson, by whom he had four children: Olive, Gertrude, Etta, and Leroy. The grandfather, John Hoaglin, was a native of New Jersey, and came to Cayuga county, N.V., where he died. Carter, Erastus A., was born in Canisteo, April 23, 1848, son of John Carter, who was born in Lansing, Tompkins county. When John Carter first came to .Steuben county he settled in Greenwood, and was engaged in farming and lumbering quite extensively. He came to Canisteo village about twenty years ago and remodeled the old Canisteo House, it being the first brick house in the county. He run the hotel for about two years, afterwards disposing of the same. In about four years he again purchased the property, which he owned till his death in August, 1888. In 1889 Erastus A. Carter purchased the hotel from the estate, and has since conducted the same. Mr. Carter was at one time engaged in farming and lumbering, but at present devotes his time to farming, the hotel, and his furniture busines.s. In De- cember, 1894, the furniture business was started under the name of E. A. Carter & Son, carrying a general line of furniture and funeral supplies. In July, 1809, Mr, 240 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Carter married Katie A. Bailey, of Tompkins county, by whom he has two sons: William L. and John M. Mr. Carter is a member of Morning Star Lodge of Masons, No. 6.5. Cram, Duty S., eldest son of Isaiah and Phoebe (Dakin) Cram, was born in Che- nango county, N. Y., in 1837. Locating in the town of Lindley, two years later thej^ moved to Caton, which at that time was but a wilderne.ss, and commenced clearing up a farm where Mr. Cram now resides, and where the parents died several years ago. Besides D. S., there were six girls and three boys, viz. : Finetta, wife of Joel P. Cady of North Adams, Mass., both now deceased; Polly, wife of Robert Cook of Lindley, both living; Roby, wife of Henry L. Babcock of Caton, both deceased; Emeline, of Caton, deceased; Samantha, wife of John H. Laughhead of Elmira, both deceased; Sarah, wife of James Waldon of Caton, both living; Simeon B., of Caton, deceased; Henry D. of Glean, X. Y., decea.sed (killed by a falling tree): Robert W. , the youngest, now living in the town of Corning. In 1855 D. S. married Sarah A. Stamer, a native of Tompkins county, N. Y. They have at present four children living, viz. : Fred B. of Caton, who married Matie Thorp, and resides on a farm adjoining his father's; Nellie, wife of Eugene Cook, who resides in Elmira; Joel P., who married Estella Vandusen and resides on a farm near his father; Nettie, wife of ^V alter A. Davidson, and resides on a farm at Lindley. The eldest son, James, died when a boy. Wellman, John R., West Caton, Steuben county, N. Y., is a native of Otsego county, was born in 1819 and came to his present place, January 3. 1851. In 1842 he married his present wife, who was Anne Histed, a native of Schenectady county. August 14, 1862, he enlisted in Co. D, 141st N. Y. Vels., and served two years and ten months. His children are Sarah A., wife of William A. Johnston, Emma J., wife of M. W. Robbins, Silas E., L. M., Willie I., and Charles R., who died in 1861. Mr. Wellman is serving his second term as justice of peace. Granger, Leverett, was born in Springfield, Mass., April 2, 1809. John Granger, his father, owned a beautiful farm on the Connecticut, five miles from Springfield, Mass. Through signing notes for a friend, he was obliged to sell and when the sub- ject of this sketch was seven, we find them settled in Drj-den, N. Y. In 1822 they moved to Bennett's Creek, one mile west of Canisteo, where they cleared a large tract of land. AVhen but eighteen, Leverett lost his mother; he then started to " carve out his own fortune." Working for ten dollars a month, he laid up his §100 a year; his life was was not all work, for many a time has he told his children about the New Years ball, how he took his girl, not in a carriage, but on behind him, both on the same horse. After accumulating sufficient fortune to support a wife, he married Weltha Chapman, by whom he had seven children: Harriet E., Weltha E., Francis G., William H., Horace A., Harrison D., and Daniel S. He married for his second wife Lydia A., daughter of John Rose of Greenwood, by whom he had seven children; Charles, Elisha, Sarah A., H. Lee, M. Ida, Lura B. and John. Death has claimed two of his children, Francis G. and M. Ida; the others we find scattered m the East and West, and some remaining on his beautiful farm one mile south of Can- isteo. When in the spring of 1894 death claimed his beloved wife, we find him still calm and serene, for his trust has been in Jesus for many a year. Tliough not a FAMILY SKETCHES. 241 Prohibitionist, he is strongly temperate; do we need a better example than this — not one of his eight manly sons love the wine cup? As one has said, " "I'is only noble to be good;" then he must belong to the true nobility, for his life has always been free from quarrels and strife, loved and honored by all. Cook, Emmett A., was born in the town of Hartsville, March 22, 1854, son of James M. Cook, a native of this county, born in Canisteo, September 2S, 1825. He was a farmer and lumberman and the later years of his life were spent in Hornells- ville, where he died February 23, 1866. He was supervisor of the town of Hartsville for three terms and also held some of the minor officers. He was a member of the Methodist church the earlier part of his life. When twenty-si.x years old he married Harriet, daughter of Joseph Wallace, one of the pioneers of Hornellsville. Mrs. Cook died August 22, 1895, in her Hfty-ninth year. They were the parents of three children: Emmett. as above, Eva, the wife of Scott H. Van Benkirk, a farmer of Hartsville and postmaster, and Fanny, who died in 1863. Emmett was educated in Hornellsville schools and Canisteo Academy, and was for one year employed in the grocery of D. C. Corbett of Canisteo. In 1875 he moved on to a farm of 120 acres on lot 6, town of Hornellsville, which he inherited from his father, and r)n which he now lives, making a specialty of dairy products and potatoes. For a great many years he has raised sheep. In 1891 and 1892 he served as highway commissioner of the town. In 1877 Mr. Cook married Celestia Hendee of Hartsville. who died March 4, 1887, Griswold, George W., was born in Avoca, Steuben county, N. Y., July 5, 1838, son of John D., who was a native of Spencertown, Albany county, born January 21, 1813. John I), removed to Steuben county about 1835, locating in Avoca, where he estab- lished a jewelry business, where he died March 10, 1893, He was postmaster of Avoca for several years, and a prominent Mason of Bath Lodge. The mother of our subject, Sarah Towner, was a native of this county, and a daughter of Gershom Towner, who was one of the earliest settlers. Mrs. Griswold is still living, being in her seventy-ninth year. Mr. and Mrs. Griswold are the parents of twelve children, ten of whom grew to maturity, and six of whom now survive. George, the eldest son, first engaged as a clerk in Oscar Smith's dry goods store at Avoca, where he remained two years, and at the age of .sixteen came to Hornellsville where he was employed in the same capacity with Smith & Young, and during his five years with them never lost a day's time. In 1869 he established himself in business, opening a general store, which he sold out in 1884, after which he followed farming for eight years. In 1891 he returned to Hornellsville and opened a shoe .store in his building on Main street, where he now has a fine trade. Mr. Griswold has served as highway commissioner, collector, and was enrolling officer at the time of the Rebellion. He has been a Mason for twenty eight years, and has twice been Master of his lodge, having held many other high offices in same. In 1861 he married Mary C, daughter of R. M. Traver of Painted Post. She died in I8HS, leaving one .son, Don C. The present Mrs. Griswold was Anna T. Regan, and their children are Raymond Leo and Wallace Elliot. Austin, Benjamin, was born in Fishkill, Dutchess county, February 13, 1825. At ten years of age he began work in a cotton factory in Matteawan, N. Y., and at thir- 242 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN CODNTY. teen years of age he came to Prattsburg with his father where he learned the car- penter trade which he has followed for forty yeai-s. In 1868 he movedinto the village of Prattsburg, and was elected town tax-collector, which office he held six years, and nine consecutive years as constable. In ]8il() he returned to his farm where he has ;.ince resided. Lockwood Austin his grandfather, was a drum major in the 1812 war, and was a carjjenter by trade, and came to Pulteney, Steuben county, about 1839, and later moved to Prattsburg where he spent his remaining days on a farm. He married Susan Meade, by whom he had seven children: William, Daniel, Mrs. Eliza Brewster, Mrs. Olive Adams. Mrs. Fannie Banker, Mrs. Charity Green, Mrs. Ann Burroughs. William Austin, father of Benjamin, was born in Putnam county, in 1801. He was a stone mason by trade, and was for many years a foreman in the cotton factory at Matteawan. N. Y. In 18S9 he came to Prattsburg, Steuben county, where he engaged in farming. He married Sally Ann Watkins of Dutchess county, by whom he had five children: Benjamin B., Mrs. Fannie Smith of Prattsburg, Mrs. Elizabeth Trenchard of Hornellsville, Lockwood, who enlisted in 107th Regt., and fought in several battles, died in a hospital and was buried in Nashville, Tenn., and Mrs. Margaret Earley of Prattsburg. He died in 1890, and his wife in July, 1889. In 1849 Benjamin Austin married Johannah E. A., daughter of Alexander Parker of Pulteney, by whom he had three children: James A., born March, 1850, who is engaged in farming and .grape growing, was married to Martha Hulls of Pulteney, May 2, 187.^; Wm. K., born November, 18-')7, printer and carpenter by trade, was married to Amy R. Stanhope of Wayne. January 26, 1882; and Benjamin P., born August 15, 1867; is a mechanic and musician, director of Prattsburg band, and a composer of music, and was married to Chenej- Brown of Prattsburg in 1886. B. B. Austin has two grandchildren, Lola L. , daughter of W. K. and Verie Marie, daughter of B. P. Mrs. Austin died in March, 1878, aged fifty-two years. In 1880 Mr. Austin married for his second wife, Mrs. Betsey E. (Northrup) Smith, who has two children: Miranda E., deceased, and Lsrael A. Woodbury. Joseph B. , was born in the town of Exeter, Otsego county, N. Y., Oc- tober 21, 1826. When about two years of age his parents removed to New Hartford, Oneida county, where they resided until 1830, when they took up their residence in Winfield, Herkimer county, and continued to reside there until 1841. While living there, the subject of this sketch attended common school, where he evinced a talent for learning far in advance of his years, and was always at the head of his classes. On February 3, 1841, the family commenced a journey to the then comparatively new town of Jasper, in this county, and reached their destination after six days' travel. He attended school until nineteen years of age, a portion of the time at a select school in Addison, under the tutor.ship of Col. John W. Dininny. His school days ended, Mr. Woodbury engaged in lumbering until twenty-five years of age, when he became interested in farming. He also took took up the trade of mason and worked at it for eight years. Having purchased a farm in the town of Jasper, he continued to reside upon it until April 9, 1862. when he moved to the village of Greenwood to engage in the milling business, having previously bought the Stephens mill in that village. He remained here twelve years, managing in connection with his mill, large lumbering and farming interests. He then retired from these pur- suits, built a house in the village of Greenwood, and invested largely in oil lands, FA.\in,Y SKETCHES. 243 ' owning at one time 153 acres in the oil bell in Pennsylvania, and an interest in thirty-six oil wells. Seeing the rapid emigration to the Western States after the close of the war, and conscious of the increase in the value of western lands which must necessarily follow the settlement of that section, he began to place some of his capital there. Among his earlist speculations was one in land in the State of Iowa, where he purchased two thousand and one hundred acres in Woodbury county. (On an investment of §2,000 he realized within a few years, upwards of §6,000.) Mr. Woodbury in company with Hon. John Uavis of Creenwood, \. Y., then bought two thousand acres of pine timber land in the Stale of Michigan which he held fortwelve vears, this costing them about $4,.500 and was sold for §4(1,(100. He is now in pos- session of one thousand acres of land in one of the most fruitful sections of the Slate of Nebraska, and the owner of a large flouring mill at Old, in that State. He is also interested in the First National Bank of Ord, of which institution he was one of the originators. On December 31, 1886, Mr. Woodbury took up his residence in Horn- ellsville. He is a director and one of the executive board of the Citizens' National Hank of Hornellsville. He never aspired to hold political office, though often urged by his townsmen to accept. He married first, Mary M., daughter of the late Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Greenwood, on November 11, 18.51. Of this union two sons were born, viz.: Merritt A., now deceased, and Martin F., of Sauk Centre, Minn, ^trs Woodbury died May 28, 1883. His present wife was Mary M., daughter of the late Hon. Redmond S. Davis, also of Greenwood. Merrill A. moved with his family, consisting of wife and one son, to Ord, Nebraska, in September, 1891, and died December 0, 1894 Dartt, Burton. — His grandfather, Joshua, was born in Vermont, and came with his father to Pennsylvania, and from there to Steuben county, locating on the old turn- pike road between Bath and Hornellsville, where he lived to an old age. Franklin Dartt, father of Burton, was bom in Pennsylvania, near Blossburg, Tioga county, in 1809, and came to Howard at the age of about twelve years, where he learned the trade of cloth dressing and carding, which business he followed all his life. He married Louisa Dort, who died five years later. For his second wife he married Lidda Clisba, who was bom in June 1805, and died in Michigan in 1807. From this union there were four children: Byron H., born Decemher 10, 1836; Burton, born August 18, 1838; Phebe Jane, bom in 1842; and Esther Ann, born July 1, 1848. Burton Dartt received a good common school education, and worked in a steam mill for a time, and has since followed farming, having a farm of 141 acres which is located on Windom Hill. He has been inspector of election four years, and also held the office of assessor of the town of Fremont for four years. November 17, 1862. he married Helen M. Deraery, who was born May 24 1839, and they have one child, Esther Jane Gray, who was born October 2, 1867, and married March 29, 1885, and has one child, Doras B. Gray, who was born August 28, 1889. Hulbert, Freeman, was born December 20, 1840. His grandfather, Moses Hul- bert, w'as born in Hampshire county, Mass., August 7, 1770. In 1816 he came to Dansville and bought a farm on Oak Hill where he followed the cooper's trade, and where he died. Justus Hulbert, father of Freeman, was born at Fort Ann, Wash- ington county, November 12, 1810, and came to Dansville with his father, where he followed farming. The first fifty acres he purchased on Oak Hill, at eighteen shil- 244 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. lings per acre, and he owned about seventy-five acres when he died at forty-six years of age. In 1838, he married Catherine Flickinger, who was born in Dansville, N. Y., May 5, 1819, by whom he had four children: Freeman, as above; Diana, who mar- ried Daniel Sager; Amelia, who married John Scherer; and Charles Hulbert. Free- man Hulbert has always followed farming, and he purchased the farm in Fremont, on which he now lives, thirty years ago. November 1, 1865, he married Mary A. Cridler, who was born in Dansville, March 20, 1840, daughter of Daniel Cridler, by whom he had one child, Ira Justus, who was bom September 25, 1866, and who was educated at Rogersville Union Seminary. March 5, 1890, he married May L. Kriedler, who was born December 6, 1870, and died October 28, 1890. Stewart, Edmond, was born m the town of Cameron, N. Y., November 2, 1848, son of John S. and Sarah (Chase) Stewart, natives of Harrington. Yates county, and eastern New York, respectively. The grandparents were among the first settlers of Cameron, where they died. John S. Stewart was reared on a farm in Cameron, where he lived and died. Edmond was educated in the common schools, then en- gaged in farming on the homestead. In 1866 he married Lovina, daughter of Wash- ington and Mary (.Smith) Dawley, by whom he has seven children: Albert, Carrie, Nelson, Lizzie, George, Louise, and Minnie. In 1879 Mr. Stewart came to Rathbone and rented a farm owned by Dea. William Allen ; in 1889 he bought 108 acres and made a specialty of sheep raising. The family are Baptists. September 23, 1895, Edmond Stewart died. Rosenkrans, A. D., was born in Avoca, November 12, 1845. Joseph Rosenkrans, his father, was born in Steuben county, and settled in Avoca in about 1836, on the farm of which his son is now part owner. He married Mary Austin of Wayland, by whom he had three children: Mary H., George B., and A. D., who was educated in Avoca and Naples Academy, after which he engaged in farming which he followed until 1881, at which time until 1887 he spent at milling. He married Annetta, daughter of Will- iam R. Head, by whom he had three children: George M., Mertie M., and William K. Mrs. Rosenkrans died October 1, 1889, and he married for his second wife, Rhoda A., daughter of Martin H. Cooley of Wayland. Mr. Rosenkrans was justice of the peace for some time, and is a member of Avoca Lodge of Masons, No. 673. Hofstetter, Louis, was born in the town of Hornellsville, February 6, 1854. Casper Hofstetter, the father of our subject, is a native of Germany, who came to this coun- try about 1849, and settled at what is now Webb's Crossing on nineteen acres of land. He afterwards in 1873 moved to the farm of 133 acres where he now resides, and has ever since been engaged in farming in this section. He is seventy-si.x years old. His wife, Elizabeth Knetl, was also a native of Germany. They have four children, of which Louis is the youngest son. He was educated in the common schools and made his home on his father's farm until of age. In 1877 he started for himself by the purchase of thirty-five acres in the northern part of Hornellsville, and added to that by the purchase in 1883 of thirty-five acres, and eighty-five acres of the old Ashbel Ward farm. He makes his home on seven acres purchased of his father in Hornellsville. He has become one of the leading farmers of this section. He makes a specialty of the cultivation of potatoes, and in 1894 raised 4,000 bushels, and also 800 bushels of grain, besides hay for stock. He was married April 28, 1883, to FAMILY SKETCHES. 245 Miss Amanda Colgrove of Arkport. They have three children. Pearl in her eleventh vear, May in her tenth year and Ida ten months old. Paddock, John N., was born in Sussex county. N. J., July 12,1844, and is the eighth of nine children born to James and \ancy (I'tler) Paddock, both natives of New Jersey where she died in 1849, aged thirty-eight years James Paddock was born April 3, 1803, and came to Wayne, Steuben county, in 1806, and died in Cameron, Steuben county, in 1887. James Paddock, grandfather of John N., was a farmer and lived and died in New Jersey. The maternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war. John N. Paddock was reared on the farm, and first bought a grape vineyard in Ilammondsport, which he sold in 1879 and came to Troupsburg in April, 1880, where he located in the southwestern corner of the town, where he has smce resided. He has eighty acres of land with fine buildings, and was once burned out soon after locating on the farm. He married Hannah E., daughter of Barrett B., and Eliza A. (Collier) Henderson, by whom he had two sons: Lewis S., born April 10, 1869, and Frank J., born September 24. 1871. Mr. Henderson was born in Wash- ington county, N. Y., January 22, 1822, and was a farmer and miller at Avoca, and died in Avoca, September 2o. 185.5. Mrs. Henderson was born in Avoca, December 1, 1825, and died July 29, 1888. She was the daughter of John and Huldah (Towner) Collier of Avoca, and married for her second husband James M. Brandage. In Au- gust, 1862, Mr. Paddock enlisted in Co. G, 107th N. Y. Vols., and was honorably dis- charged in June, 1865. He was at Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Getty.sburg, after which all of 11th and 12th Corps were transferred and called the 20th Corps, and were sent to Rosenkrans at Chickamauga. They were at Milledgevillc, and Savan- nah, and Mr. Paddock had a sun stroke July 5, 1803, on the march from Gettysburg to Falling Water, and has never recovered from the effects. He is a mem1)cr of Westfield Grange. Weaver, Daniel, was born in Germany in May, 1842, sou of Jacob and Mary (Ringeisen) Weaver, who came to the United States in 1851, and located on a farm in Southport, Chemung county, N. Y. , where they lived till 1883, then retired and moved to Elmira, where Mr. Weaver still resides. In 1890 Mrs. Weaver died and was buried at Webb's Mills Cemetery. Daniel Weaver was reared on the farm and educated in the district school ; in 1863 he enlisted in Co. L, 24th N. Y. Cavalry and served two years, and was in twenty-two engagements ; he was at the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, South Side R. R., the Weldon Road, etc. Mr. Weaver is a Republican and has been commissioner of highways one term ; he is a member of the G. A. R. Post No. 469, also a member of the Merchanlville Grange in which he is treasurer since it was organized in 1888. In 1808 he was married to Miss Bertha S. Oelschlae- ger, by whom he has three children: Charles F., Lottie I., Henry G. In July, 1894, his brother Peter's son. Leroy G. Weaver, came to live with them. Mr. Weaver has 185 acres of land, has good barns and in 1884 he built a fine residence. Carlton, James L., was born in the town of Jerusalem, Yates county, September 22, 1820. James Carlton, his father, was a native of England, and came to the United States in 1812. He was a shoemaker by trade, which business he followed for many years. He settled in Yates county where he bought a farm. He married Sarah Wilkinson, a native of Broome county, N. Y. , by whom he had one son, James 246 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. L., who worked several years for one man. of whom he bought a farm of 180 acres in the town of Bath. He cleared hi-s laud with his own hands, and is still the owner. In 1874 he came to Campbell and bought a farm of ten acres, where he is now living. He married Margaret M. Markell of Seneca, by whom he had five children ; Sarah A., Ellanor C, George H., J. D., and Milton D. For his second wife he married Mrs. Martha W. Gardner, by whom he had one .son, Fred W. For his third wife he married Mrs. Malinda Taylor. For his fourth wife he married Mrs. Emily Chambers, daughter of Barny Brown. He is a member of the M. E. church, also a member of the K. of H., and in politics he is a Prohibitionist. Smith, Ira, was born in the town of Howard, January 5, 1845, son of Andrew Smith, who was born in Saratoga county, N. Y., April 23, 1816, and was the son of the late Thomas Smith, who was born in the same county, and came to the town of Howard, Steuben county, when Andrew was sixteen years of age, and first settled where the cemetery is now located, and afterward acquired a far of seventy acres ; he married Betsey, daughter of Jesse Brown of Howard, and they were the parents of five children: Orrin, who died at an early age, Ira, Charles, Anna, and Hannah. Mr. Smith was educated in the di.strict schools, but his advantages were somewhat lim- ited. Ira Smith was educated in the school district No. 14, in the town of Howard, and is a farmer by occupation, and is now the owner of one of the best farms in the town of Howard, which was settled and cleared by his father and sons. He married Jeneatte, daughter of John Lauder of Hartsville, and they have three children: Eugene R., Howard L., and Ernest C. Mrs. Smith received her education at the State Normal School at Albany, and is a member of the M. E. church. Mr. Smith is a member of Big Creek Grange. Clin, Frederick Marshall, was born in Hornellsville, October 26. 1839, son of Dr. Samuel Olin, a native of Bainbridge, Chenango county, N. Y. , who was born July 1, 1799, and came to Hornellsville. He was first located in Greenw-ood, where he mar- ried Parmelia, daughter of Col. John Stephens, and moved to Ossian and then to Hornellsville, where he continued to practice until 1850 when he returned to Green- wood and was engaged in mercantile business for two years. He had bought a farm of 108 acres on lot 11 in the town of Hornellsville while in practice, and also fifty acres on lot 1 and in 1852 he located on this farm, which he occupied until his death, which occurred March 30, 1869. He was a member of the Board of Education and superintendent of schools, also a member of the Ma,sonic fraternity and the first mas. ter of Hornellsville Lodge, No. 831, and a Knight Templar. He was the father of four children, two of whom are now living- Mrs. Ann Vernett Baker of Dakota, and Marshall, w-ho was educated in the common schools and has always followed farm- ing, succeeding his father on the old homestead. He has been trustee of schools, and a member of Hornellsville Lodge, No. 331, F. & A. M, In 1862 he married Mary, daughter of Abram Stephens, and they have one child, F. M. Olin, jr., who is engaged with his father on the farm. He was a student of Hornellsville Academy. \ Tuttle. Martin A., was born in the town of Columbus, Chenango county, March 2, 1842, a son of Harley Tuttle. Uri Tuttle, the grandfather, was a native of Connecti- cut and a pioneer of Chenango county, where he resided for many years on the farm which he cleared from the wilderness. The father was au active and prominent man FAMILY SKETCHES. 247 in his native town. The mother of our subject was Alma M. Adsit ; she died in 1843, aged thirty-three. Of their six children, five survive. Martin, the youngest w>n, was educated in the pubhc schools of Chenango county ; he followed farming till 1K04. He then removed to Hornellsville and entered the store of M. Adsit & Co. as a clerk ; in 18. 1830. Abraham P. was bound out to learn the trades of wagonmaker and blacksmith, and in 18.")4 he came to Rathbone, N. Y. , and worked at his trade and farming, and in 1862 he located in Troupsburg, where he died in 1866. Mrs. Clarkson died in 1872. Politically, he was a Republican, and was assessor at the time of his death. David has always followed farming with the exception of the time spent in the war, three years. In 1864 he bought a farm in Squat Hollow, which, in 1869, he sold and came to the Jordan set- tlement and bought a farm consisting of about seventy-eight acres, making a spe- cialty of hay and sheep. In 1867 he married Irene E., daughter of Alanson and Sarah Bowman Cady, of Brookfield, Pa., by whom he has had six children: Halzey A., de- ceased, Harry \\'., a farmer of Washington, Sarah B., wife of Fred Briggs, of Knox- ville, Louisa M., Lena M., and Ina D. Mr. Clarkson enlisted August 17, 1861. in 2G0 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. in Co. K, 86th New York Volunteers, and was honorably discharged September 14, 1864. He was in the battles of 2d Bull Run. Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Beverley's Ford, and Gettysburg, and was taken sick but remained until September 14, 1864. He has been constable three or four years, and is a member of S. A. Baily Post No. 351, G. A. R., of Troupsburg. Pierce, Henry C, was born in the town of Naples, Ontario county, August 27, 1842, son of Jerry W., whose father, Jonathan Pierce, was the pioneer of the family in Western New York, and came from Connecticut as early as 1800, and settled in Naples, where he was a shoemaker by trade. He had three sons: Jerry, Jonathan and Otis, the two latter of whom were soldiers in the war of 1812. Jerry W. Pierce was a millwright and mechanic. He built the Covel mill in Naples, and many other buildings in that and surrounding towns. In 1856 he moved to North Cohocton, and purchased the farm now owned by S. Cort)y, where he lived for fifteen years. He soon after purchased a farm and mill site at Bloods, now Atlanta, and completed the grist mill then under construction, built a saw mill, and carried on that business until his death, which occurred in 1866. In 1860, with his eldest son, he engaged in the mercantile trade at Bloods, which they conducted for several years. Mr. Pierce mar- ried Mrs. Eliza Watkins, widow of C. \V. Watkins, of Naples, and a daughter of Dr. Newcomb, the first physician in Naples. Their children were Harvey, who married Hannah, daughter of William Wait, of Cohocton, and settled in Michigan; Jonathan, who enlisted in 1861, in Co. C, Uth N. Y. Inft., as lieutenant, rose to the rank of major, and was killed at Morton's Ford October 22, 1863; Silas N., who enlisted in the same company as private, rising to the rank of captain, and .served until the close of the war. He married Rhoda Welch, and settled in Shiawassee county, Mich. ; Jerry W., who also settled in the same county; and Eliza L. (Mrs. W. A. Woodward) deceased, of Owassa, Mich. Henry C. has spent his life in Cohocton, and upon the death of his father he carried on the store and milling business for several years. Since 188.5 he has given his attention to farming and dairying. In 1866 he married Libbie Layton, by whom he had four children: Nellie JL, Alice E., Charles W. , and William J. O'Connor, William, was born in the town of Andes, Delaware county, August 27, 1827. James, the father, was a blacksmith by trade, and also a native of Delaware county, and William was nine years of age when the family removed to Steuben county. They remained in Hornellsville but a year, then moved to Mt. Morris, Liv- ingston county, where he died August 7, 1847. The mother of our subject was also of Delaware county, and died in 1880, aged sixty-six. Of their three children, two survive: James, a tanner, and William. The latter was educated in the public schools, and at the age of eighteen engaged in tanning, which trade he learned in Mt. Morris, and which he has ever since continued. In 1850 he bought a small tan- nery at Almond, which was burned in 1864, and he then removed to Hornellsville and bought the Rose & Benton tannery on Seneca street, which has become noted as the O'Connor Tannery. The output has always been of rough leather, but he is now changing it to sole leather, with an outjjut of about 90,000 sides per year. In 1879 he took his son, George W., as partner, until September 29, 1894, when the latter died. Mr. O'Connor has made a fine success of his business to which he has given most of his attention, excluding all outside matters. For over thirty years he has FAMILY SKETCHES. 261 been a member and trustee of the Park Methodist church. In 1850 he married Julia M. Childs of Leroy, who died June 1, 18S9. Their two children were George W. and Mrs. Dr. Samuel Mitchell. Od.son, Mrs. Lobelia. — Thomas Odsou was born in Elmira N. Y., April 29, 1837, a .son of Daniel and Margaret (Dates) Odson. They lived in Elmira, where he died when Thomas was a mere child. His wife died in Rathbone about 1865. Thomas Odson started in life for himself at the age of nine years. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. II, 161st N. Y., Vols, and ser\ed three years. He was under General Banks and was at Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile, and the Red River Campaign. In 1800 Mr. Odson married Lobelia Demarnville, daughter of David and Susan (Edwards) Demarnville, natives of the Eastern States and Cortland county, N. Y., respectively. Mr. Demarnville came to Woodhull in 1852 and was killed by the fall- ing of a tree in ISflS. His wife died the same year. Two brothers of Mrs. Odsou, David of the 109th and William of the 86th, died in the late war. Another brother, Asa, was in the late war and was at Lee's Surrender. Mr. and Mrs. Odson had four children: Willie (deceased), Carrie, Jerome and Merton. Thomas Odson died April 3, 1880. Ba.xter, Amelia, — Charles F. Baxter was born in Yates county, N. Y., son of Seth and Orpha Baxter, early settlers of Woodhull, where they lived and died. Charles F. Baxter was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He was a farmer, and came on the farm Mrs. Baxter now owns, in 184T, where he lived until his death in 1879. In 1846 he married Amelia Jacobs, a native of Chautauqua county, N. Y. , daughter of Leonard and and Roxana (Butler) Jacobs, both natives of Otsego county, N. Y., who came to Woodhull in 1842, but spent the last thirty years of their life in Jasper, where he died January 3, ISHH, aged eighty-three years, and she, De- cember 28, 1882, aged eighty-one years. He was a farmer and carpenter by occu- pation. Bebout, Stephen, was born in Woodhull on the farm he now owns May 30, 1828, son of Samuel Hazon Bebout, who came from New Jersey to Yates county in 1825, the next year removing to Woodhull and settling on the farm which is now owned by Stephen, where he died September 26, 1871, aged eighty years, and Mrs. Bebout died September 4, 1863, aged sixty-two years. Stephen was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and is a farmer by occupation. In May, 1855, he married Mary J. Taft, daughter of Fenner and Joanna Tobias Taft, he a native of Rhode Island, and she of Chenango county. Both came to Addison when young, and he died in May, 1875, and she in November, 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bebout have had four children: Samuel, who died March 20, 1875; Emma A., who died September 1, 1870; Charles H., who married Fannie E. Brink, of Addison, N. Y , and they have five children: (jeorge H., Emily A., Maljel S., Fred S., and Jessie E., and Myron, who married Mary J. Lathrop, of Woodhull, by whom he had two children: Clarence J. and Cassie M. The grandfather of our sub ject .spent his life in New Jersey. The maternal grandfather was Ezekiel Hazen, who died in New Jersey. Mrs. Bebout's paternal grandfather was Benedict Taft, who died in Addison. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Bebout was Jonathan Tobias, son of John Tobias, both of whom died in Addison, N. Y. 262 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Schenck, Charles, was born in Jasper, N. Y. , May 3, 1830, a son of Jonathan and Sarah A. (Broadnex) Schenck. He was reared on a farm and educated in the com- mon schools. He owns a farm of ninety-five acres and carries on general farming. In 1855 he married Samantha J., daughter of Samuel Punches, of Cameron, who came to that town about fifty years ago. They have one daughter, Arlie, who was educated in the Hornellsville Park schools, then engaged in teaching for a short time. She is now a dressmaker. Brundage, Smith, was born in Bath, September 16, 1869, son of Frank, grandson of Jesse, and great-grandson of Capt. Abraham Brundage, who settled in Bath in 1794, and who in 1812 recruited a rifle company and took part in the war of that date. Frank Brundage married Fannie, a daughter of John J. Smith, who was a descend- ant of Muckle Andrew Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Brundage had five children: Jennie, Jessie. Smith, Frank, and Ruby. Mr. Brundage died in 1890, aged fifty-eight years. Smith Brundage now resides on the Marengo place, so named by Captain Williamson, with his mother, brother and two sisters. Creveling, William V., was bom in Thurston, N. Y.. on the farm he now owns, December 10, 1856, son of Nelson and Almira (Emerson) Creveling, he born in New Jersey in 1808, and .she in Bath in 1817, her father, Charles Emerson, being one of the first settlers of Bath, coming from Connecticut, and he once returned to his native State on foot. Mr. Creveling was a farmer and came to Babcock Hollow, in the town of Bath, with his parents, John and Elinore (Carr) Creveling, in 1816, and he died July 28, 1886, and his widow lives with her son, our subject. William V. was educated in the common schools, after which he engaged in farming, and now owns a farm of eighty acres of land. He is a Republican, and has been overseer of the poor about four terms, and commissioner three year.s. January 1, 1881, he married Alzora Fort, who was born in Herkimer county, N. Y., Januarj' 4, 1860, daughter of Isaac and Matilda Fort, who came to Thurston in 1869. where he died in 1880, and his widow resides with our subject. Mr. Creveling is a member of Savonia Lodge No. 755, F. & A. M. Hoover, David E., was born in Tyrone, N. Y., March 3, 1884, son of Joseph and Julia (Taylor) Hoover, a native of Tyrone, and she of Steuben county. The grand- father, Abram Hoover, came from New Jersey to Tyrone, where he was one of the pioneer settlers, and served in the war of 1812. Jo.seph Hoover was reared in Tyrone, but went to Michigan in 1855, where he was one of the pioneers of Ionia county, traveling by o.x team and helping build the first railroad to lona. He w^as a Democrat up to Lincoln's time and is now a Republican. He owns a farm of 240 acres, and is engaged in stock raising. His wife died in 1875. David E. was reared in Michigan and educated at lona High School. He took a course of civil engineer- ing at Ann Arbor, was graduated in 1881, after which he went to Pullman, Chicago, in the sanitary department as civil engineer, where he remained six months, and then went West, acro.ss Mexico from Yera Cruz to San Bias in the interest of the Me.xican Central Railroad, and in 1883 he located in Keuka. In 1883 he married Alice, daughter of Lewis and Prudence Houck, by whom he had four children: Clyde J., Ruby, Thomas V., and D. Maxwell. Mr. Hoover has 255 acres of land in Tyrone, where he carries on general farming, also ten acres at Keuka, of vineyard and other FAMILY SKETCHES. 263 fruit, he also does surveying. He is a Republican in politics, and has been justice of the peace for ten or twelve years. Clark, Eugene K., was bom in Erie county. Pa., in 1S41, son of Thomas E. Clark, who was born in Amsterdam, N. Y., in 18()it, one of nine children born to Nathaniel Clark, who was a farmer near Amsterdam, and who removed to the town of Bath, where he died in 1851. Thomas R. Clark, father of Eugene K., was reared on the farm, after which he was a student of Hamilton College, where he was prepared for the Baptist ministry. He preached until his health was impaired, from an injury received by a horse running against him, and returned to the town of Bath about 18-1!). but later sold his home and removed to Cameron, where he died in ISSit. He married Harriett Ann, daughter of Philip ^Vardner of Andover, Steuben county, by whom he had these children; Adonirani J., Eugene K., Newel W.,Dana B., William K.. Harriett W., Angelia A. His wife survives him and resides in Cameron. Eugene K. was educated in Bath, and at twenty-one years of age began life as a teacher, which business he followed for nine years, after which he engaged in farm- ing in the town of Prattsburg. In 1869 he removed to the town of Wheeler, on his present farm of 140 acres, where he raised sheep for many years, and in 1888 inter- ested himself in the breeding of fine grade Jersey cattle and the dairy business, ably assisted by his wife, who as a first-class butter-maker, has established a wide reputation. Mr. Clark was twice nominated for supervisor, served as justice of the peace one term, etc., and for some years he and his wife were members of the Grange, but withdrew from the order. In 1863 he married Fannie Adelia, daughter of Israel D. (iraves of Prattsburg, by whom he had eight children ; Lily, wife of H. H. Brested, of Howard; Laverne D.. Mrs. Vida U., wife of M. J. Lewis, of Wheeler; Eri W., Eda E., Fannie A., Olive C, and Velma A. Whiting, Leslie D., was born in Jasper, October 26, 1859. Oliver M. Whiting, his father, was also a native of the same town, and his grandfather settled in Jasper in 1826, coming from Lyndenboro, Hillsboro county, N. H., and the family have always been identified as farmers. Oliver M. Whiting married Martha, daughter of William Prentiss. Leslie D. was educated at Jasper, and in 1881 established his business of hay, grain and produce at Canisteo, and in 1887 added a coal yard to it. In 1879 he married Brunette, daughter of Enoch Ordway, by whom he had two chil- dren, Oliver M., and Carrie. Mr. Whiting is one of the representative business men of this town, and in 1894 was elected sheriff of Steuben county. Mathewson, Russell, was born in Otsego county in 1821. He began busine.ss life as a school teacher and afterwards learned the carpenter trade, and lived in Corning from 1842 to 1850, locating on his present farm of ninetj'-six acres in 1850. He makes milk dairying a specialty, keeping about twenty-five cows. In 1848 he married Emma C. Jolinson, a native of Chenango county, and daughter of Dr. P. A. and Marilla L. (Burdick) Johnson, who came to Corning in 1844. Dr. Johnson practiced here till early in the sixties, and then moved to Waverly, where he still resides. In the fall of 1804 Mr. Mathewson enlisted in the 1st N. Y. Cavalry, being principally on guard duty near Charleston, W. Va.. until the close of hostilities. Swarts, Ross H., was born in the town of Starkey, Yates county, N. Y., Septem- ber 17, 1825, son of Daniel Swarts, a native of New Jersey, who was a millwright, 264 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. and in later years lived on a farm in Canadice, Ontario county. He died December 31, 1859. The mother of Ross H. was also a native of Wantage, Sussex county, N. J. She died in the fall of 18G7. Of their nine children Ross was the third son. He was educated in the common schools and remained on the farm -with his parents until twenty years of age. At that time he had a sister living in the town of Hor- nellsville who was left a widow with a family of five small children and Ross came here, remained with her for twenty years conducting the farm and managing her business. In 1871 he married Mrs. Thirza Dent, daughter of Robert Sutherby, and the year following he bought the Deacon Tryon Cross farm of 130 acres on lot No. 11 in Hornellsville, where he has since made his home. He makes a specialty of dairy- ing, keeping twenty-five head of cattle and twelve horses. Mr. Swarts is a member of the Methodist church and has been one of its officers, also has been trustee of schools of District No. o. Mrs. Swarts died July 15, 1883. Mr. Swarts bought a part of her property consisting of 100 acres on lot No. 13, which he conducts in connection with this farm. He was again married April 30, 1888, to Rose, daughter of Joshua Swan, of Canadice, Ontario county, and they have two children: Ross H., jr., born April 15, 1890, and Edwin Devillo, born May 15, 1891. In politics Mr. Swarts is a Demo- crat and in 1890 served as town .auditor and has also held some of the minor offices. .Stickney. Wilson, was born on the farm which he now owns in Rathbone, May 2, 1826, son of Edmond Stickney, inventor of the Stickney reacting water wheel, and is said to be the best mechanic in the State when applied to steam and water power. He was born in New Hampshire, July 15. 1805, and came to Rathbone in 1824 and settled on the farm which is now owned by Wilson and built a mill which he contin- ued to run for forty-five years. He also had a small grist mill attached. He mar- ried Margaret Wilson, born January 18, 1815, a native of Scotland, who came to Binghamton with her parents when eight years old. Mr. and Jlrs. Stickney cele- brated their golden wedding December 8, 1882. He died December 20, 1884, and she, April 13, 1892. Wilson Stickney was reared on a farm and educated in the com- mon school and Alfred and Franklin Academies. He has spent the most of bis life in the lumbering business and was seventeen years in Michigan. He owns the home- stead, where he resides, also largely interested in Michigan pine lands and a block in Big Rapids, now owned by him which he built at a cost $30,000, known as the Stickney Block. June 28, 1873, Mr. Stickney married Laura M. Miles, daughter of John Miles, one of the early settlers of Rathbone, and ime daughter has been born to them, Laura M., who resides in Big Rapids, Mich. Mrs. Stickney died at Big Rapids March 28, 1881, aged thirty-four years. Wilson Stickney had two brothers and one sister- Mrs. C. H. Rodgers of Hornellsville, who died at that place July 6, 1889; James W. Stickney, who was an engineer on the Erie and was killed at Adrian, November 11, 1891 ; and Isaac M., who was assistant superintendent of the Morris Run Coal Company, of Morris Run, Pa. He died November 30, 1870. Walker, Frank E., was born in Springwater, N. Y., May 20, 185G. His grand- father, Ezra Walker, was a native of Vermont. William Walker, father of Frank E., was born in Vermont, in 1819, and at two years of age came with his parents to Springwater, where he died in 1876, aged fifty-five years. He was a farmer all his life. He married Mercy Gates, who was born in Gaines, Orleans county, N. Y., in 1824, by whom he had these children: Erwin C, who was born September 15, 1843, FAMILY SKETCHES. 265 and (lied June 3. 1864; Maria L., who was born March 23, 1845, and married Oscar Rogers; Hattie E., who was born February 1, 1847, and died March 9, 1857; John C. , who was born July 22, 1849, and married Sarah Brown; Emma A., who was born June 3, 1851; William W., who was born July 11, 1853, and married Alice Snyder; Frank E., as above; Lillian E., who was born May 21, 1838, and married (ilen Abrams; Mark G., who was born June 1, 18(i(l, and married Maggie Staley ; Judson E., who was born June 29, 1S63, and married Julia Hill; and Edwin L., who was born August 14, ISCo, and died February 25, 1866. Frank E. has always followed farming. He is a member of the Wayland Ledge, No. 176, L O. O. F. At Dans- ville, N. Y., May 20, 1877, he married Ella Hayward, who was born in Wayland, in 1825, and resides in South Dansville. He married Margaret Campbell, who was born in Scotland, by whom he had four children; Anna, deceased, marrried John Avery of Wayland, N. Y. : Alma, who married Wallace Wagoner, and resides in Cohocton; Ella, as above; and JIurray, who married Lunette McFarland, and re- sides in Wayland. McNett, Dr. George C, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., July 11, 1867. Gen. A. J. McNett, his father, was a native of Sackett's Harbor, and a prominent lawyer of Buffalo, who took a prominent part through the war. Was retired as colonel U. S. A. in 1892, died March 8, 1895. His grandfather was in charge of Sackett's Harbor defenses and lighthouses in the war of 1812. Dr. George C. McNett was educated at Belmont, St. Joseph's College, Buffalo, Alfred I'niversity, and University of the City of New York, and then began his practice at Belmont. In 1886 he was ap- pointed as surgeon to the Soldiers' Home, and came to Bath, remaining until 1889, since which time he has been engaged in private practice, and is one of the leading men of his profession, making a specialty of surgery. In 1882 he married Agnes, daughter of E. S. Stewart, by whom he had one child, Celia. Ellison, Curtis B., was born at Homer, N. Y., in 1831, and at nine years of age came to Tioga county with his parents, Samuel and Susan Ellison, who died in 1885 and 1S91 respectively. When eighteen years of age Mr. Ellison came to Corning and has since been more or less engaged in the lumber business, spending four years in Michigan. He has 200 acres of land where he lives which he has owned since 1856, and makes a specialty of milk dairying. In 1852 he married Mary Jane Coun- terman of Tompkins county. Cole, John S. , was born in Rathbone, August 25, 1825, son of C. H. and Fhebe (Sellick) Cole, he born in Columbia county, N. Y. , October 2, 1808, and she in Howard, N.Y., in 1814, daughter of Zeno Sellick. The grandfather of John S. was Jacob Cole, who was born in Rensselaer county, N. Y., a son of Jacob Cole, who died in Columbia county, at the age of one hundred and twenty-si.\ years. He came to Big Flats in 1814, and to Rathbone in 1816, where he died in 18.52. '1 he father of John S. was a farmer and lumberman. He was a Whig and Republican, and the second supervisor of the town of Rathbone, and justice of the peace twenty-eight years. He died No- vember 27, 1886. John S. Cole was educated in Alfred Universijy, and was a farmer and lumberman by occupation, and owns 176 acres of land. He was in the Rocky Mountains three years. In 1862 he enlisted in the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and served three months. In January, 1867, he married Alice Burlingame of Belfast, hli 266 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Allegany county, N. Y., and they have four children: Guy, born September 3, 1869, who has been engaged in lumbering with his father ; Clyde, boon February 3, 1871 ; Roy, born August 9, 1872 ; and Ray, born December 25, 1880. Stamp, B. F., was born in Reading, Schuyler county, N. Y., November 22, 1830, son of Abner and Betsey (Caandall) Stamp, who was born in Orange county and Waterloo. Mr. Stamp went to Reading at an early date, and in 1857 went West, re- turning in 1861 and locating m Thurston, and two years later removing to Schuyler county, where they lived until a few months before his death, which occurred Febru- ary 28, 1886. Mrs. Stamp died in 1852. The grandfather of our subject, John Stamp, was born in Holland, came to this country and participated in the war of 1812, and died in Kentucky. B. F. Stamp was educated in the common schools, and engaged in farming and lumbering, now owning a farm of sixty-six acres. In poli- tics he is a Republican and has been collector. December 19, 1863, he enlisted in Co. K, 3d N. Y. Light Artillery, and was in the battles during the campaign of 1864 and '65, from City Point to Petersburg and Richmond. He is a member of the Loga Post, No. 469, G. A. R., of which he is, at present, commander. August 30, 1856, he married Elizabeth Benham of Schuyler county, by whom he has had ten children: A. Farley, Nettie L., deceased, George E., B. Frank, Charles E. .William A., Marion E , E. Ida, John A., and Grace E. Mr. Stamp bad seven brothers in the late war, one of whom was killed at South Mountain. Chapell, F. S., born in Prattsburg, N. Y., July 5, 1828, is the first son of seven chil dren born to Lyman and Elnia S. Chapell. He was a native of Chenango, and came to Prattsburg in 1812 with Neamiah Noble, being then a boy about twelve years of age, with whom he lived until he married. He followed farming as an occupation. Francis Sweet, father of Mrs. Chapell, was a pioneer of North Prattsburg, where he lived and died. Francis S. Chapell learned the shoemaker's trade when a young man. In 1848 he went to Branchport, Yates county, where he remained until 1868, when he located in Rathbone on the farm he now owns. In 1851 he married Emily Donaldson, by whom he had five children: Elizabeth, William, Frederick O., Frank H., and Collin P. In politics Mr. Chapell is a Republican and has been assessor for five years in succession. Clark, Eleazer, was born in Elkland, Tioga county. Pa., October 2, 1824, son of Eleazer and Abigail (Armstrong) Clark, both natives of Rhode Island, born about 1788, who came to Tioga county. Pa., where they lived and died. The grandfather, Eleazer Clark, was born in England and died in Rhode Island. Eleazer Clark, our subject, Hved in Tioga county, Pa., until 1863, when he came on the farm of 113 acres which he now owns. December 1, 1852, he married Julia A. Johnson, who was born in Elkland, Pa., January 10, 183], daughter of Asaph and Polly (Mack) Johnson. Mr. Johnson was killed in Elkland in 1839 by the falHng of a tree, and his wife died in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have five children: Prudence, who was born June 23, 1854, wife of Herman Tubbs ; Charles F. , who was born September 14, 185G, a farmer, and a graduate of Allen's Business College. He died November 29, 1893; William H., who was born February 14, 1864, a farmer of Tioga county. Pa.; and Erastus E., who was born May 15, 1866, a graduate from Baltimore Medical College, also of Starkey College, and is now a successful physician of Osceola, Pa. FAMILY SKETCHES. 267 Labour, Jacob, was born in Northumberland county, Pa., July 8, 1806. The fir-st of the family to come to this country was the grandfather of Jacob. He was from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania. His son, Peter Labour, was born in Penn- sylvania and was one of the first settlers of Pennsylvania Hill, coming here in 18^8, buying a farm on lot 28. Jacob was educated in the common schools and moved to Living.ston county, where he married Zada, daughter of George H. Jones, March 18, ].*il. He returned to Steuben county in April, 1863, and bought a farm of ninety- seven acres on lot 27, and there spent the balance of his days. He died March 20, 1880. Mrs. Labour died March Vi, 1885. The beautiful house was erected in 1878. Of his eight children Catherine Elizabeth is the wife of Henry Cox, a farmer of Alle- gany county; Mary C. is the widow of James P. Emery, and lives in Arkport; Jane X. died January (i, 187.5, at thirty-nine years of age, wife of William Burt; 'VVilliam J. Labour was a soldier of the 3d Ills. Cavalry, died in Arkansas June 9, 1862, an officer of the Cavalry; George W. died November 5, 1894. in Grand Rapids, Mich. ; Julia S. is the wife of Miles L. Forsyth, a machinist of Syracuse, N. Y. ; Miss Sarah E. conducts the old homestead farm, and James Watson died September 16, 1866, eighteen years of age. Husted, Jerome C, was born in Woodhull, August 27, 1857, son of William and Caroline (Covel!) Husted. Mr. Husted was born in Chenango county, N.Y., in 1825, and Mrs. Hu.sted was born in Bradford county. Pa., April 9, 1828. Abraham, grand- father of Jerome C, was a native of Chenango county, but his father came from England at a very early date and was in the Revolutionary war. Abraham was a farmer and carpenter and came to Woodhull at an early date, settling on a farm. He spent the last ten years of his life in the village of Woodhull. He and his wife. Amy Rathbone, were members of the Bapti.st church, of which he was a clerk, also deacon for a number of years. Mr. Husted, father of Jerome C, is now engaged in farming in that town. Jerome C. was reared on the farm and educated in the Wood- hull Academy and followed teaching several years. In 1884, he engaged in the drug business and has since conducted a successful business. His building is 20 by 60 feet, ard he carries a line of drugs, books, stationery, paints, oils, etc. He was town clerk in 1892-H and elected supervisor in 1894. He is a member of Restoration Lodge N'o. 777, F. & A. M., also Addison Chapter No. 146, R. A. M. He is also a member of Woodhull Tent No. 174, K. () T. M. September 29, 1887, he married Lydia, daughter of William and Marion (Pease) Carpenter, a native of Woodhull. They have one son: Carl born March 11, 1894. Strong, Munson J., was born in Tioga county, N. Y., November 9, 18;i9, a son of Joel C. Strong. His native home was Schenectady, N. Y., and came to Tioga when a young man; married Olive Lake, settled on a new farm, where he lived and died. The grandfather was in the war of 1812, and was wounded in the leg; he died in Schenectady. Joel C. Strong died November 14, 1880, and his wife Olive in 1844. Munson J. Strong was reared on a farm and educated, in the common schools at Candor, Tioga county, N. Y. In 1864 he came to Thurston, Steuben county, and settled on a farm of fifty acres he now owns, and erected good buildings. January 5, 1864. he married Mary Coston, who was born in Bath, September 29. 1841, daugh- ter of Christopher C. Coston. by whom he had five children; Charles C, who was born December 28, 1864, was educated in the common schools, and is a druggist of 268 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Owego, N.Y. ; Nancy C, who was born July 14. 1866, wife of Burrett Woodward of Broome county, K. Y., and have one child. Iva; Fred Jay, born May IT, 1866, and works on a fruit farm in Yates county, N. Y. ; Christopher W. , born August 15, 1871, was educated in the common school, and is engaged in farming at home ; and Inez I. , who lives at home. In August. 1861, Munson Strong enlisted in Co. A. 89th N. Y. Vols., and served two years. He was at Roanoke Island, Newbem, Frederick City, South Mountain, and Antietam, where he was wounded in the left leg. Xorthrup, James, was born in Sussex county, X. J., September 12, 1819, son of Benjamin D. Xorthrup, who is mentioned in this work. James came to Rathbone in 1835 and at the age of twenty six years came into possession of 100 acres of the old homestead, and afterwards bought 114 acres of land, and later fifty-four acres. He followed farming until 1883, at which time he retired. He is a Democrat and has served as supervisor one year, and assessor one year. In January, 1846, he married Eliza, daughter of Isaac Bowyer, one of the early settlers of Jasper, where he lived and died. Mr. and Mrs. Xorthrup had seven children; Sarah, deceased; Watson T., ■who resides at Cameron Mills; Isaac, deceased; M. Electa, deceased; Amanda H., deceased; Ella E., wife of Frank L. Johnson, who was born in Penn Yan, Yates county, X. Y. , son of Samuel and Ann Perry Johnson, who came to Howard about 1835, where Mr. Johnson died in 1892, and his wife in Rathbone in 1879. To Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have been born three children: Royal J., Charley B., and Watson F. The seventh child of James Xorthrup is Carrie, wife of John McWilliaras of Rathbone. Rutherford, Mrs. T. R. —Thomas R. Rutherford was a native of County Cavan, Ireland, and came to Bath, Steuben county, in 1852. He received an excellent edu- cation from private tutors, and then gave his attention to teaching school for some years, and in 1854 he entered the county clerk's office, remaining through Major Campbell's term. He afterwards learned the photographer" s business and located in Seneca Falls and Rochester. In 1870 he again entered the county clerk's office, where he remained until the time of his death. In 1868 he married Sarah, daughter of John R. Smith, by whom he had two children, Kathenne and Mabel. He died August 11, 1890. Wheeler, Andrew Jackson, was born in Bath, November 26, 1824. His father, George, was a native of Rhode Island and came with his parents, Jeremiah and Marj- (Joselyn) Wheeler, to Bath in 1805. George Wheeler married Grace, a daughter of Xathaniel Stearns, of Hinsdale, N. H. He was one of the prominent men of early times, serving as justice of the peace, postmaster of Kanona, etc. He died in 1870 at the age of eighty-six years, leaving three children: Andrew J., Elizabeth S. , and Mrs. Dr. Jones, of Danville, 111. Mr. Andrew J. Wheeler is one of the practical and successful farmers of the town, taking an intelligent interest in educational and religious affairs. Smith. O. H., was born in Bath, March 12, 1840, son of Charles A. Smith, who was born in Bath in 1797, and grandson of Andrew, who came to Bath with Colonel Williamson m 1793, and purchased a tract of woodland, in 1794, of the Pulteney estate, which still remains in the family. He acted as foreman and agent for Colonel Williamson. Charles A. Smith married Azilla, daughter of Stephen Morgan. He FAMILY SKETCHES. 269 was a prominent and successful farmer, and died in 1865, in his sixty-eighth year. O. H. Smith was educated in Bath, and Franklin Academy, and in 1802 enlisted in Co. D, 161st N. Y. Vols., and took part in the battle of Port Hudson, and receiving a severe wound at Cox's Plantation, La., in 1863, and afterward took part in the Red River campaign, the siege and capture of Mobile, and received an honorable dis- charge at the close of the war in 186.5, with the rank of first lieutenant, Co. B, and then returned to Bath. In 1866 he went to Hornellsvilleand engaged in the mercan- tile business, and in 1872 went to Waterloo, from there to Syracuse, and Elmira, re- turning to Bath in 1877. In 188;i he was elected police justice, serving five years, and in 1889 established his present business, carrying a full hue of of insurance policies. In 1868 he married Elizabeth, daughter of David Sherwood, and they are the parents of two children: William J., and Maud E. Mr. Smith was commander of the G. A. R. Lodge for three years, and at the present time is a trustee of the New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, and secretary of the board. Beecher. Fary B., was born in Fremont, Steuben county, N.V., June 2, 1856, a son of Randall F. Beecher, deceased. The family is of English descent, the ancestors having come to America in the Mayflower in 1620. Of the next generation there were three brothers: Hezikiah, Linus, and Lyman. Among the direct descendants of Lyman Beecher were the Rev. Henry Ward, Thomas K. Beecher, and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. From Hezekiah Beecher is descended Fary B. Beecher. Randall F. Beecher came from Madison county, N. V., to the town of Fremont in 1840, where he engaged in farming, and was also a licensed veterinary surgeon. He was born in Madison county, N. Y., June 2, 1814, and died November 12, 1876. He was three times married, first to Serepta Cass, by whom he had three children : Andalusia, Nason, and William Henry. For his second wife Mr. Beecher married Weltha Donahe, by whom he had one son, John D. He then married Statira San- ford and they had eleven children, ten of whom grew to maturity: Weltha, Orin H., Eunice C, now Mrs. Lewis B. Ward; Mark H., Fary B., Luke A., Menzer J., Murray C, Scott M., and Gertrude C. Fary B. Beecher received his education in the com- mon schools and Rogersville Union Seminary, following which he taught for several years. He studied law with the late O. S. Searl of Cohocton, and was admitted to the bar in 1891, settling at Atlanta, where he has since practiced in his profession. He is a staunch Democrat and is an active member of the party. He is a member of Kanawha Lodge, I. O. O. F. , of Atlanta, and has held nearly every office in the lodge. He has taken the past official degree in the district Grand Commandery and the Grand Lodge degree at Buffalo in 1893. In 1881 Mr. Beecher married Miss Emma E. Johnson of North Cohocton, N. Y., to whom has been born four children, two sons, Don L. , and Dana C and two daughters, Una M. and Marion. Oliver, Gale, was born October 18, 1853. His grandfather, Charles Oliver, was born in Athol, Mass., June 8, 1789, and moved to Shoreham, Vt., where he learned the trade of blacksmith. He settled in Dansville in 1816, and bought 200 acres of land and built a blacksmith shop near Loon Lake, where he remained about six years, when he built a shop at Rogersville and carried on the same business there until his death, February 20. 18()6, aged seventy-six years. He married Phoebe Wil- son, who was born in Vermont, December 11, 1795, by whom he had these children: Charles, who was born in Shoreham, Vt., August 22, 1815, and died August 19, 1887; 270 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Almeda, who was born September 9, 1817; Lois, who was born September 26, 1819; Serach, who was born November 3, 1831 ; Sally W., who was born January 5, 1824; Phoebe, who was born June 11, 1826; Amory G., who was born December 26, 1828; and Mary P., who was born June 27, 1832. Charles Oliver, father of Gale, was a man of affairs, having held the offices of assessor sixteen years, justice of the peace and supervisor four years ; he was a surveyor. He married Clarissa Griswold, who was born January 10, 1817, on Lake Champlain, by whom he had these children: John Tyler, who was born March 31, 1840, and died August 29, 1840; Phoebe A., who was born October 16, 1841; Daniel H., who was born March 19, 1843; Charles, who was born December 18, 1845; Woodruff, who was born October 8, 18o2, and died April 21. 1888; and Gale, as above, who received a common school education and took a course in the Rogersville Seminary. He has always followed farming, and now owns a farm of 200 acres. He has held the office of assessor nine years. Bailey, Charles L., was born on the farm now occupied by his brother, Adsit, in the town of Urbana, August 7, 1830. In 1808 David Bailey, the grandfather of Charles L. , who was a native of Ovid, came to Steuben county bringing a family of three sons and one daughter, and took up a tract of one hundred and seventy acres on lot 9 in the town of Urbana, and his first residence was a log house, where he made his home until about 1839. David, the father of C. L., was the youngest of a family of eight children, and was born in February, 1805, in Ovid, and when a boy learned the tanner and currier's trade in the town of Pulteney, which trade he fol- lowed for twenty-five or thirty years, building a tannery on the old homestead, a part of which still stands in a tenement house belonging to Mrs. John Argus. He died August 19, 1872. In politics he was a Whig, and one of the town officers, and also a school officer of this district. David Bailey married Sabrona Stone who was born August 29, 1808, daughter of Capt. Amos Stone, who settled m Pleasant Valley in 1793. She died February 26, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey were the parents of seven children : Lewis, a farmer who died February 22, 1868 ; Charles L. , Christina, Elzina, Edna, Adsit and Ida, who died at the age of sixteen years. Charles was educated in the common school, and select school at Hammond sport. He taught for five win- ters in different districts and worked his father's farm for two years In 1857 he re- moved to Savona and conducted a farm for ten years, and then took charge of a farm of one hundred acres, where he now lives, and where he has a vineyard of thirty acres, and has also increased the farm to one hundred and thirty-four acres, which is devoted to the cultivation of gram and stock products. In politics Mr. Bailey was in early life a Henry Clay Whig, but is now a Republican, and in 1877 and 1878 he rep- resented his town on the board of supervisors, and served four terms as justice of the peace of this town and in Bath. July 3, 1854, he?narried Amanda Ide of Post Creek, who died in 1866 leaving two children: Layfayette, who is a farmer with his father on the homestead; and Sabrina, who is the wife of LeRoy McCorn of Hammonds- port. Mr. Bailey married for his second wife, in 1S68, Mrs. Lydia Backus. Holliday, Franklin E. and Amos O. — The family are of New England .stock. The grandfather, Amos Holliday, was a native of New England and settled on the place where Franklin E. and Amos O. now reside, about 1815, purchasing 200 acres and building a log house. His wife was Azubah Brewer, of Hartford, Conn. He died April 9, 1853, aged 106 years, and she died August 3, 184.>-', aged eighty-four years. FAMILY SKETCHES. 271 They had the following children: Jonathan, Amos, Enoch, Peter, Osni, Sylvester, Clorina and Lucy. Sylvester HoUiday was educated at Pompey Hill Academy, On- ondaga county, X. V. and taught school for several years in Uansville, Sparta, and other places. He was also justice of the peace for many years. He married Hannah Townsend, who died December 23, 1887, aged eighty-six years. He died April ."), 1870, aged seventy-seven years. Their family consisted of live children: Rachel, born February 26, 1819, married Daniel Ward, of Spring Water, and had two chil- dren, Minerva, born November 14, 1822, died March IG, 1890, married twice, first to John Pettis, afterwards to James G. Huff; Miranda, who married James Wood; AmosO., born December 31, 1829; and Franklin E., born April 23, 1837. Rachel attended Dansville Academy, Amos attended the Alfred Seminary, and Franklin, the Rogersville Union Seminary. The family are well to do and respected citizens of the town. Amos Holliday was in the War for Independence, was at Yorktown, Va., when the British surrendered to Gen. Washington, and Sylvester Holliday was in the war of 1812. Swink, Nelson H , was born in Dansville, Livingston county, N Y., in 1845. He received a common school education, and attended Rogersville Seminary six months but has improved his scanty opportunities when a boy by a thorough course of read- ing and is well posted on many subjects. He is a farmer by occupation and owns a tine farm on Oak Hill. His father, Henry Swink, was a native of Pennsylvania, and died in Dansville, N. Y., March 10, 18SG, aged seventy-two years. He married Sarah Miller, who was born in Dansville, in 1825, by whom he had three children: Nelson H., as above; Jennie, who was born in 1849; and Charles, who was born in 1852. In 1876 Nelson H. Swink married Amanda M. Kreidler, who was born in Dansville, April 29, 1844, daughter of Edward Kreidler, by whom he had three children: Edna S. , who was born April 30, 1877; Essie M., who was born September 9, 1878; and Edward H., who was born March 28, 1887. Crance, Jules, was born in the Province of Champagne, France, March 7, 1854. He was given a good educution in his native land, and being reared in a wine coun- try, naturally took to that as an occupation. In January, 1872, hecameto the United States and spent one year with an uncle in Tioga, Pa., and one year in Ohio. In 1874 he came to Pleasant Valley and engaged with the wine company of that name, and in April, 1877, became associated with the Urbana Wine Company, the first and third years as foreman of the champagne department, and in 1880 he became gen- eral superintendent of wine making, which position he still holds. He has been a faithful and efficient employee of this company, and a great portion of their success has been due to his ever zealous and watchful care. In connection to his other duties lie owns and manages a vineyard of fourteen acres. In 1877 he married Eugenie .Masson, of Dayton, Ohio, by whom he had four children: Charles T., Eugene Jules, Josephine, and Albert Morris. Barrett, Samuel H., was born in Farmer's Valley, McKean county, Pa., March 22, 1S60, sou of Henry and Julia (Maynard) Barrett. Henry Barrett spent his life in Farmer's Valley, where he died in 1864. His widow married Thomas Utter, a native of Allegany county, where he lived and died. Mrs. Utter now lives in WoodhuU. Samuel H. was reared in Chicago, 111., and Olean, N. V. He was educated in the 272 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. common schools and at the age of fourteen started in life for himself by working out by the month. He was then in a saw mill for four years. He afterward learned the barber's trade and in 1884 opened a shop in Woodhull, where he now has an exten- sive and successful business. In 1895 Mr. Barrett was elected town clerk. He is a member of the Restoration Lodge, No. 777, F. & A. M., Elkland Lodge, No. 800, I. O. O. F., and Woodhull Tent, No. 174, K- O. T. M. January 12, 1878, Mr. Barrett married Alice Applebee, a native of Friendship, Allegany county, by whem he had three children: Bertha, died at the age of seven years; Christina, died at the age of two years ; and Ethel, who died at the age of four years. Sebring, James Oscar, was born in the town of Pulteney, November 4, 1860, the third son of Charles W. Sebring, a farmer and resident of that town. James Oscar Sebring received his primary education in the common schools of his native town, supplemented by a course of study m the famous Franklin Academy of Prattsburg. After completmg his education he decided to become a lawyer, and to acquire the necessary means to fit himself for his chosen profession of the law, followed teaching for seven years and at the same time devoting all his spare time to the reading of in the law office of Jay K. Smith of Prattsburg and Hon. L W. Near of Hornellsville. He completed his law studies in the law office of Hon. John F. Little of Bath, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1885, standing first in a class of twenty-five. The September following he began the practice of law in Haramondsport, where he con- tinued to practice until in September, 1895, when, desiring a larger field in which to carry on his large and increasing practice, he opened an office in the city of Corning, where he has since been. Of the younger members of the bar of this county he ranks with the best of them. He is active in politics and is a Democrat. He has been a member of the County Committee and of the County Executive Committee for a number of years, and has once or twice accepted nominations from his party. By industry and thrift he has accumulated considerable property, the most of which is located in and about Hammondsport. August 21, 1889, he married Mary Arnold, daughter of the late Watts Bushnell, formerly a prominent merchant of Bath. Mr. Sebring is a member of Hammondsport Lodge, L O. O. F. , No. 584 Wheeler, Graham H., was born in the town of Wheeler, N. Y., January 1, 1845. He was educated in the common schools, Lima Seminarj', and Poughkeepsie College, and his first occupation was in the coal trade with the Ohio River Coal Company, near Wheeling, W. Va., from 1866 to 1869; the latter year he returned and married and went to Nashville, Tenn., where he engaged in the Life Insurance business un- til 1872. He has since been engaged in the wine business at Haramondsport, being one of the organizers of the Hammondsport Wine Company, of which he is the sec- retary and business manager, and was also one of the directors, and organizers of the Lake Keuka Wine Company. He has been interested m local politics, and is at present president of the Board of Water Commissioners, and has also been president of the village board several terms. He has been president of the Board of Education for a number of years, and is president of the board of trustees of the Presbyterian church. In 1869 he maiTied Florence M., daughter of the late Solomon Clark, a na- tive of New Jersey and a resident of Hammondsport for over sixty years. They have three children: Harriet M., Faunv C, and Grattan II. FAMILY SKETCHES. 273 Kilbury. Andrew, was born February 22, 1844. His grandfather, Robert Kilbury, was born in Vermont, and moved to South Dansville, then to Indiana, where he fol- lowed farming. Robert Kilbury, father of Andrew, was bom in Vermont, May 9, 1796, and came to Dansville in 1814, and located on a farm one mile north of Fre- mont Center. He married Eunice Karington, who was born in Waahington county, N. Y., January 29, 1804, by whom he had ten children: Sarah Jane, who was born December 20, 1821 ; Eli C, who was born in 1823; Edwin R., who was born Septem- ber 2, 1825; Robert S., who was born June 9, 1827; Phebe A., who was born July 15, 1829; Mary M., who was born December 9, 1832; Patience B., who was born Febru- ary 1, 1834; and died Febuary 6, 1841; Joel C. who was born September 13, 1838, Andrew, as above; and Lafayette, who was born August 21, 1846, and died January 12, 1849. Mr. Kilbury died in 1884. Andrew Kilbury was reared on a farm, and has followed farming the most of his life. He enlisted in the 189th Regt., which served in the Army of the Potomac, Fifth Army Corps, and was discharged at the close of the war. He is a member of Doughty Post, G. A. R. , No. 226, also a mem- ber of the A. O. U. W. January 15, 1877, he married Harriet McNaughton, who was born in Howard, March 20, 1847, by whom he had two children: Dee, who was born August 30, 1874, and Camilla, who was born February 11, 1884. Conine, Gamaliel T., was born in Bath, February 7, 1854. His father, Lorenzo, was a native of Greene county, who came to Steuben county in 1851, and through life was identified as a farmer. He married Abbie, daughter of Jacob Townsend. He has held various positions of honor and trust, and has taken an active interest in the M. E. Church of Bath. Gamaliel T. Conine was educated at Haverling Acad- emy, and in 1869 entered the post-office at Bath. In 1873 he engaged in the wall paper business, which he continued in for four years, then engaged in the clothing business at Dundee from 1877 to 1882. In 1882 he went to Prattsburg and engaged in the clothing business at that place, where he was one of the founders of the Prattsburg Agricultural Society. In 1878 Mr. Conine married Estella, daughter of George Shults, by whom he his two children: Leon and Fannie. Mr. Conine is one of the leading men of the town, and was elected county treasurer in 1894. He has also served as postmaster for four years under Benjamin Harrison. He is a member of the Masonic and I. O. O. F. Lodges. Friedell, Joseph Conrad, was born in the village of Hammondsport, N. V., Au- gust 17, 1862. His father, Matthew Friedell, is a native of Germany, and a grape grower of this town. Joseph Conrad is the oldest son of a family of four children. He was educated in the Hammondsport Union School, and his first occupation was in his father's vineyard. At fifteen years of age he engaged as clerk in the store now conducted by George H. Keeler, where he remained for eleven years. In 1888 he formed a copartnership with L. I). Masson, and established a hardware store on Water street, where we now find him located. In 1893 he married Laura L. Brown, of Penn Yan. Boult, Charles E., was born in the town of Mason ville, Delaware county, N. Y., March 31, 1862, and is the son of J. M. and Harriet (Thompson) Boult, both natives of Delaware county, he born June 12, 1834. she born February 21, 1834. The grand- parents, John and Phebe (Teed) Boult, were both natives of Delaware county, he 274 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY born in 1808, and she in 1818. The great-grandfather of Charles E., Williatn J. Boult, came from France to Delaware count}' at an early day and was owner of a large tract of land and engaged in farming and lumbering. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. John Boult is a farmer and carpenter, and still lives on the farm in Delaware county. His wife, Phebe, died in 1870. J. M. Boult was a boot and shoe merchant at Nelson, Pa., but gave up the business on account of poor health, and spent his last days on a farm in Tuscarora, Steuben county, where he died in 1885. Mrs. Boult still survives and resides in the village of Troupsburg. Charles E. was educated in the village of Nelson, Pa., and at the Cortland State Normal School. He was then for eight years engaged in teaching, after which he attended the medical department of Buffalo University, from which he was graduated in May, 1892, and located in the village of Troupsburg, where he has established a good practice. He is a member of Grange Lodge No. 374, of Troupsburg Tent, No. 339, K. O. T. M , and McClellan Lodge, No. 649, F. & A. M. Shafer, Jacob, was born in Wayland, February 12, 1852, son of John Shafer, who was born in Germany, in 1822, emigrated to this country and settled in Wayland in 1845, where he has since been engaged in farming. He married Barbara Nice, -who was born in Germany in 1832, by whom he had ten children: Jacob, born February 12, 1852; Fred, born February 20, 1854; Lizzie, born April 1, 185fi; Mary, born Au- gust 15, 1858; Helen, born February 25, 1861; Kate, born April 8, 1863; George, born September 9, 1865; John, born October 27, 1867; Frank, born June 10, 1870; and Amelia, born October 11, 1877. Jacob Shafer started in life for himself by working at the carpenter trade, which he followed for thirteen years, as contractor and builder. He built three stores, school house, and one church, the Catholic church of Wayland. In 1886 he formed a partner.ship with Anthony Wolf, in the lumber, shingle, lath, brick and cement business, also run a saw mill under the firm name of Shafer & Wolf. He is a member of the C. M. B. A., of Wayland. In 1879 he mar- ried Mary Shubmehl, who was born in South Dansville, January 22, 1856. They have two sons: William, bom October 22, 1880, and Herman, born July 9, 1883. Rumsey, Adson J., was born in Delaware county, N. Y., December 15, 1847, son of Simeon K. and Miranda (Bogart) Rumsey, who settled in that county about 1856. They had ten children: Emily Davison, Charles W., Anna E. Cleveland, Frances H., deceased, Harriet C. Aldrich, Peter B., Adson J., George V., Edward A., and Sarah E. Simeon K. followed blacksmithing and farming. He was active in the Thurston M. E. church. Adson J. married Henrietta L., daughter of Lewis and Henrietta (Dean) Ha.seltine, of Cameron. Mr. Rumsey is a charter member and first master of Hedgesville Subordinate Grange No. 697. He has also been chaplain. In early life Mr. Rumsey followed lumbering, but in 1879 he commenced farming and now owns 100 acres of land. Sedam, Henry S. , was born in the town of Hornby, Steuben county, in 1833. Charles Sedam, his grandfather, was a native of Holland, and a pioneer settler in the town of Charlestown, Herkimer county, in whose honor the town was named, and where he spent his remaining days as a farmer, and reared four sons and one daughter. He was a .soldier in the Revolutionary war. Cornelius. Henry's father, was born in Troy, N. Y., in 1793, where his brother, Henry, owned and conducted a FAMILY SKETCHES. 275 nail factory. He began work in this factory, first as grinder of the knives, and later as foreman, which position he held five years. In 1817 he settled in Benton Center, where he did farm work for three years, and then removed to the town of Hornby, where with two other men he purchased 300 acres of heavily timbered land for five dollars per acre. He cleared his portion of the land, which he tilled, and becoming a prosperous farmer he added sixty acres more to his farm, where he spent the bal- ance of his days. In politics he was a Whig, and held many of the town offices. His wife was Deborah, a native of Troy, N. V., and daughter of Isaiah Marble, and their children were Fannie, Charles, Isaiah, William, Amanda, Henry S., Phcbc, Jane, and Mary. He died in 1854, and his wife in 1887. Henry remamed at home until twenty-one years of age, and conducted the farm for a time after his father's death, about which time he had the misfortune of having his leg crushed in a horse power of a thrashing machine. He then learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed until 1866, when he and his brother Isaiah came to Wheeler and purchased his pres- ent farm of 170 acres, on nearly all of which stood a heavy forest, but which with energetic toil he has cleared, and now has an excellent and well equipped farm. For many years he was a breeder of large numbers of thoroughbred merino sheep. In 1857 he married Irene, daughter of Peter and Polly Ostrander, and who was born in Post Creek, Chemung county, N. Y , and their children are Maud, wife of Sumner Sedam, of lona, Mich., Emma, wife of William Dildine, and Martin S. Hubbs, J. Seymour, was born in the town of Charleston, Montgomery countv. February 25, 1862, and came to this town with his parents in 1881. He was educated at Painted Post Academy, and at twenty-three years of age took up the study of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, from which insti- tution he was graduated in the spring of 1887. He engaged in the practice of his profession one year in Hammondsport, and in 1888 traveled on the road for the Ger- mania Wine Cellars. In 1889, in company with Henry Frey, he purchased what is now the Columbia Wine Company. He is a member of the B. & P. Order of Elks, with the Syracuse branch. Taylor, Walter, was born in the Halsey Valley, Tioga county, N. Y., January 25, 1858, the only son of George Taylor, a native of Tioga county. Walter was educated in the common schools, and his first occupation was with his father on the farm, and he also conducted a cooper snop in Tioga Center, until 1880. In April of the same year he removed to Urbana, where he bought a vineyard of seven acres of B. R. Streeter. He devoted his attention to this industry for two years, when he bought a farm of seventy acres of Charles Baily, and set out twenty acres to grapes. He has made a specialty of Delawares, and has about the largest vineyard of this variety. He makes still wines, which business he is prepared to increase the coming .season. The balance of his farm is devoted to peaches and the cultivation of grain and vege- tables. In 1879 he married Addie M. Chapman, of Tioga Center, by whom he had four children: Flora J., Lucy M., Fred C, and Clarence W. Mr. Taylor is a mem- ber of Pleasant Valley Grange. Myrtle, Rebecca — Clarence Myrtle was born in Urbana, September 20, 185^, sou of Henry C, a native of the town of Wheeler, and grandson of Philip, who came there in 1797. Henry C. married Rebecca, daughter of Ebenezer Brundage, and en- 276 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. gaged in lumbering and farming. It was through his aid the Methodist church of Mitchelville was built. He died March 27, 1895, in his seventy-seventh year. Clarence married Olive A., daughter of Col. N. B. Stanton, of Hornby. He has suc- ceeded his father as one of the largest farmers in Steuben county, serving as vice- president of the Steuben County Agricultural Society for two vears, and ready to aid any enterprise intended to benefit that town. Goff, \V. Blake, was born in the town of Howard, May 21, 1838. Job Goff, the father of Blake, was a native of Otsego county, born in 1804, and was only eight years of age when his father. William Goff, a native of Vermont, moved to Steuben county, and located on a farm and was the founder of what was known as GofFs Mills. Job Goff conducted a farm all of his life and was engaged in lumbering. Many of the mills of Steuben county were erected and run by members of the Goff family. Job Goff died in the town of Hornellsville in 1887. Of his five children Blake was the second son. He was given a good comrrion school education and has always been engaged in farming. In 1864 he was engaged in the liverj' business and dealt in live stock, and was also one of the village officers. In 1865 he took up the Driven Well Patent-right and was the first to introduce it in Allegany county. With his father he patented a farm gate that was considered one of the best of the times. In 1864 Mr. Goff made a very important arrest m Hornellsville of an escaped convict by the name of Collier. He was married July 8, 1871, to Miss Sarah E. Horton, daugh- ter of Alfred Horton. Three of their children are Marietta, who lives at home; Amy Louisiannaisa student of Hornellsville Academy: and George B. is now in his fourth year. French, J. W., was born in Campbell, N. Y., September 7, 1844, son of Lewis T. and Nancy (Lewis) French, he born in New Jersey, and she in Dryden, N. Y., who came to Bath a very small boy at an early day and his father, Samuel, settled three and one-half miles east of Bath, and lived and died in this county. The grandfather of our subject, Samuel French, was a native of New Jersey, and came to Bath where he died. Lewis T. French, father of J. W., was a farmer and lumberman, and built a saw mill on Smith's Run, three and one-half miles east of Bath. In 1863 he moved into this town where he died in 1877, and his wife in 1866. J. W. French was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He followed lumbering in Pennsyl- vania and this State, and now owns 160 acres of land, on which he located in 1864, which he has cleared and erected good buildings. He is a Democrat in politics, and is now serving his second term as a.ssessor of this town. He is a member of K. of H. In May, 1867, he married Mary, daughter of Hugh and Jane Beaton, by whom he had nine children: John E., who lives in Washington, D. C, and is twenty-si.x years of age; Nellie R., who lives in Washington, D. C. ; Vina J., who is also in Wash- ington, D. C. ; Margaret E., who is now attending school at Haverling; Benjamin, who died in 1881; Jay W., who lives at home; Raymond B., who is also at home; Ernest, deceased; and Irwin D., who fives at home. Drew, Walter Schuyler, was born in Hammondsport, N. Y., July 3, 1868. His father, Benjamin F. Drew, was also a native of Hammondsport, bom February 28, 1831. He was a student with Judge Jacob Larrowe, and was admitted to the bar, and practiced his profession successfully for many years at Hammondsport. He was FAMILY SKETCHES. 277 a Democrat in politics, and occupied some of the political offices of the town, was supervisor for a number of terms. He married Susan Maudeville Garey, by whom he had two children; Julia Edith, who died in 1879, and Walter Schuyler, as above. Mr. Drew died June 25, 1882. Walter S. was educated in the Hammondsport Union School, and at eighteen years of age entered the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in June, 1890. He took up the study of law in the office of J. O. Sebring of Hammondsport and later with Clark Bell, of New York city, and was ad- mitted to the bar in October. 1891. He was associated with Mr. Sebring until the fall of 1893, when he opened an ofKce for himself in Hammondsport, and is now en- gaged in the general practice of the profession at that place. Mr. Drew is chairman of the Democratic Town Committee and a member of the Regular Democratic County Organization. Hewlett, Emery T., was born in Cortland county, N. Y., April 1, 1829. Samuel Hewlett, his father, was a native of Long Island, and married Catherine Gee. He was a blacksmith and farmer, and died in 1876, aged seventy-five years, and his widow died in 1893, aged ninety-two years. E. T. Hewlett came to Bath in 1847, and in 1852 he married Caroline, daughter of John Moore of Savona, by whom he had six children; Samuel M., John M., Ambrose W., Catherine (Mrs. S. D. Aulls), Maggie, living, and Emery, who died in childhood. Palmer B. Hewlett, a brother of E. T., now of San Francisco, California, was a lieutenant in Shannon's Company that went to Mexico from Bath in 1846. Mr. Hewlett is an enterprising and pros- perous farmer, and also with his sons is conducting a flourishing furniture and under- taking business at Bath under the firm name of S. M. Hewlett & Co. Schraoker, Fred, was born in Switzerland, June 22, 1855, son of Casper and Mar- garet (Rychen) Schmoker, who came to America in 1881 and settled at Keuka, where they have their winter residence, and they also have a residence on Bluff Point, where they spend their summers. Casper Schmoker was a government detective in Switzerland, but now lives a retired life. He is sixty-nine years of age and his wife is sixty-seven years of age. The grandfathers, Jacob Schmoker and Peter Rychen, lived and died in Switzerland. In 1874. Fred Schmoker came to America and for a time lived in Hammondsport, and in ISHO located at Keuka, where he now resides. In 1885 he married Clara, daughter of William G. and Sallie (Simms) Paddock of Yates county, N. Y., by whom he had four children. Charley, who died at the age of two months, Frederick A., Karl W. , Walter A. Mr. Schmoker received his early edu- cation in Switzerland and also attended school at Hammondsport. He now has forty acres of land of which seventeen acres is vineyard. He is a member of Tent 71, K. O. T. M., at Bath. Adolph Schmoker, born in Switzerland, came to this country in 1880 and settled at Keuka where he now resides and owns extensive vine- yard property, wine cellars and hotel. He belongs to Lamoka Lodge, No. 4(i3, F. & A. M., and Hammondsport Lodge, No. 584, I. O. O. F. Hunter, George, was born on the homestead farm, March 5, 1833, son of Peter, who came to Bath in 1827 from Orange county, N. Y. The family trace their descent from Archibal Hunter, who came from Ireland about 1750 and settled in Orange county, N. Y. Peter married Lucinda. daughter of .Samuel Dimmick. He was a farmer, and served as assessor for a time. He died in IHOO, in his sixtv-seventh 278 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. year. In 1855 George Hunter married Catherine A., daughter of James Little, and they are the parents of one daughter, Mrs. Hattie Klock. Stanhope, John G., was born in Warwickshire, England, son of John and Char- lotte Edwards Stanhope, who went from Warwick to Northampton, where they spent most of their Hves. He was sheriff thirty-two years and then retired, residing in Paris, France, drawing an annuity of $2,000 per year till his death from the English government. John G. Stanhope, jr., married Helen L., daughter of Thomas and Marriam Vaughn Spencer, a native of Ludlow, Shropshire, England. Mr. and Mrs. Stanhope came to America and settled in Wayne in 1857 He engaged in propagat- ing fruit for about ten years at Keuka. To them have been born two children : Herbert G., a farmer of Yates county, and who married Helen Gasper and has two children; and Amy R., wife of W. K. Austin, builder and vineyardist, and has one daughter. John G. Stanhope is now engaged in growing grapes and other fruits, having vineyard and land of twenty acres. Poole, James, was born m Scotland, July 16, 1825, and came to the United States in 1838 with his parents, John A. and Elizabeth, who settled at Seneca Falls. James was educated in Scotland and Seneca county, N. Y. , to which he has added through life by reading and close observation, and in early life learned the malting business, which he has followed for fifty years. In 1849 he came to Bath and formed a part- nership with William Andrew, at whose death he came into possession of his estate. In 1866 he married Ehzabeth, daughter of Allison Scott, by whom he had three chil- dren: James A., Mrs. James D. Hill, and Elizabeth. Mr. Poole is one of the repre- sentative business men of the town, and has always taken an intelligent interest in educational and religious institutions. Frey, John J., was born in Rochester, N.Y., December 17, 1855, and came with his father to this town in 1864. He has been identified with his father, first as an assistant, in 1878 became a partner, and then one of the proprietors of the Germania Wine Company, of which he is now the head. In October, 1894, in company with A. G. Pratt, they bought the Bank of Hammondsport, of which he is now the presi- dent. He IS the treasurer of the Hammondsport Building and Improvement Com- pany, and one of the leading business men of the town, commanding the respect of all who know him. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Lamont, Henry C , was born April 27, 1847. His parents were both born in Eng- land. His father, James Lamont, died in Rochester in 1898, aged eighty-two years. He purchased the farm where his son now resides about 1837. He married Eliza Pratt, who was born in 1813, and died May 11, 1878, by whom he had ten children: William, Charlotte Traxler, James P., Charles (deceased), Sarah (deceased), Thomas, a soldier of the civil war, who died in Anderson ville prison; Henry C, as above; Eliza P., Ida Bushman, and Rosa Birchara. James Lamont was a tanner by trade and worked in the tannery which was erected in 1835 by a Mr. Kyser. He studied medicine in England, and finally resumed his studies and was graduated from the Eclectic College of New York city, and practiced his profession until his death. Henry C. received a common school education, and has always followed farming. At Hornellsville, N. Y., August 29, 1872. he married Maggie Dernbacher, who was FAMILY SKETCHES. 279 born in 1854. and died May 29. 1891, by whom he had two children: Charles W,, who was born June 21. 1873; and Raymond J., who was born March 15, 1876. Fairchild, Henry ().. was born in New Lisbon, Otsego county, X. V., August 5. 1836. His father, Charles S. Fairchild. was born in the same place and in the same house in 1812, a son of Benajah Fairchild, a native of Connecticut, who came to this State in 1797, and died in 1855, aged eighty-two years. Charles S. Fairchild died March 25, 1883, in Bath, where he removed in 1873. He was a farmer. Henry O. was the oldest of a family of four children, and was given an academic education in his native county. His first occupation was farming and dairying. He came to Hammondsport in the fall of 1858 and bought the vineyard property where he now lives, in 1862 erecting the residence. He has now sixty acres of vineyard and .seventy acres devoted to general farming, and is the largest individual grower in this section. The property is known as the Sunny Side vineyard and wine cellar. Mr. Fairchild has always been a Democrat in politics, and has held some of the minor town offices, and in June, 1893, was appointed postmaster of Hammondsport, which position he now holds. In 1859 he married Helen E. Benjamin, of New Lisbon, N.Y., by whom he had four daughters; Sarah M., assistant postmaster; Louisa M., wife of Thomas L. Henritzen, an attorney of West Virginia; Lucy S. , who lives at home; and E. Adelia, a graduate of Buffalo Normal School, at present a teacher of Hammondsport Union School. Northrup, Moses, was born in Sussex county, N. J., November 10, 1817, and when eighteen years of age came to Rathbone with his parents, where he has spent the most of his life. He was in Addison the last three years of his life, where he died June 22, 1894. He married Nancy M. Allen, a native of New Jersey, by whom he had five children: William J., who now lives in New York city; Adelia, wile of William Crawford, of Cameron Mills; Dewitt, who was born February 22, 1849, edu- cated in the common schools and WoodhuU Academy, and October 22, 1878, married Martha Crawford of Rathbone, by whom he had three children : Grace, Alta, and Dewitt C. He is a Democrat and has been collector two terms. He owns 100 acres of the old homestead; Allen, who was born November 27, 1852, educated in the common schools, and in 1876 married Maggie, daughter of James France, of Jasper, by whom he has one daughter, Mabel A. He owns 100 acres of the old homestead. His wife died July 3, 1894; and Moses P., who died at thirty years of age. He mar- ried Eva Reynolds, of Rathbone, by whom he had three children; Mary L., Jessie M., and Lizzie. Moses Northrup was one of the wealthiest men of Rathbone, owned 500 acres of land, and was also prominent politically, being supervisor one vear, and highway commissioner two terms. His .second wife was Amy, daughter of Joseph Stroud, of Woodhull, N. Y.. by whom he had two children: Lizzie, wife of Henry I'axton, of Addison, N. Y. ; and John M. Sedgwick, William P., was born in Hammondsport, March 20, 1837. His father, Datus E. Sedgwick, was a native of Tompkins county, N. Y., and the family trace their descent from Robert Sedgwick, a general in the English army under Oliver Cromwell. Datus E. Sedgwick married Mary A., daughter of the Rev. Caleb Ken- dall of Ithaca, N. Y. Mr. Kendall's name was familiar in the early history of Western and Southern New York, he having been one of the Methodist Episcopal 280 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. circuit riders early in the present century, riding the country on horseback and preaching wherever a congregation could be gathered. Datus E. Sedgwick learned the jeweler's business in Ithaca, N. Y., moving to Hammondsport about 1833, and some years later returned to Tompkins county. William P. Sedgwick was educated in the common schools and at Lima Seminary, and on leaving school applied himself to the same line of busmess as his father, and in 1857, before becoming of age, he came to Bath and engaged in the business of his choice, and for thirty-eight years has been the leading jeweler of this section of the State. In 1862 he married Fannie E., daughter of Conrad Shults, by whom he had four children : William P., Mrs. Catherine Ruggles, Charlotte and Florence. Mr. Sedgwick is one of the oldest mer- chants in Bath, holding the office of trustee of Bath, and member of the Board of Education for fifteen years, and is also a member of Steuben Lodge No. 112, and Bath Chapter No. 95, and nominated for member of assembly in 1887 by the Repub- lican party. Recktenwald, John, was born in Winterbach, Germany, March 3, 1853, emigrated to America in 1880 and settled at Perkinsville. Peter Recktenwald, his father, mar- ried Elizabeth Wagner, by whom he had eight children, of whom two came to this country, John and Jacob John Recktenwald worked on a farm for eight years, after which he purchased the Lackaw-ana House in Perkinsville in 1893. January 19, 1891, he married Mrs. Mary (Simon) Gessner, born April 11, 1860, in Perkinsville. She had two children by Michael Gessner: Julia, born April 1, 1882; and William, born April 30, 1885. Mr. Gessner died in March, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Recktenwald have one child, Walter, born November 18, 1894. Beeman, Herbert, was born in La Fayette, McKean county. Pa., May 1, 1848, son of Albert and Harriett A. (Davis) Beeman, he a native of Connecticut, born in 1811, and she of Broome county, N. Y. He was a blacksmith and farmer, and came from Connecticut to McKean county, Pa., and bought a farm, where he died in 1880. His wife still lives and is seventy years of age. The grandfather, Rufus Beeman, came from Connecticut to Pennsylvania. He was orderly sergeant in the war of 1812. The maternal grandfather, Luther Davis, lived in L^nion, Broome county, and after- ward went to Pennsylvania, where he remained for twenty years, but returned to Broome county, where he died in 1886. Herbert Beeman was reared on a farm, and was for three years engaged in a saw mill in Pennsylvania. He now owns sixty acres of land, and works 100 acres in Wayne, belonging to his mother. Plaisted, R. Frank, was born in Jerusalem, N. Y., October 6, 1842, and is the fourth and only survivor of five children born to Richard and Ann Eliza (Miles) Plaisted, he is a native of Hertfordshire, Eng., and she of Yates county, N. Y. John Plaisted, father of Richard, came from England and settled in Yates county and followed farming. Richard Plaisted now resides at Dundee and is seventy-nine years of age. He has been a farmer, stock dealer and dealer in real estate, having owned and sold twenty-three farms. He married Elizabeth (Pinney) Witherill, widow of Willis Witherill. R. Frank Plaisted commenced his business career as a merchant at Tyrone, where he remained for five years. In 1875 he purchased 150 acres of land in Wayne and engaged in farming. He is a dealer in wool, in part- nership with J. A. Stanton, and also deals in sheep. He is a Republican in politics, FAMILY SKETCnES. 281 and lias been assessor for seven years, also one of the committeemen for several years. In 1870 he married Harriet, daughtcfr of Chauncey and Catherine (Dunham) Kendall, farmers and fruit growers of Starkey, by whom he had seven children; George C, Cora K., Ruth N , Lula B.. S. Leola, died December 17, 1894; Jennie B., and Kred K. Foster, Albert B., was born in Prattsburg, N. Y. , August 35, 1854, a son of Alonzo H. and Catherine M. (Simons) Foster, natives of Barringtou and Prattsburg, N. Y., respectively. The great-grandfather, Stephen Foster, was a native of Orange county, N. Y., but he died in Prattsburg, where he settled in the early days. Alonzo n. came to Woodhull, where he died May 8, 188!). He was assessor of Woodhull for two terms. His wife is a member of the Freewill Baptist church, of Borden. Al- bert B. Foster was reared on the farm and educated at Woodhull Academy. He is engaged in farming and owns a farm of ninety-eight acres. He has been inspector of elections for two terms and is a member of Borden Tent, No. 25!), K. O. T. M. In 1877 Mr. Foster married Adella Aldrich, who was born in Tuscarora, Steuben county, N. Y., by whom he has three children; Carrie B., Alonzo A., and Lillian M. Howard, George C, born in 1842, was the second son of Nathan Howard, a farmer of Barre, Vt., who was a typical Yankee, shrewd, and practical. He was a staunch Whig and Freesoiler, and was twice sent to the State Legislature where his great strength of character was manifest. George C.'s boyhood was spent at Barre until the outbreak of the Civil war, when at Lincoln's first call for men, April, 1861, he quickly responded to the call by enlisting as a private in Company E, 3d Regiment of Vermont Volunteers. After one year's service and while yet not twenty-one years of age, he earned a commission as lieutenant, and remained three years in this regiment, then received a civil aiipointment in the ([uartcrmaster's department of the regular army, which office he filled acceptably until A])ril, 1806. After spending two years in Chicago in a dry goods store he travelled for a wholesale drug house, which route took him all over the United States. In 1874 he accompanied a pro- specting party from Georgetown, traveling over the present sites of Leadville and Pueblo, having no conception of the future prospect and development of silver in that country. Mr. Howard came to Addison in 1882, and was a member of the dry goods firm of Jennings & Howard for two years. Since that time he has been a dealer in china, glass, and sporting goods, making a specialty of tea and coffee. He is a Democrat and a mgmber of the Board of Education. In 1878 he married Jennie Hutchins, of Jersey City, and they are the parents of one son: William H., born in 1879. Bander, De Witt C, was born in the town of Palatine, Montgomery county, July 17, lyACt. His father, James Bander, was also a nattve of Montgomery county, and was a farmer. De Witt was educated in the common schools and Canajoharie Academy, and his first occupation was as a clerk in a general store at St. Johnsville, where he remained for five years and was then employed as a foreman and pay- master on the enlargement of the Eric Canal for one year. In October, 1862, he came to Steuben county, and his first engagement was as bookkeeper for the Bath Woolen Mills. The following August he came to Hammondsport and engaged as bookkeeper with J. W. Davis, which jjosition he held until in February, 1808, when )i 282 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. he accepted a similar position with the Pleasant Valley Wine Company. He became a stockholder in 1871, and soon after was made a director. After the death of C. D. Champlin in 1875, he succeeded to the office of secretary and general manager, which position he still holds, and in 1885 was also made treasurer, and has probably done more to popularize American champagne than any man now living. In politics Mr. Bauder has always been a Republican, and was town clerk for three terras, and trustee of the village for four years. November 17, 1858, he married Susan F. Stick- ney, who died April .30, 1875, by whom he had three sons: George S. , a businessman of Illinois; Arthur D., a clerk in Champlin's store in this village; and Charles C. W., a student of Lehigh University, class of '96. Mr. Bauder was again married June 14, 1877, to Kate B., daughter of C. D. Champlin, by whom he had one child, James C, a student of Curtis School, Brookfield Center, Conn. Huguanir, David A., was born January 12, 1827. His grandfather was born at Kinderhook, Columbia county, N. Y. , and his father was one of the Huguenot French stock. He lived ar.d died in Montgomery county, N. Y., at eighty-six years of age. Adam Huguanir, father of David A., was born at Kinderhook, Columbia county, N. Y. , and came to Montgomery county, where he lived for about forty-seven years and followed general farming. He came to the town of Howard (now Fre- mont) and purchased the Brayton farm, northeast of Fremont Center, where he died in September, 1884, aged eighty-six \'ears. In 1826 he married a daughter of Adam Voorhees, who died two days after her husband, in September, 1884. They had ten children: David A., as above; Jane Ann, who was born November 18, 1829; Lewis Voorhees, who was born August 4, 1831 ; Barbara, who was born July 6, 1833 ; Maria, who was bom June 9, 1835; Hannah, who was born in April, 1837; Elizabeth, who was born in April, 1839; Leonard, who was born September 3, 1843; Pnmila, who ■was born in June, 1844; and Charles, who was born in April, 1846. David A. Hu- guanir, attended school in Montgomery county, N. Y., and when twenty-two years of age came to Howard and engaged in farming. In 1856 he purchased the farm where he now lives, and now has 140 acres of land. He is a member of Grange No. 308, Stephens Mills, N. Y. June 1, 1854, he married Ellen, daughter of Abram Van Evra, of Lockport, who was born in Montgomery county, N. Y. , December 31, 1833, by whom he had two children: Amenzo D., who was born March 9, 1856. He mar- ried Ella Cook, daughter of Henry Cook, of Avoca; and Adelbert, who was born June 13, 1859. He married Ida Jones, daughter of Seymour Jones, of Fremont, X. Y., and he is now assessor of the town of Fremont. Stephens, J. D., was born November 9, 1843. His grandfather, Joshua Stephens, was born in Canisteo, N. Y., and was killed by the Indians while hunting for his oxen, at thirty-two years of age. D. C. Stephens, father of J. D., was born in Can- isteo, N. Y., April 25, 1817, and has always followed farming, and now owns a farm of 120 acres. He is a member of the F. & A. M., at Canisteo. He married Amanda, daughter of John Hamilton of Howard, by whom he had five children: J. D., as above; Joshua B. ; Emmett L. ; Anna, who died at twenty-four years of age; and Henry L. J. D. Stephens was educated in the common schools, after which he en- gaged in the music business and was an agent on the road for about seven years, but farming has been his principal occupation, and he now owns a farm of 125 acres. He has been assessor two years, and is a member of the F. & A. M., No. 65, Can- FAMILY SKETCHES. 2 83 isteo, also a member of Stephens Mills Grange, No. 308. He married Sarah E. AUice, who was born in 1843, and died at forty years of age. He married for his second wife. Rose C, daughter of William White, by whom he had three children: Anna M., who was born March 19, 1887; Lois, who was born March 13, 1888; and Mary, who was born April 11, 1891, and died in infancy. Taylor, Thomas, was born in the town of Ossian, Wyoming county, N. Y., July 12, 1840. His father, Thomas Taylor, sr., was a native of England and died in 1841. Thomas was the youngest of twelve children. He obtained his education in the common schools, and at the age of twelve years went to work on a farm. He worked as farm hand until twenty-five years of age, when he married Charity, daughter of John Dildane. That year he bought the John Dildane farm of seventy-five acres on Penn Hill where he has since made his home. Mr. Taylor is an ardent supporter of the Democratic party, and in 1890 was elected highway commissioner, which office he filled very satisfactorily. He has si.\ children: George, one of the firm of Taylor Brothers; John (see biog.); Anna, a dressmaker in Arkport; Myra, who is a teacher in the common schools; Jennie, a clerk in Taylor Brothers store, and Mary, a student. Young, Robard W., was born in Greene, Chenango county. N. Y., June 10, 1821, son of Xorthrup and Olive (Bly) Young, natives of Rhode Island, who came to Che- nango county, N. Y., thence to Pennsylvania, where they lived and died. The grandfather, Elias Young, lived and died in Rhode Island. Robard W. was edu- cated in the common schools. In 1832 he came to Woodhull, where he now owns 300 acres of land. June 15, 1842. at Greene, N. Y. ,he married Polly Gould, of Coventry, N. Y. , a daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Salisbury) Gould, natives of Vermont. He died in Woodhull, and she, in Greene county, N. Y. The grandfather, Benja- min Gould, died in Coventry, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Young have one child, Elias, who married H. Christiana Putnam, by whom he had six children, who have been reared by our subject. Mrs. Young having died when the children were very young: Polly M., Ella, Helen, Robert W., Frank, and Nathan T. Fulkerson, Dr. William Morgan, was born in Aurora, Cayuga county, N. Y. Joseph H. Fulkerson, his father, was born in Cayuga county. He was a carpenter by trade, but followed farming most of his life. He married Elizabeth S. Fritts, a native of Oneonta, Otsego county, and five children brighten their home. In 1802 they moved to Woodhull and later, in 1880, to Ingleside, making their home with Dr. William M., where Mrs. Fulkerson died March 2, 1888. Dr. Fulkerson's preliminary educa- tion was secured at Woodhull Academy, where he became acquainted and afterward married his wife, to whom he is proud to say he owes very much of his success. He courageously battled his way through school unaided, teaching for three years, after which he spent four years as traveling salesman in the nursery business, taking his medical books with him, studying most of his spare time. He registered with R. P. Brown, sr. , of Addison, with whom he studied. In 1876 he married Sarah E. Hopper, who was horn in Prattsburg. a daughter of John and Nancy M. (Clark) Hopper, who, during her infancy, removed to Woodhull. The result of this union was three boys; Wm. Terry and Archie (;ienn,who died at the age of nineteen months; and Lynn Lyle. Wm. Terry and Lynn Lyleare at present students in Naples academy, where their mother accompanied them to assist them, she being a graduate of Genesee Wesleyan Semi- 284 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. nary, Lima, N. Y., her former vocation having been teaching, which she began in her fourteenth year in Troupsburg. In 1876 the Doctor entered the University Med- ical College, New York city, and in 1878 came to Ingleside and began practice. In 1880 he returned to the' University, from which institution he was graduated in 1881, returning to Inglside he resumed his practice which has increased so as to greatly exceed his fondest anticipations. Dr. William M. is also well linown in politics, and is now serving his fourth term as Democratic supervisor of his town. Dr. Fulkersim and his wife are both well known in home charities, Mrs. Fulkerson having been a member of the M. E. church since childhood. She delights in music, flowers and picturesque surroundings, has executed some good portraits and landscapes in crayon and oil. She is the eldest of nine children, and, her father dying early in life (1861), she became a self-reliant woman, educating herself. They are admirably adopted to each other, being very energetic and accomplishing whatever they undertake. Van Housen, Israel A., was born in Howard November 6, 1838. John Van Housen, his father, was a native of Montgomery county and came to Steuben county in 1831. and was identified through life as a farmer. Israel A. was educated at Franklin Acad- emy. Prattsburg, and Wesleyan Seminary, Lima. At the breaking out of the war he enhsted, October 12, 1861, in Co. E, lOlst N. Y. Vols., and took part in the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines. Fair Oaks, Seven Days' retreat, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and many others. In the winter of 1862 and 1863 his strong constitution gave way under the strain and exposure of active army life. March 14, 1863, he received an honorable discharge aud returned to his father's home in Prattsburg, where he remained until 1866. He then engaged with his brother-in-law, W. Stewart, in the grocery business in Bath, remaining two years, when he returned to Prattsburg and took up farming. November 17. 1809, he was united in marriage to Lillian M., daughter of George W. Morgan, by whom he had eight children, Mary W., Charles A., Austin C, George M., John H., Catherine S., Eloise Azalea, and Caroline C. In the spring of 1871 he engaged in the milling business at Savona which he followed for twenty years, when he traded his milling interest with E. C. Allen for the Goodsell farm in Eagle Valley, making a specialty of growing tobacco and sheep. Wager, Michael, was bom in Wurtemburg, Germany, December 6, 1842, and is a son of Frank Joseph Wager who came to America in 1846, and worked in Roches- ter, N. Y., and returned to his native country in 1849. In 1867 Michael Wager came to Cohocton village, where he was employed by the Erie Railroad till 1879; then he purchased a farm in the southwestern part of Cohocton, called Porter Hill, and has since followed that business. He is a member of St. Pius R. C. church of Cohocton and a charter member of C. M. B. A., Branch 102. He married in 1868. Margaret Schults, and they are the parents of seven children: Clara, Frank, George, Lizzie, John, Joseph and Eleonora. Watkins, James Edward, was born in the town of Prattsburg in 1861, son of Charles Watkins, who is a prosperous farmer in Pulteney. He was born in South Wales, England, in 1824, and is one of si.\ sons and one daughter born to George and Eleanor Williams Watkins. He learned the blacksmith's trade and in 1851 came to America. In 1867 he settled in Pulteney on his present farm of ninety-three acres. FAMILY SKETCHES. 286 His wife was Eliza Heden, born in Cayuga, a daughter of Absalom Heden, and their children are Lucy A.. Maje E., deceased, Charles W., James Edward, George G., Jeanette, deceased, and Victoria, Mrs. Watkins died in 1886. She was a member of the Methodist church, and he has been class leader in the same church over forty vears. James Edward was educated in the district schools and has devoted his time to farming. In 1S8,") he married Avis Ludencia, the youngest of six children born to Samuel and Julia Ann CovoU Depew of Pulteney. She is the only surviving member of her family. Her father was prosperous and left her three hundred acres of land. Her grandfather, Joseph Covell. came to Urbana from Connecticut in 1812, and set- tled in the northwestern part of the town on the farm now owned by his daughter, O. A. Covell, where he spent the remainder of his days. He was born in Thompson, Windham county. Conn., in 178ti. He was the son of Ebenezer and Sabrina Childs Covell. He had five brothers and five sisters, William, Willis, Ebenezer, Cyrus and Amasa, Cynthia Covell Partridge of Norwich, Betsy Covell Convas, Theodocia, Sabrina of Thoni])son, Conn., and Nancy Covell Rider of New York city. Joseph Covell was married in 1810 to Susanna Chamberlain, daughter of Harvey and Betsey Warren Chamberlain, and granddaughter of Dr. Peter Chamberlain of Pomfret, Conn., and grandniece of Genera! Warren who was killed at Bunker Hill, in 1775. She had five brothers and three sisters, Warren, Schuiler, Harvy, George and Charles; Lucinda Chamberlain Smith of Pennsylvania, Lucy Chamberlain Brewster and Betsey Reckord of Danielsonville, Conn. They had ten children, two of whom died in infancy, William H., (leorge C, Julia A., Emeline, M. D. La Fayette, Ocia A., George D. and Joseph E. Her grandfather, Joseph Covell, came to Urbana from Connecticut in 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins are members of the Methodist church and the Y. P. S. C. E. He is a member of K. O. T. M. Hammondsport Lodge, of which he has been Chaplain. Adams, Hon. William W. . was born in Otsego county, August 14, 1843, and came to Cornmg with his parent in 1850. He received his education in the public schools of Corning. He entered the employ of the Fall Brook Railway Company in 1861, continuing m their service since, now filling the position of general storekeeper and chief motive power accountant. He is also vice-president of the Hood Furnace and Supply Company. He was elected maj'or in 1894, the third mayor elected under the city charter. He married Francis E. De Wolf, only daughter of Hiram De Wolf, an old resident of Steuben county. Lloyd, George M., was born in Rathbone, N. Y., April 6, 1853, son of George C. and Margaret (Selleck) Lloyd, natives of Jefferson county and Erie, Pa., respectively. The paternal grandfather, James Lloyd, was a native of Connecticut, removing from Hartford to Watertown, N. Y. George C. Lloyd came from Jefferson county to Cameron, where he engaged in lumbering, but soon moved to Rathbone, where he pursued the safne calling in connection with farming. He was one of the first set- tlers of the town, and owned 2.')0 acres of land, clearing a large farm in the dense forest, enduring many hardships and privations while engaged in clearing land, lum- bering and rafting lumber down the Canisteo. He was one of the leading men of the town up to the time of his death, which occurred May 31, 1890. He held Learly all of the town ottices and was supervisor for three years during the late war. Mrs. Lloyd still lives, aged seventy-five years. She lives with her daughter Phoebe on 286 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. part of the old homestead. George M. was reared on the farm which he now occu- pies, owning 100 acres of land. In 1878 Mr. Lloyd married Lucinda, daughter of John and Harriet Miles, both deceased, pioneers of Rathbune. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd have three children ; Leroy, Archie and Edna. He and his wife are members of the M. E. church. Gee, Theodore was born in Tioga county. Pa., in 1843, son of William Gee. Upon the death of his father he came to Tuscarora, and was thrown upon his own re- sources when quite young. During the first three years of his business career he engaged in lumbering at Emporium, Pa., and later he carried on a thriving market business in Addison. Fifteen years ago he purchased a farm of 140 acres near Good- hue Lake, where he still resides. In 1864 he married Sarah, daughter of John B. Swon, and they were the parents of six children, of whom three are still living- Annie, wife of George W. Gray; John; and Grace. In politics Mr. Gee is a Demo- crat. Collson, J. W. . was born in Chemung county, X. V., February 20, 1832, son of Anthony and Eunice (Mudge) Collson, she born in Worcester, N. Y. , and he in Rut- land, Vt., and in 1845 came to Thurston and located on a tract of land situated one mile south of Merchantsville, where they died. He was a local preacher for several years. He had four sons and two daughters; three of his sons were in the L'nion army, namely: Daniel M., in the 50th Engineers, Paul, lieutenant and acting cap- tain in the 107th N. Y. Vols., and Ezra, a private in the 12th Artillery. J. W. Coll- son was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He began life as an insurance agent, which business he has always followed, and he has also been in the mercantile business in Merchantsville for about ten years. He is a Republican in politics, and has been justice of the peace for eight years and notary public two years. He is a member of Cameron Mills Lodge, F. & A. M., also a member of the I. O. G. T. In 1855 he married Susan Ranger, of Howard, N. Y., by whom he has six children: Emma C, Eunice A., Corelia L., Anthony, a conductor on the electric railroad in Elmira; J. M., lumber and coal dealer at Genesee, N. Y., Alva C, super- intendent of the House of Refuge, Randall's Island, New York, Wheaton, J. Henry, was born in Hornby in 1867, son of Samuel A. and Eleanor J. Covenhoven Wheaton ; the mother is a daughter of Henry Covenhoven, and the father a son of Peter S. Wheaton, representatives of the oldest families in the county. The mother resides in Hornby with her son; the father died in 1875; he twice enlisted in the war of the Rebellion and was twice honorably discharged. Mr. Wheaton has one brother. Grant Wheaton, younger than himself, who resides at Painted Post; he owns the leading meat market of the place and 103 acres of land in Hornby. Mr. Wheaton has 150 acres of land in Hornby and follows general farming, lumbering and sheep busbandry. Helm, Henry M., was born in Thurston, N. Y., June 15, 1840, son of John P. and Sallie (Dare) Helm, both natives of New Jersey, who came to Bath where they resided for about ten years, and in April. 1840, they came to Thurston where they died. Henry M. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, after which he engaged in farming and lumbering, which he followed for eighteen years, and now owns ninety-two acres of land. He is a Republican in politics, and has been com- FAMILY SKETCHES. 287 missioner of highways one term. In 186.5 he married Mary J. Youmans, of Bath, N. Y.. by whom he had three children: Nina, Leroy, and Nellie. Januarys. 1864, Mr. Helm enlisted in Co. E, 50th N. Y. Vol. Engineers, and served until the close of the war. He is a member of Knox Post, G. A. R., of Savona, N. Y., also a member of Savona Grange. Armsted, Charles H., was born in Avon, Livingston county, N. Y., June 27, 1859. Cyrus A. Armsted, the father of Charles, was also a native of that county, and the landlord of the Newman House. Charles is the only son: he wa.s educated in the Avon Academy, and has always been engaged in the dealing in real estate and loans. He came to Hornellsville in 1883 and in 1887 he opened an office in the Ossosski block on Main street, where he remained a few years, then haij an office in the Mc- Dougall block, Broad street, until 1892, when he went in jjartnership with James H. Clancy, esq., in the Ojiera House block where we now find him. Mr. Armsted was married in 1882, to Miss Carrie Burnham, daughter of Joseph I. Burnham, one of the pioneers of this town. They have no children. Chapman, James W., was born in New Ipswich, Hillsboro county. New Hampshire, June 17. 18;i9. He was educated in the common schools and Appleton Academv and his first occupation after leaving school was in the mercantile line. In December, 1862, when twenty-three years of age, he took to railroading, starting as a fireman on the N. Y. & Erie R. R., at that time removing to Dunkirk, N. Y. His brother- in-law, Charles W. Tufte, was an engineer on this road and Mr. Chapman began service with him. He was promoted April, 1865, by H. D. Brooks, to the position of engineer, remaining as an extra at Dunkirk until 1868, when in April he was again promoted to night engineer dispatcher at Hornellsville, and occupied that position until November 1, 1871, when he was made assistant day engineer dispatcher, con- tinuing in that position until April 10, 1872, when he was promoted to engineer dis- patcher in full charge, by E. O, Hill, superintendent of motive power. Februarv 14, 1874, he was promoted to general foreman of Hornellsville machine shop, by Howard Ery, superintendent of motive power, which he held until September 4, 1874, and was then promoted to master mechanic of the Western Division, by the same superintendent. He was master mechanic until June 15, 1878, at which time he resigned and resumed the position of engine dispatcher, a duty he had performed while master mechanic, and has ever since continued in this position. Mr. Chapman has been a member fif tbe Masonic fraternity for twenty-five years. Evening Star Lodge. No. 44. He is a Republican in politics and served as trustee of Hornellsville for seven years. He is one of the trustees of the Y. M. C. A., and a member of the Presbyterian church. August 27, 1850, he married Harriet M. Tufte, of New Hamp- shire, who died in 1863, by whom he had one child, Mrs. B. I. Blackmer of Hornells- ville. The present Mrs. Chapman is Carrie E., daughter of Harvey Cooper of Hornellsville. Banter, John M., was born in Wheeler, Steuben county, N. Y., in 1843, oldest son of Marcus and Sarah (Ells) Bautcr of Wheeler. He was educated in the common schools, and later while yet a young man taught school for a number of terms. In 1867 he married Mercy J. Thompson, who died in 1870, and his second wife was Minerva C. Shults of of Wheeler, by whom he had four children: Burdett, Marion, 288 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Dewitt and May. He now owns and operates a fine farm of 105 acres on which he has erected large and commodious buildings. Bauter, Marcus, now of the village of Avoca, but formerly an old and prominent resident in Wheeler, was born in Herkimer county, in 1814, and there received a good education". His grandfather, Uriah Bauter, was a native of Germany, born in lT.j4. He, with two brothers, came to America while young men, and he and one brother engaged in farming, while the other brother became a blacksmith, and became wealthy and died a bachelor. Uriah also became prosperous and owned a large tract of land. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and during his absence from home his wife and five children were taken prisoners by the Indians and tories; the wife and four children were released, but the oldest son a boy of nine years, was taken to Canada and held for twelve j^ears, when he was escorted back to his own home by a tory, who was one of the capturing party, and who returned before his identity became known. The young man was accidentally killed at a raising soon after his return home. Adam Bauter, father of Marcus, was born in Montgomery- county, in 1779. He went to the town of Stark, N. Y., where he .spent his life at farming. He married Catherine Wagoner, a native of Herkimer county, by whom he had ten children. When twelve years of age Marcus Bauter engaged as clerk in a store, and in 1835 he came to Wheeler and purchased a tract of timber land, on which he devoted most of his time. His first twelve winters and three summers were spent in teaching, beginning with ten dollars per month, and with money thus earned he hired his land cleared of the timber, and added from time to time until he owned 500 acres. In politics he was first a Democrat, but changed to the Republican party when his party endeavored to force slavery into Kansas. In early days he was school commissioner in Wheeler, and was later elected town superintendent of the schools for several years, and was commissioner of highways, inspector of election, etc. In 1885 he retired to the village of Avoca, where he purchased a residence, but retains UIO acres of his farm for his own use. He married Sarah, daughter of Pittkin Eells, of Wheeler, by whom he had seven children: John M.. Mrs. Hannah Webb, Dewitt C. Mrs. Margeia Shaut, Sarah, deceased, Nettie and George W. His wife diedm December, 1888, and he is now an active, well-preserved old gentleman of eighty- one years. Wixson, Solomon R., was born in 1835 on the farm he now owns in Wayne, and which was settled when a wilderness, in 1791, by his grandparents, Solomon and Mary Randall Wixson ; there they lived and died. The father of Solomon R., Elijah Wixson, was born on the homestead December, 1800. He married Martha Hastinges by whom he had seven children, of whom Solomon R. is the youngest. He was a farmer by occupation, and died m 1878. Mrs. Wixson, died in 1878. Solomon R. has always resided on the homestead and carried on farming, and in 1875 he built a saw mill on the farm and in 1888 commenced manufacturing baskets and grape packages of various kinds. They also have a vineyard. In 1856 he married Matilda J. Conklin of Tyrone, and they are the parents of four children; Elijah, who died at the age of ten years; Martha, deceased; Nellie, who died in infancy; and Edgar M., born in 1874, who now resides at home. Mr. Wixson is a Republican, and has served two terms as supervisor, and a number of terms as road commissioner. Younglove. O. H. — Timothy Meggs Younglove was born on a farm in the town of FAMILY SKETCHES. 289 Urbana, March 5, 1814. The first record we have of this family was Rev. John Younglove, a Presbyterian minister, who came from Enjjland and settled in Suffield, Conn., where he died in 1690. Now follows Joseph Younglove, and his son was Isaiah, who was born in 1717, and when a young man emigrated to New Jersey, where Joseph who was the father of Cornelius, was born. Cornelius was born in New Jersey, in 1772, and came to Vermont, where he was occupied in stone cutting and farming until 1807. In June of that year he removed to Steuben county and settled on the farm, where his descendants now reside. He married Hannah Bart- lett of Sunderland, Vt., and they were the parents of eight children, of whom only one, Cornelius S. of California, is now living. Timothy, the fifth son, was given a good common school education, and at the age of nineteen years took up surveying, which he followed until 1889. He lived with his parents uniil their death occurred, when he inherited the farm which his father deeded to him while living. The father's business was farming in a general way with wool growing a specialty, which Timothy continued until grape growing became an important business, when he embarked in that and reduced the number of sheep until in 1882 when he disposed of the last of them. In 1880 he began raising tobacco. In 1859 he built the fine residence where he lived until his death, which occurred March 10, 1892. In politics he was a Dem- ocrat, and in religion, an Episcopalian, and at the time of his death was warden of St. James church. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity — Urbana Lodge and Bath Chapter. He was one of the founders of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company. September 29. 1839, he married Matilda Hoyt of Reading, Schuyler county, daughter of Oliver Hoyt, and they had three daughters and one son: Myra, who is the wife of L. I. Rose of Hammondsport; Ellen and Emma, twins; and OUver Hoyt. Ellen died in infancy, and Emma is the wife of H. R. Ain.sworth, a physician of Addison. Oliver Hoyt was born November 29, 1846, and is the successor to the old homestead and the business, which his father established. September 13, 1868, he married Margaret, daughter of Benjamin Myrtle, and they have three children : Belle Myrtle, Margaret May, and Charles Myrtle, who is a student of Cornell University, Class of '90. The last born, Timothy Knox, died January .5, 1895, aged eight years. Mr. Younglove's farm consists of 160 acres, on fifty acres of which is a grape vineyard, and he is also engaged in the manufacture of baskets, and the output in 1894 was six hundred thousand. He employs about thirty women and sixteen men during the season. From 1882 to 1888 he was in partnership with George H. Keeler in the hardware business. Curran, Michael C, is a native of Prattsburg, born in 1854, son of John Curran, a native of County Kerry, Ireland, who was born in 1827, and came to the United States in 1853, locating in Elmira, then moving to the town of Wheeler, Steuben county, and three years later to the town of Prattsburg, where he devoted his time to farming. His wife was Honorah Rohen of the same county in Ireland, and their children were Thomas, who died in Cleveland, O., when twenty-two years of age, Mary, Michael C, Catherine, l''Ila, Julia, Honorah, Edwin, James, Daniel and Anna, (lecea.sed. His wife died in 1893, and he now resides in Prattsburg with his children. Michael C. began working out on a farm, when but thirteen years old, which occu- pation he followed until 1879, when he engaged in the meat business in Prattsburg, and tor several years conducted the only meat market in the village doing a large kk 290 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY and prosperous business. He also furnished by contract a large amount of meat for Sailor's and Soldier's Home at Bath. N. Y. In 1864 he sold out and the following two years he spent as clerk in the Park Hotel and one year in the Relyea House, and in 188T purchased his present site and opened a restaurant which he has run successfully up to the present time. He has erected a fine residence in the village, and owns several tenant houses. In 1886 he married Johanna, daughter of Michael Fl)*nn, and three children have been born to them: Loretta, Leo. and Mary Imogene, Mrs. Curran formerly conducted a millinery business in Auburn and Geneva and later opened an establishment in Prattsburg where she had a large and popular trade. Myrtle, Benjamin, was born on a farm in the town of Wheeler, December 29, 1814. His father, Philip Myrtle, was a nati%'e of Bucks county. Pa., and came to this county about 1795. They first located in Bath, coming up the river in a canoe, were six weeks coming from Harrisburg. They spent three years in Bath and then moved into what is now the town of Wheeler. He bought forty acres of land at $2.50 per acre, and it took him seven years to pay for it, but he increased his possessions by industr\- and perseverance, until at the time of his death he owned over 500 acres. He married Rebecca Walters, who was also a native of Pennsylvania, by whom he had twelve children who grew to maturity. Benjamin was the oldest son. His edu- cation was limited to the common schools, and he remained with his father on the farm until he was twenty-two years of age, when he married and became an inde- pendent farmer of this town. He was elected supervisor of the town before he was thirty years of age, and re-elected to a second term. In 1857 he sold his property in the town of Wheeler and removed to the town of Urbana, where he engaged in the cultivation of grapes, but is now retired from all active business. He served six years as supervisor of the town of Urbana and was known as the war super\'isor, serving his constituents with great credit to himself and their interests. It can be said of Mr. Mj-rtle what cannot be said of any other resident, that he has voted at sixty general elections and has never missed but one town meeting. He was always a strong and reliable Democrat, always active from fifteen to eighty years of age. He was elected a number of times a delegate to the State conventions from Steuben county. In religion he attended and supported the Methodist church. He married Arabella Smith, a native of Putnam county, by whom he had three children : Van Buren, who died in 1888, aged forty j'ears; Margaret, wife of O. H. Vounglove of Hammondsport ; and Arabella, wife of Dr. Charles Stoddard, of San Bernardino, Cal. Mrs. Myrtle died in 1882. Masson, Jules, was bom in the Burgondy district of France, September 22, 1833, and came to this country in 1852, the place of his birth being a large wine district where every vine grower make his own wine, and for this reason Mr. Masson had a thorough knowledge of the making of wine. He located in Cincinnnati where he en- gaged in that business, being connected with the house of M. Werk & Son, and later with t)ie old house of Nicholas LongAvorlli, the oldest and first native wine house in the United States, and long before there was any grapes grown on the lake shores. California or Western New York ; he came to Hammond.sport in 1809 and purchased an interest in the Pleasant Valley Wine Co., in connection with his cousin, J. D. Masson, who was superintendent of the company, which position lie retained about FAMILY SKETCHES. 291 one and one-half years after Jules came, when the latter became the superintendent and has held the position from 1871 until the present time. In politics he is a Re- publican ; he has always taken an interest in St. Gabriel church ; he was a member of the Board of Education for three years, also a trustee of the village for the .same period. November 6, 186(1. he married Catherine Reinhardt of New York, and they are the parents of eight children: Victor and Charles, who are both college students at present; Leon, a bookkeeper of the Pleasant Valley Wine Co.; Arthur, an engi- neer by trade, who died in 1^92, aged twenty-.seven years; Julia, a singer and musi- cian; Emma, a music teacher; Matilda aud Josephine, both school teachers. Travis, Leroy. — His grandfather Travis was born in Pennsylvania, and moved from there to Sparta, Livingston county, N. V. Leroy's father, James Travis, was born in the town of Hornellsville (now Fremont), and died at the age of forty-nine years. He was a farmer by occupation and owned a farm of lit) acres one mile south of Fremont Center. He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge. Leroy Travis received a common school education, and owns his father's farm, where he w^asborn. He has been town auditor and inspector for a number of years, and is a member of Stephen's Mill Grange, No. 308. For his first wife he married Clara Langs of Hor- nells%'ille, who died at the age of thirty-eight years. Five children were born to them: Arthur, born July 19, 1871, died March 21, 1876; Minnie, born February 9, 1876, wife of Elah Armstrong; Byron, born September 5, 1878; George, born Sep- tember 15, 1882; and John, born March 29, 1884. October 1, 1885, he married Wealthy, daughter of Benjamin Wise, who was a soldier in the Rebellion. She was born June 10, 1856, and for her first husband married Don Gardner of Yates county, N.Y., and two children were born to them; Mary, born July 5, 1879, and James, born February 18, 1882. Mr. Travis is agent for the Syracuse Chilled Plow Co. Cruttenden, Dr. Alexis H., was born in Otsego county, N. Y. , February 22, 1822. His father, Lyman, was a nativeof Kinderhook, N.Y., born in 1793, son of Jeremiah Cruttenden, born in New Haven in 1767, who with his family in 1796 removed to Otsego county, as one of the first settlers of the old town of Butternuts, now known as Morris, where the subject of this notice was born. Lyman Cruttenden through life was identified as a farmer and mechanic, as was his father before him. He married Harriett Noble, daughter of Elnathan and Johannah Bostic Noble, a like pioneer from Connecticut. The family trace their descent through eight generations to Goodman (so called) Abram Cruttenden, the emigrant father of the Cruttenden family in this country, being one of the colonists (twenty-five in number as heads of families) who signed the famous Guilford Covenant, under the leadership of Rev. Henry Whitfield, from the town of Cranbrook, County of Kent, England, who purchased the site and settled the old town of Guilford, Conn., in 1639. Dr. A. H. Cruttenden graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, in 1852, and practiced in Brooklyn for four years. In 1856 he came to Bath and established his present practice of medicine, covering a period of forty years in Steuben county. He early took rank as a surgeon, made the first ovariotomy in the county, and serv- ing as pension examining surgeon twenty-eight years. In 1853 he married Julia M. Stephenson, by whom he had four children, two of whom are living: Frank E., a practicing physician in Des Moines, Iowa, and Mrs. Mary A. Percy of New York city. Mr. Cruttenden is a lover of the beautiful in nature and art, spends a large 292 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. share of his leisure time in the culture of fruit and flowers at his home residence, and is one of the progressive men of his county, identified in advancing its best interests and in the leading events of the day. Walther, Fred C, was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 6, 1828, son of Fred Wal- ther. Fred C. came to America in 1850 and first settled at Rochester, and a year later settled in the southwestern part of Cohocton, where he run a saw mill for over twenty years. In 1858 he purchased a tract of timber lajid, which he cleared up and brought under cultivation, and is now one of the substantial farmers of this town. In 1857 he married Miss Dorothea Elflein, by whom he had ten children, namely, Fred, Martin, Emma, Frankie, Clara, Willie, John, Scott, Louisa, and Carl. Frankie and Willie died m infancy, and Martin died in 1886, a young man. Fred married Miss Libbie Neu of Wayland, and settled in Cohocton. Miss Clara married John R. Dallas, of Belvidere, III., where the}' now live. In 1859 Fred Walther, father of Fred C. and four brothers, George, John, Bernard and Martin, came to this countr)-, the father settling in Cohocton, where he died in 1854. George settled in Cohocton, and later in South Dansville, where he died. John served through the Civil war, and soon after Bernard and Martin settled in Middlesex, Yates county, where the}' now live. Tambling, Benjamin W. , was born in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., January 23, 1828. The family is of English descent. His grandfather, Shepard Tambling, was a Revolutionary soldier, and his father, Harvey Tambling, served in the war of 1812. Benjamin W. settled in Cohocton in 1860 and engaged in farming, which has been his life work, but was for several years engaged in the drover business, and, with the exception of twenty-three years spent in the West, he has lived in Cohocton. In 1864 he enlisted in Co. A, 164th N. Y. Inft., and served until the close of the war. He is a charter member of R. E. Harris Post, G. A. R., and is a member of Liberty Lodge, No. 510, F. & A M., also of Bath Chapter. He was three times married. His first wife was Eliza Miller, daughter of Isaac Miller, of Belvidere, 111. ; she died in 1858. He married second Fanny Weld, who died in 1875. His third wife was Mrs. Amanda Larrowe. Rommel, Rev. W. E., was born in Grebenstein, Hessen, Germany, March 24, 1862. He was educated in his 'native country and prepared for the ministry, and was ordained a minister of the Lutheran denomination in 1883, and .spent a year in Asia and Africa engaged in mission work. In 1886 he came to America and settled at Buffalo, where he was assistant pastor of St. Jacob's church for one year, and following this he was stationed at Le Roy for a few months, when he accepted a pastorate at Salamanca, where he remained for a year and a half. He then returned for a time to his native land, and upon his return was pas- tor of the Lutheran church at West Henrietta, N. Y., for two years, and from there he was called to Rochester, from where, after a pastorate of three years, he accepted a call from Zion Lutheran church of Cohocton, where he has since been stationed. In 1886 he married Mary Michel, and they have three children: Emil, Carl, and Mary. He published the New Ev. Lutheran Catechism, and a number of other books. Schubmehl, Nicholas, was born in St. Wendel, Prussia, June 19, 1S43, and is a son FAMILY SKETCHES. 293 of Jacob and Mary Schwan Schubmehl, who came to America in 1851 and settled at Dansville. X. Y., where he lived until his death, which occurred March 6, 1890. He was a stone cutter by trade. Nicholas Schubmehl learned the cigarmaker's trade and in 1867 settled at VYellsville, X. Y. , where he was engaged in the manufacture of cigars until 1879 when he came to Cohocton and entered the employ of S. H. Leavitt, cigar manufacturer, and upon the formation of the T. R. Harris Cigar Company, be- came its superintendent and manager, continuing in that capacity until 1885, when he removed to Binghamton, where he engaged in manufacturing cigars until 1890. He then returned to Cohocton, and became superintendent of the Cohocton Cigar Company, Ltd., continuing in this capacity until the failure of the company in No- vember, 1894, when he purchased the stock of the company and engaged in the same business, under the firm name of the Schubmehl Cigar Company. Mr. Schubmehl is a member of St. Pius R. C. church and the C. M. B. A. He married Elizabeth Stein of Wayland, and they are the parents of nine children: Jacob H., Elizabeth, Mary, Henry, Rosa, Catherine, Charles, Theodore, and Edward L., all of whom are living. Danioth, George, was born on a farm in the town of Bath, November 14, 1841. His father, Joseph Damoth, was a resident of Tyrone previous to his coming to Bath, but is now a resident of Campbelltown. He is now eighty-seven years of age, and has followed farming all his life. He married Clarinda Austin, who was born in Delaware county, and died in Bradford in 1884, by whom he had seven children George was the oldest of the family, and received but a hniited education. From the time he was thirteen years of age he began to assist his father, driving the team while lumbering, and remained on the homestead until he was twenty-one years of age, when he started for himself, first working by the month, then engaged in lum- bering, and from that owned a threshing machine. In 1869 he bought a farm of 1494 acres in the town of Urbana, where he has smce made his home. In 1892 he bought the old Ketchum farm of eighty-six acres. On the old farm he has four acres of vineyard and his son has fourteen acres on the same farm. Mr. Damoth is an ardent Democrat, and was for five years commissioner of highways of this town. He is a member of Pleasant Valley Grange, and has been one of its officers. March 29, 1.H65, he married Eliza Frances, daughter of James Dildine, by wliom he had seven children: John F. , a vineyardist; Carrie E. ; Roy G., a farmer of this town ; M. Frances; Harry M. ; Emma Frederika; and Bertha E. Thompson, Murray, was born in Wheeler, on the homestead farm, in 1866. Daniel Thompson, his great-grandfather, was a native of Rensselaer county, and his last days were spent in the town of Wheeler. He was twice married, and by his first wife he had nine children. Jacob Thompson, his grandfather, was the oldest son, and was born in Rensselaer county in 1792. He .served for a short time in the war of 1812, and in 1815 came to Wheeler and settled in the forest, where he cleared a farm of 250 acres, and did much lumbering, manufacturing large quantities of lum- ber to pay the passage for himself and family from Troy to Canandaigua. He drove a team from the former place to Buffalo with a load of goojls, and walked back to Canandaigua, and came to Wheeler from there with his family. He served as assessor, collector and commissioner of highways for many years, and laid out many of the new roads through the town. His first wife was Susan Wheeler, by whom he 294 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. had three children: William N., Elenore J., and George. His second wife was Hannah, davighter of Joel Raymond, a pioneer of Wheeler, by whom he had six children: Lydia, Calvin L. , Orville, Joel, JohnW., and Catherine. He died in 1868, and his wife in 1873. Orville, father of Murray, was born in the town of Wheeler in 1830, where he spent his whole life. He began for himself when a young man as day worker at various occupations, later purchased the homestead, and for twenty-five years conducted a threshing machine. He served as collector and commissioner of highways, and was often chosen as juryman. His first wife was Laura, daughter of Hiram Rose of Wheeler, by whom he had one son, Murray. His wife died in 1870, and his second wife was Alvina Strong. He married for his third wife Eliza Brewer of Wheeler, who survives him and still resides on the farm. He died in April, 1895. Murray Thompson, when twenty-one years of age, bought of his father 100 acres of the farm, but has continued residing with his parents up to the present time and assumes full charge of both farms, and is an extensive and successful potato grower. Zimmerman Bros. — The firm of Zimmerman Brothers, the leading business house of Bradford, consists of John C. and H. P. Zimmerman, both natives of Bradford, the former born June 29, 1850, and the latter August 24, 1854. They are sons of Jacob and Catherine Hedges Zimmerman, and grandsons of John Zimmerman, a native of Austria, who is mentioned elsewhere. November 28. 1880, John C. mar- ried Alma Read, stepdaughter of Rev. George Shearer. Her father, Joseph Read, died in the Civil war. He commenced business as a clerk when about sixteen years of age in Bradford, and also clerked for a number of years in Bath. In May, 1882, he and his brother, H. P., established the firm, as above, and in 1886 took their brother, Mortimer W. Zimmerman, in company with them, who died Octobers. 1891, leaving a wife and two sons, John and Austin. In 1893 they erected a two-story building 30x80 feet, which they now occupy. They carry a complete line of general merchandise and agricultural implements, and conduct a large business. In 1869 H. P. Zimmerman married Annie M. Givens, daughter of James H. Givens of Brad- ford, and they have two childi'en: George, born May 18, 1881; and Harvey, born March 17, 1889. He was educated in Bradford and followed farming until he went into business with his brother. The Messrs. Zimmerman are Democrats and have had the post-office during Cleveland's administration. Gray, William S., was born in the town of Palatine, Montgomery county. May 5, 1856, son of Ambrose Gray, a native of the same county, who came to Steuben in 1860 and settled in Avoca. He married Catherine, daughter of Lewis Rickard, and they were the parents of nine children: Alpha R., Archibald, Charles A., Will- iam S., Mrs. Caroline Lyke, Mrs. Nancy E. Clemens, Mrs. Ann J. Ileinaman, Mrs. Mary E. Shults, and Mrs. Kate Lee. He died in 1882, in his sixty-first year. Will- iam was educated in the common schools and in 1880 married Ida, daughter of of James Francis. In 1884 he came to Kanona and established his present business, as dealer in fresh and salted meats. Mr. Gray served as deputy for six years. Adair, W. E. — The first of the Adair family to settle in Steuben county was John Adair, who was born in Ireland, April 19, 1828, .son of William Adair, and came to America about 1844 and settled in Cohocton. He was a carpenter and wagon- maker by trade, at which he worked until his death in 1883. In 1861 he enlisted in FAMILY SKETCHES. 2r5 Co. I, lfi4th New York Infantry a.s private, and was promoted first lieutenant. In politics he was a Republican. He was a member and trustee, also local preacher of the Methodist church, and was a strong temperance man. He was a charter member of Liberty Lodge Xo. 510, F. & A. M. Mr. Adair married Catherine De Revere of Westchester county, N. Y., and they were the parents of three children; John, William E., and Emma V., now Mrs. F. A. Tobias, all of Cohocton. William E. was born in Cohocton, January 13, 1800. After completing his schooling he was employed in the Cohocton Times office for several years. Having early manifested a taste for music, in 1830 he went to Xew York city and entered the Conservatory, and after a course of study there he returned to Cohocton, where he has since been engaged in teaching music, and in the sale of musical instruments. He has com- posed and arranged considerable music for piano, bands, etc. In 1888 he, with others, engaged in the milling business, and in 1894 he became sole owner and pro- prietor of the Model Roller Mills at Cohocton, and was an extensive manufacturer of buckwheat flour, etc., selling out in July, 1895. He is an active member of the Republican party, was elected town clerk in 1883, and was president of the village two terms, in 1894-96. He is a member of Liberty Lodge No. 510, F. & A. M., and has been a member ol the Cohocton Band since 18T(i, and for the greater part of the time leader of Adair's Band, a well-known amateur organization, which has filled engagements all over Central and Western New York. Lawrence, Mrs. May. — George Lawrence was born in Livingston county, N. Y. , April 13, 1838, a son of John and Maria Lawrence, he a native of Onondaga county, N. Y. George Lawrence was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and Lima .Seminary. He was a farmer by occupation and in 1860 came to Wood- hull, first living three miles from the village, then in Hedgesville, coming to the farm he occupied at his death in 1883. Mr. Lawrence's first wife was Annette Lyon, bv whom he had one son, E. Henry, now of Binghamton, N. Y, a bookkeeper for the W. P. Holbert Lumber Company, also having an interest in the company. Mr. Lawrence afterward married May Z. Chatfield, a native of Sodus Point, Wayne county, N. Y., by whom he had three children; Josephine, Loren and ^lary. Mr. Chatfield wa.s from England, and Mrs. Chatfield from Pulteney, Steuben county. Ezra Chatfield was a Baptist minister in his early days. He died in Jasper, N. Y. , January T, 1882, and his wife died in October, 1887. Barnard, G. F. — The late George A. Barnard was born in the town of Corning, February '21, 1837. He was a son of Frederick Barnard, who came from Otsego county, in October, 1832, locating in the town of Corning, just across the line from Caton. Frederick Barnard was born in Milford, Otsego county, in 1802, and married Lucy Wilcox, a native of Canaan, Litchfield county. Conn., in 1824. He kept a country store at Jacksonville, Otsego county, before removing to Corning. He was ihe father of .seven children, viz. ; Mary, ICdwin W., Charles D., Mcli.ssa A., Gershom W. , (Jeorgc A., and ICgbert I'. George A. was raised on the old homestead, and in 18,59 was married to Mary Westcott, who was born at Oxford, Chenango county, in 1834. She was a daughter of George Westcott, a native of Windham county. Conn., who removed from Chenango county to Caton about 1838. In 1862 Mr. Barnard located on the farm where he lived until his death, and where Mrs. Barnard still re- sides. He was a prominent and infiuential fanner and lumbcrnuiu. He died in 296 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. 1886, leaving four children : Dora, George F. , Guv, and Alfie, a son, Delos W. , having died in 1804, and a daughter, Edna L., in 1876. They have eighty-seven acres of the home place, and follcnv general farming. Longwell, David, was born on the old homestead farm in the town of Urbana, August 14. 1882. James Longwell, his father, was born in the town of Cannel. Put- nam county, N. J., and was one of the first settlers of this town, settling on North Hill, near Hammondsport, where he remained a few years, when he located on the third division of district No. 6, where he owned over 300 acres at the time of his death. He married Sarah Carver, a descendant of Judge Carver, of Massachusetts, by whom he had thirteen children, five of whom are now living. Mr. Longwell died April 10, 1871, and his wife January 18, 1840. David was the youngest son and was educated in the common schools and Starkey Semmary, and made his home with his parents until he was twenty-five years of age, when he took 110 acres of the home- stead farm, erected a residence, and set out seven acres of vineyard. He also has a farm of fifty-four acres, a part of the John Brundage estate. Mr. Longwell is an ardent Democrat in politics, and was for six consecutive years highway commis- sioner, and is now serving his third year as magistrate. He has also frequently been delegate to the district convention. In 1856 he married Mary E. , daughter of George S. Brundage, by whom he had four children : Florence, wife of William B. Townsend, a grape grower and box manufacturer of Yates county; Theron B., who lives on an adjoining farm; Lizzie, who lives at home; and Mariah. who died at the age of eighteen months. Colvin, E. & D., dealers in general merchandise, with a building 28 by 80 feet and freight house 24 by 54. They began business in 1870 with a capital of §217, but are now and have been for several years the leading firm in Woodhull. The firm is composed of Emmett and Delancy Colvin, sons of Stephen Colvin, whose father was Caleb Colvin, who came to Woodhull in 1804. He afterwards removed to Knoxville. Pa., where he died. Stephen kept a hotel at Knoxville for a number of years, but in 1847 removed to Woodhull, wjiere he died in 1872. His wife, who was Roxana Mad- ison, died the same j-ear. She was for years a member of the M. E. church. Emmett Colvin was born July 14, 1845, in Knoxville, Pa., and was educated in Troupsburg Academy. April 13, 1872, he married Ladora Spencer, of Chenango county, by whom he had three children: Merton, aged twenty; Clarence, aged sixteen; and Leonard deceased. Delancy was born in Woodhull, April 14, 1847, and was edu- cated in the common and select schools of Woodhull. He married Marj' Brooks, formerly of Hornellsville, by whom he had seven children: Park D., aged twenty- seven; William R., aged twenty-four; Carrie, aged twenty; Minnie, deceased; Archie, deceased; Nelson, who died in infancy; and Florence, aged eight j-ears. Emmett and Delancy have been in partnership for thirty years and have never kept any books between them, each taking for his family what he desired. They first bought a farm of sixty-five acres and paid for it by working by the month and with what Emmett made in one year in the oil regions at Pilhole Oil Fields, Pa., and also working the farm. They afterwards engaged in the mercantile business, in which they have been very successful, owning their buildings and a large stock of goods. They are both members of Restoration Lodge, No. 777, F. & A. M., Emmett being a charter member. Delancy has been supervisor of Woodhull two years, deputy FAMILY SKETCHES. 297 sheriff and constable, and president of the Hoard of Education, which position he now holds. Bailey, Adsit, life long resident of the town of I'rbana, was born January H, 1S42. He is a son of the late David Bailey, who with his parents came from the Seneca Lake region to the town of LTrbanain 1808. The present home of Mr. Bailey is on the same premises owned and occupied by David Bailey in the early part of the century, and has been in continuous possession of the Bailey family. The farm consisted of over 200 acres, its location is on the west side of Lake Keuka, about two miles from Hammondsport. In 1886 Mr. Bailey erected one of the most beautiful residences on that side of the lake. His maternal grandfather was Amos Stone, a Revolutionary soldier, who came to the town in 17!W and was one of the first white settlers. Adsit Bailey received a common .school and academic education. March 9, 1872, he married Edna, daughter of Peter Depew. They have two adopted daughters, Fannie and Geneva Bailey. In 1862 Mr. Bailey became interested in grape culture and set thirty acres of the farm to grapes. In 1886 the grape industrj- gave place to more general farming. He is now making a specialty of sheep raising, having 160 head of fine Merinos of the Standard Delaine breed. Success has crowned the enterprises in which he has engaged. He has held offices of trust and responsi- bility at various tmies. He has been commissioner of highways, assessor, and was the representative of his town on the Board of Supervisors for five successive terms, from 1881 to 1886 inclusive, being chairman of the board in 1885. At the building of the county jail he was one of the building committee. In politics Mr. Bailey has always been a Republican. Casson, Mordecai, was born in Otsego county, N. V.. August 37, 1839, son of Mordecai and Sarah Strongitharm Cas.son, he a native of Thorne, Yorkshire, Eng- land, born in October, 1802, and she of Butternuts, Otsego county, N.Y. The grand- father of the subject was Mordecai, who was a native of Thorne, Yorkshire, England, and a minister among the Friends, and his father was Mordecai, also a native of York. The family were of Welsh descent, and several generations lived in Yorkshire. Mor- decai, the father of our subject, came to Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and then removed to Otsego county, and in 1854 came to Tuscarora, where he died May 2, 1882. Mrs. Casson died in October, 1878. He was a farmer and owned 300 acres of land. He was always a member of the Friends. Mordecai was fourteen years old when his parents came to Steuben county, N. Y., where he has since resided. July 21. 1863, he enlisted in Co. G, 2d New York Volunteer Cavalry, under Captain Sanford, and served until October 8, 1865. He was in the Red River Expedition with Banks, and was in a battle near Alexander, Pleasant Hill, La., Cane River Crossing, Grandecore, and was engaged in the Mississippi raid under General David- son, which started from Baton Rouge, La , and terminated at Pascagoula Bay, Miss. In the spring of 1865 he was in the expedition against Mobile from Pensacola, Fla. At the close of the war Mr. Casson returned to Tuscarora and he and his brother William took up 160 acres of land, and in 1882 the latter sold his share to Mordecai- In 1880 Mr. Casson and his brother John engaged in the lumber business, and at the present time they own 410 acres, and are also in the lumber business. Mr. Casson is a Re]>ub1ican and in 1875 was supervisor. He was educated at Price's Academy and Alfred University, and taught school several years. May 2, 1883. he married Helen II 298 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTT. Griswold of Southport, Chemung county. Her father was James Griswold, who married Cynthia Tozer, and Mr. Griswold was buried on his ninety-first birthday. He was a member of the State militia, and was justice of the peace for fifty years. Mr. and Mrs. Casson are the parents of two children: James G. and Mordecai. Mr. Casson is a breeder of registered Shropshire sheep. Adams, Asa, was born in the town of Boston, Erie county, N. Y., February 6, 1815, and is a son of Aaron, whose father, Aaron Adams, sr., was a native of Ver- mont and one of the first settlers of Utica, N. Y., and was captain of a company in the Revolutionary war. Aaron Adams, jr., came from Vermont in 1808 and settled in Erie county, N. Y. He served in the war of 1812. He married Sylvia Cary. Asa Adams attended the common schools and in 1841 entered the Western Reserve Col- lege at Hudson, Ohio, where he spent his freshman and sophomore years, and then entered Union College at Schenectady, N. Y., graduating in 1843. The following year he entered the Auburn Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1847. He was licensed by the Presbytery and was called to Cohocton, where he was pastor of the Presbyterian church for three years, during which period he read law with C. J. McDowell of Cohocton, and in 1850 was admitted to the bar. In 1851 he removed to North Cohocton and began the practice of law, and in 1869 he settled at Bloods (now Atlanta), and engaged in the mercantile trade, selling out in 1876, and engaged in the drug business for about eight years, and then retired. He has been largely interested m real estate, and has erected many buildings in Atlanta and North Cohocton. He is a Republican, and was appointed postmaster at North Co- hocton in 1853 under President Pierce, which office he held until 1871, when through his efforts the post-office at Bloods was established, and he was appointed postmaster there, holding that office until 1875. Under the old school system he was town superintendent several years ago. He was elected justice of the peace in 1858, and held that office for twenty years, and was one of the charter members of Liberty Lodge, No. 510, F. & A. M., and the I. O. O. F. In 1814 he married Margaret Lindsley, who died in 1850. In 1851 he married Mary Raymond, and they are the parents of three children: Lindsley; Maria (Mrs. George Fowler) of Cohocton; and Luella (Mrs. Arthur Symonds) of Curtis, N. Y. Halsey, Charles R., was born in the town of Ulysses, Tompkins county, March 23, 1817, the second son of a family of ten (seven sons, three daughters) children of Isaac Halsey, a farmer. Charles E. was educated in the common schools and made his home on the farm with his father until 1844, when he removed to Bath, Steuben county, and after spending one year in the hotel business, he entered the employ of D. H. Davis, where he remained one year. He was then one year in Prattsburg, and in 1847 located in Hammondsport and entered the employ of Delos Rose, where he remained for five years, later was in Carolina, and then spent twelve years with McGee in charge of the mercantile department at the mmes in Fall Brook. In Octo. ber, 1876, he returned to Hammondsjjort and established a grocery and provision store, which he conducted until 18!)5, when he sold, and is now living retired in the village of Hammondsport. Mr. Halsey has always been a warm supporter of the Democrat party, and has twice been president of the village, also for one term was town clerk-. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for over forty years, with Urbana Lodge, No. 469, and a member of St. Omer's Commandery. May 6, FAMILY SKETCHES. -'99 1847, he married Mary Elizabeth Wheaton, a native of Geneva, then a resident of Prattsburg, by whom he had two children: Minnie, who died December 1."), 1862, aged five years; and William \V., manager of the Western New York Car Associa- tion now located at Buffalo. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Association of Railway Superintendents. .Smith, Edwin F.. was born in Woodhull, November 28, 1835, son of Col. Jeffery and Mary A. (Farwell) Smith. Jeffery came to Woodhull with his parents, Caleb and Hannah (Drake) Smith, in 1806. In 1861 Edwin enlisted m Co. E, 34th N. V. Vols. Inft., served eighteen months and was honorably discharged for general dis- ability, caused by sun-stroke, which in the end caused his death. He was in thirteen prominent engagements; Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Seven Days retreat before Rich- mond, Malvern Hill, etc. ; he was promoted from second to first lieutenant in the fall of 1861. In 1863 was united in marriage to Elizabeth Alcott, daughter of Aca and Clarissa (Owen) Alcott. natives of Otsego and Chenango counties, N. Y. Mr. Alcott died in Hornby December 2, 1843, and his wife m Corning in 1886. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Smith four children; Walter A., born May 20, 186.5; Ar- thur F., born June 29, 1870; Mabel C, born May 6, 1873; Edwin F., born August 15, 1878. Mr. Smith died October 12, 1894, after an illness of five years. He was con- fined to his bed the whole time during his illness of that period. Dunning, Marcus E., was born in Allegany county, town of Almond, August 2, 18,50. S. L. Dunning, his father, was a native of Tompkins county and moved to Allegany county when a young man, where he followed farming until 1861, when he removed to Hornellsville, where he conducted a hotel. He now lives retired, aged sixty-eight years. Marcus was educated in the city schools, then engaged as a clerk in a clothing store In 1871 he engaged as clerk in the insurance office of J. B. Mandeville, with whom he remained four j-ears. He was then for a short time with F. M. Crookita, after which he spent seven years in the office of Coye & Young. In 1883 he entered into partnership with George Holland, which partnership existed until December, 1891, when Mr. Dunning bought out the interest of Mr. Holland and IS now conducting the business alone. He represents .some of the best foreign and American fire insurance companies, also a representative of life, accident, and all classes of insurance. Mr. Dunning has held the office of town collector in Hornells- ville. He is financier of the A. O. U. W., an office he has held for eleven years. He is steward of the Methodist church. In August, 1873, he married Maggie, daughter of C. F. Fairbanks, of Hornellsville. They have five children: Jessie, Herbert, Grace, Walter and Margery. Kellogg, Silas, was born in Grove, Allegany county, N. Y. , December 8, 1844, only son of James H. and Sarah (Wilson) Kellogg, he is a native of Geneseo, Livingston county, N. Y., and she of Rupert, Vt. The paternal grandparents. Whiting and Lorinda (Burr) Kellogg, came from Connecticut to Geneseo, afterwards settling at Grove, where he died in 1851. Mrs. Kellogg then lived at Greenwood with her son JamesH.,anddiedat I'ortageville, N. Y.,inl864. The great-grandfather, Eleazer, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. The maternal grandparents were Otis and Alice (Anderson) Wilson of Vermont. James H. Kellogg Jearned the miller's trade when young, and was partner of R. S. Davis in a mill at Rough and Ready. Mrs. Kellogg 300 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. died in 1861, and Mr. Kellogg in January, 1892. He was a member of Sentinel Lodge, No. 151, F. & A. M. Silas Kellogg was educated at Alfred University, stud- ied law with Allen Burrell, esq., and was for a while in the office of Judge Robinson of Canisteo. He has been principally engaged in speculating and looking after his landed interests, owning about 600 acres which he rents. In June, 1894, he opened a law office in Greenwood. In 1864 he married Gertrude, daughter of Redmond S.. and Jane (Porter) Davis, of Greenwood. R. S. Davis was a descendant- of Samuel D. , who settled in Massachusetts about 1642. His father, Levis Davis, was born at Oxford, January 8, 1782, and was one of the first settlers of Greenwood. The father of Levis Davis, was a captam in the Revolutionary war, and was at the battle of Lexington. Mrs. Silas Kellogg died in 1865. In 1868 Silas married for his second wife, Lizzie, a sister of his former wife, by whom he has had nine children ; William G., born February 4, 1870, a graduate of Cornell University, Sarah W., and Grace D., students at Oswego; James H.. Bertha J., George D., Clara Louisa, Gertrude and ilabel, bom November 24, 1888. Mr. Kellogg enlisted in Company B, 86th N. Y. Vols., and was honorably discharged February, 1863. He was detailed on provost duty at city of Washington, and is a member of William C. White Post, No. 73, G. A. R. Jackson, William W., was born in the town of Avoca, April 23, 1835. His father, Joseph Jackson, came from the town of Seneca, Ontario county, about tlie year 1820, where he became a prosperous farmer : he was a native of Cranbrook, England, and came to America in the year 1799 with his father, William J. Jackson, who settled in Ontario county, N. Y. Joseph Jackson was a member and one of the founders of the Lyons Hollow Baptist church. He married Annis Holcomb, by whom he had seven children, all of whom lived to maturity; the first death occurred in the family when the youngest was fifty years of age. Alice, who married Rouse Hubbard and settled in the town of Prattsburg and later at Livonia, N. Y. ; Margaret, who married Albert H. Hubbard, and settled at Galesburg, Mich. ; Catherine, who married William Ber- ner, and settled at Oxford Junction, Iowa; Ebenezer L. Jackson married Mary Ketch and settled in Battle Creek, Mich. ; Hiram A. Jackson, who married Safronia Hatch; and George C Jackson, who married Alice Lillie, who also settled in Oxford Junction, Iowa. William W. Jackson on arriving at manhood settled in the town of Cohocton where, with the exception of one year spent in the west, he has since lived, being one of the successful farmers of the town. In 1888 he settled in the village of Cohocton. He is a strong Democrat and takes an active part in party affairs. He was assessor for nine j-ears, being elected to that office for three terms of three years each, and in 1890 was elected justice of the peace. In 1860 he married Nancy Ferris, by whom he had four children: Frank E. married Lottie Stanton; William F., mar- ried Mar}' Fairbrothers ; Annis J. married John E. Miller; and Cora B. married Lewis Northrup, all being-successful farmers and residing in the town of Cohocton, N. Y. Layton, Abram, was born on the homestead farm, November 18, 1838, the second son of Isaac and Maria (Retan) Layton. Abram was given a good education and made his home with his father until thirty-three years of age, remaining at home and working for his father until 1870, when he bought a farm of 148 acres of his father on lot 12, in the town of Urbana, where he has since made his home. Since FAMILY SKETCHES. 301 cominjj here Mr. Layton has made many valuable improvements to the property, in 1891 building one of the most .beautiful residences of this section. He has devoted his life to the farming industry, and while a staunch Republican in politics, we would record him as a plain, honest, upright farmer, rather than a politician. The princi- pal products are grain, hay and wool, never keeping less than 100 .sheep. In 1870 he married Amanda, daughter of Samuel Drew, and they have one adopted daughter, Mabel lone Layton. Gleason. Ezra, was born in the town of Luzerne, Warren county. June II, 18:53. His father, David Gleason, was a native of this State, and also a farmer. He died April 8. 1836. Ezra was given a common school education, and remained at the homestead farm with his mother until he was fourteen years of age, when he started for himself and came to Steuben county m 1848. He was employed in a saw mill in Campbelltown and Thurston for about eight years, and was then engaged in farming and lumbering until 1862, when he enlisted in Co. G, of the 107th Regt. N. Y. Vols., as lieutenant of the company, and served until the battle of Antietam, when he was wounded in both legs by a shell. He was discharged November 20, of the same year. He returned to Thurston and spent three years in lumbering, when he located near Watkins, Schuyler county, and bought a farm which he conducted fourteen years. April 1, 1878, he bought the Chapman farm of 315 acres, in the town of Urbana, where he still resides. Mr. Gleason was formerly a Democrat, but is now a warm supporter of Republican principles. He was for three years superin- tendent of the poor, elected on the Democratic ticket by over 800 majority. He has also held some of the minor offices of the town. He is one of the directors of the Erie & Niagara Land Company, which position he has held since its organization. In 1857 he married Sarah T., daughter of II. P. Clark, of Thurston, by whom he had six children: Ezra C, vineyardist of this town; Carrie E., who resides at home; Eber F., a farmer and vineyardist of this town ; Agnes M., who is a teacher, a grad- uate of Haverling Academy; Kate, also a graduate of class of '95; and Donald, a student at Haverling Academy. Mr. Gleason is a member of l^rbana Lodge, No. 459, and Cohocton Chapter, R. A. M. Duck, Rev. Thomas, M.A., was born in Somerset-sbire, England, September 4, 1851, and came with his parents to this country in 1854, locating in Cayuga county, N. Y., where his father, John Duck, afterwards conducted a farm. Thomas was educated at Cayuga Lake Academy at Aurora, and entered Hobart College on his twenty-second birthday, graduating in 1878. From February, 1876, to June, '77, he was a teacher in St. John's Military Academy at Manliu.s. He entered college with the intention of studying for the ministry and he at once began missionary work at Willowdale in Seneca county. During the latter half of his senior year he carried on work at Dresden in Yates county as a lay reader, and continued there until 1879. (luring which year he taught school at May's Mills. September 10, 1879, he entered the General Theological Seminary at New York, and June 12, 1881, he was ordained dea- con by Bishop Seymour in St. Matthew's church, Jersey City. He spent one year as min- ister in charge of the church of St. John the Evangelist, near Thiells, Rockland county, N. Y. May 25, 1882, he was graduated from the seminary, and June 4, 1882. was ordained to the priesthood by Hishoj) Horatio Potter, D. D. He determined to take up work in Colorado. June 15, 1882. he married Clara Mabel Badger of Penn Yan, 302 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. and June 28 he passed through Hammondsport on his way to his western home. He located in Gunnison, Col., where he was rector of the Church of the Good Samar- itan a little more than two years, during which time he founded missions at Salida, Crested Butte, and Aspen, removing to the latter place in September, 1884, where he remained one year. In September, 1885, he returned to Havana, Schuyler county, founding the mission at St. Mark's at Millport, Januarys, 1886. January 15, 1887, he became assistant to the Rev. Charles H. Smith of Buffalo, with a special field at St. Thomas parish and St. Matthew's mission. In October, 1889, he accepted a call from Bishop Huntington to locate at Horseheads, having charge also of Mill- port and Big Flats, and remained there until May 1, 1892, when he resigned. In June, 1892, he became rector of St. James church, Hammondsport. From June till December, 1893, he held mission services at North Urbana. and in May, 1893, he took charge of St. John's church, 'Wayne, continuing till the fall of 1894, making meantime many improvements to the property. In F'ebruary, 1895, he began hold- ing services at Grange Hall, Pleasant Valley. He thoroughly enjoys missionary work, and for two and one-half years while at Horseheads, was secretary of the Si.xth Missionary District of Central New York. Mr. Duck is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Urbana Lodge, No. 459, of Hammondsport and of Bath, Chapter No. 95, R. A. M. He is also a member of the Royal Templars of Temper- ance, and was presiding ofhcer of his council in Buffalo, and Grand Chaplain of the State two years. Mr. and Mrs. Duck are the parents of three daughters: Leila, Bertha, and Dora. Ketch, Cyrus, was born in the the west part of the town of Prattsburg, June 25, 1831, son of Hiram Ketch, who was a native of Vermont, and served as fife majfir in the War of 1813. He came from Vermont in 1818 and settled first at Italy, Yates county, N. Y., and the following year came to Steuben county and settled on Lent Hill, where, beginning empty handed, by his industry and frugal habits he acquired a competence. He was one of the founders of the Lent Hill M. E. church, and was for many years one of the trustees. Later in life he became a 'Wcsleyan Methodist. He married Sally Peck, who died in 1892. by whom he had seven children: Harriet, wife of Joseph Billison ; Aurelia, wife of Benjamin D. Wells; Cyrus; Lewis A., who married Caroline Phillips, 'and settled in Naples, where he was a farmer and carpen- ter, and where he died; Nancy J., who married Ebenezer Keeler, and settled in Avoca; Fanny L., who married Augustus Weld, and settled in Prattsburg; and Eleanor L., who married George A. Pox, and settled in Avoca. Mr. Ketch died in 1875. Cyrus Ketch settled on the homestead, where he has always lived, and is one of the prosperous farmers of his town. In 1864 he enlisted in Company A, 1st N. Y. Dragoons, and served until the close of the war. He married Mary Van Housen, by whom he had seven children: Stephen H., who enlisted in 18''2 in the 148th N Y. Vols., and died in the service in 1863; l^ouisa J., who died in 1867; Marcia L., who died in 1852; Buell. who died in 1851 ; Margaret E.. who died in 1854; Julia E. (Mrs. Haskell Wilkinson); Hiram, who married Ada Lyke and settled in Howard. For his second wife he married Rosanna Wilkinson, by whom he had three children : Burton E. , who married Emma Hatch and settled in Cohocton ; Mary (Mrs. Seth Keeler); and Cyrus J., who married Ella Lake, and settled in Cohocton. Fritz, Clark C. and Alice C. Fritz were born August 11, 1870, and October 5, 1852, FAMILY SKETCHES. 303 respectively. Their grandfather, George Fritz, was born in Columbia county, Pa., September 4, 1793, and settled on the place now occupied by G. \V. Fritz, in 1826. Me married Catherine Kile, who was born at the same place, by whom he had ten children. Wesley Fritz, father of Clark and Alice, was the eldest son, and was born in Columbia county. Pa., Sugar Loaf townshij), March 6, 1819, and died April 11, 1889. He owned 175 acres of land situated at Doty's Corners. He was a man of retiring diposition, honest and upright, and was known as one of the model farmers of Dansville. June 20, 18.51, he married Jane E. Clark, who was born March 0, 1828 and died Xovember 14, 1880, by whom he had four children: Alice C, as above; George T., who was born January 11, 1856; Wesley W., who was born March 3, 1858, and died February 18, 1875; and Clark, as above. Alice, George, and Wes- ley attended the Rogersville Seminary, and Clark C. attended the Canaseraga High Schoi)l. George married Mary E. , daughter of Spencer Jones, by whom he had two children; Spencer, who was born March 10, 1887, and Carl, who was born in Febru- ary, 1889. Casterline, Phineas H., was born in Deckertown, Susse.x county, N. J., October 28. 1826. He came to Steuben county in December, 1835, with his parents and settled in Pulteney. He worked with his father at the tanning and currying trade until his father's death, which occurred in 1854. He then carried on the business until 1860. when he went to Prattsburg and run a meat market for one year, when he came to I'rbana and purchased some land and set vineyards. In 1872 he bought a farm in Pulteney and set twenty acres to grapes. In the fall of 1884 he leased the farm and vineyard on shares, and bought some property in Hammondsport and moved there, where he has since lived a retired life. December 31, 1867, he was married to Clarissa Drew, the daughter of Samuel Drew of Urbana. They have had three children : Nettie B., who is a milliner in Hammondsport; Genevieve E., who married Herman L. Oben.share, of Mount Washington, December 31, 1894; and Charlotte M., who is a student at Geneseo State Normal School. Chrisler, William, was born in Harrington, Yates county, N.Y., Septembers, 1818, the oldest of three children born to Frederick and Charity (Rerrick) Chrisler, natives of New York and the town of Wayne, N. Y. , respectivelj'. The grandfather, Will- iam H. Chrisler, was a farmer of Harrington, where he died. Frederick Chrisler came to Bradford and engaged in farming and lumbering. He died, leaving 173 acres to William and his brother and sister, Elias and Eliza. Mrs, Chrisler died in 1825. Mr. Chrisler .sent a substitute to the war of 1812. Braeunlich, Albert E., was born in Sa.\ony, Germany, December 17, 1834, and came to this country in 1851. He was educated in the colleges of his native country, and on his arrival here engaged in the drug business in New York city. The year 1853 he spent in the same business in Philadelphia, in 1854 returning to New York, and in 18.5f) he went into business for himselfin Brooklyn. In 18.58 he engaged as clerk in the wholesale business, which he followed until 1868, when he became a partner \n the firm of E. Kane & Co., dealers in foreign wines, severing his connection in 1870, and from that time until 1879 traveled for foreign champagne manufacturers. That year he engaged with the Pleasant Valley Wine Company, and has been their repre- sentative ever since, traveling all over the United States. He has been a member of 304 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. the Masonic fraternity since 1866. In 1857 he married Minna Bleidom of New York cit\». by whom he had four children ; Mrs. Gustavus Peters, of San Francisco ; Mrs. Marie Merganthaler, Albany, N. Y. : Mrs. Rosalia Masson, widow of Otto Masson ; and Florence, who lives at home. Croyzier, George H., was born in Howard, March 28, 1864, son of William, who was born in Ireland and came to this country at the age of seventeen years, settling in Howard, where he lived for forty years. William Croyzier lived to be seventy-six years old. He married Mrs. Rose Ann O'Brien, of Manchester, England. George H. was educated in the district schools of Howard, then was employed in a chair factory for ten years. After this the firm of Davis & Croyzier was formed, carrving the largest line of clothing and gents' furnishing goods in the village of Canisteo. Mr. Croyzier is a member of the Good Templars, the Royal Templars, the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and also of the Presbyterian church. Cornish, Thomas J., was born in the town of Bingham, Pa., June 24, 1833, son of Francis, whose father, Joseph Cornish, came from England to America and settled at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and later in Potter county. Pa. Francis Cornish, born in 1810, learned the hatter's trade at Delhi, N. Y., when a young man. He settled in Potter county, where he lived until 1847, at which time he removed to Steuben county, settling in the town of Wheeler, and soon after to Prattsburg, where the re- mainder of his life was spent. He married Hannah Monroe, by whom he had ten children; Jane, Thomas J., Louise, James. Albert, Mary, Elisha, Sarah F., Coleman, Joseph. Thomas J. was educated in the district schools and Franklin Academy, of Prattsburg, after which he taught school for three terms. In 1866 he engaged in the mercantile trade at Italy Hollow, and three years later settled at Atlanta and en- gaged in the dry goods and grocerj^ trade, being at this time the only merchant in the place. From small beginnings, by untiring industry and honorable business methods, he has built up an enviable reputation as a business man. In 1858 Mr. Cornish married Olive N. Bardeen, of Ital^-, N. Y., by whom he had four children: Hattie (Mrs. E. N. Jenks) of Black River, N. Y. ; William T., who is in the mercan- tile trade at Atlanta, and was appointed postmaster at Atlanta, under Harrison. which office he held for five years; Collins C, deceased; and Satie. Armstrong, Joseph P., was bom in Bath, Steuben county, N. Y., June 21, 1842, son of Leonard and Margaret Rutherford Armstrong, both natives of Northumber- land, England. They came to America in 1819 and settled in Eagle Valley, town of Bath, where he died in 1876. and she in 1871. In religion they were Episcopalians. The paternal grandfather, Joseph Armstrong, lived and died in England. The maternal grandfather, Edward Rutherford, came from England and .settled in Bath. He removed to North Kanona, but returned to Bath, where he died. In 1872 J. P. Armstrong married Elizabeth, daughter of O. P. Alderman of Thurston, and ihey were the parents of six children: Ethel, born July 26. 1880; Leonard, born Augiist 28, 1882; James, born in August, 1884; Stanley, born February 22, 1887; and Ben- jamin and Florence, born July 27, 1890. Mr. Armstrong has always been a farmer by occupation, commencing in Bath, then removing to Thurston, where he remained four vears, and in 1891 bought the farm of 180 acres, which he now owns in Brad- ford. He is a member of Savona Lodge No. 755, F. & A. M. FAMILY SKETCHES. 305 Davison, M., was born in County Cavan, Ireland, October 17, 1845, and came to the United States in 1846 with his parents, William and Margaret Davison, who settled in Bath with their three children. Moses Davison was educated at Haver- ling Union School and in 1801 entered the employ of J. & L. Buhler as a clerk in their dry goods store. When this firm retired from business he became connected with the general store of W. W. Wilson, in which jjosition he remained until 1864, when he enlisted in Co. H. 18i)th N.Y.Vols., and took part in all the engagements in which that regiment participated up to and including the surrender of General Lee at Appomatto.x Court House. After the close of the war he received an honorable discharge on May 30. 18(i.5, when he returned to Bath and entered the employ of H. W. Ferine, with whom, and two others, in IHSa he formed a partnership under the style of H. W. Perine & Co. After the dissolution of this firm in 1884 he remained with the establishment until in 1890 the present firm was formed, under the firm name of Perine & Davison, carrying on a general business in dry goods, carpets, boots and shoes, groceries, etc. In 1873 he married Eva, daughter of Alexander Hall of Bath, by whom he has two children ; William and Anna B. Mr. Davison is one of the representative business men of the town ; director of the Bath Savings and Loan Association ; a member and past master of Steuben Lodge No. 112, V. & A. M., Bath Chapter No. 95, R. A. M., and De Molay Commandery \o. 22, K. T., Ilornclls- ville. Ix)ngwell, Hosea, was born in Sussex county, N. J., in August, 1811, and is the oldest of thirteen children born to James and Sarah Carver Longwell, both natives of Putnam, N. Y. They moved to New Jersey, where they remaine. A. Drake, engaged in the grocery and crockery trade at Cohocton; a few months later Henry Finch purchased Drake's interest, and the firm existed until 1889, when Mr. Maichle purchased his partner's interest and has since continued the business. He is a staunch Democrat, and takes an active part in party affairs. He was town clerk one year, and in 1888 was elected justice of the peace. He is a member of St. Pius R. C. church. December 21, 1881, he married Sybillia, daughter of William Becker, by whom he had five children; William H., Robert J., Clarence E., Francis IC, Ida A. 312 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Alden, Dr. Philo L., was born in the village of Howard, August 27, 1856. His father, George Alden. was also a native of Steuben county, born in Milo in 1824. He was a millwright and lumberman by trade, and it is said of him that he built almost all of the mills in Cohocton valley. He died in 1887. He married Ann C. Chapman, of Fremont, who died in Hammondsport, February 7, 1895, by whom he had eight chil- dren. Philo L. was the ne.xt to the youngest, and was educated in the High School of Howard, and at seventeen years of age entered Alfred University, teaching school in the winter, until 187G. He remained in Howard until 1879, in the mercantile busi- ness, and then removed to Buffalo, making his home in that city four years, the latter two years being engaged as traveling salesman. In 1835 he came to Keuka Lake on his vacation, and took up the study of medicine with Drs. Burleson and Nichols, at Pulteney. The years 1885 and 1886 he spent in the medical department of the Uni- versity of Buffalo, and was graduated March 1, 1887. He located in Wayne, Steu- ben county, where he remained until October, 1889, when he came to Hammonds- port, where he has since been engaged in regular practice. He is president of the Board of Pension Examiners, located at Bath, appointed by President Cleveland July 20, 1893, and is also a member of Steuben County Medical Society. September 17, 1885, he married M. Emma, daughter of Dr. L. M. Nichols, of Pulteney, by whom he had two children: George Lyman, now in his eighth year, and Edna May, who died at nine months of age in April, 1892. Christie, Amelia A., youngest of ten children, was born January 11, 1838, in Middlesex, Yates county, N.Y. James Christie, her father, was a well educated man, of Scotch-Irish descent. He settled on a large farm in Middlesex, and died there in 1881 at ninety years of age. Her mother, Lydia Southerland Adams, was of English stock. Both grandfathers served in the war of the Revolution. Chester Adams, her grandfather, through much hardship, brought into Middlesex the first wheat sowed there near the year 1793. James Christie served as a soldier in the latter part of the war of 1812. Amelia received a part of her education at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, but graduated in Albany at the State Normal School, July 12, 1855. She taught a few years at Rushville, Yates county, and at Lyons, Wayne county. She turned her atttentionin 1868 to the study of medicine. She graduated in March, 1872, at The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, located in Phila- delphia, opposite Girard College. She practiced medicine at Rushville, her home, for eight years, but in December, 1881, came to Hornellsville, where she has since been located. She married Frederick R. Perry, February 1, 1886. Irederick R. Perry was born in Rushville, Ontario county, and is of English stuck. He served in the late Civil war, enlisting from Iowa, at that time his home, and had the proud privilege of "marching with Sherman to the sea." He came to Hornellsville in 1881, and is at present an employee of the L. E. & W. R. R. Schmoker, Adolphus, was born in Switzerland, April 16, 1856, son of C. and Mar- garet Schmoker of Keuka. Mr. Schmoker came to America in 1880, settled at Ham- mondsport, and was with his uncle in a hotel for a time. In 1881 he married Louise M., daughter of John Bergine of Switzerland. Mr. Schmoker came to Keuka, where he engaged in the vineyard business, and in 1895 he erected the Helvetia House, and is also engaged in the wine business. He is a member of Lamoka Lodge, No. 463, F. & A. M., and Hammondsport Lodge, No. 584, I. O. O. F. FAMILY SKETCHES. 313 Thompson, George, was born in North Stonington, Conn., May 10, 1821, and is the oldest of twelve children born to Robert and Esther (Slocum) Thompson, of North Stonington, Conn., who came to Chenango county, thence to Steuben county, and settled in Tuscarora about 1833. He died May 20, 1874, and his wife in 1827. George Thompson was reared on a farm and has since followed farming, bridge building aud lumbering. In 1S6,'5 he went to Illinois, where he remained three years. In 1870 he bought a farm in Tuscarora and in 1802 sold it to his brother, but still oversees it. In 1869 he married Lucy, daughter of Allen and Sally (Hickey) Beards- ley, by whom he had two children : Sylvester, who was born February 14, 1872 ; and Nellie, who was born August i), 1875. His father, Robert Thompson, was married three times; he had two children by his first wife, five by his second and five by the third. Barnard, F. K., of Corning, Steuben county, N. Y., son of C. D. Barnard, whose sketch is given elsewhere, was born in the town of Caton in 1857. and resides on the old home place. He has followed lumbering and farming all his life. In 1880 he married Libbie Cass, a native of Troy, Pa., who died in 1894. He has two children : Ray and Claire. Brace, William H., was born in Tompkins county in 1820. When eight years old he moved to Tioga county. Pa., and from there to Chemung county two years later. In 1843 he married Lucretia Whitney, al.so a native of Tompkins county, and they moved to Steuben county in 1850. In 1852 they came to their present farm in Caton. which consists of 112 acres. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. D, 141st New York Vols., serving six months, being confined in the hospital most of the time. They have two sons: James W., and Augustus J. He has filled the offices of constable, collector, and poormaster. Barnard, C. D., was born in Otsego county, in 1828, son of Frederick Barnard, and a brother of the late George A. Barnard. He remained on the home farm till he was married in 1855 to Mary Jane Gorton, a native of the town of Corning, and a sister of Rufus Gorton. He moved to his present place about five years later, and has been engaged in the saw mill and lumbering business connected with farming ever since. He has a farm of 200 acres, and makes a specialty of dairying. He has five children; F. E., who resides on the old Barnard homestead, Alice, wife of John Wellman, Emma, wife of John Griswold, Edgar, and Lewis. Bowen, Juliza C, was born f)ctober 1, 1839. Her father, Henry Cotton, was born in Washington county, N. Y., June 20, 1798. He owned 168 acres of land, and dealt in stock, but his principal business was farming, and to such men is due the credit of making Steuben county what it is to-day. He died in 1885. He married Almira, daughter of Daniel Martin, who was born in Hartford, Washington county, by whom he had five children: Silas, who was born January 7, 1822; Lydia Ann, who was born November 8, 1827; Samuel S., who was born September 20, 1831 : Daniel, who was born August 16, 1837; and Juliza, as above, who was educated in the Rogers- ville Seminary, and has taught school for a number of terms. February 17, 1859, she married William H. Bowen, who was born in South Dansville, Steuben county, De- cember 14, 1838, and died October 7, 1884. He purchased a farm of 1.50 acres where his wife now resides, and was supervisor of the town of Fremont two years, also as- 314 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. sessor for a number of terms. They had eleven children : Alice E., born January 5, I860: Elsie R., born October 2. 18f>2: Ira C, born April 26, 1864; James H., born January 17, 1866; William M., born September 27, 1868, and died December 14, 1884; May J., born May 11, 1870, and died April 11, 1880; Zina C, born June 1, 1871; Frank, deceased; Elroy, born August 22, 1874; Fred J., born March 22, 1887; and Glen I., born April 26, 1882. James H. is the pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist church of which his mother is a member. He married Philinda Sprague July 20, 1892. Elsie R. married George Silsbury, May 12, 1886. Four of the children are teachers, and the rest are going to school and attending to the farm. Buck, Charles Albert. — His grandfather, John A. Buck, was one of the first set- tlers of Fremont, coming there about 1812, and died at Hornellsville, N. Y., at the age of ninety-two j-ears. Charles E. Buck was born in Fremont in 1818, being the first male child born in that town, and was a farmer by occupation. He married Sarah Patchin. who was born in the town of Wayland in 1807, and three children were born to them: Walter, Charles Albert as above, and . Mrs. Buck was a mem- ber of the Methodist church, and died at the age of eighty-two years. Mr. Buck died in the town of Fremont, March 23, 1863. Charles Albert was born March 20, 1851, educated at the Rogersville Union Seminary, and was a carpenter by trade for about five years, but has since followed farming, owning a farm of 300 acres about one half mile from Big Creek. He is master of the Big Creek Grange, No. 324. December 80, 1874, Mr. Buck married Chloe M., daughter of George M. Franklin, of the town of Howard. She was born September 2, 1854, and has a good common school edu- cation, is a doctress in Hornellsville. Call C. M. Buck, Faith Medium Healer, office No. 5 Bennett street, Hornellsville. Mr. and Mrs. Buck are the parents of three children: Dora May, born October 24, 1879; George A., born August 30, 1882, died September 23, 1886; and Murtil, born February 2, 1892, who died in infancy. They have adopted two children: Ida May Johnson, born February 2, 1878, and Clare Earl Johnson, born June 16, 1881. Babcock Stanton C, was born January 4, 1858. I lis grandfather was of English stock, and was born in Rhode Island, and died in Buffalo, N. Y. The father of our subject was born July 20, 1817. He had a good common school education, and was a farmer and carpenter by occupation. He has held the office of highway commis- sioner, also of collector of the town of Hornellsville. He is a member of Stephens Mills Grange, No. 308. In 1837 he married Ruth Phillips, who was born in Cohocton Valley, August 18, 1819, by whom he had si,\ children: Ester Jane, who died in in- fancy; Maryette Kelle5^ who was born November 27, 1841 ; Harriet Lowell, who was born April 5, 1844; William W. , who was born May 21, 1849; Edwin P., who was born August 12, 1851 ; and Stanton, as above, who was educated at Painted Post. He has been selling machinery' on the road, and has alwaj'S been engagid in farm- ing, and owns a farm of 155 acres. He has been pathmaster and trustee of district No. 8, town of Fremont, and clerk of the same distjict. He is a member of the F. & A. M., No. 478, of Dansville, N. Y. , also a member of Stephens Mills Grange, No. 308. At Canisteo, N. Y., November 24, 1881, he married Mary M. Acomb, who was born in South Dansville, December 27. 1855, by whom he had one child : Harrison Lee, who was born September 20, 1887. Mrs. Babcock's father, Thomas Acomb, was born in England, and came to this country when five years of age. FAMILY SKETCHES. 316 Blades. Dr. John W., was born in Xaples, Ontario county, N. Y. , September 14, 1855, son of Rev. J. H. and Ellen (Woodin) Blades, he a native of Yorkshire. Eng- land, and she of Dutchess county. M- Y. Her father came from England in an early day and lived and died in Dutchess county, N. Y. J. H. Blades, father of John W., was educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, after which he entered the Methodist ministry and preached three years in England. In 18.58 he came to Wayne county, N. Y. , and entered the East Genesee Conference, and remained in the ministry until his death, which occurred April 11, 1891. His wife died in January, 1863. John W. Blades was educated in the common .schools and Addison Academy, after which he read medicine with Dr. John Mitchell, of Addison, and was graduated from the medical department of the University of New York in 1881, and began the practice of his profession in Canisteo, N. Y. He was in Greenwood for six years, and Janu- ary 1, 1894, came to Cameron Mills, where he had a very successful practice. He is a member of the Hornellsville Medical Association and Tioga Coimty Medical Asso- ciation, and was elected State Board of Health ofiicer for Rathbone and Thurston, Steuben county, N. \'. He is a member of Cameron Mills Lodge, No. 547, F. & A. M. April 14, 1880, he married Emma M. Merritt, of Lindley, Steuben county, N. Y., by whom he had two children: Katie G., and Glenn M. In 1880 he received a di- ploma from Prof. J. W. Wright, as operative surgeon, and in 1881 he also received a diploma from William H. Thompson, on semeiology and physical diagnosis of diseases. Beckwith, James T., was born in Bath, Steuben county, N. Y. , June 28, 1841, son of Amasa B. and Martha C. (Thomson) Beckwith, he a native of Connecticut, born March 17, 1808, and she born January 28, 1815. The grandfather, Araasa Beckwith, was born in Connecticut and came to Pennsylvania, thence to Bath about 1814, where he died in 1833. He married Fanny Simonds, who died December fi, 1851, by whom he had these children: Elijah, who died in Hornellsville, April 1, 1881; Amasa B., father of James T. ; George W., who died in Bath, December 23. 1835; Philance T., who died in Bath October 5, 1850; Azilla J., who died in Prattsburg, Decembers, 1831; Caroline M., who was born in Bath, February 18, 1825, wife of James Webster, of Tioga county, N. Y., and had two children: Gilbert E. and Fan- nie D. Mr. Webster died October 1, 1851, aged thirty-four years, and Mrs. Webster married Merritt Island, who died in March, 1892; and Samuel S., who was born in Steuben county, m 1811, and died in St. Lawrence county, September 22, 1857. Amasa B. Beckwith was a miller, and built the Eagle Mills of Bath, which he sold in 1866, and came to Cameron Mills where he engaged in the milling business, and where he died June 11, 1874. His widow now lives in Grand Rapids, Mich., and is eighty years of age. James T. Beckwith was reared a miller and educated in the common schools, after which he engaged in farming and milling, and owns 110 acres of land and the Cameron Mills. He is a member of Bath Lodge, No. 112, F. &A. M., Bath Chapter, No. !)5, R. A. M., and Commandery of Hornellsville. He is also a member of the I. O. R. M., of Cameron Mills, No. 5(i, and the Farmers' Alliance. Oc- tober 20, 1864, he married Mary Island, a native of Tioga county, X. Y., and daugh- ter of Merritt and Mary (Ingersoll) Island, by whom he had seven children : Guy, who was born December 21, 1865, and resides at Cameron Mills; Charles M., who was born November 25, 1867, and resides at Grand Rapids; one who died in infancy; 3 16 LANDMARKS OP STBtJBEN COUNTY. Xaud, who was born September 19, 1871 ; James, who was born July 19, 1873. and died April 16, 1875; Harry, who was born November 1, 1874, and died April 16, 1875; and Helen C, who was born September 15, 1883, and died August 21, 1885. June 18, 1886, Guy Beckwith married Grace Brady, of Cameron, and they had one child, Leroy, born in 1887, who was drowned in Canisteo River August 13, 1892. Ainsworth, H. R., M.D., was born in Erieville, Madison county. N. Y., September 29, 1841. Soranus Ainsworth, his father, was born at Cazenovia, and the ancestry of this noted family may be traced back to England and to as early date as the thir- teenth century. The great-great-grandfather, whose sons were active participants in the Revolution, was a pioneer of the famous old town of Woodstock, Conn. Abial Ainsworth, grandfather of H. R. Ainsworth, was a posthumous child, his father. Colonel Nathan Ainsworth, having died a prisoner in the hands of the British previous to Abial's birth. He was one of the founders of New Woodstock, N. Y., in 1804. naming the settlement from the dear old place they had left behind. After a year had passed, he was filled with a desire to visit the old home, and, as railroad facilities and steamboat navigation were then unknown luxuries, the journey was accomplished on foot, through forests, across streams, and amid perilous surroundings, made more dangerous still by the ever lurking savage, but all of which is indicative of the strong physique and energy of the man. Mrs. Ainsworth. mother of H. R., was Caroline Hawkins of Virgil, Cortland county, and was also a descendant of an old Connecticut family near New Haven. Soranus Ainsworth, a Baptist minister, died in 1888, his death being earned by exposure to the cold weather of January of the same year, at which time he was called to Truxton, N. Y., to officiate at the marriage of a lady whose father and mother he had married, also the grandfather and grandmother, making three generations he had united in wedlock. Dr. Ainsworth began his edu- cation at Erieville, Madison county, and his study of medicine was begun in 1862 at Truxton, Cortland county, in Drs. Newcome's and Nelson's office. In 1866 he grad- uated from the University of the City of New York, and although a general practi- tioner, he has a leaning toward specialism in ocularcomplaints. His career has been one of steady advancement, and he has the confidence, not only of the citizens of his own town, but of adjoining towns as well. Aldrich, Loren B., was born in 1834, at Plymouth, Chenango county, N. Y., son of E. A. Aldrich, who was a farmer of Rhode Island birth, and at his death in 1883 left nine children, of whom four are now deceased. At an early age Mr. Aldrich en- gaged in the manufacture of sash, doors, and blinds, which was for a long time the leading industry of Addison, and with which he has been connected for forty years, as an expert mechanic and contractor. Among the Masonic fraternity he holds the highest rank, being a member of Corning Consistory, St. Omer's Comraandery, and a knight of the Mystic Shrine He is also an Odd Fellow, and a member of various other benevolent and social organizations. In local government Mr. Aldrich has long taken a leading part, being village trustee for eight years, president for two years, and a member of the Board of Education for twenty years. He married Hul- dah Houghtaling, who died in 1893, leaving one daughter, Erminie, the wife of Jacob Bochnewetch, of Silver Creek, N. Y. , who has one son Harry, who is six years of age. Another daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich, named Carmitia, died when four years old. FAMILY SKETCHES. 317 Barron, Dr. William E. was born in Addison, Steuben county, in 1800. William P. Barron, his father, was a native of New Hampshire, and came to Addison m 1840, He was a farmer and river pilot, and married Matilda Jennings, a member of the well-known pioneer family. William E. Barron began the study of medicine at Bal- timore, Md., and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1891, and began practice in his native town, where he has won high esteem and honor. December 24, 1892, he married Julia Blakeslee, whose father, the well-known edu- cator, was at that time a professor m Alfred University, and now principal of Addi- son Academy. They have one daughter, Dorothy, who was born in 1893. Bliss, Frank, is of English ancestry, and the sole survivor of live children of Will- ard A. Bliss, who was born in Leyden, Mass., in 1817. His father moved to Truxton in 1822, and to Addison in 1847. Willard Bliss was a sash and blind manufacturer, but on account of ill-health, spent his last years as a farmer and real estate dealer. He married Sarah A. Space, who now survives hira at the advanced age of eighty- three years. Frank Bliss has always been a sash, blind and door manufacturer, and has large business interests in Buffalo, where he lived for ten years. Here he is attending large real estate and farming intere.sts, owning 200 acres of choice land east of the village, where he makes a specialty of tobacco. In 1873 he married Delia A. Slater of Dunkirk, N. Y. Mr. Bliss was in early years an adherent of the Demo- cratic party, but has recently declared allegiance to Republican principles, and is now on the Board of E.xcise. He is a supporter of the Presbyterian church, and helps sustain the Y. M. C. A. Bartlett, James, was born in Yates county, August 4, 1845, sou of Silas, who was born in the same county. Silas Bartlett followed farming the most of his life. He married Hannah Barton, of Livingston county, by whom he had four children: Mor- ris, James, Clinton, and Warren. James was educated in the district schools of Yates county, then removed to Steuben county, settling first in Prattsburg, where he lived about si.xteen years, then came to Avoca, where he has since resided. He is engaged in farming and owns a farm of 179 acres, about two-thirds of which is im- proved Mr. Bartlett's first wife was Martha, daughter of Henry Barker, of Yates county, by whom he had five children: Morris, Frank, William, Came, and Nettie. His present wife was Helen, daughter of Luther Wheeler, one of the early settlers of Prattsburg. They have one son, Charles. Mr. Bartlett has held the office of high- way commissioner in Avoca. January 18, 1804, he enlisted in the 22d New York Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. He is a member of Morey Post G. A. R. No. 507. and of the Masonic Lodge No. 673. Billings, Oscar, was born in Wheeler, September 7, 18o8. Albert Billings, his father, was born in Washington county, N. Y., and came to Wheeler about 1854, where he engaged in farming. He married Elmira Clop of Washington county, by whom he had nine children. Oscar Billings was educated in Wheeler, after which he engaged in farming which he followed up to 1889, and since that time has devoted his time to milling, under the firm name of Billings, Beale & Co., running a grist mill in Avoca, and which business he still follows. He married Emma, daughter of Harry Fox, by whom he had five children: Walter S. , Lulu E., Warren E., Lillie, and Ora. Mr. Billings is at present trustee of the village, and member of Avoca Lodge of I. O. O. F., No. 538. 318 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Andrus. Jacob S., was born in Woodhull, N. Y., December 31, 1850, son of Lewis and Rebecca J. (Stuart) Andrus, he born October 25, 1S19, and she born in Barring- ton, N. Y., December 24, 1823, and were married November 10, 1843. Mr. Andrus came to Woodhull when a boy with his parents, where he still resides. His wife died September 28, 1893. Jacob S. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and has since followed farming. In 18T3 he came to Tuscarora, and in 1879 settled on the farm of 123 acres which he now owns. In 1874 he married Annie M., daughter of James and Mar\' (Merring) Moore, who settled in Rathbone in 1855, where he died in 1884 and his wife in 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Andrus have one daughter, Edith M., who was born November 20, 1879. Mr. Andrus is a member of Freeman Tent, K. O. T. M. Baxter, Harr)-, was born in Tuscarora, N. Y., October 28, 1844, son of Calvin and Phoebe (Williams) Baxter, natives of Smithville, and Oxford. N. Y., respectively, he born June 13, 1832, and she August 14, 1834. Mr. Baxter came to Tuscarora when about two years of age, where he has since resided, with the exception of about eighteen years which he spent m Nelson, Tioga county. Pa. He was a Republican in politics and was assessor and highway commissioner. He died February 17, 1886, and bis wife, November 18, 1877. Harry Baxter was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and graded schools of Nelson, Pa. He followed farming until in April, 1872, when he went to Nelson and engaged in buying and shipping grain and produce, and in selling agricultui-al implements, where he remained until 1881. He was also in the grocery business one year and was postmaster one year. He was constable and collector for about three years, and October 11, 1881, was ap- pointed deputy sheriff and also had charge of the jail. January 1, 1883, he was elected sheriff of the county by the Republican party, and served one term. He then returned to Nelson and continued in business until 1891, when he returned to the farm where he now resides. He is a member of Nelson Lodge, No. 434, I. O. O. F., which he jomed when it was organized. He married Maria Smith of Nelson, by whom he had four children: Portus, Ernest C, May and Dewitt, who died at eleven months of age. The grandfather, Ira Baxter, was born in Connecticut and came to Tuscarora about 1823. He married Betsey Manley, who was born in Connecticut, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Davenport) Manley, who came to Tuscarora about 1827, where they died. Beers, George G., was born in Tuscarora, N. Y., February 20, 1854, son of Dennis and Nancy (Sprague) Beers, natives of Tuscarora, he born August 6, 1829, and she, July 16, 1832. Dennis Beers sold the homestead and then bought the farm where he died June 11, 1892, and where his son now resides. He was a farmer and owned 168 acres of land. George G. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and Woodhull Academy. He was in the mercantile busmess at Addison Hill for two years, but is now engaged in farming, and owns fifty acres of land. He is a Prohibitionist in politics, and has been assessor two years. In 1874 he married Anice L., daughter of Philip Perkins, of Tuscarora, N. Y., by whom he had two children: Coral, who was born September 18, 1880; and Raymond, who was born August 15, 1883. The mother of George G. was a daughter of Amos and Polly (Getman) Sprague, he born in Vermont in 1801, and she, in Chenango county, N. Y., in 1806. They came to Tuscarora in an early day where they died, he April 14, 1882, and she, FAMILY SKETCHES. 319 October 15, 1861. Philip Perkins, father of Mrs. Beers, was born in Canada, March 12, 1820, and in 18.52 he came to Tuscarora, where he now resides. In 1846 he mar- ried Susan A., daughter of Samuel and Jane (Vronian) Rathbone, early settlers of Tioga county, Pa., by whom he had twelve children: Wallace. Lovina A., John G., Naucy I., Anice L., Mary A., Susan A.. Sarah E., Philip E., Nellie J., liclia A., and Samuel R. Beers, Christopher S.. was born in Tuscarora, N.Y., May 13, 1850, son of Asel and Betsey (Homorcker) Beers, he a native of Connecticut, who came to Tuscarora about 182(i, thence to Indiana in 1858, where they died. Christopher S. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and has since followed farming, and now owns a farm of 129 acres. He returned to New York when twenty-seven years of age, where he has since lived. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of Addison Lodge, I. O. O. F. In 1876 he married Susan, daughter Philip Perkins of Tuscarora, by whom he had four children: Arthur, Loren, Howard, and Gilbert. Bates, Daniel, was born in the Province of Quebec, September 19, 1817, son of Cyrus and Hannah (Webster) Bates, natives of Connecticut and New Hampshire, re- spectively. He died in Otsego county in 1840, and she in WoodhuU, N. Y. Daniel Bates was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and has since fol- lowed farming and coopering. In 1853 he came to Steuben county, where he owns 119 acres of land. In 1843 he married Amy Northrup, by whom he had eight chil- dren, six of whom grew to maturity. His second wife was Harriet Church, by whom he had three children. The great-grandfather was born on the ocean and lived to be 104 years of age. Brown. Perry, was born in the town of Westfield, Pa., August 23, 1850. George S. Brown, his father, was a native of Connecticut, and came to Pennsylvania at an early date where he purchased and cleared 100 acres of land and worked as a farmer. He married Fannie Atwood, by whom he had si.\ children: Emily, Orcelia, Dell, Perry, Willie, and Milo. Perry Brown is a farmer, owning a farm of 270 acres, and deals largely in cattle, sheep, etc., he also owns another farm of 131 acres, and is a man of great business ability and high standing in the community where he resides. He married Almo, daughter of Robert Gunderman, by whom he had two children, Kva and I-illian. He is a member of Mountain Lodge, No. 503, I. O. O. F. Howies, Thomas W., was born in Norfolk, England. August 29, 1835. George Bowles, his father, came to the United States in 1845, and first settled in Seneca county, where he remained for two years and then went to Clyde for three years, and from there to Rose Valley, Wayne county, where he remained twenty years, and engaged in farming- He came to Steuben county where he carried on the lum- ber business, and died in 1885, aged seventy-four years. He married Alice , by whom he had thirteen children. Thomas W. was educated in the district schools in Seneca county, and is one of the leading lumbermen of the town. He married Mary J., daughter of Samuel and Eliza Rodman, by whom he had two children, Jennie F. and Frederick L. Mr. Bowles runs two steam saw mills turning out one million feet of lumber per year. Bertron, F. M., was born in Canisteo, June 3, 1856. He began his education in the district schools and finished at the Ontario Veterinary College, from which he 320 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. graduated. He served three years with his father learning the blacksmith's trade, which busines he has conducted in the village since 1883. In 1883 Mr. Bertron mar- ried Hannah M. Dickmire. Bardeen, Charles E., was born in Fremont, March 18, 1855. Ezra Bardeen, his father, is also a native of this State, bom in Yates county, and married Marj' Madison of the same county by whom he had three children. Charles was educated in the common schools and has improved it by study and reading. He remained with his father on the farm until November, 1892, when he located in this city, establishing a lumber yard at the east end and the next season built a planing mill and box factory, employing about ten men, and did a very successful business until the 23d of April, 18!'o, when it was destroyed by fire. January 15, 1894, Mr. Bardeen estab- lished a coal and wood yard and it has proved a great success. The spring of 1895, the firm of Smedly, Bardeen & Smedley was established as a stock company, with a capital of $12,000 for the purpose of manufacturing silk gloves and mitts. He has also two saw mills, a portable mill and one at his timber lot near Canisteo station, which supplies his lumber and also wood for the year. Mr. Bardeen is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees. May 3, 1878, he married Cora Belle, daughter of John Shattuck, a farmer of Fremont. Bennett, Omer, was born in the town of Howard, November 22, 1838. Benjamin, his father, came with his father, Jacob Bennett, from Vermont in 1809, when he was nine years of age, who took up a tract'df 160 acres north of Howard. This land was in the normal condition and the timber land was cleared by Mr. Bennett and his sons. Mr. Bennett was married three times and had four sons and four daughters. Benjamin always followed farming, and late in life bought the old homestead and died there in 1865. He was a Democrat until the foundation of the Know Nothing party and afterward a Republican. The mother of Omer, Mary A. Armstrong, was a daughter of a Cayuga county family, who trace their ancestry to Vermont, and a descendant of Ethan Allen, three generations removed. Mrs. Bennett died in May, 1894. eighty- five j'earsof age. They were the parents of seven children, all living but one. Omer, the youngest son, waseducated in the common schools and Prattsburg Academy, and followed farming from his twentieth year until the fall of 1864. September of that year he enlisted as a private in the 142d Regiment, New York Volunteers, was wounded at Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865. and was discharged the last of May, 1865. He returned to the farm and in 1868 he built the first cheese factory at Like's Cor- ners in partnership with Lewis and Hiram Spaulding. The next year he sold his in- terest in the company and built a factory south of the village which he conducted for eight years. In the meantime, he and Van Parsons erected what was called Bennett & Parsons factory near the village and also one at Fowlgrville and then was the proprietor of a factory and creamery at Big Flats, conducting all of them at the same time. He also built a factory in the town of Dansville, in :887 he sold his in- terest and in 1878 took it back and in connection with it erected a saw mill, planing mill, and grist mill. In 1882 the property was destroyed by fire, but in sixty days had the whole machinery running again. He conducted it two years longer, and then let it to his nephews. He has always been the owner of farm lands and in 1886 he bought a farm of 126 acres and later eighty-seven acres, and after selling a small piece he has now about two hundred acres which is conducted as a dairy farm with FAMILY SKETCHES. 321 thirty-four head of cattle and five horses. He finds a market for the product in Uornellsville and Canisteo. In 1893 he bought a small place on the line of the elec- tric railroad and erected a fine home where he now resides. He was that year made trustee of school district Xo. 4, and was the builder of the model school building of that district. In December, 1858, he married Victoria, daughter of William Wallace, a farmer of Dansville. An adopted daughter, Blanche, is the wife of William Rowe, a farmer of Ilartsville. Berry, Alvin L., was born in the town of McDonough, Chenango county, N. Y., January (i, 1839, son of Elijah Berry, a native of Rhode Island, who came to New York State with his parents when only a lad. He always followed farming and in 1850 came to Steuben county, first locating in the town of Erwin where he remained three years, and then located in Burns, Allegany county, for three years, lived in Ilartsville. and then settled in Almond. He died in 1888. Alvin L. 'smother, Eunice Lewis, was also of New England birth. She died in the spring of 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Berry were the parents of two'chiJdren ■ Ezra D. , a retired farmer and insurance agent of Almond, and Alvin, as above, who was given a good common school edu- cation, and became a farmer. At twenty-four years of age he was married, and until 1892 followed lumbering winters and farming summers. In 1869 he bought a part of the old Uyke farm on division 26 consisting of forty-four acres. He had pre- viously owned fifty acres in the town of Almond, which makes him one of the finest farms of this section, the principal products being potatoes and dairy products. In connection with his farming in 1888 Mr. Berry began the dealing in coal, and now has an output of four to five hundred tons per year. He was married in January, 1862, to Adelia, daughter of Elms Hopkins, and they have two children: Eva L. and Clinton D., a stenographer and typewriter with Arbuckle Bros., of New York city. Boylan, Harris Bert, was born in the town of Burns, Allegany county, N. Y. , No- vember 8, 1857. Benson Boylan, the father of Bert, was also a native of Allegany county, and his father, Isaac, was one of the earliest settlers of that county. Benson died in 1860 when Bert was only three years old. The latter was given a common school education, and for his occupation he chose that of his ancestors, farming. His first venture for himself was the purchase of twenty-nine and one-half acres on lot No. 16, town of Hornellsville. His mother had moved to this town in 1872 and lo- cated on a farm there. She died May 17, 1889. Mr. Boylan conducted the Groveland farm until the fall of 1894 when he sold and bought the Loveland farm of fifty acres on lot No. 13, on which he now conducts a dairy farm with twelve head of stock, finding a market for his product in the creamery at Hornellsville. He is a member of Arkport Grange, No. 179, and a supporter of church and school work, he and Mrs. Boylan being members of the Presbyterian church of Arkport. November 3, 1881, he married Mary, daughter of Michael Weber of South Dansville. and they have four children: William Llewelyn, bom September 9, 1886; Lillian Maria, born August 14, 1888; Elbert Levergne, born December 31, 1889; and Edith .Margarite, born March 11, 1892, Castner, Charles A., was born in Woodull, N. Y., October 9, 1865, son of Isaac H. and Sarah (Stroud) Castner, he a native of Harrington, and she of WoodhuU. The paternal grandfather, John P. Castner, came from Canadice to Barrington, thence to 322 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Milo about 1850, where he died. Isaac H. Castner learned the carpenter's trade, and worked at the wagonraaker's trade in Woodhull. In 1868 he went to Milo, and in 1880 to Alta, where he still resides. He is a wagonmaker and an insurance agent. His brother, G. R. Castner, died in the rebel prison during the late war. Charles A. Castner was educated at Milo and Alta, and has always been a farmer. He now owns a farm of 148 acres, which he bought in 1889. He deals in fertilizers and Cort- land buggies. He is postmaster at Wayne Four Corners. In 1886 he married Clara, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Lake) Hoover of Tyrone, by whom he had three chil- dren: Eva, Clifford, and Clarence. Crean, James, was born in County Farry, Ireland, in March, 1850. Hugh Crean. his father, was born in the same place m 1824, one of six children born to James Crean. Hugh Crean was reared a farmer and came to Auburn. N.Y. , in 1874, and to Prattsburg the same year, where he has since resided. He married Margaret O'Donnell, by whom he had nine children: James, Kate (wife of Charles Kearns of Austin. Nev.), Martin, JIar,Ecaret (wife of Maurice Scanlan of Burlington, Mont.), Alex, Ellen, Mary, Richard, and Anna. His wife died in Ireland, and he now re- sides with his son James, who has always followed farming, and came to America and to Prattsburg in 1875, and in 1883 he purchased his present farm of 150 acres, where he, his father and brothers, Alex and Martin, now reside. Martin married Anna, daughter of Patrick Flaherty of Prattsburg. Caulkin, J. W., was born in Bradford county. Pa., in 1833, and, came to Corning, where he has since resided, in 1845. Friend Caulkin, his father, lived and died at Gibson, and was a merchant and contractor. J. W. Caulkin followed building and general contracting until 1892, since which time he has been engaged in farming. He is serving his third year as overseer of the poor. In 1866 he married Hannah Rowley of Corning. Cook, A. S., was born in Prattsburg, where he resided until 1884, being engaged a number of years in the general merchandise business. For six years after locating in Corning he clerked, and in January, 1889, the present firm of Fletcher & Cook, furniture dealers, was formed. At Prattsburg he was foreman of the Prattsburg Protectors, master of the Masonic Lodge, etc. Benjamin Cook, his father, was born at Palatine, Montgomery county, in 1807, and located at Prattsburg. where he was widely known, highly respected, and influential. He died July 11, 1894. Campbell, Martin B., was born in Warren county. Pa., November 5, 1863, son of Martin and Sarah (Lesh) Campbell, he a native of Kinrua, Warren county, Pa., born March 17, 1822, and she of Ontario county, N.Y., born August 13, 1830. The grand- father, John Campbell, was a native of Lycoming county. Pa., and spent most of his days in Warren county, Pa. The maternal grandfather, Jacob Lesh, was a native of Pennsylvania, and spent his days in Warren county. Pa., but died in Mc- Kean county, Pa. Martin Campbell, father of Martin B., came to Jasper in 1866, where he remained twelve years, thence to Pennsylvania, and in 1885 returned to Jasper where he has since resided. He sold the farm to his brother, Robert Camp- bell, who now lives in Kane, Pa. Martin B. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, after which he engaged in the milling trade, which business he followed in Bradford, Pa., for eight years, but is now engaged in farming, and he FAAIILY SKETCHES. 323 and his father own 163 acres of land. He is a member of Jasper Tent, K. O. T. M., and is also a member of Jasper Grange. Chatfield, Ezra, was born in Sodus, Wayne county, N. Y. , September 18, 1845, sou of Kzra and Zippora (Orton) Chatfield, he a native of Madistone, Kent, England, born March 4, 1799, and she of Pulteney N. Y., born March 2, 1816. The grand- father, William Chatfield, who lived and died in England, was one of the aid de camps (if William the Conqueror, from whom this name descended. Ezra Chatfield, father of Ezra, jr., hid five children, and by a previous wife, Elizabeth Underwood, he had three children. He came to Sodus, N. Y., in 1828, thence to Jasper in 1855, where he located on the farm of Lemuel June, where he died January 17, 1882, and his wife September 15, 1886. He was a Baptist minister for many years. Ezra Chatfield was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and by home study. He was a lumberman and farmer for several years, was in partnership with D. C. Hunter four years in Jasper, and in 1886 moved on to the farm of li4 acres he now owns, where he follows general farming. He was assessor for three years, and inspector of election for a number of j-ears, and is now serving his first term as supervisor of the town. He is a member of E. A. U. of Ja.sper. October 16, 1872, he married Mary Wal wrath of Cameron, by whom he had seven children: K. L., de- ceased; Bertha, Ethel, Lynn, Pearl, Kurt, and Mabel. Cornell, Hamilton, was born in West Union, April 4, 1868, son of Egbert and Dor- leska (Morey) Cornell, both natives of West Union, where they now live. The grand- father, Hamilton Cornell, was a native of Chatham, and an early settler of West Union, who now resides in Jasper, and iseiglity years of age. Egbert Cornell, father of Hamilton, is a farmer by occupation, and Hamilton was reared on the farm, edu- cated in the common schools, after which he followed farming, and now owns 105 acres of land. August 22, 1889 he married Maggie Kelley, a native of West Union, by whom he had one son, Lester. The family is related to the founder of Cornell University. Clayson, Robert H., was born March 12, 1842. His grandfather, Enoch Clayson, was born in Stamford, Conn, and died in Westchester county, town of Bedford, aged ninety-six years. He was a soldier of the Revolution, enlisted at si.xteen years of age. Lewis Clayson, father of Robert H., was born in Bedford, Westchester county, N. Y., in 1808. His brother Enoch settled at Bowles Corners in 1827, and bought the Captain Bowles farm. He also bought cattle in this locality and drove them to Westchester county, and on one of these trips was drowned in the Susquehanna River, at Smithboro, where he is buried. Lewis Clayson married Cordeha E. Halsted, who was born in Bedford, Westchester county, N. Y., April 8, 1816, and died in Decem- ber, 1893, and at his brother's death, which occurred in 1879, .settled on his farm, which he cleared and improved. Mr. and Mrs, Clayson had five children: Robert H , as above; Augustus, who was born December 31. 1844; Susan M., who was born in 1846, and died in 1862; Anna Miller, who was born in 1849; and Emily lone Oudekirk, who was born in 1863. Robert H. Clayson was educated in the common schools. In August, 1864, he enlisted in the 28th Ind. Battery, and was discharged in August, 1865. He is a pensioner. He is a member of Wayland Lodge, No. 176, L O. O. F. At Cohocton, in 1863 he married Lucia Jane Tyler, who was born in 524 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. 1846, by whom he had two children: Edwin Tyler, who was born in 18G4, and mar- ried Julia Dudley, by whom he has had two children, Charles Aubert; and Luella, who was born in 186G, and who married Segal B. Dudle)-. Conrad, George, was born March 8, 1845, son of Philip Conrad, who was born in Prussia, Germany, emigrated to America about 1840, and settled in Rochester where he remained five years. He and his brother Charles purchased the farm of 113 acres where George Conrad now resides. In 1844 Philip married Elizabeth Schwingle, who was born in 1822, by whom he had five sons: George, born March 8, 1845; Philip, born May 20, 1848 ; Christian, born in February, 1851, died in 1861 ; Henry, born April 10, 1853; and Benjamin, born April 9, 1855. Mr. Conrad died March 10, 1876, aged sixty-three years. George Conrad received a common school education after which he engaged m farming, which he has always followed. He has held the office of assessor three years. In 1864 he enlisted in the 188th Regt. N. Y. Vols., and served until the close of the war. He received a commission by Colonel McMann and Doolittle, and was in the battles of Weldon R. R., first and second Hatcher's Run, Five Forks, and all the battles until Lee's surrender. He was discharged July 1, 1865. He is a member of Theodore Schlick Post, No. 314, G. A. R., also of Way- land Lodge, No. 176, I. O O. F. In 1870 he married Louisa Lander, who was born March 9, 1850, by whom he had four children: Ellen A. Roberts, born July 26, 1871 ; Elizabeth S., born November 27, 1875; George C, born May 6, 1878; and Lewis J., born October 6, 1881. Candy, George A., was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 1, 1840, a son of William and Eva (Smith) Candy, who both died in Hublersburg, Pa. The father was a mason and architect by trade, and served as justice of the peace. Our subject was educated in Hublersburg, Pa., and in 1869 came to Woodhull and worked in the tinshops for W. H. Brady three years. He was for two years with Robert Mason, and then en- gaged in business for himself, doing repair work and tin and hardware business. He is a member of the G. A. R., No. 565, and of Woodhull Tent No. 174, K. O. T. M. In 1894 he married Minna A. Tucker of Woodhull. Mr. Candy enlisted in 1861 in Co. F, 2d Pa. Cav. , serving three years and four months, and participated in all the chief battles of the Army of the Potomac. He was wounded at Warrenton Junction and at Cold Harbor. Cornell, Levi S., was born in the town of Chatham, Tioga county. Pa., October 30, 1835, is the oldest of nine children born to Socrates and Fannie Cornell. In 1858 Levi married Harriett, daughter of Joseph and Jane (Schoonover) Knowlton, he a native of Massachusetts and she of Deerfield, Tioga county, Pa., by whom he had these children : Burtus, who was a farmer of Troupsburg, and who was killed by lightning in September, 1893, in his thirty-second year; Edward N., who is a farmer on the homestead ; Levi and Joseph, who are farmers in partnership in Troupsburg ; Flora, wife of Daniel McNeal, a farmer of Troupsburg; and Frederick, who is a lab- orer. Mr. Cornell has a farm of 118 acres which he bought in 1865. He is a member of McClellan Lodge, No. 649, F. & A. M. Clark, William B., was born in Greenwood, September 8, 1839, and is the third son of Myron and Sally (Works) Clark, he a native of Geneva, born June 8, 1807, she of Connecticut, born in April, 1812. Myron Clark helped his father clear the home FAMILY SKETCHES. 325 farm, and has always followed farming. He spent his last days with his son, Will- iam B., and died May 4, 1884. Mrs. Clark died March 17, 1892. William B. Clark has always followed farming, except one year at Canisteo and one at Andover, which he spent in milling, and has a farm of seventy-nine acres and makes a specialty of dairy farming. In 1868 he married Ruth S., sister of H. B. Hill, by whom he had these children: Frank A., Bertha L., and Leo C. Mr. Clark enlisted in Co. E, 8Uth Ohio Vet. \"ols., and was honorably discharged July 17, 186."). He was taken sick at Vicksburg and transferred to Co. B, 22d Regt. Vet. Reserve Corps. He is a member of Post Baily, No. 351, G. A. R. Cornell, Nathan, was born in Otsego county, N. V., March 22, 1814, son of Smith and Delilah Townsend Cornell, who came to Tioga county. Pa., in 1817, where Mrs. Cornell died in 1829. For his second wife he married Rebecca Hackett, of Middle- bury, Tioga county, and three children were born to them. In religion they were Free Will Baptists. He died June II-!, 1836. The parents of Smith were Edward and Jemima Hallock Cornell. Edward C, who was a farmer and physician, came to Otsego county at an early day, where he died about 1815. Mrs. Cornell came to Tioga county and spent her last days with her children, and died in 1827. The ma- ternal grandparents of Nathan were Charles and Hannah Hall Townsend. He was a tanner and currier by trade, and came from New Jersey to Sullivan county, N. Y., where he died. Nathan has always followed farming and lumbering, and in 1846 bought a farm in West Union, which in 1859 he sold and came to Troupsburg where he bought 100 acres of land in the southwestern part of the town, and has made a specialty of dairying. In 1846 he married Harriet M., daughter of Samuel and Sallie Fitch, of Brookfield, Pa., by whom he had three children: Helen, deceased, Charles, deceased, and David, who resides at home. Mr. Cornell is radically Democratic. Cornish, Alvah Z., was born in Wheeler, Steuben county, February 22, 1846, and is the fourth of nine children born to Thomas and Elvina (Hulbcrt) Cornish, he a na- tive of Poughkeepsie, and she of Broome county, N. Y. The grandparents, Joseph and Mary Cornish, came from Poughkeepsie to Harrison, Potter county, Pa , where he died, and Mrs. Cornish died in Troupsburg. He was a farmer and soldier in the Revolutionary war. Thomas Cornish owned land in Potter county, but settled for a time in Wheeler, Steuben county, and in 1848 returned to Harrison, where he died in 1862. Mrs. Cornish died in 1892. Alvah Z. Cornish was left at sixteen years of age with a large family to take care of, and has always been a hard working man and a good manager, and now owns a farm in Troupsburg of 138 acres, which he bought in 1K7S, and on which he has erected fine buildings. He carries Corning. Fero, David F., was born in the town of Catlin, in 1846, son of Peter and Lorana (Bryant) Fero. He remained on the farm until nineteen years of age, when he came to Corning and learned his trade of silversmith and jeweler with A. D. Dudley, with whom lie afterward formed a partnership in the firm of Dudley & Co., and in 1875 376 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. succeeded them. He also handles bicycles and supplies. In 1877 he married Rose Blair, by whom he had two children; Hazel, aged thirteen, and Mildred, aged seven. Franz, Jacob, was born in Prussia, in 1832, and came to America in 1849 and lo- cated in New York city, where he remained xintil 1855, when he came to Corning. In 1866 he established the bottling works, to which he has since given his attention, and is also interested in real estate in and adjoming the Fifth Ward. Fox, G. Albert, was born in the village of Avoca, March 10, 1836. George P. Fox, his father, was born in the tow-n of Palatine Bridge, Montgomery county, N. Y., in June, 1810, and came to Bath in 1833. He was a wagonmaker by trade, and mar- ried Julia A. Anderson of Connecticut, by whom he had these children: D. A., born February 24, 1834; G. A., borir March 10, 1836; Hezekiah B., born in August, 1838; and Julia B. , born in 1843. G. Albert Fox was educated in Avoca, with the excep- tion of one term in Rogers Union Seminary He learned the wagonmaker's trade, and also followed the carpenter trade in connection with it, and for thirty-six win- ters has taught school. About twenty-five j'ears ago he began farming in the town of Avoca, and now owns a farm of 164 acres. He married Elinore L. Ketan of Prattsburg, by whom he had these children: Fannie, C. E., D. H., Lloyd G. and Rosco C. Fannie and C. E. are teachers. Mr. Fox has filled the office of justice for some years. Faults, William H., was born Bath, July 8, 1856. Henry Faults, his father, was born in Germany and came to the United States with his parents when he was six years of age, and first settled in Wayland, where he engaged in the tanning business, which he followed for many years. At present he is bridge inspector on the N. Y., L. E. & W. R. R. He married May Dunn of Wayland, by whom he had four chil- dren: Mary C, William H., Laura and Frank. William H. engaged in the railroad and farming business, and the last seven years has been in the clothing business in Avoca and carries a general line of clothing and gents' furnishing goods. He mar- ried Cora Sharp of Avoca. Mr. Faults has filled the office of collector, and is a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F. , Wallace Lodge, No. 519. Filkins, John A., w^as born in Herkimer county, N. Y. , December 29, 1844, son of Nicholas and Maria (McCready) Filkins. both natives of Herkimer county. The grandfather of our subject, Joseph Filkins, was born at Troy, N. Y., and in an early day settled in Herkimer county, where he lived to be nearly lOOyears of age. Nicho- las Filkins, father of John A., spent his days in Herkimer county, where he engaged in farming. He died about 1852, and his wife in 1850. John A. was reared by his uncle Cornelius until he was sixteen years of age, when he came to Thurston, Steu- ben county, N. Y., where he has since resided. He is a carpenter by trade, and also owns a farm of eighty-six acres, w-hich he bought in 1874. He is a Republican in politics, and has been highway commissioner three years and assessor about twelve years. In 1864 he enlisted in Co. A, 189th N. Y. Vols., and served about one year. He was at Hatcher's Run, Five Forks and at Lee's surrender. In 1868 he married Edith, daughter of John and Minerva (Mulford) Adamson — he born in Pennsylvania and she in Tioga county. Pa. — and came to Steuben county, where they spent their last days. Mr. and Mrs. Filkins have three childi'en : Belle, Fred and Mildred. Mr. Filkins is a member of Loga Post, No 465, G. A. R. FAMILY SKETCHES. 377 Fults, Spelman L. , was born in Morris, Otsego county. N. Y. . July 18. 184!). He was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and came to the town of Rathbcme when eleven years of age where he has since resided. He has always fol- lowed farming, and at present is engaged in pressing hay. He owns thirty acres of land in Rathbone. In 1809 he married Lucinda Smith, of Woodhull, who died in 1879. In December, 1881, he married Maggie, daughter of Michael and Johanna (Tomey) Conley, by whom he has one son. Nelson, born July 27, 1883. Timmerman, H. A., was born in the town of Manheim, Herkimer count)', January S.'i, 1839. H. A. Timmerman, his father, was a native of the same town and county, where they were early settled, and through life were identified as farmers. In 1865 Jlr. Timmerman married Martha, daughter of Jacob Lepper. by whom he had four children. Ward H., Nellie E., Katie M., and Gracie E. In 1869 he came to Bath, .Steuben county, and purchased the General Smith farm. Mr. Timmerman is one of the practical and successful farmers of his town, taking an intelligent interest in educational and religious institutions, and has ever received and merited the respect of his associates. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. A, 121st N. Y. Vols , and took part in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Rappahannock Station, being taken prisoner at Chancellorsville, and wounded in the right leg at Fredericksburg, being promoted from the ranks to sergeant, and received an honorable discharge in 1S0.5 at the close of the war. Ferenbaugh, Lyman G., was born in Hornby in 1837, son of Joseph and Anna Sweet Ferenbaugh, natives of Germany and Vermont. The father and five brothers came from Germany with their father, locating at first in Pennsylvania, coming afterwards to Steuben county. The parents when married came to Hornby, locating in the wilderness. They afterwards moved to Corning and died in 1868. Mr. Feren- baugh married Cynthia, daughter of George Sly, and they have one child, Ada, now the wife of Clifford O'Brien. Mr. Ferenbaugh and his brother, John H., have kept up the old saw mill built by their father. They also own a farm of 500 acres and a grocery store. Fero, Albert, was born in 1830, son of Abram and Catherine Fero, natives of Montgomery county and Feuusylvania, and came to Hornby at an early day, and raised a family of six children. The parents died in 1887 and 1885, aged eighty-six and seventy-nine, father and mother, respectively. Mr. Fero, who is the old- est of the family, married Caroline L. Easling in 1855 and located on his present place of ninety-six acres adjoining the old homestead. They have four children ; Lucy, George Frank, Harriet Belle, and Arthur. Farran, H. J., Caton, Steuben county, N. Y., was born in Tioga county, N. Y., in 1842. In 1861 he enlisted in the 50th N. Y. Vol. Engineers, enlisting for three years. He was afterwards promoted to the rank of artificer. His wife, Sarah C. , nee Sage, is a native of Chemung county and came to the town of Caton when a girl. Mr. Farran has resided on his present place since the war; his farm consists of 200 acres of well improved land. They have one child, Adah H., wife of Lewis Thurber. Ferry, Mrs. Mary M., is the widow of the late John Wesley Ferry, sou of John Ferry, one of the pioneers of Addisf)n. J. W. Ferry was born at Almond, Steuben 378 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY county, 1834. His sympathies were with the Republican party, but he sought no political preferment, being too busily engaged with his farming interests and stock dealing. He was farming at Tuscarora at the time of his death, which occurred July 23, 1892. In 1885 he married Mary M., daughter of William Bennett of Hornellsville, who is now retired from active business life, having been a farmer, and extensively engaged in the lumber business in Michigan at one time. His father, Thomas Ben- nett, was one of the first settlers of Hornell.sville, where he kept hotel for many years. Mrs. Ferry became a resident of Addison in 1893, and has one son, John W.. bom in 1886. Fairbanks, George. — Joel Fairbanks settled in Cameron in 1822. He married Sarah, a daughter of Mathew Dickey, by whom he had six children : Elizabeth Turner, George H., William, Martha, Mary Moore, and Emily Helmer. Joel Fairbanks was a carpenter, builder, and millwright, and at the time he retired from business had built more buildings in the town than any other one man. George H. married Jane, a daughter of Daniel and Margaret Barber, by whom he had four children : Sarah Hatch, Jennie B. Dickey, Charles L., and JoelL., all born on the homestead. Inearly life Mr. Fairbanks was engaged in lumbering, but he now follows farming. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge of Cameron Mills, No. 547. Foster, George, was born in Yorkshire, England, 181T. Ralph Foster, his father, one of nine children, was a farm- laborer, and married Mary Kirby, by whom he had nine children. Mr. Foster devoted his life to farming, and at the age of thirty-two years came to America, coming direct to Geneva, N. Y., where he spent one winter and the following spring came to Prattsburg where he followed farming. In 1867 he purchased his present farm, and by industry and practical economy has paid for his farm and accumulated a good property. He is an active member of the M. E. church of Prattsburg of which he was for years trustee and steward. In 1850 he married Ann Stevenson of England, by whom he had six children; Frank, John, who died in 1888, Mary, Anna, who died in 1862, George, and William. Mrs. Foster died in July, 1872, and he married for his second wife, Salina Horton, a native of Orange county. Mrs. Foster is a member of the M. E. church and missionary society. Gould, Talcott W., was born in Berkshire, N. Y., February 13, 1851. Francis Gould, his father, was a native of Broome county, N. Y. , and the family were promi- nent during the Revolutionary war. T. W. Gould was educated at Elmira in 1885; Katie, wife of M. Wheeler of Wayne; Minnie, wife of Frank Margeson; and Joseph, a farmer of South Dakota. Mr. Lord is a Republican and has been justice of the peace over thirty years. He was school commissioner of Yates county, and has been superintendent of the poor in Steuben county. Lewis. J. S., was born in Cortland county, November 2, 1817, and is the second of eleven children born to Abram and Hannah (Frink) Lewis. J. S. Lewis was reared on a farm and has always followed farming. He first bought sixty acres, which he cleared, and has added to it until he had 215 acres which he sold to his son Alfonzo in 1883. He has always made a specialty of dairy farming. He married Sally Ann Hobes, by whom he had the«e children: Marilla, wife of George Wilson, a farmer of Colorado; she died at Holyoke, Col. ; Alzina, wife of L. Wilcox, a grocer at Dunkirk; Almira, wife of Mory Bowley, a farmer of Canisteo; Susan, wife of Wesley Potter, a farmer of Otsego county; Albert, a farmer of Troupsburg; Alfonzo, who owns the homestead farm; James, who died at five years of age; Flora, wife of James Potter of Young Hickory. Mrs. Lewis died in 1851, and Mr. Lewis married for his second wife, Hannah, widow of Harmon Clark, and daughter of Ansel Hubbard of Troups- burg. .She died March 9, 1883. Mr. Lewis was assessor for seven years. Withey, Diana — Elijah Labour was born in Pennsylvania in August, 1810, and came with his father to this county when only a lad. In 1842 he bought a farm of thirty-one acres on lot 28, where he reared his family and made his home the balance of his days, dying November 29, 1891. He was married September IG, 1841, to Mi.ss Rebecca, daughter of James McMichael, of Ilornellsville, who is still living and was seventy-four years of age, April 30, 1895. She has now a farm of thirty-six acres. They were the parents of two children: Ann Elizabeath, wife of Foster Webb, a far- mer of this town; and Diana, the widow of Judson Withey, who died July 3(1, 1894. They were married September 21, 1864. 408 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. La Grange, Edward E., was born in the city of Hornellsville, November 5, 1858. John La Grange was the father of four sons of whom Edward is the oldest son ; Sam- uel M., in a dry goods store at Addison ; John ; and Harry, a clerk with Adam David- son. Edward was educated in the common schools and his first occupation was with C. L. Hawley with whom he was employed ten months. He then took up the man- ufacture of awnings, tents and everything of that line. In 1885 he established a shop for their manufacture and has since conducted that Hue. He employs from five to nine hands putting out about §3,000 worth per year. In 1886 he married Miss Ida Drehmer, of Hornellsville. They have two children; George E., and Rhea S. They lost a child, Harold, aged eleven months, who died November 11, 1890. Marcy, James L., West Caton, was born in 1858, son of James and Ann (Daniels) Marcy, natives of Dutchess county, who located in the town of Corning, married there and resided on Mr. Marcy's present home place for more than fifty years. They died in 1892 and in 1891, aged seventy-eight and sixty eight, father and mother re- spectively. Mr. Marcy was born on the place where he has always resided, and in 1891 married Mabel Robinson, a native of Lindley, daughter of George Henry Rob- inson. McBeth, Robert, was born August 14, 1844, in the town of Howard, son of James McBeth. who was born in Ireland, and came to the United States in 1820, and set- tled in this town, where he cleared a farm of sixty-four acres; later they added to it, making a farm of 124 acres of improved land. James McBeth married Mary, daugh- ter of David Miller, one of the early settlers of Howard, and ten children were born to them, nine of whom are living to-day. Robert McBeth is a farmer by occupation, and now owns the old homestead where he lives. At a call for men he enlisted in the 189th N. Y. Vols., and in serving his country he nearly lost his life, but a shield on his belt saved his life, and is kept as a memorial by him. Mr. McBeth was edu- cated in the district schools. He is an active worker in the church and is a member of the U. P. church of the town of Howard. In politics he is a Republican. Meeks, William A., was bora in Tompkins county, September 19, 1833, son of Christopher Meeks, who was born in Dutchess county, October 20, 1788, and came to the town of Howard in 1834 and settled near Howard Flats, working a farm for his father. Later he came to Bert Hill and purchased the land known as the Cummings farm, where he resided until his death which occurred in 18(j7. October 15, 1808, he married Polly M. Barber, and they were the parents of the following children: Charity, Dehla, Rachael, Elias, John, Samanthia, Caroline, Edward, Sallie J., Christopher, Bradley, Joseph, and Augustus. William A. was edu- cated in the district schools, and first started for himself on the farm where he has resided since 185T, and which consists of 216 acres. He married Agnes, daughter of Adam Lander, a farmer of Howard, and they were the parents of three children : Charles Seamor, Walter Seward, and Jessie. Both of the sons are farmers by occupation, and Walter resides at home. Mrs. Meeks died in 1892, at the age of sixty-five. In politics Mr. Meeks is a Republican, has been assessor and filled other minor offices. Masters, Herbert J., was born where he lives in 1854, son of Lewis H. and Effie Schuyler Masters, natives of New Jersey and Montgomery county, N. Y. The FAMILY SKETCHES. 409 father came from New Jersey in 1827 with his parents, Nehemiah and Harriet Mas- ters, who died on the home place in Hornby. The father also died here in 1883, the mother is still residing on the home place. Mr. Masters is an only child. In 1893 he married Caroline Tiinerman. a native of Painted Post, and they have one daugh- ter, Gertrude. Morse, Willard C, was born in Harrington, Yates county, N. Y. , October 20, 1826, and settled in this county in November, 1844. He is a son of Dr. David Morse, who was a surgeon in the Revolutionary war, and a native of Woodstock, Conn., and married Hannah, daughter of Capt. Willard Child. Willani C. married Mary E. Cooper, and they have one son living, John Cooper Morse. They lost one daughter, Elizabeth E. Mitchell, Mrs. Alma B. — Prominent among the leading physicians of Addison, was the late Dr. John Mitchell, who died here in 1886. His widow. Alma B., daughter of David Hubbard, and six children live to cherish the memory of a kind husband and a loving father, and the community a faithful and conscientious practitioner. Dr. Mitchell, who was born at Lisle in 1824, was the son of John Mitchell, a furniture dealer. He graduated from the University of Buflalo in 1851, his diploma bearing the signature of Millard Fillmore. Through his profession he gained the appoint- ment of surgeon of the 106th Regiment of National Guards, during the civil war. He came to Addison in 1854, where he won the respect of all who knew him. He was an earnest member of the M. E. church, and was married in 1851. McKay, Mrs. Annie. — The late Amaziah Sylvester McKay was born in 1833, in the old town of Pompey, Onondaga county, son of Philo McKay, a shoemaker. His early days were spent at Bath, and near Avoca, and he taught school for a time in Howard. He began the study of law in the Dininny law office, where he afterward practiced, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. In politics he is a Republican, and in 1865 was sent to the State Legislature as a member of assembly. In 1859 Mr. Mc- Kay married Annie, daughter of Major Arthur Erwin, an old and well known family, after whom the town of Erwin was named. Mr. and Mrs. McKay were the parents of two children: Helen, wife of H. S. Rose, who is a jeweler in Addison ; and Arthur Philo, a law student in Delmar Darrin's office, who died at the age of twenty-four years. Moore, T. V., was born in Jasper in 1845, and has been engaged in the retail hard- ware trade nearly a quarter of a century. His first mercantile venture was when associated with L. V. Lain in 1871, and he afterward run a store at Canisteo, Osce- ola, and Manslield, returning to Addison in 1890 and purchasing of Brewster Bros, their business on Tuscarora street, of which George Weatherby became a partner early in 1892. Mead, A. R. — Purdy A. Mead was born in Greenwood, December 10, 1830, .son of Alvin and Sarah Ann Mead. He engaged in farming with the exception of one year when he kept a boarding house in Elk, Pa. April 9. 1865, he married Jemima Pease, sister of R. A. Pea.se mentioned elsewhere, who still resides on the farm where they settled in 1868, and which she has successfully managed since the death of Mr. Mead, which occurred March 4, 1882, Mr. and Mrs. Mead were the parents of two children : Alvin R., born December 8, 1873, who has taken charge of the homestead farm 410 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY lately, and is a member of Sentinel Lodge, No. 151, F. & A. M., of Greenwood; and Hattie B., born March 2, 1878, who was educated in Andover. and is now teaching school. Politically, Mr. Mead was a Democrat, and was assessor nine years, and elected supervisor without opposition the spring before his death. The family are Methodists. McCollura, Finley, was born February 4, 1827. His grandfather on his mother's side, John Stevenson, was born in Scotland, and came to America about 1778, and located in Washington county, where he lived for a time and in 1820 came to Howard where he was one of the first settlers, and engaged in farming. He died in 1864. Hugh McCoUum. father of Finley, was bom m Montgomery county, N. Y., January 24, 1777, and came to Howard and located on a farm one mile south of Big Creek, where he engaged in farming in summer and taught school during the winter for about twenty terms. He died March Ifi, 1882. In 1824 he married Jane Stevenson, who was born February 28, 1806, and died August 2, 1867, by whom he had three children : Daniel S , born June 20, 1825 ; Fmley, as above ; and Katherine, born February 14, 1829. Daniel S. is unmarried and lives with his brother Finley, who has a farm of 124 acres. Katherine married John Brasted; he died and she moved to Nebraska with her family. Finley McCollum received a good education, and is located on a farm one mile south of Big Creek, where he is engaged in farming. He has held the oflice of justice of the peace four years and assessor si.'c years. March 11, 1858, he married Eunice Cross, who died November 4, 18.59, by whom he had one child, Eunice May, born July 27, 1859, and died October 2 1871. June 14, 1864, he married for his second wife, C^-ntha Jane, daughter of John Burdick of Allegany county, N. Y., by whom he had one child, Finley Ray, born January 28, 1866, and lives at home. McCaig, Alexander, was born in Scotland in 1837, son of John and Margaret (Mc- Mellon) McCaig, both natives of Scotland, who came to America in 1850, and settled in Geneva, thence to Rathbone in 1864, where they died. In 1866 Alexander Mc- Caig married Annie Nicholson, daughter of Richard Nicholson, a native of England who came to America in 1850 and settled in Allegany county, where he died. Mr. and Mrs. McCaig have four children: Margaret, John, Richard, and Harry. Mr. McCaig has alwavs followed farming, and now owns 100 acres of land in Rathbone which he purchased in 1875. He is a member of Rathbone Grange. May, Harry R., was born in Bath, Steuben county, in 1828, son of James May, a native of Connecticut, who came to this country about 1815 and raised and reared a family of three sons and one daughter. He was a chairmaker and died in 1872, aged eighty-two years. When twenty-one years of age Henry R.May began civil engi- neering and followed it in the West about eight years, and in 1858 came to Corning where he was conductor on the Erie railroad from that date until 1886, when he es- tablished his present busmess as manufacturer and dealer in confectionery. Moore, Joseph F., was born in Scotland, in 1832, came to America when seven- teen years old, and in 1851 located at Corning. He was engaged in the foundry business three or four vears, and then was in the employ of the Erie Railroad Co. for fourteen years. He has filled various town and city offices, and is largely inter ested in Kansas investments, and was president of the Manhattan Kansas Bank, FAMILY SKETCHES. 411 which discontinued its business a few years ago by asking its depositors to withdraw their money. In 1855 he married Adele Clarke, a native of Carbondale, Pa., and daughter of Jesse Clarke, who was one of the pioneers of Corning, locating at the Corning Mill in 1835. He built Coming's first foundry and assisted in building the first Methodist church. Mr. Clarke was one of the first to leave Corning for Califor- nia in 184!). He died and was buried at the foot of the Black Hills. ilills, E. I)., was born in Fairfield. Conn., and came to Corning in infancy. In 1857 he was admitted to the bar and practiced in the city of New York until 1865, and has since been located in Corning, where he is city attorney, and one of the lead- ing older attorneys of the city. He was district attorney from 1872 to 1878. Matoon, James, was born in Johnstown, Fulton county, N. Y., June 10, 1850, son of Alonzo and Ann Jeanette (Allen) Matoon. Alonzo Matoon is a mason by trade, and came from Gloversville to Wayne in 1855, where he has since resided. He is a Democrat in politics and was justice of the peace at Gloversville. James Matoon was engaged in farming until 1887, and in 1895 he took charge of the Holel Helvetia, of which he is now landlord. In 1876 he married Fannie Phelps, daughter of David and Elmira (Champlin) Phillips, by whom he had one son, Johnnie, who died Sep- tember 8. 1881, aged fourteen months. Mr. Matoon is a member of Royal Tent, No. 70, of Bath, K. O. T. M. Moore, John D., was born in Canisteo. Steuben county, January S', 181-1. John Moore, his father, was born m Ireland, and came to the United States when thir- teen years of age. They settled in Canisteo, wbere they purchased 400 acres of land for ten dollars per acre, and the deed for this land was the first recorded after Steu- ben county was formed. He engaged in farming and lumbering and in running a saw mill, and was in the war of 1812. He married Hannah Daw, by whom- he had seven children: James, Thomas, John D., Samuel, Joseph, Edward B. and Sarah. John D. is a farmer and lumberman ; the latter business he has followed for forty years. He married Angeline Root, by whom he had three children: Thomas, Will- iam and Lydia. He married for his second wife Mary E. Ayer of Jamestown, N.Y. , by whom he had one son, Frederick, who is dead. Mr. Moore is a member of Morn- ing Star Lodge of Masons, No. 65, also of the Hornellsville Chapter. Morgan, George E., was born in Allegany, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., October 7, 1857, and is the only son of George and Eunice (Thompson) Morgan, both natives of Massachusetts. The grandparents, Eastman and Eunice Morgan, came from Massachusetts and settled in Cattaraugus county, where they engaged in farming, and where they died. The maternal grandparents were also pioneers of Cattarau- gus county, and came from Massachusetts. George Morgan, father of George E., was a farmer of Cattaraugus county, where he died in 1858. Mrs. Morgan married the second time, Joseph Moyes, and they had two children. Mr. Moyes was a soldier in the late war and died in 18 — . Mrs. Moyes married W. J. Miller of Woodhull. (ieorge E. Morgan has always followed farming, and now owns a farm of 170 acres in Troupsburg. He married Hannah Mowray in 1878. They have one adopted son, David Morgan. Miller, James U., was born in Oxford, Chenango county, N. Y., June 11, 1825, son of Andrew and Zernah Mowrey Miller, natives of Connecticut, who came to Che- 412 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. nango county in 1800, where both died on the farm on which they settled In poli- tics he was a Democrat and was assessor, justice of the peace and commissioner of highways. James U. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and is a farmer by occupation, owning 117 acres in Woodhull, near the village, where he located in March, 1850. He was in the mercantile business twelve years in Wood- hull. At the present time, in addition to his farming, he manufactures shingles and carries on a planing, cider and grist mill, and conducts an extensive business, manu- facturing about 250,000 feet yearly, and 400,000 shingles. Mr. Miller is a Prohibi- tionist and has been highway commissioner of his town. In 1850 he married Ange- line Symonds, a native of Oxford, N. Y. , by whom he had three children: Sarah, de- ceased; Mary, wife of Augustus E. Wheeler, of Greene, N. Y., and they have five children : Lynn, Howard, Ella, Anna and Alice ; and Dewitt. The grandfather of James U., Andrew Miller, was born in Connecticut, and in 1800 came to Chenango county, N. Y., where he died. His wife was born in Connecticut and died in Oxford. The maternal grandfather, George Mowrey, was born in England and came to Amer- ica when a child and settled m Oxford, where he died. Morley, Addison L., was born in Springwater, N. Y., in 1844. His father, Harvey Morley, was of New England birth, and died in Springfield, N. Y., in 1867, aged sevenlj-- seven years. He was twice married, and his second wife was Sarah Cros well, who was born in Ontario county, and died at Honeoye, in 18T7, aged seventy- seven years. They had ten children: Lorena. Mabel E., Catherine, Jasper, Lucre- tia, Jane, Henry, Addison L. , Steward and Wesley, all living. Addison L. received a common school education, and at twenty-three years of age engaged as clerk in the store of Benjamin Hess in Wayland. In 1866 he rented a place of John Hess, where he sold groceries, flour and feed, where he remained for two years, when he rented a store on Main street, enlarged his stock and remained here one year. He then moved into a new store near the depot, where he remained until 1871, after which he rented a store on the corner of Main and Fremont streets, and remained here one year. He then bought a site and erected a store where the opera house now is, where he remained until it burned in 1893. He afterwards bought a site on East Naples street and erected a commodious store in 1894, where can now be found dry goods, carpets, boots and shoes, wall paper, trunks, hand bags, etc. He is a mem- ber of Phoenix Lodge, No. 113, F. & A. M., of Dansville, also a member of Wayland Lodge of I. O. O. F., No. 176. At \Vayland, in 1867, he married Carrie Marther, who was born in Wayland in 1849, by whom he has two children : Ray, born Novem- ber 30, 1876, and May, born July 28, 1880. In 1864 he enlisted in 188th N. Y. Vols., served until the close of the war, and was in the battles of Hatcher's Run, Weldon Railroad, Second Hatcher's Run, Frazier's Farm, Gravelly Run and Five Forks. Miller, Prof. Curtis, was born in Madison county, in 1865, son of Rev. Samuel Mil- ler, who is a native of Oneida county, and one of ten children born to Curtis Miller. Curtis Miller, the grandfather, was always actively interested in all public affairs pertaining to the welfare of his town and county, and married Mary Duncan, who is of Scotch descent. Rev. Samuel Miller was reared on a farm, became a Congrega- tional minister, and served in the war of the Rebellion as second lieutenant in Co. K, 117th N. V. Vols., also served in the defences around Washington, D. C. He mar- ried Mary, daughter of Dr. Horace Bigelow of Auburn, N. Y. , by whom he had three FAMILY SKETCHES. 413 children: Curtis; Mary, wife of Herbert Brownell of Peru, Neb., and Gertrude. Prof. Curtis Miller was educated in Colgate Academy, Madison, N. Y., and gradu- ated from Hamilton College at Clinton, Oneida county, in 1889, after which he ac- cepted the principalship of the Franklin Academy and Union School at Prattsburg, in which capacity he has acted ever since, and under whose management the school made rapid progress, the membership of foreign students having nearly doubled during his first five years as principal. In 1889 he married Eveline M., daughter of David and Mary Barton of Oneida county. Mrs. Miller is a member of the N. N. C. McMindes, Uzal, was born in Jasper, October 16, 1845, son of Hiram and Olive (Woodward) McMindes; he a native of Jasper and son of Uzal McMindes, one of the first settlers of the town. Hiram McMindes was a carpenter and also a farmer, and now lives at Jasper, at seventy-seven years of age. His wife is also living at the same age. Uzal McMindes was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools He is a farmer and now owns 168 acres of land, and follows general farm- ing and dairying. He owns the old John Marlatt farm. March 18, 1869, he mar- ried Addie, daughter of Vincent Van Orsdale of Jasper, by whom he had two chil- dren : Jennie, wife of SejTnour Heckman, they have one son, Herman L. ; and Maud. Mr. McMindes enlisted in 1864, in Co. H, 161st N. Y. Vols., and served one year, and was at the Siege of Mobile, Spanish Fort and Blakesley. Mayhew, John C. , was born in Chenango county, N. Y. , August 26, 1839, son of Harvey and Grace (Edwards) Mayhew, natives of Broome and Chenango counties, respectively, who came to Jasper in 184.5, where he died. Mr.s. Mayhew died in Penn- sylvania while on a visit to her daughters. The grandfather, John Mayhew, died in Broome county, and the maternal grandfather, John C. Edwards, died in Troups- burg. John C. Mayhew was reared on a farm, educated in the common schools, and is a carpenter by trade, but owns a farm of ninety-eight acres. May 10. 1868, he married Lodosky, daughter of Eber and Letitia (Moore) Styles of Troupsburg, by whom he had two children; Orra, wife of Joel Willis of Troupsburg; and Albert, who died at seven years of age. In 1861 Mr. Mayhew enlisted in Co. K, 86th N. Y. Vols., and served nearly four years, and was at Second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Beverly Ford, Gettysburg, Auburn, Kelly's Ford, Locust Grove, Mine Run, Wilder- ness, Poe River, Spottsylvania, Anderson Farm, North Anna River, Tolopotomy Creek, Cold Harbor, Siege and Capture of Petersburg Jones's House, Deep Bottom, Hatcher's Run, Boydton Plank Road, Five Forks. Amelia Springs, Farmville. and the Surrender of Lee. McNett, James, M.D., was born in Buffalo, September 9, 185.'). Col. Andrew James McNett, his father, was born at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., October 3, 1818. He was given a good education and then taught school for a number of years. He then be- came a harnessmaker and saddler. He afterwards took up the .study of law and was admitted to the bar. He was at one time a member of our State Legislature. At the outbreak of the war he was one of the first volunteers, serving all through and losing an arm. He afterwards became a member of the Regular Armv. He went out as captain and returned as a colonel. He is the father of three children : Dr. George C. McNett, of Bath ; Mrs. James E. Norton ; and James. The latter was educated in Alfred University, from which he graduated in 1877 with the degree of 414 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Ph. B. In the same year he entered the medical department of the University of the City of New York, from which he graduated February 13, 1880, with the degree of M. D. His hospital work was done during his regular course, so as soon as he grad- uated he began practice in Hornellsville, May 1, 1880, where he has an extensive practice. With the exception of one year, the doctor has been connected with the Board of Health ever since coming to the city. He is a member of the Masonicorder of thirty-two degrees, also a member of the I.O.O.F. In October, 1882, he married Eva Sauter, by whom he has one child, James S. McGill, Charlie W., was born in Hobart, Delaware county, N. Y., Januai-y 18, 1843. James McGill, the father of Charlie, was a native of Scotland, who was brought to this country by his parents when he was only a babe. He made his home in New York city until about fifteen years of age, then locating in Delaware county where he was engaged in farming until about 1855. He then entered the employ of the Erie Railroad as car inspector. He located in Hornellsville about 1851 and it was here the family have since made their home. He was killed at Hornellsville station, Decem- ber 26, 1864. Charlie was the youngest of a famil)' of five children, two sons and three daughters. His only brother, Albert, was killed on the railroad at Great Bend, September 4, 1862. Charlie was educated in the city schools and one year at Alfred University. His first employment was with the railroad with whom he started at only fifteen years of age, and has ever since, until June, 1894, been in the employ- ment of the Erie Company, without a lay-off, except a year spent at Alfred Univer- sity. He has never been called up for reprimand or discharge and has never had a serious accident in this time. Commencing as a water boy, he rose to a brakem.an and at twenty years of age he was conductor on a freight, which position he held for eight years and for the last twenty-three years he has been conductor on a passenger train. He has for a number of years been on the Monitor and his regular run is now trains 24 and 29. Mr. McGill has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for twenty-five years, Hornellsville Lodge No. 331, Steuben Chapter No. 101, and De Molay Com- mandery, and Hornellsville Consistory of thirty-two degrees. He belongs to the Episcopal Society. February 21, 1871, he married Helen, daughter of Gilbert Pres- ton, a name familiar to railroad men as the first to take an engine over the old Portage Bridge. Gilbert Preston died in 1878. Mr.^. and Mrs. Gill have one son, Charlie Mortimer, now a student at law in the office of Irvin W. Near. Morris, George W., was born in the township of Ray, Macomb county, Mich., March 22, 1835. Benjamin Morris, his father, was a native of this State, born in Morrisville, Madison county, who removed to Michigan in 1831, and his father was a native of Massachusetts, who moved to Madison county, N. Y. , m 1796, when he was eleven years of age. Benjamin Jlorns was a farmer and when he moved to Michigan he took up eighty acres of government land, which he increased by pur- chase to 160 acres. George followed farming until twenty- eight years old, when he began milling at Birmingham, Oakland county, conducting a custom mill thirteen years, then moved to Reed City, Osceola county, where he built a new mill in 1877. In 1883 he remodeled the mill into a full roller merchant mill. He continued there until 1889 and that j-ear sold out and returned to farming. At that time he was the owner of 430 acres in Michigan. In 1893 he exchanged with T. J. O. Thatcher 240 acres of that land for the Valley Roller Mills at Hornellsville. Since coming here Mr. FAMILY SKETCHES. 415 Jlorris has made many improvements, prominent among them being the change from steam to water power, utilizing a fifteen-foot head with two Little Giant turbine water wheels, which gives them about sixty horse-power, and has also made a complete renovation in the milling system, increasing the capacity to seventy-five barrels of flour per day, and sixty barrels of buckwheat per day. The mill employs five hands. July 1, 1.S94, Mr. Morris formed a partnership with Jacob Braack, a practical miller, the firm now being (). W. Morris & Co. The greater i)ortion of the grain used is raised in this county. August lo, 1894, he married Blanche Shar]) of Howard, Steu- ben county. Two children by a former marriage are living: S. Adele, wife of M.W. Stevenson, of Stanton, Mich., and Hattie E. Morris, who lives at home. Mitchell, Dr. Samuel, was born in the town of Rathbone, Steuben county, N. Y., March 19. 1S5.5. He is the second son of the late Dr. Samuel Mitchell. He was edu- cated in the city schools and a select school kept by Frances Dwight. In the fall of 187G he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and after spending one year went to the University of New York, from which he graduated March 12, 1879. He followed the practice of the profession for three years with his father, and then went in business with his father-in-law, William O'Connor, in which business he was engaged for six years. January, 1888, he went to New York and entered the Post (iraduate School for the special study of diseases of the eye, ear and throat, and made also studies in the dift'erent eye and ear hospitals. He was also for a time in the office of specialist Dr. Hepburn, assistant surgeon of the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital. May 1, 188S, he returned to Hornellsville, where he began the prac- tice of a special treatment of the eye, ear and throat. He has always taken an active interest in church work and is the present treasurer of the Park Methodist church and a steward. He was married in 1879 to Isabel A. O'Connor, daughter of William O'Connor; they have four children: Edan F. , Floyd C, George W., student of the academy, and William Francis of the common school. Moore, John D.. was born in Bath, Septembers, 1842. John Moore, his father, came to the town of Bath at the age of three years with his parents, John and Amanda Moore, in 1807, and settled on the farm which is now occupied by his de- scendants, and which has been in the family for ninety-one years. John Moore mar- ried Purlunia, daughter of Daniel and Betsey Kenney, and through life was identified as a farmer. He died in 1878, aged seventy-five years, and leaving a wife, one son, John D., and two daughters, Mrs. E. T. Hewlett, and Laura. McElwee Bros. — Montgomery D. McElwee was born on the homestead farm Octo- ber 25, 1839. Itwasapart of the Henry McElwee tract and was cleared up by his father, Samuel McElwee, and has been in the family nearly 100 years. Samuel McElwee married Mary A., daughter of Moses Fish, and through life was identified as a farmer, and died in 1884, aged seventy-three years. He had three sons, Montgom- ery D. , Samuel, and Thompson T., who married Carrie, daughter of William Buyer, by whom he had two children, Elizabeth and Harriet. McCall, Ansel J.., was born at Corning, January 14, 1816. Ansel McCall, his father, was a native of Lebanon Springs, and the family trace their descent from James McCall, freeman by order of General Court at Marshfield, Mass., in I(!H4. Ansel married Sarah Weed for his first wife, and for his second he married 416 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Ann Shannon, daughter of Robert Shannon, who through life was identified in ad- vancing the bes: interests of his town, being one of the pioneer millers at Painted Post. A. J. McCall was educated in the common schools, and in 1838 he graduated from Union College, and in the same j'ear came to Bath and began the study of law. He was admitted in 1841, and has practiced for fifty-six years in Bath. In 1856 he married Mary, daughter of Dr. Simpson Ellis, by whom he had four children: A. Ellis, James, Sophia, and Anna. McNamara, John, was born in Upper Canada. August 10, 1846. Michael Mc- Namara, his father, was a native of Ireland and came to Le Roy. N. Y. , in 1848, where he died in 1876, in his eighty-fifth year. John McNamara was educated at Le Roy, and in 1866 he came to Bath and entered the employ of D. C. Howell. In 1870 he entered the hardware store of E. H. Hastings & Co., remaining eleven years. In 1882 he went to Hammondsport and purchased a stock of hardware, re- maining until March 1, 1883, when he came to Bath and purchased the Hastings stock and business, and in 1888 disposed of it to George W. Paine. In the same year he established his present business, carrying a full line of hardware. In 1876 he married Mary, daughter of John Baty of Bath, by whom he had four children : Frank B., Edward J., George D., and Nellie. John McNamara is one of the lead- ing business men of his town, serving as tax collector and trustee, and has been chief of the fire department for four years, and has been identified in advancing the best interests of the town and towns-people. McConnell, Frederick, was born in Howard, July 12, 1859. Aaron McConnell, his father, was also a native of Howard, and the family were descendants from Charles McConnell, who came to Steuben county in 1808, and settled in Howard. Aaron McConnell married Sarah, daughter of Nathan Robertson, and his life was identified in the mercantile business, serving as supervisor for three successive terms. He died December 37, 1894, in his seventy-third year. The family have been prominent in the town of Howard since its organization. Aaron and Sarah McConnell were the parents of four children: Charles Frederick, Bert, and Harry. Merrill, Fred P., was born in Muscatine, Iowa, August 25, 1859. His parents re- moved to Maine when he was a young child, and he was educated in Portland, Maine. At seventeen years of age he was connected with the glove industry. Sep- tember 4, 1889, he began the manufacture of fabric gloves at Norwich, where he continued until December 17, 1890, when he came to Hornellsville and in company with the Rocliwell Brothers' establishment, the glove company with which he has been since, connected both as partner and superintendent. Noble, Henry M., was born in Bath, October 2, 1868. Edward L. Noble, his father, w'as the son of Lay Noble who was one of the pioneer settlers and represent- ative men of Bath. Edward L. married Louisa, daughter of Charles Fairchild, by whom he had three children, Anna, Charles L., and Henry M. He bought the Howell farm, which is known as the Jersey Home stock farm, and was one of the representative farmers of his town. He died in 1877. Henry M. married Bessie, daughter of John Presho, in 1891, and has made a specialty of breeding pure Jersey cattle. FAMILY SKETCHES. 417 Nicholson, Wesley, was born in Luzerne county, F'a., December 24, 1817, being the seventh son of Jonathan Nicholson, who was born October 14, 1T83, and died January 1, 1809. Wesley's mother, Betsey Schwingle Nicholson, was born in 1785 and died August 11, 1845. Wesley was educated by his father and in the common schools and has always followed farming. He started for himself when he reached majority by the purchase of 102 acres of the old homestead on the east line of the town of Hornellsville and twelve acres in the town of Howard, making specialties of grain and vegetables. He has also become the owner of a farm adjoining the west line of the original purchase. He was married March 15, 1846, to Jane, daughter of John Leonard of Hector, Schuyler county, and they have two children: Leonard J., who conducts the old homestead farm, and Frances, the wife of Calvin Nicholson, a farmer on division sixteen. Mr. Nicholson and family are members of the Metho- dist church. Ordway, William H., was born in Canisteo, Septembers, 1819. Enoch Ordway, his father, was born in New Hampshire, and in his early days followed distilling, lumbering and farming. William H. is one of the promment farmers and business men of the town, and he began life by working out by the day, and running on the river, which was then a paying business. He acquired about 305 acres of land in .Adrian, which in 1808 he traded for a farm, which is known as lot 4 first division. He was one of the promoters of the building of the academy in Canisteo village, and is one of the trustees. He married Mary, daughter of John Hallet, by whom he had four children: Charles, who enlisted in the 80th N. Y. Vols., and was killed in second battle of Bull Run; Albert, who was in the 1st N. Y. Cavalry; Julia, now Mrs. Her- man Crosby; Adella, now Mrs. Clark Braisted, of Westchester county. Ostrander. E. E., was born in the town of Bath, April 9, 1831, son of John Ostrau- der, a native of Schoharie county, who came to Steuben county in 1815. He mar- ried Eveline, daughter of Elisha Hanks. He was a member of Steuben county bar, and also engaged in mercantile business, and holding the office of supervisor for a number of years. He died in 1805, aged si.\ty-three years. E. E. Ostrander was educated in the common .schools, and has engaged in lumbering, mercantile and pro- duce business. In 1S61 he enlisted in Co. A, 23d N. Y. Vols., served two years, and re-enlisted in Co. G, 22d N. Y. Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. In 1868 he married Fannie, daughter of Hugh Gay, and they are the parents of five children: Edward E., Guy N., Mead H., Lillian E., and Harriet E. Ostrander Ervine, was born in Jasper, March 24, 1841, son of John and Mary A. (Babcock) Ostrander, he a native of Coxsackie, (ireene county, and hi.s wife of the same county. They came to Jasper in 1841, where he died January 25, 1888. Ervin Ostrander was reared on what is known as the Spaulding farm. May 16, 1886, he married Kate, daughter of Lewis and Abigail (Eastman) Huntington, natives of Greene county and Tompkins county, respectively. John Huntington, father of Lewis, died in Greene county, N. Y. The father of Abigail Eastman died in Alle- gany county, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Ostrander have two sons: Walter E. , born May 18, 1867, who married Eva, daughter of John Carter, and was educated in Canisteo: and Merritt E. , born June 11, 1870. and was educated in the common schools and Canisteo Academy. 418 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Owens, Alonzo, was born in Cameron, March 22, 1842, and is the seventh of eleven children born to Ithamar and Waita Ann (Briggs) Owens, he a native of Otsego, and she of Yates county, N. Y. The grandparents were James and Nancy (Alma) Owens, he of Otsego, N. Y. , and she of Rhode Island. They settled first at Bluff Point, from where they removed to Cameron, and he was for years justice of the peace, and died in Cameron, and Mrs. Owens married Isaac Santee of Cameron. Ithamar Owens was reared on the farm and afterward made farming his occupation. He was always in poor health and spent his last days at Prospect Hill, near Fre- donia, in grape growing, where he died. Alonzo Owens was educated at Troups- burg Academy, after which he engaged in lumbering in Cameron where he bought *a farm. He afterwards engaged in the mercantile business, and then a dealer in musical instruments. In 1882 he came to Troupsburg where he owns 126 acres of land, and in connection with his farm he is a dealer in agricultural implements, and pianos and organs. He also practices law in justice courts. In 18G7 he married Seresa, daughter of Joel and Martha (Perdy) Wheaton, by whom he had nine chil- dren; Agnes, Eugene, Alice A., Melvin T., Fannie, Leland, Clifford, Effie G., and Bessie B. Agnes is the wife of Rev. L. D. Works of Huron, South Dakota: Melvin T. is in Huron College ; and the other children were educated at WoodhuU Acad- emy. Mr. and Mrs. Wheaten were both natives of Delaware county, and came first to Addison, thence to Cameron in 1865, where he died, but Mrs. Wheaton still re- sides on the farm at Cameron. Olmstead, Jeremiah, was born in Montgomery county. May 4, 1813. Erastus Olm- stead, his father, was born in Connecticut and came to Montgomery county quite early in life, where he engaged in farming, which business he has followed all his life. He cleared a farm of eighty-five acres, and married Jane Conover of Mont- gomery county, by whom he had ten children. Jeremiah was educated in the district schools of Montgomery county, after which he engaged in farming, which business he has followed all his life and now owns a farm of 180 acres in the town of Avoca. He married Charlotte, daughter of Rudolph Dagart of Wheeler, by whom he had these children: Chester, and Alice, now Mrs. Charles Hope. Oxx, Ripley, was born in Avoca, July 2, 1834. Jonathan Oxx, his father was born in Washington county in 1799, and came to Avoca and from there to Howard in about 1814, and settled on a farm. He married Sallie K., daughter of Ripley Colk, by whom he had six children: Ripley, Hannah, Warren W.. Steuben C, Monroe, and Charity. Ripley was educated in the district schools of Avoca, after which he engaged in farming which he has followed most of his life. He married Helen \'aii Atten of Cohocton, by whom he had seven children. Mr. Oxx has held the office of constable for many years, and is at present justice of the peace. Oakden, Alfred H., was born January 14, 1867, son of Hope D. and Emily (Nichols) Oakden, natives of Hammondsport and Addison, respectively. They were married July 1, 1855, and had six children: Alfred H., Hope D., Hollis, Jessie B., Mary, and Maria, who died when nine years of age. Mr. Oakden was a farmer, and he died March 5, 1879, and his wife resides at Nelson, Pa. The grandfather, Joseph Oakden, was born in England, in 1803. He married Maria Hollis and came to America and engaged in butchering in Hammondsport; from there he came to Addison and FAMILY SKETCHES. 419 bought a large tract of land m Tnscarora, the most of which he has divided among his grandchildren. He has been a very successful man and still resides in Tuscarora, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. Alfred H. Oakdeu married Beatrice, daughter of Calvin Stid, by whom he had two children. Mr. Oakden has 170 acres of land and is engaged in general farming. Osborn, L. M., was born August 31, 1837. His grandfather, William Osborn, was born in Scipio, N. Y., and moved to South Dansville, where he followed farming. He died at ninety-seven years of age. Lewis Osborn, father of L. M., was born in Scipio, August 6, 1806, and died August 27, 1853. He was a mason by trade, but followed farming, and owned a farm of 150 acres. He married Saniantha Gates, born May 20, 1812, and died July 29, 1865, by whom he had two children: Alfonzo A., born December 1, 1835; and L. M., as above, who was educated at the Rogers- ville Seminary and taiight school a number of terms. He married Rosetta, daugh- ter of John Redman, of the town of Ossian, born June 26, 184-), and by whom he had six children: Samantha Elizabeth, born November 21, 1863, and married Michael J. Fries; Bertha Luella. born February 23, 1867, and married Smith Harden; Pheba Jane, born October 21, 1868, and married Gideon M. Southgate; Lewis Frederick, born October 9, 1870; Susie May. born September 3, 1875; and Dora Ethel, born July 28, 1885. Orr, Ira, was born in the town of Reading, Schuyler county, N. Y. , December 25, 1820. His father, Peter Orr, was born in Ireland, m 1797, and came to America in 1811, and .settled at Fort Ann, near Lake Champlain, where he engaged in shoemak- ing. He lived at sevei'al places in New York, and at last went to the town of Barry, Barry county, Mich., where he bought a farm of eighty acres. He married Jerusha Griswold, who was born near Fort Ann, and died at sixty years of age, by whom he had five children: Auswell, Ira, as above, Jane, William, and Mary. Ira Orr has always followed farming. He has lived at several places m Steuben countv, and is the owner of the old Captain Merritt farm of 100 acres, where he has lived thirty-six years. He married Mary Holt, who was born at Bennett s Creek, Steuben county, June 14, 1823, by whom he had five children; Ida Isadore, who married D. F. Hal- sey; Viola, deceased; Oliver, who married Katie Billings; Mary, who married Scott Juel ; and Ira, who married Nellie Demerest. Orr, James C, jr., was born in Chenango county. June 28, 1827, a son of James C. and Orena Orr, who settled in Tuscarora in 1833. Their children were James C, Calvin D. , Sarah, Joseph, Oliver, and Nelson. James C. , jr., married Adelia, daughter of AlphcusJ C. Newman, who came to Woodhull in 1839, and engaged in farming and the clothing business. Mr. and Mrs. Orr had three children : Elmer N., Gertrude A., and Melvin W. Mr. Orr is an active political worker and has been .supervisor, commissioner, and assessor in the town of Lindley. He is engaged in lumbering and farming. Melvin W. is a graduate of the Rochester Business College and Elmer of the Binghamton Business College. Owen, Cortland, is a son of John Owen who was born in Otsego county, of Welsh ancestry. When sixteen years of age, Cortland enlisted in Co. K, 8Gth N. Y. Vols., serving two years. He was in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and at the latter place was slightly wounded, taken prisoner and sent to Libby 420 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. prison, but was paroled and exchanged after two weeks' captivity. He was born at Cameron, in 1846. Two years later his father moved to Jasper and engaged in farm- ing. In 1865 he purchased a saw mill and carried on a lumber business. Mr. Owen worked with his father until 1871, when he married Martha Harwood, and in 1872 he bought his father's lumber business with which he has been extensively engaged ever since. He came to Addi-son in 1886 and built a planing mill, which furnishes employment for several men, and is one of the important enterprises of the town. He has two children: George, born in 1872, and Ella, born in 1879. Orser, Frank B., was born at Cameron Mills in 1857. He is of Scotch descent, be- ing a son of David H. Orser, who married Jane Hutchison, by whom he had four children. He died in 1882, aged sixty-si.'c. David Orser was a wagonmaker by trade, and was one of the 86th N. Y. Vols., from which he was discharged for dis- ability, and later he enlisted in the 4th N. Y. Heavy Artillery, where he was pro- moted to the rank of corporal. Frank Orser was educated in the common schools in Addison, and before learning the printer's trade he worked in a sash factorv, after which he entered the office of A. Roberts, and rose rapidly in his profession, and has been the associate editor of the Advertiser, the leading paper of Addison, since 1889. He has been village clerk for five terms, and in 1895 was elected town clerk, which office he administered so successfully that he is now serving a second term. He is a member of the benevolent order of Maccabees, and the Baldwin Hook & Ladder Company. In 1882 he married Lizzie D. Evans of Elkton, Pa., by whom he had one daughter, Marion J. Orr, Joseph J., was born in the town of Addison, a son of James C. and Orrena (Day) Orr. James C. came here with his father, Joseph, about 1830 from Delaware county. Joseph J. was one of five children named James C, Calvin D., Sarah C. Smith, Oliver J., and Joseph J., all residents of the county. Joseph J. married Sarah, daughter of Stephen and Mary Dillon, and they have five children : Edna Robinson, Celia Plunkett, Luna Hill, Clara Mead, and Edwin S. The last named married Josie Ayers. Joseph J. is a member of Addison Union Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 118. Ney, Charles, was bom in Northampton county. Pa., in 1823, son of Andrew and Amy (Fisher) Ney, and is another example of what a young man may accomplish by industry and economy. He has had to make his own way in the world, and when a boy he learned the carpenter's trade, but soon bought 130 acres of land in Urbana, which he sold and bought 143 acres in Bath, which he still owns. He came to Bradford and bought 158 acres where he still resides, all of which he has paid for by hard work and careful management. He married Minerva Bronson, by whom he had these children: Frankie, who died at twenty- three years of age; Sarah A., who died at twelve years of age; and William, who died at two years of age. Nipher, Melvin, was born January 11, 1851. His grandfather was born in Ger- many, and emigrated to this country, coming to Montgomery county, N. Y., thence to the town of Avoca, and from there he came with his son, John Nipher, to the town of Fremont, where he died at eighty years of age. John Nipher, father of Melvin, was born in Montgomery county, N. Y., July 12, 1818, and came to Howard, and from there to Fremont, where he located on a farm of eighty-two acres and engaged FAMILY SKETCHES. 421 in farming. In 1840 he married Polly A., daughter of Charles Roberts, who was born in Howard, March 10, 1822, and died December 14, 1884, by whom he had three children: Matilda, born July 22, 1843, and died July 25, 1885; Uewitt, bora in 1849, and died in 1850; and Melvin, as above, who received a good common .school educa- tion, and has always followed farming. He has held the office of assessor of the town of Fremont, and is justice of the peace. November 14, 1878, he married Emeranda, daughter of Philo Baker, who was born November 5, 1840, by whom he had two children: Inez, born April 10. 1880; John P., born February 9, 1882. Rogers, David S., of Ferenbaugh, was born in the house where he now lives in 1860. His parents, Daniel and Lois Angeline Rolo,son Rogers, natives of Ulster county and the town of Hornby, are residents of Beaver Dams. Mr. Rogers was raised and has always been a farmer. He married Augusta Ferenbaugh in 1885. He has a farm of 260 acres. Roloson, Sylvester, of Painted Post, was born in Hornby, son of Peter and Julia Kirby Roloson, natives of New Jersey and Rhode Island, who in about 1835 located in the eastern part of the town of Hornby, where the father cleared and at one time owned 500 acres. He died in 1890. aged eighty-three. The mother still survives. Mr. Roloson is one of a family of fifteen children. He has followed farming as an occupation all his life. In 1877 he married Ophelia Stanton, who was born on their present place. They have a farm of 100 acres. Roberts, A. L. , was born in the town of Avoca, May 20, 1856, son of William Roberts, who was Dorn in Avoca on Roberts Hill, in August, 1828. William Roberts was engaged in wagonmaking until recently when he retired and now lives in Can- isteo. He married Catherine, daughter of Tunis Van Vleck, of Avoca, the family coming originally from Montgomery county, N. Y. They had four children : A. L., Marcus, Tiney, and Venier. A. L. Roberts worked at farming in Troupsburg for four years, then came to Howard, having lived seven years on his present farm of 225 acres, known as the "Comfort" farm. He married Hattie, daughter of Lewis Van Order, a farmer of Howard. They have five children: Lewis V., Ray W., Grace B., Blanch E., and Alta May. Mr. Roberts and family are members of the Baptist church of Howard. Reynolds, Charles D., was born in Addison in 1857, son of Thomas I. Reynolds, an architect and contractor, who came here in 1846, and was afterward employed with the same sash, door, and blind industry. Mr. Reynolds traveled a great deal, being engaged in different cities in various enterprises. From 18G0 to 1865 he was in Jer- sey City, and from 1868 to 1873 at Paterson, N J. His death, which occurred in 1881, was caused by an accident. Charles D. received his education in Addison, and much of his early life was spent with his father in his travels. He was first employed with the sash, door and blind factory, which business he .still continues, being now with Park, Winton & True. Mr. Reynolds has served two terms as a member of the board of trustees. In 1884 he married Emma, daughter of William H. Manners, a grocer of this place, and they have one daughter, Dorothy, who was born in 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds are members of the Episcopal church. Ross, John W., was born in Springfield, Bradford county. Pa., April 10, 1851. He in LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. was educated at Burlington, Bradford county, Pa., and Painted Post, Steuben county. He was a farmer, after which he engaged in the drug business at Avoca and Painted Post. He is unmarried and lives on the homestead farm with his step-mother, and has filled the minor offices of the town. He is a member of the Baptist church, and is a Democrat. Ross, Bruce E., born in Bradford county. Pa., November 7, 1857, is the son of A. J. Ross, who was born in Burlmgton, Bradford county. Pa., October 28, 1826, and came to the town of Campbell in 1868 and settled on a farm which was partly cleared. He married Mara Grace, and they were the parents of the following children : John W., Emmett B., Dallas, and Bruce E. The latter was educated in the district schools of Bradford county. Pa., and Steuben county, N. Y., and has devoted his time to farming, and now owns a farm of fifty acres located in the town of Campbell, along the Mead's Creek Road. He married Harriet Austin, of Erwin, and they were the parents of two children: Grace and Julia. For his second wife he married Emma, daughter of Charles Dewey, of Delaware county, and they have the following chil- dren : Hattie, Cl)-de, Harry, Maud, and Olan. They are members of the Methodist church. Remington, Washington B. , was born in Hornby, October 24, 1844, son of Jona- than and Rachel Hammond Remington, who came from Vermont to the town of Campbell in 1816. Jonathan was a son of Joseph Remington, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Remington's father, Hansdale Hammond, married Lucy, a daughter of Colonel Mason, and in 1816 settled near Cooper's. He was also a soldier in the Rebellion. Jonathan was a non-commissioned officer in the war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. J. Remington had the following children; Simeon, who died m 1856, Orinda, Jonathan, Emily, now deceased, Alvin, Owen, Frank, Hannah, Joseph, Albert, Simeon O., Washington B., all of whom are natives of the county. Wash- ington B. attended the Painted Post Union School, and when sixteen years old clerked in a drug store for Daniel Orcutt. In 1863 he enli.sted in Co. F, 9th N. Y. Vols, and was also connected with the 6th Army Corps. He was mustered out of service in 1865, when he commenced the study of medicine with his brother Frank, who was then practicing at Painted Post. He was graduated in 1871 from the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery, and located at Painted Post, of which village he was president in 1894. He is actively engaged in church and educational inter- ests. He married Emma E., a daughter of William and Mary Houghtaling, of Painted Post, who formerly lived in Caton, Steuben county. Washington B. is a member of Montour Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 168. and also of the I. O. R. M., of Painted Post. Redhead, Thomas J., was born in Syracuse, N. Y., January 13, 1851. Thomas Redhead, his father, now lives in this city, an old and respected citizen, and has been an active business man as merchant tailor. He married Ann Brackenbury of Syracuse. Thomas J. was educated in Syracuse and came to Avoca in 18 — . He learned the trade of carpenter and builder, which business he carries on in the vil- lage of Avoca, and as contractor has erected almost every prominent building in the village. He married Kate A., daughter of Albert Billings of Avoca They have one adopted daughter, Lula. Mr. Redhead has lilled the office of trustee of the village, FAMILY SKETCHES. 423 and at present is justice of the peace. He is a member of I. O. O. F. , Avoca Lodge, No. 562, and charter member of the M. E. church, and superintendent of the Sunday school. Robison, Simeon, was born July 1.5, 1831. His father, Ehsha Robison, was born jn Vermont, in 179.5, and came to South Dansville when eighteen years of age, and took up a lot on what is called Cream Hill, and lived to be ninety-three years of age. He was a soldier of the war of 1812. He was a shoemaker by trade, but his princi- pal occupation was farming. He returned to Vermont and married Lucinda, daugh- ter of Simeon Wood, of Vermont, by whom he had thirteen children: Marcenia, George, Mordicai, John, Matilda, Phoebe Ann, Hannah, William, Simeon, Sarah, Helen, Liscomb, and James Henry. By his second wife he had two children: Olive, and Oscar. Simeon Robison received a common school education, and has been salesman and collector on the road for twenty years, but is now engaged in farming. June 27, 18.52, he married Harriet Amelia, daughter of Lorenzo Demery of South Dan.sville, who was born May 20, 18H4, by whom he had one child, Cassius L. , born June 2(5, 1857, and who married Lillian, daughter of John McNorton of Harden Hill, town of Fremont, bora in March, 1858. He is a farmer, and owns a farm of 184 acres, and his father, our subject, owns a farm of 110 acres. Rejmolds, Charles A., was born in Corning, Steuben county, N. Y., in 1858, son of Kuapp S. Reynolds a native of Westchester county, who was born in 1809 and located in Stickneyville, Steuben county, in 1832, and in 1843 came to Corning where he has since resided. He married Emma Johnson of Broome county, who died in 1884, by whom he had two children: Charles A., and Cyrus J., who was with the .53d Pa. Regt. about five years, and died in 1892. Charles A. Reynolds is a market gardener and farmer. He was president of the County Agricultural Society in 1894, and has been supervisor since 1891. In 1876 he married Ella J., daughter of George W. Preston. Rau, John, was born in Bethlehem. Pa., in 1814. He is of English and German extraction. His grandfather was born in Germany and settled in Philadelphia. He married and settled in Bethlehem, Pa., and had three children. Erhardt Rau, father of John, was born at Bethlehem, Pa., September 3. 1786, and settled in Sparta about 182], and died in 1884. He married Susan Ridd, born in Bethlehem, and died in Sparta in 1885, aged seventy-eight years. They had sixteen children: Benjamin, Daniel, Joseph, John, George, Betsey Wampole, Polly Carney, Susan Johns, Sally Ann Traxter, Hiram, Owen, David, Mary Ann Strong, Nelson, and Samuel. John Rau received his education in the common schools, and has always followed farming. In 1853 he purchased 158 acres of land in Dansville, N. Y. January 18, 1838, he mar- ried Charity Johns, born December 4, 1817, and died December 3, 1885, by whom he had seven children, two of whom died in infancy; Erhardt, born November 28, 1854, and John Wallace, born March 5, 1849; Sarah J., born April 7, 1839, and died May 11, 1855; Simon P., born August 18, 1841; Watson D., born March 11, 1844; Abner U., born March 23, 1846; and Rose E., born March 5, 1851. Abner D. resides with his father and has charge of the farm, also owns and runs a restaurant near Stony Brook (Jlen. He married Nancy Fries, of Naples, born June 16, 1841, by wliom he has two daughters: Minnie C, born August 30, 1875; and Myrta E., born November 25, 1876. 424 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Raplee, Mrs. H. — Hiram Raplee was born in Barrington, Yates county, N. Y., July 14, 1831, son of Joshua and Jane Longsoy Raplee, he a native of Milo, and she of Starkey, N. Y. They came to Barrington where he died in 1888. Mrs. Raplee died in 1841. The grandparents, Joshua Raplee and Henry Longsoy, were early settlers of Yates county. Hiram has always followed farming with the exception of two years when he engaged in the mercantile business in Bradford. He came to Wayne in 1864, and owns a farm of 150 acres. In 1857 he married Mary E., daughter of George T. and Abigail Eldridge Fitzwater of Milo, and to them have been bom four children: Joshua H.. a manufacturer of baskets at Weston, N. Y. ; George T., a farmer and fruit grower of Wayne; Clarence D., a farmer of Tyrone; and Adelbert H., who resides at home. By a previous marriage to Charity Swartz, Mr. Raplee has one daughter, Loraine. He is a Republican, and has been assessor, and is now excise commissioner. He was a member of Jersey Lodge, No. 668, F. & A. M., and of the Methodist church. Roberts, Wallace, was born in the town of Rome, Oneida county, N. Y., July 18, 1848. Thomas Roberts, his father, was a native of Wales, who came with his parents to this countr\- in 1835, when Thomas was twelve years old. The family located in Rome, and it was there Thomas was educated ; he took up farming as an occupation, which he always followed. He moved from Rome to Attica, from there to Orangeville Center and from there to Batavia. He died in Louisville, Ky., in 1868. Wallace was the second son of a family of four children ; he was given a good common school education and followed farming until he was twenty years of age. He then .served an apprenticeship at the tinner's trade with G. B. Worthington of Batavia, X. Y. ; he spent seven or eight years with him. In 1872 he came to Hor- nellsville, being employed with Charles McCraig ; afterward was for three years rail- roading, being a fireman on the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia Railroad. Re- turning to Hornellsville he was employed with the same firm and also with W. G. Rose. In April, 1888, he started in business on Canisteo street, which he has added to by hard work and close attention to business, and has become one of Hornells- ville's leading business men. ' He is a member of the Methodist church and one of the official board. Mr. Roberts was married in 1884 to Jennie Potter of the town of Almond. Ross, Lyman R., was born in Hornellsville, Steuben county, N. Y., October 1, 1855. Jesse B. Ross, his father, was a native of Lansing, Tompkins county, N. Y., who came to this section about 1845. He first settled in Avoca, and lived on a farm for ten years, and then was a resident of Fremont until 1860, when he bought a farm on the turnpike, and later bought a farm of fifty acres, now owned by Edwin Ross. He died ilay 25, 1883. Abigail C, the mother of Lyman R., was a native of Gro- ton, Tompkins county, N. Y., and died January 4, 1882. They were the parents of nine children: Lyman R. was the youngest son and was educated in the common schools, and was associated with his father in conducting the homestead farm, and after his death he bought twenty-five acres of that place and twenty-rive acres ad- joining it on the west, where he now conducts a general line of farming with u spe- cialty of grain and potatoes. Mr. Ross has always been a warm supporter of the Republican party and its principles, and for six successive terms has been elected constable of the town. He has also been trustee of school district No. 9, and road FAMILY SKETCHES. 425 overseer. April 9, 1886, he married Nellie, daughter of Egbert Nicholson, by whom he had two children: Louise and Helen. Ross, Edmund C, was born in Howard. Steuben county, N. Y., July 2.5, 1848, the third son of Jesse B. and Abigail J. Ross. He was given a common school educa- tion and made his home with his parents until eighteen years of age. He then went to work at farming, which he followed for five years, and was then employed with Joseph Lack in his brewery in Hornellsville for seven years, and was then two years with Morris Hefter. He spent one year farming in Jliddlebury, Pa., and the spring of 188.5 he came back to the old homestead farm, where he has made many valuable improvements, and is now conducting it for the production of grain and vegetables, with a specialty of potatoes. March 28, 1873, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Jesse Jacobs, a farmer of North Lansing, Tompkins county, N. Y., by whom he had four children, three now living: Edith, Mabel, a student of the academy, and Glen Otto, a student of the common school-. Ryan, Thomas, was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, February 1, 1852, and came to this country in 1864. He landed in New York and went to Montreal, where he attended school for one year and then returned to his native land, and again came to America in 1.869. That year he located in New York city, where be was employed at the trade he had learned in his native land and followed in London, that of tailor- ing. Mr. Ryan became a resident of London at the close of the Fenian uprising in 186T, in conformity with his patriotic idea of Ireland's need of self-government. He remained in New York for two years, and in 1871 came to Steuben county, being employed with James Sutherland in Bath for about six months. He then came to Hornellsville in April, 1872, and entered the employ of Thomas Brock, with whom he continued for one year as tailor and cutter, and then was with Mr. Lehman in the same work for two j'ears, during which time he had a partnership in the business. He was then employed for two or three years with James T. Glazier, and later with Julius Cohn as cutler, and in 1880 he became a partner with Edward Powers in the . merchant tailoring establishment on Broad street. They have ever since been asso- ciated together, with the exception of three months Mr. Ryan spent in Baltimore as a cutter. Mr. Ryan was the representative of the Fourth Ward in the first Board of Alderman for the city of Hornellsville in 1888, and in 1893 was the candidate for supervisor from the Fourth and Fifth wards. He was one of the founders of the A. O. H. in Hornellsville and held the office of first vice-president; also a member of the C. M. B. A. In -1874 he married Sarah Clancy, and they have five children, all daughters. Rice, Leroy D., was born in the town of Independence, Allegany county, N. Y., November 22, 1832, son of Alexander Rice, a native of Cortland county, who came to Allegany county when a young man and cleared a farm of 100 acres, where he spent the balance of his life. Leroy was the sixth of a family of nine children, four of whom are now living. He was given a common school education, and in 1850 he took up lumbering and followed it in Allegany county until 1860, when he removed to Michigan, where he spent three years in the same business. In 1863 he removed to Warren Pa., where he contmued lumbering, and was in the employ of F. G. and D. I). Babcock, with whom he sjient over twenty years as foreman and superin- bbb 426 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY tendent of their lumbering interests. He remained in Pennsylvania until 1875, and then removed to Maryland, where he engaged successfully in farming for seven years. In 1883 he came to Hornellsville, where he first bought twenty-seven acres on Lot 12, and the same year bought 100 acres more, and he now has 170 acres of the best land in this town. He also has a farm of seventy-five acres in the town of Hartsville, w-hich is used principally for dairy purposes. In 1855 he married Nancy Wright of Scio, Allegany county, who died in January, 1884. They were the parents of two children ; Laura, the wife of Simon Downs, and Lester I., who is with h's father on the farm. Robie, Charles H., was born in Bath, October 8, 1836, son of Reuben Robie, who was one of the leading men in the settlement and development of the town of Bath. Charles H. was educated at Haverling Academ)-, after which he devoted his time to farming. In 1859 he married Sarah E., only child of Henry McElwee, and they are the parents of one son, Henry McElwee Robie, and one daughter, Olive W. Mr. Robie is one of the largest farmers in Steuben county, serving as president of the Agricultural Society of Bath for two years, and has been greatly interested in im- proving and developing fine horses; also one of the largest wool producers and breeder of shorthorn cattle iu Steuben county. Rowe, Lewis, was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1833, and came to the United States with his parents in 1835 and settled in Wayland. Lewis Rowe, sr. , was a farmer and one of the pioneer settlers. He died in 1841 in his fifty-first year. Lewis married Caroline Drum, and are the parents of one son, Frank, of Prattsburg. In 1856 he came to Kanona and learned the tanner's trade, and in 1876 was burned out, and since then has made a specialty of dealing in hides and leather. Rauber, Nicholas, was born in Prussia, Germany, m 1846, emigrated to this coun- try with his parents when seven j^ears of age and settled in Wayland, N. Y. His father, Mathias Rauber, was born in Prussia, in 1816, and is still living. He mar- ried Margaret Bricks, who was born in Prussia and died in Wayland in 1892, aged seventy-three years. He bought a small farm njar Perkinsville, now owned by- Nicholas, Mathias having a life lease of the same. They had eight children : Kate, Nicholas, Mary, Lizzie, Peter, Jacob, Maggie, and Anna, deceased. Nicholas at- tended the Catholic school at Perkinsville for five years, w-here he was instructed in both English and German. He worked at fanning until eighteen years of age, and September 12, 1864, enlisted in the 188th X. Y. Vols., and served until the close of the war, and was in the battles of Hatcher's Run, Weldon Railroad, Second Hatch- er's Run, Stony Creek and Five Forks. He now draws a pension. After returning from the war he engaged in the lumber business for three years, after which he went on the Erie Railroad as section hand for seven years and was then promoted to fore- man of section, which he has held sixteen years. He also runs a grocery store and saloon at his residence, which is -superintended by his wife. He has held the office of village trustee eight years. He is a member of Champion Hook & Ladder Co., No. 1, and of the Theodore Schlick Post, No. 314, G. A. R., also a member of C. M. B. A. In September, 1872, he married Caroline Halauer, who was born in 1844, and died January 9, 1892. They had five children: Charles, born October 8, 1875; Lester, born June 16, 1879; Frank, born in October, 1882; Mary, born in October, 1887, and I FAMILY SKETCHES. 427 Carrie, born January 0, 1890. Mr. Raubc-r married for his second wife, Mrs. Chri- sanlha (Ilagele) John, who was born in (Jcrmany in 1851. She had five children by Jacob John : Katie, born in 1875; Albert, born in ISTli; Joseph, born in 1872; Net- tie, born in 1884, and Tillie, born in 1887. Rowe, Peter J., was born in Waylaud, N. V., in November, 180:5 His father, Henry Rowe, was born in Waylaud, N. Y., and died in East Springwater. April ;!0, 1891, aged fifty-four years. He married Barbara Libengouth, who was born in Way- land in 18-12. and is still living in East Springwaler on the farm. They had eight children: Henry, born in Wayland, in 1859; William, born in 1861; Peter J., born in November, 1863; Lizzie, born in 1865; Charles, born in 1867; Frank, born in 1809; Edward, born in 1871. and Louis, born in 187;?. Edward and Louis are graduates of Geneseo Normal School; Edward is now principal of the Rushville Union School, and Louis is attending college in Rochester, where he is taking a medical course. Peter J. Rowe commenced business for himself in Big Rapids, Mich., in the meat business, where he remained from 18S5 tfi 1891, when he returned to Waylaud, where he carried on the same business. In 189;J he assumed the proprietorship of the Bry- ant House, a brick structure on the corner of Main and Naples .streets, which he has since conducted. He is a member of Wayland Lodge, No. 176. I. O. O. F. At Big Rapids, Mich., in 1887, he married Lena Shaw, born in Norway, in 1804, by whom he has two children: George, born in 1889, and Lola, born in 1893. Raufenbarth, Frank, was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1858, emigrated to this country in 1881, and settled in Rochester, N. Y., where he remained for three years and worked as a laborer. In 1884 he came to Wayland and opened a meat-market, having previously learned the trade in Germany. He bought the building he now occupies, in 1888, of A. Pardee, situated at No. 12 Main street, where can be found at any time meats of all kinds. He is a member of the Wayland Hook & Ladder Company, also a member of the C. M. B. A., and is now treasurer of the Wayland Dime & Loan association. In 1881, at Rochester, N. Y., he married Matilda Burk- harth, who was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1800, emigrated to this country in 1881, and settled in Rochester. They have four children : Josephine, born in 1882; Leo, born in 1884; Mary, born in 1888; and Julia, born in 1891. Rosenkrans, John A., son of Levi Rosenkrans (see the Rosenkrans sketch), was born September 22, 1845, in Wayland, N. Y., where he was educated in the common schools. He commenced work for himself by working on his mother's farm for live years, and then bought fifty acres of land which he subsequentlv sold, and has since dealt in property to a considerable extent, and for ten years run a livery and exchange stable. He is now engaged in the furniture and undertaking business, which he has carried on for ten years. Mr. Rosenkrans is a member of the Wayland Lodge, No. 176, I. O. O. F. In 1887 he was married at Arkport, N. Y., to Libbie Newsome, who was born in Arkport, in November, 1847. Her father, William Newsome, was born in England, and was twice married, and his children by his first wife were Susan, living, Sarah, Jane, and Mary, all deceased. She died in Arkport. For his second wife he married Bessie ZelulT, who was born in Penn.sylvania, and died in Colorado, in 1891, aged seventy-five years. Their children were William W. (deceased), Eliza- beth, Loretta, Helen (deceased). Silas W., John A., George W^, and J. Frank. Mr. Newsome died in Arkport in 1885, aged eighty-one years. 428 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY, Phillips, Lyman H., was born in Campbell, N. Y., September 15, 1837, son of Vol- kert and Ruth (Hungerford) Phillips, he a native of Schoharie county, N. Y., and she of Connecticut, who came to Campbell while young, and died on the farm now owned by Lyman H., he in 1871, and she in 1879. Lyman H. Phillips was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and Starkey Seminary, after which he engaged in teaching and lumbering, but his principal occupation is farming, and he now owns 120 acres of land, where he iias lived since he was six years of age. Mr. Phillips is a Republican in politics, and has been justice of the peace many years and justice of sessions two years, also supervisor seven years. He is a member of Mer- chantsville Grange. In 18(i2 he enlisted in Co. E, 141st X. Y. Vols., and served un- til the close of the war. He was at Resaca, Missionary Ridge, Peach Tree Creek, Culp's Farm, Atlanta, Averysboro, and Bentonville. March 22, 1871, he married Olive M. (Parker), widow of John Booth, by whom he had one child, Lillie; he also has one adopted son, Charles. Peters, David S., was born in Bath, N. Y., in 1847, son of Charles and Elizabeth (Sanford) Peters, he born in Bath, and she in Lfrbana. The grandfather of our sub- ject, George Peters, was one of the early settlers of Bath, where he died about 1858. Charles Peters, father of David S., was a farmer, and now lives at Sanilac county, Mich. His wife died in 1848. David S. was reared by his grandfather and educated in the common schools. August 8, 1864, he enlisted in Co. K, 104th N. Y. Vols., and served until the close of the war. He was at Six Mile House, Hatcher's Run, Five Forks, and at Lee's Surrender. He is a member of Knox Post. G. A. R., No. 549. In 1878 he married Fidelia Myers, by whom he had two children: Fred, who resides at home ; and Charles, who was killed by falling from a load of hay. Mrs. Peters died June 26, 1880. Mr. Peters owns ninety six acres of land, which he bought in 1874, and follows general farming. Pinchin, A. A., was born June 28, 1849. His father, Albin Pinchin, was born in the town of Mooers, Clinton county, N. Y. , February 10, 1820, and came to Arkport w-hen seventeen years of age, where he engaged in farming, and also run a saw-mill a part of the time and dealt quite extensively in the lumber business. He now lives at Almond, Allegany county, N. Y. He married Adaline R., daughter of David Whitford, who was born May 25, 1824, by whom he had one child, A. A., as above, who was educated at Rogersville Seminary and Alfred University, and is by occu- pation a farmer. He married Frances Bell Hunt, born February 24. 1854, daughter of Nathaniel Huut of Mount Morris, by whom he had three children ; Mary Ada, born May 7, 1878; Lloyd Arthur, horn June 4, 1883; and Otha H., born March 1, 1887. Potter, Walbridge, was born in Tioga county. Pa. , April 21, 18.53. His grandfather, Adolphus Potter, was born in Rhode Island, and was one of the first settlers of Troupsburg, where he died. Darling Potter, father of Walbridge, was born in Troupsburg, and married Lucy A. Woodard, who was born in Vermont. They now reside in Woodhull. Walbridge Potter was educated in Woodhull Academy. He owns 122 acres of land in Rathbone, on which he located in 1880. He follows farm- ing and makes a specialty of cabbage. In 1887 he married Samantha, daughter of William H. and Samantha (Devenport) Wilson, who were born in Vermont and came FAMILY SKETCHES. 429 to Woddhull, aud thence to Rathbone, where Mrs. Wilson died in 1889, and where Mr. Wilsim now resides. His second wife was Thankful 'rhompson. Mr and Mrs. Potter have two children: Joel, who was born August 13, 1888; and Josie. who was born September 4 1891. Parkhill, Dr. R. F., was born in. the town of Howard, December 11, 1832, son of David Parkhill, who was born in Montgomery county in 1804, of which an account is found elsewhere. Mr. Parkhill began his education in the common schools, and finished in Alfred Seminary in 1855. He taught school in the village of Howard for about si.\ years, then began reading medicine with Dr. A. B. Case of Howard, with whom he remained four years. He graduated at Albany December 27, 1859, as physician and surgeon, and located in the town of Howard, where he has since prac- ticed. He married Lucinda, daughter of Henry A. Toucks, and they have two chil- dren: Leona May, now Mrs. C. M. Pruchan of Wheeler, and Myron H. who is a physician and surgeon and practices with his father. He was educated in the district schools of Howard, and was graduated from the Buffalo Medical College, February 21, 1886. Dr. R. F. Parkhill was supervisor for three years, and is a member of the Masonic fratfernity, Louis Lodge 104. Pixley, Frank, was born in Canisteo, March 9, 1853. William Pi,\ley, his father, was born in the town of Howard, and engaged in farming in the town of Canisteo, and now lives retired in the village. He married Ann Fogle of Canisteo, Steuben county, by whom he had five children: Fred, L., Dr. E., Sarah, and Frank, who was educated in the town of Howard, after which he came to Avoca where he has lived on a farm of 120 acres for about two years. He married Ida, daughter of Lewis Borden, a farmer of Wheeler, by whom he had one daughter, Alice. He is a mem- ber of the Maccabees. Pease, Randall A., was born in Greenwood, May 31, 1849, son of Albert Pease, a native of Newfield, who married Lufany Richie of Dryden, Tompkins county, by whom he had seven children. The paternal grandfather, Randall Pease, and the maternal grandfather, Daniel Richie, came from Tompkins county to Greenwood in pioneer days and here lived and died. Albert Pease was a farmer of Greenwood, and was at one time highway comrais.sioner, and died in 1856, and his wife in 1882. Randall A. Pease was reared on a farm and now owns the horriestead farm of 155 acres, and a lot in Andover, where he is preparing to make his future home. In politics he is independent, and at one time was assessor. In 1870 he married Char- lotte, daughter of Albert and Augusta Scribner, by whom he had one daughter, Au- gusta L. , who was educated at Andover and is now a teacher. Peterson, Frank, was born at Big Flats, Chemung county, June 3, 1850. He be- gan his education in the district schools of the town of Campbell. He is a farmer and lives on the homestead farm of 150 acres. He is unmarried and lives with bis mother. He is a member of the Bajjtist church, and in ])(jlilics he is a Re- publican. Paxton, E. C, was born in 1852, in Addison, where he was educated. He has been engaged in the Addison Mills for the last twenty-five years, and is still a junior partner of the Curtis & Paxton Mill, with which his father, the late Thomas Paxton, was associated the greater part of his life. In June, 1880, he married Kate, daugh- 430 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. ter of Thomas S. Reynolds, who was a pioneer settler of this place. They have two children: Adelaide Patterson, born in 1884; and Thomas Edward, born in 1885. Thomas Paxton, the father of E. C. Paxton, who was born in Banbury, England, in 1818, came to America when twenty-two years of age. He was a shoemaker by trade, and in 1836 opened a shoe store in Addison, and had a factory employing fif- teen men. In 1885 he sold out the shoe business, and bought a half interest in the Addison Mills, and was also associated with the Goodhue tannery. He has been ex- tensively engaged in the lumber business, and surveyed and drove piles on the Erie Railroad. He married Susan, daughter of Benjamin Patterson, a land owner. Mr. Paxton was supervisor and assessor of the town. He was a member of the Church of the Redeemer, which is greatly indebted to his benevolence. He died in 1893, aged seventy-five years. Prangen, George D., was born in the city of Hornellsville, and in the house of his present residence, December 10, 1860. Diederich Prangen, the father of George, was a native of Germany, born in Bremerhaven, August 8, 1825, and came to this coun tr)^ when twelve or thirteen years of age. He was located in New York city until 1854. That year he was first engaged in Hornellsville as a merchant, which he fol- lowed only a short time and then engaged in the dray and express business. Scott Thatcher was at this time engaged in dealing in ice and Mr. Prangen did the carting for him. Later he became the proprietor of the business, and it was from the small start of going among his neighbors after supper at night that the extensive business of to-day was established. , In 1876 he bought out John Le Grange and that year they afforded the luxury of one horse and then gradually increased until 1889; the year of his death they handled 2,000 tons. He was a man who devoted his whole at- tention to his business and family. He was the father of eleven children, seven now living. George is the second son. He was educated in the common schools and his first employment was with his father, driving team. In 1888 a co-partnership was formed of Mr. Prangen and bis three sons: William H., George D. , and Richard M.. under the firm name of Prangen & Sons. The sons have continued the business under the name of Prangen Brothers, with increasing trade and continued success. In 1895 they handled between 24,000 and 25,0U0 tons, a part of which was for the Erie Railroad Company. In winter they employ from 150 to 160 men and in sum- mer from ten to twelve men and three or four teams. George D. was married Sep- tember 5, 1894, to Miss Bertha M. Williams, a sister of F"rank Williams, one of Hornellsville' s merchants. Phillips, Dr. Charles Robert, was born in Speedsville, Tompkins county, June 22, 1867. Asa E., his father, was a native of Dryden, Tompkins county, and went to the town of Caroline when a young man, engaging in the mercantile business. He conducted a general store until twenty-three years of age, then removed to Wash- ington, D. C. , and became proprietor of one of the largest lumber houses of that city. He died November 7, 1881. He was a member of the Masonic order and of the R. A. M. Charles was educated at Franklin Grammar School in Washington, from which he graduated when thirteen years of age. He then entered Cortland Normal School, which he left in 1885, spending one year in the medical tlepartment of the University of the City of New York, then entered Columbia College, formerly known as the College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in June, 1889, with FAMILY SKETCHES. 431 the degree of M. D. In 1890 he came to Hornellsville and was for one year with Dr. Baker, then established the office he now conducts. Dr. Phillips is a member of the Board of Health, president of the Examining Board of Plumbers, was United States e.xamiuing physician of this district, and visiting surgeon to the St. James Mercy Hospital, also surgeon for the N. Y. L. E. & W. Railway Company. He is a member of the Steuben County Medical Society and president of the Hornellsville Medical and Surgical Association, and a member of the Erie Railway Surgical Asso- ciation. May 8, 1892. the doctor married Alma, daughter of Alphonso Hubbard, a lumberman of this city. They have one child, Robert Hubbard Phillips. Prindle, Albert T., was born in Sharon, Litchfield county, Conn., September 21, 1823, a son of Charles L. . of New Haven, Conn, who was descended from one of five brothers who came from Scotland, all being ministers of the gospel. At the outbreak of the Revolution four joined the Continental army, and one clung to the king's com- mand. Charles L. was a tanner by trade, and when twenty-one determined to come West. In 1823 he established himself in business, which he continued for a time, then came to Schenectady, entered into partnership with John Brown, continued three years, then removed to Naples, where he conducted a tannery for ten years. In 1848 he removed to Hornellsville, where the family have since resided. Albert, our subject, bought the old O'Connor tannery, and for five years Charles L. Prindle and Col. D. L. Benton conducted the business, retiring in 1833, when Albert formed a partnership with J. E. Shaut, which continued three years, then became Prindle, Rose & Shaut, and in 1861 they sold to Benton & Rose. Charles Prmdle retired from active business, and died in 1885. Of his eight children, the youngest son, Mark, joined with Albert and Mr. Shaut and ei-ected the tannery, which has ever since been a leading feature of the place. In 1866 the firm became A. T. & M. Prindle. which continued till the death of Mark on March 1, 1887. Mr. Prindle is a Mason and a Knight Templar. In 1861 he married. Lucy Spencer of Wyoming county, and their children are: Farrand C, a member of the above firm ; Alice, Albert T. , and George S., the latter two employed in the tannery. Preston, Henry C, was born in the town of Howard, Steuben countv, N. Y., Octo- ber 24, 1847. He was educated in the common schools and the Union Seminarv, and was employed in early life on the farm and later was engaged in the livery bu.siness at Hornellsville in the' rear of the Osborne House. It was a little later that the Hollow Cable Wire Company was established by Mr. Preston and his sons, and Henry C. has always been the treasurer of the company since. He was married in 1872 to Miss Lucy, daughter of Ira Pierce, a farmer of South Dansville. They have five children; Beulah, Blanche, Bernice, Maude, and Grace. Four of them are students of the academy. Grace is in Lincoln school. Patten, John Nelson, was born in the town of Otego, Otsego county, N. Y., Octo- ber 1, 184:i. George Patten, the father of John, was also a native of Otsego county, born February 8, 1818. The family are of Scotch descent. John Patten, the grand- father of John Nelson, was born in Perthshire, Scotland, and came to this country m 1800. George was the oldest son of eight children. He was educated in the com- m.on schools and took up farming for his life work. He was married December 18, 1^40, to Miss Polly Squires, a native of Otsego county. They were the parents of 432 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. three children: John N., our subject; Joel, died when three years old: Deetle is the wife of William H. Burt, a railroad man of Hornellsville. Mrs. Patten, the mother of John Nelson, is still living, seventy-one years of age. John N. was educated in the common schools of Otsego county, and lived on the old homestead farm with his parents until he was of age. In 1865 his family came to Hornellsville, his father buying a farm in Arkport where he lived until 1869, when they removed to a farm of seven acres, which he has increased by additional purchase to 106 acres, the prin- cipal products of which are grain and vegetables. Mr. Patten was married April 16, 1868, to Miss Margaret Dildine, youngest daughter of John Dildine. They have five children, all living: Miss P'thelyn, one of the Hornell Academy students who have taken up teaching; Mary J., the wife of James McMichael, a farmer of this town; George E., with his father on the farm; Joel, died in infancy; and Miss Anna Belle, a student of the common school. Miss Janet Anderson Patten is also in the common school. Parker, Mrs. Delia. — Abram Cadogan was born in We.st Winfield, Herkimer county, N. Y., July 10, 1813, son of Abram, who was a soldier in the warof 1812, and served at Sackett's Harbor, where he was taken sick and died. Abram, jr., came to Canisteo in 1836, where he resided fourteen years and then came Hornellsville, where he has been engaged as millwright, in the wagon business and building. He mar- ried Frances J., daughter of Charles Whitewood, of Truxton, formerly of Stock- bridge, Mass. Powel, M., was born in Germany in 1844 and came to America in 1858, locating at Scranton, Pa., where he worked m iron foundries till 1883, then purchased his pres- ent farm in Caton and moved there. He has ninety-three acres and follows general farming. In 1876 he married Katie Keuhn, a native of Chemung county. Prentiss, George A., was born in the city of Hornellsville, March 3, 1857. George W. Prentiss, his father, is a native of Schuyler county, N. Y., and came to this town about 1849. He is a mechanic and has been engaged in building some of the fine houses of the southern part of the town, and is the superintendent of the erection of the Methodi-st church on the south side ; he is now sixty-four years of age. George A. is the only son of a family of three children ; he was educated at Hornellsville Academy and was first engaged with his father as helper when only fourteen years of age at painting, and followed it summers during vacation until nineteen years of age, and at that age he adopted it as a trade and has since followed it with the ex- ception of three years, 1880 to 1883, during that time being engaged on the construc- tion of the Texas Pacific railroad in Texas. The spring of 1895 he was elected a member of the Republican City Committee and the same spring was elected alder- man by a majority of fourteen over T. S. Thomas. He is chairman of the printing committee, member of the law committee, and the committee of claims. Mr. Pren- tiss has been one of the benefactors of the city in the way of biiilding four new houses and rebuilding t\yo or three in the Fifth ward and three in the fourth ward. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of this city. He was married in 1883 to Luella S., daughter of Aaron Waters, a manufacturer of Greenwood. They have one child, Gertrude H. Prentiss. Park Robert F., was born in Woodhull, in 1852, son of William N. and Christina FAMILY SKETCHES. 433 Mesick Park, natives of Broome county, N. Y., where they were married. In 1830 they came to Steuben county, locating in Corning where Mr. Park died in 1878, aged sixty-three. In 1879 Robert F. married Emma B., a granddaughter of Nelson Cowan. Mr. and Mrs. Park resided on the old Cowan homestead until 1893, when they moved to their present residence. Their children are: William N., Robert N. and Laura. Peabody, Dr. George M., was born in Springwater, N. Y. , October 22, 1858. His great-grandfather, Samuel Peabody, was a native of Massachusetts. His grand- father, William Peabody, was bom in Stonington, Conn., and died in Canadice, N.Y. Alvah Peabody, father of George M., was born in Manlius, Onondaga county, N.Y. , February 18, 1810, and moved to Springwater, with his father, in 1814, where he died September 2, 1887. He married Hannah Jane Quick, who was born in Newburg, Orange county, N.Y., September 20, 1815. Her maternal grandfather, Lsaiah Smith, was one of the pioneers of Ontario county, a soldier of the Revolution, and one of the body guard of General Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Peabody had nine children : Nelson, who died at Salisbury Prison, N. C. , a member of Wadsworth Guards, 140th N. Y. Vols. ; Albert H., who resides in Annada, Mo., member of the same regiment, and was wounded at Gettysburg; Helen, who died in December. 1868, wife of James Robinson; Lucinda, who married Freeman Thompson, and resides at Springwater, N. Y. ; Manson, who resides at Canadice; Margaret, who resides at Canadice; Alfred L., who resides in Columbiaville, Mich. ; Frank J., who resides in Canadice; and George M., as above, who attended the common schools of Canadice until four- teen years of age and worked his father's farm until twenty-one years of age. He attended the Dansville Seminary two terms and the Brockport Normal School two terms, after which he taught school four terms. He read medicine with Dr. Worden, of Springwater, and Dr. Chester Cary, of Columbiaville, Mich., after which he at- tended the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Md. , also the Univers- ity of Vermont, at Burlington, from which institution he was graduated in 1885. He commenced the practice of medicine in Wayland, N. Y., where he remained one and one-half years, when he moved to Tallapoosa, Ga., where he carried on the drug business in connection with his practice. He returned to Wayland in September, 1894, where he has a lucrative practice. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum Council No. 1070, also a member of the K. O. T. M., No. 220. At Dansville, N. Y., May 4, 1886, he married Ella Schubmehl, who was born June 24, 1863, by whom he has fovir children: Monica, born in Rochester, N. Y., March 19, 1887; Louise, born in Rochester, N. Y., May 21, 1888; Helen, born in Tallapoosa, Ga., March 5, 1891; and Mary, born in Tallapoosa, Ga., March 23, 1893. Piatt, Dr. Alvah A., was born in Angelica. N. Y., in 1861. His ancestor was ex- iled during the Huguenot times, and landed at Boston. His paternal grandfather. Charles Piatt, was born in Connecticut, and died in Olean, N. Y., in 1883, aged ninety-three years. Joseph A. Piatt, father of Alvah A., was born in Sparta, N. Y., in 1831, and is engaged in the in.surance business at Livonia, N. Y. He married Louisa Lindsley, who was born in Livonia, in 1835, by whom he had one son, Alvah A., who learned the trade of taxidermist, in Ward's University at Rochester, which he followed for six years. He attended the High School at Livonia, N.Y., afterwards took a preparatory course at the Geneseo Normal School. He studied medicine with 434 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. W. S. Purdy at Corning, N. Y. , for two years, after which he took a three years' course at the Pulte Medical College, in Cincinnati, a post-graduate course one year, and was graduated from that institution in 1881, and afterwards took an honorary degree at Buffalo Medical College. He first commenced the practice of medicine in Cincinnati, thence to Jackson, Tenn., thence to Atlanta, N. Y., thence to \Vayland, where he has practiced for seven years. Dr. Piatt is a member of Livonia Lodge, No. 758, F. & A. M., of Waylarid Lodge, No. 116, I. O. O. F., also a member of the Atlanta Encampment. In November, 1884, at Livonia, N. Y., he married Eva Bar- ton, born April 1, 1866, by whom he has one child, Gussie M., born in Wayland, N. Y., May o, 1890. Patchin, Gordon M., was born December 20, 1848. His grandfather, Walter Patchin, was a native of Connecticut, emigrated to the town of Wayland from Mar- cellus, Onondaga county, in 1814, and settled at Patchinsville where he purchased a large tract of land. He was a Revolutionary soldier and was wounded by the Indians at Ballston, Saratoga county, N.Y., when that town was burned; he escaped by swimming the river. He died at Patchinsville, aged ninety years, and was buried at East Wayland. Myron Patchin, father of Gordon M., was born in Onon- daga county, N. Y., in 1806. and came to Wayland with his father when eight years of age. He was very prominent in the affairs of the town, was one of the founders, and was the one who gave it the name of Wayland. At his death, which occurred in 1890, he was the owner of 200 acres of land. He held the office of supervisor of the town several years, was justice of the peace for thirty years, and was also justice of sessions for several terms. He married Rosilla Parmenter, who still survives him, aged seventy years. They had three children: Grace G., Gertrude, who married Frank Baker, deceased, and Gordon M., as above, who is now the possessor of the farm owned by his father. Gordon M. was educated in the district school and at- tended the Dansville Seminary and Naples Academy. He is a member of Phoeni.x Lodge, No. 115, F. & A. M., of Dansville, N. Y. He carries on the farm and has dealt in real estate. He served Steuben county in the State Legislature in 1892-93, elected by the Republicans. Peterson, Charles H., was born in Horseheads, Chemung county, July 14, 1847, and in 1853 came to Steuben county with his parents, Jerome B. and Maria F. Peter- son, who purchased the Levi Horton property, and where his descendants now re- side. In 1876 Charles H. married Elma, daughter of the late Isaac Saunders of Rathbone, by whom he had one daughter, Je.ssie M. Pawling, Dr. Thomas H., was born in Fulton, N. Y., October 3, 1856, and tlic family were of English descent and settled in the town of Pawling, Dutchess county, which was named for them. Charles W. Pawling married Esther, daughter of Palmer Root, and served m the late war with honor and credit. Thomas H. Pawling is a graduate of Haverling Academy, and in 1884 graduated from the medical de- partment of the University of Buffalo. In 1884 he associated with Dr. Kassom, and in 1888 established his present practice, making a specialty of dermatology. In 1891 he married Mary, daughter of D. W. Woodruff of Dansville, N. V. Mr. Pawling is a member of the Board of Health, and for four years member of E.xamining Board of Surgeons. FAMILY SKETCHES. 435 Parks, James, was born at County Tyrone, Ireland, September 14, 1818, and came to the United States in 1819 with his parents who settled in Oranjje county, remain- ing until 1820 when they came to Steuben county, and was identified through his life as a farmer in Schuyler county, which was then a part of Steuben county, his resi- dence being on Sugar Hill. He died in his seventy-fourth year. James Parks was educated in the common schools, after which he gave his attention to farming. In 1842 he married Mary, daughter of Alexander Adams, by whom he had two chil- dren, Mrs. Adeline, and Charles, who died at Ihirly-si.K years of age. Mrs. Parks died October 14, 1893. Pipe, Samuel, was born in England in 1851, and came to America with his parents in the same year, coming direct to (Jeneva, where they lived for twenty years. He was educated in the district schools, and in 1871 they moved to Pratt.sburg where he remained until 1873 when he purchased of his father 180 acres of land where he has since resided, and being possessed of natural mechanical ability he has erected for himself a commodious house and large barns. In 188.T he married Rhoda, daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Wraight) Stevens of Wheeler. Mr. and Mrs. Pipe are active members of the M. E. church of Lynn in Prattsburg, and Mr. Pipe is steward and trustee, acting financial steward, and a teacher in the Sunday school. Potter, Edward J., was born in Corning, Steuben county, N. Y., September 2(5, 1858, the oldest of a family of eight children born to John and Elizabeth (Stickler) Potter, he a native of Seneca county, and a farmer by occupation, and she of Corn- ing. The grandfather, John Potter, came to Painted Post in 183-5, and afterward went to Burdett, N. Y., where he spent his last days. The maternal grandfather, Martm Stickler, was an early settler of Corning. Edward J. Potter was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, after which he engaged in farming, which business he followed until 1889, when he went to Illinois and worked in a hotel for several years. He returned to Cameron and settled on the farm known as the W. L. Swartwood farm, where he remained until in December, 1895, when he bought the Hurd House at WoodhuU, N. Y. He is a member of Elkland Lodge, No. 800, I. O. O. F. December 28, 1892, he married Alice L. Swartwood, a native of Cameron, N. Y. , and a daughter of Wellen and Hattie (Lamphear) Swartwood, he a native of Cameron, and she of Corning, N. Y. Mrs. Potter's grandfather, Rrastus D. Swartwood, came to Cameron in an early day. His wife was Mary Jones, and he died in Pennsylvania, and she at Addison, N. Y. Mrs. Potter's maternal grand- father, Asa B. Lamphear, was a native of Fulton, N. Y. His wife was Jane Briggs, a native of Corning, where she died in 1847, and Mr. Lamphear married Louisa Par- sons, a native of Middletown. He died in Erwin Center in 1860, and his widow now lives at Addison. Mr. Swartwood was one of the leading farmers of Cameron. He died May 11, 1888, and his widow now lives with our subject. Mr. and Mrs. Potter have one son, Charles L., born September 25, 1883. Prutsman, R. D., was born in Jasper, August 15, 1855, a son of Alexander and Lillie (Wilco.x) Prutsman, natives of Troup.sburg and Chenango county, respectively. The grandfather, Philip Prutsman, was an early settler in Troupsburg, where he died. The maternal grandfather. Philander Wilcox, also died in Troupsburg. Al- exander Prutsman is a farmer and now lives in Troupsburg Center. His wife died 436 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. in 18T5. R. D. Prutsman was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools of Troupsburg. He learned the blacksmith's trade at the age of twenty-one, which he has since followed. He came to Woodhull in 1S83, where he has been very suc- cessful. He has served as constable, and is a member of Woodhull Tent No. 174 K. O. T. M. , also of the Brooklyn Life Insurance Company. In 187.5 Mr. Prutsman married Frances Paul, a native of Troupsburg, by whom he had nine children: Mer- tie, Floyd, Dennis, Ethel, Olive, Lee, Alice, Julia, and Fay. Van Orsdale, Dr. Fitch Henry, was born in Jasper. N. Y., December 12. 1858, son of Henry and Jane A. (Shimsway) Van Orsdale, he a native of Cpper Lisle, Broome county, N. Y., and she of Addison, N. Y. The grandfather, Vincent Van Orsdale, was born in Newburg, N. Y. , in 1797, and lived in Broome county, X. Y. , until 184:5 when he came to Jasper, where he died in 1889. Henry Van Orsdale, father of Fitch Henry, came to Jasper in 1843, and was educated in the common and select schools of the place. He studied medicine with Dr. Solomon Deck of Jasper, graduated from the medical department of the University of New York city in 1856, and began the practice of his profession in Jasper, where he remained until his death, which occurred May 14, 1887. He was town clerk two years, and highwhy commissioner two years. He was a member of Greenwood Lodge, F. & A. M. Fitch Henry Van Orsdale was reared in the village of Jasper, and educated at Alfred University. He studied medicine with his father two years, and with Dr. W. P. Hunter three years. In 1891 he graduated from the University of Butfalo and began the practice of his profession in Jasper in the same year. He first began teaching at seventeen years, and at twenty-two years of age engaged in the mercantile business at Painted Post, where he remained for three years. May 10, 1881, he married Grace E., daughter of Willis E. Craig of Jasper but at present a resident of Belmont, by whom he had one daughter, Mabel C, born August 18, 1882. Dr. Van Orsdale is a member of the Jas- per Tent, No. 100, K. O. T. M., and is examiner for the lodge. Vail, Anna R. — Daniel F. Young was born at Frey s Bush, Montgomery county, N. Y., February 16, 1817, son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Younglove) Young, natives of Frey's Bush, where they died. Daniel F. was reared on a farm, is self-educated aad began life by learning the carpenter trade. He earned the money to go to col- lege and graduated from Clinton College. In 1845 he became editor of the Mont- gomery Phoenix, which business he followed for thirteen j-ears, after which he stud- ied law with Wagner & Webster. In 1848 he accepted the appointment of deputy postmaster at Fort Plain, which he soon resigned and became clerk to William Dale, a superintendent on the Erie Canal. He later became connected with the Fort Plain National Bank and was afterward promoted to cashier, which position he filled until ■ after the civil war. He came to Steuben county for many years to spend his sum- mers, where he owns considerable real estate. For many years was a correspondent of the prominent county papers, also the Mail and Express of New York city and Mohawk Valley Register. July 14, 1883, he married Anna R., daughter of Dr. Will- iam Miller and Mary (Seeber), he a native of Johnstown, and she of Canajobarie, Montgomery county, who spent their lives in Johnstown where Dr. Miller died, and Mrs. Miller resides with her daughter, Mrs. Vail. The father of Dr. William Miller was a son of Dr. Miller, son of a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His wife was FAMILY SKETCHES. 437 Rust, daughter of Amasiah Rust of Revolutionary fame. Mr. Young died August 18, 1892, and in 1894 his widow married F. D. Vile of Cauisteo, who was in business in Canisteo, and is now a merchant in Jasper. Van Scoter, Monroe D., was born in the town of Burns, Steuben county. May 19, 1838. His father, Philip Van Scoter, was also born in the town of Burns, May 6, 1812, and came to Honiellsville when about eighteen years of age, to enter the em- ploy of Andy L. Smith, both in the store and tannery. He was married January 10, 1837, and returned to his native town and built a tannery which he conducted until 1840. In 1841 he returned to Hornellsvillc where he ever after made his home. He was one of the old time Democrats and held some of the most important offices of the town, supervisor in 1800-61 and in 1863 was a candidate for the State Legislature. In 1848 in company with Alanson Stephens he bought an extensive tract of timber land which they cut and run down the river in rafts. He was a member of the Ma- sonic fraternity and a Knight Templar. He died November 29, 1885. He was twice married, first to Mary E., daughter of Christopher Doty, by whom he had two children; Monroe D. and Lydia who died September 23, 1863, at seventeen years of age. Mary Doty Van Scoter died May 4, 1871. and he took for his second wife Mar- garet D., daughter of John J. .Smith, a farmer of Bath. Monroe I), was educated in the common school and followed farming until 187."), when he engaged in the hotel business for eight years and was then four years conductor in the Pullman service. In 1890 he opened a real estate and loan office in the city of Hornellsville, which business he is now engaged in. He was tru.stee for four years of the Third and Fourth wards, and highway commissioner of the town of Hornellsville in 1862-63 and 1867-68, and laid out some of the most important streets of the city, prominent among thembeing River str eet and those in the south part of the town. He has two cliil- dren living, John M. and Blanch, wife of Thomas J. Worden of this city. Van Alstine George W., was born in Schoharie county in 1847, and cameto Horn by the following year with his parents, James and Mary Ann, who resided here till their death in 1892 and 1874, aged seventy-si.\ and fifty-four, father and mother, re- S])ectively. He is the younge.st of three children, the others being Martin H., and James W. He resided at home till 187.') when he married Ella O. Roloson, daughter of Peter Roloson, a native of Hornby, and then moved to his present farm of seventy- three acres. Vastbinder, Nelson H., was born on the farm where he now resides, son of Horace and Etha Harrison Vastbinder, who were the parents of five children ; Charles, de- ceased. Nelson H., Grace, Archie, and Addie. Nelson H. married Effie, daughter of John (deceased) and Armania Hollenbeck, residents of this county, and they have two chiltlren: Wallace and Charles Read. Horace settled here about 1851 on the farm where he now resides, and was in the late war. He and his wife are members of the Lindley Methodist church. Nelson and his father have a farm of about 500 acres. Underwood, George W., was born at Groton, X. V., in 1834, son of William Un- derwood, who married Ruth Goodwin, by whom he had twelve children, of whom George W. is the youngest. The time of his birth is remarkable, by the fact that he had brothers fifty years old, comparatively old men. They are of EngHsh ances- 438 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. try on both the maternal and paternal side. He was educated in Groton, and when only sixteen years old began business for himself, being first engaged in buying and ' shipping stock, which business he still continues. In 1S8'3 he purchased 150 acres of land, which is located about two miles from Addison village, making a specialty of tobacco. He married Ophelia Van Marter, of Groton, and they were the parents of seven children. In politics Mr. Underwood is a Republican, and at the present time is excise commissioner. Yawger, Philip, was born in Bradford, N. V., July 16, 1827, son of Henry S. and Naucy (Scott) Yawger ; he a native of New Jersey and she of Bradford. The grand- father, Francis Yawger, was a pioneer of Bradford, coming from New Jersey to Connecticut, and from there to Bradford, thence to Seneca county, where he resided about twenty years, but returned to Bradford, where he died. Henry Yawger, father of Philip, was born in 1800 and reared on a farm in Cayuga county. He came to Bradford, where he engaged in farming. He died December 12, 1857. Philip Yaw- ger helped his father to clear the farm, and has always followed farming on the farm of 1 30 acres which he now owns. He married Lucretia, daughter of Stephen and Emeline Moss of Bradford, by whom he had five children : Josephine, wife of J. B. Day, who died at twenty-three years of age, leaving one son, C. M. Day, who was reared by our subject ; Sarah Eva, wife of Alford Seybold of Bradford ; Nancy, wife of George Blyss of Peun Yan; Frankie, who died at fourteen years of age, and Her- bert, who is a farmer on the home farm. Mr. Yawger is a Democrat in politics, and has been road commissioner three years and supervisor three terms. Young, Thomas J., was born in Rathbone, N. Y. , August 24, 183C. His grand- father. Porter Young, was a native of Germany, who came to Rathbone at a very early day, w-here he built a log tavern. George W. Young, father of Thomas J., was born in Steuben couutj' and was a shoemaker by trade. He married Charlotte M. Holmes, of Steuben county. In politics he was a Whig and Republican, and was supervisor of his town for sixteen years and justice of the peace for some time. He was quite an extensive land owner, and later in life became a merchant. He died in 1879, and his widow resides in the town of Rathbone. Thomas J. Young en- gaged in lumbering until the war began, when he enlisted in Co. F., 107th N. Y. Vols., and served three years. He was in the battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and was afterward with Sherman, and was at Dallas, Peach Tree Creek, Resaca, and was wounded at Bentonville, N. C. , in the arm and leg. He is a Re- publican in politics and has been constable, which position he now holds, and has also been collector. He is a member of James B. Jones Post. In October, 1868, he married Susan Smith, daughter of John and Lizzie Shafer, natives of Germany, who came to this country and first settled in Baltimore, thence to Pennsylvania, and from there to Corning, where Mrs. Shafer died in 1858. Mr. Shafer died in Rathbone in 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Young have three sons: George W., foreman on a railroad at Adrian; John, who resides at home and works on a railroad, and William H., fore- man on a railroad at Big Flats. Mr. Young owns fifty acres of land near the village of Rathbone. Young, N. P., was born in Chenango county, N. Y., November 2, 1838, son of Nathan T. and Lucy M. Crandrall Young, he a native of Rhode Island, and she of FAMILY SKETCHES. 439 New York, and grandson of Northrup W.. who went to Chenango county,' N. Y., at an early day and afterwards to Pennsylvania, where he died. Nathan T. was a blacksmith by trade, and came to Addison, and thence to Rathbone, where he died. N. P. Young was educated in the common and select schools of Rathbone, and followed clerking for several years. In 1861 he enlisted in Co. K, 23d N. Y. Vols., and served two years, being at Polk's Retreat, Second Bull Run, South Mountain and Antietam. After the war Mr. Young engaged in the mercantile business in Rathbone. where he has since had a successful business. He is a Prohibitionist, and was postmaster from Lincoln's administration to Cleveland's. He is a member of Cameron Mills Lodge, F. & A. M., and James B. Post, No. 579. He married Frances E. French of Cameron, and they have had three children: R. P., the station agent of Rathbone; M. Annie, and Katie. Mr. Young has been ju.stice of the peace six j'ears and town clerk for several years. Young, Clement H., was born in Covington, Pa., February 1!), 1834. Francis E. Young was born in the town of Corning in 1810. His father, George Young, was a native of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. Francis Young was in early life a tailor, later a merchant and a clothing salesman in New York city, and died at Painted Post in 1892. Clement was the second son of .a family of four children, and was educated in the common schools and Prattsburg Academy and his first occupa- tion was in the banking business with C. F. Piatt, and at the same time he studied law with Mr. Piatt who was a lawyer, remaining there until he was twenty-one, when he went to New York to take the position of assistant bookkeeper with John Thompson, the celebrated banker. One year later he went to Chicago and was cor- responding clerk with F. Granger Adams for four years. He returned to Painted Post, and for three years was employed in a milling establishment. During the war he occupied a position in the quartermaster's department and in 1865 he came to Hornellsville to take the position of teller of the First National Bank. In 1869 he engaged in the insurance business with Crane, Coys & Young, and two years later the firm became Coys & Young and existed as such for three years In 1874 he be. came a partner in the furniture manufacturing company of Dietsch, Tschachtli & Co., and continued in that until 1883, when he became a partner in tlic drug business in the firm of Reed & Young which existed for six years, and in 1889 he established an independent business on Loder street, and one year later established the Main street store now conducted by his son Ralph. In 1809 he married Anna Stearns Hubbard, daughter of Alphonso Hubbard of Paterson, N. J., by whom he had two children: Ralph, who conducts the Main street store, and Frank who is engaged as bookkeeper in the lumber mill in Paterson, N J. Shattuck, Ur. S. E., was born in the village of Branchport, Yates county, N. Y., May 29, 1829. He was the second of a family of four children, and receiving his ed- ucation in the common schools and Franklin Academy, he first followed teaching for a few terms and at the age of twenty took up the study of medicine with Dr. D. N. Newton of Towanda, Pa., and after one year began a three years' course with Dr. E. Doubleday of Yates county, N. Y. He was for three terms a student of (ieneva Medical College and Buffalo University, graduating from the former institution in June, 1851. The same year be came to Hornellsville and was in the continuous prac- tice of the profession until his death. Shattuck Opera House block is a monument to 440 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. his industry and perseverance. He was once the president of the village of Hornells- ville, and in 1878 represented his town on the Board of Supervisors. He was married in July, 1851, to Harriet, daughter of John B. Hininan of Bradford county, Pa. They have one daughter living. Miss Hattie Shattck. Smith, Hobart Clinton, was bom on the farm where he now resides, April 18, 1859, son of Abram Smith, a native of Schuyler county, who was born May 2, 1818, and came to this town when he was a lad of ten or twelve years, and has always followed farming until lately when he retired from all active work. He was the father of ten children, five of whom are living. Hobart was the third son, was educated in the common schools and Hornellsville Academy, made his home on the old homestead farm, being associated with his father until 1883 when he was married and worked the farm on shares until 1892 and then bought it. This farm contains eighty acres on division 18, and the principal products raised on it are grain and potatoes. Mr. Smith is a member of East Avenue Methodist church of which he is steward. He was married April 18, iss;i, to Belle, daughter of John Leonard of Schuyler county, and they have three children: Lena M., Edith Elmira, and the baby, Carrie Mildred. Smith, William K. , was born in the town of Birdsall, Allegany county, N. Y.. June 12, 1853. Patrick Smith, his father, was a native of Ireland and came to this coun- try in 1848. He was a farmer in Allegany county until 1868, when he came to Hor- nellsville, where he died iu 1873 at fifty-two years of age. William was the oldest of a family of seven children that reached adult age. He was given a good educa- tion in the common schools of Allegany and Steuben counties, and his first occupa- tion was as a carpenter, which he followed until twenty-five years of age, when he took up railroading, which he followed for five years, and then was a carpenter un- til 1888. Mr. Smith has always been a warm supporter of the Democrat party and its principles, and the 5'ear named, when the city of Hornellsville was organized, he was the choice of his many friends for the honor of nomination for city chamber- lain, to which office he was elected over one of the most popular Republicans, and his qualification for the office was proven by his re-election in 1890. and in 1892 he was nut only nominated by his own party, but endorsed by the Republicans; renom- inated in 1894. he was defeated by factional troubles in his own party. The fall of 1895 he was appointed deputy postmaster, which office he now holds. He has been an officer of the C. M. B. A. since 1879, and financial secretary for twelve years ; also recording secretary of the A. O. H. since 1890, and corresponding secretary for the same length of time. He has been trustee of St. Ann's church for twenty years. In 1876 he married Ann O'Connor of Binghamton, by whom he had seven children, six of whom are living. Schwingle, George, was born in Cohocton, August 11, 1851. Both paternal and maternal ancestors are of German origin. Henry, the father of George, came to this country in 1842, when he was fifteen years of age. His parents settled in the town of Wayland, and it was here his boyhood was spent. After his marriage he moved to Cohocton and bought a farm, where he has since made his home. He is now living retired in the village of Cohocton. George, the oldest of a family of eight children, was educated in the common schools and by reading and study alone, and at sixteen years of age started for hiijiself, two years at farming, and in 1809 he FAMILY SKETCHES. 441 went as an apprentice with H. W. Gasney, a tinsmith of Wayland, where he spent three years, and was then employed with Steffen & Beebe of Dansville until 1874 That year he started in business with a cou.sin in Wayland, under the firm name of Schwingle & Tess, until 1880, and then sold out and was employed with Kimball, Morris & Co. until the spring of 1882. He then located in Hornellsville and took charge of Sheldon Bros.' shop, where he remained until the spring of 1893. He and his brother conducted a business under the firm name of Schwingle Bros., and in 1894 they took a partner, Edward Davis, and the firm since is Schwingle & Davis, Mr. Schwingle represented the First Ward on the board of alderman in 1891-92. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1886, Hornellsville Lodge, No. 331, Steuben Chapter, No. 101, Hornellsville Council, No. ,35, De Molay Council, No. 22, Hornellsville Consistory (32d degree), No. 40. He has passed all chairs of the lodge but master, and is one of the trustees this year. In 1878 he married Mary E. Warkley of Dansville. Sweeney, Dr. James M., was born in New Orleans, November 12, 1867, the sec- ond son of Capt. James Sweeney, who was a native of Ireland, and who came to this country about 1860. During the war he was captain of a vessel on the Missis- sippi, but also held a commission as a sea captain. 'James M. was educated in the city schools of New Orleans, and took a collegiate course at St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, graduating from there June 22, 1887. He then took up the study of medicine, first taking a course at Niagara University, Buffalo, N. Y., graduating May 2, 1892, with the degree of M. D. He began practice at New Orleans, La., where he spent one year, and then, December 3, 1893, located in Hornellsville, where he has since been engaged in the practice of the profession. He is the deputy supreme examiner of the Sexennial Leag^ie, and is also a member of the Hornells- ville Medical and Surgical association. In May, 1893, he married Anna L. McKeon of Hornellsville, by whom he has two children- Gerald Joseph and Margaret Frances. Sylvester, Dr. Franklin E., was born in the town of Dansville, Steuben county, N. Y., November 3, 1864. Gideon C, the father of the doctor, was also a native of this county, while his father, Enoch, was a native of Vermont. The latter came w'ith his father, Charles, from Vermont about 1820 and settled in Dansville, where the family have ever since resided. They have been a family of agriculturists. Gideon C. is now living retired in Arkport. He served his country in the late war. Franklin was educated in the common schools and Rogersville Union Seminary and took up the study of medicine with Dr. J. E. Walker in the fall of 1884, and en- tered the medical department of the University of New York in 1886, graduating from that institution March 8, 1888. He was chief of clinic and attending surgeon of the orthepaedic department of the University of New York, and also postgrad- uate of the school and hospital of New York from 1888 until 1890. He was then secretary of Sydenham Postgraduate and Surgeon of Orthopaedic until 1893. The fall of that year he located in Arkport, where he has since been engaged in the practice of the profession. The doctor is a member of the New York City Medical Association and al.so of the Hornellsville Surgical and Medical Association. He is a member of Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 27, F. & A. M. ; was married to Miss Anna J. Bancroft of New York city. May 30, 1888. They have one child, born August 9, 1890, Harold Frank Sylvester. 442 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Smith, Frank S., was born in the town of Amity, Allegany county, N. Y , June 8, 1853. Stephen R. Smith was a native of Berlin, Rensselaer county, N. Y., and was one of ihe early settlers in Western New York, born in 1787. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was prominently identified with public and political affairs and was one of the founders of Alfred University. He moved from Alfred to Amity about lt*50 and spent his last days in ee & Larned, engine manufacturers of New York. He died in New York city, March 31, 1881, and is buried in the family lot in Greenwo. Bailey commanding. On November 1, 1861, he went with his regiment to Wa.shington and remained there in camp until April, 1862, when Colonel Bailey was assigned chief of artillery in Casey's Division, Fourth Army Corps, and Lieutenant Rumsey went with him. He reached Newport News, Va., with his division about the 7th of April, and went to the front. He was engaged in the siege of Yorktown till May 4. and on May .') participated in the battle of \Villiamsburg. He was in the Peninsular campaign from that day until May:!!, when, in the battle of I'-air Oaks, his horse was shot under him and he was severely wounded in the shoulder, and was sent North. On his return to the front he was promoted to the rank of captain and assistant adjutant-general for bravery at Fair Oaks. He participated in engagements too numerous to mention, serving under Gen. W. W. Averell. His promotion continued steady. On the 25th of May, 1865, lie was commissioned a major for gallantry at Moorefield, where he led one column of 494 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. the 1,600 national troops under General Averell, who attacked and utterly muted 3,200 rebel troops, killing and capturing one-half the entire command and dispersing the remainder. In further acknowledgment of his services, he received another commission from President Johnson, as brevet lieutenant-colonel, with rank from March 13, 1865, which commission stated that it was "given for distinguished ser- vices in the campaign of May, June and July, 1864," On the 7th of February, 1868, he received a commission from Governor Fenton as brevet colonel, "for meritorious services in the late war." It is the opinion of General Averell that Judge Rumsey should have been accorded a much higher rank than he attained. On the close of the war Judge Rumsey went with General Van Valkenburg to Japan, his former commander having been appointed Japanese ambassador. After a two years' sojourn Judge Rumsey returned to his native country and settled down to the serious work of his life. He studied law in his father's office and soon became a lawyer in good practice. He was chosen to the Supreme Court bench in 1880. In 1886 he was men- tioned prominently for a place on the Republican ticket as candidate for the Court of Appeals bench, but made way for Judge Daniels. In 1888 Judge Rumsey re- ceived the Republican nomination for the Court of Appeals bench, and was defeated by Judge Gray, by only 3.044 votes. Judge Rumsey led the State ticket and, it is said, might have been elected had he received projier support in New York citv. Judge Rumsey has written an exhaustive work on "Practice," and was one of a commission of three with the Hon. David Dudley Field and Hon, David L. Follett, appointed by Governor Hill to prepare and revise the code of evidence. Judge Rumsey resides with his family at Bath, but his mother and sisters live here, he is regarded as a Rochesterian. De Puy, Esther. — A. R. De Puy was born in Milo, Yates county, October 31, 1831, son of James, who came to Steuben county, and in 1837 settled on Barne)- Hill. He married Jane, daughter of Daniel De Witt. A. R. follow'ed in the footsteps of his father, and has been closely connected with the history of the town for forty years. In 1848 he married Esther, daughter of Henry Parr, of Big Flats, Chemung county, and they are the parents of two children: Henry F and Ellen. Mr. De Puy died May 16, 189.5, in his seventy-fourth year, a loss not only to bis family but to all who knew him. Dolson, Edwin L. — Dr. Joseph S. Dolson, father of Edwin L. and Charles A., and son of Rev. Charles Williamson Dolson, was born in Campbell, Steuben county, Feb- ruary 6, 1825, and died in Hornellsville, July 10, 1892. His father, John Dolson, set- tled in the town of Bath about 1790, and kept an inn at the mouth of Mud Creek, receiving a grant of land of 130 acres from Capt. Charles Williamson, in recogniti3 on account of sickness. He died in Bellevue Hospital, New York city, in 1874. Mrs. Mahoney died March 10, 1888. In 1861 Mr. Rogers enlisted in Co. H. 86th X. Y. Vols., and was honoralily discharged September 14, 1864. He was in first and second Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Gettys- burg, Snow Flake Mt., etc., and escaped without a wound. Sherwood, Franklin Dennis, was born in Wheeler, Steuben county, N. V., De- cember 25, 1841, the third .son of a family of eight children of James Sherwood, a Baptist minister. James Sherwood, the grandfather of Franklin D., was a soldier of the war of the Revolution, and after the war settled at Kinderhook, where he made his home until about 1820 when he brought his family to f ulteney in this coimty, and the family have ever since remained in Steuben county. In 1840, James Sherwood moved to Wheeler and lived there two years and then bought a farm in South Cam- eron where he spent the balance of his days, and died in 1851. Salina Sackett, the mother of Franklin D., was a native of Pulteney, and died at thirty-eight years of age. Franklin 1). was given a good common school education, and at Dundee Academy. Lima Seminary and Alfred University. He settled in Hornellsville where he became interested in the mercantile business and conducted a store tor nine years, when he engaged in the carriage business for seven years. In 1876 he was elected sheriff of the county, and at the expiration of his term he devoted his attention to the manufacture of acetate of lime and wood alcohol in Allegany county, a business he is still engaged in. He was one of the organizers of the Citizen's Na- tional Bank, of which he is nowadirector. In 1877 he became interested in the drug business with George T. Reed & Co. He was one of the founders of the White Goods factory of which he is the president. He is also vice-president of the Horn- ellsville Electric St. R. R. Co. Besides filling the office of sheriff, in the fall of 1891 he was elected senator of the 27th district, and his seat with that body was contested on the ground of being one of the city park commisssioners, and the seat was given to Walker, although he was elected by a majority of over 1,600. He was also alder- man from the :id Ward for two years. In 1895 he became interested in the hotel property, now known as the Hotel Sherwood, the leading hotel of this city. In 1872 he married Catherine, daughter of David Conderman, bv whom he had one child, Kate, who is a student of Hornellsville academy, kkk 498 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Sutton, Marvin C, was born in Marion, Wayne county, N. V., April 2"), 1830, son of Jason and Amanda (Case) Sutton, he a native of Homer, N. Y.. and she of Mar- ion, N. Y. The grandfather spent his last days in Homer, N. Y. Jason Sutton, father of Marvin, went to Palmyra, thence to Rochester, and finally settled in Marion, but died in Tioga county in 1881, and his wife died in 1854. He was a tailor by trade. Marvin O. was reared on a farm and educated in the common school. He is a wagon-maker by trade, and lived in Tioga county. Pa., and in 1882 came to Wood- hull, purchased fifty-seven acres of land, and makes a specialty of tobacco raising. December 4, 1859, he married Susan M. Smith, a native of Charleston, Tioga county. Pa., by whom he had three children: Ellen, George H., and Charles W. Mr. Sutton enlisted in Co. H, 45th Pa. Vols., and served fourteen months, and lost his fore- finger in an explosion at Otter Island, S. C, by a Harper's Ferry musket. Ostrander, Ervin, was born in Jasper, March 24, 1841, son of John and Marv A. (Babcock) Ostrander, he a native of Coxsackie, Greene county, and his wife of the same county. They came to Jasper in 1841, where he died January 25, 1888. Ervin Ostrander was reared on what is known as the Spaulding farm. May 16, 18(iH, he married Kate, daughter of Lewis and Abigail .Eastman) Huntington, natives of Greene county and Tompkins coimty, respectively. John Huntington, father of Lewis, died in Greene county, N. Y. The father of Abigail Eastman died in Alle- gany county, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Ostrander have two .sons ; Walter E., born May 18, 1867, who married Eva, daughter of John Carter, and was educated in Canisteo ; and Merritt E., born June 11, 1870, and was educated in the common schools and Canisteo Academy. May, Henry R., was born in Bath, Steuben county, in 1828, son of James May, a native of Connecticut, who came to this county about 1815 and raised and reared a family of three sons and one daughter. He' was a chair maker and died in 1872, aged eighty-two years. When twenty-one years of age Henry R. May began civil engi- neering and followed it in the west about eight years, and in 1858 came to Corning where he was conductor on the Erie railroad from that date until 1886, when he es- tablished his present business as manufacturer aud dealer in confectionery. Patton, John Edwin Ruthven, was born in the town of Otsego, Otsego county. X. v.. May 4, 1826. John Patton (Paton), his father, was born in Perthshire, Scot- land, in 1778, and came to this country in 1800, and died in January. 1863. He married Aurelia Kibbe, born in Monson, Mass., Septemljer 23, 1785, and died in (Xsego, N. Y.. January 26, 1875. Her father, Jacob Kibbe, with two brothers served during the whole Revolutionary war. They had eight children, four of whom are living; one son, David, of the 44th MMs. Vols., dying in the service at Xashville, Tenn., in 1864. John E. K. was educated in the common schools and Clinton Liberal Institute. In 1847 he engaged in teaching, which he followed until 1852, when he went to Cali- fornia via Nicaragua, where he was engaged as special writer on the Democratic State Journal of Sacramento, the Golden Era, Pacific Banner, and the California 'I'emperance Organ, the first temperance paper published on the Pacific coast. Re- turning in 1858 via Panama, he studied dentistry with Dr. E. P. Byram, of Coopers- town, N. Y., and the next year engaged in the practice of his profession at Waverly, N. Y. He was also editor of the Waverly Advocate, superintendent of schools, and FAMILY SKETCHES. 499 coroner of Tioga county, lu 1S59 he removed to Owego, N. Y., where he continued the practice of his profession. He became a member of the New York Slate Mihtia in 1S.57. and was successively, third, second and first sergeant in the 44th Regiment, May 24, 1859, he was commissioned by Governor Morgan second lieutenant in the 50th Regiment. In May, 18()1, after the breaking out of the war and two companies (Captains Catlin and Bar.stow) had been sent from Owego, he was instrumental in organizing a company, and was conimi.ssioned, July l(i, 1861, as captain of it in the .")(Hh Regt.. N. Y. S. M. On the Ifith of July its services were tendered to Governor Morgan, and as indicating the general nature of public opinion as to the duration of the struggle just enteref his services in the field was required and was furnished as follows: ' Headquarters 50th Regt., X. Y. V. Engrs., Camp near Falmouth Va. , June 6, 186;?. 1 hereby recommend Cajjt. John K. R. Patton, late of this Regt., and who was honorably discharged the service on surgeons' certificate of disability, in July, 1862, as being capable of rendering good service in the Invalid Corps, and worthy of being thus provided for. Capt. Patton served zealou.sly and faithfully for about one year, when his failing health compelled him to retire. Wm. H. PF.rxr.s, Lt.-Col. Comdg. 50th Reg. N. Y. V. Engrs. (Endorsement.) Hd. (Jrs. Engr. Brigade near Falmouth, Va. , June 6, 1863. Not 500 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. having been in command of this brigade during the service of Capt. Patton in it, I of course cannot testify personally as to his merit. I can state, however, that I have full confidence in the recommendation of Lt.-Col. Pettes now Conidg. the 50th N. Y. Vol. Engrs. H. W. Benham, Brig. Genl. Comdg. This service took him into ten or twelve different States of the Union, and much of the duty was of a delicate and important nature. He was also in service at the prison posts of Rock Island and Camp Douglas, Chicago, 111., and during part of the winter of 1864 he had command of his regiment, the Eleventh Vet. Res., at those posts. His health being permanently impaired, he was honorably discharged July 31, 1864. March 1, 186.5, he bought a farm of 220 acres in the town of Hornellsville, where he has since made his home. In 1883 and '84 he and his son John E. visited Xew York, Philadelphia and Washington, spending most of the winter in the latter place. The following summer with his son Charles he went to Europe, spending most of the time in Scotland, visiting the birthplace of his father and other places of interest. He became a member of the Sons of Temperance in 1849, of Otsego Lodge No. 163, I. O. O. P., in 1851, of Rural Amity No. 70, F. & A. M., Athens, Pa., in 1854; and is also a member of Post Doty, G. A. R., Hornellsville, and Arkport Grange. During his army and other experiences he was necessaril)' thrown in con- tact with many now prominent in American history and among those whom he has met officially or socially have been Generals Sheridan. Logan, Rosecrans, Slocum, Arthur (President), Benham, Gresham ; Admiral Thatcher of the navy. Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania, Senators Preston, King and F. M. Cockrell of Missouri, and others, who without exception left the impression of not only sterling worth in their official position but as being men of courteous manner and kindly natures. He mar- ried, November 28, 1851, Sarah Maria Noble, daughter of William Taylor and Chris- tine Brower Noble of Newark Valley, N. Y., granddaughter of Capt. David Noble of Pitlsfield, JIass., who organized and equipped a company at his own expense in the Revolutionarv war, and was at the evacuation of Boston in 1776, and died at Skeensborough, N.Y. , Augusts, 1776. Her maternal gran Bath, population of, GO present officers of, 07 schools of, 61 settlement of, 49 supervisors of, 56 town clerks of, 56 village of, 243 agricullural society, 351 banks of, 258 centennial celebration, 254 Davenport Home at, 253 fire department, 248 incorporation of, 247 manufactures of, 357 schools of, 349 Soldiers' Home at, 353 view of, in 1804, 245 water works, 349 Bemis, Horace, 334 Benham, William, 150 Bennett, Solomon, 1 18 Benton, Daniel L., 234 Berry. Charles H.. 322 Biven, Joseph, 82 Blake, Dominick Theophilus, 218 Bonham, William E., 230 Bonny. Luke, 154 Bradford, town of, 63 first officers of, 64 first settlers of, 63 population of, 65 present officers of, 65 . schools of, 65 supervisors of, 65 village, 311 Brakley, Abraham. 213 George B. , 215 Brookins, Benjamin, HI Brotzman, sr. , Nicholas, 130 Brown, Blisha, 118 F. B. & Son, 233 Llewelyn H., 336 Brundage. Abraham, Capt., I.s7 K. L., 323 508 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Buchanan, William, 44 Buena Vista, 311 Bunnell. A. H., 335 Burns, 311 Calkins. Frederick, 8T Cameron, Charles, 49 Cameron Mills, 312 Cameron, town of, 66 first settlers of, 66 population of, b8 present officers of, 69 schools of, 69 supervisors of, 68 village, 312 Campbell, Robert, Rev., 70 jr., Robert, 219 Campbell, town of, 70 first officers of, 72 first settlers of, 71 population of, 72 present officers of, 72 schools of, 73 supervisors of, 72 village, 313 Canal appraiser, 34 commissioner, 34 Canisteo Academy, 314 Tidings, 231 Times, 231 Valley Times, 334 Canisteo, town of, 73 first officers of, 76 first settlers of, 74 hamlets of, 77 population of, 7.5 present officers of, 76 schools of, 78 supervisors of, 76 villages in, 77 village of, 313 business of, 316 incorporation of, 315 public improvements of. 315 secret societies of. 317 Catawba, 322 Caton, town of, 79 first officers of, 80 first settlers of. 79 population of, 80 present officers of, 80 schools of, 81 supervisors of, 81 village, 318 Champlain, Samuel de, 5 Chatfield. Andrew G., 222 Church, Advent Christian, Fremont, 259 African Methodist Episcopal Zion, Bath, 373 Church, Baptist, Addison, 374 Bath, 372 Bradford. 305 Cameron. 360 Campbell. 361 Canisteo. 358 Caton. 361 > Corning. 278 ' Dansville. 364 > Ea.st Troupsburg. 363 Hartsville. 363 Hornby. 377 Howard. 364 Jasper, 355 Lindley, 378 Painted Post, 377 Prattsburg, 369 South Bradford. 365 Towlesville. 364 Troupsburg. 363 Urbana. 367 Wayne. 365 Catholic. Cameron. 360 Cameron Mills. 378 Campbell, 361 Prattsburg, 370 Christ Episcopal, Corning, 277 Christ Protestant Episcopal, Hor- nellsville, 293 Christian, Cameron, 360 Greenwood. 357 Ingleside, 370 Wayland, 362 Chnton, Thurston, 362 Congregational, Corning, 278 East Avenue Methodist Episcopal Hornellsville, 291 Evangelical Lutheran. Avoca, 375 Fremont Center. 3.59 Zion. Cohocton. 376 First Baptist, Hornellsville. 294 First Presbyterian. Hornellsville, 291 Free Baptist. Woodhull, 357 Free Methodist. Atlanta, 376 Caton, 361 Corning. 278 Lindley, 378 Freewill Baptist, Troupsburg. 363 Tuscarora. 378 German Evangelical, Wayland, 362 German Lutheran, Corning. 278 Hartshorn Presbyterian. Hornells- ville, 292 Independent. Lindley. 378 Methodist Episcopal. Addison, 374 Avoca, 375 Bath, 371 Cameron, 359 Campbell, 361 INDEX 509 Church, Methodist, Canisteo, 358 Caton, 360 Cohocton, 375 Corning, 277 Dansville, 364 Fremont, 35'J Greenwood, 357 Hartsville, 363 Hornby, 377 Howard, 365 Jasper, 356 Lindley, 378 Painted Post, 377 Prattsburg, 369 Rathbone, 378 Rexville, 357 South Bradford, 365 Thurston, 361 Troupsburg, 363 Tuscarora, 378 I'rbana, 367 Wayland, 362 Wayne, 365 Wheeler. 368 Woodhull, 356 Methodist Protestant, Arkport, 354 of the Redeemer, Protestant Episco- pal, Addison, 374 of the Sacred Heart, Catholic, 362 Park Methodist Episcopal, Hornells- ville, 290 Presbyterian, Addison, 373 Arkport, 354 Bath, 370 Cameron, 359 Campbell, 361 Canisteo, 358 Caton, 360 Cohocton, 375 Corning, 276 Hammondsport. 367 Hornby. 377 Howard, 364 Jasper, 355 Painied Post, 377 Prattsburg. 368 Wayne, 365 Wheeler, 367 Woodhull, 356 St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal, 366 St. Ann's Catholic, Hornellsville, 292 St. Catherine's Catholic, Addison. 374 St. Gabriel's Catholic, Hammonds- port, 367 St. James' Episcopal, Hammonds- port, 366 St. Joachim's Catholic, Canisteo, 359 Church, St. John's Protestant Episcopal, Wayne, 365 St. Joseph's Catholic, Wavland, 364 St. Mary's Catholic, Bath, 372 Corning, 278 Rexville, 327 St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran, Hornellsville, 294 St. Paul's German Lutheran. Cohoc- ton, 376 St. Peter's Catholic, Cohocton, 476 St. Peter's German Lutheran, Per- kinsville, 362 St. Thomas's Protestant Episcopal, Bath, 371 Seventh Dav Baptist, Hartsville, 363 South Side Baptist, Hornellsville, 294 South Side Methodist Episcopal. Hor- nellsville, 291 Union Baptist, Woodhull, 3f,6 Universalist, Cohocton, 376 Dansville, 364 Greenwood, 357 Weslevan Methodist, Buena \'isla, 365 ' Dyke, 377 Fremont, 359 Xorth Cohocton, 376 West Jasper, 356 Clelaud, Jonas, Capt., 187 Cohocton Index, 332 Cohocton, town of 82 first officers of, 84 first settlers of, 82 population of, 86 present officers of, 84 schools of, 87 supervisors of, 84 \'alley Times, 232 village of, 318 Columbia Wine Company, the, 327 Controversy between New York and Massschusetts, 21 Cook, John, 221 Constant, 258 Cooper, George D., 213, 216 Cooper's Plains, 320 Corning Company, the, 260 Corning, city of, 259 banks of, 274 Board of Trade, 274 Brick and Terra Cotta Works of, 272 churches of, 276 court house of, 276 early developmenf of, 262 glass industry at, 270 incorporation of, 267 510 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Corning, city of, iron works at. 271! manufactures of, 270 officers of, 208 schools of, 268 secret societies of. 278 Southern Tier Mills at, 273 water works, 270 village incorporation of, 265 Democrat, 233 Glass Works." the, 271 Iron Works," 273 Journal, 232 Corning, town of, 87 first settlers of, 89 population of, 91 present officers of, 92 schools of, 93 supervisors of, 92 Coryell, Vincent Matthews, 221 Cotton, Henry G., 222 County clerks, 37 divisions, 30 judges, 3() organizations, 1 treasurers, 38 Court Chancery, 209 Common Pleas, 212 County, 210 houses, 32 of Appeals, 206 Supreme, 207 Supreme, general terms of the, 208 Surrogate's, 212 Courts, evolution of the, 2115 Steuben count3\ 213 Craig, Andrew, 157 Crosby, Benjamm, 118 Cruger, Daniel, Gen., 217 Curtis, 321 Cuyler, William Howe, 217 Daily Press, Hornellsville, 236 Dansville, town of, 9-1 first officers of, 96 first settlers of, 95 present officers of, 97 schools of, 98 supervisors of, 97 Davenport Home for Female Orphan Children, 253 Dennis, Rodney, 224 De Wolf, T. S., 233 District attorneys, 38 Donahe, Perrv S., 220, 228 Dunn, William, 213 Dyke, 321 Earlv discoveries, 3 East Troupsburg, 321 Edwards, George C, 219 Erwin, Arthur, Col., 99 Erwin, town of, 98 first officers of, 102 first settlers of, 100 population of, 103 present officers of, 102 supervisors of, 102 village, 321 Fairman. Charles G., 220 Faulkner, Daniel P., 94 Fay, Frank A., 231 Ferenbaugh, 321 Ferris, Alfred P. . 220 Franklin Academy, 339 Freeman. 321 Fremont, town of, 104 first officers of, 105 first settlers of, 104 hamlets in, 107 population of, 106 present officers of, 105 schools of, 106 supervisors of. 105 French and English rivalry, 6 influence, growth of, 11 power, extinction of, 13 Fulkerson, William M., 143 Gang Mills, 322 Gaylord, Asa, Major, 187 Germania Wine Cellars, the, 32 Gibbs, Anson. 221 Gibson's Landing, 322 Glass works at Corning. 270 Goodhue Lake, 322 Goodhue, Bert, 23(i Grants, conflicting, 5 Graves, George R., 222 Green, Phones, 66 Greenhow, W. H., 234 Greenwood, town of, 107 first officers of, 108 first settlers of, 108 population of, 110 present officers of, 109 supervisors of, 109 village, 323 Hadlev, Richard. 66 William. 150 Haight, Samuel S.. 217 Hakes. Harlo, 224 Hale. John K., 223 Hammond, Samuel H., 2I'.l Hammoudsport, 323 INDEX. 511 Hammondsport, business of, 32S incorporation of, 325 schools of, 328 wine industry at. 32fi Hanimiiudsport Heralti. 236 Hammondsport Wine Company, the, 327 Harding. Oliver, lilt Harnionyville (I'ulteney P. O.), 32!l Harrison. Culhbert, 219 Hart. Charles N'., 112 Hartford Convention, the, 22 Hartsville, town of. 110 first officers of. 112 first settlers of. 1 1 1 population of, 112 present oihcers of, 1 1:! schools of, 11 3 supervisors of, 1 1 3 Hartsville Center (Purdv Creek 1'. O.). 329 Haskinville, 330 Haverling Union Free school, 2.il) Hawkes& Co.. T. G.. 272 Hawlev, William M., 223 Heerm'ans, Harry, 268 Herridon. Isaac C., 222 Herron, Joseph, 232 Highup, 330 , Hoare& Co., J., 272 Homeopathic Medical -Society, Steuben Countv, 241 Hood, John, Capt., 113 Hooker, Richard. 82 Hornby, town of , 114 first officers of, 11.5 first settlers of. 1 14 population of. 115 present officers of, 116 schools of, 117 supervisors of, 116 village, 330 Hornell, George, 120 Hornell Library, the, 296 Hornellsville Academy of Medicine, 242 Hornellsville, city of. 280 banks of; 295 churches of, 289 early growth of, 2H1 Forty-seventh Separate Co., N. G.'S. N. v., of, 297 government of, 285 Hornell Library at, 296 hotels of, 300 incorporation of, 285 lighting companies, 298 manufactures of, 298 .St. James Mercv Hospital at, ^86 Hornellsville, city of, schools of, 288 secret societies of, 301 Steuben Sanitarium Association at. 297 water works, 297 Co-operative Loan and Savings Association, 297 Hornellsville Medical and Surgical Asso- ciation. 242 Hornellsville, town of, 118 first ofiicers of, 122 first settlers of, 118 justices of the peace of, 124 population of, 123 present officers of, 125 supervisors of, 123 town clerks of, 124 H.)rnellsville Tribune, 234 village incori)oration of. 284 Hough. E. H., 235 Houghton, jr.. Amory, 271 Howard, town of, 126 first officers of, 128 first settlers of. 126 population of, 128 schools of. 129 supervisors of. 128 village, 331 Howell, Edward, 217 William, 219 Howe's Sons, P. C, 236 Hull, Henry H.. 229 Indian occupation, evidences of, 19 Ingleside, 381 Iroquois confederacy, 7 Irvine, William, 222' Jamison, John, Capt.. 118 la.sper, town of, 130 first officers of, 132 first settlers of, 131 population of, 133 present officers of, 133 supervisors of. 133 village, 331 Jesuits, the, 9 Johnson, Daniel, 182 Sir William, 15 Thomas A., 214 Jury districts, 33 Justices of the Supreme Court, 36 Kanona, 333 Kersey, William, 213, 228 Keuka, 333 Leland. Ziba A., 217 512 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Lieutenant-Governor, 34 Liiidley. town of, 134 first officers of, 138 tirst settlers of, 136 population of, 139 present officers of, 138 schools of. 139 supervisors of, 13S village, 3J3 Lindsley, Eleazer, Col., 135, 213 Longwell, Azariah, 222 Lynn, 333 McCall, A. Ellas, 230 Ansel J., 50, 221, 228 McConnell Company, the, 298 McMaster, David, 218 Guy H., 220 Masten, Joseph G.. 219 Matthews, Vincent. 218 Maxwell. Hugh, Col., 25 Maynard, John, 222 Medical science, evolution of, 237 Association, Southern Tier Homeo- pathic, 242 Society, Steuben County. 239 Members of assembly, 35 Middlebrook, George N., 222 Missionaries, earlv, 12 Mitchellsville, 333' Morris, Robert, 26 Mowers, C. B., 231 Nash, Asa and L'riah, 114 Neil's Creek, 333 Newell, H. B., 236 Newspaper, the first, 228 New York and Genesee Land Company, 23 Niagara Genesee Land' Company, 22 North Cohocton, 334 North Urbana, 334 Olm.stead, Abraham V., 175 Osnicup, James N., 231 Painted Post, 333 "Painted Post," the, 19 Park, R. C, 236 Patterson, Ephraim and Ichabod, 87 Pavne, Alvin F., 222 Pefkinsville, 337 Phelps, Oliver, 23, 24 Phelps and Gorham Purchase, the, 23 Piatt, Henry N., 224 Pleasant Vallev Wine Companv, the, 327 Port Glen Wine Company, 328" Pratt, George W., Dr., 232 Pratt, Harry H., 233 Joel, Capt.. 140 Prattsburg News, 236 Prattsburg, town of, 140 first settlers of, 14) population of, 143 present officers of, 143 schools of, 144 supervisors of, 143 village, 337 Presho, 341 Presidential electors, 34 Proctor, Clarence C, 231 Pulteney and Hornby titles, the. 27 Pulteney, town of. 145 first officers of, 147 first settlers of, 146 population of, 149 present officers of, 147 schools of, 149 supervisors, 147 Rathbone, town of. 150 first officers of , 150 first settlers of, 150 population of, 150 present officers of , 150 schools of, 151 supervisors of, 150 Rathboneville, 341 Rathbun, Job B.. 104 Read, L, H., 219 Reed, James, Capt., 188 Regiment, Twentv-third, 191 Thirty-fourth,' 192 Thirty-fifth, 193 Seventy-eighth, 193 Eighty-si.xth, 194 One Hundredth, 196 One Hundred and Second, 197 One Hundred and Seventh. 197 One Hundred and Fortv-first, 199 One Hundred and Si.\ty-first, 200 One Hundred and Seventy-fifth, 201 One Hundred and Seventy-ninth, 202 One Hundred and Kightv-eighth, 202 One Hundred and Eighty-ninth, 202 First Artillery, 204 Fourth, Heavy Artillery, 204 First Veteran, Cavalry, 203 Second Veteran, Cavalry, 203 Sixth Cavalry, 203 Twenty-second Cavalry, 203 Second, ^[ounted Rifies, 203 Representatives in Congress. 34 IXDEX. 513 Revolution, after the. 20 Revolution, events preceding the. 15 the Indians in the. \<> Rexville. 34'> Reynolds, Thomas J., a28 Rhodes. William C, 23IS Rice. Samuel. 40 Risingville, 343 Roberts, Amos, 231 Robinson, Anson, 107 Rochester, William B., 217 Rogers, Henry W., 219 Rogersville. 343 Academy, 343 Root, William, 141 Ross, Stephen, 213 Rowley, Isaac, 79 Jonathan, 188 Riiggles, William H., 220 Rumsey, David, 215 William, 215 St. James Mercy Hospital, 286 Sanford, James, Capt., 187 Saturday Herald, Horuellsville, 235 Savona, 344 Review, 230 School commissioners, 38 Shannon, William E., 188 Shapley, John P., 222 Shattuck S D., 232 Sheriffs, 37 Sherwood, Henry, 222 Silsbee. George C, 231 Simpson, Andrew, 157 Smead, Benjamin. Capt.. 22S Soldiers' Home, New York State, 2.52 Sonora, 345 South Addison, 346 Bradford, 346 Howard, 34fi Pulteney. or Bluffport. 346 Troupsbnrg, 346 Southern Steuben Rejiublican, 236 Tier Homeopathic Medical Associ- ation, 242 Spencer, Ebenezer, 157 George T., 222 State senators, 34 Stephens, Alexander H., 107 Uriah, 118 Mills, 346 Stephenses, the, 74 Steuben and Allegany Patriot, 228 Steuben, Baron, 31 Steuben county civil list, 34 creation of, 2 first officers of, 32 Steuben County Homeopathic Medical Society, 241 in the war of 1812, 187 in the war of the Rebellion, 190 Medical Society, 239 organization of, 32 population of, 189 poorhouse. 33 jjress of, 226 the Indians in, IS Courier, 229 Democrat, 229 Farmers' Advocate, 228 Messenger, 229 Sanitarium Association, the, 297 Stevens, James H., 224 Strong. -Schuyler, 217 Sullivan's expedition, 17 Thomson, Charles H., 221 Thornton, Presley, Major, 58 Thurston, town of, 153 first officers of, 155 first -settlers of, 1.54 population of, 155 present officers of, 155 schools of, 156 supervisors of, 155 village, 347 Towlesville, 347 Tripp, V. L. & R. M., 232 Troup, Robert, Co!., 30 Troupsburg, town of, 156 first officers of, 158 first settlers of, 157 population of, 159 schools of, 160 supervisors of, 1.58 village, 347 Tuscarora, town of, 160 first officers of, 163 first settlers of, 161 population of, 163 present officers of, 163 schools of, 163 supervisors of- 163 Tiittle, Russell M., 235 Underbill, A. L., 328 Union Advertiser, Wayland, 236 Urbana, town of, 164 first officers of, 166 first settlers of, 11)5 population of, 167 present officers of, 167 schools of, 168 supervisors of, 166 Urbana Wine Company, the, 327 514 LAJJDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Van Valkeiiburg, Robert B., 220 Wall, T. C, 3S(I Wallace, 348 Waterman, C. N.. 222 Wavland Depot, 357 'Register. 23f) Wavland, town of, 16H first officers of, 170 first settlers of, Kii) ])opulation of, 171 present officers of, 171 schools of, 171 supervisors of. 170 village, ::i4S Wayne Four Corners, 3.")1 Wayne, town of, 171 first settlers of, 172 present officers of. 17o supervisors of. 173 village. 351 Welles, Henrv, 218 Wellington. Q. W., 275 West Caton. 351 West Union, town of, 174 first officers of, 17() first settlers of, 175 West Union, town of, population of. 177 present officers of, 176 Wheeler. Silas, Capt.. 177 Wheeler, town of. 177 first settlers of. 178 population of, 180 present officers of, ISO schools of, 181 supervisors of, 180 village, 351 Whittemore. M. F., 329 WiUiamson. Charles, 2(i,' 27, 31. 49. 50. 53, 58. 228 Woodhull, town of, 181 first settlers of, 182 population of. 184 present officers of, 183 supervisors of, 183 village. 3.52 \yoods. William, 217 Woodward, James and Arunah, 82 Wombaugh. William, 161 Young Hickory. 353 Zimmerman, Adam, Ki'.l PART II. Adams, William W.. 47 Baldwin. Henry, 7fi Heecher, Fary B., 17 Bradley, George B. , 55 Colgan, Peter, Very Rev Conderman. John 1)., 6 Cowan. Nelson, 77 Davis, John W., 15 Davi.son. Lorenzo, 78 Day, Franklin E., 31 Deuison, Charles (!., liO Drake, Frankhn N.. 53 Faulkner. William, ti(i Fuller, D wight A., 46 (Gardner. Furman. 9 Gibson, tleorge, 30 Gorton. William K., .58 Hakes. Harlo. 22 Hargrave. James 1'.., (i'J Hatch, Hiram W.. 20 Hawkes. Thomas G.. 48 Hayt. Stephen T.. 57 Heeimans. Harrv C. ,43 Hoare. John, 52 Hollands, George, ■'< Houghton, sr. , Amory, Ii2 Houghton, jr., Amory, 64 Houghton. Charles F., 65 Hulbert. Lorenzo. 28 Jamison, John S.. M. D.. 37 Keeler, John H.. 20 Kelly. John G., M. D., 5 Kimmel Martin, 22 Lamson, Leonard S. . 74 Larrowe. Albertus. 70 Lewis, Jacob H., 19 McNett, George B.. M. D.. 11 Maltby, Jerome B., 75 Marshal. Franklin J.. 5 Marshal. Otto F.. l.'^ Moore. Waiter L. , 16 Murdock, James B,. 69 Parkhill. Clair S., M. I)., 24 Ferine. Henry W. . 12 Finney. Martin. 7 Pratt, George W.. 72 INDEX. Pritchard, Hiram. (!7 Renchan, Cieorge, 45 Rogers. William F. , 3 Shepard. Lyman, ;{2 Stephens, Alanson, 13 Stevens. James H., 34 Thorp, Calvin E., 25 Tuttle, Russell M.. 23 Waite. David S., 29 Walker, J. E.. M. I)., 33 Wellington. Ouincy W.. 47 Wheeler, sr., Grattan H.. 41 Wheeler. Crattan H., 42 Wheeler. Monroe. 43 Wheeler, Silas, Capt., 38 Willets, Edward F., 14 Wood, Allen, 61 Young, Daniel F., 73 PART III, AUDI. SON. Ainsworth, H. R.. Dr.. ;!1() Aldrich, Loren B.. 316 Ames. Charles. 6 Baldwin Family, The, 162 Baldwin, Henry, 162 Baldwin, Horace Dyer, ilS Baldwin, James, 162 Barron, William E.. Dr., 317 Blakeslee. D. A.. Prof., 8 Bliss. Frank, 317 Brewster, C. A., 120 Coburn, L. D.. 16 Crane, Ferrel J.. 347 Daniels, P. C, 202 Darrin, Delmar M., 24 Dininny, Sarah J.. Mrs.. 355 Farnham. George. 29 Feenaughtv, William (^., 154 Ferry, Mary M., Mrs., 500 Gee. Theodore, 286 Gillet. Charles W., 35 Harden. T. E., 45 Harrison, ]. S , 234 Hickey. D. D.. 383 Hinman, John, 46 Hogue, Patrick, 382 Hooker. Fred S., 383 Horn, Edwin J., 109 Howard, (ieorge C. 281 Hubbs, M. B.. Dr.. 382 Arnold, Alex J.. 3 Bartlett. James, 317 Bauter, Marcus, 288 Billings, Oscar, 317 Bozard, Earle W., 107 Brown, Merwin E.. 105 I'.rozitskv, E., 153 84 Mrs. 229 409 James, John P., 30 Jones. J. B., 108 McKay, Annie. Mrs., 409 MacDowell, Sidnev Darrio, 19K Merrill, Levi, 160 " Miller, Charles L., Mitchell, Alma B.. Moore. T. V., 409 Mullen, Seth. 19s Northrup, John M. Orser, Frank B., 420 Owen, Cortland. 419 Parker, J. Elliott. (i2 Paxton, E. C, 429 Phillips, Mrs. Margaret. 62 Reynolds. Charles D.. 421 Rial, John, 158 Roberts, Amos, 155 Shockey. Charles O., 451 Stewart, Oliver Dwight. 101 Stratton, (ieorge W., 70 Stratton. Oscar B., 451 Swon. Oren L.. 220 Thomas, A. L , 81 True, (ieorge 1., 80 Underwood, (ieorge W., 437 Webb, Lee R.. 470 Westlake. Harrison. 91 Young. Peter, 124 AVOCA. Buck, Moses E., 9 Chase, Thomas C. 19 Cook, James E., 15 Cornue, M. C, 17 Cotton, Thomas, 15 Cotton, William U.. 22 Doud, John C. 26 516 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Dutcher, James R., 115 Faults, William H., 376 Fox, Daniel A., 31 Fox, G. Albert. 376 Hall, Jeremiah, 187 Hennis, Benjamin, 382 Hyna, John, 382 Mackie, Frank G., 165 Mathewson, Lemuel. 220 Olmstead, Jeremiah, 418 Olmsted, John E., 188 Olmsted, Milton, 122 Oxx. Ripley. 418 Pixlev, Frank. 429 Redhead. Thomas J., 422 Ackerson, Charles N... 130 Alden, M. J., Mrs., 110 Aldrich, J. C, Dr., 380 Aldrich, Stephen, 253 Allen, William W., 807 Allerton. Dudley D.. 380 Allison, Charles S.. 5 Averill, Helen, Mrs.. 3 Averill, W. W., Gen., 331 Baker, John K., 155 Balcom, Samuel, 9 Barber, Bert G., 461 Barber, T. W., 11 Barton. Jeremiah C, 252 Bedell, J. D., 331 Beekman, Abram, 21 Bowes, Martin. 331 Bowlby, George K., 119 Bowlby, John A.. 253 Brown, H. S., Mrs., Ill Brownell, Charles S., 493 Brundage, Grattan H., 461 Brundage, H. W., 86 Brundage, Sarah. Mrs., 332 Brundage, Smith, 262 Bryan, ludson, 332 Burleson, Ten Eyck O., Dr., Burns, William S., Capt., 12 Burt, Abram F., 332 Calkins, Jetferson W., 326 Campbell, Frank C. , 19 Campbell, William M., 127 Chamberlain, Jesse Mark, 14 Clough, Winfield S., 327 Collier, Richard A., 327 Conine, GamaUel T., 273 Conley. Edward, 13 Cook, Charles C, 327 Cook, Edwin Constant, 18 Coss, D. M., 57 Rosenkrans, A. D., 244 Saltsman Hiram, 451 Saltsman Lawrence, 78 Shaut, Albert, 503 Shaver, M. H., 451 Shults, Elias, 208 Shults, R., Mrs., 202 Silsbee, George C, 105 Stephens, Hiram A., 70 Sutton, W. R., 161 Tucker, Smith, 207 Van Scoy, Margaret, Mrs.. 86 Wagner, Augustus Charles. 471 Wightman. Noah. 471 Ziellev. Alex L.. 381 BATH. 333 Crook, Andrew, 17 Crura, W. G.. 326 Cruttenden, Alexis H., Dr., 291 Cushing, Adolphus W., 327 Davenport, Ira, 25 Davison, M., 305 Davison, William H. and Robert J. Decker, George M., 23 de Peyster, Augustus. 27 De Puy, Esther. 494 Donnelly, E. B., Mrs., 338 Dudley, Henry C, 111 Durnian, Richard, 163 Dygert, Peter, 133 Ellas, Charles A. , 26 Fancett, James, 33 Fancett, Samuel R., 164 Ferris, James M., 34 Frost, Frank Pomeroy, Capt., 31 (liffin, James H., 35 Gillette, Herbert S., Ill Gould, Talcott W., 378 Grant. B, F., Dr., 378 Gray, William S., 394 Hallock, William H., 40 Hardenbrook, Frank. 399 Hardenbrook. George H.. 188 Hewlett, Emery T.. 277 Hmds. O. W.. 42 Hunter, George. 277 Huston. John S., 399 Joint. William E., 399 Jones. Horatio E. . and Horace D., Jones, Wilson J., 396 n Joy, Lewis B. , 47 Keyser, James F. , 111 Kingsley. Charles F. . 156 Klock, James N., 4K KnitTen, John, 305 Lawrence, F. H., Dr., 166 23 111 INDEX. t 517 I^eavitt, S. H., Major, 50 Lindsay, W. W., Capt., 40(i Little, John F.. 40(i Little, Philip M.. 40fi Longwell, William \'., 4tlG Lyon, Reuben R., ol McCall, Anson J., 415 McChesney, Moses, 102 McConnell, Frederick, 4 Hi McCorniick Bros.. 54 McElwee Bros., 415 McNamara, John, 41(j McXett. George C, Dr., 205 Miller, L. L)., Dr., 54 Miller, Martin Runisev, 50 Moore, John D.. 415 Myrtle, Rebecca. 275 Nichols, William H., 59 Ni.xson, Joseph, 58 Noble, Henry M., 410 Noble, Martin W., 58 Nowlen, George F., 59 Ostrander, E.'E., 417 Parker, Z. L., 142 Parkhurst, John F., 102 Parks, James, 4iJ5 Pawling, Thcmias H.. Dr., 434 Peck, George W.. 188 Ferine, H. W.. 04 Peterson. Charles H.. 434 Phillips, W. H., 01 Pi.xley, Emery C, Dr., 253 Poole'. James. 278 Richardson, C. W., 127 Robie, Charles H., 420 Robie, Reuben Edward, 05 Rogers, William Findlay. 00 Armstrong. Joseph P.. 304 Bartholomew, John. 33S Carman. Ale.xander. 205 Carman, foseph W.. 348 Chrisler. William, 303 Conlev, Henry. 229 Elyeal William H., 213 Eyeland. Isaac. 505 Gilmer. Joseph B., 193 Gillmor. James M.. 199 Havens. Thomas. 384 Hedges, Benjamin Y., 192 Allen, Alfred T., 339 Allen, Alvah J., 255 Angel, Prentis, 120 Barrett, William W., 120 Smith. Smith, Smith, Smith Rowe, Lewis, 420 Rumsev, William. 493 Rutherford. T. R.. Mrs., 208 Sanderson. Benjamin Smith. Key. Saltsman, (J. E.. 214 Sedgwick, William P., 279 Shannan, M. E., 69 Shannon. Thomas, 77 Shepard, William H., 72 Shoemaker, Daniel, 445 Shults, Arnold, 157 Sin Clair, William A., 239 Smith, Bessie D., 28 Hessel, 445 OH., 268 Thomas N., 139 Zidaiia, Mrs., 125 Sftocum, John, 09 Sutton, A. O., 445 Sutton, Orlando W. , Tiffany, E. O., 445 Timmerman, H. A., Tolbert, George W. , Tolbert, John F., 133 Tomer, Charles J., 252 \'an Housen, Israel A. \'an Wie, Martha, Mrs. Warren, George C, 465 Wheeler, Andrew Jackson, White, Daniel L., 405 Wilkes, A. J., Mi.ss, 404 Wilkes, Harriet M., IGO Willis. Clarence. 89 Winegar, Clay and Peter, Wolf, Franz S., 405 Wood, S, W., 405 Young, Benjamin F. , 124 , Dr. ,377 79 384 82 2(i8 405 BRADFORD. King, Hammond A.. 228 Knapp. William S. . 228 Longwell. Hosea. 305 Ney. Charles. 420 Sanford. John, 236 Stedge, Harrison, 205 Walling, Daniel L., 230 Walling, Edgar L., 190 Yawger, Philip, 438 Zimmerman Bros.. 294 Zimmerman, Svlvanus A. 187 CAMERON. Bromley, Frank, 219 Brown. Charles A.. 102 Bundy, (Jeorge W.. 7 Campbell. Thomas. 15 518 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. Dickey, Mathew, 112 Fairbanks, George. 'i^lH Goff, H. S., :i: Jack, Allan T., 142 Mason. Phineas P., 52 Ordway, Enoch. 61 Rumsey, Ad.son J., 274 Rumsev. Peter B., 64 Selleck'. Zeno C, 452 Anmiller, George, 4 Beckwith. C. K., Mrs., 155 Beckwith, Philo, 7 Carlton, James L., 245 Clawson, Jacob, 112 Clawson, John M., 2U4 Cleveland, Shepard A., 343 Cody, Frank A., 348 Curtis, John S., 343 Dibble, I. F., Mrs., 23 Dunkee, Ellis, 107 Eygabroat, Jacob, 373 Hamilton, W. L., 44 HoUenbeck, George A.. 39 McKay, James S. , 56 Manning, Stanley, 505 .Smith, James A., 452 .Stewart. George W., 154 Stuart. Morey, 119 Waters, Almon, 90 Wheeler, John U., 159 White, Royal S., 173 Wilder, Josiah, 227 Wilson, Robert K., 470 CAMPBELL. Peterson, Frank, 489 Peter.son, Willard. 224 Pierce. Byron. 115 Rising, Isaac A.. 112 Ross. Bruce E., 422 Ross, Emmet B., 128 Ross, John W. , 421 Scott, Adelbert A., 106 Smith, Eugene, 29 Smith, Warden, 4.52 Stevens, Ralph, 71 Switzer, Marv A., 452 Velie, Frankfin, 20 Wilcox, Bradford, 87 Wilcox. John, 470 Wixson, Lerov, 470 CANISTEO. Allen, Edward, 113 Bassett, Fred L., 10 Bassett, Will C, 10 Bennett, Alonzo, 11 Bertnni, F. M., 319 Bowles, Thomas W., 319 Brown, Perrv, 319 Brown, William H.. 148 Buck, Hermon E.. 205 Burrell, Allen M.. 166 Burrell. Alphonso H., 12 Cameron. Duncan Cameron, Rev., 151 Carter, Erastus A., 239 Carter, jr. , George W. , 1 62 Clarkson, Edgar, 326 CoUer, B. M., 326 Crosby, Hiram, 211 Croyzier, George H., 304 Davis, George L. , 365 Davison, Lorenzo, 26 Dennis, George, 364 Dickey, John E., 364 Granger, Leverett, 240 Hadlev, Henrv. 41 Hadley, Jefferson, 399 Hargrave, James B., 44 Haves. William, 39 Jamison, D. Stearns, 201 Jamison, jr.. William. 399 Kmg. Philip. 400 Dvon. 1. Edward. 51 Marsh. S. P.. 55 Mead, Charles H.. ,52 Millard. Morgan R., 179 Moore, Edward B.. 3M Moore, John D.. 411 Ordway, William H., 417 Peck. George L., 134 Peterson, Jeremiah M.. 206 Porter, William Gordon, 209 Robinson, Frank H., 381 Smith, Enos, 72 Soule, Eli, 125 Stanton, Eunice M.. 77 Stephens, Adsit B.. 69 Stephens. Emmett L., 209 Stephens. Joshua Chapman, 164 'I'honias, Daniel C. . 79 'I'ravis, James. 447 Travis. Wesley and Nelson, 447 Tucker, Daniel A., 447 X'lckers, Jacob, 83 Waldo. Lucius A , 91 Voung, Christopher, 220 INDEX. 519 CATON. Haniard. C. D.. :ii:i Barnard. F. E.. 313 Barnard. G. F.. 29.T Bower. Charles E.. !)(> Brace. William H., :il:{ Chuniard, (Icorge W l;{ Clark. A. B. ■,'!!» Cram, Duty S.. 240 Cram. Permelia. Mrs.. Hi." Davis, Daniel, 16.5 Davis. Edwin F., 120 Davis. X. D.. H70 Davison. C. A., 371I De)(), Alon/.o, 204 Farran, H. ].. 377 Gorges, Anton. 381 Hamlin, Ja.snn B. , 2!) Hellabv, lolin, 384 Holmes, j. S., 384 Adair, W. E., 294 Adams, Asa, 298 Beecher, Farv B., 269 Boone, C. E.^ 334 Bush, W. L., 341 Clark. James P., 485 Cornish, Thomas J., 304 Finch, Henry, 486 Fowler Family, the, :')03 Fox, sr., Christopher, 48() Fox, James, 486 Graser, Valintine. 487 Gray, Clarence G.. 487 Haag, Nicholas. .i04 Harter, Leonard, 488 Hatch, Hiram W., 310 Jackson, William W.. 3o0 Ketch, Cyrus, 302 Kiefer, Charles, 400 Land, Fred, 2">7 McDowell. Asa, 350 Maichle. Henry. 311 Mehlenbacker. C. J., 488 Miller. Robert, 489 Moore, H. D. and Robert S. Moulton, Rice T., 488 Honness, James E., 215 Honness, Melvin M., 384 Hunt, William, 384 Lewis, Christopher E., 101 Marcv, James L.. 408 Powe'l. M., 432 Rhodes, Halsey A , 105 Smith, Fremont C, 453 Thompson, J. W., 78 Tobey, Christopher, 453 Wagner, Anton, 161 Walden, James, 469 Wellman, James I^., 469 Wellman, John R., 240 Wilcox, Aurin, 110 Wolcott. A. S., 227 Wolcott, John E., 89 Wood, Lewis, 469 COHOLTOX. 292 476 292 442 474 352 Newman, Andrew J., 501 Partridge, Charles E., 496 Pierce. Henry C, 2(;(l Fritting, John, 340 Rommel, W. E., Re Roth, John, 489 Schiefen, William F., Schubmehl, Nicholas, Shattuck, Stephen D. Shults Bros, and Andrew E. Shults, John A., 475 Sick 2d, Philip, 475 Sick 3d. Philip, 372 Stanton, C. W., 307 Stanton, Jacob and Stcjihen T., 3li6 Strobel, John G.. 476 Tambling, Benjamin W., 292 Tripp, Murry, 485 Tyler, M. ]., 349 Wager, Michael, 284 Wallace, James, 477 Walther, Fred C, 292 Wilcox, A. H..476 Wright, Mark, 477 Zeh, Melchor andKilian, 341 Adams, William W., 285 Appleby, T. H., 6 Argue, IlenrvA., Dr., 335 Arthur, Arthur C, (i Bradley, (jeorge B, , 12 Bradley, Thomas, 167 C()RNIN(;. Brown, Daniel F., 7 Brown, (ieorge R,, 6 Brvan, E. W., Dr., 334 Burt, John M.. 119 Carj)enter, E. J., Dr.. 22 Caulkiu, J. W., 322 520 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Clark, William H., 18 Cook. A. S.. 322 Covenhoven, Daniel R.. 102 Cummings, Robert F. , 22 Drake. Charles E.. 301 Drake, D. S., 2.5 Drake. (leorge W.. :!G1 Drake, J. A., 2.5 Edger, Benjamin K., 37 Edger, William F., 3fil Ellison, Curtis B., 'iii'> English. E. C. 361 Farlev, Philip, 32 Fedder, John W., 375 Fero, David F., 375 Foster, William A., 238 Franz, Jacob, 376 Frazer D. , 375 Freeman, Charles H., 34 Fuller Bros., 32 Gamman. Alfred M., 379 Gillette. William, 35 Gorton, William, 149 (iorton. William E., 38 Graves, Edward P. , 38 Greenfield, Charles E., 38 Haischer. Fred, 399 Havt, Charles W., Dr., 399 Hayt, Stephen T., 46 Heermans. Harry C, 93 Hitchcock, George, 46 Houghton, jr., Amorv. 4ii Houghton, C. F.. 159 Howell. Christeon G. , 38 Huv. Abram D.. 256 Kendall, A. A., Dr., 103 Kennedy, John S., 49 Lane, George W., Dr., 52 Lang, John H.. 338 Lathrop, Austin, Gen., 112 Lathrop, Charles K., 405 Lower, Samuel J., 405 McNamara, William F.. 50 Maltby, Jerome B., 100 Mathewson. Russell. 203 Mav, Henrj- R., 498 Milis. E. D., 411 Moore. Joseph F.. 410 Xicholson, William, 59 Northrop, W. H.. 59 Olcott, Marvin, 182 Park. Robert F , 432 Patchill, O. C, 62 Pease. Frank L. . 64 Pratt, Jared, 250 Pritchard, Hiram, lid Reynolds, Charles A., 423 Reynolds, H. J.. 65 Robbins, Myron W., 64 Robertson, S. C. 99 Robinson, O. P., 66 Rubright. C. A., 505 Sebring, James Oscar, 272 Sly, Robert J.. 249 Smith, Justin M., 112 Spencer, George T. , 73 Stanton. Jerome I., 73 Tully, W. J., 471 Tuppcr. Benjamin S., 449 Tuthill, Henry G., 82 Welch, Thomas J., 463 Williams, Francis A., 90 Wolcott, George, 463 DAXSVILLE. Acomb, Fred D., 340 Cook. Andrew W., 345 Curray, Charles C. 345 Day. Ira G.. 2.56 Driesbach, Henry, 306 Eveland, Daniel, 504 Fritz, Clark C. and Alice C. 302 Fritz. Elias. 217 Hall, Daniel B.. 210 Harter. Lafayette, 385 Healv, Joshua. 385 Healv, William W. 384 Badger, Herbert L., 7 Campbell, George W., 346 Cooper, John E., 346 Erwin, Francis, 207 Kershner. E. L., Mrs., 21(( Kershner, Maria. Jlrs. . 401 Kreidler, Addison E., 401 Lamont, Henry C. 278 Lander. Frederick, 402 Levers, G. Frank, 402 Oliver, Gale, 269 Rau, John, 423 Scherer. John P., 2.58 Swink, Nelson H.. 271 Waggoner. Albert J., 470 Williams, John J., 216 ERWIX. Erwin, W. Scott, 36 Gavigan. Edward, 381 (JofF, Robert H., 207 Goodsell, Isaac PI, 37 ^ INDEX. 521 Gray, Andrew, 37 Havens. James, 213 Minier, Thornton F., 57 Morse, Willard C, 409 Orcutt, James D., 147 Orr, jr., James C, 419 Piatt, Francis C, 207 Remington, Washington B., 422 Babcock, Stanton, C, 314 Bardeen, Jennie, 143 Bowen, Juliza C, 313 Bronson, James S., 203 Buck, Charles Albert, 314 Burdin, T. D., 183 Cotton. Samuel S., 202 Dartt. Burton, 243 Davis, Lewis A., 248 Dunn, ilelvin, 3.54 Huganir, Charles, 181 Huguanir. David A., 282 Huguanir, Leonard N. , 386 Huibert. Freeman, 243 Kilburv, Andrew, 273 Smith, Edward H., 71 Spoor, Fred C. , 75 Tobias, James S., 453 Townsend, Frederick J.. 80 Wakeman, Joel. Rev., 107 Wilcox, Frank C, 469 Wood, Augustus H. , 236 FREMONT. Kilbury, Joel, 340 Lake, Charles G., 185 McCoUum, Finley, 410 Nipher, Melvin. 420 Orr, Ira, 419 Osborn, A. D., 182 Osborn, L. M., 419 Pinchin, A. A., 428 Rider, Myron H., 191 Robison, Simeon, 423 Shepard, George W. , 453 Stephens, J. D., 282 Travis, Leroy, 291 Van Keuren, James, 194 GREENWOOD. Atkins, jr., Jesse T.. 113 Blair, William, 98 Burton, Lynn G., 114 Campbell, William H., 344 Cole, Hiram L., 150 Coston, N.Ji., 173 Covert, Reuben, 207 Ferris, David, 34 Hartrum, John S., Kill Hartrum, William L., 38 Kellogg, Silas, 299 Lewis, Benjamin, 403 Comstock, Charles, 176 Corbett, George R., 348 Donaldson, William R., 355 Hemphill, George, 386 Adams, H. De Loss, 338 Armstrong, James E., 4 Duvell Bros., 354 Easling, Minor, 354 Easterbrooks, Samuel, 203 Erwin, Samuel C, 354 Ferenbaugh, John H., 33 Ferenbaugh, Lyman G. , 377 161 Mallory, H. H., 29 Mead, A. R,, 409 Mead, Sanford, 113 Mead, W. F., 54 Northrup, Jesse D.. Pease, Randall A., 439 Reynolds, Norman, 67 Rodgers, Thomas D., 114 Scribner. L. D., 71 Smith, Clarence F., Dr., 453 Swarts, William O., 454 Webster, George M., 151 HARTvSVILLE. Hendee, Clark L., 40 Powell, Edmund K.. 60 Zeliff, Samuel J,, 121 HORNBY. Ferenbaugh, Willis S.. 156 Fero. Albert, 377 Hathaway, James V., 203 Hoffman, A. H., 39 Jewett, Amos, 47 Jimerson, Hibbert T., 47 Lake, Isaac, 404 Lane, A. Eugene, 114 522 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Lilly, Willis S., 196 Masters. Herbert J., 408 Oldfield, Thomas, 209 Rogers, David S., 431 Roloson, Alfrefi, 223 Roloson, Sylvester, 421 Sly, Robert 0., 74 Townley, Edward L., 454 Van Alstine, George W., 437 Wheaton, J. Henry, 286 Wolever, Daniel, 409 HORNELLSVILLE. Acker, Milo M., 493 Alley, Frank Bennett, 5 Alley, Samuel M., Col, 30 Armsted, Charles H., 3H7 Ashbaugh. William, 351 Avers, Nelson, 137 Babcock, Devolson D., 491 Baker, Milton J., Dr., 103 Bardeen, Charles E., 330 Barlow, Arthur R. Rev. , 472 Barney, Richard W. , 167 Bennett, Hiram, 212 Bennett, Omer. 320 Bennett, Robert M., 328 Bentley, John I., 118 Berry, Alvin L., 321 Betts, Henry, 333 Billings, Henry S. , U Bingham, William C, 8 Boardman, Louis S. , 251 Bowen, Edmund I., 7 Boylan, Harris Bert, 321 Braack, Jacob, 12 Brasted, Charles M., Dr., 2.50 Brickman, Samuel H., 10 Brown, Anthony W., 215 Burch, Orrin H., 31 Butler, Ephraim Y., 328 Buvinger, H. Edward, 247 Cadogan, Charles, 22 Cameron, Joseph, 18 Chapman, James W., 287 Chapman, John K.,15 Christie, Amelia A., 312 Clark, Charles J.. 19 Cleflin, Edwin J., 21 Colgrove, Henry, 343 Collins, Clayton Naham, 347 Conderman, Charles, 343 Conderman, George, Dr., 17 Cone, Eleazer T., 157 Cook, EmmettA.,241 Cooley, Charles, 118 Curry, Daniel W., 350 Davenport, George. 310 Davenport, Henry L., 3.59 Davidson. Adam, 20 Day, James B. , 359 Deister, John J.. 359 Deutsch, John M., 359 Dolson, Charles A., 360 Dolson, Edwin L., 494 Downs, Simon S., 23 Dunham, Roy, Dr., 24 Dunning, Marcus E., 299 Eiband, Anthony M., 857 Ellis, Hiram, 37 El well George B., 3.58 Emery, Ashabel W., 357 Emery, Frank H., 127 Evans, jr., Charles E., 358 Evdt, Louis, 460 Faulkner, Dorr, 31 Faulkner. Robert K., 171 Ferry, Adelbert, 33 Finch, John M., 198 Fleming, David E., 374 Foster, G. Watson, 30 Frank, Henry M., 374 Gilbert, Horatio, Dr., 381 Gillette, Harrv L., Dr.. 35 Glazier, Flora A., Mrs., 36 Goff, LucianH., 178 Goff, W. Blake, 270' Gray, Harriet Lee, 490 Green, Charles C, Dr., 30 Griswold, George W. , 341 Hagadorn, Hiram, 398 Hall, Alexander, 165 Hall, Isaac, 396 Harris, Joseph, 148 Hartshorn, Charles H., 41 Hathaway, William E., Dr., 397 Healy, Llewelyn Clark, 397 Hesseltine, Eugene A., 120 Hicks, Alfred E.,45 Higgins, H. Delos, 394 Higgins, Justin V. R., 141 Hill, Austin C, 395 Hoffman, Edwin S. , Rev., 42 Hoffstetter, Louis, 244 Hollands, George, 218 Hopkins, Daniel C, 313 Hotchkiss, A. Leroy, 395 Houck, Peter P., 398 Hubbard, Chauncev G., Dr., 44 Hunt, Horace, 396 ' Huntlev, Seth M., 138 Hurlbut, John, 43 Hurlbut, Myron, 39 INDEX. 523 Hurl but, William S., 43 Hutchinson, Frank J., 41 Kellison, Robert N. , 137 Kelly, John G., Dr., 49 Kimball, William A., 47 Kinne, James B., 401 Koyle, Frank H., Dr., 48 Labour, Jacob, 267 La Grange, Edward E. , 40S Loomis, Frederick H.. 51 Luther, Byron J., 104 McBeth, Robert, 408 McConnell, Asa, 100 McDougall, John, 20(i McGill, Charlie W., 414 McGuire, Charles F., laii -McMichael, Ira, 53 McNett, James, Dr., 413 Mark, Alfred, 56 Merrill, Fred P., 416 Merriman, La Frone, '258 Mitchell, Samuel, Dr., 415 Morris, George W. , 414 Mosher, Fred R., 55 Murray, William H., 174 Nelson, Edward H. , 101 Newman, Smith H., 57 Nicholson, J. William, 28 Nicholson, Wesley, 417 North, Truman S., 58 O'Connor, William, 360 Olin, Frederick Marshall, 246 Orcutt, George N., 200 Page, De Merville, 63 Page, Ebenezer, 163 Palmer, William Everett, Dr., 137 Parker, Delia, Mrs., 432 Parkhill, Clair S.,Dr., 53 Patten, John Nelson, 431 Patton, John Edwin Ruthven, 498 Peck, James Milton, 61 Phillips, Charles Robert, Dr., 430 Pierce, William O., 62 Pierson, Horace G. , 140 Powers. Edward, 138 Prangen, George D., 430 Pratt, Orson W., 222 Prentice, Jonathan R., 139 Prentiss, Anson A., 257 Prentiss, George A., 432 Prentiss, Harvey, 158 Preston, Henry C., 431 Preston, Othaniel, 63 Prmdle, Albert T., 431 Ranger, Henry R., 20 Rewalt, William, 221 Reznor. Lot, 64 Rice, LeroyD.,42o Rishel, George P., Dr., 66 Roberts, Wallace, 434 Rockwell, L. Wilson, 65 Rose, Walter G., 67 Ross, Edmund C, 425 Ross, Lyman A., 215 Ross, Lyman R., 424 Ryan, Thomas, 425 Santee, Isaac, 443 Santee, Jerry E. B. , 77 Santee, Rachel, Mrs., 443 Schwingle, George, 440 Schwingle, William F.. 473 Shattuck, S. E., Dr. 439 Sheldon, John R., 78 Sherwood. Franklin Dennis, 497 Sherwood, Micajah V., 75 Sims, William H., 75 Smith, Andy L., 71 Smith, Elmon D., 235 Smith, Frank S., 442 Smith, Hobart Clinton, 440 Smith, Lyman B. , Dr., 76 Smith, William K., 440 Spink, William H., 137 Starr, Clarence L., M.D., 135 Starr, Samuel F., 448 Stephens, Walter A., 73 Strack, Charles F., 72 Swarts. Ross H., 263 Sweeney, James M. , Dr., 441 Sylvester, Franklin E., Dr., 441 Sutton, William L., 495 Tadder, Charles, 81 Taggart, George F. , 444 Taylor, John D., 443 Taylor, Thomas, 283 Terry, George D.. 97 Thacher. T. J. O., 129 Truesdell, Joseph R.,94 Tschachtli, Rudolf, 79 Tubbs, George L., 81 Tuttle, Erasmus D. , 444 Tuttle, Martin A., 246 Van Delinder, Martin ()., 214 Van Scoter, Monroe D., 437 Van Sickle, John M., 87 Wagner, Hiram R., 123 Wakeley, Benjamin C. Dr.. 136 Wakeman, Bertis Rupert, Dr., 88 Waldorf. George A., 91 Waldorf, William E., 163 Walker, J. E., Dr., 149 Wellever, David, 467 Wettlin, William A., 90 Wheeler, Norman O., 466 Wheeler, Oscar, 88 Wheeler. R. M., 159 524 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY. White, William W., 139 Wickham, Charles H., 466 Willetts, Edward F., 90 Windsor, Francis, 87 Windsor, L. F., Mrs., 466 Withey, Diana, 407 Bennett, George, 10 Bennett, Oscar F., 123 Brasted, Orlando W., 152 Bross, Joseph E., 337 Burdin, James Henry, 176 Carroll, Jackson, 346 Coats, Thomas, 346 Cole, Alvah N., 346 Fisher, George W., 222 Hoagland, John C, 238 Horton, Luther T., 3«6 House, Aaron, 387 House, Frank, 387 House, Henry, 29 Jones, Emanuel, 248 Baker, Isaac, 335 Brown, L. L., 335 Bruen, Arthur N., 93 Campbell, Martin B., 322 Chatfield, Ezra, 323 Cornell. Hamilton, 323 Deck, Hiram, 201 Deck, John, 364 Dennis, Albert L., 363 Dennis, Andrew F. , 147 Dennis, Boardman, 363 Dennis, Seymour W., 98 Drake. M. L., 146 France, James H., 373 Goodsell, Joel S., 380 Haynes, Rowland, 393 Hunter, Nathaniel Perry, Dr., 393 Hunter, D. C, 393 Hutchinson, C. G., 153 Ingersoll, E. W., 394 June, William A., 235 Withey, Sylvester, 250 Wood, Edward C, 468 Woodbury, Joseph B., 242 Woodruff, John B.,141 Young, Clement H., 439 HOWARD McAdam, Henry, 237 Meeks, William A.. 408 Parkhill, R. F., Dr., 429 Roberts, A. L., 421 Sharp, Abram V., 455 Sharp, Andrew, 106 Sharp, John G., 74 Sherer, Sylvester, 190 Smith, Alonzo, 455 Smith, Ira, 246 Stewart, George Edmund, Stewart, William H., 238 Van Order, Lyman H.. 20 Van Wie, Alonzo, 176 Willis, William H., 88 122 JASPER. Knapp, Franklin L., 225 McMindes, Prescott, 83 McMindes, Uzal, 413 Mavhew, JohnC, 413 Miller, J. B., 95 Ordway, Franklin D. , 85 Ostrander, Ervin, 498 Robinson, John, 107 Schenck, Charles, 262 Schenck, J. E., 309 Swan, Orrin, 454 Talbot. Lorenzo S., 202 Timerman, Milton, 226 Vail. Anna R., 436 VanOrsdale, Fitch Henry, Dr., Wallace, Edwin E., Dr., 186 Wallace, Joseph W., 92 Waight, Frank L. , 462 Wentworth, William B., 462 Whiteman, J. C, 98 Whiting, Leslie D., 263 436 LINDLEY. Brennin, John, 338 Elmer, Sanford. 355 Hill, Henry Franklin, 46 Orr, Joseph J., 420 Morgan, S. Maurice, 121 Pepper, George, 152 Stowell, Henry, 208 Stowell, Marcus, 455 Toby, Benjamin F. , 455 Vastbinder, Nelson H., 437 INDEX. 525 PRATTSBURG. Ainsworth, Addison, 5 Allis, Henry Elisha, 4 Armstrong, George, ;528 Austin, Benjamin, 241 Avery, John D., 214 Bardeen, Henry B., 329 Bailey, John S.', 126 Blodgett, William D., 329 Boon, Abram, 330 Borden. Aaron Porter, 103 Brown, Charles Stewart, 329 Clark, John J., 14.5 Cook, U wight S., 14 Crean, James, 322 Curran, Michael C, 2«9 Dean, William G., 144 Dearlove, Charles Wilber, 147 Drake, Edward, 225 Dunn, George C, 356 Flaherty, James. 145 Flvnn, Thomas T., 374 Alexander, James, 339 Argus, Philip. 339 Bacon, John S. , Rev., 253 Ball, Edward J., 150 Brush, Horton L., 184 Cross, Edward D., 348 Dean, John, 362 Depew, William M.. 3S Gleason, Ezra. 301 Gleason, E«aC., 48' Hallenbeck, Orrin, 481 Halsey, Charles R^ • -»% Horton, John T., Ui., -if^" Hubbs, George W 311 Subbs, J. Seymour 2,0 Moore, Hobart J. 4J. Moore, Trevor, 49. Mvrtle, Benjamin, 290 >ieel, James. 3.~ Talmadge. DavW "•. Taylor, Walter, 2^o Webster, Lester G- . 4 8 Wheeler, Charles GrattM Wheeler, Graham H.-- Wheeler, Giattan n., Wixom, A^b'rrt' ff,^,ob 478 Wright, Benjarnn Jacob, Younglove, O- H.. ~o WAYLAND Abrams. Glen D., 330 \verv, Chauncy, 1»J mgelow.Ell.336 Bill. Christian C,n- Bill, G. Jacob, 211 Bricks, Stephen. -/I Capron,W,W.,1.5 Clark, William \\ -. 1^_^ Clay son, Robert H., 3- Conrad, George, 324 Day. Pan] E.. 192 Deitzel. George U. oh.. g^^haJ?X|n.ew,s,180 Hoag, Perry C 18^ Holden, Joseph -o* .^^^ Holliday, Frank and Amos . H«ber, A'Sf^^wmiam R-chard, 23r Krause, IreQericK Ueders,O^F;.o06 Marlette, P. W-. 19* Marvin, Albert CI. •', Morlev, Addison b.,^4i- Morsch, JohnP-.l" Nold, George, 14.1 Patchin, Gordon M., 434 Patchin, Ira, Ul ^33 Peabody George M Dr. Peet, Wilber O., Rev-. '"" Piatt, Alvah A., nr. 433 Rauber, JfCoblS-. ];> Rauber, Nicholas, 4.6 Raufenbarth Frank, 4 , ^'^^^^ Rosenkrans, JohnA.. 4-, Rowe. Peter J.. 4~. St. John, NorthrupN..D>-. Schu, Jacob E., 449 Ichu, r., Nicholas 449 Schutz, William, 142 Schwingle, JohnA.,18h Shafer, Jacob, 2.4 Shaver, Lorenzo ..04 Shults, Conrad D.,1.'" Shults. Gertrude 169 Skinner, G. M., Dr 24.) Souerbier, Albert, 1 - ,Thompson,JacobW.,ReN.,4. Thorp, Andrew, 4.3O Walker, Frank E_. 264 Weinhart Bros..-id.l Whiteman. George E . 4(>. Wolfanger. William. 46, Wolfe, Anton. 1.0 Yocum, Nicholas, 1^' Zimmerman, Petei H., l.>. 628 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY WAYNE. Beeman, Herbert, 'iW Castner, Charles A., 321 Dean, William D., 181 Earnest, George D., 350 Ellis, Benjamin F., 357 Elyea, John H., 313 Genung, N. E., 379 Hall, John H., 200 Hoover, David E., 262 Horton, John, 391 Houck, Alonzo, 195 Houck, Dillazon S., 390 Jacobus, Henry, 208 Knapp, Marsena \'., 400 Lord, J. P., 40 7 Matoon, James, 411 Plaisted, R. Frank. 280 Raplee, H., Mrs., 424 Schmokcr, Adolphus, 312 Schmoker, Fred, 277 Smith, Charles R., 180 Stanhope, John G., 278 Svvarthout, D. E., 450 Swarthout, Minor E., 197 Thompson, E. H., 308 Wixson, Solomon R., 388 Wood, Ira M., 491 Wood, Israel, 236 WEST UNION. Barnev, Alvin C, 337 Barney, Will H., 235 Failing, Lucian J., 227 Ackerson, David H., 116 Allen, James, 104 Banter, Dewitt Clinton, 83 Banter, John M., 287 Beckerman, Herman D., 128 Bellinger, George N., 99 Briggs, Joseph L. , 338 Bufl,"^George R., 219 Clark, Eugene K., 263 Cook, Adam P., 347 Derick, Dennis, 369 Derick, E. K., 370 Dillenbeck, Stephen, loll Eckler, John, 308 Ellis, Jerome B., 368 Everett, Charles H., 129 Everett, Charles W., 369 Everett, John, 369 Foster, E. L., Mrs., 124 Sluyter, Alonito F. M., 68 Smith, D. D., 115 WHEELER. Fox, Oliver R., 117 Gardner, William, 131 Gibbs, Darwin Z., 380 Hyna, Samuel, 204 Kilburv, Eli C, 131 Lewis,' George W., 402 Lewis, Lemuel H., 403 Olmstead, James E., 117 Overhiser, Andrew Peck, 183 Raymond, Joel, 188 Renchan, Charles M., 502 Sedam, Henry S., 274 Shader, William Henrv, 116 Stickney, Carl C. , 459 ' Stickney, Julius, 99 'Thompson, Joel, 459 Thompson, Murray, 293 Trenchard, William H;, 460 Wheeler, Orlando D., 109 WOODHULL. Barrett, Samuel H., 271 Baxter, Amelia, 261 Bebout, Stephen, 261 Blain, Samuel W., 334 Brooks, Marion H., 336 Brown, Joseph B., 351 Candy, George A., 324 Carpenter, William, 134 Castle, Eri, 201 Clark, Eleazer, 266 Colvin, E. & D., 296 Cook, Angeline, 496 Dates, Henry, 365 Dorrauce, Lester, 495 Everitt, James S.. 26 Fenton, Ira S. , 373 Foster, Albert B., 281 Gee, Edward, 236 Gere, William N., 379 Grant, George E., 234 Harrington, Earl, 389 Herrington, Samuel, 226 INDEX. 529 Hoaglin, Leroy, 339 Hollis, E. T., 389 Hurd, Eugene, S88 Husted, Jerome C. , 267 Judd, Madison, 390 Kent, Henry F., 199 Lamson, Leonard S. , 92 banning, Henry L., 40.5 Lathrop, Matliias, 404 Lattiraer, John C. 193 Lawrence, May, Mrs., 295 Leach, I. Van Courtland, 404 Leach, James H., 404 Loper, James A,. 234 Lunger, A. R., 405 Miller, James JJ., 411 Miller, William J., 83 Odson, Lobelia, Mrs., 261 Park, JohnM., 152 Park, Rufus C, 63 Potter, Edward J., 435 Prutsman, R. D.", 435 Sanford, William R., 193 Smith, Edwin F., 299 Stroud, Jacob P., 74 Stroud, William, 446 Sutton. Marvin O.. 498 Symonds, Radclitf F., 446 Tallmadge, Andrew M.. Dr., 44'! Williams, Miles, 237 Wilson, M. P., 462 Wood, Lazon S. , 462 Young, Robard W., 283 PORTRAITS. Adams, William W., facing 267, Fart I Baldwin, Henry, facing 306, Part I Beecher, Fary B., facing 17, Part H Bradley, George B., facing 216, Part I Colgan, Peter, Very Rev., facing 278, Part I Conderman, John D., facing 24, Part I Cowan, Nelson, facing 40, Part I Davis, John W. . facing 327, Part I Davison, Lorenzo, facing 78, Part II Day, Franklin E., facing 31, Part II Denison, Charles G. , facing 56, Part I Drake, Franklin N., facing 72, Part I Faulkner, William, facing 06, Part II Fulkerson, William M., Dr., facing 143, Part I Fuller, D wight A., facing SK, Part I Gardner, Furman, facing 10, Part II Gibson, George, facing 322, Part I Gorton, William E., facmg 58, part II Hakes, Harlo, facing 8, Part I Hargrave, James B., facing 69, Part II Hatch, Hiram W., facing 26, Part II Hawkes, Thomas G., facing 48, Part II Hayt, Stephen T., facing 273, Part I Heermans, Harry C, facing 270, Part I Hoare, John, facing 52, Part II poo Hollands, George, facing 8, Part II Houghton, Amory, facing 104, Part I Houghton, jr. , Amory, facing 64, Part II Houghton, Charles F. , facing 65, Part II Hulbert, Lerenzo, facing 28. Part II Jamison, John S., Dr., facing 237, Part I Keeler, John H., facing 120, Part I Kelly, John G., Dr., facing 242, Part I Kimmel, Martin, facing 350, Part I Lamson, Leonard S., facing 352, Part I Larrowe, Albertus, facing 319, Part I Lewis. Jacob H., facing 19, Part II McCall, Anson J., facmg 221, Part I McNett, George C, Dr., facing 340 Part I Maltby, Jerome B., facing 75, Part II Marshal, Franklin J., facing 5, Part II Manshal, Otto F., facing 136, Part I Moore, Walter L., facing 152, Part I Murdock, James B., facing 346, Part I Parkhill, Clair S., Dr., facing 238, Part 1 Ferine, Henry W., facing 256. Part I Pinney, Martin, facing 168, Part I Pratt, George W., facing 232, Part I Pritchard, Hiram, facing 184, Part I Renchan, (leorge, facing 45, Part II Rogers, William F., facing 253, Part I Shepard, Lyman, facing 32, Part H V 530 LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY Stephens, Alanson. facing 13, Part II Wheeler, sr., Grattan H., facing 41, Stevens, James H., facing 224, Part I Part II Thorp, Calvin E., facing 25, Part II Wheeler, Grattan H., facing 42 Part II Tuttle, Russell M., facing 284, Part I Willets, Edward F., facing 285, Part I Waite, David S., facing 29, Part II Wood, Allen, facing 61, Part II Walker, J. E., Dr., facing 297, Part I Young, Daniel F., facing 73, Part II Wellington, Ouincy W., facing 275, Part I "^ )l /■ ^