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96 HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK, a gentleman of the old school a Democrat of the most unyielding type ; a. man and education, rose to an enviable prominence and success in his profession. At the of large abilities, of strong feelings, and of unflinching integrity. He died at first election under the Constitution of 1821 he was chosen one of the Senators for daughter,* the residence of his Mrs. William H. Deyoe, Kalamazoo, October 2, the Western District, and amid the exciting questions and the anomalous state of 1870, after years of suffering and sickness. politics at that time his course, as ever since, was that of a firm and consistent Democrat. The electoral law of 1 824 received, in accordance with the clear will

" seventeen" of his constituents, his hearty support at the time the famous of his political associates opposed it. As a political he was writer, pronounced hy a distinguished opponent the ablest in his district, and in that respectj by the com mon we he acquired the highest reputation. Under his HON. JESSE CLARK. consent, believe, editorial control, the Seneca Gazette held a commanding 'position, while his literary con

and- Nothing more forcibly reminds us of the rapid flight of time, our own tributions and legislative reports are marked by equal ability. From its origin, fellow- was and patron of Geneva and contributed advancing age, than to see gradually dropping away old and esteemed he a trustee College, his means towards to' citizens, who can look back the infancy of our village, when, uniting their for its foundation. The numerous improvements around us, which have given the

worse," tunes with it, "for better for they settled here to grow with its growth place character and augmented its population, are largely indebted to him for their and strengthen with its strength. The late Judge Clark was born in Berkshire establishment, and. bear witness to his public spirit and beneficence. During the County, Massachusetts, where he acquired, Chiefly through his own efforts as a fifteen years he occupied the judicial bench of the County he was distinguished teacher, an extensive and liberal education. His father was a captain in the war by his clearness of conception, his comprehensive and correct language, and his the" 20th' of the Revolution. In the year 1814 he came to Waterloo, where he shortly calmness and urbanity of manner. Judge Clark passed away on day of by' after married, and commenced the practice of law, and soon, his superior taients May, 1849. TP1LA.TE XX X 11 V

EDWIN E. DOBBIN

EjywiN R. Dobbin, grandson of General H. W. Dobbin, was born in the town of Waterloo, Seneca County, on the 24th day of May, 1818, where he remained, following the occupation of a farmer, mainly, until 777' his decease, on the 21st of June, --'". 1873, never having moved excepting to his late residence, Pine Grove, within a few rods of his birthplace. Beginning life amid the wilds of a new country, and early sharing with his parents the labors and hardships ever incident to pioneer life, knowing little or no childhood, having been the eldest but one of a family of eleven children, deprived of even the limited advantages of the day for obtaining an education, his whole opportunity for schooling having been within the space of tix months, all helped to develop the man in the boy, end prove a fitting preparatory to what he was to encounter in the after- period.

Upon the death of his father he assumed the whole responsibility devolving upon father, husband, son, and brother, to the bereaved mother and fatherless little ones. Nobly was this more than filial and fra ternal obligation performed for many years, and blessings were granted in laige meas ure. Faithful in all which pertained to his enrly home-life, and by and by to the added interests of his own home and little ones, he naturally became one to whom many looked,with confidence and esteem. Hav ing been df.igent in supplying many of the early deficiencies of an education, he was from time to time called to fill several

MRS. E. Ft. DOBBIN.

E . R. DOBBIN.

" And on his dear " memory fain would we linger, Aye, and for courtesy that bent, Seeing so much for reverence and love; In simple-great humility, offices of the town and Reverence for a life of County and became a favorite at self-denial, To honor, with a deep intent, home, being frequently re-elected for others all the to the various dutrcs of bis school Studying while; Whate'er God honors with degree district. We quote from a series of resolutions unani Reverence for a steadfast love of right Of of or of : worth, talent, blood. mously adopted in he since h,s decease His district, integrity was never questioned: he That kept hi3 every record bright. So it but wells the common good. was ever ready to labor for the public good. that the firm and " Believing lasting seouritV of Reverence for of 11 our civil and religious liberties depend on purity thought, But reverence for the greatest of them all, the intelligence ofthe and thai masses, thin intelli Which men upon hia brow could A an gence trace, sweet, holy charity, m largely attained at the common ne schools, constantly labored to advance tbeir in- As though an angel'e hand had sought Which strove to-cover o'er teresc. To carve what care could not efface, What else had seemed far more, light." In an examination ofthe records ofthe First Nor pain had power to wear away. Viewed in other Presbyterian Church of Geneva, we find him to hare been a member for over thirty-five Nor time could threaten with iec.ny. years, and trustee at the time of hie death In conclusion, we find the chief characteristics of his illustrious ancestor, General H W Dobbin Mrs. 0. M. Van Epps Bobbin, wife of the late Edwin R. Dobbin, and daughter of Mrs. to have been reproduced, in the differing mainly circumstances of development. Quotine from C. Covert Van Epps, was born at Ovid, October 19, 1814. This estimable lady is a descendant the various eulogies mistakenly until his own and withheld, earnest, appreciative nature could not of one of the pioneer most highly honored families within the bounds of Seneca County. be benefited we find what we by them, believe to - have been the true estimate of his character Her mother, Mrs. C. Van Epps, was the oldest daughter of the late Abraham A. Covert, who passed Thus away from to the 'bright and . earth, beautiful home beyond the river/ the was one of the party of three couples that crossed Seneca Lake in a canoe in search of one k.nd neighbor the upright the citizen, earnest patriot, the judicious counselor, the firm friend, authorized to solemnize marriages, an event of this kind being hitherto unknown in the County. the the faithful the " loving father, husband, consistent, humble Christian. We have known They were married by Squire James Parker, a follower of Jemima Wilkinson, or the Uni him and and do not Friend." long intimately, overdraw his as his numerous acquaintances versal Mrs. though on the down-hill of is the time attest." character, * Dobbins, life, passing pleasantly, will surrounded by a large circle of steadfast friends.

RESIDENCE ? CATHARINE M.DOBBIN * or TH E LATE EDWIN R.DOBBIN. WATERLOO TP., SENECA CO., N. Y. S35

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town of Ovid was formed March at which time it was organized The 5, 1794, forces was Andrew Dunlap, who came from Pennsylvania, located near the old as a town of Onondaga when that was set off from Herkimer. Indian trail on County, county Lot No. 8, in the southwest part of the town, in May, 1789, and retained its original dimensions until when Covert was set and Ovid 1817, off, died March 26, 1851, aged ninety-one years, six months, and nineteen days. was again diminished in size when Lodi was taken from Covert and a part of It claimed is by some that Mr. Dunlap was the first permanent settler within in 1826. These three and comprise the origi present Ovid, towns, Ovid, Lodi, Covert, the boundaries of Seneca County. When Mr. D. planted the standard of, nal town of which contained one hundred six-hundred-acre military Ovid, lots. civilization upon the soil of Ovid, there was no permanent white settler. Where The present of Ovid embraces lots from 1 to 33 now is territory Military inclusive, located the beautiful and thriving village of Geneva, only was found the "Kanadesaga." except Lot 26, Lodi, and is the north part of. the original town, bounded as ruins of the Indian village of Oliver Phelps had just located north town of east follows: on the by the Romulus, by the centre of Cayuga at Canandaigua; Colonel John Handy, the pioneer of Chemung, had just settled at "Newtown;" south the towns of Covert and and west the west shore of Lake, by Lodi, by and there were but four small houses where now is situated the city 77 Seneca Lake, which is due north from Washington, longitude west from of Buffalo with a population of 117,000. And it was not until several years after 42 41' Greenwich ; and the village of Ovid is in latitude north. The north line the settlement of Mr. D. that Joseph Ellicott, the agent of the Holland Land of the town is about seven and seven-eighths miles in length from lake to lake, Company, laid out the village upon the present site of Buffalo, called " New Amsterdam." and is a short distance south of the narrowest part of the County. The south To conceive of a home in the forest, surrounded by the remnants line is about nine and one-third miles in length from east to west, and the width of a hostile Indian tribe, together with wild beasts, is to form some idea of the of the town north and south is about three and three-fourths "miles. courage and invincible determination that characterized Andrew Dunlap when The central ridge of Ovid is about four miles from Seneca Lake, and attains a he planted his home in the wilds of No. 8. He settled in May, 1789, follow height of from five to seven hundred feet above its level, and a still greater ing the first inauguration of Washington, and soon thereafter plowed the first height above the waters of the Cayuga, which is sixty feet lower than Seneca. furrow in what is now Seneca County. His brother-in-law, Joseph Wilson, and The central and southern portions of this town are underlaid by the G-enesee Peter Smith settled in the same year, Wilson afterwards locating on Lot 17 and slate, succeeded by the Tully limestone in the eastern and western portions, more Smith on Lot 7, a large portion of which is now owned by his son, Colonel Ralph particularly noticeable in the ravines leading to the lake, beneath which occurs Smith. the Moscow shales of the Hamilton group of rocks found along the lake shores, In 1790, Abraham Covert and his son Abraham A., from New Jersey, settled and is the underlying rock in the northeast and a small portion of the northwest on Lot 27, where the first town-meeting was held in April, 1794, when Silas part of the town. Over all, the drift is deposited to a depth of from one to forty Halsey, who lived on Lot 37 (now Lodi), was elected Supervisor, and sworn in no other between the lakes. feet, which forms the basis of a naturally fertile and productive soil, containing before himself, there being Justice more or less lime, and was in its natural state covered with a heavy growth of In 1792, John Seeley, grandfather of the late Hon. John E. Seeley, located on on present site of Ovid and erected a on deciduous trees, except along the lakes and. ravines, where pine, hemlock, and Lot No. 3, the Village, dwelling the cedar are found. Among the forest-trees, the white-oak and basswood attained site now occupied by the residence of William Jones, where his son Hezekiah, now oldest native of the was born in an elevation of one hundred feet, the latter flourishing to such an extent in the of Niagara County, the village, 1797. Moses and former father of Hugh who has eastern central portions of the town that the region in an early day was denomi Cole Josiah B. Chapman, Sheriff, Chapman, " Basswoods." nated the The principal varieties of the timber-trees of the town also been Sheriff, afterwards settled on Lot No. 3.

which The same year Captain Elijah from Dutchess settled a short were, viz. : white oak, red oak, swamp white oak, some of were from four Kinne, County, pig- and shell- distance on Lot No. near the site where Benajah Boardman erected the to six feet in diameter, black or yellow oak, white and black ash, west, 2, sugar- soft- first grist-mill in the in which was a primitive the bolt bark-hickory, and (or white) maple, basswood or linden, poplar or County, 1793, affair, being German- cotton- turned hand. In Nicholas who had been wounded at whitewood, swamp, rock, and red slippery-elm, beech, ironwood, cucumber, by 1793, Huff, wild- and his brother Richard came from New and located on Lot wood or balm of Gilead, aspen, black walnut, butternut, and, occasionally, town, Jersey 20, in the heaviest timbered portion of the town. Peter Hughes came the same cherry and mulberry, sassafras and dogwood. Abraham De Mott with his sons James and also from New The name ofthe town was bestowed by Simeon De Witt, the Surveyor-General year, also John, and located on Lot a short distance south of the village. of the State at the time the Military Tract was surveyed and divided into towns. Jersey, 9, James, known as Judge De afterwards served as lieutenant in the war Mr. De Witt applied names to the whole tract taken apparently at random from familiarly Mott, of represented the in the Legislature in 1825, was appointed. As some classical dictionary. Among these names were Aurelius, Sempronius, 1812, County and was married the third time when in his eighty-seventh Ulysses, Ovid, Hector, Homer, Solon, Virgil, etc., entirely ignoring the signifi sociate County Judge, year he died aged eighty-eight years and eight months, cant and often more euphonious names applied to portions of this tract by the ; February 18, 1875, more familiar with the of the and Kendaia. at the time of his was early aborigines, such as Canoga (sweet water), Sacawas (swift water}, and, death, history town and than person now living. His sister Cristina, when a young Sullivan, in his campaign of 1779, passed down on the east side of Seneca County any " Kanadesaga." in was brought from New on grew at Lake to In the journal of Lieutenant Xdam Hubley, who was child, 1794, Jersey horseback, up Ovid, and was the mother of the Hon. Lewis under married Colonel Cornelius Post, under the command of Sullivan in this expedition, we find the following Post, after- member of the from Seneca County. " and a now of the present Assembly date of September 4, 1779 : We destroyed several fields of corn, Lodi, William and Robert came in 1794 and settled on Lot 5, where the march of thirteen miles we encamped in the woods in front of a very large Dunlap

mile' of died in aged with father of the Hon. A. B. Dunlap, Michigan, 1854, ravine, and half a from Seneca Lake. On account of some difficulty former, encamped ninety-three. the pack-horses, the main army did not reach so far as the infantry, and and settled on. rear." The same year Teunis Covert family, from New Jersey, about two miles in the The encampment of Sullivan's infantry was at (1794) and also settled on the same lot. A daughter main Lot 32. His sons, Teunis Rynear, what is now known as Ovid Landing, and the encampment of the army of and resided of his married David Brokaw (father of A. C. Brokaw, Esq., Lodi), was near the present site of the Coombs school-house. night a bear visited their prem for a time on the west part of the same lot. One Scarce one decade had passed after the rattle of Sullivan's musketry ceased to Newtown" and started off through the woods with his booty. " now ises seized their only pig, reverberate in the forest along his line of march from Elmira, not disposed to .giveall prospect of the "Kcmadesaga" might have been seen Whereupon Mrs. Brokaw, feeling up to now Geneva, ere the white settlers guided the music of the winter's seized her and, pig, wake of Sullivan's anxious next pork, lantern, by threading their way through the forest in the army, robber until her husband, loaded his gun followed after, and kept track of the to rear their homes in the fertile country of the Senecas. and settlers got their again. and came when bruin was dispatched the pig The first that entered the on .in the track of the invading up, County following 97 98 HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.

settled on Lot longer than of now About the same year Garret Harris, from New Jersey, 27, any its inhabitants living. The first child born in this town between the villages of Ovid aud Lodi, where his grandson, George Harris, now was David Dunlap, son of Andrew, February 2, 1793. resides. Le also settled on Lot 27. Ralph from In the of 1793 three men of Peter Conte, Esq., Swarthout, spring promising young the town, viz., Joseph same settled on Lot near where Charles S. Johnston Abraham A. and Enoch the State, the adjoining 28, Wilson, Covert, Stewart, severally made matrimonial now resides. Mr. Johnston has in possession a sword captured his great-grand alliances with Anna Catherine and by Wyckoff, Covert, Jane Covert, respectively a officer of Bennington. it is as there was neither priest or justice father from Hessian in the battle Mr. Swarthout, and, between the lakes, all crossed the cider-mill Seneca Lake together in a and proceeded said, built the first in the town, in 1811. skiff, to Esquire Parker, a follower settled on and afterwards built a saw of Jemima who united them in the of In 1795, Dr. Jonas C. Baldwin Lot 11, Wilkinson, bonds matrimony, whereupon mill near * where afterwards a returned rejoicing. John N. a grandson of Ovid Centre, Hughes built grist-mill, familiarly they Wilson, Joseph, has still in his " Mill." known to this generation as Van Lieu's Dr. Baldwin, in 1801, removed possession the original marriage-certificate of his grandfather, of which the fol to Onondaga County and founded Baldwinsville. lowing is a copy : Samuel built the next mill on the same stream now owned or Sweeney below, " This certify that Mr. Joseph Wilson and Miss Anna Wyckoff was joined to operated by Edwin Barry. gether marriage the of in in Jerusalem, in County Ontario, on the 3d of From 1795 to 1806 the population increased rapidly. John I. Covert, first day April, a.d. 1793, by James Parker, Just. Peace." settled on Lot 19, and afterwards on Lot 10, in 1796 ; Leddie Dunlap, from Con also on Lot settled on Folkerd resides of necticut, located 10 ; Abraham Bloomer Lot 21 ; David Wilson, who now in the town Romulus, was the first child Peter and on and and Sebring, Harpending, George Hams Lot 19; Gideon Scott born of these marriages, in January, 1794, is now probably the oldest native ' Ephraim on son of at Weed Lot 12 ; his Daniel, father Hon. D. D. Scott, Scott's resident of the County. He was General Porter's right-hand man in the sortie Corners, on Lot 11 ; also, Abijah and Noah Barnum on the same lot; and Chas. at Fort Erie, September 17, 1814, and assisted in rescuing him from the British, Thompson and Anthony Schuyler on Lot 25. Hon. Wm. Thompson, brother of who at one time in the fight had dragged him from his horse and were carrying Charles, who first resided on Lot 18 and subsequently on Lot 9, near the village, him off. was a lawyer, Surrogate of the County, and several years a member of the Legis All of these first married couples lived to old age (Stewart and wife in Lodi) lature. He died in in aged and was Michigan, November, 1871, eighty-seven, honored and respected ; the last, Abraham A. Covert, dying in May, 1868, at buried in the near his old home in Ovid. cemetery the age of ninety-eight. He was carried to his grave by six of his neighbors, Charles Starrett and settled on Peter Wyckoff Lot 31 ; John Van Tuyl, Cor the youngest of whom was over seventy years of age. They were Judge James nelius Sebring, Cornelius BoDine, Paul Anten, and Joshua Coshun on Lot 29 ; De Mott, J)r. C. C. Coan, Abraham VanDorn, Chester Eastman, James Foster, and David and on Matthew Gray, Abraham VanDorn son, and Abram Low Lot and Elijah Denton, all of whom except the first and last are still living in this 28, where Colonel Wilson Gray was born ; John McMath, who kept the first town. store and the first inn in the on Lot 18 he erected the house in which Dr. town, ; In 1867 and 1868 Several of the old residents of the town died, viz., Cap C. C. Coan now which for some years was a noted tavern John and resides, ; Boice tain John I. Sebring, aged ninety-six ; Daniel Scott, aged eighty-seven ; Jonathan Joseph Stull located on Lot 18 Peter Sherman on and ; Lot 14 ; Simon James Thomas, aged eighty-three; and, on the same day, October 29, 1867, Rev. with their and Benj. Waldron also on same lot near Shel Wheeler, father, the Thomas Lounsbury, D.D'., for many years pastor of the Presbyterian Church at drake Geo. Sauter on Lot No. 6 James Brooks and John Townsend on Lot No. ; ; Ovid, aged seventy-eight; George BoDine, May 15, 1868, at seventy; and Mrs. John on and and 10 ; Leonard Lot 9 ; John Ralph Wilson James Van Horn on Elizabeth Pack in 1875, aged ninety-one. Lot 17. Mr. Van Horn was Supervisor of the town several years, and was the On Lot 33, and about one mile north of Farmer Village, is the grave of grandfather of Hon. Burt Van of Niagara and the brother of Mrs. Horn, County, Samuel Weyburn, who in an early day had shot at and wounded a bear, which Abraham De Mott. The Simpsons located on Lot No. 1. John Simpson, the just before night escaped into one of the ravines leading to Cayuga Lake. On it is drew the lot for his services in the war of father, said, the Revolution, and going out the following morning to feed his cattle he heard his dog barking in he is the one of the soldiers to whom the land in the town was allotted only the ravine, and, with his pitchfork, went to the place, where he found the dog in who located upon it. His sons were Anthony, Alexander, and John, all now a contest with the bear on a narrow rock or shelf about half-way down the side of deceased the the son of Anthony. ; John, present, being the ravine. He immediately took part in the fight to assist the dog, and presently Peter Combs and Abram P. Covert settled on Lot where was buried 15, the bear seized him with his mouth by the arm, effected a hug on Mr. W., when George brother of who died September Dunlap, Andrew, 24, 1791, his being the both parties rolled over and over to tho bottom, a distance of forty feet, in an first death the settlers in the town and County. David among McCormick settled embrace altogether too close for comfort, to one of the parties at least. Fortun on Lot 16. Lot No. 30 was the gospel and school for some lot, which, years, was ately, when they landed in the water at the bottom the man was uppermost, and owned the town and rented to various persons. Geo. by Runyan, the Powelsons, by ramming his arm, still in the bear's mouth, down his throat, he succeeded in James and John John and Charick Rosecrants were Dennis, Brokaw, among its holding the bruin's head under the water and drowning him. The man was occupants. early severely wounded, but survived many years, though carrying the scars of this con Near the centre of this lot in 1809 or 1810 was erected the " bear." Reformed Dutch test to his grave, and was ever after known as the man who fought the the first church edifice built in the town or County. There also is church, One evening, in the fall of the year, about 1807, '8, or '9, as several young people, located the Gospel Lot in which lie buried Nathaniel Cemetery, Ballard, Rev. the Misses VanDorn, accompanied by Cornelius BoDine, Jr., were on their way Abraham ' Cornelius Nicholas Abraham Brokaw, BoDine, Huff, VanDorn, Sr., home through the woods from a visit to a neighbor, Mr. Folkerd Sebring, who Captain Joseph who was with Washington at Stull, Valley Forge, and probably lived where L. B. Drake now resides, they were chased by a panther, which several other soldiers of the Revolution. Captain Stull also served in the war of the would run towards the young people, apparently intending to seize one of them, Rebellion in Pennsylvania in 1796 and 1797. Near there are the graves Whisky when the young man would spring out and strike at the beast with a club, at the of Captain John I. Captain Charles General James Sebring, Starrett, Brooks, same time making a noise in the fallen leaves, and the panther would spring aside, Robert and and other soldiers of the waf of also the Jeremy Slaght, 1812; run off a few rods, and then turn and come for them again, when the same opera graves of Winfield S. Coshun and his brother who lost their lives in the Stephen, tion would be repeated, until they arrived, greatly frightened but not hurt, at a war of the Great soldiers of three wars together in Rebellion, resting honored clearing where I. N. Brokaw now resides. graves. Andrew Peter Peter Thomas Dunlap, Smith, Sherman, Covert, John Mr. BoDine, when this incident to the writer years afterwards, Sr.,' relating many Ephraim Elijah Benjamin and William " us." Simpson, Weed, Kinne, Scott, Tay said, Every time that painter came I expected he would get one of also soldiers of the lived and died in the and the last-named lor, Revolution, town, Among.the old settlers still surviving are Isaac I. Covert, son of John I., three are buried in the old in Ovid Village. his cemetery born in this town April 7, 1797, and the oldest native now residing in it; Thomas, the widow of Jonathan who built a near C. Nancy Thomas, tannery brother, John J. Covert, and wife ; John K. Bryant, Horatio Palmer, Horace Sheldrake in an and who was a sister of early day, the late Daniel Scott, and is Tracy, former Sheriff, James Burlew, Stephen Dennis, Captain Silas C. Covert the mother of S. D. and J. B. is still at Thomas, living Sheldrake, aged ninety and Abraham Covert, James Smalley, John Brooks and Ellis Brooks, sons of and is the oldest inhabitant of the unless Mrs. a native of his years, town, Feehan, General James Brooks, Jacob Compton; Abraham Van Dorn, who, with who claims to be about one is older. Ireland, hundred, father Abraham, from New Jersey, arrived on the 4th of July, 1806, when the In the of Abraham from New settled on Lot Colonel spring 1793, Sebring, Jersey, first celebration of that anniversary was being held in the village of Ovid; 35 (now Lodi). With him came his his daughter pensioners family, including Catherine, John Y. Manning, who came in 1815 ; these last are the two surviving who iri 1804 married Joshua and removed to Lot of Coshun, Esq., 29, Ovid, where of the war of 1812 in the town. Arad Joy and Peter De Forrest, father she still aged about and has resided in this resides, ninety, continuously County Mrs. J. E. "Seeley, also pensioners, died in 1872, and James De Mott in 1875. XXV"- PILATE X

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MPS. Joshua Wilson. Joshua Wilson.

RES. of JOSHUA W.WILSON, ^ Ovid, Seneca Co.,n. y SOUTH VIEW OF COURTHOUSE SQUARE IN OVID. 1841. HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 99

De Forrest was one. of the artillerymen who Mr. fired minute-guns when the made for the purpose of as there is a " Chesapeake," obtaining water, never-failing running spring Captain of the body of Lawrence, was brought to New York City. near by. De Witt Clinton visited this fortification in 1811, and considered it John Simpson and John G*. Wilson both reside where were seventy- they born one of the same class of mounds found in the valley of the Ohio. (See his years ago. Mr. Wilson has cast his vote at four every election in the town and at Journal.) except since he became a more every town-meeting, one, voter, than fifty years ago. who settled in or Dr. Candius C. Coan, 1816 '17, in that part of the town now CHURCH HISTORY. resided in this town the Lodi, and has during last forty years, has been a prac ticing physician sixty years. Dr. Coan and his wife, a sister of the late General PRESBYTERIAN.

" wedding" J. of are still and celebrated their golden T. Folwell, Romulus, living, In the year 1800 the General Assembly appointed the Rev. John a in 1867. Lindsley missionary for a period of four months, with directions to visit the town of Ovid. Among other early settlers are General Halsey Sanford and wife, who celebrated He organized a church while on which con wedding" undoubtedly this mission, became their "golden Peter N. son of Nicholas May 1, 1872; Huff, Huff; nected with the Presbytery of Oneida, and was subsequently transferred to the David D. Scott, his aunt Mrs. N. Rowley, Isaac BoDine, N. N. Hayt, George Presbytery of Geneva. Mr. Lindsley became pastor of this church, but at what and Joshua W. and Aaron both sons of Joseph Dunlap, Wilson, Wilson. Mr. " dale it is impossible to ascertain. He was dismissed November 5, 1805. Hotch- possession a of Aaron Wilson has in his block the beech-tree upon the bark of York," kiss's of " History Western New in speaking of this church, says : The which his father had inscribed his initials and the date of his advent in this town, on its was dismissed from its connection with the of 1789." church, request, Presbytery " J. W., May 12, Captain Andrew S. Purdy, General George Smith, Geneva to join the classis of the Reformed Dutch Church. This was the original David Dunnet, F. C. Williams, and Esquire James Foster were among the early Presbyterian Church of Ovid. The author believes that its general place of settlers. Esquire Foster has held the office of Justice of the Peace more than meeting and centre of operation was at or near the place of worship, in the and several times was Associate Judge of the forty years, Court. The ' County town of Ovid, of the church which styles itself the True Reformed Dutch named reside in the village. Mrs. Church,' five last Laura Ann Hartsough is the oldest church." and that the original church has succession in this resident village since 1808. in the Charlotte Jackson, an aged colored woman, The Presbytery of Oneida issued a commission June 28, 1803, for the organi resides in the village, and at one time was the slave of William under Godley zation of a church in the town of Ovid, and on the 10th of July of the same and the laws of this State. Ralph John Mickle also reside in the " Ovid," Cady village, year Jedediah Chapman organized the First Presbyterian Church of aged about eighty-six. Amos Yarnall, a native of Pennsylvania, in his ninetieth consisting of twenty members. In 1810 the membership had increased from year, is the oldest man now living in the town. Mrs. Rachel Young, with living twenty to seventy-three. In 1825 it numbered one hundred and seventy-one; her son-in-law Peter A. Brokaw, Rachel Starrett, widow of Captain Charles in 1832, two hundred and twenty; in 1843, two hundred and eighty-three; in Starrett, and Rachel, widow of Judge De Mott, are each nearly years of ninety 1846, two hundred and seventy-nine. This church, upon its organization, was age. Church," " styled the "Seneca and in 1817 was denominated the First Presby other old residents are Nathaniel and Alanson and Abigail Ovid." Among Seeley terian Church of It is impossible to ascertain who served this church Voorhees. John was the first minister in the and Benjamin Lindsley town, as pastor prior to 1811. April 17 of that year William Clark was installed Munger taught the first school in 1795. pastor, and officiated until August 9, 1815. The church has subsequently been Thomas settled on Lot No. 5, Charles Dickerson on Lot No. aud on Purdy 4, under the pastoral charge of the following persons, viz. : Rev. Stephen Porter, Lot No. 9 Abram who was a soldier of the French and Pease, War, afterwards of Rev. Thomas Lounsbury, D.D., Rev. M. M. Smith, Rev. L. Hamilton, Rev. the Revolution Thomas settled on Lot 13 John Gocncndyke ; Osborne, Esq., ; O. P. Conklin, Rev. Willis J. Beecher, Rev. Charles E. Stebbins, and Rev. and Samuel Weyburn on Lot 33. Hugh W. Torrence, the present pastor, who was installed in May, 1871. The present church edifice was erected in 1856, at a cost of twelve thousand dollars. ANCIENT FORTIFICATION. The present membership numbers two hundred and five. The session, as at present constituted, consists of Rev. Hugh W. Torrence, Pastor, Clement Jones, This fortification or embankment was situated on Lot No. 29, in the southern Sen., Isaac I. Covert, John N. Wilson, H. D. Eastman, and Joseph Wilson, part of this town, on the dividing ridge between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes, about four miles distant from the former in a direct and five from the latter. In line, BAPTIST. 1801, Cornelius BoDine, from Pennsylvania, came to this town and erected a dwell Elder of preached in the old court ing inside of this fortification on a gentle eminence, sloping gradually in all direc In 1820, Caton, Romulus, occasionally when Elder Wisner was pastor at Scott's tions. The inclosure consisted of an embankment of an irregular elliptical or house in the village ; also in 1836-39, he preached in the village. oval shape, its maximum breadth about twenty rods, and length from thirty to Corners, occasionally Elder C. A. of Scott's preached his first ser forty rods. At that time the embankment was about three feet in height, with May 30, 1858, Votey, Corners, until present church mon in the and continued to preach there the a base measuring from five to eight feet in width. There were several open court-house, was erected. spaces in the bank of different sizes, which undoubtedly at some far distant era edifice church was organized April at a of which D. D. Scott of the past had served as gateways. The plowshare has obliterated all traces of The 28, 1859, meeting and Gordon Clerk when it was resolved that a the except a few rods covered with buildings and where a slight was chosen Moderator, Dunlap ; mound, fences, Village." " of church be organized and called The Baptist Church Ovid bridge still remains. It was evidently a work of no recent date, as the timber The is a list of the first members : Aaron Wilson, Horace H. Bennett, found on the inside, consisting of oak, maple, basswood, etc., was of the same size following Gordon Cornelius V. D. Cornell, Monmouth E. Wright, Mrs. Julia as the surrounding forest. Huge logs in a state of decay were lying in the ditch, Dunlap, Cornelia Mrs. Elizabeth Mrs. Minerva Cornell, Mrs. and on the mound trees the growth of centuries were standing. The subsoil Wilson, Wilson, Bennett, Harriet H. Sophia Mrs. with a C. Mrs. Clarkson, Mary Johnson, Sly, consisted of clay, gravel, and sand, the clay predominating, and covered Mary Miller, Gertrude B. Jane Welton, and Mrs. Jane Wright. fine dark soil, here and there spotted with heaps of ashes. In making an excava Warne, Nancy Miller, Clerk. Horace H. Bennett was chosen Deacon, and Gordon Dunlap tion for a cellar more than fifty years ago, a human skeleton was found directly churches of the On the 5th of a Council of delegates from nine under one of these heaps two and one-half feet beneath the surface. The large May, 1859, organized the Seneca Baptist Association convened in the court-house, and by bones were in a good state of preservation, and were of the size of those of a and Oliver W. Gibbs as Clerk. The choice of Rev. Elijah Weaver as Moderator, full-grown man. It appeared to have been buried in a sitting posture, facing " Baptist Church of Ovid Council voted to recognize the Regular the southeast, as the skull was found nearer the lower extremities than an ex unanimously Village." E. Mar Recognition sermon Rev. J. M. prayer Rev. some five by Harris, by tended posture would admit. In enlarging this excavation in 1857, charge Rev. H. West. hand of Rev. E. Weaver, and by other skeletons were discovered near the place wherein the first was exhumed. shall, fellowship by prayer Rev. F. Dusen- Horace H. Bennett was ordained Deacon. Consecrating by No arms or ornaments were found buried with any of these skeletons. Many and Rev. P. Irving. who laid on hands with Rev. C. A. Votey fragments of earthenware have been of a dark-red color, smooth on the berry, found, when continued as pastor till December 20, 1862, he were about The Rev. C. A. Votey inside, and frequently ornamented on the outside. The fragments was succeeded the Rev. L. Ranstead. one-fourth of an inch in thickness. A pipe of the same material has also been by and the first church held In 1862 the present church edifice was erected, meeting found, which exhibits much taste and skill in its manufacture. Seventy rods church edifice is a frame on December 1862. The each in the lecture-room Saturday, 13, southwest of the embankment were three holes a few feet distant from in the village of between the on the west side of Main Street, Ovid, the largest from twelve to fifteen feet and feet in building, other, measuring across, twenty hundred Presbyterian and cost about two thousand five holes were Methodist and churches, depth; the others were smaller. It is hardly probable that these ioo HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.

dollars, besides labor, etc., contributed by the members and others. At this time ors ; Abraham Sebring, Collector ; Elijah Kinnie and Andrew Dunlap, Overseers the church membership numbered sixty-four. of the Poor ; James Jackson, John Livingston, aud John Selah, Commissioners Rev. L. continued as pastor until April 1865. He was The Ranstead 23, of Highways ; Abraham Sebring, Constable ; Elijah Kinnie, Abraham Covert succeeded the who removed in of by Rev. D. Cory, to Trumansburg the spring and George Fassett, Overseers of Highways ; Henry Scivington, Daniel Everts 1866 (letter of dismissal granted April 1, 1866). Elijah Kinnie, John Selah, James Jackson, and Samuel Chiswell, Fence He was succeeded, July 1, 1866, by the Rev. Granville Gates, who continued Viewers ; Thomas Covert, Pound Master. pastor until April 1, 1867, when he removed to Forest City, Wisconsin. Silas Halsey, the first Supervisor of the town of Ovid, swore in before himself church was without a settled pastor until April when the Rev. at a of The 1, 1869, the time Justice the upon the same of his election being ' Peace, day ' Peter Goo was settled and continued pastor until April 30, 1871. April 1, 1794. portions of the year the pulpit was supplied Talmage Van During 1S73, by The following quaint receipt was found in the Town Clerk's office : a student at Madison and on the of John " ; 5th April, 1874, of Doren, University Received, this fifteenth day February, 1794, of Oliver Halsey, the full E. of became and continued till August McLallen, Trumansburg, pastor, 29, and just sum of four in full of all dollars, demands, from the beginning of the 1875, since which time the church has had no settled pastor. world to this day, I say, received by me, Baptist Corners. church was organized on Church, Scott's This Wednesday, Thomas Sebring." March 19, 1828, and Rev. Edward Hodge was first pastor. The first deacons OVID VILLAGE. were Abram Bloomer and Hoolin Word. The church edifice was erected in 1830, at a cost of two thousand dollars, and with subsequent repairs is now Ovid Village was incorporated April 17, 1816 ; the Act was repealed on the estimated to be worth three thousand dollars. Joseph was the first Dunlap eleventh day of April, 1849, and it was re-incorporated July, 1852. clerk. The present membership is one hundred and twenty-nine, and is under John Seeley was the pioneer of Ovid Village. He purchased nine hundred the pastoral charge of Rev. F. D. Fenner. acres of land, a portion of which comprises the site of the present village, and erected a which he opened for the entertainment of man and METHODIST. house, beast on what is now known as Main Street, a short distance north of the flouring- and Ovid first appears upon the minutes of the Conference as a distinct appoint saw-mills of George W. Jones & Brother. This tavern was a frame building, ment in 1820, with Jonathan Hustis as pastor. In 1827 it next appears with unlike most of the rude structures of that early day, which ordinarily were of the name of William Fowler as pastor. Mr. Fowler formed the first class in logs, sometimes covered with siding. Colonel Manning relates that in 1816 he Ovid of eight viz. : Elijah Ann Noah village, consisting persons, Horton, Horton, boarded at this inn, then kept by Simon Vrooman. Alice De Delos Sarah and Barnum, Lucy Barnum, Mott, Hutchins, McQuig, In 1806 the first court-house in Seneca County was erected in this village, Lydia De Mond. Jesse Vose was the first class-leader. The following-named being raised on the day of the great eclipse, upon the site now occupied by the persons have served this society as pastors: J. Chamberlain, G. Osburn, William present court-house ; and for a period of forty years justice was administered James D. Jonathan Noble William Snow, Hale, Hutchins, Hustis, Parmeter, H. within its walls by the venerable Ambrose Spencer, James Kent, Governor Yates, B. Shipman, J. W. J. J. S. J. Goodwin, Nevins, Dennis, Dushaw, Parker, K. and other pioneer judges, whose names have become a part of the early history of S. G. D. R. William T. Moses * Tinkham, Mattison, Perry, Harrington, Davis, western New York. Crow, E. G. Townsend, B. F. Stacey, Robert Hogeboom, F. G. Hibbard, H. T. In 1815, Ovid had attained the reputation of being one of the most flourishing Giles, J. T. Arnold, David Crow, Delos N. N. Calvin Hutchins, Beers, Coats, towns in this section. In that year Ira Clark kept a tavern upon the site now J. C. J. M. S. G. W. Martin Hitchcock, Alabaster, Leet, Chandler, Wheeler, occupied by the hotel of Daniel Clough, and opposite, on the site of the Powell William H. Goodwin, D.D., LL.D., and Robert Townsend, the present pastor. Block, Andrew Farling kept a public house. Elihu Grant also was an early inn This society's present fine church edifice was dedicated June 2, 1870, by Bishop keeper on what now McGre- is Water Street, in the building occupied by Barney Jesse T. Peck and B. I. Ives. The edifice is valued at twenty-five thousand gan as a dwelling now, the only log building in town. dollars. The present church membership is one hundred. The present officers The following are names of those engaged in other branches of business in 1815 : are: James Bennett, John Banker, and Richard Hoagland, ' Trustees; Halsey Ira and Amos Clark, dry-goods merchants, occupied a building upon the site of Smith, H. R. Westervelt, AV. B. Swarthout, John Talladay, and John W. William Swarthout, hardware. James Seymour occupied a store where now is Runner, Stewards. located the cabinet establishment of Foster Brothers. Williams & Davidson The Methodist Church at Sheldrake was under the same administration as the were located on the present site of McElroy's hotel, and Moses Green upon, the Ovid M. E. Church, until about ten years ago. The first class was organized at site lately occupied by the drug store of Clement L. Jones, Jr., and where Henry the house of Mr. Peter Sherman, at Sheldrake Point, in about the year 1812. Wood kept a store before 1815. Jonathan Stout was a hatter, doing business in The first church edifice was erected in 1831, and located one mile west of Shel a large building subsequently owned by Colonel John Y. Manning, who carried drake Point. The are the names of prominent members at that following time, on the of a business hatter for many years, and is still living at the advanced age viz. : Peter Isaiah Thomas Noah Sherman, Stevenson, Osborn, Barnum, James of eighty-one. Chester Hall and Andrew Dunlap were silversmiths, and Edward Kidder,from whom Kidder's derived its Samuel Ferry name, Lynch, Jasper a Thurston harness-maker. Daniel Scott and John Sinclare operated a distillery James Isaac Shuitts, Wheeler, Blew, Betsey Dinmock, Mrs. and Mrs. as Chambers, here early as 1811, near the present residence of Mrs. Gray. This distillery, Sherman. church Peter The building was moved to Sheldrake Point in the year mentioned above, was subsequently converted into a fulling-mill, and later, oc 1869, while under the pastorate of Rev. N. M. Wheeler. The present church cupied as a gristmill. John Maynard and James Watson were the proprietors; edifice cost eight thousand dollars. In 1869 or 1870 the present parsonage was Mr. Maynard was a prominent lawyer, and afterwards elevated to the position purchased at a cost of twelve hundred dollars, one thousand dollars of which was of Circuit Judge, which he occupied at the time of his death, in 1851. a from Peter Sherman. present forty- legacy The church membership numbers Peter Doig settled in the village in 1822, and opened a mercantile establishment five persons. The present officers viz. : are, Pastor, Rev. N. M. Wheeler ; Trus in the building formerly occupied by Williams & Davidson. Other early mer tees, John M. Blew, Edwin Clark, J. S. Albert and Rev. Harris, Hollingshed, chants were William C. Van Horn, Seba Murphy, William A. Boyd, Philip Toll, N. M. Wheeler. and Richard Hardiker. CATHOLIC. Early physicians were : Jesse Tewksbury, Peter Covert, Achilles Gates, Tomp first mass of this church The was celebrated in.the court-house on the 15th of kins C. Delevan, C. C. Coan, and Dr. Basvine. . August,.1845, by Father Gilbride, who also built the first church edifice. The Early attorneys were : Alvah Gregory, William Thompson, John Maynard, following named persons have officiated in this church : Fathers Ken Bird- Gilbride, Asgill Gibbs, Moses Green, Samuel Wilcox, William Seeley, and Samuel ney, Gleason, Stephens, Maguire, Kavanaugh, English, Kenan, O'Conner, and sail. Thomas J. the present pastor. The church edifice is O'Connell, located on The first north of finely school-house in the village was erected in an early day, just Main Street. This a society has large, number of and is in a communicants, the Presbyterian church. Among early teachers are mentioned the names of prosperous condition. William Moulton, Robert Harriet, and Henry Hewett. CIVIL HISTORY. Hezekiah Seeley, son of John Seeley, was the first child born in the village, in a house which occupied the site of the present residence of William Jones, on The first in Ovid was town-meeting held April 1, 1794, at the house of Abra Main Street. ham one-half mile west of the present Covert, residence of Dr. C. C. Coan. together Ovid, located, as it was, in the midst of a wealthy agricultural region, The officers were chosen: Silas following Halsey, Joshua Wyc with progress. Supervisor; its climate and location, has kept abreast with the rapid tide of Town Elijah Abraham and koff, Clerk; Kinnie, Covert, George Assess with the settlement -.Fassett, ..beginning of the County. FILA.TH XXXV] PLAT.

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E. Back- The following persons represent the business interests of to-day : Guy Conklin, L. S. ; L. Conklin, W. ; Charles Griffen, L. S. S. ; of G. J. Mc Attorneys. Thaddeus Bodine, George Franklin, William C. Hazelton, man, R. S. S.; J. M. Harrington, I. G.; F. Youngs, R. S. V. ; Lodge has a of Henry V. L. Jones. Donald, L. S. V. G. ; M. C. Griffen, Chap. The membership Physicians and Surgeons. Alfred Bolter, H. W. Struble, E. W. Bryan. sixty persons. One death has occurred in the Lodge since its organization, 0' Clergymen. H. W. Torrence, Robert Townsend, James Connor. that of Rev. William H. Goodwin, D.D., LL.D. Dry-Goods Merchants. John F. Seeley, George H. McClellan. I. 0. G. T. Banking. James B. Thomas. was chartered Boots and Shoes. Chester Brown & Son, Joshua Thomas. The Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars, of Ovid, granted in 1875. Hardware. William Swarthout, E. C. Howell. April 15, 1874, and charter burned in 1874. A new charter was H. W. Drugs.Clement Jones, Jr., 0. C. Powell. The following were the charter members : William E. Franklin, Torrence, A. H. R. Groceries. Ezra Terry, Peter H. Covert & Son, Jared H. Smith, 0. C. Kinnie Dart, John F. Seeley, Oliver C. Cooper, Chester Brown, Hunt, Delia Sarah Powell. Westervelt, N. J. Dart, Robert Crawford, A. T. Slaight, Dart, Earle, Frank James D. Milliners. Mrs. M. Harris, Mrs. J. Lockwood. Emma Jessup, Cordelia B. Hart, Frank Hart, Youngs, Jeffrey, The officers for 1876 are,Benj. Architect and Builder. F. M. Rappleye. Martin, P. C. Hunter, A. Hunter. Franklin, B. W. V. T. Jonathan W. Chap. ; F. Carpenters and Joiners. John E. Craus, Alfred Havens, Fred. Cady, W. C. T. ; Emma Gorton, ; Lockwood, W. A. S. Walter T. W. T. S. Joseph James Bennett, Amos Hall, Henry Covert, Jacob Dickens, Jonathan Lockwood, Thomas, W. Sec. ; Charles Foster, ; Foster, ; Treas. Wallace W. M. Cordelia R. W. I. G. ; Abram Peter C Hunter. Foster, W. ; Reynold, ; Heart, P. W. C. T. Chester L. D. Cabinet-Makers and Undertakers. William and James Foster. Hart, W. 0. G. ; N. J. Hart, ; Brown, Pump-Manufacturers. Urial C. Dart & Son. G. A. R. Carriage-Makers. Frank Frantz, Alanson Seeley. Abram John of dis Blacksmiths. Alanson Seeley, Richard Hoagland, Hart, A Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, consisting honorably States and who served in the late war Mohan, Eli Beary. charged soldiers of the United army navy of October Painters. William Brewer. organized Ovid Village on the 3, Charles Warn, A. H. Covert, Clement Gordon, of the Rebellion, was in evening of the Council of Administration, Saw-Filer. William Pomeroy. 1874, by J. Marshall Guion, of Seneca Falls, Medical Director ofthe Department of New Clothiers. James D. Purdy, S. S. Salyer. and C. M! Woodward, of Waterloo, Harness-Makers.J. B. Bliss, W. Fagley. York, G. A. R. The following is the charter : Barber. Lorin Conklin. House," House," of the Republic. Hotels." " Hayt. Grand Army Park Daniel Clough ; Franklin N. N. Frotter. : Livery. Peter Wright, Frantz & To all unto wlwm these Presents come, Greeting

Saloons.Charles M. Johnson. confidence in the and patriot McElroy, Know Ye, That reposing full trust and fidelity and Watchmakers. R. L. Joseph M, Foster. C. John M. Dentist Reynolds, ism of Comrades Francis M. Rappleye, Henry Covert, Chambers, Stone-Masons. Hugh Andrew McLaughlin. Joseph M. James Feehan, McLaughlin, James M. Conover, Lewis D. Woodruff, John C. Williams, Foster, Butchers. and H. John Turk. Jacob John M. J. N. W. Seeley, Patrick Carroll, Abram B. Hart, Archibald M. Covert, Dickens, Nathan Seeley. Eugene C. H. Peterson, Axe-Maker. Harrington, Abram Wilson, H. V. L. Jones, Baker, and planing-mills owned G. and C. H. The extensive grist-, flouring-* saw-, shingle-, by John A. L. Bodine, Alton Van Horn, John Magee, Williams, at a cost of Grand Brother were erected George W. Jones in 1867, of the Rules and Regulations of the Army W. Jones & by I do hereby, in conformity him until when consti thousand dollars. The business was continued 1871, virtue of the power and in me vested, twenty by of the Republic, and by authority thousand feet purchased an interest. Six hundred successors a Post of the Grand of the his brother William Jones tute them and their associates and Army annual amount is five hun New York. sawed in a and the average P. Little No. Department of of lumber has been year, Republic, to be known as Charles Post, 40, of thousand bushels conduct said of grain to the amount empower them to perform all acts to dred thousand. Various kinds forty And I authorize and necessary of the Grand accordance with the Rules and Regulations Army are ground annually. organization, in

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of of the Department New the Dated at the Headquarters of York, OVID chapter, r. a. m. [L.S.] at New York on the eighth Grand Army of the Republic, City, eight hun the year of our Lord one thousand Chapter was granted on the 2d of August, in warrant of Constitution of this day The original ninety- and of our Independence the Josiah B. High Priest; John De Mott, dred and seventy-three, of February, 1825, to Chapman, day in Scribe. The said warrant was surrendered seventh. and Samuel M. Porter, King; Chapter Stephen P. Corliss, Grand 1830. The John K. Perley, and was accepted the Chapter, February 3, Commander. 1830, by Adjutant- General. Department 1850, and Peter Himrod was Assistant was revived by the Grand Chapter, February 8, id and Arad Scribe And, appointed High John De Joy, Priest; Mott, King; charter officers : Horn were the original members John Van The following the persons were declared viz., Senior addition, following V. L. Henry Peterson, Vice-Commander; H. C. PH. Flood, and Henry Jones, Commander; William John Kinney, F. C. Williams, Tracy, Lewis D. Woodruff, Adjutant; Booth, Archibald M Junior Vice-Commander; was granted the Grand Chapter, Covert, William Fish. 3, 1875, a warrant by James M. Officer of the February October Francis M. Officer of the Day; Conover, Chapter destroyed by fire Rappleye, as a duplicate of the warrant of the partially John A. L. Guard- Abram Chaplain; Patrick Carroll, Quartermaster; officers, Edward W. Bryan, Wilson, the empowered as viz., Sergeant-Major. 12, 1874, and following Quartermaster-Sergeant; Alton Van Horn, Benjamin Scribe. Bodine', and Stevens, several hundred High William H. Kinnie, King; of this Post's existence, Priest; During the two and one-half years it in a lot in the village AND A. M. been expended fitting up UNION NO. 114, F. dollars have already by LODGE, in de soldiers who served in the late war; for the burial of poor original charter cemetery, furnish the date of the and buried m Potter s Field member of the Lodge was able to of those dead No positing therein the bodies already and charter was renewed June 13, 1846, for the relief of their sick and nor the date of its surrender. The head-stones over their graves ; and placing suitable W. Kinnie is present Master, the just praise of a grate fire October 1875. Halsey and other charitable meriting destroyed by 14, disabled comrades, acts, J. W. William S. W. C. H. Swarthout, community. L. Foster, ; ful and appreciating has reached fifty-six from death, removals, maximum of membership ; but, NO. I. 0. 0. F. The WILLARD LODGE, 311, members in good the Post now numbers twenty-one and other causes, were the charter transfers, The names: instituted March 1872. following are their respective This Lodge was 20, of which the following George W. standing! William Coe, Lorin Conklin, Joseph Senior Vice-Commander ; Frank members-viz., John Turk, Sr., H V L Jones Commander ; Burden, N. T. Abram Wilson, Fighley. , Vice-Commander; Brown, Adjutant; Wilkins, Willoughby T Frantz, 'junior William V. G. ; L. Conklin, Hon. Lewis were,-J. N. G. ; Coe, William L. Post, M.D., The first officers Turk, Sr., Quartermaster; Rev. Hyde, Chaplain; Terrance Officer of the Sec. G, W. T. Surgeon- Officer of the Day; Keenon, ; Wilkins, . F. M. Rappleye, Turk V , E N. G. ; John Jr., Sergeant-Major J. M. Quartermaster-Sergeant; The present officers are,-G, W. Wilkins, Isaac D. ; Foster, L.G^R. S. Guard Conley, Per. Sec. W. Fighley, T. ; Ely Beary, , C. Terry, Sec. ; J. M. Foster, ; 102 HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.

A. Van Horn, Bugler; E. C. Baker, Assistant Bugler; Peter C. Hunter, Orderly Banker, Austin, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 27, 1862. Sergeant; Patrick Carroll, Henry Peterson, 0. C. Cooper, Darwin Spencer, Discharged June 29, 1865. 148th Stephen B. Pearce, David Miller, and Erastus Benjamine. Brokaw, Abram, enlisted in Company F, Regiment, August 1, 1864. H. V. L. Jones, Henry Peterson, and Alton Van Horn represented the Post Discharged July 1, 1865. enlisted in 148th as delegates in the last Department Encampment, held at Albany, January 25 Bennett, Martin Luther, Company G, Regiment, December

- 1865. and 26, 1876. 22, 1863. Discharged June 14, Bumpus, Henry, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 31, 1862. Village Officers. The Board of Trustees is composed of the following Killed in battle before Petersburg, Virginia, June 18, 1864. Buried at persons : Clement Jones, Jr., Pres. ; James D. Purdy, Lorrin Conklin, Ezra C. Petersburg. Terry, and Frank Frantz. Bogardus, De Witt C, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 27, was opened this village 1825. its name was The Ovid Academy in in In 1855 1862. -Discharged June 22, 1865. changed to the Seneca Collegiate Institute. The East Genesee Conference subse Brokaw, Isaac, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 29, 1862. quently assumed control of the institution, and conducted it under the name of Discharged June 30, 1865. the East G-enesee Conference Seminary. It is now conducted as a Union school, Bride, Patrick, enlisted in Company I, 164th Regiment, January 11, 1864. and is in a flourishing condition. . The following are the names of the Faculty : Discharged July 15, 1865. William L. Hyde, Principal ; Elizabeth Weaver, Preceptress ; Mary McQuigg, Boyce, Darwin Covert, enlisted in Company F, 148th Regiment, November 2, Mattie Seeley, and Delia Crane, Teachers. The following compose the Board of 1864. Discharged June 30, 1865. Education : Thaddeus BoDine, Hugh W. Torrence, Elijah C. Howell, Dr. E. W. Blue, Samuel, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 6, 1862. Bryan, and Joseph Dunlap. Senator Christiancy of Michigan and Hon. D. C. Killed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Littlejohn were once students at this academy. Blue, Oscar Ditmars, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 6, The Ovid Bee was started in this village in 1838, by David Fairchild & Son. 1862. Died at Camp Douglas, Chicago, November 26, 1862. At the close of one year it passed into the hands of the son, Corydon Fairchild, Barnum, Abram Covert, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, July 29, who published it until 1874, when it was discontinued, and changed to the Ovid 1862. Discharged June 15, 1865. Independent ; Hyatt & Cooper, editors and proprietors. The office of the Inde Bingham, Denton Elijah, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, July 28, pendent was destroyed by fire October 11, 1874, and the paper was re-established 1862. Discharged December 25, 1864. by Oliver C. Cooper, the present editor and proprietor. It is a prosperous and Bishop, Jerome Madison, enlisted in Company G, 148th Regiment, December influential sheet, independent in politics and religion. 19, 1863. Died in regimental hospital at Yorktown, March, 1864. Ovid is a flourishing village of eight hundred inhabitants, finely located upon Bird, James, enlisted in Company C, 148th Regiment, December, 1863. Died the dividing ridge between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes. From the seminary from wounds received at battle of Cold Harbor in June, 1864. observatory the eye sweeps over portions of nine counties, viz. : Tompkins, Che Bloomer, Bennett Beardsley, enlisted in 111th Regiment, August 29, 1864. mung, Steuben, Yates, Ontario, Wayne, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Seneca, while the Discharged November 30, 1864. waters of Seneca and Cayuga Lakes are plainly discernible, the former at a Boyer, James Brooks, enlisted in 50th Regiment, September 4, 1864. Dis distance of three, and the latter at six miles. charged April 27, 1865. Brokaw, Leroy, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, July 29, 1862. 15th September 1864. POPULATION. Bunn, Jacob, enlisted in Company II, Regiment, 2, Discharged June 30, 1865. The population of Ovid in 1835 was 2997 in 2721 in 2129 ; 1840, ; 1845, ; Brown, Sidney E., enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, July, 1862. in 2248 in 2274 in 2538 in 2382 in 2403 1850, ; 1855, ; 1860, ; 1865, ; 1870, ; Caywood, David Genoa, enlisted iu Company 1, 33d Regiment, September in 2397. 1875, 30, 1861. Wounded at Fredericksburg May 4, 1862. Discharged June 6, 1862. MILITARY RECORD. Covert, Archibald McNeal, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, December When war's loud alarum sounded over this republic and our imperiled country 21, 1863. Discharged October 28, 1864. August called for brave men to strike at the hideous head of rebellion, the patriotic citi Covert, Abijah Barnum D., enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, zens of Ovid responded promptly, and on the 20th day of April, 1861, the first 4, 1862. Discharged June 5, 1865. September war-meeting was held in the village of Ovid. Colonel John Y. Manning was Clarkson, Andrew B., enlisted in Company I, 50th Regiment, 1, President of the meeting, and James B. Thomas and James Furgeson, Secretaries. 1864. Discharged July 1, 1865. September This war-meeting was addressed by Thaddeus BoDine, Esq., who, at the close of Countryman, George W., enlisted in Company H, 15th Regiment, his remarks, placed his own name upon the rolls, heading the list of volunteers 3, 1864. Discharged June 13, 1865. from this town. Covert, Henry Handford, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 5, The following list comprises the names of those who enlisted in the war of 1862. Discharged June 5, 1865. the Rebellion from the town of Ovid, together with the number of the regiments Covert, Darwin C, enlisted in Company G, 111th Regiment, February 5,

to which they belonged, with date of discharge or death. 1864. . Discharged April 24, 1865. 1862. Armstrong, Jehial, enlisted in the 148th Regiment, at Ovid, August 30, 1862. Cary, Edward, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 30, Died on hospital boat en route to Fortress Monroe. Died in hospital at Point of Rocks, Virginia, February 8, 1862. August Ackley, J. Corey, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 30, 1862. Craven, Hamilton R., enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, 30, Discharged December 31, 1863. 1862. Discharged June 22, 1865. Anderson, Isaac, enlisted in Company F, 148th Regiment, August 26, 1864. Carragher, Alexander, enlisted in Company I, 164th Regiment, December 26, At Lee's surrender. 1863. Discharged July 27, 1865. August Bolter, William Alfred, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 29, Covert, Daniel F., enlisted in. Company C, 126th Regiment, 11, 1864. Discharged June 29, 1865. 1862. Discharged June 15, 1865. 1863. BoDine, Thaddeus, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, September 5, Carl, Patrick, enlisted in Company H, 148th Regiment, December 23, 1864. Discharged June 22, 1865, at Richmond. Discharged August 28, 1865. 1863. Bogardus, George W., enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, July 29, 1862. Carl, Owen, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, December 18, 1862. Was at Lee's surrender, and discharged June 3, 1865. Chambers, John M., enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 6, Brown, Marvin Aurelius, enlisted in Company A, 148th Regiment, December Discharged June 15, 1865. 1864. 22, 1863. Discharged August 28, 1865. Crayer, William Harris, enlisted in 50th Regiment, September 3, Bishop, James, enlisted in. Company E, 148th Regiment, December 18, 1863. Discharged May 19, 1865. 1862. Discharged August 28, 1865, at Richmond, Virginia. Cory, Samuel D., enlisted in Company D, 50th Regiment, August 22, Janu Burlew, Noyes. Stephen, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 5, In hospital at Elmira until discharged on surgeon's certificate of disability, 1862. Discharged for physical disability October 4, 1863.. ary 2, 1863. 1864. ""^Bodine, John Augustus L., enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August Chambers, Samuel, enlisted in Company B, 3d Artillery, August 5, 21', 1862. Discharged March 31, 1865. Died at Morris Island..