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The Quarter OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the ST The Quarter OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION MEMORIES.. First National Bank 24 Hour Depository Service Drive-Up Window Free Paricing . For Custemen Surplus $500,000.00 Undivided Pdts and Reserves $145,000.00 • Page Three As an experiment, in this i s s u e we introduce a new department -- OPINIONS. which is intended to provide opportunity for members of the Association to "editorialize" with suggestions of interest and benefit to people interested in St. Lawrence county history. By Mary H. Biondi How Good an Ancestor Will YOU Do you stop at the roadside in May to pick bouquets of are in charge of roBd repair to consider "planting a tree trilliums or dog tooth violets? Do you **clean house" to replace a tree." This is part of our duty as would-be with a ruthless hand when you move into a new com- ancestors. munity or an old house? Do you plant a tree where one We once knew a family planted a tree for each of dies or is removed? their children as soon as the child became toddler age Your answers to such questions may indicate how and could '*help" ever so slightly. What child with such a good an ancestor you will make. responsibility and interest would not grow up with a Our roadsides are gradually becoming barren wastes thought to the nurture of trees? We have ~vedmany in the interests of "speed and visionss' with no bush or times and if we had planted a tree at each place we lived, ground cover for the many wild ground birds who need it we would have left a goodly heritage of which to be proud for survival. Our field birds such as blackbirds of all in the form of a few maples, sweetgum or fir<. This form branches of that family have increased in staggering of immortality would make good ancestor material. numbers. But, such as bluebirds and cedar waxwings are becoming practically non-existent in thic part of Have you ever driven through the country noting the the country. At one time country people thoughtthe deserted and uncared-for fruit orchards? Did you give a "only good hawk is a dead hawk." Now, it is well-known thought to the ancestors who carried the seed here care- that with the diminishing numbers of hawks and owls, the fully from New England and lovingly planted and tended the rodent population is becoming alarming. Diminishing trees for benefit of generations yet to come? We have been numbers of foxes, of course, play a 'large part in this loath to credit our ancestors while we tastedthe very real population ratio, also. benefits of such care. Masses of poison ivy, hawthorns and thistles have taken over fields and roadsides. Many of our springtime Have you ever noticed a young couple who have been flowers are becoming extinct through overpicking. One fortunate enough to move into a well-kept but older house? of the noticeably missing flowers which have gone in this The first thing is to rid the attic and storage rooms of manner is the beautiful cardinal flower. This member of their years of accumulation. Old photographs, account the lobelia family once graced our damp roadsides and books, diaries, letters and such are consigned to the edged our streams. Now it is a rare sight to see. Trail- incinerator. Soon the Town Historian who is sure to be ing arbutus and Ladyfc slipper are others of the pro- searching for the missing link in just that locality calls. tected, once common, flowers. What flower lover ever Such a disappointment for bothl Or perhaps the historian finds these today? never learns of the treasure store he or she has missed. An octogenarian neighbor of ours recently told the If we can just let our townspeople know what we di~cover, story of several of the large willow trees nearby. They had what information is needed, and so on, we are helping been brought over as saplings from Canada and planted future descendants know their forebears. We are becom- by our own ancestors in 1858. Now these trees, over 100 ing good ancestors. years old, are becoming prey to insects and ice and wind storms. Who will plant replacements as these trees die When you instruct a child in what NOT to shoot at, or are of neceFsity cut down? what fish or game to catch and which they should leave, Do you drive unconcernedly by while the State, the when you pick only plentiful flowers and leave the pro- County or the Town strip oursoadsides bare with chain- tected species for future beauty of the roadsides, and saw-happy workmen? Many elm trees died in a dramatic when you "plant a tree to replace a tree" and teach way and people became concerned. But many more trees others this valuable lesson, then you may take your each year succumb meekly to the blade of the chain saw place among notable ancestors. and the men who operate these saws are not to blame. Preserving our family and local records, taking care They are not experts in tree consenration. But we as of our homes, treating our historical shrines with respect ancestor-material must consider our children's country- and teaching our children the stories of their heritage side. We must urge our local officers and the concerva- are all part of becoming a truly memorable ancestor. tion department and various governmental agencies who Will YOU be one? Page Four The Quarterly Official Publication of The St. Lawrence County Historical Assn. ASSOCIATION OFFICERS ) CONTENTS JANUARY 1962, VOL. 7 NO. I Page prcsid'cnt OPINIONS LAWRENCE G. BOVARD Ogdensburg I First Vicc President GOUVERNEUTI'S VILLAGE PARK EDWARD F. HEIM Canton I By J~tlz'~,tsI3artlrtl 5 Sccond Vicr Presidcnt 1,EAH NOBLE RAFTING ON THE ST. J,A\VKBNCE Edwards Sccretary By Dat~ielC,'. McCorgr~ich 6 MRS. HAROLD JENKINS RD-2, Potsdam THEY NI{\'ER JUST ''P;ISSI~D ON" Trrasurc.r DAV~D CLELAND 1311 .Ililrjr If. Ii'io~~o" 5 Canton Editor, TIte Quarterly THE GREAT 1VINDFALL OF 1845 MASON ROSSITER SMITH Gouverneur IN NE\I: YOlIK S1'.4TE Assistalr t Editor l3ll MRS. BETTE MAYHEW Albcrt Fo~cflcr 8 canton SILAS \VlIIGHrI' CEhlbYl"l'K'1- Program 10 MRS. DORIS PLANW fly Ednteard F. Hcinl Ogdensburg Musrun~ CLIFTON R41N ES FRANK CRARY Canton By JC(IIIC~~CB. Uartlcs 13 Aroirtinatio?~s EDWARD F. HEIM Canton HEN,RY HORN Canton County Fair r MEMBERSHIP UP TO DATE? 7 HAROLD STORIE Mr. David Cleland, Treasurer, Cou\'erneur St. Lawrence -County Historical Association I'orkcr Clubs Canton, N. Y. ELWOOD SIMONDS Rossie Enclosed find $2.00 in cash, check or money I order to cover my dues for 1961. I THE QUARTERLY is publishedin January. April, July and October Please send The Quarterly to me at this each year by thest. LawrenceCounty address : Historical Association, editorial, NAME ................................ advertising gnd publication office 40-42 Clinton street. Gouverneur, STREET and NUMBER N.Y. or RURAL, ROUTE .................... EXTRA COPIES may be obtained from Mrs. Nina W. Smithers, St. Lawrence County Historian's Of- fice, County Building, Canton, N.Y. COVER--At Mrs. Biondi's suggestion, the cover photograph was ar- at 50 cents each. ranged to syrnbolise her article, THEY NEVER JUST1'PASSED ON", which begins on page 7. For purpoFes of legibility it is just a bit ex- ADVlSORY BOARD aggerated: The Bible is the Ross Family BIBLE owned by the editor Mrs. Betty Mayhew, Canton and inherited from his mother's side of the family. We photographed Miss Elizabeth Baxter, Ogdensburg tNs first with the flower (which happens to be plastic, part of the Leonard Prince, Massena wrapping of a wedding gift in the family this year), then took a separate Mrs. Doris Planty, Ogdensburg photo of the obituary, enlarged thir; to the point of legibility, applied Harold Storie, Gouverneur some shadowy artwork and pasted all to the Bible picture. tennial History of Gouverneur, 1905. Above is the Van Seminary appearing on page 17 was taken from an old Buren Hotel as it appeared in 1860 (it burned in 1881) -- print published in the Gouverneur Sesquicentennial with some of the proprietor's saplings in the park. History, 1955. Below right is a winter scene, photographed about .1 By JULIUS BARTLETT was not involved. The Methodist ended their control in 1869. When the Gouverneur Garden Club last October planted Peter Van Buren, one of the best known innkeepers of the four Norway Maple trees in the Main street village green pioneer days, built a large hotel in 1849 at what is now 49- here, known simply as "the park", a movement was 53 E. Main street, the present WatertownMattress company initiated to restore the park as much as possible from store site. In the Civil War period and for some time the inroads made upon it by necessary highway widening thereafter, he planted trees in the park oppo~itethe hotel, and ravages of blight on its elm trees. drawing water in barrels from the Oswegatchie river, by The Gouverneur village park--450 feet long--was orig- mudboat and oxteam, to water the saplings inwhat was then inally about 100 feet wide at its upper end and tapered a windblown sand area. These were mostly elms, but the down to a lesser width at the west end. It came about, park also included maples and basswood. But few of the it seems sure, through a natural flow of travel. East more than 40 trees still remain. Main street was the DeKalb road, and branching from it where Grove street is now situated, and leading ~outhinto the town of Fowler, was the Fowler road.
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