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ABRAHAM VAN DO RE/A. JANE VAN DOREN:

ABRAHAM VAN DOBEN. since resided, working his ancestral farm, and another, purchased by him,

adjacent. He shot a deer on Lot in in and a wild goose Abraham Van Doren (the original of the above portrait) was born 19, Ovid, 1814, on the in the State of in when in his eightieth March 7, 1795, at Middlebush, Somerset County, New Jersey. His wing, Illinois, 1874, year, both with the same musket which his father carried in the father, Abraham Van Doren, Sr,, was born in New Jersey, January 30, Revolutionary

years' war. his residence in the town he has held various 1743; served in the war of the Revolution; married Mary Covert in During seventy town and in his eighty-second is with his 1788; and on the day of the great eclipse of the sun, June 16, 1806, offices, now, year, residing daughter and her Lewis on the same farm and near where started with his family, consisting of his wife, five daughters, and two husband, BoDine, Country," he settled with his father in still a comfortable degree of sons, Jacob and Abraham, for the "Lake as this region was 1806, enjoying health and strength. then called. They, with their household goods, came in two wagons, by Jane Van his was born near Somerset way of Paterson, Cherry Valley, Schenectady, Skaneateles, Hardenbrook's Nest, wife, Somerville, County, New was a of Peter and Phebe Corners (now Auburn), to the foot of Owasco Lake, where Jacob, a brother Jersey, January 14, 1804. She daughter Van Nest was one of a of six two brothers and four of Abraham, Sr., lived, having accomplished this journey in eleven days. ; family children, sisters. One of her Catharine Van Nest was the mother Shortly thereafter they came to Ovid, by way of Cayuga Bridge, and sisters, Talmage, of Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. Her father in and her mother arrived on the 4th of July, while the first celebration of that anniversary dying 1813, was being held in the then infant village of Ovid, where the frame of the several years thereafter having married Captain Joseph Stull, of Ovid, she first court-house had just been raised. A few days thereafter, Abraham, removed to that town, and was married to Abraham Van Doren in 1821. born with his father, went to where the city of Rochester now stands, where They have had four children: Ann, now wife of Lewis BoDine, there was then but one house. They forded the river above the falls, stayed June 7, 1822; Abraham V. N. Van Doren, born April 13, 1828; Mary at night at Hanford's Landing, some three miles below, where there was a Eleanor, afterwards wife of Edward Maxwell, of Beardstown, Illinois, born born tavern. After proceeding some ten miles farther west, they were com March 25, 1834 (now deceased); and Gustavus A. Van Doren, pelled to turn back for want of provisions. They returned to the town of February 27, .1844.

Ovid ; the father bought a farm on Lots 28 and 18, where they settled. . She died April 15, 1870, loved and lamented by her family and the The elder Van Doren died in 1813 ; his wife surviving till April 22, 18-19, entire neighborhood, with whom she was a general favorite.. When the when she died, aged eighty-one years and six months. Angel of Life came to their homes, there she had been to welcome the The son, Abraham Van Doren, learned the carpenter's trade, at which little stranger; and there she had ministered when the Angel of Death he worked a few years ; served on the Canada frontier in the war of 1812 ; was taking their loved ones. None went hungry away from her door, no

one in or the is one of the two surviving pensioners of that war in the town; married trouble suffering ever failed to receive the kindly counsel, Jane," Jane Van Nest in 1821, and built his house on Lot 18, where he has ever aid, and sympathy of "Aunt as they all loved to call her. HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK 103

Coshun, Stephen, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 6, 1862. Hartigan, Harrison, enlisted in April, 1861. of Wounded Died at Union Mills, Virginia, February 6, 1863, smallpox. Hadley, Alfred, enlisted in 108th Regiment, July 28, 1862. July Covert, Abram C, enlisted -in Company F, 50th Regiment, August 28, 1862. 3, 1863, at Gettysburg. Discharged June 28, 1865. Dxe, Charles, enlisted in Company H, 3d Light Artillery, September 3, 1864. Covert, Rynear Beech, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 5, Detailed. Discharged July, 1865. 1862. Discharged June 3, 1865. Jeffrey, James, enlisted in 50th Regiment, September 3, 1864. Detailed at Covert, William Henry, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 5, Elmira. Discharged May 18, 1865. 1862. Discharged June 3, 1865. Judd, Walter, enlisted in 1st New York Independent Battery December 18, Close, Sidney C, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 22, 1862. 1863. Discharged June 23, 1865. Discharged. June 22, 1865. Jamerson, David Hulsey, enlisted in Company D, 50th Regiment, August 29, Covert, Abram V., enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, July, 1862. 1862. Discharged June 28, 1865. Corey, Andrew J., date of enlistment and number of regiment unknown. Jump, George V., enlisted September 3, 1864. Corvet, Lyman, enlisted August 10, 1862, and was taken prisoner at Harper's Johnson, Mather, enlisted September 19, 1864. Ferry. Jones, Jacob E., enlisted in April, 1861. Close, Edwin, enlisted in April, 1861. Jones, Elijah, enlisted in April, 1861. August 1862. Croix, St. De Louis Philippe, enlisted in April, 1861. Krug, George, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, 31, wounds received in battle Dickens, Jacob, drafted July, 1863, and joined Company I, 97th Regiment. Died in hospital, at Philadelphia, July 18, 1864, from Discharged November, 1864. of Drury's Bluff, May 16, 1864. enlisted in 3d September Dondle, Patrick, Jr., enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 27, Kinch, Washington Irving, Company M, Artillery, 3, 1862. Discharged June 22, 1865, at Richmond, Va. 1864. Discharged June 26, 1865. enlisted 1865. Darling, Alfred, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 8, 1862. King, John, January 9, Light October 1861. Discharged June 4, 1865. Lewis, John G, enlisted in Company H, 1st Artillery, 26, Discharged June 1865. Dart, Jonathan, enlisted in Company H, 33d Regiment, August 30, 1862. 11, enlisted in 126th Discharged May 25, 1865. Lounsbury, Thomas R., Company C, Regiment, July 28, 1862. Discharged June 1865. Daley, Owen, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 31, 1862. 16, enlisted in 50th December 31, 1864. Discharged June 22, 1865. Lyon, Alonzo, Company A, Regiment, Discharged June 1865. Demond, Isaac, enlisted in Company E, 26th Regiment, February 18, 1864. 30, enlisted in SOth December 25, 1863. Discharged August 28, 1865. Lyons, Eugene, Company K, Regiment, Discharged June 1865. Dumont, Elbert, enlisted in Company I, 111th Regiment, March 4, 1864. 30, enlisted in 3d New York Artillery, Septem Discharged November 15, 1865. Lindsley, Joseph, Company K, in* ber 1864. Discharged June 1865. Donelly, James, enlisted Company G, 148th Regiment, August 31, 1864. 3, 15, 1862. enlisted in 148th Regiment, August 25, Discharged June 29, 1865. Mack, Daniel, Company E, Discharged June 1865. Denning, Charles A., enlisted in December, 1863. 22, Thirty-third August Andrew, enlisted in Company C, Regiment, Derliam, George, enlisted in 1st New York Battery December, 1863. McLaughlin, 31,1862. Discharged June 16, 1865. Decker, Moses, enlisted in 111th Regiment, January, 1864. Light September Francis, enlisted in Company D, 3d Artillery, 1, Davis, Alfred, enlisted in 1864. McDonald, 1864. Discharged 15, 1865. Elisha enlisted October 25, 1861. July Dean, H., 164th December McDonald, Owen, enlisted in Company I, Regiment, 23, Davis, Eugene W., enlisted in April, 1861. 1863. Discharged November 20, 1864. Calvin enlisted in 33d Regiment, August 30, Everts, Damon, Company H, August 1862. Samuel, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, 5, 1862. Discharged June 15, 1865. Manderville, Discharged June 16, 1865. enlisted in 164th Regiment, December 26, Finnegan, Stephen, Company I, 1864. enlisted in 39th Regiment February 18, 1863. Discharged 1865. Middleton, Augustus, July 15, 164th December 1863. 1864. McCann, John, enlisted in Company I, Regiment, 25, Flimn, Peter, enlisted in Company I, 164th Regiment, January 12, Killed at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864. 1865. Discharged June 17, 1864. enlisted in 164th June 20, August 1864. McArdle, Peter, Company I, Regiment, Feeghan, John, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, 25, Discharged 1865. 1865. July 15, Discharged June '22, 50th Decem Horace enlisted in Company K, Regiment, was killed at the battle of Mathews, Smith, Finnegan, Michael, enlisted August 24, 1862, and ber 1863. Discharged June 25, 1865. August 1862. 25, Cold Harbor, 24, 3d August 1864. McKinnie, Andrew, enlisted in Company B, Artillery, 28, Joseph enlisted in April, 1861. Foster, M., 1865. 148th September Discharged July, Gilchrist, Alexander, Jr., enlisted in Company E, Regiment, August George Whiteman, enlisted in Company B, 3d ArtiUery, 5, 1862. Discharged June 1865. Mathews, 4, 30, 1865. August 1862. 1864. Discharged July, enlisted in 148th 27, Gorman, George, Company E, Regiment, 148th December 1863. Alfred, enlisted in Company G, Regiment, 18, Discharged June 1865. Martin, 30, August 1865. joined 94th Discharged 28, Garnett, George Adam, drafted July 24, 1863, and Company D, 8th Pennsylvania Henry, drafted, and joined Company G, Regiment, hospital 1865. Murray, Regiment. Discharged from June 20, 1865. in 1863. Discharged November 10, Regiment. July, Griffen, James, enlisted in. 50th 50th August 1862. enlisted, in Company F, Regiment, 28, New York Mason, Robert, William enlisted in Company D, 3d Artillery, Sep Galloup, A., Discharged June 1865. 1865. 28, tember and was discharged May 29, 94th 1864. 1, 1864, enlisted in Company G, Regiment, January 4, 126th August McArdle, James, Harris, Frederick James, enlisted in Company C, Regiment, 5, Discharged June 3, 1865. 1862. Discharged June 1865. 1864. 16, enlisted in 111th Regiment in March, August Miller, John, enlisted 3d Light Artillery, Hoagland, Benjamin M., in Company M, 1865. Morton, James, enlisted February 14, 27, 1864. Discharged July 8, 1865. 11th April 1863. James D., enlisted in Company M, Artillery, 18, 21st September 3, 1864. Martin, Huff, Omar, enlisted in Company K, Cavalry, 1861. Dead. Martel, Paul, enlisted April, Discharged 1865. 1861. July 29, enlisted in April, 126th August 1862. Mathews, John, Charles enlisted in Company C, Regiment, 5, Harris, F., enlisted in April, 1861. the last charge. Murrell, Thomas, Killed at the battle of Gettysburg, 3, 1863, during 126th August 1862. July Augustin enlisted in C, Regiment, 1, December 1863. Parish, S., Company enlisted in 148th Regiment, 21, Herdsell, George, Company E, 1863. Discharged February 5, ; Discharged 1865. 148th August 31, January 26, Lyman W., enlisted in Company E, Regiment, 126th August 1862. Parish, James enlisted in Company C, Regiment, 6, Huff, Burt, 1862. Discharged 24, 1865. 1864. July Killed in battle of the Wilderness May 6, 126th August 1862. Joshua B., enlisted in Company C, Regiment, 5, 126th in 1862. Purcell, enlisted in Company C, Regiment, July, 1863. Hubbs, Daniel, Killed in battle of Gettysburg July 3, 1864. Hunt, Byron, enlisted in 111th Regiment, March, 104 HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.

Pentz, Thomas, enlisted in Company D, 50th Regiment, September 1, 1862. Little, Charles P., enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, December 21 On detached service. Discharged December, 1862. 1863. Mortally wounded at Petersburg. Payne, William, enlisted September 12, 1864. Van Horn, John A., enlisted in 15th Regiment, September 3, 1864. Discharged Polhamus, John. June 3, 1865. Roll, Jonathan S., enlisted in 50th Regiment September 3, 1864. Detailed McGee, James, enlisted in Company E, 160th Regiment, August 31, 1862. at Elmira. Discharged May 18, 1865. Died October 20, 1864. Rumsey, Harrison, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, July, 1862. Whiteman, Peter H, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, December Ross, Noah F., enlisted September 19, 1864. 1863. Died at Fortress Monroe, July 29, 1864. Raynolds, Theodore, enlisted February 14, 1865. Voorhies, Wisner, enlisted in Company I, 33d Regiment, August 31, 1862. Smith, George, Jr., enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, December 18, Killed at battle of the Wilderness. 1863. In battle of Cold Harbor. Wounded and sent to hospital. West, Irving A'., enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, December 19 Seeley, James Henry, enlisted in Company H, 148th Regiment, December 21, 1863. Killed at battle of Drury's Bluff, May 12, 1864. 1863. Discharged July 21, 1865. Reeder, Stephen S., enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 29 Swick, William H, enlisted in Company M, 3d Artillery, August 29, 1864. 1S62. Discharged June 23, 1865. Was at evacuation of Richmond.. Discharged July 12, 1865. Quinn, Michael, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 31, 1862. Simpson, John H, enlisted in Company K, 3d Artillery, September 1, 1864. Discharged April 3, 1865. Was at evacuation of Richmond. . Discharged July 18, 1865. Van Sickle, William, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 31 Scott, John Covert, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, July 29, 1862. 1862. Discharged April 3, 1865. Wounded at ' Gettysburg July 2, 1363. Discharged June 3, 1865. McNany, Philip, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 29, 1862. Scott, George B., enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, March 17, 1864. Discharged June 22, 1865.

at .Discharged Was Lee's surrender. . October 5, 1865. Van Horn, Cornelius, enlisted in Company H, 126th Regiment, December 18 Stewart, Wilmar, enlisted in Company C, 126thr Regiment, August 22, 1862. 1863. Discharged August 28, 1865. Wounded at Gettysburg July. 2, 1863, and. died August 27, 1863. Williams, Charles H., enlisted in 50th Regiment, September 4, 1864. Dis James enlisted Stull, Henry, in Company C, 126th Regiment, July 29, 1862. charged May 18, 1865. Wounded at 1863. Discharged June Gettysburg July 3, 14, 1865. Randolph, Harrison, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 1, 1862. Scott, Winfield (Captain), enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 19, Discharged June 15, 1865. 1862. Wounded at Spottsylvania. Discharged severely September 26, 1864. Quigley, David O., enlisted in Company M> 3d Artillery, September 3, 1864. Swick, Peter, enlisted in Company F, 148th Regiment, August 29, 1864. Discharged June 26, 1865. Discharged June 22, 1865. Substitute. Townsend. enlisted John H, in Company I, 94th Regiment, 27, Isaac January Stevens, Heminway, enlisted in the 9th New York Artillery, September 1864. Discharged July 28, 1865. 1864. Was at Lee's surrender. Discharged 1865. 3, July 6, Gibbs, Albert, enlisted in 94th August 1864. 148th* Company B, Regiment, 10, Simpson, Andrew H., enlisted in Regiment. Discharged June 28, 1865. Simpson, Darwin C, enlisted in 1863. Thomas, Elijah K, enlisted in Company H, 3d Artillery, September 3, 1864. Stewart, Jacob D:, enlisted in the 33d Regiment in September, 1862. Discharged in July, 1865. Smith,. John D., enlisted in September, 1 864. Van Sickle, John, enlisted in Company B, 3d Artillery, August 5, 1864. James enlisted Tlrarp, R., in Company K, 3d Artillery, September 3, 1864. Discharged July 13, 1865; Was at the evacuation of Richmond. Discharged June 15, 1865. Richard enlisted Treadwell,' Lockhart, C, in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 6, enlisted in - Bennett, Company E, 126th Regiment. Discharged 1862. Discharged May 17, 1865. June 1865. 3, Garrett, Thomas, enlisted in 50th August 1862. Company D, Regiment, .28, enlisted in 9th Toner, John, Artillery, August 31, 1864. Was at Lee's sur Discharged August 28, 1865. render. Discharged 8, 1865. July .in Covert, Madison, enlisted Company C, 126th Regiment, in July, 1862. enlisted September Thomas, James, 10, 1864. Discharged July 1, 1865. Thomas, William. J., enlisted in 75th Regiment, October 1861. Dis Van Tunis 26, Horn, S., enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, in July, 1862. charged November 25, 1864. Babcock, James P., enlisted September 11, 1864. Theodore enlisted in 148th Taylor, R., Company E, August 31 William enlisted Regiment, ' Webb, L., September 13, 1864. 1862. Discharged June 30, 1865. Petkin, John R. G,, enlisted January'9, 1865. Voorheis, William C, enlisted in 148th enlisted" Company E, Regiment, August 3, Kruce, Henry, February 14, 1865. 1862. . Discharged June 15, 1865. Brown, Nelson, enlisted in Company D, 3d Artillery, August 26, 1864. Dis Voorheis, Augustus C, enlisted in 148th Company E, Regiment, December charged July 5, 1865. 30, 1863. Discharged April 30, 1864. Brokaw, Isaac N., enlisted in Company H, 50th Regiment, December 10. John enlisted in 50th Voorheis, B., Company K, December 28 1861. Died at Regiment, ' Bottom Bridge, Virginia, June 17, 1862. 1863. Discharged June 13, 1865. Wyckoff, John E. S., enlisted in Company F, 75th Regiment, October: 26, Wilson, Irving B., enlisted in C, 126th Regiment/August Company 7, 1862. 1861. Discharged November 25, 1864. Discharged February 5, 1863. Osgood, William, enlisted in Company K, 94th Regiment, October. 10, 1861. Wilson, Abram, enlisted in 148th Company G, Regiment, December 22, 1863. Discharged March 31, 1865. Discharged November 5,1864. enlisted- Covert, Lyman, August 10, 1862. Taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry. Woods, Peter, enlisted in Company E,. 148th August 1862 Regiment, 29, Bartlett, Martin, enlisted in 1861. Discharged June 1865. April, 22, Austin Woods,' Bradley, S., enlisted in April; 1861. Arthur, enlisted in Company H, 148th December 1863. Regiment, 26, Vescelius, Alanson S., enlisted in. April, 1861. Discharged August 28, 1865. Vaughn, Darwin E., enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 5, McElroy, William, enlisted in 148th August 31 ; Company E, Regiment, ' 1862. 1862. Killed at Gettysburg. Discharged May 9, 1)865. Mulcohey, Lawrence,, enlisted, in the September and served on John enlisted in navy 1, 1864, Graves, J., 148th August a Vermont." ' Company E, Regiment, 22' 1862 the vessel Old Discharged June 1865. 22, Thirty-seven additional persons were accredited to Ovid, but it is impossible to Wilson, Almon H., enlisted in 126th August Company C, Regiment, 11' obtain their as their names, certificates were not left at the Provost .Marshal's 1862. . Discharged June 1865. 3, Office in this district, nor their names at the Paymaster-General's Office in enlisted August Eaton, Milo, 25, 1864. Albany. HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 105

PERSONAL SKETCHES.

THE WILSON FAMILY. the year 1789, and supported a fair and unspotted character; and was then, and, as far as our knowledge serves, is yet, free from publick scandal or church of Ralph Wilson and his wife left In the late winter, or early spring, 1732, censure. home in Ireland and emigrated to America. Just as their voyage was ended their " Thomas Stewart, had a son born to whom ^ the vessel reached the American shores, they them, and "Certified "James Wilson, [ Elders. made for themselves a home in by named David. The family soon Tinicum, they "David Wilson, J Pennsylvania. In after a residence in this new Bucks 1739, establishing 1792." County, " Tinicum Presbyterian from the Church, Jan'y 12th, land Ralph and his wife obtained a certificate of church-membership Presbyterian Church of Stow, dated April 30, 1739. The family continued to The privations and hardships endured all pioneers were encountered son of by by live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. About the year 1760, David, Ralph, Joseph Wilson and his neighbors. The produce raised in excess of home con were them one daughter married Ann Morrison. Four children bom to ; (Mary) sumption found no market nearer than what is now Elmira. In a few years, the a number of years the interests of married Andrew Dunlap. From this time for of Joseph Wilson about and the within him a great identical. family growing up him, having help the families of Wilson and Dunlap were, to extent, During self to it he erected a the products of which were mostly sold was in the service as teamster. Joseph carry on, distillery, the Revolutionary war, Andrew Dunlap in Philadelphia. it must be was at a time when it was uni then a was at times This, remembered, AVilson, son of David, at the time of the war, young lad, thought to have their glass of some kind of liquor before each of his uncle when versally necessary engaged as a helper in the blacksmith-shop Francis, and, and no one was considered social who did not out the bottle when subdue the assisted in meal, bring General Sullivan's army was sent out to Indians, shoeing called upon a friend. This state of things existed until the year 1830, when soldiers of Sullivan's by the horses used in that campaign. Upon the return of the the two great causes of temperance and religion stirred the minds and hearts of through to their gave such a glowing description of the country army homes, they saw and felt the the people all over the land. those who at this early day of Wilson and became much in Among which had passed that the families Dunlap they business of evils of intemperance was Joseph who at once gave up the for themselves. Wilson, terested, and determined to see some of the country Accordingly, and became a stanch teetotaler. He united with the Presbyterian Joseph Andrew Robin distilling in the spring of the year 1789, Wilson, Dunlap, Dunlap, Church April 3, 1830. His wife had joined the same church nearly five years William George Hugh Jimison, and William Roberts left their Dunlap, Dunlap, Joseph Wilson made the previous, viz., on the 16th of July, 1825. farming homes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and followed up the Delaware and Sus main business of his life. what is now Elmira. Here made their quehanna Rivers until they came to they He had little to do with politics, but for many years had largely to do quite between course to the head of Seneca Lake. prospected extensively They of and in all such matters his judgment with making the highways the town, around Seneca Lake the of what Seneca and Cayuga Lakes. They went by way was conclusive. He and his wife died amidst the comforts their own energy one white is now Geneva. At that time Geneva was inhabited by only person, had so created. His wife died December 12, 1846, aged seventy-four white settle largely was with the Indians. found no trace of who They any years. had trading years. Joseph Wilson died April aged eighty-five They then 14, 1849, ment between Geneva and Watkins on the west side of Seneca Lake. They a soldier in the war of twelve children. The oldest, David Wilson, who was east side of the followed the trail of General Sullivan's army on the lake, mainly is still living. The ninth child, Aaron Wilson, was born May 13, called. it 1812, until arrived in the of Lodi Landing, as it is now Here, they vicinity advantages were quite limited. In his younger. 1808. His early educational of a buttonwood seven men lodged in the hollow tree; when* is said, the comfortably arrived at his still years he worked on his father's farm, and he majority was done the party, and that, and it is also said, the first sucker-fishing by married Julia M. Ben here, lived with his father. At the age of twenty-five years he out the in a primitive into the creek and throwing too, very way, merely stepping New York. The marriage took place Decem nett, of Scipio, Cayuga County, the determined to and soon fish with their hands. In this vicinity party locate, have grown to ber 25, 1833. Ten children, seven sons and three daughters, up southwest corner of Lot No. in the after erected a cabin near the Military 8, marriage. of their log manhood and womanhood as the fruit of this Two sons, and for the town of cabin was joint and was the home Ovid. This property, soldiers the late war of the rebellion. were Almon H. and Irvin B., were in They settled near this or within a few protection of the whole party. all place, Twenty-sixth Regiment of New York They both members of the One Hundred and No. and Joseph Wilson the south half of miles. Andrew chose Lot 8, with great credit. Almon is now a Dunlap State Volunteers, and served their country and the date on a 1789. Lot and inscribed his initials beech-tree, May 12, also one of his married sisters. In the 17, resident of the State of Nebraska, as is cabin home. other members of located within a few miles of their The the party with the Baptist Church of Scott's and year 1840, Aaron Wilson united Corners, all the improvements possible, The remained the summer, making of said church ever and party during has been intimately connected with the interests since; the seed for which some of them the land and winter wheat, was contributed to clearing sowing when the Baptist church in Ovid Village erected, very largely River to obtain. The were obliged to go some distance down the Susquehanna joined the Baptist Church at the enterprise. . His wife, Julia M. Bennett, Scipio, returned to Bucks next winter all of the except Wm. Dunlap, County, and united with the Baptist Church party, Cayuga County, New York, in the year 1831, the the six returned for a new lot of supplies. In following spring, questions of morals and in the general good of Pennsylvania, at Scott's Corners in 1834. In improvement is the order of the day. to their chosen houses. ever been on the side of what was right and for the best Now, the neighborhood, he has years a number of Soon other settlers located near and in a few goodly pledged himself to the cause of tem them, interests of his neighbors. In early life he country. In sturdymen women settled in this beautiful and pledge. And at and had "healthy a life in accordance with his early now, perance, and has lived the town of Ovid. The a triple marriage took place, the first in with his wife and three of his children, are April, 1793, the age of nearly seventy years, he, Covert and Catharine parties were Joseph Wilson and Anna Abram A. from the wilderness his father and Wyckoff, on part of the farm reclaimed by family cross Seneca living Enoch Stewart and Jane Covert. were obliged to Covert, They since 1789. marriage cer Lake to find a justice of the peace to perform the ceremony. The of done great but Aaron Wilson and his wife do not boast having any thing, and is dated on the tificate of Joseph Wilson and Anna Wyckoff is preserved, their precept and example, to up have made it the best efforts of lives, by bring There is also a cer " another 30th of A.D. and signed James Parker. benefit society. And now say, Let day April, 1793, by their family to ornament and they is a : mouth." their life-work is tificate of Joseph Wilson's character preserved. The following copy thine own feel that man praise thee, and not They of this life not be spent in vain. and hope what is left to them may " in the bounds of this ended, This certifieth that the bearer, Joseph Wilson, was born nearly 1876. with whom he lived until the of Ovid, May 18, congregation, of sober, creditable parents, spring SENEOA FALLS.

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Prior to there was neither grist-mill nor store. From QmcK to note natural advantages, Elkanah Watson, on September 20, 1791, 1795, County history is and learned of the fine held the Bayard and of the in company with Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, General Philip Van Cortlandt, property by Company, latter's Stephen N. Bayard, Esq., had stemmed the rapid current of the narrow Seneca timely collapse. The first saw-mill was erected about 1794, and run to furnish which was begun Mr. River and reached the foot of Seneca Falls, marked the advantages of the site, materials for the first grist-mill, by Mynderse, agent ofthe and completed and in operation the next year. and prepared to organize, the Bayard Company, which so long, as noted in County company, in 1795, The company at another mill in history, held, in control the fine water-power and retarded the growth of the vil built on Lot 6, the lower rapids, 1807; both mills were Mills," lage. Watson records the presence. of land pioneers, rude and uncouth, but a painted red, and known as the upper and the lower "Red and Seneca Falls name of Mynderse Mills. the of the upper useful race, calculated to subdue the forest and pave the way for better civiliza took the During building mill, Myn the hill occupied tion. Of this class was Job Smith, who kept the carrying place at the Falls, had derse erected a double log house upon, by the dwelling in 1858 and made considerable improvements. Lawrence H. C. Silsby. Mynderse lived in one and kept the small primitive store a comfortable log house, : had. by end, Van Cleefs double log was built,in 1790, near Smith, and in the fall he brought of this place in the other. Mr. D. B. Lum has a map of the village, which was out his family. The first white child born here was Mrs. Jane Goodwin, daughter known in 1794 as Seneca Village, town of Washington, county of Cayuga, and of Falls. number of of Lawrence and Sally Van Cleef. She was born November 29, 1790, and lived embraced what is now the First Ward Seneca A lots had long a resident of the village. Van Cleef had six children, Polly, Jane, Martha, been sold in 1796. George, Harriet, and Sally. Polly, Martha, and Harriet are at this date still The first saw-mill was erected upon the site of the City Mills, now owned by Hundred," was of and living. In 1794, Van Cleef .learned that the "State's which he had J. T. Miller. That mill the inception local improvement, directly bought of fraudulent parties for five hundred dollars, was to be sold at Albany accessory to the buildings erected from materials by it prepared. Its successor by the State. With one thousand, eight hundred dollars in specie, and carrying stood upon the site of the post-office block, and was taken down in 1830 to give an axe to ward off suspicion, he traveled to Albany, and arrived to see the land place to the Old Stone Mill. In 1797 the advantages of roads, were acknowledged. bid from him by. Bayard & Co., for whom Colonel Mynderse was agent. It by their being laid out, and the attention of settlers called to their construction., brought two thousand eight hundred dollars. Van Cleef returning, opened a Elkanah Watson and party, in 1791, had followed a path westward to Scauyes;.

and* tavern in his double log house, and, as Smith soon went away, is known as Seneca six years later, what was likely a trail made by Indians, was superseded by Falls' compass. heretofore first settler.. About 1794, Van Cleef put up the first frame building ih the permanent routes laid out by aid of the unerring Settlers the place. It was located on Lot No. 9 of the village, and was eighteen feet penetrated the forest, guided by blazed trees, to numbered lot corners marked upon square and one and a half stories high. Later, two bedrooms were added, and, adjacent trees. Miles apart they were found, with log house in a clearing sur-. when owned by Deacon David Lum, a square room was added to the front. It rounded by charred stumps and girdled trees. In June of 1797, the road from was finally torn down to make place for a livery stable by Jacob Johnson, whose 'the Falls to Scauyes was laid out by Mynderse, and on the 14th of the same. heirs sold to the Norcotts, present owners of the lot. Van Cleef moved into his month a portion of the road to Geneva. Charges were entered, in sterling money, and Brown were frame house, and a Mr. Parkhurst and family, from Connecticut, occupied the log for the service against Charles Williamson. I. Livermore E. pound four shillings. house, and continued the business of tavern-keeping given up by Van Cleef. employed as chainmen two days, and received therefor one Previous to 1795, four or five families had settled in. Chance Methodist min The portage grew tp become abusiness of importance. The charge for carrying isters passed the night here, and a Dr. Holbrook made a brief visit. Dr. Pitney from one landing to another a mile's distance was six shillings for a load, and on hauled was at Seneca Falls in 1806, and boarded with Lewis Birdsall, a mile west of the the same for a boat. Later, the boats were larger, were carried trucks, at the Seneca village. The first.death among the settlers was that of Mrs. Smith, in 1793 ; the by several teams, and cost more. An account of boats passed 24,' gives a total of three hundred family , were at the time boarding with Van Cleef. The first settled minister Portage from March 13^ 1801, to June 1806, hundred and located at the village in 1808, and was a Presbyterian, by name John Stewart. and thirty-one boats, for which the portage was one thousand four ninety-two dollars and sixty-eight cents.

TAVERNS. school-house was Education attracted attention, and on June 15, 1801, a log In the year 1798 two taverns were built. The first of these, a frame, was constructed upon the bank of the mill-race, near where later stood the residence in the erected by Mr. Parkhurst, on the corner of Fall and Cayuga Streets, where now of Mrs. Dey, now owned by H. C. Silsby. The first teacher installed tenanted for a stands the Globe Hotel. This tavern, with additions, stood till 1862, when it completed building was Alexander Wilson. The school-house was was demolished to make room for the Globe. After Parkhurst, in keeping this few weeks in the fall of. 1803, by Peter Miller and family, pending the completion tavern.' of tavern, came the Widow Matthews, from Amsterdam, in 1801. Then James of his stand. Mynderse had kept a store in a block-house constructed present home of John A. Cotton, the builder of a part of the Genesee Turnpike ; after him Hugh McAl hewn logs, and which stood on the terrace near the lister, from 1814 to 1815. It was with McAllister that the Canadian Governor Rumsey. This block-house was taken down, removed and rebuilt about 1807, Cayuga and retinue passed a night at this time. Tp chain the various landlords down, upon the spot now owned and occupied by Jacob Shoemaker, on Street, after Mr. we name Simon Chapman, and then Lambert Van Alstyne, in 1817, Joseph and and used as a school and meeting-house up to 1817! Prior to 1815, and .Noah Morris in 1820, Theophilus Stout two years, Amasa Wright and Mr. Til Wilson, came Mr. St. John, Jonathan Metcalf, Benjamin and Anson Jones, of 1812 or lotson in 1827, Theodore Chopin in 1826, H. Goodwin in 1830, Daniel Watkins Lot Hamilton. Anson Jones arrived at the Falls on a Saturday 1813, and he did. in 1831, and his son Daniel in 1838. It was later kept by Bond, Ward, Mon and gave notice that he would open a school on Monday following, successful roe, and George Hewitt. During the same season, the second tavern was built He had been a lawyer in Vermont, and is remembered as a popular and seen by a man named Jacob.Pohlman on the present site of Chamberlain's new block, teacher, who taught several terms and disappeared. In 1840, his name was written to on Fall Street. It was kept by Deacon Peter Miller. Colonel Lambert Van in a paper by Dr. M. B. Bellows as Governor of Texas. A letter was Falls. The Aelstyrrkept it at a later day. Mr. Miller built the Red Tavern, at the foot of him, and duly acknowledged by the former schoolmaster at Seneca as a Mynderae Street, and kept public house till after 1830. Joseph Failing built the school was moved in 1817 into-a new building on the park,'and continued the present Clinton.House, on the corner of State and Fall Streets, in 1828, and ran it as a district school, under many different teachers, till the organization of reported to stage-house. . Brown and West,; sons-in-law, were his successors; then Dr. Mat 'educational district. During 1812, Jonathan Metcalf jocosely would halve interfered thews ; Thompson in 1S38, and Phelps in 1840. Jacob built the have taught school to obtain exemption from a draft, which Young Franklin, ' 1828." married. Lewis. on the corner of Bayard and Bridge Streets, in Ansel Bascom erected the with his paying court to Betsey Miller, whom he The Seneca, on Bayard and Ovid Streets, in 1829. It was kept as a stage-house in Bixby kept the Franklin Institute, on Bridge Street, in 1830. Academy Crittenden was its first 1S30 to 1831 by H. Goodwin, and as a temperance house in 1850 by Isaac Fuller. was built by a company of gentlemen in 1830, and C. 106 PILATE XI.

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Mechanic?' Hall. 22. Eesidence of George Kuuu. .Tannersnesiuence. 10. 1. Bridge, across Seneca Outlet. "" Peter Witham. Besidence of Gilbert Arnold. 16. Tavern, corner rail and Cayuga Streets. 23. 2. Mynderse's Old Residence. " " 10. " " Daniel Bellows. 17. Old log School-House. 24. Isaac Jones. 3. Old Bed Mill. (Mynderse's.) "" William 11. Van iElstyne's Tavern. 18! Presbyterian Church. 25. Bruce. i. Simon Chapman's Store. it " 19. Eesidence of Jabez Starks. 26. David Lum. 12. Alfred Arnold's Wagon-Shop.

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Principal. others were Professor Orrin Rev. Among Root, John M. Guion, and Gilbert C. of Walker, ex-Governor Virginia, and now a Bepresentative. TOWN SETTLEMENTS. The first Turnpike Bridge was commenced on October. 2, 1802, and was built Originally intending a record of outside the across the river where later the bridge crosses the foot of Fall Street. A settlements, earlier gathered village second about Mynderse's Mills claimed in and has bridge, known as the Ovid Street was built in 1810. In priority time, been seen struggle Bridge, 1827, a third for existence and making some in bridge was and referred to as the Upper advances, which, instances, have been tnrSd at constructed, Bridge. Handsome and length. Meanwhile the pioneer farmers now had been in the durable iron bridges connect the northern and southern parts of settling neighborhood, the village. and some trade had been Burial- inaugurated at Bridgeport and the An old Ground was given Van and when the Kingdom, to which by Cleef, company.acquired and other localities, we direct our attention. through their W. Our information is derived from D title, they, agent, Mynderse, donated the same spot for village B. Lum who came with his David from sepulture. site and are father, Lum, New and settled Its boundaries shown upon Geddes's of Jersey, fully map the on Lot on the 85, Spring Brook known as the made in 1815. Lewis Kniffen was buried here on Road, Mynderse farm. Lum village, 1802 and reached February 9, this place in after May, 1806, a of and J. Disbrow on August 1803. In this old lie journey thirty days, temporarily 26, cemetery buried the remains of occupied a log house near the head of pending* Mynderse, Van the Spring Brook, the erection of a Cleef, Lum, Mumford, Disbrows, Dorman, Smith, -Kniffen house and the of a well upon the farm. houses* and another. digging Prior to the Jacks, Cole, many For thirty years the resting-place ofthese pioneers 1810, only and their occupants in the Brook neighborhood were: on was and as was Spring the east of the regarded, finally, private property, sold at auction as a portion of road, beginning at Nichols's Joel the estate of the late Charles W. Corners, coming south, Scott, David Freeland Dey. John Pierson (Josiah Crane and Edward Compsen at the brook), and Russell Disbrow. On the west STOEES. were Timothy Morris at the brook, Ira Church, John Crowell, David and Mr. Willis. Lum, The Black Brook was first settled August Mynderse raised a locality On 20, 1803, store-house. It was occupied for Thaddeus by Russell, who lived on land now occupied Mr. Westbrook. storage and as a retail store till and by Van 1812, later, constituted the lower half of the I. Mill." Home, Gardner, Henry Theophilus Enoch Nor^ " Brink, Cross, Hayt, Cyrenus Old Red On the removal of the block-house in Mynderse had 1807, ns, and Solomon P. Culver were the goods' pioneers till 1816 and when a rush taken his to this and moved his to " 1817, store, family what he termed the old of population arrived, and settled on the of still," thickly banks the brook. These later which he converted into a and stylish roomy residence. It stood under the settlers were from New mostly Jersey, and are recalled in the names of William opposite the with side to the hill, nearly mill, street, and having a veranda along Fox, Aaron Jesse Easton, Morehouse, Benoni, John, and Luther Ward, the front. . What was then a fine garden are now the improved grounds of Darling Messrs. and Paulus John and James Beach, Russell, the Kings, and Messrs. Royston and and James H. Gould. Silsby, Rumsey, Following up the record of stores in the Taylor. Prior to this 1819, neighborhood reached the village at the falls through village, we find Abijah Mann located in 1814 where now is the firm of the Ridley & or around Deacon and woods, by Durand's along the Spring Brook Road; Story. built and kept a third in upon Lot Henry Kellogg, Esq., store, 1815, 11. then a road was cut through the timber and made from Russell's, south, to the clerked His brother Eli for him. The store was of and sided. pike. building plank, In The low ground was traversed upon a swamp corduroy of logs laid at right 1875 this together with was consumed fire. house, others, by A fourth store was angles to the line of road. On the State Road were Nicholas Thompson and erected on the site of Skidmore's Block Dean of by Mumford, brother Thomas east of Montgomery Freeland, Nichols's Corners; westward lived the Girald's of East Cayuga. was Mumford, Esq., Mumford polite, neat, and he five of the orderly ; family, Whites, and those of Bennett, Southwell, and Decker. At the showed goods called and replaced them before others. for, taking down His resi Kingdom lived a of prominent group citizens, among whom are enumerated John dence was on the site of the National Exchange Bank. He built the cottage on Knox, Pontius Hooper, Mr. Pixley, John Burton, Colonel Chamberlain, Lewis Bayard Street, corner of Washington. The next merchant was John who Stiles Isaacs, Birdsall, Stevens, and John B. Parkhurst. John Freeland and Nicholas opened out old store. in Kellogg's In 1823 or 1824 Abram and Samuel Payne Squires settled about 1802, where their children and grandchildren are still came and dealt in with in, merchandise, their Joseph as clerk. Their in the northeast part ofthe brother, ft, living, present town, where were the homes of Joseph first was where are store now Ridley & Story, but a house was erected, the same Dumont and Thomas Sessions. Going south, we cross the river bridge, and, pass now occupied Lewis and it stock of by Howell, into their goods was removed. the residence of Judge arrive at ing Lay, Bridgeport, or West Cayuga, which, till The Paynes were numerous and energetic one of named ; them, is was quite a village and business place. Here was a Henry Payne, 1815, store or two, a group now member of Congress from Ohio. Simon clerk and of a " tack" Cleveland, Chapman, taverns, toll-house, and a large bakery employed in making the hard partner to Mynderse, became his successor in the old first store. Chapman mar for the of 1812. with C. soldiery Here, Baldy, J. L. Larzelere, H. Moses, and ried Ann Matthews a is the wife of William of others of the ; daughter, Cornelia, Arnett, Chicago. tavern-keepers, the anniversaries of independence were enthusiasti removed He to Michigan about 1836 in with David and Joseph celebrated. The and company Durand, cally bridges, those connected therewith, are elsewhere noted. Jabez Moses and Badg- Lindsley, John, P., Ira Crowell, Hiram Gardner, and the West of Bridgeport, on the hill by the turnpike, lived Colonel Daniel Sayer, in leys. while four years earlier 1806, Nathaniel G. Potter had taken up a dwelling-place On the first May 13, 1806, fulling-mill, cloth-dressing, and wool-carding works on the east side of the Big Hollow. He was succeeded by Henry Moses, in the in this region was raised. mill was erected at of The the foot Fall Street, below same locality. . Moses settled later at the lake, and engaged in tavern-keeping, the old turnpike bridge, upon the locality of Hubbard's shop. A pair of card and now, at the age of ninety-three years, is living in Fayette with Peter Moses Restvale' ing-machines were put in and of son. a by Jacob Lewis Sherrill, New Hartford. Myn his Stephen Crane lived in log house which stood in what is now derse reserved the right to purchase the machines for nine hundred dollars at any Cemetery; his daughter, Polly, the first wife of Deming Boardman, was born time. he became and at a and Later, owner, leased the works, two hundred dollars there in 1798, there buried in 1870. In close proximity are the cradle and for three a year, years, to William Bruce, prominent man, and an early and suc the graved Jame3 Sylandt lived opposite Crane, and Dr. Reuben Long was a resi cessful keeper in the Auburn prison. In 1814, Harris Usher conducted the works, dent, in 1808,. of a spot near and somewhat west of the stone bridge. The King then Asael was was a point Fitch, who succeeded by Henry and Ebenezer Ingalls. Henry dom half-way between the village of Seneca Falls and Waterloo, where died in 1820, and his brother carried on the business, in company with Franklin settlers procured their store goods and bartered their produce, until about 1816. Long. W. J. Woodworth, from Tyre, in 1838 engaged in wool-carding, using Here Pontius Hooper kept tavern and welcomed the loungers from the adjacent .thebuilding of A. S. and C.*W. Dey. Woodworth disposed of his interest to localities. Lewis Birdsall was Postmaster for the old town of Junius, and kept. Smith & Son, by whom it was enlarged in 1848, andj known as a woolen-mill, the ofiice in his tavern, in the house, which refitted serves as the residence of became celebrated for the quality of its manufacture ; later, it was kept as a wool- James Lawrence, Esq. Opposite the mill of Colonel Chamberlain, in this noted William' carding-mill by Braman, till, in 1875, it gave place to the malt-house spot, stood a custom mill, built by Devereaux, and later known as Brickley's Mill. of James Dalrymple. An oil-mill was erected, about 1817, where now stand Ananias Jenks had also a wool-earding and cloth-dressiig-mill at that spot. The Ruinsey's Works. About 1815, Jenks Jenkins started a tan-yard, on ground now entire property fell into the hands of John Babcock, who utilized it for various- draw' " Works," covered by The Gould's and obtained a right to two inches of purposes, till the State, raising the dam at Seneca Falls, destroyed the water-power water paid proprietor fourteen thousand dollars from the canal, the only privilege sold till the dissolution of the company in and the damages. 1826. Asheries were "built ; one near the site of Latham & by Henry Kellogg BRIDGEPORT IN 1820. Osborne's planing-mill, the other where stands J. T. Miller's brick block; Few came from New to Bridgeport with frames were put up prior to 1816, at which date the number of every description, Abram Failing Homer, York, his father, Mechanics' year and the father took part including barns, was but twenty-seven. Hall was commenced in 1816, Joseph Failing, in the 1820, speedily in the lucra and business of a house of entertainment. finished in the year following. Its builder was Abijah Mann. The building tive and thriving keeping The following of Mr.- recollection of Mr. Abram Failing. The residents of the Presbyterian Society was completed in 1817, by Jabez Starks and is derived from the Bridge Hovey. port, and on the lake road south of the town-line of Fayette, and north to what 108 HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.

were as fol the office of and in a the store of Dean was called the Lower Bridge or State Road, at the time in. question, another, Stevens, third, Mumford. A considerable 'business tenant house stood on the site of the and down the bank was Hall lows : There were in all six taverns kept, and all were doing ; post-office, & a stand in the house Center's saw-mill. Beyond the Grove House was a just east their respective landlords were: Warren W: Chase, who kept frame, standing of yet Theodore Judge the gas-works. Farther west was the place of Wells. The first house east since owned by Robert Gott; Hemy Moses, living; Chapin; Shipley just north of the toll-house. was the tavern of Peter which stood in the mouth of Mynderse and Larzelere, and General Baldy, whose house stood, Miller, Street, sidewalk. calls regular travel than could whose well is now covered the On the Savings Bank corner lived Many a night these taverns had more from they by who 1833 was Amos in its rear was his cabinet-shop. Next came the place of accommodate. A list of other Residents gives us A. A. Baldwin, in Halsey ; Dr. M. and Thomas De- B. who became a. resident in married Maria was a Under-Sheriff and Jailer at Waterloo, E. Thompson, Michael ft Bellows, 1812, Finn, skillful laney, John Metzger, George Giddi'ngs, William Anderson, Moses Goodrich, Cap physician, and died in 1853. James Bellows, his son, succeeded to his practice,

and was appointed surgeon in the army. . tain Russell Pratt, Colonel John Harris, Mrs. Oliver, Robert Scott, Jonathan was a well-read doctor, twice Next, east, Beadle, Alexander Wilson, James Bennett, William Henderson, whose widow is we see the houses of Mrs. Lum, Franklin Long, and, on the present site of the road north lived National Exchange the place of Dean Mumford. Beyond was the tavern still a resident, Russell Griffin, and William P. Travis. On.the Bank, of and on Hoskins's corner lived Samuel Bradley. William Willis, John Demont, and his brothers Abram and Joseph, and Josiah Theodore Chapin, Three fam ilies lived in the house of Lambert Van Aelstyh were those of Crane. South of Bridgeport there, lived Cornelius Peterson, Jerry Burroughs, ; they Royal and Stephen and in the house Peter Bockoven, where his son George now lives, and William Larzelere, on the Brown, Ira Crowell, Burrett, adjoining lived Lewis. Then we reach the residence of Colonel fifty- land now held and occupied by his son Jacob. -We pass to a log house inhabited Edward Mynderse, where, stands the fine mansion of H. C. Silsby. That by a man named Stiles, then on to the brick house built by Henry Hunter as his three years later, Mynderse resi Sisson.' ' and on December home, and at present occupied by Philip His brother Thomas lived upon dence was sold to Anthony Dey, 18, 1830, burnt down, the their escape. We find but one the farm on the hill, where George Powis subsequently passed his life. The next family barely making church, the Presbyterian, and last house was owned and dwelt, in by Mr..Facer. Passing along the turn although other denominations enjoyed services, sometimes in this church, at other school-house. A. G. the lived in pike, no house was reached till one came to the brow of the hill ; there there was times in the Rev. Orton, pastor, the house to be one on each side of the road ; one occupant was Abner Brown, the other is un later occupied by R. E. Gay. The Paynes had not yet come to occupy Lake's gro Benjamin made known. West was Thomas McCurdy's, where one could find refreshment and cery and build the Howell Mill. Bates, the cooper, barrels for the rest, for he too was a tavern-keeper. Bridgeport was visited by a menagerie in mills. On the site of Gould's works was Willard's tannery. In 1828 a Pres 1822, the proprietors selecting this point in preference to either Seneca Falls or byterian parsonage was built on the corner of State and North Park Streets, and Waterloo, and the resulting large attendance proved the shrewdness of their choice. later, improvements thickened. Steamboat navigation was opened on July. 4, 1821 or 1822, between Bridgeport The Seneca Lock Navigation Company was incorporated in 1813, and completed " Enterprise," and Ithaca. The commanded by Oliver Phelps, carried passengers their improvements for river navigation in 1816. The company had the use of and towed boats to and from those places. The citizens had reason to feel gratified their work for eleven years. The masonry was done by Benjamin Sayre. In when, at the same time, a line of stages began to run from Bridgeport to Buffalo, 1827 the State assumed control. Andrew P. Tillman, contractor for the new which connected by boat to Ithaca, and thence by stage to Newburgh, on the locks, was a large dealer in leather manufacture in Seneca Falls, and at Geneva. Hudson. The canal was and the packets from to Buffalo at the home of Mrs. Caroline his in this village. In . finished, Schenectady, He.died Laird, daughter, monopolized, conveyance and- caused other route to be abandoned. A daily 1825, Messrs. Abram and Samuel Payne erected the flouringrmill, afterwards stage run by Sherwood often went empty. Packets ran in 1822 from Utica to known as the Clinton Mill, and recently burned. This mill was the first improve Montezuma, whence travelers came to Bridgeport in row-boat or stage, whence ment on what is called the upper level. Through the efforts of L. F. Stevens

. they went by steamboat or stage. Cayuga .Bridgewas a source of wealth. Asa and G. V. Sackett, a bill was enacted by the State Legislature authorizing the Sprague, a toll-gatherer, afterwards became superintendent of the Syracuse and Paynes to tap the level, hence the tail-race from Latham & Osborn's lumber Rochester Railroad, and later a bank president at Rochester. Provisions were yard to the City Mill. The use of this water-privilege was an auspicious event, cheap, wheat, two shillings sixpence per bushel ; beef and pork, five cents per which gave fresh impetus to business and excited high hope of future prosperity. pound ; butter, six cents ; eggs, three cents per dozen ; potatoes and oats, fifteen The mill was a fine structure, supplied with four run of stone. Then followed cents per bushel, and peaches and apples for the picking. In 1821, David Beach the building ofa saw-mill, by Judge Stevens ; a cloth-dressing-, fulling-, and'earding- built where Whitlock lives, and began to clear off the timber, for the tract had mill, by Watson & Terrell ; a custom-mill, by William Smith ; a saw-mill, by never been cultivated. Within a few years Elam Beach bought land which ad a and Isaac and a furnace and Hiram Larzelere ; distillery oil-mill, by Smith, , joined David's on the west, built upon, and commenced its improvement. Alex machine-shop, ^by George H. McClarey. In 1826, J. M. Coleman commenced ander Wallace bought the tract now comprising the farm of Harvey Benham, and the first brick building on the north side of the river,, occupied by him, in 1859, began clearing it up. A large farm-house erected by has been replaced by a as a residence and harness-shop. In 1827, Judge Sackett, Ansel Bascom, and brick. Here lived Elisha Morgan, father of John, a former Postmaster. In 1828, Andrew P. Tillman made a large purchase of land on the south side of the river, Stephen Stow became a resident, and lived upon the farm now the property of and divided it into lots. From that date till 1832 the south side grew rapidly. William G. Wayne. The months of August and September were marked by the The first house was built by Hiram Larzelere, on the west side of Bridge Street, Episcopal prevalence of fevers. Ague was common in spring ; at other times the locality in 1827. In 1829, Wetmore built a house, the second east from the Cayuga.. and Bayard was healthy. The first physician was Dr. Whitney, who resided at East church, G..V. Sackett put up a brick block on the corner of Bridge Dr. Silas Keeler took up his residence at Bridgeport in 1823. He finally moved Streets, Jacob Young built the Franklin House, Dr. Gay, the house on the corner Edwin to Seneca Falls, practiced for many years, and died in 1867. of Bayard and Centre, and other houses went up, built by Thomas Sullivan, Cook, Elijah Loper, and Chauncy Marshall. In 1829, the Baptist church was SENECA FALLS IN 1823. followed. built by Henry Marcellus, and other improvements accompanied and " In 1813, H. G. Spafford reports Seneca Village, at the Falls of the- Seneca Incidental and initial events connected with the rise and growth of the place and a detail .of River, is fast improving, and must become, brisk trading-place as the country are numerous, and illustrated by type of each, rather than a all, houses." populates. Here is a carrying-place, and Mynderse's Mills, with fifteen require a retrogression in time. Attention was early attracted to boat-building "Adeline Ten years elapse, and we traverse the streets of the village and note the villagers, from the necessary portage here, and later locks, hence, in 1814, the Falls," Both. their home's and business. There, was no frame on the south, side of the river was built. She was followed by the "Miller, of Seneca in 1816. could- in that be seen from the north side. There were there but a few log houses boats were in use in 1821 on the Erie Canal. Mr. Haskell, of Geneva, 1823, house" Colonel' "Merchant." Asa and a single framed on a farm bought by. Ebenezer Ingalls from built the first canal-boat here on the flat, and named her the I* Osborn's coal- Mynderse. aAt the lower end of Fall Street, Ingalls & Long were running a Starkweather, in 1838, located, a boat-yard on the site of Latham & wool-carding and cloth-dressing establishment. Next,west, was the flouring-mill yard. Many hands were employed and direct village growth gained. Thomas. built boats Of Mynderse, occupied in part by Simon Chapman, as a store. In the east front H.*Kerr and Erastus Partridge succeeded Starkweather in 1841, and room was the post-office,.kept by Mynderse. Passing on, we see an ashery, the for several years, when the business fell into the hands of Mr. Miner, and finally at residences of S. of and of present was first made Chapman, Ebenezer Ingalls, Noah -Morris, the of Joshua Martin, who built the last boat at that yard. Brick site of the National Bank. On the corner of Fall.and Ovid Streets was Samuel the village where stands the new Wesleyan church. hori Bradley^ blacksmith. West, was the wagon.-shap of Alfred Arnold, the: shoe- In 1822, one Calhoun built a patent threshing-machine. It consisted of a Mechanics' and of and a shop home David Crowell, and Lake's grocery. . Then came zontal wooden shaft, with straight flails each five feet in length, bearing flails down Hall, of which we have spoken. Here were living Henry McKrum and Luther resemblance to a coarse comb. The shaft was arranged to bring the F. Stevens, Esq. In one room was the tailoring shop of Benjamin Kirkland, in upon the grain upon the floor. The first attempt at castings was made by John,; PILATE XL I

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HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK. 109

''-> Writing- at the old of John on the Twenty-seven printing-presses were supplied with their paper in 1S3_ _. son of Peter Miller, blacksmith-shop Shriner, standing 0 now occupied James on Fall and wrapping-paper was sold with a lot next west of the house by Mrs. Sanderson, Street. by Joseph L. Beebe, who, traveling team, gave

specimens and then abandoned effort. paper and received rags. .Jonathanand He made a few rude the Sackett Beebe bought the property, and Theophilus Stout, Henry M. Crum, and Reuben Compton, as individual part gave their attention almost exclusively to straw wrapping-paper. Beebe sold to occupied No. 2 Mechanic's where his in whose hands the mill was when burned the great fire of 1853. ners in hat-making during 1817, Hall, Lathrop partner, by hands were at the expiration of three A was established Dix in on the site of Cowing's now has his store. Ten employed, and, sash-factory by & Dunning 1828, McCrum took the business was succeeded Clark &-Rogers. D. B. Lum works. The same was conducted Wade & then Partridge & years, ; by by Bristol, by Shaw, and Crandall Kenyon and is a whose employees was Jephtha now a millionaire. was a hatter from 1827 to 1842, from 1833, now among Wade, Cleveland, Ohio, as of Powell business man of the village. Winchester R. Powell and Walter Jones next succeeded, the firm &

and Powell assumed and still continues the business. In the year 1828, Dr. Moses C. Deming came here, kept the first drug-store Jones. Jones dying iu 1845, was at the time. Drs. H. P. in did a large sash and blind business. His establishment ever opened in the place. Dr. Farnsworth here Edward Westcott, 1847, prac was built Sackett in 1830. The cotton manufacture had Bayard and Daniel W. Foreman, formerly lawyers, introduced homoeopathic in the cotton-factory by "old-school" from 1831 to purchased tice in 1841. Dr. H. H. Heath has been here since 1838; an man, been carried on by Hezekiah Kelly 1844, Kelly having homoeopathic system with and others. of after 1844 the work and Westcott converted it to the business but adopting the Childs, Dayton, Williams, Sackett; ceased, saddle- a in 1832 clocks Jedediah Coleman, and harness-maker, lived at the lake in 1821 ; came named above. Marshall & Adams built clock-factory ; many employed as agents in their sale. here in 1826, and built the first brick house in the place. John P. Fairchilds, in were made, and large numbers of persons were Marshall died in and the result was a discontinuance of the business. 1828, was the pioneer jeweler, and kept the first stock in that line. William 1837, moved to the in with Garratt was in the same trade from 1835 to 1840. General Senter M. Giddings In 1830, George H. McClary village, and, partnership as about stood on comer of Ovid erected a and and carried on business the kept the first grocery in the place, 1826. It the Halliday, machine-shop furnace, clerked or 1828. firm of & until Seymour bought Halliday's interest. and Fall Streets. Hon. George B. Daniels for him in 1827 McClary Halliday, Henry mill- still occupies loca then commenced and Charles L. Hoskins establishing himself here in 1828, the first They manufacturing plows, threshing-machines, doing with times and work. This was the first and furnace built in the place. Business tion, upon which he has thrice built to keep pace the business machine-shop and with it oldest merchant the County. Bement and was successful in a flood swept the building, growth. He is probably the in Jeremy till, June, 1836, away and Abram soon re two George Stolaker and a Mr. Phaette. In Abram Buckhout, in 1829, built a carriage-shop on Bayard Street, but men, 1837, McClary Payne erected their stone while the Gays Johu S. and James built moved to the comer of Ovid and Green, where they did a heavy business, employ building, of which increased Stow's their shops the east portion for an oil-mill. In 1851 the Island Works were erected, ing much capital and many men. The firm by losing Birdsall we have spoken. This well known as the pump-factory. The transfer we have written elsewhere. Of Holly party, by fire; built the stone shop later and in belongs foreman of the letters patent for his celebrated pump engine, of goods and property gives rise to drayage, and to Andy Gray, 1830, works, receiving a steam fire-engine is with a Canadian begins a reputation now world-wide. In 1856 constructed, the honor of running the first cart in the place, beginning pony safeguard of life and the first of the now in cities, the and a French box-cart. many standing leading Abel Downs began the manufacture of pumps, now grown so In August, 1829, 0. B. Clark issued the first number of the Seneca Falls property. In 1840, Washburn the inventor and newspaper in the vast a business at this point. In 1840, Race, Journal, himself editor and proprietor. This, the first village, united with Seneca Falls business men to Clark sold to patentee of his famous stove-regulator, was continued as an anti-Masonic sheet. In the winter of 1831, winter of Downs & Co. built new works, paper. Then followed the on his business. In the 1353-4, W. N. Brown, and a Mr. Catlin took charge of the carry upon pumps. A year later are asso in 1839 and employed full two hundred men they Seneca Farmer, from Waterloo, in 1832 ; the Seneca Falls Democrat, ; sash and blinds. Next a estab and the ciated with H. P. Westcott in making knitting the Seneca FalU Register, in 1835 ; the Seneca County Courier, in 1837, to'knit eighty-four thousand lishment is and a contract taken in 1859 Seneca Falls Reveille, in January, 1855,the last two. being leading and pros opened, of the in of stockings for the United States army. A. J. Goffe, Cohoes, experienced journalists. pairs perous papers, under conduct of able and employed as superintendent. ventor of a patent knitting-machine, is thousands of dollars are destroyed in the conflagra THE OLD MILLS AND EARLY MANUFACTURES. Fires break out, and many ofthe the and build James which sweep a.way the manufactures Cowings, Goulds, The low,er Red Mill was built in 1807. The mason-work was done by tions, cleared and fine ings like the Mynderse Block; but the debris is promptly away, The millwrights were Richard James and George Piatt. Grooves, Suylandt, with generous rains. A fire sweeps over and Noah structures rise upon their Chicago, and the millers were Miles Washburn, D. Wood, Morris, Yost, among subscribed to extend a hand: To hearts a car is loaded and thousands helping Moses Elijah and Dorsheimer, father of our present Witham, Adams, Philip churches subscribe gener railroad bond to erect fine they assets obtain a they heavily; Lieutenant-Governor. At the dissolution of the company, in 1826, their and a walk the avenues save the Union enlist companies, along of Nicholas ; to they by were divided. The old Red Mill and surroundings fell to the heirs ously regard the departed. of Restvale reveals the sacred for the lower Red Mill and connected therewith to the Bayards, Goveneur, property Industries.Additional to the representation ofthe village in its of the Gov- Seneca Falls aud the and sundries to Colonel Mynderse. One bonds, mortgages, its and its handsome manufactures are its its gas-works, yeast-factory, in the village blocks, President James lived mill" whose wife was daughter to Monroe, " of State eneurs, years the old stone at the head private residences. For upon the present site of forty a brief the house which stood Henry are period, occupying of Seneca Falls. Its foundations was a and an institution who ran- the old Street landmark, Seymour's dwelling. The Goveneurs gave place to the Ogdens, m Albert Jewett purchased the property, and of solid stone masonry. In 1865, old mill Company," mill for and returned to New York City. The property of years, finally of the "Phoenix Mill it became a portion of the property and and con 1867 then passed to and his brothers Charles W. Samuel, roof came Anthony Dey All at once demolition began ; the which Mr. Jewett was President, administrators of Charles W. in 1850, tinued in the till sold the Dey, and the foundations were by off* level of Fall family the stonewalls came down to the Street, and others bought the to Jacob P. at which time Silsby, Race, dimensions one hundred Chamberlain, to the line of the street, making the by Mill brought forward less than three thousand dollars. The lower Red property finest bnck blocks island, paying this foundation went one of the one hundred feet. Upon up of the village from passed to William and Samuel J. Bayard, who were residents front the block is two-stoned, with a Western New York. On the Fall Street fell to in 1830 to 1845. Owned the Messrs. Towar for a time, it Chamberlain, feet above the roof, by and in the centre is an imposing tower, forty Edward mansard roof, who George B. and Mynderse, of the finest in the sold to Messrs. John Shoemaker, Daniels, Fasoldt's astronomical clocks, one which is placed one of then owned in who converted it into a distillery. It was burned in 1.862, being by town. Its illuminated dial ,s a from almost all parts of the country, and visible site to its present owner, e- George B. Daniels and A. M. Van who sold the pedestrian. In 1871 a fi Cleef, and a landmark to the evening conspicuous object, <<- s John P. Cowing. floor of this known as Jewett was conducted on a lower block, manufactures'potash xnanufactoiy shipment were flour Kellogg, the second floor were The first for by Mynderse, by " as Wilkinson & Co. On Block the firm being known Smith built a brick ice-cut- and later Sackett. In 1827, Isaac and patent whisky by Mynderse, by & Wentworth, manufacturers of water-drawers, pumps, business for the time. At the King manufac on the upper and did a heavy was Carr's wood-working estabhshment, distillery level, tin- snow-shovels. There, too, as the Great West build- on a which was known In the east end of the dom, N. P. Lee earned large distillery turing' blinds, and doors. Mar scroll-work, brackets, sash, and paper-mill was in Chauncy portion of the me first ern, was burned in 1846. A built, 1827, by and the western basement, in* is the Courier office, in Forman was associated with ReverOe. on ground occupied Cowing's works. D. W. is the printing-office of the shall, by the counterpart of the Courier, was inrooms or when the fimi post-office. The as firm of Marshall & Forman, for a year two, east is the Seneca Falls Marshall, West is the American Express office; taken Charles from changed to Forman the place of Marshall by from John Postmaster D. W. & being office of Mynderse Morgan, Co., changes from the along up sixteen 1845 to L. Hoskins and William H. King. The mills ran constantly, employing 1841 to Josiah T. Miller, 1849; 1^8 to 1841; Isaac Fuller, 1843; and printing-paper. hands, and making all grades of writing-, straw-, wrapping-, 110 HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.

under till President of the new corporation. A new charter passed then D. C. Bloomer, under Taylor, till 1853 ; J. T.. Miller, Buchanan, the Legislature on April till Simeon till when General John B. and was adopted the village. The amended charter 1860 ; Isaac Fuller, 1868 ; Holton, 1871, 24, 1837, by provided for a present are three Trustees for each of a Murrey, the present Postmaster, was appointed 'to the office, striking President, the two wards, Police Constable, and two post-office the finest in the Street the other officers appointed illustrations of progressive spirit. The new is probably Commissioners, being by the Trustees. At the walnut and with plate-glass box first election held under the new on the fourth State, and is elaborately finished in black oak, charter, Monday in May, John L. money-order the other Bigelow was elected received fronts, arched at the top. One entrance leads to the office, President, having two hundred and thirteen votes of and against one hundred and ninety-nine for Sheldon to the lock-boxes. Wellnigh two thousand boxes, made black walnut, Wood. David B. Lum was elected Police Constable. The of the tastefully numbered with white metal figures, were furnished by Hoi-ace W. Trustees First Ward were Ebenezer Ingalls and Asa of Knight. In addition to these boxes, there are seventy lock-drawers, and a hun Whiting Race, Starkweather ; the Second Ward, Jeremy Bement dred boxes, furnished with Yale's patent lock. Carlton W. Seely, and Franklin B. Latham ; Isaac Smith, Assessor, and George The Gas Company's Works are located between Fall Street and the river, in B. Daniels, Street Commissioner, in First Ward ; and Gary V. Sackett, Assessor old twenty-eight thirty-two Theodore Chapin,. for Second Ward. At a the Second Ward. An addition to the works, by feet, Commissioner, tax meeting held at a' ;{ Hall" was built of brick in the fall of 1871. Amidst the machinery is condenser, Washington on May 30, 1837, seven hundred dollars were voted to be

water-tight raised tax for village expenses. was nieetino* consisting ofa nest of twenty-four pipes, inclosed in an immense iron by F. B. Latham President of the contains and J. T. Clerk. resolution of the of " casket, and four large purifiers. A retort-house near the river four Miller, By Board Trustees, Messrs. Purdy, Co." benches of five retorts each, and the company are able to manufacture and supply Welch, Macomber & were licensed, for forty dollars, to exhibit their "menage

serpents" their customers full one hundred and twenty-five thousand feet of gas per day. erie of living ammals and exhibition of paintings and in this village, on At a of " The company have a.coal-house on the dock with a capacity for a thousand tons, June 22, 1837. meeting the Board, held July 12, 1837, it was Resolved,. with a device for unloading from vessels, consisting of two tracks traversed by that a fire company, to Engine No. 2, be organized, and that such company consist ;" " trucks, which convey the coal when elevated from the vessel to any part of the of forty able and respectable men and, Resolved, that William H. Arnett be foreman." building. The company have full fifteen miles of main pipe in the ground, be and he is hereby appointed Ordinances and by-laws were adopted for sides an endless length of service pipe. The holder at Waterloo has a capacity the preservation of health and peace, which were published in the Seneca FaUs and one at works at twenty- K. Brown Co. In of thirty-five thousand feet, the the Seneca Falls Register, by J. & July, 1837, George H. MeClury was ap five thousand feet. Fifteen hundred tons of Beaver coal, from beyond Erie, Penn pointed Chief Engineer of the Fire Department ; Edward S. Latham and George sylvania, are brought by canal from Buffalo for the works annually. B. Daniels, Assistant Engineers. In August, Stephen S. Viele was appointed The National Yeast Company's Works are an extensive industry of the village. village Prosecuting Attorney. At the charter election in 1838, General SenterM. The company was organized. in July, 1870, Henry Seymour being the projector, Giddings was elected President, Six hundred and seventy-five dollars were voted and commenced the manufacture of yeast-cakes in the wooden building in the to be raised at the 1838 tax meeting two hundred and seventy-five of which rear of Daniel's Hall. In December, Harrison Chamberlain and Henry T. Noyes were for the improvement of the two bridges which cross the river. The ordinances became members of the company. In January, 1 871, they moved into their brick were published in the Seneca Falls Courier. At a special-tax meeting, by a vote factory on Fall Street, which was in dimensions sixty-five by thirty-two feet and of nineteen to eight, it was determined to raise fifteen hundred dollars, in the of five stories high. . Late in the fall 1871 a front extension was erected, which First Ward, to grade Fall Street; which sum was reduced to eight hundred. In is fifty-eight by thirty-six feet, five-storied, with a mansard roof and a tower. 1839, Sheldon Wood was chosen President, During this year great improvements. In a journey through the manufactory, one enters the engine- aud boiler-room, were made in streets and sidewalks, and nearly fourteen hundred dollars expended where is the hop-vat and the mash-tub. Thence into the rolling-room, whence therefor by the Trustees. M, B. Bellows was elected President, in 1840, over John the yeast is brought after 'a sojourn in the fermenting tubs. Here lying in L. Bigelow, by a majority of twenty-eight votes. Stringent measures were adopted troughs, it is thoroughly mixed with the meal to the proper consistency. It is by the Board of Trustees during this year to restrain the sale of intoxicating then placed upon metal rolling-tables and thoroughly rolled to the desired thick liquors. In 1841, Edward S. Latham was President. The culvert across the " House" ness under the pressure of eighty-five-pound metal rollers. Skill aud strength are ravine west of the Seneca was constructed, the stone-work being done requisite in the employees of this room. When properly rolled, the sheet is cut under superintendence of Elisha J. Davis. Whiting Race was elected President in squares, and elevated by car-loads to the drying-rooms above. Thence down in 1842. A new fire company was organized, and a large number of the most ward to the packing-room, wrapped, packed, and ready for shipping. In 1871, prominent citizens were elected firemen. Reservoirs on Cayuga and State Streets, with restricted quarters, fifty tons of meal were used in a month, and five thou at their junction with Fall, were constructed. William Amett was elected Presi sand boxes, containing over one hundred and fifty thousand packages of a dozen dent in 1843, and Matthias B. Bellows filled the same office in 1844. During

cakes each, were filled during the same time. .With increased facilities have come this year the.first steps were taken towards macadamizing the village streets. In greater manufacture and an ever-ready demand for a staple article. 1845, Elisha Foote, Jr., was President, and John Maynard in 1846, during Prominent citizens are. numerous ; a few are mentioned here. There was John year the new bridge on Ovid Street was commenced. J. K. Brown was elected a distinguished lawyer and member of John S. Maynard, Congress from this district in President in 1847 ; Whiting Race, in 1848 ; Silas Keeler, in 1849 ; 1841. William A. Sackett was a member of elected Ebenezer Congress, in 184.8, and Jacob Clark, in 1850 ; Edward Mynderse, in 1851 ; S. D. Tillman, in 1852 ;. P. Chamberlain was a third from served E. here; he in 1861. Henry B. Stanton Iugallsj in 1853.; C. W. Seely, in 1854 ; Martin L. Bellows, in 1855 ; F. was elected to the State Senate from this 1858 and Twenty-fifth District in 1851, and served Thomas, in 1856 ; John P. Cowing, in 1857 ; Jacob Shoemaker, in ; one term. He ran again against J. B. although a charter passed the Legislature. The Williams, and, defeated, held tho William Arnett, in 1859. . In 1860 new seat most of the session before the latter obtained The term the contested right. At Seneca village was divided into, four wards, each ward having two Trustees. Falls lived Mrs. from" Davis Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1848 to 1861, and here began her of President and Clerk was made to continue two years, aud Dr. G. W. work of reform public and 1862-63 William by speaking independence in dress. She was a co was elected to serve during 1860-61 ; Le Roy C. Partridge, ; worker with Mrs. Amelia a resident occurred 1865. Bloomer, from 1839 till 1854, the editress Beay, two terms, 1864-67. A complete revision ofthe charter in ladies' of the a paper published in of Pryce W. Lily, the interest temperance and dress Hiram Bent was President from 1868-69 ; G. B. Daniels, 1870-71 ; reform. Dexter C. husband of Amelia to serve 1876-77. Bloomer, Bloomer, came to the village Bailey, 1872-73 ; Henry Stowell, 1874-75 ; and D. E. Partridge

about 1834 taught and Department. .datesfrom ; school studied law. He became in turn a lawyer, an Seneca Falls Fire The organization of a fire company and a Postmaster. Josiah No. 2 O. S. editor, T. Miller came here a boy in 1833, studied law July 12, 1837, when William H. Amett was Foreman to Engine ;

with John and .WilliamE. Morgan, was made editor of the first Democratic paper published Latham, First Assistant; Nathan S. Congdon, Second Assistant ; Charles' in the place. of express firemen were J. B. G. Henry Wells, company notoriety, was a Seneca Falls Starr, Secretary ; and L. Hoskins, Treasurer. The H. hoy, and son of Rev. Shipley Wells, who was a resident from 1814 to 1825. Downs, J. W. Dickerson, W.-R. Goetchius, J. T. Andrus, W. A. Sackett, Harriet sister of S.'Latham Wells, Henry, became a missionary in foreign lands. Her hus Hayden, and E. M. Conklin. George H. McClay, Chief Engineer, E. band died at mission was organ the ; she returning, is now known as Mrs. Dr. Hale, of St. and G. B. Daniels, Assistant Engineers. In 1842, Fire Company No. 3 Frances a and a Louis, Mo.; Willard, Seneca Falls girl, became a foreign missionary, ized. William Arnett, Foreman ; G. II. Chase, Second Assistant ; company G. and died at .postof Russel her duty; and Mary 'Dix, prominent in the society of 1830, of twenty-three of the leading citizens formed, among whom were became the wife of a Were" and missionary, who, with Messrs. Whitman andSpaulding, Noyes, Washburn Race, F. V. Chamberlain, D. R. Gould, Edward Mynderse, steamers the first to make the perilous journey: oyerland to the Columbia River. G. A. Van Cleef. The Fire Department as now organized consists of two Incorporation the ViUage. Assistant is of Ori the 22d of April, 1831, "An Act to incor and one hand-engine. The Chief Engineer is Moses Rumsey; his ' porate the village of Seneca," The name of Seneca Falls, in the County of was passed by the Bichard Ridley. No. 1 Steamer Company is paid by the village. Partridge." and on the first " engineer Edwin Medden i Legislature, Monday in May following Ansel Bascom was chosen their steamer is the Le Roy C. The is PILATE XLtll