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In 1803 Rev. Aaron Kinne, a graduate of Yale College in 1765. took up his residence in Egremont, and two years afterward moved to Al- ford, in both of which places he preached occasionally for some years. Through his efforts the Egremont church, which had become extinct, was reorganized in 1816, with fourteen members. Of the first church, Jacob Karner, Lucy Karner, his wife, Widow Mary Daley, and John Root were living, but through the infirmities of age were unable to become members of the new organization. Deacon Stephen Karner, who was baptized in infancy, now united with the church, thus forming a visible link between the first and second organizations. No pastor was settled until November 20th, 1820, when Rev. Gardner Hayden was installed. He was dismissed October 26th, 1831. His successors have been : Rev. Saul Clark, June 5th. 1834, to October 31st, 1839 ; Rev. John Goddard, installed March 11th. 18441, died November 4th, 1811: Rev. John G. Hall, October 18th, 1842, to April 2d, 1850; Rev. Elias Clark, January 6th, 1851, to April 20th, 1854; Rev. James B. Cleaveland, July 12th, 1855, to May 20th, 1862: Rev. Timothy A. Hayden, May 2d, 1865, to May 10th, 1869 ; Rev. Horace S. Shapleigh, December 8th. 1863. to July 11th, 1871 ; Rev. N. S. Dickinson, October 18th, 1872, died March 28th, 1876; Rev. Allen F. De Camp, February, 1877, to May 1st, 1SS3 ; Rev. Parris T. Farwell, installed October 23d, 1883.
The church edifice, erected in 1767, stood at Town Hill, in the south- east corner of the cemetery. It was used as a place of worship until the
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erection of the present edifice, at South Egremont, in 1832. From 1832 to 1850 the old building was occupied as a town house. In 1850 it was sold to Irwin D. W. Baldwin, who removed it to near his residence, where it was converted into a barn. In 1752 the chapel at South Egremont was erected and in 1855 the parsonage east of the church was purchased. By an act of the Legislature in 1834 Andrew Bacon, Chester Goodale, Levi Hare, Wilber Curtis, and Nathan Benjamin were incorporated as the Congregational Society of Egremont.
In 1870 the present edifice was remodeled and was rededicated February 16th, 18:1.
The deacons have been : Timothy Kellogg, for several years : Elezer Barrett, 1816-21 ; Samuel Newman, 1816-21 ; Andrew Bacon, sen., 1821-10, died August 20th, 1840 ; Stephen Karner, 1821-49, died June 28th, 1849 ; Comfort Sparks, 1821-41, died May 30th, 1841 ; Andrew Bacon, jr., 1838 -- 70; Pliny Karner, 1849-70 ; George Gardner, 1870-73 ; Simeon A. Foster. M. D., 1870-72 : David Dalzell, sen., 1873-79, died June 25th, 1879 ; Rod- erick H. Norton, 1883, died 1883; Orson A. Branch, 1883 ; Almon A. Smith, appointed 1884.
The Methodist Episcopal Church .- The precise year of the intro- dnetion of Methodism into Egremont is unknown. There is abundant proof, however, that in that part of the town called Guilder Hollow there were members of this denomination almost a century ago.
In April, 1789, at the annual conference of Methodist Episcopal churches at Trenton, N. J., Rev. Benjamin Abbott was appointed to travel Dutchess Circuit, which extended so far into Berkshire county as to include Mount Washington and Egremont. In his diary Mr. Abbott gives an interesting account of his visit to these places.
In 1801, Lorenzo Dow was appointed to the circuit. He says "a re- port that crazy Dow had got back from Ireland brought many out to hear ; Mount Washington, Egremont, and Sheffield I visited, thence to Hudson and on to Rhinebeck." Sometimes through Guilder Hollow traveled Bishop Asbury when on his long and weary journeys from one section of the country to another. Occasionally the bishop tarried for the night at the house of Elijah King, who was one of the first Metho- dists in " The Hollow." From the introduction of Methodism into the south part of the town until the building of their first church the adher- ents of this denomination worshipped in barns, school houses, and dwel- lings. A memorable occasion was a quarterly meeting in Uriah Sorn- borger's barn, in July, 1819. The preacher of the occasion was Rev. Daniel Coe. Several at that time were baptized. Meetings were also held at the houses of Seth Newman, Elijah King, Ephraim Bunce, and Uriah Sornborger, and these places were always open for the entertain- ment of the preachers.
The most prominent members of those years were as follows : Elijah King, a son of John King. "Esq.," of Mount Washington. This Elijah King settled in Guilder Hollow about 1789. He died September 24th,
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1825, aged 67 years, and was buried in the old burial ground on "Town Hill." Seth Newman, sen., from Pond Ridge, Westchester county, N. Y .. settled on the Indian reservation in 1798. He was born Jannary 8th, 1772, and died June 26th, 1855. Sabra Herrick, his wife, died October 13th, 1843, aged 68 ; Ephraim Bunce, who, while on a visit to Saratoga, died, and was buried there some years ago ; Asaph Emmons, a class leader. from Cornwall, Conn., who resided in that part of the town in 1809. John Emmons, his son, who was a local preacher in 1810, died at Canaan, Conn., May 26th, 1864.
Rev. Elijah King, a son of Elijah King before mentioned, was born in Egremont, in 1786, and died at Cambridge, N. Y., March, 1847. In 1811 he joined the Genesee conference and for twenty-five years, or until his health became impaired, was pastor of various Methodist churches in Central New York.
June 25th, 1833, David Wheeler, who resided where Irwin D. W. Baldwin now lives, in consideration of $20, conveyed to Gurdon Joyner seventy-one rods of land on which to build a meeting house for the use of the Methodist Episcopal society. Mr. Joyner conveyed this land to David 1. King, Seth Newman, and Rufus Newman, associate trustees. This location was fifty feet west of Mr. Baldwin's residence. The church of wood, was erected in 1833, and dedicated by Rev. Charles Sherman and Rev. Julius Fields, several others of the clergy from the surround - ing towns being present. In this edifice the Methodists worshipped until 1859, at which time, having become quite numerous at North Egremont and vicinity, the old edifice was sold to Thompson Wheeler and removed to his farm, where it has since been used as a wagon house. May 1Sth. 1860, William Makeley, William W. Stillman, Orson W. King, Thomp. son N. King, John M. Joyner, Ira Newman, Emory Newman, Bela N. Clark, Seneca C. Tuller, Dyer Wait, and Ephraim Baldwin made a peti- tion to Abner Brown, justice of the peace, to issue a warrant in the name of the commonwealth to call a meeting of the Methodist Episcopal soci- ety of North Egremont. The meeting was held, according to warrant, at the inn of Dr. Richard Beebe, June 2d, 1860. The trustees then chosen were William Makeley, B. N. Clark, Ira Newman, D. C. Millard, James S. Rowley. At this meeting a committee was appointed to purchase ground, and June 15th one hundred and two rods, in the village of North Egremont, were purchased of William Hollenbeck. Funds were secured, and a building of wood was erected, costing $4,000. It was dedicated December 18th, 1861.
From 1789 to 1816 Egremont belonged to Dutchess Circuit. From 1816 to 1820. to Pittsfield Circuit, and it was supplied with preachers who traveled those circuits. Since 1821 the preachers have been : Coles Car. penter, Lucius Baldwin, 1821 ; Timothy Benedict, Parmele Chamberlain. 1823 ; David Miller, John Lovejoy, 1824: Samuel Eighmy. 1825 ; Phineas Cook. Billy Hibbard. 1826-7; Noah Bigelow, Quartus Stewart, 1828-9 : Samuel Howe, 1830; Russell M. Little, John W. Belknap, 1831 ; Dese-
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vignia Starks, Henry W. Reed, John M. Pease, 1832-3; Mathew L. Starr, George W. Brown, 1834 ; Henry Hatfield, 1835 ; William Lull, Jeremiah Ham, 1836-7 ; Aaron Roger, 1838 ; A. G. Shears, Marvin Liffing- well, 1839 ; Thomas Edwards, Levi Warner, 1840-1; Ezra S. Cook, John B. Walker, Jeremiah Ham, 1842-3; Humphrey Humphries, 1844-5: Joli Davies, 1846-7; Goodrich Horton, 1848-9. Encins H. King, 1850; Alexander HI. Ferguson, William Ostrander, 1851 ; David Lyman, 1852 ; Jolin W. Jones, 1853-4; Josiah L. Dickerson, 1855-6; E. Kendall. 1857 ; William S. Winans, 1858; Henry H. Birkins, 1859-62 ; William J. Ives, 1863 ; David B. Turner, 1864-5; Edward Ashton, 1866-S; Nathan Hub- bell, 1869-70; J. Hiram Champion, 1871-2; William Hall, 1873-4; Silas Fitch. 1875; William L. Pattison, 1876-7; Jesse Ackerman, 1878-9 ; Ell- ward H. Roys, 1880-1; Adee Vail, 1883-4.
The class leaders of this church have been : Elijah King, Ephraim Bunce, Ira Newman, Orson King, Eli Parsons, Gurdon Joyner, Uriah Sornborger, and William Makeley.
The Baptist Church .- The Baptist church of Egremont was organ- ized in 1787; with a membership residing not only in this town but also in the adjoining towns of Alford, Great Barrington, Sheffield, the south part of West Stockbridge, Austerlitz, and Hillsdale in the adjacent county of Columbia. The first society embracing too large a territory, a smaller parish was formed, November 13th, 1789, with Jared Blakely as clerk. In 1790, Peter Orcut and Daniel Loomis were appointed to serve the com- munion table. Before the building of their meeting house the Baptists held meetings in barns and at the residences of their members. Their records state that August 6th, 1790, a largely attended meeting was held in the barn of Captain Peter Ostrom. Several were converted, and at the conclusion of the service others were baptized in the Green River, which. from an early period to the present has been their . Jordan."
.By an act of the General Court, June 10th, 1808, Josiah Curtis. Joshua Millard, Peter Millard, Joshua Millard, jr., Peter L. Bogardus. Isaac Olds, Seth Olds, Joseph Teed, Abner Skiff, Ebenezer Hatch, Wal- ter Millard, Alborn Millard, Hermon Millard, Josiah Millard. Daniel Loomis, Isaac Race, Andrew Winchell, Absalom Winchell. Isaac Hatch. Reuben Wilson, James Baldwin, Amos Winchell, and Lyman Olds, with their families and estates, were incorporated into a religious society by the name of "The Baptist Society in Egremont." Josiah Curtis, who had been clerk from 1801, was re-elected to that office. Daniel Loomis. Joshua Millard, and Reuben Wilson were chosen a committee to call future meetings of the society.
The deacons have been : Asa Palmer, Edmond Millard. Richard P. Brown. Ephraim Codding, Henry Codding, John W. Sheidon, Frederick Stillman, Joseph A. Kline.
Their meeting house, of wood, was erected at North Egremont in 1817. From 1817 to 1832 the interior was unfinished, with no plaster on the walls and the rafters exposed. The pulpit was very primitive. The
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seats were boards laid on blocks of wood, and as there was no stove or fireplace the people held meetings in school houses in winter and in the church in summer. In 1850 the edifice was again repaired.
In 1826 Peter Millard, and Mary, his wife, conveyed to the society an acre of land on the southeast side of Winchell Pond. Here was erected a parsonage, which was occupied till 1856, when the society pur- chased the present parsonage at the village.
The pastors have been : Jeduthan Grey, 1787-1808; John Nichols, 1808-11 ; Daniel Sherwood, 1812-18 ; Elisha Hubbell, 1818-24 ; Enos Mar- shall, 1824-34 ; Harmon Ellis, 1834-37 ; Calvin Munroe, 1837-39 ; Salmon Hatch. 1839-43 ; Daniel Grant, 1843, died while pastor, April 1st, 1844, aged fourty-four : Benjamin C. Crandall, 1844-47 ; Samuel Pomeroy, 1847-49 ; Cephas Pasco, 1849-59; John H. Kent, 1860-64; Foronda Bestor, 1864-70 ; Robert Bennett, 1870-73; C. H. Van Allen, 1873-76; Robert Bennett, 1876-84.
Taverns .- It is impossible to present a complete list of the taverns which have been maintained in town from the earliest period of its settle- ment to the present. According to the assessment roll for 1761 the hotel and store keepers were Ebenezer Olds, Daniel Webster, Samuel Roberts, Derrick Smith, Ebenezer Baldwin, Samuel Taylor, Ebenezer Taylor, Thomas Smith, Edward Bailey, and Hooker Hubbard.
The original Francis Hare Tavern, built in 1780, owned and kept by Francis Hare at the time of the Shays rebellion, occupied a site twenty- three rods from the southeast corner of the Mount Everett House, at South Egremont. The exact locality is indicated by a depression in the ground from the cellar excavation, on the south side of the lane running back of the hotel barns. and at the southerly point of the orchard east of the lane.
About the year 1800 this tavern was removed to the present site of the Mount Everett House. At the death of Francis Hare it passed into the possession of his son, Levi Hare, who sold it, in 1819, to William and Jerome Hollenbeck. In 1835 it was purchased by a syndicate of leading villagers in order to make it a temperance house. A few years later they sold it to Sanford H. Karner. In 1853 Chester Goodale purchased the hotel and farm from Mr. Karner, and radically reconstructed and en- larged the house, transformed it from an ordinary country tavern into a summer hotel, and named it the Mount Everett House. It had pre- viously been called the South Egremont Hotel, or Tavern. William Forbes was the first landlord of the Mount Everett House. In 1859 the property passed into the possession of Samuel B. Goodale. In 1866 Goodale sold it to John Miller, who sold it, in 1871, to Walter B. Peck.
. Shortly after the incorporation of the Alford and Egremont Turn- pike, in 1806, Major Josiah Webb opened a tavern at his residence on the turnpike, about fifty rods south of the line between Egremont and Alford. In 1811 a toll gate was erected at this point. A post office for the two towns was established at this tavern in 1817, with Webb as postmaster. In 1825 the office was removed to North Egremont. In 1823-4 Major
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Webb erected a new house on the opposite side of the turnpike, and there he continued to keep tavern for some years. There were many other hotels in town about the same period ; among the most noted were those of Lambert Perry, William Messenger, and Samuel Newman on the turnpike running west from South Egremont : while at the village of North Egremont the old tavern keepers were : Isaac Race, Daniel Mes- senger, John Lester, Jesse Squires; and on Egremont Plain, Michael Hollenbeck, and Colonel Loomis.
Physicians .- There have been several physicians in town during the past one hundred years, but the most noted one was Dr. Henry Chap- man, from Hancock, a few years previous to 1829. Dr. Chapman had an extensive practice in this and surrounding towns until 1852, when he re- moved to Virginia, where he died in a few years.
Another physician was Dr. Joseph M. Bassett, who died in this town in 1856, aged 32. Mrs. Ezra Millard, of the homeopathic school, is now the only physician in town.
Academy .-- About 1830 a high school was opened at the village of Egremont. : The building, which stands in the southeast corner of Mount Everett Cemetery, was erected on land purchased of Isaac N. Race, and January 24th, 1832, the Legislature enacted that Wilber Curtis, Levi Hare, Nathan Benjamin, Chester Goodale, William H. Hollenbeck. Abel Hull, Isaac N. Race, Jerome Hollenbeck, Solomon Winegar, and Ephraim Baldwin, and their successors be made a body corporate by the name of the Egremont Academy, with power to hold real estate to the value of $5,000, and personal estate to the value of $10,000, to be applied to edu- cational purposes. This school, with several intermissions, continued for almost fifty years. In 1882, Chester Goodale, William C. Dalzelle, Ros- coe C. Taft, and Mary S. Dalzelle, the successors of the corporators, sold the building to the town, and it is now used as a town house.
Magistrates .- A complete list of the justices of the peace cannot now be given, but the following have been the most prominent : Ephraim Fitch, Seneca Tuller, James Baldwin, Andrew Bacon, Ephraim Baldwin. Levi Hare, Wilber Curtis, Abner Brown, Nathan Benjamin, Samuel Ba- con, Samuel C. Newman, Henry E. Codding, Richard P. Brown. John M. Joyner, William Stillman, John Austin, Joseph A. Benjamin. Samuel B. Goodale, James H. Rowley, Seymour B. Dewey.
Prominent Citizens .- Chester Goodale, jr., was born at West Stock- bridge, April 25th, 1791. He sprang from a pure New England or Puritan ancestry, with Scotch antecedents. His father was for many years a school teacher. He came from Pomfret, Conn., the home of a branch of the Goodale family for several generations, having served as a soldier under General Putnam in the Revolutionary war. He was the fifth in descent from Robert Goodale, who sailed from Norwich, England, in the the ship "Elizabeth," in 1634, landing at Salem, and settling on an estate which remains in the family. Chester Goodale came from Richmond, in this county, to Egremont, in April, 1812. He stood and escaped drafts
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for the army both at Richmond and Egremont the same year. July 21st, 1812, he purchased of Wilber Curtis and Levi Hare "all that piece of land lying between three roads intersected by the brook in the village of South Egremont," upon which is located his late residence and the house of Almon Smith. In 1813, he set out on this lot those brittonwood trees now grown to large proportions. In 1815 he located a tannery on the lot, and built a shoe shop and bark mill. His water power was obtained by damming the brook just south of the bridge on the turnpike. Here for twenty years he carried on an extensive business in tanning and the manufacturing of boots and shoes, employing a number of journeymen and apprentices. He was one of the first in the trade to commence the manufacture of stock boots and shoes, selling to merchants and shipping to Canada.
In 1820 he completed the house in which he died, and of which he was an occupant sixty-four years. April 21st, 1821, he married Sophia Bushnell. daughter of.Samuel Bushnell, of Sheffield, and granddaughter of Jonathan Hubbard, the first pastor of the Congregational church in that town. She died June 3d, 1871, aged seventy-one. About 1836 Mr. Goodale acquired the extensive marble quarries not far from his home. which for forty years he successfully developed, furnishing marble for Girard College and Boston custom house. He was a successful farmer and an efficient town officer : several times representing his town in the Legislature at Boston. He was one of the incorporators of the Mahaiwe Bank, and a director of that institution for twenty-eight years. There are now standing at South Egremont not less that nine dwellings, includ- ing the hotel, which he erected. besides the grist mill and saw mills. For several years he had lived with his daughter, Mrs. David Dalzell, jr. The death of Mr. Goodale occurred at his residence, January 31st, 1884. He had eight children, six now living: Lucretia Bushnell, wife of Lewis B. Warner, of Nunda, N. Y .; Charles Chester Goodale, of Rochester, N. Y .. Caroline. Sophia, wife of Rev. Pliny F. Sanborne, of Springfield, N. Y .: Samuel B. Goodale, of New York ; Henry S. Goodale, of New York : Martha B., widow of David Dalzell, jr., of South Egremont ; Jane Good- ale, died in 1832, aged two years ; Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Charles New. man.
Josiah Millard died at North Egremont, April 12th, 1863, aged eighty- three. He was born at Sharon, Conn. At seventeen he settled in Egre- mont, and September 5th, 1797, married Thankful Loomis. She died in 1858. Sixty years before his death he was a Baptist pioneer and an ad- mirer of John Leland, and that divine was a frequent guest at his house. Mr. Millard's barn in those days was the only building that could accom- modate the crowds which the name of Leland called together. In 1824 and 1836 Mr. Millard was a member of the Legislature.
Colonel Ephraim Baldwin was born in this town September 12th. 1789, and died at North Egremont, June Ist. 1853. He was a grandson of Ebenezer Baldwin, one of the early settlers of this town, who was born
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at Malden, Mass., August 1st, 1713, His father was James Baldwin, a highly influential man in town. In 1812 Ephraim entered the army, and rose by promotion to the rank of Colonel of the First regiment of infan- try of Massachusetts. In 1829 he represented this town in the lower branch of the General Court, and was reelected next term. He was jus- tice of the peace from 1831 to 1845, and postmaster at North Egremont from 1842 to 1850. In 1815 he married Miss Dimmis Karner.
Colonel Joseph Curtis came with his wife and child, Jasper, on horse- back from Newington, Conn., in 1780, and purchased a large tract of land where the village of South Egremont now stands. He was the father of Hon. Wilber Curtis, captain of militia and first president of the Mahaiwe Bank. Colonel Curtis died in 1810, aged fifty-four.
GROSVENOR PORTER LOWREY.
Grosvenor Porter Lowrey was born in North Egremont, Mass., Sep- tember 25th, 1831. . His father was William Lowry (this being the old time manner of spelling the name), a native of Claverack, Columbia county, N. Y., and a descendant of an old Dutch family. The first wife of William Lowry was a daughter of Mr. Webb, of Egremont, by whom he had two children, Ira John, and Mary. The latter became the wife of Cornelius Williams, of Alford. His second marriage was with Mrs. Olive Rouse Hubbard. of Egremont. Two children were the result of this union : Henry William, born in February, 1821, and the subject of this sketch.
Grosvenor Porter Lowrey received a common school education in his native town and completed his studies in the law department of La · Fayette College. Easton, Pa., gaining admission to the bar at that place in 1854. His law preceptor, Andrew H. Reeder, was appointed by Presi- dent Pierce the first governor of the territory of Kansas, and Mr. Lowrey accompanied him tither as his private secretary, remaining until 1856, and taking an active part in the disturbed political affairs of that terri- tory on the " Free State" side. He was obliged, with Governor Reeder. and a large number of "Free State " men, to escape, to avoid indictment for treason for resisting the enforcement of the laws passed by the so- called " Border Ruffian Legislature " of 1855.
Returning to the East he engaged actively in the support of the election of John C. Fremont. At the session of the New York Legislature of 1856-7 he acted as correspondent of the New York Evening Post at Albany, and in the spring of 1857 settled in New York city in the prac- tice of his profession. During the greater portion of the time in which he has been in practice he was a member of the firm of Porter, Lowrey. Soren & Stone, of which the senior member was John K. Porter, pre- viously one of the judges of the Court of Appeals, and well known as an advocate through his defense of Henry Ward Beecher, of General Bab. cock at St. Louis, and his prosecution of Guiteau.
During his professional career Mr. Lowrey was for fifteen years gen. eral counsel of the Western Union Telegraph Company ; and from the
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time of their organization until 1882, and during the litigation previous to the consolidation of the Manhattan and Metropolitan Elevated Rail- ways, was general counsel for those companies. He has also been counsel for Wells, Fargo & Co., the United States Express Company, and the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, and many other important corporations. During the term of Salmon P. Chase as Secretary of the Treasury he was often employed by the government in the trial of revenue cases, and was appointed by the Secretary one of a commission, of which Augustus Schell, Charles P. Kirkland, and A. T. Stewart were the other members, to codify the cus- toms revenue laws of the United States. which commission, however. was superseded by subsequent legislation of Congress.
During the war Mr. Lowrey wrote and published a pamphlet enti- tled "The Commander-in-Chief," a work designed to justify on legal grounds President Lincoln's proclamation of emancipation, and as a re- ply to a pamphlet by ex-Judge Benjamin R. Curtis, of Boston, entitled "Executive Power," which had criticized the issuing of that proclama- tion as an abuse of the powers of the chief executive of the nation. He also wrote a pamphlet under the title of " English Neutrality," intended to show that the Alabama and other Confederate cruisers which had been built in British ports, in violation of the British Foreign Enlistment Act, were, within the meaning of international law, British vessels, for whose depredations the builders and British government should be held responsible to private owners, no title being capable to pass, under the terms of the act referred to, from the British builder to the Confederate government. The latter pamphlet was extensively republished in Eng- land and was the first of the inquiries into this subject, which were finally put in the way of settlement by the treaty of Washington, and the Alabama arbitration at Geneva, Switzerland.
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