A Centennial Memorial History of Allegany county, New York, Part 23

Author: Minard, John Stearns, 1834-1920; Merrill, Georgia Drew
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Alfred, N.Y., W. A. Fergusson & co.
Number of Pages: 1102

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The Allegany Democrat was founded at Wellsville in 1876 as an exponent of Democracy by Myron E. Eddy and Charles F. White. In December, 1872, Mr. Eddy retired, and Mr. White continued alone until August, 1874, when he sold the property to W. W. Nichols. A. E. Cowles purchased a one-half interest. June 11, 1882, and the firm of Nichols & Cowles appeared as pub- lishers until Feb. 2. 1887, when A. E. Cowles purchased the entire business and continues to publish the Democrat.

The Friendship Register was first printed in Friendship by J. J. Barker Dec. 30, 1869, and was sold by him to R. R. Helme in 1871, in 1888 Mr. Helme sold to Geo. W. Fries, the present propretor.

The Genesee Valley Post was first issued in 1881 as a Prohibition paper by James E. Norton, who purchased the printing material formerly used by the Free Press, and soon after secured the services of V. A. Willard as editor. Later the plant was sold to The Post Publishing Co., V. A. Willard continu- ing the editorial management until 1895, when the paper was moved to Cuba and is now edited by John F. Coad.

The Belmont Weekly Dispatch, a Republican paper, was established at Belmont in 1889 by R. R. and F. B. Helme. In November. 1892, it was sold to W. M. Barnum. In March, 1893, Wm. E. Smith bought out Mr. Barnum and two weeks later Roger Stillman took a one-half interset. In January, 1895, Mr. Smith retired, and the firm became C. L. Stillman & Co., who now publish it.

The Angelica Every Week was started in Angelica as the organ of the Angelica and county organizations of the W. C. T. U., in 1884 by Mrs. M. L. Rumpff, and has been successfully continued by her as an independent newspaper.

The Andover News was first printed in 1887 by H. S. Norris and Geo. L. Tucker, Jr. Mr. Tucker retired at the end of the first year and Mr. Norris has since conducted the paper alone.

The Rushford Spectator was founded in 1878. In 1883 it was edited by Frank B. Smith and later passed into the hands of W. F. Benjamin, its pres- ent editor and proprietor.

The Northern Allegany Observer was started in 1880, and is now owned by Judson Howden.

The Spirit of Reform was started in Belmont a few years ago, in the in- terest of the Peoples' party by Scott & Osencup. In 1893 Geo. A. Scott purchased his partner's interest and published the paper until 1894 when he

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sold to Victor Allen who soon after, in 1895, moved the paper to Richburg, and later disposed of it to M. C. Wescott who now conducts it.

The Hume Enterprise was first printed in 1885 at Hume village. It has changed hands several times and is now owned and edited by E. W. O'Hara.

The Almond Era was started in 1887 by S. H. Jennings at Almond; it is Populistic in politics. Mr. Jennings changed its name in 1894 to The True Issue.

The Whitesville News was founded, April 3, 1895, by L. J. Fortner and La Burt Davis as an independent (non-partisan) newspaper.

Among the papers which have been published in the county in time past but have suspended publication and left no successors, are:

The Almond Herald founded in 1853 and published one year by R. Denton.

The Allegany Sentinel, published in Almond by Melvin Hyde and Isaac Bush from 1854 to 1856.

The American Banner, printed at Cuba from 1855 to 1857, by Hatch & Pratt, was sold in 1857 to Cyrus Pratt and M. B. Champlain, and its name changed to The Southern Tier. It lived only a few years.

The Allegany County Advocate, founded at Angelica in 1868 by P. S. Nor- ris, lived one year.

The Republican Aegis and Allegany Democrat, published in Angelica in 1830, continued but a short time.

The Allegany Gazette, printed at Angelica in 1840.

The Andover Advertiser, founded at Andover by E. S. Barnard in 1868, existed about 2 years.

The Friendship Chronicle, printed at Friendship in 1881 by J. W. Hen- drick, was soon discontinued.

The New Democratic Era, started at Cuba by W. J. Carrier in 1865, was consolidated with The Patriot the same year.

The Wellsville Times was established at Wellsville in 1872 by Geo. Howe, Benton C. Rude being its editor. It was merged in the Reporter in 1874.

The Almond Chronicle was suspended in 1895, having been published about one year.

The Bolivar Sunday Leader* was launched in November in 1881, by Well- ington, Nash & Anderson. It was a sprightly 6-column quarto and for a time prospered, but it never outgrew a Washington hand press. When the oil boom began to decline Wellington became sole proprietor and continued its publication until 1890, when it was sold to a Populist stock company, who installed C. M. Mason as editor. The name was changed to Alliance Leader. Mason was a theorist, not a practical newspaper man, and from the day of change the paper steadily "lost money." In 1891 the plant was moved to Belmont where publication continued a few months. 4 When the stock holders ceased to " loosen," the paper suspended. F. R. Wellington is now

* We are indebted to Brother J. P. Herrick of the Bolivar Breeze for the following bibliography of the: papers of the southern towns.

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in business in Tacoma. E. A. Anderson is a Methodist minister, and Nash has gone from the oil regions.

The first issue of The Oil Echo appeared at Richburg on the morning of January 18, 1882. It was a seven-column folio, published by a stock com- pany. with P. C. Boyle, now of the Oil City Derrick, as editor and manager. It was printed on a two-revolution Hoe press, and enjoyed a news franchise. The Echo was conducted in a fearless manner and had a good circulation. The office was burned in May, 1882, shortly after the Cherry Grove " boom " began to depopulate Richburg and no further issues were made.

The Richburg Weekly Era was launched in November, 1881, by S. H. Jennings, at present publisher of the The Almond New Era. It was soon made a daily with S. J. Small business manager. The Era was continued several months but it never proved a success financially. Mr. Small finally bought the plant and issued The Sunday Racquet, which lived but a short time.

The initial number of the Bolivar Breeze appeared on Saturday, August 29, 1891. The Alliance Leader had been moved to Belmont and Bolivar needed a newspaper. The editor and proprietor was J. P. Herrick, of the Ceres Mail. The Breeze at once struck the popular fancy and proved remunerative from the start. It has one of the most completely equipped plants in the county, and enjoys a very liberal patronage. The paper does not dabble in politics, is independent, and aims to excel as a local and county newspaper.

The first printing office in Alfred was established in 1859 by J. E. B. and Wm. P. Maxson, who published The New Era, a weekly local newspaper.

In 1872. the Sabbath Recorder, the organ of the Seventh-day Baptist denomination, was issued in Alfred in July of that year. It was the prop- erty of the American Sabbath Tract Society, and was in the 28th year of its existence. The plant, during its stay here, until the close of 1894, grew to immense proportions, the office issuing very many other publications, weekly, monthly and quarterly, among them the Outlook, Peculiar People, Helping Hand, etc., sending through the mail. yearly, tons upon tons of read- ing matter. They also printed for Alfred University The Alfred Student and The Alfred University, both of which have ceased to exist. During these years the editors were, Rev. N. V. Hull, Rev. Stephen Burdick, Rev. L. A. Platts and Rev. L. E. Livermore, and the business managers, David R. Still- man, Rev. L. A. Platts. Rev. Earl P. Saunders and John P. Mosher. At the close of 1894, the Publishing House was transferred to Plainfield, N. J.

In 1883 it was planned by F. A. Crumb, Bert Sherman, L. W. Niles, John P. Mosher and John M. Mosher. employed in the Publishing House at Alfred, to start a weekly local newspaper, non-partisan in politics, and Jan- uary 1, 1884. the first number of the Alfred Sun was issued, with John M. Mosher editor, and John P. Mosher business manager, without remunera- tion. The composition and press work were done at the Publishing House at the actual cost. It was run under this management one year, when three of the stockholders retired, leaving it in the hands of F. A. Crumb and L. W.

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Niles, the latter soon buying out the former. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Crumb purchased the entire plant of Mr. Niles, and carried it alone until the close of the year, when he sold out to Rev. L. E. Livermore, who purchased material, and, with the help of one or two others, issued the paper for two years, when he, being called to a pastorate of a church in New Jersey, sold to his son-in-law, W. H. Satterlee, who carried on the business for two years more, when several of the young men in town thought best to have a Repub- lican paper in our midst, and they, forming a stock company, purchased the plant, and issued their first number under the new regime Jan. 1, 1890, with John M. Mosher editor and business manager, and Jno. J. Merrill assistant editor. On the first of January, 1895, the stockholders of the Sun Associa- tion purchased material for a job office and moved into the building known as the Publishing House, enlarging the Sun, and appointing John M. Mosher and Frank A. Crumb editors and managers. At the beginning of 1896, Frank A. Crumb and Frank S. Whitford, having purchased a controlling interest in the stock of the Association, assumed the management thereof. The Alfred Sun to-day is recognized as one of the leading Republican papers of Allegany county.

Our Sabbath Visitor is a weekly Sabbath-school paper, and is published by E. S. Bliss. It is now in its fourteenth year.

The University Bulletin, a paper published quarterly by Alfred Univer- sity, was commenced in 1895. The printing is being done at the office of the Alfred Sun.

The Arena, a paper devoted to the interests of the Farmers' Alliance, was issued from the office of E. S. Bliss, Alfred, in 1889. On account of the lack of patronage but a few numbers were printed.

Mr. Frank S. Miller, proprietor of the Canaseraga Times, sends us this concerning his paper: "In 1872 H. C. Scott established the Times, and con- ducted it until 1877. He was succeeded as owner and publisher by W. H. Barnum, who continued in the business until April 1, 1885, when I purchased the entire plant and have since been publisher."

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CHAPTER XXX.

THE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.

BY MISS MARY E. BOWLER.

OME sayings haunt us, and since we have undertaken to choose out and S set in order those things concerning this great organization which shall be just and adequate as history. there are three: "Histories are strange things." "Whoever writes history writes himself a liar, " and "The begin- nings of all things are small," which we feel sure we shall be able to verify. The "Woman's Crusade." inaugurated in our neighboring county of Chautauqua at Fredonia, Dec. 15, 1873, and of which the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was the outgrowth (the first one being organized there one week from that day, Dec. 22, 1873), did not, to our knowledge, take root in our county. At the convention called in Syracuse, Oct. 14, 1874, where the state organization was effected, Allegany county was represented by Mrs. B. C. Rude of Wellsville, her name appearing as chairman of a com- mittee to draft a memorial to President Grant and Governor Dix. Whether any efforts were made in the meantime to organize the county Union, we do not know, but not till nearly five years later, at Friendship, in July, 1879, was it accomplished. At a temperance convention (they were held by men in those days) held in the old academy at Friendship, July, 1879. Mrs. B. C. Rude asked all women who were interested to meet her at a stated time in one of the recitation rooms. 25 or 30 responded. After explaining the object and methods of the organization, and urging its benefits as she could so well do, remarks were made by others, and a motion to organize prevailed. A paper was circulated for names of those who would become members, but it was not preserved, and the minutes of the meeting were not entered in the secretary's book. Mrs. Helen M. Barker of Friend- ship was chosen president, and Mrs. V. A. Willard of Belmont secretary, neither of whom were present. Four women paid the fee of fifty cents and their names are on the book in the treasurer's account. They are Mrs. James Smith, Mrs. John Briggs, Mrs. John McKee and Mrs. D. C. Willard to whom we are indebted for the account of the organization.

The first meeting was called in connection with a temperance convention held at Andover, January 28, 1880. 15 names were added to the member- ship. Articles of constitution were presented by Mrs. B. C. Rude, and adopted with the amendment to Art. 1, "that the payment of fifty cents should not be requisite for membership," which was reconsidered at the next meeting, and the constitution adopted as it now stands. It was known as the Allegany County Woman's Temperance Union. The officers were to be as follows: President, vice president, secretary and executive committee

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of five, and one honorary vice president from each town in the county, who should act as corresponding secretary of that town, solicit members from their several towns and at once take steps for the formation of unions to act in co-operation with and subordinate to the county union. The first ex- ecutive committee was Mrs. H. M. Barker of Friendship, Mrs. B. C. Rude of Wellsville, Mrs. N. V. Hull of Alfred Centre, Mrs. A. Coit of Wellsville and Mrs. V. A. Willard of Belmont. The organization was now fully accom- plished and the next meeting was called at Friendship, July 20, 1880, where eleven towns were represented by delegates though as yet there were no. local organizations.

In the light of the sixteen years that have since passed with their evolutions on the temperance question, it is interesting to read some of the first resolutions adopted by them, especially as we are so often told that we have turned aside from the work we were organized to do: " Resolved, That we as women must ever use our utmost efforts and influence to induce our husbands, sons and brothers to enforce more rigorously the laws already made, and to enact laws still more stringent to protect society against the terrible evils of intemperance." "Whereas, the license law already in ex- istence sends forth a desolating scourge into the land to waste and destroy; therefore, Resolved, That we use our utmost endeavors to introduce in its stead a prohibitory law, which shall strike at the root of this great evil and seek to exterminate it at once and forever from our fair land. We earnestly recommend that young men band themselves together in the formation of anti-treat-societies." "We recommend the use of unfermented wines for sacramental purposes, and, further, that in all total abstinence pledges cider be included." "We renew our entreaties that our husbands and brothers abandon the use of tobacco, and unite their influence with ours against it."

These declarations show women intelligent, moral, broad and brave, who fearlessly took their stand and have steadfastly held their place in the extreme advance line of this unpopular cause. We may not even tell their names; the great majority are unknown to the world, but we know that because of them the work prospered, and, because of the work, they were made better.

But to return, Mrs. N. V. Hull and Mrs. H. M. Barker were appointed organizers, later, Mrs. J. B. Bradley, and when the young women's work was taken up. Miss Emma A. Ross was superintendent and organizer. Through their efforts, aided by lecturers who have visited the county from time to time, every town of the county but three has had an organization. Some unions were established that only had a name to live, and other unions (be- cause the members were now at school, now teaching, or called from home for other reasons) have disbanded, still the interest has never languished. The first "local " was organized in Cuba, October 26, 1880, and from that time organization went steadily forward. Since 1886 an excess of 500 mem- bers has entitled us to a representation in the National conventions. Few

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counties in the nation were as little affected as ours by the sifting process the organization passed through in 1889. 35 conventions have been held where different phases and plans of work were discussed, reports made and a mass meeting, addressed by some speaker of note, has inspired the workers with added interest and zeal, and given to the public the broad principles and outlook of the W. C. T. U., and what they deemed to be the urgent need of the hour.

Departments taken up by the county, are Evangelistic; Prison and Jail; Social Purity and Mothers' meetings; Juvenile; Sabbath School; Soldiers and Sailors; Scientific Temperance Instruction; Narcotics; Franchise; Health and Non-Alcoholics; Literature; Press Work; Young Women's Work; Fair Work. Effective labor has been done along all of these lines. The organization became auxiliary to the state at the annual meeting held in Wellsville in 1882, took the name W. C. T. U., and, since that time, the money raised for all purposes by local unions, as reported, amounts to $16,- 514, but reports are never complete, and it is safe to say a much larger amount than that has been used in the work.

In this sketch little can be said of the workers. We append tabulated statistics, names of officers, superintendents, etc., for reference in con- densed and convenient form, and we would gladly add the name of every woman who has kept warm in her heart an interest in this work for human- ity. THEY ARE THE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. They have traveled innumerable miles through heat and cold with petitions. be- seiged assembly and senate with letters, pleaded with school boards and teachers for more thorough teaching of the effects of alcohol and narcotics, put literature on ship board (Allegany has 4 libraries out), held services continuously in jails, and alms houses, and in every way made possible the accomplished work of the W. C. T. U. To them be all honor.

But a word is due the five women who have stood as our leaders. In having such leaders we have been signally favored. The readers of the future will look with interest on the features of those who in time of stress bore heavy burdens to advance this good cause. Mrs. Barker is now treas- urer of the National organization at Chicago. Mrs. Rude is now of Duluth, Minn., and Mrs. Potter of Oakland. Cal. Mrs. J. B. Bradley of Bolivar, has been a, standard bearer ever since she came into the county in 1882. Liv- ing in an " oil town," where conditions are peculiar, the population continu- ally changing, the union under her leadership has bravely held its numbers in members, and no less than five women who have gone out from there are now presidents of unions in different parts of the county. Mrs. Willard's work speaks for her. For fifteen of the sixteen years of the organization she has been a member of the executive committee and for twelve years of that time its president. To her efforts is largely due the uncompromising attitude on all essential points, the unity of purpose and harmony of effort that has made this one of the strongest county organizations in the state. Whatever work the state has accomplished in legislation or other effort, Al-

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legany has given her full share. The greatest work we have done may not be written in history, it is on the hearts of the workers and on the lives of those they have influenced; for " Wherever there is a wrong to right, an evil to attack or a hand to help, there will you find a woman with a white ribbon on her breast."

Officers of Allegany County W. C. T. U. from 1879 to 1895. Presidents: Mrs. H. M. Barker, 1879-1880; Mrs. B. C. Rude, 1880-1881; Mrs. E. J. Potter. 1881-1882: Mrs. Mary L. Willard, 1882-1884; Mrs. J. B. Bradley, 1884-1885; Mrs. Mary L. Willard, 1885-1895. Vice Presidents: Mrs. H. M. Barker, 1880-1881; Mrs. W. Wesler, 1881-1882; Mrs. L. A. Hull, 1882-1884; Mrs. E. M. Steele. 1884-1885; Mrs. J. B. Bradley, 1885-1887; Miss Emma A. Ross, 1887-1892; Mrs. G. W. Fries, 1892-1894; Mrs. A. M. Taylor. 1894-1895. Corresponding Secretaries, and Treasurers: Mrs. Mary L. Willard, 1879- 1882; Miss Emma A. Ross, 1882-1885; Miss Mary E. Bowler, 1885-1886; Mrs. L. A. Hull, 1886-resigned; Mrs. Chas. Stillman, Feb., 1887-1889; Cor- responding Secretaries, Mrs. J. Hendricks, 1889-resigned; Miss Mary E. Bowler. Aug., 1889-1895. Recording Secretaries, Mrs. J. R. Freeland, 1882-1884; Mrs. D. V. Scott, 1884-1885; Mrs. S. M. Bliss, 1885-1888; Miss Mary. E. Bowler, 1888-1889; Mrs. A. M. Taylor, 1889-1894; Miss Emma A. Ross, 1894-1895. Treasurer, Mrs. Helen A. Richardson, 1889-1895. County officers, 1895: President, Mrs. Mary L. Willard, Belmont; Vice President, Mrs. A. M. Taylor, Rushford; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Mary E. Bowler, Little Genesee; Recording Secretary, Miss Emma Ross, Wellsville; Treasurer, Mrs. Helen Richardson, Belmont. Department superintendents, Soldiers and Sailors, Mrs. Mary A. Allen, Friendship; Social Purity and Mothers' Meetings, Mrs. A. A. Allen, Alfred; Narcotics, Miss Mary E. Bowler, Little Genesee; Scientific Temperance, Mrs. J. B. Bradley, Boli- var: Evangelistic, Mrs. A. M. Taylor, Rushford; Franchise, Mrs. Mary B. Miller, Andover; Prison and Jail, Mrs. J. W. Bartlett, Belmont; Health and Non-Alcoholics, Mrs. M. B. Burdick, Alfred; Juvenile, Mrs. K. M, Kavert, Belfast; Literature, Mrs. L. E. Clark, Houghton; Press Work, Mrs. Mary A. Minard, Fillmore; Cuba Camp Secretary, Mrs. J. M. Barnes, Cuba.

List of Unions with date of organization: Cuba, Oct. 26, 1880; Little Genesee, Nov. 18, 1880; Nile, Feb. 8, 1881; Friendship, Jan., 1882; Scio, Feb. 15, 1882; Belmont, Feb., 1882; Alfred Centre, Feb. 20, 1882; Andover, March 1, 1882; Richburg, March 2, 1882; Independence, July, 1882; Rushford, Nov. 30, 1882-Oct. 27, 1887; Almond, March, 1883-Jan. 24, 1895; Angelica, April 28, 1883; Belfast, Oct., 1883; Bolivar, Dec. 6, 1883; Ceres, April 19, 1884; West Almond, July 2, 1884; Whitesville, Nov., 1884; Canaseraga, June, 1885; Allentown, June 15, 1885; Stannard's Corners. 1885; Birdsall, No. 1, 1885; Birdsall, No. 2, 1885; Caneadea, 1885; West Clarksville, 1886; Honeoye, 1887; Shongo, 1887; Houghton, May 17, 1887; Fillmore, June 8, 1888; Black Creek, Aug. 8, 1888; Hume, Nov. 16, 1889.

Y Unions have been established at Bolivar, 1886; Cuba, 1887; Ceres, Scio, Wellsville and Allentown, 1888; Belfast, 1889.

MRS. H. M. BARKER.

MRS. B. C. RUDE.

MRS. M. L. WILLARD.

MRS. E. J. POTTER.

MRS. N. S. BRADLEY.

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Conventions held and speakers: Andover, Jan. 28, 1880; Friendship, July, 20, 1880, Mrs. B. C. Rude; Cuba, Feb. 2, 1881, Mrs. Letitia Yeomans; Andover. Nov. 15. 1881. Mrs. Lillie Devereaux Blake; Scio, Feb. 15, 1882, Mrs. Mary T. Burt; Wellsville. July 12. 1882, Mrs. Letitia Yeomans: Rich- burg. Oct. 18, 1882, Mrs. Louise Rounds: Alfred Centre, Feb. 21, 1883, Miss Narcissa E. White; Nile. July 11. 1883. Mrs. L. M. Stoddard; Rushford, Oct. 3, 1883, Miss Narcissa E. White; Almond, Feb. 6. 1884, Mrs. D. V. Scott; Angelica, July 9, 1884, Rev. Mr. Coit; Little Genesee. Oct. 8. 1884, Miss Narcissa E. White; Alfred. Feb. 11. 1885. Mrs. Mary T. Burt; Bolivar, July 30, 1885, Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop; Scio. Feb. 17, 1886. Mrs. Emily McLaugh- lin; Belmont. July 28. 1886. Mrs. R. A. Emmons; Allentown. Feb. 1. 1887, Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge: Andover. July 13, 1887. Miss Narcissa E. White; Belfast, Feb. 1. 1888, Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge; Ceres, July 10, 1888, Mrs. Helen L. Bullock: Wellsville, Jan. 30, 1889, Mrs. Ella A. Boole; Fillmore, July 24. 1889, Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman: Friendship. Jan. 29, 1890, Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge: Angelica. July 23. 1890, Mrs. Louise Rounds; Almond. Jan. 28, 1891. Mrs. Ella A. Boole; Bolivar, July 29, 1891. Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop; Alfred Centre, Jan. 27, 1892, Rev. Anna H. Shaw; Rushford. July 26. 1892, Mrs. Marion Baxter; Scio. Jan. 25, 1893. Mrs. Lytie P. Davies; Belfast, July 26, 1893, Carrie Lane Chapman; Richburg, Jan. 24, 1894, Mrs. Mary J. Weaver; Fillmore, July 17, 1894, Rev. Henrietta Moore; Belmont, Jan. 23, 1895, Mrs. Ella A. Boole; Almond, July 24, 1895, Mrs. H. M. Barker.

THE ALLEGANY COUNTY SUNDAY-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION .- No records showing how long the Association has been in existence or of its earlier work are in the hands of the present officers. The object of the association as set forth in its constitution is " by union and concert of action to improve the character and efficiency of the Sunday-school work, and extend its influ- ence to every part of the county." The 21st annual convention of the asso- ciation in its present form was held in the M. E. church at Wellsville on the 14th and 15th of May, 1895. At this meeting the county secretary's report of work for 1894 showed that 73 schools in the county had made reports of their work, showing these totals: number of officers and teachers 957, pupils 7.661, average attendance 3,815. number of conversions 342, amount of con- tributions $3,276.18. The present officers of the Association are: Rev. James A. Miller, Ph. D., Angelica, president; R. D. Bebee, Spring Mills, Fred R. Pratt, Short Tract, R. L. Andrus, Bolivar, Rev. B. C. Davis, Alfred, Charles E. Davis, Wellsville, Charles Cochran, Andover, Charles Ingham, Hume, vice presidents; Clinton H. Miner. Cuba. corresponding secretary; W. J. Richardson, Belmont, treasurer; Miss Mary E. Fuller, Cuba, recording secretary; Miss Estella Cole, Friendship, women's mission secretary.

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A Centennial Memorial History of Allegany county, New York, Part 23

Author: Minard, John Stearns, 1834-1920; Merrill, Georgia Drew Publication date: 1896 Publisher: Alfred, N.Y., W. A. Fergusson & co. Number of Pages: 1102

Author: Minard, John Stearns, 1834-1920; Merrill, Georgia Drew
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Alfred, N.Y., W. A. Fergusson & co.
Number of Pages: 1102