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The Parkers, Aldriches, and the Moses families became the permanent families of the town, and their sons were prominent at Nunda schools and in Nunda companies of soldiers.
Besides White the Passages, the Baileys, Eisamons, the Brewers, who left Nunda for Grove-Nunda, there were a few years later, Deacon Bassett, the Tuttles, Samuel Crowfoot. the Sweets, and probably others, while one man Samuel C. Jones, atter securing a competence came from there, (Grove Cen- ter) to Nunda having sold a large tract of land to Samuel Swain, Jr., and so what might have been Jonesville became Swainsville, after a railroad came through these lands. He was emphatically a self made man. Left an orphan, with a large family of brothers and sisters to care for, he proved his man- hood by being manly.
His mother was left a widow while Samuel her eldest son, was young. Mrs. Montgomery Thorp, Mrs. Reynolds, Mrs. Townsend, and one of the Mrs. Van Nostrands, Thomas and William Jones, and the father of John Jones of Grove, were his sisters and brothers. Mrs. Thorp has often said there never was a kinder or more patient brother than Samuel was to his younger brothers and sisters. He certainly succeeded, as a son and brother. He be- came prominent in town affairs. was Supervisor and Justice of the Peace, this was another form of success. That he became the owner of a large tract of land. tells that he succeeded financially.
He became a lumber man on a large scale. He also became Supervisor of Grove. Samuel C. Jones was the first Townclerk of Granger. He came to Nunda to reside in 1850 and completed his life there.
The famil; of Montgomery Thorp were possessed of unusual ability. Simeon was graduated from Union College, went west and became State Su- perintendent of Schools in Kansas. He also became State Senator. * He was
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a prominent Free State and Union man, and was a martyr to the cause lie espoused. In one of Quantrells raids, he was called to the door and shot dead, by one of the raiders.
Captain Alexander Thorp, whose wife was a daughter of Alfred Swain, of Nunda, was educated at Alfred and died in the service. He was killed in the battle of Winchester.
Colonel Thomas Jones Thorp graduated at Union College. He helped or- ganize Co. E, 85th N. Y., was wounded at Fair Oaks. He became Lieut. Col. of the first New York Dragoons and afterward Col. and Brevent Brig. General. He erected a monument in Granger for the soldiers that died from that town. Half the monument was for his family.
Washington and Aziza Moses were sons of Daniel Moses, both have held town and county offices.
Washington M., served his town as Supervisor several terms and his county as Member of Assembly.
Children of I. I, Daniel, Moses and Phoebe.
II. I. Frances. 2. Ashbel. 3. Luther. 4. Washington (see Civil List). married Ella Parker, their children :
III. I. Grant E., merchant at Dalton. 2. E. Walter, merchant. See Civil List of Nunda. J. N .. married Mabel White. daughter of George and Mary White.
5. Aziza.
I. 2. Samuel Moses, brother to Daniel.
Marmaduke Aldrich a veteran of the War of 1812-14 who came from Lima to Grove 1822, and to Granger in 1827. His children were, Amasa, Gideon, Nelson, Benjamin, Sally and Mary. Amasa was killed by falling from the back of a wagon. Probably all of these were born before 1827, and so were citizens of Nunda.
Alonzo Aldrich was a grandson and soldier. Alphonzo Aldrich ,was an . other, also a veteran.
Linus married Mary Kelley, sister of John Kelley; Lieut. Alphonzo Ald- rich, married Miss Beech of Oakland.
THE PARKERS IN GROVE-NUNDA
There were three Parker families in Nunda not closely connected if at all on the Parker side. Local Histories say Heerman Parker came to Nunda (Grove) in 1821, and Riley Parker in 1822, leaving the impression that they were brothers. Mr. Frank Parker says they were brothers-in-law only, both having married sisters of Samuel Carman of Nunda, that Herman and Ira Parker were brothers. Most important is the fact that Riley Parker was a veteran of 1812 and probably served with the Cayuga County militia. He came to Nunda in 1822 from Scipio. He was married to Sally Carman some four years before this, and Mr. and Mrs. Parker did not come alone to Nunda. They had good company. the genial Sanford came with them, though only two years old, he was not even then. one that could be left out of the conversation. He led it then, and he kept on doing so. Besides if a new town was to be founded he was not the one to be late at the founding, so he was there, one of the first settlers of Grove-Nunda. Who ever knew Sanford Parker to be late.
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The writer never reached Nunda Station but once in his life, and that time at midnight, when Sanford lived there, that he was not the first man to be seen. In war times, when he arrived, Sanford met him, saying, "well you want to go down to the valley to see the folks, want a rig?" Of course that was the thing needed, and though the stable boy had not cleaned the harness of the buggy for weeks, it always carried its passengers safely to the journeys end. I am glad Sanford Parker came to Nunda when he did, that for five years he was a pio- neer of Nunda, before he lived in Grove, though he lived in the same house in both towns. I don't think I should have enjoyed trading Jack Knives with him in his school days, though he no doubt had a fine variety to select from. He always saw the worth in everything however bruised or battered it was, his whole livery complete would have seemed dear to anyone else at a few hundred dollars, but to him it was just the thing for all sorts of weather, and it was. I doubt if any man that ever lived at Dalton was so well known as the host of the Parker House, or better liked. The jokes he could tell so well, which seemed no jokes at all, but just plain every day talk, made him an attraction. As a hotel keeper he was a type of the carly pioneer inn keepers who seemed to keep an inn just to accommodate the public and make everybody who came feel at home. I have secured his picture that I may see him often, and that others may, also that of Almiron Paine, stage driver to Dalton.
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He married! when a young man Elizabeth Wood. Mrs. Sally Parker his mother, became a nonogenarian, and died at the age of 92, outliving her husband.
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Mrs. Sanford Parker also survived her husband. Their children are Charles and Maysette Francelia. though generally called May. May married Henry Harck, eldest son of Frederick, a retired shoemaker.
His brothers and sisters.
II. 2. Lyman Parker, married Catharine Mallon. 3. Ezekiel, married Martha Lockwood sister to Frank. 4. Ruth, married Porter Warren. 5. Jane, married William Wood. Franklin L., married Julia A. Warren, daugh- ter of Porter and Maria Fuller Warren.
This youngest member of the family lost one of his legs but gets around about as rapidly as men with two. As a stock buyer he has been engaged for many years. His children live in Nunda and are therefore of the elect to De mentioned as of pioneer lineage.
III. Grace May, married Frank Peterson, Bradford, Pa. H. Roy, mar- ried Aletta Hussey.
There were several soldiers in the other Parker families. Milan Parker. a Nunda soldier died in the service. his sister Vicina married George Barney one of four brothers who were soldiers. He alone survives. Jefferson Parker a gentleman, a scholar and a soldier died in the service, Emerson Parker his brother, also died in the service. Another brother Earl, also a soldier is not living. Jasper Parker a fourth brother lives on the homestead. Ellen Parker imarried Hon. Washington Moses ( see Moses Family.)
IN GRANGER
The citizens of Granger were citizens, until 1827, of Nunda, and after that until 1838, were citizens of Grove. The town of Granger was first called West Grove.
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In 1816 Reuben Smith and his sons Wilcox and Isaac Smith and his sons- in-law, Rufus Trumbull and James McCoon, Mr. Ellis (Fr. Vet.) Elias Smith from Otsego County. Darling Smith from the same county, and his family, including Hiram Smith, born 1808. settled in the northeast part of town. his nearest neighbor on the north was three miles away, and on the south. seven. lra Hopper from Steuben County, settled in the south part of the town and William White from New England, near the center in 1818.
The first birth, in March, 1817, was of Olive Smith, which precedes any in Portage, Nunda or Grove. It appears there was a negro in the town named Jacques who died in 1817. also Olive Line, a name not previously mentioned.
In 1821 Isaac Hatch and Clarissa Pratt were married.
In 1819 Isaac Van Nostrand purchased 290 acres (lot 20) and for a time lived alone in his log cabin. He built the first saw-mill. It was west of the short tract road. Help was so scarce that he went to Caneadea and secured some Indians to assist. John S. Minard, historian of Allegany County. wishing to bring out the strong qualities of this vigorous and energetic pioneer, narrates this interesting incident of the "raising." "The timbers were heavy and in raising one of the "bents" some faint-hearted ones came near releasing their hold to the peril of all their lives. Van Nostrand seized a hand spike and threatened direct vengeance on anyone that did not do his utmost. Giving thundering command, 'He-o-heave' all lifted with a will and up went the bent into place."
William Moore and Isaac Hatch are mentioned as associated with Van Nostrand in the building of this saw-mill. The next year I. Van Nostrand built the first frame house in Granger. His son Luzon Van Nostrand, came on in May, the rest of the family in August.
Another circumstance showing the scarcity of useful things in this pio- neer settlement, as well as in others. was that Mr. Van Nostrand had the only timepiece in the settlement. and so it was arranged that he should blow upon a conch shell at four o'clock in the morning, at noon and at nine o'clock at night.
And so this man of parts and possessions regulated the rising, dinner hour and retiring time of his neiglibors. No wonder he became the first Supervisor of the town of Granger-and he held the same office in the town of Grove.
A man that could get the citizens of Nunda Village up at 4 A. M., and make them retire regularly at 9 P. M., would deserve to go to Congress, but I fear would be sent instead to a lunatic asylum.
"That artificial cut off. "early rising,"
so common in pioneer settlements-certainly does not exist even in rural life to-day, much less in villages or cities.
Miss Urzivilla Williams taught the first school.
Elias Smith kept the first inn in 1819, and the first store in 1820. Botlı inn and store were built of logs, and Mr. Patterson must have lived there for his little girl got lost in the woods. The whole community searched for her. The firing of a gun or the blowing of a horn, was to let the rest know, that the child had been found. No one. must fire, even at a deer. until then. The child was found next day, when an informal jublice of rejoicing was held, guns were fired, horns blown and bells rung. All this in one year makes 1819 an eventful vear in Granger, Grove and Nunda.
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The town of Granger was not formed until 1838, it was a part of Grove after it ceased to be a part of Nunda.
EARLY SETTLERS OF GRANGER
In 1820 Ephraim Bullock. a cooper from Vermont, added a new industry.
Two men of more than ordinary importance to the community settled in 1822 and 1823, viz .: Samuel Moses and Abner Comstalk. The latter is cred- ited with having cut seven miles of road leading to Nunda. He lived to a great age, and is buried in Oakwod Cemetery.
Blessed are the road-makers; for they are a blessing to themselves and others.
Enos Baldwin came from Mt. Morris in 1823 and lived all the rest of his life at his farm on the Short Tract. He had a double handle to his name. He was Captain of Militia and for 32 years Justice of the Peace. He died in 1876. His son G. W. Baldwin succeederi him on his farm.
A STORY OF A GRANGER PIONEER
Darling Smith of Granger, 1817, got out of meal, and as meal and wild game were "the chief of the diet of his family, he started on horseback for Lei- cester twenty miles away," with a bag of corn. The roads were abominable and traveling slow and he reached home the second day at midnight, tired and hungry. The good wife made some hasty pudding and the whole family were called up early, I A. M., and such a feast as they enjoyed, it is difficult to find words to express.
THE GRIMES FAMILIES
The Grimes brothers, Richard and Alvin, came to Barkertown neighbor- hood in 1820. They own so much land now that it is difficult for the younger members of the family to select from their large landed estate the original farms, their other lands have been in the family so long. Richard Grimes took up lot 112 and Alvin lot 114. James Brewer, a brother-in-law, probably owned 113 for a while, and William Shute, another brother-in-law, lot 115. The Donaldson farm, which soon came. through marriage, into the possession of J. P. Grimes, son of Richard Grimes, was a large one of 148 acres. All these farms were just south of the Barker farms, that gave name to the settlement.
The Grimes brothers were practical, industrious and frugal. They came and stayed and, unlike the "transients, the moving stones" of those days, they were "moss gatherers."
Richard Grimes, and Anna, his wife, were born in 1774 and lived to be respectively 88 and 83 years of age. Mrs. Grimes died in 1857 and her hus- band in 1862. Margaret Grimes, sister of Richard, born in 1798, died in 1861, aged 63. The son of Richard and Anna was Philip, who married Elizabeth, a daughter of John Donaldson. They also had but one son, John D. Grimes, who inherited the estates of his father and mother. He added greatly to both, until he had four hundred aeres.
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II. Richard Philip Grimes was born in Greene County in 1804, settled 1823. married 1826, died 1872, aged 68. Elizabeth Donaldson Grimes, born Wayne County, 1808. died 1877. aged 69.
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III. John Donaldson Grimes, born in Nunda 1829, was educated in Nunda District Schools and Nunda Literary Institute, was a farmer, four hun- dred acres, and teacher of ability, married Sarah A. Hovey, adopted daughter of J. A. Paine, born in Broome County, 1835, left an orphan in early life, mar- ried 1852, died in Nunda village, 1906, an earnest and zealous member of the Presbyterian Church. Children of John D. and Sarah A. Grimes: Frank H. married Miss Margaret Walker ;* Scott F., died 1906; Mills S., clergyman (Presbyterian ) of Nunda, married Miss Bell, a daughter of Rev. N. H. Bell; Blanche L .. married Fred LeClair, grandson of Thomas LeClair, Cooper. John D. Grimes was a successful raiser of hops, and Frank H., is experimenting in ginseng raising. He is the only ginseng farmer in this section. His daughter, Blanche, married John Colton, son of Simpson and Martha Colton. Sisters of Richard and Alvin Grimes: Margaret, single; Mrs. James Brewer and Mrs. William Shute.
THE TYLERS
The Tyler family were perhaps the first settlers of "Elmwood" at the foot of East Street in 1823 or 1824, or of a part of this farm. The family were Mr. Silas Tyler and Mrs. Tyler. Mrs. Tyler married (2) Jesse Barker, Sr., father of Seth Barker. Silas Barker died in 1826; the farm was then sold to Dea- con Bassett. Mr. Tyler was rich in daughters. Lucy married Solomon Donald- son (see Donaldson family).' Celestia J. married Leander Hill (see L. Hill family). She outlived all the early pioneers of Nunda ; had five sons and one daughter. Jerusha C., first wife of Albert Page (see Page family). She left three sons. She died in 1837. The youngest daughter was married to John F. Barber. They had no children. She lived but a few years; is buried at Oakland. There seems also to have been a Silas Gridley Tyler, who pur- chased the old McSweeny school house. foot of East Street, for $6. in 1827. and who owned a small house on the site of the M. E. Church. It is said that the widow of Silas Tyler (who died in 1826), the mother of all these fine daughters (who married so well), and probably of this son, Silas Gridley Tyler, was afterward married to the grandfather of M. O. Barker; so this family of Tylers were related to most of the prominent settlers of that time. Another family of Tylers not related to Silas or Eliphas; Ellioll Tyler and Abram Hemingway Tyler, were brothers, and though hundreds of miles apart both died on the same day : Ellioll was married to Cynthia Richardson, born 1800, daughter of Lieut. William Richardson, who settled in Nunda in 1820. Mrs. Tyler came with him with her four children. Alonzo, who mar- ried Miss Turza Guy, daughter of Jacob Guy, Melissa Willis and Mary. Abram H. Tyler's wife was a sister of Jesse and Amos Barker, and their son, Hemingway, was reared by his maiden aunts. He married ( first) his cousin, Miss Barker and (second) Mrs. Martha Colton, daughter of John Merithew.
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SHUTE-GRIMES FAMILY
I. William Shute, married Susannah Grimes; his son, Richard, married Susan Mull. daughter of Christopher Mull ; Almira M., married *Martin Smith : she resides in Barkertown. Her two sons: George, married Belle Abbott, Charles married Miss Tyler. All live at Barkertown. Her brothers, *Henry Shute, married Kate Bentley ; he died in 1907. Alfred married Polly Close ; he
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died in 1837; William married Betsey Brink; Alden, born 1804, married Theo- docia Hay ; he died 1854, she died 1856; Major, married Nancy King.
I. John Donaldson family.
II. 1. Solomon, married, first, Lucy Tyler, second, Mrs. Elvira (Page) Peck. The daughter of Mrs. Peck was Sarah Manette Peck, who married Sylvanus Ellis, Superintendent of Schools, Rochester, N. Y. Both are buried at Nunda.
II. 2. Boyd Donaldson, married Mary A. Consaulas. Their son *John Donaldson. * Mrs. Boyd Donaldson married *James Lemen. Their son *Frank Lemen.
II. 3. Abigail.
II. Elizabeth married Richard Philip Grimes (see Grimes family). * David Evans (veteran) married Melitta Grimes ; one daughter married Wirt. Cora Evans, married Charles VanBuskerk. Austin Evans died in the service.
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LEANDER HILLS FAMILY
I. Leander Hills pioneer. settled 1824. Leander Hill, wife and son, Bissell, came to Rochester by canal and by team the rest of the way, and set- tled on the Abbott farm, east of the Keshequa, in 1824. He was born 1801. went west after the war, died at Highland, Kansas, 1887. Mrs. Celestia J. Hill, born 1802, died at Highiland, Kansas, 1900, aged 9712 years. Their children : Lieut. Bissell died at Madison, Wis., 1893, aged 70. He was a Quar- termaster in a Wisconsin regiment but was mustered out because of sickness. Lathrop Hills commenced his engineering in Chautauqua Hollow with Myron Shepard, and went West with him and became an expert while locating a railroad from Denver. He was shot by Indians near where Cheyenne was afterwards built. Gen. Dodge, chief engineer, credited Division Engineer Seth Hills with saving the company $100,000 by a change of survey, over 20 miles of the route. Milton F. Hills served in Capt. Lemen's Company and was twice promoted. He was captured by the enemy and finally exchanged. His letters from Cripple Creek are glowing with boyhood recollections of the Nunda of former years. His two sons are mining engineers and metallurgists. Henry A. Hills was also a soldier. He went out with Capt. McNair's company as First Sergeant of Company F. He was promoted twice, succeeding our present townsman, Lieut. H. G. King, when the latter was promoted to First Lieutenant, and also became First Lieutenant when Lieut. King resigned. He is living at Highland, Kansas, and has two sons and two daughters. Seth Hills, an older brother, did not enter the service. He settled at Odin, Ill., and died there in 1901, aged 76 years. Mary Hills married David Allen of the good old Ethan Allen family, in 1862. She died at Highland, leaving one son and six daughters.
CLARK SHEPARD FAMILY
Clark Shepard, married Polly Johnson. Jehiel and Jesse. (brothers) Children of Clark and Polly: 1. Hancy, 2. Horace and 3. Mary. Mary A. Shepard, married Previse Perry, Jr. Charies Wirt Perry, married Mary Eliza- beth Chambers: John M. Perry, Nunda Laundry; Previse Perry, Sr., married Dolly Renix, lived in village when old. II. Adna, married in Penna; Wil-
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liam, married Weeks of Sparta ; Ephraim, married Squires ; Polly, married Butterfield: Susan, married Henry Walker of Nunda; Eliza, married Erastus D. Halstead: Dolly, married Samuel Seelve, of Nunda, ( son of Lyman Seelve. pioneer of Nunda) ; Sally, married Abraham DeGroff ; Previse married Mary A. Shepard: ( Mrs. Perry lives in Nunda with her son, John M.) : Charles, an M. D .. and Vet. Civil War, Surg., Michigan Regt .; Jane Renix ; Seneca, married Jane Rathbun ; James, a "forty-niner," died on his over- land journey to California ; Henry, married in Fredonia; Sanders a veteran Mich. Regt.
THE HALSTEADS
(1). Platt Halstead. Sr., married Lucy Sherwood, daughter of Zadock Sherwood. (II). Erastus D. Halstead, married Eliza Perry. (III). Platt C. Halstead, Deputy Sheriff. Supervisor, of Nunda, and Sheriff of Livingston County 1907, married (1) -----; (2) May Paine, daughter of Wells Paine.
SILSBY
(I). I. Jacob Silsby, married Mary Ann Shepard ; 2. (Brother Samuel Silsby).
Fred VanLiew and wife, Martin VanLiew ( veteran).
The Irwins succeeded one family of the Chapins at an early date before 1827. (I). Abel Irwin, married Mrs. Lane: Kate Lane, married Elisha Sherman; Thomas ; Samuel: Edward, married in the south, wife died; Jeru- sha ; Elizabeth ; Electa, married William W. Osgoodby, son of J. H. O.
John Batterson family lived on Mt. Morris side of line. Those who have lived in Nunda are : II. * William Batterson (veteran Civil War) ) married (1) *Harriet Alvard (2) MIrs. Morris). 3. John died in Indian warfare. III. Winfield Scott Batterson, married Ophelia Magee. (Mrs. Batterson had four brothers in the Civil War ) : Harriet. married Skellenger ; Bert Skellen- ger, married Town, blacksmith, daughter of Henry Town. Children of WV. S. and O. B. : Clara, married Hon. D. W. Hickey : Carrie, married Robert Squires ; * James Chambers, son of James Chambers, lived near the Skinner Mill, married Amanda Batterson. They had sons and daughters, one, Grant, is a Baptist clergyman, and another was President of Lestershire village, but has since then died. Mrs. John Butterson's second husband. Charles Henry Waver, was a veteran of the Florida war with Indians, and of the Civil War.
William Renix and Mrs. Renix ( Dolly Renix, married Previse Perry, Sr., probably a sister ). ' Cousins: Eliza Renix, married James Durvee, son of Renix Durvee : Mrs. James Durvee died in Nunda Village. A niece, Jen- nie Brodt, an adopted daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Durvee, married Ralston Conklin. Her daughters. Flora, married Suydam, son of Andrew S .; Ella, single.
Children of William Renix. (2) Mary Eliza Renix: Jane Ann Renix, married Seneca Perry : Henry : John : Agnes.
THE BASSETT FAMILY
The Bassett family lived at the foot of East Street. The family are men- tioned by sketch writers. They probably settled in 1826, sent four children to
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school, one of them named David, one Sabrina. They removed to Grove- Nunda before 1828, George Bassett owned a farm there later.
1826-THE GUYS
This family were early settlers and owned at various times several farms. Isaac Guy, was the pioneer, Jacob and Alexander his sons. There was also at one time a William N. Guy, wife and daughter, who belonged to the Baptist Church, they removed from there a few years after settlement. Isaac Guy, was connected with the distillery business, and Jacob Guy bought the William A. Wilcox property at Wilcox Corners since then known as Guy's Corners. Alexander Guy and sons were skillful shoemakers. Children of Alexander Guy. II. I. Louise C., married William C. Fuller, son of Joshua, (see Fuller family) ; 2. Delia A., a dressmaker : 3. Oscar, married Mary Ann Shippey ; 4. William H., married Maria Huggins ( daughter of William), whose daughter. III. Ella Guy, married Charles Downs, son of Martin and Sarah Downs; 5. Adeline Guy ; Orville and Clinton.
THE BAGLEYS-THE BUILDERS AND THE LAWYERS
1823. Captain ( Militia ) Henry Bagley, a carpenter and builder settled in Nunda when frame houses became a possibility, or a year before, if statistics of our settlement are correct. Indeed his services were in greater requisition at first at Hunt's Hollow, then the metropolis of ( Half-town ) Nunda. While there employed he was interested in a Presbyterian church movement that re- sulted in the building of a Presbyterian church there, which after a number of years became the Baptist church of Grove and Portage, now located at Hunt. But frame houses were a possibility in 1824 for, Willoughby Lowells' saw mill was active near where the Swain and Joslyn grist mill still stands and. it is said, then, or soon after, there were fourteen saw mills in the town of Portage on the Keshequa. Silas Warren was the first car- penter and he built many of the early frame houses. No man who ever lived in Nunda knew so much about who caused the building of all the houses in the place as Captain Bagley, and probably no one built more of them. He lived to be 92 years of age. though his last days were spent with his children. away from the village he did so much as a workman to build. No man in the community was better known or more respected. He honored the calling of "the Master" whose trade he shared. Married ( 1) Lucy Hoadley. (2) Eliza A. Brown. Children of Henry B. and Lucy Hoadley: George, who married Margaret Howell; Lucy Howell. married - Loomis, and died at Rushville. Children of Henry and Eliza : Mary married Lewis Bliss, their son Fred Bliss has been Mayor of Corry, Pa., where the family resides; Clif- ford H. Bagley, is married and lives in Corry, Pa. Benedict Bagley, a brother of Capt. Bagley, Nunda's second lawyer, came to Nunda about the time he was admitted to the bar 1834. A. C. Chipman came first. Addison M. Cranc came the same time, and Hon. Luther C. Peck, who preceded them all as a law- ver in the courts of Allegany, came in the spring of 1841. Until 1832 Nunda settled all its differences without a lawyer, but never since. Portage has never
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