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III. I. * Henry ; 2. * Samuel : 3. * Betsy ; 4. * Laura ; 5. * Cora. Children of Samuel and Clara : I. Charles : 2. Julia (Mrs. Healy) ; 3. Anna ; 4. Catherine.
Children of David and Malina :
III. I. Emma, married Addison J. Gordon, veteran of the Civil War, died 1887 ; 2. * Frank, journalist, died in 1886; 3. Charles, married Eva Purdy ; James, married. Mary Prescott.
Fourth Generation
Grandchildren of Samuel. Jr. : Child of Julia, who married Joshua Healy ; Anna Healy; daughters of Charles, who married Emma Wood; Clara and Helen.
Grandchildren of David and Malina : Children of Addison J. Gordan and Emma : Frank ; Cora, married Walter Wagor; Fred and Harry.
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Fifth Generation
Children of Walter and Cora Wagor, Robert and Frank. (II.) Mrs. Malina Swain, (III) Mrs. Emma Gordon and her children and grandchildren are all of the Swain family now living in Nunda.
The Jeffries family were : Hannah, Mrs. Dr. W. Z. Blanchard, son, John Celsus, born 1823 at Oakland : 2. Freedom ; 3. John, a dentist ; 4. Amesa, whose widow, Catharine Canfield Jeffries, married Rev. Luke Colby, her son, Knelon and John Norman Jefferies ; and Cynthia and Clara, first and second wives of Samuel Swain, Jr.
Dr. W. Z. Blanchard had been in partnership with farmer Nathaniel Clough in a store in Oakland. where farmer Clough lost several thousand dollars, and the Doctor made about the same sum. The Doctor came to Nunda in 1829, built the double house on State Street, and bought Riley Merrill's store now on Portage Street, and failing to secure a second partner soon sold it out and moved to Geneseo. His son, Celsus, was a rusher, pushed every- body out of his way, and looked out only for No. 1. His father sent him to Temple Hill Academy, Geneseo, but the restraint there proved too great and he ran away, hired out on a farm, and then joined a band of Indians, then went West, bought 50 acres of land, and when his father found him he induced him to study law. He became a great lawyer, a great political stump speaker. and finally ran for Governor of Michigan ; but he was a Democrat and the Democrats were not the winners. He made a fortune in a lumber deal, but died at the age of 83 of a hemorrhage of the lungs.
The Indians called him Optusue, which means, to push, to crowd, and evidently the name was not a misfit. He died March 8, 1805.
The double house on State Street near Barrell's shop, that needs to be torn down, is all that is left to recall the Dr. Blanchard family.
The young men of the Jefferies family, John Norman and Knelon, were as popular and attractive 50 years ago as any in town.
CHAPTER XVI.
NUNDA VALLEY-ITS PROGRESS AND CHANGES.
I N' 1831 a post office was established in the new village, and called Nunda Valley. It was located in the Joslyn store, corner of State and Mill Street. and Lindsley Joslyn was the postmaster, and Utley Spencer clerk of the store and deputy postmaster. Waite Joslyn, who had lost a limb in a threshing machine, was nominally the merchant.
Other stores were built and other storekeepers came. The Lyman Tobey grocery, now the East Street market, the oldest store in the village, stood north of the Joslyn store. Riley Merrill built the small corner store where Whitcomb & Richmond started their store in 1835. It has been twice moved. Who built the stores that made the town once such a fine business center is often asked. and not easily answered. From 1831 to 1834 there were built the very stores that are on the east side of the street. They were numbered from I to 6 and were called Merchants' Row: those on the west side, Farmers' Exchange. Blessed be the newspapers and all who advertise, for such only give the facts,
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and those only, the wise, advertise and so are remembered. Dr. Gilmore built one ( the Craig store) ; W. D. Hammond caused three to be built ; Rich- mond & Whitcomb built one, now torn down to make room for the village building. Quartus Barron built one, the one facing east and also State Street. Albert Page and H. D. Gardner built a block of three and called it Emporium. Some one built a block corner of First and State Street and called it the Em- pire Block ; it was burned in 1852. Roswell Bennett bought the store built by Lyman Tobey and moved it to East Street, so his daughter, Mrs. Charles Her- rick, says. W. H. Hammond bought the Chipman store that was built on the Hugh McNair place, and moved it to a driveway between the Earl Street market and the Emporium block. Morris Phillips may have built the narrow store next to Nunda House ; at any rate he owned it. Some of the newer ones, such as Mrs. Lake's store, the L. B. Warner store. the stores in the Living- ston block, built by Willard Wood, most all know about ; and the five stores in the Union block are too recent to need a chronicler.
If any person insists that Nunda has been a stand-still town, even the very buildings will brand the story as false, for at least 100 of them have been moved from their first location, and all the others have changed in appearance.
1832-NUNDA VALLEY
This year the hamlet known as Hubbell's Corners changed its name to Nunda Valley. The post office at Wilcox Corners was still on the side hill and was called Nunda post office. The Wilcox family had gone. East Hill had a post office of its own and the other new post office must have a name. It was located in the valley, hence its name. But this year a greater change was to take place. Watson, from Geneseo, a brother of the Watson who kept the Big Tree Tavern there, had rented or bought at least a year before, the frame house tavern of Alanson Hubbell. Lindsley Joslyn had built or bought the corner store (the Walter B. Whitcomb store) and his son, Waite Joslyn, was the merchant and the father became the postmaster, the first the village ever had. The public square or plaza had been laid out. East Street now terminated at the public square. Blocks of stores were provided for, and the building of them commenced. The Eagle Hotel and barn was in process of completion with proportions that seemed at that day magnificent. Evidently the builder and proprietor had been selling most of his half of lot 28, located in the very heart of the village, and most of the proceeds were used in the construction of this building. Opposite to it was a new store, facing East Street and the "Eagle," and on the west the Plaza. Quartus Barron was the builder, and J. H. Osgoodby had the contract for the construction.
West of the Eagle. on the present site of the post office, stood the "Jones barn," where the Baptists had worshiped since 1827, and now two churches were being added : one, the Baptist, on the corner of Mill and Church Streets : and the Presbyterian (now the Methodist), not far from, but east of the present site of the latter edifice. William D. Hammond had come from Hume and had built the house on Portage Street now known as the Gunsmith Ben- nett place, and east of this John S. Wright had erected a house, for he was a builder. the house lately occupied by Miss Rachel Bennett. Possibly the great barn-like building attached to this place, in which the first foundry was located
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a few years afterward. had served as the Hotel barn for Hubbell and Watson. Its location back from Portage Street may serve to show the people of the present day where East Street formerly was (before Portage Street and Mill Street had any existence), just in front of this building.
At this time we are informed by the late Mrs. W. D. Hammond that there were on the Plaza no less than two frog ponds, densely populated, and that in their season the evening concerts given by their inhabitants have never since been rivaled in some particulars. But W. D. Hammond had come to stay and to have a hand in the building and unbuilding of the village. He bought some of the land in the rear of one of these ponds, and caused them to be drained, built an office for himself and became for the rest of his life a Justice of the Peace.
Just when this space between the stores of Quartus Barron on the north, and Joslyn on the south, was filled out with stores is to the writer unknown. Several remember Lyman Tobey's grocery and notion store, located near the site of Peck's City Drug Store, before the construction of that building ; others insist it was the same building, while Mrs. Augusta Herrick, daughter of Ros- well Bennett, of Portage, 1821, and of Nunda much later, says it was the present East Street market. The Swain store, or block, for the building south of it is not new or modern, was built about this time. Some say there are indications that this building has once been moved ; but if so it was only moved a few feet, when Portage Street was given an existence in its present form and when East Street was cut off at the square.
CHAPTER XVII.
SOME OF THE TOWN MAKERS-IT TAKES MERCHANTS AND MECHANICS TO MAKE A TOWN-ABOUT 1830 THESE CAME.
I. Elihu Dickenson (Gibbs Place).
II. His daugher married David Holmes (wagonmaker), Buffalo Street (F. H. Gibbs. foreman).
III. I. Elihu Holmes and 2 Erastus Holmes, were his sons. Holmes Street is named for him.
II. 2. Enos Dickenson, owned Elmwood and afterward the Dickenson farm he bought of Ralph Page. His wife's name was Berry.
III. Enos, Jr., Elihu, 2d, married (first) Almira Perrin, (second) Miss Doty ; Eliza, married A. Keith ; William ; Orren, who sold out and went West.
II. Emolus O. Dickenson, nephew to Elihu, came to Nunda in 1850. married Lydia Starkweather, and had four daughters; was farmer, drover, merchant and Supervisor. (See photo of Supervisors of Nunda ).
1828-CAME TO NUNDA VILLAGE
Hon. Nathaniel Coe, ex-member of Assembly, came from Cayuga County to Portage-Nunda. He was a cousin of Yates Bennett, Charles D. Bennett and Joel Bennett. He built a house on Mill Street (repaired by Horace Dake). married Mary, a bright woman with poetic tendencies. His sons were Law-
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rence W., Charles C. and Eugene F. The family went to Washington Terri- tory, and the sons were conspicuous in navigating with steamboats the Colum- bia River.
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William Haldane, architect and builder of First Presbyterian Church- now Methodist Episcopal Church-built Episcopal rectory and lived there. He built the Cobblestone house for Quartus Barron ; also Moses Barron's farm house and Mrs. Bowhall's house, which was burned in 1908.
Mr. Webb built Benson-Lake Mrs. Johnson house.
Thomas Horner, born in 1800, died 1881, aged 81 ; wife, Jane Horner.
Mr. Horner, at one time a prominent business man, born in 1803, died 1893, aged 90.
I. John Morey, born 1794, died 1865, aged 71; Jane Morey, born 1793, died 1866, aged 73.
II. Eliza Morey, born 1803, died 1861, aged 58, married H. M. Bradley. (See Bradley family.)
The Chapins families came into the village about this time, and the son, John, built the house where Esquire Hammond lived so long. He also had a cabinet shop east of it, which serves Elmer Van Gilder of Church Street as a dwelling house. His father. John, Sr .. lived east of the Baptist Church, and a grandson, William Dunn. lived with them. William, when thirsty, would walk to Dansville, fifteen miles-almost daily- for drink he could not obtain at home. No Indian was fleeter than Bill Dunn. He was indispensable at exhibitions and because of his speed became constable.
1828-LYMAN HERRICK FAMILY
This small family of excellent people require but little space. The Deacon had been married thrice. He was not connected with the Zadock Herrick family, nor the John Herrick family from East Hill. His first wife was his second wife was a sister to Amos Carpenter, and his third wife was Mrs. Maria Winchell Nurse.
Lyman Herrick settled first where James M. Carroll "Waxy" now lives. He afterward for a time owned Elmwood, which was at that time simply a farm with ordinary buildings upon it. In connection with Rev. Luke Colby they had a nursery-then much needed-for every new farm needed an orchard.
II. Elsie Elvira, his only daughter, married (first) *Abraham Dake, (second) ---- Wiley. A niece married Harvey Farley, School Commissioner of Springwater.
From 1826 to 1828 these families settled here :
Jackson Robinson and wife, Caroline M., and son, Peter, who studied for and became a Baptist clergyman. Josiah and Elizabeth Chandler, and daugh- ter, Bertha, who became Mrs. Hagadorn. Archibald Colburn and wife, Char- ity. Jonathan and Lucy Colburn and son, Charles. Asa and Nellie Pierce (Jonathan Miller farm ) ; children, Diana. Julia and Marian. Merritt Colby family. Mrs. Colby, son Col. Newton B. Colby (See Book IV)) married ( first ) Mary Chase ; children, Fred and Frank, born in Nunda ( Frank a clergy-
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. man), Kittie, born in Corning, Walter B., born in Nunda, and William ; mar- ried (second) Mrs. Victoria Whitcomb Wood, son, Robert Colby, also a clergy- man. Rev. Luke Colby (a brother), married Mrs. Catharine Jeffries, son, Prof. John P. Colby (see College list ) ; Knelon Jeffries, son of Mrs. Jeffries.
THE GROVERS, MOSTLY MERCHANTS, CHILDREN OF SOLOMON GROVER, VETERAN, 1812, SPRINGWATER
The Grovers, who came to Nunda about 1831. were the sons of Solomon Grover. a veteran of 1812. His first wife was Betsey Stone, and his second, Betsey Barber. None of these three ever lived in Nunda. The veteran died at Oconomowoc. Wis. Their children were:
I. Cela, married - Lummis ; (2. William, 3. Salmon, and 4. Ethan, did not live in Nunda ).
I. 5. Nancy, married David Hatch. Sr., who died in Nunda.
II. I. Silas Hatch (clerk for his uncles), married Abby Huffman. 2. *Volney Hatch, died at Milwaukee. 3. * Mary Jane, married Hugh McNair. 4. *Miranda, married Joel C. Chase (see Chase family). 5. * Charles, died at Fon- dulac. 6. David, living in the West.
I. 6. Daniel Grover. kept Eagle Hotel, married Mary Huntington, left Nunda in 1845.
II. Milo, born 1828. of Oconomowoc, Wis. : * Eunice. born 1831, married Pursell. of Springwater; Daniel. Jr., born 1840, married ( wife died) ; he died 1902; Laura, born 1836, married H. C. Carpenter.
Mrs. H. C. Carpenter, born in Nunda, furnished these family statisties. Her brother, Milo, lives with her at Oconomowoc, Wis.
I. 6. Silas Grover, was the first of family to settle in Nunda and one of the pioneer merchants of the place. He was a very popular man. His store was more like the stores in older settlements. He had a partner sometimes, and at others depended on clerks. Hiram C. Grover and a cousin named Wood- bury were his first clerks. Silas Hatch, his nephew, clerked for him. Grover & Noyes was the firm at one time, Grover Brothers at another.
*Silas Grover married *Submit Huffman, sister of Col. Huffman. He continued in business until the railroad was completed from Hornellsville to Attica, and then became the first agent at Nunda Station, in 1852.
The Grovers and Hatches were Universalists.
I. 8. Hiram C. Grover. born 1812, clerk, merchant, speculator, house builder and marketman, was a man of versatile accomplishments. a fine book- keeper and could do most anything. Of genial temperament, he was a leader in the social life of his day. He took life less seriously than was customary in those days, when sedateness was the rule, and mirthfulness the exception. (See photo.)
The wife of Hiram Grover. Emily Curtis, was a dignified. quiet lady, as unlike her vivacious husband as could be. She was a favorite with all who knew her; something of a "Martha" in household matters, faithful to every detail of duty.
The children of H. C. and Emily Grover were: * Jane (better known as Jennie), who became Mrs. William Craig ; Mary, now Mrs. W. H. Willett. of
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Hornell, both skilled in music : * Fred C., a painter with artistic skill, died in 1906. Of these, only Mrs. Willett is living. She resides in Hornell, N. Y.
For children of William and Jennie Craig see James Craig family, 1852.
9. Betsey Ann Grover married Leonard L. Church, a licensed clergyman of the Universalist Church.
10. Morgan Grover. married Harriet Barber.
III. I. * Surendus Ladorma. 2. Hiram.
This completes the family record furnished by Mrs. Laura Grover Car- penter.
BEFORE 1828-THE VARIOUS SMITH FAMILIES IN NUNDA VILLAGE
Widow Smith family : daughters. Cleopatra, Sophia and Agnes ; also a son. Smith, the carpenter, built Peck-Dake house ; children, Jane. Charlotte, Demas, Martha, Nelson. James. Also families of David Smith, William Smith, Jesse Smith (wife Polly) and Peter Smith.
1831-CHANDLER-SMITH FAMILY-THREE SISTERS
The Smith sisters, who came to Nunda after their married life began. were daughters of Phineas and Sylvia Smith of Heath. Mass. Mr. Smith died January 14, 1848, and his widow afterward married Joseph Waldo and lived in Nunda. All these people were Presbyterians and when some of them settled, in 1831, it was in time to take part in the new Presbyterian Church movement that was inaugurated that year in a different part of the town.
Nathaniel Chandler settled first on the State Road and succeeded so well that he sold his farm and bought the larger one extending from the Keshequa to the State Road that had been owned by Jonathan Barron. The Chandler farm, with its good buildings and fine, level farm lands, are too well known to need description. Mr. Chandler's farm had much of it been Indian lands but became, under skillful cultivation, one of the best in the section.
The wife of Nathaniel Chandler was Sylvia Smith. Their children were : Edward H., born about 1829; George W., his brother, some ten years or more later. The former married - Bradford, a niece of Suranus Britton, and the latter, Helen. or Nellie, Whitcomb, daughter of Walter Whitcomb, Sr.
Edward H. was connected with all the early schools and societies, and was a prominent factor in school circles.
George H. was prominent in school and social circles during the Barrett regime, and fitted for college at an early age. He entered Union College but was obliged to take a sea voyage for his health the year he would have com- pleted his course. He secured his health by the loss of his diploma.
Ansel Kendrick married Dorcas Smith and settled on the road east of the Creek Road. Their children were: P. Dudley Kendrick, who married Esther Gilbert, daughter of Andrew Gilbert ; and a sister, Sylvia. Ansel Ken- drick died in 1846, aged 51.
Gulielmus Wing married Diantha Smith and was a neighbor to Kendrick. They also had two children: Frederick Wing and a daughter. Harriet Wing. Hle afterward bought a farm near Hunts and lived there several years. Mr. Wing was an active factor in the Presbyterian Church movement at Oakland.
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Not a member of these families is left in Nunda, as George W. Chandler and children are the only living members of these families and they have lived for years in Milwaukee ; but Mr. Chandler cherishes an ardent affection for his boyhood home. His children (born in Nunda) are Walter and Elsie.
DAVID BUTLER FAMILY
David Butler lived with a four-fold family in the first house west of Craig's warehouse, Buffalo Street, was by trade a blacksmith, married Alice Welling- ton, who claimed kinship with the Duke of Wellington. Mr. Butler's people were Quakers and lived on Beacon Street, Boston. This family were Univer- salists.
II. I. * Elvira Butler, married (first) *_ Starkweather, (second) *Eliphas Tyler, J. P.
III. 1. Mary Starkweather, married William Huffman, Jr., a veteran in an Illinois regiment. died 1906. 2. Lydia Starkweather, married, 1830, Emolus O. Dickenson.
IV. I. Nellie, died 190 -: Dr. Baker.
V. I. Leala D. Baker (see College Graduates and Club).
IV. 2. Allie J., married William McArthur ; have one son, Harold.
IV. 3. Mattie M., married James Herrick, son of Calvin.
IV. 4. Neva, died, aged 18.
II. 2. A widow (Mrs. Yates). 3. Anice, married Nathan Sherwood. 4. Martha G., married Reuben Sherwood. 5. Benjamin D., married - Hoff- man (see Patriots War).
Mrs. Tyler lived to a good old age and is buried in Oakwood. The But- lers went West about 1839 and settled at Nunda, Ill.
1832-SKINNER FAMILY
Samuel Skinner was a lumberman on a large scale and a prominent citizen of Nunda. His second wife was Mrs. Edward Swain.
I. Henry, married Mary Conklin, daughter of D. I. Conklin; Abbot. married Louise Hyde, daughter of Mrs. Hyde Bachus.
III. * Bert, married Libbie Ryder; Sylvia Skinner, married Charles Wheeler (attended school here ) ; Louis Skinner, married (first) Delyea Tuthill. (second) Eliza Tuthill : Col. Louis Skinner, veteran of 104th New York Regi- ment, died in Colorado, buried in Oakwood ( see Patriotic Nunda Department ) ; Nelson Skinner. enlisted, nothing further known of him; Adelbert Skinner and Ophelia Skinner, attended school here.
I. Hon. Samuel Skinner, one of the most energetic of Nunda citizens, was a lumberman, manufacturer and public man. He served his town as Super- visor and his county as member of Assembly. He was a Republican, and in church relations a Baptist.
HYDE-BACKUS FAMILY
Miss Eveline Donaldson married (first) Hyde, (second) Mr. Backus, a shoemaker ; lived next to Session House.
II. Louise Hyde, married Abbott Skimmer. Mr. Skinner died about 1842 of a plague that prevailed that year, called black erysipelas.
III. Bert, married Libbie Rider, daughter of J. F. Rider ; lived and died at Titusville, Pa. : buried in Oakwood.
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THE GILMORES
John Gilmore came to Nunda in 1831 (see sketch of self-made men), mar- ried Ann Eliza Watson. Their daughter, I. Lizzie, married George Carter. who became blind. Their daughter, Georgia Carter, married -; 2. Louis ; Jane Gilmore married Charles W. King; Dr. James Gilmore married Emaline Townsend. of Pike. Their daughter, Emily Gilmore, married Captain James M. McNair (see McNair family, 1836) ; Nelson Gilmore and wife.
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*Julius and *Polly Carver settled in the village, first had charge of an asliery and afterwards worked at coopering at Coopersville.
I. Malvina. 2. Ursula Martha. 3. * Mahala, married - - Wilcox, died March, 1908, at Whitesville ; Olive, married *- -; Lyman, a veteran. of the 85th New York Regiment; Emma, married Kelley, a photographer.
1832-BELA WRIGHT, OUR FIRST KNIFE MAKER
Bela Wright, our first knife maker, made jack knives with steel handles. His first wife was Sarah McClellan. a cousin to Gen. George B. McClellan. His sons were : John A. Wright, who married Amelia Bacon ; John A. was a veteran of the war, in the 104th Regiment. and is now in a soldiers' home. As he is 75 years of age there can be no better place for him Robert R. Wright. was one of the early stage drivers from Nunda to Pike when Nunda had sev- eral stage routes. He also served the corporation for 29 years as night watch- man and was once shot by burglars. He is one of the few who have lived in youth and in age ( about 60 years) in Nunda. He married ( first) Mary Aun Brown, who was the mother of his four children, Anna, Sarah, Frank and Charles. He married (second) Lottie Olney, daughter of John F. and Fanny Adams Olney. Frank is a pharmacist, serving in the regular army, in that capacity. Charles is a machinist. He married Esther Greenfield, daughter 01 Henry Greenfield, a veteran. They have one son, Robert.
Mr. Bela Wright's second wife was Catharine Barnes, sister to Russell, Nathaniel and Allen Barnes, and to Polly, second wife of Deacon David Thayer. Wright. Barnes & Thayer had a knife factory on Massachusetts Street. The building still exists but has changed front and serves as a shop for Frank Aspinwall. From this start has grown the Woodworth knife works of to-day.
The family of Deacon David Thayer came to Nunda before canal days. A young lady. Miss Eliza Brown, who became the second wife of Capt. Henry Bagley, came with them. The sons of David Thayer were noted for their scholarship. David Havens Thayer and Henry B. Thayer both graduated at Union College and became Presbyterian clergymen.
Rev. Henry B. Thayer and wife taught a select school in Nunda, in the Session House, previous to the building of the Brick Academy. Deacon Thayer made candles, matches and soap, and built the building known for years as the castle. It was designed for a canal warehouse but the surveyors afterward changed the survey and left the warehouse several rods from the canal. The building was rented to several families during canal days. It was not exactly "a flat"; in fact. it was "very tall and steep." It has since been
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lowered at the base and the upper story taken down, and after much expendi- ture of money has become one of the attractive houses on State Street, the present residence of Dr. John P. Brown.
An amusing incident once occurred at a revival service. An employe of the deacon-we will call him William Blank-had been forward for prayers once, but did not come again for several nights. When urged to go forward again he declined, saying it was no use for him to try to get religion while he was helping Deacon Thayer dip candles. The boy meant that the Deacon kept him too busy. As the Deacon was noted for his piety, the joke seemed all the greater, the implication in the statement furnishing the source of amusement.
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