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The long and honorable list of residents includes such names as among the later comers, John P. Van Valkenburgh, Buel Maben, John M. Todd, Benjamin Crosby, Isaac T. Moseman, William D. Ford, Rev. Daniel Van Valkenburgh, Nathaniel Ellis, Lawrence Brooks, Russell Peck, Silas Lake, Conger Avery.
Conger Avery was the first supervisor of the town, also postmaster.
Joseph B. Brooks in 1813 built the first frame house.
The first school was in a log house, in 1816, and Sally Kline is said to have been the teacher.
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The town of Halcott bonded in 1874 for $10,000 for the purpose of assisting in the building of the Rondout and Oswego railroad, which was projected but never built. The bonds however were all paid, while the road was sold under mortgage.
Outside of farming Halcott has had few industries. There have been several saw mills, Fred Banker in 1824 erecting the first one.
The Morse Stores at Red Falls.
The first church organized in the town was in 1822, of Baptist denomination and Elder James Mead was the pastor up to 1856. The first meetings were held in private houses and it was not until 1847 that a church was erected. This church was abandoned later on and the meetings were held at the school house.
The Methodist church was organized in 1829, with the Rev. John P. Van Valkenburgh as pastor, and it was not until 1849 that a church was built, the meetings being held in private houses and barns.
The principal village is Halcott Center. It is on the main road from West Kill to Griffin's Corners.
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The present supervisor of the town is Earle W. Jenkins, whose picture appears in connection with this article.
We are indebted to Mr. Jenkins for the picture of the beautiful grave yard at Halcott Center, which is one of the finest in the county.
Jewett
The first settler of Jewett is said to have been William Gass, who located on the East Kill in 1783. Later came Zaphaniah Chase, Chester Hull the Andrews family, the Pecks, Johnstons. Henry Gos- Ice, grandfather of Supervisor Fred Goslee, was one of the most prominent of the early residents, who represented the town officially a number of times. Laban Andrews built a grist mill in 1795, and also a saw mill. Zadock Pratt and his son, Zadock Pratt, were promoters of the first tannery. They also had a mill that was operated by horse Fred Goslee power. The Andrew mills were wiped out by freshets. Ezra Pratt had a tannery which was destroyed by fire.
Most of the early settlers came from Connecticut and were of Puritan stock. So far as we have been able to learn Jewett was the only portion of Greene county that ever was represented by a whipping post and stocks, a custom that was brought by the Con- gregationalists from Connecticut. The whipping post was located near the Presbyterian church. This institution of the old blue laws was used but once and then the whole apparatus was torn down and carried away by parties unknown. There were no clocks in that period, and the only method of getting the time was
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by sun dials, and those who had no dials made noon marks.
Jewett, like other towns of the county had the early acad- emy fever, and an academy was built in 1818, with Professor Douglass as instructor. This building, which was 2 stories, was used also as a meeting place by the Methodists. It was finally torn down and the lumber put into another academy.
Old Stone House at Drummond Falls.
The Presbyterian church was early in the field, but the first building about 1800 was not finished and the present structure was erected in 1848. The Rev. Mr. Stimpson was first pastor and he later on became a missionary. The present pastor is James Hewett.
The Methodists built churches at Jewett Heights, at South Jewett and East Kill. We are unable to discover from the con- ference records that any of these churches have pastors at the present time. Local preachers have been in the habit of supply- ing them.
The Buel brothers had a saw mill and grist mill in 1800, and later on they put in machinery for carding wool. Then they added a great smithy with a trip hammer that was operated by water power.
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Lexington
The town of Lexington was formed from Windham in 1813, and it was all of Great Lot 22 and part of 23. In 1777 it was owned by Robert Livingston, and he con- veved a portion of it to John Darl- ing and the latter sold it to theKipp family, who still reside on a portion of it
Among the carliest residents of whom we have any mention are: John Maben, Samuel Peck, Derrick Schermerhorn, the Showers, Sopers, Hesses, and Bronsons, prior to 1800. A little later came the Van Valken- burghs, Faulkners, Rowleys, Petits, Barbers, Chamberlains and others.
Abram V Roraback
John Maben settled in the town in 1777.
David Foster is referred to as a hero of the Revolution.
Another of the early settlers was Daniel Angle, and he came to this country with the Hessian troops and was among the number captured at the battle of Saratoga. He was in Burgoyne's army, but soon after capture re-enlisted in the Continental army, and later on he settled in Lexington. He died at the age of 107, and his grave is still pointed out on the Angle place. His son, Christopher Angle, saw service in 1812 at Plattsburgh. He was captain of the Lexington artillery company.
Henry ('line was also a Hessian soldier, and re-enlisted in the Continental army, settling at Lexington after the war.
('aptain Aaron Bushnell, also a Revolutionary character built a tannery in 1830. He employed 60 men.
Later settlers in Lexington were John Roraback, A. H. Decker, James Deyo and John Bonsteel.
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Captain Monroe Van Valkenburgh, father of County Clerk George B. Van Valkenburgh, was an early settler, and reference to him will be found elsewhere in this book.
John Bray built the first tannery at Lexington in 1819, and he added a grist mill and a saw mill and did a great business.
Bruce Smith built a grist mill and a distillery in 1823.
The first woolen mill was erected by Derrick Schermerhorn and Richard Peck established the first inn.
Col. Zadock Pratt org mized a military company at Lex- ington in 1820. This organization was continued up to the open- ing of the Civil War. It was then reorganized by James Munroe Van Valkenburgh, who was commissioned captain Edwin Ford was 1st lieutenant.
The company formed a part of the 86th regiment, It was disbanded in 1872.
Eder Barnum is said to have been the first physician in the town.
The first settler in the West Kill . section of the town was Jerome Van Valkenburgh, 1780.
William Dryer built a woolen factory, which was operated up to 1869 when a freshet carried it away.
Hiram Wheeler and Jacob Van Valkenburgh built a grist mill in 1847 and this was operated for many years.
Philo Bushnell also started a tannery, which was burned down later on, and rebuilt to the size of 300 feet. Iratus Bush- nell later owned this property and built another one at Bushnell- ville.
The first supervisor of the town of Lexington was Henry Goslee, grandfather of the present supervisor of Jewett, Freder- ick M. Goslee.
The Methodist church of West Kill was organized in 1866.
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The Westkill Baptist Church was established in 1827, and here Elder Petit officiated for 30 years.
The old school Baptist church at Lexington was organized in 1790, and Thaddeus Bronson was the first pastor. Elder Hez- ekiah Petit was preaching in this church in 1801, and was for 50 years and more pastor of this crngregation. The Petit family came from France, and Hannah Petit, a sister of Hezekiah Petit, mar- ried James Holdridge, father of George W. Holdridge of Catskill. Elder Petit preached most of the time without pay.
The New School Baptist church at Lexington was organized in 1870. Meetings were held in the arsenal of the town.
The Methodist church was organized in 1845 and the pres- ent pastor is Paul Ford.
The first school teacher was Sally Cline. The teachers at the present time may be found in the list of teachers of entire county elsewhere in this book.
Hunter
Thomas Seifferth, Jr.
The town of Hunter is par- of a grant of land by Queen Anne, to Johannes Harden- burgh and six others in 1708, and this patent contined 1,- 500,000 acres and extended as far as Popaghtunk, Delaware county. Hunter comprised 5 lots of the patent, over 47,000 acres, assessed at a million and a quarter. It was formerly a part of Ulster county. It was taken from the town of Wind- ham in 1813, the section be- ing known as Greenland. The earliest settlers
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and Elisha, who came from Connecticut. were few settlers prior to 1800. Among the first comers were the Greenes, Goodsells, Lanes, Dibbels, Merrits, Baldwins, Showers, and Roggens. Bears, wolves and panthers ranged the woods and bounties as high as $40 were paid for their capture. The first postoffice route was established by the Government in 1830, from Prattsville to Catskill, passing through Hunter and Lexington.
In 1851 Hunter had 151 persons liable for military duty and several early residents were in the war of 1812, Aaron Had- den, William Greene and Asa Lord being among the number.
Tanning and milling has given place to summer boarding, and the largest and finest houses in the county are to be found at Tannersville and Haines Falls. Tannersville is the Mecca of the city people in the summer.
The first supervisor of the town of Hunter was Daniel Bloomer, and the present supervisor is Thomas Seifferth, Jr.
Hunter village was founded by Col. William Edwards, and was called Edwardsville. The Colonel was born at Elizabethtown, N. J. in 1770. In 1818 he came to Greene county and settled at Hunter, where he established the New York Tannery, a plant that had a capital of $60,000 and could tan 5000 hides a year. This tannery was destroyed by fire in 1830. Johnathan Palen of Cats- kill had another big tannery in the Clove and that place is said to have been the original Tannersville.
Hunter has been proverbial for excellent roads and Michael ()'Hara of Tannersville is at the head of the county road system.
The town of Hunter industries have been lumbering, still going on, manufacture of chairs, and mountain souvenirs, C. O. Bicklemann and Burt Howard having been very successful. Mr. Bicklemann was also the finest photographer in the country.
One of the old landmarks still doing a fine business is the Roggen House, now Martin's hotel, C. A. Martin, proprietor. Tannersville has several of the largest stores in the county, and
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the largest garage, that of Robert Lackey on Main street. J. Frank Lackey has a large grocery business, John H. Gray garage and livery, Schryver & Webster livery, S. R. Hommell electrical store, Irving Goslee electrical store, Oscar Langer jewelery, O. H. Perry coal and lumber, Bert Baker plumbing, Mrs. A. Allen hardware, Lackey & Dibbel attorneys, F. R. Raensch notions, Owen Bowes plumbing, Haines Brothers meats, Fred Penrose cafe, M. Gold- stein cafe, Jacob Fromer real estate, Fred Campbell blacksmith.
Main Street Tannersville, 1905, now built up.
The village officers of Tannersville are: President Robert Y. Hubbard, Trustee Louis P. Allen, Treasurer J. Frank Lackey, and Collector Clarence Fowler."
At the annual communication of Mt. Tabor Star Chapter No 284, O. E. S. the following officers were elected: Ella Joslyn, Worthy Matron; Peter Joslyn, Worthy Patron, Minnie L. Kerr, Associate Matron; Blanche Milier, Conductress; Annabelle Good- sell, Treasurer; Howard V. Vedder, Secretary; J. G. Edwards, Trustee.
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Hotel Martin, formerly Roggen Mt. Home.
At the annual election of the Lockwood Lodge No. 653, 1. O. O. F., the following officers were elected: N. G. ,R. G. Win- ters; V. G., John J. Kay; Secretary, George E. Sweet ; Treasurer, Albert B. Taylor; Trustee, Charles Quick.
The following is the roster of officers of Hunter Fire Co. No. One: Pres. W. J. Decker, Vice-Pres. W. H. Ingalls, Rec. Sec. H. V. Vedder, Fin. Sec. Geo. P. Howard, Forman A. B. Tay- lor, Asst. Foreman James Fromer.
The officers of the year of Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1 are: Pres. C.M. Cartwright, Vice-Pres. Charles Shuman, Rec. Sec. C. A. Mooney, Fin. Sec. Benj. Sturtz, Treas. P. H. Conerty, Fore- man V. S. Baldwin, 1st Asst. Forman Benj. Sturtz, 2d Asst. Foreman Harry Smith.
In all Greene county there is no place that has built up more rapidly than Haines Falls, in the past twenty years. It isn't so long either back to the period when there were most Haines in
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that section. There were seven Haines families who joined lands all in a row, and one of the early residents was Christian Charles W. Haines, who conducted the Haines Falls House for a long per- iod of years. He also owned the Falls that have ever since borne his name. He had the Falls fenced in and 30 years ago when the traveler wanted to see the mighty mountain cataract, he was con- ducted down a long stairway with many a caution about slipping, and then the water was turned on for the sum of 25 cents per visitor. This grand old man was regarded as one of the great men of his day. He died in 1903. The Haines Falls House was destroyed by a fire Nov. 17, 1911, that started in the kitchen. The loss was upwards of $75,000. The place has not been re- built .
But we started to tell of the new buildings.
First mention should no doubt be given to the Twilight, Santa Cruz and Sunset Parks, where no less than 250 cottages have been erected, all commodious and artistic, and some of the houses worth many thousands of dollars.
Twilight Inn, property of the Park Association, is the fin- est of the large mountain hotels. It cost more than $100,000. It has been in charge of L. P. Schutt the past two years. It was damaged by fire last summer at a loss of $4500.
Sunset Inn is the most sightly, managed by Joseph Bryne, accommodates 100 guests and is modern in every way.
The Squirrel Inn is another fine structure.
Santa Cruz Inn is conducted by Mrs. French.
The Ledge End Inn is conducted by the Misses Albertson.
The park has a water system with 5 steel tanks, 50 feet in diameter and costing a large sum. They were built by E. A. Hues- ton.
Among the proment men who own cottages in the park are E. E. Olcott of the Day Line, Gen, George F. Wingate, Bliss Car- man, A. F. Huested of Coatsville, Pa., a wealthy steel manufact- urer, Mrs. F. W. Picard, Prof. F. R, Hutton of Columbia College, Major W. H. Wiley, Robert Fulton, a descendant of Robert Ful- ton, who built the first steamboat navigated on the Hudson river,
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John G. Underhill, Mrs. A. C. Benedict, Raymond Gorges, Dr. W. N. Hubbard, Charles P. Hathaway, Dr. Lester M. Hubby, E. R. Crowe and most of the other cottages are the property of the association and are rented during the season to persons from New York and other cities.
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Lox. Hurst, Haines Falls, C. A. Martin, propr.
General Geo. Wingate, president of the Twilight Rest Com- pany, was the originator of the park company and built the Inn. His cottage is the finest in the park.
There are two handsome churches in the park. The All Angels Episcopal and the Union Chapel. Undenominational,
St. Mary's church is a fine edice with stained glass win- dows, has parsonage abjoining and also a commodious hall built last summer.
The Methodist church has been rebuilt also.
Miss A. Ely, who conducts the Vista, has a block of fine stores.
Henry Smith and Company have an extensive livery busi- ness with fine buildings in the Park. They operate some 50 rigs in the summer, 2 autos and employ 18 men.
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Among the other houses that have been erected, the Antlers is the largest and probably worth $75,000. On this road leading to the Mountain House are at least 75 houses, mostly new and a number of buildings.
E. E. Pelham has made a remarkable change at the top of ('love notch, and has spent 825,000 on his big boarding house, with a garage 40x20 feet. Fred Pleham, his son, has just com- pleted a handsome cottage overlooking the C'love.
C. A. Martin has expended $30,000 on the Lox-Hurst, new cottage and enlargement of the house. Samuel E. Rusk has built the Claremont, a splendid summer house worth $50,000.
The Vista adjoins, and Mrs. Ely, the proprietor, has built a block of stores. Rusk and Andrews have put up the largest theatre in the Catskills, known as the Wauwanda. Frank Smith has built a big store, and cottage. One of the improvements is the handsome depot of the U. & D. Ry. in the rear of the Lox- Hurst. The Renner Mountain Inn has been transformed like the palace of a dream and R. W. Renner, the proprietor, boasts a hostelry second to none in every way.
The property of the Haines Falls Coal and Lumber Com- pany has all new buildings and is very valuable. This business was started by W. I. Hallenbeck, one of the grand men who has represented Greene county in many ways. The Fenmore owned by him is commodious and beautiful and he has completed a fine new cottage opposite.
The Polischners conduct a big garage near the corners, J. B. Myers has a fine grocery and general store.
S. E. Rusk has built a new postoffice building. The Falls has 700 population estimated, and during the summer about 6000. At that period, Postmaster Rusk informs us, that he handles 10,000 pieces of mail daily. Mr. Rusk was the man who negotia- ted the postoffice for Haines Falls and Samuel P. Schutt was the first postmaster. The building was 8x14 feet. The successive
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postmasters were S. E. Rusk, W. I. Hallenbeck, C. A. Martin, Albert Kerr, and from 1907 to 1914 S. E. Rusk, and now Hers bert O'Hara. S. E. Rusk, in 1892 wrote the first money order, and the M. O. business now amounts to $30,000 per year. Mr. Rusk built the Lox-Hurst in 1894 and the Claremont in 1905.
It may be interesting to know that the first postmaster in Tannersville was Bird Gray and that the office was located for years in the Layman house near the corners. This postoffice had a bar room, and a store and the principal articles of sale were powder and shot. At that time the postmasters had to send a way bill with the mail and that contained a list of the packages and letters as addressed.
The early industry was mostly getting out hemlock bark for the great tannery that was located in the Clove and that was the original Tannersville. Just at the top of the mountain was an old house that was destroyed by fire a number of years ago, and it was one of the first houses in the section.
We referred to Bird Gray as the first postmaster of Tanners- ville. Aaron Roggen succeeded him, then William Ellis, Michael Lackey and Charles Voss, who has held the office for many years.
The first deed of land in the Haines Falls section was to Aaron Haines and that was in 1847, up to that time the land had been leased or sold without deed. Charles W. Haines, a son of Aaron Haines built the Haines Falls House in 1864 and it was burned Nov. 17, 1911.
Prentiss Hallenbeck had a large boarding house near where the Antlers stands but that was burned and he lost everything.
The Laurel House, on property formerly and originally Peter Schutt's, father of L. P. Schutt of the Twilight Inn, is owned by Jacob Fromer and is one of the early houses. A. C. Ing- lesse, has been making a success of the house.
The Antlers is conducted by Simon Friedburgh.
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Charles Layman lost his life in fighting a fire near the Laurel House and on the spot a monument has been erected to his memory.
It is narrated of Peter Schutt that he drove a deer off the Red Rocks into the Clove, a distance of 250 feet and that on an- other occasion he drove a deer into the stream and over the falls which later on that account became known as Fawn's Leap.
We have a picture of the Old Tannery in the Clove from a drawing by the late ('o]. B.B. G. Stone, a Catskill artist who died at his home in Catskill. He made hundreds of pencil drawings of the mountain section in the 60's and also in the 80's. The Col. who had a fine war record, wore a long flowing beard, and was many times penciled and photographed as Rip Van Winkle.
Aaron Haines was the first settler and found his way from Connecticut following the mountain house trail on horseback.
Samuel E. Rusk, the present postmaster, has a wireless station, the only one in this section of the state, and takes mes- sages from all along the Atlantic coast He was a professor at the old Clauverack college, a historical institution now torn down; conducted the Bordentown. N. J. School and has been able to demonstrate that pictures can be taken through solid substances and in the dark.
Haines Falls has a public library in which much interest is taken.
Mount Tabor Lodge No. 807, Free and Accepted Masons, was instituted at Hunter in September, 1892, under a charter granted June 8, 1893. Its charter members were Dwight L. Bur- gess, Louis Mansfield, Warren Todd, Charles Lake, Willis Bald- win, J. Leipold, Frank Conerty, A. Traphagen, E. Myers, W. H. Mansfield, C. Traphagen, Horace Biddel, George Haner, William Bolles, George Ploss, H. Leaycraft, Wm. Ellis. It has produced two grand lodge officers: Dayton Slater, assistant grand lecturer, 1908-1900, and Peter Joslyn, assistant grand lecturer, 1914-1915. Regular communications are held Monday evenings in Slater Building, Hunter. The membership is 102. The officers for 1914 were: Frederick B. Wilcox, W.M .; Frank Barkley, S. W .; Geo. Miller, J. W. ; Dayton Slater, treasurer; Arthur Baldwin, secre-
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tary: John Kay, chaplain, Fred Campbell, S. D .; Fred Scher- merhorn, J. D .; Lewis Smith, S.M.C .; Ernest Graham, J.M.C .; James Fromer, Wesley Gripman, stewards, Wallace Burroughs, marshall; Howard Vedder, tyler.
WILLIAM B. MARTIN
William B. Martin, proprietor of the well known Martin's Hotel at Tannersville, was born in Lexington in 1856. His father was Frederick Van Orden Martin, a wagon ironer, who learned his trade at Catskill, being bound out as an apprentice. He died Jan. 2, 1895 at the age of 84 years. His wife was Elizabeth Saxe, and she was born at Saxton, and died in 1892, at the age of 77 years.
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William B. Martin was married to Louisa' Van Valken- burgh of Rodout in 1877, and she died March 22, 1907. They had six children, George W. Martin, born in 1878, who was a graduate of Cornell law college, and who after practicing law for a time at Tannersville, was compelled on account of his health to go to Den- ver, Colorado, where he was quite successful, finally being com- pelled to returned to Tannersville with his family where he died in 1910. The other children were Robert Scott Martin and Cath- erine Maria Martin, now Mrs. Geo. Longyear of Red Hook, Fred- erick Van Orden Martin, Mary Louise Martin, and Elizabeth Martin.
Mr. Martin's second wife was Laura Edna Bach of West Saugerties, whom he married Nov. 23, 1914, and with whom he is now living.
Mr. Martin was for ten years operating a stage line between Lexington and Shandaken and also between Lexington and Hun- ter. In 1884 he purchased a hotel at Lexington, and in 1901 he purchased the Roggen House at Tannersville where he is now lo- cated and has greatly improved it, so that it is one of the finest hostelries on the mountains. This place one of the first inns in the town, was first conducted by Wm. Anthony, an anti renter, and then by Norman Gray about 60 years ago. His son, Bird Gray, a Southern sympathizer in the war period, was locked up in Fort Lafayette, and later was killed in an accident in the Clove. 1865. Samuel Mulford, former supervisor of Hunter, operated the hotel, also Frank B. Lament, ex-sheriff of Greene Co., who sold it to Aaron Roggen in 1867. He enlarged it and for 35 years ran it as Roggen's Mountain Home. He was a relative of Martin Van Buren, president of the United States, and ran a line of sloops from Albany to New York. He also dealt in whiskey, grain and flour and his old cash book and records are still in the possession of Mr. Martin, and they show consignments that would make the dealers of today sit up and take notice. For instance on April 24, 17, 1834, his sales were: whiskey $7114, April 10, 200 bbls. of flour $1062, May 6th, rye $4270, flaxseed $166, whis- key $633 for 42 barrels, $2188 for potash, barley 82090, rye $2255, 129 bbls. flour 8575, 10 tons peas $100.
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JACOB FROMER
Jacob Fromer, who has been one of the potent factors in the history and progress of the town of Hunter and Greene country, was born at Wittenburgh, Germany in 1848. He went to Hunter with his father, Daniel Fromer, in 1853. Few men have ever been more intimately connected with the welfare and interests of their own town than has Mr. Fromer. For he not only built a considerable portion of the town, cottages, stores, boarding houses, including such structures as the Laurel House of which he is still owner, but for 6 years he represented the town of Hunter in the Board of Supervisors, and succeeded in getting a largely reduced assessment for the town. He built no less than 10 iron bridges in the town, and was instrumental in bringing about the purchase of the toll roads and toll gates of the county. The Fromer store was the largest and best stocked store in the county, and his residence on Main street is the finest in Tannersville. IIe started the livery business now conducted by Schryver & Webster, organized the Tannersville Water Company, of which he is presi- dent, in 1901, and in 1902 organized Jacob Fromer Hose Com- pany. He presented the company with the lot for their building, and a contribution of $500 at their fairs is not unsual. He con- tributed largely to the building of the local churches, was owner of the Roggen House, gaye the ground for the parsonage of the Methodist church. He contributed to the organization of the band at Tannersville, and has always been a liberal supporter of all local improvements. He is at present conducting a successful real estate and insurance business. He is a director of the Tan- nersville and Catskill railroad.
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