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The following list of those who entered the army from Wayland, and those enlisting elsewhere who were ac- credited to the town, is believed to be as accurate as is possible. There were, however, many from this town who en-
MR. THOMAS MILLEN.
In addition to the liberal bounties offered by the town, Dr. Warren Patchin personally promised a cow to each vol- unteer, and cows were valuable property at that time.
The Town Board during the war per- iod consisted of, Supervisors, James G. Bennett, 1858-63, James P. Clark, 1864-5 ; Town Clerks, Dexter S. Jolly, 1861, Nicholas Zimmerman, 1862-65 ; Justices, John H. Carpenter, 1859-62,
listed from other places whose names are not obtainable.
Avery, Chauncey Stillman, corp., 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. H; enl. Sept. 9, 1864, one year ; disch. July 1, 1865.
Beck, George John, private, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. I; enl. July 30, 1862 ; discl .. April 30, 1863.
Bill, Henry, private, 28th N. Y. Art. Co. B; enl. July 30, 1862, three years; disch. July 30, 1865.
Bill, John Nicholas, private, 179th N. Y. Inf., Co. C; enl. March 31, 1864; disch July 30, I865.
Bill, John Nicholas, private, 28th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Aug. 30, 1862; disch. Aug. 1865.
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Booth, John, private, 188th N. Y. Inf; enl. Sept. 8, 1864, one year; disch. July 1, 1865.
Brown, Benjamin, private, 188th N. Y. Inf ;
enl. Sept. 9, 1864, one year ; disch. May 9, I865.
Brown, David, private, 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. H; enl. Sept. 9, 1864, one year; disch. July 11, 1865.
Brown, Waldo, private, 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. H; enl. Sept. 9, 1864, one year.
Brownell, George Edmond, private, 35th N. Y. Inf,, Co. F: enl. June 1861, two years; disch. June 5, 1863.
Clayson, Robert Halsted, private, 28th N. Y. Art., Co. B; enl. Aug. 23, 1864; disch. July 31, 1865.
Cole, Heman, Ist Dryer Cav., Co. G; enl. Aug. 4, 1862, three years; disch. Dec. 28, 1863, disability.
Conrad, Christian, died April 1865, typhoid fever.
Conrad, George, private, 188th N. Y., Inf., Co. D: enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year ; disch. July 1. 1865.
Conrad, John, private, 104th N. Y. Inf., Co. D; enl. June 15th, 1862, three years; died Salisbury, N. C. prison Jan. 14, 1865.
Conrad, Philip, private, 13th N. Y. Inf., Co. B. enl April 17, 1861, two years; disch. May 14, 1863.
Curtis, Albert De Witt, serg't, 16Ist N. Y., Inf. Co. I; enl. Aug. 22, 1862, three years; disch. July 1, 1865.
Didas, Peter, private, 188th N. Y., Inf., Co. G; enl one year.
Didas, Peter, Jr. private, 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. E; enl. Sept. 12, 1864, one year; disch. June 12, 1865.
Dildine, Eugene, private, 188th N. Y., Inf., Co. E; enl. Aug. 30, 1864, one year ; disch. July 9, 1865.
Doughty, John, private, 28th N. Y. Art; enl. Aug. 28, 1862, three years; disch. July 31, 1865.
Dunton, Levi, private, 13th N. Y. Inf., Co. G; enl. Oct. 10, 1861, three years; disch. May 20, 1863.
Dye, Ira, private, 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. D; enl. Aug. 1864, one year; disch. July 1, 1865. Earl, George Elisha, private 14Ist N. Y. Inf .. Co. C; Enl. Aug. 28 1864, one year ; disch. June 8, 1865.
Earls, William, private, 76th N. Y. Inf., Co. F; drafted July 14, 1863, three years; disch. July 24, 1865.
Endler, Jacob, private, 104th N. Y. Inf., Co. D; enl. Dec. 12, 1861, three years; disch. Jan. 14, 1863. Re enl. Dec. 23, 1863; 21st N. Y. Cav., Co. K; disch. July 21, 1865.
Endler, John, private, 188th N. Y., Inf., Co.D; enl. Dec. 12, 1861, one year.
Endler. Michael, Jr., private, 13th N., Y. Inf., Co. G; enl., Dec. 12, 1861, three years; killed about June 20, 1862.
Evington, Warren, private, 104th N. Y. Inf., Co. D; enl. June 15, 1862, three years; died in Salisbury, N. C., prison.
Ferney, Frank. private, 14th N. Y., Inf; enl. Oct. 28, 1864, three years. Substitute for Nicholas Zimmerman.
Fish, Harvey, private, 179th N. Y. Inf., Co. A; enl. Feb. 1864, three years; died in Andersonville prison July 24, 1864.
Fox, Charles.
Fox, George, private, 6th N. Y. Art., Co. B; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years, disch. Aug. 24, 1895.
Fox, John George, private, 104th N. Y., Inf., Co. B; enl. March 1862, three years. Frister, Charles.
Fronk, Joseph, private, 28th N. Y. Art Co. B; enl. Aug. 30, 1862, three years; disch. Jul. 30, 1865.
Fuller, Chester, private, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. I; enl. Aug. 4, 1862, three yrs. ; disch. '65. Glover, George, private, 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. D; enl. Sept. 9, 1864. one year; disch. July 1, 1865.
Glover, Melvin, private, 28th N. Y. Art., Co. B; enl. Jan 4, 1864, three years; disch. July 31, 1865.
Granger, Andrew Anderson, private, 188th N. Y. Inf, Co., E; enl. Sept. 3, 1861, one year; disch June 24, 1865.
Grine, Christian, private, 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. D; one year ; disch. July 10, 1865.
Gross, Joseph, private, 188th N. Y. Inf, Co. C: enl. Sept. 20, 1864, one year, killed Feb. 6. 1865.
Gurgin, Jacob, private, 28th N. Y. Art., Co. B; enl. Aug. 25, 1862, three years; disch. July 30, 1865.
Hendrick, William, alias Everett M Fowler. private, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. I; enl. July 23, 1862, three years; disch. July 7, 1864.
Henny, Michael, private, 28th N. Y Art; enl. Oct. 4, 1864, three years. Substitute for James Redmond.
Herrin, Amos, private, I4Ist N. Y. Inf., Co.F; enl Sept. 5, 1864, one year ; disch June 26 1865.
Herrin, Joseph Tilley, private, ItIst N Y Inf, Co F; enl Sept 5, 1864, one year; disch June 26 1865.
Herrin, Theodore Berleyton, private, 14Tst N Y Inf, Co F; enl Sept. 5, 1864 one year ; disch June 10, 1865.
Hess, Alfred Marion, corp, 189th N Y Inf. Co. G; enl Aug 29, 1864 one year ; disch June 8, 1865.
Hess, Charles Demas, bugler, 28th N Y Art. Co. B; enl Jan 5 1864, three yrs; disch July 31, 1865.
Hill, DeWitt Warner, sergt 28th N Y Art Co. B; enl Aug 20 1862, three yrs; disch July 31 1865.
Hoag, Nathan, private 28th N Y Art, Co B; enl Jan 2 1864 three yrs; disch July 31 '65. Hoffman, Joseph, private 188th N Y Inf, Co G; disch July 13 1865.
Holzer, Frank, private 188th N Y Inf, Co E: enl Aug. 3 1864 one year.
Huff, James Dennis, private, I4Ist N Y Inf, Co C; enl Sept 1864 one year ; died Dec 9 1864, typhoid fever.
Ingraham, Charles Byron, private 85th N Y Inf, Co B; enl Sept. 1861 three yrs. Re- enl May 1864; died Aug '64, Andersonville prison.
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Jewell, Charles Collins, sergt 154th N Y Inf. Co C; enl July 26 1862 three yrs; disch June 11 '65.
Kester, Tunis, private, 107th N Y Inf, Co I; enl Aug 2 1862 three yrs; disch June 6 '65. Kirch, John Nicholas, private, 89th N Y Inf ; Co D; enl Feb 5, 1864 three yrs; disch, Aug 3 1865.
Knoodle, John. sergt 16ist N Y Inf, Co. I ; enl Aug 3 1862, disch. Mch. 4 1865.
Kuhn, Jacob, private 188th N Y Inf Co E; enl Sept 3 1864 one year; disch June 12 1865. Kuhn, William, private 188th N Y Inf, Co. E; enl Sept 3 1864 one year ; disch July 12 '65. Lane, George Washington, private, 14Ist N Y Inf, Co C; enl Sept 1, 1864 one year ; disch June 8 1865.
Lane. Samuel, Jr., private 179th N Y Inf, Co. D; enl May 20, 1863. Died Jan. 19, 1865, diarrhea.
Martin, Phineas Isaac, private, 130th N Y Inf, Co K; enl Aug 14 1862 three years; disch July 17 1865
Martin, Wesley, private 189th N Y Inf Co G, enl Sept 1, 1864 one year ; disch June 9 '65. McDowell, Alexander, private 28th N Y Art Co B; enl Aug 30 1862 three yrs; disch July 31 1865.
McDowell, Clayton Augustus private 104th N Y Inf, Co D; enl Feb 1, 1862 three years; disch Dec 3 1862 disability ; Re-enl sergt, 188th V Y Inf Co D; Sept 9 1864 one year ; disch July 11 1865.
McDowell, Simon Victor, private 23th N Y Art, Co. B; enl Jan. 1864 three years; disch July 31 1865.
Mehlenbacher, Christopher, Jr. private 28th N Y Art, Co B, enl Jan 1864 three yrs; disch July 31 1865.
Miller, Nichola's, private 188th N Y Inf, Co E; enl Sept 10 1864 one year ; disch July 1 '65. Miller, Peter, private 188th N Y Inf, Co E; enl Sept :, 1864 one year ; disch July 1, '65. Moon, Reynolds, private 86th N Y Inf, Co D; enl Aug 14 1862 three yrs ; disch June 2 '65. Morehouse, Clark, private 188th N Y Inf, Co G ; enl Sept 19, 1864, one year ; disch. Aug II, 1865.
Norris, George, private 179th N Y Inf, Co. B. Paine, Alonzo, private drafted July 14 '63 ; disc. Parsons, George Washington. private 28th N
Y Art Co B; enl Aug 22 1862 three yrs: disch July 31 '65.
Perkins, James Jr., corp, 28th N Y Art Co B; enl 1862 three yrs; disch July 31 '65.
Pettis, Orlando, private 14Ist N Y Inf, Co F; enl Sept 1 1864, one year ; disch June 8,'65. Pfaff, George, private 104th N Y Inf, Co D; enl June 20 1862 three yrs; disch Dec 24 1862, disability.
Pierce, Henry Clinton, corp, 16Ist N Y Inf Co I; enl Aug 25 1862 three yrs; disch Sept 20 1865.
Pinchin, Waldo, private, drafted July 14 1863. Prisoner in Libby prison and not heard from since.
Rauber, Nicholas, private 188th N Y Inf, Co E; enl Sept 12 1864 one year.
Rauber, Nicholas Jr. private 131st N Y Inf, Co B; enl April 28 1861 two years; dish Oct. 22 1861, disability. Private 188th N
Y Inf, Co D; re-enl Sept 18 1864 one year ; disch July 27, '95.
Rauber, William, private 188th N Y Inf, Co E; enl Sept 3 1864 one year; disch May 22 1865.
Rice, Seth Zera, private 28th N. Y Art, Co B; enl Aug 30 1864 three yrs; disch July 31 1865. Promoted to corporal May '64.
Rice, Thomas Bradley, private 28th N Y Art Co B; enl Aug 30 186; three yrs; disch July 31 '65. Promoted to sergt July '64. Roth, Stephen, private 6th N Y Inf, Co E; enl Dec 27 1863 three yrs ; disch Aug 24 '65. Schutz, Jacob, private, 188th N Y Inf, Co D; enl Sept 6 1864 one year ; disch July 11 '65. Schutz, William, private, 97th N Y Inf. Co B; drafted July 24 1863, three yrs; disch July 18 1865.
Schwingle, Jacob, private drafted July 14, '63. Schwingle, John Jacob, private 107th N Y Inf, Co I; drafted July 14 1863 three yrs; disch July 9 1865.
Schwingle. Philip, private 188th N Y Inf, Co D; enl Sept 3 1864 one year ; died Nov. 21 I864.
Schwingle, William, private 28th N Y Art, Co B; enl Aug 20 1862 three yrs; disch July 31 1865.
Seeley, Permellon, private, 141st N Y Inf. Co B; enl Aug 1862, three years; disch June 8 1865.
Sick, Philip, Jr. private 28th N Y Art, Co B; enl Aug 1862, three yrs; disch July 3: '65. Smith, John Joseph, private 111th Pa. Inf, Co B; enl Aug 10 1861 three yrs; disch Dec 15 1863. Re.enl same Reg't same Co, on same day. Disch July 18 1865.
Smith, Peter, private 188th N Y Inf Co D; enl Sept 3 1861 one year ; disch July 11 1565.
Smith, Wendel, private 188th N Y Inf Co E: enl Aug 5 1864 one year; died Jan 20 1865 typhoid fever.
Steinhardt, Henry, private 188th N Y Co D; enl Sept 12 1864 ; died Jan 29. 1865 typhoid fever.
Sutton, Joseph, private, 14 st N Y Inf, Co C; enl Sept 1 1864 one year ; disch June 8, '65 Thompson, Elisha Fleyley, private, 188th N
Y Inf Co D; enl Sept 7 1864, one year; disch July 1 1865.
Thompson, Georen Ehrbu, corp, 188th Inf, Co D; enl Sept 7 1864 one year ; disch July I 1865.
Thompson, John Austin, drafted July 14 1863 three yrs; disch.
Thompson, Thomas C private Ist N Y Dra- goons Co K; enl Aug 15 1862 three yrs; disch July 19 1865.
Tichenor. Lewis James, private 28th N Y Art Bat E; enl Aug 22 1862 three years; disch July 31 1865.
Tompkins, William Harrison, private 28th N Y Art Co B; enl Aug 22 1862 three yrs ; disch July 31 1865.
Tripp, Christopher C, private 16Ist N Y Inf Co D; enl Aug 28 1862 three yrs ; died Oct. 25 1864, diarrhoea.
Van Riper, Jerry, private, 28th N Y Art, Co B; enl Jan 5, 1863 three yrs; disch July 31, 1865.
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Van Riper, Norris, private, 104th N Y Inf, Co D; en! June 15, 1862 three yrs; died in Salisbury, N C., prison Jan 14, 1865.
Weirmiller, Christian J., corp, 28th N Y Art,
Co B; enl Aug 1862 three yrs; disch July 31, 1865.
Weiermiller, Henry, private, 28th N Y Art, Co B; enl Jan 1864 three yrs, disch July 31, 1865
Werdine, Adolph. private, 109th N Y Inf, Co I; enl Aug 4 1862 three yrs; disch Jan 17, 1865.
Wheeler, Clayton Marcellus, private, 28th N Y Art, Bat E; enl Aug 25 1962, three yrs; disch March 13, 1862, disability.
Wolfanger, Nicholas, private, 188th N Y Inf. Co D; enl Sept 3, 1864 one year; disch July I 1865.
Yochem, Matthias, private, 188th N Y Inf, Co D; enl Sept 2, 1864, one year; disch July to, 1865.
Yochem, Nicholas, private, 188th N Y Inf, Co !); enl Sept 2, 1864 one year; disch July IO, 1865.
Yochem, Peter. private. 28th N Y Art, Co B: enl Aug 2, 1862. three yrs; disch July 31, I865.
Young, George, private, 107th N Y Inf, Co I; enl Aug 4. 1862, three years; disch Jan. 1863. disability.
Of others whose names are found, but whose records are missing, there are: Abrams, Almond J; Albright. Michael; Avery, Simon G; Baker, William; Beckwith, Lewis; Beeman, ; Bennett, Louis ; Booth, William M; Chase, Ira W. Comdt, Christian; Cory, Albert; Day, Orleans, W; Deiter, Conrad; Demorest, Cornelius; Dye, Henry ; Dye, Martin ; Dyer, Henry ; Federke il, Peter; Foot, Adam; Foot, John; Forrester, David; Fuller, George; Granger George H; Granger, Gideon S; Grine, Jno; Gugle, Martin ; Harris, James; Hartwell, . George; Hittus, Chester ; Hoag, Perry ; Hock, Matthias; Holtz, Jacob; Hunter, John ; Jenks, Frank ; Johnson, William; Kellogg, William S; Kingsley. Je- rome; Krutchen, Augustus; Krutchen, John B ; Magee. Daniel; Markham, Merritt ; Morsch, Michael; Newman, Peter; Schu, Nicholas; Sedgwick, Albert; Sick, Frederick; Smith, Jacob; Sommers, William; Stetson, Reuben;
Totten, Andrew: Van Valkenberg, Orin; Wat- kins, Lorenzo; Weiermiller, John; Wyand, Jacob; Yochum, Christian; Yochem, John; Young. John.
Enlisted at Buffalo and credited to Wayland: Brown, Thomas; Canhum, Oscar; Dowl, Wil- liam; Doyle, John; Hardler, John; Howett, Matthias; Kise, Albert; Lewis, Charles; Maker, John; Osgood, Harry; Pyle, John ; Sharp, Watson; Tailor, John.
Enlisted at Rochester, and credited to Way- land: Green. Richard; Simpson, George.
Enlisted at Elmira and credited to Wayland: Brown, John; Buchanan, Howard; Clark, William; Cokely, John; Collins, Alexander ; Cowen, Thomas; Johnson, W. C; Karl, Jotham: Lawless, John; Lewis, John; Moon, William; Smith, Albert; Tinna, Frank; Wall, John.
The total number on the above list is 205 names, and the average length of service, so far as obtainable, was about eighteen months. Only two lost their lives in battle. Southern prisons were two and one-half times as deadly as Southern bullets, and camp fevers twice as fatal as prisons. The mortality among these 205 men, scattered through a dozen different regiments, was actual- ly less than the figures for the age of twenty-one years as given in the Amer- ican Table of Mortality used as a basis by the insurance companies for estimat- ing probable deaths among men in ordinary, non-hazardous vocations. The immediate fatality of war does not, then, seem so terrible as the maimed bodies and broken constitutions that the survivors must carry through life.
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CHAPTER VHI.
1860 TO 1870.
During the '50's, as has been seen, the two corner stores owned by David Herrick and John Hess, the Secor gro- cery, the Chase shoe shop and the Cur- tis and Bennett blacksmith shops had sufficed for the trade of the village.
The years from 1860 to 1870 saw a large increase in the business population,
of H. L. Moora's house. George Peck, now of Naples, was in this business during the later years of this period.
The hardware business was initiated by Charles E. Field. Thomas Abrams became associated with S. F. Hess in 1860, as successors to John Hess, in whose store they had both been clerks. S. F. Hess sold his interest in this busi- ness to Martin Kimmel early in 1868, and near the close of that year Kimmel and Abrams sold the stock to Rice,
RESIDENCE OF MR. JOHN KIMMEL, No 48 W. Naples Street.
and a greater diversity of trades. A Fowler & Co. The sales of this store harness shop was opened by Joel S. amounted in one year, during the war period, to about $40,000, which figures are less startling when the high prices of the time are considered. In illustra- tion, a bill from this house charges; 212 bush. potatoes, $2.50; I pair boots, $7.00; 25 lbs. flour, $1.63; 5 lbs. sugar, $ .75; 2 lbs crackers, $ .30. May and continued by him until his retirement from business in 1884. Mr. May removed to Nebraska, and then to Texas, making his home with his daugh- ter, Mrs. E. L. Baker. He died recent- ly at an advanced age. James Welton, a son of Rev. A. J. Welton, kept the first jewelry store on the corner now David Herrick's store passed to Byron Hopkins, then to Benjamin B. Hess, and later to Ira Bush and H. B. Rice. occupied by the hotel owned by Frank Engel. The building is now a portion
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Mr. Bush came to Wayland from the town of Wheeler in 1866, and after three years retired from mercan- tile life and devoted himself to brokerage, and being a man of property became in a sense the banker of the community. He died in 1876. His wife, Mrs. Janc Bush, and two daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Shults and Mrs. Amelia Fowler survive him.
Ira W. Chase continued his shoemaking almost through this decade, though he discontinued harness re- pairing after Mr. May open- ed his shop. The report of Mr. Chase's mysterious death was a topic of specu- lation for some time, and dark hints-those intangible nuclei of scandal-con- structed quite a thrilling tragedy which was ruthlessly spoiled by Mr. Chase being found in the flesh with body intact. His former monopoly of the village trade was infringed on the advent of Gottlieb Zeilbeer in the year 1864. Mr. Zeilbeer was raised in one of the cantons of Switzerland, bordering on Germany, and came to America in 1854, living successively in Buffalo, Columbus, O., Philadelphia, Pa., and Corning before finding his way to Way- land for a permanent home. He bought his stand of his com-patriot, John J. Hurzler, who retired to a farm in East Wayland. Before removing from Corn- ing he married Caroline Fritz, their children being Ella, of Wayland ; Mrs. Emma Wolf of New York; Fenton de-
REV. GEORGE J. FRENCH.
ceased, and Charles F, who became associated in business with his father in 1894, and has continued it since his father's death in 1897. H. H. Morley and his brother, Jasper Morley, who also dispensed groceries, and Clark Morehouse were other shoemakers of this time.
The Hess block had various tenants. B. B. Hess occupied the south store for a time with the postoffice and a tobacco business. William Avery conducted a dry goods business there, his brother-in- law, Horace Avery, being associated with him when he was closing out his stock preparatory to his removal to Florida. Though bearing the same name, the relationship between them
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was that of brothers-in-law, William cial depression before and after 1873, being a brother of our townsmen may in a measure be gauged by the share of patronage received by this concern, and a peep at their books shows a trade averaging about $1,000 per month. Chauncey S. and John Avery, and Hor- ace the husband of their sister. The firm of Northrup & Dildine occupied the south store from 1868 for more than ten years. William Northrup, senior partner, had come to Springwater with his father's family, from Washing- ton county in 1845, and both as mer- chant and as administrator of the Hen- ry H. Hess estate, became closely rela-
James E. Adams was the pioneer at- torney and counselor of the town, and served, with the exception of one year, from 1861 to 1873 as Justice of the Peace .. Samuel Overpeck started the fire in his forge in 1863, and continued
RESIDENCE OF DR. JAMES C. DORR, No. 3 East Avenue.
ted to the village and its interests. He in active business almost to the time of was also postmaster 1867-75 Eugene his death in 1892. He held the office of village trustee for four years. Mrs. Overpeck yet resides at the homestead on Main street, and his sons have long been prosperous residents of the Great West. William S. Kellogg was also a member of the blacksmith fraternity of the period, being in business before he enlisted in the army and continuing again after his discharge. He died in 1897. Burton J. Scott came from Sul- Dildine had returned to Wayland after service in the army, and had started a small business in the store originally occupied by James Welton, which he continued until he entered into this partnership. He married Ida, daughter of Rev. A. J. Welton, and about 1874 moved to Binghamton, where he still lives. The amount of business done in the village during the years of commer-
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livan county to Wayland in 1867, and started in the blacksmith trade that he has continued until recently. Mr. Scott has been one of the practical humorists of the town, and his contributions to the village paper, and the interest he displayed at the time of the oil excite- ment will long be remembered. He married Viola Smail, their children being, Mrs. Minnie Price, of New Rochelle, N. Y., Lewis R. and Grover
ness community, having begun his career here before any other merchant now in town. At the start he acted as clerk in the store of B. B. Hess for a period of three months, and in 1866 began in the grocery line on his own account, grad- ually extending his field to a general merchandise. In 1883 he formed a co-partnership with his former compet- itor, Isaac W. Secor, the firm continuing to 1885. He was burned out at the
REV. W. IRVING JANES.
C. of Wayland. In 1878 Mr. Scott was candidate for village president against H. S. Rosenkrans, each receiving 79 votes. The election was decided by drawing lots, and Mr. Rosenkrans won. Mr. Scott served as trustee from 1887 to 1891.
Addison L. Morley settled in Way- land at the close of the war in which he had served in the 188th N. Y. Infantry. He is now the dean of Wayland's busi-
corner of Main and Fremont streets in 1893, and the following season re-open- ed in his present location. In the spring of 1900 he relinquished the dry goods portion of his business to his son's concern, Morley, Carpenter & Co. Mr. Morley's business life has been a steady and solid growth, and he is esteemed as one of Wayland's safest and most conservative men. He is a director of the First National Bank,
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and of the Dime Savings and Loan As- and Miss Rose of Hornellsville. James sociation. He married Carrie Mather E. Showers, who had moved from llow- ard, where he was born, in 1829, to Burns, and back to Loon Lake in 1851, from whence he enlisted in the army, returning to Wayland in 1865, was in the undertaking business. Being burned out the following year, he turned his attention to carpenter work and building. Mr. Showers has lived in the house he now occupies thirty-two years. in 1867, and has two children, Ray L. and May E. Morley. The other gen- eral store passed from Kimmel and Ab- rams to Rice, Fowler & Co., (H. B. Rice, Thomas M. Fowler and Wilbur W. Capron.) The change was the re- sult of several barters, and was tempo- rary, the business soon afterward being transferred to Henry B. Rice individ- ually. Mr. Rice had entered the army In 1864, George W. Morehouse
COMMERCIAL HOTEL, Cor. Main and Naples Streets.
a private and was discharged a ser- geant. He was elected Town Clerk in 1870, and Justice in 1879. He died in 1879. His two daughters, Mrs. Isabella Beeman and Mrs. Florence Cole are yet residents of Wayland.
W. Fred Kiel came with his bride, nee Miss Moeller, from Sandy Hill and occupied a house on the Gray farm, his business being that of carpenter. His eleven children all reside in Wayland, except Mrs. Mary Delaney of Geneseo,
opened the first drug store in the vil- lage, and in 1869 bought the Bush stock and moved to the old Herrick corner. Mr. Morehouse was chosen the first village treasurer, and was publisher of the first Wayland newspaper. He moved to Michigan about 1886. Mrs. Clark Morehouse conducted a popular millinery on the corner of Main and Fremont streets for several years during this period.
Albert Sauerbeir came from Wallace
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4
MR. DUANE MILLEN.
to this village in '1869, and opened a saloon and restaurant, which business he has continued to the present. After his return from the war he had first made his home at Wallace, where in 1865 he married Ann Mary Meyers. They have had seven children, Frank G., of Jersey City; John B., of Livonia; Lewis J., deceased, Frederick K., deceas- ed ; and William A., M. Helene and Julia A., of Wayland. Mr. Sauerbeir was vil- lage treasurer in 1892 and 1893.
At the station James G. Bennett was agent, and Charles Drahmer was em- ployed in the then new profession of telegrapher. A. P. Southwick was as- sistant, which position he retained until 1882, the old "depot"' proving the step- ping stone for his sons-as it has for so many of Wayland's boys-to wider fields, Wesley R. becoming the ticket agent for the Stonnington and Fall
River lines at New York, and William H. a conductor on the Erie. Nicholas Schu was foreman of the "section gang" with which he is yet connected, having served the road over thirty-five years. His five children are Nicholas Jr., of the Commercial House ; Frank ; Jacob E., station agent for the Lacka- wanna at Perkinsville ; Margaret and Elizabeth. Daniel Honan has also ren- dered the road continuous service since 1865. He married Mary Kelly, of Avon, in 1864, and they have had five children ; Mrs. Anna Ryan of Mt. Mor- ris; Katharine, deceased; Mrs. Elizabeth Seely of Cohocton; John, of Trumans- burg ; and William L., of Wayland. Nicholas Rauber, Jr., joined the force as a laborer in 1868, afterward becoming foreman, which position he has held for many years. Mr. Rauber was born in Germany, coming to this country in
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