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PROF. J. WELLS REED, B. A.
childhood. He enlisted in the 13Ist N. Y. Infantry during the war, being honorably discharged for the disability on which he now draws a pension. In 1872 he married Caroline Halauer, by whom he had five children ; Charles J., senior partner in Rauber and Vogt's ; Lester J., professor of dancing; Frank D., with C. Gottschall & Son; Mary and Carrie who died in 1901. Mrs. Rauber died in 1892. He has since married Mrs. Crescentia John, nee Hagele, who has five children ; Mrs. Katie LaTerre ; Albert ; Joseph; Nettie and Tillie. Mr. Rauber has served as village trustee for eight years. John Munding was also of this force, and now lives in retirement at his home on Naples street, his child- ren being Mrs. Mary Blum of Dansville; John J. of Rochester ; Joseph F., de- ceased and Mrs. Lizzie Kimmel, of Wayland. John Bergin worked as
railroad constructionist for a number of years, and with his sister kept a popular boarding house. His daughter is Mrs. Kate Kester of Wayland, and his son, William R. Bergin, general ticket agent of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad at Rochester.
The produce business, which from the earliest times has been of such impor- tance to Wayland, was started by Isaac R. Trembly about the date of the com- pletion of the railroad, and a warehouse built where the old Capron building now stands. Mr. Trembly was never a resi- dent of Wayland, but held the contract for carrying the mails to Dansville, and became the first grain buyer of the town, George W. Marts being his effi- cient lieutenant for some time. About 1856 James Redmond and James H. Begole succeeded to the business and re-built the warehouse. They trans-
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ferred their interests to Capron and Fowler in 1868. Mr. Begole was a son of Thomas Begole mentioned among the first settlers of the town, and was for many years a prominent citizen. James Redmond had come to Wayland in 1855, and was also actively identified with the interests of the town. He began in the service of the Erie, and became interested, not alone in produce, but also in lumber, and was at one time a partner with Martin Kimmel in the saw mill. He was town collector in 1864, supervisor in 1868, and again in 1870. Mr. Redmond died in 1872. His children, Mrs. Vietti Fay of Hor- nellsville ; Frank, of Rochester ; James C., of Wayland ; and Guy B., of Free- dom, are all living. His widow, Mrs. Adeline Hilliar Redmond died in 1900.
Wilbur W. Capron has through life been a man of wonderful activity-a hustler in whatever direction he became interested, and always restless until he was at the front. Endowed with an optomistic and jovial nature, he has taken the happiest view of the problem of life. His many years of incessant political service received. its reward from Governor Morton in the appointment to the position of Port Warden at New York city, where he has resided during the greater portion of the past six years. His wife is the daughter of John Wiley, an early resident of Springwater. They have one son, Wiley W. Capron, who conducts the produce business as suc- cessor to the old firm.
Thomas M. Fowler was of Spring- water descent, but during the years of his residence here became thoroughly identified with the village. He was in- terested in lumber as well as grain, and placed the machinery for planing and
matching boards in the mill now owned by Shaffer & Wolff. At the Republican Assembly convention of 1872 there was a dead-lock in the choice of a candidate and Aaron Chase,-"Secretary," as he was generally called,-a tin pedler, well known throughout this locality, was a member of Wayland's contingent. When the fruitless ballotings became tiresome to him, he secured the floor, and after stating that his delegation had come to the convention "unhobbled and untrammeled," he nominated Mr. Fow- ler for whom he had a great admiration, for assemblyman, promising a large ma- jority for him in Wayland, then a demo- cratic stronghold. The convention "stampeded," and the nomination went to Mr. Fowler, no one being more sur- prised than himself. In his trips through the country "Secretary" Chase began working to make good his promise about the majority, and his joy was complete when Mr. Fowler was elected, carrying Wayland by almost exactly the figure he had predicted. Mr. Fowler served the district faithfully and with ability, and was re-elected the following term. Several years later he removed to Dansville where he conducted a dry goods house. He died in 1895.
It is to the old saw-mill that the minds of the longer-timed residents turn as comprising the center and circumfer- ence of industrial Wayland of this per- iod. It was situated on South Main street at the crossing of the creek, and was first set up by a Mr. Saxton about 1858. In 1860, Martin Kimmel, an energetic young man of German descent, purchased it. Several years later S. F. Hess, having a large amount of sawing to be done, purchased a half interest in the mill, which he resold to Mr. Kim-
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mel at the same time that he sold him his interest in the corner store. Mr. James Redmond was also his partner for a short time. After B. M. Morris had come into possession of the present mill, the two were united under the management of Kimmel and Morris, who sold, in 1884 to the present pro- prietors, Shaffer & Wolff. Mr. Kimmel purchased the Thrall farm -- the west half of the original Chauncey Mcore place-in 1865, and by subsequent pur-
associated with his father. A year later he bought a stock of hardware in Cohoc- ton, in charge of which he placed his son, Peter J. Kimmel, under a similar firm name. Mr. Kimmel was the mov- ing spirit in the building of St. Joseph's Catholic church, and has been promi- nently identified with every important step in the progress of Wayland. He served as supervisor of the town in 1872 and 1873, and in 1879 and 1880. He has been twice married, his first wife
RESIDENCE OF MR. JAMES M. PURSEL, No. 14 Pine Street.
chases has increased his land holdings to about 400 acres. In 1881 Kimmel and Morris, in partnership with Wilbur W. Capron and William W. Clark, pur- chased of H. W. Garnsey the hardware business, of which Mr. Kimmel subse- quently became the sole owner. The fires of 1883 destroyed the stock, but the business was restarted, Mr. Kimmel building the large double store now occupied by the concern. Since 1889 it has been under the firm name of M. Kimmel & Son, John Kimmel being
being Catharine Gross, who died in 1862, leaving three children, Joseph F., of Dakota, Mrs. Margaret Yohan, of Springwater, and Mrs. Mary Quantz of Wayland. The present Mrs. Kimmel was Mrs. Clara (Voght) Kirk. They have ten children, Martin Jr., John, Frank, Peter J., Catharine, Mrs. Anna Sauerbeer, Clara, Jacob, Lizzie and Lena, all of whom, with the exception of Peter J., reside in Wayland.
During the early '60's, a saw mill owned by Warner and Drake of Cohoc-
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ton, and managed by Horace Avery, son-in-law of Chauncey Avery, was set up and run for several years near where the house of James E. Showers stands. It was destroyed by fire.
Cyrus Newell moved from his early home in Sodus to Avoca in 1865, and two years later came to Wayland, where he kept a shoe store in the building afterward purchased by George Nold, on the site now occupied by him. In 1869 he built the tannery-the building
and at almost four-score years of age is yet active.
The Wayland House continued under the proprietorship of Davis and Josiah Gray until 1862, when the former retired to a farm in 'Springwater, where he lived about two years, and then returned to the village, taking up his residence on Main street just north of Fremont street. Davis Gray died in 1877, leav- ing his wife, who died in 1899, and one daughter, Miss Celestia Gray. Josiah
BRYANT HOUZE
BRYANT BLOCK, Cor. Mam and Naples Streets,
now known as the Robinson tenement, or "bee hive"-on Wayland street, and conducted a business of tanning sole leather almost to the time of his remo- val from town in 1886. His daughters, Mrs. Phoebe A. Neill and Mrs. Susie E. Belman, have recently returned to Way- land after a number of years' absence, and his son, H. Boyington Newell, pro- pricter of the Union Advertiser, has been a continuous resident. Mr. New- ell is now keeping a store in Wallace,
Gray continued in the hotel until 1879, after which he rented it, first to Richard Case, and then to I. W. Tabor, and in 1882, sold it to Walter Bryant. Mr. Gray married Mary R. Moore, daugh- ter of Chauncey Moore, in 1860. She died in 1873, leaving one daughter, Mrs. Lola Gray Jervis. Mr. Gray died in 1893. He was village trustee for four years. Adam Pfaff kept the Farmers' Hotel, then recently built, and is now called the St. James-which has since
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been known as the Pfaff House from his parents came from Germany and 1866 to 1886. Under his management it became famous for the dancing par- ties given in the large hall on the upper floor. Mr. Pfaff was born in Dansville in 1838, and married Barbara Bartz in 1856. Their children being, Mrs. Louisc Mehlenbacher, of Wayland ; Mrs. Rose Taylor, of Wilkesbarre, Pa .; Mary, of Wayland ; Amelia, deceascd; and Frank G., of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Mr. Pfaff died in 1886, after being for a long time an invalid.
The Eagle Hotel that stood about on the site of the Weinhart Opera house, was conducted by Nicholas Zimmerman. He had emigrated from Germany to Dansville in 1848, and from thence to Perkinsville, where he became teacher of the Parochial school in 1851. Later he moved to Wayland village and built the Farmers' hotel, which he kept for a time before opening his hotel on West Naples strcet. Mr. Zimmerman was a man of liberal cducation, having grad- uated from the Trevis (Germany) Uni- versity, and he was an invaluable aid to his compatriots in their business dealings with the fatherland.
He was elected justice of the peace in 1858, which office he held almost con- tinuously until his death in 1875. He also served five terms as town clerk, holding the two offices concurrently part of the time. His wife was Ann Hoffman, of Perkinsville, now living in this village relict of her second husband, George Davis. They had four sons, Nicholas, deceased ; C. Nicholas, of Buffalo ; Peter H., of Wayland, and Emanuel, deceased.
Christian Klein succeeded Henry Rowe in the Wayland House in 1869. Mr. Klein was but one year old when
settled in Perkinsville, where he grew to young manhood. After several years spent in the West, he settled in Roch- ester, and returned to Wayland to engage in the hotel business, in which he was interested for so many years. Having become extensively interested in village real estate, he retired from the manage- ment of the hotel in 1882, and has since devoted himself entirely to this line of speculation. Hc was married in 1871 Marian Rauber of Perkinsville. They have five children, Edward P. Klein, for a number of years clothing merchant in this village, now in the same business in Salamanca, Minnie, Caroline, Eliza- beth and William.
Hamilton S. Rosenkrans became prominent in town affairs during this de- cade. He was born in Hammondsport in 1833, three years before his father, Levi Rosenkrans, moved to Wayland, and had grown to manhood within the village limits. He was elected justice of the peace in 1862, 1866, 1876, 1881, 1891, 1892, and 1896; town clerk in 1867 ; supervisor in 1884, 1885 and 1893 ; President of the village in 1877 -the first election, - and in 1878 ; trustee from 1887 to 1891, and again in 1893, and was repeatedly chosen school trustee and to other town offices. In 1862 he married Helen M. Davis, of Cohocton. They had six children, Maynard H., Luzerne D., deceased, Merton J., Lee Verne, Mrs. Jennie J. Goodno, and Mrs. Hattie McKay, all of Wayland. He died in 1897.
Henry L. Moora was Wayland's first . barber, starting his shop in 1869. Mr. Mcora was born in Germany, and had lived in this country about three years when the war broke out. Under Presi-
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dent Lincoln's first call for 75,000 men, he enlisted at Bath, and is to-day prob- ably the oldest among the living vete- rans of Steuben in the date of his ser- vice. Re-enlisting immediately on his first discharge, he served throughout the war, and then came to Wayland, which has since been his home. For some time he had charge of the Erie's large wood-yard at this place, and then started the barber business, which he continued until recently. Mr. Moora
come from Springwater to live in this town. On his return he made this vil- lage his permanent home. He was an earnest advocate of the principles of the Greenback party at the time of its great- est popularity, and was regarded by the townspeople as an especially good speak- er. He died in 1879, leaving his wife, who died in 1898, and five children, of whom Mrs. Addie Barts, Murray M. Totten and Frederick Totten are Way- land residents.
RESIDENCE OF MR. MARTIN W. SNYDER, No. 4 Lackawanna Ave.
has served efficiently as constable for many years, and has been an active member of several local organizations. His wife was Mary Lenhart. Their daughter, Mrs. Minnie Weinhart is de- ceased, and their son, Harry L., is a res- ident of the village.
William M. Totten moved his family to Wayland from Lima when he joined the army, that his wife might be near her friends, she being a member of the Morley family, so many of whom had
Of others who were on the Wayland business directory at this period were, Frank Gilmore, tailor ; Walling Coyken- dall, butcher ; Angus Ferguson, black- smith ; John G. Beck, grocer ; H. R. Finch and later Luke Densmore, in the hotel recently owned by the late Edwin Tyler ; Thomas Mather, R. A. Chad- wick, M. A. Beeman and James L. Thayer, carpenters ; Nicholas Sieb and Sarsing Salinger, wagon makers ; Mr. King and Mr. McCrossen, general mer-
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chandise ; Peter Bartz, funeral conduc- tor, his advertisement reading, "Under- taking promptly attented to, and a good hearse furnished when desired." Dr. H. O. Fay and Drs. Warren and Cam- eron Patchin were the physicians of the decade.
Among the citizens of the period who should also be mentioned are Matthias Albright, Nicholas Bauer, Darius Barnum, Albert D. Curtis, Wesley Doughty, F. Ernst Gross, Gideon S. Granger, Daniel
themselves the "Invincibles," and boast- ed with the Duke of Wellington, that they never lost a battle. Speak to one of the survivors on the subject, and his fingers pass through his whitening locks, as the light of former glory illumes his furrowed face and kindles the fire in his eye, and he tells of valorous deeds ac- complished before this degenerate day. The struggle that seems to have been particularly memorable was that on the field at Scottsburg, when the united
HOTEL AND RESIDENCE OF MR. JACOB N. RAUBER, No. 15 E. Naples Street.
F. Kimball, Andrew Milliman, John Richard, Benjamin Schumacher, Andrew Totten, John J. Wolff, John Weed, Rev. A. J. Welton, George Young, Lafayette Young, and Miss Electa Patchin, who for a number of years taught a private school.
No account of this period would be in any degree complete without mention of the famous ball club that marched "from victory unto victory" during the seasons of '68 and '69. They called
chieftans of the compatriots of Douglass and of Bruce were defeated. The score was 65 to 67, and "Wilbur Capron made fourteen runs without an out." The club consisted of the following can- didates for the Hall of Fame : Wilbur W. Capron, captain, Charles Drahmer, Andrew Milliman, George Young, George W. Parsons, George Peck, Albert Par- sons, Harvey Glover, Dwight Glover and Patrick Collar.
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CHAPTER VIII.
BUSINESS GROWTH AND SUCCESSION FROM 1870 TO 1900.
Since 1870 there have been many changes in the business personnel of the village. It is, in fact, impossible to find any one resident in the village during this period who is able to mention all those who have been engaged in trade here during the past thirty years. The following paragraphs, while making as complete a mention as practicable, spec- ialize merely those, who from long resi- dence or prominence seem to be partic- ularly identified with the growth and prosperity of the village.
The Rice stock in the old John Hess store was purchased by Isaac W. Secor in 1871. Mr. Secor was a son of Jos- eph Secor, and began his career as a clerk in his father's store, afterward serving in the same capacity for S. F. Hess. In 1866 he went to North Co- hocton, where he engaged in business for the next five years, during which time he married Frances Wetmore of that village. Returning to Wayland he occupied the old corner stand until 1883, when the Morley and Secor co-partner- ship was formed. and he moved to the corner of Main and Fremont streets. Here he remained about one year after purchasing the Morley interest in the stock, in 1885, when he removed to the Patchin block that had recently been completed. In 1895 he sold to John I. Sterner and retired from business. He was already in the grasp of the disease to which he succumbed in 1898. Mr. Secor served two terms as deputy sher- iff, and was at one time a prominent candidate for the office of sheriff. He
was also president of the village in 1892, and president of the school board for several years. His wife and one son, Clare W., survive him, and now reside in Guthrie, Okla.
O. M. Haskin opened a dry goods and grocery store on the south corner of Main and Fremont streets in 1882. moving to the Bryant building on its completion in 1884. This store was occupied by Allen, Whitlock & Jervis, and by C. M. Jervis, from 1885 to 1892, who sold to Sterner & Gottschall that year.
John I. Sterner came from Dansville where he had served a long apprentice- ship in one of the leading stores, and Christian Gottschall was one of Way- land's most substantial farmers who, by this venture, made a business opening for his son William, who died in 1892, and was succeeded by his brother, H. Alonzo. Mr. Gottschall purchased the entire business in 1895, which has since been conducted under the firm name of C. Gottschall & Son. Mr. Sterner bought the Secor stock at this time.
During the '70's H. B. Rice in com- pany with Nicholas W. Schubmehl, pur- chased and wound up a general store business started by Melvin Roberts of Scottsburg, and in which Orvilla Fay and Mrs. James Redmond had become interested.
Aaron Mattice and Son, moving here from Avoca, started a general store in 1898, and continued in business until 1900.
Morley, Carpenter & Co., began bus- iness in 1900, assuming the dry goods portion of A. L. Morley's business. The firm consists of Ray L. Morley, L. D. Carpenter, son of Edwin A. Carpenter,
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who recently moved to Wayland from Springwater, and A. L. Morley.
Aside from the grocery departments in the general stores, Charles C. Tinker kept a stock in the building that he sold after twenty years proprietorship to William H. Deitzel in 1890. He also acted as undertaker, and has officiated in that capacity on over 600 occasions. He was the first village clerk, and held that position from 1877 to 1884, and from 1888 to 1891. William H. Deitzel
ber one indicates that it was the first dray to be run in Wayland, and that it was drawn by one horse. Six years later he invested his profits in a stock of groceries, the teaming business descend- ing to his brother, Conrad H. In 1883, he moved on a farm, where he remained for several years, Conrad succeeding him in the grocery, and his younger brother, John L., assuming the seat on the dray. Returning to Wayland, Jos- eph F. purchased another grocery line,
CE COLD LACE PALE WINESALII JORE
ST. JAMES HOTEL, Nos. 26-28 N. Main Street.
was almost Wayland born, his early home being just across the Springwater line. He began business equipped with a good education that had been com- pleted at the Rochester Business Uni- versity. He has served as village treasurer in 1890 and 1891, trustee in 1896 and 1897, and as village clerk in 1898 and 1899. Mrs. Deitzel was Cora Smith. They have one son.
Joseph F. Weinhart began business in 1873, driving dray No. I. The num-
which, in 1890, was consolidated with that of Conrad's, under the firm name of Weinhart Brothers. In 1891 they started and have since conducted the principal livery of the town, with street- sprinkling, omnibus lines and oil delivery for the Vacuum Company as adjuncts. They have purchased the roller skating rink and refitted it into an attractive opera house, and have bought parcels of real-estate about the village, now own-
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ing a number of dwellings and two bus- iness blocks on Main street.
Frank K. Smith began his grocery business in 1882. His capital was a small amount of cash and an unlimited amount of industry. In a short time he outgrew his narrow quarters in the "lightning splitter," and after several moves located at No. 5 Main street, in one of the largest stores in town. He was elected village trustee in 1892, treasurer in 1894 and 1895, and presi- dent in 1896 and '97.
In 1874 William F. and Valentine, Jr., Kausch began in the tobacco busi- ness and the manufacture of cigars. Afterward they branched into groceries, the factory being conducted separately by Charles Simon, who had for a time been connected with them, and who later moved the industry to Dansville. About 1891 they became interested in undertaking, and after several changes in partners, became the sole proprietors in this business.
Grant S. Davis and his brother, Ed- win N. Davis, came to Wayland from Livonia in 1891, and bought the drug business which they conducted in the Patchin block until 1895. E. N. Davis then built the store next to the Fire- men's building, and started the grocery, the business soon becoming Davis Bros., and then Grant S. Davis, and which has since been run by him.
Adams & Co., V. Hoffman, Peck & Stannarius, Frank Doughty, George Folts, Jacob John, Glen D. Abrams, Joseph Munding, Mr. Moore, W. H. Bill, John Mehlenbacher, Austin Salter, Conrad & Hoffman, Conrad & Smith, and Frank Fox are others who, at times during the past thirty years, have been purveyors to the Wayland public. The
hardware business passed from Charles E. Field to H. W. Garnsey and his father-in-law, Mr. Curtis, in 1870, thence in 1881 to Kimmel, Morris & Co., and in 1889 to Kimmel & Son. Schwingle & Fess kept a hardware stock for several years from about 1875, and George E. Whiteman & Co., from 1893 to 1898. Charles Snyder started his business in 1898.
Butler M. Morris, so long associated with Martin Kimmel in different lines of business, was one of the men to whom Wayland owes much, not alone for sagacious enterprise, but also for equally wise conservatism. Mr. Morris came to Wayland from Springwater in 1873, and became the proprietor of the saw-mill now owned by Shaffer & Wolff. He soon entered into partnership with Martin Kimmel, who owned the mill at the foot of Main street. The two mills were operated for a time, and then the Kimmel mill was abandoned. Mr. Morris established his son, Julian A. Morris in the hardware, and later trans- ferred his entire interest in that business to him. In 1883 he traded his village property with Walter Bryant for a large farm in Springwater, and moved from town. Hs was village president in 1879 and 1880. He died in 1895.
Julian A. Morris continued in the hardware business until 1887, when in company with his uncle, John J. Morris, the Morris & Morris private bank was opened. In 1896 he retired from the bank, remaining in the insurance busi- ness, which had been started several years previously, and which he now conducts. He was the president of the village in 1890.
George E. Whiteman is a son of Edward Whiteman, a farmer and lum-
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berman who early settled in the north- western part of the town, where he acquired about 700 acres of land. George was the seventh in a family of nine children, and was educated in the public schools of Wayland, and at the Dansville Seminary. Following in the footsteps of his father, he became en- gaged in farming and lumbering. When but little past the voting age he was chosen town assessor, which office he held for six years, and was supervisor in
Willian H. Green was born and edu- cated in South Dansville, coming to Wayland in 1880, where in partnership with his brother he managed the Pat- chinsville flouring mill. After the death of his brother, he came to the village, in 1885, and that year received his com- mission as postmaster, holding the office four years. His father's death recalled him for several years to the homestead farm, which he managed in the interest of the estate. Returning to Wayland
RESIDENCE OF MR. JESSE W. FULLER, No. 33 Lackawanna Ave.
1881, '82 and '83. In the latter year he was chosen to represent the first Steuben district in the state assembly, and was re-elected in 1884. Mr. Whiteman moved to the village in 1892, and in partnership with William H. Green, engaged in the hardware busi- ness, which they conducted until 1898. Since becoming a resident of the village he has served as trustee in 1897, and president in 1894, '95 '98, and is the present incumbent of that office.
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