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he was in the hardware business for the five years ending in 1898. He has always been more or less interested in the produce business. Mr. Green was justice of the peace 1885-89, and was elected supervisor in 1898 and 1900.
John W. Doughty, after serving a clerkship in the Morehouse drugstore, went into business independently in 1873, and continued it until his death in 1885. His wife carried on the busi- ness to about 1890 when she sold
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the stock to F. L. Langdon, who soon after closed it out.
Dr. Wright, George H. Cheseboro, Davis Bros., Guile & Snyder and Sny- der & Patchin have been the successors in the Patchin block drugstore. The present firm consists of Martin W. Sny- der, who came to Wayland in 1895, forming a partnership with Wesley R. Guile, who retired the following year, and Bert C. Patchin, son of Dr. Cameron Patchin, who entered the business at
"shoes only" store has been that of George Nold. Mr. Nold emigrated from Germany to Perkinsville in 1868, when but eighteen years of age. Here for four years he worked with John Ritz at shoe- making, a trade he had partially ac- quired in the "old country," and in 1872 he came to Wayland and opened a store for himself. In 1883 he was burned out, but immediately rebuilt, erecting the first brick building in the village. He was town clerk in 1884
RESIDENCE OF MR. WESLEY R. GUILE, Cor. W. Naples and Hamilton Streets.
that time. Mr. Snyder was village president in 1899.
The Steuben Drug Co. was organized . in 1895, and began business in Perkins- ville. Dr. George M. Peabody, Frank Peabody and F. W. Schwingle were the members of the firm. The following year the business was moved to Way- land, and in 1897 Mr. Schwingle retired.
The shoe stocks have been found in the general stores, and, except Mr. Zeilbeer, before mentioned, the only
and 1885, and has been chosen to that office each election since 1893. He has also served for a number of years as school trustee, and has been the . presi- dent of the Dime Savings and Loan Association since its organization in 1888.
Ernest Knauer has carried on a shoe repair shop independently of the stores for a number of years, and has served as village trustee since 1899, and also acted as federal census enumerator of the village district in 1900.
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The furniture and undertaking busi- ness has passed through many proprie- tors. Peter Bartz was followed in this line by Lester Baker, Charles C. Tinker, and about 1876, J. B. Shurbin. Eu- gene S. Arnold came from Avoca in 1879 and opened a cabinet shop to which he added a stock of furniture and an undertaking business. He was burned out in '83, but started again, and two years later sold to John A. Rosenkrans, who was succeeded by Rauber & Deitzel. John A. Rosenkrans, the younger son of Levi Rosenkrans, has always lived in this town. In his early manhood he made a specialty of real estate speculation, and afterward was interested in a livery and exchange business. He continued the furniture and undertaking business for about twelve years.
Jacob N. Rauber was born in the town of Wayland, and came to the vil- lage in 1887, as proprietor of the New Wayland Hotel, which he ran for three years. In 1890 he purchased the Ira W. Chase property on Naples street and erected a hotel that he has since conducted. He has also been interested in a bottling business for several years. In 1896 he purchased an interest in the furniture business. Jacob F. Deitzel, though a life-long resident of this neighborhood, has always retained his home just over the Springwater line on the homestead farm. In 1897 he pur- chased a part interest in the furniture store and became identified with Wayland.
A. J. Pardee opened his jewelry store in 1871 and has continued his business at one stand longer than any other Wayland merchant. James M. Pursel, though claiming Wayland as his home
since about 1840, actually began busi- ness in the village in 1880, and must thus be classed with the boys.
In the clothing trade the names that appear prominently are John Gilmore, Fred Smith, Quick Bros., Aaron Gross, David Berman, Edward P. Klein, Mor- ris Wolf, Cohn & Friedman and Rauber & Vogt. The last named firm is formed of Charles J. Rauber, son of Nicholas Rauber, and George Vogt, son of John Vogt, one of our most substantial farm- ers. Their business was started in De- cember 1899, and being both Wayland boys it is to be expected that they will make history for the next writer of Wayland affairs. David Cohn, the resi- dent member of the firm of Cohn & Friedman, is an erstwhile Waylander, and returned in 1900. M. J. Karrigan and L. A. Schwan are tailors of less Bohemian instinct than others of the trade, and have both been residents of the village for a number of years.
Among the blacksmiths, Harris Cur- tis, William S. Kellogg, Samuel Over- peck and B. J. Scott continue into this period from the one previous. Frank Kester came to the village in 1878. Educated to his trade in his father's shop in Patchinsville, and with exper- ience gained in Dansville and elsewhere, he came fully equipped for the marked success he has attained. His present partner, Andrew C. Shaver, is also a "second generation" blacksmith, receiv- his trade education at his father's forge. He came to the village from East Way- land in 1894. Israel White, Dan Ma- gee, William Drum, Harvey Teed and Samuel Hurzeler belong to the past few years. Stanley Dean located in the Wayland street shop, and then moved to the Overpeck building on Main
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MR. GEORGE NOLD.
street, where the walls seem alive with the bacilli of success.
In the carriage building trade the names of Nicholas Sieb and Sarsing Salinger are preserved from the preced- ing decade, and there are added, Chas. F. Hann, who came to the village in 1869, and worked in the shop of Nich- olas Sieb for four years, then forming a partnership with B. J. Scott. He has recently conducted his business inde- pendently. Mr. Hann was village treas- urer in 1879 and 1880, and trustee in 1881-82. John M. Ryder, whose father had left Wayland and removed to Mich- igan, returned to the east in 1877, and settled at Reeds Corners, where he learned his trade. Coming to Wayland in 1882 he formed a partnership with Frank Kester, which lasted until 1895, since which time he has been alone in his business.
Fred Kusterer, Peck & Stannarius, Peter Deitch, Leopold Geible, Richard Roth, Henry Bosold, Frank J. Raufen- barth, Peter J. Rowe, Jay K. Weidman and Collins C. Campbell are prominent among the butchers of the past. Geo. Fox, who started bis business in 1893, and Valentine Hemmer, in 1898, are the present representatives in this line of trade.
The Joel May harness shop was trans- ferred to the proprietorship of Edwin Goodno in 1884. Mr. Goodno came from Dansville, where he had been in . business for a number of years, and became one of Wayland's most estima- ble citizens. He died in 1898. C. M. Swartout followed in this business and continued until the present year, when he was succeeded by Mattice & Son.
The tonsorial art that was instituted in the village by Henry L. Moora, sur-
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ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH, Fremont Street,
vives under the management of Glen D. Abrams, a son of Thomas Abrams of earlier date. He has taken increasing pride in the equipment of his shop dur- ing the dozen years of its existence, until it has become one of the boasts of the town. Mr. Abrams also runs a bil- liard room, which all thinking citizens recognize has had a powerful influence or good on the rising generation, afford- ing, as it does, a place for harmless amusement without the usual depraving accessories, it being conducted on the lines that modern churches are follow- ing in instituting such gaming rooms for the recreation of young men. Chas. Henchen settled in Wayland, and was for a considerable time connected with the Abrams shop. In 1900 he opened
a handsome place of his own in the bank building.
A period of thirty years shows com- paratively few changes in the manufac- turers of lumber. Thomas M. Fowler continued for a time proprietor of the old mill, and his son, Everett M. Fow- ler, was in charge of the sash and door department. E. M. Fowler later con- ducted a flour and feed business, and then became the manager of the Perkinsville flouring mill. He died suddenly in 1894, in the very prime of life. Butler M. Morris, and then Kimmel & Morris followed in the ownership of this mill. The sash and door manufactory being purchased by George C. Deitzel, (1847- 1898) in 1875, which he operated until the time of his death. Joseph E. Kim-
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mel represented his father's interest in year by the retirement of Mark L. the mill for several years before its sale.
Jacob Shaffer was born on a Sandy Hill farm and began life in the manner usual with country lads. Choosing car- penter work for his life calling, he served his apprenticeship and came to Wayland in search of a field of operations. An- thon Wolff was born on the farther side of the ocean, and was brought to this country by his parents. his father find- ing employment on the Erie railroad at this place. After receiving as good an education as the town afforded, he be- came a stationary engineer, doing ser- vice in Baltimore and elsewhere, and then returning to Wayland where he had charge of the engine in the mill. In 1884 these two purchased the mill of Kimmel & Morris, and it has since been operated under the firm name of Shaffer & Wolff. They have also pur- chased the sash and door department that had been run separately by Mr. Deitzel. In company with John Kim- mel they built the electric lighting plant in 1896, which is run under the name of Shaffer, Wolff & Co.
During the '70's, James G. Bennett rented a portion of the old tannery building and equipped it with machin- ery for sawing lath and shingles. The plant was afterward moved to its pres- ent location, and operated by Mr. Ben- nett and his brother, Guy B. Bennett, who later became the sole owner, and after his death in 1888, it was sold to W. Fred Kiel, who has recently refitted it throughout with new machinery.
Branch, Granger & Branch began business with a very complete equip- ment of modern machinery for the man- ufacture of lumber in 1900. The firm became Branch & Son the following
Granger. Clarence G. Branch is the resident manager.
W. D. Willcox & Co., built their flouring mill in 1900. Mr. Willcox had been manager of the Perkinsville mill for some time previously, and Charles J. Coxe, his partner, came to Wayland from Rochester.
The Vacuum Oil Company, refiners of petroleum oils, of Rochester, built a distributing station in this village in 1896, and established a supply system, which delivers their product to their trade in their neighboring towns.
W. H. Folts, Newton Snader, and Abram Fidler organized the Steuben Cigar Company in 1899, which has proven a notable addition to the indus- tries of the town, and offers the pros- pect of material growth in the near future. These gentlemen are from Pennsylvania, and their personal indus- try and enterprise have been a valuable acquisition to the business community.
The machinists of the village have included Guy B. Bennett, a son of Chauncey Bennett, who learned the trade of gunsmith when every well reg- ulated household was supplied with a gun, and before the concentration of their manufacture in the great arsenals. He was a natural mechanic, and his work bore evidence to the exact care- fulness of a man of skill. Returning to Wayland after five years spent in Michigan, he became interested in the shingle mill, which afterward passed to his sole ownership, and of which he was proprietor at the time of his death. Mr. Bennett was never a politician, but was chosen one of the first board of village trustees, and served in 1877, '78 and '79. His first wife died, leaving two
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sons, Albert G. Bennett, who was town clerk in 1899, and has been locomotive engineer on the Lackawanna and Pitts- burg railroad, and since the opening of the cement works, has had charge of their "pony" engine ; and Lawrence B. Bennett, who has been in the employ of the Lackawanna road for a number of years, and now holds the position of billing clerk at the Wayland station. Frank L. Bennett, a son of the second Mrs. Bennett is a book-keeper in El- mira.
Nathan Olney came to Wayland from Naples in 1871, and opened a shop for general machine work. He died four years later, bequeathing his shop and his mechanical skill to his son, Lee B. Olney, who has continued the business to the present time.
George G. Lewis, the builder and first manager of the foundry, and his successor, John F. Kiel, have conducted that establishment since 1895.
RESIDENCE OF MR. JOSEPH F. WEINHART, ¿ NO. 6 N. Scott Street.
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CHAPTER IX.
BUSINESS GROWTH AND SUCCESSION FROM 1870 TO 1900 CONTINUED.
The first steam laundry was equip- ped in 1894 by Harry S. Peters, and its establishment retained in the village a large amount of work that had prev- iously been sent to other places. Mr. Peters is a descendant of one of the early families of this locality.
Merritt F. Baker has represented the Singer Sewing Machine Co. for many years. Philip N. Conrad, since his re- tirement from the grocery trade, has been a sewing machine agent. He was village collector in 1898.
Siegle B. Dudley is a son of one of Wayland's older farmers. He started the feed mill on Wayland street in 1894. which was the beginning of the grinding business in the village. When the Will- cox mill was opened he became con- nected with that concern, and has since established a retail business. He was elected village trustee in 1897, and jus- tice of the peace in 1898.
The bakery business has been ephe- meral. Many times there has been a start made in this direction, but without continued success until the advent of W. A. Parsons, who came to the village in 1897.
The news business is now firmly es- tablished under the management of F. S. Sturm as successor to Sturm & Un- behend, who began in this line in 1898. Prior to this it had a fickle existence.
Coal has generally been sold by the railroad companies or by the produce dealers. Lewie R. Scott was engaged in the business for a time, and John C. Magee has made it a permanent sepa- rate line of trade.
Andrew Redsicker, representing the Drakeford Co. of Hornellsville, has given Wayland the advantage of a local monument business since 1895.
Wayland has always been provided with milliners, those at present in that business being, Miss Josephine LaFay- ette, Mrs. Henry J. Loveland, the Mis- ses Conrad and Mrs. Austin H. Salter.
Mark L. Granger is the pioneer of professional architects in the town, hav- ing established an office for practical work in this line in 1900.
Photography has been practiced here by a number of different artists at var- ious times. The present gallery con- ducted by E. D). Parsons, successor to Davis & Parsons, and to A. L. White, is the first to become firmly established.
The liverymen for the past three de- cades would make a long roll. Among the principal stable owners appear, John A. Rosenkrans, Henry J. Loveland, Walter Bryant, William Mead, James M. Moss, W. A. Robinson, Weinhart Bros. and John Avery. The latter has been in livery business at several differ- ent times, and now runs the Bryant House stable. He was born on the Avery homestead just south of the vil- lage, and has always been identified with Wayland.
The Erie station is under the manage- ment of Daniel Tierney, who was ap- pointed station agent in 1885. He held the office of village trustee in 1891 and '92. U. H. Steinhart has been tele- graph operator and ticket agent for a number of years, and he has also be- come interested in real estate about the village, and does some brokerage busi- ness in this line. At the Lackawanna station, R. C. Neill holds the position of agent, having served in the same
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MR. HOMER MILLEN.
capacity at the Erie from 187c to 1885, at which time he accepted his present position. Mr. Neill has long been prominent in village affairs and was trustee in 1879-80 and 1885-86. Law- rence Bennett is the billing clerk at this station, and George W. Sands operator.
Among the landlords of the Bryant House during this period have been, Josiah Gray, Richard Case, I. W. Tabor, Colonel J. Bryant, Frank Bailey, Horace Tibbils, Walter Bryant, N. J. Kohnen, Otto F. Lieder, Peter J. Rowe, and again Otto F. Lieder. Mr. Lieder was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1859, and came to America with his father's fam- ily in 1871. He has been in the hotel business from the beginning of his career, and was proprietor of the Bryant House from 1888 to 1892, when he re- moved to Cohocton, where he con-
ducted the Warner House for three years. Returning to Wayland in 1895, he purchased the hotel property, to which he has since made important ad- ditions and continued improvements.
Adam Pfaff, Frank Wolff, H. M. Un- derham, Shepard Rowell, Leopold Gei- ble and Nicholas Last have been the principal managers of what is now called the St. James hotel. Mr. Last, the pres- ent proprietor, was a Perkinsville boy, and years ago went to New York city, and later to Pittsburg, Pa., from whence he has returned to Wayland.
Frank Engel conducted a saloon on the site where his hotel stands, which was destroyed by fire in 1893. He immediately erected the hotel building, of which he has been the only pro- prietor.
Alexander Engel purchased of George Folts the site for his hotel building,
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which was erected soon after the fire of 1893. After running the hotel himself for a time, he has leased it to tenants dur- ing the past few years, among whom are Charles Kellogg and the present proprietor, Albert S. Locke.
The New Wayland House, since Christian Klein retired from its manage- ment, has been successively under the control of Frank Redmond, Nicholas Schu, Jr., Jacob N. Rauber, Nelson Gibbs, William Holmes, N. J. Kohnen,
hostlery bearing his name, is more fully mentioned in his connection with the furniture trade.
William Holmes, after being burned out in the Klein hotel, built the Holmes Hotel at the Lackawanna station, which he has conducted since 1894.
Albert Sauerbier, Myron Yorks, Jacob John, Nicholas Rauber, Henry Schley, George J. Held, James E. Young, Willian H. Bill, Douglas Lerch, Mr. Sweeney, Longfellow & Campbell,
ED MAN
SKYDEN PATCHIN
aints
PATCHIN BUILDING, Cor. Main and Naples Streets.
Thomas Kramer and M. M. Mangan, the present proprietor.
In 1890, Nicholas Schu, Jr., returned from Rochester, where he had conduct- ed a hotel for the three years preced- ing, and purchased the corner site on which he built the Commercial House. He has been the sole proprietor of the hotel since its opening. Mr. Schu has been village clerk from 1884 to 1887, and since 1900.
Jacob N. Rauber, proprietor of the
and Edwin Tyler have been the princi- pal saloon proprietors.
George J. Mattes is manager of the Wayland Bottling Works, established in 1 899.
The produce dealers of the past thirty years have included Capron & Fowler, in which firm Charles H. Fowler suc- ceeded his father. He removed to Jer- sey city in 1882, where he has since become the secretary of the New York & New Jersey Produce Co., which con-
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cern is a combination of the leading dealers at the New York end of the line. Wiley W. Capron is the present successor of the Wayland house. Hc is a native of Wayland, and received his education in the local school and at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, and the Military Academy at Aurora, N. Y. He has been active in village affairs, serving as trustee in 1895-96.
Hatch & Pierce, Hatch & Hoxter, H. W. Hatch & Co. are the changes that have evolved the present concern of Hatch, Otto & Co. Albert Bartholo- mew has been for a number of years the resident manager. H. G. Pierce has conducted his business individually since his dissolution of partnership with Mr. Hatch, and restricts his operations to his office at the Lackawanna station, John A. Bennett has for a number of years bought at both stations as the representative of Ferrin Bros., one of the most extensive concerns in the state. Mr. Bennett is the youngest son of Chauncey Bennett, and was born and has lived, until recently, on the home- stead farm just south of the village. For three years he served as town assessor, and was village trustee in 1898 and '99. His wife was Alida, daughter of Andrew A. Granger.
B. J. Scott, without being a regular buyer, is in the market about every season, and W. H. Bill has for a number of years been a more or less active buyer.
In hay and straw, James P. Clark, now of Cohocton, and for years prom- inent in Wayland, having been three times supervisor, was the pioneer, and was succeeded by his son-in-law, Orange Mckay. M. L. Haner, Andrew A. Granger, M. H. Rosenkrans and Wesley
R. Guile are, among others, the more prominent.
Harrison G. Pierce is a son of one of the earlier settlers of the southern end of the town, and purchased his father- in-law's, Adin Parmenter's, farm at the Lackawanna crossing in 1878. In 1882, he became interested in buying produce with Capron and Fowler, the following year forming a partnership with H. W. Hatch for one year, and since then conducting a business on his sole account. Mr. Pierce was married in 1861, and is the father of three chil- dren, Dr. E. Eudora, H. Gordon, a law- yer, and Adin G., in mercantile life, both of the latter in New York.
The Wayland Dime Savings and Loan Association was organized in 1888, and has been an instituion of incalcuable help to the town. The fact that a much larger proportion of the resident families own their homes in Wayland than is usual, being due to the beneficent aid and liberal management of this institu- tion. Its direction has been entirely local, and its assests aggregated,on Dec. 31, 1900, $68,403. 18. George Nold has been the president of the board of directors, and Peter H. Zimmerman sec- retary since its incorporation.
In 1887, the Morris and Morris pri- vate bank was opened, and filled a great need in the business of the town. The partners were John J. and Julian A. Morris, the latter withdrawing in 1896. John J. Morris is of the Springwater family of that name, and devoted his earlier years to teaching. holding suc- cessively several important principal- ships. His reputation as a careful bus- iness man gave the public the confidence necessary to success in private banking. In 1899 this business was merged in
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the First National bank, of which Mr. Morris became cashier.
The First National Bank of Wayland was organized in 1899 with a capital stock of $50,000. The major part of the stock was subscribed by Gen. J. A. Hill, of Powell, Pa., father of Mrs. Wil- liam W. Clark, and it was through this investment that the bank was made pos- sible. Hon. W. W. Clark became pres- ident of the new institution, which has already contributed greatly to the con-
George W. Morehouse. Messrs. Fow- ler and Potter published the Wayland Enterprise for a short time during 1877. In 1885, Fred C. Dean began the pub- lication of the Wayland Review, which was merged with the Avoca Advance toward the completion of volume one. Mr. Dean started the Wayland Register in 1889, and sold it to W. G. Phippin in 1892, who was succeeded by Bert Goodno in 1893. Mr. Goodno is a son of the late Edwin Goodno,and was born
RESIDENCE OF MR. WILEY W. CAPRON, No. 8 S. Scott street
venience and prosperity of the. com- munity. By the Dec., 1900, report, the deposits are about $61,000, and the loans and discounts over $73,000.
There have been six local newspapers published in Wayland during this per- iod. The Union Advertiser was estab- lished in 1873, by H. Boyington Newell, who continues as it publisher and editor. The Wayland Press began publication in 1876, and suspended at the close of the third volume. Its proprietor was
in Dansville, where, in youth he learned the printer's trade. After working at the "case" in Avoca and Rochester he came to Wayland in the '80's, and later purchased the Register. In 1889 he married Jennie J., daughter of H. S. Rosenkrans. The Wayland Advance began publication in 1900, H. J. Niles, of Springwater, being the proprietor.
Wayland has had many dental offices during the past few years, but compar- atively few resident dentists. In 1899
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DR. GEORGE M. PEABODY.
Dr. B. J. Baker, came to Wayland, whither he soon brought a wife, and they have since been members of this community. Dr. Baker's diploma is from one of the country's most famous institutions. Dr. McPhee, of Dansville, maintains a branch office in this village.
The medical profession has contained the names of Doctors Warren and Cam- eron Patchin, Northrup N. St. John, Ell Bigelow, Henry A. Whitfield, Wright, George M. Peabody, Alva A. Piatt, George M. Skinner and James C. Dorr.
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