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where the new theatre is now being constructed. James Conklin's wagon shop was between this house and the old tavern at the Lake street corner.
There was in those days plenty of wild game in the woods, which cov- ered much of the country, and there was a good demand for guns, particu- larly rifles. The barrels for the guns were mostly imported from Germany. The process of drilling the barrels of a rifle by hand was a slow and tedious one, usually taking two days. The stocks were ent into shape. with a drawing knife, filed, polished, orna- mented with brass or iron work, and varnished.
Joseph and Isaac Bartlett engaged in the manufacture of guns. They removed to Binghamton in , 1829, where they continued the manufac- ture of fire arms .: The engraving on the gun barrels was done by Isaac L. Bartlett, who was born in 1813, the Year his father and brothers came to Owego, and to perfect him in this work he was sent abroad by his older brothers to receive instruction.
There was not a sufficient home de- mand: for all the guns manufactured by the Bartletts, and many were sold elsewhere .: Joseph Bartlett some- times loaded them in a stage and drove with them to Cincinnati, Ohio, the trip occupying . several weeks' time. There they were shipped in boats and sent down the Ohio and Mississippi river to New Orleans. . This was in the days when cash was scarce and exchange of goods and commodities the rule, and the rifles were sometimes exchanged for west- ern horses, which were brought to Binghamton and converted into .cash.
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When the Barlett brothers removed to Binghamton their father remained in Owego and conducted the black. smithing business until the fall of 1833, when the Owego property was. sold, and then. Capt. Isaac Bartlett removed also to Binghamton.
The business of manufacturing gomis by hand was discontinued be- tween 1850 and 1855, as the manufac- ture of guns by machinery had so greatly reduced the cost as to make hand work unprofitable. Joseph and Robert S. Bartlett purchased a farm at Port Dickinson where Joseph and Capt. Isaac. Bartlett lived the rest of their lives.
Joseph Bartlett was sheriff of Broome county from 1844 to 1847 and was at one time superintendent of the southern division of the old Chenango canal. One of his sons was Rev. Wm. . Alvin Bartlett, who was one of the first pastors of the Owego Congrega- tional church. As a boy in school he was gifted as an elocutionist. His career as a clergymian was rémarka- ble. During his, pastorate' here . the . old church in Park street which was much larger than the present one, was filled with large congregations, particularly on Sunday evenings, to listen to his sermons, which were preached with rare eloquence. He preached here from Sept., 1857, to Aug., 1858, and then went to Brook- . lyn as pastor of the Elm Place Con- gregational church. He was after- ward pastor of churches in Chicago, Indianapolis, and Washington. He has since retired from the ministry, and spends much of his time abroad.
Another son, Gen. Joseph J. Bart- lett, was promoted from captain to
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major-general in the civil war, and was afterward United States minister to Norway and Sweden.
Robert S. Bartlett died July 21, 1881, in Binghamton, aged 72 years. After the closing of the gunshop he was for more than twenty-five years a government mail agent on the Erie railroad. Isaac h. Bartlett, who was born at Salisbury, Conn., .. June 20, 1813, and who was associated with his brothers in the gun factory, died in Binghamton Dec. 20, 1888.
SAMUEL AVERY.
Samuel Avery from whom all the Owego Averys were descended came here with his family in 1803. He was born at Groton, Conn., Oct. 17, 1731. He purchased land in Pennsylvania under the Connecticut title, and, like many others, lost it.
His brother, Christopher Avery, settled at Wyoming, Pa., as early as 1770. In - 1774 Christopher ; Avery was appointed one of the four agents in behalf of the company of settlers - to attend the Hartford (Conn.) convention. At the time of the massacre, in. 1778, although ex- empt by law, he took post beside his neighbors, went into the battle, and - was killed.
Sammel Avery was educated for a lawyer and soon afterward removed .to Westininister, Vermont, In Febru- ary; 1801, he removed with his fam- ily' to Tioga Point (Athens), Pa: While living there, in 1802, he was one of the committee to settle the dif- ferences between Connecticut and Pennsylvania land companies .: . Here he purchased a large quantity of land and began improvements, but was
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soon brought into ligitation with those who had purchased of the heirs of William Penn. This was a long and costly suit, in which Mr. Avery was defeated, losing not only his land but his money also. It was from this experience that he wrote the same year a pamphlet relating to the con- flicting titles of Connecticut and Pennsylvania under the title of "The Susquehanna. Controversy Examined, Done with 'Truth and Candor."
The next year he removed to Owe- go. Three years later, August 4, 1806, he died here and his body is buried in the Presbyterian burying ground in Temple street. Samuel Avery's wife was Mary Ann Rose, who was born at Westminister, Vt. Their children were as follows:
1. Samuel W. Avery, born 22 June, 1779. Married Eliza A. Wattles, daughter of Capt. 'Mason Wattles, at Owego Dec., 1806. She died 10 Sept., 1814. He died at Nanticoke, N. Y., 7 Dec., 1828.
2. Mary Ann Avery, born 4 May, 1781. . Died in Vermont, unmarried. 3. John Humphrey Avery, born 4 Nov., 1782. Died at Owego 1 Sept., 1837.
4. Frances Avery, born 9 Sept., 1785: . Married Charles Pumpelly, of Owego. Died 21 Oct., 1848. 5. Susan Avery, , born 31 March, 1787. . Married Nathan Camp, of Owe- go. Died 4 Aug., 1813.
6. Isabella Avery, born 24 June, 1789. Married Levi Leonard, of Ithaca. Died 20 Aug., 1842. Mr. Leon- ard was a man of some prominence in Ithaca. He was president of the vil- lage in 1831 and 1832 and was after- ward a justice of the peace.
Samuel W. Avery lived at Owego several years but removed to Nanti- coke, Broome county, where he kept a tavern. After the death of his first
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wife (Eliza A. Wattles) he married Emily C. Avery, daughter of Daniel Avery, of Aurora, N. Y. She died Sept. 18, 1822, at Nanticoke, aged 29 years.
Samuel W, and Eliza (Wattles) Avery had a son, Samuel Masón Avery, who was born Aug. 25,1807,and who about 1840 married his cousin, Mary C. Richards, at Owego. She was born in 1809 and died in 1851. He lived for many years at Jenks- ville where he was postmaster twen- ty-one years and a justice of the peace from 1870 to 1882. He died January 1, 1888.
The children of Samuel W. and Emily (Avery) Avery were Eliza, who . was married to Richard Morgan, of Aurora; Walter . Oddie Avery, who went to Louisville, Ky., to. live, and Daniel Avery.
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Rev. E.M. Dwight, registrar of pedi- grees of the New York Geneological and Biographical society, in January, 1904, compiled a record of the Avery line of descent, showing that Samuel Avery was a descendant of Richard Neville (1428-1471), Earl of Salisbury and Warwiek, who is known in his- tory as "The King Maker."
The Earl of Warwick's daughter was Isabel Neville, of Warwick cas -. tle, who married George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, who was executed in 1478 in the Tower of London.
Her daughter was Margaret Planta- genet, who married Sir Richard Pole. She was beheaded by Henry VIII.
Their son was Henry Pole, Lord Montague.
His daughter was Catherine Pole, who married Francis Lord Hastings, third earl of Huntington.
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Their daughter was Catherine Has- tings, who married, Henry Clinton, second carl of Lincoln.
Their son was Thomas Clinton, eighth earl of Lincoln and kord Clin- ton ..
His daughter was lady Susan Clin- ton. who married Gen. John Humph- rey, who in 1641 was appointed major general of the Massachusetts Bay colony. . He lost his property and re- turned to England
John Hunphrey's . daughter .was Aun: Humphrey (or Humfrey) who was born in England and who mar- ried William Palmes at Salem, Mass., in 1612.
Their daughter was Susanna Pal- mes, who married Capt. Samuel Avery at Swanzy, Mass., in 1686.
Their son, Humphrey Avery, who was the father of Samuel Avery, of: Owego, was born July 4, 1697 at Gro- ton, Conn., and died there March 28, 1786.
JOHN H. AVERY.
The second resident lawyer to set- tle in Owego was John H. Avery, son of Sammel Avery. He was nineteen years of age when he came here from Westminister, Vt., in 1801. He studied law in the office of Gen. Vincent Mat- hews at New Town (now Elmira.)
Gen. Matthews was the first lawyer of any importance in this part of the state. He was born in Orange county, N. Y., in 1766. He began the study of law in 1786 in New York city in the office of Col. Robert' Troup, the friend of Aaron Burr. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1790 and came to Elmira in 1793. He was the first law. yer to settle there. He was a mem-
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ber of assembly. in 1904-5 from Tioga county (then composed of the present counties of Chemung and Tioga) a state senator, and in . 1809 was elected to congress from the Fourteenth dis- trict, then composed of Cayuga, Sene- ca, Steuben, and Tioga counties. He removed to Bath in 1816, and thence to Rochester in 1821. He represented Monroe county in the assembly in 1826, and was appointed district at torney in 1831.
In. 1806 Mr. Avery purchased the lot on the north side of Front street . Hot No. 12 in the old village plot), on which in 1809 be built the large house now owned and occupied by Dr. E. D. Downs. This lot also included the lot on which .J. C. Kenyon's residence . now. stands and extended back. its full width to Main street. On the Main street end, occupying about one-half of the entire lot, was the Avery or- chard, the object of occasional preda; tory raids of the apple-hungry small boys of the neighborhood in those days. .
This property was a portion of the lands of Elihu Chauncey Goodrich, which were seized upon July 21, 1800, by Wm. Woodruff, sheriff, at a suit of Jabez Beers for a debt of $47,000 and sold to. Mr. Avery.
Mr. Avery's law office was on the river bank on the south side of Front street and was on land in- cluded in the purchase. This office was several years ago converted into a dwelling house and still stands there.
Mr. Avery practised law most of the time alone, but he had various partners. In 1813 the firm was Avery & Collier, and in 1818 it was Avery &
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Platt, Wm. Platt being then his part- nor. Ife was later in partnership with Ziba A. Leland.
Mr. Leland was a college graduate, who came to Owego from'Vermont, where he was born, and formed the law partnership with Mr. Avery May 1, 1820. He was appointed a justice of the peace in April, 1822. . lle re- moved to Bath in November, 1822, where he served two terms in the legislature, and he also served several years as first judge. Later in life he removed to Auburn and thence to Saratoga county, where he died.
Mr. Avery represented Tioga county in the assembly in 1814. He con- tinued the practice of law in Owego until his death, in 1837. His wife was Stella Hinchman, daughter of Dr. Joseph Hinchman, of Elmira, whose father and grandfather were both phy- sicians and were both named Joseph Hinelman. At sixteen years of age Dr. Hinchman was a soldier in the revolutionary army. He afterward studied medicine and removed to El- mira in 1793-4. In February, 1795, he . was appointed sheriff of Tioga county, which then comprised within its limits Chemung, the present county of Tioga, Broome, and a portion of Che- mango. He died in July, 1802.
The children of John and Stella (Hinchman) Avery were as follows:
1. John Humphrey Avery, born 13 July, 1808. Died 27 July, 1831, at Petersburg, Va.
2. Stella Hinchman Avery, born . 12 Feb., 1810. Married Wm. H. C. Hos- mer.
3. George Waitsall Avery, born 12 Feb., 1812. Died 23. Dec .; 1849.
4. Susan Palmes Avery, born 29 Nov., 1813. Married Robert D. Pieron- net, of Friendsville, Pa.
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5. Emily Eliza Avery, born 10 Oct.,
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6. Charles Pumpelly Avery, born 3. . July, 1817. Died at Owego 31 Aug .. 1872 .. .
t. Joseph Hinchman Avery; born 29 Nov., 1819. Died 9 March, 1821. 8. Mary Anna Avery, born May 1. .1822. Died at Joliet, Ill., 4 June, 1901. 9. Fannie Catherine Avery, born 25 Nov., 1823. Died 16 Oct., 1825. . 10. Lesbia Platt Avery, born 2 Oct .. 1825. Married Isaac Newton Jerome. 11 ... Guy Hinchman Avery, born 30 Aug., 1829. Died in New York city 14 . May, 1903.
None of John H. Avery's sons was married.
. William H. C. Hosmer in early life enjoyed considerable celebrity as a poet and was known in literature as "The Bard: of Avon.". He was born May 25, 1814, at Avon, N. Y. His father, George Hosmer, was one of the most prominent lawyers in the state, and Proctor's "The Bench and the . Bar of New York" devotes sixteen pages to his history. . Geo. Hosmer practised law at Canajoharie and af- terward at Avon. His wife was a woman of rare "accomplishments, spoke several Indian dialects, and was deeply interested in the history and traditions of the red men.
Wm. H.C. Hosmer was also a student ofindianlore and travelled extensively among the tribes of Florida and Min- nesota. He was a lawyer. His first poem was "Yonnondio, or the War- riors of the Genesee," an Indian tale in seven cantos, published in 1844. His poems were published in 1854 in two volumes. He held a position in the New York custom house several years. He died at Avon May 23, 187.7.
Isaac Newton Jerome was principal of the Owego academy from 1844 to
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1847. He came here from Pompey Hill, Onondaga county, N. Y.
Thomas Farrington was born Feb. 12, 1799, at Delhi, N. Y. At the age of thirteen years he acted as orderly on the staff of his father, Gen. Putnam. Parrington, who was a colonel in the United States service in the war of 1812 .. At the age of 22. he was prin- cipal of the Delhi academy. He was graduated from Yale college in 1826, studied law, and began practice in Owego in 1828. He was a trustee of the Owego academy from 1829 until it was incorporated in the union free schools of the village. He represuted Tioga county in the assembly in 1833 and 1840, and was surrogate from 1835 to 1840. lle was appointed .State Treasurer in February, 1842, and served until 1845. In January, 1845, . he was appointed Adjutant-General by. Gov. Wright and served until 1846. . In February, 1846, he was again ap- pointed State Treasurer and held the office. until November, 1847. He was judge of Tioga county from 1859 .to 1871. He died in Owego Dec. 2, 1872.
Charles P. Avery, born at Owego, studied law in judge Farrington's of- fice. At thirty yearsofage he was elec- ted judge of Tioga county, and he was the first county judge elected underthe constitution of 1846, making the office elective. . He held the office two terms from 1847.to 1855. He was greatly in- terested in Indian history and wrote the Susquehanna Valley papers, which were published in the St. Nicholas magazine in 1853 and 1854. He gleaned his information from early settlers and was the means of pre- serving much valuable matter relat- ing to the early history of Tioga
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county that would have been other- wise lost. He organized an associa- tion of the pioneers of the Susque- hana válley, which in 1852 and 'a few subsequent years held . annual meetings at Bhaira, Owego, Binghani- ton, Ithaca, Montrose, Pa,, and other places. He later removed to Flint, Mich .: While living there his interest in Indian history continued, and in June, 1863, under the title of "Treaty .of Saginaw" he wrote a history of various Indian tribes for the Detroit Free Press. . His health became im- paired by the climate of Michigan, and in the spring of 1872' he returned to Owego, where he died. Aug. 31, 1872, aged 54 years. In the centennial history of Tioga county Wm. F. War- her pays this handsome tribute to Judge Avery :
"Few men of the county have been gifted by nature with qualities so genial and brilliant as those of judge .Avery. Having a fine, manly person and an exceedingly pleasing and win- ning address; he was a general favor- ite: Nor have many started in life with such brilliant prospects of suc- cess and. long and useful life. His sudden failure of health and prema- ture death were felt as a calamity to a large circle of warm friends. He will long be remembered for his ex- cellent qualities and useful labors."
John H. Avery died in Owego Sept. 1, 1837, aged 54 years. His wife died Dec. 15, 1871, aged 83 years.
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ELIZUR TALCOTT.
Elizar Talcott, a son of Col. Elizur Talcott, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., Dec. 17, 4750, and came to Owego with his family in 1803. He was a direct descendant of John Tal- cott (the first of the name of whom there is any record), who lived at Colchester, England, and died there in November, 1606. His grandson, also named John Talcott, came to America from Braintree, England, in June, 1632, and settled at Hartford. Conn. All the Talcotts in America are his descendants.
Col. Elizur Talcott was a man of wealth and note in Connecticut. He was one of the purchasers of lands in Pouslyvania under the Connecticut title and lost his investment. He held a commission as colonel of a troop of horse previous to and during the war of the revolution, and served with the Connecticut forces on Long Island in connand of his troop. He was in New York city while the British army was marching in, and thence was taken home ill on a litter, and did not again join the continental army.
His son, Elizur Talcott, came with his sons, George Lord Talcott, then aged 18 years, and Elizur Talcott, Jr., aged 22 years, in 1802 to Elmira, where they were employed in build- ing a dwelling house. The next year they came to Owego. In 1803, he pur- chased of Jared Goodrich of Glasten- bury, Conn., two pieces of land in Owe- go, one containing fifty acres and the other 67 acres. The western bound- ary of this land was the Owego creek. The eastern boundary was a line which passed diagonally across North avenue and ran about parallel with
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McMaster street. . The south bound- ary was a little below Fox street and the north boundary was near where George street now runs. This land had been sold for $2,500 June 28, 1902, by Capt. Luke Bates to Jared Good- rich, who sold it for the same amount to Mr. Taleott Jan. 31, 1903. In Sept., 1805, Mr. Talcott sold the northern part of this farm to his son, Georg. Lord Talcott.
Elizar Taleort hived in a large franc house, which stood on the east side of MeMaster -street; midway be- tween Fox street and the Erie rail- road. It was similar to all the large farm houses of that time, with a wide hall extending from front to rear in the middle. Geo. Lord Talcott's house was at the southeast corner of Talcott street and the Lehigh Valley railroad. It was occupied after his death by his son, George Talcott, and after George Talcott's death it be- came the property of Wm.H. Thomas, who reconstructed it and lives in it HOW.
The Talcotts were farmers all their lives. : The land they purchased had Been partly cleared by the Indians, .but most of the land from the Owego creek east was at that time a forest wilderness of lofty pines, gigantic oaks, and a dense undergrowth of bushes.
Elizur Talcott took little part in public affairs, but in April, 1825, when the legislature passed an act consti- tuting a commission to build a county. clerk's office in Owego, he was ap- pointed one of the commissioners.
Mr. Talcott died Nov. 28, 1831. His wife," Dorothy (Lord) Talcott, died April 14, 1839, aged 86 years. . The
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children of Elizur and Dorothy (Lord) Talcott were as follows:
1. Lucy Talcott, born 26 Dec., 1777. Married George Burton. Died 29 Oct., 1858.
2. Elizur , Talcott, Jr., born Feb. 1,
1780. Married Betsy Bliss March 1, 1803: Died 27 Jan., 1867, at the home of his son, Win. H. Talcott, near Flemingville.
3. Prudence Talcott, born 4 Nov., 1781. . Married David Lord. died 15 Jan., 1836.
1. George . Lord Talcott, born. 3 Jan., 1784 .. Married Sarah MeQuigg, daughter of John McQuigg, one of the first settlers at Owego. Died Nov. 30, 1873.
5. Hope. Taleott, born 10 . May, 1785. Married Erastus Goodrich 27 Feb., 1842 .. Died 13 Feb., 1865. . . G. Dolly Talcott, born 23 April, 1789. Married .Jesse Truesdell 15
March, 1812 .. Died 17 April, 1856.
7. Solomon Talcott . born : 10 Aug., 1790. Died 18 Nov., 1795.
>. Charles Talcott, born 11 March, 1795. Died 28, Oct., 1861.
Charles Talcott, the youngest son of Elizar Talcott, was for many years a prominent Owego merchant. He was born at Glastenbury, and came to Owego in 1803, the year following the 'removal of his father and brothers from Connecticut. He was then . 18 years of age. He entered Major Horatio Ross's store as a clerk, where he remained until 1816, when he be- gan a general mercantile business on his own account in Cauldwell Row, near the northeast corner of Frout and Lake streets. About the year 1818 he sold his store to David Turner and built a two-story wooden store, which was for many years known as "the yellow store," it being painted yellow. This store stood on the south side of . Front street where Dr. J. B. Stan- brough's stove store now stands, op-
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posite the Ahwaga house. This store was burned in the great fire of Sep- tember. 1849.
In May, 1831, George B. Goodrich, a nephew of Mr. Talcott, entered the old yellow store as a clerk, and in 1837 he became Mr. Talcott's partner. The firm was known as G. B. Good- rich & Co. After the fire they built the building now occupied by- Dr. Stanbrough on the site of the old yel- low . store, but did not occupy. it. They sold it to Walter Ogden in 1851 and bought a store which. the Odd Follows had just built. This store is the first one east of Lake street, and is still occupied by the firm of Good- rich & Co. as a dry goods store. Mr. Talcott died Oct. 50, 1861.
Mr. Goodrich was born. Dec. 1, 1816, in the town of Tioga, and was a son of brastus Goodrich, who represented Tioga county in the assembly in 1848. lu 1861 his son-in-law, William H. . Ellis, and his son, James W. Goodrich, were admitted to the partnership, which is still in existence and is the oldest business house in Owego. Mr. Goodrich was for several years a. di- rector of the First and Tioga national banks and was president of the Owe- . go national bank from its establish- ment until his death. He died Janu- áry 8, 1886.
The children of George Lord and Sarah (McQuigg) Talcott were as fol- lows:
1. Mary Talcott, born 24, Feb., 1807. Died in Owego 19, Sept., 1882. . 2. "George Talcott, born April 21, 1809. Died in Owego 5 June, 1896.
3. Hope M. Talcott, born Sept. 12, 1811. Married Charles Ransom, 2 Oct., 1832. Died 1 May, 1863. .
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4. Fanny B. Talcott; born 14 Feb., 1311. Married John J. Sackett. 6 Sept., 1836. Died 7 Dec., 1863.
5. Sarah C. Talcott, born March 6. 1816. Alarried Geo. B. Goodrich. She is still living. in Owego ..
6. Incius h. Talcott, born 19 June, 1819. Married Ellen, Noyes in Muy, 1×45. He married second Harriet Noyes, 5 Oct., 1854, sister of his first wife. In early life he was a clerk in the store of his uncle, Chas. Talcott, In 1849 he went with a party of Owe- go Juen to California and thence to Olympia, Wash., where he died 20 July, 1898.
7. Charles . Talcott, born 6 Jan., 1922. Married, Eliza A. Raymond, 17 Aug, INGS. Died 13 Dec., 1865.
8. Charlotte Talcott, born 20 July, 1×24. Married Thomas H. Cook' Io June, 1851. Died at Spencer, N. Y., 2 March, 1879.
George Lord. Talcott died in Owego Nov. 30, 1873. His wife died. June 15, 1'12.
GEN. JOHN LANING.
Con. John Laning, one of the carly merchants of Owego, was born at Lambertsville, N. J., in October, 1779. His father at one time kept a ferry at Washington's Crossing, New Jersey. He is supposed to have come to Owe- go in 1801, as in August of that year he entered Thomas Duane's store as a clerk. In 1803 he began a general mercantile business on his own ac- count .:
He was a young man of unusual force and business ability .. He was the first. Owego merchant who made a contract for plaster in the Cayuga lake country, and he increased to such an extent that he is said to have had as many as five hundred teams on the road at one time drawing plas- ter from Ithaca to Owego. In 1806 he was also a partner of David Mc-
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Quigg, the first. Ithaca merchant, in business at Ithaca under the firm name of Laning & Quigg.
Mr. Laning had a large storehouse on the bank of the Susquehanna river, which stood on the ground where Truman & Jones's feed store now is, the fourth store- above the bridge. From this storehouse plaster . was loaded into arks in the water be- low in the rear for shipment down the river. There was no railroad in these parts and an immense trade was done 'in shipping plaster, salt, and lumber by the Susquehanna river. to The Philadelphia and Ballimora mar- kct.
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