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The first religious services were held by the Baptists in the school house at Block- ville, under the direction of Rav. Simeon Powers.
The First Harmony Baptist Church, at Panama, was organized with sixteen mem- Fers. May 14, 1817, by a council consisting of Revs. John Lasure and Asa Turner and Ji. ssrs. John Putnam. Lorenzo Hunt. Rassel Babcock, Wm. Marsh and Henry Bliss. The first house of worship was erected in 1990, and was burned Sunday morning. Dre. 25. 1-5%. The present house was erected in 1hdd, at a cost of $1.000, and will Seat 4:0 persons. Rev. Simeon Powers was the first pastor: Rey. W. IL. Husted istbe present one. The Society numbers 175 members; its property is valued at $7,000.+
The Second Congregational Church of Herperry, at Achville, was organized with nine members. Ique 10, 1820. by Rey. John Spencer, the first pastor, and erected the church eluice, which will seat 200 persons. in 1884, at a cost of $1.000. There are s wantsative members who are under the pastoral care of Rev. Emery Jones. The Church property is valued at $1.000 .*
The First M E. Church of Blockrille was organized with six members in January. 12. LF Rev. Mr. Hill. the first pastor, and erected their church edifice, which will Swat By persons in ING, at a cost of $1.500. The pastor is Rev. H. H Moore; the number of its members, forty. The Church property is valued at $2,000.$
THEN M. E. COLI PRO was organized with six members in 18, by Pv. David Preston. te fest pastor, and erreted their church edifice, which will Seat jal persons, in IX, at a cost of 89500. one-half the present value of Church jewery. There are NOmembers, who are under the spiritual tutelage of Rev. H.
The First Close Communion Baptist Society of Ashallle was organized with seve m.milers jn 1228. by Rov. Jairus Handy. the first pastor. The previous year Dr. All w X H. Stow. Albert Partridge, Julia Hurlbut, Reuben Slayton. Jr. Maria Sir David Highly. James J Clellan, S.v. and dr. Maria Berry and C. D. Slayton. caly the latter of whom is not a member of this Church, were constituted a branch ( . Movville Baptist Church gy that society. Their church ofiller was created in Ist Gut & cost of $1.59, and will sent BY persons. There are twenty-five members, but the Church is witho it a pastor. The Church property is valued at $2,000.4
TO FIX Padaria Side of Prata was organized with five members. Nov. 2. I'd. By Key, Justin March. a member of the Bufalo Presbytery, by the advice and with the consent of Boys, Sarundt Leonard and Isaac Jones. members of the same Presbytery. Their house of worship, was created in 1kg, at a cost of 81.641, and will seat 300 persons. The first gestor was Rev. A. W. Gray: the present one is Rev. C. Burgess. The Society bumpers If members; its property is valued at $3.000 .**
* Statements of Calvin Cheney, Vietor M. Matteson, Chas. D. Slayton. Myron Bly, Jr .. and John F. Phelps. 1 Information furnished Dy Rev. W. H. Hustod, the pastor. : Information foruished by Mr. Eben L. Kelso.
un furnished by Mr. John F. Phelps. Information furnished by Rev. C. Burgess, the pastor.
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The M. E. Church, at North Harmony, was organized with forty members in 1930. and in 1818 was erected their church edifice, which will seat 800 persons, at a cost of 6700. There are eighty members, under the pastoral care of Rev. Win. Rice. The Church property is valued at $1,500 .*
The First M. E. Church of Askrille was organized with three members in 1832, by Rev. David Preston, the first pastor. Their house of worship was erected in 1843. at a cost of $1.500, and will seat 250 persons. The present pastor is Rev. J. H. Starrett, and the number of members, eighty. The Church property is valued at $2,500.+
North Harmony Baptist Church was organized with fourteen members. April 6. 1933, by Revs. P. Cross, S. Powers and - Fuller. Their house of worship will seat 200 per- sons, and was erected in 1851, at a cost of $$50. Rev. Wm. Butts was the first pastor: Rev. C. C. Mackintosh is the present one. The Society numbers sixty-two members; its property is valued at $2,000.+
The M. E. Church, at North Harmony, was organized with soven members. in 1533. by Rev. Hiram Luce. the first pastor. The church edifice, which will seat 250 per- sons, was erected in 1-50, at a cost of $600. There are forty-four members. under the spiritual guidance of Eev. Wm. Rice. The Church property is valued at $2.00}
South Hormony Free Baptist Church, at Grant's Station, was organized with twelve. members in 135, by Rev. Levi Rexford. the first pastor. The church edifice was erected in 1872, at & cost of $3.500, the present value of Church property. It will seat 300 persons. There are forty members who enjoy the ministrations of Rev. Joseph Kettle .!
The First United Brethren of Harmony, in the north-east part of the town, were organized with twelve members in January, 1858, by Rev. John Hill, the first pastor. and erected their church edifice, which will seat 100 persons, in 1959, at & cost Of Sólo, the present value of Church property. There are nine members. The pastor is Rev. W. Robinson.ª
The M. E. Church, at Grant's Station, was organized with eighteen members in April, 1872. by Rev. R. W. Scott, the first pastor, and their house of worship, which will seat 300 persons, was erected the same year, at a cost of $2.300. The pastor is Rev. H. H. Moore. The Society numbers twenty-eight members; its property is valued at $2.850 .**
KIANTONE was formed from Carroll, Nov. 16, 1853.++ It lies upon the south border, east of the center of the county, and contains 11,288 acres. The surface is undulating in the east and hilly in the west: The highest summits are about 100 feet above Chantangua Lake. Conewango Creek forms the greater part of the east boundary. Stillwater and Kiantone creeks are the other principal streams and are tributaries of the Conewango. The former flows cast through the north part of the town and the latter in the same direction through the south part. The soil is a elity loam intermixed with gravel. .
The population in 18:0 was 539, of whom 453, were native,
* Information furnished by Mr. George A. Brightman.
t Juformation furnished by Mr. Sardius Steward.
* Information furnished by Mr. John J. Lovejoy.
§ Information furnished by Mr. Rufus Gleason.
" Information furnished by Mr. Daniel Benedict.
" Information furnished by Mr. Ransom Morton. ** Information furnished by Mr. Chas. Dole.
++ The first town meeting was held at the house of -- Frisselle. Feb. 22. 1-24, and the following named officers were elected: F. Kidder, Supervisor : Levant B. Brown. Tore Guk: Levant B. Brown. Martin (, Grout, Charles Russel and Aaron J. Phillips. I WAS. Frantis M. Alvorl. 7 X UN Ja Studerar : Nathan A. Alex Mit Van Name, Giro. A Dort en1 .
Į4 "; Stopuen Norton, Joseph Davis, Abran Martin and James Grinha,
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86, foreign and all, white. It had the least number of inhabit- ants of any town in the county.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1872, the town contained five school districts and employed five teachers. The number of children of school age was 233; the number attending school, 166; the average attendance, SS; the amount expended for school purposes, $1,203.95; and the value of school houses and sites, $1,925.
KIANTONE (p. o.) is situated south of the center, six miles south of Jamestown, and contains about twenty-five dwellings. The population in 1870 was sixty-two.
GOULDS CORNERS is a hamlet near the north border.
The Kiantone Farmer's Club consists of thirteen members, with Osmond Fields as President and Azariah Hall as Secretary, and was organized for the promotion of the agricultural in- terests of the town. It has been in operation four years.
Settlement was commenced on lot 29 in 1806, by Joseph Akins. Robert Russell and James Hall settled on lot 28 in 1810. The former built the first saw mill, on Kiantone Creek, and the latter kept the first store, on the lot upon which he settled. Stephen Rogers taught the first school in 1814. The first inn was kept on lot 11 by Wm. Seaver. Otis Moore set- tled in this town in the winter of 1816 and '17. He came from Leverett, Mass., in company with families named Davis, with ox teams and was six weeks on the way. He died in April, 1872.
This town furnished thirty-two soldiers during the war of the Rebellion, eight of whom were killed or died of wounds and disease.
The first religions services were held by the Congregationalists at the house of Joseph Akins, in 1814, under the direction of Rev. Mr. Smith, and June 27th of the following year. the Congregational Church of Kiuntone was organized with six mem- bers, by Rev. John Spencer, the first pastor. The Society erected the house in which they worship in 1830. It cost $1,500, and will seat 200 persons. There are ninety-one members. Their pastor is Rev. Elliot C. Hall our informant. The Church property is valued at $4,500. This is the only Church in the town.
MIN A was formed from Clymer, March 23, 1824 .* Sher- man was taken off April 16, 1832. It lies upon the center of the west border of the county and contains 21,842 acres. The surface is rolling and hilly. The principal streams are French Creek, which crosses the south-east corner, and its tributary
* The first town meeting was held at the school house near Alex. Findley's on the last Tuesday of April, 1-24, and Nathaniel Throop was elected Supervisor ; Roger Haskell, Then Clerk; Aaron Whitney, Zina Rickard and Otis Skinner, Assessore ; Isaac Hazen, Collector; Alex. Findley and Orlando Durkee. Orersee's of the Poor ; Benj. Hazen, Jeremiah Knowles and P. Sullivan, Commissioners of Highways; Isaac Hazen and Thomas Downey, Constables ; Zina Rickard, Jeremiah Knowles and Alex. Findley, Commissioners of Common Schools ; John N. Nathan, David Waldo, Jr., Otis Doggell, Nathan Leach, Elisha Morse, Noah P. Haydon, Benj. Hazen, Cyrus Under- woud and John Barnes, Orerseers of Highways and Fence Viewers.
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upon the west border. The head waters of Twenty Mile Creek are in the north-east part. Findleys Lake is a fine sheet of water in the south-west part.
The population of the town in 1870 was 1,092, of whom 951 were native 141, foreign and all, white.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1872, the town contained eleven school districts and employed twelve teachers. The number of children of school age was 555 ; the number attend- ing school, 437; the average attendance, 228; the amount ex- pended for school purposes, $3,323.34; and the value of school houses and sites, 86,600.
FINDLEYS LAKE, (p. o.) sitnated at the foot of the lake of the same name, contains a church, Union school, hotel, five stores, two harness shops, two blacksmith shops, one carriage shop, two saw mills-one steam and one water power *- a grist mill, shingle mill and photograph gallery.
MINA CORNERS (Mina p. o.) is situated a little east of the center and contains about fifteen dwellings. A. D. Holdridge's steam saw and shingle mill, located near here, gives employ- ment to eight men, contains five circular saws, and has facilities for sawing 10,000 feet of lumber and 10,000 shingles per day, besides a large quantity of lath.
FRIENDS is in the north-west part. E. Chesley & Co.'s steam saw-mill in this vicinity contains five saws, one of them being five feet in diameter, gives employment to five men, and has facilities for sawing 10,000 to 15,000 feet of lumber per day.
Settlement was commenced on lot 52 in 1816, by Alex. Find- ley, a native of Ireland, who, previous to his arrival here had resided in Pennsylvania. Aaron Whitney, from Dunnville, Canada, settled on lot 59 in 1821, and Zina Rickard, on lot 28, and Roger Haskill on lot 50, the same year. James Ottaway, from Kent county, England, settled on lot 14 in 1823. Jeremiah Knowles settled at an early day, one and one-half miles north of Findleys Lake, when there was not a public road in the west part of the town. He was a civil engineer, and laid out the first public road in that locality. It is said that Nehemiah Finn made the first butter sent to New York from Chautau- qua county, and that John Shaver made the first firkin and owned the first dog-power in the county. The first birth was that of a daughter of Nathaniel Throop, in 1823, and the first death that of the mother of the same individual in 1825. The first marriage was contracted by Isaac Stedman and Nancy
* Silkrigg & Speckernagle's steam saw mill, located here, is the largest in the town. It gives employment to eight to ten persons, runs three saws, and has facili- ties for cutting 1,000 feet of lumber per hour. Messrs. Case & Clark, of Buffalo, are engaged in shipping lumber from this mill.
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Wilcox. in April, 1826. Elisha Moore taught the first school the latter vear near Findley's mills. The first store was kept in 1824, by Horace Brockway, on lot 52, and the first mill was built the same year by Alex. Findley, on the outlet of the lake which bears his name. The first inn was kept in 1827, by Cullin Barnes, on lot 20.
The first religious services were conducted by the Reformed Protestant Dutch, in 1946. in the barn of Benj. Hazen, under the direction of Rev. Mr. Bradley.
Findleys Lake Church. (United Brethren in Christ.) was organized in 1855, by Rev. John W. Clark, the first pastor. Their church edifice was erected in. 1862, at a cost of $600. It will seat 200 persons. There are thirty members. The pastor is Rev. J. S. Amidon. The Church property is valued at $1,000 .*
The American Reformed Church, at Mina Corners, was organized with forty-four members. Dec. 19. 1856, by Rev. J. W. Dunewald. the first pastor. Their house of worship was erected in 1857 and '58, at a cost of $1.400, the present value of Church property. It will seat 200 persons. There are forty-six members, under the pastoral care of Rev. Jacob Weber.t
The V. E. Church, in West Mina, was organized with thirty-five members in 1857. Their house of worship was erected in 1859. at a cost of $650, and will seat 300 per- sons. The first pastor was Rev. R. C. Chapman : the present one is Rev. L. E. Beardsley. The Society numbers twenty-five members; its property is valued at $1,000.$
POLAND was formed from Ellicott, April 9, 1832. It lies upon the east border of the county, south of the center, and contains 22,341 acres. The surface is a hilly upland, di- vided into several distinct ridges. The principal streams are Conewango and Cassadaga creeks, which unite near the south line.
The Atlantic & Great Western R. R. crosses the town in the north part; the Buffalo & Jamestown R. R. runs parallel with it; and the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh R. R. crosses the south-west corner.
The population of the town in 1870 was 1,418, of whom 1,287 were native, 131 foreign, and all, except three, white.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1872, the town contained eleven school districts and employed nine teachers. The num- ber of children of school age was 484; the number attending school, 416; the average attendance, 231; the amount expend-
* Information furnished by Rev. J. S. Amidon, the pastor.
t Information furnished by Rev. Jacob Weber, the pastor.
+ Information furnished by J. F. Skillie.
§ The first town meeting was opened at the house of A. McGlashen and closed at the house of S. R. Gleason, on Tuesday, March 5. 1833. Nathaniel Fenton was elected Supervisor ; Nelson Rowe. Tien Clerk ; Emory F. Warren, Henry M. Connell, Samuel Hitchcock and Melanchthon Smith, Justices; Melanchthon W. Smith, Elmore G. Terry and Samuel Hitchcock, Axxisxors; David Tucker and Cyrus Coe, Orerseers of the Poor : Abner Barlow, Isaac Stanbro and Amasa Ives. Commissioners of Hightrays ; Seth M. Avery, Collector; Henry McConnell. Norton B. Bill and Linus Mott, Commix- xiomara of Sehele ; Elmore G. Terry, Nelson Rowe and Emery F. Warren, Inspectors. of Elections; Seth M. Avery, John Andrews, Elias Tracy, jr., Joshua E. Phillips and John I. Simpson, Contables; Nelson E. Cheney. Samuel Foote, Nathaniel Ireland, Cornelius Barnard, John W. Dyer. Abner Benington. John McConnell, Win. S. Rod- gers. John True, Nathaniel Fenton, Cornelius Coe, Nicholas Dolloff, Elisha C. 'Bar- ber, Seth MI. Avery, Barney Benedict, Silas Greenman, Melanchthon W. Smith, Nor- ton B. Bill, Ebenezer Loomis and Benj. Russell, Overseers of Highways.
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ed for school purposes, $2,434.62; and the value of school houses and sites, 87,100.
KENNEDY,* (p. v.) situated in the north-east part, on the Conewango, is a station on the A. & G. W. R. R. and contains two churches, one hotel, eight stores, a grist mill,t barrel fac- tory, saw, planing and lath mill, t two blacksmith shops, three wagon shops, two shoe shops, a livery stable and 284 inhabit- ants.
A daily stage to Ellington leaves Kennedy at 5.15 P.M., and a tri-weekly leaves Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for For- estville at & A.M., stopping at Clear Creek, Cherry Creek, Ville- nova and Arkwright Summit, and arrives at Forestville at 4 P.M.
POLAND CENTER, (p. o.) is a hamlet on the A. & G. W. R. R., containing a hotel and steam saw-mill, with a capacity for saw- ing one million feet of lumber per annum, and 3,000 shingles per day.
Saxton's saw mill, located on Cook Creek, in the north-east part of the town, saws about 100,000 feet of lumber per annum.
Waterboro's steam saw mill, situated on the Conewango, in the north-east corner, has facilities for sawing 12,000 feet of lum- ber per annum.
Wait's shingle mill, situated on Mud Creek, manufactures about 300,000 shingles per annum.
Hartson's saw mill, situated on the Cassadaga, in the west part, saws half a million feet of lumber per annum.
Settlement was commenced upon the site of the village of Kennedy in 1804 or '5, (Harry Abbott, of Kennedy, says the former year,) by Dr. Thomas R. Kennedy, from Meadville, Penn. In 1805 he built a saw mill there, the first erected in the town, the lumber from which is believed to be the first rafted down the Allegheny from this county ;§ and in 1806 he built a grist mill at the same place. Edward Shillitto settled in the same locality about the same time. Other early settlers were Amasa Ives, Isaac Young, - Owens, - Miles,
* Originally named Kennedy's Mills, from Charles Kennedy.
t The mill occupying the site of this was burned Nov. 30, 1871, and the present one built in 18.2. It contains four runs of four-feet stones and one run of two-feet stones.
* This mill is capable of sawing 10,000 feet of lumber per day, besides doing a con- siderable amount of planing, and manufacturing a large quantity of lath. Brook's stave factory. located here, manufactures 600,000 staves and about 1.000 tubs and frkins per annum.
§ It is generally believed, and has been so stated by historians, that this was the first saw mill erected in the county. This is undoubtedly incorrect, as saw mills. were built in Hanover and Westfield as early as 1804, though it was doubtless the first in this section of the county.
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Joseph and Daniel Wheeler, Nicholas Dolloff and Joshua Woodard. Abram Staples came to this town from Marcellus, Onondaga county, in 1813, and has since resided here. He is now SI years old. He helped to cut the first roads and build the first bridges in the town. At an early day in the history of the settlement he lived six weeks upon potatoes and milk. Nelson E. Cheney came to this county from Windham county, Vt., in 1812, and settled in Kiantone. In 1819 he removed to Poland Center, where he has since resided. He is now eighty years old. He assisted in erecting the first frame building in Jamestown-the grist mill built for Judge James Prendergast. Hobart Newton, a native of Westminster, Vt., came here from Henrietta, Monroe county, in 1825, and has since resided here. Jeremiah Hotchkiss came from Perry, Wyoming county, in 1527, and died in 1868. John True, from the same place, came in July, 1828, and located on the farm where he now resides. Geo. Hi'ls came from Rome, Oneida county, in 1829, and still lives here. Capt. Norton B. Bill, a native of Southwick, Mass., where he was born, Dec. 26, 1794, also removed here from Perry, Wyoming county, in 1830. He died Oct. 26, 1871. Joseph Clark, Jr., came to this town from Burlington, Otsego county, in 1831, and has since resided here. Joseph Clark moved into this county from the same place in 1809. He re- mained long enough to build a shanty and clear four acres of land, when he returned to Burlington, where he died in 1870, ared 79 years.
The First Baptist Church of Kennedy was organized with twenty-two members, Ja !. 20. 1936. Their house of worship was erected in 1868, at a cost of $2,500, and will what 250 persons. The first pastor was Rev. B. Braman: the present one is Rev. H. A Conrad. There are fifty-one members. The Church property is valued at
I'ked Free Church, at Kennedy, was organized about 1857. in which year the church edifice, which will seat 500 persons, was erected, at & cost of $2,500, the pres- (ht value of Church property .*
Ir ant Wesleyan Church, (Wesleyan Methodist) in the west part of the town, was organized by Rev. Emory Jones, the first pastor. The church edifice will spat 200 Torsots and was erected in 1872, at a cost of $2.500. . The present membership is alatt thirty-five; and the pastors, Revs. Daniel Ball and Emory Jones. The Church property is valued at 33,000.t
POMFRET was formed from Chautauqua, March 11, 1608. Ellicott, Gerry and Hanover were taken off June 1, 1×12 ; a part of Sheridan, April 16, 1827 ; a part of Arkwright, April 30, 1829. Another portion was annexed to Arkwright in 1>30. It lies north of the center of the county, a very small portion of the north border in the west corner being washed by Lake Erie, from which it is separated by the town of Dun- kirk. It contains 28,899 acres. The surface in the north part
* Information furnished by Varanes Page.
Information furnished by Elihu Gifford.
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is a comparatively low plain, being included in the lake shore slope; while in the south it is a rolling upland, the highest summits being 700 to 800 feet above Lake Erie. The principal stream is Canadaway Creek, which flows through the northern and central parts. Other smaller streams flow north into the lake, and a portion of the head waters of Cassadaga Creek lie in the south part. The soil is a clay and gravelly loam. Quar- ries of sandstone suitable for building purposes have been opened on Canadaway Creek at Laona and Shumla, in the rocks of the Portage group. The mass at Laona is about five feet thick, the upper three feet often forming but a single course, thus affording blocks of large dimensions. It is highly bitu- minous, and petroleum is seen on the water which rises from the earth in the vicinity of the rock. About three miles south of Fredonia there is a quarry of shale and sandstone, from which some blocks of about a foot in thickness have been ob- tained. These are succeeded by shale and thin layers of sand- stone. Along Canadaway Creek, especially at and in the vi- cinity of Fredonia, alternating with the strata of slate which form the bed of that creek are found thin seams of a substance resembling bituminous coal, or rather what seems to be indu- rated petroleum, from which carbureted hydrogen is evoked. This gas is discharged most copiously at Fredonia, where it is- sues in sufficient quantity, and is used to illuminate the vil- lage .*
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern R. R. crosses the north-west corner of the town, and the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh R. R. passes through the eastern part.
The population of the town in 1870 was 4,306, of whom 3,656 were native, 650, foreign and all, except twelve, white.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1872, the town contained sixteen school districts and employed seventeen teachers. The number of children of school age was 1,504; the number at- tending school, 611 ; the average attendance, 329 ; the amount expended for school purposes, 85,158.14; and the value of school houses and sites, $5,505.
FREDONIA,t (p. v.) situated upon Canadaway Creek, in the north-east part of the town, three miles south of Dunkirk, with which it is connected by horse cars, is a beautiful village of about 3,000 inhabitants and was incorporated May 2, 1829. It is the seat of a State Normal and Training School, t and con-
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t I'reuonia was formerly called Canadaway. The name was changed about 1517.
*The Normal and Training school at Fredonia was established in 1866 and opened in February 1868, in the old Academy building, where it was continued unta the completion of the present building in September of the latter year, at whid. time and from the commencement, Joseph A. Allen was principal. Feb. If, 14 4
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