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Johnston, Huntley && Co. have a large establishment for the manufacture of Johnston's Self-Raking Reaper and Johnston's Cycloid Mower.
" This Reaper is made expressly for harvesting grain. It is perfectly adapted to gathering, cutting and delivering, either in gavels or a continuous swath, wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, clover, timothy seed and sowed corn. It gathers the worst pieces of lodged grain perfectly clean with- out the extra labor of carrying the swath. It cuts the short- est and thinest of grain and saves it all ; and it may be left either in bundles or in large bunches, and the bunches in rows. This machine is of the most simple construction, strong and durable. It has no side draft, no bearing down oh the necks of the horses, and turns at the corners as readi- ly as a cart. The rakes perform the work of gathering of reeling, and in a much more perfect manner than the ordinary
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reel, from the fact that all are provided with teeth that catch hold of the grain and bring it up to and brush it back from the cutters, thus preventing clogging and running over the grain. It is the only self-raking reaper, cutting a six feet swath that can be easily handled by one span of horses, the draft being less than the lighest mowers having four feet cut. The machine is so constructed that it may be set to cut a stubble at any hight, from three to eighteen inches, and the driver, while passing along, can, by a lever at the side, raise or lower the cut to suit standing or the worst conditions of lodged grain."
The proprietors of this establishment removed from Syra- cuse in March, 1868, and have been compelled to enlarge their works during the last year to double their former ca- pacity, and should the demand for their machines continue to increase in the same ratio they will be compelled to great- ly enlarge their works next year. The works now cover an area of about three acres. One building is 160 by 40 feet, and another 160 by 45 and three stories high. In addition to these there are a blacksmith shop and other outbuildings. They employ about 100 hands.
The Little Giant Mower and Reaper is manufactured by H. W. Seymour, and for a low priced machine is unsurpassed. It meets the demands of a class of farmers better than any other machine. Mr. Seymour also manufactures Peuse's Patent Rotary Force Pump, which is a favorite with brew- ers, distillers, &c. These pumps are of various sizes and ca- pacities and admirably adapted to various uses where a powerful pump is required.
State Normal and Training School, late Brockport Col- legiate Institute, occupies a beautiful site, commanding a view of the village and the surrounding country. The edi- fice is constructed of dark Medina sandstone, and is in the Norman style of architecture. It is 300 feet long and con- sists of a main or contral building. 50 by 60 feet, and two wings, each 40 by 75 feet, to which have been added two transverse wings, each 50 by St feet. The central building is four stories high and the wings each three stories above the basement. The grounds embrace six acres, finely shaded and laid out with gravel walks. The design of the school is to furnish teachers for the public schools of the State, thoroughly trained for their profession. It consists of a Nor-
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mal and a Training School. The object of the Normal School is to provide a thorough drill in the primary and academie studies, conducted in accordance with the most ap- proved methods of teaching. The object of the Training School is to test the ability of pupil teachers to reproduce the drill they have received in the Normal School. A compe- tent Board of Instruction is employed, at the head of which is Charles D. McLean, A. M., LL. B.
Sweden Center, (Sweden p. o.) near the center of the town, contains two churches and about twenty dwellings.
West Sweden, near the south-west corner, contains two churches and about a dozen dwellings.
The first settlement was commenced in 1807, by Nathaniel Poole and Walter Palmer. Samuel Bishop, Isaiah White, Stephen Johnson and a Mr. Hopkins came in the same year. John Reed, Timothy Tyler and Edward Parks settled in the town in 1818, and Reuben Moon, with his sons James, Amos and Isaac, settled in the east part in 1809 and 1810. James Scott was the first settler in the south part ; he was a colored man and settled in 1809. John Phelps, Rufus Hammond and - Knight were the original purchasers of the site of Brockport. James Seymour, George Allen, Thomas R. Roby, Ralph W. Goold, Luke Webster and Charles Richard- son were early settlers. Samuel Bishop kept the first inn, in 1809, and Charles Richardson the first store. Brockway and Blodgett built the first mill.
The population of the town in 1865 was 4,126; its area is 20,942 acres.
There are 13 school districts, employing 16 teachers. The number of the school population is 1,423; the number attend- ing school, 819 ; the average attendance, 421, and the amount expended for school purposes during the year 1868, was $6,- 143.91.
WEBSTER was formed from Penfield, February 6, 1840. It lies on Lake Ontario, in the north-east corner of the County. Irondequoit Bay forms the west boundary. The surface slopes gently from the Ridge towards the lake on the north. In some places the shore rises from 40 to 30 fet above the lake, and on the west from 80 to 100 feet above Irondequoit Bay. The streams are small, flowing north into the lake. The soil in the north is a sandy loam.
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and south of the Ridge a clay loam. Salt was manufacture to some extent by the early settlers.
Webster, (p. v.) in the south part, on the Ridge, contait .: four churches, viz: Methodist, Presbyterian, Universali .; and Baptist ; Webster Academy, five stores, one carriage f .... tory, one foundry, one tannery, one harness shop, one hotel and about 400 inhabitants.
West Webster, (p. v.) in the south-west part, contains about 50 houses, a Methodist church, a hotel, a store and severa! mechanic shops.
There are four churches in the town outside the villages. one German Methodist. east of Webster, on the Ridge ; one German Lutheran, west of Webster, on the Ridge; one Methodist Episcopal, on the County line, and one Catholic. about a mile east of Webster, on the Ridge.
The first settlement was commenced in 1805, under the agency of Caleb Lyon. The early settlers were chiefly from New Hampshire and Vermont, with a sprinkling from the east part of this State. Among them were John Shoecraft. from Ulster County, Isaac Straight, Daniel Harvey, Abram Foster, Paul Hammond, William Mann, William Harris. Samuel Pierce, Samuel Goodenough, and Benjamin Bur- nett, all of whom settled about 1806.
The first birth was that of a child of Caleb Lyon, and the first death that of a child of N. Caines. William Harris taught the first school, in 1810. John Letts kept the first inn, and F. B. Corning the first store, in 1825. Caleb Lyon built the first saw and grist mills, in 1826. The first church (M. E.) was organized in 1812 by Rev. Solomon Pierce.
John McLaren came from Johnstown and settled in Web- ster in 1803. Ebenezer Spear came from Mass. to Palmyra in 1806, and to this town in 1807, and cleared the farin upon which he lived until his death in 1856. Ebenezer Clark came from Green Co. and settled here in 1811, and served in the war of 1812-15. John Letts came from Sharon in 1811. Lewis Crippen came from Lima to this town in 1813. Alpheus Crocker, from Conn .. the same year ; Reuben Cobb. Asa Robb and Nathaniel Knight came in 1817 ; the last loca- ted on the farm where he now lives. Asa K. Jennings came from Saratoga Co. in 1811, Nathan Bollard from Montgom- erv Co. in 1$12, and Asa Boss from Mass. the same year. Among the other early settlers were Joshua Vosburgh from
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Columbia Co., Justin Dwinell from Cayuga Co., Isaac Drake from New Jersey, John Williams, Jr., first came to Greece from Dutchess Co., Nelson Stearns from Vermont, Mark Curtis from New Hampshire, Seba Granger from Cherry Valley, Luther Parker, Ziba Curtice and William P. Preston from New Hampshire.
The population of the town in 1865 was 2,775; its area is 19,909 acres.
There are twelve school districts, employing twelve teach- ers. The number of the school population is 1,042; the number attending school 746; the average attendance 3-47, and the amount expended for school purposes during the year ending September 30, 1868, was $3,656.97.
WHEATLAND was formed from Caledonia, Livings- ton Co., February 23, 1821. It was called Inverness at first but its name was changed April 3 of the same year. It lies in the south-west part of the County, on the south border, having Genesee River for its east boundary. It has a gently rolling surface and a soil of loam mixed with clay in the in- terior, and with sand and gravel in some localities, the whole underlaid by limestone. Gypsum is found in large quanti- ties. Oatka or Allan's Creek flows east through near the center of the town. At Mumford it is joined by the outlet of Caledonia Springs, forming an excellent water-power.
Scottsville, (p. v.) situated in the east part of the town, con- tains three churches, viz., Presbyterian, Methodist and Ro- man Catholic; three hotels, several stores, two flouring mills, a saw mill, a plaster mill and a population of about 1,000. Oatka Creek furnishes the water-power, through a race that has been constructed, affording one of the finest water-powers in the County. A new school house has recently been erect- ed at a cost of $12,000.
Mumford, (p. v.) in the south-west part, contains two churches, a hotel, two dry goods stores, two flouring mills, two plaster mills, one woolen factory, a saw mill, a machine shop and about 500 inhabitants. The water-power for this village is furnished by Spring Creek, the outlet of Caledonia Spring, which flows into Oatka Creek near this village. The stream is well supplied with speckled trout, supplying seve- ral private ponds with this delicious fish.
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Garbuttsville contains several mills and about twenty dwellings.
Wheatland Center is a hamlet.
In 1789 Peter Shaeffer, Sen., and his sons Peter and Jacob, came from Pennsylvania, and after stopping a while at Ge- neva and in Bloomfield, came in December to the present town of Wheatland. Ebenezer Allan was already located here and living in a comfortable log house, near the mouth of Oatka Creek, where the village of Scottsville is now located. The Indians had given Allan 300 acres of land, he had pur- chased 170 more of Phelps and Gorham and had fifty or sixty acres of the open flats under cultivation and twenty acres of wheat upon the ground. The Shaeffers purchased this tract for $2.50 an acre, including one acre of wheat and a pig. Allan was living with a white wife at this time, as his affections seem to have oscillated between the red and the white race. Mrs. Dugan, his sister, had been his housekeeper for some time. The Shaoffers shared the house with Allan until spring, when he went to Mount Morris. He purchased goods for the Indian trade and was the most extensive farmer in the region. In 1790 Allan had one hundred acres of wheat, besides considerable corn. He employed Indians, paying them for their labor with rum or trinkets.
Joseph Morgan located on a farm joining Mr. Shaeffer's in 1792. Andrew Wortman settled upon the river in 1794 or 1795. Caleb Aspinwall, Peter Conkle, Frederick and Nich- olas Hetzteller were early settlers in the Shaeffer neighbor- hood. Reuben Heth, from Vermont, worked for Mr. Shaeffer without a change of his buckskin clothing until he had earned enough to pay for a farm. The Shaeffers brought apple seeds with them from Pennsylvania and these were the first planted west of Genesee River, if we except the old French orchard at Schlosser.
The father and brother of Peter Shaeffer died within a few years after their settlement, and the improvements in his possession gave him the opportunity, which was improved, of adding to his large possessions. He was very kind to the Scotch settlers who came into the neighborhood, supplying them with the necessaries of life on credit, for which they never failed to pay him in due time.
Game was plenty, too plenty for the settlers, as the bears and wolves rendered it difficult to keep sheep and hogs,
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CUT OF BANK LOCK.
SARGENTT & GREFALHAP. PATENTEES AND MANUFACTURERS OF THE
MAGNETIC BANK LOOKS!
COMBINATION SAFE LOCKS, Eupiekable Drawer, Irunk, Store Door and other Locks, Latches. &c., with Small Flat Keys.
Pool Building, Rear No. 2 Buffalo street. Sales Room, 10 arcade,
ROCHESTER. N. Y. II. S. GREENLEAF. JAMES SARGENT.
OUT OF DRAWER LOCK.
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HIRAM CURTIS'
AGRICULTURAL WORKS!
ALBION, ORLEANS CO., N. Y.
The sub-eriber, erathned with the generous patronage heretofore bestowed upon him. would respectfully call the attention of the Farmers of Monroe County to the New Im- plement - manufactured by him, which have bat recently been presented to the trade. Chief among these Labor-saving articles, is the
A MOVER!
WITH IMPROVED SELF-RAKE.
Especially constructed for the coming Harvest; warranted to cut a full -wath of 5 feet t anche-, throwing the train entirely in rear of the Machine, and out of the way of the next -with : village strengthened and improved, and the motion materially increased. In fact w. invite the most careful attention to the Buckeye Harrester.
If there is no agout in your town, be sure to find one before you purchase, as it is a well known fact that every other agent will assure you " that the Machine he sells, beat- the Hechove. . Having always warranted my work, there is no danger of getting an netinle that does not wait, as all goods may be returned and the money refunded. When they fail to work as stated. Look out for
STEEL PLOWS!
I have devoted a large portion of the last year in getting upa STEEL PLOW. which for beauty of design, case of draft, and excellence of workmanship. cannot fail to please the worst partical pirman. A fall assortment of flows, Cultivators. Har Corn and thorel Flores, and Plone Trimmings, and everything in the Bp. 0 PIECEN for MOWER AND REAPER Repairs, can always be found at any of my regular agencies. Perrine & Stewart, Rochester : J. M. O-barn. Penfield ; E. D. Hillman, Parma: D. M. Martin, Greece : C. N. Hart. Spencerport : Joseph William -. il nietta : where also may be contained Circulate of the
STEEL-TOOTH SULKY RAKE.
G .: P king Has aad Stunde. The RAKES have a Board east S ...
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while the raccoon insisted upon harvesting their corn before it was ready for the farmer. Pigeons were very abundant and were taken in large numbers with nets, their breasts cut out, salted and eaten.
When the American troops were on their way up the lake to take possession of Fort Niagara, they were detained by head winds and put back into the Genesee, where their pro- visions failed. Hearing of Shaeffer, they went up the river, quartered in his barn and received pork and corn meal, for which the officer gave his note. Shaeffer then piloted them to/Caledonia Springs, put them upon the trail for Tonawanda. from which place Poudry piloted them to Fort Niagara. where they were the first to raise the American Flag. The next winter Mr. Shaeffer drove cattle to Canada, visited the Fort and received his pay.
The south-west part of the town was settled by Scotch, under the patronage of Mr. Williamson, agent for the Pul- teney Estate. Some of them settled in what is now Wheat- land, and others in Caledonia, along the outlet of Big Springs and Oatka Creek. John McKay purchased 200 acres in 1803, which included the spring and the site of Mumford. The purchase included a small mill which Mr. Williamson had had built for the use of the settlers. These Scotch set- tlers came in and at first erected wigwams, after the manner of the Indians, and subsequently erected log houses. Each family had a yoke of oxen, two cows and their calves. Isaac Scott settled at Scottsville about 1790, and Donald McVean soon after. Zachariah Garbutt and family settled at what is Garbuttsville, in 1803, and Powell Carpenter, in 1804, set- tled near Scottsville.
The first marriage was that of Peter Shaeffer, Jr., and a daughter of Jacob Schoonover, in 1790. The first death was that of Peter Shaeffer, Sen. Jacob Scott kept the first inn; Philip Garbutt and Aram Hanford the first store : John and Robert McKay built the first grist mill, at Mum- ford, in 1808 ; a saw mill had previously been erected.
Donald Mckenzie erected the first cloth dressing and dye works west of the Genesee River. He says he commenced Iouling logs for his shop the 25th of June. 1807. "at John v.d Robert MeKav's Lower Falls, now named Mumfor1. where there was not an inhabitant but the lone sawyer in that dense forest of evergreens, which I admired more than I
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the dusty, crowded city of New York, with its yellow f ... - and other diseases." In August, 1810, he commenced w., in the first woolen factory west of Genesee River. He bat the first framed house in the village of Mumford.
The first church (Bap.) was formed in 1811. Rev. S.l., mon Brown was the first pastor.
A public Library was established in 1804. The first books were purchased of Myron Holley, at Canandaigua. Jol. Garbutt carried them on his back to their place of destin. tion. Peter Shaeffer was the first librarian.
The population of the town in 1865 was 2,675; its aren is 18.998 acres.
There are nine school districts, employing thirteen teacher .. The number of the school population is 919; the number at- tending school, 803; the average attendance, 343, and the amount expended for school purposes during the year ending September 30, 1868, was $11,099.21.
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MENDON SUPPLEMENT.
Honeoye Falls, (p. v.) situated on the creek of the same name, in the south-west part of the town, was incorporated in 1SBS. It is a station on the Canandaigua & Niagara Falls Branch of the N. Y. C. R. R. and contains six churches, viz : Presbyterian, Methodist, Christian, Episcopal, Dutch Re- formed and Roman Catholic; a hotel, a printing office, a bank, two general merchandise stores, two groceries, two fouring mills, each manufacturing about 10,000 barrels an- nually, one woolen factory, three carriage and wagon shops, a saw mill, an edge tool factory, several other mechanic shops of various kinds and about 1000 inhabitants. The Corporation embraces about two square miles. The fall of water at this place was about 21 feet, previous to the erection of the dam at its summit. Owing to crevices in the rocks about three feet of the upper strata were removed, but the subsequent ercetion of the dam restored the fall to its
natural hight. The railroad crosses the stream at
the summit of the Falls, on a covered bridge ; another sub- stantial iron bridge spans the stream just below the Falls. The fall of the stream between York & Son's foundry, in the south part of the village, and Allen & Buggy's woolen fac- tory, in the north part, is about sixty feet. The capital in- vested in the woolen factory at this place is about $10,000, and the number of yards of cloth made annually is about 25,000.
The Honeoye Falls Free Press, published monthly, was started June Ist, 1862, at Lima, Livingston Co., and in May. 1.65, was removed to Honeove Falls, where it is now pub- hed by S. F. Joy.
Melon, (p. c.) situated in the cast part of the town, con- i.ins two churches, viz : Presbyterian and Baptist ; a hotel.
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a grist mill, a foundry, a wagon shop, two stores, two slun. shops, several other mechanic shops and about 300 inhal ;. tants.
Mendon Center (p. r.) contains a grist mill, a saw mill. : store, a blacksmith shop, a shoe shop, and about 150 inhabit- ants.
Sibleyville, in the south-west part, is a hamlet, and con- tains a saw mill and grist mill.
Several large tracts in this town were purchased by differ- ent parties, and are still designated by the names of the original purchasers. A tract of 11,000 acres is called the Wadsworth Tract. Lot No. 90, near the center of the town, was reserved by the surveyor for his own use.
The Eleven Thousand Acre Tract, or Wadsworth Tract. occupies the east half of the town, the west line running through the town, north and south, nearly through the cen- ter. The Catlin and Ferris Tract is in the north-west part of the town ; it extends east and west from the Eleven Thou- sand Acre Tract to the west town line. The south line runs from the west end of Taylor street on lot 90, west to the west town line. South of this lies the Waddington Tract, two lots wide, extending from Eleven Thousand Acre Tract to west town line. South of this tract lies the Porter Tract, one lot wide, extending from the Eleven Thousand Acre Tract, west, as far as the Honeove Falls and Pittsford road. In the south part of the town are the Norton and Ball Tracts. The Ball Tract did embrace all lands in the town lying south of the Porter and Waddington Tracts. The Norton Tract was taken off the. Ball Tract, and lies east of the village of Honeoye Falls. taking in the water privileges in the corpora- tion of the village. Lots 91 and 92, known as the Mile Square, lie near the north-east corner of the town, only one line of lots running north of these lots. They are reserva- tions, but by whom, or when made, we have been unable to determine. Previous to 1820, the people west of the creek went to Lima to vote, supposing they lived in the town of Lima.
Truman Smith came into the town in 1805. with his father, Joseph Smith. He was then five years old and is still living. Solomon Miller, the father of Adams Miller, moved into the town in 1794 or '5, and located on what is now known as
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Miller's Corners. Jonas Allen, the father of Daniel Allen, located here in 1796, his deed is dated 1797. He was agent of Ebenezer Barnard, for the sale of part of the 11,000 Aere Tract. Althea Allen, now living with Daniel Allen, was the first female born in the town. In 1793 Cornelius Treat came from Stockbridge, Mass., on foot, with a pack weighing forty pounds. He settled on lot 63, 11,000 Acre Tract, and in 1805 removed to the farm now occupied by N. N. Treat : who has in his possession a record left by his father from which this statement is taken. The last named was born here in 1806, and has always resided on the same farm. Jacob Young, son-in-law of Mr. Norton, of Norton Tract, came into the town and settled in 179S. He was born April 23d, 1769, and celebrated his hundredth birthday last April, at which five generations of descendants were present. He is still living with Andrew Young.
In 1828-9 several families belonging to the Society of Friends settled in this town, and in 1832 erected a house of worship. They number about 35 families and 125 members at the present tine. Martin Davis and wife were the first of the society who settled in the town. Daniel Russell and wife, Isaac Ewer and wife, Nathaniel Russell and wife. George West and wife, John Allen and wife, and Jacob Whipple and wife, located soon after and organized the so- ciety. About the same time Brigham Young and Heber (. Kimball commenced preaching Mormonism to the people. They were both residents of Mendon village ; Young had previously been an exhorter of the Methodist Church, and Kimball of the Baptist Church. Young was a chair manu- facturer, and Kimball a manufacturer of clay ware. Daniel Allen now has chairs made by Young previous to his be- coming an expounder of the Mormon faith.
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SEVING MACHIN C
Send for
NEW
PATTERN!
CIRCULAM AND
SAMPLE
OF WORK.
C. HAMLIN,
34 Main Street, - ROCHESTER, N. Y.
SAMUEL R. HEART,
BRIGHTON, N. Y. STEAM SAW MILL!
MANUFACTURER OF ALL KINDS OF Building & Bridge Timber,
BOAT PLANK,
SHINGLES AND LATI
For Kurserymen, &c., &o.
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MONROE COUNTY BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
EXPLANATIONS TO DIRECTORY.
Directory is arranged as follows: 1. Name of individual or firm. 2. Post office ad- dress in parenthesis. 3. If a farmer, the lot number indicates his residence. 4. Bu i- ness or occupation.
A Star (*) placed before a name, indicates an advertiser in this work. For such ad- vertisement see Index.
Figures placed after the occupation of farmers, indicate the number of acres of land owned or leased by the parties.
Names set in CAPITALS indicate subscribers to this work.
The word Street is implied as regards directory for Rochester and the village :.
For additions and corrections see Errata, following the Intro- duciion.
BRIGHTON.
(Post Office Addresses in Parentheses.)
ABBEY, JOSEPH, (Rochester,) lot 15, far- j Barnum, John, (Brighton.) lot 19. farmer mer 45. 32.
Adwen. Stephen W., (Rochester.) groceries and provisions, lat lock.
Allyn, Calvin, (Brighton,) lot 25, farmer 211. Ammon, Geo., (Brighton,) lot 78, farmer Ivases saw mill and 65.
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