Growth of a Century : as illustrated in the history of Jefferson County, New York, from 1793 to 1894, Part 37

Author: Haddock, John A. 1823-
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Sherman
Number of Pages: 1094

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THE THOUSAND ISLANDS.

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ROUND ISLAND PARK was incorporated in 1879 with a capital of $50,000, in shares of $100. The island contains about 175 acres, and has been laid out into 400 lots, besides avenues, ornamental parks, picnic grounds, etc. It is one mile long and from 800 to 1,200 feet wide, and lies about a quarter of a mile from the mainland, and a mile and a half from Clayton village. This park was originally under the patronage of the Baptists, but its man- agement is now non-sectarian. A dock 260 feet long and 14 feet in depth was built, and in 1880 an hotel 50 by 200 feet, four stories high, was erected. In 1889 the hotel was enlarged and improved, and will now accommodate 400 guests.

CENTRAL PARK is located upon the mainland, about midway between Alexandria Bay and Thousand Island Park. This park was incorporated about 1881, with a capital stock of $25,000. A commodious hotel and cottages have been erected, with sufficient dockage and other improvements, making about $40,000 invested.

GRAND VIEW PARK was laid out as a public park in 1885, on the northwestern point of Wells Island, containing 25 acres. Hamilton Child, of Syracuse, in 1886 erected a cottage there, which is now used as a hotel. It has 228 building lots, and has hourly connection with Thousand Island Park.

GRENNELL ISLAND PARK is named for its proprietor, who for 30 years has resided upon a small island near the point upon which the park is located, with which his island is con- nected by a bridge. The park was started in 1882. A hotel has been erected upon the smaller island, and several private cottages have been erected on the larger island.

AT JOLLY OAKS, below The Thousand Island Park, Mr. J. L. Norton, of Carthage, has a fine cottage, and spends much of the hot weather there, amidst old friends, among whom are Hon. W. W. Butterfield, of Redwood, Dr. N. D. Ferguson, Mrs. H. G. Kellogg, O. P. Greene, of Carthage, and others, forming an agreeable company:

FREDERICK ISLAND, a short distance below Jolly Oaks, is another popular resort, the Summer home of Mr. C. L. Frederick, also of Carthage. He has three islands, two of them united by a neat bridge, the group forming a most attractive place.

PROSPECT PARK occupies a tract of 50 acres upon Bartlett Point, about one mile up stream from Clayton. The point commands a fine prospect and was the scene of an engage- ment in the war of 1812.

EDGEWOOD PARK is located upon the mainland, near Alexandria Bay. A fine club- house and several cottages have been erected, and the place has been incorporated as the Edgewood Park Association, comprising mostly people from Cleveland.

HANCOCK OR MURRAY ISLAND is now known as Murray Hill Park. The island was purchased of Capt. J. A. Taylor by a syndicate. The island is well located, and will proba- bly become a popular resort.

THE SEVEN ISLES, a place where, in 1895, it is proposed to start a place of popular resort, is already mentioned (on p. 160,) as well as herein shown in two interesting views.

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BROOKLYN TERRACE, THOUSAND ISLAND PARK. SUMMER RESIDENCE OF BYRON A. BROOKS, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.

BYRON A. BROOKS

WAS born in Theresa, December 12, 1845, of most industrious and respectable parents. He displayed a naturally imaginative temperament, inherited from his mother, illy in accord with his rude surroundings, and with a mechanical and inventive taste derived from his father. He attended the village school summer and winter, but the best part of his educa- tion was acquired in the fields and waters and about the shops and factories of his native village, which seems to him now an almost ideal home for a boy, though its moral influences might have been better. He began to teach a country school in the town of Clayton before he was 16, and the next winter near Cape Vincent. He attended the Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, whence he graduated in 1866, and went to teach in the Antwerp Liberal Literary Institute. He entered Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., in 1867, graduating in 1871, among the "honor men," though he was out over half of the time teaching-one year as principal of Antwerp Seminary. After graduating he lived 10 years in New York city, engaging in teaching and literary work.

In 1874, he became interested in the new type writer, and in 1875 invented the "Upper " and "Lower" case machine, afterwards known as the "Remington No. 2," which has made millions of money for its proprietors. He has ever since been connected with that business, taking out nearly thirty patents, including several in printing, telegraph and type-forming machines. He has also perfected and placed on the market the "Brooks Typewriter," which is superior to all.

In 1876, he published "King Saul, or A Tragedy." In 1882, "Those Children and Their Teachers ;" "Phil Vernon and His Schoolmasters." In 1893, "Earth Revisited," and is at present engaged upon a historical romance of the present century in Northern New York called, the " American Spirit." He expects to devote most of his time to literary persuits in future.

His grandfather, Dr. James Brooks, was the first physician in the town of Theresa, and his father was well known as one of nature's nobleman, "an honest man." Byron A. illus- trates what common schools and an academic education may do to bring out admirable traits in a young man, unsuspected before he began to "grow through books."

HON. ELDRIDGE G. MERICK.

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HON. ELDRIDGE G. MERICK.

IT is fortunate for our History that we are able, through the courtesy of Mrs. Cyrus H. McCormick, of Chicago, a niece of Mr. Mer- ick, to present to our readers a very circum- stantial and accurate record of the life of one of Jefferson county's most widely known, dis- tinguished and able citizens, who rose from small beginnings to the very first rank in busi- ness and in citizenship. Indeed, the writer remembers no man in Jefferson county that was superior to Mr. Merick. There were two or three, Hon. Orville Hungerford, Hon. C. B. Hoard, and perhaps Gen. Wm. H. Angel, who stood as high in probity and faithfulness to friends and to society, and were as patri- otic and high minded as Mr. Merick, but he had no " superior" in his adopted county, nor in Northern New York.

He was the fifth child in a family of nine children, six boys and three girls, and was born March 6, 1802, in Colchester, Delaware county, N. Y., from which place he moved with the family to Sherburne, Chenango county, at the age of about four years. The section to which the family removed was almost an unbroken wilderness, with few in- habitants and no schools or opportunity for obtaining an education. The principal amuse- ment for a boy of his age, was picking up the brush and burning it, preparing the land for crops. The first school he attended was at the age of nine. The school held for only four months. At the end of the four months he was able to read a newspaper fairly well. He continued at home, himself and brother carrying on the farm, until eleven, at which time he went to live with a man named Clark. That family had no children, and Eldridge was treated as their own child. Mr. Clark had a small farm on the Chenango river, which this boy carried on principally, with occasionally a little help from the owner. His business, after getting through with the work of the farm in the fall, was to chop and put up ten cords of wood before going to school the first year, increasing it five cords each year until he got 25 cords, which was all that was needed for the family. Eldridge attended the country school from three to four months each winter, until 17 years of age, and then he commenced teaching. When Mr. Clark went to St. Lawrence county in 1820, young Merick went with him, remain- ing there until 21 years of age.

Arriving at majority, the people with whom he lived not being in a situation to do any- thing for him, he found it necessary to shift for himself. His first effort was a contract for building a stone wall at Russell, St. Law- rence county, after which he went to Water- town, Jefferson county, working there for several months, and delivering the material for the old stone Presbyterian church, thence to Sackets Harbor to work for Festus Clark, a brother of his former employer, as a clerk in a small store. Remaining there for a short time, he went to Depauville, in the same

capacity with Stephen Johnson, who had a country store, and also was engaged in the lumber business for the Quebec market.

He remained with Mr. Johnson two years, superintending his lumber business largely, and while there became acquainted with Mr. Jesse Smith, who had been furnishing Mr. Johnson with means to carry on his lumber business. Mr. Johnson was unfortunate in business and failed at the end of two years, and was sold out by the sheriff, which sale was attended by Mr. Smith as a creditor, and knowing it threw young Merick out of em- ployment, he offered him a situation, which was gladly accepted. This was about 1826. Mr. Smith was doing a very large mercantile and manufacturing business for those times. After being with him for a little over a year, he sent Mr. Merick with a store of goods to Perch River, and the following summer sent him to Quebec to look after his lumbering interests, and in the fall of the same year offered him a partnership and an interest in the business, which was accepted, and so young Merick became the manager. The business developed into a pretty large one, de- voted principally to lumber designed for the Quebec market, and also the building and running of vessels, The timber and staves, which were the principal business, were ob- tained about the head of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, extending into Lake Huron, and were transported by vessels across the lakes to Clayton, on the St. Lawrence, and there made into rafts for transportation to Quebec. Of these rafts there were several made up every year, amounting (according to their size) to $40,000 or $50,000 each. These rafts had to be made very strong to run the rapids of the river, seven or eight in number. Each stick of oak timber was tied up with large oak-wisps, forming what was called a dram; and from 10 to 20 or thirty drams in a raft. The rafts were propelled by a number of small sails, but usually went but little faster than the current. At the rapids a pilot and extra man were taken to conduct the raft through the rapids; a pilot for each dram or section, the raft being divided into several sections for running the rapids. Sometimes a large raft required from 200 to 300 men. Frequently they would get broken up in the rapids and run ashore, attended with con- siderable loss and expense in saving the pieces. Arriving at Quebec, they were usually sold on from two to six months' time, but the per- centage of loss by bad debts was very small. Better facilities were needed for transporting this square oak timber, and a ship-yard was established at Clayton.

The business in the winter was arranging and superintending the shipments, getting the timber in the country, and getting it for- warded for shipping, and in building vessels, of which the firm generally had one or more on the stocks. They built, with one or two exceptions, all the steamboats forming the

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line on Lake Ontario and the River St. Law- renee, on the American side. They built the " Empire," at Cleveland, about 1844, and the year after that Mr. Smith and Mr. Meriek discontinued business together. When the Grand Trunk Railroad was built, however, following up the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario, the competition ruined the business of these passenger steamers. The line ceased to be remunerative, and the boats were sold, some to go to Montreal; one went to Charles- ton, S. C., and afterwards was engaged in the rebel service in the war of the rebellion.

Mr. Meriek had previously established a house in Cleveland, one in Oswego and one in Buffalo, the object being to furnish busi- ness for the vessels on the lakes. Each ad- ditional facility only showed the necessity of still further facilities. They decided to build a large flouring mill in Oswego, which was of the largest capacity of any mill in the country at that time, turning out from 1,000 to 1,200 barrels a day, and having 13 runs of stone.

Not contented with that, the firm invested in a railroad from Sandusky to Newark, in Ohio, which at that time was a very large wheat district. Then they were enabled not only to control the wheat over the road and to market by vessels, but also for the mill at Oswego. Like many another man, Mr. Merick had rather "too many irons in the fire," and the first year of the mill business they lost a good deal of money. During the war, or at the close, the mill was making very large profits, from $1 to $2 a barrel, but unfortunately it took fire and burned down, with a large stoek of grain and flour on hand. The loss was pretty well protected by insur- ance, but the profit which they would have made if the mill had not burned down, could not have been provided for. The actual loss was nearly $150,000.

As before stated, Mr. Merick made an in- vestment in a railroad from Sandusky to Newark, in Ohio, in connection with D. N. Barney & Co., a firm of which he was a mem- ber, embracing also Smith & Sons, of New- ark, Ohio, his former partner, and Burr Hig- gins of Sandusky. Their hopes were not realized. The enterprise proved a losing one, Mr. Merick's share of the loss being nearly $300,000. This road subsequently be- came a part of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R.

His business being at that time mostly away from Clayton, and thinking that a western point would be more central and convenient, Mr. Merick decided on moving to Detroit, which was done in the fall of 1858.

In addition to other business, he bought an interest in the Detroit Dry Doek Company, for the firm of Merick, Esselstyn & Co. John Owen, Gordon Campbell and Meriek, Fowler & Esselstyn each owned one-third of the Dry Dock stock-the total stock being $300,000. In 1871-2, Meriek, Fowler & Es- selstyn rebuilt at Clayton the schooners "Montmoreney " and "Montgomery," and built the sehooners "Montcalm " and " Mont Blanc," costing about $100,000. At the same

time they purchased from the Detroit Dry Dock Company the steamer "Inter-Ocean," and her consort, the "Argonaut," costing about $150,000-these being the forerunners of the large steam barges which have now revolutionized the grain-carrying business of the lakes.

In 1873 the great depression in business came over the country and continued until 1879. Vessel business, like every other inter- est, suffered greatly from the depression, and the firm's losses from carrying on the busi- ness during the six years of depression, in- cluding losses by sales of property, amounted to about $400,000. Business revived again in 1880-81, and they reeuperated about $100,000. Since that time their business has been vari- able-sometimes making money and some- times losing.

Mr. Fowler, a partner of the firm of Mer- iek, Fowler & Esselstyn, died in May, 1879. The surviving partners purchased his interest in the business, and continued under the name of Merick, Esselstyn & Co., by which name the business continued until Mr. Mer- iek's death in Detroit, Michigan, in 1888, in his 86th year.

In 1829 Mr. Merick married Miss Jane C. Fowler. She died in 1881, leaving four sur- viving children-all of whom have proven useful and honored members of society.

Mrs. Cyrus H. McCormick, who was Mr. Merick's niece, was the daughter of Melzar Fowler, born at Brownville, N. Y., and sur- vives her distinguished husband, who was that C. H. MeCormick so long the leader in manufacturing reapers for the harvest field, whose machines have gone into all lands. He was the one to introduce that inestimably valuable machine into England, as is so well spoken of on page 41 of this History.

Mr. Merick was in many respects a pecu- liarly able man, and should be spoken of apart from his many business suceesses. Judgment was the leading quality of his mind. To strangers he appeared reserved, the result of his native modesty, and not the outgrowth of any feeling of superiority or of self-elation. His mind was too great and his judgment too solid for any such folly as that. He was eminently democratie, simple in his manners and his tastes, as have been all the really great men the writer has encountered. Mr. Merick was not a sharer in the command of armies, nor is it probable that he ever knew what it was to be thrilled by a bugle call or beat of drum; yet he intensely appreciated the struggle endured by the Union armies, whose perils he would surely have shared had he been of suitable age. He was a patriot in the highest sense of that term.

In stature he was built in a large mould, attraeting attention in any company. Amidst all the duties of his exacting business he was a consistent Christian, the travelling Methodist minister always found a welcome at his fireside, both from him and his amiable wife, a fact the writer has heard the late Rev. Gardner Baker speak of with tears. Mr.

COLONEL GEORGE W. FLOWER. EX-MAYOR OF WATERTOWN.

CAPTAIN OF Co. C., 35TH N. Y. VOL. INFANTRY, 1861-1863.

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Merick's unostentatious and democratic ways made him life-long friends, for his manner in- vited confidence, and confidence in him meant safety. Children and dogs never shunned his society, for they intuitively perceived his gentleness under his greatness. Viewed in any light, as a man of affairs, the possessor and dispenser of large wealth, as the unos- tentatious but ever vigilant citizen of a free country, or as the sincere Christian, he pos- sessed so many excellencies that he fell but little short of earthly perfection. He left a

memory in Jefferson county that remains peculiarly sweet, and entirely untarnished. And it is fitting to hold up such character to the admiration of the youth who come after him, as an evidence that the age in which he lived was not altogether one of greed and money-getting, but was adorned now and then by souls as grand as can be found in the records of any people. And so Eldridge G. Merick passes into history as one of the very ablest and best of his time.

COL. GEORGE W. FLOWER.

AMONG all the bright and enthusiastic young men who were the first to enter the Union army from Jefferson county, not one had a more engaging individuality than Col. George W. Flower. Certainly no one left a more prosperous environment nor a more attractive home to peril life and every human ambition by becoming an active par- ticipant in a war that promised only death or decrepitude. Setting aside his business, his young wife and his little children, he went to work in raising a company from among his neighbors and the companions of his boyhood. These readily recognized his qualities for leadership. and no other name was ever men- tioned save his to take the captaincy of that fine body of young fellows who afterwards became Company "C" of the 35th N. Y. Vol. Infantry. The history of that company is written in that of the regiment which it helped to constitute, and is fully set forth in the proper place in this History. Col. Flower shared all its perils, its intervals of wearisome inaction at Falls Church and Fal- mouth ; and such delays chafed and annoyed him more than serious service, for he was a man of active mind and body, and found in labor and activity the comfort that sluggards find in ease and personal comfort.

At Antietam he received a blow from an exploding shell, which disabled him, and while home on leave he resolved to resign from his command in order to enter upon a more vigorous and engrossing pursuit of business. The reasons for this course were obvious to him, and well understood by his nearest friends. He had then served nearly two years. He began as a captain, and he was yet a captain. He had seen other men, his inferiors in ability, in moral worth, in previous business condition, and in social standing, rise above him in rank, and as his own regiment had acceptable men in its field officers, promotion there was unlikely. His ambition was unsatisfied, for he had every quality that made the good soldier, the cour- ageous commander. He resigned his cap- taincy and left the regiment, bearing with him the sincere respect and affectionate re- gard of all his comrades.

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Growth of a Century : as illustrated in the history of Jefferson County, New York, from 1793 to 1894, Part 37

Author: Haddock, John A. 1823- Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Sherman Number of Pages: 1094

Author: Haddock, John A. 1823-
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Sherman
Number of Pages: 1094