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The first Catholic services held in this town were in the Mansion House, kept by David Huntley, and were conducted by Father McAvoy. About six months after, upon the completion of J. C. Devereux's land-office, services were held by the same minister. Later, Mr. Nicholas Devereux purchased a school-house that was unused, and fitted it for a chapel. Fathers Dooran and McKievers were parish priests residing here, having in charge from Buffalo east to the Gen- esee River. Services were held in this chapel for a year or two. Mr. Devereux agreed to build a church if Fathers Dooran and McKievers would raise money for a parsonage. The Erie Road was at that time building, and money was obtained from the laborers. Father Pamfilio and Milian, of the order of Franciscans, were stationed here, and an organization was effected Sept. 20, 1848, with 12 members, by Bishop Timon. In 1851 the church edifice was erected at a cost of $4200, including lot. Father Fitzsimmons was the first pastor. He was succeeded by Revs. Father John Beatty, John Twohey, - Le Brittan, - Glen- nim, - Rogers, J. Brady, and - Ryan, who is the present pastor.
The number of families in connection with the church is 500.
THE GERMAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN ST. PETER'S CHURCH .*
This church was organized Dec. 18, 1867, with 12 mem- bers, at Vedder's Corners. Their first pastor was the Rev. E. Lemheus, who remained until the latter part of 1872. Rev. M. Hyer took the pastoral care of the church in January, 1873, and occupied the field for about two years and a half. In the fall of 1876 the Rev. Mr. Kanold as- sumed the labors of the pastorate, and is still in charge. The church is largely attended by Germans who are settled in the vicinity, and the services are conducted in the German language.
SCHOOLS.
The first school was taught by Eunice Carpenter, at the house of Orrin Pitcher, in the summer of 1818. Chaun- cey J. Fox taught a short time during the following winter, in a small house now occupied by Charles Chamberlain near the Catholic church. In the summers of 1819 and 1820, Ursula Maltby taught in the upper room of Baker Leonard's house. John W. Staunton taught in the court- room in the winter of 1820-21, and Nathaniel Hurlbut in the same place in the winter of 1821-22. The town was first divided into school districts June 4, 1821, by Artemus Blair, Rickertson Burlingame, Daniel Thomas, school commissioners.
The report of the school commissioners of the town for 1823 shows the following facts in reference to the schools for the previous school year :
District No. 1 .- Summer school three months, winter school three months ; number of scholars taught, 55 ; num- ber of children between the ages of five and fifteen, 44.
District No. 2 .- Summer school three months, winter school three months.
District No. 3 .- Summer school three months, winter school three months; number of scholars taught, 21; number of children between the ages of five and fifteen, 21.
They also report the whole amount of money received for the use of common schools during the year as $54.69, of which sum $29.69 was received from the county treas- urer, and $25 from the collector, together with $20.24 re- maining in the hands of the former commissioners.
The first trustees chosen were Orrin Pitcher, Grove Hurlbut, and David Goodwin.
The first school-house in the town was on Bryant Hill, and was built in 1820. The first in the village of Ellicott- ville was erected on the public square about 1824, and was two stories high, the lower room being used for a district school, the upper for a select school.
Dissatisfaction arose in the district for some cause, and it was divided. The school-house was sold to Mr. Devereux. School-houses were built in the separate districts,-one on the corner of Elizabeth and Adams Streets, the other near the Catholic church.
THE ELLICOTTVILLE FEMALE SEMINARY
was opened in the village in 1835, under the charge of Mrs. S. Cowles and Miss Mary Lyman. It was continued by them for three years, when it passed, in 1838, to the control of Mrs. Emma R. Newcomb, under whom it remained in successful operation for several years.
The present school-house in the village of Ellicottville was erected in 1851.
Oct. 28, 1865, a meeting was held, pursuant to notice, for the purpose of deciding whether the district in which the village of Ellicottville is situated should become a free school district or not. The meeting having decided in favor of a free school, an election was held and nine trustees were elected. Elihu S. Stewart was selected as president, and J. K. Skinner clerk.
The present board of education is as follows: William Manley, President; A. Ward, Secretary ; W. G. Laidlaw, H. L. Smith, D. J. Huntley, G. M. Rider, P. K. Shank-
* "Unaltered Augsburg Confession."
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land, H. B. Harrington, L. L. Razey ; William B. John- ston, Principal ; Miss Harriet McCoy, Intermediate; Miss Kitty Williams, Primary.
The statistics of the schools in the town for 1878 are from statements kindly furnished by Hon. Neil Gilmour, Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State. The number of districts are nine, with nine school-houses ; value of school-buildings, with sites, $8170; volumes in library, 411,-valued at $246; the number of children of school age, 715 ; average daily attendance, 277 ; number of weeks taught, 282; number of teachers for 28 weeks or more, 11; amount paid for teachers' wages, $2679.42; amount of public money received from State, $1524.46; amount of money received from tax, $1543.38.
CEMETERIES.
The first burials in the town of Ellicottville were made in a ground appropriated for the purpose, lying within the present village corporation, near its southeastern boundary, on the road leading to Great Valley, now known as Jeffer- son Street. Within this ground lie the remains of many of the first pioneers and some of the most prominent citi- zens of the village in the past. It is a spot of some natu- ral beauty, well adapted to its sacred uses, and is still the principal cemetery of the town.
On Bryant Hill a ground was set apart soon after the settlement at that place. Justus, a son of Justin Rust, was the first buried there. This ground is still in use as a place of interment by the people in the immediate vicinity.
The " Niles Burying-ground" is situated about a mile west of the village of Ellicottville, and is used as a family burial-place.
SOCIETIES.
CONSTELLATION LODGE, NO. 435, F. AND A. M.,
was organized at Ellicottville, receiving its charter June 1, 1835. The first officers were Gaius Wheaton, Master; John Vosburg, Senior Warden ; and Jacob Simmons, Junior Warden.
It was chartered by the " County Grand Lodge," there being from 1823 to 1827 two Grand Lodges in the State. Their meetings were held in what was known as the Ma- sonic Room in Mr. Huntley's tavern. The lodge never made any returns to the Grand Lodge, and the warrant was surrendered in 1831.
The Anti-Masonry excitement occurred during its exist- ence, and but little is known of its history.
ELLICOTTVILLE LODGE, NO. 307,
was chartered June 14, 1858, and on the 18th day of July, 1853, Past Master Job Bigelow duly constituted such lodge, and installed its officers, with Rensselaer Lamb as Master, Geo. W. Gillett as Senior Warden, and Clark Rob- ertson as Junior Warden.
Out of the jurisdiction of Ellicottville Lodge have been taken the Clinton F. Page Lodge, No. 620, of Waverly, and the Franklinville Lodge, No. 626.
The Past Masters have been as follows: Rensselaer Lamb, J. J. Aiken, Wm. Howland, Saml. Wm. Johnson, D. H. Bolles, Wm. A. Meloy, J. King Skinner, E. D.
Northrup, Oliver T. Drown, W. R. Pindar, and P. R. Shankland. The present officers are Palmer K. Shankland, Master ; Fred'k Young, Senior Warden ; Riley L. Starr, Junior Warden ; E. D. Northrup, Sec.
Their meetings are held in the Masonic Room, in the Brick Block, on Washington Street. They number at present 78 members.
ELLICOTTVILLE LODGE, NO. 174, A. O. U. W.,
was organized Sept. 19, 1878, with 14 constituent mem- bers, D. J. Woodworth, Dist. Dep. Grand Master Work- man ; C. P. Vedder, P. M. W .; A. D. Scott, M. W .; T. A. Hinman, Recorder ; L. H. Crary, Gen'l Foreman.
They have at present 25 members. Their meetings are held in the Good Templars' Room, in the McMahan Block.
ELLICOTTVILLE LODGE, NO. 594, OF GOOD TEMPLARS was organized April 24, 1868, R. H. Shankland, W. C. T .; Mrs. A. H. Howe, V. T .; E. G. Herrington, Sec. The present officers are L. H. Crary, W. C. T .; Mrs. Mariette Saxton, V. T .; Miss Kate L. Ward, Sec.
They number at present 100 members. Their meetings are held in their room, in the McMahan Block.
THE INDEPENDENT BACHELORS.
" At a meeting of the Independent Bachelors of the town of Ellicottville, held at the house of S. S. Huntley, on Wednesday evening, Feb. 16, 1848, for the purpose of nominating candidates to be supported at the ensuing elec- tion, M. L. Rice, Esq., was called to the chair, and James H. Metcalfe was appointed secretary.
" On motion, Resolved, That no candidate be nominated for Supervisor.
" Charles C. Hull, Dr. Horace Arnold, and A. H. McKal- lor were appointed a committee to report a list of candi- dates. They reported as follows: For Town Clerk, Archi- bald McKallor; Town Superintendent Common Schools, Charles P. Washburn ; Collector, Charles C. Hull; Justice, Milton L. Rice; Assessor, Horace Rasey ; Commissioner of Highways, Horace Arnold; Overseer of Poor, Samuel S. Huntley ; Inspectors of Election, William H. Beecher, Peter V. Skinner, James H. Metcalfe; Constables, Wil- liam Harnes, John A. Vedder, Napoleon Searle, Amasa Williams, James Johnson.
" Report unanimously adopted."
On motion, R. Harlen, M. L. Rice, and R. L. Carey were chosen a committee to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting. They reported the following, which were unanimously adopted :
" Resolved, That we, the unmarried men of Ellicottville, being un- encumbered with wives, and the responsibilities attendant on married life, deem it our duty to lighten the burdens that have heretoforo devolved upon the married men of this town by taking upon our shoulders the official duties of said town for the ensuing year.
"That the candidates presented by this caucus are worthy of the suffrages of our citizens.
"That we will elect this ticket in spite of the opposition of married men and the lamentations of spinsters.
"That every candidate who shall marry during the term for which he shall be elected shall give an oyster supper for the benefit of all the bachelors of said town [hereupon one of the candidates arose and declined to accept the nomination, when, upon motion, it was re-
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solved that no candidate should be excused unless he shall make aff- davit of his intention to marry within one year, and that the proceed- ings of this meeting be published in the papers of this village]."
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The Independent Bachelors failed to elect their ticket, and the " organization" proved short lived.
FORMATION OF AN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.
Very exciting scenes were witnessed in Ellicottville at the formation of the Cattaraugus County Anti-Slavery So- ciety in 1836. The story of its formation, and the excite- ment attending it, is told in the following extracts from the Ellicottville Republican of that time.
From the issue of April 28, 1836 :
" This exciting and dangerous topic continued to be the subject for popular and exciting lectures throughout the country. Notwithstanding the great mass of the people have pronounced it inexpedient and dangerous, still we regret there are to be found men willing to embark in any cause, however corrupt and wicked, even at the expense and hazard of the public peace and tranquillity. ...
" This village, which has been noted for its good order and decorum, has been, during the past and present week, shaken and convulsed by one of these disturbers of the peace [Mr. Huntington Lyman], who arrived in town on Thursday of last week, and appointed a lecture on Aboli- tionism for the afternoon of that day. The hour arrived, and we are credibly informed that only nine persons were in attendance, the more respectable portion of the com- munity. attesting their disapprobation by their absence. Not satisfied with this manifestation of the public will, the disturber appointed the next day for another lecture; and again found about the same number of men, and probably an equal number of women, present."
Those events occurred on the 21st of April. On Satur- day, the 23d, another meeting was held at the school-house, amid great excitement, and at its close, as the audience was retiring, Mr. D. I. Huntley gave out notice that Mr. Ly- man would deliver an abolition lecture the next evening (Sunday). A large majority of the citizens of the village, -including all the well-disposed and influential,-consider- ing it a popular political lecture, were firmly opposed to any such profanation, and accordingly resolved to resist any such encroachment on the Sabbath. In behalf of those persons opposed to such lectures, the following letter was addressed to Mr. Lyman :
" April 24, 1836.
" MR. H. LYMAN .- Sir,-We have understood that a lecture is to be given by you this evening in the school-house, on the subject of abolition, and we take the liberty of addressing you on the subject. In the first place, as we consider it a political subject, we do not deem it a fit subject for the Sabbath, tending to the profanation of the day set apart for more serious purposes. We, therefore, as friends of good order in community and moral example, request that you desist from such a proceeding. We assure you that we shall not submit tamely to an insult of such magnitude.
"Yours in haste,
" ELEAZER HARMON,
" ANSON GIBBS,
"ROBERT H. SHANKLAND."
" No answer was received to the above note, but at the appointed hour he appeared, and commenced by reading a chapter in the Bible. After that having been gone through with, Mr. Harmon interposed, and respectfully inquired
whether the lecture was to be a political or a religious lec- ture, stating that it was not his desire to interfere with or disturb a religious discourse. The agitator utterly refused to give any explanation to the citizens assembled, and find- ing they were determined to hear no such lecture, the friends of the cause repaired to the tavern of the Messrs. Huntley. In short, the friends of good order were re- quested to tarry, but upon consultation, it was resolved to repair also to the tavern, and meet again on Monday evening at the school-house. All repaired in good order to the tavern, and obtained admission without any considerable difficulty, and as they did not undertake to adopt a consti- tution which they had in readiness, they were not inter- rupted."
A very strong public excitement appears to have resulted from this attempt to organize an anti-slavery society in Cat- taraugus County. On the following evening (Monday, April 25) a meeting, " for the purpose of taking into con- sideration the exciting subject of slavery," was held in the school-house in Ellicottville, of which Dr. A. Crary was made chairman, and Anson Gibbs secretary, and which after its object had been stated, and a committee appointed to draft resolutions, was adjourned, to reassemble at the court-house on the following evening.
Upon reassembling at the court-house, pursuant to ad- journment, the committee reported a preamble and resolu- tions as follows :
" Whereas, An excitement has been produced in our community by a certain agitator and a chosen few, upon the much-agitated question of Abolition, and, whereas, the Sabbath was violated by an attempt to promulgate this pestiferous doctrine, in violation of the sacred rule to keep holy the Sabbath day, and attempts were made to palm off upon the public as a lecturer on morality, a certain individual whose private character will not bear examination, but when weighed in his own balances, is found wanting. We, the committee, to prevent the recurrence of such outrages, do roport the following resolutions :
"Resolved, That it was with no ordinary feeling of indignation that we witnessed the coming of Mr. Lyman to disturb the universal amity of social intercourse and moral devotion of the inhabitants of this village, by introducing his wild and fanatical lectures upon the principles of abolitionism, and that we consider it an essay by him and his colleagues, to poison the fountain from which has flowed all our social and domestic happiness; to demolish the barriers that have heretofore existed between the pure aspirations of religious devotion and the discordant ebullition of political frenzy. . ..
"Resolved, That the exhortation of Mr. Lyman to press forward in the cause of abolition, regardless of the consequences, and if it caused the dissolution of the Union as preferable to the present state of slavery, is indicative of a concert between the Abolitionists and the emissaries of the monarchial powers to subvert the liberties of our country, and verify the royal prediction of the ephemeral existence of republics, and it is the opinion of this committee that the infected author of such treasonous principles requires the medicinal properties of the tar, and lulling magic of the feathers, to induce a state of mental convalescence."
Other resolutions of less importance were adopted by the meeting, which thereupon adjourned.
"P.S .- Last evening [Wednesday, April 27, 1836] the disturbers again commenced assembling at the tavern of the Messrs. Huntley, and it was soon rumored that the purpose was to form a society and adopt a constitution. A large number of the friends of free discussion and good order immediately repaired to the tavern, and claimed the right to discuss the principles of the constitution which they were about adopting without its even being read. Mr.
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Harmon insisted upon the right to be heard, but was re- fused. The vote, however, was taken, and decided against its adoption. The friends of abolition were then requested to retire into an adjoining room,-the friends of free discus- sion repaired there also; from there they repaired up-stairs, and the friends of discussion followed; and from up-stairs down-stairs again,-and then they were respectfully re- quested to put the adoption of the constitution to vote again, several persons having come in since the rejection, who wished to vote; which they utterly refused to do. The secretary wrote down several names as signers to the constitution ; among the number several little girls and beardless boys. The citizens outnumbered the agitators three to one, and still were told they should not discuss freely. The disturbers cannot complain now if they have the chalice returned to their own lips. The meeting, after rather a desultory discussion, was declared, by the landlord, adjourned. Next week we shall give the particulars of last night's outrage upon the rights of the community, and the successful manner in which the citizens put down the formation of such a society in a public manner." The society, however, was formed at that time ; the Rev. Syl- vester Cowles and Pliny L. Fox, Esq., being among the principal of its leaders.
THE VILLAGE OF ELLICOTTVILLE*
lies very nearly in the geographical centre of the county, and is located in an intervale of about half a mile in width, on Great Valley Creek. Hills rise in varying heights sev- eral hundred feet above the valley, their sides covered with forest trees majestic in form and rich in foliage. It was laid out by the Holland Land Company, with special ref- erence to its position and availability for the future. The county-seat was located at this place in 1808 by commis- sioners appointed, and court was held at the house of Baker Leonard, in 1818. The county buildings were erected in 1820, and this village remained the county-seat until 1868.
The Holland Land Company opened an office here in June, 1818, David Goodwin, agent.
A notice was published, dated Dec. 21, 1836, " that an application will be made to the Legislature of the State, at its next session, for an act to incorporate the village of Ellicottville."
The application was made and an act passed April 1, 1837. The village is contained in the following bounds :
" Beginning at a post standing in the centre of the road leading from Ellicottville to Great Valley, said post being on a line running south 30 degrees east from the centre of the public square, and at the distance of 35 chains 35} links from the centre of said public square; thence south 60 degrees west, 35 chains 35} links, to a post; thence north 30 degrees west, 70 chains 71 links, to a post ; thence north 60 degrees east, 70 chains 71 links, to a post ; thence south 60 degrees west, 35 chains 35} links, to the place of beginning." The area intendedt to be inclosed within the
village limits is 500 acres. A notice was published in the Cattaraugus Republican of April 27, 1837, as follows :
" The inhabitants residing within the village of Ellicott- ville entitled to vote for members of Assembly, are notified . to meet at the court-house of said village the 2d of May next, at one o'clock in the afternoon of that day, there to elect by ballot five trustees, three assessors, one treasurer, one collector, one clerk, one constable, who shall each and every one of these be inhabitants of said village, qualified to vote for members of Assembly. Israel Day, Justice of the Peace in the village of Ellicottville. Dated, April 24, 1837."
Charter election was held, in conformity to the above call, at the court-house, and the village was organized by the election of Israel Day, Moses Beecher, Robert H. Shank- land, Daniel I. Huntley, and Samuel S. Clark as Trustees ; James Reynolds, Alexander Chambers, and William John- ston, Assessors ; Staley N. Clark, Treasurer; and Cyrus G. Mckay as Clerk.
The following is a list of presidents and clerks from 1838 to 1878 :
President.
Clerk.
1838.
Israel Day.
C. G. MoKay.
1839
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Harlan Colman.
1840.
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1841.
Joseph Colman.
1842
Robt. H. Shankland. Nelson P. Wilson. Alexander Chambers. "
1843.
Israel Day.
T. S. Bentley.
1845.
Charles C. Hull.
1846.
1847.
Addison G. Rice.
A. H. McKaller.
1848
M. L. Brewster.
1849.
G. W. Scnear.
M. Beecher, Jr. "
1850.
.Wm. P. Angel.
1851.
Addison G. Rice.
1852.
Wm. Saml. Johnson. David H. Bolles.
1853.
David H. Bolles.
P. H. Jones.
1855.
Horace Razey.
G. W. Baillet.
1856.
1857.
C. S. Trevitt.
1858.
Theodore Smith.
J. King Skinner.
1859.
Wm. Gallagher.
Wm. A. Meloy.
1860.
William B. Huntley. Samuel C. Noyes.
1861
David H. Bolles.
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1862.
Enos H. Southwick.
Manley Crosby.
1863
Alonzo Gregory.
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1864.
N. H. Holden.
1865.
A. D. Scott.
E. D. Northrup.
1866.
1867.
1868.
1869.
1870.
Robt. H. Shankland. Wm. R. Pindar.
1871.
A. D. Scott.
1872
R. H. Shankland.
1873.
A. D. Scott.
1874.
E. D. Northrup.
1875.
A. D. Scott.
1876.
.R. H. Shankland.
1877.
E. D. Northrup.
Officers for 1878: H. B. Herrington, President ; Theo- dore Lowe, Quintus E. Rust, and F. J. Hinman, Trustees ; Wm. R. Pindar, Clerk.
The population of the village in 1870 was 579, and in 1875, 723,-an increase of 144.
The village contains 4 churches (Presbyterian, Metho- dist, Episcopal, Roman Catholic), 2 hotels, post-office, school-house, bank, land-office, 4 dry-goods and grocery- stores, 10 groceries, 2 drug-stores, 1 hardware-store, har- ness-shop, shoe-store, 2 cabinet-shops and furniture-stores, 7 blacksmith-shops, 2 tailor-shops, printing-office, jewelry- store, 3 millinery-stores, grist-mill, steam saw-, lath-, shingle-,
. The Indian name of this village is De-as-hen-da-qua, or " Place for holding courts ;" and Great Valley Creek, on which it is situated, was known as O-da-squa-dos-sa, or " Around the stone."
t It will be found on examination that these described boundaries inclose nothing, being only two sides and half of the third side of the square intended to be inolosed.
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and planing-mill, 3 shoemakers, foundry, carriage-shop, sign and carriage painter, market, railroad station, 8 lawyers, and 4 physicians.
A fire department was organized in 1874, and a hand- engine purchased. The present oficers are A. J. Layton, President; T. R. Aldrich, Vice-President; E. G. Herring- ton, Foreman ; Frederick Herrington, First Assistant Fore- man ; C. H. Bolles, Second Assistant Foreman ; Eb. Saxton, Captain Hose; J. S. Vallely, Secretary ; Frank Redfield, Treasurer; E. S. King, Steward.
ROCHESTER AND STATE LINE RAILROAD.
The track of this road lies along the Great Valley Creek, passes through the eastern portion of the village, and was opened for travel May 15, 1878. It will be found more fully mentioned in the general history of the county.
The town of Ellicottville was bonded for $30,000 in Oc- tober, 1870, to aid in the construction of the Cattaraugus Railway, of which $15,000 has been paid, with accrued interest.
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