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A site for the works, south of the Prison dam, was procured, and in the summer of 1850, build- ings were erected, mains laid through the princi- pal streets and the gas turned on during that same year. Refuse of whale oil was first used in the manufacture ; but it was soon succeeded
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by rosin, which produced a heavy gas of great illuminating power. The new light became at once popular and its use so rapidly extended as to put the company to heavy expense for en- larged and new mains. In 1861 the use of rosin was discontinued, in response to the general demand for cheaper gas, and new works were erected for the manufacture of coal gas. The change, though made at a most opportune time, was not made in view of the probable effect of the impending war, which soon after cut off the supply of rosin ; the cost of the little which could be obtained was in- creased more than ten fold.
The success of the company from that time for- ward has been uninterrupted. Gas is now sup- plied to over fifty streets, and there are about nineteen miles of mains in use. Gas is furnished to five hundred and eighty-nine street lamps and the number of consumers is over seven hundred. The original capital has been increased with the growth of the business, and now amounts to $150,000, $50,000 of which is in the form of scrip. Dividends have been and are regularly paid, and the economy and uniform success of the enter- prise, speaks well as to the fidelity and intelli- gence of the management.
During the last ten years it has been managed by I. F. Terrill and Edward H. Avery, as Presi- dents, and for that period David S. Dunning has been the Superintendent and Treasurer, on whom the details of business management have chiefly rested. Within that time the mains have increased from nine to nineteen miles, and nearly all the old mains have been replaced by those of larger caliber ; new gas holders ; purifiers, &c., have been built, and the facilities for the production of gas doubled. Within the past year the consump- tion of gas has increased nearly twenty-five per cent., and there has been a diminution of price cor- responding to the diminished cost of production.
The following have been the officers of the company at different periods since the organiza- tion to the present time: From the first organ- ization of the company until January Ist, 1877, Michael Kavenagh acted as foreman of the com- pany, a period of twenty-six years, without being charged with one hour of lost time, a length and continuity of service, it is believed, with few par- allels in the records of industrial service ; he is very properly a pensioner of the company, now that he is disqualified by age from further service.
Presidents-George B. Chase, 1850-'53; Adam Miller, 1853-'54; Benjamin F. Hall, 1854-'57 ; Albert H. Goss, 1857-'58 ; Z. M. Mason, 1858- '59 ; Paul D. Cornell, 1859-'60; Israel F. Ter- rill, 1860-'61 ; George H. Harbottle, 1861-'62; Richard Steel, 1862-'63; Edward Avery, 1863- '67; Israel F. Terrill, 1867-'69; and Edward H. Avery, 1869 to the present time.
Superintendents-Thomas Hoadly, 1850-'56; George B. Chase, 1856-'60; Paul B. Cornell, 1860-'62 ; Albert H. Goss, 1862-'65 ; Henry S. Dunning, 1865-'71 ; David M. Dunning, 1871 to the present time.
Secretaries and Treasurers- Benjamin F. Hall, 1850-'54; Sullivan N. Smith, 1854-'55 ; Philip R. Freeoff, Treasurer, 1854-'56 ; Geo. R. Chase, Secretary and Treasurer, 1856-'60 ; A. H. Goss, 1860-'65 ; Henry S. Dunning, 1865-'69; David M. Dunning, 1869 to the present time.
THE AUBURN STEAM HEATING CO., LIMITED, was incorporated June 6th, 1878, and completed their organization June 26, 1878, by the election of the following named Directors, M. L. Walley, President ; Chas. A. Smith, Secretary and Treas- urer; Calvin Young, J. H. Osborne, C. M. How- let, H. J. Sartwell and J. A. Cook. Calvin Young, J. A. Cook and M. L. Walley were con- stituted an executive committee. The object of the company is to introduce the Holly sys- tem of steam heating into public and private buildings. A one story brick building, 50 by 32 feet, is being erected on the Outlet, in rear of the Cayuga Co. National Bank, into which the company purpose putting six fifteen feet boilers. The laying of 4,500 feet of mains, all that it is designed to put down immediately, is in progress, and it is expected they will be brought into use by the middle of October, 1878.
AUBURN FIRE DEPARTMENT .- The first fire department was instituted in 1815, the year in which the village was incorporated. The presi- dent was authorized to procure "a good sized fire engine " and one hundred fire-buckets for the use of the village. November 20th, 1815, Anselm S. Howland, Abijah Keeler, Abel Terry and Ezekiel Williams, Jr., were appointed fire-ward- ens ; and John Patty, Henry Porter, Francis M. DeKlyne, Samuel Compston, Richard Skinner, Conrad TenEyck, Helim Bennett, Samuel D. Lockwood, Abraham Gridley, Philip Grandin, Wm. R. Gregory, Jno. W. Hunter, Abraham
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Smock, Benjamin F. Young, Benjamin R. Yard, Wm. Norton, Reuben Porter, Robert Muir, Gib- bons P. Mather, Henry Reynolds, Barker Lovell, Caleb Woodworth, James Minten and Garret Bennet, firemen. This was Auburn's first fire company. The same date it was ordered, "that every dwelling house, store or mechanic shop less than three stories high within said village, shall be supplied with a good substantial ladder of suf- ficient length to reach from the ground to the height of four feet above the eaves of the build- ing ; and that every dwelling house, store or me- chanic shop of three stories high or upwards shall have a scuttle hole through the roof at least three feet square, with a convenient pair of stairs lead- ing to the same ; and it is further ordered, that the occupant of every dwelling house, store or mechanic shop, shall provide the necessary ladder or scuttle hole as above directed before the first of January next, and every person who shall fail to comply with this order shall forfeit the sum of $5, to be recovered with costs of suit."
On September 12th, 1816, it was "ordered by the trustees of the village of Auburn, that the owner or owners of every dwelling house, store, office or mechanic shop, situated in said village, do furnish the said buildings respectively with good substantial leather fire buckets, with the owner's name printed on each bucket, on or be- fore the 1st day of November next, after the fol- lowing manner, to wit : to each dwelling house having either one or two fire-places, one bucket ; to each dwelling house having three fire-places, two buckets ; to each dwelling house having five fire-places, three buckets ; and to each dwelling house having seven or more fire-places, four buckets ; to every store, two buckets; and to every office and mechanic shop having either a stove or chimney in the same, one bucket ; and that the owner or owners of every such dwelling house, store, office or mechanic shop, who shall fail to provide the necessary buckets agreeable to this order, shall forfeit and pay for each bucket that shall be wanting the sum of four dollars, to be collected with costs of suit for the benefit of the corporation."
A fire engine was ordered in December of this year (1816) and received the following January. The building in which it was kept stood on the south side of Market street nearly opposite the house of Neptune Hose Company No. I, in rear
of the City Hall, to the site of which it was sub- sequently removed. This addition to the equip- ments of the department was made the occasion for the passage of a series of ordinances for its government. January 20th, 1817, it was ordained that in all cases of fire happening in the village, it should be the duty of the president and trus- tees to immediately repair thither, each wearing a white belt around his body, and the president, or trustee acting in his stead, who was constituted the "commanding officer," was required to wear upon his hat or cap a white badge and to carry a speaking trumpet. It was made the duty of the trustees to form ranks for carrying water, to pre- serve order, and generally to aid the president. The fire wardens were required to equip them- selves with white belts ; procure ladders, fire- hooks and other "necessary utensils," to aid in checking and extinguishing the fire, and charged with the proper care of the same ; and "to cx- amine the state of the fire buckets, and of every chimney and stove pipe, and place for depositing ashes," the first week in.every month from Octo- ber to April, and in July of each year, and report their condition to the president. If either of these officials refused or neglected to faithfully per- form the duties enjoined on him, he was to for- feit and pay for each offense the sum of $5, to be recovered with costs. Firemen were required to provide themselves with leather hats or caps, in such form and with such devices as the president should prescribe, and wear them "at all times when called out on actual duty or for exercise : and to repair immediately on alarm of fire to the engine, convey it to or near the fire, and work and manage the said fire engine, hose and other instruments and implements thereto belonging with all their skill and power." If any fireman "willfully or negligently" failed to attend any firc, or to perform his duty when there, or left his en- gine without permission, or failed to "do his duty in washing, working or exercising his engine when lawfully required," he should "for the first offense forfeit and pay $3, and for the second" " be removed from his station, and such removal and the cause thereof be published in all the newspapers printed in said village."
May 2d, 1817, the ordinance passed November 20th, 1815, appointing a fire company, was re- pealed, and the following were appointed fire- men, viz : Samuel L. Dunham, Richard Skin-
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ner, James Dunscomb, D. Campbell, Ralph De- camp, Samuel D. Lockwood, Wm. TenEyck, James Beardslee, Jesse Smith, John Osborn, John Patty, Philip Grandin, Archy Kasson, John Hunter, Josiah Porter, Chauncey Coe, Robert Muir, Geo. Holley, Palmer Holley, Heman Wal- bridge, James Randall, H. F. Mather, Tallmadge Cherry, and Conrad TenEyck. This company is perpetuated in Neptune Hose Company No. 1, the name having been changed from Neptune Engine Company No. I, in November, 1868. Archy Kasson was chosen Foreman; John W. Hunter, Assistant-Foreman, and C. TenEyck, Secretary and Treasurer. Ralph Decamp, who is living near Fosterville in the town of Aurelius, is believed to be the only surviving member of this company.
At a meeting of the company at the house of Henry Amerman, the first Wednesday in May, 1817, to " attend to the washing," when " the en- gine was taken out, played and found in good order," the following named members were " ab- sent and subject to fines :" Samuel C. Dunham, James Dunscomb, Ralph De Camp, Wm. Ten- Eyck, Jesse J. Smith, Richard Skinner, David Campbell, Samuel D. Lockwood, James Beards- lee, and John H. Osborne.
In . 1820, the facilities for subduing fires were increased by the addition of a second engine, which was furnished by the State and kept in the lower story of the prison armory. It was man- aged by a company of citizens and was available in case of fire in the village. The burning of the north wing of the prison in 1820 led to this precaution on the part of the State.
Until 1854, what is known as the "goose- neck " fire engine was used by the department. A Smith fire engine was ordered for Neptune En- gine Co. No. 1, December 10th, 1853, and received in the spring of 1854. This was the first engine of its kind received in the city. The other com- panies were supplied with engines of the same pattern as changes became necessary. But these appliances, which had always been hand engines, were discarded on the introduction of the water- works, which obviated the necessity for engines, of which, at that time, there were three, in addi- tion to the one in the Prison.
THE AUBURN FIRE DEPARTMENT was incor- porated May 21st, 1873, and "authorized to pur- chase by gift or otherwise, hold and convey any
real or personal property, for the use of said cor- poration, not exceeding in value the sum of $10,- 000." Its object is thus stated in section 6 of the charter : "The board of trustees shall apply the funds of said corporation, which shall arise from fines collected in pursuance of this act, or of by- laws made in pursuance thereof, certificates of membership, money paid by insurance companies in pursuance of law and donations, or such parts of said funds or of the income thereof as they may deem proper, to the relief of indigent and disabled firemen or their families, and also to de- fray such contingent expenses as may be neces- sary in the transaction of the business of the said board of trustees." Article 9 of the by-laws em- powers the relief committee to grant relief, "when deemed necessary and just," " the stated sum of five dollars per week, for and not to exceed ten weeks, and one dollar per week for all time after that ; and the torch boys of the company shall receive the sum of three dollars per week, for the same length of time as a fireman."
The first trustees were Ralph B. Stalker, Geo. Wilson, John Dower, George Friend, Nicholas D. Kirst, Edward Ryan, Lansing D. Wilder, Hilem B. Fay, George W. Saulsbury, Charles Tallowday, Austin S. Brooks and George Smith ; and the first officers, George H. Battams, Presi- dent ; Benj. J. Milk, First Vice-President ; Jo- seph H. Morris, Second Vice-President ; Lan- sing D. Wilder, Secretary; and Horace T. Cook, Treasurer.
FIRE DEPARTMENT-ORGANIZATION OF 1878.
Chief-Joseph H. Morris.
First Assistant-Thomas B. Foley.
Second Assistant -- David S. Pearson.
President -- Isaac Moore.
First Vice-President -Vacant.
Second Vice-President-Wm. C. Burgess.
Secretary-George W. Wilson.
Treasurer-Hilem B. Fay.
Trustees of Neptune Hose No. 1-Geo. W. Wil- son, Ezra Hamilton.
Trustees of Letchworth Hose No. 2-Isaac Moore, John McAlpin.
Trustecs of Niagara Hose No. 2-P. J. Cashan, Bartley Fanning.
Trustees of Cayuga Hose No. 4-H. B. Fay, S. L. Paddock.
Trustees of Ross Hose No. 5-John C. Healey,
J. Burdette Graves. Trustees of Alert Hose No. 6-E. W. VanAl- styne, James T. Hooper.
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Trustees of Logan Hook and Ladder-Thos. Speares, Wm. C. Burgess.
The department comprises seven hose compa- nies, equipped with 6,450 feet of linen hose, (4,850 feet in good, and 1,600 feet in poor con- dition,) 100 feet of leather hose, and 155 feet of rubber hose, and one hook and ladder company with the usual equipments. The several com- panies are officered as follows :
Neptune Hose Co. No. 1 -- Jno. C. Winsor, fore- man ; Jno. H. Stone, first-assistant ; Edward Miles, second-assistant ; Joseph Russell, presi- dent; Henry L. Snook, vice-president ; Byron R. Witham, secretary ; George Youngs, treas- urer. The company was organized May 2d, 1817, and contains seventeen members.
Letchworth Hose Company No. 2, reorganized in 1873, Cleophas Corbett, foreman ; Henry Kinch- ley, first-assistant ; Frank Devitt, second-as- sistant ; W. R. Paige, president ; Nicholas Hahn, vice-president ; A. Stupp, recording secretary ; F. N. Mosher, financial secretary ; Isaac Moore, treasurer ; James O'Neil, steward.
Niagara Hose Co. No. 3, consists of seventeen members ; John Byrnes, foreman ; E. Jones, first- assistant; Jno. McCarthy, second-assistant ; Frank Flynn and P. J. McCabe, secretaries ; Daniel McCarthy, treasurer : Michael Kinchley, president ; P. McGovern, vice-president.
Cayuga Hose Co. No. 4, organized June 28th, 18,72, and consists of eighteen members ; James Bowen, foreman ; C. L. Griswold, first-assistant; James French, second-assistant ; S. L. Paddock, president ; G. W. Holden, vice-president ; Jno. E. Davie, secretary ; John D. Crayton, treas- urer.
C. N. Ross Hose Co. No. 5, organized in 1868 ; George Brill, foreman ; Ed. Hallis, first-assist- ant ; J. Hughes, second-assistant ; Jno. B. Kel- land, president ; Burt Graves, vice-president ; H. E. Derby, recording-secretary ; S. O. Colby, Jr., financial-secretary ; J. C. Cheatham, treas- urer.
Alert Hose Co. No. 6, organized as Good Will Hose Co. No. 6, in 1874 ; H. L. Storke, foreman; Chas. Albrighter, first-assistant ; Nicholas Kirst, second-assistant; George Webber, president ; P. Hefferman, vice-president; Dennis Burke, secre- tary ; H. Ward, Jr., treasurer ; Frank Roach, steward.
Exempt Hose Co., was organized in May, 1867,
and consists of ten members ; Henry Ivison, fore- man ; S. Cady Titus, first-assistant ; Chas. W. Jones, second-assistant ; Thomas Graham, presi- dent ; Julius Kroft, vice-president ; Jno. Brumel- kamp, treasurer.
Logan Hook and Ladder Company, with twelve members; Wm. C. Burgess, president ; W. H. Bell, foreman; George Adell, first-assistant ; Jno. H. Rawson, second-assistant ; C. Q. Day, secre- tary and treasurer ; and L. Morris, steward.
BENCHI AND BAR.
The Bar of Auburn was carly distinguished for the ability, influence and success of its members. Prominent among its carliest representatives were Enos T. Throop and Elijah Miller, and more re- cently Wm. H. Seward, of whom more extend- ed notices will be given in a succeeding chapter.
In 1806, Mr. Throop formed a copartnership with Joseph L. Richardson, who came from Frederick, Md., about that time, and removed his office, established the previous year in a log house on the ground afterwards occupied by Mr. Morgan, to Horner's tavern. This partnership continued till about 1815, on the 17th of April of which year, Mr. Richardson, who had pre- viously held the office of Assistant Attorney- General, was appointed District-Attorney for the 9th District, which was formed March 29th, 1809, and until 1817, comprised the counties of Cayu- ga, Chenango, Madison, Onondaga and Cort- land.
Mr. Richardson was Brigade Paymaster dur- ing the, war of 1812-'14. He was appointed District-Attorney of Cayuga County, June 11th, 1818, and held the office till 1821. He succeed- ed Gershom l'owers, as First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of this County, January 8th, 1827, and retained that position till the Constitu- tion of 1847 went into effect and made the office elective. Both he and Throop were able and successful lawyers, and established and maintain- ed a high reputation in the profession.
Judge Richardson died in 1855, aged seventy- nine years. A strong, upright, plain granite monument marks his grave in Fort Hill Ceme- tery, a monument characteristic of the man, who was as firm as the granite itself in adhering to what his judgment pointed out as right.
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Other lawyers of this period, but of less promi- nence, were Moses Sawyer, Walter B. Nichols, the first post-master at Hardenbergh's Corners, and Zephaniah Caswell.
GEO. B. THROOP was born in Johnstown, Montgomery Co., in about 1793. He removed to Auburn about 1815, and studied law in the office of his brother, Enos T. Throop, having previously pursued his legal studies in Johnstown. He soon after formed a law partnership with Samuel Drake Lockwood, a counselor of high standing, which continued till 1819, when the latter re- moved to Vandalia, Ill. Mr. Throop represented the 7th Dist. in the State Senate from 1828 to 1831, both inclusive. When the Cayuga County Bank was started, in 1833, he became its cashier, a position he held till late in 1840. He after- wards removed to Detroit, Mich., where he died some thirty years ago. He ranked with Auburn's best counselors, but had not been in full practice for several years when he left here.
JOHN PORTER came to Auburn from Mass., about 1812, and practiced awhile in connection with Geo. B. Throop. He was appointed Sur- rogate of Cayuga County, March 12th, 1828, and held the office eight years. He was elected to the State Senate in 1843, and served that and the three succeeding years. He was appointed District Attorney of Cayuga County, February 14tb, 1821, and held that office till 1828. He was a close student and an excellent office lawyer, and although he tried cases at nisi prius, he was not a good forensic speaker. He was diminutive in stature and feeble in voice. His specialty was the law of partnerships and corporations. He possessed great familiarity with reported cases. He was proverbially a book-lawyer, rather than an original one. In 1834, he formed a law part- nership with Nelson Beardsley, which continued till 1838, when Benj. F. Hall was admitted as a third partner. The three practiced in company till January, 1843, when Mr. Porter withdrew in consequence of his election to the State Senate. At the expiration of his senatorial term he re- sumed practice, in connection with his son-in-law, Alonzo G. Beardsley, and continued to act as counsel in that office till he lost his eye-sight ; and from that time till his death, in October, 1873, he lived in retirement.
Hon. JNO. W. HURLBERT, who was a Repre- sentative in Congress from Mass., from 1814 to
1817, came to Auburn the latter year from Berk- shire in that State, and took high rank from the first as an eloquent jury lawyer, especially in criminal cases. His ability to electrify a jury into sympathy with his purpose has not been equaled in this County. He was employed chiefly in criminal cases in Central New York, and was retained on the side of the defense in al- most every criminal case that arose during his residence here. During the later years of his life he was engaged almost exclusively in defend- ing criminals. He was a genial, public-spirited, patriotic man, and was generally selected to act as orator for Auburn on all public occasions. Hegave utterance to Auburn's welcome to La Fayette on the occasion of his visit here in 1825, and his ef- fort on that occasion was considered equal to those of Jno. Quincy Adams or Daniel Webster. He died suddenly of appoplexy October 19th, 1831.
WM. BROWN, known as Bishop Brown, from his having been a minister of the gospel, came to Auburn soon after the war and practiced here till about 1830, when he discontinued practice and removed to Brooklyn, where he lived in a state of comparative retirement till his death, about 1860. He was a sound lawyer and a leading member of the Bar. His son, Wm. H. Brown, removed in 1819, when a young man, then but recently ad- mitted to the bar, to Kaskaskia, Ill., in com- pany with Samuel Drake Lockwood, and both were eminently successful. Brown's health be- came impaired after a long residence in Illinois, and he went abroad, hoping for restoration, but he died across the ocean,
MICHAEL S. MYERS was born in Waterford, Saratoga county, April 15th, 1801, and was edu- cated in the common schools of that place and the Academy at Fairfield, Herkimer county. He commenced the study of law in 1816, with John Cramer, of Waterford. In 1817, he re- moved to Auburn and continued his studies in the office of Lockwood & Throop, and subse- quently, after the removal of Mr. Lockwood to Illinois, in 1819, in that of Mr. Throop. He was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1825, and commenced practice in company with Mr. Throop, with whom he remained till September, 1826, when he formed a partnership with Glen Cuyler of Aurora, where he resided till the fall of 1828, when, having been elected County Clerk he re-
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MICHAEL VAN SCHOONHOVEN MYERS was born at Waterford. Saratoga county, New York. April 15th, 1801. His father. Peter M. Myers, was a son of General Michael Myers, of Herkimer, New York, and his mother. a daughter of Jacobus Van Schoou- hoven ; on the father's side German, and on the mother's Hol- lander. Both of his grandfathers served in the war of the Revolution and both were State Senators under the First Consti- tution, Myers for six years and Van Schoonhoven for ten years. They were men of great energy and force of character. General Myers was a large land-holder, had a beautiful residence and finely improved grounds in the village of Herkimer, and, as slave-holding was then eommen, he was distinguished above his neighbors as the owner of the largest number of colored ser- vants. He owned besides other large landed estates, nearly the entire grounds on which the village of Herkimer is built. But in this, as in nearly every other similar case, whether in Auburn or elsewhere in the State, the property of a wealthy grandfather did not descend to his grandchildren. It became scattered and, for the most part, fell into other hands than those of the lineal descendants.
The father of Mr. Myers was a lawyer in good standing, but died in the thirty-seventh year of his age, leaving to his large family a comfortable home in the village of Herkimer, but no other sonree of income. They were therefore compelled to re- sort to some means of self-maintenance. The subject of this sketch was the oldest of the family, and his school advantages were limited to the public schools and two years at the Academy at Fairfield, one of the best eoadneted institutions of the kind then in the State. It was decided that he should study the pro- fession of law, and an opportunity being open to him to earn a part of his necessary expenses by duties in the post-office at An- burn, he came here in 1817 and entered the law-office of Throop & Lockwood, being then sixteen years of age. There he re- mained two years, and afterwards in that of George B. Throop. After seven years study, he was admitted to the bar in 1825. be- ing then twenty-four years of age. On December 31st, 1826, he married Miss Susan Cornell, with whom he lived about forty- seven years. Soon after his admission to the bar, he removed to Aurora. and for two years was the law-partner of Glen Cuyler.
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