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during whose ministry the legal organization was perfected and the church built. He was suc- ceeded by J.C. Burgdorf and Edson J. Reynolds, the latter of whose pastorate continued till about 1851. He died here September 24th, 1857, aged fifty. A. S. Dean was the pastor from 1851 to '53. He was succeeded by A. Coburn, who re- mained as late as February 12th, 1856. William O. Cushing, the next pastor, remained till the spring of 1860. Rev. Mr. Fenton next labored with them about two years, and was succeeded by Rev. Mr. Bailey, who continued his labors un- til about 1867, after which the church was closed for two years, owing to a division growing out of a difference of opinion respecting a contemplated change of name. John W. Guthrie was the first pastor after the opening of the church. He com- menced his labors with them about 1871 and continued with them some two years. John Carr became the pastor in the spring of 1874, and remained one year, when he was succeeded by J. C. Burgdorf, the present pastor. The church was repaired in the summer of 1876, at a cost of $600; and a pipe organ was put in the previous year at an equal cost. The present membership does not exceed a half dozen.
The FIRST SOCIETY OF THE M. E. CHURCH IN UNION SPRINGS, was organized about 1843, with Henry Dills and wife, Austin Whittlesy and wife, Brayton and William B. Barber, Wadsworth Hanchett and Justus P. Burger as members. The society was incorporated February 10th, 1846, with Henry Dills, John Maurice, John Robin- son, William B. Barber and Justus P. Burger as trustees. Their house of worship, a wooden structure, was erected in 1846, at a cost of about $1,600, exclusive of the lot, and has since been enlarged to a seating capacity of 400, and a value of $4,000, including lot. Occasional meetings were held some years before the organization by preachers who happened in this locality. The first settled pastors were Aaron Cross and Be- noni I. Ives, who came in 1844, and staid, the former three years and the latter two. Their circuit included Fleming, Bolt's Corners, Aurora and Union Springs. Elias Hall succeeded Ives and remained two years. Dennis Tryon followed Cross, at least these were the pastors up to 1850. Samuel B. Porter was the pastor in 1850-'2 ; A. Benjamin in 1852-'4; B. R. Kenyon, 1854-'5 ; William M. Spickerman, 1855-'6; D. Lamkin,
1856-'8; - Mason, in 1858; Albert Ensign, 1858-'60 ; Elias Hoxie, 1874-'5 ; J. S. Lemon, 1875-'6; William N. Henry, 1876-'8. Wes- ley Mason, the present pastor, commenced his labors with this church in the fall of 1878. The present number of members is 118; the attend- ance at Sabbath School, 40 to 50.
GRACE CHURCH, (Episcopal.)-The first regu- lar services by a clergyman of this denomination were conducted by Rev. Wm. Wirt Raymond, in the fall of 1866. Previous to that time only occasional services had been held. Until the fall of 1876, this parish was united either with that at Cayuga, or that at Aurora, under the charge of one clergyman. Grace church was incorporated in 1867, and was admitted to union with the Convention of the Diocese of Western New York the following year, passing, however, in the fall of the same year into the new Diocese of Central New York. The names of the first church officers were, in addition to the pastor in charge, George Fritts and George W. Bustin, Wardens ; and Silas Ludlow, Justus P. Burgher, Lorenzo N. Burgher, Philander Comstock, Bene- dict Robinson, Daniel A. Robinson, Jr., Etsel Wood and John A. Shrader, Vestrymen. The clergymen who have succeeded Rev. Mr. Ray- mond are, Revs. Alfred Brown, B. A., James A. Brown, J. O. Drumm, W. H. Casey, B. A. and Wm. Schouler, the present rector. The church edifice, which is very neat and attractive, was finished in 1870, and consecrated in the fall of 1872. A legacy of $10,000 left the church by the late Mrs. Phebe M. Hussey, makes it self- supporting ; and since September, 1876, when Rev. Mr. Schouler took charge, it has thus been enabled to enjoy the undivided ministrations of a resident rector. The church numbers about forty communicants, and has a Sunday school, with about the same number of scholars. It is in possession, besides the fine edifice and the en- dowment referred to, of the rectory adjoining the church. The present vestry consists of Lorenzo N. Burgher and Daniel D. Anthony, Wardens ; and Dr. G. R. Parry, D. P. Mersereau, Philip O. Yawger, Henry Eldridge and Horace T. Durkee, Vestrymen.
SOCIETIES. - Warren Lodge No. 147, F. & A. M., was chartered June 8th, 1850, and held its first meeting in Odd Fellows Hall, April 9th, 1851. The charter officers were, John Barrett,
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Jr., WV. M. ; David Titus, S. W. ; John Morse, f. WV. The first elected officers were Daniel Lombard, M .; John Barrett, S. WV .; David S. Titus, f. W .; John H. Davids, Secretary ; John Morse, Treasurer; A. S. Cummins, S. D .; C. L. Candee, f. D. The present officers are, E. F. Rosecrants, M .; W. J. Winegar, S. IV. ; M. F. Backus, f. IV. ; W. H. Cozzens, Secretary ; G. P. Schenck, Treasurer; N. S. Collins, S. D .; W. Schenck, f. D. The present number of members is 95. Meetings are held in Masonic Hall the first and third Tuesdays of each month.
CHARITY LODGE No. 93, A. O. U. W. was organized May 31st, 1877. The first officers were F. A. Carr, M. W .; O. W. Smith, P. M. W .; H. Eldridge, G. F .; E. Y. Robinson, O .; H. S. Anderson, Rec .; Geo. P. Schenck, Recor .; Wm. H. Cozzens, F .; Wm. H. Thomas, G .; James Stebbings, I. W .; John Coles, O. W. The only changes in the officers since the organiza- tion have been the substitution of Wm. Clark for E. Y. Robinson as O .; and C. A. Niles for James Stebbings as I. WV. Meetings are held every Friday evening in Rechabite Hall.
UNION SPRINGS TENT NO. 46, N. O. of I. R. was organized as No. 42, January 22d, 1875, with Elijah Cook, Jr., S .; E. Chapin, C. R .; F. A. Carr, D. R .; David Everett, P. C. R .; Dana Rhodes, Secretary; J. B. Hoff, F. S .; J. W. Rose- crants, Treasurer; A. Chambers, Levite. The present officers are, John Coles, S .; E. Cook, Jr., C. R .; W. J. Fessenden, D. R .; A. W. Allen, P. C. R .; H. C. Carr, Secretary; David Everett, F. S; W. H. Thomas, Treasurer. Meet Tuesday evenings in Rechabite Hall.
ONWARD CAMP NO. 3, E. K. of R. was or- ganized November 6th, 1875, with F. A. Carr, C .; Geo. E. Carr, V. C .; E. Cook, R .; John Coles, Treasurer; Alex. Chambers, Chaplain ; Wm. Fessenden, A7 .; James Wright, Captain of Guard; Martin Myers, I. S .; L. N. Burgher, O. S .; Geo. W. Eldridge, P. C. The present officers are F. A. Carr, C .; J. L. Hammond, P. C .; Walter Schenck, V. C .; E. Cook, Jr., Chap- lain ; John Cole, Treasurer; D. Everett, Rec .; Wm. Fessenden, M .; Preserved Tripp, I. S .; Asa Mosher, O. S.
UNION SPRINGS CORNET BAND was organized in 1859. The original members were Albert Carr, Leader ; E. Wood, Geo. E. Carr, Henry H. McFarland, H. C. Carr, Sr., Henry C. Carr,
James R. Angell, Thomas Miles, A. W. Carr, Edward Gould. The present members are Geo. E. Carr, Leader; F. A. Carr, Musical Director ; Eugene Carr, Treasurer ; H. H. Carr, Sr., Secretary ; N. S. Collins, Harvey Kellogg, Chas. N. Howland, Albert Carr, Edward C. Snow, Willard Carr, Edward Hoagland, Charles Eggles- ton, L. H. Chase, A. E. Bowen, and Charles Perrine. They play fifteen instruments.
VILLAGE OFFICERS FOR 1879.
President-S. Warren Rogers.
Trustecs-Gaylord Anthony, John Quigley, William H. Thomas.
Treasurer-David Everett.
Collector-William J. Smith. Clerk-Frederick A. Carr. Street Commissioner-Horatio Day. Police Constable-Charles A. Slocum.
HILLS BRANCH.
Hills Branch (post-office) is a railroad station in the north part of the town, and contains one store, kept by H. D. Hibbard, a district school and two plaster-mills, both of which are owned by J. W. Woodruff, of Auburn. They grind about 3,000 tons per annum.
MANUFACTURES .- One mile south of Union Springs is a brick yard owned by Henry Carr, which gives employment to six men in the manu- facture of 400,000 bricks per annum.
On the farm of Stephen Patterson, near the center of the north line, is a plaster quarry from which 300 to 400 tons are being taken per an- num. Messrs. Patterson & Schenck have a plaster-mill in that locality. .
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
J. O. SPENCER.
J. O. SPENCER was born in Delaware county, N. Y., in 1834, and spent his early life, after at- taining a proper age, in attending and teaching school. At the age of twenty years he exchanged the vocation of teaching for that of farming ; but possessing a mechanical turn of mind he soon yielded to the irresistible impulse to make a prac-
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UNION SPRINGS AGRICULT'L. WORKS. J. O. SPENCER. . M FR. OF THE CELEBRATED "WIDE AWAKE"ENGINES & THRESHERS.
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tical application of the principles of mechanism which so fascinated him, and a portion of his time was early devoted to mechanical pursuits. He rapidly developed into a thorough mechanic, and in-1875 became the proprietor of the establish- ment in Union Springs, of which he is still the efficient head.
These, the Union Springs Agricultural Works, were established in 1855, by Henry and William McFarland, whose parents settled at an early day about three miles north of Union Springs and still reside there. The McFarlands, though engaged in agricultural pursuits, were skilled me- chanics, both being millwrights by trade. From their occupation as farmers their attention was particularly directed to the urgent need of im- provements in thrashing machines, which were then very rude and imperfect and consequently unsatisfactory. By a series of experiments they invented many of the improvements now in use in nearly all first-class thrashing machines. They were the inventors of the first straw carriers, the over-blast flue in fanning-mills, and beaters for separating the grain from the straw, though they never took out patents therefor. They engaged in the manufacture of the thrashing machines which bear their name, which are also known at present as the " Wide Awake" machines, and continued the business successfully till 1867, when Henry, the younger, then just in the prime of life, died. William bought his brother's interest in the business and continued it till his death in May, 1874, when the works were successfully run one year by the administrators, who completed and sold the large quantity of unfinished work left on hand, and in the spring of 1875 sold the works at auction.
The establishment was then bought by the present proprietor, Mr. J. O. Spencer, who, though commencing late in the season, succeeded in manufacturing a large number of machines, which met with a ready sale. Thus encouraged, Mr. Spencer was induced to add to the manufacture of thrashers and horse-powers, to which the works had thus far been confined, other branches, and in the fall of 1877 he commenced building portable steam engines. He selected as a model one of the very best engines in the world, and is now turning out engines, which, like his thrash- ers, are styled the "Wide Awake," and are not inferior in any respect to any manufactured in this country. His ambition.to excel in his chosen department of labor has been rewarded with a most gratifying and merited success. He has more than trebled the productive capacity of the works, and is turning out the present season (1879) from 25 to 30 engines and 75 to 100 thrashers, thus necessitating the employment of a large capital and the labor of forty to fifty workmen.
Mr. Spencer married Miss Lydia Bunn, of
Tompkins Co., N. Y., in 1857, and is blessed with four children, three sons and one daughter, viz : Otto, Andrew, Warren and Fannie, the former of whom, the eldest, is foreman in the ma- chine shop.
His father, Welden T. Spencer, who was born in Schenectady Co., April 11th, 1806, is still an active, energetic man. He removed with his pa- rents to Delaware county, where he remained till he attained the age of twenty-three years, when he commenced business for himself in Tompkins county, as farmer and lumber dealer, which he pursued there forty years. He then sold out, retired from active business, and removed to Sul- livan county, where he remained till the death of his wife, April 9th, 1874, since which time he has made his home with his son in Union Springs.
JOHN F. AND CHARLES E. COURTNEY.
JOHN F. and CHARLES E. COURTNEY are prominently identified with the manufactur- ing interests of their native village, Union Springs, Cayuga County, N. Y., where the former was born November, 1846, and the latter in September, 1848. They are sons of James E. and Catharine Courtney, who were born in Ireland, the former in 1800, and the latter in 1815, and emigrated thence to this country, James, in 1818, and Catharine, in 1817. Both parents settled in Salem, Mass. Mrs. Courtney's maiden name was Coburn. After their marriage, in 1840, they removed to Cayuga County, where James E. died in 1855, leaving a widow and ten children, five sons and five daughters, six of whom are now living. James T., the eldest child, has resided in California since 1859. William H., another son, died in Libby Prison. He was captured by the Confederate forces with thirty- nine others of Capt. J. R. Angel's command, west of Newbern, N. C., during the war of the Rebellion. Thirty-two of the number were from the town of Springport, and only two of the forty -none of the latter number-were afterwards heard from.
John and Charles being left thus early, at the tender age of nine and seven years respectively, without a father's protecting care, were obliged at a very early age to assist their mother in the support of the family. Their scholastic advan- tages were, consequently, extremely limited, as the weightier cares of providing for the physical necessities of the family left them little time for attendance at school ; but the little thus afforded was sedulously improved, and this, combined with the talents with which nature has liberally en- dowed them, together with industry and frugality, have earned for them a reputable business stand- ing
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Both early learned the carpenter and joiner trade, in which they acquired a good degree of proficiency, and in March, 1875, they commenced their present business, which is conducted under the name of the New York Central Planing-Mill and Hub Works. Besides operating a planing- mill, they are somewhat extensively engaged in the manufacture of hubs, sash, doors, blinds and moldings, in which they give employment to fif- teen to twenty men. The demand for their goods has been such as to necessitate extensive addi- tions to their facilities, and they have just com- pleted a fine large addition to their building, which, for the present, will enable them to meet the demands of their increasing trade. This evidence of prosperity at a time when the business of the country generally is very much depressed, sufficiently indicates the excellence of their work and that their popularity is merited. In addi- tion to the business above mentioned they manu- facture Thomas' celebrated buckwheat huller.
Nature has blessed both with a fine physique, which has not been abused by intemperate or friv- olous habits. It is worthy of note that neither of the Messrs. Courtney have ever used tobacco, or ardent spirits in any form. This, considered in the light of the alarming prevalence of this species of intemperance, which, from its effect upon man's finer sensibilities, may justly be regarded a vice, is highly commendatory. Both are possessed of mental vigor and great physical endurance.
Charles E. Courtney has acquired a world-wide fame through his superior skill as an oarsman ; indeed his great proficiency in the use of the oars has made his name a household word throughout Cayuga County, as also with all admirers of ath- letic sports. At the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia, in September, 1876, Mr. Courtney, in an exciting contest in which there were forty- five competitors, won the beautiful Centennial badge, which glistens with thirty-eight diamonds, representing the States in the Union, and which, with other trophies, to the number of eighty- three, many of them fine and costly, he wears with characteristic modesty.
Charles E. Courtney was united in wedlock Jan. 28th, 1875, to Miss Della S. Halsey, of Ith- aca, N. Y., though his brother and copartner, John F., remains single. Their mother still survives and is living with these her sons in Union Springs. She is the recipient of their unremitting and affectionate care and attention.
CHAPTER XLIII. TOWN OF FLEMING.
F LEMING lies at the foot of Owasco Lake, on the west side, a little south of the center of the County. It is bounded on the north by
Auburn and Aurelius ; on the east by Owasco Lake and its outlet ; on the south by Scipio ; and on the west by Springport. It was formed from Aurelius, March 28th, 1823, and derives its name from Gen. George Fleming, one of the early settlers of the town.
The surface is rolling, and has a gentle inclina- tion to the north and east. The shore of the lake, which is a magnificent body of water, con- tinues its upward slope about three-fourths of a mile, and is less bold upon this than the eastern side. The highest elevations in the town are 150 to 250 feet above the lake and 800 to 1,000 feet above tide. It is watered by the head waters of Crane and Wheeler Creeks, the former of which flows north to Seneca River, and the latter west to Cayuga Lake. There is very little waste land in the town, though about one-tenth of it yet re- mains to be brought under cultivation.
Limestone prevails pretty generally over the town, but not in sufficient quantities to give it a commercial value. The soil, which is fairly pro- ductive, is chiefly a gravelly loam, intermixed with clay and sand, and partakes of the character of the underlying rocks. The chief branch of agriculture is grain raising, to which the soil is admirably adapted.
The Southern Central Railroad crosses the east border of the town, in close proximity to the lake.
The population of the town in 1875 was 1,261 ; of whom 1,093 were native ; 168 foreign ; 1,233 white ; and 28 colored.
The area of the town is 13,710 acres; of which 12,403 are improved, 1,267 woodland, and 40 unimproved.
The first settlements were made in 1790. Among those who settled in that and the follow- ing year were Benjamin Irish, the Grovers, Ed- ward Wheeler, Ichabod and Abel Wilkinson and James Harrington. Benjamin Irish was a son of Elder David Irish, who settled first in Scipio and subsequently, in 1800, in Fleming, at which time he became pastor of the Baptist Church at Flem- ing, which was organized by him four years pre- viously. Benjamin settled about two miles north of Fleming village, where David Baker now lives. He removed west about 1820, with his family. Eight sisters married and lived in that locality, and his father, the Elder, died on that farm in 1815. Joseph Grover settled about two miles
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north-west of Fleming, where Ephraim Beach now lives. His brother Samuel, and cousins Penuel, John, Zadoc, William, Solomon and Thomas, all of whom, except William, had fam- ilies, settled in the same locality, which was long known as Grover's Hill. The Grovers were from the Eastern States. Joseph Grover opened a store in 1797, which was the first store in the town. Grover's Hill gave early promise of be- coming a thriving village, and had assumed con- siderable importance long before much improve- ment was made on Fleming Hill, its future suc- cessful rival. Two sons of Penuel Grover, are living, viz : David and Abram, the former in Scipio and the latter on the old Fleming place. Edward Wheeler settled on the ridge road, on the west line of the town, where his great-grandson, Gco. Wheeler, now lives, and where he died. His youngest son, Aurelius Wheeler, who was born March 28th, 1792, and named after the town of Aurelius, was the first white child born in the town of Fleming. He and his brother Elijah subsequently removed to Aurelius and died there, the former November 5th, 1870.
The following year, 1792, Abel Wilkinson opened the first inn. In this year also occurred the first death, the wife of George West, who, in company with a family named Nettleton, came in a short time before from the Eastern States, and settled just west of Fleming. Nettleton set- tled on a farm adjoining West's on the west, where Jonathan Griffiths now lives, and kept a distillery. Both moved west after 1812. In 1794, the first school was taught by John Herring, who had settled at Auburn, then Hardenbergli's Cor- ners.
Con George Fleming, from whom the town derivea its name, settled about this time, where Abram Grover now lives. He was a man of con- siderable prominence, and is well remembered by the oldest of the early settlers now living from his participation in the militia trainings of that period. He died in the town about 1823 or '4.
Jacob Byers, a German, from Pennsylvania, came in soon after 1790, possibly in that year, and settled at Wyckoffs Station, where Peter V. Wyckoff now lives. He removed with his family to Springport about 1803. He came in company with Isaac Jolly and Asa Jackson, also from Penn- sylvania, on foot. Jolly settled on lot 98, and
removed to the west part of the State at an early day. Jackson settled on a hundred acres, be- tween Byers and Jolly, where Thomas Plunkett now lives. He came with his wife and child, on foot, and carried his ax upon his shoulder. Soon after the beginning of the present century he traded with Abram Voorhees for a hundred acres at the foot of Owasco Lake, where he died in 1816. One daughter, Catharine, now Mrs. Samuel Noyes, is living in Owasco. Henry Van- Arsdale came in prior to 1796 and settled on lot 98, where Tallman VanDyne now lives. He removed from the town at an early day.
In 1796, Wm. Post, at the request of his father, who was then in New Jersey, came, in company with Abram Van Ness, his brother-in-law, with whom he had removed to Ovid, Seneca county, from New Jersey, in 1794, to examine lot 91, for which his father was then negotiating. Wm. Post, having sent a satisfactory description of the lot to his father, settled where David B. Post now lives, and Van Ness, who married Post's sister Lena, where Horace Post now lives. This same year his father, Christopher Post, came in from New Jersey with his wife, Margaret, his youngest son, Jacob, and his wife, Mary, his daughter, Mary, and her husband, Cornelius Pe- terson, and his youngest daughter, Ida, who was then unmarried, but subsequently became the wife of John Brokaw, in company with Cornelius Peterson, father of his son-in-law Cornelius, and his family, which was large. Christopher took up 472 acres on lot 91, and settled in the south- east corner, where Ebenezer Gilbert now lives. They came with wagons, over the mountains, fording streams which were bridgeless. Peter- son settled on lot 83, where George Peterson, his grandson, now lives. Christopher Post died on the homestead March 17th, 1816. His family are all dead, but several of his descendants are living in this locality. George Post, another son of Christopher, came in from New Jersey in May, 1798, with his wife, Anna, and two children, Margaret and John, the former of whom, now the widow of Wm. Selover, is living in Auburn. His family went to Albany by the Hudson, and he joined them there by team across the country, and brought them thence to their destination by the same mode of conveyance. He remained some ten days with his father, during which time he bought of Lucas Brinkerhoff, a German from
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Esopus, (who came in the same year and pur- chased a State's hundred of Jacob Byers,) fifty acres, on which the former had made a small clear- ing and built a log house. He died October 4th, 1851, on the old homestead, which is now occu- pied by his son, Christopher G. Post, and grand- son, George Sumner Post ; the former of whom was born there August 8th, 1803, and still pos- sesses a good degree of physical and mental vigor, and who was Supervisor in 1855,'57 and '59, and Assessor three years, which latter office his son, George Sumner Post, now holds. This fifty acres is on lot 91, on the shore of Owasco Lake, a fine view of which it commands. The following grand-children of Christopher Post, in addition to Christopher G. and Margaret, before named, are living, viz : Ida Peterson, daughter of Cornelius Peterson, on the Peterson farm, now occupied by her nephew, Cornelius Peter- son. Christopher, son of Wm. Post, in Wyom- ing county. Margaret, widow of Frederick Van Liew, in Ohio ; Jacob, in Scipio ; Martin, in Perry, Wyoming county ; George; Jane, now Mrs. Ebenezer Gilbert ; Helen, now Mrs. Cor- nelius Peterson, and Phebe Ann, now Mrs. James Chamberlain, the latter with her brother- in-law, E. Gilbert, all children of Jacob Post, in Fleming. Hon. George I. Post, of Fair Haven, son of John Post, is a great-grandson of Chris- topher's. His mother, Catharine, is now living with David B. Post, in Fleming, on the old homestead of John Post. Lucas Brinkerhoff lived on his remaining fifty acres three years, when he sold them to George Post, to whom he sold the first fifty, and removed to lot 98. There he remained till the spring of 1816, when he again sold to George Post, and moved to Owasco and subsequently to Yates county, where he died.
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