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MERCHANTS .- The first merchant at Montville was Isaac Wood, son of Judge Walter Wood, who opened a store about 1813 or '14, and was succeeded by his brother Thomas, who sold to Ruel Hoar, who afterwards changed his name to Hobert, and kept it a good many years, till about 1830, about which time he sold to Henry B. Hewitt, who kept it three or four years, when he went to Port Byron and married into the Beach family, and subsequently removed to New York. A man named Galloup kept a few groceries and
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drugs a short time several years afterward. There has not been a store here of any consequence since Hewitt left.
PHYSICIANS .- Dr. Derbyshire, a Quaker, was the first physician at Montville. He practiced from about 1826 to 1828, and removed to Mora- via. Silas N. Hall, from Sempronius, practiced here a short time, and removed also to Moravia about 1835. A few others may have practiced here for brief periods, but latterly there has been no settled physician here.
LAWYERS .- The first lawyer at Montville was Judge Walter Wood, of whom further mention is made in connection with Aurora, whence he came in 1811. He practiced here till his death. Three of his sons, Seneca, Isaac and Thomas, were lawyers, and practiced somewhat with him. The former was appointed Surrogate of Cayuga Coun- ty June 7th, 1820, and held that office till February 14th, 1821. Many students read law in his office, besides his sons ; among them Mil- lard Fillmore, who, while learning the trade of cloth dressing in a Montville factory, was induced by Judge Wood to adopt the legal profession ; Judge Elijah Miller, who afterwards became so distinguished in the legal profession in Auburn ; and Alexander Hamilton Dennis, who, after his admission, worked with and for the Judge several years, then with Jonathan Hussey of Moravia, afterwards with the Morgans at Aurora, and finally, for many years, in the State Banking De- partment at Albany, where he died, more noted for his beautiful and rapid chirography than bril- liancy as a lawyer.
MANUFACTURES .- The Montville Woolen-Mills were erected by Daniel Goodrich, an early settler at Montville, and were among the earliest of Montville's industries. They came in possession of the present proprietor, Jacob K. Erb, in 1873. They give employment to four persons, in the manufacture of fulled cloth, flannels and stocking yarns, and consume about 5,000 pounds of wool per annum. The works are propelled by water power, the fall being ten feet.
The Montville Spoke Factory is owned by Mrs. Mary Selover, widow of Horace Selover. It has not been in operation since the spring of 1878, previous to which time Wm. Selover and Frank Williamson had run it some four or five years, giving employment to some half dozen men. Some fifteen persons were employed fifteen
years ago. The building occupies the site of the old Stoyell mill, and was originally put up for a grist-mill. It was converted into a spoke fac- tory by William Titus and William and M. C. Selover, who run it four or five years. Connected with it is a saw-mill containing two circular saws. There is a fall at this point of 100 feet, only about forty of which are used.
The Montville Mills, custom and flouring, are owned and run by Otis G. Parker, who built them in 1870. They contain three run of stones. The motive power is supplied by a fall of fourteen feet, which could easily be doubled.
John Cully's brick yard gives employment to eight or ten persons.
About three and a half miles north-east of Moravia is a cheese factory owned by J. P. Folts and E. Greenfield, who erected the building and commenced the manufacture of cheese in 1868. They are making 65,000 pounds of cheese per annum.
The Moravia Agricultural Society was organ- ized September 18th, 1858, at the Moravia House. The first officers were Sidney Mead, President ; James Thomas, James Thornton and David Webb, Vice-Presidents ; M. K. Alley, Secretary ; E. P. K. Smith, Treasurer. The present officers are Elondo Greenfield, President, which office he has held since 1866; Wm. Selover, Vice-Presi- dent ; W. J. Greenfield, Secretary ; Wm. E. Keeler, Treasurer ; C. S. Jennings, J. H. Holden, J. O. Snider and M. Rooks, of Moravia, J. H. Grant, of Locke, B. S. Richardson, of Sempro- nius, and Capt. John Tifft, of East Venice, Direc- tors ; Wm. Selover, General Superintendent.
TOWN OFFICERS .- The following are the present (1879) officers of the town of Moravia : Supervisor-John A. Thomas.
Town Clerk-Henry Cutler.
Fustices of the Peace-James A. Wright, Lau- ren M. Townsend, Lyman H. Edmonds, Lorenzo D. Sayles.
Assessors-Henry Cutler, John M. Fowler, Charles Chandler.
Commissioner of Highways-Lyman Card.
Overscer of the Poor-William M. Westfall. Collector-Cassius M. Dean.
Inspectors of Election-W. J. H. Parker, Joseph L. Bassett, John B. Benjamin.
HOYT HUNSIKER, M. P.
[Photo by Geo. W. Moore.]
WILLIAM E. COOKE, M. P.
[Photo by T. T. Tuthill.]
F. A. MEAD, M. P.
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Constables-John A. Knowlton, J. Fitch Wal- ker, LeRoy Ferguson, Lyman B. Welton, Chas. D. Shaff.
Game Constable-Edward B. Barton.
Excise Commissioners-Thomas J. Green, Chas. J. Drake, David Webb.
VILLAGE OFFICERS .- List of officers of the village of Moravia, N. Y .:
President-Theo. C. Jewett.
Trustees-E. C. Pulver, Hector H. Tuthill, Lauren M. Townsend, George H. McGeer. Treasurer-Benjamin Allee.
Clerk-Wm. J. H. Parker.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
W. H. CURTIS, M. D.
W. H. CURTIS, M. D., was born in Portage county, Ohio, in 1851. In his early childhood his parents removed to Moravia, Cayuga Coun- ty, New York, where he was nurtured and edu- cated.
At the age of twenty-one years he entered the carriage shops of Messrs. Wolsey & Brown, where he mastered the carriage-ironer's trade.
In March, 1876, Mr. Curtis entered the office of W. C. Cooke, M. D., of Moravia, and pur- sued the study of medicine. He spent the inter- vening college terms at the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
April 20th, 1879, Dr. Curtis opened an office at Owasco, New York, and commenced the prac- tice of his profession. His success is adding daily to his reputation as an able practitioner, and a future of promise and usefulness seems to in- vite him.
WILLIAM C. COOKE, M. D.
WILLIAM C. COOKE, M. D., was born at New Lisbon Center, Otsego county, N. Y., November 2d, 1847, and spent his boyhood upon his father's farm and in attendance at the district school.
In 1863 he entered the Butternuts Collegiate Institute to prepare for college ; and in Septem- ber, 1868, he entered the New York State Nor- mal School at Albany, where he completed the course in May, 1870. Hethen entered the office of Dr. W. M. Gwynne, at Throopsville, and pur- sued the study of medicine. He graduated at the New York Homeopathic Medical College, February 29th, 1872, and on the 10th of the fol-
lowing March he settled in Butternuts, Otsego county, N. Y., where, November 27th, 1872, he was united in marriage with Miss Ella G. Rice, of that place.
The fire which desolated that beautiful village on the 12th of May, 1874, induced him to seek a new home, and on the 3d of July following he took up his residence in Moravia, in this county, where he has since, with exceedingly gratifying success, practiced his chosen profession-ho- meopathy.
Dr. Cooke united with the Methodist Episco- pal church at Butternuts, in April, 1868.
AMOS HURLBURT ..
AMOS HURLBURT, son of Amos Hurlburt, a very early settler in Genoa, Cayuga County, to which town he removed in 1798 from Groton, Connecticut, was born in 1808. In Genoa, where his father died, Amos spent the greater part of his life, engaged in farming. In 1878 he re- moved to the village of Moravia, where he now resides, in a beautiful home on Aurora street.
In 1833 Mr. Hurlburt was united in marriage with Mary Handley, who is still living. This union has been blessed with five children, only three of whom are now living, one son, Amos J., who resides on the farm in Genoa, and two daughters.
CHAPTER L.
TOWN OF SEMPRONIUS.
S EMPRONIUS was formed March 9th, I799. It was one of the original town- ships of the military tract and derived its name from a Roman General. It originally embraced a part of Marcellus, Onondaga county, which was annexed to that town March 24th, 1804, and the present town of Moravia and Niles, which were taken off March 20th, 1833. It lies in the south- east part of the County, at the head of Skaneat- eles Lake, which, together with the town of Preble, in Cortland county, form the eastern boundary. It is bounded on the north by Niles, on the south by Summer Hill, and on the west by Moravia.
The surface is a rolling and hilly upland, which rises abruptly to the height of 800 to 1,000 feet above the valley formed by the lake and its inlet.
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The highest point, both within the town and County, which exists on lots 67, 68, 77 and 78, is 1,700 feet above tide. Bear Swamp Creek flowing to the north, Fall Brook, to the south, and Mill Brook, to the west, all rising within the town, have worn deep and generally narrow val- leys in the drift deposits and shales. Bear Swamp in the north-east part, lying partly in this town and partly in Niles, is about five miles long and ninety rods at its greatest width. It covers a tract of some 500 acres.
Slate crops out in the north edge of the town, on the Thos. Walker farm, where it has been quarried somewhat extensively. It also appears in the south-west corner, on lot 96, where it has been quarried for flagging stone, but the quarry lies principally in Moravia. Limestone exists in detached masses, but has not been utilized. The soil along the streams and in the low-lands is a sandy loam and muck, mixed with disintegrated shale and lime-stone ; upon the hills it is a gravelly loam.
Dairying forms the chief, and indeed almost ex- clusive, branch of its agriculture. There is one cheese and butter factory in the town, located at Sayles Corners, which was organized January Ist, 1873, receives milk from an average number of 200 cows per season, and makes 60,000 pounds of cheese. *
From the census of 1875, it appears that the number of cows whose milk was sent to factories was 291 ; the number of pounds of butter made in families, 194,435 ; the number of pounds of cheese made in families, 420; the number of gallons of milk sold in market, 150; and the number of milch cows, 1,510.
The population of the town in 1875 was 1, 123 ; of whom 1,058 were native ; 65, foreign ; and all, white. The area was 18,347 acres ; of which 13,174 were improved ; 4,398 woodland ; and 775 otherwise unimproved.
The settlement of the town was begun in 1793, in which year Ezekiel Sayles, originally from Stillwater, Saratoga county, moved in from Pompey Hill, and settled at Sayles Corners, in the north part of the town, on lot 56, which he bought of Judge Thompson, of Saratoga. His
log house stood a little south of where Timothy Kehoe now lives. His family consisted of Abra- ham, who had a wife and one child, and settled where Dennis O'Shea now lives, a little north of Sayles Corners ; Phebe, who came with her hus- band, Eri Taylor, and settled on twenty-five acres given her by her father, on the Wilcox farm, where Dwight Heald now lives ; Ahab; Eleanor, afterwards wife of John Titus ; David ; Sarah, who was demented ; Anna, afterwards wife of Ebenezer Wooster ; Ezekiel, Jr .; Jemima, after- wards wife of Nathaniel Palmer; Amy, afterwards wife of Ira Rooks; Lydia, afterwards wife of Orrin Willis; and Benjamin, who was born here in June, 1794. Sayles was a surveyor, and died on the old homestead about 1828. He was the first town clerk and held that office continuously from the organization of the town till 1820, a period of twenty-three years, with the exception of the year 1804, when Cyrus Powers was clerk.
At the second town meeting, James A. Wright facetiously observes, "the ticket was made up mostly of Mr. Sayles," who was elected to no less than five offices, and held at the time that of justice, making six in all, viz : town clerk, assessor, commissioner of roads, pound master, and commissioner of public lots. At a town meeting held in April, 1821, a resolution of thanks was presented to Mr. Sayles for his able and faithful services as clerk during a period of twenty-two years.
Anna, who is residing in Pennsylvania, is the only one of his children living. Lorenzo D. Sayles, who carries on the harness business in Moravia, and Almira E., daughter of Benjamin Sayles, and wife of Abraham Howland, who was born in Sempronius in 1818, and is now living in Kelloggsville, are grand-children of his.
Salathiel Taylor, son of Eri Taylor, and Phebe, daughter of Ezekiel Sayles, who was born in April, 1794, was the first child born in Sempro- nius.
Judge Nathaniel Gallup came in with the Averys, who settled in Ledyard and Venice, and to whom his wife was related, in 1795, and set- tled and died in Sempronius. He had no chil- dren.
There does not appear to have been any addition to the settlements before 1796, in which year Seth Burgess came in from Stillwater and took up lot 47, on the north line of the town, where he died
*The first officers of the Company were : Barton Slade, President ; J. H. Kenyon, Clerk; Joseph Lee, Treasurer. The following named officers were elected January 7th, 1878 : Ira Chandler, President ; A. D. Lee, Treasurer and Collector ; George Clark, Chairman; J. M. Slade, Clerk,
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in 1813. His house stood directly opposite to where Benjamin Heustis now lives. His family consisted of Joel, who came with his wife and two children, (Charles and Betsey, who died on the old homestead,) and settled a little south-east of his father, where his son Byron now lives, and where he died in April, 1807 ; Jonathan, who came with his wife and daughter, Sally, after- wards wife of Elias Miller, and settled where Barton Slade now lives ; Seth, Jr., Harvey, Reu- ben and Olive, afterwards wife of Stephen Carr. None of his children, and hut few of his grand- children are living, Byron Burgess, a grandson, being the only one of his name living in the State. Seth Burgess kept the first tavern as early as 1800, and till his death. He also kept an ashery.
Several additions were made to the settlements in and about 1798. Jotham Bassett, Abraham Berleu and John Everson came in that year ; Samuel Rice, Elder John Lesuer and his son Nathan, and Jonathan Rogers came as early as that year ; and Samuel Root, Thomas Norris and - Huggins about that year. Jotham Bas- sett built a log cabin in 1798, and the following year moved in his family, which consisted of John, who came with his wife and one child, Mary, afterwards wife of Daniel Rooks, and settled with his father on lot 65, one-fourth mile south of Sayles Corners, where Chas. Sawyer now lives ; Betsey, widow of Maj. Peleg Slade, who is now living in Sempronius in her 98th year, and is the only one of the family left ; and Joel. They had other children who did not come in with them. Jotham served through the French and Revolu- tionary wars. He was a cabinet maker by trade, and made all the coffins used here at an early day. He was originally from Massachusetts. He died on the old homestead in the fall of 1827, and his wife, in the spring of 1828, both well ad- vanced in years. Berleu and Everson were brothers-in-law, and came in company from New Jersey. Berleu settled on lot 66, near the west line of the town, on the old Kenyon farm, and Everson, on the adjoining farm on the west, where he died. None of his children are living. Berleu moved with his family to Springport about 1802, and died there. Samuel Rice settled near the north line of Sempronius, where Theo. Tuttle now lives. His death was the first in the town ; and the marriage of his son Samuel,
with Matilda Summerston, was the first marriage in the town. The Lesuers and Jonathan Rogers were from Patridgefield, Mass. Nathan Lesuer and Rogers, both of whom had families, settled on lot 59, in Bear Swamp; but the title to the land they took up proved defective, and Lesuer moved about 1806 or '7 to Erie county. The elder was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Sempronins in 1798.
Samuel Root and Thos. Norris were from Connecticut, and Huggins, from Aurelius. The former two settled on lot 67, where Chas. How- land now lives, and Huggins, where Abraham Bush lives, on fifty acres on lot 78, given him to induce settlement by Maj. Bartholomew Van- Valkenburgh, a Revolutionary soldier, who drew three lots, including 78 in Sempronius, but never settled here, though two sons, Dr. Pruyn and Bartholomew, did at a late day, the former a half mile north of Sempronius, and the latter at the crossing of the State roads. Root moved to Mentz about 1810. He and Norris, who each took up fifty acres, sold to John Briggs, uncle of Dr. Lansingh Briggs of Auburn, who came in from North East, Washington county, and afterwards removed with his family to Michigan. Norris then bought out Huggins, who removed to Steuben county, and in 1812 he sold to Matthias Lane, a Dutchman, from Charleston, Montgomery county, and left the town. Lane moved to Wayne county in 1840.
Peleg Slade came in from Stillwater, in Feb- ruary, 1800, with his wife Betsey, and daughter, Mary Ann, now widow of Solomon Morse, and settled two miles south of Kelloggsville, where his son Lloyd Slade now lives, and where he died February 12th, 1869, in his 98th year. He took up 200 acres. He was a farmer and hatter, and followed the latter business in connection with his farming operations several years. He was a member of the Electoral College in 1837, which elected Martin Van Buren to the presidency. He was poor-master of the town twenty years, and was also county superintendent of the poor. His wife still survives him, and though in her 98th year, is remarkably active both mentally and physically. From her we learn that on their way to this county they stopped at Utica, which then boasted of only one house, a tavern kept by Indians. From Skaneateles their route was designated by marked trees.
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Six of their eight children are living, viz : Mary Ann, widow of Solomon Morse ; William, in Kelloggsville; and Lloyd, Barton, Betsey, wife of William Moseman, and Mason B., in Sempronius, the former on the homestead.
This family presents a wonderful instance of longevity. Theaverage age of Mrs. Slade and her six living children exceeds seventy years. The representatives of five generations, all females, are now living in Sempronius, viz : Betsey, widow of Peleg Slade, in her ninety-eighth year ; Mary Ann, widow of Solomon Morse, aged eighty years ; Rachel, wife of Daniel White ; Carrie, wife of Edward Covey ; and a daughter of Ed- ward and Carrie Covey, whose name we did not learn. Peleg and Betsey lived together as man and wife seventy-two years, without a death oc- curring under their roof. His was the first.
George Richardson, who served seven years as a soldier in the Revolution, came in from Still- water in March, 1801, and settled a little north of Sayles Corners. His log house stood on lot 56, a little north of the site of the house now owned by Robert Walker. In 1804, he removed one and one-fourth miles east, where he took up 100 acres, and where he died. He occupied the log school-house on lot 56 till his house was built. He was one of the guards at the execution of Major Andre. John Richardson, who was born August 24th, 1795, and now resides in Sempro- nius, is a son of his, and the only child by his first wife living. Olive, widow of Samuel Howard, living in Niagara county, is a daughter by his second wife, by whom he had seven children, and nine by his first wife. Judge Cyrus Powers came in the same year from Stillwater, where his father was a Baptist minister, and taught school that winter and for two years. He occupied a part of George Richardson's house. He after- wards bought the farm now owned by Hozial Howland in Kelloggsville, where he died in 1841. Dr. Cyrus Powers, of Moravia, is a son of his. Lemuel Powers, now living in St. Marcus, Texas, is a son by his second wife.
Jeremiah Sabin, and his son Jeremiah, and Col. Zadoc Rhodes came in company from Ul- ster county in 1801, and settled at Montville, where the elder Sabin bought the grist and saw- mills built by John Stoyell. He owned at one time the whole of Montville. He sold at an early day to Skinner & Bradley, and removed to Ohio.
The younger Sabin settled on fifty acres given him by his father, in Montville ; but after about two years he and Rhodes removed to Sempro- nius and settled, Sabin on lot 86, in the south- west part of the town, where Clark Fowler, his son-in-law, now lives, and Rhodes, on lot 77, which was taken up by his brother, Joseph, who served in the army during the Revolution, but never settled here. His brother had previously sold the lot for $50, and the Colonel, who tried to hold it notwithstanding this sale, was finally ejected. He then bought fifty acres of the State's hundred on the same lot, on which he resided till his death, about 1844. Three chil- dren are living in Sempronius, viz : Betsey, wife of Orlin Hathaway, Susan, widow of Joseph Richardson, and Jeriah. Another son, Zadoc L., died in Sempronins October 19th, 1878. Sabin was a large, powerful man, the strongest in Sempronius, and he is the hero of many sto- ries illustrative of his muscular feats. He died here August 6th, 1847, aged 75 years. One daughter, the wife of Clark Fowler, is living in Sempronius, and another, Mrs. Greenfield, in Moravia.
A man named Hanchett was the first settler at Dresserville. He made a small clearing and built a house, but left because of his wife's fear of the wolves. Artemas Dresser made the first permanent settlement there, and the village per- petuates his name. He came in company with his brothers, Harvey, James and Joseph, he and Harvey with their families, from Massachusetts, in 1805. Artemas settled first in Hanchett's old house. It stood where Nelson Ritchmyre now lives. He built there a saw-mill in 1806, and a grist-mill in 1827. Each was the first of its kind in the town, which had previously de- pended upon neighboring villages for these con- veniences, or resorted to the primitive mortar and pestle. He was active and prominent in promoting the growth of the village and continued his residence here till his death. Three sons, Otis, Joseph and White, are living, Otis, at Sun- mer Hill, Joseph, at Moravia, and White, at Dresserville. Harvey settled where Wm. Con- way, his son-in-law, now lives, and died there. His children living are Appleton, at Summer Hill, Eliza, wife of Merrick White, Horace, in Venice, and the wife of Wm. Conway, on the homestead. James was killed by the fall of a
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tree. Joseph served one year in the war of 1812, and died soon after of consumption.
Buckley Matthews and Ozias Perry, from Ver- mont, came in 1806. Matthews settled on the farm owned by Albert Mattison, and built a log house beside the spring thereon. He removed to Pennsylvania. Perry settled on lot 88, where Marion Johnson now lives. Both he and his wife died and are buried on the farm on which they settled. One son, Ozias, is living in Illinois. John Matthews, a brother of Buckley, came in soon after the war. He was a millwright and a prominent man in the town. He settled at Dress- erville. Four children are living in the town, viz : Jehiel, Albert, Eliza, wife of Jacob Hall, and Aletha, wife of John Alcott.
Paul Howland (father of Abraham Howland, who was born in Washington county February 6th, 1810, and is now living at Kelloggsville,) settled in Sempronius in 1814.
John B. Noyes, from Chenango county, set- tled in Sempronius in 1821. His son, Samuel B., who was born in Stonington, Connecticut, August 28th, 1807, removed with his parents at the age of eighteen months to Madison county, and resided there and in Chenango county till thirteen years of age, when he accompanied his . parents in their settlement in this town. Feb- ruary 15th, 1827, he married Catharine R., daugh- ter of Asa Jackson, of Fleming, an early settler; and in 1846, he removed to Owasco, where he is now filling his second term as justice. He had five children, four of whom are living. James O., the eldest, died in 1872. He was an emi- nent physician, a graduate of Cambridge Medi- cal School in Vienna, and was for a time con- nected in a professional way with the Turkish army. He afterwards traveled extensively in Europe and Africa. Wm. Leslie Noyes, a brother of James O., residing in Owasco, is a Member of Assembly. The eldest daughter is married to D. Swartwout. Another daughter married Henry Burnett, of Owasco. The youngest daughter married Orin Howland, also of Owasco.
Hon. Hector C. Tuthill, though not a very early settler in the town, was so largely instru- mental in developing its dairy interests as to merit notice. He was a native of Goshen, N. Y., and there received a thorough practical education in agriculture. He came to Sempronius in 1827, and acquired a farm of 200 acres, which, like the
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