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TOWN OFFICERS .- The first town meeting was held at the house of Jonathan Woodworth, at Lansingville, April ist, 1794, and John Chel- sey was chosen moderator. The following named officers were elected : Willis Bishop, Supervisor; Thomas Ludlow, Clerk ; John Chelsey, Abraham Minear, who was a surveyor, and Philip Breen, Assessors ; Daniel Bacon and Wm. Coltrine, Constables and Collectors ; Benajah Strong, Sr., and John Clark, Overscers of the Poor ; Abraham Bloom, " Anslem" Chelsey and Jabez Bradley, Commissioners of Highways ; John Clark, Chas. Nantinc or Vantine, Henry Ludlow, Wm. Clark, David Armstrong, Henry "Tetor" and Amos Strong, Overseers of Highways; Ebenczer Hoskins, Job Halsted and Henry Bloom, Fence Viewers ; Nathaniel Walker and John Bowker, Pound Keepers. At that meeting a bounty of twenty shillings was voted for the scalp of every wolf actually killed in the town.
The present officers (1879) are :
Supervisor-Darius W. Adams.
Town Clerk-Frank H. Avery.
Justices of the Peace -- Samuel C. Bradley, Daniel M. Bacon and Squire Howe.
Assessors-Levi Starner, Edwin A. Avery and Francis Hollister.
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Commissioner of Highways-Daniel L. Mead. Overseers of the Poor-Thomas McCormick and Calvin M. Bush.
Inspectors of Election, Dist. No. 1-George W. Crocker, Samuel C. Fessenden and Ossian King. Inspectors of Election, Dist. No. 2-Oscar Tifft, Dolphus Mosher and DeWitt C. Bothwell.
Collector --- Jason G. Atwater.
Constables-James A. Greenfield, John P. Boles, George Bower, and Samuel C. Knapp. Game Constable-Daniel Fallen.
Commissioners of Excise-Amos Main; vacan- cy, long term, Lyman Miller ; vacancy, short term, John L. King.
GENOA VILLAGE.
GENOA VILLAGE is pleasantly situated in the north part of the town, on Salmon Creek, which furnishes a good water power. It is a station on the U., I. & E. R. R., and is distant eight miles south-west of Moravia, twelve and three-fourths miles south-east of Aurora, and nineteen and one-half miles south of Auburn. It contains two churches, Presbyterian and Universalist, a district school, one hotel, (kept by Frank Gil- keys,) three general stores, a drug store, hard- ware store, jewelry store, two grist-mills, two shoe shops, (kept by D. L. Glover and Samuel Kelly,) one harness shop, (kept by D. W. Glover,) three blacksmith shops, (kept by G. H. Warner, D. P. Arnold and Elias Dolson,) a car- riage shop, (kept by Avery & Herman,) and a population of 350.
MERCHANTS .-- The first merchants at Genoa were probably Samuel Adams and Niram Wild- man, who had previously done business at North- ville. They came here about 1806, and after a few years dissolved. Adams went to Little Creek and continued the mercantile business there. The next of whom we have any account was a man named Barnes, who opened a store in his house about 1812, and accommodated such of his neighbors as chose to patronize him. He bought his goods at Ludlowville. The next mer- chant of any importance was Alfred Avery, who came from Groton, Conn., in the winter of 1813-14, and opened a store near where S. S. Hewitt lives. He continued in business till his death in 1854. He was associated the first four or five years with Cornelius Cuyler, of Aurora ; and, after five or six years, with Edwin Avery, with whom
he did business till 1836 or '7. At his death he was succeeded by his sons Daniel and Henry, and Hiram S. Farrar, who married his eldest daughter, Abby. They did business several years under the name of Farrar & Avery, when the Averys bought Farrar's interest, and continued under the name of D. &. H. Avery, till the death of Henry in 1873, after which Daniel continued alone till the fall of 1876, when he was succeeded by his nephew, Frank H. Avery, who still car- ries on the business. Four of Alfred Avery's children are living, Daniel and Urania, wife of S. S. Hewitt, in Genoa, Alfred, in Louisville, Ky., and Clara, widow of Wm. B. Mills, in Keo- kuk, Iowa.
Azor Cole, from Connecticut, opened a store about 1817 or '18, and after five or six years sold to Wm. Wilber, from Vermont. After several years he removed to Geneseo, where he died. Wilber sold after two or three years to Andrew B. Thorp, son of Daniel Thorp, and Seneca G. Pomeroy, who did business some ten years and sold to Richard G. Brownell, from Owasco, who continued till 1865 or '6, being associated the last four or five years with his son- in-law, Theo. M. Miller. They sold to L. V. Smith, from Venice, who continued some two years, when he sold the store to Jesse B. Young and Norman Lester, and removed his goods to the store now occupied by Frank H. Avery, where he remained one year, and sold to E. N. Blackmer, from Cortland, who did business about two years and sold to John Tifft, from Venice, and Norman Lester, who, in the meantime, had sold his interest in the business of Young & Les- ter to his partner. Tifft & Lester did business about two years and sold their goods at auction.
Orlando Miner, son of Wm. Miner, united with Alfred Avery in 1832, in erecting the build- ing now occupied, one-half of it, by Frank H. Avery as a store, and the other half, by Daniel Avery, as an office. Avery occupied the west half, and Miner the east. Miner removed after two or three years to Alton, Illinois, where he died. James K. Smith came from Auburn about 1838-'40, and occupied Miner's store, but re- turned after a year and a half with his goods to Auburn. Wm. B. Smith, also from Auburn, opened the same store soon after, remained a like period, and returned also with his goods to Au- burn. E. B. Hill, from Groton, opened a store
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about 1840, did business some three years and removed to Canada. L. B. Hewitt opened a store about 1855, and after a short time he sold to S. T. Mastin, who, after one or two years, admitted his son, Alfred, and subsequently his son, John. March 23d, 1869, John Robinson, S. T. Mastin's son-in-law, became interested, and the firm name has since been Robinson & Mas- tins. About 1835, Bayliss and Alvarez Tupper, from Venice, opened a store, which they contin- ued two or three years, when the former died and the goods were sold at auction. John C. Marvin, from Homer, opened a store about 1830, and af- ter about four years he sold to Dr. Barber, who continued some two years.
Fesse B. Young opened a general store in Feb- ruary, 1867, in company with Norman Lester, with whom he did business the first three years. He still carries on the business. Joseph Banker, druggist, came from Groton and commenced busi- ness in 1872. O. M. Avery, hardware dealer, commenced business at Genoa in October, 1874, having previously carried on the same business at Ludlowville since June, 1870. Frank H. Inncs, jeweler, came from Auburn, and commenced business here in October, 1877.
POSTMASTERS. - The first post-office estab- lished in the territory now embraced in the towns of Genoa and Lansing seems to have been lo- cated at Ludlowville, though it bore the name of Genoa until the division of the town on the erec- tion of Tompkins county, in 1817, March Ist of which year the name was changed to Ludlow- ville. The first entry of the office under the name of Genoa is January 11th, 1806, and Abijah Miller, Jr., was appointed postmaster on that day. He was succeeded March 10th, 1815, by John Ludlow, and March Ist, 1817, by John Bowman. In the meantime a post-office by the name of Indian Fields, was established one-half mile west of Genoa, on the post route between Auburn and Ithaca, January Ist, 1817, and Wm. Miner was appointed postmaster that day. As this record of Indian Fields post-office appears to be the only one it is inferred that the name was changed to Genoa October 31st, 1818, about which time the office was removed to the site of the village, and this supposition is strengthened by the fact that the name of Wm. Miner appears as postmaster at both places. Ebenezer Hewitt next succeeded to the office and held it two or three years, when
it again came into the hands of Wm. Miner, who held it a like period, as late as 1825. Alfred Avery next received the appointment and held the office two or three years. He was succeeded by Samuel Clark, who held it till 1829, when Wm. Miner was again appointed, and held it till 1841. Alfred Avery succeeded him, and was followed in 1845, by Daniel Hobert, who held it but a short period, when Wm. J. Close was appointed and held it till his death, about 1851. Ralseymon Sheldon next held it until 1853, when Dr. Asa W. Tupper was appointed. He resigned and was succeeded by John Seymour, who held it but a short time. Lendall Bigelow succeeded to the office as early as 1857, and held it till his death, March 16th, 1870. John S. Robinson next re- ceived the appointment, and was succeeded in April, 1875, by Benjamin L. Avery, the present incumbent.
PHYSICIANS .- The first physician at Genoa was Ebenezer Hewitt, who came from Stoning- ton, Connecticut, in 1802, and settled one and one-half miles north-west of Genoa, where Ed -. win A. Carter lives, and practiced till his death in 1826. Dr. Stephen S. Hewitt and his sister Harriet, both residing in Genoa, are children of his. He was one of the original members of the County Medical Society. His brother, Leeds Hewitt, came from the same place a little later and studied medicine with him. He practiced here from 1826 till his death in 1842. David G. Jessup and John Smith joined the County Medi- cal Society, while residing at Genoa, the former, November 3d, 1826, and the latter, May Ist, 1828, but we are not advised as to how long they practiced here. Almon C. Taber came here about 1835, August 6th, of which year he joined the County Medical Society. He practiced till about 1848, when he removed to Auburn. Asa W. Tupper, a native of Venice, came in from that town in 1840, and practiced till 1852, when he removed to Washington county. He joined the County Medical Society, January 5th, 1843. Stephen S. Hewitt, son of Ebenezer Hewitt, was born in Genoa, June 9th, 1822. He was educated at Geneva College, and was graduated at Buffalo University in 1848, in which year he commenced practice in Genoa. He retired from the practice in 1857. Geo. Hewitt was born in Genoa, April 10th, 1811. He studied medicine with his father, Thomas L. Hewitt, who was an early practitioner
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at Moravia, and Horatio Robinson, in Auburn, and commenced practice in Genoa in 1848. He afterwards went to California and practiced there and in Central America, where he had charge of the American Hospital at Panama. He returned to Genoa in 1859, and has since practiced there. M. B. Van Buskirk, a native of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was educated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1866, and the following year commenced practice in Genoa, where he still continues.
MANUFACTURES .- The manufactures of Genoa consist of two grist and flouring-mills and a wood- working establishment, the latter of which is owned by Sylvester Thayer, who is about to add thereto a machine shop to be operated by steam. The grist-mills are located on Salmon Creek, and each contains three run of stones. One, the Genoa Mill, is owned by Daniel Rose & Son, who bought it of Stephen Hubert & Son in April, 1876. It was built by Benoni Holcomb over fifty years ago, and has been repaired and rebuilt several times, the last time in 1870. The fall in the creek at this point is twelve feet. The other is owned by Squire Howe, whose adopted father, William Howe, bought it April Ist, 1853, of S. T. Mastin. It was built in 1840, by Woodin & Savage, who run it together a few years, when the former bought the latter's interest, and run it till 1848, when he sold to Alfred Avery, who sold it to S. T. Mastin in 1852. A mill was built upon this site some thirty years previously, and is said to have been the first grist-mill in the town.
Genoa recently lost its most important indus- try in the destruction by fire of the Stevens Thrasher Works, which were established about 1838, by A. W. Stevens, a native of Genoa. They gave employment to thirty to thirty-five men, and since the fire were removed to Auburn in the fall of 1878.
THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GENOA was formed July 3d, 1817, by Rev. Isaac Eddy, an evangelist, as the North-cast Congregational Church of Genoa, with the following named eleven members, who had letters of dismission from other churches : Matthias and Israel Mead, John, Gideon, Mary, Rachael and Jane Leavenworth, Mary Pitcher, Anna Palmer, and Betsey and Eliza Eddy. Samuel Wilson was admitted the same day on profession of faith. John Leaven- worth, 2d, was chosen deacon. The church was
placed under the care of the Presbytery by a vote passed August 11th, 1817. January 19th, 1821, the name was changed as above, and the Presby- terian form of government adopted. Jesse Hickock, Ichabod Lockwood, Jeremiah Hitchcock and Matthias Mead were elected ruling elders, and Jesse Hickock, deacon. Their first house of worship stood about a mile east of Genoa, a little north-west of the central gate of the cemetery. It was dedicated September 17th, 1822. It was struck by lightning and much damaged Sunday, June 29th, 1828, at the time the deacons were passing the communion cup. Several persons were injured, but none fatally. In 1829, it was removed to its present site and repaired. It was burned in 1842, and a new house was built, and dedicated February 9th, 1843. It was remodeled and repaired in 1870, and rëdedicated.
The following is the succession of pastors of this church, as complete as the records enable us to give. Isaac Eddy appears to have been the first pastor, but the records do not show when he began or closed his labors. Urban Palmer was ordained and installed pastor February 6th, 1822, and dismissed July 6th, 1824. John Smith served them from February 15th, 1826, to Octo- ber, 1826; N. E. Johnson, from October 8th, 1826, to October 23d, 1831, having been ordained and installed pastor July 8th, 1829; James H. Rice, October 22d, 1834 ; Wm. Tobey, about 1835 ; David Molin, from April 25th, 1838, to October 6th, 1840 ; and Whitman Peck, from October 23d, 1844, to April 16th, 1849, all of whom were ordained by this church, except Mr. Rice, who was probably a stated supply. Moses Thatcher was installed in June, 1851, and dis- missed in 1852. Wm. M. Robinson was ordained and installed June 21st, 1859, and dismissed in June, 1863. C. A. Conant, pastor of the church at Five Corners, gave them an afternoon service one year from June, 1868, to 1869. G. G. Smith officiated from June, 1869, to 1871. E. Benedict, the present pastor, commenced his labors with them April 14th, 1872, and was installed pastor July 25th, 1872.
During the intervals between the pastorates they had stated supplies, for a portion of the time, especially in the earlier days. Among these were Messrs. Fullerton, Lamberton, Douglass and Moore, students of Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1833, Revs. Myrick and Warren, evangelists,
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openly, and for a time successfully, " advocated perfectionism and other serious errors and extrav- agant practices," and induced the church to adopt articles of belief "radically defective ;" but in 1834 these were set aside, and a creed such as the Presbytery approved was adopted. Some 375 names have been recorded upon the roll of the church.
At present there are forty-five members. Twenty-one have been ruling elders, and ten, deacons, but of that number only one-Phineas B. Young-remains. The elders are Jesse Hic- kock, Jeremy Hitchcock, Matthias Mead, Luke Taylor, Aaron Ingals, Chauncy Woodford, Samuel R. Wilson, James Woodford, James Mead, Reuben Woodford, Godfrey W. Slocum, Lendall Bigelow, Oliver Hewitt, Noah K. Taylor, Daniel Davis, Elijah Requa, John King, Orrin Hughitt, A. J. Hughitt, Phineas B. Young and J. Harvey Lowe ; and the deacons, John Leaven- worth, 2d, Ichabod Lockwood, Jesse Hickock, Chauncy Woodford, Ralseymon Sheldon, John Seymour, Orrin Woodford, James Mead, Calvin King and Sidney Hewitt.
The average attendance at Sabbath school is fifty-five.
THE FIRST UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY OF GENOA. A preliminary meeting of Universalists and others of Genoa was held at the house of Wm. Miner, June 12th, 1829, for the purpose of building a meeting-house, which it was resolved should be free to all other denominations, when not occu- pied by the Universalists. It was attended by Wm. Miner, Alfred Avery, Edwin Avery, Samuel Moore, Zerah Whitney, Azor Cole and Worth- ington Smith. A subscription of $2,277 for that purpose was obtained from 116 individuals. July 9th, 1829, Wm. Miner, Worthington Smith, Ed- win Avery, John Leavenworth and James Young were constituted a committee to locate and pur- chase a site in the village of Genoa, to build a house, and secure a title for the benefit of the Universalist Society. August 2d, 1829, at a meeting held in the school-house in District No. 5, " the usual place of worship," presided over by Wm. Hewitt, an organization was effected un- der the statue, the above name adopted, and the following trustees elected : Abel Simonds, Ebenezer Lester, Darius Adams, John Holden, Palmer Hewitt and Alfred Avery. August 13th, 1829, the trustees executed a contract with Lem-
uel D. Newton and Samuel Wallace to build a house for $2,300 ; and August 19th, 1829, it was decided to build on three-fourths of an acre east of the residence of W. Smith, who was to give and level it. July 23d, 1830, the church was finished and accepted, and was dedicated July 29th, 1830, by Rev. D. Skinner, of Utica.
The first pastor whose name appears on the record, (July 21st, 1830,) is Rev. Mr. Chase. Rev. Mr. Gregory also officiated in July, 1830. The church was reorganized under the same name, August 22d, 1845. Their records do not show the succession of pastors. The last one left in the summer of 1878.
NORTHVILLE.
NORTHVILLE, (Kings Ferry p. o.,) is situated on a beautiful plateau, in the north-west part of the town, and is distant eight miles south-east of Aurora, two miles east of Kings Ferry station, and about three miles west of Genoa. It con- tains three churches, (Presbyterian, Episcopal and Catholic,) a district school, two general stores, one drug store, one shoe shop, (kept by O. F. Kendall,) a harness shop, (kept by James Detrich,) a hardware store and tin shop, a black- smith shop,(kept by Ossian King,) one hotel,(kept by R. J. Drake, and built in 1849 by Captain David Ogden and D. Adams & Son, on the site of one built by Samuel Chadwick in 1814, and burned May 30th, 1844,) and a population of about 300.
MERCHANTS .- Capt. David Ogden was prob- ably the first merchant in the town. His busi- ness was conducted for a time in a block house a little south of Alanson Brown's, and was subse- quently moved to a wing on the north side of the Jump house. He commenced business soon after coming into the town, (about 1797,) and con- tinued a great many years, as previously mention- ed in connection with his settlement here. The next appear to have been Knapp& Rice, who had a store near Joseph Fenner's, but were unfortunate. Samuel Adams, Niram Wildman and Stephen Bassett commenced business under the name of Adams, Wildman & Co., in 1802, and continued till 1806, when they dissolved, and Adams & Wildman went to Genoa village and engaged in mercantile and other business there. They were succeeded at Northville by Reuben Pomeroy, who occupied the store they vacated, which stood
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on the site of the building built for a steam mill, and continued till his death in 1812. From August, 1809, to the summer of 1810, Darius Adams appears to have had an interest in the business. After the death of Mr. Pomeroy, Jabez Bradley, Jr., carried on mercantile busi- ness till the spring of 1815. Darius Adams then bought him out and in December of that year entered in copartnership with Henry Bradley, under the name of Adams & Bradley. They built in 1819 the store now occupied by Dr. Ball, and continued business till April, 1823,
when Mr. Bradley sold his interest. He subse- quently moved to Penn Yan and was a leading merchant there for many years. Mr. Adams continued the business till 1846, when he retired, having been associated in the summer of 1831 with S. G. Pomeroy, when the firm name was Adams & Pomeroy ; from 1837-'40, with Sam- uel C. Lyon, under the name of Adams & Lyon; and from 1840-'46, with his son Samuel, when the firm was known as D. Adams & Son. In 1835 he built the store now occupied by Adams & Ogden. From 1846-'51, Samuel Adams was associated with his brother Darius W. Adams, under the name of S. & D. W. Adams. After 1851 Samuel Adams conducted the business alone until April Ist, 1857, when Newell Lyon be- came his partner, and the firm became S. Adams & Co. February 10th, 1864, Mr. Adams bought his partner's interest, and in April, 1867, he sold to Darius W. Adams and Weston A. Ogden, who have since carried on the business under the name of Adams & Ogden.
During these years many other persons have been engaged in mercantile business for short periods with varied success. Among them were Jesse Atwater, Samuel and Ansel Chadwick, Gay & King, Harvey Andrews & Horace Atwater, Sidney Avery & Theron Seymour, Wail H. Davis & Theron Seymour, Richard Brownell, Seneca G. Pomeroy & Walter G. Bradley, Titus, Greenfield & Co., Lewis Seymour, Pierce & Co., Samuel & Lewis Atwater, Andrew Thorp, Union Store, Allen C. Purdy & Son and James C. King.
Philo Clark, druggist, commenced business in 1865, and still continues it. L. B. King, gen- eral merchant, commenced business in 1866, in company with B. F. Coleman, with whom he did business about a year. In 1874, James A. Greenfield became his partner and continued
with him one year. King bought out Ansel Chadwick in 1866. G. W. Crocker commenced the hardware business in 1866, in company with Thomas Underhill and W. A. Purdy, whose in- terests he bought at the expiration of two years. In 1870, he was associated with S. C. Bradley, under the name of Crocker & Bradley. In 1871, Bradley sold to John Starner, who after two years, bought Crocker's interest and continued in company, a part of the time, with Edwin Perry, until March, 1877, when he sold to Crocker & Peckham, who still carry on the business.
POSTMASTERS .- King's Ferry post-office was established at Ogdens Corners in 1807, with Capt. David Ogden, Sr., as postmaster. The office was kept in a wing on the north side of his house, one mile west of Northville, until 1822, when it was moved to Northville. In the first year sixty-two letters were received, of which three were paid, thirty-nine, unpaid, and twenty, free. The gross amount received during the first year for letters and papers was $18.992, of which the government received $12.632. Mr. Ogden was succeeded by Henry Bradley, who was ap- pointed January Ist, 1823. Darius Adams re- ceived the appointment in December, 1823, and held the office as late as 1842. G. W. Gunn, Lewis Seymour, (who held the office in 1846,) Darius Adams, Lewis Seymour, Samuel Atwater, (who held it in 1851,) and Walter G. Bradley suc- ceeded each other at short intervals. Bradley held the office as early as 1854 and as late as 1859. He was succeeded by Allen C. Purdy, B. F. Coleman and Samuel Adams, the latter of whom was appointed in 1869, and still holds the office.
PHYSICIANS .- Prior to the settlement of any physician at Northville, Drs. Thomas Lyon, who was the first physician in this section, and was located at Five Corners, Nathaniel Aspinwall, who came in 1803, and settled three miles south of Northville, where J. F. Baker resides, and Consider King, who settled at Capens Corners, (Ledyard,) in 1805, extended their practice to this locality. Aspinwall was one of the original members of the County Medical Society, and he and King were intelligent and conscientious men.
Dennison R. Pearl, a native of Oneida county, commenced practice here in May, 1828, and con- tinued six years. He resumed practice in 1843,
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at Sherwood, where he now resides. Samuel Milliken, who commenced practice in Brockport, came here about 1828, May Ist of which year, while a resident of Genoa, he joined the County Medical Society. Ansel Chadwick, who had been away some years, returned here in 1832, and practiced till his death, in 1867. Philo Clark, who was born in Massachusetts February 9th, 1807, and educated at Fairfield and Geneva Medi- cal Colleges, from the latter of which he gradu- ated in the spring of 1834, commenced practice at Borodino in 1835, and after one year removed to Northville, where he has since practiced. He joined the County Medical Society June 2d, 1836. B. F. Coleman, who was born in Goshen, May 23d, 1823, and educated at the Albany Medical Col- lege and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, from the latter of which he grad- uated in 1845, commenced practice at Northville in 1852. He removed to Seneca county in 1870, and returned here June 3d, 1878. Frederick A. Dudley was born in Madison, Conn., Jan. 6th, 1842, and educated at Yale Medical College, where he graduated in 1862. He commenced practice as surgeon of the 14th Connecticut In- fantry, and after the war practiced about two years at Beaufort, S. C. He removed thence in 1868 to Northville, where he has since practiced.
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