History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people, Volume I, Part 29

Author: Downs, John Phillips, 1853- ed. [from old catalog]; Hedley, Fenwick, Y., joint ed. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Boston, New York [etc.] American historical society, inc.
Number of Pages: 649

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The first town meeting in Cherry Creek after its formation was at the hotel of George H. Frost in March, 1830. . At that meeting James Carr was elected the first supervisor, Robert James the first town clerk.

Supervisors-James Carr, 1830-33-36-40-46- 52. Robt. James, Jr., 1831-32; Geo. H. Frost, 1834-35 ; Oliver Carpenter, 1837 : Horace Bron- son, 1838: Wm. G. Carr, 1839; Wm. Kilbourn, 1841-43; Arch. F. Robins, 1844 ; Oliver B. Main, 1845-49-50; Chas. A. Spencer, 1847-48; Jos. Kent, 1851-56: Daniel B. Parsons, 1853-54: Silas Vinton, 1855-59-60-68-71 ; Horatio Hill, 1857-58-64: R. W. Parsons, 1861-63-65 ; An- thony Morian, 1862-67 : Geo. N. Frost, 1866-69- 72-73-75-77 : W. C. Carpenter, 1870: Harry Bil- ings, 1874 : Wm. S. Blaisdell, 1878-79 ; Jas. Rich- ardson, 1880 ; S. A. Ferrin, 1881-92; W. F. Stet- son, 1889; Wm. I. Phillips, 1890; R. A. Hall, 1893-95 ; C. L. Wheeler, 1896-1903 ; C. A. Mount, 1904-05; Edgar W. Curtis, 1906-10; Ellis W. Storms, 1911; Edgar W. Curtis, 1912-13; C. Leroy Edwards, 1914-20.

The population of Cherry Creek in 1915, according to the State census, was 1630, of whom 91 were aliens. Number of acres in the town, 22,957, valued at $763,625; assessed value (1918), $599,117.

Cherry Creek is an incorporated village, beautiful in location, with broad, smooth streets adorned with good residences and busi- hess houses, and in addition to good stores in every department of trade has a bank, news- paper, canning factory, good hotels, churches, high school, fire department. a very popular form of government. The village is a station on the Buffalo & Southwestern railroad, 48 niles from Buffalo and 22 miles from James- own.

The principal industries of the village are he Cherry Creek Canning Company (canned ruits), and the W. F. Stetson Company, but- er firkins. There are also three small factories. Cherry Creek village was incorporated, May :0, 1893, the present government being vested n a president and two trustees, with clerk, reasurer and collector. The first election was ield June 17, 1893, C. A. Mount being chosen he first president. The first trustees were I. 3. Benton, W. E. Shepardson, H. Clinton HIount. The high school building was erected n 1896, and is a modernly equipped school vith a competent corps of teachers. The post ffice was established in 1832, George H. Frost, ostmaster. Rural free delivery was estab- shed September 15, 1902, with three routes. The Cherry Creek Fire Department was organ- zed July 15, 1890, Charles J. Shults being

elected the first chief, C. A. Mount, the first president.

The Methodist Episcopal church was organ- ized in 1857 with seven members. Rev. O. S. Meade the first pastor. The present church edifice was erected in 1881 at a cost of $5,000.

The First Baptist Church was organized October 26, 1832, with twelve members, Elder Bennet the first pastor. In 1896 the church was rebuilt.

The Free Baptist Church was organized in 1826 by Rev. Thomas Grinnell, and was the first religious organization in Cherry Creek. A house of worship was built in 1846 at a cost of $2,500.

A Christian Church was organized March 23, 1839. The church had no meeting house, but maintained its organization up to about 1861.

Cherry Creek Lodge, No. 384, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, was instituted in 1853 with nine charter members, and received the present warrant in June, 1855. William S. Blaisdell was the first master.

Cherry Creek Lodge, No. 463, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was instituted April 6, 1852, with six charter members, J. L. Clark the first noble grand.

Bullock Post, No. 304, Grand Army Repub- lic, was organized November 2, 1882, with twenty charter members.

Cherry Creek Grange, No. 527, Patrons of Husbandry, was organized August 18, 1887, with twenty-eight charter members. M. A. Phillips was its first master.

Cherry Creek Lodge, No. 42, Ancient Order United Workmen, was organized November 15, 1876, with twenty charter members. S. V. Q. Sherman was the first master workman.

Pocahontas Hive, No. 21, Ladies of the Mac- cabees, was instituted in September, 1891, with thirteen charter members. Mrs. A. Bronson was the first lady commander.

Ensign Circle, No. 281, was instituted No- vember 18, 1896, with sixteen charter members. Dr. Thomas E. Soules was the first president.

Pocahontas Tent, No. 101, Knights of the Maccabees, was instituted in October, 1888, with eighteen charter members.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was organized July 3. 1888, with a membership of twenty.

Golden Chapter, No. 252, Order of the East- ern Star, was organized October 16, 1902. Mrs. Charles J. Shults was the first worthy matron and Isaac S. Benton, worthy patron.

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was Clymer, organized February 9, 1821, and given the name of the patriotic Pennsylvanian, George Clymer, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The town of Mina was set off from Clymer in 1824; and French Creek in 1829, leaving Clymer an area of 21,985 acres, bounded on the north by Sherman, east by Harmony, west by French Creek, south by Pennsylvania. The surface is a hilly upland, well adapted to grazing and dairying, being well watered. The soil responds well to culti- vation and the Western New York & Penn- sylvania railroad traverses the town from north to south, with stations in Clymer, North Cly- mer, Clymer Center and Joquins. Clymer Hill is in the western part of the town.

At Clymer, tanning leather was once an im- portant business, and about 1860 Leonard Kooman established there one of the largest tanneries in the county. The first tannery was built on lot 35 by Ebenezer Brownell shortly after 1830. Walter L. and Loren B. Sessions conducted extensive tanning operations on the Brownell site in later years.

Original Purchases: 1820-May, Wm. Rice, 59: July, Gardner Cleveland, Sr., 58. 1821-October, Horace and Anson Starkweather, 43; Jos. Wing, 51; November, John Cleveland, 58. 1822-March, Thos. Russell, 50.

1823-January, Leonard Amidon, 52; October, Wm. Rice, 60.

1824-June, Eben. Brownell, 35: Harry E. Brownell, 28; Jos. Brownell, 50.

1825-May, Amon Beebe, Jr., 30; August, Elisha Alvord, 21; October, Jos. W. Ross, 56, 55.

1826-April, Chas. Ross, 56; May, Moses Randall, 23; July, David Phinney; October, Jere. Glidden, 3, 8.

1827-March, Darius and Walter Freeman, 47; Ralph Petit, 47; April, Jere. Doolittle, 37; May, David Glid- den, 16; June, Samuel Bligh, 32; August, Andrew Glidden, 16: September, Oscar F. and Daniel C. Glid- den, 8: October, Francis F. Allen, 2.

1828-May, Alvah Marsh, 40; Archaelaus Chadwick, I: John Petit, 47: July, Benj. Sullivan, 63; Samuel Ross, 27.

1829-July, Lyman Brown, 26; September, Jere. Chamberlain, 53: October, Urbane Hitchcock, 15.

1830-August, Harry E. Brownell, 28; September, Jackson Johnson, 33: Thos. Russell, 50.

Settlement was commenced in 1820 by Gard- ner and John Cleveland, who located on lot 58, in the southwest corner. The next year Wil- liam Rice settled on lot 59, and in 1822 came Horace and Anson Starkweather and Joseph Wing. Eighteen families had located in the territory embracing the original town of Cly- mer in 1822. Nathaniel and William Thomp- son, Thomas Russell and Harry E. Brownell came in 1823. The first town meeting was held April 3. 1821, at the house of Gardner Cleveland, where were elected: Ande Nobles,

supervisor ; William Rice, Roger Haskell, John 1 M. Fitch, assessors ; David Waldo, clerk ; Ros- . well Coe, John Cleveland, Alexander Findley, commissioners of highways; Ephraim Dean, Ande Nobles, John Lynde, school inspectors; John Heath, Roger Haskell, school commis- sioners ; Alexander Findley, Roswell Coe, poor masters: Ande Nobles, Alexander Findley, overseers of highways: William Thompson, Amon Beebe, Roger Haskell, fence viewers, etc .: Ande Nobles, sealer; Eli Belknap, con- stable and collector. Before 1830 quite a set- tlement was made. Here had come and located Leonard Amidon in 1824; Charles Ross in 1824, on Clymer Hill ; Ebenezer Brownell and Joseph Brownell in 1824 on lots 35, 28, 50; Peter Ja- quins in 1825; David Phinney in 1826; Silas Freeman with thirteen children came to Cly- mer Hill in 1828. His son, Leonard B., resided in this and adjoining towns for many years.

Other early settlers were: Alexander Max- well, Elisha Alvord, Joseph Ross, Samuel Ross, Moses Randall, Jeremiah Glidden, Jere- miah R. Doolittle, David and Andrew Glidden, Samuel Bly, Oscar F. and Daniel C. Glidden, Francis F. Allen, Alvah Marsh, Archelaus Chadwick, Ralph and John Petitt, Benjamin Sullivan, Lyman Brown, Jeremiah Chamber- lain, Urbane Hitchcock, Samuel Wickwire, Charles Brighton, John S. Sessions.

The Cleveland and Rice families had many representatives. Gardner Cleveland, a Revo- lutionary soldier, had three children and thirty- four grandchildren. William Rice had twelve children of whom three became prominent: Victor M., born in Mayville in 1818, was edu- cated at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., and from 1848 to 1854 was connected with the, city schools of Buffalo, and in 1854 city super-' intendent. From 1854 to 1867 he was State: Superintendent of Public Instruction ; William S., for twenty-one years teacher in Buffalo city schools, and several years city superin- tendent of Buffalo schools; Emily A., long principal of Yonkers Female Seminary. Wil- liam Rice was many years a justice, and in 1840 was one of the three representatives of the county in the State Assembly.

Ira F. Gleason (whose father Ira settled early in French Creek, coming from Connecticut), came from Madison county in 1831 to French Creek, thence in 1837 to Clymer Village and engaged in trade, which he conducted continu- ously for twenty years. He held many impor- tant offices --- justice, supervisor, etc. Young gives the early merchants thus: "The first store is said to have been kept by John Stow in 1823. John Heath and Joseph H. Williams

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succeeded him. Alvin Williams succeeded them. and also kept an inn, the first in town in 1826. Later were Gardner Cleveland, Jr., and Howard Blodgett; Ira F. Gleason and John Williams : Gleason and Stephen W. Steward ; Stephen W. Steward ; Ayers & Blood. In 1875 William B. Blodgett and Arthur Beach werc general merchants : Ayers & Coffin, druggists ; Willis D. Gallup & Son, hardware and stoves."

One of the early and industrious pioneers of Clymer was Peter Jaquins, a soldier in the War of 1812. He reomved from Guilford, Chenango county, to Cattaraugus county in 1820, in 1824 bought lot 42 in Clymer, and in 1825 made his home here and erected the first saw and grist mills in the town. He was an excellent hunter, and it is said "that he captured nearly one hun- dred wolves previous to 1812, for which he re- ceived an average bounty of twelve dollars per head." His children were: Bruce, who located near his father ; Edward, who went to Kansas; Wallace; Art, a farmer and cattle dealer, who married Frances Vrooman: Elizabeth. The name of this enterprising pioneer is perpetu- ited in the post office called Jaquins.

James, John and David Petitt, brothers, emi- grants, arrived at New York about 1789 to be- come citizens of the New World. One of them settled on Long Island, one located in New Tersey and James made his home on the west shore of Lake Champlain. Here his son Ralph vas born at Willsborough, Essex county. Ralph when a young man went to Genesee county, where he married Julia Lyons, March :5, 1827, and the next month the young couple ame to Clymer and commenced housekeeping n the primitive house erected on Mr. Petitt's ocation on lot 47. on Clymer Hill. Mr. Petitt vas thereafter a lifelong resident of the town nd held numerous local offices. Ten of his hildren attained maturity.

Lyman Brown, a native of Kingston, Pa., orn May 30, 1801, subsequently was a resident f Hamburg, Erie county. In 1820 he bought and on lot 26 in Clymer, and in 1831 became settler of the town, where he resided until is death in 1873 ; his wife died the same year. Ir. Brown was extensively engaged in cattle ealing, was supervisor in 1848, and held other own offices. His sons were Jesse, Martin, omer. Jesse was born May 9, 1825, in Erie ounty, married Louisa Bligh, of North Cly- her in 1851 ; he followed the vocation of his ather, served as town superintendent, super- isor several years, inspector of elections many ears, and loan commissioner several terms.

In 1832 Gideon Brockway, with his wife and bur children, removed from Southampton,

Mass., to Clymer, purchased a farm and resided here until his death. His youngest son, Rich- ard B., accompanied his father and made Cly- mer his home. Beman, oldest son, came a year later to visit his parents, and as he says, "in the winter of 1833 I taught a district school in Clymer, for which I was about as well qualified as the average citizen is to edit a newspaper. However, I made out to stand the occupation three months, which were the longest ones I remember to have passed in my whole life." Mr. Brockway proved his ability to "edit a newspaper" not many years after, by making a success of the "Mayville Sentinel," which he edited and published for ten years. He was on the editorial staff of the "New York Tribune" with such men as Horace Greeley and Charles A. Dana as companions. At the time of his death, December, 1892, he was the oldest news- paper editor and publisher of the State, and the owner of the "Watertown Daily and Weekly Times." In him all elements of a strong char- acter were so united as to cause one to say, "He was a man."

Williard Mckinstry writes in the "Fredonia Censor" in 1885 this of the town :

The dwellings fifty years ago were mostly of logs. Some noted characters have lived in this vicinity. Horace Greeley's parents about two miles from the village, and this was their post office address. J. G. Cleveland, since connected with the New York "Tribune," spent his boyhood days here. William Rice, a member of the Legislature in 1840, was the village blacksmith, and his son, Hon. Victor M. Rice, has since occupied a prominent position as State Superintendent of Public Instruction and was the founder of the free school system of this State. He struggled to get an educa- tion. His first school books were bought by his going to the woods and cutting wood for the ashery and drawing it there with a pair of steers which he had broken, made the exchange with my uncle who then carried it on. Hon. Silas Terry, a most worthy citi- zen, held a seat in the Legislature of 1840, and his son, L. S. Terry, who has been Supervisor several times, is one of the progressive farmers of the town. When Senator Lorenzo Morris first commenced practicing law he opened an office over Ira F. Gleason's store in Clymer, and Stephen W. Steward did mercantile busi- ness here before founding the First National Bank of Corry. It is a prosperous agricultural town, and the railroad and the building up of the City of Corry, eight miles distant, have given it a good market and pros- perity. It has an excellent soil and contains many splendid farms. Hon. Walter L. and Loren B. Ses- sions passed their youthful days with their father, John S. Sessions, an early settler on a farm in this town, and have always had a strong support here in their political aspirations. Although a small town Clymer has exerted an important influence at times in politics of the State through the men who have lived here.

Garrett Slotboom, a Hollander, came to Cly- mer in 1850, and died here in 1885. He had

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served his time in the Dutch army, married a daughter of John Nuytinck. His son, John A., was born in Holland, educated in the Clymer schools, and assisted his father in farming. He enlisted in August, 1862, in Company D, 112th Regiment, New York Volunteers, and served until the close of the war. He was wounded at Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 1, 1864. In 1866 he commenced merchandising at Clymer Hill, continued twenty-five years, then located at Clymer Village. He served as justice of the peace and supervisor. He married Magde- lene, a daughter of Peter Kooman (who settled in Clymer about 1858. He was born near Ant- werp, Holland, emigrated to Buffalo in 1847. He died January 6, 1879). The Hollanders, many of whom have made their homes in the town, are useful and worthy citizens. Hon. G. W. Patterson, the land agent, it is said, was so impressed with the value of obtaining such frugal, honest and industrious people as resi- dents, that he made extra inducements to secure their coming. About 1846 the first nucleus was formed here and now a large per- centage of the town's best citizens are of this stock.

John Steward, Jr., settled in Harmony in 1821 and had a large family ; his sons were, John, Stephen W., Eliphalet, and Alfred W. Stephen W. was for some years a merchant in Clymer and was later one of the most promi- nent in founding the First National Bank in Corry, Pennsylvania. Alfred W., a farmer and cattle dealer, resided in the village. Sar- dius located in Harmony and was prominent.

Otis D. Hinckley was a resident of Clymer since 1850 and one of the town's most active and useful residents. He was for a time a merchant, but long and extensively employed as a surveyor. He was almost continually in office as justice of the peace, was justice of sessions of the county court, represented the First Assembly District in the State Legisla- ture of 1875 and served as clerk of the Board of Supervisors for twenty years with marked ability.

William Emery, son of Gilbert Emery, an early settler of Harmony, born in Harmony, April 19, 1840, was a farmer and lawyer, and long held the office of justice of the peace and other positions of trust. Byron King, son of James King, another son of Clymer, was one of its most substantial citizens. Maurice Smith, son of Walker Smith, was also born in the town, and a farmer. J. B. Johnson was also a farmer and a lumberman. Other residents who have been of local importance were Hon. Silas Terry, Artemas Ross, Esq., James Wiltsie,

Daniel Hurlbut, John B. Knowlton, H. E. Brownell, Jesse Brown, W. D. Gallup, Otis D. Hinckley, Ira E., William B. and Charles S. Gleason, Stephen W. Steward, Charles Bright- man, Hartson S. Ayer, and John Bidwell, who headed the national ticket of the Prohibition Party, was a native of the town.

The religious denominations are: Metho- dist Episcopal, Baptist, United Brethren and Dutch Reformed. A good interest has been manifested in education, and, besides the dis- trict schools, a union school of three depart- ments is conducted at Clymer Village.

Young carefully gathered facts concerning the early mills. He says in 1875 :

The first sawmill was built by Peter Jaquins in 1825; he added a gristmill the next year. Eight years after both were burned. A new sawmill was built and eight years thereafter that was burned and Mr. Jaquins again built one, which he subsequently sold to Porter Damon and John Williams, who also built a gristmill. Williams sold his interest to Damon. The mill passed to his sons, Loren and Andrew. The latter sold to Hartson S. Ayer & Brother and the sawmill was sold to Hall & Shepard. Hall sold to Welch and Shepard & Welch erected a large three-story planing and shin- gle mill. William Rice built a gristmill below the vil- lage on the west branch of the Broken-Straw and sold it to Judson Hurlbut, who built a sawmill. Daniel Hurlbut built a sawmill on Big Broken-Straw, on lot : 50, a mile below the Shepard & Welch mill. John B. Knowlton now owns the mill, with machinery for plan- ing, turning and the manufacture of agricultural im- plements. Thomas Card built a sawmill on lot 20, where he still owns a mill. James Upton built a saw- mill on lot 45; the dam is built of stone from a large quarry near the mill. B. Parker early built a mill on lot 9. A stream sawmill was built by Shepard & Havens at Clymer Station, and is now owned by Wil- liam Havens. A stream mill has also been recently built near the center of the town by Charles Maxwell and Joshua Hatton.

Clymer Village and station are practically , one place, which is a thriving place of trade.

The first physician was Dr. Roswell F. Van Buren, who was in practice from 1826 to 1836, ' when he moved to Carroll. Dr. S. G. Peck + settled early on lot 6, and practiced many years. Dr. Harvey A. Phinney succeeded to Dr. Van Buren's practice and continued a physician . until his death in the fifties. Later were Drs. George R. Spratt, J. M. McWharf, Artemas Ross, L. P. McCray and others.

Supervisors-1821, Ande Nobles; 1822-23, John Heath ; 1824-27, Gardner Cleveland ; 1828, A. S. Underwood; 1829, Alex. Wilson, Jr .; 1830, John Heath ; 1831-34, Win. Rice ; 1835, Harvey A. Phinney ; 1836-39, Wm. Rice ; 1840, Ira F. Gleason; 1841-42, Wm. Rice; 1843- 44, Moses Randall; 1845, Wm. Rice ; 1846-47, Samuel Bly ; 1848, Lyman Brown; 1849-50,

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board and in 1918-19 was its capable chairinan. He is now serving his twenty-fourth term on the board, only one other member Joseph A. McGinnies having served a longer term.

Clymer reported to the State census bureau in 1915 a population of 1,316 citizens and 25 aliens. The Mohawk Condensed Milk Company of Clymer was reported as employing 31 hands, and four small factories employing eleven hands were operated within the town limits. The full value of real estate in the town in 1918 was $970,726; assessed value, $761,603.

CHAPTER XVII. The City of Dunkirk.

Town and City of Dunkirk-The first white en whom it can be definitely stated came into le corporate limits of the city of Dunkirk ere a party of surveyors under Andrew Elli- ott, Surveyor-General of the United States, ho in August, 1790, traversed the Lake Erie ttore of Chautauqua county while engaged in tablishing the western boundary of New ork State. Seth Pease and his party of Hol- Ind Land Company surveyors came in 1798 ad traversed the same shore, making a minute srvey of the shore line of Dunkirk harbor. Zattu Cushing, who became familiar with te section in 1799, when building the "Good Itent" at the mouth of Mill creek in Erie cunty, Pennsylvania, is due the credit of caus- ig the first settlement to be made in both the twn and city of Dunkirk. The first step taken b Mr. Cushing was in 1804, by the purchase fom the Holland Land Company lot 29, which irluded the west part of Point Gratiot, now apublic park within the corporate limits of Iinkirk. He also in the same year bought ks 28 and 33, these including the lands on bth sides of Canadaway creek and within the pesent city limits.

The first actual settler in the town of Dun- kk was Seth Cole, who came from Paris, Cieida county, with Zattu Cushing in Febru- a7, 1805, bought land at the mouth of Canada- wy creek from Cushing the following June and settled thereon the same year. Zattu Cush- ir settled on his land in now the town of Pom- frt, where descendants yet reside. The land, fc which he paid three and a third dollars per are, was cultivated by Seth Cole, who took hi first crop to Buffalo over the frozen waters of Lake Erie. In 1808 Timothy Goulding baght land one mile west of the harbor and se:led thereon, his purchase including a part ofPoint Gratiot. He built his house within

the now corporate limits, and has the distinc- tion of being the first actual settler of the city, as Seth Cole was of the town of Dunkirk. The first settler at the Harbor was Solomon Chad- wick, born at Warren, Mass., October 16, 1776. In Madison county, New York, he married Persis, sister of Timothy and Luther Goulding, and in 1809 moved to Dunkirk with his family, making the journey overland with sled and oxen. By a contract dated February 21, 1810, he bought seventy-three acres at the Harbor, all lying within the present limits of Ward Two of Dunkirk. His log cabin, the first at the Harbor, was on the shore near the foot of present Dove street, a little East of the water works, where he lived five or six years, then moved to the town of Sheridan, thence to Perrysburg, in Cattaraugus county, where he died, aged 87. From him Dunkirk derived the name of "Chadwick's Bay." A rivalry existed for several years between Fredonians, who spoke of "the lonely fishermen of Chadwick's Bay," the fishermen in turn talking of "picking blackberries on the common at Pomfret Four Corners."

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History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people, Volume I, Part 29

Author: Downs, John Phillips, 1853- ed. [from old catalog]; Hedley, Fenwick, Y., joint ed. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Boston, New York [etc.] American historical society, inc. Number of Pages: 649

Author: Downs, John Phillips, 1853- ed. [from old catalog]; Hedley, Fenwick, Y., joint ed. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Boston, New York [etc.] American historical society, inc.
Number of Pages: 649