History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people, Volume I, Part 38

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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Elder Thomas Garbut succeeded Elder Sny- der in 1861 and remained until 1864, and was followed by Elder M. W. Tuck, who remained about two years; but he having in the mean- time united with the Masons, the church dis- pensed with his services. Elder A. S. Lang- don served the church as pastor from 1866-68; Elder J. R. Spencer from 1868-70 ; Elder O. P. Alderman, 1870-72. From the latter date no regular services were held in the church until

1875, when Rev. Alden Allen was engaged and served as pastor until June, 1879; Rev. A. S. Langdon followed for about one year and was the last regularly employed pastor.

The membership becoming so reduced the trustees finally sold the church property to the Free Methodist Society, who entirely re- modeled the building. Later ministers have been Rev. Charles Thorber, Rev. Lewis Leon- ard, Rev. R. A. Robertson, Rev. Leroy Bar- more, Rev. Clarence Silvernail, Rev. Henry Pool, Rev. Samuel Butcher, the present pastor.

The following is a transcript of the record of the first meeting held for the organizing of the Freewill Baptist Church of Ellington :

April 24, 1828.

Met at the house of Horace Harmon according to previous arrangement to take into consideration the subject of organizing a church. A sermon was de- livered by Elder Amos C. Andrus from Heb. ii chap- ter, third verse. Then a general description of doc- trine, faith and practice of the Freewill Baptist was given by Elder A. C. Andrus. Then gave the right hand of fellowship to five brethren and three sisters, and acknowledged them to compose the First Freewill Baptist Church in the Town of Ellington, after which the church

Resolved, First, That Julius Dewey serve as Church Clerk. Second, That Covenant meetings be held on Saturday before the third Sabbath in every month.

The name of the eight members referred to in the foregoing, as appears from the record later on, were Joseph Seekins, Stephen Marsh, Dolphos Howard, Sally Marsh, Chloe Howard, Solmon Wheeler, Julius Dewey and Betsey Seekins. The membership appears to have grown quite rapidly, and covenant meetings were held at stated intervals for several years at school houses, private dwellings of the mem- bers and often in barns. Winthrop Johnson was elected the first deacon and Joseph Seekins church steward.

Andrus, who organized the church, was a traveling preacher. The first settled pastor was Elder Francis B. Tanner, who for many years administered to the spiritual wants of the church and whose labors were supplemented by Elders A. C. Andrus, Jeremiah Baldwin, Joseph Parkyn and others. On April 16, 1842, fifty-six of the members withdrew from the society to organize a church in Cherry Creek. No steps seem to have been taken looking toward the erection of a church edifice until January, 1844, when the society adopted a reso- lution providing for the raising of the funds by a tax upon its membership, and for that ! purpose Isaac Holland, Winthrop Johnson and J. R. Felt were appointed a committee to "equalize the tax." The following year the

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building was erected. Frazier Luce, of Pitts- ield, Massachusetts, donated the lot upon which it was built, and the first services held herein October 26, 1845. During the erection of the building Rev. B. R. Cooley and Rev. Lucius O. Jones had pastoral charge, but Elder A. C. Andrus appears to have been in charge at he time of its dedication and was succeeded y Elder James A. McKay, who remained until 848, when he withdrew with some thirty other members to organize a church in the town of ferry. From 1849-52 the pulpit was supplied y Elders Tanner, Baldwin and O. H. Light- all; then followed Elders Plumb and Benja- in McKoon, the latter remaining until 1854, nd was succeeded by his brother, the Rev. Daniel W. McKoon and Charles Putnam. In 357 the church secured the services of Rev. .. N. McConoughey, who remained until 1861, ien, following him, was the Rev. Charles utnam, from 1862-64; Rev. D. W. McKoon, 365-66; Rev. R. E. Cornwell, 1868-70; Rev. J. Hoag, 1870-72 ; Rev. Nelson Young, 1872- 3; Rev. J. L. Higbee, 1873-74; Rev. A. P. ook, 1874-77; Rev. Jerome Short, 1879-80; ev. John Shannon, 18So-81; Rev. F. W. eeder, 1882-83; Rev. Z. A. Space, 1889-91; ev. George Southwick, 1891-93, since which ate no regular service has been maintained in te chapel, owing to the constantly decreasing membership.

The following is the record, in part, of the ist meeting held for the organization of the Ongregational Church in Ellington :

Ellington, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1828.

A meeting previously appointed for the purpose was Hd at the house of Mrs. Lucretia French for the pur- [se of organizing a church. The Rev. William I. Wilcox was present and chosen moderator. The fol- living persons presented themselves as candidates for t· proposed church, viz .: James Bates, Benjamin Ells- wrth, Israel Carpenter, Aaron Merrill, Josiah D. Ites, Lucretia French, Calista Ellsworth, Harriet Sear, Nancy Bates and Polly Landon.

After much mutual conversation in relation to the an detrines and precepts of the gospel, and prayer, the flowing articles of faith and covenant were read to nter ad adopted by the above named persons and they vre declared as regularly constituted by the name and tie of the First Congregational Church of Christ in Eington. (Here follows the thirteen articles of faith al the covenant.) reč:

The ordinance of baptism was adnunistered to one allt and two children. The Rev. William I. Wilcox unt us chosen standing moderator of the church and Ben- es jain Ellsworth clerk and delegate to represent the circh at the next stated meeting of the Buffalo Pres- bery, with a request to be received a constituted thủ nmber. Concluded with prayer.

Attest: William I. Wilcox, Moderator. Enjamin Ellsworth, Clerk.

At the next meeting, on March 29, 1828, Otis Page was admitted to membership and chosen the first deacon. Later on Daniel Bush was chosen deacon. They, together with Dr. William Ware, were subsequently made elders in the church. During that year the following named persons were added to the membership : Elizabeth Altenburg, Elizabeth Vader, Timo- thy Gross, Warren Mansfield, William Ware, Sally Ware, Daniel Bush, Jane Bush and Mrs. A. B. Farman. The church services for the first five or six years seem to have been con- ducted by the local membership assisted by the Reverends W. I. Wilcox, Abel C. Ward and D. G. Orton. The first communion set and baptismal bowl were presented to the church in October, 1834, by I. D. and Sherman Board- man, of Hartford, Connecticut, through Dr. William Ware, valued at nine dollars and fifty- eight cents. The second set was presented to the church in 1870 by Mrs. Frazier Luce, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, whose late husband was a frequent attendant of that church.

In 1840 the Rev. William Waith was en- gaged as pastor and remained until August 30, 1847. He was the first regular pastor of the church, and during his pastorate, in the year 1842, the church edifice was erected. Dr. Wil- liam Ware very generously donated the lot upon which it was built.

In 1845 the church by resolution adopted the Presbyterian form of government and was thereafter styled "The First Presbyterian Church of Ellington," and they united them- selves with the Buffalo Presbytery, and under the new organization, the following elders were elected : Otis Page, Andrew P. White, John N. White, Daniel L. Bush, Lewis Leet and Jeremiah Hotchkiss. Subsequently, how- ever, the society voted to change back to its original form, purely Congregational.

Rev. S. W. Edson succeeded Waith and re- mained until 1849, after whom the following named pastors served for the time and in the order named: Rev. William Todd, 1849-50 ; Rev. H. G. Blinn, 1851-52 ; Rev. Charles Keeler, 1853-54; Rev. David Powell, 1855-56; Rev. W D. Henry, 1857-60; Rev. Ward I. Hunt, 1861- 64; Rev. Henry Benson, 1865-67; Rev. H. O. Howland, 1868-69; Rev. Rufus King, 1870-71 ; Rev. A. D. Olds, 1872-74; Rev. L. T. Mason, 1875-77 ; Rev. G. C. Jewell, 1878-80, after whom were the following in the order named: Rev- erends T. D. Jenkins, A. W. Taylor, Lincoln Harlow, G. E. Henshaw, William McDougal, William B. Marsh, J. M. Merrill, W. G. Marts, F. A. Kimberly, George M. Reese, Levi Reese,

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J. M. Merrill, A. O. Stockbridge, H. A. Law- rence.

To Carey Briggs, a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Ellington, I am indebted for the following :

Of the early history of Methodism in Ellington we have no authentic record, for the reason that from 1836 to 1844, Ellington was included in the Gerry cir- cuit, Jamestown District, Erie Conference. In July, 1836, the annual conference held at Erie, Pennsylvania, appointed Josiah Flower and T. J. Jennings to the Gerry circuit, which embraced the towns of Stockton, Gerry, Charlotte, Cherry Creek, Ellington and Napoli and east to the boundary of the Genesee Conference.

This was a four weeks circuit, as it took each preacher (then called circuit riders) four weeks to go the rounds and fill all his appointments. There were then no church edifices in the circuit, but services were held in school houses, private houses, barns, etc. The first church on the circuit was built about 1839, in Gerry, then called the Vermont Settlement. There the Ellington branch attended service and there the rec- ords were kept.

At the annual conference held at Erie, Pennsylvania, in July, 1844, Ellington was constituted a separate charge and Samuel A. Henderson was appointed pas- tor. He found seven well organized classes, to wit: One at the Center, Matthew Lane leader; one in Bates District, Charles Thacher, leader; one at Clear Creek, Harold Webster, leader; one at Waterboro, George Clark, leader; one at Fuller Hill, Wesley Mils- paw, leader; one on West Hill, David Fisk, leader; one in Gerry with Archelaus Mosher, leader; com- prising a membership in all of about one hundred fifty, with no church edifice or parsonage. A par- sonage was rented and the adjourned first Quarterly Conference was held in it November 13, 1844. On De- cember 28, 1844, the second Quarterly Conference was held in the Presbyterian Church, just newly erected in the village. The record of that Conference gives the first full official list as follows: Presiding Elder, Darius Smith; preacher in charge, S. A. Henderson; local preachers, T. Thacher, E. Briggs; exhorters, Zelotus Hitchcock, George Pierce: stewards, Hosea Felt, Norman Guernsey, David Carl, H. N. Jacobs, Lorenzo Mather, Carey Briggs and Elisha Baker. These, with the above mentioned class leaders, consti- tuted the Quarterly Conference, and through their efforts, heartily supplemented by the efforts of the membership, a church edifice was erected the follow- ing year (1845).

The following are the names of the pastors with their date of service: S. A. Henderson, 1844: S. Churchill, 1845: Ashbel Parcell, 1846; J. H. Tackett, 1847; T. D. Blinn, 1848: John Peate, 1849; Alvin Burgess, 1850-51; Justin O. Rich, 1852-53; O. L. Mead, 1854-55; T. D. Blinn, 1858-59: Joseph Allen and W. W. Case, 1860-61; W .W. Warner, 1862-63; L. W. Day, 1864: S. N. War- ner, 1865; Joseph Leslie, 1865-66; H. H. Moore, 1867- 69; O. G. McIntyre, 1869-71; G. W. Moore, 1871-72; P. W. Scofield, 1872-75: G. W. Chesbro, 1875-77; Milton Smith, 1877-80; A. A. Horton, 1880-83; Victor Corn- well, 1883-84: J. W. Barker, 1884-86; J. H. Prather, 1886-90; H. M. Burns, 1890-91; C. W. Miner, 1892-95; A. M. Lockwood, 1895-98; R. M. Warren, 1899; I. D. Darling, 1900; R. L. Foulke, 1900-02; G. W. S. Phil- lips, 1902-04: J. E. Imes, 1904-07; J. M. Crouch, 1907- 08; David Taylor, 1908-1I; William C. Mealing, 1911- 14; William N. Snyder, 1914-16; R. H. Ellinghouse, 1916-18; Perry F. Haines, 1918 to date 1920.

Ellington Academy-For over half a century : this institution has been one of the first and ( foremost schools of Western New York, and the multitude of men and women who have received their early educational training within its walls have left their impress in every de- partment of intellectual activity all over this. broad land.

On January 12, 1850, about seventy-five of the leading citizens of the town, fully recogniz- ing the benefits to be derived by an institu- tion of this character, pledged themselves by an instrument in writing to furnish the neces- sary funds to purchase a suitable site and erect a building to be known as "The Ellington Academy." The funds so subscribed were divided into shares of $25 each and each owner of a share was entitled to a voice and a vote in the organization.

On March 30, 1851, the stockholders met and by ballot decided upon the purchase of a site and at the same time elected twelve trustees from their number, to wit: Jeremiah Baldwin John F. Farman, Hosea Felt, Charles B. Green Benjamin Barnard, Myron Walden, John M Farnham, Seth W. Chandler, Mason D. Hatch Carey Briggs, Jeremiah Ellsworth and An drew P. White. The trustees immediately effected an organization by the election of Jere miah Baldwin, president; John F. Farman treasurer, and Andrew P. White, secretary.

At a meeting of the trustees, April 25, 1851 plans were adopted and a contract made with Myron Walden, Nelson Brown, Benjamin Pickard, and Andrew P. White, 2nd, for th erection of the building, which was to be sixt by forty feet and three stories in height.

The construction of the building was imme diately tindertaken by these gentlemen and b fall of the following year, at an expense c about $3,650, was made ready for occupancy The first term of school opened in the fall ( 1852, with Prof. William C. J. Hall as princ pal; Andrew P. White, male assistant; Mig Emeline Warren, as female assistant; Mis Delia McGlashan, primary teacher, and Pro fessor Backus, teacher of instrumental musi

On January 20, 1853. a formal applicatic was made by a committee of the stockholde! to the Regents of the University of the Sta for an academic charter, and the same wa granted under date of February II, 1853. Tl first Board of Education were the original i corporators of the institution, none of who are now living, save Carey Briggs, and out the original seventy-five or more stockholde who were instrumental in the successful orga

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ization of the school barely a half dozen sur- vive; but the good they accomplished lives after them.

In 1853, the second year of Professor Hall's administration, a teachers' training class was organized, and almost continuously since then that has been one of the distinctive features of the institution. The primary department, how- ever, was discontinued in 1859. Following Professor Hall, in 1855, Professor Payne had charge of the school for a brief period, after whom the principals of the academy, with their respective terms of service were as follows: Warren B. Marsh, 1855-57: John C. Long, 1857-60; Hiram L. Ward, 1860-64; A. C. Moon, 1864-66; Miss Millie Smith completed the term of A. C. Moon in 1866-67 ; R. E. Post, 1867-68; followed by W. E. Stevenson, who was the last principal under the old academic system.

In the winter of 1870-71 the taxpayers of School District Number Two, comprising the village of Ellington and vicinity, having by vote decided to establish a Union Free School, with an academic department, applied through their board of trustees to the trustees of the academy for a transfer of the building and property to the new school district, which re- sulted in the following action by the latter body : At a meeting of the academy trustees on March 23, 1871, the following resolution was adopted :

Resolved, That we the Trustees of Ellington Acad- emy, in pursuance to section seventeen, chapter four hundred thirty-three of the Laws of 1853, do hereby vacate our offices in favor of the present Board of Edu- cation of Union School District Number Two, of the Town of Ellington, and to their successors in office, to be used by them as the academical department of said Union School upon condition that the said school dis- trict shall maintain the said academical department by teaching at least two academic terms per year; other- wise the said building and appurtenances belonging thereto shall be delivered back to the stockholders in pursuance to the provisions of a bond this day executed by the said board of education to certain stockholders named therein.

This was signed by the following named gentlemen, comprising the full board of trus- tees at that time: J. F. Farman, John Shaw, Galutia Beardsley, Allen Bagg, L. M. Day, Lewis Leet, Edwin Anderson, L. D. Fairbanks and Theodore A. Case.

Thus the Union School became a reality on March 23, 1871. Having been chartered as an Academy by the Regents of the University it was non-chartered and became a junior Re- gents school. In consequence of a large in- crease in the library and the working apparatus for the labratory and the excellent educational

work of the institution, the school has been ad- vanced through the grades of middle and senior schools until October 3, 1899, when it was ad- vanced to the grade of High School, the high- est rating given by the University of the State of New York.

The principals of the Union School from 1871 to the present time are as follows: P. F. Burk, 1871-75; W. P. Spring, 1875-76; R. R. Rogers, 1876-80; George J. McAndrews, 1880- 81 ; D. D. Van Allen, 1881-83 ; Frank W. Cross- field, 1883-86; Fred C. Wilcox, 1886-87; I. Howard Russell, 1887-88; Clyde C. Hill, 1888- 90; A. H. Hiller, 1800-91; George Hanley, 1801-93: Ellis W. Storms, 1893-97; Francis J. Flagg, 1897-99 ; Edward C. Hawley, 1899-1900; Ernest B. Luce, 1900-03; E. A. Reuther, 1903- 04: Daniel Brewer, 1905-08; H. C. Lege, 1909; Robert Swan, 1910-13; George Luke, 1914; Frank York, 1915: Raymond Kuhrt, 1916-17; Glen G. Row, 1918-19-20.

The population of Ellington, according to the State census of 1915 was 1,317, of whom 25 were aliens. The value of the real estate in the town, according to the supervisors' report, was $569,857 in 1918 and its equalized assessed value $447,092.

French Creek-French Creek was formed from Clymer, April 23, 1829. It takes its name from the stream watering the town, which was early used by the French in their military ex- peditions, and contains 21,832 acres. Its sur- face is hilly, broken by the valleys of French creek and its tributaries. The main stream enters the town on the north line, on lot 24, about two miles from the northeast corner and running in a southwesterly direction, leaving the town and State on lot 58, about one and one-half miles north of the southwest corner. This stream, in its zigzag course, is a great annoyance to the inhabitants on account of the height to which the water rises in times of freshets. The town is cut by its valleys into three ridges ; two running nearly east and west, separated by the Beaver Meadow Valley ; the other running north and south, and separated from the former by the valley of French Creek. These ridges rise in some places two hundred fifty feet. Most of their sides are tillable and well adapted to grazing, but some places are steep. The soil varies from heavy clay to a gravelly loam ; there are small deposits of muck along the creek. The hill tops are generally wet, being underlaid by stiff, hard clay, im- pregnated with oxide of iron.

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stream to about three-fourths of a mile, and is about three miles long. The Beaver Meadow flat is so called from the appearance of its hav- ing been occupied by beavers. The meadow was covered by alders. At one time there were many pine and balsam or fir trees along the edges, and on what were islands at the time it was occupied by the beavers. In the south part of the town is another beaver meadow, a small one, on lot 9, the dam of which is quite perfect. The water from this meadow flows into Hare Creek, which takes a southerly course. There was a third beaver meadow on the west branch of the creek, on lot 47. This town is adapted to dairying. Its cool nights and heavy dews keep the grass in better condition than the drier climate of the lake shore, though many fruits can not be raised on account of frost. Near the southwest corner is a circu- lar cranberry bog, which was given the name of "Possum." Indications of petroleum occur on lot 21.

The first town meeting was held in March, 1830, at the house of William Hooper. These officers were elected: Supervisor, Alexander Wilson ; town clerk, Isaiah Golding ; assessors, John Gotham, Nathaniel Thompson, Silas W. Hatfield ; collector, William Thompson ; over- seers of poor, Paul Colburn, Augustus Bolles ; commissioners of highways, Parley Bloss, John Gotham, Royal Herrick; commissioners of schools, William Hooker, S. O. Colburn, Eli Belknap; inspectors of schools, D. H. Peck, A. Noble, Ephraim Dean; constables, William Thompson, George Adams; justice, Ephraim Dean.

The first settlers came from Oswego, Essex and Oneida counties during the War of 1812. Andy Nobles is said by some to have been here in 1811. He located on lot 44. John Cleve- land was on lot 31 in 1812, Roswell Coe on lot 39, Nathaniel Thompson on lot 9 in 1813; Amon Beebe and Gardner Cleveland probably settled the same year. Young says that the first school was taught by Polly Forbes in 1817. Child says it was taught by a Chitsey in 1818. Child says "the first death was that of a son of Nathaniel Thompson, drowned in French Creek." Young gives the first death as that of a child of J. Inglesby in 1818. "The first tavern was kept by William Graves, who built the first grist mill, both in 1822, and the first store was kept in one end of the grist mill by John Dodge." Parkley Bloss located on lot 46 in 1815. He was the first highway commis- sioner, and did surveying with a pocket com- pass and used a rope as a surveyor's chain. He had ten children ; his sons were Aden, Parley,

William, Reuben, Calvin, Richard, Benjamin. He died in 1852, aged 75 years. His son Wil- liam was a noted hunter; one winter before January Ist he had shot forty-nine deer with his father's open-sight flint-lock rifle. Many authenticated tales are told of his adventures and exploits in cutting wood and other labors. In 1870, when sixty years old, in one day he walked a mile and cut down the trees for, and cut into twenty-two inch lengths, three and one-half cords of wood. This whole family were energetic workers and did much to clear up the lands of the town. Gardiner Case, a soldier of 1812, some years after that war, came to French Creek and was a permanent settler. Henry R. Case is his son. Silas Terry settled, probably in 1820, on lot 2, where he bought land in 1821, coming from Harmony, where he settled in 1816 and later married Polly Powers. He resided in French Creek until 1855. He was one of the most important men of the new town, was justice for sixteen years and was collector of Clymer in 1821, which then in- cluded Sherman, French Creek and Mina. The tax collected that year in this town was about $800. He was also collector four years later. He was supervisor of French Creek in 1844-45- 48, and in 1849 member of Assembly. Of his nine children, Seward W. was captain of Com- pany G, 49th New York Volunteers, in the Civil War, and was killed at Spottsylvania ; Cassius M. became a Congregational clergy- man; Mary R. married Hon. Walter L. Ses- sions; Lawyer S., made his home in French Creek. Nehemiah Royce settled on lot 19 in 1825. He was supervisor seven years. Al- mond Stephen Park, son of Elijah Park, was born December 22, 1814, in Granville, Wash- ington county. In 1828 he came to this county. April 27, 1834, he married Rhoda Ann Baker : and settled in French Creek in 1836. Mr. Park , represented his town on the board of super- visors in the year 1863. Lewis H. Park was born March 2, 1843. He married Mary M. Myers, November 14, 1869.

French Creek was included in 1816 in the parochial charge of Rev. Karl Wilhelm (Charles Williams) Colson, an early Lutheran missionary to the scattered Germans in Ohio, Northwestern Pennsylvania and adjacent local- ities. The first services to form a church were held in 1818, on lot 46, at the house of Alanson Root by Elder Ashford, who in 1821 organ- ized a Baptist church in a log school house on lot 56. Among the first members were: Na- thaniel and William Thompson, William Adams, A. M. Higgins, the wives of all of these ; Roswell Coe, Amon Beebe. This church

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'id a brief existence, most of the members re- :oving from the town. Several subsequent portive attempts to keep up a Baptist church were made. A Methodist Episcopal church as organized in the northwest part in 1830 by Jev. J. K. Hallock and Rev. J. Chandler. The members were Isaiah and Betsey Golding, and William and Amy Adams. Moses Olds and ufe and Mrs. Bowles were early members. The society built a fine church costing $2,000 (: lot 46, in 1858, which was completed, painted ad carpeted in 1867. This society received fty acres of "gospel land" from the Holland Ind Company. It was on lot 30, and was sld by order of the county court and the rooney used in building the church. A Chris- tn church, in which the ceremony of washing fet was literally carried out, was formed in 134, with a membership of twenty-four, along them Benjamin and Calvin Bloss.

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History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people, Volume I, Part 38

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