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June 21, 1862, "Evergreen Cemetery " was organized. Owing to its favorable situation and the taste and good management of its board of trus- tees, it for excels any other in the county and is one of the most beautiful in western New York. Bernard W. Field was its first president and first super- intendent. Though his skillful management and that of his successor, H. A. Kirk, it is finely adorned with choice evergreens. Mr. Field was born at Bernardston, Mass, Sept. 5, 1808. About the year 1833 he came to Gerry. In 1835 he married Sarah B. Cushman, who died August 5, 1870. In Octo- bet, ISSo, then residing here, he married Mrs. Welthy A. Lazell, the widow of Hiram E. Lazell and daughter of Chauncey and Lucy Winsor. Mrs.
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Field died July 2, 1891, leaving two children, Laverne W. and Esther P. Lazell. Esther, June 27, 1888, married Charles E., son of B. F. Dennison. April 7, 1868, occurred the severest fire that has ever visited Sinclairville. Early in the morning the Bennett block was discovered to be on fire. Three stores comprising this block, the Sinclairville House, a dwelling-house and barn, a meat market and a shoe shop were burned and a harness shop was torn down.
The residents of Sinclairville have ever been distinguished for their intel- ligence and the measures they have taken for the improvement of the mind. In 1835 the Sinclairville circulating library was organized. It had 125 volumes of good books when books were scarce. In 1842 the Sinclairville Society of Science and Literature was established. It was provided with the leading American and foreign periodicals. For many years lyceums and free lecture courses have been maintained. February 6, 1870, the Sinclair- ville library was founded by Rev. E. P. McElroy. It has been liberally sup- ported and well patronized. It has 1,340 well selected books. About 1885 the ladies organized a library of several hundred volumes. In ISSI a lecture course was organized and supplied for several years by the best talent and ablest lecturers. In 1881 a board of trade was organized which has been of great benefit. William H. Scott its president, and Richard Reed its secre- tary have been most efficient in its support.
The people of Charlotte were among the first to move in the construction of the Dunkirk, Allegany Valley & Pittsburgh railroad. (See page 533). T. D. Copp and Alonzo Langworthy of Sinclairville largely aided in effect- ing its construction. November 5, 1874, the Sinclairville Fair Ground Association was organized. In 1875 the population was 695. The country around the village is adapted to dairying and stock raising. Sinclairville has been prominently connected with these industries. For many years Fri- day has been the most important market day for butter and cheese in the county. The Sinclairville stock farm established by Bela B. Lord, a native of the village and son of Bela B. Lord, a well known early settler, has added much to the reputation of the place. Mr. Lord often visited Holland, Ger- many, Scotland, England and France, where he purchased Holstein cattle and French coach and Percheron horses. Frank E. Shaw, a nephew of "Josh Billings," and a native of the village established many years ago here a successful stock farm (principally for Jersey cattle) which was widely known. This also has been of benefit to the village and town. A grange has long been established in Sinclairville. Its flourishing condition is largely due to the energetic efforts of Mrs. Bela B. Lord.
The population of the village has not increased since the last census, but it has not deteriorated. Now it has a fine brick schoolhouse and a good school, is incorporated as a village, with streets and side walks in good repair,
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has good protection against fire, water-works, a hook and ladder and a hose company and all the conveniences desirable for a small village. There are four churches : Congregational, Baptist, Methodist Episcopal and Episcopal. The Adventists hold regular meetings at Cook's Hall.
LAWYERS .- Albert Richmond, the first lawyer of Charlotte, born at Brattleboro, Vt., in 1807, was a man of native talent. He was admitted to the bar in the class with Horatio Seymour, came to Sinclairville in 1833 and was, one term, surrogate of the county. He died in 1878. E. B. Forbush commenced the practice of law in Sinclairville about 1836. He removed to Buffalo where he became a successful patent lawyer. He was killed in the railroad accident at Angola in 1867. S. Mervin Smith, an early lawyer, was in practice several years at Sinclairville. A. B. Fenner was located a short time at that place, about 1842. E. M. Peck, a man of ability, practised law 30 years in that village. E. H. Sears, afterwards judge of the supreme court of Iowa, was a lawyer at Sinclairville. Worthy Putman, the author of a well known book on elocution, and who, as county superintendent, rendered greater service to the schools of the county than any other person previous to his day, commenced the practice of law in Sinclairville. Later James A. Allen, Samuel T. Allen, C. F. Chapman and F. A. Teed were attorneys.
C. M. Reed, born in Sinclairville, educated at the Sinclairville Union School, read law with C. F. Chapman, graduated at the Albany Law Univer- sity May, 1885, was admitted to the bar in April of the same year and is now holding his second term as special surrogate of the county.
Fred H. Sylvester was born in Sinclairville, educated at the Sinclairville Union School, read law with Obed Edson, won the Clinton scholarship and was graduated at the Buffalo Law School in May, 1890, and admitted to the bar in June of the same year.
Obed Edson has been for many years a practicing lawyer at Sinclairville.
Wi liam Thomas Wilson was born at Johnstown, Fulton county, N. Y., April 7, 1817, came to this county in 1828, read law with Gen. Charles H. S. Williams at Fredonia and at Forestville, was admitted to the old court of common pleas June 26, 1844, and to the supreme court of the state later. He began practice at Forestville and removed to Sinclairville, October, 1861, where he has continued to practice and is now one of the oldest members of the Chautauqua county bar. He has served five terms as justice of sessions and 28 years as justice of the peace. Madison Burnell, Ransom Burnell, Arthur C. Wade, John Woodward, and Stephen H. Allen, a justice of the supreme court of the state of Kansas, are lawyers who were natives of the town.
PHYSICIANS .- George F. Smith, son of Miles N. Smith, was born in Smithboro, Tioga county, May 29, 1862. His early years were spent in the oil country of Pennsylvania. In 1874 he came with his father's family to Charlotte, and was educated in the Sinclairville Union School. He studied
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medicine in that village, and graduated February 24, 1885, from the medical department of the University of Buffalo. He married Minnie F., daughter of D. B. Dorsett, May 14, 1885.
Franklin A. Stevens, son of Augustus M. and Rebecca (White) Stevens, was born October 26, 1863, at Fairbury, Livingston county, Ill., read medi- cine at Sinclairville with his cousin Dr. A. A. Stevens, Jr., in ISSS, and was graduated at the University of Buffalo, March, 1890. Dr. A. A. Stevens, Jr., was born in Charlotte, February 21, 1848, was educated at the Fredonia and Jamestown Union Schools, and was graduated at the Buffalo Medical College, February, 1875, and was a successful physician. He died in September, 1893.
SUPERVISORS, from 1830 to 1894 : Nathan Lake, 5 years ; Bela Tracy, 2 years ; Samuel F. Forbush, 1832 ; John Chandler, 1836 ; Orton Clark, 8 years ; Randolph W. Seaver, 3 years ; Joseph E. Kimball, 1849 ; Orsamus White, 2 years ; John M. Edson, 3 years ; Daniel Arnold, 1855 ; Wm. M. Wagoner, 1856; Allen A. Stevens, 2 years ; Henry C. Lake, 2 years ; Timothy D. Copp, 2 years ; Henry Reynolds, 3 years ; Obed Edson, 3 years ; George S. Harrison, 3 years ; Horace E. Kimball, 3 years ; Albert Richmond, 1875 ; William Reed, 2 years ; C. F. Chapman, 3 years ; Henry Sylvester, 4 years ; Edwin F. Lake, 2 years ; R. Corydon Seaver, 1889, and John A. Love, 4 years. Mr. Love, as a member of the standing committee of the board of super- visors, in 1894 visited various asylums in the state for the deaf and dumb, orphans, insane, blind and the feeble minded. John H. Dickie is the present supervisor, and is elected for two years.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
JOHN M. EDSON.
John M. Edson is a descendant of the sixth generation from Samuel Edson, who was born in England in 1612, came over to Salem, Mass., in 1638 or 1639, and afterwards became an original proprietor and first settler of Bridge- water, Plymouth county, Mass. He was a member of the general court at Plymouth in 1676, and held other positions of public trust. His son Samuel, participated in the Indian wars against King Philip and was a member of the general court at Boston in 1697 and 1713. Obed Edson, the grandfather of John M. Edson, was an early settler of Richfield, Otsego county, N. Y.
Jolin M. Edson was born July 30, 1801, in Eaton, Madison county. When he was about three years of age his father, whose name was also Obed Edson, died. His mother who was Fanny, daughter of Elisha Bigelow of Connecticut, afterwards married Major Samuel Sinclear. Mr. Edson moved with his step-father's family to Sinclairville in 1810. . There were no schools, few books, and for years but a single newspaper was received in the settle- ment. These limited facilities gave Mr. Edson but little opportunity to indulge a natural inclination for mental improvement ; and he received but
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a limited education, the deficiences of which were supplied, in no inconsider- able degree, by a taste for reading. He took much interest in the science of astronomy, and more than 50 years ago in communications to newspapers attempted to show that the motions of the planets and comets were caused by electricity. When Lyell came to America in 1841, Mr. Edson became deeply interested in his letters on geology, and even then maintained views of the origin of the different forms of life quite similar to those afterwards explained by Darwin. Those who conversed with him never failed to be impressed with his large and original views, and to feel a sense of regret that a thorough education had been denied him. He was, however, familiar with the expedients required in a new country, where a rough and ready skill 2.0 meet the difficulties incident thereto was the quality most in requisition, and was much distinguished in his youth for his physical power and his accom- plishments in athletic sports. When he was a young man the military spirit ran high in western New York. In the regiment organized in the central and eastern portion of the county, he filled most of the regimental offices from . lieutenant to that of colonel, to which office he was appointed, May 22, 1830. Among other positions he held that of justice of the peace of Charlotte for 14 years. He served three years successively as its supervisor and one term as deputy U. S. marshal. April 17, 1843, he was appointed by Gov- ernor Bouck a judge of the court of common pleas, and served until July 1, 1847, when the court, as then organized, was abolished by the constitution of 1846. In politics he was always a Democrat. He was the first master of Sylvan Lodge, No. 303, F. & A. M., at Sinclairville, under the new charter granted subsequently to anti-masonry. He died August 21, 1885.
In 1831 he married Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Ursula Alverson. She was born at Halifax, Vt., June 3, 1804, and came with her mother to Gerry to reside with her uncle, Win. Alverson, in 1821, and died December 10, 1881. They had two children : I. Obed, (see sketch) ; 2. Fanny Ursula, born June 4, 1834, married Henry, son of Melzer Sylvester. They reside in Sinclairville. Their children are Anna G., born Jan. 5, 1856, mar- ried Charles Dingley ; Emily A., born Nov. 22, 1857, married Herbert L. Hunt ; Katie, born Nov. 20, 1863, died August 18, 1864; and Frederic HI., born Sept. 22, 1867.
HON. OBED EDSON.
Hon. Obed Edson, son of John M. Edson, was born in Sinclairville, Feb- ruary IS, 1832. He was brought up on a farin, and received his education at the common schools and Fredonia Academy. He taught country schools several terms during his minority, in 1851 began to study law in the office of Hon. E. H. Sears, in 1853 attended Albany Law University, was admitted to the bar at Albany April 8, 1853, and has since followed his profession at
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Sinclairville. He began practice as partner of Judge E. F. Warren, and for a year or more was a partner of C. F. Chapman. He has at intervals fol- lowed civil engineering. The year. before the Erie railroad was completed to Dunkirk, when eighteen years of age, he served as chainman in its survey. He afterwards assisted in the survey of railroads in New York and Pennsyl- · vania, and in 1867 was engaged in locating the line of the Dunkirk, Alle- gany Valley & Pittsburgh railroad in this state. He took an early and active part in effecting the organization of the company and in promoting the build- ing of the road.
Mr. Edson has been supervisor of his native town several terms, and has held other official positions in the town and county. In 1874 he was elected to the assembly, and is the only Democrat ever chosen to that position in the second assembly district. When in the legislature he sustained Governor . Tilden in his attack upon the " canal ring," was chairman of the committee upon the "petition of aliens," drew, introduced and secured the passage of several bills, among them a general act for the incorporation of library soci- eties. He has been the candidate of his party for county judge, district atttorney and other positions, and in 1893 was candidate for delegate to the constitutional convention of the state of New York for the counties of Chau- tanqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany, but was unsuccessful, as the Republican majority is very large in his congressional and senatorial district in which he was a candidate. He was active in effecting the organization of Sinclair- ville Union Free School district, and in promoting the erection of the school building, and was for many years a member of the board of education. He has also been a member of the village board of trustees, and for many years a trustee of Evergreen Cemetery, and also of Sinclairville Library Associa- tion, organizations which he has always been active to promote.
Mr. Edson has been a contributor to " Our Continent," "The Chantau- quan," and other magazines, generally. upon historical subjects. He first gathered and collated the facts respecting the expedition of Col. Daniel Broadhead, sent by Gen. Washington against the Indians of the upper Alle- gany river during the Revolution to operate in conjunction with General Sullivan. He prepared a full history of this expedition published as the leading article in the November number of the " Magazine of American His- tory " for 1879. He is one of the founders of the Chautauqua Society of History and Natural Science and has made many original contributions to it, usually of a historical, geological or archeological nature. He has lec- tured before the Chautauqua Assembly, and is the author of several local histories including important portions of " Young's History of Chautauqua County." He is also the author of the general history of Chautauqua county and of several of the town histories in this volume.
Mr. Edson was married May 11, 1859, to Emily A. Allen, daughter of
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Hon. Caleb J. and Emily E. (Haley) Allen. She was born in New London, Conn., November 27, 1835. Her father was mayor and postmaster of New London, and in 1837 state senator. His brother, Thomas J. Allen, at that time was member of assembly for Chautauqua county, and his brother, San- uel T. Allen, about the same time was a delegate from the jurisdiction of Viesca to the convention called for organizing a provisional government for Texas, then in revolt against Mexico, and was one of the committee of twelve that drafted the Texan declaration of independence. Mrs. Edson is sister of James A. Allen, a well-known lawyer of Buffalo, of Samuel 'T. Allen, an offi- cer in the civil war and a lawyer of Holden, Missouri, and of Stephen H. Allen, a lawyer residing.at Topeka, and one of the three judges of the supreme court of Kansas. Her brother, Caleb J. Allen, a lawyer of Iowa, enlisted in the 4th lowa cavalry in the civil war and served two years, but died before the close of the war from hardships suffered in confederate prisons. .
The children of Obed and Emily A. Edson were all born at Sinclairville, and are : 1. Fanny A., born April 28, 1860, married John A. Love, who has · been a banker at Sinclairville. (Their children are Allen J., born August 23, 1885, and Nellie E., born January 2, 1887). 2. John M. Edson, born September 29, 1861, married Alma B., daughter of William and Hannah Green, lives at New Whatcom, Washington, and is a printer and publisher. (They have one child, Arthur A., born November 2, 1892). 3. Samuel A., born September 15, 1863, died November 16, 1872. 4. Mary U., born Sep- tember 11, 1865, died November 27, 1872. 5. Hannah, born February 15, 1869, died December 10, 1881. 6. Walter H., born January 8, 1874, now a student in Cornell University. 7. Ellen E., born April 21, 1875, died March 31, 1887. 8. Allen O., born September 3, 18So, died January 16, 1882.
Mr. Edson is a scientific and historical investigator. No man in the county is so well informed in its geologic, pre-historic and historic develop- ment and progress. He is, with all his erudition, a kindly, modest gentle- man, who possesses many friends, won by his merits and genial nature. Mrs. Edson, an educated lady of refinement, is a valuable helpmeet to her husband, and presides over their hospitable home with cordiality and grace.
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GERRY. CHAPTER LXXIV.
BY HON. OBED EDSON.
G ERRY was formed from Pomfret June 1, 1812. Ellington, including Cherry Creek, was taken off in 1824, and Charlotte in 1829. It was named from Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Indepen- dence, and a vice-president. It lies southeast of the center of the county, is bounded north by Charlotte, east by Ellington, south by Ellicott, west by Ellery and Stockton, and comprises township 3, range 11, and contains 36 square miles. The highest hills are in the northeastern and southwestern sections, their summits being 400 feet above the Cassadaga valley and 1,700 feet above the ocean. The wide and fertile Cassadaga valley extends from the northwest part southeasterly to its southern boundry, and averages two miles wide. Through it runs the Dunkirk, Allegany Valley & Pittsburgh railroad, built in 1871. Gerry station is 722 feet and Sinclairville station 757 feet above Lake Erie. Cassadaga creek, a large, slow, crooked streat, flowing southerly through the valley is the principal water course. The other streams are Mill creek which empties into the Cassadaga in the northi- western part of the town. E. A. Ross says: "Mill creek takes its source by two branches, one from Arkwright and one from Cherry Creek, and flows southwesterly through Charlotte and part of Gerry. The lower mill on this stream was located half way between the Cassadaga and Sinclairville, and was built by John McAllister on land later owned by his son James." (See pages 665 to 667). Hatchi creek rises in the northeastern part, flows south- westerly through the village of Gerry and empties into the Cassadaga. Fol- som creek rises in the northeastern part, flows nearly south into Ellicott and into the Cassadaga. The town is well adapted to grazing and dairying, and the valley is adapted to the raising of corn and other grains. The soil of the uplands is clay loam, that of the valleys sandy loam.
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Long before any white men visited Gerry it was inhabited by another race. Abundant evidence exists that the Eries, and perhaps their prede- cessors, inhabited the hillsides and borders of the Cassadaga valley and other parts of the town. (See Chapter IV). The Eries were exterminated by the Iroquois in 1655. For nearly a century and a half Gerry remained a wilder- ness, undisturbed by human beings, except when wandering Senecas passed
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through the territory or temporarily camped thereon. There is some reason, however, to believe that the French made some use of Cassadaga creek before the French and Indian war. The first white men whom we know to have visited the town were the surveyors who run the township lines for the Hol- land Land Company. John Elliott, of Delaware county, Pa., surveyor, with Azarialı Winshall, Thomas Kennedy, chainbearers, Peter Douglas, Jesse Clarkson, axemen, James Kennedy, Griffith Jones, flagmen, William Harlan and Thomas Wright, pack-horsemen, ran the town's west boundary in July, 1798, finishing on the rth. The north line was surveyed July 20, 21 and 22, 1798, by a party under Aaron Oakford, surveyor, and the eastern bound- ary was also surveyed in July, 1798, by a party under Wareham Shepard. The land was not surveyed into lots and offered for sale, until, in 1808, the surveyors again entered the dense forest of the town and resumed their labors. They penetrated every part, measured and marked the section lines, and ascertained the amount of land in each, and by fall the land was ready for market.
The pioneers of Gerry came principally from the Green Mountain state. Of the present citizens, a much greater portion are Vermonters or descendants of Vermonters, than in any other town in the county. The first settlement was made in 1810. Amos Atkins, from Vermont, came to Chautauqua lake in 1808. While connected with a surveying party he selected two lots in Gerry, one for himself and the other for his brother-in-law, Stephen Jones. Jones journeyed from Vermont and brought his household goods upon an ox cart. He was furnished with eggs by his hen, which had a nest in the cart. He first came to Chautauqua lake, thence, probably, to William Barrows, who had settled on Cassadaga creek in the northeast corner of Gerry in the previous October, at the Red Bird. After some difficulty in crossing Cassadaga creek he arrived at lot 47, the land selected for him by Atkins. It was about a mile south of Sinclairville. There he built a log house, the first habitation erected in the town. The nearest dwellings were the log house built by Sinclear at Sinclairville and that of Barrows at the Red Bird. Jones's farm included the Indian village and burial place. The first birth of a white per- son occurred in the Jones family. Atkins, in the same year, built a log house on the northeast part of lot 55, a few rods from Jones's log dwelling, upon the farm now owned by B. F. Dennison. In 1815 his wife, Clarinda, died, the first death in the town. Atkins was supervisor of Gerry. The same year William and James Gilmour, from Madison county, built a log house and settled upon the farm of Fordyce Sylvester near Siuelairville station. James Gilmour soon moved west. Melzer Sylvester, brother-in-law of the Gil- mours, came from near Sinclairville, and took up his residence upon Rail- road avenue, not far from the station. Hugh B. Patterson, brother-in-law of Sylvester and the Gihours, came from Canadaway in the spring of ISII,
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took up 62 acres near the station, and built a house on Railroad avenue, which in October was burned with his household goods. The next day his neighbors erected another house. Mr. Patterson was born in Washington county in 1787, and was for many years supervisor of Gerry. During the early settlement he was a leading and influential citizen. He afterwards moved to Wisconsin.
Diiring 1811 the "old Chautauqua road," from Mayville to Ellicottville, was cut through the northern part of the town. Jolin West, Peter Barnhart and Dexter Barnes cut this part of the road one rod wide, and cleared it or small trees and fallen ones for $to per mile. They began July 4, 18II, at the 14th mile stake east of the courthouse. This stood near the house of Amos Atkins (the Love stand) in Gerry. They were about three months in cutting the road 21 miles to the Cattaraugus line. The party took with them a yoke of oxen, and, to provide fresh milk, a cow and a young calf. The calf was taken along to keep the cow from wandering away. September 1, 1814, the same parties and others began work upon this road and con- tinued until cold weather. They resumed work September 1, 1815. Bridges were built and the road otherwise improved. It was regarded as an improve- ment of great importance. It became the route by which, to some extent, the settlers came in from the east, and communication was had with the Genesee country. The present road from Sinclairville by the station across Cassadaga creek, was laid out about 1811 by Major Sinclear and Hugh B. Patterson. It was continued along the line between Gerry and Ellery to Jamestown, and was the first means of direct highway communication that Jamestown had with Sinclairville and the northern towns. Elijah Haswell, · a son-in-law of Major Sinclear, settled on this road, and a little later, Cor- nelius De Long, who built a house where James McAllister afterward resided. De Long was wounded December, 1813, at the battle of Buffalo and was taken in charge by his comrade, Elisha Tower of Ellery, and well cared for by him at the cabin of a settler. De Long unexpectedly recovered, returned to Gerry, later moved west, received a captain's commission and participated in the Black Hawk war in 1832. Jesse Dexter early settled on the farm of Jolin Almy, on this road at the town line. . Zacchens Norton in 1813, and David Cobb and Abel White also settled early on this road. Abel was father of Orsamus A. White, later supervisor of Charlotte, and school commissioner. John Love, who had been living in Ellery, purchased about 1812 .the land owned by Amos Atkins on the old Chautauqua road, and kept an inn there for many years. He was well-known and died on his farm. Ichabod Rus- sell, Abner Comstock and Seth Grover were also early settlers on this road. Capt. Abner Dingley in May or June, 1816, settled on lot 48 in the southern limits of Sinclairville.
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