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about twelve feet wide and had very good railings. It was used till about 1812, when the State road was changed farther west, after which it crossed the Ausable about a mile above Keeseville.
" The High Bridge was the second bridge across the Au- sable. The first was the ' Fordway Bridge,' about two miles above Keeseville, near where Mr. Goodrich now lives, and where Jeremiah Hayes first settled. I have no doubt this Ford way Bridge was built some time before the State Road Bridge was built across the chasm. The old State road came out on the present road near what was known as the Dry Mill, situated on a brook which headed on Hallock Hill. This Dry Mill was a grist-mill, and there were two saw-mills above on the same stream, one built by Mr. Keese within a mile of the head of the stream, and another farther down by James Ricketson, which was run by a Mr. Cole about 1803. You think it strange that these mills could be run where there is so little water now, but they were run a good part of the scason. The streams of this region are small compared with what they were seventy-five years ago. The Ausable River certainly has not more than half the water it had when I was a boy. This I am positive of. Forty years ago we never had high water till June, but now it comes down with a rush, and is all in the lake within a few hours. I think this Dry Mill was, perhaps, the first grist- mill built in this region ; that at Adgate's Falls (Birming- ham) was built about the same time. I think the Dry Mill stopped finally about forty years ago. It had a very large overshot wheel, which was outside the mill, on the end of the main shaft, and the water was carried across the road about ten or twelve rods in a flume down to the mill. Now Daniel Adgate (who is a grandson of Matthew Adgate, the first settler) and myself are agreed in saying positively that there have been no string-pieces of the old bridge across the chasm since 1822. A log slide near the lower end of the chasm was built by Martin Adgate, father of Deacon Daniel Adgate. This slide was about thirty rods above the ' basin,' and was on the north or west side of the river. It was about twenty rods long, and was a kind of trough made of long logs and chained to the trees. It stood at a very steep angle, and one end of the log to be slid was hauled to the upper end of the slide, and then the chain was hitched to the rear, and the oxen, pulling alongside the log and nearly parallel to it, would shove the log over and pitch it down the slide. These logs were, most of them, for ship-timber, and frequently seventy or eighty feet long. They were hauled near the bank in the winter, and slid down in the spring during high water, and floated to the lake and rafted to Quebec. The lower end of the slide was about twenty feet from the water, which was so deep that these long timbers would plunge nearly or quite out of sight. This work was discontinued about 1840, I think.
" Right where the wheel-house of the Ausable Horse Nail Company now stands there was once a projecting rock, and about seventy years ago several boys were carrying stone out upon a large loose piece of rock lying over its edge, in order to make it overbalance and fall down the cliff. One of these boys, named Hall, was a little too venturesome, and as he carried out a load of stones toppled it over, and went down with the rock to the bottom of the chasm, about
# The following letter dated Plattsburgh, 29th October, 1793, signed by Nathaniel Platt, throws light upon the date of the building of this first bridge : "This day we compleat the Bridg here ready to Raise ; to morow we proceed to Great Sable on where we expect to compleat the brid in a few days."
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110 feet ; but somehow he miraculously escaped death, and soon came climbing up the rocks again.
" There were formerly numerous salmon in the Ausable. I have been down to the foot of the falls at the head of the chasm many times, and speared them nights by the light of fat-pine fires. We used to fill an iron beetle-ring with fat-pine sticks and carry it lighted on the end of a long pole, by means of which we could see the salmon, which looked like shadows as they lay at the bottom,-in about four feet of water. There was a cleft in the rocks which was called the flume, that used to be full of them. We would wade in barefoot and drive the spear into them, and hold them down to the rock until they were done struggling, and then bring them up, holding them earefully against the current. Sometimes they would struggle so as to almost take me off my feet. The largest I ever speared weighed 16 pounds, and the smallest 3 pounds. No salmon ran up any of the rivers on this side of the lake south of the Ausa- ble. They would commence to run up the Champlain River about the 1st of May ; about the 1st of June they would appear in the Saranac, and the first of July in the Ausable. I have seen many of them speared off the bridge in Platts- burgh village. They were never seen south of the Ausable. I never knew of their being caught with hooks. They are a very powerful fish, and could run up any waterfall which did not break. I have seen them jump, one every minute for an hour, six feet out of the water to get up Adgate's Falls, but they could never pass up, and were never known above.
"About 1826, impure water caused by the saw-mills drove them away."
" The first settler in the village of Keeseville, I think, was a man named Joseph B. Coville, a dissolute, drunken character, who built a log house near where the foundry stands. His house, I am sure, was built before George Shafner's (the man who constructed the first dam at Keese- ville). He had a wife and two or three children, and after- wards lived near Auger Pond as late as 1836."
In 1820, Earl Pierce and Thomas McLean, of Green- wich, Washington Co., and Isaac Huestis, of the town of Chesterfield, Essex Co., purchased a tract of some three hundred acres of land nine miles above Keeseville, on the Ausable River,-an unbroken wilderness. Mr. Huestis had already settled in the vicinity of Augur Pond, Mr. MeLean remained in Washington Co., and Mr. Pierce proceeded to occupy the new possessions on the Ausable, erect mills, and lay the foundation for what was subsequently known as Finchville, and at a later date as New Sweden. There was a wagon-road only about a mile above Clintonville along the line of the river. It then turned to the right, and made a circuitous route on the hills to Ausable Forks. Mr. Pierce reached the site of his future operations, about two miles farther up the river, by means of a foot-path. We believe there was one family on the route, named Shaffer, living in the vicinity of the foot-path, not far from its junction with the main road.
Mr. Pierce erected a saw-mill with two English gates, said to have been the finest mill at that date in this section of country. So sparse was the population that he was obliged to call on Keeseville to aid in raising the mill. As
soon as lumber could be sawed, a frame house and store were erected. The name of the firm was McLean, Pierce & Co. They did an extensive lumbering business.
The village of New Sweden, as it was soon called, em- braced quite an extensive population for the times, and in- eluded many citizens prominently and well known in the business of the Ausable Valley. Among them were Anson Bigelow, Harvey Carter, David Conger, David McKillup, Adolphus Ruggles, Reuben Bromley, Hugh McClerkin, Hiram Estey, James C. Butts, James Caldwell, Daniel D. Deuel, Isaac Williams, and others.
Earl Pierce, Esq., died in 1836 from the effects of a fall. He was attending an auction sale at the barn on the Slocum farm ; as he was about to deseend a ladder from the hay- loft he fell to the floor, receiving injuries which terminated in his death four days after. Mr. Pieree was a man of no ordinary qualities. Ile was an efficient supporter of the Presbyterian Church of Clintonville even before his con- version, and was afterwards one of its firmest pillars.
With the exception of one or two years, the homestead has been occupied by some member of the family to the present date. The mill and store were owned and managed by L. W. Pieree till 1848. In May, 1851, he removed to Plattsburgh. B. C. Pierce is now at Ausable Forks ; H. B. Pierce is at Troy ; Capt. James Pierec at Bloomingdale ; Edwin R. Pierce in Minnesota. The widow of Earl Pieree died at the homestead in 1860. The farm is now oceupied by W. C. Pierce, late of Saranac.
PUBLIC-HOUSES.
John W. Anderson kept a tavern at Keeseville, where Mould's block now is, during the war of 1812. He was a man of generous impulses, suave and popular, and kept a good house. He was a great singer, his chief delight being in singing " John Anderson, my Jo John."
It was a quaint old wooden structure, only one story high, but quite long, with a covered stoop running along its en- tire front. They called it a " four-story building, with the stories all on the first floor." In one end was a store, next were two bed-rooms, next a kitchen, and lastly a parlor. It was built by Robert Hoyle, just before the war.
About the same time a man by the name of Brown kept a tavern on the former site of the Ausable House, at Keese- ville; and Forsyth kept a hotel where the Adirondack Hotel is. James W. Taggett succeeded Forsyth, remodeled the building, and kept it a great many years. It still be- longs to the estate, and is occupied by W. F. Bowman, who keeps a popular house.
The Ausable House was built by a company after 1840, and was run as a hotel for many years. It was destroyed by fire in 1877. James Whaling was the first proprietor, and was followed by Frederick Ames.
At " The Union," Nathan Averill, father-in-law to Chan- cellor Walworth, kept an early inn ; and Robert Batty had a tavern and store near there. Augusten Arthur kept one near by.
Jeremiah and Elihu Hayes each kept carly inns on the Ausable River.
Abijah Ketchum kept an early public-house on the lake- shore, at Peru Landing.
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Asa Derby kept the first tavern at Clintonville, when the Peru Iron Company started.
William Williams had a tavern there for a time. Also Tuckerman, Brockway, and Stephen Reynolds, all on one site. The tavern was burned several years ago.
The Mountain View House, at Clintonville, was built three years ago by Richard McCormick, and is now kept by the McCormick brothers.
John Mace had a tavern along the river, east of Clinton- ville, in 1827 or 1828.
Other public-houses of some note have existed at differ- ent points in the town.
The Lake View House is located three miles from Port Kent, on the Essex side of the Ausable River, at Birming- ham. It is four stories high, lighted with gas, and con- tains accommodations for several hundred guests. The main portion was built in 1874, and added to in 1877 and 1879. It is a place of popular resort for the tourists visiting Ausable Chasm and vicinity, and is under the management of H. H. Vanarnam.
STORES.
The first store at Keeseville was kept by John W. An- derson.
Keese (Richard) & Hurlburt built a stone store on the Clinton side of the river in 1826, and kept it a number of years.
Fisk & Keese (Oliver) built a stone store on the Essex side of the river about the same time.
A man by the name of Prindell built one on the Clinton side some time after.
The most prominent in trade since that time have been Pope & Peabody, James H. Rogers, Thomas S. Harvey, James W. Taggett, - Singlederry, - Whitcomb, N. & E. Kingsland, Alfred Baber, George Adgate, Luther Whitney, and others. A large number of excellent stores now exist on the principal streets of Keeseville, and are owned by some of the most enterprising and influential of its citizens.
The first store kept above Keeseville was that by Capt. Samuel Bullen at Clintonville.
The Peru Iron Company had a store soon after, and have had one there most of the time since.
Other stores there have been kept by Matthias Heller, John Hathaway, Bailey, Breck way, Ransom, Fisk.
Robert Batty kept an early store at " The Union."
Elisha E. Winter also had an early store on the Hatch farm.
The only store at Clintonville is kept. by Ebenezer Felt.
Those at New Sweden and Birmingham have already been referred to. Joshua Appleyard has been in trade at the latter point for upwards of thirty years.
PHYSICIANS.
Dr. Silas Goodrich was in practice early near Peru vil- lage, and practiced all through the locality. Drs. Handy, Vaughn, and Reuben Jones, were also old practitioners near that point.
Dr. Forsythi was at Keeseville quite early. Dr. Clark practiced early in Chesterfield, near Keeseville.
Dr. Ralph P. Allen settled in Keeseville about 1822, coming from "The Union," and practiced a good many years.
In 1825, Dr. James came and engaged in practice, and was followed soon after by Dr. Jacob Blaisdell.
Drs. Fox and Pollard came soon after, and engaged in practice. Dr. Asa Lawyer was also early in practice.
Dr. H. O. Tallmadge, still a prominent physician and surgeon of the village, engaged in practice about this time.
Dr. Adin Weston, son of Elijah, preceded Dr. Tall- madge, and is still in practice in Keeseville.
Dr. Wm. V. K. McLean removed from New Sweden to Keeseville in 1859, and was a prominent and influential member of society until his death in 1875. Dr. H. A. Houghton, of the homoeopathic school, practiced success- fully in Keeseville for a great many years. Dr. C. J. Far- ley has also been in practice, and Dr. A. Weston. Besides those who have been mentioned, Drs. F. M. Hopkins, W. G. Pope, C. B. Barber, and A. P. Hammond are now practicing in Keeseville.
Dr. Clark was the first to engage in the practice of med- icine at Clintonville. He was followed by Drs. Haywood, Bullen, and Chase. Others who have practiced at that point have been Drs. Samuel Fitzgerald, Bassett, D'Avignon, and Mosier.
THE KEESEVILLE BAR.
The bar of Keeseville has been especially strong, and by the ability, force, and energy of its members has acquired an enviable reputation in both Clinton and Essex Counties.
EZRA C. GROSS was one of its early and influential inembers, and was a member of the Sixteenth Congress in 1819-21, representing the old Twelfth Congressional Dis- trict. David McNeil was in partnership with Mr. Gross for a long time, and was a prominent member of the bar. He was subsequently collector of customs at Plattsburgh.
THOMAS A. TOMLINSON was in successful practice at Keeseville for a long time. He represented the district in the Legislature in the years 1835 and 1836, and was a member of the Twenty-seventh Congress in 1841-43, representing the Thirteenth Congressional District.
GEORGE A. SIMMONS was one of the leaders of the bar at Keeseville for a long time. He was a member of the State Legislature in 1840-42, and represented the Sixteenth District in Congress from 1853 to 1857, inclusive. He was chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House.
GARDNER STOW was also in practice at Keeseville for some time, where he maintained a prominent position. He subsequently removed to Troy, N. Y., and was appointed attorney-general of the State in 1853; succeeded Levi S. Chatfield, of Otsego County, who resigned Nov. 25, 1853.
LEMUEL STETSON was one of the lights of the Keese- ville bar for many years. He was elected district attorney of Clinton County Jan. 1, 1838, and county judge of the same county in 1847. In 1835, 1836, 1842, and 1862 he represented the county in the State Legislature, and was a member of the National Congress from 1843 to 1845.
CHARLES F. TABER, still in practice, is another honored member, and the last of the old line, all those that have been mentioned having now departed from the scenes of life
MARTIN FINCH has practiced for a long time at Keese-
P. Saucoll.
Rufus Prescott was born Oct. 31, 1825, at Pier- mont, N. H. He came to Keeseville with his father prior to 1830. The family are descended from James Prescott, who settled in Hampton, N. H., in the year 1665.
The father, Charles Prescott, was born in 1802 at Piermont, and married Eleanor Stafford, September, 1825, and died June 15, 1841.
Charles Prescott was a carpenter by trade, and the subject of this sketch followed the same occupation. He married, Dec. 26, 1850, Amanda M. Weston. His family consists of three daughters and one son, viz .: Ella, now Mrs. Dr. Pope, of Keeseville; Linna, Catharine, and Charles H. Prescott.
Mr. Prescott, at the early age of sixteen, by the death of his father, became the support of the family ; and, about 1856, he bought the property of Potter & Richardson, manufacturers of chairs and furniture, which business he has prosecuted ever since, besides filling extensive contracts in bridge building. His work is scattered over Clinton County, and he is now engaged in building one of
the finest residences in this section of the country, -that of Henry D. Graves, of the J. & J. Rogers Iron Company, at Ausable Forks.
Mr. Prescott served his town as supervisor dur- ing the entire war of the Rebellion, and took an active part in raising the 116th, and other regi- ments, of the New York Volunteer Militia. For eighteen or twenty years he has been associated with ·the Methodist Church.
He is now manufacturing on a large scale. His factory is finely located on the Ausable, in the heart of Keeseville. It is built substantially of stone, forty-two by one hundred and twenty feet, five stories in height, and includes the latest .im- provements in machinery for making chairs and fur- niture, which are not only completely finished, but exhibited in a fine wareroom in the same building. Probably it is the largest establishment of its kind north of Troy, in the Champlain neighborhood. He has (in busy times) one hundred men em- ployed in the various branches of his extensive busi- ness.
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ville, and represented the Essex District in the State Legis- lature in 1860 and 1861. He was district attorney of Essex County from 1864 to 1867.
SAMUEL AMES, now deceased, was also in practice at Keeseville for a number of years.
CAMPBELL MCLEAN, son of Dr. W. V. K. McLean, praetieed at Keeseville for some time, and, removing to Fond du Lac, Wis., became county judge.
H. M. CHASE was a promising member of the Keeseville bar, but died young. Other prominent members of this bar have been IRA S. SEWILL, HENRY G. HEWITT (of the present firm of Hewitt & Kinney), and WINSLOW C. WATSON, JR., elected judge of Clinton County in Novem- ber, 1875, and who still holds the office.
ROADS AND RAILROADS.
The earliest roads laid out within the present limits of the town will be found referred to in the history of the town of Peru. The principal roads now existing in the town are the State road, which enters Clinton County at Keeseville and passes up into Peru ; Beek with Street, run- ning from Morrisonville through Sehuyler Falls, passing west of Peru village, through the Quaker settlement ealled " The Union," to Keeseville; the plank-road from Port Kent, through Birmingham, to Keeseville ; and the Ausable plank-road, which runs from Clintonville to Ausable Forks.
The New York and Canada Railroad passes along the lake, through the extreme eastern part of the town. The Ausable branch passes from Plattsburgh southwesterly through the town, having stations at Ferrona and Ausable.
MEN OF PROMINENCE.
A large number of these have already been mentioned in connection with other sketehes of the town.
Asa Adgate was for many years a prominent and influ- ential man, both in Essex and Clinton Counties. He rep- resented Clinton County in the State Legislature in 1798- 99, and Essex County in 1823. He was also a member of the national Congress in 1815-17.
Richard and Oliver Keese were also early and promi- nently identified with the industrial, mereantile, and politi- eal history of the town. The former is still a resident of Keeseville, and although he has attained an advanced age, his mind still maintains the vigor and foree for which he was noted in earlier days. Mr. Keese represented the old Nineteenth District in Congress in 1827-29, and his reeol- leetion of James K. Polk, Henry Clay, and other of his colleagues and intimate friends is still quite vivid.
Josiah Fisk was another of the leading men of Keese- villa and vicinity, and did much to develop the resources of the country and assure its material prosperity. He repre- sented his district in the Legislature in 1825-26, and was a member of the State Senate in 1832-35, representing the old Fourth District.
Elisha J. Winter was also one of the strong men of the earlier days of the town, and the former owner of the " Winter Ore Bed." Besides aiding much in developing the resources of the town, lie participated to some extent in polities, and was a member of the Thirteenth Congress, representing the Twelfth Distriet in 1813-15.
Samuel Ames, of Keeseville, represented the Sixteenth District in the State Senate in 1872-73, and is favorably known in the distriet ; and in 1872, Edmund Kingsland (2d), of the same place, represented the Clinton District in the Legislature.
Among the prominent and influential business men of Keeseville, both past and present, especial mention should be made of James W. Taggett, Thomas S. Harvey, George Adgate, Gordon T. Thomas, - Singlederry, - Whit- comb, Solomon and Jacob D. Kingsland, Daniel Dodge, Nel- son and Edmund Kingsland, Alfred Baber, Luther Whit- ney, Willis Mould, William Lansing, the veteran editor, Heman O. Matthews, Rufus Prescott, N. C. Boynton, and Daniel D. Dodge. Gordon T. Thomas represented Clinton County in the Legislature in 1850, George Adgate in 1863, and Daniel D. Dodge in 1870. Nathaniel C. Boynton represented the Essex Distriet in 1855.
LAND-PATENTS AND CIVIL ORGANIZATION.
The greatest portion of the town of Ausable is included in the twelve-hundred-aere location granted to Zephaniah Platt. Watson's Patent comprises the northwest corner.
The town was formerly included in the territory of the old town of Peru. The aet dividing that town into three is set forth at length in the history of the town of Black Brook. It was passed March 29, 1839, and by its pro- visions the town of Ausable was created a distinet civil division of Clinton County. The town was named after the river which has proved the basis of so much of its wealth -Ausable (pronounced au-saw-ble), signifying " river of sand."
The first town-meeting was held at the house of Alvin Hayes on April 30, 1839, when the following officers were chosen : William Buott, Supervisor; Melchior F. Hoff- nagle, Clerk ; John Fitzpratds and Bethuel Jones, Justices of the Peace; Melancton W. Blinn, Assessor; William H. Williams and Elisha Allen, Commissioners of Highways ; James Mace and Silas M. Taylor, Overseers of the Poor ; William H. Brockway and Ahas Hayes, Commissioners of Common Schools; Isaae Hyde, Inspector of Common Sehools ; Orval B. Van Dusen, David C. Skiff, Constables ; Jesse Potter, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
March, 1849 .- Voted that geese shall not be allowed to run at large on the publie highways of this town, at any season of the year, under a penalty of fifty cents for each goose so running at large for each and every transgression.
Since the incorporation of the town the following persons have filled its principal offiees :
SUPERVISORS.
1839, William Burt; 1840, Elisha Allen ; 1841-42, Jerome B. Bailey ; 1843-44, Ilenry F. Granger ; 1845-46, Jacob D. Kingsland ; 1847, John Fitzgerald ; 1848, G. Southwick ; 1849, Jacob D. Kingsland ; 1850-53, Georgo Adgate; 1854, Henry Green ; 1855-56, James Mace; 1857, John Fitzgerald ; 1858, James Maco; 1859, A. B. Kingsland ; 1860-61, Jacob D. Kingsland ; 1862, William H. Cuyler ; 1863, Dr. HI. A. Houghton ; 1864-70, J. L. M. Taylor ; 1871, V. R. Goodrich ; 1872, Georgo Adgate ; 1873, Edmund Kingsland (2d) ; 1874-77, George Adgato: 1878, Edmund Kings- land (2d); 1879, Georgo Adgate, Edmund K. Babor.
TOWN CLERKS.
1839-44, Melchior S. Hoffuagle : 1845, William H. Williams; 1846, Judah M. Lawrence; 1847, Sylvauus Clifford; 1848, Frederiok
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W. Ames; 1849, William J. Whaling ; 1850, Frederick W. Ames ; 1851-53, Henry Brockway ; 1854, Dexter G. Tracy ; 1855, Daniel M. Arnold ; 1856, Charles Thomas ; 1857, Stephen H. Macomber ; 1858-60, Charles Thomas; 1861, H. M. Heller; 1862, William H. Cuyler; 1863, Samuel Y. Fitzgerald; 1864-66, Winslow C. Watson, Jr .; 1867-68, Darius B. Stranahan; 1869, Winslow C. Watson, Jr .; 1870, Edmund K. Baber; 1871, Samuel T. Fitz- gerald : 1872, G. C. Wilkinson ; 1873-74, Edward J. Marks ; 1875, Moses C. Ferguson ; 1876, Cyrenus P. Cobb; 1878, Horace S. Blinn ; 1879, Cyrenus P. Cobb, Albert D. Cobb.
The town officers for 1879 were as follows : Edmund K. Baber, Supervisor ; Albert D. Cobb, Town Clerk ; Ahiva Beach, Justice of the Peace ; Joseph L. Bearsley, Assessor; Elkanah W. Arthur, Commissioner of Highways; Bartlett McNiff, Overseer of the Poor, District No. 1; Edward H. Keith, Overseer of Poor, District No. 2; Erwin S. Weston, Collector; Cepha Clark, Charles W. Weston, Inspectors of Election District No. 1; Samuel J. Gaskill, Robert Chat- terton, Inspectors of Election District No. 2; Daniel Dodge, Elihu Hoag, J. Warren Harkness (appointed), Auditors; Erwin S. Weston, Horace S. Blinn, Constables District No. 1; Samuel J. Gaskill, Joseph Naylor, Marshall Bresett, Jr., Constables District No. 2; Michael Rafter, Coal Measurer.
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