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There is still a hotel at the landing, kept by Franklin Hill, and in the summer it is quite a resort for fishing and excursion parties. Mr. Hill runs a ferry across to the island, to suit the convenience of travelers and visitors, and also keeps small boats, fishing-tackle, etc., for their accom- modation.
The most important hotels at Chazy village have been those of Septa Fillmore and Seth Graves, to whoni a gen- eral reference has already been made. These were for many years important public centres in the town.
Henry S. Clark took charge of the old Fillmore hotel in 1859, and ran it seven years, when he was succeeded by George W. Clark, the present proprietor.
The first hotel at West Chazy was built by Joseph Har- ris, uncle of Henry and Platt Harris, now in business at the village, before the war, and portions of it are still standing. It was a low, small, wooden house. H. D. Witherill, now of Plattsburgh, subsequently raised it a half story, bricked it up on the outside, and it is now the south wing of McFadden's hotel, the front part having been previously built.
Aside from the rickety saw-mill and the little hotel, noth- ing was done to give the locality any business importance till 1818, when William Lawrence and Amasa Wood com- menced operations, as before stated.
Photo. by Howard & Co., Plattsburgh.
Prominent among the representative families of the town of Chazy is the Wood family.
Amasa Wood, Sr., was born on South Hero Island, Vt., Jan. 26, 1794, and settled in West Chazy in 1811.
He was a carpenter and millwright by occupation. He built and owned the first grist-mill in West Chazy, and also built the second house in the village.
He married Rheuhama Howard, a native of Bridge- water, Mass., by whom he had a family of seven sons, of whom Amasa B. is the second, born June 20, 1822, in West Chazy, Clinton Co., N. Y. In politics he was a Whig and Republican. He died Nov. 2, 1862.
Mrs. Wood was born March 5, 1795, and died Nov. 14, 1878.
Amasa B. Wood received an academic education, and while young tauglit school four winters. From 1843 to 1845 he was clerk for his father and Putnam Lawrence. In 1845 he formed a copartnership with his father and brother, Victor A. Wood, under the firm-name of " A. Wood & Sons." This firm con- tinued till January, 1852, when he became a partner with his brother Victor A., firm being known as V. A. Wood & Co. In 1863 they dissolved partner- ship, and Mr. A. B. Wood continued in his own name until March, 1865, in the mercantile business, manufacturing lumber, starch, and farming at Wood's Falls.
In March, 1865, he took into partnership his brother, W. W. Wood, under the firni-name of A. B. Wood & Co., which firm is still doing a good business.
Mr. Wood was also a member of the firm of Wood, Palmer & Co., in the manufacture of iron and lumber, from January, 1863, to 1867, and from then until the present time in the firm of Wood Brothers in the same business.
Mr. Wood is a staunch Republican. He has often been a delegate to town, county, and State conventions, and while a resident of the town of Mooers, from 1850 to the spring of 1878, took an active part in everything that had for its object the growth and prosperity of the town. He has been assessor three years, and supervisor six years of the town of Mooers. He received the unanimous nomination for member of Assembly, but declined to be a candidate, very much against the wish of his constituents.
He built his present beautiful residence in West Chazy in 1877, and in the spring of 1878 settled there.
He married Olive A., daughter of William Culver, of Beekmantown, Nov. 19, 1848. Of this union five children were born, all of whom are dead.
One of their sons, Hector W., lived to be twenty- seven years of age, married, and had two children, viz., Edith and Hector W., who are living with their grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. Wood are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has always been very chari- table to the poor, and liberal to the church.
He is esteemed by all who know him as a man of strict integrity and good business habits. His has been an active life, and his efforts have been crowned with success.
RESIDENCE OF AMASA B. WOOD, WEST CHAZY, CLINTON COUNTY, N. Y.
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After Joseph Harris came Orry Harris, who kept the house a good many years. He was followed by Claudius Merrihew, who remained about five years. Hiram D. Witherill followed next, and remained six years, and was succeeded in 1855 by S. H. Purdy, who held the fort nine years. William H. Finn eame next and remained six months, and was succeeded by W. C. McFadden, who re- mained a year and a half. Then came William H. Cham- berlain, S. H. Marshall, Barber Greeley, S. H. Marshall, Eleazer Mulholland, William H. Manning, S. H. Mar- shall, and William H. Finn, in turn. W. C. McFadden has kept the house for the past four years.
In the year 1870, W. C. MeFadden ereeted the dwelling now occupied by W. E. Wood as a private residence, but kept it as a hotel for four years thereafter.
John S. Abare keeps the hotel at Sciota.
During the early part of this century Ingraham was known only as Samson's, and as such had a wide reputation as one of the principal " hotels" on the western borders of Lake Champlain. Lester Samson, from Grand Isle, was the original proprietor, putting up a log hotel in about 1795. It was soon after burned, and a frame building erected in its place. This also caught fire one night, while they were having a grand dance, either a little before or a little after the war, and was consumed, when the present brick struc- ture, universally known as the " Brick Tavern," was con- strueted. Samson died in 1828. Among his successors many will recollect Nichols, Burdick, Phelps, Stoughton, Palmer, Bromley, and others. The present proprietor is Joseph Monty.
STORES.
The first store at the landing was kept by Timothy Sul- livan.
In 1808, Judge Matthew Saxe put in an appearance, as before mentioned, erected store-houses, and carried on a thriving trade for many years.
The first store at Chazy village was kept by Philip Dual, about the year 1808, and stood where Mr. Kingsbury now resides. He was succeeded by Alexander Scott, in the lower part of the village, and Asher Scott, in the upper part, prior to 1812.
John M. Grant was also one of the pioneer traders at Chazy village. Robert McPherson was associated with him afterwards.
Benjamin Wait also had one of the first stores at Chazy, that stood near the poplar-tree at the south end of the village.
John J. McCuen has been in trade for a decade of years, and formerly occupied the Asher Seott stone store.
Lafayette F. Merrihew has been in trade a large number of years.
George C. Severance succeeded his father, George Seve- rance, and is in trade at the village.
Charles M. North succeeded his father, Russell C. North, and has been in trade a decade of years.
Abare & Richards have been in trade five or six years.
E. W. Little has been in trade a few years past.
A man from New York, named Samuel Prince, had the first store at West Chazy, near where Amasa B. Wood now lives. It was afterwards occupied by William Law-
rence & Son, and then by the Woods for ten or twelve years. The building is now Amasa Wood's barn.
Asa Styles and William Hedding commenced in trade about 1819 in a store that stood where Minor Chamber- lain is now in trade. Here they remained for fifteen years. Subsequently they dissolved. Mr. Hedding remained on the old stand, and Mr. Styles built a store for himself on the corner opposite the hotel. Here he traded for a score of years. He rented the store to Hiram Clark, and it sub- sequently became the property of William C. McFadden, who traded there until the store was destroyed by fire.
Orson Hedding, son of William Hedding, was taken into partnership with his father, and traded for many years.
The Chamberlains have already been mentioned among the early and present tradesmen of West Chazy. Besides Minor Chamberlain, the Wood and Clark brothers, and M. Morah are now in trade.
A man named Wheeler built the store on the corner oc- cupied by the latter, and his son, Newell Wheeler, traded there for some time, but died a few years ago.
At Sciota, Nichols & Lynde conduet a successful store in connection with the affairs of the Sciota Manufacturing Company. At Ingraham, John Vaughan, Mr. Lengfield, and others have been in trade.
PHYSICIANS.
A Dr. Roeback, from Isle La Motte, practiced some in Chazy before 1800, but the first resident physician was Dr. Nathan Carver, father of A. G. Carver, Esq., of Plattsburgh, former editor of the Plattsburgh Express and Sentinel. Dr. Carver was a native of Hartford, Conn., where he studied medicine. He came here with the late Dr. Good- rich, of Peru, a medical graduate from the same place. They could not both locate in the same town, and it is related that on landing at Chazy, in 1801, they threw cop- pers to decide which should go to Peru, the lot falling to Dr. Goodrich. He died not many years ago a very aged man.
Dr. Carver settled in East Chazy, at an early day, at what is known as the Corners, just south of the village, the original log house being directly across the road from the present residence. Henry Gregory, whom we mentioned as residing on the place, married one of his daughters. Dr. Carver held several important positions of public trust. He was one of the judges of the old county court known as the Court of Common Pleas, and was for a season the first or principal judge. He represented the counties of Clinton and Franklin in the Constitutional Convention of 1821. As a physician he had considerable practice in Plattsburgh. He died in 1836.
Dr. John Horton was an active and influential physician in the town early in the century, and died in the year 1814, while yet in the prime of life and midst of his usefulness.
Dr. Miles Stevenson was one of the contemporaries and immediate successors of Dr. Carver, and practiced for many years. He was an influential and gifted man, and repre- sented the distriet in the Legislature of the State. His family still reside in the village.
Dr. Luther Ransom, already referred to, practiced very carly, and lived north of Chazy village.
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Dr. Abiatha P. Brooks has been in successful praeticc at Chazy village for a great many years. Dr. Pollard formerly practiced there.
Dr. Alexander Fairbanks settled at Chazy a few years ago. Dr. Daniel Dodge lived and practiced at West Chazy for a long term of years, commencing forty years ago. He lived where Dr. Willis T. Honsinger now resides and prac- tiees. Dr. William Honsinger, his father, came soon after Dr. Dodge, and has enjoyed an extensive and lucrative practice.
Dr. Aaron Larkin was also in practice at West Chazy for a few years.
ROADS.
A road was laid out by Amasa Adams, surveyor, on May 21, 1804, " running from Elizer Graves' towards Platts- burgh untill it Intersects the Middle Plattsburgh Road About half a mile north of Walker's, at a Bush tree marked H X X."
On December 1st, following, a road was laid out " Leading from Mountie's Bay to Intersect the one Runing from Lake Champlain Due West on the north Line of Dean's Patent at Ezra Graves'." On the same date another was laid out " from Laflomboire bay to Barnabas Minkley's, where it intersects the Road Leading from Mountie's Bay."
On Feb. 27, 1805, a road was laid out " Runing from Calvin Ransom's house till it Intersects the Road Leading From Samucl Belding's to Champlain at the Bridge over Little Chazy river."
On Mareh 25, 1805, a road was laid out " Leading from the house of Chandler Graves to Graves' grist-mill."
On May 8, 1805, a road was laid out " Leading from the West Road so Call'd untill it Intersects Delong's Road lead- ing to Chattagway."
The same date a road was laid out " Leading from Bait- mantown untill it Intersects a Road Leading to Wood's Saw-Mill," and another "Leading from Baitmantown to Chattaguay," and another "Leading from A Road that Leads to Chattaguay to David King's," and another "Lead- ing from the State Road by Roswell Graves' towards Plattsburgh."
On the 18th of the same month a road was laid out " Leading from John M. Grant's to Amos Ingraham's." A large number of others were laid out the same year.
On March 25, 1814, 23 road districts are recorded.
One of the first roads put through the town was known as the "State road," and passed from Plattsburgh to the State linc. It was laid about the opening of the eentury. It is still in use.
The road along the lake was in use at a very early day. The Beekmantown road passes through West Chazy and Sciota.
RAILROADS.
The New York and Canada Railroad passes through the town, having stations at West Chazy and Chazy village. The Mooers braneh passes northerly from West Chazy, and has a station at Sciota.
MEN OF PROMINENCE.
Many of these have already been referred to in the chapter on early settlement and elsewhere. Among those
who have been representatives in the State Legislature have been Bela Edgarton, in 1827-29; Dr. Miles Stevenson, in 1833-34 ; Julius C. Hubbell, Esq., 1843-44; Albert G. Carver, 1849 ; David McFadden, 1860 ; Henry McFadden, 1861 ; and Daniel Stewart, in 1869. Judge Nathan Carver was a delegate to the State Convention of 1821, and one of the judges of the county in 1823. Judge William Hedding was a Presidential elector in 1844, and one of the county judges in 1843. Benjamin Graves was sheriff in 1801-3, 1810, 1812-14, inclusive. Minor Chamberlain was county clerk from 1862 to 1865.
LAND PATENTS AND CIVIL ORGANIZATION.
The territory of the town comprises the Refugee Patent, of 80-acre lots and 420-acre lots, granted May 11, 1782, to the refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia at the close of the Revolution, which occupies the entire north part of the town, with the exception of the northeast corner, where are the Bell and Douglass Patents ; Dean's Patent, granted to Elkanah Dean and 29 others, July 11, 1769, occupying the central portion of the town, and the Point au Roche Patent, occupying the southern portion of the town.
This was originally included in the town of Champlain, and Chazy was formed from that town on March 20, 1804. The town of Altona was taken off from Chazy on Dec. 2, 1857.
The first town-meeting was held on the first Tuesday of April, in the year 1804, at the house of Eleazer Graves. Elisha Ransom, Esq., officiated as moderator.
The following town officers were chosen : Supervisor, Nathan Carver; Town Clerk, Timothy Sullivan ; Assessors, Henry Cummins, Septa Fillmore, and Eleazer Graves ; First Constable and Collector, Rufus Stileman; Second Constable, William Lawrenee; Overseers of the Poor, Henry Ladd, Seth Graves ; Commissioners of Highways, Calvin Ransom, Amasa Adams, Joab Atwood ; Pathmasters, District No. 1, Lewis Trombley ; 2d, Alexander Ferriall; 3d, Henry Ladd; 4th, Ezra Graves ; 5th, Elijah Gregory ; 6th, Hazel Ran- som ; 7th, Samuel Bailey ; 8th, George Root; 9th, Simeon Wood; 10th, Rubin Bridge; 11th, Eliphalet Haskins ; Pound-Keepers, Henry Cummins, Seth Graves, Joab At- wood ; Fenee-Viewers, Austin Watrous, Henry Cummins, Rufus Graves, Levi Haizon, Lemuel Newton, Simeon Wood.
Since that date the principal officers of the town have been :
SUPERVISORS.
1804, Nathan Carver; 1805, Timothy Sullivan ; 1806-9, Benjamin Graves ; 1810, John M. Grant; 1811-17, Matthew Saxe; 1818, Nathan Carver; 1819, Alexander Scott; 1820, Matthew Saxe ; 1821-23, Robert McPherson; 1824-28, Ebenezer A. Scott; 1829- 31, Matthew Saxe ; 1832-34, George Leslie ; 1835-37, Ebenezer A. Scott ; 1838-39, Isaac Aldridge; 1840-44, Ebenezer A. Scott ; 1845-46, Prentice P. Douglass ; 1847-48, John North ; 1849-50, William H. Saxe; 1851, John North ; 1852, Isaac Aldridge ; 1853, William H. Saxe; 1854-55, George Severance; 1856, Minor Chamberlain ; 1857, Henry G. Saxe ; 1858-60, George Severance ; 1861-62, Orville K. Wood: 1863-65, William Atwood; 1866, Minor Chamberlain; 1867-72, Fayette C. North ; 1877, Calvin H. Pike; 1878-79, Minor Chamberlain.
TOWN CLERKS.
1804, Timothy Sullivan ; 1805-6, Sam'l Tennant ; 1807, Thomas Wait ; 1808-9, Sam'l Tennant; 1810-11, Benj. Wait ; 1812-25, Julius C. Hubbell; 1826, Belah Edgerton ; 1827-30, Julius C. Hubbell ;
Among the leading men, physicians, and surgeons of Clinton County, none is more conspicuous for what he has accomplished in the same time than the subject of this sketch. He is the son of James and Margaret Honsinger, and was born Dee. 27, 1820, in Alburgh, Grand Isle Co., Vt.
His father was also a native of Alburgh, and was born Dee. 1, 1795. His grandfather, Emanuel Honsinger, was a native of Germany, was educated there, and emigrated to America, and settled in Dutchess Co., N. Y., previous to the Revolutionary war. He married Mary Masten, of Canada, by whom several children were borne, of whom James was the second son. He settled in Alburgh at an early day, followed the occupation of a farmer, and died there.
James Honsinger was reared a farmer. He married Margaret Chilton, daughter of John R. and Nancy Chilton, in March, 1818. She was born July 14, 1794, in Alburgh, Vt. Of this union seven children-four sons and three daughters-were born, of whom Dr. William S. is the eldest son and second ehild.
He settled in Canada in 1820, and remained three years. In 1823 he settled in the town of Champlain, on a farm one and a half miles east of the village of Champlain.
He was a lieutenant of State militia for a number of years. In politics, a Whig and Republican. He and Mrs. Honsinger were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, He died June 3, 1862. Mrs. Honsinger has been living with her son, Dr. William S., since the death of her husband.
Dr. William S. Honsinger remained at home until he was eighteen years of age, and then entered the academy at St. Albans, in 1838, and remained till 1841. He com- meneed the study of medicine with Dr. Churchill, of Cham- plain, during which time he taught sehool winters. IIe graduated from the medical college at Castleton, Vt., in June, 1846, and immediately commenced the practice of medicine with Dr. Churchill. He remained one year, during which time he was in the drug-store. The next year he practiced in Saranae, and in the spring of 1848 settled in West Chazy, and has continued to practice there until the present. His ride has been, no doubt, the most extended of any physician in the county, reaching from
Plattsburgh on the south to the State line on the north and even into Canada, and from the lake westward to the distant hills. His consultation practice is very extensive. While he is a general practitioner, he has given special at- tention to the treatment of pulmonary diseases. As a sur- geon he ranks among the best in the county. During the war he was ealled to go to Alexandria, Va., to see some of the boys from his town. The doctor has also been engaged extensively in the real-estate business. He owns several fine farms, and takes great delight in raising fine stock, which is considered among the best in the county. Several times he has received premiums at the county fairs on his stoek. He is a stauneh Republiean. He was sehool eommis- sioner of his town for several years, but, as a rule, he would not allow himself to hold any official position that would interfere with his profession. He is a Past Master of North- ern Light Lodge, No. 505, Free and Accepted Masons, and is the present Master of the lodge. He has represented his lodge several times in the Grand Lodge of the State.
He married, Nov. 15, 1848, Louisa A., daughter of Judge William Hedding, of Chazy. She was born in Chazy April 2, 1818. Of this alliance three children have been born, viz .: Eva I., deceased ; Willis T., and Lyman L.
Willis T. was born in West Chazy Aug. 6, 1854. He received an academie education, and attended Friar's Col- lege, at St. John's, P. Q. He commeneed the study of medieine with his father, and graduated from the medieal college of Burlington, Vt., with the highest honors of his class. From thenee he attended the Bellevue Hospital Col- lege of New York, besides several lectures elsewhere. In 1875 he eommeneed the practice of medieine with his father, and his sueeess has been very marked. He is one of the best-read physicians in the county.
He married Henrietta Dunn, of Chazy, Sept. 26, 1877, by whom he has one son,-William O. Honsinger. The doctor's youngest son, Lyman L., is a druggist by profession, having attended his father's drug-store for several years. At the present time he is in Boston, Mass.
Dr. Honsinger has had more medical students with him than any other physician in the county in the same time, and they are all doing well in different parts of the country.
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TOWN OF CHAZY.
1831-34, Harry Graves ; 1835, Adam Weston ; 1836, Alexander H. Prescott ; 1837, Rufus Heaton ; 1838, Ehenezer A. Scott; 1839, Rufus Heaton ; 1840-42, Daniel Dodge; 1843-44, Wm. Atwood, Jr. ; 1845, Russell C. North; 1846, M. S. Robinson ; 1847-48, M. Chamberlain ; 1849, Minor Chamberlain ; 1850, Orson Hedding; 1851-52, M. Chamberlain ; 1853, George Severanco; 1854, Orville K. Wood; 1855-56, Daniel Dodge; 1857, Warren McFadden; 1858, Daniel Dodge; 1859-60, John McFadden ; 1861-62, Aaron Barker ; 1863-65, Douglass B. Grant; 1866, Henry H. Grant; 1867-69, Hiram Clark ; 1870-72, Henry Harris ; 1873-76, Hiram Clark ; 1877-78, J. H. MeCuen ; 1879, Henry W. Ladue; 1879, Isaac H. Abare.
The town officers in 1879 are : Supervisor, Minor Cham- berlain ; Town Clerk, Isaae H. Abarc; Justiees of the Peace, P. F. North, Sylvester O. Ober, Charles Vaughn, Platt Harris; Collcetor, John S. Abare; Commissioner of Highways, Kirtland H. Buekman ; Assessor, John E. Hyde; Overseers of the Poor, Hiram Barber, George Gillott ; Au- ditors, Albert G. H. Wood, John H. MeCuen, Joel H. Kingsley ; Inspeetors of Eleetion, Henry J. Hinman, Chas. M. Hay, Charles E. Doty, James W. Brown, Herbert MeFadden, Henry T. Dusten ; Constables, George W. Clark, David Broquet, John S. Abare, James K. Lawrence ; Commissioner of Exeise, Henry J. Carlton.
STATISTICAL.
By the eensus of 1875 there are 636 dwelling-houses in the town. The number of aeres of improved land in the town is 23,395; and of unimproved land, 8916. The eash value of the farms in the town is $1,309,392, and of farm buildings $139,470.
EAR-MARKS TO DISTINGUISH CATTLE.
" Joab Atwood's ear-mark, with a square crop on the right ear."
" Elijah Gregory's ear-mark, with a swallow fork in each ear.""
"Septa Fillmore's ear-mark, with a slit in the left ear."
" John Douglass' ear-mark, with a square eross on the right ear and a half eross on the upper side of the left."
" Calvin Ransom's ear-mark, with a square erop on each ear and a slit in the left."
" Solomon Wood's ear-mark, a swallow's tail in the left ear and a slit in the right."
" John Cochran's ear-mark, a square erop under side the right ear."
" Benoni Ladd's car-mark, a hole in each car and a slit in the left."
"Orren Tennant's ear-mark, a swallow's fork in the right ear and a slit in the left."
" Amherst Douglass' ear-mark, a half-penny under side the right ear."
" Elisha Ransom's ear-mark, a half-penny on the under side of the left ear."
" Nathan Carver's ear-mark, with a square cross on cach ear "
CHAPTER LIII.
CHAZY-(Continued).
Villages and Hamlets-Chazy-West Chazy-Sciota-Ingraham- Chazy Landing-" Suckertown"-Schools and School-Teachers- Religious-Methodist Episcopal and Congregational Churches, Chazy - Methodist Episcopal Church, West Chazy - Wesleyan Methodist Church, West Chazy-St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chazy-French Catholic, Sciota-Burial-Places-Wolf-Hunting- Exciting Incidents-Cremation to prevent Consumption-Remi- niscences of Julius C. Hubbell of Old Times in Chazy-Battle of Plattshurgh - Industrial - Military -Capt. Atwood's Company- Incidents-Soldiers of 1861-65.
VILLAGES AND HAMLETS.
CHAZY VILLAGE is located on the Little Chazy River, in the northeast part of the town. It is the principal set- tlement in the town, and contains a Methodist and a Con- gregational ehureh, a hotel, several stores, a neat briek school-house, a shingle-mill, a grist-mill, and a saw-mill and starch-factory.
The population of the village is about 350. A large number of the dwelling-houses are built of the substantial limestone which abounds in the locality.
The post-office at Chazy was established near the first part of the century. The mail used to be brought on horse- back from Vermont, onee a week.
One of the earliest postmasters was Dr. Nathan Carver, who had the office in his residenee. Elisha Ransom eame soon after. Julius C. Hubbell assumed the office in 1814, and held it for eighteen successive years. Harry Graves, son of Benjamin Graves, eame next. Asher Scott prob- ably came next. Douglass B. Grant was postmaster about this time. Elisha Little is the present ineumbent of the offiee.
The village of WEST CHAZY is situated in the south- west section of the town, also on the Little Chazy River. Here are a Methodist Episcopal church, a Wesleyan Meth- odist church, a saw-mill and grist-mill, a tannery, and, near by, a starch-factory, a number of stores, a hotel, and a number of dwelling-houses, some of which are very fine. The population does not exceed 300.
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