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about 1860 as attorney and solicitor in the United States district and circuit courts.
On his admission to practice, in 1853, he formed a law partnership with Hugh W. Mcclellan, Esq., of Chatham village, the present county judge, and remained in that relation till the latter moved out of the county, in 1856. He continued in successful practice at Chatham village till June, 1878, when he removed his office to Hudson, N. Y.
He is a Republican in politics, ardently devoted to the principles of that party, and was an earnest worker in be- half of its measures during the late Rebellion. During the first year of the war he spent most of his time in address- ing war meetings and enlisting soldiers for the defense of the Union, till offers of large bounties for enlistments superseded the necessity for that kind of work. He has attended most of the Republican State and National Con- ventions since the organization of the party, and was a delegate to the National Convention at Baltimore which renominated Mr. Lincoln for his second presidential term in 1864. In 1871 he was elected judge of the county court of Columbia county, and held the office during a term of six years. At the expiration of his term he declined a renomination, and in the convention nominated his successor, Judge Mcclellan. He made an excellent record on the bench. As a lawyer he is remarkably candid and judicial, impressing all who hear him or seek bis ad- vice with the justness of his positions and the fairness and force of his arguments. As a careful student he has sought to know the law, and, as an administrator, to enforce it in its intention and spirit. He is well informed in his profes- sion, and having practiced extensively in most of the courts of the State, adds to his information a ripe experience in all legal matters. These qualifications, together with his
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candor and good judgment, render him a safe counselor and a good advocate. As a speaker he is clear, logical, and forcible. His practice has been successful, and all its profits have been made in the legitimate line of his profes- sion. He has not realized a dollar by any outside specula- tion whatever, except it may be in the purchase of a piece of real estate which has increased in value.
Judge Cadman is a member of the Reformed church of the village of Chatham, and has been an earnest worker in the interest of the Sunday-school, thus giving his example and influence in aid of the cause of Christianity, and the moral well-being of society.
He was married, May 2, 1854, to Ano Augusta Payn, eldest daughter of Hon. Elisha Payn, of the firm of Payn & McClellan, of Chatham village,-a lady of high intelli- gence and of exemplary Christian character, who is also a member of the Reformed church. Their marital relations have been blessed with seven children, all living at this writing, July, 1878.
HON. HUGH WILSON MCCLELLAN
was born on the 12th of December, 1820, in Sehodack, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. He is the elder of two sons of Dr. Samuel and Laura (Cook) Mcclellan.
Dr. McClellan was the son of Hugh McClellan, who was born in Currin, Ireland, in 1745, and who came to what is now Coleraine, Massachusetts, in 1749, with his father, Mi- chael Mcclellan. This Michael purchased a farm there, which was owned by his descendants until 1870.
At the commencement of the Revolutionary war, Hugh McClellan raised a company of minute-men, and was chosen their captain. This company was attached to the army of General Gates for some time before the battles which re- sulted in the capture of Burgoyne, and were employed as scouts. In this capacity they captured a company of Brit- ish which was returning to Burgoyne with news that they had found a practicable route for retreat, which capture was very important.
After the war Captain Mcclellan became colonel, which rank he held at the time of the Shay Rebellion, in which he did man's duty on the side of the government while it lasted, and in securing pardon for the misguided men after its suppression. He continued to represent his town in the general court (Legislature) until he refused to be again elected.
Dr. McClellan was born in Coleraine, Massachusetts, on the 14th day of June, 1787. He studied medicine with his elder brother, John McClellan, M.D., in Livingston, Columbia Co., N. Y., and became an eminent physician, re- moving to Schodack, Rensselaer county, in 1812, where he practiced till his death, iu 1855. Mrs. McClellan survived him about ten years.
The early life of Hugh Wilson Mcclellan was spent amidst superior educational advantages. After pursuing a thorough academical course he passed a successful examina- tion, upon which he entered the junior class of Union Col- lege, where he was graduated in 1839, being less than niue-
teen years of age. After graduation he immediately en- tered upon the study of law in the office of Hon. John Koon, of Troy, N. Y., at that time, afterwards of Albany, where he continued his studies three years, and was ad- mitted to the bar as an attorney at law and solicitor in chancery in October, 1842. He began practice in the vil- lage of Bethel, Ontario Co., N. Y., and continued there two years, connecting farming with his professional duties. At the expiration of this time he removed to the town of Chat- ham and opened a law-office, where he continued in prac- tice till 1856. He then removed to Albany, in which city he practiced till 1866. On the death of Horatio N. Wright, Esq., to whom he sold his office on moving to Albany, he returned and resumed his practice in Chatham, and has con- tinucd his successful career as a lawyer there ever since.
He is thoroughly informed on all points of law and prac- tice, and is remarkably self-reliant in his judgment and in the management of his causes. He has been characterized throughout his extensive practice hy thorough honesty and integrity, and has sought always to make the cause of his clients his own. In bringing his causes to trial he has the merit of having them well prepared, of understanding all the points involved, and being able to present the facts and arguments of the case in a strong and convincing light ; he therefore convinces the judgment of the court, while he is not ineffective before a jury. Judge Mcclellan has had an extensive practice both in Albany and Chatham, and has the reputation of being one of the most successful lawyers of this county, while his character for integrity is above re- proach.
In politics he is a Democrat, and has been honored by the people of his county with almost every office of trust in their gift ; has been town clerk, town superintendent of schools, supervisor, etc., having declined the office of dis- trict attorney on account of his dislike to engage in criminal prosecutions. In the fall of 1867 he was elected surrogate of the county, and held the office four years. In 1877 he was elected county judge, which office he holds at the present time.
January 17, 1846, he was united in marriage to Miss Emma F., daughter of George Marvin, of Albany, and has three children, two sons and one daughter.
TOWNSEND POWELL,
son of James and Martha Powell, was born at Clinton, Dutchess Co., N. Y., August 23, 1807. He lived at the homestead, early assuming the care of the farm, until the year 1845, when he removed to Ghent, Columbia Co., where he now resides. He has devoted himself to the careful cultivation and improvement of his farm, and has also entered largely into local improvements, for many years taking an aetive interest in the public school.
His wife, Catharine Macy, daughter of Abram and Eliza- beth Macy, was of Nantueket aneestry. She was an enthu- siastic lover of flowers, and cultivated them with great success. She died Feb. 10, 1877, but the home still bears the evidences of her zeal in making it attractive and beau- tiful.
H.M. Middellaw
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Their oldest son, Aaron M. Powell, was born at Clinton, in 1832. At the age of eighteen he became interested in the anti-slavery cause, and from that time until the pro- clamation of emancipation gave his best efforts to secure the abolition of slavery in the United States. He was editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard from 1866. He has since devoted himself to the temperance cause, having been for several years the associate editor of the National Temperance Advocate, published in New York. He has also been an advocate of woman's suffrage, and in 1872 went as a delegate to the International Prison Con- gress held in London, and in 1877 attended the Interna- tional Congress held at Geneva, Switzerland, to promote the abolition of State-regulated vice. In 1864 he married Anna Rice, of Worcester, Mass.
Their daughter, Elizabeth M. Powell, was born in Clin- ton in 1841; graduated at the State Normal School, at
Albany, was subsequently a teacher, and was connected in that capacity with Vassar College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. During the year 1871 she was associated with Charles C. Burleigh in the care of the Free Congregational Society, of Florence, Mass. In 1872 she was married to IIenry H. Bond, a lawyer, residing in Florence.
Their son, George T. Powell, born in Clinton, in 1843, and his wife, Maria Chace, of Claverack, have charge of the farm. He is especially interested in the culture of fruit, and has flourishing orchards of apples, pears, cherries, and peaches. He shares the various public interests of the town, acting as president of the Farmers' Club of the Co- lumbia County Agricultural Society, as editor of the agri- cultural department of the Chatham Courier, as trustee of the public school, and superintendent of the Friends' Sab- bath-school. In the year 1877 he was elected president of the Columbia County Teachers' Association.
STOCKPORT.
STOCKPORT, the smallest town in the county, was erected from the towns of Stuyvesant, Ghent, and Hudson, April 30, 1833. It received its name from Stockport, England, the native place of James Wild, at that time a prominent citizen of the town. Its location is in the western range of towns, north of the centre. Its greatest length is along the Hudson, which forms its western boundary. Its area comprises a little more than six thousand acres of land, whose general surface is elevated, although not mountain- ous. There are high hills along the Hudson, which slope eastward, forming table-lands of moderate height. Near the centre of the town the general level is broken by ridges, extending north and south, from which is afforded an at- tractive view of the country miles around. The soil is a fertile loam along the stream, somewhat slaty on the up- lands in the central part, and clayey in the southern.
The sunny hill-sides on the Hudson seem especially adapted for fruit culture, and large vineyards abound. Near the mouth of Stockport creek are several containing more than forty acres each, whose yearly product aggregates more than one hundred tons of grapes.
Stockport is remarkably well watered. Kinderhook creek enters the town from the northeast, and flows a little east of the centre, where it forms a junction with Claverack creek, which flows from the southeast. The united streams form Stockport (formerly Major Abram's) creek, which flows westward into the Hudson, having in its descent to the level of that stream several falls of considerable magnitude. The other streams have, in the town, falls whose aggregate height is more than one hundred and fifty feet; and natural water-power is afforded at Stottsville, Stockport, Chitten- den's falls, and Columbiaville. This power has been judi- ciously utilized, giving Stockport great prominence as a
manufacturing town, and forming the source of much wealth.
LAND TITLES AND SETTLEMENTS.
The northern portion of the town was included in the Powell and Kinderhook patents, and the grants made to Major Abram Staats in 1667, and at subsequent periods. Major Staats was a surgeon attached to the garrison at Albany, in 1643, and was among the earliest of the immi- grants from Holland to America.
The patents granted to him in 1667 and 1685 have al- ready been mentioned and described in the general history of land-grants in the county.
On this tract Major Staats had a bowery, and also carried on the business of a fur-trader. It is very probable that he lived in this locality before he applied for a grant of land (as he was a licensed and extensive dealer in furs before 1657), and that he was one of the first settlers in the county. A stone house, formerly his residence, and believed to be the oldest on the Hudson, between New York and Albany, stands on a small elevation at the mouth of the Stockport (formerly Major Abram's) creek, and was originally forty feet long by twenty-five feet wide. Its walls are of massive stone, three feet thick, and may have been designed to afford protection against the warfare of that day, as well as storage for his goods. The roof is gambrel- shaped, and was first covered with Holland tile. At a later day the house was lengthened by a brick addition on its west end of like size and shape as the stone part. Among other evidences of native occupancy, was the un- usually abundant presence, near the house, of Indian imple- ments of all kinds. The writer has been informed that more than twenty-five bushels of stone axes, arrowheads, etc., have been picked up in this locality. It is also tra-
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ditionally reported that an Indian battle took place on the adjoining hill, in which many of the red men were sent to the happy hunting-grounds.
The sons of Abram Staats were Jacob, Abram, Samuel, and Jochem. From a map of this section made in 1767, we note the existence of the old Staats house above de- scribed, and a house belonging to Isaac Staats at Chitten- den's Falls. The family continned identified with this section many years.
South of Stockport creek, the land formed a part of the lower Rensselaer manor, and was subject to the conditions of that patent.
Among the first settlers in this part were members of the Van Rensselaer family, who made extensive improve- ments where Stottsville now is. Vrooman Van Rensselaer, a member of the fifth generation of the family that settled there, is yet a resident of the place. Peter Van Rensse- laer, an older member of the family, was a man of con- siderable prominence, and did good service in the American cause during the Revolution.
It is a difficult matter to fix the date of settlement of other families, but it is well known that among the most prominent were the Van Valkenburghs, Vosburghs, Van Alstynes, Van Alens, Van Burens, Burgarts, Schermer- horns, Kittles, Harders, Wights, Hoes, Clows, and Van De Carrs.
Being a manufacturing town, the population is somewhat fluctuating, and is subject to a large increase or decrease in a short period. In 1875 there were seven hundred and ninety-four males and eight hundred and forty-two females ; and the number of land-owners was one hundred and forty- three.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
Stockport was erected according to an act passed April 20, 1833, which provided that the first town-meeting " shall be held at the house of Casparus C. Hoes, May 7, 1833, and that Garrett Burgert, Jeremiah Mandeville, and Eze- kiel Butler, or any two of them, may preside at the first meeting in said town, with power to appoint a clerk and keep the polls in said town at such meeting."
" The property belonging to the towns of Stuyvesant, Ghent, and the city of Hudson, shall continue to belong to said city and towns."
So much of the act entitled " an act concerning Colum- biaville, supplementary to an act concerning the Columbia Manufacturing Society, of Feb. 21, 1812, passed April 13, 1827, and all acts amendatory thereof, so far as this incorporates the village of Columbiaville, are hereby re- pealed."
It was further provided, that the officers within the limits of the new town, elected by the aforementioned towns, shall hold their offices until their terms expire; and that road and bridge funds be equitably divided.
The officers elected at the first town-meeting were as follows : Supervisor, George Chittenden ; Town Clerk, Charles W. Bentley ; Justice of the Peace, Jehoiakim A. Van Valkenburgh, P. B. Backus, Ezekiel Butler; Asses- sors, Lewis Whitlock, Jeremialı Mandeville, Abraham Burgert, Adolphus Hayward, John Van De Carr; Col- lector, Jonathan Warren ; Commissioners of Ilighways,
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J. A. Van Valkenburgh, Wm. F. Butler, Russell Judson ; Commissioners of Schools, Wm. H. Power, George W. Cook, James Van Alen; Inspector of Schools, John S. Gould, Horatio N. Dryer, Joseph W. Allen ; Overseers of the Poor, Thomas Whitlock, John A. Staats; Constables, Jonathan Warren, John S. Gould, John J. Rossman ; Sealer of Weights, Ezekiel Butler.
It was voted that the next meeting be held at the house of Arad Clary. The principal town officers since 1833 have been as follows :
Supervisors.
Town Clerks.
Collectors.
1834. George Chittenden. C. W. Bentley.
Jonathan Warren.
1835. Garrett Burgert.
I836.
1837. Thomas Sedgewick. P.Van Valkenburgh.
1838. Garrett Burgert.
H. N. Dryer.
Rufus Clark. William Wight.
1840.
1841. "
Alex. H. Benjamin.
1842. Garrett Burgert.
Richard Crabb.
1843.
1844.
1845. H. W. Reynolds.
1846.
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1847.
1848.
1849.
1850.
1851.
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A. W. Heermance.
1852.
1853.
1854. James Dingman.
Andrew Moore.
Wm. H. Youog.
1856. "
H'y S. Van de Carr. Wm. H. Bunt.
1857. I'y S. Van de Carr. V. Van Rensselaer. John Crabb. " Wm. H. Young.
1858. ".
1859. George Chittenden. James E. Kent.
Stephen W. Ham.
1860. James Dingman.
Philip L. Ham.
Andrew Bunt.
1861. John Smith.
Andrew Moore.
Martin Burch.
1862. Andrew Moore.
James E. Kent.
George Tinker.
1863.
Wm. R. Bennett.
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Wm. H. IIarder. James Whitlock. Isaac S. Truax.
1866. James Dingman.
Charles Gardner. Wm. R. Bennett.
William Young.
1867. Andrew Moore.
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Hiram Decker. Alvah Simmons.
1869.
1870. Alfred Ostrom.
Charles Sheldon.
Wmn. H. Harder.
1872.
Andrew Moore.
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1873.
A. W. Ham.
A. Bunt. "
1875. John Van Buren.
R. L. Ham. John McLean.
Philip H. Clum.
1877.
William Darders.
Alex. Patterson.
1878.
Peter Van Bramer.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1834. Joseph W. Allen. Horatio N. Dryer.
1841. Cornelius Van Kuren.
1842. John McGiffert.
1835. Lewis Whitlock.
1843. Robert Hicks.
Joseph Marshall.
Henry W. Reynolds.
1836. George Chittenden.
1844. John A. Kittle. Henry W. Reynolds.
1837. Robert Hicks.
Adolphus Haywood.
1845. Ezekiel Butler.
Wm. G. Mandeville. Isaac McCagg.
1846. James Van Valkenburgh. Cornelius Van Kuren.
1838. Henry B. Golden. Cornelius Van Kuren.
1847. George Chittenden. Francis O'Connor.
1839. Robert Hicks.
1840. Jacob K. Moore.
1848. Cornelius Van Kuren. Henry W. Reynolds.
1868.
= Jacob Pultz.
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1874.
Fred. W. Buss.
Wm. II. Harder.
1876. James Dingman.
John Hoes.
John M. IIarder. Robert Brown. Doctor Aspin.
1855. M. C. Van Alstyne.
Welcome Utter.
1864. V. Van Rensselaer. 1865.
1871. ¥
H. W. Reynolds. Seth Whitney. And. W. Whitbeck. James H. Wild. .. Elijah Schofield. Simon Hallowell. William Wight. John H. Philip. Henry Moore. John H. Wardle. Thomas Roach.
1839. George Chittenden.
Charles M. Beecher.
MILL No 4
MILL NO 3
OLD HOMESTEAD.
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MILL No. 1.
MILL No. 2
LITH BY L. H. EVERTS & Ca. PHILA
RESIDENCES AND MILLS OF C. H. & F.H. STOTT, STOTTSVILLE, COLUMBIA COUNTY, N. Y.
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1849. Thomas B. Sutton.
Cornelius Van Kuren.
1850. Jonas Dinegar.
Lewis Whitlock. Cornelius Van Kuren.
1851. Jonas Dinegar.
1852. Cornelius Welch.
1853. John Cline.
Lewis Whitlock.
Charles M. Bucher.
1854. Ira Buckman.
Cornelius Van Kuren. Robert Harder.
1871. Isaac M. Schermerhorn.
1872. John Van Buren.
1873. James Dingman.
1874. Wm. R. Bennett.
1875. Vroman Van Rensselaer.
1858. Lewis J. Whitlock.
1859. Thomas J. Towne.
1876. John Van Buren.
James Dingman.
1877. James Dingman.
1878. Wm. R. Bennett.
THE PUBLIC HIGHWAYS
of the town have ever received much attention, and are generally in excellent condition. The town has four bridges, whose maintenance has been a heavy burden. At present the streams are spanned by first-class iron structures ; the one at Columbiaville, erected in 1870, having a single span two hundred and forty-five feet long, and the bridge at Chittenden's Falls has a span one hundred and seventy fect long. Probably no town in the State is better provided with bridges than Stockport. The Hudson River railroad runs through the town, along the river, affording shipping facilities at Stockport station.
STOTTSVILLE
is a flourishing manufacturing village of half a thousand inhabitants in the southeastern part of the town, about four miles from the city of Hudson. Claverack creek here makes a descent of fifty-three feet in three successive falls, affording excellent water-power, which is all used in oper- ating Stotts' Woolen Mills. These extensive mills are the result of the enterprising spirit of Jonathan Stott, an in- telligent weaver of satinets in Hudson, who located here in 1828, and began the manufacture of flannels in a small factory, which employed only two sets of thirty-six-inch cards and twelve looms. His mills soon became the con- trolling industry of the place, which caused his name to be bestowed upon it, in preference to Springville, its former title. Jonathan Stott died in May, 1863, but the business has since been successfully carried on by his sons and grand- sons, and at present embraces the following mills : No. 1, which was built in 1846, destroyed by fire in 1861, and re- built the same year, contains cleven sets of cards ; No. 2, built in 1865, on the site of Jonathan Stott's old mill, con- tains thirteen sets of cards; No. 3, which was erected in 1859, and is used for finishing goods made in other mills ; and No. 4, erected in 1876, with a capacity for twenty sets of cards, operating at present twelve sets. From twelve thousand to fourteen thousand yards of excellent flannels and other goods are manufactured daily, giving employ- ment to several hundred operatives, and requiring about five thousand pounds of wool and cotton.
Other manufacturing interests at this point were saw and
grist-mills by the Van Rensselaers, who formerly owned the entire power. Henry Van Rensselaer had a grist-mill on the east side of the creek, which was removed to Niverville. A fulling-mill belonging to the same party was purchased by Jonathan Stott, as well as a woolen-factory which be- longed to Josiah Barber.
Stores were kept at an early day by the Van Rensselaers, succeeded by Bartholomew Vosburglı, and the present mer- chant, Vroman Van Rensselaer, who has been in trade the past twenty-five years. The latter is also deputy post- master of the Stottsville office, established in 1870, with C. H. Stott postmaster. There is a daily mail from Hud- son to points northward. The Western Union Company opened a telegraph-office at the same place, in June, 1877.
Stottsville contains a number of fine homes, has a neat chapel and school-house, and presents a prosperous appear- ance. A short distance east of the village are the celebrated
COLUMBIA WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
The clayey soils of this locality possess various mineral constituents, whose decomposition produces hepatic waters, manifesting their presence in springs issuing from the hill- sides and perforations in the rocks along the gullies. The principal characteristic of the waters are sulphuretted hy- drogen gas and sulphuret of magnesia. Several of the most remarkable in this vicinity have received the above name from their sulphurous nature. They are three in number, situated in a vale, and nearly in a line, but a short distance apart. Yet the water of each is different, only two of them possessing positive medicinal qualities, the other having as cool and sweet water as is to be found. The uppermost spring is reputed to possess the strongest water.
The presence of these springs was noted as early as 1830, and some wonderful cures were reported as the result of using their waters. But it was not until 1855 that they engaged public attention with any prominence, or that their real efficacy was fully recognized. That year the late Charles B. Nash, father of the present proprietor, pur- chased them and opened a house for the accommodation of invalids. Many who had failed to find relief from medical aid were cured by the waters ; and they especially obtained a character for their curative properties for cutaneous diseases, dyspepsia, rheumatism, and general debility. Their nature is clearly shown from the following analysis of one gallon of water :
Grains.
Chloride of sodium ..
84.719
potassium
1,193
" magnesium
31.430
Carbonate of lime.
21.794
Sesquichloride of iron.
3.418
Sulphate of lime ...
64.941
Phosphate of soda ..
2.140
Hyposulphite of soda.
8.149
Loss.
.814
218.598
Hydrosulphuric acid.
..... 4.491 cubic inches.
The waters are used internally, and are found pleasant and agreeable to the taste. Means are also provided for using the waters for bathing purposes, there being comfort- able baths at the upper spring. Connected with these health-giving fountains are very handsome grounds, where are combined the best effects of hill and dale, adorned by
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