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CHAPTER XIX.
THE TOWN OF COLUMBIA.
C OLUMBIA lies in the southern part of Herkimer county and is bounded on the north by German Flats ; on the east by Warren ; on the south by Otsego county, and on the west by Winfield and Litch- field. The town was formed from Warren June 8, 1812. Its surface is moderately rolling and hilly, and the soil a clay loam, which is gen- erally fertile. The streams are small brooks, some of which flow south into the Unadilla and the others northward into the Mohawk. There are several springs in the town, the waters of which have a local reputation as a curative for some diseases. Iron ore is found to a lim- ited extent. In the southern part of the town is a swamp containing perhaps a thousand acres, from which flow the headwaters of the Una- dilla. Steele's Creek flows from the northern side of the town into the Mohawk at Ilion. Within the present boundaries of Columbia are parts of Staley's, Henderson's and Conrad Frank's patents.
The old Indian trail from the upper Mohawk to Schuyler's Lake passed through this town from northeast to southwest, and there was an Indian camp ground a little northwest of the site of South Columbia, on the farm now owned by J. H. Fox.
Columbia was first settled in 1765 by several German families from the Mohawk River, who located in the eastern part at the crossing of the old Utica and Minden turnpike and the Mohawk and Richfield Springs road. The settlement was long known as Conradstown, and later as Orendorff's Corners, after one of the settlers, Conrad Orendorff, whose original farm is still owned in the family by William Orendorff. The families who first settled here were those of Henry Frank, Nicholas Lighthall, Timothy Frank, Joseph Moyer, Frederick Christman, Con- rad Frank, Conrad Fulmer, Nicholas Lighthall, and Mr. Orendorff. Between the time of its first settlement and the close of the Revolution the town was overrun by the enemy, and the inhabitants made to feel the effects of the struggle. Conrad Orendorff was a lieutenant in Capt.
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Henry Eckler's company and was twice taken prisoner and his cabin burned. Richard Woolaber, one of the early settlers, was in Heinrich Staring's company which left Fort Herkimer July 19, 1778, to over- take Brant and rescue prisoners taken at the destruction of Andrus- town. At Young's Settlement (now Little Lakes) the main body of the pursuers turned back ; but Woolaber, Peter Flagg and Thomas Van Horne kept on and overtook two savages on the west side of Schuyler's Lake. The Indians had a woman and babe as prisoners. Woolaber and his companions killed both Indians and carried home the prisoners. In the fall of 1778, while Woolaber was at work in the field on what is now " Shoemaker Hill," south of Fort Herkimer, he was surprised by Indians, knocked down and scalped and left for dead. Ile was found by his family towards nightfall, carried home and finally recovered.
After the close of the war settlement in various parts of the town progressed rapidly. The following list of jurors for the year 1813 is worthy of preservation, as it doubtless contains the names of most of the prominent settlers down to 1810:
Asahel Alford, John Bloodgood, Jeremiah Brown, John Burehdorff, Philip Bnsinger, Elias Benedict, Philip Brown, Christopher H. Benedict, Jacob Bell, Amos Crain, Josialı Crain, William Chapman, John Clapsaddle, Augustenns Clapsaddle, Simon Clark, Henry Cronkright, Daniel Dromdoff, Ira Dethrick, Jabez De Woolfe, William De Wolfe. jr., Jarob Eaton, Benjamin Eaton, Ephraim Elmer (still living at the age of 113 years at Utica, N. Y.), George M. Ediek, Jacob P. Fox, John P. Fox, Peter P. Fox, Frederick Fox, Abner Gage, John Gorsline, Barnabas Griffith, llenry Getman, George I. Get- man, Frederick I. Getman, Stephen Griffith, Timothy Getman, Frederick Getman, jr., Conrad Gettman, Thomas Hagerty, Henry Helmer, Samuel Hatch, Joseph Ilatch, Daniel Hatch, John Harwood, Abner Huntley, Thomas Hawks, Jacob felmer, William TIaner, Jeremiah Tlaner, Augustenus Hess, jr., Frederick Hess, Conrad Hess, Ilenry Jones, Calvin Johnson, Luther Johnson, Michael Jackson, Samnel Lord, Thomas Ladow, Caleb Miller, John Miller, Henry A. Miller, Henry Miller, jr., Ohver Miner, William Miller, Andrew Miller, John Miller, jr., Martin McKoon. Joel Merchant, Ephraim Mills, Isaac Mills, John Mills, Andrew Meyers, Joseph Meyers, John D. Meyers, James Mor- gan. Abraham Maning, Henry S. Orendorff, Jacob Orendorff, George Petrie, Theodore Page, Ira Peck, Dean Pearce, Daniel I. Petrie, Marks Petrie, Frederick Petrie. Reuben Reynolds, John Runyan, jr., Parley Spaulding. Ralph Sanford, Thomas F. Shoemaker, John Shoemaker. Nicholas Sternburgh, William Stronp. Timothy Smith. George Steele, Elisha Standish, Gershom Skinner, Peter 1. Turpening, Moses Thompson, Hill Trues- dale, Samuel Woodworth, Festus Williams, Peleg Wood, Isaac Wright, Charles Young.
Most of the above have descendants at present living in town.
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Tunis Vrooman came early into this town. He was made a prisoner by the Indians, with three of his brothers, in 1776, and taken to Can- ada ; returning a year later, he passed much of his life in Columbia and died in 1866.
Asahel Alford settled here in 1791, was a well-known citizen, and died in 1853 at the age of ninety-three years, having passed all his life on his original farm ; this was afterwards occupied by his son Cyrus, and now by his son Oscar Alford.
Abijah Beckwith, a native of Columbia county, came into this county in 1807 and became conspicuous in public affairs ; was a member of the Legislature in 1817 and 1823 ; a member of the Senate in 1835; was six years county clerk, and presidential elector in the first Lincoln campaign. He was the great-grandfather of John D. Beckwith, now a lawyer at Little Falls.
George Lighthall was a settler prior to the Revolution on what is known as the Briggs farm, a little west of South Columbia, and he and his family were sufferers during the war. Some others who settled early in Columbia were Peter Horton Warren, who located in the west- ern part of the town; Martin McKoon, who came in 1796, to the ex- treme southern part ; Jacob Edick and his father, also named Jacob, who were pioneers of the town; Lorenzo Hosford and his father, William, who were tanners at Cedarville from early in the century ; Henry Devendorf, who settled early at Cedarville; John D. Hunter, long a merchant in the town; Andrew Miller, who built the first mills at Miller's Mills; Nicholas Spohn, Daniel Stroup, an early blacksmith, and Jacob Seckner.
The first town meeting was held at the house of Daniel I. Petrie on Tuesday, March 2, 1813, and the following officers were elected :
Supervisor, Jacob Haner; town clerk, Jolm Mix; assessors, Denison Tisdale, Peter P. Fox, Jeremiah Haner, and Rufus Chapin; overseers of the poor, Daniel I. Petrie and Abijah Beckwith; commissioners of highways, Henry Orendorff, Ira Peck and Joel Merchant; constables, Jacob D. Petrie, Charles Randale, Jeremiah Baringer, and William Truesdale; collector, Charles Randale ; school commissioners, Rufus Chapin, John Bartlett, and Denison Tisdale ; school inspectors, Henry S. Orendorff, David V. W. Golden, and Henry Gardiner.
The town was divided into thirty-one road districts, and the usual in- cipient legislation was enacted. A meeting of the excise commission-
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ers was held in May, 1813, at which D. V. W. Golden, Jesse Campbell, and Samuel Woodworth & Son had applied for permits to sell liquor, and Reuben Reynolds, Daniel I. Petrie, Joseph Petrie and Conrad Orendorff applied for licenses and were given the privilege of keeping taverns.
There is now scarcely any manufacturing in Columbia, and there never was very much. The industries outside of farming have been limited almost wholly to mills erected early in various parts of the town, some of which are still in operation, though greatly changed. D. V. WV. Golden and Benjamin Mix were the first merchants in the town, and carried on business at Orendorff's Corners in 1798. The old store was demolished about twenty years ago, and the site is owned by Daniel Crim. Frederick Petrie, brother of Daniel, had a blacksmith shop at the same point in 1799, and was the first blacksmith in town. The first frame house was built at the Corners in 1788 by Con- rad Orendorff, and now forms part of the building occupied by Will- iam Orendorff. The first and only brick house in Columbia was built in 1855 by Abraham House, at what is known as Elizabethtown, in the northern part of the town.
The first schools in Columbia were taught in the German language, the earliest one by Philip Ausman in 1796 at what is now Oren- dorff's corners. The first English school was begun about the same time by Joel Phelps. On the Sth of April, 1813, the school com- missioners divided the town into eight school districts. There were then 255 families in the town and the commissioners designated which district each family should belong to. At the present time there are eleven districts in Columbia.
There are no considerable villages in this town. Columbia Center was formerly known as " Petrie's Corners," and it was here that the first town meeting was held. As indicated by its name, it is near the center of the town, and here Daniel I. Petrie kept the first tavern on the site where Abram Jacobson formerly kept. Jacob J. Petrie, son of Daniel, formerly kept a store where Elmer E. Spohn is now located. John D. Hunter also traded on this site. Martin L. Springer and Ira Derthick were also merchants here. There was a distillery operated here in early times. The present business consists of two stores, one
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by Frank N. Petrie and one by E. E. Spohn, a hotel kept by Wallace Purchase, on the old Petrie site, a store and post-office kept by Frank N. Petrie, and two blacksmith shops by David Getman and Jabez Bliss & Son. The Methodist church here was organized in 1887 and the building was erected in 1888 at a cost of about $2,000. The first pastor was Rev. Frank West and the present one is G. P. York. The trustees are Israel Shepherd, George Gray and H. J. Chrisman.
South Columbia .- This is a station on the railroad in the southern part of the town and on the old road from Mohawk to Richfield Springs. It was in this vicinity that the Lighthall families settled prior to the Revolution, and Richard Woolaber was the first settler after the war. Asahel Freeman built here the second grist mill in the town, and in 1800 a saw-mill and a fulling-mill; the latter went to decay long ago. The first hotel was kept here in 1808 by Simeon Hammond. The site of the old mills is now occupied by the extensive plant of the Chase Mills and Supply Company, who operate a saw- mill, grist mill, planing-mill, deal in coal, lumber, etc. A box factory is operated by James Collyer, and a second saw-mill by Eugene Hoffman. Philip Wormouth is a blacksmith and wagon repairer, and Frank Zoller is mer- chant and postmaster.
Miller's Mills .- This is a hamlet in the southwestern part of the town, half a mile from the line of the railroad, on which it has a sta- tion. The site was settled in 1760 by Andrew Miller. Jost Bell was the owner of much of the land in the vicinity and from him Miller leased and purchased his property. Jonas Miller now occupies a part of the original farm of Andrew Miller. Miller, probably in connection with Bell, built the first mills here, on the site of W. D. Gorsline's present mills; this property passed into possession of John Miller and was enlarged by him. Other owners of the mills, before they came into Mr. Gorsline's possession, were a Mr. Tennant, Jacob Miller, and Dan- iel Devendorf. Mr. Gorsline put in a circular saw and added a box factory and planing mill to the plant. The post-office was established in 1869 with Tunis Finger as postmaster ; he was succeeded by An- drew Finger. J. R. Scudden was next appointed to the office, and then William H. Finger. Andrew Finger is the present postmaster and merchant. The "First Free Baptist Church in Columbia " was
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organized here in September, 1820, and the church was erected in 1831. Public services have been kept up with considerable regularity since 1814. In 1840 a Sunday-school was established with David G. Young as superintendent. Elder J. B. Randall is the present pastor. Rev M. C. Brown preached here for seventeen years ; he died recently in Boston.
Cedarville .- This is a hamlet in the western part of the town and at the junction of the lines of the three towns of Winfield, Litchfield and Columbia. While a considerable portion of the little village is in Litch- field, the post-office is now in the town of Columbia, and the history of the village may as well be given here. The first settler at this point was Henry Devendorf, who came in 1803. The first store was estab- lished in 1823 by John and Thurston Mabbitt, and in the same year the post-office was opened. Henry Devendorf kept the first tavern about 1810. The tannery that was conducted here for many years was be- gun by William Horsford in 1824, who operated it for thirty years. Its last owners were Hon. Ezra D. Beckwith and Hiteman Brothers, who gave it up about eight years ago and located at West Winfield ; the tannery is now going to decay. The hotel now kept by J. J. Thorp was built by A. L. Fish about the time of the establishment of the post office. F. E. Stephens now has the principal store and is post- master and supervisor, succeeding D. L. W. Kibby in the former office in June, 1889. Mr. Kibby kept a store here about twenty years. The second hotel is kept, and has been for twelve years, by Monroe Wilkin- son. The store now kept by H. G. Knight was occupied before him by Irving Maxwell and Benjamin Davis. Lyman Woodart was a wagon- maker here for many years, and his sons now carry on the business. W. E. Meacham has a harness shop and W. H. Rhoda a tin shop.
The Methodist Episcopal church at Cedarville was organized in 1862, under the corporate name of the Mckenzie Chapel. The deed of a lot was given by Henry Devendorf on which to build a chapel. The first church was erected about 1826, at a cost of $1,500. The society be- came extinct, and in 1870 the building was removed and fitted for a public hall.
The Universalist church at Cedarville was organized October 27, 1829, and Rev. Orrin Roberts became the first pastor in 1830. Among
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those who have at various periods preached here are Revs. T. J. Smith, Mr. Belden, Dr. Smith, J. H. Tuttle, E. M. Wooley, L. C. Brown, Mr. Paine, W. H. Grigsby, D. Ballou, L Rice, L. G. Powers, and O. B. Beals. The present pastor is Rev. C. H. Vail, who preaches also at Bridgewater. The first church edifice was erected in 1830 at a cost of $2,500 ; it was dedicated in the following year. In 1872 the building was remodeled at an expense of more than $5,000, and an organ cost- ing $1,000 has since been added. The society has been uniformly prosperous and shown energetic activity from its beginning.
Trustees are elected for one, two, and three years. Their names are as follow : For one year, F. E. Stephens, D. A. Angell, and A. E. Seckner ; for two years, Chauncey Mathews, Jacob W. Miller, and Bernard Crim; for three years, C. J. Wheeler, E. B. Holcomb, and William Miller.
Other hamlets that have had distinctive names in Columbia are Get- man's Corners, at the headwaters of Steele's Creek, on the north side of the town. Elizabethtown, taking its name from Elizabeth Campbell, on the north line of the town, on Steele's Creek, where a tannery was formerly carried on ; and Haner Settlement, so called from the families of that name who located there. Spinnerville, named in honor of the late Gen. F. E. Spinner, is a post-office in the northern part, established in 1890. A tannery was operated here for many years by Peter H. Warren, father of T. D. Warren, esq., and the wife of Col. Alonzo Wood, of Winfield. It is now closed up. S. D. Warren now owns the homestead and is the postmaster.
The oldest church in this town is the Reformed Church, which was organized in July, 1798. Timothy Frank and Jacob Petrie were made elders, and George Edick and George F. Helmer, deacons. The first meetings were held in Conrad Orendorff's barn. Steps were taken in 1803 to erect a church, the First Congregational church of Warren and the First Lutheran church of Warren uniting in the work. A sub- scription paper was circulated and money raised for a beginning. In November, 1808, the three societies assembled at the meeting-house to arrange for raising money to finish the interior of the building. Through subscriptions and the sale of pews in December, 1808, the necessary funds were raised and the church finished by Parley Hutch- ings. This church was used until 1849, when it was considered unsafe
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and a new one was erected, which has received extensive repairs. It is pleasantly located on the east and west road between Columbia Center and Orendorff's Corners, with a cemetery adjoining. In the rebuilding of this church in 1840 a scaffold gave way and John Edick was killed and several others badly injured.
Following is a list of supervisors of this town, with date of their in- cumbency :
Jacob Haner, 1813, 1822 ; Samuel Woodworth, 1814; John Mills, 1815, 1821 ; Hen- ry S. Orendorff, 1816, 1817; Abijah Beckwith, 1818, 1819: Henry S. Orendorff, 1820, 1831, 1837, 1842; Jeremiah Ilaner, 1823, 1824, 1827; Abijali Beckwith, 1825, 1845, 1846; Jacob Mills, 1826; Isaac Mills, 1828; John Miller, jr., 1829, 1834, 1835; Abel IIannahs, 1830, 1832, 1833; l'eter II. Warren, 1836, 1538, 1839, 1863 65; Joseph L. Ilatch, 1840, 1841; William J. Miller, 1843, 1841; Andrew Van Dusen, 1847, 1848; Loren Mills, 1849, 1850; John W. Beckwith, 1851 52; John D. Clapsaddle, 1853, 1859-60; Jefferson Rowland, 1854, 1856; James Kelley, 1857, 1858; David G. Young, 1861-62; Levi Shaul, 1866-67; David Ilarter, 1868: Lorenzo Horsford, 1869; Jacob J. Getman, 1870-72 ; John M. Lipe, 1873, 1874: George Van Alstine, 1875-78; Will- iam D. Gorsline, 1879, 1880; Samuel Miller, 1881; Israel I. Young, 1882, 1883; Frank N. Petrie, 1884-1889; Damon A. Clapsaddle, 1890; Abram Mannmg, 1891; Frank E. Stephens, 1892.
CHAPTER XX.
THE TOWN OF WINFIELD.
P REVIOUS to the year 1816 the territory now embraced in the town of Winfield was a part of the towns of Richfield and Plainfield, Otse- go county, and Litchfield, Herkimer county. Consequently, upon its for- mation the boundaries of Herkimer county were enlarged. The act under which the town came into existence is dated April 17, 1816, and its passage in the Senate was procured by Dr. John J. Prendergast, then a member of that body. He had the privilege of naming the new town and proposed "Scott," in honor of Gen. Winfield Scott ; but on learn- ing that there was already a town of that name in this State, he sub- stituted the given name of the popular military officer-Winfield.
The town lies in the southwest corner of Herkimer county and in- cludes parts of Schuyler's Bayard's and Lispenard's patents. It is
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bounded on the north by Litchfield ; on the east by Columbia and Ot- sego county ; on the south by Otsego county ; and on the west by Oneida county. The surface is moderately hilly except along the valley of the Unadilla Creek, which flows across it from east to west, furnishing considerable water power. Some smaller streams flow southerly into the Unadilla, which have their rise in Litchfield. The great western turnpike passes through the southern part of the town, and in early days was thronged with stages, teams and droves of stock, which made busy scenes at the numerous taverns that were maintained at short intervals along its course.
The early settlers of what is now Winfield came chiefly from Con- necticut and Massachusetts. Abel Brace came here in 1793 from near Hartford, Conn., bringing with him his family of nine sons and five daughters, with his wife's aged mother. Mr. Brace was a man of stand- ing, had been a captain in the Revolutionary War and a member of the State Legislature. He built a log house not far from the present resi- dence of his youngest great-grandson, Seward H. Brace. All of the sons excepting one settled in this town and not far from their father. Abel Brace died in 1832. In after years many of his descendants left the town, leaving only Capt. Asahel Brace, who occupied the pa- ternal home ; he died in 1867, leaving sons, Abel Woodruff Brace, Lucius F. Brace (father of Frank L.), and Henry L. Brace, who inherited the family home and now lives in West Winfield. When Mr. Brace came here there was no road from the Mohawk southward, and travelers were guided by marked trees. One of the Brace family, Charles, kept what was probably the first inn in the town in 1794, but it is not known just where it was located ; and two years later John Dillingham opened a store.
In the summer of 1792 David Wood and Jonathan Chapin settled on the south side of the stream, and in 1793 Deacon Charles Burt and Joseph and Timothy Walker located in the same neighborhood. The Walkers had been in the town only a year when, in 1794, they built the pioneer mills at what is now West Winfield, and thereby conferred a welcome boon upon the settlers. It was a small affair, consisting of a saw-mill, in which was placed one grinding stone, which sufficed for its purpose until 1798, when Timothy Walker erected a grist-mill near the
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first one, taking the water from the same pond. This mill was operated until 1808, when Ira Walker, son of Timothy, built a third mill, a larger one, farther down the stream and removed the machinery of the other one to it. This was the site of the present mills at West Winfield. The Walkers first settled on what is known as the Hugh Davis farm. Both had families, and descendants of both still live in the town. The first mill built by them was near North Winfield and the first blacksmith- shop was near that place, and built by Timothy.
Larkin Smith first came to the town in 1793 and probably returned and brought his wife in the following year, coming on snow shoes. He was a surveyor. Others who settled here previous to or about the be- ginning of the century were Simeon Bucklin, Elijah Gates, Amasa Dodge, Adam Burdick, Capt. Nathan Brown, Oliver Harwood, Oliver Corbit, Benjamin Cole, Isaac Thayer, Nathan Holmes, William McLaughlin, and others. Many of these still have dsecendants in the town. A little later came the Prays, the Lawtons, the Hatfields and others. John Burgess was an early settler. Moses Eldred, father of Myron, came about 1805. Caleb Cummings, father of Samuel M., came from New Hampshire before the beginning of this century ; Sam- uel owns the old homestead and lives in West Winfield. Nathan Mor- gan settled about 1815. Eleazer Brown, grandfather of H. C. Brown, of West Winfield, came about the beginning of the century ; his son, Hiram, was born here in 1805, and died in 1878. C. T. Wheelock's grandfather was an early settler on " Wheelock's Hill." Some of those who have been prominent in the town in later years are Benjamin Car- ver, who was a merchant at East Winfield, and supervisor in 1833 ; Col. David R. Carrier, many years supervisor and a prominent business man ; Samuel McKee, now living at East Winfield, father of Hon. M. H. Mc- Kee, of Richfield Springs; Caleb Dodge, a prominent farmer ; Otis N. Crandall; Walter Palmer, and others mentioned elsewhere.
Chas. H. Brown was born in Winfield, July 20, 1858, studied law in Little Falls and was admitted in 1880. He removed to Bolivar, Alle- gany county, N. Y., in 1881, and was elected district attorney of that county in 1889, and re-elected in 1892. He occupies a leading position at the bar in that county.
Chas. G. Burrows was born in Winfield, and studied law with Geo. A. Hardin in Little Falls. He died in 1875, leaving a reputation as an
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industrious and painstaking attorney, who gained the confidence of the community.
Hamilton Burdick, a native of Winfield, and a son of Adam Burdick, was born February 11, 1816. His father was a Revolutionary soldier and a personal acquaintance of Alexander Hamilton, after whom he named his son. Hamilton Burdick is a graduate of Colgate and studied law at Bridgewater, Oneida county, N. Y., and in Utica. He practiced in West Winfield from 1840 to 1843, when he removed to Syracuse and formed a partnership with the late R. H. Gardner. Mr. Burdick is still in practice in Syracuse. Professor Samuel Williams was born in 1830 in this town, and is now a geologist at Cornell University.
Charles J. Palmer, now a prominent attorney of Little Falls, was born in Winfield. While a student in Hamilton College he pursued the study of law, and after graduating in 1871 gave his whole attention to his profession, studying in Utica. In 1872 he formed a partnership with Chas. G. Burrows (above mentioned) which continued until Mr. Burrows died in 1875. In the next year Mr. Palmer became associated with A. M. Mills in Little Falls, and so continued to 1889, since which year he has practiced alone. Mr. Palmer is prominent in Republican politics.
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