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Cone, Silas.
Cook, Nathan.
Cook, Peter.
Copeley, William.
Cottrell, Gardner. Cottrill, Wm. B.
Ingraham, George S.
Cown, Peter G.
Ingraham, Jeremiah.
Darbyshire, William.
Davis, Heman.
Davis, John.
Kenyon, Joshua.
Dean, Isaac.
King, Elijah.
Deming, Lyman.
King, Grimes.
King, Silas. Knapp, Jared.
Knapp, John.
Knapp, Wright.
Lamkin, Thomas.
Dunham, Daniel. Dunham, Simeon. Eldridge, Robert. Elmer, Isaac. Elmer, Samuel.
Everett, Daniel.
Fairchild, Sueton.
Farwell, Solomon. Farwell, Leonard. Fitch, Benjamin.
Lewis, John. Lockwood, James. Loud, John. Macumber, Cyrus. Macumber, Enoch. Macumber, Samuel.
Mann, Jabez.
Mann, Samuel.
Blodget, Jesse. Blodget, Joseph. Blodget, Rufus. Boyington, John. Brigham, David. Brown, Horace. Brush, Berick.
Buck, Amos.
Goodwin, Joseph. Graves, David. Graves, Lewis.
Griswold, James. Hall, George. Hanchel, Seth.
Hildreth, Aaron.
Horham, Benjamin. Horr, Isaac. Horr, Jacob.
Horr, Robert.
Hovey, Levi. Hovey, Samuel.
Hunt, Ephriam. Hunt, James. Huntington, Ralph. Hurd, John.
Hyde, Elihu.
Irish, Daniel. Kelsey, Oliver.
Denison, Nathan. Dixon, Jeremiah. Dixon, Robert B.
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Mead, T.
Skeels, Elijah.
Meriam, William.
Skeels, Nirum.
Mills, Andrus.
Slater, Abiel.
Moody, Elijah.
Slater, Silas.
Moody, Elijah, Jr.
Smith, David.
Moor, Levi.
Smith, Ira.
Morison, Consider H. Smith, Isaac B.
Moss, James.
Smith, Samuel.
Munger, Elijah.
Smith, Selah.
Munger, Isaac.
Stannard, Roswell.
Munger, Nathan.
Stoddard, George A.
Munger, Nathan, Jr.
Stoddard, John.
Munger, Solomon.
Stoddard, Richard.
Murry, Ichabod.
Stoddard, Samuel.
Nash, Eleazer. Nash, James. Nash, Joel.
Swinburn. Peter. Sylvester, Ezra.
Noxon, Benjamin, Jr.
Sylvester, Nathaniel. Taylor, Abisher.
Newton, Joseph.
Taylor, David.
Olney, Joseph.
Taylor, Gilbert.
Ordway, John. Packard, Jared.
Thomas, Sturbeal.
Page, Amasa.
Thompson, Archibald. Tisdale, Elisha.
Parkerford, Gurdon.
Toffy, Hewlett. Torey, Azariah.
Parsons, Elihu.
Townsend, Abner.
Parsons, Ichabod.
Townsend, Jonathan.
Parsons, Stephen.
Townsend, Timothy.
Pearce, Asa.
Trowbridge, Hezekiah.
Peck, Azariah.
Trowbridge, Roswell. Twitchel, Uriel.
Peck, Henry.
Peck, Jonathan.
Verten, Gellis V.
Phinney, Joshua.
Van Brocklin, Gilbert. Van Vlek, Benjamin.
Plank, John. Porter, Asa.
Vedder, Adam.
Parington, Joseph. Rich, Joseph.
Vrooman, Abram.
Richards, David.
Vrooman, Barrant. Watson, Samuel.
Robbins, Levi.
Robbins, Reuben.
White, John G.
Rogers, Eli.
White, Isaac L.
Rogers, Zebadiah.
Root, William.
Safford, Sanford.
Williams, Absalom.
Saye, Elias.
Williams, Freeman.
Saunders, Francis.
Williams, Isaac.
Saunders, Silas.
Williams, Jacob.
Sawyer, Jotham.
Schermerhorn, Henry.
Williams, John. Wood, Solomon. Woolworth, Phineas.
Seccomb, Thomas.
Seccomb, Willis.
Wright, Charles.
Shephard, Ichabod.
Wright, Charles, Jr.
Shephard, Israel.
Wright, Freedom.
Shearman, Mishael. Skeels, Cephas.
Wright, Tyrannus A.
About 1807, the Rev. Peleg Card, a
pioneer Baptist minister, began a cloth manufactory below Copenhagen, which was continued by himself and sons for many years. The cloth principally made was satinet, but afterwards the business was chiefly limited to carding wool. The business disappeared entirely many years ago.
In 1806, most of a militia company at Copenhagen, failed to appear at a train- ing, on account of some grievance at the change of their captain, and were ac- cordingly summoned to a court martial, to be held at the inn of Andrew Mills, half a mile south of the village, in Janu- ary following. Their numbers inspired confidence in the belief that the proceed- ings of the Court might be embarrassed or interrupted, and they agreed upon a course of proceeding, perhaps natural, under the circumstances of time and prevailing customs. Procuring a keg of spirits at a distillery, they marched to the court, and when called up for trial, assigned whimsical reasons for delin- quency, alleging the want of decent clothing, short funds, the existence of various infirmities, and other frivolous causes, tending to throw ridicule upon the court, and rendering it necessary to order the arrest of the greater number of the party. The prisoners were con- fined in the room over that in which the court martial was held, and finally by their boisterous conduct, compelled an adjournment without trial.
The offending parties were indicted for riot, and their trial came off at Doty's tavern, in Martinsburgh, but resulted in acquittal. The rioters had in the mean time, prepared a song, entitled, The Keg and the Law, which recited minutely the transaction, and when the county court had adjourned, after the trial, this song was sung in the court room with great force and effect. The presiding judge is said to have jocosely remarked, that if this had been sung during the trial,
Richards, Joseph.
Webb, Joseph.
Rogers, Grary.
White, Joseph.
Whiting, Abner. Wilcox, Daniel.
Pickart, Thomas.
Vaughan, John.
Vedder, Lemon V.
Parks, William.
Stoddard, Ralph.
Newton, Jotham.
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witnesses would have been needless, as it embodied every fact in the case. One year after, the anniversary of their ac- quittal was celebrated, by an address, and the well remembered song was re- peated. It was written by Charles Wright, and a friend has furnished us a written copy, as taken down half a cent- ury after, from the memory of one of the party. It consists of twenty-four stanzas, and is entirely destitute of rhyme, poetical measure or literary merit, although it might appear quite different in its appropriate tune, now for- gotten, or so changed as not to be appli- cable to the subject. A company of Sil- ver Greys or Exempts, was formed in this town, under Charles Wright, during the war. It never found occasion for service.
In June, 1815, Henry Waggoner was found dead below the High falls, in Deer river, under circumstances that excited suspicions of murder. A coroner's jury was called, but could not agree, and the body was buried, but the clamors of the public led to the holding of a second in- quest before a jury of twenty-three persons, summoned from the central and southern part of the county, of whom twelve united in a verdict of suicide.
It appeared that Simpson Buck, of this town, had been on terms of improper in- timacy with the wife of a son of Mr. Waggoner, who resided on the Num- ber Three road, south of Copenhagen. The old man, who had been a Hessian soldier, and was perhaps seventy years old, publicly denounced this conduct, and in a recent suit against Buck, had appeared and testified against him. It is related that the latter swore that Wag- goner should never appear against him again in court. When last seen, Mr. Waggoner was going to his work of hoeing potatoes in a field about a mile south of the falls. When found by
Lyman Demming, half a mile or so below the falls, some days after, the body was much decayed, and showed marks upon the skull as if made with the head of a hoe. It is said there was also found a trail of blood for some distance from the bank, and on a tree fence over which the body was supposed to have been taken. Forty-two witnesses were sworn by the coroner, (Adoniram Foot,) and the evidence taken led to the verdict that the deceased, about the 12th of June, 1815, " came to the south bank of Deer river, about one or two rods above the High falls, and then and there, by acci- dent, or intentionally fell, threw himself into the said river, and then and there passed over said falls, a distance of 164 feet, and in so doing bruised and drowned himself." Dr. Spencer, of Champion, was the examining surgeon on the oc- casion, and believed that Waggoner had been murdered.
Buck soon after went off with the young man's wife, resided some years in Penn Yan, and then removed to Michigan, where he is said to have perished by violence. At the time of the event he was very strongly suspect- ed, even before the body was found, and in accordance with a superstition that should rather belong to the days of Salem witchcraft, he was brought and required to touch the dead body, to as- certain whether blood would flow afresh from the wound. Upon conversing with many cotemporaries of Waggoner, we find that the belief in his murder was very generally prevalent, although two or three expressed doubts as to whether an old soldier, who had been living in the place some time before, and also went off soon after, was not employed to execute the deed, or to assist in it.
An arrest was made in this town in 1819, which forms one of the links in a chain of events in one of the most singu- lar criminal trials upon record. Stephen
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Bourne, from Vermont, was one of two brothers charged with the murder of Russel Colvin, in Vermont, about seven years before. Being taken back to that State, he confessed the murder, and was sentenced to be hung. His brother, Jesse, was sent to the penitentiary for life. Doubts being expressed by some as to whether there had been a murder, an appeal was made to the Legislature for a pardon, but instead of granting this they passed a law directing the execution to take place on an appointed day-Jan. 28, 1820.
The facts as to the supposed murder were briefly these: Colvin was their brother-in-law, and a roving, shiftless, half-crazy fellow ; living upon them with his family, but tramping off, sometimes for months together. An altercation arose in the field where the brothers were plowing, and Colvin was knocked down and left senseless. They robbed his pockets, piled brush over him, and in the night set fire to the heap, and as they thought, reduced his remains to ashes. But before this Colvin had recovered, crawled out, and departed. He wan- dered off to New Jersey, and found a home in a family where he made himself useful, and lived several years, a crazy but harmless man. A singular dream is said to have started up the story of a murder, which Colvin's long absence and failure to return, appeared to justify. It is said that Colvin had informed the family where he lived, of enough to satisfy them of his identity, but he could not be persuaded to return. The arrest of the brothers and the notoriety of the case having come to the family, they took Colvin under a pretense of going on some business, and brought him to the place where Stephen Bourne was soon to be executed. His identity could not be doubted, and of course the sentence of the two brothers was suspended.
Stephen Bourne returned to Denmark,
stayed two or three years, and went from thence to Champion, and finally west. He was thought to be half-crazy, good to work, but always poor, and "none too good " to commit the crime of which he had been charged. He was regarded as malicious, passionate, and when angry, blind to consequences. But the most singular part of the whole occurred when, about 1861, this same Bourne, being arrested at Cleveland, O., for passing counterfeit money, and then at an advanced age, again confessed in jail, the murder of Colvin. The guilt of the crime had been on his conscience through all these years, and he could not be persuaded but that it was real.
Two other criminal events of more recent date may be noticed in this con- nection :-
Lorenzo A. Larabee, of this town, was tried for the murder of Jack Woodward, in 1871, and sentenced to Auburn prison for two years and four months, for man- slaughter in the third degree.
In April, 1878, David Merrihew, living in the eastern part of Denmark, was taken ill, and in ten days died in con- vulsive agony. He was a single man, living in the family of his brother, Charles B., who three weeks afterwards was also taken sick, with like symptoms, but under careful nursing was saved. Suspicion strongly pointed to these cases as poisoning, and to the wife of the lat- ter as the criminal. Mrs. Harriet Mer- rihew, was accused, arrested, tried, found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to inprisonment for life. She was sent to the Onondaga peniten- tiary. Winthrop Merrihew, her cousin, was also indicted, but was acquitted. While awaiting trial in jail, he made an attempt at self-starvation, but was com- pelled to abandon it.
In December, 1850, William Cratzen- berg of this town, was indicted for the murder of his wife in the spring preced-
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ing, and tried but acquitted. The judge, in charging the jury, stated that the prisoner had been guilty of great cru- elty and brutality ; but the evidence failed to establish a verdict of guilt. He resided on the road between Copenha- gen and Deer River.
On the 9th of July, 1832, a Board of Health, consisting of the Supervisor, Overseers of the Poor and Justices of the Peace, was appointed in this town, to guard against cholera, and Dr. Eras- mus D. Bartholomew was appointed health officer. Dr. Bartholomew who then lived in Denmark village, after- wards removed to Hamilton, Madison county.
COPENHAGEN VILLAGE.
We have already mentioned the be- ginning of settlement at Munger's Mills, and the naming of the place as since known. There remains to be mentioned, the causes that have given it growth, and its present condition.
About 1820, Allen & Canfield,* who had several years transacted a heavy mercantile and manufacturing business, failed and their mill property was sub- sequently bid in by Abraham Varick of Utica. Dr. Samuel Allen was appoint- ed agent for the erection of an extensive rope factory, and the farmers of this and adjoining towns were induced to en- gage largely in the culture of flax and hemp, hundreds of acres of which were raised. In 1832, a rope walk, 575 feet long, was erected, and about 1836, machinery was introduced for the preparation of hemp. Active efforts were made at about this period to induce farmers to undertake the raising of flax, and seed was loaned to such as would undertake it. The rotting of hemp was not found economical by the process employed, and its culture quickly fell into disuse.
The rope works were burned in the spring of 1843, doubtless by an incen- diary, and again built soon after, 400 feet in length, by Archibald Johnston, and the business has continued more or less regu- larly for some years. Varick lost a large sum in this investment.
In 1853, surveys were made with the design of securing the location of the Rome railroad to this place. The high- est point on the surveyed route was 611 feet above Felt's mills, and about forty above Copenhagen. At that time, a square mile was surveyed, and prelim- inary measures adopted to obtain a vil- lage charter. The census taken for this purpose, gave on the proposed limits, 610 inhabitants .*
The project of an incorporation rested until the beginning of 1869, when a new and this time a successful result was ob- tained. The population as reported January 12, 1869, was 559, on an area assumed as the boundary of the village, measuring about 751 acres, as surveyed by William C. Lawton. The incorpo- ration dates from February 22, 1869, and the election on the acceptance of arti- cles held May 4, 1869, resulted in a vote of 108 for, to 27 against.
The first Trustees were John C. Wright, John M. Paris, Erastus P. Daggett, Phineas Woolworth, Enos Gallup, and J. L. Merrell.
The remaining first officers were Peter Bent, John D. Dryden and A. M. Stock well, Assessors; James Johnston, Clerk; Leicester J. Raymond, Treasurer ; and George Chickering, Street Commission- ers. John C. Wright, was chosen Presi- dent.
At an election held June 7, 1870, upon the acceptance of the new General act for the organization of village govern- ments, it was approved by a vote of 38 to o.
* David Canfield died December 17, 1849, aged sev- enty-one.
* The census of 1870, gave the population of the vil- lage as 575. In 1880 it was 702.
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The succession of Village Presidents, has been as follows :-
1870. John C. Wright.
1871-'72. Oliver Woodward.
1873-'74. Charles M. Paris.
1875-'77. Lucian Clark.
1878-'79. D. P. Hadcock.
1880. A. L. Clark.
1881. Charles M. Redfield.
1882. A. L. Clark.
The present business of the village (August, 1882,) may be summarized as follows ;-
Barber-George Keiser.
Blacksmiths - Nelson T. Outwater, Corcoran Bros., John W. Wright.
Boots and Shoes-(Sold at all dry-goods stores, but at no separate establishment.) Albert Boynton, Franklin Cottrell, Solo- mon Doness and Celia LeMain, shoe- makers.
Butter-tub factory and Planing-Mill- Olney Newton.
Cheese Box and Butter-tub Factory- Horace Ward.
Clothing Store-George R. Scovil.
Dentist-William G. Smith.
Dress Makers-Mrs. Anna Ferguson, Miss Louisa Forward, Mrs. Augusta Vary.
Druggists-Erwin J. Noyes, Leicester J. Raymond & Son, Curtis R. Stoddard.
Dry-Goods Stores and Groceries-Benja- min Stanton, Albert G. Thompson & Son, Frederick H. Angle, Wheeler Bros. Furniture Dealers and Undertakers- Joseph Empey, Frank Lansing.
Grist-Mill-Eugene C. Hurd. Feed Mill-J. S. Campbell.
Croceries, etc. - George J. Dryden, Warren S. Stiles.
Hardware - Charles A. Chickering, Robert G. McCuen.
Harnesses-Moses Lang, Charles L. Merrell.
Hotel-Davenport Bros. [John R. & William A. sons of Ashley D.] (Another hotel owned by L. Totman, was partly burned July 1, 1882. It has since been rebuilt.)
Jewelers-Morris L. Merriman, D. Ter- rell.
Lawyers-A. H. Kellogg, G. P. Breen. Milliners-Mrs. Harriet Cottrell, Mrs. Chas. Hughes, Miss Irene Bohall.
Painters-Sidney B. Daggett.
Photographer-Morris L. Merriam.
Physicians-Dr. E. I Wood, (Homeo- pathic); Dr. O. O. Stowell; Dr. Otis Shaw ; Dr. Ebenezer Allen, (Eclectic); Dr. A. H. Gordenier.
Printer-Charles M. Redfield, office of Lewis County Independent.
Produce Dealers-Thomas McMichael, and the stores generally.
Sash and Blinds, Planing, Etc .- Eu- gene H. Green, James Carey.
Saw-Mills-Horace Ward, Burrington Nellis.
Tailors-Henry Murphy and James Shepard.
Tannery-Switzer Campbell.
Telegraph Operator-Warren S. Stiles. Tin Shops-(With each of the hard- ware stores.)
Wagon Shops-Oscar T. Ingerson, Cor- coran Bros., William Bushnell.
The Perkins Academy, on the northern border of the village, was opened as a private academy in the fall of 1879, by the Rev. Judson O. Perkins, and has usually an attendance of from 40 to 60, the rolls at times having 100 at a time on record.
The Free Masons have a lodge at Co- penhagen -" Orient Lodge" No. 238. There was a lodge also at Denmark vil- lage early in the century.
The order of Temperance styled " The Temple of Honor," has an organization known as "Robins Temple," No. 13, at Copenhagen.
John H. Raymond's Cornet Band, has been in existence for several years.
Levi Robbins, the Centenarian. - In the spring of 1880, there occurred in this town, the extraordinary event of a birth- day party, in which the person honored had finished the first century of life, and was about to enter upon the second. The occasion derived the greater interest, from the fact that the subject of this notice had acted a somewhat prominent part in the history of the town and county, and because from his having been at one time a member of the Leg- islature, the event became a matter of
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record, in the form of a resolution of con- gratulation upon the Assembly Journal.
Levi Robbins, son of Solomon and Mary Robbins, was born at Wethersfield, Conn., May 1, 1780, and came to reside in Denmark, in 1801. In 1803, he mar- ried Dinah Goodenough, and settled as a farmer, which was his occupation through life. He became a member of the Baptist church, and was the first man baptized in Copenhagen, and upon the formation of a Baptist church under the Rev. Peter P. Roots, and Rev. Stephen Parsons, in 1808, he became the first deacon and clerk.
He took an early and active interest in the temperance question, and was a radical abolitionist. In the early days of the agitation upon the slavery question, he voted as he believed, upon that ques- tion, at a time when one could count the number of voters of his party in this town, upon the fingers of one hand; and if we rightly remember, he would have held several responsible offices in the county, if he had received votes enough. But office seeking was not quite in his line, although in 1819, he was elected to the Assembly. With his face set against sin, as usual, he proposed a measure, while a member, that at least got his name into poetry, in the way we will describe :---
The country being infested then, as now, with strolling companies of show- men, he brought in a bill tending to sup- press the nuisance. It was made the op- portunity for one of our most gifted of American poets, the late Fitz Green Hal- leck, to bring out one of the satirical poems, which he, in company with Joseph Rodman Drake, was then print- ing in political newspaper, over the sig- nature of the " Croakers."
In this facetious poem, the writer in- dulges in conjectures as to how Mr. Pot- ter, a ventriloquist of the day, might turn his special craft to account after
losing his business, by getting into the State service, and into politics, generally. This whimsical production was as fol- lows :-
" Dear Sir, you've heard that Mr. Robbins Has brought in without rhyme or reason, A bill to send you jugglers hopping ; That bill will pass this very season. Now as you lose your occupation, And may perhaps be low in Coffer, I send you for consideration The following very liberal offer :-
" Five hundred down, by way of bounty, Expenses paid (as shall be stated), Next April to Chenango county, And there we'll have you nominated. Your duty 'll be to watch the tongues When Root* begins to skirmish,
To stop their speeches in their lungs, And bring out such as I shall furnish.
" Thy ventriloqual powers, my Potter ! Shall turn to music every word, And make the Martlingt Deists utter Harmonious anthems to our Lord ; Then, all their former tricks upsetting, To honey thou shall change their gall, For Sharpe shall vindicate brevetting, And Root admire the great canal.
" It will be pleasant, too, to hear a Decent speech among our Swains ; We almost had begun to fear a Famine for the dearth of brains. No more their tongues shall play the devil, Thy potent art the fault prevents ; Now Germant shall, for once, be civil, And Bacong speak with common sense.
" Poor German's head is but a leaker ; Should yours be found compact and close, As you're to be the only Speaker, We'll make you SPEAKER of the House. If you're in haste to 'touch the siller,' Dispatch me your acceptance merely, And call on trusty Mr. Miller.|| He'll pay the cash-Sir, yours sincerely." -CROAKER.
On the hundredth birthday of Mr. Robbins, a pleasant party assembled to congratulate him upon the unusual event. As he had been a Member of the
* Erastus Root, a leading statesman in that day in Delaware county.
Abraham B. Martling, the proprietor of Tammany Hall Hotel, and successor to Barty Skaats as keeper of the City Hall.
# Obadiah German, of Chenango county.
Ezekiel Bacon, a Member of Assembly. [ Sylvanus Miller, Surrogate of New York City.
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Legislature, and was at that time with- out doubt, the oldest person then living, who had been a member of that body, the Assembly, upon motion of Mr. Chick- ering, of Lewis county, moved the fol- lowing resolution, which was adopted unanimously, by a rising vote :-
Resolved, That the Assembly of 1880, hereby extends to the Honorable Levi Robbins, its hearty congratulations upon the arrival of this interesting event in his honored life, which marks with so much significance, the rounding off of a full century of existence, crowned as it is, with a consciousness of having done his duty to his State, and having been faithful to his public trusts when our great Commonwealth was just entering upon her career of power and greatness. As he was true to every public obliga- tion reposed in him, may his declining years be filled with pleasant recollec- tions of the great past covered by his long life, and of the notable events which its history embraces, and may every comfort of mind and body, be his to the end of his days. Also,
Resolved, That a copy of this preamble and resolution, be engrossed and for- warded to Mr. Robbins .*
The water-power at Copenhagen and below is valuable for manufacturing pur- poses, and may be improved to a much greater extent than at present. The river is, however, somewhat liable to ex- tremes of flood and drouth, and the bridge at the village has been several times swept away. This accident oc- curred in the winter of 1842-'43.
Deer River Falls .- About half a mile. below Copenhagen, occur the celebrated High falls, on Deer river. The stream has here worn a broad deep chasm in the Trenton limestone, down which the torrent plunges a nearly vertical slope, a distance of 166 feet. The bank on the south side is 225 feet high. On the north side of the cascade, the rock presents a very steep inclination, and has been broken away, leaving a succession of
small narrow steps, with occasional projections, along which the adven- turous visitor may creep a considerable distance up the bank, but not without imminent danger.
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