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The Rev. John Taylor, in a missionary tour through the Black River country, in 1802, visited these falls and recorded the following description :-
"Captain Mosley and five others rode out with me to see a great curiosity, six miles from Champion, in ye corner of number 5. It is a gulf in Deer river. We walked 34ths of a mile from the road on the rocks, on the bed of the river. The rocks are limestones, and smooth, with here and there a large crack. The river has worn the rock, on an average, about twenty feet deep, and the bed of the river is about nine or ten rods wide. At present, there is on each side of the stream, about three rods of fine walking. When we come to the falls, the most sublime prospect presents, which is conceivable. The ground above has the same appearance as the general form of the country, and is level. The water passes down into a gulf 155 feet. The top of the gulf from rock to rock is, as near as I could judge, 12 rods; at the bottom it is, on an average, 8 or 9. For the first hundred feet, the rocks are perpendicular, then there lies fragments of rocks and stones, so that where the water passes, when it has come to the bottom of the fall, it is about four rods wide. Upon ye side of ye place where the water passes over, Mr. Mosley went to the edge, and let down a cord, with a stone, when I was at the bottom. The cord hung perpendicular, and I was then 24 feet from the base of the rock. The cord measured 155 feet by a square. Fif- teen rods below the falls the perpendic- ular rock is about 40 feet higher. About 25 rods below this, there is a place where it is possible for people to get down, but extremely steep, and something danger- ous ; but we passed down without injury. At ye bottom of ye river, there is ye same rock-which rock extends all over this county ; how deep, no one can tell. The rock is a great curiosity ; it is all a limestone, and is filled with every kind of sea shells petrified. I knocked out of
* Assembly Journal, April 30, 1880, page 1, 135.
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ye solid rock, 155 feet below the surface of the earth, various shells. * * * This gulf is, without any doubt, all made from three-fourths of a mile below, by the wearing of the water, which makes the curiosity of the shells vastly greater. And, indeed, this whole rock, which is certainly 155 feet deep, and which ex- tends to Sandy creek-and perhaps 50 to 100 miles around in all directions, made up of sea-shells of every kind- such as cockles, clams, oysters, and a thousand others."-Doc. Hist. N. Y., III, pp, 1145, 46.
About 1806, Miss Lodema Schermer- horn, in attempting rashly to climb this perilous steep, had crept over half-way up before she was aware of the danger, when she found that descent was im- possible, and her only chance for life de- pended upon her reaching the top. With cautious and steady nerve, she contin- ued on, now clinging with one hand in a crevice of the rock, while she found a firm hold for the other a little higher, till she finally gained the summit, exhausted with fatigue, and overcome by the ex- traordinary nervous excitement which the effort occasioned. A female associ- ate had followed her lead, and also found it necessary to go on or perish in the ef- fort. She also reached the top of the precipice in safety. Some years after, Thomas Parkman attempted to scale the cliff, and got so far up that he could neither advance nor recede. His com- panions ran to the nearest house, pro- cured a bed cord, and drew him to the top.
On the night of September 17, 1853, William Ferguson, a British deserter, working in a foundry, having drank freely the day previous, and retired late, sprang up from sleep, saying that a man had fallen into the river above the falls, and ran towards the precipice. A per- son followed, but before he could be overtaken, the delirious man had climbed a tree that overhung the chasm, when the branch on which he stood broke, and
he fell to the bottom, a distance of 130 feet, striking half-way down, and bound- ing into deep water. He was instantly killed by the fall.
On the 7th of September, 1860, a young man, named Jackson, not only climbed the bank on the north side of the falls, but then climbed down again the same way. The latter part of this ex- ploit would seem to be impossible to one who ever observed the place. The author happened to visit the falls a short time after, while Jackson and some friends were still there, and the intrepid- ity with which he approached and stood within a hand-breadth of the chasm, was convincing evidence of his steady nerve, and there appeared no reason to doubt the truth of his statement.
The Riverside Cemetery Association of Copenhagen, on the eastern border of the village, and not far from the Deer River falls, was incorporated May 28, 1867, with John D. Loud, John C. Wright, Nathan Clark, Oliver Woodard, Erastus P. Daggett and Lucian Clark as first trustees. It includes a town cemetery formerly existing. A receiving vault was erected adjacent to the street upon which the cemetery fronts, in 1869.
In Riverside Cemetery in Copenhagen, is a headstone that bears the following inscription :-
" CHARLES WENHAM, DIED JANUARY 6, 1873: AGED 23 YEARS AND 2 MONTHS."
To the stranger, there is nothing in this to attract notice; but the manner of his death attracted at the time remark- able attention, and in the sequel it af- forded an impressive example of Retrib- utive Justice, working slow, but sure.
Wenham had been employed in farm labor near Copenhagen, and had as a fel- low laborer a young Englishman of about his age, named Charles Sutherland. The work of the season being over, he was about to start for California, with
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his earnings, amounting to something over $200. He was to take the cars at Carthage, and Sutherland drove down to that village to see him off. It being some hours before car time, it was pro- posed that they should take a ride, al- though the weather was cold and stormy. A cutter with three men was seen by many persons that afternoon going down "Martin Street" towards Great Bend, and the same vehicle was seen to return later in the day with only one man in it. A family living a quarter of a mile or so south of this place and in full view, particularly noticed that the cutter stood for a long time in the storm, and that persons went to and among some willows, on the border of Deer creek. Finally, one of them entered the cutter, turned around, and came back. Curiosity soon led to examina- tion, and the body of a dead man was found under the ice. The road showed tracks around the place where the cut- ter had stood, and a bit of colored worsted was picked up that had come from the fringe of a muffler. The dis- covery was at once reported at Car- thage, and the person who had come with the murdered man to the village was very naturally suspected. A war- rant for his arrest was issued, and offi- cers were sent to Copenhagen to secure him, but they encountered the greatest difficulties in facing the storm, and in breaking their way through the snow- drifts. Arriving in the night, they found him at the house which he made his home, and upon call, he came down stairs. Being told that he was wanted, he asked leave to get his overcoat, and in this absence he swallowed a poisonous dose of strychnine. On the way down to Carthage, he was soon taken with spasms, and long before their arrival he was dead. They brought his rigid corpse, still in the sitting posture, into the hotel, and sat it up in a chair-the
ghastly spectacle of a murderer, self- confessed and self-executed.
But the testimony of many persons about a third person in the cutter, was so positive that it became certain that justice had not yet been satisfied, and suspicions, at first vague, began to cen- ter upon one Hiram Smith, who had previously been an associate of Suther- land, and who, after his death, had been employed as a laborer near Copenhagen and at Carthage for many months. He was arrested, tried at Watertown, and finally, after one or two respites, was hung December 4, 1874. Although no one could well doubt his guilt, there were many who censured the manner in which an admission of the crime was drawn from him under a confidence, by a pretended partner in the crime which it was proposed to undertake. In fact, so sensibly was this associate made to feel the public displeasure, that he found it best to remove to a distant place.
The Tusk of a Mammoth found near Co- penhagen .- On the 20th of September, 1877, as Joseph Butlin, living on the Watertown road about a mile from Co- penhagen, and not far from the county line, was getting muck out of a low place which had evidently been a small land-locked pond without an outlet, he came upon the tusk of a small Mam- moth partly bedded in the muck, and partly in a stratum of marl by which it was underlaid. It was very complete, and weighed twenty-five pounds. It measured on the convex side five feet nine inches in length, and had a girth of 834 inches at the base and of 1034 inch- es at the largest place. This tusk is now in the State Museum of Natural History at Albany, and plaster casts have been made by the author for several public institutions, from a mold prepared while the specimen was for a time in his pos- session. Among the many tusks of the Mammoth which we have seen in
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American and European Museums, there were none that could be compared with this for completeness; in fact, one of the most distinguished of Naturalists, upon seeing a plaster copy, could scarcely be made to believe but that it was from a recently buried elephant, so entire and perfect did it appear. The texture had however changed considerably from that of recent ivory, and although hot glue was poured in liberally into the socket at the base, and it was readily absorbed in every part, the original has after some years' exposure to the air, lost some of the perfection that it first exhibited, and has shown a tendency to fall to pieces.
The marl at the bottom of this muck bed, contains fresh water shells exactly like those found in Lake Pleasant in Champion, some two miles away, and the muck itself has evidently been formed by the slow accumulation of veg- etable material from around the borders of the ancient pond.
KING'S FALLS.
This cascade occurs in Deer river, about two miles below Deer River falls, and has a descent of about forty feet. It is said to have been named in compli- ment to Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king of Spain, by whom the place was visited and much admired,but we have not been able to definitely prove this point. There are those who think the name derived from an early citizen of the town, named David King, who first located on the river road west of Copenhagen, near the former residence of Joseph Rich. He did not remain there long, but took up land in the lower part of the town, near Peter Bent's. He was a surveyor.
This locality is often visited by picnic parties, and although not particularly grand, the scenery is still beautiful. The banks of; Deer river, from the High
Falls to the last of the limestones below Deer River village, present the finest section of these rocks for the study of geology, that the county affords.
DEER RIVER VILLAGE.
Settlement at Deer River was begun by Abel French, a few years after his arrival as agent. In 1824, a large stone mill was built by Richard Myers and A. Wilson. A large saw-mill was built in 1848. The mill property was subse- quently owned by Johnson & Rogers, Leonard S. Standring, Munger & Wool- worth, and Wood, Rogers & Co., upon whose hands it was burnt, June 18, 1870. It was rebuilt by T. Standring and H. S. Hendee, and was again burned, when owned by Dickinson & Kingsbury, Oct. 22, 1881. It has not since been complete- ly rebuilt. This village has at various times borne the name of the mill owner, as French's Mills, Myers' Mills, etc., but since the establishment of a postoffice, it has been known as Deer River. The name was adopted at a meeting called for the purpose. The village is quite small, having one hotel, (A. M. Seymour,) a store, (E. D. Mix; formerly from 1848, to Oct. 1881, kept by Edward L. Hul- bert,) a tin-shop, (Wm. Stevens,) a cast- iron and steel plow factory and saw-mill, (Thomas L. Kidney,) a cheese-box facto- ry and planing and saw-mill run by steam and water, (John W. Brace; em- ploying 6 to 10 men,) and a rake factory. The latter owned by Otho A. Lamphear, was begun as an establishment for mak- ing broom handles and curtain rollers, about 1870; was changed to a rake fac- tory in 1877, and in 1882, made about 1,000 dozen of rakes, employing about four men.
There was formerly a lodge of Good Templars at this place, but it has not been continued.
The Deer River Swinburne Cemetery
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Association, was formed February 21, 1880, with the following trustees :-
J. Erwin Vrooman and Collins Miller, three years.
James M. Myers and William C. Clark, two years.
Alanson Myers and Stephen S. Otis, one year.
Two were to be elected, as vacancies occurred thereafter. The proceedings in organization . were confirmed by law, April 12, 1881. It derives its name from Dr. John Swinburne, of Albany, a na- tive of this town and vicinity, who gave it land adjacent to a town burial-ground that had previously been formed, and which is included in it. The premises in- clude four acres, and are adjacent to Deer River village, on the south side of the creek, and upon a gentle swell of land.
DEER RIVER STATION.
This place, on the flats near the river, and about three-fourths of a mile east of the village, is the usual stopping place and point for shipment on the railroad for this part of the town, but is other- wise of no importance.
CASTORLAND STATION.
This is one of the two stations on the Utica & Black River Railroad, in this town, and a point of im- portant business for the country east of the river, it being opposite the Par- ker bridge, and the road leading to Beaver Falls and Croghan. At present it has only a hotel, (kept by L. Church,) and one or two houses. A warehouse for storing hides and leather, was under construction in the summer of 1882. Two miles below, on the river bank, is a steam saw and shingle mill, owned by Linus M. Gates. This point was for- merly known as Parsons' Landing, from having belonged to Captain William R. Parsons.
The name of this station is given to
commemorate the Castorland colony of early days. Although it is not located upon the tract which that company had purchased, it is the nearest approach by railway, to the principal seat of their in- tended operations-the inland metropo- lis of their domain. It is to be regretted that the name could not have been per- petuated on the exact spot where it had been intended ninety years ago.
In 1849, a steam saw-mill was erected by Kitts & Broadway, on the east road, near the Lowville line, and in 1858, Sen- eca R. Cowles & Co., erected a manu- factory of staves, shingles and heading, upon the Black river, at Blodget's land- ing. This mill was burned August 30, 1860, and as was supposed, by an in- cendiary. It was valued at $10,000, and insured at $6,000.
DENMARK VILLAGE.
Denmark (p. o.) is the oldest village in the town. Its postoffice was one of the first in the county, having been estab- lished in January, 1804. As a business place it is now probably one of the least important. It has a hotel and store, (Philander Blodget,) a separate store, (Darwin Nash,) a harness-shop, (John Hess,) and blacksmith shop, (Phineas Page.) It has also one physician, (Dr. W. H. A. Turner.) The place is little else than a thickly settled neighborhood, a mile or so in length, rather more dense at the two ends than in the middle, and not so populous as it was forty years ago.
Almon M. Norton* and Amos Buck,t were many years prominent merchants in this village. The first merchant was Jabez Wright, in 1805. Freedom Wright was the first inn-keeper. He was suc- ceeded by various others in this busi-
* Mr. Norton died at Lockport, Ill., November 23, 1859, aged 73.
t Mr. Buck died July IT, 1855, aged 60. He was in the Assembly in 1825 and 1843.
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ness. About 1821, Hezekiah Hulbert, from Utica, began keeping the then only hotel in the village. It was burned, and the stone hotel of Blodget was built.
The first school in Copenhagen, was taught by Tyrannus A. Wright, and the first school house in town was built near the inn of Freedom Wright, in Denmark village. The first school commissioners were Lewis Graves, Charles Wright, Jr., and Stephen Parsons; and the first school inspectors were John Canfield, Israel Kellogg, and Charles Squire. These were chosen in 1813.
In 1829, Charles Brown erected a wooden building in Denmark village for an academy, and taught with much suc- cess for several years. Since his removal about 1840, Johnson Clark and several others have taught, but the premises were discontinued for school purposes many years ago. More recently Joseph A. Prindle has taught a private school in the village for several years.
The Alexandria library of Denmark, was formed May 6, 1811, by Willis Se- combe, Lewis Graves, Jr., Chas. Squire, Asa Pierce, Gardner Cottrell, Solomon Wood, and Isaac Horr, trustees. It was dissolved before the introduction of school libraries.
On the 6th of October, 1860, John La- Mountain, somewhat celebrated as an aeronaut, made a balloon ascension at Carthage, and landed on the north side of the valley, south of Denmark village, near the State road. He was up sixteen minutes, and descended safely.
This man was noted for his reckless adventures as an aeronaut, and was one of the party that, starting from St. Louis, about 1860, drifted across the States of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio; crossed Lake Erie obliquely, and finally, after riding the whole length of Lake Ontario, in a gale of wind, lodged in a tree in Ellis- burgh. A few weeks later he made an ascension at Watertown, with John A.
Haddock,and landed three hundred miles north, in the wilderness, beyond Ottawa. During the war he was employed by the Government in the Army of the Potomac but we believe without much benefit. Finally, in an ascension in the interior of the State, in a smoke balloon, and secur- ed only by two ropes crossing it above, the balloon slipped out and left him and the ropes half a mile in the air. He never made another ascension.
Deaths of Some Old Inhabitants and Early Settlers of Denmark, not Elsewhere
Given.
These names are not selected because more prominent than others that are not given, but they are such as are within our possession at the time of writing. There are many others that should have been included, that could not be ascer- tained.
Anderson Nicholas, died Sept. 7, 1863, aged 74.
Austin Silas, died April 2, 1853, aged 75. Austin Silas, Jr., died June 20, 1873, aged
58.
Austin Harrison, died Dec. 7, 1864.
Babcock Daniel, born 1749, died March 14, 1849, (Revolutionary soldier.) Babcock Orlando, died May 28, 1864, aged 62.
Baker John, died March 15, 1854, aged 54. Bedell Daniel, died April 25, 1874, aged 77. Bedell William, died Aug. 14, 1876, aged 86. Bent Abel D., born July 3, 1802, died Feb. 17, 1878.
Burt Ithamer, died Sept. 14, 1841, aged 84.
Carter Benjamin E., died Dec. 27, 1868, aged 69.
Chadwick John H., died Jan. 4, 1869, aged 83.
Chambers James H., died May 27, 1856, aged 68.
Clark Elijah, died Oct. 20, 1848, aged 77. Clark John, died Nov. 25, 1875.
Clark John S., died Feb. 10, 1850, aged 87. Clark William, died June 13, 1849, aged 74.
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Collins Ezekiel, died Sept. 24, 1864, aged 52.
Cratzenberg Nicholas A., died Dec. 22, 1873, aged 76.
Cunningham Aaron, died Sept. 18, 1864, aged 75.
Cunningham Lyman, born Sept. 17, 1814, died July 22, 1876.
Davis Aaron, died Aug. 12, 1880, aged 71. Davis Amos, died Oct. 13, 1861, aged 66. Davis Benjamin, died Aug. 3, 1877, aged 77.
Dickinson Deacon George, died June 24, 1877, aged 83.
Dimock Joseph, died Feb. 7, 1843, aged 77.
Ganes James, died May 3, 1876, aged 80. Gomer John, died June 8, 1879, aged 84. Graves David, died Dec. 1, 1814, aged 55. Green Oliver, died May 11, 1867, aged 94, (came in 1805.)
Hadcock Jacob, died March 4, 1861, aged 76.
Harter Philip H., died July 17, 1876, aged 78.
Hartwell Morris, died Aug. 25, 1880, aged 79.
Hartwell William, died Sept. 18, 1845, aged 68.
Hazen John, died Nov. 21, 1838, aged 52. Hopgood William, died Aug. 19, 1872, aged 81.
Howland Rufus, died Dec. 5, 1852, aged 68.
Hunt Asa, died Nov. 29, 1857, aged 57. Hunt Ephraim, died Oct. 6, 1852, aged 79. Johnson Archibald, died Dec. 27, 1867. Keen Deacon William, died March 4, 1850, aged 84.
Kitts Jacob, died June 30, 1865, aged 82. Lawton William C., died July 21, 1874, aged 77.
Lawton William H., died Aug. 6, 1876, aged 32.
Leonard Dennis, died Nov. 9, 1854, aged 64.
Lockwood Gershom, dicd Feb. 1, 1839, aged 87.
Loucks Aaron, died Feb. 11, 1845, aged 45, (suicide.)
Loucks James, of West Lowville, died March 7, 1867, aged 47, (suicide.)
Loud John D., died March 17, 1877, aged 57.
Macomber Samuel, died May 6, 1838.
Merrell Seth, died Dec. 31, 1852, aged 63. Moors John, died March 5, 1832, aged 84.
Munger Nelson, died Sept. 17, 1879, aged 66.
Munger Isaac, died April 20, 1850, aged 75. Munger Charles R., died July 25, 1867, aged 34.
Myers James H., died Sept. 26, 1877, aged 83.
Myers Richard, died Nov. 13, 1861, aged 90. Myers Samuel, died Dec. 13, 1869, aged 66.
Orvis Samuel, died Jan. 14, 1878, aged 99 y., II mo., 19 days.
Orvis Samuel, Jr., (Rev.) died Sept. 14, 1850, aged 38.
Orvis Sally, (wife of Samuel,) died March 16, 1874, aged 91.
Nash James, born May 3, 1779, died Aug. 27, 1854.
Newman Jesse, died Aug. 1, 1851, aged 73.
Packard Jared, died June 20, 1843, aged 69. Paris Michael, died July 15, 1871, aged 91. Parsons Stephen, died Aug. 30, 1832, aged 58.
Phinney Joseph, died July 23, 1851, aged 79. Pierce Asa, died Sept. 10, 1845, aged 76. Potter Angel, died Feb. 5, 1858, aged 84. Rathbone Josiah, died Feb. 12, 1840, aged 81, (Revolutionary soldier.)
Rich Benjamin H., died March 17, 1848, aged 67.
Rich Josiah, died June 24, 1831, aged 92. Rogers Duett, died Nov. 2, 1878, aged 69. Rogers Rev. Horace, died April 11, 1872, aged 77.
Rogers John, died July 28, 1858, aged 76. Root William, died at Chicago, April I, 1868, at an advanced age.
Ryel Isaac, died December 5, 1869, aged 50.
Ryel Peter, died February 12, 1877, aged 85.
Sage Elias, died February 29, 1852, aged 93.
Shaw Philip, died October 22, 1818, aged 69.
Shaw Philip, Jr., died March 19, 1854, aged 76.
Shepard Jacob, died May 4, 1856, aged 77. Shepard Obed, died April 10, 1853, aged 67.
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Sherwood Michael, died May 15, 1832, aged 50.
Sherwood Capt. William, died April 2, 1837, aged 65.
Spalding William, died October 8, 1876, aged 86.
Spencer Abner H., died in summer of 1848, (suicide).
Staunton Dr. Lyman, died November 23, 1870, aged 57.
Stiles Sullivan, died June 12, 1855, aged 78. Suits Thomas, died April 9, 1864, aged 68.
Taylor Charles, died October 18, 1855, aged 72.
Thomas Williams, died March 7, 1871, aged 64.
Thomas Joseph T., died August 31, 1853, aged 63.
Townsend Abner, died May 12, 1839, aged 78.
Twitchell Uriel, died November 19, 1856, aged 79.
Van Brocklin Alexander, died August 31, 1851, aged 83. [A. H. VanBrock- lin, formerly of this town was mur- dered in Montana, November 12, 1881.]
Wells Joseph, died January 1, 1851, aged 57.
Whitford William, died August 30, 1873, aged 86.
Wright Augustus T., died July 12, aged
61. (Killed while a keeper in Clin- ton prison.)
Wright John C., died May 29, 1881, aged 57. Wright Stephen S., died September 27, 1840, aged 64.
Special Town Meetings during the Late War.
As in other towns, the citizens of Denmark had repeated occasion to con- sult together, during the late war, for the purpose of filling quotas and raising means to defray the expenses that these required. The first of these special town meetings was held August 23, 1862, at which, bounties of fifty dollars were offered to those enlisting in Captain Hubbard's company. An agreement was confirmed, by which a majority had
in writing appointed John C. Wright, Peter Bent, Lucian Clark, Nathan Clark, Henry C. Potter, A. G. Thompson, Oli- ver Woodward, E. D. Babcock, E. G. Parsons, Ellis A. Cook, L. S. Standring, W. D. G. Cottrell, Abner Munger, Gil- bert E. Woolworth, and Gilbert B. John- son, as a committee to raise funds. It was voted to raise $4,000, and to pay $50 bounties to volunteers.
On the 18th of July, 1863, a special town meeting requested the supervisors to raise on the town, a tax of $4,321 in pursuance of a former vote.
On the 12th of December, 1863, a bounty of $300 was voted to pay volun- teers and drafted men ; but if the county should offer $100, then the town would pay $200, viz :- $100 on muster in three months and $100 in six months. A com- mittee consisting of Peter Bent, Harrison Blodget, Lucian Clark, E. D. Babcock, E. A. Cook, G. E. Woolworth, L. S. Standring, John Dence, G. B. Johnson, Abner Munger, Ashley Davenport, John C. Wright, and R. J. Rich, were ap- pointed to raise money for paying bounties.
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