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settled in the town of Leyden, where Mr. Hough began the first improve- ments on the farm afterwards owned by General Ela Merriam.
Here they encountered the full share of hardship incident to pioneer life, and witnessed the beginning of settlement in that beautiful portion of the county. In 1802, Mr. Hough purchased land and cleared a farm, still owned by his son, near the village of West Martinsburgh, where he died October 6, 1842, aged seventy-three years. His wife died in the same place June 26, 1870, aged nine- ty-seven years. They had five children, Keturah, born May 8, 1795, married Apollos Rogers, died September 3, 1831 ; Philomela, born May 18, 1798, married Z. Chapman, now living (1883); Clarissa, born May 22, 1800, married Elijah Phil- lips, May 24, 1827, still living (1883) ; Lorinda, born August 1, 1804, married Apollos Rogers, died June 16, 1835.
The fifth child was Eli B., who was born in West Martinsburgh, January 15, 1810. He passed his early life in West Martinsburgh, on the farm his father cleared and settled, on which he was born, and on which he yet lives. He was educated in the common schools, and has always followed the business of farming.
He married Abigail Rogers, of Mar- tinsburgh, January 12, 1836, by whom he had two children : Theodore D., Ist, born February 26, 1838, died September 6, 1841 ; Theodore D., 2d, born July 25, 1843, now on the farm with his father. Abigail died October 5, 1843.
Mr. Hough then married Malvina M. Wright, of Greene county, N. Y., June
12, 1844. Gertrude, born November 5, 1845, is a child of this marriage. She married James M. Patch, of Rose Creek, Minnesota, where she now lives.
Religiously, Mr. Hough is a Univer- salist, liberal in his views, and is a man of honor and probity, much respected by all with whom he comes in contact.
CHESTER SHUMWAY.
The first of this family of whom there is any record, was Pierre de Chamois, (afterward called Peter Shumway,) a Huguenot refugee who came to America from France, in 1695. It is said that among his companions of the voyage was one Faneuil, the father of Peter Faneuil, who was born about 1700, and who built and presented to the city of Boston the original Faneuil Hall. The following concerning this Peter or Pierre Shumway, is copied from the town records of Oxford, Massachusetts :-
" Peter or Pierre Shumway, or Shum- mer, came from France, A. D., 1695, and settled at Danvers,* thence to Bos- ton, where married an English lady of the name of Smith, whose father built the third house in Boston with a cellar under it. Afterward moved to Oxford, Massachusetts, where were born : Oliver, in 1701 ; Jeremiah, in 1703 ; David, in 1705; John, in 1707; Jacob, in 1709; Samuel, in 1711 ; and Amos in 1722."
Of these, David, born December 24, 1705, migrated to Sturbridge, Massa- chusetts, where were born to him chil- dren, as follows : Asa, October 16, 1738; David, May 12, 1742 ; Solomon, April 1,
* The settlement at Danvers was broken up by the Indians.
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1745 ; Cyril, May 14, 1752; Elijah, July 24, 1753 ; Danforth, July 18, 1768; Leo- vinia, born November 4, 1761, became the wife of Nathan Cheney, of Martins- burgh, and was grandmother of Rev. Charles Edward Cheney, of Chicago, Ill., Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church.
4, 1778; Duty, in 1782-Colonel Duty Shumway, of Granville, Washington county, New York; Eddy, in 1786; Horatio, in 1788-Hon. Horatio Shum- way, of Buffalo, Mew York; Zebina, in 1790 ; and Samuel, in 1793-Hon Samuel Shumway, M. D., of Essex, afterwards of Whitehall, New York. Eddy and
LITTLE
[ CHESTER SHUMWAY. ]
Lieutenant David Shumway, removed to Belchertown, Massachusetts, and died May 10, 1796. His brother, Dr. Dan- forth Shumway, came to Martinsburgh about 1806, where he remained a few years, engaged in mercantile business, and afterwards removed to Malta, Sara- toga county, where he died.
David was the father of the following children :-
David, born in 1775; Chester, March
Zebina lived and died in Belchertown, Massachusetts.
About 1803, David and Chester left Brattleboro, Vermont, where' they had spent the season at work, with knapsacks on their backs, and axes on their shoul- ders, to carve out for themselves homes in the then almost unbroken forest of the Back River valley. They took what was known as the "northern route," which led through what was
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called the "Chateaugay woods," most of the way being little more than a trail following a line of marked trees. They struck the Black river at or near what is now Brownville, and proceeding up the river, finally located on adjoining farms in the town of Martinsburgh, on the West road, at a place since known as Shumway's Corners.
Besides clearing up their farms as they could, being blacksmiths,'they erected a shop for that business. Besides what is now generally supposed to belong to that branch of industry, they manufact- ured by hand, nails, chains, hoes and axes, and also plows of that rude sort called " bull plows," having shares of wrought iron and mold-boards of slabs split from winding trees. The days of cut nails and cast-iron plows were not yet known. They also engaged con- siderably in the manufacture of potash or " black salts," hauling the products of their works to Utica, usually with a team of four pairs of oxen. David after- wards became quite noted throughout the county, and even beyond its limits for his skill and success in lifting and moving buildings with machinery of his own devising. He died December 6, 1849, aged seventy-four years.
Chester Shumway was married in March, 1805, to Phebe Hitchcock, daughter of Jesse Hitchcock, of Low- ville, and she having died in December, 1839, he was again married November 19, 1842, to Anna Stanley, who died at South Rutland, Jefferson county, New York, May 3, 1873. Their children were : Lucinda, born May 13, 1808, died Febru- ary II, 1830: Laura, born April 16, 1810,
married May 5, 1852, to Samuel Dusin- berre, died March 21, 1883 ; Porter, born December 31. 1811, died September 9, 1864; Fannie, born May 12, 1813, died Sep- tember 25, 1839; Sophia, born Decem- ber 28, 1814, married March 6, 1834, to Uri Bradley Curtis, of Martinsburgh, died December 4, 1872 ; Harriet, born March 23, 1816, married April 18, 1848, to Peter Viele; Chester : Luther, born January 20, 1819, died April 20, 1878; Phebe, born March 22 1821, married February 5, 1845, to Almon Rice, of Martinsburgh ; Seymour, born January 2, 1823, now (1883) living in Chatfield, Minnesota ; Cordelia, born December 20, 1824, now (1883) in Lowville ; Julia, born July 17, 1826, married January 2, 1850, to Evan Wilson Williams, now dead ; Loren, born February 11, 1830, now in West Martinsburgh.
Chester Shumway, Sr., was one of the original trustees of the First Presby- terian Society of Martinsburgh, formed December 9, 1810, and was then or soon after, elected an elder, which office he held up to the time of his death. In 1814, he was elected one of three com- missioners of public schools, the first elected in the town. A much respected citizen, he led a busy and energetic, though a quiet and uneventful life, and died in Martinsburgh, May 1, 1861, aged eighty-three years.
Chester Shumway, his son, whose portrait accompanies this sketch, was born at Martinsburgh, New York, Au- gust 23, 1817. The years of his minority were spent upon his father's farm. After attaining his majority, he engaged in school teaching, in which he was quite
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successful, and his services were sought for in some of the best common schools in the vicinity. He also improved his education by attending Lowville Acad- emy several terms, and the Black River Institute, at Watertown, New York, where he ranked high in his classes. In 1842, he returned to the homestead, and resumed farming, and October 5th of that year, he was married to Clarissa Maria Rice, daughter of Abel S. Rice, of Low- ville.
The military service required by law at that time was rendered mostly as a subaltern in a company of riflemen at- tached to the 46th Regiment of infantry. In August, 1843, he was elected to the command of the company, and received a captain's commission at the hand of Hon. William C. Bouck, then Governor.
In 1852, he located on the farm where he now resides, on the West road, near the old homestead, where he took rank as one of the progressive farmers of the county, and as an occasional writer on agricultural topics, his articles have been uniformly acceptable to the agricultural press. A letter addressed by him to a member of the Central New York Farm- ers' Club, upon a topic which had been selected for discussion at their next ses- sion, was read before the meeting and published in their proceedings, and led to his election as an honorary member of that noted body of agriculturists. He took an active interest in the cause of education and was for several years President of the Lewis County Teach- ers' Association.
In 1858, he was appointed by the Town Board to fill a vacancy in the office of
assessor, and at the next town meeting was elected to that office. He also took an active interest in the extension of the Utica and Black River railroad from Lyons Falls to Lowville. Although not fully approving of bonding towns for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads, he thought it the only means by which the road could be secured to the west side of the river, and therefore, with others, entered earnestly into the work of obtaining the consent of tax payers to bond the town for $30,000, which was successfully accomplished. In 1867, he was appointed by County Judge Carlos P. Scovil, railroad commis- sioner of the town, with Alfred Stiles and William George as colleagues. He took upon himself the principal burden of the office, issued and sold the bonds, and subscribed for stock in the name of the town. The commissioners were ap- pointed for five years, but no effort being made to supersede them, they remained in office till the bonds were all redeemed, -- a term of twelve years. In 1871, he was appointed by the town meeting, a com- mittee of one to obtain consent of the taxpayers to the sale of the railroad stock owned by the town. This was success- fully accomplished, and from that time stock was sold from year to year, to re- deem the bonds as they matured, till all was sold, and all the bonds redeemed to the general satisfaction of all concerned.
In 1880, his oldest son, Herman N., was elected Justice of the Peace, to suc- ceed Daniel Loucks, who had held the office thirty-six years. He entered upon the duties of this office in January, 1881. He was married December 2, 1880, to
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Sarah, daughter of John G. Moshier, and afterward engaged in farming on his father-in-law's farm. In 1875, Howard H. went to Iowa, and October 26, 1881, was married to Anna, daughter of Jonathan Roberts, of Marietta, Marshall county, Iowa. He afterward bought Roberts' farm and settled upon it. Eddy C., the youngest son, remains at the homestead. The three sons have engaged in school teaching from two to six terms each, to their own credit and the general satisfac- tion of their employers.
The children of Chester Shumway and Clarissa M. Rice were :- Amelia Eliza- beth, born November 16, 1845, married October 3, 1865, to George W. Archer, of Martinsburgh ; Ellen Clara, born May 7, 1848, died November 25, 1850; Sher- man Rice, born December, 27, 1849, died January 2, 1851 ; Herman Norton, born June 28, 1851, married Sarah Moshier, of West Martinsburgh, December 1, 1880; Howard Haywood, born June 28, 1853, married Anna Roberts, of Marietta, Iowa, October 26, 1881; Charles Rice, born February 12, 1855, died April 6, 1859; Ellen Maria, born November 23, 1856, died April 1, 1859 ; Eddy Chester, born July 30, 1859; Cara E., born November 2, 1861 ; and Minnie L., born November 10, 1863, died April 16, 1881.
RANSOM AND WARREN SALMON.
Ransom Salmon was born in Pawling, Duchess county, N. Y., in 1791. His parents were Daniel and Judy Caulkins Salmon. When he was three years of
age the family removed to Schoharie, where soon after, during the absence of the family, his father's house was burned by the Indians, and in the same year his father died, leaving his mother with two small children to combat the world alone.
Left fatherless at that age, he made his way to manhood with an energy worthy of imitation. At the age of twenty-one he came to Martinsburgh, Lewis county, where he resided until his death, which occurred July 29, 1880, at the age of 89 years. In his twenty- third year he married Hannah Searl, re- lated on her mother's side to Governor Wade, of Ohio, by whom he had nine children. She dying, he married Anna Whitaker, by whom he had two sons. She also died and he married the widow of the late Judge Goff. His fourth wife was Mary A. Humphrey, who still sur- vives him.
Ransom Salmon's occupation in early life was that of a carpenter, and for years he had an extensive business. In later years he turned his attention to farming. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was one of the energetic and worthy pi- oneers of this new country, highly es- teemed for his true moral worth and kindness to all. For over sixty years he was a member of the Free Will Baptist church, and for over fifty years of that time served its interests as a deacon.
Warren Salmon, a son by the first mar- riage, was born in Martinsburgh, August 12, 1819. His early life was passed on the farm and in the common schools, where he received the education of the early days of the county. He followed
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[RANSOM SALMON.]
the later occupation of his father, en- gaging in farming and in the purchase and sale of live stock. Aspiring to no political office, he has devoted himself to his farm and its improvement, and ranks among the best farmers of the county .*
Mr. Salmon has on his farm a stone wall which is regarded by all who have seen it as the best in the county. The manner of construction was somewhat as follows :- A ditch was first dug, four and one-half feet wide and about three feet deep, and filled with small stones. The wall was then begun with a tier of
boulders in two rows, then a tier of flat limestone to bind across the wall, next a tier of smaller rocks drawn in four inches on both sides, the middle filled each time with small stones, and so on till the wall was four and one-half feet high. A course of flat stones was then added, and a round stone on top completed the wall, making it three feet in the ground and five on top. It is one hundred rods in length and cost about $2,000. Mr. Sal. mon was sixty years of age when he be- gan the wall, which took him about four years to build, finishing it on the last day of October, 1880. Mr. James Burk, son- in-law of David Allen, laid this substan- tial structure.
* The first hay lifter used in the county, which runs on railroad tracks in the roof of the barn, was put up by him.
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A. LITTLE.
[WARREN SALMON.]
On the 20th day of February, 1845, he married Emily Rusco, of Camden, Onei- da county. Their children were-Clara I., born February 18, 1847, married Sep-
tember 13, 1866, Rufus I. Richardson, died December 13, 1869, aged 23 years; George P., born October 27, 1852, died June 16, 1853.
CHAPTER XXXI.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MONTAGUE.
THIS town was formed from West T Turin by the Board of Supervisors, November 14, 1850, embracing Town- ship 3, or Shakespere, of the Boylston Tract. On the 22d of November, 1867, lots I to 38 of Township 8 in Osceola were annexed to this town by the Board
of Supervisors. The first town meeting was directed to be held at the school house near Roswell Parmenter's.
Supervisors .- 1851-'53, Wheaton Bur- ington ; 1854-'60, Joseph M. Gardner ; 1861-'62, Leonard G. Savage ; 1863, Warren Wilcox ; 1864-'70, Joseph M. Gardner; 1871-'72, George W. Kilburn ; 1873-'76, Henry Niebergall; 1877-'78, Michael Connor ; 1879, H. Niebergall ; 1880-'81, C. D. Williams.
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Clerks .- 1851, Stephen A. Green ; 1852 -'53, Elias Sears ; 1854, Leonard G. Sav- age ; 1855, Alfred Green ; 1856, Alson C. Rounds ; 1857-'58, George D. Moffatt ; 1859, Bildad Woodward, Jr .; 1860-'64, Oliver E. Lindsley ; 1865, S. P. Watson ; 1866-'69, George Willoughby; 1870, O. E. Lindsley ; 1871, John D. Bradbury ; 1872, James M. Lindsley ; 1873, Charles Harter ; 1874, J. D. Bradbury ; 1875, O. E. Lindsley ; 1876-'80, B. W. Young ; 1881, J. D. Bradbury ; 1882, Charles Scribner.
A bounty of $3 was voted for the de- struction of bears, in 1854.
This town was subdivided into 117 lots by Benjamin Wright in 1805. The courses and distances of its boundaries are as follows :-
W. side, north, 533 ch., 15 1ks. (1795).
N. S. 81° E. 551 " 25 " (1805).
E. south, 36 " (1795).
S. N.80°W. 554 “ (1795).
The lines of 1795 were run by Medad Mitchell.
This town was named from Miss Mary Montague Pierrepont, of Brooklyn, a daughter of Hezekiah B. Pierrepont, former owner of this town and of large tracts in this and adjoining counties. This lady presented a set of record books to the town in consideration of the com- pliment. She died in Brooklyn in Janu- ary, 1853.
The first agent charged with the care of this town was Dr. Samuel Allen of Denmark, who effected nothing. In 1838, Mr. Henry E. Pierrepont, of Brook- lyn, went with Allen upon the tract, and left arrangements for opening a road from New Boston in Pinckney, south- ward across this town, but nothing was done until 1844, when Harvey Stephens of Martinsburgh, then-agent, got a road opened. He died the next year, and in August, 1845, Diodate Pease, of Martins- burgh, was appointed agent, and contin-
ued in this office until his death, March 25, 1865. This town remained the undi- vided property of the Pierrepont family until 1853, when the east half excepting the parts previously conveyed, fell to the share of Joseph J. Bicknell, and the west half to James M. Miner, both of whom had married daughters of Hezekiah B. Pierrepont.
The first settler was Solomon Holden, who in the fall of 1846, moved into the town with his family, and wintered in a shanty on the land of Foster P. Newton. There was no other family in town dur- ing this winter. The first land was taken up by Newton, May 30, 1846, but he never resided in town. Lands were also booked to several others in the year 1846, but they never were known as set- tlers. Alonzo Garnsey purchased May 10, 1847, and resided a year or two at Gardner's Corners. Joseph M. Gardner became the first merchant, and from him the settlement known as Gardner's Cor- ners was named. A saw-mill was raised by S. P. Sears, in the fall of 1847, and finished in July 1848. A premium was awarded to the proprietor as an encour- agement to this beginning.
Samuel P. Sears, Calvin Rawson, Leonard G. Savage, Peter Durham, Cor- nelius Durham, Oliver Stafford, S. A. Green, William D. Bucklin, Isaiah Burr, Alonzo Garnsey, and Zebulon Marcellus were among the first settlers in this town.
In September, 1848, when Mr. Pierre- pont visited the town, 4,000 acres were contracted, and 600 deeded. In 1850, 13,000 acres were sold, 40 miles of road were laid out, and a saw-mill was in course of erection on Deer river. There were then 100 inhabitants upon the town. Montague P. O. was established about 1856. Most of the settlers were from St. Lawrence and Jefferson counties. The town was about two-thirds taken up by actual settlers when our first edition was
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published in 1860. At present the un- settled portion is chiefly in the south- eastern part, annexed from Osceola, and a strip along the county line. The first death of an adult person was that of Caleb Green, January 23, 1854.
The first framed school house was built in 1850.
The first teachers in this town were as follows :--
District No. 1-Jane Johnson.
2-Sarah Kramer.
3-Sarah Hart.
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4 -- Mary Ann TenEyck.
: 5-Anna H. Bent.
6-Mrs. Terrill.
= 7-Ellen Terrill.
There is no village in this town that might properly be so called, and but one postoffice. There are two steam saw- mills, (William Glen & Co., and Ralph Hooker,) and four saw-mills, using hydraulic power. The latter are owned by George S. Edick, Nelson B. Sears, Chancy A. Marcellus, and George W. Kilburn. Besides lumber, there are produced bed-slats and pickets, shingles, lath, and other sawed stuff. There are in town three stores, owned by Glen & Co., Chas. D. Williams, and Edward Kil- burn. The town has four coopers and two blacksmiths, but with these excep- tions, its principal industry is in dairy- ing, for which it is best adapted. From its elevated location it is liable to deep snows.
Gardner's Corners, in the northeast part, derives its name from Joseph M. Gardner, who formerly kept a store at that place. A Methodist Episcopal Society was formed there, March 12, 1880, with Samuel Scribner, Anson Edict, and William Young, as first trus- tees. They have a small church edifice that was dedicated September 29, 1880. There are one or two other Methodist societies in town. The Baptists formed a society in 1854.
CHAPTER XXXII.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF NEW BREMEN.
THIS town was formed from Watson and Croghan, March 31, 1848, with its present boundaries. The first town meeting was held at the house of Charles G. Loomis. Its name was probably applied to render it attractive to Euro- pean emigrants.
Supervisors .- 1848-'50, Bornt Nellis; 1851, David Cleveland ; 1852 -- '54, Bornt Nellis ; 1855, Roswell Bingham ; 1856- '57, B. Nellis ; 1858, R. Bingham ; 1859- '60, Jerome Kilts; 1861-'63, James H. Morrow ; 1864-'65, Jerome Kilts; 1866- '69, John Herrick ; 1870, Jerome Kilts ; 1871-'75, John Herrick; 1876-'77, John Turk; 1878, Jerome Kilts; 1879-'80, John Herrick ; 1881-'82, Michael Henry.
Clerks .- 1849-'50, Squire H. Snell ; 1851-'58, Jerome Kilts; 1859-'60, Nicho- las Gaudel; 1861, Peter Van Patten ; 1862, J. Kilts ; 1863-'64, John Herrick ; 1865, Martin Corcoran; 1866-'67, Edward Thomas; 1868, Joseph Renaux; 1869, Firman Conover; 1870, Firman C. Nellis; 1871-'72, Joseph H. Virkler ; 1873-'75, Melas E. Wilder; 1876, James B. Phil- lips; 1877, Byron Van Patten; 1878, James Boyd; 1879, Edward Thomas ; 1880, B. Van Patten ; 1881, Charles Hig- by ; 1882, John A. Segovis.
Panther and wolf bounties of $5 were voted in 1848. The population of this town when erected, was 1,345, of whom 1,030 were from Watson, and 315 from Croghan. Of the whole number 753 were Europeans.
Settlement began under title derived from the old French or "New York Company," by Jacob Oboussier, clerk to Tillier, resident agent of the French proprietors. His improvement was made about a third of a mile below the present Illingworth bridge, on the banks
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of Black river. Oboussier went off about the beginning of this century, leaving some of his property in the hands of Samuel Illingworth,* and was never again heard from. He is sup- posed to have been drowned in the Ohio river, on a journey to the French settle- ments in Louisiana. The title to his tract was contested by Le Ray, as repre- sentative of the French proprietors, upon the ground that Tillier had exceeded his powers in selling more than fifty acres in one tract, and the courts sustained the prosecution by setting aside the claims of Gilchrist, who had acquired the title.
Illingworth remained many years the only inhabitant within the town. His location on the river bank rendered this a convenient crossing place by persons on hunting and fishing expeditions into the forest, and a point familiar to all who passed up or down the river, as was more frequently done when the country was new, and the roads in wet seasons nearly impassable. No serious effort was made to bring these lands into market for settlement until 1821, when Charles Dayan,t of Lowville, was ap- pointed agent by James D. and Vincent Le Ray, for the sale and settlement of some twelve thousand acres, east of the " Cardinal line," so-called, of the Castor- land survey, and afterwards of other lands, to the west of that line.
The village of " Dayanville" was so named by Le Ray, in compliment to this agent. It was surveyed in the fall of 1824, by Jason Clark,-of Plessis, who, in commencing, found it necessary to trace one of the lines from the river. The party had reached Crystal creek just at sunset, and were preparing to cross the
stream and encamp on the opposite bank for the night, when they were startled by the howl of a pack of wolves in their rear. There is something peculiarly dis- mal in the cry of this animal, especially when heard by night, and the idea of sleeping in this lonely place was espe- cially unpleasant to some of the younger members of the party, who could not be prevailed upon by any argument to re- main. They accordingly returned to the settlements on the safe side of the river, and resumed their labors the next morning. Mr. Dayan, from whom we derive the anecdote, which he knew from personal observation to be true, did not inform us as to who the timid ones were.
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