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At the first town meeting of Mt. Morris in 1819, the following were elected: supervisor, William A. Mills; town clerk, Horatio Reed; assessors, Allen Ayrault, Jesse Stanley, Aaron Adams; overseers of the poor, Allen Ayrault, Oliver Stanley; commissioners of highways, Samuel Learned, Phineas Lake, Samuel Rankins; commissioners of common schools, Horatio Reed, Aaron Adams, James B. Mower; con- stable and collector, John Brown; fence viewers Phineas Lake, Amos
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Baldwin, Wm. A. Mills, James H. McNair. Aaron Adams, John C. Jones, Wm. Lemmon; road masters, Ebenezer Damon, Asa Wood- ford, John Sanford, David H. Pearson, Sterling Case; inspectors of common schools, Abraham Camp, James H. McNair, Richard W. Gates, Eli Lake; pound keeper, Enos Baldwin. The meeting re- stricted the running at large of cattle and other stock, and imposed a penalty of five dollars upon any person who knowingly allowed Canada thistles to go to seed on his premises.
The first Presbyterian church of Mt. Morris was organized in 1841 with fourteen members. The first minister was Stephen MI. Wheelock, a licentiate, who remained three years after the organization. All the pastorates have been brief except the very long one of Rev. Levi Parsons, who was installed in 1856, and was pastor from that time until his death in 1901-a period of forty-five years. There was a Sunday school connected with the church as early as 1814, and it was perma- nently organized in 1817. It was the result of the labors of Mrs. Oliver Stanley and Miss Emily Stanley. Among the pupils were a number of Indian children. Allen Ayrault was superintendent in 1818. The church services were held in a school house on what was then an open square until January, 1832, when the first church building, located on the north side of the square, was dedicated. In 1841 it was moved twenty rods south and enlarged. In 1852 it was destroyed by fire, and the present brick building was erected in 1854.
The first Methodist minister who preached in Mt. Morris was Rev. J. B. Hudson, who came from Allegany county in 1804, and wrote that he "saw no signs of civilization on the way." He found a few Methodists at Allen's Hill (Mt Morris) and made it one of the preach- ing places of his circuit. In 1822 a Methodist society was organized with thirteen members. The worship was in school houses until 1833, when a building was completed, and a stirring revival followed its dedication under the pastoral ministrations of Rev. J. Lent. The society purchased the Episcopal edifice in 1856, and ten years after. ward expended $4,500 in repairing and improving it. In 1878 the membership was greatly increased in consequence of a series of suc- cessful revival meetings conducted by Rev. E. E. Davidson. The church is now in a flourishing condition.
St. John's Church of Mt. Morris (Episcopal) was incorporated in 1833. Rev. Thomas Meacham of Hunt's Hollow had been holding
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occasional services in the place, and accepted the invitation to become St. John's first resident rector, coming in March 1834. A house of worship was completed about that time. In 1854 it became necessary to have a larger church to accommodate the growing congregation, and after some negotiations and delay, a beautiful new edifice was built, and was consecrated by Bishop DeLancey in 1856. The chief donors of the fine church property were Mr. and Mrs. John R. Murray. The society has a faithful membership and is prosperous.
The members of a small Baptist church in Groveland united with the Baptists of Mt. Morris in 1839 to found the Mt. Morris Baptist church. Its present edifice was built about the year 1842, and the lecture room and organ loft were built in 1873. Effective revivals have been a part of the history of the church, and one in 1848 resulted in fifty additions to its membership. For fifty years the church has had from 150 to 175 communicants. A Sunday school has been maintained, probably without interruption, during the existence of the church.
The first Baptist church in the town was organized at the Ridge in 1823, and built a log church in 1827 before which services were held in school and private houses. It was the first house built in the town expressly for religious worship. In 1832 a revival added seventy-six to the membership, and in 1833 the members numbered 160. The church prospered until 1849, when removals and changes of members to the village church. depleted it so much that it was decided to dis- organize. Meanwhile a better building had been erected, and this was sold to the Methodists.
The Second Presbyterian church of Mt. Morris was organized in 1830, and the first pastor was Rev. Elam Walker. The society pros- pered under his and subsequent pastorates, and had a membership of about fifty. It united with a school district in building a school house, which was used both for schools and religious services. It was situated about five miles south of Mt. Morris village. In 1841 a Dutch Reformed church was organized in the neighborhood, and the other was disbanded.
About twenty descendants of old Holland stock came to the town of Mt. Morris in 1841 from the Mohawk Valley and New Jersey, put up a church building about a mile north of Tuscarora, and Rev. James G. Brinkerhoof became their pastor. He remained until 1860. The
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population did not contain elements which would contribute to the growth of a church of that faith, and there was no subsequent pastor, but occasional services were held. The building was finally sold in 1880 to the Methodists of Union Corners and moved there.
The Presbyterian church of Tuscarora was incorporated in 1844 as a Reformed church through the efforts of Rev. Isaac Hammond, the members being mostly of Dutch descent. It was re-organized as a Presbyterian church in 1846, when Rev. Peter S. VanNest was pastor. The church has been much depleted but continues its organization and religious services.
The Free Methodist church of Tuscarora was organized in 1875, with about seventy members, by Rev. R. M. Snyder, who became its first pastor. Its only other pastor was Rev. Wm. Southworth, who re- mained until 1880, after which the organization slowly decayed.
Father Maguire came to Mt. Morris in 1838 to look after the spirit- ual wants of Catholics, and other priests followed him from surround- ing towns and elsewhere, holding services in private dwellings and school houses. Father Maguire came back, and under him the first small building was put up. This was subsequently enlarged two or three times. The first resident priest was Rev. James Ryan, who came in 1857. There were several other pastors before Father O'Brien, who came in 1869 and through his energy the present large and hand- some Gothic edifice was erected, at a cost of $30,000. This was dedicated by Bishop McQuaid in December, 1873. The congregation owns a beautiful cemetery of nearly eighteen acres, purchased in 1885 at a cost of $4,379. The membership now is about 200 families. The pastor is Rev. James H. Day, who was appointed May 1, 1893.
Many prominent men visited Mt. Morris in the early days besides Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution, among them Talley- rand, the great French statesman and philosohper, and Colonel John Trumbull of General Washington's staff, artist of the celebrated his- torical painting, "Signing the Declaration of Independence." The latter purchased land and planted an orchard with a view of settling there, but changed his plans. It was he who changed the name of the place from Allen's Hill to Richmond Hill.
The first manufactory was the wool carding and cloth dressing mill of Colonel Ebenezer Damon. Elisha Parmelee was the first merchant, not counting Ebenezer Allen, and was succeeded by Allen Ayrault in
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1817. Asa Woodford was the first tanner. George Green the first tailor, Peter Peterson the first hatter, William Haskall and Simeon Kittle the first pettifoggers, Dr. Abram Camp the first physician. Dr. Camp was succeeded by Dr. Charles Bingham, of excellent repute. The two pettifoggers tried cases, but were not lawyers. George Has- tings opened a law office in Mt. Morris in 1830, and was a worthy rep- resentative of the profession. He became successively district attorney, representative in Congress, and county judge, being twice elected to the last office. The first postmaster was James B. Mower. Very early Riley Scoville stopped raising hemp on the flats, and became the village tavern keeper; and it is said that in the related families of Scoville and Baldwin there has been a continuous succession of land- lords for about ninety years. The first tavern was kept by Isaac Bald- win. The first furnace was built in 1833 and was run by horsepower. The most prosperous period of Mt. Morris was from 1830 to 1850. Until the canal was built transportation was in wagons or on the river. A stern-wheel steamer carrying freight and passengers commenced running on the river in July, 1824, but did not pay and was abandoned after two years. Many settlers came from Cayuga county in 1830, and others followed them from year to year. Navigation on the canal to Mt. Morris commenced in 1840.
The raising of broom corn was started in 1830, and afterward over 800 acres of it were grown and over twelve thousand dozen brooms manufactured at Mt. Morris annually for many years.
The first Mt. Morris dam was built under an act of the legislature passed in 1826. A portion of it was carried away and another dam was built in 1833, the public square being divided into lots and sold to help pay for it. This dam was carried away in 1852 and having been made use of for canal purposes it was rebuilt by the state. This third dam was destroyed by the freshet of 1899, and has been reconstructed with stone laid in cement. These dams have made Mt. Morris a manufacturing center, and contributed largely to its prosperity. Its manufactories have been varied employing many persons, and bring- ing in much money.
There is a union school building which was built in 1879-80, where instruction has been by competent teachers, and caused the suspension of former private academic schools.
Much patriotic zeal was manifested in Mt. Morris during the civil
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war, and there were numerous early volunteers from the town. The first war meeting was held April 22, 1861, when stirring speeches were made, a committee was appointed to raise and distribute funds for the support of families of volunteers, C. E. Martin was authorized to raise a company and half the requisite number signed the roll before the meeting adjourned. Three weeks afterward Captain Martin left for Elmira with a company of seventy-seven enlisted men and eleven commissioned and non-commissioned officers. A second company was raised by Captain C. W. Burt, which started for the front in Septem- ber of that year. During the war the town furnished 285 men, of whom 233 resided in and twenty-seven were natives of the town. The war legislation of the town is not all recorded, but it appears that a town bounty of $100 was paid to each of sixty men and a bounty of $300 to each of thirty-one men.
Mt. Morris supervisors have been as follows :
Wm. A. Mills.
Hiram P. Mills 1870
John Simerson. 1871
David A. Miller
1823
Thomas J. Gamble
Othniel Allen
1827
..... 1872-73-74-75-76-81-82-83-84-85
Riley Scoville 1828-34-35-36
Geo. W. Phelps, Sr. .1878
Orrin D. Lake .. 1837-38-39-44-45-77
Hugh Harding .. I879-So
Chauncey Hungerford. .1840-41
Hathorn Burt 1886-87
Alfred Hubbard.
1842-43
.J. M. Hasting IS88
George T. Olyphant. .1846-47
R. H. Moses
1889-90
Jesse Peterson 1848-49-50-51
E. B. Osborn. 1891-92
George Hastings. 1852
George W. Phelps, Jr .1893
Jared P. Dodge .. 1853-54-55-56-57-58-59-60
Abraham Wigg. 1861-62-63-64-65
John F. Donovan 1899-00-01-02-03
Valuations and tax rate have been as follows:
Assessed Valuation
Tax Rate on $1000
Assessed Valuation
Tax Rate on $1000
Assessed Valuation
Tax Rate on ₴1000
1860
1,278,582
6.86
1875
2,286, 103
11.84
1890
2,131,518
11.8I
1861
1,226,789
8.II
1876
2,195,663
10.84
IS91
2,140,002
10.33
1862
1,207,278
10.67
1877
2,114,969
10.99
1892
2,237,038
12.25
1863
1, 164,895
15.02
IS78
2,033,566
10.08
1893
2,227,795
1864
1,233,574
17.20
1879
1,845,587
10.85
1894
2,143,758
10.91
1865
1,152,633
44.80
1880
1,851,145
10.30
1895
2,264,492
II.OI
1866
1,254,380
24.20
18SI
1,904,467
9.94
1896 1897
2,189,400
10.04
1868
1,165,284
17.13
1883
2,027,558
8.79
1898
2,170,576
10.48
1869
1,198,240
11.29
1884
2,071,344
8.93
IS99
2,158,385
10.87
1870
1,227,003
14.29
1885
2, 126,877
8.34
1900
2,156,216
9.68
1871
1,247,850
13.82
1886
2,177,677
11.29
190I
2,159,377
8.65
1872
1,280,245
23.95
1887
2,134,016
10.83
1902
2, 172,312
6. 89
1873
1,205,259
20.01
1888
2, 165,519
11.20
1903
2, 163,867
6.67
1874
2,342,789
12.45
1889
2,140,839
10.49
2,187,328
10. 93
1867
1,163,546
19.84
ISS2
1,586,376
John C. Witt. 1894-95-96-97-98
McNeil Seymour. 1866-67-68-69
1821-22-24-25-26-29-30-31-32-33
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Mt. Morris has a good fire department, which was commenced in 1836 by the organization of an engine company of twenty-four mem- bers and the purchase of an engine and hooks and ladders. Its most disastrous fire was in 1873, when the losses amounted to $80,000, and the insurances were small. Immediately afterward the department was made much more efficient.
The manufactories include the Genesee Manufacturing Company, which turns out agricultural and other machinery of various kinds; the Galbraith Milling Company, which produces about 200 barrels of flour a day in addition to its custom work ; the Empire Machine Works, which manufactures spoke and wheel machines and handle-making machinery ; the Winters & Prophet canning factory, one of the largest in the country, with a capacity for ten million cans of fruit and vegetables a year, and a plant for the manufacture of its tin cans.
The following is from the sketch of Mount Morris prepared by Samuel L. Rockfellow, Esq., of Mt. Morris for the Livingston County Historical Society :
The village of Mt. Morris is situated nearly in the geographical center of the Mt. Morris Tract so called, which was four miles square, and an attempted sale of which was made to Robert Morris by the notorious "Indian" Allen.
Robert Morris, from whom the village derives its name, must have known that Allen did not possess the legal right to sell this tract of land, but the purchase was made by him in Philadelphia in 1793, Allen receiving a nominal price for it in dry goods, Indian cloth, and trinkets. These he brought to Mt. Morris and opened a trading post, bartering his goods with the Indians for furs and pelts. Thus he acquired the name of being the pioneer merchant on Allen's Hill, (Mt. Morris).
Allen was a white man, born and raised in New Jersey and came into the Genesee Valley 1780 to '82. He married a squaw by the name of Sally. Bump's Island was in early time called Sally's Bend as she resided there and owned the land, it being a portion of the Mt. Morris tract. This island was then in the town of Leicester.
In 1835 the river cut a new channel north of the island. In 1836 this channel deepened and widened, and the river runs there at this date, 1902, leaving the island in the town of Mt. Morris.
The Bank of North America held an assignment of the title papers
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of the Mt. Morris tract as collateral security for advances and loan, made to Robert Morris. The Bank caused this tract to be surveyed, in 1806, by Stephen Rogers. When surveyed it was called the Mt. Morris tract, and described as lying in the town of Leicester in the county of Genesee.
In 1807 the Bank of North America sold this tract to John R. Mur- ray, merchant of New York city, and Harriet Murray his wife; William Ogden, of New York city, and Susan his wife; John Trum- bull, of New York city; and James Wadsworth, Sr., and Naomi his wife, of Geneseo, N. Y., of whom each including the Bank of North America owned one undivided eighth part of the whole.
The Squakie Hill reservation of two square miles was reserved by the Indians at the treaty of Big Tree in 1797 when the title of Robert Morris to this tract was made valid by the extinguishing of the Indian title and their grant to the heirs of Ebenezer Allen. In 1810 the pro- prietors of the Mt. Morris tract made a partition of the land lying south of the Genesee river, except the public square in the village, which square was bounded as follows :- on the north by Trumbull street, on the east by Main street, on the south by Chapel street, and on the west by Clinton street, also a certain lot and mill site, which were held in common. The four-mile tract was divided into lots, numbering from 1 to 251 inclusive, which were subdivided into eight parts for distribution, except as above stated. Peter J. Monroe acted in behalf of the Bank of North America.
From 1794 to 1810 very few permanent white settlers located in Mt. Morris because of the Indian occupancy and the prevalence of Genesee fever. Among those few were Jonathan Harris, Clark Cleveland, Isaac Baldwin, Adam Holstlander, Benedict Satterly, Isaac Powell, William McNair and family. Adam Holstlander made and furnished the rails for fencing the original enclosure in and around Mt. Morris. He was on the frontier in the war of 1812. and died in Mt. Morris, Michigan, aged eighty-one.
James H. McNair at ten years of age came with his father, William, in 1798 to Allen's Hill. The family settled in Sonyea James also was on the frontier, 1812 to '15 and died July 8, 1874, aged eighty-six.
From 1810 to 1820 settlers locating in Mt. Morris were more numer- ous. Elisha Parmlee, Messrs. Hopkins, Baldwins, Adino Bailey, Phineas Lake, David A. Miller, Allen Ayrault, Riley Scoville, Vin-
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cent Cothrill, Eli Lake, Messrs. Stanley, Beach, Rev. Elihu Mason, James Hosmer, John Starkweather, George A. Green, Asa Woodford, Dr. Abram Camp, Colonel Damon, Richard Allen, Samuel Seymour, and others. Colonel Ebenezer Damon was the pioneer manufacturer (wool carding and cloth dressing) located in the suburb of our village known as Damonsville. Deacon Asa Woodford was proprietor of a tannery in the same locality and had a shoe factory and store on Main street.
Elisha Parinlee was the first merchant, Allen Ayrault his successor, in 1817, followed by Sleeper and Dean, about 1824. Later David A. Miller opened a dry goods store. He was postmaster for several years. George A. Green was the first tailor; Peter Peterson the first hatter, George W. Barney his successor: Riley Scoville raised hemp above the village and later moved into the village and was hotel keeper and supervisor for several years. His son Henry still conducts the hotel which has been owned in this family for over eighty years.
The late Hiram P. Mills became a resident over sixty years ago. He died January, 1902, aged ninety-six. From 1820 to 1830 Dr. Charles Bingham, Joseph Thompson, William Gay, George Sloat, Mr. Goodrich, Mr. Root, Dr. Hiram Hunt, Mr. W. Adams, Stephen Summers, John Runyan, Isaac Thompson, Deacon Weeks, Elijah Thatcher, Deacon James Conkey and others settled here; all prom- inent business men, who labored for the prosperity of the village. Outside and near town were Russell Sheldon, E. Sharp, Sterling Case, Benjamin and William Begole, Jonathan Miller, Chester Foot, John C. Jones, Richard W. Gates, and many others. William Haskel located here in 1812. He was the first pettifogger in justice court, possessed of native talent, if he knew, no law that hit the case in hand he would make the law. George Hastings came to Mt. Morris in 1830. He was the first lawyer in the place, and an honor to the profession ; 1852 or 1853 he was chosen as Member of Congress from this district and later was elected Judge of Livingston county. He died August 26, 1866.
In 1830 settlers came from Cayuga, N. Y., in considerable numbers, and for some years later, settling between Mt. Morris and Nunda. Among these was the late Hon. O. D. Lake who lived among us until about 1896 when he died, aged ninety-one.
The years from 1830 to 1850 were prosperous years in the growth of
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Mt. Morris. From 1818 to the completion of the Genesee Valley canal to Rochester in 1840, our trade with Rochester was by river navigation and land carriage. There arrived at Geneseo, July 28, 1824, the steamboat "Erie Canal," Captain Bottle, the pioneer boat on the Genesee river. There was great rejoicing among the people. The next steamer was the "Genesee," a stern wheel boat carrying passengers and freight with a speed of eight to ten miles an hour. This was abandoned after two seasons. River boating with freight lakers propelled by manual labor during high water as far as Mt. Morris was continued for many years. Intercourse between Mt. Morris, Leicester and Moscow was by ferry across the river in summer, and on ice in winter, until 1830, when a toll bridge was built.
Mr. Starr of the firm of Hurlbert & Starr, dry goods merchants, about this time purchased in Albany and brought to town the first buggy with elliptic or steel springs. It was a novelty and much admired and a ride in it was eagerly sought, especially by the young ; quite as much or more so than is now the case with an automobile.
In 1793 the Williamsburg fair and races were inaugurated by Col- onel Williamson. The fair grounds and race track were on the flats on what is known as the Shaker farm, about one and one-fourth miles east from our village. This was the pioneer fair and race track in western New York. In 1818 the post office was located, with George B. Manier, Postmaster. Before this date the people of Mt. Morris went to Moscow once a week for their mail. In 1813 Mt. Morris contained four frame and twenty-two log houses. In 1817 there were a few machine shops and a small store kept by Allen Ayrault. In 1820 William Shull built a grist mill on the site op- posite the residence of the late Dr. M. H. Mills, below the roadway. The water wheel was twenty feet in diameter and propelled by water from Damonsville creek.
In 1815 the first school was taught on Squakie Hill by Jerediah Horsford-Indian scholars. The Indians said "He taught their chil- dren books. "
In 1835 the village was incorporated. In 1814 the first Presbyterian church of Mt. Morris was organized; in 1822 the Methodist Society; in 1833 the Protestant Episcopal; in 1839 the Baptist.
For several years the log school-house, divided by a partition of folding doors, each room twenty-five feet square, when thrown into
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one room was used on the Sabbath for public worship. This school- house and church was located on the west side of the public square on Clinton street. The first Presbyterian building was dedicated Janu- ary 1832. The first newspaper published in the place was the Mt. Morris Spectator, by Hugh Harding, January 1, 1834.
The first machine to cut grain in the field by horse power was in 1835, invented by McCormick. The trial of this machine was on the flats, between the village and the river. It was a great sight to see the grain fall as fast as six men could bind and set up, a large crowd of people assembled to see the wonder work.
The late John R. Murray settled. here sixty-eight years ago. He was a grand-son of John R. Murray, who was one of the original pur- chasers of the Mt. Morris tract. Mr. Murray erected a large and ele- gant house on Murray Hill, where he resided many years. Ile left a memorial in the beautiful Episcopal church of the village, and donated it to his church people. His remains and also the remains of his wife lie in the church grounds marked by a fine granite monument.
Mark Hopkins was the first land agent of the Mt. Morris tract, acting for Murray, Ogden and Rogers. He came to Mt. Morris in 1811 in company with his father Samuel Hopkins, and Deacon Jesse Stanley and sons, Oliver and Luman. Samuel Hopkins died in Mt. Morris, March 19, 1818, aged seventy, and was the first person buried in the old cemetery. He was a worthy citizen and a gentleman of the old school. His son Mark, relinquished his land agency in 1817. and removed to Ohio and died 1831 at fifty-eight. His brother, Samuel Miles Hopkins, was a lawyer and began practice in New York city. He bought the law library of Aaron Burr; he also purchased the interest of the Bank of North America in the Mt. Morris tract, and the same year three-fourths of the original Jones & Smith Indian grants in the town of Leicester. This purchase embraced the land on which Samuel Miles Hopkins located the village of Moscow in 1814; he also built the Colonel Cuyler mansion for his residence in 1813 and '14, he being Member of Congress at that time. In 1822 he reluctantly gave up his mansion, being obliged to do so by financial reverses fol- lowing the war of 1812, and moved to Albany to practice law. There he achieved distinction at the bar, and in 1831 he moved to Geneva, N. Y., where he died on the seventh of October, 1837, aged sixty- seven.
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