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The first building was erected in 1832, at a cost of about $17,000. No record remains of the lay- ing of the corner stone or the completion of this building. It was opened for pupils the first Wednesday in May, 1832. The first faculty of the institution was :- Rev. Samuel Luckey, Prin- cipal ; Thomas J. Rugar, A. B .. Professor of Mathematics ; John Hutton, A. B., Professor of
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Languages ; D. B. Wakefield, English Teacher ; Lord Sterling, Assistant English Teacher ; Miss Eliza Rogers, Teacher in Female Department. The salaries of these teachers ranged from $120 to $700. The attendance the first year was 341- 230 gentlemen and 111 ladies.
This first buikling was destroyed by fire May 26, 1842. The teachers and students escaped un- harmed, and some of the furnishing of the building and nearly all of the apparatus and library was saved. The loss was estimated at $25,000, on which there was an insurance of $12,000. The Town Hall was at once secured for recitations, the boarders in the institution transferred their quarters to the homes of the citizens, and the school continued without interruption. In sixty days from the conflagration, the corner stone of the new building was laid. To the erection of this building the citizens of Lima subscribed $5,000. January 12th, 1843, the new building was opened, the school was transferred from its temporary surroundings and accommodations to these new and permanent ones, where it has since dwelt in prosperity and safety.
The building is of brick, four stories in height, with a front of 136 feet to the south, with wings east and west, giving a frontage of 96 feet. The cost of erection was $24,000.
In 1849 Genesee College was founded, and the large building of College Hall was built. This for some years was a flourishing college, but after a time was abandoned, and the Syracuse University was founded. An effort was at that time made to remove the Genesee College, but an injunction was granted by Judge Johnson, of the Supreme Court, restraining such removal; that injunction was never dissolved. The college lapsed, its func- tions ceased, and the Legislature enacted a law by which all the material possessions of that cor- poration were conveyed to the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, that institution assuming the obligations and responsibilities of Genesee College. The college property, consisting of buildings, a farm of nearly seventy acres, a cash endowment of $54,000, together with the libraries and philo- sophical apparatus, was thus transferred to the Seminary, placing it on a sound financial basis.
From this Seminary, founded in days of com- parative poverty, when the inhabitants of the town had not yet fully emerged from the stern realities of the settler's life, have gone forth more than twenty thousand students to impress their influence and power upon the civilization of the nineteenth cen-
tury. They have filled prominent positions in every profession and honorable avocation in life,- in the ministry, in the professions of law, of medi- cine, in journalism, in State legislatures, in the Executive chair, in Congress, and in the Senate of the United States. Through their reputation and influence, the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary is known and honored in every land of Christian civilization.
The buiklings, with all their furnishings, are val- ued at seventy thousand dollars, and are in excel- lent condition.
The farm has sixty-seven acres, and for state of cultivation and productiveness it is not excelled by any other in this section of the country.
The present number of students is 225.
The Department of Instruction is provided with every facility for thorough and successful work. It is organized with the following able and experienced officers and teachers :- Rev. George H. Bridg- man, A. M., D. D., Principal. Anna E. Rice, Pre- ceptress ; Adam C. Works, A. M., Natural Scien- ces and Mathematics ; William E. Thompson, A. M., Ancient Languages and French ; Emma C. Terry, Higher English; Abby Barry, Principal of Grammar School; Samuel C. Moore, Director of Musical Institute ; Ida Yorks, Piano and Organ ; Maria C. Wales, Drawing and Painting ; Albert C. Aldridge, Principal of Business College; Adam C. Works, A. M., Librarian ; Rev. J. O. Wilsea, Steward.
Among the prominent men who received instruc- tion in this Seminary was Henry J. Raymond, the founder of the New York Times, who was born in Lima about 1820. He went from here to Middle- bury College, Vt., where he graduated in 1840, re- turning to his father's (Jarvis Raymond) home in Lima that same year. He began immediately to take a prominent part in politics, and in the winter of 1840-41, having attracted the attention of Hor- ace Greeley, became attached to the Tribune staff, afterward establishing the Times. He was Lieut .- Governor of New York State, with Governor Myron H. Clark, in 1855.
POSTMASTERS .- The present postmaster at Lima is O. S. Gilbert, who was appointed under Presi- dent Grant in 1874.
BANKS .- The Bank of Lima was established in 1876, under the control of George and George W. Thayer, who succeeded the banking firm of Cham- bers & Watkins.
HOTELS .- Lima has but one hotel, the Ameri- can Hotel, which was built in 1861-2 by John
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Mosher. This occupies the site of the old Ameri- can Hotel, which was burned in 1855. S. Farns- worth was proprietor here a number of years, when he was succeeded by his son, L. J. Farnsworth, who has conducted it some six years. The first hotel on this site was in a wooden building, built by Jedediah Commins about sixty-five years ago, and which was burned about a year previous to the erection of the old American Hotel. Pre- vious to that the site was occupied by a black- smith shop, the proprietor of which, at one time, was a man named Abel Parkhurst.
SOCIETIES .- The Union Lodge, F. and A. M., was organized as No. 261 in December, 1816, Governor DeWitt Clinton, signing the charter as Grand Master. The present number of the lodge is 45, which was changed in 1848, during the Mor- gan anti-mason excitement .* The present officers are :- J. T. Gordon, W. M .; W. D. Heath, S. W .; Benjamin Ollerenshaw, J. W .; James Heath, S. D .; E. R. Bronson, J. D .; J. S. Galentine, Sec .; Anı- brose Hyde, Treas .; G. S. Bauter, S. M. C .; E. A. Boehme, J. M. C .; Samuel Mitchell, Tiler.
A. O. U. IV .- This lodge was organized in March, 1879, under the ministrations of U. L. Up- son, of Buffalo, D. D. G. M. W. The charter offi- cers were :- A. T. Norton, M. W .; George W. Syl- vester, P. M. W .; E. R. Bronson, G. F .; William A. Ferris, Overseer ; C. J. Mills, Recorder ; Geo. H. Bennett, Financier ; Stanley Coventry, Re- ceiver ; C. B. Bristol, Guide ; Charles 1. Sterling, 1. W .; W. H. Beale, O. W .; Medical Examiner, George H. Bennett, M. D.
The present officers are :- George W. Sylvester, P. M. W .; A. Tiffany Norton, M. W .; H. A. Met- calf, G. F .; J. T. Gordon, Overseer ; Frank W. Scott, Financier; Stanley Coventry, Receiver ; Edgar Bronson, Recorder ; L. B. Holmes, Guide ; Henry Beale, I. W .; L. J. Farnsworth, O. W .; Medical Examiner, G. H. Bennett, M. D.
FIRE DEPARTMENT .- The first meeting to or- ganize the Lima Fire Department was held on Sat- urday, January 29, 1876. At that meeting it was resolved to raise for such purpose from the taxable property of the village the sum of $2,000, which was finally placed at $1,600. The organization was named The Centennial Fire Company. The constituent officers and members were :- J. S. Galentine, President ; A. T. Norton, V. P .; G. V. Hanna, Sec'y and Treas .; J. T. Gordon, Chief
Engineer ; Charles Goheen, Foreman H. and L .; Henry Markham, Assistant ; William Excell, Fore- man Babcock Extinguisher; Thomas Martin, Assis- tant ; John Harvey, Foreman Village Engine; Lloyd Crandall, Assistant ; L. B. Tinkham, U. A. Yorks, George W. Challis, Henry Beale, A. E. Beale, R. P. Dartt, Frank Olmsted,* B. C. Yorks, Patrick Guinan, Edgar Bronson, J. E. Lockington, L. J. Farnsworth, C. B. Bristol, H. H. Thompson, Frank Carter. The house now occupied by the de- partment was purchased of E. A. Boehme two years ago, and remodeled into a large and commo- dious building. The Babcock Extinguisher cost $800. The truck, made by J. T. Gordon, of Lima, cost $2,250.
The officers for 1880 are :- President, J. S. Gal- entine ; Vice-President, J. T. Gordon ; Sec., L. P. Grover ; Treas., Patrick Guinan ; Chaplain, Rev. James Robertson ; Janitor, Albert Parker ; Fore- man Babcock Ex., H. G. Gilbert ; Assistant, Wil- liam Excell ; Foreman of Engine, C. J. Mills ; As- sistant, R. P. Dartt. Fire Police, James Van Val- kenbergh, H. F. Stevens, Henry Markham, J. T. Gordon, A. T. Norton.
MERCHANTS .- One of the earliest merchants in Lima was James Guernsey, who kept in 1808, a large general store. In 1817 or 1818, the firm was known as Guernsey & Clark. Waite Martin was an early merchant here in 1809-10.
Guernsey & Clark carried on business here until about 1823, when Guernsey removed to Pittsford, N. Y.
Erastus Clark then associated with him his brother- in-law, William Dean, which connection existed until Clark retired from the business in 1830. In 1836 Mr. Dean sold to Godfrey and Cargill who con- tinued the business until Cargill removed to the west in about 1850. The business was then con- ducted by Godfrey until about 1860 when he failed. From 1861 to 1874 he was postmaster here, with the exception of one year during John- son's administration. He died about 1878.
Atwell & Root began business here as general merchants in 1817, being succeeded in 1818 by Atwell & Grout.f This firm continued in busi- ness until 1827; when Atwell retired to a farm, and Grout took as partner his brother-in-law, E. A. Sumner. This partnership existed until 1834, when Sumner retired from the firm and Grout conducted the business alone until 1836. In that year he associated with him in the business his
* Two miles east from the village is situated the house-where now resides Richard Peck-in which was written by William Morgan the famous " Expose " of Masonry.
* Dead.
+ George W. Atwell and Henry Grout.
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former clerk, Franklin Carter, who had come to Lima in 1820. In the spring of 1847, Franklin Carter and N. C. Parmelee purchased the store and continued in partnership until 1853 when Par- melee retired to his farm and Carter con- tinued the business until the spring of 1868, when he sold to George V. Hanna. Mr. Carter was born in November, 1795, in Peter- borough, N. H. He served Lima as town clerk a number of years ; was postmaster here four years under Taylor's administration, and one year under that of Andrew Johnson. In 1820 he was chosen secretary in Union Lodge, No. 45, F. and A. M., which office he held forty years. He is still living in Lima, in his 86th year. Henry Grout, his former partner, died in 1849. George W. Atwell died in 1852. N. C. Parmelee died in 1856.
Another merchant here was J. Franklin Peck, who began business about 1833. He was burned out in 1835, rebuilt and continued his business until about 1840, when he sold to H. D. Clark and John Draper, and in a few years moved to Springfield, Mass., where he is now engaged in banking. Clark and Draper continued as partners a number of years, when Clark bought Draper's interest and conducted the business until his death in 1860.
The merchants now in business are :- S. H. Olmsted, who began business here as clothier in 1856; Hendrick & Guinan, general merchants, who have been engaged in that business here ten years; A. I .. Stevens, grocer, in business here since 1845 ; J. P. Thompson, flour and feed, who came from West Bloomfield in 1872, and began business in 1874; James R. Wilson, hardware, in business since November, 1880, succeeding G. S. Bauter who had conducted the business some six years ; Walter W. Scott, general merchant, in business two years, succeeding W. D. Mitchell; N. A. Soggs, jeweller, who began that business here Nov. 20, 1880 ; Beadle Brothers, (Thomas T., William W., and George B.,) dry and fancy goods, who be- gan business in 1879; Edward Salmon, drugs and medicines, who came here in 1851 from Livonia, and engaged with Dr. D. D. Dayton in the drug business. Three years later he bought out Dayton and has since conducted the business alone ; W.B. Baker, jeweler, in business eight years, succeeding S. Coventry ; Joanna Dalton, millinery and fancy goods, in business two years, succeeding Miss Ella Egan, who had conducted the business some ten ycars ; Stanley Coventry, drugs and groceries, in business four years, succeeding John G. Scott,
and Henry Livingston, harnesses and horse fur- nishing goods, who began business in Watts' block in 1877.
MANUFACTURERS .- Andrew Hart, manufacturer of monuments and head-stones, established that business here twenty-five years ago, commencing on the corner of Main and Rochester streets, where the Presbyterian church now stands.
L. D. Clark, furniture and manufacturing un- dertaker, began business in June, 1865.
Benjamin Ollerenshaw, monuments and head- stones, began business in 1871, succeeding Hart & Ollerenshaw. He is a native of England, com- ing to America in May, 1858.
Hugh Regan, also manufacturer of monuments and tomb-stones, has been in that business here three years.
John Murphy, furniture and undertaking, came from Ireland in 1849, and in 1877 engaged for himself in the above named business.
PHYSICIANS .- Dr. Justin Smith was one of the earliest physicians in Lima. He came here from Vermont previous to 1805, and practiced until he became insane and died in about 1838. Another early physician was Dr. Stevens.
The physicians practicing here now are :- Dr. S. G. Ellis, who came to Lima in 1856, having previously graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was born in Fairfield, Her- kimer county, N. Y.
Dr. George Hosmer Bennett graduated from the Buffalo Medical College in 1848, and came at once to the town of Lima, where he has since had an extensive practice.
Dr. H. K. Brasted, a graduate in 1880, of the University of Michigan, came here in that year from Canisteo, N. Y., and began the practice of his profession.
LAWYERS-The present lawyers here are Hosmer H. Thompson, John Horr, Geo. Atwell and Nelson W. Clark.
CHURCHES .- The Presbyterian Church of Lima was organized by Rev. Daniel Thatcher, October Ist, 1795. Among the early members were Wil- liam Williams and wife, Miles Bristol and wife, Joseph M. Gilbert and wife, Huldah, wife of Judge Warner, Mary, wife of Abel Bristol, Elijah Gifford and wife, Charles Rice, Mrs. Daniel Warner, Mrs. Clark Brockway and Guernsey W. Cook and wife. The organization of the society is of later date than that of the church. The meeting for organization was held at the house of Asahel Warner, Jan. 5, 1802. The Society in November
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of that year, elected as trustees, Abel Bristol, Asahel Warner, William Williams, Willard Humph- rey, Manasseh Leech, and David Morgan. At a meeting of the society held March 29, 1803, Asahel Warner and Willard Humphrey were appointed trustees to build a school-house. The site selected was that on which the school-house now stands, but the old building was nearer Main street. At a meeting of the society held in the brick school- house the first Monday in November, 1804, it was voted to engage the Rev. Ezekiel I. Chapman for six months. The society agreed to pay to Mr. Chapman a salary of two hundred and sixty dollars, one hundred dollars in cash, and the remainder in produce. The salary was raised by tax based upon the grand list.
In 1806, Mr. Chapman having left, the salary was fixed at $200 ; one-half in cash, and the other half in wheat, rye, or pork. During this year the Rev. Mr. Leavenworth was engaged for six months, receiving for his services five dollars a Sabbath. The society again engaged the services of Rev. Ezekiel Chapman, and he was installed the first pastor of this church, and continued in that rela- tion until 1814. He was succeeded in that year by Rev. John Brown who remained a short time, and in the following year Rev. Mr. Cook was in- vited to preach. The contract for the erection of the first church was made in 1815, and the build- ing was completed in 1816, at a cost of $7,000.
On December 28, 1818, the society extended a call to Rev. John Barnard to become their pastor, at a salary of $700 a year. Mr. Barnard accepted this call, and was installed pastor Feb. 3, 1819, sustaining that relation to July, 1856.
The name of the church was changed in £851 from "The Charleston Congregational" to " The Lima Presbyterian Society." In 1853 the church edifice was enlarged at a cost of about $2,000. Feb. 24, 1857, the society called the Rev. Robert R. Kellogg to be their pastor. He was installed by the Presbytery of Ontario, June 22, 1857. In two years this relation was dissolved.
In 1860, Rev. A. L. Benton accepted a call to the pastorate of this church, and was installed by the Presbytery of Ontario, March 6, 1861. During his pastorate the church edifice was re-roofed and remodeled. In September, 1870, Mr. Benton retired from the pastorate, and in October of that year the society called Rev. A. H. Corliss from the Presbytery of Utica, which call he accepted, and was installed as pastor Dec. 27, 1879. During his pastorate occurred the erection of the present beau-
tiful church edifice, the corner stone of which was laid with impressive ceremonies, Tuesday, Aug. 12: 1873. Rev. Albert H. Corliss continued as pastor until 1875, when he was succeeded by Rev. Henry Payne, who remained till 1878. He was followed by the present pastor, Rev. James Robertson. The present membership in this church is 213.
Mehodist Episcopal Church of Lima .*- Method- ism was introduced into this town about eighty years ago. In the year ISoo a member of the M. E. Church, Jonah Davis, came from Delaware and settled on a farm three miles south of the present site of Lima village. He was a licensed exhorter, and began at once to hold religious meetings as opportunity offered. His house soon became the home and preaching place of the pioneer itinerants who first preached the gospel and proclaimed the peculiar doctrines of Method- ism in this then wilderness. Davis was a man of marked character, a representative of the moral heroism of early Methodism. He filled the office of exhorter and class-leader for many years. Preaching was continued in his house and in a school-house near by, for more than twenty-five years. Many of the prominent pioneers of Method- ism preached here, among whom was Father Howe, who was an earnest and devoted itinerant for more than half a century. He preached in Davis' house as early as 1801. George Densmore, Gideon Draper, and other worthy compeers, officiated in the same place in the early days.
During the year 1827, Rev. Micah Seager, then preacher in charge on the Bloomfield circuit, preached here occasionally, for at that time Methodism had not assumed organized form in this locality. In the autumn of 1827, Rev. John Parker, then stationed at Norton's Mills, (now Honeoye Falls,) was invited to hold regular services on Sunday evenings in the Town Hall at Lima. Under his ministry a powerful revival was enjoyed, the influence of which thoroughly per- meated the community and resulted in the organ- ization of the Methodist church at “ Lima Corners." The society was organized by Rev. John Parker in March, 1828, and the class south of the village was transferred to the new organiza- tion. Among the original members of the society were :- Jonah and Phebe Davis, William Corey, Jane Corey, Joel Ross, Frederick House, Betsey Fowler. Mary Gager, Jane Porter, Eunice Humph- rey, and others. The membership rapidly in- · Gathered from the Church's History.
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creased, the town-house soon became too small to accommodate the congregation, and the erection of a church edifice was soon begun and completed in a few months. This humble edifice was long the crowning glory of the hill-side, on the street leading west toward Avon. At the session of the Genesee Conference in the summer of 1828, the society in Lima was included in the Bloomfield circuit, and Revs. Goodwin Stoddard and Samuel Parker were appointed to that charge, remaining but one year. In June, 1829, Revs. Benajah Williams and Asahel Hayward were appointed, and in 1830 were succeeded by Revs. Gideon Lanning, Wilbur Hoag and Philo E. Brown. In 1831 Lima was detached from the Bloomfield circuit and constituted an independent station, and Rev. Richard Wright was appointed to the pas- toral charge. This arrangement proved unsatis- factory, and at the conference session of 1832 an- other change was made in the organic form of this charge, and Lima was connected with Livonia, and Revs. Jonathan Benson and Jacob Scott were appointed to the united charge.
One remarkable feature in the early history of Methodism in Lima was the frequent changes which occurred in the form of the charge. In 1833 Lima was detached from Livonia, and or- ganized into a separate and independent charge, and Rev. Seth Matthison, then one of the strongest men of the old Genesee Conference, was appointed to the pastoral charge. He remained but one year, and in 1834 was succeeded by Rev. John Copeland. Soon after, the large M. E. church in Rochester was burned, and Mr. Copeland was re- moved from this pastorate to the work of collect- ing funds with which to rebuild it. In the middle of the year, Dr. Bartlett, formerly from Nan- tucket, Mass., was appointed to the vacant pas- torate. This temporary supply was acceptable to the society, and was peculiarly fortunate in its ultimate results, in that it secured the permanent membership of Dr. Bartlett and his devoted wife with the society in Lima until their death many years after.
In 1835 Lima was united with West Mendon, Rush, Livonia and Geneseo, and Revs. Micah Seager, Levi B. Castile, and Samuel Parker were appointed to the charge. At the end of one year this union was dissolved, and Lima was again con- signed to its "lone star" destiny.
Rev. Allen Steele, one of the most eloquent men of his time, was appointed pastor over the charge. He remained but one year, and was succeeded in
1837 by Rev. Benj. Shipman, who, in turn, at the end of his first year, gave place to Rev. Gideon D. Perry. In 1839 Rev. Philo Woodworth was ap- pointed to the pastoral charge of Lima, and was re- appointed in 1840, the first instance in the history of the church in Lima of the appointment of any minis- ter to the pastoral charge for two consecutive years.
In 1843, under the supervision of Rev. Thomas Carlton, the old church edifice was removed from its former site and reconstructed upon the lot now occupied by the present house of worship. At the session of the Conference in Geneva in 1847, a resolution was passed requesting the General Con- ference to divide the former body. This request was complied with, and the division was consum- mated at the session of the General Conference held in Pittsburgh in 1848. An arrangement was mutually entered into before the division that the Lima charge should alternate between the two con- ferences, four years in the one, and four years in the other in succession. This arrangement was never satisfactory to the church or citizens of Lima, and was extremely difficult to adjust, and was ultimately abandoned by mutual consent of the Conference. The charge then remained per- manently in the East Genesee Conference. The enterprise which resulted in the erection of the present church edifice was inaugurated in 1855, and was designed to accommodate the College and Seminary as well as the village congregation. Consequently provision was made to appropriate a sufficient number of pews for the free occupancy of the students of these institutions, and, as a con- sideration for such privilege, the Conference pro- posed to raise $300 to aid in building the church. The building committee was composed of the fol- lowing persons :- Rev. Joseph Cummings, D. D., Rev. Woodruff Post, James L. Alverson, LL.D., Ira Godfrey, Esq., and William L. Gaylord. The corner stone of the church edifice was laid with in- teresting ceremonies in the autumn of 1855. The building was completed early in the following sum- mer, and was dedicated June 22, 1856. The dedi- catory sermon was preached by Rev. Allen Steele. The entire cost of this building, including the fur- nishing, was less than $16,000. In 1860 the Lima charge again passed into the Genesee Conference, and in 1864 was again transferred to the East Gen- esee Conference, from which it was never again re- moved until the annihilation of that body by the General Conference in 1872. The following has been the further succession of pastors in this church since 1842.
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Revs. Thomas Carlton, from 1842 to 1844; F. G. Hibbard, from 1844 to 1845 ; Moses Crow, from 1845 to 1846 ; D. D. Bush, from 1846 to 1847; F. G. Hibbard, from 1847 to 1848; Wesley Cochrane, from 1848 to 1849; John Copeland, from 1849 to 1850; John Raines, from 1850 to 1852 ; William C. Fuller,* from 1852 to 1853; R. L. Waite, in 1853; Charles Adams, from 1853 to 1854; Philo Wood- worth, from 1854 to 1856 ; Jonas Dodge,t from 1856 to 1857 ; John Dennis, from 1858 to 1860; Joseph H. Knowles, from 1860 to 1862; King David Nettleton, from 1862 to 1864; Israel H. Kel- logg, from 1864 to 1865 ; A. Sutherland, from 1865 to 1867 ; William Benham, from 1867 to 1870; I. T. Brownell, from 1870 to 1871 ; John Dennis, from 1871 to 1874 ; G. W. Paddock, from 1874 to 1875; L. F. Congdon, from 1875 to 1878; O. L. Gib- son, from 1878 to 1881.
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