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In company with other captives he was taken to Fort Niagara, when he was adopted into the family of Col. Butler, to make good the loss of his son, who was killed on the Mohawk. The Indians soon after required intelligence from Mohawk himself of Van Campen's former exploit in the massacre of his captors, and sharply interrogated Capt. Jones, who had been long enough a prisoner to gain their confidence and esteem, as to his knowledge of the fact ; but he concealed his knowledge with evasive answers. They resolved however to punish Van Campen. They repaired to Niagara and demanded him of Col. Butler, promising fourteen other pris- oners in his stead. Col. Butler sent an adjutant to ascertain the facts, and after some hesitation Van Campen boldly related them ; but he at the same time claimed protection as a prisoner of war. Col. Butler proposed, as the price of his freedom, that he accept a commission in the British army, a proposition which was subsequently renewed by the wife of a British officer, who proved to be a former acquaintance and school-mate. But the brave Van Campen, though remembering the cruel fate of Lieut. Boyd on the Genesee flats, indignant- ly spurned the offer, saying, " No, sir, no ! Give me the stake, the tomahawk or the knife, sooner than a British commission." He was placed on board a vessel and sent to Montreal. After a few months imprisonment he was paroled, and returned to Northumberland in January, 1783.
In the spring he was exchanged. He again entered the service and was sent to take charge of
a fort at Wilkesbarre, where he remained for some time after peace was declared, to protect the fron- tier from the still hostile Indians. He received before leaving the service a Major's commission.
Soon after being relieved from military duty he married a daughter of James McClure, a wealthy farmer of Northumberland. In 1795 he removed to Angelica, and being a surveyor, was for some years employed in that capacity by Capt. William- son and Philip Church. In 1807 he was appointed Judge of Allegany county. He was Treasurer of that county by appointment fifteen years ; and was Loan Commissioner till 1831, when he removed to Dansville village. He participated in the cere- monies attending the removal of the remains of Lt. Boyd and his unfortunate comrades, who were cut down by the Indians in the ambuscade in Grove- land, Sept. 13, 1779, and in a few words surren- dered their honored remains for re-interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester. He returned to Angelica soon after the death of his wife, and died there Oct. 15, 1849, at the ripe age of 92 years and 9 months.
TOWN OFFICERS .- The first town meeting was held at the house of G. C. Taylor, on Tuesday, April 7, 1846, and the following officers elected :- Sidney Sweet, Supervisor ; Peter S. Lema, Clerk ; Thomas Roming, Joseph Enos and John Haas, Justices ; Aaron Brown, Ebenezer B. Brace and Thomas Roming, Assessors ; Cyrus Jones, John Hartman and Benjamin Stone, Commissioners of Highways ; Bleeker L. Hovey, Superintendent of Common Schools ; John C. Williams, Solomon Hubbard and Geo. G. Wood, Inspectors of Elec- tion ; Jason H. Stone, and Jarvis T. Beach, Over- seers of the Poor ; Wm. McVicar, Collector ; Wm. McVicar, Gabriel Shult, Harmon Howe, Consta- bles ; John Smith "of Lyons," Sealer ;* Joseph Kidd, Wm. Curtiss, Paul Knouse, Thomas Mc- Whorter, Merritt Brown, Henry Hartman, Mat- thew Porter, Jr., Isaac Dexter, Samuel Fisk, Wm. Kershner, J. T. Lewis, Seth Foster, Conrad Welch. David Shult, Wm. Foote and Cyrus B. Cook, Path- masters.
The following have been the Supervisors and Clerks from 1846 to 1880 :-
Supervisors. Clerks.
1846-7. Sidney Sweet. Peter S. Lema.
1848-9. Charles A. Thompson.
1850. John Goundry. C. E. Lamport.t
1851. Henry Hartman. O. T. Crane.
*Though this officer was elected in 1846, not until 1853 was the Super- visor authorized to procure the proper standards of weights and measures. 10). T. Crane was appointed Clerk, Nov. 3, 1850, vice Lamport resigned.
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VILLAGE OF DANSVILLE -- OFFICERS.
1852.
E. B. Brace. *
O. T. Crane.
1853-4.
Alonzo Bradner.
1855-8. Matthew Porter, Jr., Timothy B. Grant.
1859-61.
Joseph W. Smith.
1 862.
Lester B. Faulkner.f
1863-4.
Samuel D. Faulkner.
I 865-6.
Joseph W. Smith.
1867-9.
John A. Vanderlip. :
1870.
Thomas E. Gallagher.
1871-2.
Jas. Faulkner, Jr. James Krein.
1873.
J. J. Bailey.
1874-5.
66
Le Grand Snyder.
1 876-8.
Geo. A. Sweet.
1879.
L. B. Faulkner. C. Joseph Wirth.
1880.
Le Grand Snyder.
DANSVILLE.
Dansville is a handsome, thriving and enterpris- ing village of 3,632 inhabitants, beautifully situated at the head of the Genesee Valley, and deriving a valuable water power from the streams flowing through and adjacent to it. It is not only the most populous village in the county, but its com- merce and manufactures far exceed any other. It contains many fine business blocks and private residences, which add to the attractiveness of its handsomely shaded streets. It has a goodly sup- pły of churches, which are well supported ; but is sadly deficient in the matter of public schools, a defect, however, which is in a measure compen- sated for by excellent private schools. The main street runs parallel with and at the base of the east hill, which rises above it with a good deal of ab- ruptness to the height of over eight hundred feet, presenting a succession of cultivated fields and woodlands, which form a most picturesque land- scape. At the foot of the opposite hills winds the Canaseraga, which, with its affluents, control so many of the industries of the village. It is con- nected by rail with Mt. Morris, Geneseo, Avon and Rochester, being distant forty-five miles by high- way from the latter city, and eighteen miles from Geneseo, the county seat. It is also connected by daily stage with Burns on the Hornellsville di- vision, and Wayland on the Buffalo division of the Erie railroad.
It contains eight churches .¿ the Dansville Sem- inary, a district school, several private schools, two newspaper offices, § two banks, (one national and one private,) three hotels, a popular and thriving water cure, various manufacturing establishments,
* Appointed, as no choice was made by the Electors.
t Samuel D. Faulkner was appointed Supervisor auce L. B. Faulkner resigned.
# These are Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Episcopalian, English Lutheran, German Lutheran, German Catholic and Irish Catholic.
§ See Chap. XII. for History of the Press of Livingston County.
which will be enumerated under the head of manu- factures, nearly seventy stores of various kinds, and the various mechanics' shops incident to a village of its size.
The village was incorporated May 7, 1845.
The first corporation meeting was held at the American Hotel, kept by G. C. Taylor, June 16, 1846, and the following officers were elected : Trustees, Sidney Sweet, Jason H. Stone, Samuel L. Endress, Chester Bradley, Wm. Foote; As- sessors, Ebenezer B. Brace, Aaron Brown, Wm. Curtiss ; * Fire Wardens, Peter S. Lema, Philip Hasler, Russell H. Winans; Clerk, Barna J. Chapin ; Treasurer, Samuel W. Smith ; Collector, Harmon Howe. At the first meeting of the Board of Trustees, June 20, 1846, Chester Bradley was elected President.
The following have been the Presidents and Clerks of the village from 1846 to 1880 :-
Presidents. Clerks.
1846. Chester Bradley. Barna J. Chapin. 66
1847. Sidney Sweet.
1848. Harman Jones.
George H. Bidwell.
1849. John Haas.
Charles E. Lamport.
1850. Ebenezer B. Brace. +
1851-2. M. H. Brown.
1853. George Hyland.
1854.
Harman Jones.
1855-6. Abram Lozier.
Timothy B. Grant.
George Hyland, Jr.
Carl Stephan.
1859.
Charles R. Kern.
Timothy B. Grant. Andrew J. Leach.
1 860.
1861.
1862.
J. F. Howarth. Frank Eschrich. 66
Charles B. Mitchell.
1 864. D). Cogswell.
1865. Hugh McCartney.
1866.
Charles R. Kern.
1867.
1868-9. John N. Lemen.
Jesse B. Prussia.
1870. J. B. Morey.
John Hyland.
1871. Hugh McCartney. Jesse B. Prussia.
1872. W. J. La Rue.
1873. Jos. C. Whitehead. William Kramer.
IS74-5.
1876-7. Geo. A. Sweet.
Le Grand Snyder.
1878. John Wilkinson. Patrick O'Hara.
1879. James Krein.
Le Grand Snyder.
1880. Jas. Faulkner, Jr.
The following Democratic ticket was elected Feb. 8, 1881: Trustees, James Faulkner. Jr., Resolved Wheaton, James Krein, Dennis Foley, James E. Crisfield ; Treasurer, Timothy B. Grant ; Clerk, LeGrand Snyder; Collector, Thomas
. June 25, 1846, Matthew McCartney was appointed in place of Curtiss, who refused to act.
t Nov. 25, 1850, DeWitt C. Bryant was appointed Clerk in place of Charles E. Lamport, who resigned.
Osman T. Crane.
I857.
John Haas.
1858. Mat. McCartney.
1863.
Oliver W. West.
Jesse B. Prussia.
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HISTORY OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY.
O'Mera; Assessors, Thomas Earls, Joseph J. Welch, Frank Schubmehl.
Dansville developed slowly previous to the open- ing of the canal. Spafford describes it in his Gazetteer of 1813, as having " a post-office, a num- ber of mills, and a handsome street of il miles in length, occupied by farm houses, &c.," and in his Gazetteer of 1824, the description is not varied in the least. " In 1830," says a local writer, " Dans- ville was a vast pine plain. Get off from Main street and you were in the woods directly. The Maxwell nursery and Hartman farms were covered with young second-growth pines so thick a dog could hardly squeeze through, while the taller giant pines reared their feathered tops majestically up- ward into the sky, making good resting places for the hawks and crows. It was the same thing on the southern side, only the pines were taller and denser,"*
In 1836 it contained three churches, (Presby- terian, Lutheran and Methodist,) and a society of Episcopalians, four paper-mills, each having a double engine, using together a ton of rags per day, five grain-mills, three of which were "large and of superior fabric," a clover-mill, which had prepared in one season 1,500 bushels of seed for market, one blast furnace, two trip hammers, five tanneries, three carding and cloth-dressing establishments, three saw- mills, four taverns, six stores, one printing office, issuing a weekly paper, and about 220 dwellings.t In 1842 it contained about 1,600 inhabitants, 250 dwellings, two Presbyterian, one Methodist, and one Lutheran churches, one bank, two hotels, twenty-five stores, four extensive paper mills, two large flouring mills, two furnaces and a tannery.# In 1850, it is described as "a large, thriving and busy village" of 1,800 inhabitants " extensively engaged in manufac- tures," the principal of which were " paper, flour, leather, iron, cloth, and lumber in large quantities."s In 1860, it had a population of 2,879, and con- tained nine churches, the Dansville Seminary, two printing offices, a bank, a water cure, five flouring mills, three paper mills, two furnaces, a plaster mill, machine shop, pail factory, sash and blind factory, distillery, two tanneries and five breweries. | In 1872, the population had increased to 3,600, and it contained eight churches, the Dansville Semi-
* Kecollections of a Citizen, in the Dansville Advertiser of August 2, 1877.
t Gazetteer of New York, by Thomas F. Gordon.
$ Y. Disturnell's Gazetteer of the State of New York.
§ Geographical History of New York, by J. H. Mather and L. P. Brockett, M. D.
Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of New York, by J. H. French.
nary, two printing offices, two banks, a banking of- fice, a cure, five flouring mills, three paper mills, one furnace and plow factory, two plaster mills, a machine shop, pail factory, two sash and blind facto- ries, a distillery, two tanneries, and five breweries .* Thus we see a steady and rapid increase in popula- tion, and the number and magnitude of its sub- stantial enterprises and industries and social insti- tutions since the opening of the canal.
MERCHANTS .- Daniel P. Faulkner was the first merchant in Dansville. His first stock of goods, which was small, he brought in from Northumber- land county, Pa., in 1796. The following year he built a one-story frame house in front of his plank shanty on the site of the National Bank, in which he traded. In January, 1797, he brought in three loads of goods from Albany. He kept the store till his failure in 1798, when he returned to Penn- sylvania to retrieve his fortune by resuming his former occupation of tavern keeping.
Jared Irwin was Mr. Faulkner's successor. He was originally from Pennsylvania but came here from Painted Post as early as 1798. He opened a store about midway between the bank and the Wing tavern, and also kept tavern, continuing both till his death, which occurred Jan. 1, 1813, at the age of 45, and resulted from a virulent disease called the " war fever," which was then prevalent all over the country. In 1804, Mr. Irwin became the rep- resentative of his brother, James Irwin of Painted Post, in the Daniel P. Faulkner property, which was purchased by James Irwin in 1802 or '3, and sold soon after to Jonathan Rowley, who was also from Painted Post. John Metcalf was contempo- rary with Mr. Irwin and was trading here at the latter's death.
Joshua Shepard, who was born in Plainfiekl, Conn., in 1780, came here from Bloomfield in in 1813, bringing with him a stock of goods. He soon after became associated with Lester Brad- ner, who came about the same time from Utica, where he had served an apprenticeship with Watts Sherman, a prominent merchant of that place. Shepard was a carpenter and joiner, and Bradner an educated merchant ; both had been hucksters on the Niagara frontier during the war. Bradner first started a distillery three miles below the vil- lage, and subsequently engaged in trade. Fearing to come in competition with Bradner, whose ex- perience placed him at a disadvantage, Shepard shrewdly proposed a copartnership. Their store
* Gazetteer of the State of New York, by Franklin B. Hough, A. M., 31. D.
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occupied the site of Timothy B. Grant's hardware store. They continued to trade in company till the death of Shepard in September, 1829. Brad- ner continued till his death. He was also interested with his brother Alonzo in a store established about 1816 or '17 in a two and a half-story frame build- ing on the site of the National Bank, in which Dr. James Faulkner was a silent partner. This business was closed out at Shepard's death. Alonzo Bradner traded here till 1836, and went to New York city.
Samuel W. Smith, a native of Caledonia, came here about 1814 or '15 and traded for many years in opposition to Shepard. His store stood on the northeast corner of Main and Exchange streets. He afterwards removed to the stand now occupied by T. Carpenter, and traded here till within a few years of his death. Luther Melvin, from Vermont, was associated with Samuel W. Smith in the mer- cantile business, and afterwards with Dr. Wm. H. Reynale in the hardware business. He continued till about 1840 or '45 and returned to Vermont. Lamport & Eastwood succeeded Smith and traded till about 1845. Lamport went to St. Louis ; Eastwood continued business in another place for three or four years, associated with Endress Faulk- ner, when he went to New York.
Samuel Shannon was a druggist here from about 1820 to 1840. He continued his residence here till his death, May 28, 1849, aged 58. He was a Justice of the Peace for a number of years. Willis F. Clark, who was born August 21, 1786, sold drugs and dry goods from about 1820 to about 1835 or '36. He was a physician, and after his failure prac- ticed medicine here more or less till his death, Oct. 5, 1858.
Merritt H. Brown,* who was born in Benning- ton, Vt., Oct. 20, 1806, came to Dansville with his father's family in 1818. In 1827 he engaged in mercantile business with his father, Merritt Brown, continuing somne four years. In 1839 he returned to Dansville and resumed the hard- ware trade. In the spring of 1846 he associ- ated himself with Timothy B. Grant, under the name of Brown & Grant, and added a general line of hardware to his stock, which had until then con- sisted chiefly of stoves, sheet iron and tin ware.
John Betts was engaged in business here some fifty years, continuing till within a few years, first as a tanner and afterwards as a dealer in boots and shoes. He still resides in the village, aged eighty years. George Hyland, a native of Ireland, came
to Dansville from Canada in 1830, and in com- pany with John Wildey, whose interest he after- wards purchased, opened a hatter's establishment, which he continued till about 1865. He was also engaged in mercantile business, which he con- tinued till his death, in the spring of 1880, at which time, it is said, he had been longer engaged in mercantile business than any other man in Liv- ingston county.
James and David McCartney, both natives of North Dansville, of which town their father, Wil- liam McCartney, was the pioneer settler, com- menced business as tanners at Comminsville about 1831. They sold out in 1835, and the building was soon after used by Warren Commins as a foundry and machine shop. In the spring of 1836 they engaged in mercantile business in company with George Bradner, under the name of Bradner & McCartneys, purchasing the business of Alonzo Bradner.
David J. Wood, originally from New Jersey, came here from Burns, Steuben county, and was a prominent merchant from about 1845 till his death, May 16, 1855, at the age of 48 years .* Tom E. Leman was his partner for a few years, till 1854. Leman was associated in trade with George Hyland from June, 1854, to July, 1855, and after- wards till his death with L. H. Puffer. Leman was born March 22, 1824, and died May 5, 1862. Mr. Puffer continues the business at the present time. Robert S. Faulkner, who is now keeping a flour and feed store in Dansville, commenced mercantile business here about 1847 or 'S, and continued till about 1857.
The merchants and traders at present doing business in Dansville are : Hinds & Bunce, pro- duce dealers ; John Blum, boots and shoes ; Wm. Veith, tobacconist; Crowe & Enwright, boots and shoes; Charles Leonard, tobacconist ; Samuel Johnson, grocer; Thomas Earls, grocer; W. J. Rose, jeweler ; William Pfuntner, boots and shoes : Robert S. Faulkner, flour and feed; Owen Gal- lagher, flour and feed ; George and John Hyland. dry goods; Manly Walker, grocer and confectioner ; Richard Wiley, grocer ; Henry Byer, boots and shoes; Fielder & Olney, dry goods ; Spinning, Uhl & Co., dry goods; Fritz Durr, clothier ; G. G. Fowler, dry goods; H. Hubertus, clothier ; Nich- olas Johantgen, clothier ; Mrs. J. C. Prussia, mil-
* The death of Mr. Wood, followed in a few weeks by that of his wife attended with like symptoms, awakened suspicions of foul play. The bodies were disinterred, the stomachs submitted to chemical analysis, and traces of poison found. Circumstances implicated Mr. Wood's brother, who was arrested, convicted after a long and exciting trial, and hung at Geneseo July 9, 1858.
* See biographical sketch at close of chapter.
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liner ; Miss Landers, fancy goods ; Kramer Bros., clothiers ; Wm. H. Dick, boots and shoes; Wm. Krein, grocer; Austin & Clark, dry goods ; Joseph Holcomb, flour and feed ; Nicholas Grim, baker ; Dennis Foley, grocer ; Miss Rosetta Griffith, mil- liner ; Chas. Gardner, confectioner ; E. S. Palms, merchant tailor ; J. W. Brown, boots and shoes ; J. 1 .. Matson, furniture dealer and undertaker ; John J. Kennedy, liquors; Nicholas Huver, har- ness : II. Huver, boots and shoes ; Conrad Meh- lenbecker, baker; George Dippy, flour and feed ; Altmyer & Jones, undertakers and furniture dealers ; Andrew Schario, grocer ; A. Lauterborn, tinsmith ; R. G. Perrin, 99 cent store ; T. Carpenter, grocer ; J. B. Prussia, milliner : F. S. Southwick, boots and shoes; F. C. Walker, hardware ; J. W. Bur- gess, boots and shoes ; L. H. Puffer, boots and shoes ; F. J. Nelson, druggist ; Dyer Bros., dry goods : S. J. Taft, grocer and confectioner ; James Hodgmire, drugs; H. W. DeLong, stationery; H. T. Gallagher, grocer ; Bailey & Edwards, hard- ware; F. G. Rice, merchant tailor; L. G. Ripley ; jeweler; C. W. Woolever, drugs ; A. Hall, harness ; Emmel Klouck, leather; T. B. Grant, hardware dealer and agent for the Royce reaper ; L. Per- ham, jeweler and news-dealer; McCartney & Whitehead, boots and shoes ; E. N. Parmelee, patent medicines ; Walter Miller, Yankee notions ; (. Bastian, drugs; Nicholas Fox, boots and shoes.
POSTMASTERS .- The earliest mail facilities en- joyed by Dansville were from the south, by way of Bath, to which place Capt. Williamson established communication by mail once a week from North- umberland, Pa., paying all the expenses con- nected therewith himself. Charles Cameron, a merchant at Bath, was the first postmaster at that place, by Williamson's appointment. An old Frenchman lived at the "Block house," on Laurel Ridge, sixty-five miles distant from Bath ; and thither Thomas Corbit, the mail rider in 1794, went weekly for the Steuben county bag .* Jared Irwin, the second merchant and first postmaster at Dans- ville, procured the establishment of a post route from Bath early in the present century. He held the office till his death in 1813, and was succeeded in that year by James W. Stout, who was then keeping tavern on the site of the National Bank. He was a tailor by trade. He held the office till his death, which occurred Oct. 7, 1814, at the age of 25. Dr. James Faulkner succeeded to the
* Narrative of Gen. George Mcclure, in McMaster's History of Steuben county, 116.
office in 1814 and held it till 1841. Samuel Shan- non next held the office till his death, May 28, 1849, and was succeeded by Merritt Brown, Charles Shepard, Charles Lamport, Merritt H. Brown, the latter of whom held it till July, 1858, when Judge John A. VanDerlip was appointed and held it till Sept. 2, 1861, when O. B. Maxwell was appointed. He was succeeded in 1865 by Edward H. Pratt. George Hyland was appointed under Gen. Grant's administration, and was succeeded in October, 1869, by Seth N. Hedges, who held the office till Jan. 1, 1874, when John Hyland, the present in- cumbent, was appointed.
PHYSICIANS .- The first physician to locate in Dansville was James Faulkner, to whom reference is made elsewhere. The second was Jonathan I'. Sill, who came from Cambridge, Washington county, in 1797, but removed the same year to Williamsburgh, and the next year to Geneseo, where he practiced till his death in 1807. He was an estimable man, successful in his practice, and it was said of him by William Crossett, an Irish dis- tiller and a prominent man in this locality, that he was the only man who ever died without an enemy. He remained here but a short time. He married the youngest sister of Samuel, Daniel P. and James Faulkner.
Philip Sholl, brother to David Sholl, the pioneer millwright, and a native of Moore town- ship, Northampton county, Pa., came to Dansville in February, 1808, and fixed his habitation on the corner of Main and Exchange streets. He was not an educated physician, but he was a man of great ability and shrewdness, and though an inebriate, had an extensive practice. No man in this county, says Dr. James Faulkner, had the popularity he acquired all through this section. Not under- standing the nature and uses of medicines, he re- sorted to simple remedies until the advent of Dr. Faulkner as a practitioner in 1812, when he in- judiciously administered from his stock, medicines of whose nature he was ignorant. He was not licensed, and hence formed a copartnership with Dr. Faulkner so as to enable him to collect his debts. Hecontinued in practice here till his death, which occurred in 1821 from apoplexy, while on a visit to his former home.
Willis F. Clark, a native of New England, came here from Utica about 1813 or '14, and practiced till his death, Oct. 5. 1858. Josiah Clark came here about 1820, and after practicing several years he removed to Livonia, where he was practicing in 1842. Wm. H. Reynale was born in Quaker-
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town, N. J., Feb. 27, 1794. He was a noted sur- geon in this section .*
L. N. Cook was born in London, Mass., April 5, 1791, and removed with his parents to Livonia in this county. He studied medicine with Dr. Cyrus Chipman, of Pittstown, (afterwards Honeoye and now Richmond,) Ontario county. He prac- ticed in the towns of Livonia and Richmond till 1818, when he removed to Dansville, and in 1824, to Johnstown, Licking county, Ohio. In 1831, he returned to Dansville, where he lived and practiced till his death April 2, 1868, of heart disease.
Samuel L. Endress, in 1828 removed to Dans- ville, and formed a co-partnership with Dr. Wm. H. Reynale, which continued for many years. He continued in practice here till his death, from bilious pneumonia, Feb. 24, 1871.
Edward William Patchen entered upon the prac- tice of his profession in Sparta, where he continued four years. He then removed to Livonia, and a year later, in 1843, to Dansville, where he prac- ticed till his death, Oct. 20, 1869.
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