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In his younger days he learned much from the Indians who lived in this community, becoming familiar with their language, and receiving an in- spiration from their romances and traditions.
Much of his writing remains in manuscript form, which, if published, would be an acquisition to literature. He merited the title of " The Bard of Avon," and has received the congratulations of eminent writers for being "The first English writer who sunk a shaft into Indian Tradition." He died in Avon, May 23, 1877.
Among the other early lawyers here were the following :- A. A. Bennett studied law with Geo. Hosmer, and commenced practice about 1820.
T. R. Morgan, son of Col. Abner Morgan, prac- ticed law here from about 1835 till 1850. Hugh Cameron, from Caledonia, practiced here about 1845. He afterwards moved to LaCrosse, Wis. Amos Dann studied law with Geo. Hosmer, and was in practice here as early as 1828. With the exception of three years spent in New York city, he remained in practice in Avon all of his life up to the time he became insane. He died in the Utica Insane Asylum in 1866. Geo. B. Benedict was practicing law in Avon in 186 1.
Hon. Amos Alonzo Hendee* was a prominent member of the Livingston county bar. He was born in Avon, June 15, 1815. He was the young- est of a family of six children, all of whom were reared upon the farm which their own industry and that of their parents reclaimed from a com- parative wilderness. His primary education was attained in the common schools of his native town and in the Academy at Avon. From this latter institution he went to the Seminary at Lima, where he completed his education.
Returning to the homestead he soon became convinced that the life of a farmer was unsuited to his tastes, and he resolved to enter upon the more congenial profession of the law. Accordingly before he had attained his majority he entered as a student the law office of John Young, in Gen- eseo, and on the 26th of September, 1837, was admitted to the bar.
Soon after his admission he removed to Perry, Wyoming county, where he resided for a time, and then returned to Geneseo, where he formed a law partnership with Elias Clark, afterwards with H. H. Guiteau, and finally with James B. Adams, with whom he remained from 1857 to 1863.
In June, 1847, at the first election held under the new constitution, he was elected District At- torney.
In 1852 he was elected Member of Assembly from the First Assembly district of Livingston county, and in the succeeding year again ran for that office but was defeated by Judge Gibbs. In 1856 he was again elected to the office of District Attorney, during which term occurred the cele- brated Wood trial, in the management of which Mr. Hendee evinced superior skill as a prosecuting officer, conducting the case successfully on the part of the people.
In 1865 and'66, he was a member of the Board of Supervisors from Geneseo, and in 1867 was presi-
*For the above sketch we are indebted to the able tribute of Mr. E. H. Davis to his memory, delivered before the Livingston County Historical Society, at their fifth annual meeting.
* Based on the Indian traditions of the Genesee Valley.
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dent of that village. In 1868, he retired from Geneseo to the okt homestead, and the remainder of his life was passed in the improvement of his farm and among the books in his ample library. The last public act in his life was the delivery in 1878 of the annual address before the Livingston County Pioneer Society, of which he was an inter- ested and efficient member. For three or four years prior to his death he passed his winters in the vil- lage of Avon, where, at the house of Wm. E. Pattee, he suddenly died on the morning of February 13, 1 880.
The present attorneys of Avon are Judge E. A. Nash, Wm. Carter, Calvin Knowles and W. S. Newman.
F. A. Nash was educated at the Genesee Wes- leyan Seminary and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He was located at Lima until 1878, since which time he has resided in Avon. He has been District Attorney two terms and was elected to the office of County Judge in 1878, an office he still holds.
Wm. Carter was educated in Lima at the Gene- see Wesleyan Seminary, and was admitted to the bar at Utica in January, 1879, since when he has been located at Avon.
Calvin Knowles was born at Littleville, and received his education at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima. He commenced his legal studies with Amos Dann, of Avon, and afterward with Chamberlain & Wood, of Geneseo. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1856 and has since been en- gaged in practice in Avon the greater portion of his time. He was in the army from 1861 to 1863, in the 13th Regiment, New York State Volunteers.
Winfield S. Newman, was born in Lima, N. Y., on the 22d day of December, 1847. In 1851 he removed with his parents to the town of Avon, where his father, Isaac R. Newman, is still living. His mother died in August, 1873. He received his education at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, located at Lima, N. Y., and upon leaving that in- stitution entered upon the study of the law in the office of H. J. Ward of that place, a lawyer of large experience and talents of a high order. In this office Mr. Newman remained until his admis- sion to the bar June 10, 1869.
After his admission he immediately formed a co- partnership with II. Decker, and remained in Lima practicing his profession till the fall of 1873, when he removed to Avon, where he has since resided and practiced.
In the spring of 1879 he was elected Supervisor
for the town of Avon, which position he has held for two years. Upon the organization of the Board he was chosen chairman. In August, 1879, he was elected President of the Firemen's Asso- ciation of the State of New York.
CHURCHES-Central Presbyterian Church of Aron was organized May 9, 1876, with forty-three members. Edwin I. Stevens and Benjamin Long were elected elders. Rev. H. P. V. Bogue accept- ed the pastorate in June, 1876, and still remains with them. The church and society have at pres- ent ninety-eight members.
The first meetings were held in Nisbet Hall, and afterwards in Opera Hall. The church edifice was erected in 1877, and dedicated October 1, 1878, Rev. J. B. Shaw, D. D., preaching the dedicatory sermon. The church, which cost between thirteen and fourteen thousand dollars, is a very handsome structure, and is an honor to the society and an ornament to the village. The society also owns the parsonage adjoining. The Sunday school con- sists at present of one hundred and fifty members, and G. G. Westfall is its Superintendent.
The First M. E. Church of Avon was organized in 1835, with the following persons among the original members : Mrs. Laura Fuller, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Dunakin, Smith Bryan and wife, Mr. Gleason, and Wm. Maguire and wife. Of these only Wm. Maguire, Mrs. Laura Fuller, Mrs. Wright, and Mrs. Dunakin are living.
Owing to the absence of all records we are un- able to give a more extended account of the history of this church. The society was visited by circuit preachers until 1839, when Calvin Coates became its pastor. In 1840 Eleazer . Thomas officiated as pastor, and in 1843 James M. Fuller, who left in 1844.
In 1866 Luther Northway assumed the charge, and was succeeded in 1868 by David Nutton, who was followed in 1871 by Wm. Wolgemuth. In 1872, George Coe was pastor of the church; 1874, Stephen Brown ; 1875, J. D. Requa ; 1876-79, I. D. Chase ; and in 1879, John Copeland, who is the present pastor, assumed the charge.
The old church edifice was finished in 1839 at a cost of about $2,000. The present church was commenced in August, 1879, and dedicated Aug. 11, 1880, D. W. C. Huntington preaching the ser- mon. The church cost $9,000. The present membership is one hundred. The Sunday school consists of one hundred and fifty members, and Alva Carpenter is its Superintendent.
Lion's Church at Avon .- The first steps for
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the organization of this church and society were taken by the inhabitants of the village of West Avon in a school house in that place on Monday, Oct. S, 1827. At this meeting a building commit- tee was appointed to attend to the erection of a church edifice "at or near the Public Square." This committee consisted of the following members : Edward A. Le Roy, Curtiss Hawley, and Asa Nowlen.
The committee next met according to adjourn- ment at the house of Timothy Hosmer, Friday eve- ning, October 12, 1827. At this meeting two more were added to the building committee, namely, Jehiel Kelsey and Woodruff Matthews. The so- ciety was legally incorporated October 24, 1828, and the following officers chosen : Wardens, Eli- jah Woolage, John Newberry ; Vestrymen, George Hosmer, Reuben K. Hickox, Nehemiah Hough- ton, Woodruff Matthews, Elkanah Whitney, Ed- ward A. Le Roy, Curtiss Hawley and Lewis W. Beecher. At a trustees' meeting held December 13, 1828, Curtiss Hawley was chosen treasurer of the society.
The church building was completed in this same year, and was consecrated as Zion's Church by the Rt. Rev. John Henry Hobart, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of New York.
The first regularly installed rector was Rev. E. G. Gear .*
Among the pioneer members of this church were Andrew Sill, George A. Tiffany, James Austin, Amos Dann, John E. Tompkins, Moses L. George, Orville Comstock, William Scott, William Morris- on, R. S. Williams, S. S. Briggs, Samuel Salisbury, Henry Wadsworth, Merritt W. Riggs.
In 1830 a bell was donated to the church by James Wadsworth. In 1836 the parsonage was built.
The second rector was Rev. R. Kearney, whose pastorate ended in November, 1836.
Some two years then elapsed without any settled rector until 1839, when Rev. Beardsley Northrop was engaged for three months. In July, 1839, he was succeeded by Rev. Thaddeus M. Leavingworth, who was engaged for one year ending in July, 1840. In that same month a call was extended to Rev. Mr. Bailey, who accepted and remained six months. In December of that year he was succeeded by Rev. Samuel G. Appleton whose ministerial services extended to August, 1844.
The Rev. P. P. Kidder came next in 1845 for six months, and at the expiraton of that term was reengaged for one year. The next rector was Dr. Bethel Judd, who remained some two years, fol- lowed by Rev. George B. Eastman. In 1850 and '51 the pulpit was vacant as to a regular sup- ply, and in October of 1851, Rev. Fortune C. Brown assumed the pastoral relations which he retained until October, 1870. After him came Rev. Henry M. Brown, remaining one year. Then Rev. Francis Gilliat, who remained until 1878.
The succeeding pastor was Rev. James A. Brown who remained till March ist, 1881. The present membership is, families, 60 ; individuals, not thus included, 40. Total of individuals, 260.
The church property is valued at $5,000 ; the rectory at $3,000.
St. Agnes Church (Roman Catholic,) of Avon .- About thirty years ago the Catholic population of the village desiring some permanent dwellings to worship in, purchased the old Baptist church through the instrumentality of Father Maguire. This church, in order to meet the needs of the growing denomination, was afterwards enlarged to nearly twice its original size. Until 1853 they had no resident pastor, but in that year Father Maguire came, followed in 1856 by Father O'Brien, in 1857 by Father Quigley, in 1863 by Father Bradley, and in 1869 by Father O'Keefe.
The present edifice, a very fine brick structure, was built in 1869 under Father O'Keefe's pastor- ate, at a cost of about thirty-five thousand dollars. Father O'Keefe was followed by Father M. J. Hen- dricks, June 20th, 1874.
The present membership of the church is about two hundred and fifty.
St. Agnes school was founded in 1876 and is under the charge of this church. There are four teachers-Sisters of St. Joseph's order. The school occupies the old church building, and has an aver- age attendance of two hundred pupils.
AVON FREE SCHOOL. - A call was made Sept. Io, 1867, for a meeting to be held October 8, 1867, to determine whether a Union Free school should be established in the district. Of this meeting James Hosmer was chosen chairman and O. C. Jones, clerk. The meeting was adjourned till October 17, when by a vote of 78 to 27, it was resolved to re- organize with the following Trustees :-- John Z. Reed and Martin Kelly, for one year; William E. Hall, and Henry Albert, for two years ; and Daniel Lacy and Roger Carroll for three years.
The school building was erected as early as 1836,
* The major portion of the church records having been destroyed by fire, the precise dates of the incoming and departure of the rectors can not be obtained.
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as the Avon Academy, and W. H. Curtis was one of the early teachers. This building was used by the Union Free School district, and with repairs and the addition added thereto in 1873, cost them about $5,000.00.
The report of receipts and disbursements of this district for the year ending September 30, 1880, is as follows :-
RECEIPTS.
Balance on hand October 1, 1879 ..... $ 275 10 Amount of public school moneys both for
teachers' wages and library, appor- tioned to the district from State funds 815 49
Amount raised by tax on property for all
school purposes within school year . . . 1,116 27
Amount received from all other sources. 53 75
$2,260 61
DISBURSEMENTS.
For teachers' wages .. $1,617 90
For repairing and insuring school houses 93 47
For fuel . .. 120 66
For janitor 165 00
For other expenses II 50
Amount on hand
252 08
$2,260 61
The number of teachers employed in teaching at the same time for twenty-eight weeks or more dur- ing the school year was four. Number of children residing in the district over five and under twenty- one years of age was 629. The number of chil- dren who attended school some portion of the school year was 228. The average daily attend- ance was 143.294, and the whole number of days' attendance, 27,941.
The assessed valuation of all taxable property in the district was $826,576.00. The site is valued at $1,000.00 and the building $4,000.
POSTMASTERS .- The postal facilities of the region round about Avon were very meager for many years after the first settlements were made. Mail facilities of an unsatisfactory character were estab- lished by private enterprise as early as 1792 on the old Genesee road by which Avon, (then Hartford) was accommodated. In 1805 Timothy Hosmer was the postmaster at Hartford.
E. H. Davis is the present postmaster succeed- ing in Jan., 1872, T. E. Winans. W'm. Maguire was postmaster from 1861 to 1870, succeeding Geo. Hosmer.
FIRE DEPARTMENT .- Avon in years past has suffered quite largely from the ravages of fire, owing in a measure to the inefficiency of the means pro- vided for extinguishing the same. At present there is not a village of its size in the State better
provided with facilities for quelling the flames nor a more thoroughly organized department. The water supply is furnished by gravity pressure and with sufficient force to reach the tops of the high- est buildings.
The department as at present organized consists of one Babcock Chemical engine, of 80 gallons capacity, one hand engine, one hook and ladder truck, one hose cart, four hundred feet of rubber hose and two hundred feet of linen hose. There are seven hydrants and two cisterns from which water is obtained. The companies comprise one hun- dred volunteers. F. H. Davis was the first chief and was succeeded Jan. Ist, 1878, by W. B. Bas- sett, who still holds that office.
The first company of the present department to be organized was the Hook and Ladder com- pany, Feb. 8, 1876. W. S. Newman is the presi- dent of the company, and Orange Sackett, Jr., foreman. Within a short time after this a chemi- cal engine company and a fire engine company were organized. J. B. Benedict has been foreman, and Alva Carpenter, president of the fire engine company since its organization. The present fore- man of the chemical company is Patrick Tighe and president, D. W. C. Pruner.
These companies have a very fine brick engine house erected in 1877 at a cost of about $3,000. The lower floor is used for the storage of the ap- paratus while the upper floor is divided off into as- sembly rooms, that are very finely furnished. The building is both an ornament and honor to the en- terprise of the village.
THE AVON WATER Co. was organized in 1857, and the upper reservoir finished in 1858. It is fed entirely by springs. In 1870 the lower or receiv- ing reservoir was built. The capital stock of the company is $15,000. The present officers are WVm. Nisbet, President ; Theo. F. Olmsted, T. J. Thorpe and Stephen Hosmer, Directors.
SOCIETIES .- Equitable Aid Union Diamond Lodge, No. 157, was organized in October, 1880, and has about twenty-five members. R. J. Wal- lace is President.
Avon Springs Lodge No. 570, A. F. ~~ A. M., was organized by dispensation, Jan. 26, 1865, with the following members :- S. E. W. Johnson, W. M .; R. S. Taintor, S. W .; A. E. Moore, J. W .; H. H. Haile, S. D .; J. L. Hayden, J. D .; J. L. Burleigh, Sec'y ; S. Taintor, Tiler ; Wm. Van Zandt, H. S. Hale, J. Miller, J. H. Perkins, Wm. G. Markham, R. G. Wilbur, Jasper Barber, Ben B. Wilcox and A. E. Moore.
MR. & MRS. CHARLES S. GILBERT.
CHARLES SEWELL GILBERT.
Charles Sewell Gilbert, the subject of this sketch, was born at Mutford Hall, Suffolk county, England, January 5, 1817. Ile is the son of Charles and Hannah (Borrett) Gilbert. The former was a farmer by occupation, and died at his home in London, December 12, 1857, aged sixty-four years. His wife also died there March 4, 1875, aged eighty-five years. They had eleven children, eight of whom are now living and all residing in England, with the exception of Charles S., who came to America in the spring of 1837. While at home he enjoyed moderate ad- vantages for an education, and at the age of fifteen years was apprenticed to a miller and remained with him four years.
After landing at New York he proceeded to Rochester and stopped during one month with Mr. Beers, of Pitts- ford, receiving ten dollars for his services. He then commencedl working for Mr. John Agate, a son-in-law of Mr. Beers, who promised him ten dollars per month, but was so well pleased with him that he increased his wages to one dollar per day. With Mr. Agate he lived one month. He next engaged himself as second miller in the mill belonging to Andrew Lincoln, of Penfield, with whom he remained eighteen years. After being with him about a year and a half, Mr. Lincoln placed him in fall charge of the mill, where he served as master miller to the satisfaction of all concerned, until he severed his connection with Mr. Lincoln. He often speaks of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln as his " American parents," who ever took a parental interest in his welfare, such kindly inter- est and friendship being one of the pleasant memories and green spots of his life.
January 30, 1839, he was married to Mary, daughter of John and Hannah (Goodrich) Clark, of Suffolk county, England. She was born January 29, 1817, and in com- pany with her brother and one sister, came to America
in 1837, on the same ship with the voyager who proved to be her future husband. They were married at Pen- field, while Mr. Gilbert was in the service of Mr. Lincoln, and during their residence with him revisited England.
In 1855, they settled in the town of Avon, where they now reside. He purchased a mill property which he has improved by adding steam power, so it can now be run at all seasons. When on his way to occupy his present home he was informed by eurious and inquisitive persons whom he met. that he surely would starve if he relied upon getting a living there : but such a fate was not in store for him, and he is now one of the prominent business men of the town, and has run the mills successfully for nearly twenty-five years.
There have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert eight children, two of whom died in infancy. Those living are named as follows :- John W., born January 5, 1810 : Harriet E., born March 11, 1845: Martha A., born March 28, 1851 ; Charles Borrett, born December 1, 1853: Ar- thur Sewell, born July 20, 1856, and Alfred Clark, born January 10, 1858. The two eldest sons are in company engaged in the mercantile business at West Avon, or "Avon Springs."
In religious sentiment Mr. Gilbert and his wife are Episcopalians, but in politics Mr. Gilbert takes no interest, having never voted during his residence in America. *
* Mr. Gilbert speaks with affectionate and loving pride of the unremit- ting and valuable assistance he has always received from his faithful com- panion of forty-two years. In his hours of discouragement and doubt, it was her love, her wise counsel and advice that bore him up, and enabled him to meet bravely the barriers common to all who are struggling with rough fortune. To his children, whose love for her and for him is per- fect, she has been a kind and noble mother ; and now as they are declin- ing into the vale of years, they are comforted by a consciousness of having performed their duties to their family and society faithfully and well.
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RESIDENCE AND MILL OF C. S. GILBERT, EAST AVON, LIVINGSTON COUNTY, N. Y.
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Meetings were first held in rooms over Johnson & Hayden's store. They now occupy rooms in the Carpenter block, on Genesee street, their former rooms having been destroyed by fire.
The present officers are :- A. W. Dewitt, W. M .; Orange Sackett, S. W .; Bert Van Tuyl, J. W. ; Frank Weisert, S. D .; Frank H. Wiggins, J. D .; Cyrus Allen, Treas .; Wm. Carter, Sec'y ; and John H. Chase, Tiler. The present member- ship is seventy-three.
Avon Lodge, No. 455, I. O. of O. F., was or- ganized Jan. 4, 1877, with H. L. Strough, N. G. ; H. H. Sunderlin, V. G .; Geo. W. Bennett, Rec. Sec'y ; J. M. Fletcher, Treas. ; John Son, Warden ; H. H. Dutcher. O. G .; and M. D. Davis, I. G.
The present membership is thirty, with the fol- lowing officers :- A. H. Owens, N. G .; J. M. Fletcher, V. G .; H. J. Clark, Rec. Sec .; John Son, Treas .; Geo. W. Bennett, Per. Sec'y ; Geo. W. Strouse, Warden ; J. W. Boorman, O. G .; H. H. Dutcher, I. G .; and Walter S. Buck, P. G. Meetings are held every Wednesday evening on the third floor of Isham & Whiting's block.
A. O. U. I. T'alley Lodge, No. 26, was organ- ized May 31, 1876. The first officers were, W. B. Bassett, P. M. W .; A. W. Dewitt, M. W .; F. R. Torrance, G. F .; J. E. Hall, O .; H. Mckinney, Rec. ; Wm. E. Hall, Jr., Fin .; M. G. Swan, Re- ceiver ; I. B. Potter, Guide ; Charles Sackett, I. W .; and M. V. Swan, O. W.
The number of members has increased from nineteen at its organization to fifty-three at the present time, with the following persons officers :- Geo. A. Graves, M. W .; E. L. Armstrong, G. F .; E. Hawley, O .; Wm. Carter, Recorder ; C. F. Whiting, Financier; H. Mckinney, Receiver; J. D. Carson, F. F. Woodruff and Benjamin Long, Trustees ; Geo. W. Bennett, G. ; Charles H. Sack- ett, I. W. ; and Nelson Brown, O. W.
EAST AVON.
East Avon is a small village of about three hun- dred inhabitants, situated one and one-half miles east of Avon, on the old State road. It dates its main growth from about 1812 although there was a small settlement there a few years previously.
The present business consists of a general store, pump manufactory, file cutting works, one hotel, harness shop, one carriage shop and two blacksmith shops.
G. T. Palmer is the merchant here. The store in which he is located was erected as early as 1840.
Among the merchants who have done business in the past were David Firman, Jeremiah Whitbeck, Peleg White, Truman Waters and Chandler Pierson.
D. M. Pelton commenced the manufacture of wooden pumps here in October, 1879. The busi- ness gives employment to six men. Mr. Pelton occupies the old Wiard plow works.
Perry & Co. commenced the manufacture of files here in November, 1880. They give employ- ment to about eight men.
The Newman House, I. R. Newman, pro- prietor, was built about 1815 by John Pierson, and was first kept by a daughter of his. Mr. Newman has had control since 1854. He was born in Lima, June 24, 1816, and was a son of Joel and Jerusha Newman, who were early pioneers.
Solomon Taintor, M. D., came to East Avon in 1857, and commenced the practice of medicine in 1859. He only continued in practice about two years when he devoted his attention to other business. He received his diploma from the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city.
James E. Jenks, M. D., now practicing here, was born in East Avon, August 11, 1832. He received his diploma from the University of the State of New York, from the New York Opthal- mic School, and from the New York Medical In- stitute in 1856, since which date he has practiced at East Avon.
The Gilbert flouring mills, Charles S. Gilbert, proprietor, are located about two and one half miles north-east of East Avon, and are operated by both water and steam power. The mills were built as early as 1808, and were operated for a long time by Thomas Hanna. Mr. Gilbert was born at Mutford Hall, Suffolk county, England, Jan. 5, 1817, and emigrated to this country in 1837. He has resided at his present home since 1855-
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