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The following " list of scholars at the free school, Johnstown," is given in the fourth volume of the Documentary History of the State of New York, with nothing to show its date :
"Richard Young, Peter Young, Hendrick Young, Richard Cotter, Hen- drick Rynnion, James Mordon, Daniel Cammel, Samuel Davis, Reneir Vansiclan, Jacob Veder, Randel McDonald, John Foilyard, Peter Rynnion, Peter Potman, Jacob Doran, David Doran, Jeromy Doran, Adam Mc Donald, Abraham Boice, Caleb McCarty, Hendrick Colinger, Jacob Servos, John Servos, John Miller, James McGregar, George Binder, Christian Rider, Ber- nard Rider, Simeon Scouten, Francis Bradthau, John Everot, Sarah Connor, Leny Rynnion, Betsey Garlick, Baby Garlick, Rebecca Vansiclan, Caty Cammel, Caty Garlick, Mary McIntyre, Peggy Potman, Eve Waldroff, Leny Waldroff, Margaret Servos, Catherine Servos."-45.
The following commendable suggestions are part of a memorial to Sir Wm. Johnson by one of his townsmen, John Cottgrave, written immediately after Tryon county had been formed and Johnstown declared the county seat :
"The next thing I mean to refer to, is the Building of a new Free School- house nearly in the centre of the Free School-House Lot, in the form of an academy; with a conveniency at the top, for the little Bell of the Hall ; if this was to be done, the present School-House might be removed upon one of the vacant Lots in Town, and answer the End of a dwelling house- as it would not be proper for to have the New Free School in the least in- cumbered, hut to have the whole Lott fenced in neatly, and Suitable Trees planted round the whole square. If these things was done (which is of far greater Consequence than the Building of Blockhouses in Town) your Honour would then engage the attention of people, and perhaps them who live in the remotest parts of his present Majesty's Dominions."
THE ACADEMY.
It would seem that the Baronet's school did not meet the growing wants of the community, for, ere long, an academy sprung up, which for many years enjoyed a wide reputation, and gathered students from all over the State. In January, 1794, the Regents of the University received it under their visitation, in compliance with an application signed by the following trustees : Amaziah Rust, Simon Hosack, Dederick C. R. Peck, -- Cruts, Frederick Fisher, Silas Talbot, Thos. Read, Richmond Dodge, Daniel Miles, Daniel McIntyre, Geo. Metcalfe, Lewis Dubois, David Cady, H. Beach. John C. Van Epps, John McCarthy and Matthew Fairchilds. The Regents, in their circular approving the incorporation of these gentlemen as "the trustees of Johnstown Academy," mention that they are "founders and benefactors " of the academy, having contributed more than half its property. The Regents' circular is signed by George Clinton, chancellor, and De Witt Clinton, secretary.
In 1795 the Legislature granted the land on which the building stands, and shortly after its erection in 1796, the trustees procured for it the old bell of Queen Anne's Chapel, at Fort Hunter, which the Queen had sent over to call the Mohawk heathen to worship at that place. In the earliest days of the academy, when Johnstown, as the county seat of Montgomery county, was the most important place in the State west of Albany, it had more than its present local reputation, and was a place of resort from all the inhabited parts of the State to students preparing for college, or finishing their education.
In September, 1869, the trustees declared their office vacant, the acad- emy having been adopted as the academic department of the Union school. Since 1859 the following persons have taught in the academy : Rev. P. Smeallie, Miss M. A. Davidson, Miss H. Candee, Julia Harmon, Miss Foster, Mrs. J. Smeallie, Mr. Peck, Miss Leavenworth, Mr. Whigam, Mrs. Whigam, the Misses Freeman, Louise Larcher, Miss Wentworth, Anna Mcleish and Nettie C. Smith.
THE PRESENT SCHOOL SYSTEM.
The first division of the village into school districts made it consist of
two, Market street being the dividing line. The district west of that street was numbered 4, and the other 23. The school building on Main street was erected in 1856, at a cost of $2,500. The teachers since 1857 have been : J. Ripley, Wm. S. Snyder, Hannah Fitch, Miss Maloney, Alice W. Card, Mr. Abrams, Mr. Wilson, Eliza Yost, L. P. Burr, Maggie McQueen, Elizabeth A. McDermid, Ada A. Card, Mary J. Evans, and Jennie Calder- wood.
The Montgomery street school-house was built in 1860, and cost $3,000. The teachers at this building have been : Asa Baker, Gertrude McEwen, John M. Dougall, Miss Manchester, Maggie Grey, Amanda Pierson, Mag- gie Evans, Libbie Scovill, Jane Walker, Miss Hudson, Emma Bennett, Elizabeth A. McDermid. Jennie Sutliffe, and Mary B. Stewart.
The village schools were organized under the general act of 1869 into a Union school, though they were not graded and put under one head until 1873, when Wm. S. Snyder became principal and superintendent, which position he still holds, after a connection of seventeen years with the village schools.
Thirteen teachers are employed beside Mr. Snyder, namely: Mrs. G. McKelley, and Misses S. K. Baker, Lou. F. Blampied, N. L. Collins, Alice W. Card, Ada A. Card, Jennie Calderwood, Maggie Evans, Mary Evans, Elizabeth A. McDermid, Ella McDermid, N. C. Smith, and Mary B. Stewart.
The number of pupils at present is 1,000, being double the number attending in 1860. The number of grades is seven; of departments, four- teen. A library of some 1,500 volumes, and apparatus illustrative of the natural sciences, are connected with the school. The Board of Education annually expends about $7,500. The teachers' salaries average $436, against $670 in 1869.
LODGES AND ASSOCIATIONS.
MASONIC.
The Masonic fraternity in Johnstown was another of its early institu- tions that profited by the patronage of Sir William Johnson. Having taken the past master's degree in 1766, he fitted up a lodge-room at his own expense at Johnson Hall, and St. Patrick's Lodge, No. 4, was con- stituted by warrant from the Provincial Grand Master of New York, dated May 23 of that year, with Sir William as master; Guy Johnson, senior warden, and Daniel Claus, junior warden. The lodge assembled at the Hall Saturday, August 23, when the gentlemen named were invested with the badges of their respective offices, and duly acknowledged, and the war- rant was read. The records of the lodge from that time are quite complete.
Sir William presented to the lodge a set of silver jewels, which Sir John Johnson, who was the last Provincial Grand Master of the province of New York, took with him in his flight to Canada at the opening of the Revolution. These jewels were subsequently sent to the Grand Lodge of New York, and by it returned to their rightful owner, St. Patrick's Lodge, by which they are highly prized and venerated.
The last meeting of the lodge before the Revolution was held on May 5, 1774. The books were then taken to Canada and there kept until the close of the war, when they were returned and the lodge was reopened July 30, 1785. The original number enrolled was 42 ; at the first meeting after the Revolution there were but 16 persons present.
The present officers are as follows : W.M., W. F. Pierson ; S.W., J. W. Uhlinger ; J.W, Philip Keck ; Treasurer, E. W. Edwards; Secretary, B. E. White ; Senior Deacon, T. E. Ricketts; Junior Deuicon, Wm. Sun- mons ; Chaplain, Rev. P. Felts ; Senior Warden of Ceremonies, Eugene Moore ; Junior, C. H. Argersinger ; Organist, W. Il. Raymond ; Tyler, I .. G. Hill ; Trustees, S. Ilopgood, P. G. Ferris and J. P. Argersinger.
Johnstown Chapter of Knights Templar was organized in 1823. The present officers are : H.P., S. Hopgood ; King, J. H. Pike ; Scribe, T. E. Ricketts ; Captain of the Host, J. l'. Argersinger ; Principal Sojourner, W. C. Case ; R.A. Capt., J. W. Chlinger ; Master 3d Vail, Levi Lefler ; Master 2d Vail, Eugene Moore ; Master ist Vail, W. E. Sinunons ; Trea- surer, E. W. Edwards ; Secretary, B. E. White ; Chaplain, Kev. P. Felts ; Organist, W. 11. Raymond ; Tyler, L. G. Hill.
ODD FELLOWS.
Cayadutta Lodge, No. 218, was instituted by D. D.G. M. David De
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Forest, July 28, 1869, by special dispensation from G.M., G. J. Gardner, July 21. The lodge was chartered Aug. 19, having as charter members : Wm. G. Miller, A. Thompson, F. Wilbur D. C. f.ivingston, Wm. Russ, David Smith, A. M. Stewart and D. H. Heagle.
The first officers were : N.G., David Smith ; V.G., Truman Wilbur ; R.S., R. Van Nostrand : P.S., D. H. Heagle ; Treasurer, W. G. Miller.
The present officers are : N.G., Godfrey Moore ; V.G., W. H. Colgrove ; R.S., Chas. Frost ; P.S, A. M. Young : Treasurer, Morris Baumgartle ; D.D.G.M. for Fulton and Hamilton counties, Sidney Argersinger.
Cayadutta Encampment, No. 55, was chartered Aug. 23, 1871, and in- stituted in the following month by D). D. G. P. David De Forest. The charter members were : D. H. Heagle, M. R. Van Sickler, Thos. Farl, Henry Stoller, Sidney Argersinger, A. M. Young, Wm. A. McLane, and Lot Ostrom.
The first officers were : C. P., W. A. McLane ; H. P., D. H. Heagle ; S. W., Lot Ostrom ; J. W., Sidney Argersinger ; S., A. M. Young ; Treas- urer, M. A. Van Sickler.
Present officers : C. P., B. F. Jeffers ; H P., W. H. Doubleday ; S. W., Chas. F. Ehle ; J. W., W. J. Reid ; S., A. M. Young ; Treasurer, Morris Baungartle.
JOHNSTOWN CORNET BAND.
The organization occurred in February, 1870. The band consists of fifteen pieces. G. L. Stevens was the leader until 1876, when he resigned, and was succeeded by J. L. Gartland, the present leader.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
The association in Johnstown was organized Oct. 14, 1873. Its first president was D. H. Van Heusen ; vice-president, C. H. Mills ; and treas- urer, J. M. Dougall. The present others are : President, A. B. Pomeroy ; vice-president, John Selmser ; secretary, Albert Penny ; treasurer, J. M. Dougalf. The rooms of the association, including a reading room, with a library of 200 volumes attached, are at 60 Main street. Prayer, praise or promise meetings are held Monday evenings and Sabbath afternoons. A service of song is held on the first Sabbath of each month at one of the churches. During the summer months Sabbath-school work in the sur- rounding country takes the place of association work in the village. The membership is about 100.
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Sir William Johnson Lodge, No. 136, Knights of Pythias, was instituted July 2, 1875, with a charter membership of fourteen persons. The first four principal officers were: L. E. Trumbull, C. C .; L. F. Northrup, V. C .; C. C. Henry, P. C .; W. P. Vrooman. P. The lodge is slowly increasing its membership, which now includes some of the best young men of the vil- lage. Its present officers are: F. B. Wade, C. C .; Philip Keck, V. C .; W. P. Vrooman, P. C .; E. B. Thayer, P'. Meetings are now held Monday evenings, in the lodge room, at 113 Main street, third floor.
GAME PROTECTION ASSOCIATION.
The Johnstown Game Protection Association adopted on April 10, 1877, a constitution reported by a committee appointed at a preliminary informal meeting, held March 31. The charter members were : J. M. Pierson, Rev. J. A. Williamson, A. George, Hiram Argersinger. Rev P. Felts, W. F. Young, Max Maylender, \. J. Cook, J. I'. Arger inger, T. E. Ricketts, J. H. Pike, C. E. Argersinger. A. Livingston, M. S. Northrup, L .. F. Northrup, D. Fraser, D. C. MeMartin, W. Potter, M. Bearcraft, J. J. Yost, H. W. Potter, J. A. Dennison, W. I .. Johnson, and C. 11. Wiggins.
At a subsequent meeting the following officers were elected : President, Archie George ; vice-president, M. S Northrup ; secretary, J. H. Pike ; treasurer, Hiram Argersinger ; counsel, J. A. Dennison ; executive com- mittee N. P. Wells and 1). Fraser.
Article 2 of the constitution states the object of the association, as follows:
" This society has for its object the propagation and protection of game and game fish, and the enforcement of all laws against the unlawful taking,
killing or selling of the same, and to confer and co-operate with kindred associations of this and other States."
NEWSPAPERS.
The history of journalism in the village of Johnstown covers the ups and downs of more than a dozen newspaper enterprises and a period of over eighty years. The early journals would be considered sad affairs in these days, with their antiquated typography, meagre news, heterogeneous arrangement and seanty editorials; but they were more faithfully perused than even the artistic and admirable productions of the press to-day; to which result, indeed, their very meagreness contributed.
Johnstown's first paper was the Gazette, started in 1796.
In that year, also, was published The Montgomery Advertiser, by Jacob Dockstader, who soon sold it to James Smith, and he to Romeyn & Clark. It was subsequently published, for several years, by Daniel Holden.
The Montgomery Republican, an organ of the Federal party, was started in 1806 by William Child, whose brother Asa soon after became editor. William Holland came into possession of the establishment in 1823, and published the paper two years, when it passed into the hands of Peter Mix. Mr. Mix conducted the paper for nine years, until, in 1834, the concern was burned out. The paper survived this disaster; but a second conflagration in November, 1836, finished it.
The Montgomery Intelligencer was commenced in 1806, but discontinued in the next year.
In 1808 Robbins & Andrews began the publication of The Montgomery Monitor, but sold it shortly to Russell Prentice, and he, in 1824, to Dun- can and Daniel McDonald; who, in 1828, removed it to Fonda, and after- ward to Canajoharie and Schoharie.
In 1824 The Montgomery Herald was removed from Amsterdam to Johnstown, taking the name of The Johnstown Herald. In 1834 it was removed to Fonda, where it was known as The Fonda Herald.
The Montgomery Freeman was published for a time by Yates & Co.
The Fulton County Democrat is the outcome of three previous publica- tions, the first of which was The Northern Banner, a paper started at Union Mills, in the town of Broadalbin, by John Clark; but removed in a few months to Johnstown, where it took the name of The Northern Banner and Montgomery Democrat. In 1837 this name was changed to The Mont- gomery Republican, and soon after the concern was sold to William S. Hawley. He, in 1838, named the paper The Fulton County Demerrat. under which name it has been published from that time. For a time it was in the possession of A. T. Norton; but, in 1842, passed into the hands of Walter N. Clark, who conducted it until his death in October, 1877. when his son, Walter N., assumed the proprietorship. The paper has long been edited by William H. Doubleday.
To the foregoing series of weeklies was added, in 1836, a semi-monthly. called The Christian Palladium. It was removed to Albany about 1840. Another semi-monthly, The Garland, was issued a short time at Johns. town, having been previously published at Union Mills.
One of the next weekly enterprises was The Johnstown American, com. menced in January, 1856, by N. J. Johnson. A year later it was sold to J. D. Houghtaling, and its name was subsequently changed to The Inte- pendent. In 1865 it was bought by George W. Heaton, proprietor of The Gloversville Standard, and conducted by him until 1875, when it was des- continued.
The Fulton County Republican was started in 1870 by George M. Thomp. son, who then owned The Gloversville Intelligencer and the Hamit." County Journal. A paper of the same name had been started by Darius Wells in 1838, sold to .A. U. Wells in 1840, by him to George flenty in 1842, and discontinued in 1860. Mr. Thompson brought the first power press into the county, setting it up at his Johnstown office, and printing on it the three journals conducted by him. Early in 1877 Mr. E. W. Caprun. a gentleman of wide journalistic experience, bought a share in Mr. Thom; . son's publications, and shortly after Mr. Hiram L. Ward took the remun der from the assignees of Mr. Thompson, who had failed. By these are themen the three papers are now ably conducted. The Johnstown Jouera started by W. M. Ireland in December, 1873, was consolidated with te Republican in the spring of 1877.
. CEMETERIES.
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THE JOHNSTOWN CEMETERIES-BUSINESS MEN OF THE VILLAGE.
care which have been lavished on the cities of the dead by the present generation with the charm that attaches to an ancient graveyard, where, after founding and long sustaining the community in which they dwelt, the " forefathers of the hamlet sleep." The old burying ground on Green street, with its border of tall elms and its pleasant outlook northward across the valley to the historic Hall and the highlands beyond, is one of the most interesting localities in the village. The dates of its monumental slabs are scattered through almost a century, and their styles correspond- ingly differ, from the leaning and moldering stone whereon the conven- tional weeping willow, accommodating itself neatly to the rounding projec- tion of the top, droops all but one of its boughs over a classic urn ; to the well planted .and fresh looking memorials erected within two or three years, with their brief and simple inscriptions. On the former may be read several names that have occurred in these pages in prominent con- neetions, and some of immigrants whose arrival was an important accession to the village in its day of small things.
The association managing the present village cemetery was organized in 1849, and two purchases of land, of seven and eight acres respectively, were made in that year, as was also the first burial, that of Mr. Peter Mckee. The laying out of the grounds began in the following season. Subsequent purchases of one and one-half acres in 1852 ; five and a fraction in 1860 ; one and a fourth in the next year ; eight in 1873, and a plot of some six hundred feet in 1876, have increased the area of the cemetery to between thirty and thirty-one acres. Its favorable natural features have been so treated by the landscape gardener's art as to render it a lovely and attrac- tive spot. The Cayadutta, curving symmetrieally just within the gates, gives opportunity for a handsome bridge ; and its placid current mirrors its grassy and wooded banks, and the clouds floating above it ; while through- out the portions of the ground appropriated to burials, covered with a pleasant grove or smooth sod, many striking and costly monuments mani- fest the praiseworthy care for the abodes of the dead that is everywhere an accompaniment of civilization.
BUSINESS MEN OF TO-DAY.
The glove manufacture is the leading business interest of Johnstown, though it does not so overtop all other branches of trade and industry as at Gloversville. The principal manufacturers of gloves and mittens in the village, with the number of dozen pairs annually made by them, re- spectively, are as follows : M. S. Northrup began the business in 1869 and continued it until 1872, when W. S. Northrup joined him, forming the firm of W. S. & M. S. Northrup, to which M. B. Northrup was added in 1875, the firm taking the style of W. S. & M. S. Northrup & Co. They employ about ninety hands, and produce some 12,500 pairs of gloves an- nually, making a specialty of fine goods. They took a first premium at the Centennial Exhibition. In their works every part of the operation is performed, the skins being dressed at their mill on Mill street run, which is operated by a ten-horse-power Baxter engine. The firm sell to jobbers and wholesale dealers only. L. Bertrand & Co., 34 Market street, com- menced the business as E. Bertrand & Co. about 1846, and made the first kid gloves manufactured in Johnstown. They make a specialty of light goods : annual product 3,000 dozen ; John H. Decker, 27 Market street, 2,000 dozen ; S. G. Hutchinson & Co, 27 Market street, 3,000 dozen ; 1 .. Jeannison & Son, ? McMartin street, who took the highest medal for fine goods at the Centennial Exhibition, 5,000 dozen ; Henry Knoff, Market street, 1,000 dozen ; Henry Moore, 48 Perry street, 1, 140 dozen ; J. 1). l'arrish, 14 State street, 3.500 dozen ; T. H. Rowles, 59 Market street, 3,000 dozen : W H. Rowles, 145 Main, 3.500 dozen ; M. B. Vosburgh, 24 Melcher street, Soo dozen ; William Mister, 59 Market street, 1,000 dozen ; R. Pommer, 52 Market street, 1, 200 dozen ; Wm J Pyne, and V. A. Ritton, 122 Main street, boo dozen. Some fifty other manufacturers might be named, producing about 106,000 dozen pair- annually.
There are three paper box factories in the village, which furnish boxes tor packing the glove product. Much skill and taste is bestowed upon them. Among them is thit of Z. Gilbert, 100 Main street. There are also two or three establishments devoted to glove-finishing, as many fur- nishing glovers' materials, and a factory of glove-cutting machines.
The principal leather dressers, manufacturers and dealers, are : Ferdi- nand Ackernecht, dresser of and jobber in kid, 20 State street ; J. Q. Adams, manufacturer of and dealer in Indian-dressed leather, skins
colored, split, &c., rear of No. 4 Green street ; Mark Hull, Main street ; W. H. Van Sickler, kid leather dresser and jobber, 4 State street ; John E. Wells, Water street, and Argersinger and Miller. More than a dozen others are in the same line.
The leading membersof the bar are Martin McMartin, 100 Main street ; William Waite, 40 William street ; Dudley, Dennison & Dudley, 15 and 17 William street : John Wells, same address, and J. Keck & Bro., on Main street. As many more have offices in the village.
The grocery trade is represented by Argersinger & Fraser, wholesale and retail dealers, Main street, corner of Perry ; W. F. Young, 69 Main street, and some fifteen other firms and individuals.
The hardware stores are those of Ferres & Dewey, dealers in hardware, iron and steel, agricultural implements, &c., 88 Main street ; Martin Ken- nedy, dealer in stoves, crockery, tin ware, &c., 110 Main street, and two or three others.
Among the half dozen hotels in the village, Scott's, Rosa's and the Sir Wm. Johnson are prominent.
Frederick Meyer and half a dozen other parties represent the boot and shoe trade.
Wm. P. Vrooman has an insurance and real estate agency at 47 Market street ; Walter N. Clark was conducting one at the time of his death at 108 Main street ; it is still maintained. There are two or three others in the village.
Seven or eight physicians represent their profession in Johnstown, among them Dr. W. L. Johnson, whose office is at 55 Main street, and Dr. Chaun- cey C. Joslyn, who has an office on Market street.
The Johnstown Gas Light Company was organized March 10, 1867, with a capital stock of $18,000 in 360 shares. The directors are Edward Wells. M. Gilbert, J. Clemens, P. W. Case, B. G. Shults, J. I. McMartin, J. M. Dudley, Geo. P. Davis, and D. Stewart. President, J. M. Dudley ; secre- tary, J. J. Davidson ; superintendent and treasurer, J. W. Case.
Dain & Wagner, 51 Perry street, and D. Smith, are carriage makers and blacksmiths. There are two or three other similar establishments.
Hess & Moyer, carpenters, contractors and builders, have a shop on Perry street, in the rear of Dain & Wagner's blacksmith shop. Three other parties carry on the same business.
The drug trade has four representatives in Johnstown, including Wig- gins & Cahill, 119 Main street.
Barney Vosburgh & Co., 58 Main street, and another firm are furniture dealers and undertakers.
A. A. Burnett, 8r Main street, manufactures and sells Havana . igars, tobacco and smokers' supplies generally.
Henry Stollers keeps a livery stable at 33 Market street, open at all hours.
In 1855 Levi Stephenson opened a manufactory of carpenters' tools, the first of the kind in the county. It was closed in 1861, and Mr. Stephen- son in 1871 opened his lumber-yard on Mill street. In 1873 he built the planing mill and box factory now operated by him at 4 State street.
Marble and granite works are carried on at 45 Perry street, by Jas. V. Fulton, and two stone yards elsewhere.
The jewelry store of Geo. E. Camm is at 103 Main street.
E. C. Norton is a dealer in wall paper and window shades at 125 Main street.
Hats, caps and gents' furnishing goods are sold by Wm. Argersinger at 77 Main street, and by four or five nthers.
Chester H. Case, residing at the corner of the Tribes Hill and Fonda's Bush roads, is a dealer in milk, selling 36,000 quarts yearly in Johns- town. His farm is that known as the old Snow farm. The origmal part of the house is said to have been built by Sir William Johnson. Mr. Case is a grandsnn of Joseph Balch, a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
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