History of Oneida County, New York, 1667-1878, Part 73

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Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Fariss
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Mr. Van Renselaer occupied many responsible and hon- orable positions during his residence in Utica. He was a member of the first board of village trustees under the charter of 1805, and two years president. He was a mem- ber of the board of directors of the Ontario Branch Bank ; president of the Capron Woolen Factory ; one of the board of trustces of the Presbyterian Church, and president of the first board of trustees of the Utica Academy. He was also at one time one of the trustees of Hamilton College. He left a numerous family.


Another settler of the year 1800 was Jesse Newell, from Coleraine, Mass. In company with George Macomber he established the business of painting and glazing, which was among the very first of its kind in the place, and which, according to Dr. Bagg, is still carried on by descendants of the original firm .* The firm of Macomber & Newell con- tinued business for twenty-eight years. Mr. Macomber settled on a farm at Sauquoit, in 1828, where he died in 1861, at the age of eighty. His wife was a daughter of Jason Parker. Mr. Newell continued the business until his death in 1843.


We have not space to notice all the early settlers of Utica. The foregoing list embraces most of the more prominent ones. Subsequent notices will necessarily be confined to a few of the more conspicuous. (See Dr. Bagg's " Pioneers of Utica.")


Among the more prominent arrivals of 1801, or about that date, were Captain Aylmer Johnson, who had been an officer in the British army, and who was for some time private secretary to Colonel Walker; Martin Dakin, a brother-in-law of Francis H. Bloodgood, who was deputy county clerk, 1802 to 1808, a soldier in the war of 1812, and in his later years editor of the Charleston Courier (S.C.), in which city he died; James Ure, a brewer; Bela Hubbard, a tanner, who afterwards (in 1809) removed to Adams, Jefferson Co. Francis Dana, a boatmau on the Mohawk ; Dr. Francis Guiteau, Jr., a descendant of the Huguenots, and a skillful and eminent physician ; Dr. Edward Bain- bridge, a brother of the celebrated Commodore William Bainbridge, of the United States navy ; Captain James Hopper, an officer of the English merchant service, who was captured by the French and afterwards exchanged for Marshal Junot ; a new mercantile firm, Belin & Thomas ; Ebenezer B. Shearman, a successful merchant and manu- facturer, and a civil officer of prominence ; Miss Mary Flagg, of Tower Hill, R. I., a celebrated nurse; Elisha Capron, a brother of the celebrated Dr. Capron ; James Brown,-the two last-mentioned blacksmiths by trade ; John Clitz, a hair-dresser, and said to have been one of Bur- goyne's Hessian soldiers ; Levi Thomas, who kept a tavern on the New Hartford road; David Slayton ; Gott Witt, a mechanic ; and several Welsh immigrants, who formed the first Welsh Church the same year with twenty-two members.


The most prominent arrival of 1802 was that of John C. Devereux, who was born at Enniscorthy, County Wex- ford, Ireland, Aug. 5, 1774, the son of Thomas and Catha- rine Corish Devereux. Mr. Devereux's family sympathized with the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and James, a son, was


killed at the battle of Vinegar Hill. The overthrow of the rebellion broke up the family. Thomas, the father, was thrown into prison; Walter, after a close pursuit, escaped to the East Indies ; and their parish priest was shot down at the altar. John C. appears to have left his early home before the breaking out of the difficulties, and came to America about 1796 or 1797. He had been brought up as a gentleman, and was without a trade or profession ; but being skilled in the art of dancing, he earned a livelihood for a time by giving instructions at Middletown and Nor- wich, in Connecticut, Pittsfield, in Massachusetts, and at Troy, in New York.


Having accumulated sufficient means to give him a start in business, he made a journey up the Mohawk Valley as far as Rome,-then called Lynchville,-where Mr. Domi- nick Lynch, the proprietor, desired him to settle, and offered to lease him land, but refused to give him a deed of any. This offer did not suit Mr. Devereux, and he returned to Utica, where, in November, 1802, he commenced business as a merchant in " the store lately occupied by John Smith."


It was an unlucky day for Rome when her proprietor drove Mr. Devereux from her borders, for had he located- there his fine business capacity and energy might have built up a great business centre, and probably made Rome the principal town in the upper Mohawk Valley.


The location of Mr. Devereux's store was upon a part- of the site of the present Bagg's Hotel. He afterwards changed to a lot nearly opposite and midway betwecu Whitesboro' and Water Streets. When the line of Genesee Street was straightened to its present location, he built a new brick store a little in the rear of the other.


Mr. Devereux was a pleasant, persuasive, and polished gentleman, and made a most capital salesman, though it was an entirely uew business to him. His trade grew apace, and he became well known far and near, and his sales in a short time are said to have run up to $100,000 a year, which was certainly an enormous sum for those days, and would be a very respectable business for a whole- sale house at the present time.


One after another his brothers, Luke, Nicholas, and Thomas, became clerks and eventually partners in his busi- ness, and under oue name or another the firm was a con- spicuous one in the mercantile circles of Utica for years. In 1821, upon the partial completion of the canal and the change of business localities incident thereto, two of the brothers purchased the property where the Devereux block now stands, where they erccted a . large warehouse and store; and here Nicholas continued, with various partners, au extensive business, John C. lending his name and credit as required. John C. also had an interest in the brewery conducted by his brother Thomas, and with John O'Connor in the tobacco business. Some years later, when a branch of the United States Bank was established in Utica, Mr. Devereux was made its first president, a position he con- tinued to hold as long as the institution continued in exist- ence. He was also interested in many other matters which contributed to the growth and prosperity of his adopted home; among others the Utica Savings Bank and the various churches and charitable institutions. Towards the construction of St. John's Catholic Church he contributed,


# N. C. Newell & Son, 111 Genesee Street.


Photographed by L. B. Williams, Utica,


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Photographed by L. B. Williams, Utica.


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according to Judge Jones, upwards of $12,000. He was elected mayor of the city in 1840, under the first direet election by the people, and held it several years previously by appointment of the Council. He died December 11, 1848, at the age of seventy-four years, and was buried in the grounds of the Sisters of Charity in the rear of St. John's Church. Mr. Devereux was a striet and eonsei- entious Catholie, and a pillar of strength to his chosen church.


James Delvin was another son of the "Emerald Isle" who came in 1802. Ile was a mechanic and engaged in the manufacture of wrought nails by hand, and subse- quently, in company with others, in the tin and copper- smith business. Ile acquired considerable property by the lucky location of land adjacent to the canal. Mr. Delvin died in 1825, at the age of sixty years.


Benajah Merrell, who had been living for several years in New Hartford, also came to Utica in the same year. He was perhaps the first regular auctioneer in the place. He became deputy sheriff, and in 1807 was appointed sheriff of the county, and in 1810 held the office a second time. He removed to Sacket's Harbor in 1819, and died there in 1831.


Other new-comers of this year were Solomon P. Good- rich, a dealer in books, and also teacher of a select school for young ladies ; Flavel Bingham, a jeweler; Frederick White, who opened an extensive general store, including a very large stock of hats and caps ; Benjamin Hicks, a hat- ter, and a noted military man ; and Edward Baldwin and William Rees, two noted Welshmen.


A somewhat noted individual visited Utica during the year 1802,-the Rev. John Taylor, of Westfield, Mass. He was on a missionary tour to the Mohawk and Black River countries, and kept a journal of his travels, which may be found in the " Documentary History of New York." In the course of his journeyings he stopped in Utica at several different times; and had opportunities of observing the people, their habits, business, etc. Like many of his New England eongeners, he seems to have been somewhat bigoted, and consequently illiberal, and therefore scarcely competent to do justice to the people of the new settlement, who, like all pioneers, were probably somewhat lacking in that crystallized form of society which men call polished and highly cultivated; and quite probably their outward observance of religious forms and ceremonies was not quite up to the straight-jacket standard which then governed the people of the Connectieut Valley. We quote from his journal :


"This is a very pleasant and beautiful village, but it is filled with a great quantity of people of all nations and religions. There is but a handful of people in this place who have much regard for preach- ing, or for anything in this world. Eight years last spring there were but two houses in the present town-plat. There are now above ninety. Utica seems to be a mixed mass of discordant materials. llere may be found people of ten or twelve different nations, and of almost all religions and sects, but the greater part are of no religion. The world is the great object with the body of the people."


But with all this " ungodliness," the reverend gentleman relates that he persuaded three hundred of the people to come out and hear him preach. He made a curious dia- gram of the place,-half muap and half pieture,-showing


the location of every building in the town, or at least all except out-buildings.


There were many important additions to Utica during the year 1803. David Ostrom, a soldier of the Revolu- tion, had removed from Dutchess County about 1790, and settled in New Hartford, subsequently removing to Paris, and finally, about 1803, locating in Utica. He held the office of county judge from the organization of Oneida County in 1798 to 1815, with the exception of three years. Al- though not educated for the bar, he was admitted to prac- tice as an attorney in 1812, and opened an office in Utica in the same year. He represented his district in the As- sembly for many years, and was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1804 he was landlord of the " Coffee- House," which stood on the ground occupied by the Devereux Bloek, and was for some time village magistrate. He died from an attack of paralysis, March 17, 1821, at tlie age of sixty-five, very generally regretted.


This year witnessed the arrival of Dr. Marcus Hitch- eock, a native of Connecticut. He had studied medicine with Dr. Amos G. Hull in New Hartford, and opened an office in Utica; but becoming dissatisfied with the profes- sion, he engaged in the drug business in company with Dr. John Carrington, a brother of Dr. Samuel Carrington, the second postmaster of the village. Dr. Hitchcock bought out his partner, and was about the same time appointed postmaster, which office he held continuously from 1803 to 1828. He continued the drug business for twenty-five years, when he was forced to suspend. In 1836 he re- moved to Terre Haute, Ind., where he died about 1853.


Dr. Solomon Woleott, Jr., was also an arrival of the year 1803. He entered into a partnership with Dr. Francis Guiteau, Jr., and together they practiced their profession and carried on the drug business, until 1807, when they dissolved, and Dr. Wolcott continued business by himself for about two years, when he took in his brother, Waitstill II. Wolcott. In 1813 he gave up the mercantile branch to his brother, and devoted himself wholly to the practice of medicine. He was in partnership for a short time in 1814 with Dr. Daniel Barker, and in April, 1815, was ap- pointed surgeon's mate in the temporary government hos- pital established for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers from the frontier. About the latter date he was also made a judge of the Common Pleas Court. Subse- quently he became involved, and lost most of the handsome property which he had accumulated. He borrowed money from the banks to a large extent, and erected several build- ings, among others the large wood building afterwards used for the Utiea High School. He declined rapidly from the day of his failure, and died of a sudden illness in October, 1818, aged forty-nine years.


Thomas Walker, another prominent citizen, was born in Rehoboth, Mass., Nov. 18, 1777. He was of good colo- nial stock, and learned the printer's trade with that emi- nent member of the craft, Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester.


Mr. Walker eame to Oneida County, and on the 17th of August, 1799, in company with his brother-in-law, Ebene- zer Eaton, commenced, at Rome, the publication of a news- paper, ealled the Columbian Patriotic Gazette. This was the third newspaper published in Oneida County, the two


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preceding ones having been the Western Centinel, at Whitesboro', in 1794, and the Whitestown Gazette, at New Hartford, in 1796.


In March, 1803, Mr. Walker removed his office to Utiea, and changed or eurtailed the name of the paper to the Columbian Gazette, which he continued to publish for a period of twenty-two years, with eminent suceess. At first it was a small dingy sheet, ten and a half by twelve inches in dimensions, and located at 44 Genesee Street. The sign was a large square one, containing a portrait of Ben- jamin Franklin.


Mr. Walker was instrumental, in connection with Silas Stowe, a resident of what is now Lewis County, in estab- lishing new post-routes and offiees in the region now eon- stituting the counties of Lewis and Jefferson.


During the war of 1812-15, Mr. Walker was eolleetor of the United States internal revenue for this distriet. In 1825 he sold the Gazette to Samuel D. Dakin and Wmn. J. Bacon, who also beeame owners by purchase of the Patriot, and the three earliest publieations of the county were united in one, ealled the Sentinel and Gazette.


Mr. Walker filled various positions in the Utiea banks and was a trustee of the academy and also of the Presby- terian Church, and was prominently connected with the Masonie fraternity. He died June 13, 1863, in his eighty- sixth year. His wife was Mary Eaton, and a relative of the somewhat noted General William Eaton, who, at the head of a small mixed foree, captured the city of Derne, in Afriea, in March, 1805, during the war with Tripoli.


John H. Lothrop, noted as a lawyer, farmer, editor, mer- chant, and banker, was a settler in Oneida in 1795 or 1796. He was born in New Haven, Conn., May 1, 1769, and received his education at Yale College. He studied law with Judge Hosmer, of Hartford, and subsequently visited the Southern States, spending some time with General Na- thaniel Greene, near Savannah, Ga. Influenced by Colonel George W. Kirkland, a son of Rev. Samuel Kirkland, whom he met in the South, he came to what is now Oneida County. In February, 1797, he married Miss Jerusha Kirk- land, and eommeneed the business of farming at Oriskany. " Within less than a year he became insolvent by indorsing for his brother-in law, Colonel Kirkland, and went upon the limits."* His next employment was as a copyist in the office of the county elerk. In 1803 he became editor of the Whitestown Gazette and Cato's Patrol, changing its name to Utica Patriot, and located in Utiea to eonduet it. He seems to have been in the mercantile business for a short timo in 1804, in company with Ralph W. Kirkland. The editorship of his paper not requiring all his time, he also served as deputy in the office of the elerk of the Supreme Court.


In 1809 he ereeted a fine dwelling, sinee oeeupied by the Johnsons. He sold his house, and also disposed of his paper in 1811, and removed to New Hartford, where he remained about five years, engaged in the practice of the law, when he was appointed cashier of the Ontario Braneh Bank, and again returned to Utiea, where he continued until his death, June 15, 1829. Mr. Lothrop was an aecomplished scholar,


a fluent writer, and something of a poet. He was also pos- sessed of fine social and conversational powers, and was an inimitable wit and story-teller. The late brilliant aetor, Hackett, was then a merchant of Utiea, and in after-years he often rehearsed the laughter-provoking stories of Mr. Lothrop. Mr. Lothrop was for many years connected with Hamilton College in the eapaeity of trustee and seeretary of the board. His wife, the daughter of Rev. Samuel Kirkland, survived him many years, and died Feb. 20, 1862. His family was a numerous one, and his children have risen to eminenee in various walks of life.


Ira Merrell, one of the publishers of Mr. Lothrop's paper, was the son of Bildad Merrell, who came into the county in 1798, settling first at New Ilartford and remov- ing subsequently to Holland Patent.


Ira learned the printer's art with William MeLean, and when the latter sold out his paper he associated himself with Asahel Seward, a fellow-workman, and did the pub- lishing for Mr. Lothrop, which business he continued for some three years. He was afterwards foreman in the office of Seward & Williams. At a later date he did the press- work of the Western Recorder, published by Merrell & Hastings (Andrew Merrell and Charles Hastings).


He carried on printing also on his own account, and among his issues were a Welsh hymn-book, in 1808; a Welsh catechism ; a reprint of " Divine Hymns and Spir- itual Songs;" an abridgment of " Milnor's Church History ;" a volume of sermons, ete. He lived in Utiea for a period of thirty years, and was a ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church. About 1833 he removed to Geneva, Ontario County, where he took charge of the Geneva Courier.


Asahel Seward was the eldest son of Colonel Nathan Seward, of New Hartford; born in Waterbury, Conn., August 19, 1781. He learned the printer's art of William MeLean, and afterwards worked as a journeyman in various places in New York and New England. As has been stated in the notice of Ira Merrell, he entered into a part- nership with that gentleman in the publication of the Utiea Sentinel, and continued his connection with that paper, with various partners, until 1824, when he sold to Messrs. Dakin & Bacon. In 1806, Mr. Seward established the business of book-printing and binding, and soon after, in eonneetion, opened a book-store. About 1814 he became associated with Mr. William Williams in the book busi- ness, and this firm continued for many years, its transae- tions constantly inereasing until it became the heaviest house in the Mohawk Valley. A leading feature of their business was the publication of Noah Webster's elementary spelling-book, of which they had purchased the exclusive right of publication for the western distriet of New York. This was continued for a period of fourteen years, and brought the firm an annual ineome of $2000. The works they issued were chiefly sehool-books, though they engaged in the publication of religious and seeular works to a greater or less extent. An unwise arrangement, entered into with a Philadelphia publishing house, eventuated in the failure and diseontinuance of the firm.


From the date of his withdrawal, in 1824, Mr. Se was not subsequently engaged in active business, but lived a retired life in the place onee occupied by Colonel Walker.


# Dr. Bagg.


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He died January 30, 1835. His wife survived him thirty years, and died in January, 1865. Their children were three sons and three daughters. The latter died young, but the three sons are still living in Utica.


William Williams was the son of Deacon Thomas Wil- liams, of Roxbury, Mass., and born in Framingham, Octo- ber 12, 1787. He came with his father's family to New Hartford, and to Utica in 1803, in company with Asahel Seward, of whom he learned the printer's trade. About 1808 he became a partner with Mr. Seward, and continued until 1824, when the firm dissolved. Mr. Williams con- tinued the business for several years, and issued a large number and variety of books. About 1828 he formed a partnership with Messrs. Balch & Stiles, engravers. About 1829-30 he became editor of the Elucidator, an Anti- Masonic paper. Shortly afterwards he became financially involved in the downfall of a Philadelphia publishing house, and closed up his business. He subsequently removed to Tonawanda, Eric Co. He died on the 10th of June, 1850, in Utica, to which city he had returned a short time before.


Mr. Williams was ever conspicuous in all the various projects and movements inaugurated for the benefit of his town, and the general welfare. Though a man of peace, he was exceedingly patriotic, and when in 1813 Sacket's Harbor was threatened and help was needed, he raised a company and was on the road within thirty hours. After the war he became a conspicuous member of the fire de- partment, and eventually its executive officer.


When the dreaded Asiatic cholera visited Utica, in 1832, he nobly stayed by and gave his whole time, day and night, to the necessities of the sick and dying until stricken him- self, from which attack he narrowly escaped with his life. He was an active member of various religious organizations, elder of the Presbyterian Church, superintendent of the Sunday-school, and president of the Western Sunday- School Union.


Another bookseller was George Richards, Jr., a son of George Richards, a printer of Portsmouth, N. H. In November, 1803, he opened the "Oneida Book-store." In December of the same year he was advocating the establishment of a circulating library, and made a generous offer of his own books.


In February, 1804, he came very near being burned out, presumably in the fire which destroyed Post & Hamlin's store, and near which he was located. He sold out in 1809, and left the place. During two and a half years of his stay in Utica he was clerk for the village trustees, and was an efficient officer, if we may judge by the correspond- ence which took place between him and Talcott Camp, the president, on the occasion of his resigning.


Samuel Stocking was a new-comer of the year 1803. He was born in Ashfield, Mass., June 10, 1777, and came to Utica in June, 1803. He had learned the trade of a hatter, and worked at it in Westfield, Mass. On his arrival in Utica, having no considerable amount of means, he pur- ased a stock of furs on credit and begau business, and was eminently successful from the start.


In the course of a few years he became acquainted with the noted John Jacob Astor, with whom he subsequently


had extensive dealings. ITis business grew to large pro- portions, and by this means and a judicious investment in lands he amassed a handsome property. He was a village trustec, a director of the Bank of Utica, and of the Sav- ings' Bank, and also of the Utica Academy ; and was a liberal donor to the Female Academy, the Oneida Institute, and various other institutions, and identified with all char- itable objects of the place and neighborhood. His death occurred on the 1st of March, 1858.


Among other arrivals in 1803 was that of James Dana, a son of George Dana, who belonged to a Huguenot family. He was born in Ashburnham, Mass., May 29, 1780. Hc left his home soon after arriving at the age of manhood, and started west. Arriving at Schenectady he tarried a year, and then pushed on as far as Utica, where he hired to Gurdon Burchard, who was engaged in the saddlery and hardware business. About 1806 he began business on his own account, and a few years later gave up the saddlery portion, but continued the hardware branch a portion of the time in company with his son, Geo. S. Dana, until 1850, when he retired, having amassed a handsome for- tune. He was for many years a director of the Bank of Utica. He died in January, 1860, at the age of eighty years. His wife, a daughter of Seth Dwight, died in September, 1870. Among their numerous children were James Dwight Dana, professor of natural science in Yale College, and author of "Dana's Manual of Geology," and Wm. Buck Dana, proprietor and editor of the Merchants' Magazine, New York.


David P. Hoyt, from Danbury, Conn., was a prominent citizen of Utica from 1803 until his death in 1828. He was a tanner and currier and also a shoemaker, and for many years carried on his trade on Genesee Street, above Whitesboro'. His tannery was on the latter street. He had one hundred and ten vats covered with buildings, and, what must have been a novelty in those days, a wind-mill for grinding bark. He also had a warehouse on the canal after its completion. He filled various offices, -- trustee of the village, director of the Bank of Utica, and representative in the Assembly. He died in 1827, at the age of forty-nine years, leaving a widow and nine children. His wife was a woman of remarkable business capacity, and assisted materially in acquiring the property. After his death she married Alexander M. Beebee, who also died in 1856. During the remainder of her life Mrs. Beebce lived with her youngest son. She died Aug. 5, 1875, at the advanced age of ninety-two years.




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