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Presidents-Horatio Seymour, 1883-6; Francis Kernan, 1886; Ellis H. Rob- erts, 1887; Publius V. Rogers, 1888-95; Joseph R. Swan, 1896-8; Thomas R. Proctor, 1899-1911. Vice Presidents-John C. Devereux, 1883; Ellis H. Roberts, 1884-6; Alexander T. Goodwin, 1887; James F. Mann, 1888-9; Joseph R. Swan, 1890-5; Thomas R. Proctor, 1896-8; Nicholas E. Devereux, 1899-1900; Fred- erick Gilbert, 1901; Daniel N. Crouse, 1902-8; Charles S. Symonds, 1903-6; Edward J. Millspaugh, 1909-11. Secretaries-William Townsend, 1883-92; D. Clinton Murray, 1893-4; Patrick J. McQuade, 1895; Wm. Pierrepont White, 1896; Clifford F. Marklove, 1897; Julius T. A. Doolittle, 1898-9; J. DePeyster
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Lynch, 1900-3; John J. Town, 1904-5; Charles P. Clark, 1906-9; Cromwell Woodard, 1910-11. Treasurers Charles S. Symonds, 1883-4; George D. Dimon, 1885-6; C. Lansing Sayer, 1887; Loton S. Hunt, 1888-90; David A. Avery, 1891-8; George L. Bradford, 1899-1902; J. Francis Day, 1903-11.
ROME CLUB was organized in 1880 by about twenty-five of the citizens of Rome. Rooms were rented, and for some time the club had less than fifty members; but from time to time advance was made in the social element con- nected with the club, better rooms were provided, and May 2, 1882, the club was incorporated. The number of members increased until there were about 125, when it was deemed advisable to locate permanently, and the residence of the late Alva Mudge, on East Dominick street, was purchased in 1898 and fitted up for a club house. The club was extremely fortunate in the purchase of the property, as it is located on an historic spot, and the club house stands upon a portion of the land which was covered by Fort Stanwix, the most his- toric spot in Oneida county. There are at present about 150 members, and no words of praise are too strong to use in regard to the character of the members of that club. It is the meeting place of business men, has a prominent place in social affairs, and commands the respect of the best people in Rome. The first trustees of the club were: Edward B. Nelson, Jonas W. Armstrong, E. Stuart Williams, Charles E. Wardwell, J. G. Merriman, C. E. Williams, John S. Wardwell, M. D. Barnett. The officers have been :
Presidents-Edward B. Nelson, 1882; Milton D. Barnett, 1883-4; Edward L. Stevens, 1885-6; Edward Comstock, 1887-8; William W. Wardwell, 1889-94; Thomas H. Stryker, 1895; Augustus C. Kessinger, 1896-7; John S. Wardwell, 1898-99; William R. Huntington, 1900-1; George G. McAdam, 1902; S. H. Beach, 1903; E. Stuart Williams, 1904; S. H. Beach, 1905; S. M. Stevens, 1906; M. J. Larkin, 1907; H. C. Wiggins, 1908-10; J. Lowell Williams, 1911.
Vice Presidents-Jonas W. Armstrong, 1882; James G. Merriman, 1883; Henry M. Lawton, 1884; Isaac J. Evans, 1885-86; Charles D. Rousseau, 1887- 88; Clarence E. Williams, 1889-91; Thomas S. Stryker, 1892-4; August C. Kessinger, 1895; John S. Wardwell, 1896-7; William R. Huntington, 1898-99; George G. McAdams, 1900-1; W. L. Kingsley, 1902-3; S. H. Beach, 1904; W. B. Johnson, 1905; C. R. Edwards, 1906-8; H. Monkhouse, 1909; J. L. Williams, Jr., 1910; J. D. McMahon, 1911.
Secretaries-E. Stuart Williams, 1882-3; Rudolphus C. Briggs, 1884; Albert W. Orton, 1885-6; Charles Carmichael, 1887-8; John H. Williams, 1889; Kendrick S. Putnam, 1890; Kendrick S. Putnam, William R. Huntington, 1891; William R. Huntington, 1892-4; Arthur J. Wylie, 1895-6; Charles C. Hopkins, 1897; J. Lowell Williams, Jr., 1898; E. W. Cummings, 1899; Delos M. White, 1900; Arthur F. Carpenter, Howard J. Rowland, 1901; Howard J. Rowland, 1902-3; M. J. Larkin, 1904-5; C. W. Lee, 1906; H. C. Wiggins, 1907; George H. Brown, 1908; M. J. Larkin, 1909; Harry W. Barnard, 1910; Newton H. Jones, 1911.
Treasurers-Charles E. Wardwell, 1882; E. B. Nelson, 1883-7; John S. Wardwell, 1888; Charles Carmichael, 1889-93; Howard E. Ketcham, 1894; John
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H. Wilson, 1895; William L. Tomlinson, 1896-1908; E. D. Besley, 1909; Norman C. Gaylord, 1910-11.
YAHNUNDAHSIS GOLF CLUB-This club was organized January 19, 1897, and incorporated January 28, 1898. Its object was to promote social intercourse among its members; to promote lawful games and sports; especially to pro- mote the playing of golf; and to provide grounds and conveniences therefor. For several years the grounds of this club were located on the New Hartford road near what was known as Halleck's ravine, the property being rented from year to year from the John Butterfield estate. In 1906 the club purchased the farm of Louis Sherrill in the town of New Hartford, constructed commodious club buildings, and its beautiful grounds and well arranged buildings have been a source of great enjoyment to the members and their guests.
SADAQUADA GOLF CLUB-This club was organized in October, 1895, incor- porated April 3, 1902; constructed its building and fitted up its grounds in the town of Whitestown, about a mile southwesterly of New York Mills. Al- though these grounds are not as accessible as those of the Yahnundasis, the club is in a most prosperous condition, and its members entertain their many friends in a most hospitable manner.
TUE-GE-GA COUNTRY CLUB (Rome) was incorporated under the Membership Corporation Law of the State of New York, November 25, 1899. This is a golf and social club, owning about 44 acres of land on the northerly side of the city of Rome, on the banks of the Mohawk river, about a mile and a half from the court house in that city. The club has excellent buildings and facilities for golf, tennis, bowling and other games, and furnishes athletic sport and social pleasures of a high order during the entire summer season, and, to some extent, during the cold weather. The membership was originally placed at 80, but in August, 1901, was enlarged to 90, and again in July, 1902, to 100. Officers of the club since the date of incorporation have been as follows:
Presidents-Franklin A. Ethridge, 1900-01; Jonathan S. Haselton, 1902; Thomas H. Stryker, 1903-4; Benjamin H. Beach, 1905; James M. Ethridge, 1906; Walter B. Johnson, 1907; E. A. Smith, 1908; Arthur F. Carpenter, 1909; Norman C. Gaylord, 1910; Franklin A. Ethridge, 1911.
Vice Presidents-Theodore J. Mowrey, 1900-1; John F. Fitzgerald, 1902; Charles W. Lee, 1903-4; Percy C. Thomas, 1905; Walter B. Johnson, 1906; E. A. Smith, 1907; H. J. Rowland, 1908-9; Stoddard M. Stevens, 1910; Percy C. Thomas, 1911.
Secretaries-Arthur F. Carpenter, 1900-1; Percy C. Thomas, 1902-4; Arthur J. Wylie, 1905; Rudolphus C. Briggs, 1906; E. H. Comstock, 1907; Frank W. Kirkland, 1908; Clarence R. Keeney, 1909-11.
Treasurers-Herbert T. Dyett, 1900-1; Benjamin H. Beach, 1902-4; Harry W. Barnard, 1905-6; George G. Clarabut, 1907; A. T. Whyte, 1908; Newell S. Thomas, 1909-10; Walter B. Johnson, 1911.
ROME COUNTRY CLUB was incorporated September 11, 1901, by A. D. White, Dr. Charles Bernstein, E. D. Besley, W. H. Westwood, O. J. Story, N. K.
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Graves, A. W. Tremain, F. L. Roth and G. G. McAdam. This is a golf and social club, with beautiful grounds and fine club house at Stanwix, on the trolley line between Rome and Utica. Officers have been :
Presidents-A. D. White, 1901; Dr. C. Bernstein, 1902; H. C. Wiggins, 1903; N. K. Graves, 1904; C. R. Edwards, 1905; F. M. Shelley, 1906; C. R. Edwards, 1907; John E. Mason, 1908; A. W. Tremain, 1909; F. L. Roth, 1910; W. A. Russ, 1911.
Vice Presidents-Dr. C. Bernstein, 1901; H. C. Wiggins, 1902; F. Barnard, 1903; G. G. McAdam, 1904; F. R. Smith, 1905; L. V. Jones, 1906; John E. Mason, 1907; E. D. Besley, 1908; D. A. Lawton, 1909; C. H. Chrestien, 1910; J. F. Atkinson, 1911.
Secretaries-E. D. Besley, 1901-2; H. D. Wolfe, 1903-5; Dr. C. Bernstein, A. D. White, 1907; C. E. Rosenberg, 1908-9; A. D. White, 1910-11.
Treasurers-W. H. Westwood, 1901-2; N. C. Gaylord, 1903-5; A. W. Tremain, 1906; A. D. White, 1907; C. E. Rosenberg, 1908-9; A. D. White, 1910-11.
UTICA MECHANICS' ASSOCIATION-This organization was effected May 5, 1831, at a meeting of mechanics, and at the time the intention was to form an asso- ciation of mechanics and manufacturers only, but later it was broadened, and any citizen was eligible to membership. The first officers were Thomas Walker, president; Kellogg Hurlburt, vice president; J. D. Edwards, secretary; Zenas Wright, treasurer; and the first board of directors was Simon V. Oley, William Francis, James McGregor, W. C. Rogers, A. B. Williams, D. D. Porter and Augustus Hurlburt. The association was incorporated March 30, 1833. The plan of the association was at first to hold an annual fair of manufactured products of all kinds, and also to provide for a course of lectures each winter. The fairs were finally given up, but the course of lectures continued until about 1880. In this way the people of Utica and vicinity were permitted to hear the foremost public speakers of the entire country. The lectures were delivered every two weeks during the winter, and the audiences were very large, as the reputation of the speakers commanded the attention of the entire community. Henry Ward Beecher, John B. Gough, Edwin H. Chapin, Wendell Phillips, George William Curtis and others of the foremost literary men of the country gen- erally, paid annual visits to the city on these occasions.
The association got into financial difficulties by building a large opera house, and finally financiers procured the bonded indebtedness covering the property of the association, bought out the interested parties, and then sold the property owned by the Mechanics' association to a company which con- verted it into what is now the Majestic Theater and the property connected with it, and the Mechanics' association passed out of existence.
UTICA ART ASSOCIATION-To the present generation the name of the Utica Art Association conveys little idea of the importance of that organization to the citizens of Utica from 1860 to 1880. The association started as an adjunct of the Utica Mechanics' Fair in January, 1862. The credit of its incipency belongs to Thomas H. Wood, a man of rare artistic taste, who, through his desire to promote the appreciation of art in this community, with the help
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of a committee who were members of the Mechanics' association, induced many owners of works of art to loan them for the first exhibition. This first at- tempt brought together a strange lot of things, good, bad and indifferent. Hang- ing on the walls side by side, were a few original pictures of merit, some copies from the old masters, six large historical pieces in worsted cross stitch, and many attempts by amateurs, among them "three or four landscapes in color by Eugene Denguers, a twelve-year-old inmate of the Utica Orphan Asylum." This first attempt at a public exhibition demonstrated that artistic feeling in Utica was at a very low ebb, but the people were interested, and the next year Mr. Wood, representing the committee, visited artists in New York and solicited contributions of a different character. Although he was armed with good introductions, artists of reputation were rather chary of sending valuable paint- ings or statuary to Utica, a little up-state town. Mr. Wood, however, suc- ceeded in procuring enough for an excellent exhibit, the pictures selling remark- ably well, and the Utica Art Exhibition was a marked success. For four years it had its home in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association in Mechanics' Hall, on the corner of Liberty and Hotel streets, an inconvenient place, and the rooms were not well lighted.
In 1866, the year in which the Utica Art Association was incorporated, the connection with the Mechanics' Fair was severed, and Association Hall on Hotel street was rented by the association to be used chiefly as a picture gal- lery. It was appropriately fitted up for that purpose, and for six or eight weeks in each winter the cheerful, brilliantly lighted rooms were the center of the social life of the city, the gathering place of many of the best people in Utica and the surrounding towns. The refining influence of the many hours spent in close contact with the best art which America at that time afforded, cannot well be over estimated. With years the gallery grew in importance, and artists from the various art centers were eager to place their work upon the walls of the association. Indeed, outside of New York there were few public exhibitions in the country which equalled it, and Utica became known as an art market of consideration. The incomes of contributing artists were materially increased through it. Remittances to them amounted in 1866 to $5,201, and probably an equal sum on other occasions. Among the prominent artists who exhibited were George W. Smillie, William Sartin, William and James Hart, E. Moran, S. R. Gifford, W. L. Sontag, Eastman Johnson, W. H. Beard, Arthur Parton, W. T. Richards, M. F. H. de Haas, F. E. Church, J. G. Brown, D. Huntington, Jarvis McEntee, J. W. Casilear and many others.
Until 1871 the Art Association held yearly exhibits, but the illness of Mr. Wood, his absence in Europe, and subsequent death in Paris, in 1874, left no one who had the disposition and leisure to assume the burden of the work, although many men of prominence were deeply interested in and justly proud of what had been done for art in Utica. The exhibitions were discontinued from 1871 to 1878. In this latter year and the following one, very excellent exhibitions were held in Carton Hall; and, again, in 1882, one was held in Library Hall, which proved to be the last. From that date the members of the association held meetings from time to time, and various propositions were made for the disposal of the accrued funds, viz: to purchase pictures as a
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nucleus for a permanent Art Gallery; to purchase pictures to be given to the Public Library; to divide the money among the members, pro rata, etc.
On February 28, 1910, a special meeting of the members of the association was held to arrange for the dissolution of the association, and for the trans- fer to the Utica Public Library of their entire property. The amount of cash on hand was $6,576.68, which was ordered paid over to the Utica Public Library Association. The Supreme Court sanctioned the transfer, and on July 1, 1910, the Public Library came into possession of that sum, with which it is expected in some way to continue the work of the Utica Art Association.
The trustees of the association at the time of its organization were: George W. Adams, Francis G. Wood, John S. Peckham, William Calverly, G. Clarence Churchill, Thomas H. Wood, Charles C. Kingsley, Theodore S. Sayre, Ellis H. Roberts, John H. Prentiss, D. N. Crouse and William F. Potter. The officers from 1866 to 1910 were as follows:
Presidents-George W. Adams, Thomas H. Wood, Charles W. Hutchinson, Robert S. Williams, Frank E. Wheeler.
Vice Presidents-John H. Prentiss, George W. Adams, Robert S. Williams, Frank E. Wheeler, William S. Doolittle.
Secretaries-John H. Prentiss, Edward B. Graham, G. C. Churchill, Charles A. Doolittle, E. Z. Wright.
Treasurers-G. C. Churchill, Theodore S. Sayre, R. S. Williams, D. N. Crouse, John M. Crouse.
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CHAPTER XXXIII
HISTORIC PLACES AND BUILDINGS
It is not extravagant to say that the locality in and about the city of Rome is one of the most historic in the entire country. From a map made from an actual survey in November, 1758, and which map appears on page 524 of volume 4 of the Documentary History of the State of New York, it appears that there were four military fortifications in this locality at that early day. They are designated on the map as A, B, C and D.
FORT CRAVEN-A, designates Fort Craven, which was built by General Webb, and was located on the westerly side of the Mohawk river, about midway of the bend in the river from a southerly to an easterly direction. As near as can now be ascertained this fort stood about where the building of the Rome- Turney Radiator Company is now located, and it is reported that even in the present year, while excavating for an addition to this business establishment, munitions of war were found comparatively deep in the ground. This was a stockade, and was of little consequence except as a defense against attacks of Indians and for shelter.
FORT WILLIAMS-B, on the map was Fort Williams, which was a stock- ade, and was located on the westerly side of and close to the Mohawk river, a short distance southward of Fort Craven, being something like it in con- struction.
FORT NEWPORT-The fortification known as D, on the map referred to, was located on Wood creek and was called Fort Newport. It was a stockade near the landing place, was surrounded by a ditch, and was for defense against attacks of Indians, for shelter and storage purposes.
FORT BULL-The fortification known as Fort Bull, was not shown upon the map of 1758, but a description of this fort has been given in another chapter of this work.
FORT STANWIX-C, on the map referred to, designates Fort Stanwix-be- yond all question the most historic spot in Oneida county. This fortification had been planned according to the most approved engineering skill, but was never constructed as planned. Its cost was £60,000, and when it is realized that $300,000 in that day was an enormous sum of money, it will be seen that this fortification was one of the most expensive of any within the entire country. Through the instrumentality of Mr. Thomas H. Stryker, of Rome, an accurate
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description of this fort has been obtained, and it is given in this work, as we think, for the first time. The description was obtained by an experienced engineer, who visited Albany and examined all of the records pertaining to the actual construction of the fort, and drew a plan of the fort as it actually existed, not as it was planned. The map will be found on another page.
It was in this fort that, in 1768, was held the most important council which ever occurred between the white men and the Indians, as it was here on No- vember 5, that the treaty was signed between the representatives of the gov- ernment and of the several states and about 3,600 Indians, by which the white race obtained the vast territory described as follows: Beginning at the mouth of the Tennessee river; thence up the Ohio river to Fort Pitt (Pittsburg) ; thence up the Allegheny river to Fort Kittaning; thence nearly east over the Alleghany mountains to Bald Eagle creek; thence northeast to the east branch of the Susquehanna river; thence northeast to the mouth of the east branch of the Delaware river; thence up the west or Mohawk branch of the Dela- ware; thence up the Unadilla river to its head; thence by a direct line to the east branch of Fish creek in Oneida county; thence north to the mouth of French creek, the present site of the village of Clayton, on the St. Lawrence river.
This fort was also the meeting place of the representatives of the govern- ment and the Indians in 1784, when another cession was made by the Indians to the white men, consisting of the land "west of a line from Lake Ontario, four miles east of the Niagara river, to Buffalo creek; thence south to Penn- sylvania; thence west to the end of Pennslyvania; thence south along the west bounds of that state to the Ohio river."
In 1788, still another council was held between the white men and the Indians at Fort Stanwix, at which the Indians parted with substantially all that remained of their lands in Oneida county. The Oneidas retained some small reservations, but from time to time parted with them, until they have ceased to be an element in our community.
STARS AND STRIPES-One incident which occurred at Fort Stanwix is suffi- cient of itself to render it one of the most historic places within the entire country, and that is, the American Flag-the Stars and Stripes-first floated in battle from the ramparts of this fortification at the time of the besieging of the fort by St. Leger.
It will be noted, therefore, that aside from military importance, Fort Stan- wix is one of the most historic spots in the country.
Fort Stanwix went gradually into disuse and decay after the Revolutionary War, and was entirely demolished soon after 1820. About 1900 the site was carefully surveyed, and in November of that year was marked by cannon, placed near the four bastions by the Gansevoort-Willett Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution. In June, 1901, bronze tablets, commemorating "the fort that never surrendered," were placed on the gun carriages by Fort Stanwix Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.
THE CARRYING PLACE-It is probable that one of the very earliest historical places within the county was "The Carrying Place" at Rome, for this existed
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long before the white men had stepped foot within the county. The exact loca- tion of this route is not definable at the present time, but our early historians locate it nearly upon the line of Dominick street in the city of Rome. This was the route of the Indian tribes for ages before Columbus set sail for the American continent, in all probability, for history makes no mention of the time when they did not occupy this part of the country, and the convenience of passing from the navigable water of the Mohawk river to that of Fish creek was so great at this point, that it unquestionably was early discovered by the Indians, and, with their practical sense in such matters, they were not slow to utilize it.
June 30, 1905, Fort Stanwix Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, placed a bronze tablet on the postoffice building, marking this historic route.
OLD FORT SCHUYLER was erected at what is now Utica, during the French and Indian war. It was a stockade surrounded by a ditch, but was never a substantial fortification. The purpose of it was largely to protect the fording place in the Mohawk river. There has been much speculation within the last year as to the location of this fording place. The reason for this at the present time is that it is proposed to mark the route of General Herkimer on his way from Herkimer to the battle of Oriskany, and the general impression is that the crossing was immediately at the foot of Genesee street, but it is evident that such was not the case. The water of the Mohawk river was always deep at the foot of Genesee street, and a mill dam existed there for many years, but the early citizens of Utica report that the water was shallow in the river about midway between the foot of Genesee street and the location of Fort Schuyler. It is, therefore, evident that this was the crossing place. An addi- tional reason may also be assigned for this view of the case, because of the fact that the immediate foot of Genesee street would be too far from the loca- tion of the fort to be defended, whereas the shoals, midway between these two points, would be within range of the guns used at the time the fort was con- structed.
This historic spot had remained unmarked except by some small cannon until the summer of 1910, when it was appropriately marked by the historical and patriotic societies of Utica. This ceremony occurred on October 12, 1910, and the monument bears the following inscription on the north side: "The Site of Old Fort Schuyler, 1758." On the south side, "The Historical and Patriotic Societies of Utica Place This Stone to Mark the Site of One of a Chain of Forts Built to Protect the Northern Frontier from the French and Their Indian Allies, and to Guard the Great Ford Across the Mohawk River. Utica Historical Society; Daughters of the American Revolution; Sons of the Revolution; Children of the American Revolution. Utica, October 12, 1910." The unveiling was by a descendant of the Schuyler for whom the fort was named, and a lineal descendant of the Schuyler for whom the new Fort Schuyler at Rome was named, hauled up the flag on the flag pole provided by the Park board of Utica.
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DEERFIELD was settled in 1773 by George J. Weaver (or Weaber), Captain Mark Damoth and Christian Reall, who built themselves log houses and com- menced clearing away the forest. They were, however, driven out by the Revolutionary War, but returned after the war was over, bringing with them friends, and about 1784 the settlement became permanent. It is a notable fact that from that time until to-day the descendants of these families have been among the most prominent and respected citizens of Oneida county.
KIRKLAND was settled as early as 1787 by Moses Foot, James Bronson, Luther Foot, Barnabas Pond, Ludim Blodgett and Levi Sherman.
NEW HARTFORD-An historic building stands in the town of New Hartford, which has received but little notice, although it was the residence of General Oliver Collins, who commanded the American forces of Sackett's Harbor dur- ing the war of 1812. This building was occupied by General Collins as a farm residence, has ever been used as such and is now.
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