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CHARLES G. ALVORD, Manufacturer of Cigars. Business established in 1874. Employs 5 hands. GEORGE BASSETT, Cigar Manufacturer. Em- ploys 6 hands. Established in 1872.
MASONIC.
Charter members of Liverpool Lodge No. 525 F. and A. M. Instituted August 26, 1862.
Names of Charter Members .- R. J. Chilling- worth, W. W. Parker, C. S. Wells, A. B. Wells, T. B. Anderson, James O'Neil, R. Platt, Thomas Drum, R. B. Claxton.
First Officers of the Lodge-R. J Chilling- worth, W. M. ; W. W. Parker, Senior W. ; C. S. Wells, Junior W .; O. C. Gleason, Treasurer ; T. B. Anderson, Secretary ; James O'Neil, Senior D. ; T. Drum, Junior D. ; M. Sommers, Tiler.
Past Masters of this Lodge-R. J. Chillingworth, W. W. Parker, O. C. Gleason, George Baxter, C. A. Fargo.
Present Officers of the Lodge-O. C. Gleason, W. M .; W. H. Beebe, Senior W .; A. W. Aiken. Junior W. ; M. Latimore, Treasurer ; C. A. Fargo, Secretary ; A. Lyke, Senior D. ; J. Chillingworth, Junior D. ; J. Bordes, Tiler ; Frank Benscher, Senior M. of C. ; Charles Pease, Junior M. of C.
Present Trustees-Thomas Hand, C. S. Sterling, R. B. Claxton.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
MILES ADAMS.
Miles Adams was born at Nine Partners, Dutchess county, N. Y., November 9, 1798, and was the youngest in the family of fourteen children of John
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and Hannah Adams, who were early settlers in Dutchess county. His parents moved to Washing- ton county when he was five years old. Owing to their indigent circumstances he was thrown on his own resources at the age of ten years. In 1822, he went to Saratoga, where he was employed on the canal. In 1824, he came to Onondaga county with his family and settled in the town of Onondaga, where he purchased forty acres of wild land. At the end of six years he sold out and bought a farm in Otisco, upon which he remained nine years, when he again sold out and bought the farm upon which he now resides. In September, 1821, he married Isabella, daughter of Nathan and Sally Tefft, of Washington county. They had two
(MRS. MILES ADAMS.)
children born to them, viz: Willard L. and Sarah I., both of whom are deceased. Mr. Adams has been Supervisor of the town of Salina and has held many other town offices, which he filled to the satis- faction of his constituents. For many years he has been a leading member of the Baptist Church, and has the reputation of being exceedingly liberal in its support. He has passed through life thus far without a syllable of reproach or calumny. In all his business transactions it has been his aim to follow the Golden Rule, and "do to others as he would have others do to him." Temperate, generous and conscientious, his last years are passing away in the sweet consciousness of having led an upright life.
JOHN PADDOCK.
John Paddock was born in Herkimer county, N. Y., in February, 1805, and was the second child in the family of five children of John and Nancy [Richardson] Paddock.
His father, who was a· prominent merchant of Herkimer county, moved to Watertown, Jefferson county, when his son John was one year old. After having followed the mercantile business for several years, he went to Brownville, where he died in 1816, having been Sheriff of the county, and one of its most respected citizens.
The subject of this sketch passed his boyhood days in Brownville until eleven years old, when he went to Watertown, where he remained till twenty-
one years of age, obtaining in the meantime a good practical business education.
In 1826, he came to Liverpool, town of Salina, and at once commenced the manufacture of salt in connection with farming. After a few years he be- came engaged in the mercantile business, which he followed successfully for many years. In the year 1831 he married Martha O. Dickson, who died in the year 1832. For his second wife he married Emeline, daughter of John and Mary Hasbrouck, who settled in Marcellus in 1809. The fruit of this union was five children, all of whom are deceased.
Upon the incorporation of the village of Liver- pool in 1830, he was one of the Trustees and was elected President in 1833, and was rëelected in 1834
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and 1836. In 1859, he was elected Supervisor of the town of Salina, being the only Republican Supervisor elected from that town for fifteen years. As a merchant he was strictly conscientious and honorable in his transactions. Possessing a natural talent for trade, he was enabled at the close of a term of 18 years, by judicious management, to retire
with a sufficient competence to meet all the legit- imate wants of his declining years.
Mr. Paddock has been identified with Liverpool for more than half a century, and has been steadily and earnestly devoted to the welfare of the place. His whole life has been characterized by remarkable energy and prudence.
GEDDES.
This town and village derive their name from Hon. James Geddes, who first visited Onondaga in 1792. He returned and formed a company in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of manu- facturing salt, and in the year 1793 came on from that place by way of Seneca Lake and River to fix upon a location for his works. Hle selected a site at the head of the lake where a portion of the village of Geddes now stands, and took possession of it in April, 1794. The other members of the company came on in the month of June following. (See History of the Salt Interest. )
At the time Mr. Geddes settled here the Salt Works at Salina were accessible only by a road from Onondaga Hollow, passing through a swamp which is now Syracuse. It became necessary for the company at Geddes to connect with this road. and by the aid of money's from a road fund in the hands and under the control of three County Com- missioners, and by large contributions, Mr. Geddes made the road from his village to the road from Onondaga Hollow to Salt Point, cutting a part of the timber with his own hands. The owners of the Salt Works at Salt Point were not at all friendly to their new neighbors, whom they considered in the light of rivals, and carried their resentment so far as to withhold assistance in raising a bridge over Onondaga Creek, and to throw out hints that it could not be raised without them. But necessity became the mother of invention, and made the re- sources of the directors more fruitful than their most sanguine friends had anticipated. The first bent was put together and shoved off the bank of the creek, the mud-sills being placed at the foot of the bank, and by levers was so managed that one man could exercise the power of many applied in the ordinary manner. The bent was set upright, the stringers from the top of the bank to the bent placed, and so much planked over, affording a foun -
dation from which the next bent was raised, and so on till the bridge was finished and the road com- pleted.
Mr. Geddes continued at his first landing place only about four years, when he located on the farm now occupied by his son, Hon. George Geddes, Fairmount. (See Biography of Hon. James Geddes.)
In 1799, Mr. Freeman Hughs, from Westfield, Massachusetts, located at Geddes. He was then only eighteen years of age. The only buildings then in the place were the Salt Works, which had been abandoned. Here Mr. Hughs took up his abode three days and three nights, all alone, and not an individual nearer than Salt Point- a lonely time indeed, considering the state of the country, the dark and dreary swamps, the wolves, bears and wild-cats, by which he was surrounded. But Mr. Hughs, young as he was, had an eye to business. During his residence at Geddes he filled almost every station connected with the salt business. He bored for salt, pumped the brine, constructed pumps, made and laid aqueducts, tubed wells, boiled salt, made barrels, packed salt, inspected it for six years, was a receiver of duties for two years, boated salt, and as a Justice of the Peace, tried those who had evaded the payment of duties The bal- ance of his useful life was spent in Geddes, where he died some ten years since highly esteemed and respected as a citizen and a man.
One of the earliest and greatest improvements about the village of Geddes was the construction of a road from that place to Salina, across a piece of ground which was a perfect quagmire, filled with thick cedar timber and low brush-wood. It was so miry, so thick with underbrush, and so much cov- ered with water, that it was completely impassable, and could not be surveyed by the ordinary methods. The plan adopted by the surveyor was to set his
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compass at the house of Samuel R. Mathews, at Salina, and take the bearing of Mr. Hugh's chim- ney above the trees on the Geddes side. From this observation the route of the road was commenced, by cutting brush and laying them crosswise on the line of the road, and covering them with earth. The process was slow, but time and perseverance result- ed at last in an excellent road, perfectly straight, between the two villages. The clearing of the swamp lands ordinarily cost about one hundred dol- lars an acre, the surface being covered with logs mixed with peat to the depth of six feet, and stumps sometimes far below that.
James Lamb built the first frame house in Ged- des in 1803 and kept a tavern.
At the time of the first settlement an old military road was traceable across the Onondaga valley at Geddes. It was cut through by a party of about two hundred men sent from Fort Schuyler to aid General Sullivan in his Indian campaign of 1779. The road extended to the Seneca River below Mon- tezuma, along which traces of the march of these Revolutionary soldiers were plain to be seen, young trees having been cut close to the ground and bushes in many places filled into the path. Mr. Clark refers to several Revolutionary soldiers in at- testation of this fact, " and particularly a Mr. Ho- bart, late of Salina, who was one of the expedition."
Harbor Brook in this town is also associated with Revolutionary reminiscences. Sir John Johnson, in 1779, with his Tories and Indian allies, made an incursion into the Mohawk Valley. The party forming the expedition proceeded from Niagara along the Ontario Lake shore to Oswego and up the river to Onondaga Lake. For fear of discov- ery, if their boats were left on the lake shore, they ran them up this small stream among the thick bushes and brakes. A party was sent from Fort Schuyler to destroy them, but did not succeed in ascertaining where they were concealed ; during the search they were surprised and taken prisoners to Canada. On the first night of their departure, they encamped at Three River Point, where the prison- ers were bound and tied to trees till morning. Capt. Patrick McGee was one of the prisoners, and was so much pleased with the beauty of the place at this time at the junction of the rivers, that at the close of the war he selected it for his residence, spent the residue of his life there, and was buried on the spot he had selected under such very pecu- liar circumstances.
ORGANIZATION OF THE TOWN.
In 1848, Geddes was erected into a town by
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itself, including all that part of the town of Salina west of the lake not embraced in the city of Syra- cuse. The first election was held at the house of Stephen W. Smith, on the fourth Tuesday in March, 1848. Elijah W. Curtis was elected Supervisor ; Edgar Vrooman, Town Clerk ; George E. Tefft, Henry G. Stiles, and James H. Luther, Justices of the Peace. (Charles Carpenter, Justice for the village, had been previously elected.) Horace Ellis and George E. Tefft were elected Assessors ; Christopher Kitts, Collector ; Edwin R. Smith and Albina Woolson, Overseers of the Poor ; Ogden H. Osborn and Ervin Hammond, Superintendents of Schools ; Thomas Owen, Horace Bailey, Guy Terry, and Richard Barrett, Constables: William W. Tripp, Matthew Van Vleck, and Harvey Stewart, Inspectors of Election.
In 1849, Henry G. Stiles was elected Supervisor ; William Punderson, Town Clerk. Justices-George E. Tefft, (to fill a vacancy,) Simeon Spaulding, (reg- ular term,) and Horace Ellis. Superintendent of Schools-Thomas S. Truair. Overseers of the Poor-Edwin R. Smith and Albina Woolson. For the complete official list of the town since 1849, the reader is referred to the town records in the hands of the present Town Clerk, Mr. E. R. Smith, of the village of Geddes. These records being kept in a separate place, escaped the fire which consumed the village records in 1850.
VILLAGE OF GEDDES.
The village of Geddes appears to have been par- tially laid out as early as 1807. In the Surveyor- General's office at Albany is a map, No. 407, en- titled a " Map of the village laid out at the settle- ment commonly called Geddes Works, Onondaga county, with the pasture and marsh lot belonging to the manufacturers at said village. Surveyed for William Kirkpatrick, Esq., Superintendent, by James Geddes, December 31, 1807." Mr. Kirk- patrick was then Superintendent of the Salt Springs, and the " manufacturers" referred to were those making salt at that time at Geddes. The lands then belonged to the State and were laid out into village lots, pasture lots, marsh lots, &c., for the convenience of the salt makers.
The first plot of Geddes laid out and mapped in 1807, contained some twenty lots along both sides of Genesee street. The village was resurveyed and mapped by Mr. Geddes in 1812, and enlarged in 1821. (Map No. 248, Secretary of State's Office, Albany.) In 1822, Mr. John Randel,* Jr., Deputy Surveyor-General, laid out the village of
* So spelled on the original maps in the Salt Office at Syracuse
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Geddes substantially as it is at present. The streets were laid out too feet wide. Genesee street has since been straightened, and some other trifling changes made.
John Randel, Jr., surveyed the whole Salt Springs Reservation, except the "Walton Tract," and made the first map of it. He began his sur- vey in 1821 and finished it in 1824
The village was incorporated by act of the Legislature passed April 20, 1832. Chapter 185. ) The first election of officers took place on the first Tuesday in June following, or such at least was the time appointed by the act of incorporation. Un- fortunately the village records were destroyed by fire on the night of the 8th of February, 1850, and it is now impossible to ascertain who the first vil- lage officers were. None of the old citizens now living in the village, nor any one of whom we can hear, has any definite or reliable recollection on the subject, and after diligent inquiry, we have been obliged to abandon the hope of rescuing them from oblivion.
Elijah W. Curtis, Esq., a prominent citizen, and the first lawyer in Geddes, was member of Assembly in 1832, and drew up the village charter. Other prominent names were John Dodge and Joel Dick- inson, merchants. Probably some of these, if not all, officiated at an early time as Trustees of the village. From 1850 the records are complete and furnish the following list of village officers :
TRUSTEES.
Simeon Spaulding, Stephen W. Smith, Isaac R. Pha- tis, Albina Woolson .- 1850.
Daniel D. Smith, R. Nelson Gere, Edgar Vrooman, Daniel Coykendall, Albina Woolson .- 1851.
Thomas Sammons, Joel F. Paige, Hiram Slade, Sul- livan H. Morse, John Whiting. - 1852.
Joel F. l'aige, Albina Woolson, Joseph Sheppard, Jr. Thomas Robinson, William W. Tripp .- 1853.
Elijah W. Curtis, Damel Coykendall, Edgar Vroo- man, W'm. J. Sammons, John Y. Phares .- 1854.
Elijah W. Curtis, Daniel Coykendall, W'm. J. Sam- mons, Mills P. Pharis, W'm. Boulian .- 1855.
Thomas Sammons, R. Nelson Gere, Isaac R. Pharis, Henry Duncan, Elijah W. Curtis .- 1856.
James W. Patien, A. Cadwell Belden, Henry Case. John D. Stanard, Henry Duncan .- 1857.
B. F. Willey, E. R. Smith, W'm. J. Sammons, Nor- man Vrooman, W'm. W. Tripp .- 1858.
W'm. H. Farrar, Burlingame Harris, R. Nelson Gere, Francis H. Nye, Ferris Hubbell .- 1859.
Francis H. Nye, R. Nelson Gere, Gardner Woolson, Harvey Stewart, Joel F. l'aige .- 1860.
Joel F. Paige, R. Nelson Gere, Francis H. Nye, Gardner Woolson, Harvey Stewart .- 1861.
Joel F. Paige, Harvey Stewart, Francis H. Nye, R. Nelson Gere, Isaac R. Pharis .- 1862.
Joel F. Paige. Harvey Stewart, Stephen W. Smith, Perry C. Rude, Hiram Slade .- 1863.
Thomas Robinson, Mills P. Pharis, Richard G. Joy, W'm. H. H. Gere, Win. D. Coykendall .-- 186.4.
Thomas Robinson, Mills P. Pharis, Richard G. Joy, W'm. H. H. Gere, W. D. Coykendall .- 1865.
Samuel E. Barker, Harvey Stewart, Charles F. Gere, Gilbert Sweet, John Y. Phares .- 1866.
1867-NEW CHARTER.
R. Nelson Gere, Mead Belden, Samuel E. Barker. -1867.
Samuel E. Barker, Mead Belden, Charles E. Pharis. -186S.
Samuel E. Barker, Charles E. Pharis, Mead Belden. -1869.
Charles E. Pharis, Mead Belden, Reuben C. Holmes- -1870. Mead Belden, Reuben C Holmes, Charles E. Pharis. -1871.
Reuben C. Holmes, Charles E. Pharis, Mead Belden. -1872.
Charles E. Pharis. Mead Belden, Reuben C. Holmes. -1873.
Mead Belden, Reuben C. Holmes, Terrence E. Ho- gan .- 1874.
Reuben C. Holmes, Terrence E. Hogan, Richard Tremain .- 1875.
Terrence E. Hogan, Richard Tremain, George C. Gere .- 1876.
Richard Tremain, George C. Gere, George A. Cool. -1877.
CLERKS.
J .. W. Woodard, 1850; James H. Luther, 1851 ; Ferris Hubbell, 1852 ; Edgar Vrooman, 1853 ; Charles E. Pharis, 1854; Ferris Hubbell, 1855 ; N. Stanton Gere, 1856; Stephen Duncan, 1858; E. R. Smith, 1859, to the present time, except 1863, when B. G. Lewis was Clerk.
POSTMASTERS.
The following persons, in the order named, have held the office of Postmaster in the village of Geddes : Da- vid W. Hollister : Elijah W. Curtis ; Joel Dickinson ; Simeon Spaulding ; Thomas Sammons ; Simeon Spauld- ing; Ferris Hubbell ; Simeon Spaulding ; Hubbard Manzer, present incumbent, (1877.)
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
The first Justice of the Peace was Henry Lake, Esq. Since him the following named gentlemen have filled that office in the town and village : Thomas Sammons, Simeon Spaulding, four years ; William W. Tripp, four years ; Charles Carpenter, four years ; James H. Luther, four years ; Simeon Spaulding, thirty-one years in succession to January 1, 1878.
The present Justices in the town of Geddes are James T. Hamilton, Henry Jerome and William D. Coykendall.
Simeon Spaulding, Esq., and William W. Tripp, Esq., are the oldest citizens now residing in the vil- lage. Both came to Geddes in 1825. John Y. Phares, still living here, is an old and prominent resident. Ferris Hubbell came here from 1825 to 1830, and is still a resident of the village. John G. Dodge. Charles L. Skinner and Joel Dickinson were early merchants-the last named acting as agent for James Mann.
W.W. Parte
The subject of this sketch was born in Fayston, Washington Co., Vt., July 24, 1826.
He was next to the youngest ebild, in a family of eight children, of Elliot Porter and Sidney Ward, the former a native of Hart- ford, the latter a native of Poultney, Vt., and a daughter of Judge William Ward, an official in the office of judge of Rut- land Co., Vt., for some twenty-two years.
His father was limited pecuniarily, and was unable to give his children anything more than the advantages of the district school. Wilfred spent his time until he was seventeen years of age on the farm, and attending school winters; at which time he commenced studying falls and springs, and teaching winters, attending the academies at Montpelier and Bakersfield, and working on the farm during the summer months until he was twenty-two years of age.
As early as fifteen he had set his mind upon the medical pro- fession for life, and therefore bent all his energies in that direction. Having studied medicine some time previously, he, at the age of twenty-two, entered the office of Dr. G. M. Brigham, of Waitsfield, Vt., and began the study of medicine, which he con- tinued summers, teaching school falls and winters for one year and a half, when he entered the medical college at Woodstock, where he remained one term, and afterwards at Castleton, Vt., for two terms, graduating from that college in the fall of 1851.
During the same year he came to Syracuse and entered the office of Dr. Hiram Hoyt, where he remained temporarily for a short time, and on May 10, 1852, entered the school at Geddes as principal teacher, which position he held for one year, and May 16, 1853, opened an office in that place to prosecute the practice of his profession, which he has continued until the time of the writing of this brief sketch.
At the beginning of his practice in Geddes, as is common with young practitioners, his anxiety was great to be well established in the minds of the people as to his ability and skill in medi- cine, which was overcome to a large extent during the first year.
Dr. Porter resolved to win his way fairly, although often met by older and more experienced medical men. At the close of his first year, the resident doetor of Geddes died, leaving bim in full possession of the field. Dr. Porter rose rapidly in the confidence
of the people, and by integrity of purpose and honest dealing grew into a very large and lucrative practice, which he carried on for fifteen years, as it were, alone, after which he had partners in the practice of medicine.
His practice gradually extended to the city of Syracuse, when, in 1875, the demand upon him for medical treatment from that city became so great that he opened an office there, which he alter- nately attends upon, with his home office in Geddes. He has been for twenty-five years a member of the Onondaga County medical society, and for one term its president, and a permanent member of the New York State medical society ; also a member of the American medical association.
Upon the organization of the College of Medicine of Syracuse University, in 1872, he was appointed clinical professor of obstet- rics and gynæeology. Having filled the chair of professor during the first year, at the end of that time Dr. Porter was appointed professor of obstetrics and gynæcology, which position he still retains.
His skill in the treatment of diseases has won for him a posi- tion in the esteem of the people to be envied by young practi- tioners, and his indomitable perseverance and endurance of body has enabled him to gratify, in a great measure, the laudable am- bition of his earlier years-to be among the first in his profession.
Dr. Porter was one of the first movers in the organization and establishment of a university at Syracuse, and since its beginning has been a trustee and closely identified with all its interests.
He has been largely identified with the public schools of his town since his first residence there, being superintendent of the schools of the town for some two years, and trustee of the village school for some twenty-five years, also being president of the board of education.
Dr. Porter and his wife are warmly attached to the Metbodist Episcopal church, and are not only liberal supporters of the same, but of any enterprise looking to the building up of good society.
In the year 1853, Nov. 13, he married Miss Jane, daughter of Simeon Draper and Clarissa Stone, of Geddes.
By this union he had five children, Clara A., George D. (de- ceased), Wilfred W., Jr., Jane, and Louie.
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Dr. Salmon Thayer was the first regular phy- sician, and came here from Onondaga. Dr. David M. Benson came afterwards, and practiced here till his death. He died in 1854.
POPULATION.
The growth of the village of Geddes has been remarkable. In 1868 it contained less than one thousand inhabitants. Now it is the largest incor- porated village in the county, and contains a popu- lation of 5,408.
MANUFACTURES.
Some of the heaviest manufacturing establish- ments in this section are located in Geddes. They are the following :
Onondaga Iron Company, north of the canal, near Quince street. J. J. Belden, President ; R. Nelson Gere, Vice-President ; W. H. H. Gere, Secretary and Treasurer.
Onondaga Pottery Company, Furnace corner of School street. N. Stanton Gere, President ; Chas. E. Hubbell, Vice-President ; George Oliver, Gen- eral Manager.
Sanderson Bro's Steel Company, south of Mag- nolia street. Capital $450,000. Robert B. Camp- bell, New York, President ; Samuel Wm. Johnson, New York, Secretary ; Wm. A. Sweet, Syracuse, General Manager.
Syracuse Iron Works, Furnace, north of Mag- nolia street, Geddes. R. Nelson Gere, President ; Charles E. Hubbell, Secretary and Treasurer.
Sterling Iron Ore Company, north of the canal near Quince street. J. J. Belden, President ; A. J. Belden, Vice-President.
The above works will be found written up fully under the head of Syracuse Manufactures.
Geddes has also the following Salt Companies : Western Coarse Salt Company, Turk's Island Coarse Salt Company, Geddes Coarse Salt Com- pany, Union Coarse Salt Company, Cape Cod Coarse Salt Company ; W. & D. Kirkpatrick, No. 7 Wieting Block; James M. Gere and others ; Draper & Porter, W. B. Boyd ; Mrs. S. O. Ely, J. F. Paige.
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