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There have been for many years various Literary Societies connected with the Academy. The ex- ercises consisting of Debates, Essays and Criti- cisms. The Ladies' Literary Society was for many years an attractive feature of the Academy.
The Gentlemen's M. C. I. Club continued in successful operation until the spring of 1873, when the present Lyceum was organized admitting ladies and gentlemen upon precisely the same footing. The exercises of each meeting consisting of Music, Declamations, Recitations, a Lyceum Paper and an Extempore Debate.
John Munro, the brother of Nathan, was the first l'resident of the Board of Trustees in 1839, and served acceptably till his death in 1860. He was a man universally esteemed for his benevolence and ready sympathy with the unfortunate. He was born in Cheshire, Mass., March 26, 17So, and died in Elbridge, March 13, 1860.
John Rice, Esq, the second President of the Board of Trustees, was elected October 6, 1860, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Deacon John Munro. John Rice was born at Cheshire, Mass., January 8, 1799, and died at Elbridge, June 20, 1875. He came to Elbridge in 1820. He was un- tiring in his efforts to enlist the sympathies of all in behalf of the Academy.
Hon. Luke Ranney, now the President of the Board of Trustees of the Academy, was elected October 4. 1875, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of John Rice, Esq.
The following have served as Secretaries of the Board : James Munro, elected July 13, 1839 ; Hon. Luke Ranney, elected October 27, 1869. Treas- urers : Hiram F. Mather, July 13, 1839 ; Squire M. Brown, April 13, 1842 ; W. C. Van Vechten, June 27, 1849 ; Elijah D. Williams, December 28, 1853 ; L. B. Bennett, October 27, 1869 ; John Munro, October 14, 1871.
Succession of Trustees : Nathan Munro, charter; Jared Wheeler, July 13, 1839: Rev. E. A. Ilunt- ington, July 13. 1867 ; Rev. Washington Thatcher, (resigned , charter ; Allen Munroe, March 30, 1842 : J. B Evarts, charter ; Daniel C. Munro, (resigned) February 9, 1842 ; C. J. Merriman, (resigned) charter ; Stephen W. Clark, (resigned) March 30, 1842 ; Z. S. Clark, April 24, 1848; Hiram F. Mather, (resigned) charter ; David Wilson, (from neglect ) November 4, 1844 ; John Burnett, July 9. 1858 ; Rev. Medad Pomeroy, (resigned) charter ; Levi Clark, March 6, 1845 ; Wm. Ran- ney, charter ; Luke Ranney, June 9, 1858 ; John Rice, charter ; Charles G. McGowan, Oct. 4, 1875; John Munro, charter ; David A. Munro, July 10, 1867 ; James Munro, charter ; John Munro, Jr., March 9, 1871 ; Squire M. Brown, (resigned ) 1848, charter : Wm. C. Van Vechten, (resigned) (the only charter member living) 1848, charter ; Charles Pardee, May 13, 1856 ; Reuben Farnham, (resigned) 1848, charter ; Abram Hall, (resigned) 1848, char- ter ; Elijah D. Williams, (resigned) 1866, charter ; L. B. Bennett, Oct. 31, 1867 ; Thomas W. Ifill, Oct. 4, 1875 ; Charles Lombard, (resigned) 1848, charter ; James M. Munro, elected in place of Mr. Hicok, August 12, 1854 ; Allen Munroe, elected in place of Mr. Lathrop, August 12, 1854 ; Robert Townsend, elected in place of Mr. Cornell, August 12, 1854 ; Hervey Wilbur, elected in place of J. R. Townsend, July 10, 1867.
PRESENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Hon. Luke Ranney, Elbridge, President ; Chas. G. McGowan, Elbridge, Secretary; John Munro,
HON. LUKE RANNEY.
William Ranney, father of Luke Ranney, was born in Middletown, Coon., June 30, 1785, and died at Elbridge, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1857, aged seventy-two years. He moved to Elbridge in 1835.
The Ranneys were from Scotland, and first catue to Middletown, Conn. They were noted for their great energy of character.
Betsey Alden, the mother of Luke Ranney, was born at Ashfield, Mass., March 7, 1789, and died at Elbridge, May 9, 1870, aged eighty-one years. The Aldens trace their lineage directly back to John Alden, who landed from the Mayflower, on Plymouth Rock, 1620,-the same John who asked Miss Priscilla Mullens if she would have Capt. Miles Standish, and she hinted to him to ask for himself, and he knew cuongh to take the hint. The Aldens have been noted for their great longevity and strong Puri- tanie religious character, many of them having been clergymen.
Luke Ranney was born in Ashfield, Mass., Nov. 8, 1815. Moved to Aurelius, Cayuga Co., N. Y., in 1823. At the ago of fourteen or fifteen the thirst for knowledge came upon him with almost irresistible power. The labor on the farm, under his father's energy and industry, took about all of daylight, and the nights, until two and three in the morning, were often used to satisfy this craving for knowledge. Every cent that could be had was used in the purchase of books. Rollin's Ancient History and Plutarch's Lives were obtained with the last farthing he could get, and devoured with an appetite which might be compared to a starved tiger feasting on a dainty morsel. They were read and re-read until all the lead- ing facts of ancient history were fixed in his memory for life, and were ever after at his command.
In 1834 he went to Shelburne Falls academy, Massachusetts, to school, an uncle, the Rev. John Alden, being principal. He walked sixty miles from Albany to the Falls to save three dollars, stage fare, to pur- chase books with. Was here five months, and was then called home by his father to help him on the farm.
In the fall of 1835 his father wished him to go and spend a year helping his only brother in Van Bu- ren Co., Mich. He went up Lake Erie in the last boat that ran that fall. Walked and drove an ox-team from Detroit there, one hundred and fifty miles. Got there the ninth day of December ; found his brother keep- ing bachelor's hall in a log shanty twelve by fourteen, and dieting on pork and potatoes, and, as he ex- pressed it, had for a change potatoes and pork. In the winter his brother had to be away two weeks, and he remained in the shanty that time confined with a lame foot, without seeing a human being, and no com- panion but Shakspeare; and, as he said, he had an intellectual treat, and gained a knowledge of the great English poet which was a source of great pleasure ever after.
He taught school in Throops- ville, Cayuga Co., in 1839 and 1841, and in Port Byron in 1840. Studied law with S. Robinson and S. Good- win, and in consequence of poor health was compelled to abandon the profession of law. Went to Christian Co., Ky., in the fall of 1842, and there taught school one year, and had a good opportunity to see the evils of slavery. He then wrote home to a friend, as follows : " When I see the vast amount of evil that originates out of this system of slavery, I shudder at future consequences. The day of final judgment may be far distant, but it is sure to come as a rock loosened from the top of a mountain is to thunder down to the plain below, and woe, woe to all who are in its path. I may not live to see it, but the seed has been sown, the crop is more than half grown, and when the harvest comes it will be a harvest of death and desolation."
At this time the great temperance reformation was sweeping like a tor- nado over the southwest, and he gave what time and strength he had to spare to this mighty work. His services were in demand to speak at all the principal places in Christian county. At some of these meetings as many as one hundred and fifty signed the pledge of temperance.
He came back to Elbridge in the fall of 1843, and in May, 1844, mar- ried Miss Rebecca Lyon, daughter of Deacon Cyrus Lyon, of Weedsport, and lived five years on a farm three miles east of Weedsport. While there he held the office of town superintendent. In the spring of 1852 he moved back to Elbridge, where he has resided ever since.
He was elected supervisor of his town in 1857, and in the fall of 1858 was elected to represent the first district in Onondaga County in the legis- lature. He was elected again in the fall of 1865, and again in the fall of 1867, serving three times in the legislature. While there he served on the committee on claims, on the committee of nine for advancing bills, and on the select committee on assessments. The bill creating the State assessors was written hy him, and his influence contributed largely to its passage.
He was one of the select committee on a pro rata freight bill, a measure
more largely connected with the interior interests of the State than almost any other, and he has reason to believe that it was defeated by money of the New York Central railroad, as the agent employed hy that com- pany to do its lobbying in the legislature told a prominent citizen of Syra- cuse, at Seneca Falls (where they met), that it cost the company over two hundred thousand dollars to defeat Ranney's pro rata freight bill.
His speech on the personal liberty bill gave him a State reputation as one of the best debaters in the assembly. Mr. Ranney says that the greatost guod he ever accomplished for his country was in the organiza- tion of the opposition to the increase of the way fare on the New York Central railroad, and continuing the contest until its final defeat by the veto of Gov. Fenton. By this defeat the way passengers are saved from pay- ing into the treasury of that mammoth corporation from five hundred thousand dollars to one million dollars annually.
In a speech which he made on that occasion, and which was published, he showed as conclusively as figures can show, that the gains and profits of tho company, over and above an annual dividend of seven per cent., had been not less than seventeen millions of dollars since the consolida- tion in 1853; and, as proof that he was right, soon after Vanderbilt came in as president and divided among the stockholders twenty millions of bonds to represent these surplus earnings.
Mr. Ranney says he had no doubt at that time they were using the money of the corporation to buy votes ; and, as further proof that he was right, Worcester, treasurer of the company, under oath, before a committee of the constitutional convention, in 1868, said that he paid, to influence legislation during the pendency of this bill, without any authority of law, vouchers, or receipts, two hun- dred and sixty-five thousand dol- lars, and the account was allowed by the directors.
To judge how some members of the legislature must have been scorched on that occasion, we make the follow - ing quotation from his speech : "And now, hefore I close, what shall I say to those, if any such there be, who have received the money of this cor- poration as a reward for the betrayal of their constituency, for the sur- rendering and yielding up of their rights for their personal gain ? Re- member, Judas Iscariot betrayed his Lord and Master for thirty pieces of silver, and for that act has heen held up for execration, scorn, and contempt wberever the banner of the Cross has been unfurled, even to the outermost bounds of Christian civilization. Turn your minds, gen- tlemen, within, and behold your- selves as in a glass, and see a villain whose company you are compelled to keep, and from whuse vile com- panionship there is no escape. Dis- honored, scorned, and condemned by yourself, seeking through life a hiding-place from the goadings uf conscience, dying while you are liv- ing, praying for the everlasting rocks and hills to fall on you and hide you from the righteous indignation of a constituency you have betrayed, from a legislature you have de- moralized, from a State you have dishonored, and a republic you have disgraced. Go, and return your ill- gotten gold to this soulless corporation, which would accumulate wealth at the expense of the integrity and virtue of this legislature, at the expensc of liberty, and ou the ruins of our country ! Go, and swear by the ever- living God that you will live and die honest men, that your garments shall never be hesmeared with the filth and slime of a corrupt and venal lobby which swarm around you like the carrion crows around a rutten careass."
He has given his services as a speaker withont one cent's compensation in every important campaign sinee 1855, often addressing his fellow- citizens every night for some time previous to election. In his addresses he has spent as much or more time on the obligations we owe to our gov- ernment, and the proper discharge of those obligations, than on party politics. Showing them if they will be true to our country, she will be- come the heacon-light of all nations, leading them in the path of equal rights, Christian liberty, and universal iotelligence. He has always ad- vocated impartial justice to all men, without reference to birth, nationality, or color. Oa party politics he has always endeavored to show that the reform and purification of the two great parties of the day was more im- portant than the immediate success of either, believing that parties should always be governed by the great principles of right, having the highest good of our country as their supreme ohject.
He has been extensively employed as a surveyor, and often on disputed lines bas harmonized parties and saved litigation. He has had many es- tates to settle, as executor, administrator, and assignee, in this county, Cayuga county, and in Michigan. He is president of the board of trustees of Munro Collegiate Institute, an institution of learning hardly second to any in the county.
Photo. by Geo, Dygert, Jordan, S. )
CHAUNCEY B. LAIRD.
The subject of this sketch, one of the oldest residents of the town of Elbridge, was born July 30, 1901, in the town of l'amillns, two miles west of the village. He was the son of John Laird and Polly Boyd, who were among the first settlers of the town, emigrating from Saratoga county. The elder Laird was a carpenter by occupation, and Chauncey followed the same vocation for some time ; but his tastes were for agri- cultural pursuits, and he accordingly purchased a farm in the town of Elbridge, upon which he settled in 1830, and where he resided until his death, which occurred April 6. 1573. lu hi- chosen calling he was eminently successful, and was regarded
as one of the most thorough and systematic farmers in the town.
In 1-27, Mr. Laird was married to Miss Sarah E., daughter of John Adams, Esq., of Skaneateles, one of the first settlers and a very prominent citizen. In 1543, Mrs. Laird died, and in 1845 he was again married to Miss Lucretia Mills. By his first wife he had five children, three sons and two daughters, none of whom are now living.
By his second wife he had five children, two of whom are living,-Charles W. baird, of Jordan, and Julia, wife of the Rev. J. C. Nichols, of the Central New York Conference.
W Y RANCER SYRACUSE
JOHN D. RHOADES
HON. JOHN D. RHOADES.
The subject of this sketch was born in Chesterfield, Mass., Nov. 11, 1801, and was the eldest child in the family of John and Hannah Rhoades, which consisted of ten children. When eight years of age, his father removed with his family to Onondaga County, settling in the town of Skaneateles. Here for years the family experienced the privations and hardships of pioneer life.
Notwithstanding the almost entire lack of educational advantages, our subject acquired a good common school education, which he made practically useful to himself and others by teaching. At the age of twenty-one he went to New Jersey, and for several years was engaged as a traveling salesman.
In 1826 he formed a co-partnership with a gentleman by the name of Bartlett, and engaged in trade at Stan- hope, N. J. In 1827 he married Sebiah, daughter of the Hon. Timothy Brown, of Elbridge, and in 1829 he removed to Hancock, Delaware county, where he became extensively engaged in lumbering.
In 1833, meeting with some reverses, he sold, and again returned to Elbridge, where for ten years he was
the proprietor of the Munro Hotel. In 1851 he purchased the farm where he now resides, which is beautifully located in the village of Elbridge.
In politics Mr. Rhoades was a Whig until the formation of the Republican party. In 1855 he was elected county coroner, and in 1856 was elected a member of the legis- lature.
His childhood of indigence, his early manhood of wearisome toil, served as the crucibles wherein sterling qualities were refined and tested, as preparatory for public service and higher obligation.
In all business relations he is honorable and upright, ever the same in private business or official life. Sociable, benevolent, and possessed of ennobling Christian virtues, he has won friends among all classes, and by sound judgment and prompt decision gave weight to his opinions and strength to his purposes.
Mr. Rhoades has been a valuable citizen in all relations of life, and by industry has accumulated a competency, and contributed largely to the welfare and social improve- ment of his neighborhood.
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Elbridge, Treasurer ; Hon. James M. Munro, Camillus ; Hon. Allen Munroe, Syracuse ; John B. Burnett, Syracuse ; Charles Pardee, Skaneateles ; Dr. Harvey B. Wilbur, Syracuse ; Rev. E. A. Huntington, D.D., Auburn; Hon. Theodore N. Pom- eroy, Auburn ; David A. Munro, Camillus ; Thomas W. Hill, Elbridge.
SUCCESSION OF PRINCIPAL TEACHERS.
Years. Principal. Preceptress.
1839-Lemuel S. Pomeroy. Julia A. Fitch.
1840-'4-Stephen W. Clark. Elvira P. Cadwell.
1845-Stephen W. Clark. Catherine A. Coleman. 1846-J. W. Wolcott. Mary A. Ellis.
1847-J. W. Wolcott. M. F. Loring.
1848-'9-John H. Wilson. M. F. Loring.
1850-John H. Wilson.
Mary A. Casey.
1851-John H. Kellom. Mary A. Goddard.
1852-John H. Kellom.
Louisa Powers.
1853-David Burbank. Mary L. Powers.
1854-David Burbank.
Mary L. Powers.
1855-David Burbank.
Eliza A. Boss.
1 856-David Burbank.
Charlotte A. Birdseye.
1857-John H. Wilson, I t. Charlotte A. Birdseye. Herman Sanford, 2 terms.
1858-Truman K. Wright. Amanda Bunnell.
1859-'72-T. K. Wright. Martha B. Wright.
1873-'76-T. K. Wright. Laura M. Carpenter. 1876-'78-T. K. Wright.
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
Elbridge Grange No. 220. Instituted June 22, 1874, with the following officers : Hiram D. Pres- ton, M. ; William B. Rice, Secretary ; Newman Crossett, Treasurer. Present membership forty- one. Present officers : Alonzo M. Curtis, M .; M. W. Lyon, Secretary ; Charles E. Cook, Treas- urer. Meetings held every alternate Thursday at lodge rooms in Wood Block.
I. O. O. F.
Elbridge Lodge No. 275 was formed April 19, 1871, with nine members. The following were the first officers: H. H. Porter, N. G. ; James M. Halstead, V. G. ; R. M. Cole, C. S.
They have suffered loss in three successive fires, but are at present in a prosperous condition, having an influential membership of forty-four. The present officers (1878) are as follows :
Fred. S. Hall, N. G. ; J. M. Halstead, R. S. N. G .; Alfred E. Stacey, L. S. N. G .; A. L. Chat- field, V. G. ; W. S. Hale, R S. V. G .; James F. Thomas, L. S. V. G .; C. O. Baker, M. D., R. R. S .; C. E. Cook, L. S. S .; C. C. Smith, C. S .; C. A. Smith, P. S. ; Rev. Keese Coburn, Chaplain ; David Bonta, W. ; William R. Stevens, P. N. G. ;
William C. Garrison, Treasurer ; G. Z. Allen, C. ; E. Z. Frazee, I. G. ; H. D. Preston, W. S. Hale and R. M. Cole, Committee on Finance.
The lodge has a hall in Wood's Block which was finished and furnished by the members some two years since, and is also used by the " Ancient Order of United Workmen," the " Patrons of Husbandry " and the " Good Templars."
MANUFACTURES OF ELBRIDGE.
JOHN T. THOMAS & SONS, Bedstead Manufactur- ers. Established 1859. Employ four hands ; use water power ; average production about 1,700 per annum. Occupy the old building erected in 1826 by Jacob W. Page.
EATON & SEELEY, Chair Manufacturers. Estab- lished 1877. Employ six hands ; use water power. Occupy building erected and occupied by Levi Clark as a carding mill and cloth dressing factory, afterwards used as a pail factory.
BUCKMAN & SONS, Chair Manufacturers. Estab- lished 1877. Employ seven hands ; use water power.
J. S. GOWING & Co., proprietors of the "Elbridge Mills," formerly known as the " Munro Mills." These mills contain four run of stones ; capacity, 100 barrels per day ; make a specialty of high grade flour.
CURTIS & WHITE, manufacturers of every descrip- tion of marble goods. Established 1877. Employ four hands.
ELBRIDGE MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS, T. S. Hubbell, proprietor. Established by Mr. Hubbell in 1841. Besides the usual granite and marble monuments, Mr. Hubbell is agent for ornamental iron work for cemetery purposes.
S. D. PADDOCK, JR., Proprietor of Steam Dried Straw Board Mill, located just north of the corpora- tion line of the village of Elbridge, commenced business here in the spring of 1865, and made the first sheet July Ist, of the same year. In the winter of 1868 and '69 he put in machinery for drying by steam and has run almost uninterruptedly ever since. Present capacity, 12 to 14 tons per week ; employs about twelve hands ; Capital in- vested $20,000 ; water power ; steam used for boil- ing and drying.
CHURCHES.
THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY OF EL- BRIDGE, formerly known as the " First Congrega- tional Society of the Town of Camillus," was organ- ized October 30, 1800. Among the original mem- bers were Hezekiah Freeman, Moses Fulton and John Healy, the latter being chosen the first Clerk.
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The first Deacons were Hezekiah Freeman and John Ilealy, in 1804. The first minister was Rev. Seth Williston. For more than twenty years the meetings of the society were held in private houses and school houses near by and in the present village of Elbridge. In 1810, Rev. Benjamin Bell began to officiate as stated supply, and continued up to and including 1818. There had been received into the Society fifty-seven additions, and the total mem- bership that year was fifty.
The Society was legally organized December 24. 1822. At the same time the following subscription was drawn up for the purpose of building a house of worship :
" We, the subscribers, each one for himself alone severally and not jointly, do hereby promise and agree to pay to Jacob Campbell, Levi Clark, Nathan Munro, Jedediah Richards, Charles Lombard and Hiram F. Mather, Trustees of the First Congrega- tional Society in the town of Camillus, in the County of Onondaga, the sums set opposite to our names respectively, to raise a fund for the purpose of build- ing a meeting house for public worship in the village of Elbridge, in and for the said society ; which said sums so by us respectively subscribed, shall be paid at the times and in the manner following, that is to say : -
" Two-thirds part of each subscription shall be paid in merchantable wheat, rye. corn, oats, pork. beans, beef, butter, cheese or lard, one half thereof to be delivered within three months from the first day of January next, and one half thereof in six months from that time, at cash price when deliv- ered, and in such materials as shall be suitable for said building, to be delivered within four months from the aforesaid date, at cash price when deliv- ered ; which said articles, both of provisions and materials for building, shall be delivered in such proportion of each as the Trustees of the said Society shall direct-having reference to the wants of the builder's family or families engaged in con- structing said house, and the due proportion of each kind of material necessary for the same : and shall be deposited at such place in Elbridge as the afore- said Nathan Munro may direct.
" It is understood, however, that any subscriber shall have the privilege of paying one of the afore- said two-thirds part of his subscription in neat cat- tle, (bulls and stags excepted : to be delivered at such place in Elbridge as Nathan Munro shall direct, on the first of September next
" The remaining one-third part of each person's subscription shall be pa'd in cash, one half thereof in six months from the first of January next, and the other half in one year from the first of April next.
" Witness our hands the 24th day of December, A. I), 1822."
Then follow the names of the subscribers among whom we find
Nathan Munro
$500.00
Gideon Wilcoxon
200 00
The church edifice vat present occupied.) was erected during 1823-24, at a cost of $3.600. In 1845, it was remodeled at an additional expense of $1,000, and was also further repaired in 1862.
December 7, 1829, it was voted that the word " Elbridge " be substituted in the place of " Camil- lus" in the name of the society, in consequence of the erection of the town of Elbridge from Camillus.
The Parsonage connected with the Church was erected in 1834, at a cost of $1,600. The Church site was donated by Nathan Gorham.
The following have been regular pastors of the church : Rev. Benjamin Bell, 18to; Rev. J. Pool, 18t8 ; Rev. Jabez Chadwick, 1821-large revival under his ministry ; Rev. Stephen l'orter, January, 1824, to March, 1827 ; Rev. Timothy Stow, Febru- ary, 1828, to October. 1832-large revival, about one hundred additions ; Rev. Medad l'omeroy, January, 1833, to June, 1840-additions, thirty- four ; Rev. Sidney Mills, August, 1841, to May, 1843-two additions ; Rev. Lemuel W. Hamblin, July, 1843, to October, 1846-twenty-six additions ; Rev. C. N. Mattoon, October, 1847, to December, 1849-twenty-two additions ; Rev. George D. Fol- som, April 1850, to July, 1852 -two additions ; Rev. E. J. Townsend, January 1853 to 1859-large revival, 75 additions ; Rev. P. J. Burnham, Sep- tember, 1859, to March, 1862 : Rev. A. C. Reed. June, 1863 to 1866-eighteen additions ; Rev. Al- bert S. Truc, May, 1867, to October, 1871-twen- ty-five additions ; Rev. N. B. Knapp, 1872-three additions by letter ; Rev. James Robertson, July, 1873, to November, 1875-nine additions, one by letter. Rev George R. Smith, the present pastor, assumed charge in May, 1876.
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