History of Onondaga County, New York, Part 88

Author: Clayton, W.W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 840

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The industrial interests of Jamesville are as fol- lows : Two carriage and repair shops by Erasmus Green and Charles Cable : one sash and blind fac- tory, by G. W. Burhans & Co .; one harness shop, by R. H. Bristoll, and two shoe shops.

Isaac K. Reed is Postmaster. Two physicians, E. E. Knapp, M. D., and R. S. Humphrey, M. D. B. S. Gregory, who has resided here for the past forty-three years, is the only attorney here. He was Justice of the Peace for eight years, and is now also engaged in the insurance business.

The name of Jamesville was adopted at the time "The Famesville Iron and Woolen Factory" was in- corporated in ISog. The name was given by the Legislature in the act of incorporation, and was first published and proclaimed in a great Fourth-of-July celebration held here in 1810. In 1809 a postoffice was established, Thomas Rose, Postmaster ; suc- ceeded by Moses I). Rose. The first school house for Jamesville was erected east of the village in 1795. Polly Hibbard was teacher, succeeded by Susan Ward. The first school in Jamesville was established in 1805.

" ST. MARKS" EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Jamesville .- As early as June 6th, 1825, meetings were held in the house of Elijah C. Rust although it was not until July 13th, 1831, that the society was organ- ized. The organization was perfected at Mr. Rust's, the following named persons being among

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the original members : John Millen, Mrs. Ives, Mrs. Dibble, Harriet Gillespie, Helen Post, Hiram P. Holbrook, John Crankshaw, Mary Ann Holbrook, Mrs. Read, Phebe Wales, Catherine Littlefield, Abigail Salmon, and others. In the following year a church was built on a corner of the road leading north to Syracuse and the Seneca Turnpike. Rev. Seth W. Beardsley was the first rector and served this parish from 1831 to 1836. He was followed by Rev. Marshall Whiting, 1836 to 1839. After this came Revs. James Selkrig, Chas. W. Hayes, Julius S. Townsend, H. H. Loring, M. L. Kern, J. L. Gay, J. E. Barr, J. H. Bowman, whose respective terms of service we are unable to give owing to lack of records. Rev. J. E. Pratt, the present rector, has been connected with the church since 1873. The present number of communicants is twenty- five.

The church building was remodeled in the sum- mer of 1874, at an expense of about $2,500. Burned, Oct. 14, 1877. Another church will in all probability be erected during 1878.

The present officers are Robert Dunlop, and Edwin A. Knapp, Wardens. J. G. Holbrook, C. W. Avery, G. B. Low, H. D. Weston, H. G. Dixon, E. C. Conklin, J. E. Van Vranken, I. K. Reed, Vestrymen.

M. E. CHURCH OF JAMESVILLE .- Most of the early records of this society have been lost, but from what we can find after diligent search, we can give the date of its organization and the names of the first Trustees only, which was in the year 1832, Hiram C. Snow and Joseph C. Green, presiding at the meeting called for that purpose, the following named persons being elected Trustees. Egbert Coleman, Moses Chapman, Abraham Van Chaick, Darius Sweet and Cornelius Cool ; all of whom it is thought are now dead. It was "resolved that the organization be known as the Fourth Society of the M. E. Church in Manlius."

The present membership is about one hundred. A flourishing Sunday School of about fifty scholars, D. E. Weston, Superintendent. A. H. Shurtliff, pastor, who supplies the M. E. Church at De Witt. The church is supplied with a cabinet organ.

The present Trustees are the following : O. M. Watkins, John S. Barker, A. A. Wright, P. B. Gove, and Albert Boughton.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF JAMESVILLE. -This church was originally known as the Union Congregational Society, and was organized in Octo- ber, 1807. Soon after this they built their first church, which was situated about one mile east of Jamesville on the farm of Daniel B. Marsh, one of. 1

the first preachers. Among the early members of this church were Deacons Ayer, Messenger, Bar- num, Levett and Hezekiah Weston. In 1827 the society began holding meetings in Jamesville, which was more centrally located, and the following year erected the house now occupied by them, un- der the pastorate of Rev. Seth J. Porter. Among the prominent members of that time were Isaac W. Brewster, David Smith, Horace B. Gates and Amos Sherwood. At this time there were two hundred and forty-seven members in the church. In December, 1843, the church voted to adopt the constitution of the Onondaga County Conference, consisting of members of the Presbyterian and Congregational order, within the bounds of the Onondaga Presbytery, and in March, 1870, the Trustees petitioning the Judge of the County, the name was changed to the First Presbyterian Church of Jamesville. In 1832 there was a secession on the part of some of the members, who organized a Dutch Reformed Church, but this society only sur- vived five or six years, when they disbanded and re- turned to the old church. The present member- ship is but forty five. The Sabbath School attend- ance, fifty. The present officials are Rev. H. C. Hazen, Pastor ; Daniel Marsh, Darius C. Avery and Benjamin S. Gregory, Trustees. The church building cost about $3,000.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL YOUNGS' SOCIETY OF DEWITT .- This society was organized in 1811, in the village of Orville, now DeWitt, under the min- istration of Rev. Dan Barnes, taking the name and title of " The Youngs' Society." The first Trus- tees were John Youngs, Sr., John Youngs, Jr., Zephaniah Lathrop, Benjamin Booth and Peter G. Van Slyke. This was then in the Pompey Circuit, of which William Case was then Presiding Elder, and the pastors were Rev. Dan Barnes and. James Kelsey. The first class consisted of the Trustees and John Russell, Freelove Russell, Eliza- beth Youngs, Seth Youngs, Jonas Scott, Mary Scott and Daniel Knapp. Immediately upon this organization they proceeded to erect their church, which stands upon the Turnpike leading to James- ville. The society was rëorganized and rëincorpo- rated in May, 1826, as the Methodist Episcopal Youngs' Society of Orville. This society continued occupying their church until 1863, when the Pres- byterian Society disbanded and gave their church building to this society in consideration of certain repairs. A special act of the Legislature was pro- cured allowing this transfer, also empowering the Youngs' Society to convey their building to the School District, since which time the Youngs'

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Church has been used as a school house. The society at an expense of $1,200, repaired the old Presbyterian Church, which the society still occupy. The present membership is fifty. Sabbath School attendance seventy-five. The present Trustees are Emerson Kinne, James Moulter, D. C. Peck, I'm. Adams and G. C. Ferris. Rev. Shurtliff is pastor of this and Jamesville charge

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH of Collamer. - Meetings were held in what was known as the Britton Settlement school house, where, in Oct. 1842, the church was organized with a membership of seventeen, among whom were John Furbeck, Sarah Baker, Deboran Furbeck, Prudence Smith and the present elders, Porter Baker, Samuel Baker, John Powlesland, and Orlando Spencer ; also Deacons Dwight Baker and Andrew Fuller. In 1843 the present church edifice was erected at a cost of $600. The organization was effected under the pastorate of Rev Amos W. Seeley who was succeeded by Rev. A. C. Lathrop who remained three years. followed by Rev. B. Ladid, after whom came Rev. Marcus Smith who labored here for twelve years, then Rev. J. M. Chrysler was called and remained five years ; since then the present pastor, John M. Perkins. The present membership is seventy. Sab- bath school attendance fifty.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, of East Syracuse .- This, the youngest church in the county, was organ- ized in 1876, by Rev. J. M. Chrysler, who came as a missionary preacher and by his energy succeeded in organizing a society and erecting a commodious church on the corner of Carpenter and Ellis streets. The society was organized, January 27, 1876, with twenty members-the most active of whom were Mr. and Mrs. John Jones, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Henry, Mr. and Mrs. E S. Walker and Evan J Crans. There have been 17 accessions since the organization and the flourishing Sabbath School of seventy members is a strong auxiliary. Rev. J. M. Chrysler still continues in charge and secures the hearty cooperation of his people.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, of Collamer. - This was the first charge of the North Manlius Circuit and in 1828, when it was organized, was so designated. In 1830 the society erected their church at what is now Collamer Village then known as the Britton Settlement, under the pastorate of Rev. Austin Briggs. There were then nine trustees who were, the pastor, Adam Harrower, Isaac Carhart, Walter Wright, James Wright, Erastus B. Perkins, John Rowe and Abraham Delamater, all members of the first class which was organized several years

prior to this time under the ministration of Rev. Seth Youngs.

About 1841, when the Rev. A. E. Munson came to this charge, he found the society in a condi- tion that required a reorganization and through his efforts the society was reincorporated as the First M. E. Church of the northern part of De Witt. The church has been several times repaired and in 1857 it was rededicated as the first M. E. Church of Collamer. It cost about $2,500. The present membership is 112 ; Sabbath school 137. Present pastor, Rev. M. A. Wolcott.

FLOURING MILLS -Lanark Mills were erected in 1823, by Robert Richardson, about 1-2 mile north of Jamesville. They contain four run of stones grind- ing about 30,000 bushels of grain, merchant and cus- tom, annually. They are run by P. B. Gove & Son, and owned by Robert Dunlop. Cost about $15,000. Frame building, water-power.

FEEDER OR NEW YORK MILLS. - Built by Robert Dunlop in 1847, at a cost of $10,000. Frame building, stone basement, situated at the head of the canal feeder, contain three run of stones, leased by James Doe who grinds about 12,000 bushels of custom and merchant grain per annum.

BARLEY MILLS were erected on Butternut Creek about one mile north of Jamesville in 1840, frame building with stone basement. Contains three run of stone for pearling barley. Capacity about 10,000 bushels per annum, run mostly by lessees. These mills cost about $7. 500. In connection with these there is a Mully Saw Mill, the only one in the town.

DUNLOP'S PLASTER AND CEMENT MILLS. - There are two located near the Lanark mills, one erected in 1836, the other in 1868, owned and worked by Robert Dunlop. From these mills he manufactures about 1,000 tons of plaster and 30,- 000 bushels of cement or water-lime, employing about twenty men. The stone is taken from his quarries in the adjacent hills.

A. F. WILCOX'S PLASTER BEDS .- In 1812 Asahel Wilcox discovered a bed of gypsum two miles west of Fayetteville which he opened and which has been worked ever since by himself and the present proprietor, A. F. Wilcox. From these beds, which cover an area of about eighty acres, Mr. Wilcox takes from 8,coo to 15,000 tons of gypsum annually, which he ships to parties owning mills. Most of it is shipped from Jones's landing by Canal. During the winter season he employs from twenty to thirty teams and hands hauling it to the docks for summer shipment.

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RESIDENCE OF VLIET CARPENTER. COLLAMER, N Y.

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E. B. ALVORD & Co .- This firm is doing the most extensive business in cement, plaster, lime and stone done in the town. They began in 1868, pur- chasing the business of Hotaling & Co. Their quarry for cement and lime is situated about one mile south of Jamesville and covers twenty acres. In this quarry are eight kilns for burning the stone, from these kilns they take 125,000 bushels of quick- lime and about the same of cement, which, with the plaster, is ground in their mill in Jamesville. The plaster comes from a quarry north of the village. They employ about twenty-five men ; shipping 2,000 tons of plaster annually as well as a large quantity of cut stone for building and bridges. Capital, $50,000.

DUNLOP'S LIME KILNS .- Just north of the village of Jamesville are three large kilns seven feet in diameter and forty feet deep, erected and worked by Robert Dunlop, from which he manufactures about 30,000 bushels of quick lime and 30,000 bushels of hydraulic cement annually.

DE WITT CENTER.

This village, though rather small, is quite im- portant as a place for shipping grain by the canal and as a station of the Chenango Valley Railroad. In IS71 a postoffice was located here and Mr. Stephen Headson appointed Postmaster. He also engaged in general mercantile business buying grain and produce, and in 1870 erected a substantial brick business block and warehouse, in which he does a business of $65,000 per annum.

DEWITT MILLS .- In 1821, Mr. William M. King erected a grist, plaster and cement mill upon the present site of the DeWitt Mills, about one and a half miles north of Jamesville, on Butternut Creek. In 1869, A. B. King became sole pro- prietor, and rebuilt the mill which now represents a cost of about $10,000. This mill furnished considerable water-lime used in the construction of the locks and masonry of the Erie Canal and was among the first cement mills erected.

EAST SYRACUSE.

In October, IS72, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company purchased one hundred and fifty acres of land in Lots 42 and 43 for freight-yards, round-houses and shops, and established a half-way station between Roches- ter and Albany. Since then a very fine village of about three hundred houses, several hotels, four stores, a market and one church have sprung up as if by magic, and are growing very rapidly. The

railroad company have erected two substantial brick round-houses with room for forty-four locomotives, with turn-tables, shops, &c ; have laid twenty-six miles of track in the yard, erected extensive coal houses and chutes, and have graded and prepared the site for the building of extensive shops. This promises to become a very important and populous village, the surroundings being so favorable as to make it a very desirable place to live in, and already many engineers and trainmen are building them- selves homes and bringing their families from Rochester and Albany.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

RUFUS R. KINNE.

Zebulon Kinne, the fifth son in the family of Cyrus Kinne, and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Voluntown, Connecticut, June 12, 17So. When twelve years of age he removed with his father's family to Fayetteville, Onondaga County, N. Y. In 1814 he married Lucy Mark- ham, of the town of LaFayette, by whom he had eight children ; four boys and four girls, six of whom are now living. In 1815, he purchased a farm in Manlius, now DeWitt, in East Syracuse, where he resided until his death.

Rufus R. Kinne was born March 28, 1821, on the old homestead where he now resides, a view of which, together with the portraits of himself, father and mother, may be seen elsewhere in this work. Rufus R. spent his youth on his father's farm, and was educated in the common schools of Manlius and the Syracuse Academy, at Syracuse. On July 25, 1860, he was united in marriage with Miss Julia E. Clark, of Syracuse. By this union were born two children, viz .: L. Bell, born February 26, 1867, and Nelson C., who died in the second year of his age.

Mr. Kinne is a Democrat in politics, but has never been an aspirant for office. He has led an active business life, and is entitled to the respect and esteem in which he is held by all who know him.

VLIET CARPENTER

Was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., July 2, 1801. He is the tenth in the family of twelve children, of Nehemiah and Ann [Bookhout] Car- penter, of whom none except Vliet are now living.

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His father, Nehemiah, was born in Queens County, N. Y., June 29, 1757. He left Queens County with Washington's army during the Revo- lutionary war, and settled in Dutchess County, on a farm of 100 acres. In the spring of 1816, he sold his farm and removed to Onondaga County. town of Manlius, and purchased 420 acres of wild timbered land.

With the assistance of his boys he cleared his farm. Here hè resided until his death.

Vliet spent his youth on his father's farm, His education was limited to the common schools of Dutchess and Onondaga Counties, supplemented by two terms at the Academy. He taught school for four terms, and summers worked for his father on the farm.

On September 27, 1826, he was united in mar- riage with Miss Emily A. Wilcox, daughter of John and Amelia Wilcox, of Pompey, Onondaga County. By this union three children were born to them, viz .: Nehemiah, born September 3, 1828 ; died August 27, 1845 : Ann Amelia, born June 15, 1833, married Paul Fay, of Cicero) ; died February 13. 1869 ; Juliette, born January 27, 1836 ; died November 22, 1841. Mrs. Carpenter died March S, 1851, and on March 24, 1852, he married Mary J. Morley, daughter of Abraham Northrup, of Pompey ; no children by this union.

After his first marriage he remained on the homestead farm until after the death of his father, when he became owner of i4t acres, which he cul- tivated until 1874, when he sold out and moved to Collamer, where he now resides. A view of his residence and portrait of his wives may be seen elsewhere in this work.

In politics he was originally a Whig, but upon the formation of the Republican party joined its ranks. Although he never sought office, yet he has filled most of the minor positions in his town. Both he and his estimable wife are consistent members of the Congregational Church, he having been a mem- ber for about sixty years ; has been Deacon of the church for a number of years. He has also been an earnest worker in the Sabbath School for over fifty years as teacher and superintendent.

Mr. Carpenter, by a long and active life, has shown himself a man of character and a useful member of society, and at the ripe age of seventy-seven is still hale and vigorous.

DAIRY FARM OF W. C. BRAYTON.

About three and a half miles east of Syracuse lies the dairy farm of W. C. Brayton. It contains

about two hundred acres, and was formerly known as the " Orchard Hill Farm," because a portion of it lies on a gentle elevation, and was years ago covered with an old-fashioned apple orchard of natural fruit, some of the trees of which are still standing and bearing When Mr Brayton moved on to the farm, eight years since, portions of it were covered with boulders, which occupied the soul and rendered tillage difficult and laborious, and other portions were pronounced nearly worthless because of their swampy character. But he had faith in underdraining and the good sense to see that the use of the surface occupied by the boulders would pay for their removal Little is now found to obstruct the free passage of the plow, and the swamps and swales have disappeared. The yield of the crops has correspondingly increased with the improvements in the appearance of the sur- tacc.

Ilis specialty is the production of milk for the market. In the management of his herd, and the husbanding of manures, coupled with his quick perceptions and good judgment, will be found the secret of his not only keeping up, but increasing the fertility of his farm. His dairy numbers fifty cows, and he keeps, in addition, the necessary young stock from which to replenish and improve his herd. His cows are mostly crosses of the Dutch Belted breed.

Some idea of the luxuriance of his grass crop may be inferred from the fact that he has summered fifty cows, on thirty-five acres of grass, and four of sowed corn, with the addition daily of two pounds of shorts to cach cow. As he is producing milk for market, of course he must have a flow of milk the year round. But he avoids having the cows come in during the hot months. His average yield per cow is eight quarts daily during the milk- ing period. It is all delivered at the rooms of the Onondaga County Milk Association, which supplies the city of Syracuse with a large portion of the milk used by its inhabitants.

The larger of his two datry barns runs east and west, and stands facing the south and the road. It is one hundred and fifty feet long by forty feet wide. Two rows of stanchions, one hundred feet long, running along both sides of the west end, accom- modate fifty-two cows. They stand facing a center alley about fifteen feet wide.

In the stable two iron rails runs the whole length of the alley between the stanchions. On these rails the feed-car passes along the center of the alley and from it the food is shoveled to the cows on cach side.

DAVID S. MILLER.

Photos. by W. V. Ranger, Syracuse.

MRS. DAVID S. MILLER.

DAVID S. MILLER.

David S. Miller was born in Ulster county, April 24, 1796, and was a son of Samuel and Helena (Schoonmaker) Miller. His father was for many years a sailor on the ocean and the North river, and then settled on a farm. David remained with his father on the farm for several years. When a young man he removed to Schoharie county, where his father worked a farm three years, and then removed to the town of De Witt, near Messina Springs, where he purchased a farm. In the year 1841 he bought his farm of one hundred acres of timbered land, built upon it a log house, and cleared it up with his own hands.

After a few years David purchased an aere of land near Merrill's mill, and erected upon it a hotel, which he kept for nine years. At the end of this time he sold out and moved

baek to his farm. On Sept. 20, 1818, he married Leah, daughter of Peter and Anna Miller, of Ulster county. She died March 3, 1875, aged seventy-four years. The result of this union was eleven children, namely,-John, Clark S., Anna, Elizabeth, Henry J., Alvina, Mary J., Chandler S., Matilda, Esther, and Edward F., of whom five are deceased.

Although Mr. Miller never sought office, yet he has been often honored with the most prominent offices in his town. For about forty-one years he and his wife have been members of the Disciples church, and he has been deacon for several years. He is now in his eighty-second year, with his mind as elear as in the days of his youth. His path down to the grave is being strewn with the beautiful flowers of filial love and veneration.

FL. BRIDGE KINAH

EMERSON KINNE.

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Photos by W. V.' Ranger, Symenno.

ZEBULON KINNE.

RUFUS R. KINNE.

MRS. ZEBULON KINNE.

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RESIDENCE OF RUFUS R. KINNE, EAST SYRACUSE, ONONDAGA CO., N Y.

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THE KINNE FAMILY.

There are few examples more heroic than that of the pioneer who resolutely bids farewell to his friends and kindred, and to the comforts and enjoyments of a civilized home, to boldly face the stern realities of frontier life. It is, indeed, a pleasing task for the biographer to record his hardships and triumphs, and to make honorable mention of his descendants.

CYRUS KINNE, the progenitor of the Kinne fami- ly of this county, was born in Voluntown, Wind- ham County, Connecticut, on the 11th of August, 1746, and grew up under the chaste Puritanic in- fluences of a New England home, a young man of excellent habits, which clung to him through life. In the year 1779, having married Miss Comfort Palmer, he moved to Petersburg, Rensselaer Coun- ty, N. Y. In the city of Troy, in 1791, at a public sale of State lands, now lying in the County of On- ondaga, he bid off some of the "survey fifties." His first visit to his lands was on horseback by In- dian trails west of Oneida. He was so well pleased with the general appearance of this section of the State, that he immediately bought considerable land adjoining his first purchase. In the month of March, 1792, having disposed of his property at Petersburg, he started with an ox-team, and one horse before a sled, with his four oldest boys, viz : Ezra, Zachariah, Prentice and Ethel for a permanent residence upon his lands.

He experienced great difficulties on his journey, particularly west of Oneida, where he was obliged to cut roads through the dense forests, and cross the streams on fallen trees. About the first of April, he arrived at where Fayetteville now is, and settled on some of the land which he had bought. In the following month of June, he returned to Petersburg, to bring to his wilderness home the re- mainder of his family. His lands were soon cleared and brought under cultivation. At that time Albany was the nearest market for his surplus products. He gave to each one of his sons, when they mar- ried, 100 acres of land, lying in Manlius and adja- cent towns. Being a blacksmith as well as a farmer, he did the first blacksmithing in the town of Man- lius ; and as Justice of the Peace, married the first couple. Perhaps no man was more prominently identified with the early growth and development of the town of Manlius than he. Kind, generous, and humane, he proved one of the most valuable of neighbors and the staunchest of friends. His ten sons and two daughters, viz : Ezra, Zachariah, Pren- tice, Ethel, Zebulon, Moses, Joshua, Cyrus, Japhet, Palmer, Rachel and Comfort, reared 84 children who

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History of Onondaga County, New York, Part 88

Author: Clayton, W.W. (W. Woodford) Publication date: 1878 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & Co. Number of Pages: 840

Author: Clayton, W.W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 840