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The first blacksmith was Seth W. Burke, who established himself in that business at Phoenix, in 1828.
The first school-house was erected in 1827, and stood on Main street, a little south of Dr. Smith's office. The first teacher in it was Elvira Knapp, afterwards the wife of Thomas R. Hawley, who died in March, 1856.
The first bridge across the river at Phoenix was built in 1836, by a company, and was a toll-bridge. The present bridge was built by the counties of Onondaga and Oswego. It is a fine iron structure, supported by stone piers.
The first birth was that of Jane, daughter of Aaron Paddoek, in 1820.
The first marriage was that of James Miles, and Miriam, daughter of Aaron Paddoek, in 1824.
The first death was that of Abram Paddock, in 1821.
THE OSWEGO CANAL.
The construction of the canal through the place, in December, 1828, gave an impetus to its growth and pros- perity long felt by the community. Some years subsequent boat-building was quite extensively carried on at the village, which about 1850 had assumed large and interesting pro- portions. In fact, the most prosperous epoch in the history of Phoenix was included in the period embraced between the years 1850 and 1873. In the latter year the general financial depression of the country began to be felt in boat- building circles, and the business commenced to decline, until, from four large establishments, employing an aggre- gate of over one hundred hands, not one of them is now in existence. The depreciation in freight tariffs, and the consequent inability of boatmen to meet their financial obligations, caused a general suspension of ship-building at this point, and a corresponding depression in business. A good dry-dock, owned by J. S. Pierce, is in operation, and a fair share of the boat-repairing of the eanal is done by him.
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INCORPORATION.
Phoenix received corporate honors in 1848, the first election for village officers having been held in March of that year. We are unable to give the proceedings of the first election, as the records were destroyed by fire. The presidents and clerks of the village since 1863 (the date of the earliest record now in existence) have been as follows :
Presidents .- Wm. Waite, Adonirum Hart, Hiram Fox, Saml. Avery, Rufus Diefendorf (two years), Niles Streever, Henry H. Smith, Rufus Diefendorf, Niles Streever, J. E. Hamill, E. J. Vickery, John E. Hamill, Martin Wandell, John E. Hamill.
Clerks .- William H. Shumway (two years), M. M. Cartter, H. W. Weeden, Henry A. Brainard, L. F. Ben- nett (two years), F. T. Gilbert, Bonville Fuller, W. H. H. Allen, F. T. Gilbert, C. W. Avery, R. G. Barnes, W. H. H. Allen, Adel P. Hart.
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.
In the past, ship-building constituted the principal in- dustry of Phoenix. No extensive manufacturing establish- ments have existed in the place, notwithstanding the fact that it possesses one of the best water-powers on the Oswego river.
Among the establishments that have been successfully operated for the past fifty-eight years is the grist-mill, which, before its destruction by fire in 1867, was known as the " old red mill." It was erected by Seth W. Burke, for Alexander Phoenix, whose agent he was, in 1829-30. It was conducted on a small scale by the original propri- etor until 1835, when it was purchased by Hezekiah Barnes. The proprietors since that date, with the time of their possession (or part possession, for it was pretty much divided up at times), have been as follows : Job C. Conger, November 14, 1837 ; Wm. Conger, one-half interest, in 1841; Rensselaer Northrup, one-quarter interest, in 1843; Solomon Judd, same portion, same year; Oliver Breed, half interest, in 1853; Joseph Breed, one-third, in 1856; William Sprague, same, in 1858. Joseph G. Glass pur- chased Sprague's interest, in 1860; Edwin P. Hopkins J. Breed's interest, in 1863; Charles J. Glass Hopkins' in- terest, in 1867. The present style of the firm is Breed, Glass & Co. In the fall of 1867 the mill was burnt, and rebuilt immediately and commenced operations in 1860. It has five run of stones, and Johnson's reacting cast-iron wheels. The business from May 1, 1876, to May 1, 1877, was as follows : merchant, twenty-one thousand barrels ; custom, ten thousand bushels.
The grist-mill of Amasa P. Hart & Co. was erected by Pliny F. Conger in 1858. Immediately after its com- pletion E. Merry entered into partnership, and subsequently G. G. Breed purchased an interest in it. The mill was operated by the above firm until 1866, when it was sold to H. Wetherbee & Co., and the following year was destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt and the business conducted by H. W. & Co. until July, 1876, when they made an assign- ment, and Captain Amasa P. Hart rented the property of the assignee, under the style of A. P. Hart & Co. The business transacted for the year ending July 31, 1877, was
as follows : merchant, thirteen thousand barrels; custom, five thousand bushels.
OSWEGO RIVER CHEESE-FACTORY was erected by Ira Gould in 1863, and operated by him until 1868, when it passed into the possession of Hart & Carrier, by whom it was conducted until the spring of 1875. In the latter year Kimball & Martin, its present proprietors, purchased the concern. In 1877 they manufactured one hundred and thirty thousand pounds of cheese, valued at thirteen thou- sand two hundred dollars. This factory has a total of six hundred cows.
A. W. SWEET & Co., proprietors of the Phoenix Coffin and Casket works, which were established by A. W. Sweet, in 1868. In 1872 G. M. Sweet was admitted as a partner, and the title of the firm changed as at present. The company manufacture the best class of cloth-covered burial cases, coffins and caskets, which find a ready market in various parts of the State. They employ from fifteen to twenty hands, and have quite an extensive demand for their goods.
THE PHOENIX BANK was incorporated under the State banking law in 1869, by E. G. Hutchinson, Samuel Avery, M. T. Butts, Joseph Gilbert, Edmund Merry, H. T. Sweet, Moses Wood, Amasa P. Hart, G. G. Breed, S. A. Howard, E. C. Fitzgerald, Calvin Yeoman, Davis Conger, H. H. Smith, J. H. Loomis, E. Chesebro, J. H. I. Diefendorf, R. A. Prichard, R. Diefendorf, Adonirum Hart, Moses Melvin, E. S. Brooks, J. S. Pierce, Edson J. Vickery, J. L. Breed, N. P. Eno, Saml. Merry, M. Chesebro, Levi Carrier, S. M. Parsons, Ira Betts, and Samuel Flynn. The first officers were Samuel Avery, president; E. G. Hutchinson, vice- president ; E. Merry, cashier. These have continued the same except the president, who was succeeded by G. G. Breed. The paid-in capital of the bank is one hundred thousand dollars ; surplus, five thousand dollars ; individual deposits, seventy-one thousand dollars.
The business interests of Phoenix are represented by five general-, two grocery-, two hardware-, and two drug-storcs, one clothing-, one gents' furnishing goods-, and three milli- nery-stores, one furniture establishment, one bakery, two meat-markets, one tin-shop, three hotels, and two livery- stables. It has two grist-mills and one saw-mill, one coffin- and one cheese-factory, three blacksmith- and two carriage- and wagon-shops. There are in the place three churches, denominationally classified as Congregational, Methodist Episcopal, and Baptist; also an organized society of the Protestant Episcopal church, a union school, with which is' connected a free academical department, a weekly news- paper, published by J. M. Williams, and a State bank. It has a post-office, and a private telegraph-office connecting with the main lines at Lamson's station on the Oswego and Syracuse branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, which is distant from Phoenix about three and one- half miles. A stage also connects with all trains on that railroad. The village is situated on the Oswego canal, and has a steamboat, which makes daily trips to Syracuse. The location of Phoenix is admirably suitable to, and convenient for, manufacturing purposes, and as soon as proper railway communication can be secured the prosperity of the place as a manufacturing centre, a retiring locality, and a popu- lous village will be assured.
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PHOENIX FREE-SCHOOL DISTRICT.
By aet of legislature passed April 19, 1865, the territory at that time known as school district No. 12, of the town of Schroeppel, and all territory at that time ineluded in the village of Phoenix, and which should be thereafter added to said village, was organized as a free-school district, under the name of the Phoenix free-school district, and power was by that aet granted to establish an academie depart- ment. A board of education was by that act constituted, consisting of six trustees. E. S. Brooks, Alfred Morton, J. N. Gillis, Edmund Merry, M. S. Cushman, and Gover- neur M. Sweet, with M. M. Carter as clerk, comprised the first board. Wm. B. Howard was the first principal of the school under this organization, and served as such until April, 1868. He was succeeded by B. F. Stanley, who taught only one term. Mr. B. G. Clapp, the present prin- cipal of the school, was first employed in the fall term of 1868, and, with the exception of a full term as school com- missioner, has since that time occupied the position of prin- cipal. While Professor Clapp was school commissioner W. B. Howard served as principal. Carrie V. Hawthorn, Jane MeKoon, Hattie J. Crane, Belle W. Taylor, Ella Richardson, Ella Warner, Mary Miller, Carrie Byington, Mary Cook, Gertie Conger, and Maggie Murphy are some of the lady teachers who have served longest as such. Samuel C. Putnam was the first librarian, and since his death his widow has served in that capacity. Wm. Turner has been janitor since the organization of the district. M. M. Carter, J. H. Loomis, and Henry A. Brainard have been clerks of the board of education, Mr. Brainard serving ten years, from 1867 to 1877, when he was succeeded by Mr. Carter. The academie department was organized and ac- cepted by the regents November 23, 1875, and is now in very successful operation.
The school building is a substantial one, of brick, three stories in height, standing in an elevated portion of the village. The school-grounds consist of about two aeres, neatly inclosed, finely shaded, and pleasant. The rooms are warmed by two hot-air furnaces, situated in the base- ment. The school and academy library together have about six hundred and fifty volumes, about half of which have been recently added. The academic department has a good philosophical apparatus, of modern construction, and stu- dents are prepared for college or advanced in special lines of education. Much credit is due to Professor Clapp, under whose direction every department has been thoroughly graded and arranged. The usual attendance during winter is about four hundred pupils.
The present board of education consists of J. E. Hamill, president ; C. W. Avery, G. G. Breed, A. R. Sweet, E. G. Hutchinson, and F. David ; M. M. Cartter, clerk.
The attendance of students from abroad in the academic department is continually increasing ; tuition is cheaper than usual in the academies, and its graduates stand higher than usual in the colleges and universities to which they pass.
ATTORNEYS.
Henry W. Weeden was admitted to the bar in April, 1853, and immediately afterwards opened an office in 22
Phoenix, where he has continued to practice till the present time.
Franeis David was admitted to the bar February 7, 1854, and came to Phoenix in autumn of the same year.
Lorenzo W. Robinson was admitted to the bar in 1861, since which time he has practiced at Parish for a short time, and at Phoenix, where he now resides. He makes a specialty of pension and bounty claims.
Charles W. Avery was admitted to the bar in 1859, and located at Central Square, New York, where he enjoyed an extensive practice for ten years. Coming to Phoenix in 1869, he has since that time been in practice here. Mr. Avery has been admitted to practice in the United States courts. He is an ardent advocate of public education, and for several years has been a member of the board of educa- tion of the Phoenix academy, for several years serving as president.
Henry A. Brainard began the study of law in the office of David & MeKoon, in Phoenix. IIe enlisted in the army in 1864, and served till the elose of the war, was admitted to the bar in April, 1866, and has been in constant practice of his profession, to which he unites that of engineer and surveyor, just for the love of it, since that time. Mr. Brainard is at the present time special county judge of Oswego County.
James R. Shea studied law in the office of C. W. Avery, Esq., and was admitted in June, 1877. IIe has opened an office in Phoenix.
PHYSICIANS.
Joseph R. Brown* came to Phoenix in 1834, and left in 1848.
Otis W. Randall* came in 1837, practiced several years, and then removed to Utiea.
Ransom Howard* settled at Gilbert's Mills, in 1838, where he practiced several years.
Nathan Williams* came to Phoenix in 1841, and in 1847 removed to Michigan.
Davis Conger began to practice in Phoenix in 1841, and after several years at his profession he, in company with Dr. C. M. Lee, opened the first drug-store in the place, in which business he still continues.
Those coming into the village and town since 1840 have been M. M. Cartter, Samnel Avery, William B. Coy, Andrew P. and John Hamill, John E. Hamill, T. D. Whyborn, William H. Rice, G. H. Whitcomb, and Garrett Smith, Homoeopathist.
THE PHOENIX UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Not strictly an Oswego County institution, yet so large a portion of its territory and so many of its members being of this county, it finds properly a place among the public societies of the town of Sehroeppel.
It was organized February 6, 1873. At the first elee- tion E. N. Carrier was elected president of the society, Joseph Somers, of Clay, and David Sutfin, of Lysander, vice-presidents ; Henry A. Brainard, secretary ; William II. Allen, corresponding secretary ; E. Merry, treasurer. The territory of the society comprises the town of Schroep-
ยท Deceased.
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pel, and also the towns of Clay and Lysander, in Onondaga county. Persons residing in the counties of Oswego or Onondaga may compete for premiums. The grounds of the society are known as " The Pendergast Driving Park," of which the society has a lease, and are situated just across the river from the village of Phoenix. The first fair was held in 1873, and the society has held an annual exhibition since that time, all of which have been very successful as exhibitions of stock, agricultural products, and largely at- tended. They have erected a commodious building on their grounds, and the premiums paid since its organization amount in the aggregate to nearly five thousand dollars. Mr. David Sutfin, of Lysander, is now president, and bas held the office almost from the organization of the society, Mr. Carrier having resigned early in 1873. Henry A. Brainard is secretary and E. Merry treasurer, both of whom have held the office since the organization of the society. The business office of the society is located at Phoenix.
THE PHOENIX RURAL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
was organized April 27, 1863, by the election of the fol- lowing trustees and officers : M. S. Cushman, president ; D. D. McKoon, sceretary ; Oliver Breed, C. W. Candee, William Leslie, G. G. Breed, Amasa P. Hart, Edmund Merry, M. S. Cushman, G. M. Sweet, Davis Conger, William Hart, D. D. McKoon, and Samuel Avery, trustees. The present trustees and officers are: G. C. Fitzgerald, president ; Amasa P. Hart, vice-president ; Edmund Merry, secretary ; Davis Conger, treasurer ; A. N. Hart, G. M. Sweet, Oliver Breed, Samuel Flynn, G. G. Breed, Henry J. Sweet, C. W. Candee, and Jonathan Butts, trustees. The burying-ground of the association is kept in a neat and tasty condition ; and the remains of many of the most prominent and influential citizens of the village and vicinity are interred therein.
ENTERPRISE FIRE COMPANY, NO. 1,
was organized in January, 1852. The first chief was Thomas Freeborn ; Fireman, T. J. Davis; First Assistant, O. H. Smith; Second Assistant, E. Conger ; Secretary, Jerome Duke.
EAGLE HOSE
was organized in 1867 with six men, who were set off from the original fire company. J. Goodwin was chosen fore- man, and J. C. Spaulding assistant. It was afterwards united with the Enterprise fire company, and the two now form one department, with the following officers : Chief, C. W. Tubbs; Assistant Chief, George D. Henderson ; Fore- man of Engine, A. Hopkins; First Assistant, C. E. Williams; Second Assistant, A. Chambo; Foreman of Hose, N. G. Spaulding; Assistant, William O. Dingman ; Secretary of the Department, John A. Spaulding; Treas- urer, Adel. P. Hart ; number of members, twenty-six.
The secret and benevolent socicties of the town are as follows, arranged according to date of institution :
GOLDEN RULE LODGE, No. 17, I. O. O. F., was in- stituted August 15, 1846, and the first officers were O. W. Randle, N. G. ; D. D. Bachelor, V. G .; Dudley Fish, Quar.
Sec. ; Edward Baxter, Per. Sec .; William Conger, Treas. The officers elected for 1877 are Albert Hopkins, N. G .; John Dada, V. G .; Wm. Dixon, Sec .; Adel P. Hart, Per. Sec .; L. D. Haynes, Treas. Present number of members, eighty-two.
LODGE No. 369, F. A. M., was instituted June 30, 1855, with the following officers : A. B. Simons, W. M .; J. C. Fuller, S. W .; Ira Betts, J. W .; Samuel Allen, Sec .; H. B. Russ, Treas. The present officers are C. W. Tubbs, W. M .; H. A. Brainard, S. W .; J. R. Shea, J. W .; M. M. Cartter, Sec. ; Wm. Patrick, Treas. Membership, one hundred and twenty.
OSWEGO RIVER CHAPTER, No. 270, R. A. M., organ- ized under a dispensation November 14, 1873. The officers installed February 27, 1874, were W. B. Howard, H. P .; Ira Betts, K .; D. P. Stafford, S .; G. C. Withers, C. of H .; J. L. Breed, P. S .; S. B. Betts, R. A. C .; Moses Melvin, M. of Third V .; Nathan Perry, M. of Second V .; O. C. Breed, M. of First V .; J. C. Hutchinson, Sec .; S. O. Howard, Treas .; E. F. Richardson, Tyler. The present officers are Wm. H. Rice, H. P .; B. G. Clapp, K .; J. C. Ilutchinson, S .; Will Smith, C. of H .; J. L. Breed, P.S .; Jud. W. Loomis, R. A. C .; Moses Melvin, M. of Third V .; Maynard Spencer, M. of Second V .; W. H. H. Allen, M. of First V .; H. C. Breed, Sec .; Wm. Patrick, Treas.
THE PHOENIX ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE was organized in December, 1876, for the purpose of theoretical and practical advancement of scientific research. It has a chemical laboratory and some other scientific apparatus, maintains a regular weekly course of lectures at its own rooms, with occasional public lectures. Certain qualifi- cations are required of its members, all of whom have thus far been enthusiastic in its support and welfare, Professor B. G. Clapp is president ; Dr. G. H. Whitcomb, vice-president ; and Charles F. Loomis, secretary,-though being now absent the duties of the office are performed by H. A. Brainard, Esq., pro tem.
GILBERT'S MILLS
was first settled by Archibald Cook in 1818, who was fol- lowed by Andrus and Hiram Gilbert in 1819, and by Samuel Merry, Esq., in 1822. Among other early settlers in the vicinity of the place were Hymen Sutton, Patten Parker, Josiah Chaffee, Deacon G. W. Turner, Stephen Griffith, Ezekiel Gardner, and one Mr. Brownell.
Andrus and Hiram Gilbert built their grist-mill, in 1819, on a stream that passes through the place, commonly known as the north branch of Six-Mile creek. Here, also, Andrus Gilbert erected the first store in the township, in 1821. Samuel Merry, Esq., became a partner of Mr. Gilbert's in 1822. It was destroyed by fire in 1848. The Gilberts carted their lumber from Oliver Burdick's mill, which stood one mile east of Oswego falls. A few years later they erected the saw-mill, which had two upright saws, and was one of the most extensive in this part of the county at that time.
The village now contains one general store, a black- smith-shop, saw- and grist-mills, three churches,-one
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MRS. ANDRUS GILBERT.
ANDRUS GILBERT
MRS. STEPHEN GRIFFITH .
STEPHEN GRIFFITH
E. L. JENNINGS
J. M. WILLIAMS.
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each of the Methodist and Episcopal, and one Baptist. One remarkable feature about the place is that no intoxi- cating liquors have been sold there since 1831. It is a post-village, of which Andrus Gilbert was the first post- master. The present incumbent is S. P. Mason.
Quite a furor was experienced in the place by the dis- covery of and drilling for salt, in 1864. A well was drilled three hundred and forty feet, and pure lime was found which contained ten and one-half per cent. of good salt. Six kettles were put in an arch, in which more or less salt was made. The business was conducted by Captain E. S. Cook.
ANDRUS GILBERT.
As the founder of the village of Gilbert's Mills, it is right and proper that Mr. Gilbert should have more than a passing notice in the pages of this history. Andrus Gil- bert was born in Oneida county, New York, August 30, 1799. He continued his residence there until 1819, when he removed to the town of Schroeppel (then Volney), and settled on the present site of the village that bears his name. He began life without capital, but he possessed good health, energy, industry, and ambition, the practical application of which qualities secured to him a reasonable success. The country was new, neighbors scarce, and the land heavily timbered. On his way to his new home he had to camp out one night in the eight-mile woods, not being able to get through before night-fall came upon him. After making preparations for a settlement he returned to Utica, where he married Sarah S., daughter of Captain George Macomber, one of the earliest pioneers of Utica. They have had eleven children, of whom seven survive. Three of these-two sons and a daughter, the latter the wife of Charles B. Allen-reside in Warrensburg, Mis- souri ; Mary, wife of Judge D. D. McKoon, lives in New York city; Ellen is the wife of G. Fred. Savage, of San- quoit, Oneida county ; Morris D. resides with his parents.
Mr. Gilbert was for a quarter of a century engaged in the mercantile business, and in the manufacture of pot and pearl ashes for twenty years, and made more of these arti- cles than any other man in the county. While keeping store he was also interested in the milling business.
In 1847 he moved on to the farm he now occupies, which contains one hundred and sixty acres. For twelve years he held the office of justice of the peace, and that of super- visor one year, and was postmaster for sixteen years. In politics he is Republican, and long before the war was a strong abolitionist. Has also been a firm and uncompro- mising advocate of temperance, at the risk of pecuniary and other considerations. At one time he was read out of church for refusing to support a pro-slavery minister, but the resolution favoring his expulsion was subsequently re- scinded. For fifty-eight years he has been a member of the Presbyterian church. His life has been a busy and useful one, and his business career has been characterized by the strictest probity. His generosity and liberality have been the most salient traits of his life, and no man has taken a livelier interest in the general public good than he. His earnest zeal in the promotion of the best interests of his township has gained for him a host of friends, and no man enjoys to a greater extent the respect and esteem of the
community at large. Undue laudation would meet with his disapproval we know, and as a residence of nearly sixty years has made his name and virtues as " familiar as a household word," a lengthy tribate to his praise is unneces- sary. Portraits of himself and wife are inserted in this work, at the solicitation of his numerous friends.
HIINMANSVILLE,
formerly Six-Mile Creek, was first settled by John F. Withey, in 1821. He emigrated from Vermont, and built a log house near the east end of the bridge. The Oswego canal (completed in 1828) runs through the place. Ben- jamin F. Sweet erected the first frame house, which stood between the canal and the river, in 1827. About this time John E. Hinman, whose wife was one of the heirs of the Schroeppel estate, caused buildings to be erected ostensibly for the purpose of establishing a village there. A spring or run of water came out of the high bank at the head of Horse-Shoe Rifts, called by the Indiaus Te-tung-sat-a-yagh, signifying a deep spring, supposed to be a subterranean water-course caused by a short bend in the river, a half-mile above, known as Fiddler's Elbow. It has disappeared since the construction of the canal. Hinmansville received its name from John E. Hinman, of Utica, New York, whose wife was the proprietress of the place, who caused a church to be erected there, and also contributed to the erection and support of a school-house, both of which, since he has re- tired, have disappeared. At present the school-house is on the west side of the river. There are now one general store, one grocery, a blacksmith-shop, a shoe-shop, and one tavern. It is quite a harbor for boats. Its population is estimated at two hundred and fifty.
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