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The business interests of Morris have shown a steady inerease, and are represented as follows, viz. : general stores, John A. Ward & Co., HI. C. Steele, S. W. Mur- dock ; hardware, W. E. Bunn & Co., James Falls; drugs and groceries, J. P. Kenyon, D. I. Lawrence ; jeweler, R. Cooley ; harness, S. G. & P. Weeden ; blacksmiths and wagon-shops, R. II. Lee, W. P. Card : blacksmiths, Buzzel & Hurlburt, William Bourner, S. E. Barret ; dentist. I. E. Bassett ; milliners, Mrs. E. L. Payne. Mrs. O. Adams ; dressmakers, Miss Mary Little, Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Hul- burt ; tailor, J. Little ; tailoress, Miss Haynes; hotel, W. W. Gardiner; livery, C. L. Hoag. J. W. Still ; coopers, A. O. Edwards, L. Wallace; furniture and undertaker, D. J. Bresce; furniture, George Benjamin ; cotton-factory, Whitcomb & Whitney ; grist- and saw-mill, Whitcomb &
Whitney ; cheese-factory, Sage Brothers; paint --. :: Grafton, C. D. Staunton ; billiards, S. B. Williau. - peuters and builders, Geo. W. Hall, A. B. Soly. ; ; Seely, C. L. Tucker ; boot and shoe shop, H. W. . ... O. H. Greig; Morris Chronicle, L. B. Carpenter & .. . attorneys, H. R. Washbou and Nathan Bridges, Char ... A Bowne; justice of the peace and real estate, D. C. W .... physicians, C. W. Fox and M. Matteson, J. W. Sti surance agent, J. M. Denton ; flour and feed stor- Pope; barber, Geo. H. Wales; artist, A. S. Avery : ; -;. master, A. S. Avery ; express agent, John H. W ... z ; telegraph operator, L. R. Mansfield.
A banking-house was established in 1856 by A. C. Moore, Esq., who conducted it a few years, when Me - Albert G., became associated with him, and the bu- . .. was continued under the firm-name of A. G. Moore & ( .. Mr. A. C. Moore subsequently retired, and a son-in .: z. Mr. Cooke, became interested in the business, and it is now conducted under the name of A. G. Moore & Co.
THE FIRST TOWN-MEETING
was held at Corwin & Gates', May 1, 1849, when the Ex- lowing officers were chosen, viz. :
Supervisor .- James W. Davis.
Town Clerk .- Silas S. Seely.
Justices of the Peace .- Albert H. Ford, Chester Jarri-, and Phineas C. Ball.
Constables .- John M. Gates and Wilbur Davis.
Sealer of Weights and Measures .- Silas S. Seely.
Superintendent of Common Schools .- Daniel Gifford.
Assessors .- Jonathan M. Lull, 'Zenas Washburn, ... ] Ransom Moffatt.
Commissioners of Highways .- Thos. T. Rice, Asa Tell- son, and Albert H. Ford.
Collector .- Thos. R. Cockett.
Overseers of the Poor .- Hezekiah Goodrich and Nathan Lull.
Inspectors of Elections .- II. Sergeant, Otis B. Matteson, and John Bassett.
Constable .- Philip Garrison.
The following is a list of supervisors and town clerk, from the organization of the town to 1878:
Supervisors.
Town Clerk".
1850 James W. Davis.
1851 Addison M. Smith.
1852 Richard Franchot.
Cornelius A. Chur. .. Nathaniel Stevetisvt.
John F. Miller.
1835
1856 Albert G. Moore.
1537.
Richard Francbot.
1858
18 9. Jounh Davis.
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Geo. W. Shole. Silas W. Murdock. =
1862 Jonathan M. Lull. 1662
1861 Isaac Mansfield.
1865 John W. Stitt.
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Daniel C. Wenton. V. Stevenson. ..
Merritt Matteson. .. H. D. Whitcomb. I. Mansfield. Jason D Cuske. Class. It. Turner.
1572 Nathan Bridges.
1 .. P. Carpenter.
lmaes E. Cooke.
y. Shumway.
Eugew. W. Ca- 1.
E. A. Stevenson. ..
1877 Nathan Bridges.
Everett E. Gates. Willis E. Bunn.
Erastus W. Yatı ..
Peter Haslehurst.
1860
1861 Russell Leonard.
A. L. Sanderson. George Bergan.
1-66 S. W. Munlock. .. ..
1-67
I. D. Bas-ett.
John A. Ward.
Uri Jackson, Jr. Jos. S. Jarvis.
1853 George I. Colvin. 1854 ..
MRS. WILLIAM YATES.
WILLIAM YATES, M.D.
WILLIAM YATES.
The subject of this sketeh was born at Sapperton, ncar Burton-on-Trent, England, in 1767. At seventeen years of age he commenced the study of medicine, and soon after became a private pupil of Sir James Earle, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in London. For two years he was his dresser, and afterwards was house surgeon in that hospital. He attended the first course of lectures ever delivered by Abernethy. At twenty-three he left London and returned to his home. Inheriting an ample fortuue, and caring absolutely nothing for money, he never entered upon the practice of medicine as a profession.
To more than ordinary talents were added great benevolence, which he never eeased to exercise during the whole of his long life, but always as secretly as possible. Hle rather avoided the praise of men, and was never ostentatious. The first marked display of his benevolent inclinations was in a scheme for the.treatment and eure of Innaties upon the humane plan, which was subsequently adopted by Esquirol and Pinel, of France. For that purpose he built in Burton-on-Trent a house which he coudueted for several years at his own expense, and treated with great sneeess a large number of pauper lunaties. This benevolent effort cost him upwards of £7000 sterling, besides occupying his whole attention. An unfortunate eireumstanee occurred which altered his plans entirely. One of his patients, in a paroxysm of frenzy, took the life of another patient under shocking eireumstanees, and then committed suicide. IIe was so horrified at the act that he determined to close the asylum, and, after providing for proper treatinent among their friends and otherwise of the remainder, he sailed før Philadelphia, where he arrived in June, 1799.
Previous to this incident he had become greatly interested in the subject of vaccination, which was then just becoming known to the medieal pro- fession in England. And it was the desire to extend its blessings, along with the shock to a sensitive mind of the aceident mentioned, that deter- mined his visit to Amerien. Before sailing he made the personal acquaint- ance of Dr. Jenner, obtained from his hand a large supply of the rirus, and from his mouth all additional particulars.
Immediately on his arrival in Philadelphia he engaged himself with all the zeal of an ardent and philanthropie mind to disseminate the knowledge of the then new discovery. And it is certain that he was the first to in- troduce into Amerien this great boon to humanity, although the eredit of its first introduction has been generally accordled to another. He knew this, but had a morbid dislike to publicity, and never publicly contradicted it, being satisfied to extend its usefulness to the utmost. While preaching incessantly its preventive powers, he inoculated thousands with the vaeeine virus. The doctrine and practice were received by the American public with greater avidity even than with the English.
The following year his affairs demanded his return to England, but in a fow days he sailed again for Philadelphia. He made the sequaintances
of Judge Cooper, father of Fenimore Cooper, the novelist, of General Morris, Judge Franchot, and others, and their intimate friendship he enjoyed until they dropped one after another into the arms of death. With Judge Cooper he ascended the Snsquehanna to Otsego County, and being charmed with the passing heanty of the scenery, and also captivated by the daughter of a leading settler in the valley of Butternuts, he married the young lady, and resolved to pitch his tent there. He returned with his bride to England, where he disposed of Sapperton, which, as the eldest son, he had inherited, to his brother.
After spending a year in England, and making a tour of the continent, he sailed for the last time for America, and purchased a large estate in Butternuts (now the town of Morris), where he resided until the day of his death, and where his life was an uninterrupted seene of contentment and happiness. His reputation as a medical man was very great, though he never practiced medicine as a profession, and rarely accepted a fee. His benevolence was always of the most active and quiet kind, and to it at last he became a sacrifice, for it was in one of the severest days of an inelement winter now past, while on the mission of merey, about four miles from home, his foot became so mneh chilled that the disease ealled gangrena senilis was indneed, of which he died. To his last moments he retained perfectly the faculties of his mind and his physical senses. They . wero never impaired by his great age. To his last days he was con- versant with the polities of the world, and the progress of science and literature.
He lived and died a consistent and practical Christian. He was an Episcopalian, though no seetarian, and contributed to the funds of many Christian denominations. Hle was always very partial to the Society of Friends, whose hospitality he had largely enjoyed on his first arrival in Philadelphia, and who most assisted him in disseminating the knowledge of vaceination. The Quakers thus found a warm place iu his affections during the remainder of his life.
He was very simple in his mode of living. He often stated that during the present eentury he had not tasted of wine. and till his last illness had uot sinee childhood been contined to lis hed for a single day, except for a fracture of the leg, received in a fox hunt when a young man. Neither had he taken a dose of medicine, but if he felt ill he fasted on bread and water till well again. Till he was seventy-five he habitually rode much in the saddle.
He was first cousin, once removed. of John Howard, the philanthropist. and, eurious enough, ho bore the same relationship in blood to Sir Isbert Peel, the statesman, whose mother was his cousin. His willow, his con- stant companion for more than half a century, has since followed him to her long resting-place. Four of seven sons, and a large number of grand- children, survivo him.
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HISTORY OF OTSEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK.
Flu ferment officers ( 1877) are as follows, viz. : Warenwir,-Nathan Bridges
Toma t'lerk .- E. A. Stevenson.
dawar of the Peace .- Isaac Mansfield. lowwir .- George Houghtaling.
amissioner of Highteayx-Samuel R. Dixon.
trav of the Pour .- Jabez Collins.
"Wefor .- Samuel H. Bunnell.
Jogurturs of Elections .- Joel M. Denton, A. R. Suther- und M. Colvin, Sylvester Sergeant, James Gage, and :... Bishop.
theAntilles .- E. L. Payne. E. Thurston, Henry Dixon, . H Bunnell, and Clark B. Hall.
Game Constable .- R. Churchill.
Tues .Auditors .- S. W. Murdock, Squire Bayley, and D 1. Lawrence.
AGRICULTURAL AND GENERAL STATISTICS.
In 1864 Morris had 13,480} acres of improved land, at the cash value of farms was 8844,760. There were > acres of plowed land ; in pasture, 7772 ; in meadow, 3727; tons of hay, 4774; bushels of spring wheat in 1-4:4, 359; bushels of winter wheat, 262; bushels of oats, 14 367 ; bushels of winter rye. 222; bushels of barley, 329; banhils of buckwheat, 1904; Indian corn, 8463 bushels; bu-hels of potatoes harvested. 13.937 ; bushels of peas, 22; bushels of beans, 105; bushels of turnips, 1834; pounds of hops, 63,572; bushels of apples, 24,891; barrels of «ider, 495; pounds of maple sugar, 27,403; pounds of butter. 150,609 ; pounds of cheese, 93,436.
Agricultural Statistics, 1575 .- Acres plowed, 9368 ; in pasture, 8519; mown. 6680; tons of hay produced, 7942; bushels barley, 180; buckwheat, 3308; corn, 13.205; oats, 36,185; rye, 339; spring wheat, 255; win- ter wheat, 893; beans, 7 ; pounds of hops, 36,323; bushels of potatoes, 30,581; pounds of butter made, 154,703; cheese, 10,350.
Area .- Morris has an area of 24,035 acres, and the Awwwsed valuation is $834,276, and the equalized valuation i. 8502,331.
POPULATION.
10.0
2155 | 1865. 2191
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2038
1$70. .2253
.2320 18:5 .2303
CHAPTER LII.
TOWN OF MORRIS-Continued.
Churches-Schools-Societies.
BAPTIST CHURCH. .
IN the year 1772 two members of the Baptist church in Warwick. N. Y., came to the present town of Morris, and after making clearings returned, and in the following year look up their abode in the wilderness, bringing with them their families. A prayer-meeting was immediately held, and this praying band increased with the settlement. The War of the Revolution broke up the settlement, and the in- habitants returned to their eastern homes. After an absence
of five years they returned to the forest, rebuilt their dwel- lings, and reinaugurated their prayer-meetings. They were now assisted by Mr. Solomon Hatch, a Baptist licentiate and lay preacher.
In 1787, Rev. Mr. Comstock, the Baptist pastor on Cooper's patent, visited the settlement and organized a church, which, however, in consequence of his death, oc- curring soon after, became extinct. In 1793 the church was organized with ten members, five males and five females, and this town at that time being a part of Unadilla it was called the First Baptist church of Unadilla, and the coun- cil, through J. Craw, moderator, and Captain Elisha Craw, clerk, gave the right hand of fellowship to the little church Aug. 28, 1793.
Increase Thurstin was the first deacon, Captain Craw the first clerk, and Reuben Ellis second deacon. At the first meeting of the Otsego association the church reported 17 members. The first regular pastor was Rev. John Law- ton, who received $100 per annum,-$20 in money, and the balance in the " necessaries of life." The first church edi- fice was erected in 1818, and was located about two miles northeast of the present house, near what was then the centre of population. It cost about $600, and was occu- pied twenty-three years. The second cost about $1000, and was occupied twenty-eight years, and the present house was erected at a cost of about $16,000.
The Rev. Charles Ayer says, "The Baptists have the honor to have been the evangelical pioneers in this valley. The first prayer in this valley was offered by a Baptist church member, no Christian being within sixteen miles of his closet. The first soul converted was in a Baptist family. The first sermon preached was by a Baptist minister, and the first pastor resident here was John Lawton, and the first notable blessing of the Holy Spirit here enjoyed was upon that pastor's preaching. The following persons have served the church in the pastoral office from its organization to the present time, viz. : Revs. John Lawton, R. Adams, .J. Wright, J. Amner, L. Casler, E. H. Bailey, E. Baldwin, C. B. Post, S. A. Douglass, L. E. Spafford, S. P. Brown, H. A. Sherwood, N. Ripley, E. M. Blanchard, J. Jones, Charles Ayer, L. B. Ford, A. W. Clark (supply), A. S. Hobart, present pastor.
ZION CHURCH .*
The organization of Zion church (Morris) is identified with the very early history of Otsego County. In 1793 the first clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal church be- gan itinerant labors in this county. His name was Rev. Ammi Rogers. Even prior to this the services of the Episcopal church were maintained by early settlers, first among whom were Ichabod B. Palmer and Elnathan Noble, who came from Connecticut to make a home in what was afterwards known as the Butternuts valley. The first church organization grew out of the services held in the house of Mr. Palmer, and the subsequent work of the early ministers, who wrought in a genuine missionary spirit .Ls they traveled constantly from place to place establishing regular divine worship at various places. The first clergy-
. By Rev. Hobart Cooke,
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man to be really recognized as a permanent pastor was the Rev. Daniel Nash, familiarly known then, and spoken of Dow. as - Father Nash." His first ministerial labor was performed in 1797, when, immediately after his ordination as a deacon in the sacred ministry, he came, aceomparried by his faithful wife, to this county, and began his work here and in Exeter. After the year 1800 he extended his travels to Cooperstown and Unadilla, and other places in this and in the adjoining counties. During this ministry of bis diaconate, and just as he was about to be ordained to the priesthood, the first church edifice was erected in this parish. It was called " Harmony Church," and stood on what is now known in the town of Morris as the Old Church burying-ground. This is said to Have been the first Episcopal church built in Otsego County. It was the year 1801. This church building was never formally consecrated, and at a later time was sold to one H. T. McGeorge. Father Nash continued to officiate here regu- larly every month until the year 1814. He was then joined in the care of this parish by the Rev. Russel Wheeler, who, in the year 1818, became the officially recognized rector of the church in Butternuts. In the spring of the year 1818 the corner-stone of the present church edifice was laid, and in the November following the building was fully completed and paid for. Total cost, $6000.
At about this time, it was resolved by the congregation to change the name from Harmony church to that of Zion . church ; and under this new name the new structure was consecrated to the worship of Alurighty God by the Right Rev. John Henry Hobart, bishop of New York, on the 22d day of November, 1818. On the following day the Rev. Russel Wheeler was formally instituted as rector of the parish by Bishop Hobart, and remained an honored and most useful pastor of tlris church for eighteen years.
In 1836. the Rev. Orsamus HI. Smith succeeded Rev. Mr. Wheeler. filling an acceptable pastorate of two years. In the year 1838, the Rev. Amos B. Beach was called to the rectorship of Zion church. During an administration of seventeen years, Mr. Beach was most abundantly sue- cessful in awakening new life in the parish, and in promot- ing its advancement in active work and permanent strength. Under his supervision a rectory was built, a school-honse erected. and a flourishing parish school organized, and an orran placed in the church. The first Sunday-school was also established during this time.
Following this pastorate, so well remembered for its efficiency and its substantial results in the interest of the church. came the Rev. Win. H. Hill, who remained during a rectorship of a little more than four years. Mr. Hill is often spoken of as having been in those days a most foreible and very cioquent preacher,-an indefatigable worker. His missionary zeal and labor made him widely and well known throughout the county, while his parish reaped large bene- fit- from bis pastoral visitations from house to house.
In 1:55. the Rev. Wm. J. Alger became the minister, reinaizing about two years. In 1858, the Rev. Wm. J. Early scurried to the rectorship, remaining also about two years. In 1860, the Rev. George L. Foote became the rester. continuing until, some two years later, he was incapacitated for further duty by paralysis.
Succeeding the ministry of Mr. Foote, the Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle was called, first as assistant minister, and upon the death of Rev. Mr. Foote was elected to the rectorship of the church.
While rector here Mr. Tuttle was distinguished for great zeal and faithfulness in the discharge of ministerial duties ; and in the spring of 1867 he was elected mission- ary bishop of Montana, Utah, and Idaho, to which field of increased responsibility and honor he took his departure soon after.
The successor of Bishop Tuttle was the Rev. Nelson S. Rulison. Under his rectorship the parish found a fitting successor to the vigorous administration of the pastor whom they had given up to the episcopate.
The congregation increased to still larger numbers, and grew in prosperity. During the two years and a half of Mr. Rulison's pastorate a fine stone chapel was completed, having been built by the members of the Morris family as a family memorial, and for the benefit of the neighborhood about the old General Morris' estate. A movement was also made which resulted in the complete renovation of the old parish church, enlarging it by the addition of a large reeess chancel, with organ-room on one side, and robing- room on the other ; removing the side-galleries, replacing the old windows with stained glass, and bringing the inte- rior of the church, with the alterations and new furnishings, to compare favorably with the best churches in the county. The expense of the work was something above ten thousand dollars.
Upon the resignation of Mr. Rulison, to accept the rec- torship of a new and important church work in Jersey City, the Rev. F. N. Luson became the rector for a few months, resigning his place in Angust, 1870.
In December of the same year the Rev. Thomas H. Cullen accepted a call and entered upon his duties as rector, and remained until June, 1872.
In August of the same year the Rev. Charles T. Coer, then in deacon's orders, entered upon the duties as officiat- ing minister in the parish, and in March of the following year was ordained in Zion church to the priesthood. Upon his advancement to this " degree,"-earned in an energetic and faithful discharge of the inany duties of a busy pas- torate,-he was elected to the rectorship of the parish; and in May of the following year (1874) tendered his resigna- tion, returning to his previous charge of the chapel of the Good Shepherd, Binghamton, N. Y.
In June of the same year the Rev. Hobart Cooke, having succeeded to the rectorship, entered npon his duties, and re- mains now in the fourth year of a successful pastorate.
In the spring of 1875 the church received from Mrs. Jonah Davis a beautiful and costly marble fout, to be placed in the elmirch as a memorial of her late husband, Jouah Davis. And in the fall of the same year a fine organ, costing something over three thousand dollars, was also presented the church as the gitt of one of her generous- hearted communicants.
The present condition of this time-honored organization, so identified with the growth and the interests of the old town of Butternuts and the present town of Morris, is that ol' a strong and prosperous church, numbering nearly three
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CAPT. AMOS PALMER.
MRS. CLARISSA PALMER.
CAPT. AMOS PALMER.
1 . l'aliner was born in Litchfield, Conn., June 13, ': *. He was the second son of Ichabod B. and Mary YA.txt, and grandson of the Rev. Solomon Palmer, who werd orders as deacon and priest of the Church of Eng- and at the hands of the Bishop of Bangor, and served as a 'w .A'al missionary under the venerable society for the prop- as a of the gospel in Litchfield and its vicinity, where to extend into his rest A.D. 1771.
It came with his father to the town of Butternuts 1 . Morris), Otsego Co., N. Y., at an early age, and helped w .ww the forest from the farm on which he continued to "s.ir until his death,-a period of nearly sixty years. "ra in the outset, indieates the steadfastness and regularity he which his life in all its features was noted.
Hir married at the age of twenty-seven, and became the ime of eleven children, ten of whom grew to maturity, " . daughters and eight sons,-who honored and rever- " their parents, and witnessed to the world the blessed .
6. " under God of faithful training in the way they should Ho way a man who never wasted words ; he used but { them and without jesting, always to the point, sound, "se aud ont of a conscience endeavoring to keep itself ... . me towards God and towards men. He had a styl place for all things, so that the affairs of his daily *. ty miumtely arranged in regular order.
11. continued firm and steadfast in the faith of his father, ' . wing what he believed and why. To his efforts, that is, be ervices as warden and lay reader, his liberal contribu-
at services with his family, and, more than all, his unspotted Christian character and example, adorning his faith and profession, Zion church, in Morris, owed its establishment and continued prosperity more than to those of any other layman of his day. He departed this life in the peace of God through Christ, Nov. 1, 1861.
Clarissa, the wife of Amos Palmer, was the daughter of Joseph and Martha Lull, and one of a family of sixteen children, all but one of whom lived to be married, and have families of their own. She was married Dee. 21, 1806, and. with great self-denial, patience, and cheerfulness, did faith- fully all the duties devolving upon her as wife and mother, until, in the providenee of God, such duties were required of her no more.
She survived her husband about twelve and a half years, during the most of which time she had a home with her eldest daughter, Mrs. Jonah Davis, of the village of Morris. .
Such a home, under affectionate eare, with every provi- sion for comfort, joined with faeulties remarkably good for her age, attended the elosing years of a life of duties well done. Though reared a Baptist, she joined her husband in faith and church soon after her marriage, and living as faith- fully and consistently that in the end closed her eyes in the comfort of a reasonable religion and holy hope, and in her ninetieth year. May their good examples be blessed toward bringing all who knew them to have their perfect con- summation and bliss together with them in eternal and
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mal o muuuicants, and active in the many and varied pod works which have likewise distinguished it in the long son of its history.
METHODIST CHURCH.
The Morris Methodist Episcopal society was in all proba- w. formed in the year 1828, and constituted a part of de Chenango circuit. The Rev. Joshua Rogers was then ,ww her in charge on said circuit. Meetings were first . said almut one mile from " Louisville," now Morris, some- !. in a private dwelling, but more frequently in a dis- Port uluiwil-house. In the year 1838 the appointment was and to the village school-house in Morris. In the war 1$45 the Butternuts and Morris societies were set off fr in the Chenango circuit, and served by two ministers, alternating between the two appointments. It was during the year-1845-the Morris society built them a church, at the probable cost of $2000. In 1847 Morris became a wjarate charge. In the year 1870 some $7000 was ex- I« thed for additional ground, sheds, enlargement of church ławment, steeple, and bell.
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