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The first meeting was held at Porter's Corners, on the 2d of June, 1802, and the ceremonies of the institution were conducted by the following Masons, who represented the Grand Lodge on the occasion, viz. : Warren Smith, G. M. ; Reuben Smith, G. S. W .; Stephen Richards, G. J. W. ; Walter Broughton, G. Sec.
The following officers were elected and installed, viz. : John St. John, W. M. ; Jeremy Rockwell, S. W. ; Potter Johnson, J. W. ; Joseph Blackleach, Sec. ; James Vail, Treas. ; Benjamin Worden, S. D .; Daniel Hicks, J. D .; Frederick Weed and Asa Chatfield, Stewards.
At this first meeting the name of Parker Manning was proposed for membership, and he was elected and initiated in the degree of Entered Apprentice, being the first member to join the new lodge.
Quite a number of prominent men have at different times belonged to this lodge. We mention a few whose names appear on the list of members that has been preserved. The list for several years in the early existence of the lodge has disappeared, and no doubt contained the names of other honored citizens. We find the names of Asahel Porter, Jolin Prior, John St. John, Adam Bockes, Jr., Jeremy Rockwell, Lewis Seott, Oliver C. Comstock, and Morgan II. Chrysler on the roll of members.
From the time of its organization till the winter of 1870 the lodge continued to meet at Porter's Corners. Then it was thought best to change its location to Greenfield Cen- tre. In view of this change, in August, 1869, the Inger- son store at that place was purchased, the roof raised several feet, and a fine hall built above the store. This was well finished and elegantly fitted up, and forms a very comfortable and pleasant lodge-room. The cost of the building and site was $2000, and the furniture and fixtures cost about $600 more. The first meeting was held in the new hall on January 19, 1870.
The membership has remained about the same for many years. The losses by death and removals have been about counterbalanced by the additions. The present number is
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sixty-six. The present officers are G. W. Scoville, W. M .; Edward A. Rood, S. W .; John W. Middlebrook, J. W. ; Elihu Wing, Treas .; Ianthus G. Johnson, M.D., Sce. ; Albert G. Wing, S. D .; David L. Spooner, J. F. ; David Kane, Charles W. Spaulding, Masters of Ceremony ; IIamil- ton Early, Tyler.
Connected with the lodge is St. John's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, with a membership of thirty-five.
TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES.
The Greenfield Temperance Society .- In the years from 1804 to 1809, a good deal of temperance agitation was going on among the friends of temperance in the town of Greenfield. The general and lamentable excessive use of spirituous liquors, even among professed Christians and moral men, seemed to demand some effort to check the growth and development of the traffic and use of intoxiea- ting liquors. As a result of this agitation, April I, 1809, Rev. Elias Gilbert, Howell Gardiner, Esq., Hon. Salmon Child, Jonathan Wood, Walter Hewitt, Jonathan Hoyt, and Joseph Wood met and formed a temperance organiza- tion under the above name.
Their constitution prohibited the use of ardent spirits on all occasions, not excepting certain holidays and public occasions, as did some of the other early societies. It is believed to have been the first thorough total-abstinence society in the United States.
At the first meeting Rev. Elias Gilbert was elected president and secretary, and Howell Gardiner, Salmon Child, and Jonathan Wood formed an executive com- mittee.
From this small but influential band of devoted re- formers sprang a society that has now maintained an unbroken existence for nearly seventy years, and which has numbered at times as many as seven hundred and ninety-one citizens of the town in its ranks.
The meetings of the society were held quarterly, and the annual meeting was held on the Fourth of July, in order to celebrate the anniversary of the nation's birth on temperance principles and in a rational and quiet man- ner. When the question of temperance reform received such an impulse in 1829, the society was reorganized on the principle of total abstinence from anything that ean intoxicate. Howell Gardiner was then elected president of the society.
'At a meeting held in ISI-4 a total-abstinence traet pre- pared by a Connecticut elergyman was read, and the meet- ing appointed Howell Gardiner and Jonathan Wood to procure its publication. This they did by a contract with a printer at Ballston Spa, James Comstock, dated Sept. 17, 1814. It is believed that this was the first temperance traet published in the State of New York.
Among the early members of the society, who joined soon after its organization, were James Dunning, Benjamin Ingham, Nathaniel Seymour, William Belden, and Daniel Scott, of Greenfield, and Daniel Couch, Moses Thomas, and Valentine Rathbone, of Milton.
The society was again reorganized, separately from Mil- ton, in July, 1833, and the annual meeting was changed to the last Tuesday in February, the quarterly meetings
being held on the last Tuesday of May, August, and No- vember, respectively. The quarterly meetings were abol- ished in 1835, and a semi-annual meeting for July 4 was inaugurated. In 1849 the annual meeting was fixed for the 22d of February, with a view to secure a suitable cele- bration of these two national holidays.
The presidents of the society since 1833 have been the following gentlemen, viz .: Howell Gardiner, 1833-55; Henry Peacock, 1855-57; Nathan Daniels, 1857-60; Asa Ingerson, 1860-62; Oscar Granger, 1862-64; Zimri Lawrence, 1864-66; Abial C. Allard, 1866-68; Lyman- Sessions, 1868-69; Hiram T. Lawton, 1869-74; Reuben E. Cronkhite, 1874-76; Iliram C. Hewitt, 1876-77.
Benjamin S. Robinson has served very efficiently in the office of secretary since 1864.
The other present officers are Charles D. Gardiner, Ben- jamin HI. Ingham, vice-presidents ; and the officers, ex officio, form the executive committee.
Empire Lodge, No. 965, I. O. G. T .- This society was instituted March 24, 1870, with twelve charter members, and has been fairly prosperous ever since. At one time the membership rose to one hundred. and fifty in good standing, and the lodge has constantly exerted a healthy, moralizing influence on the community. The first officers were Lewis S. Mills, W. C. T. ; Emma Rowland, W. V. T .; James B. Rounds, W. S. ; Mrs. P. Rounds, W. T .; Carrie Latham, W. F. S .; Mrs. Asenath Sessions, Chap. ; Ella Latham, W. M .; John B. Stevenson, W. D. M .; Mrs. J. Woodcock, W. I. G .; William Smith, W. O. G .; Ham- ilton B. Woodcock, L. D.
The lodge meets in a commodious and comfortable hall over the audience-room of the Universalist church every Saturday evening.
The present offieers are as follows, viz. : Joseph L. Row- land, W. C. T .; Mrs. E. C. Mills, W. V. T. ; George N. Peacock, W. S .; Emma Alcott, W. A. S .; H. A. Scott, W. F. S .; Mrs. B. Rowland, W. T .; H. G. Ormsby, W. Chap. ; J. G. Rowland, W. M .; Alice Cady, W. D. M .; Lily Wells, W. I. G .; Mrs. E. A. Williams, W. O. G .; Mrs. J. L. Rowland, R. II. S. ; Mrs. P. A. Latham, L. II. S .; Lewis S. Mills, L. D.
Kayadrosseru Tent, No. 69, I. O. of Rechabites .- This temperance organization was instituted March 7, 1876, with the following eharter members, viz. : Hezekiah B. Manchester, William II. Davis, Hiram B. Manchester, Thomas J. Wing, Elias Pendrick, Hiram C. Hewitt, H. C. Wood, Edward Showers, B. S. Cochran, J. D. Plummer, Henry Bentley, James B. Wing, Simeon Brown, Joel S. Barnes, J. E. Spicer, R. S. Green, R. D. Morehouse, Perry Lockwood, Stephen Swatling, John J. Tethers, Albert J. Wing, Lee R. Smith, Harry M. Lincoln.
The first officers were J. D. Plummer, W. C .; Elias Pendrick, Dep. Ruler; Hiram C. Hewitt, Shep .; Hezekiah B. Manchester, Levite; Hiram B. Manchester, See. ; Wil- liam Pike, Treas. ; Thomas J. Wing, Rec. Sec. ; William Davis, Inside Guard.
Since its organization it has steadily increased in num- bers and prospered in a flattering manner. It now has forty-one members, and exerts a powerful influence on the community in favor of temperance and sobriety.
PHOTO BY BANEN 2 RECORD,
SARATOCA SPRINGO
DR IANTHUS G. JOHNSON.
RESIDENCE OF DR IANTHUS G. JOHNSON, GREENFIELD CENTRE, SARATOGA CO., N. Y
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The present officers are Lee A. Smith, W. C .; Goode Wing, D. R. ; William Le Grange, Shep .; Stephen Swat- ling, Levite; H. B. Manchester, Sec .; J. H. Bentley, Treas. ; R. D. Morehouse, Rec. Sec. ; Reuben Morehouse, Fin. Sec. ; JI. Hiller, I. G .; Eddy Deuel, O. G .; Sanford Barnes, P. W. C .; John Tethers, William Whipple, R. and L. S. W. C .; Elias Peudrick, Thomas J. Wing. R. and L. S. D. R. ; Wiram Hewitt, Installing Officer.
I. O. OF O. F.
Greenfield Centre Lodge, No. 308, I. O. O. F .-- This lodge was organized Feb. 28, 1872, with seven charter members, who occupied respectively the offices annexed to their names, viz. : Charles Mosher, N. G. ; Brice S. Davis, V. G .; R. S. Davison, Rec. Sec. ; John Erekenbrack, Permanent Sec. ; Richard F. Mosher, Warden ; Daniel Ilayes, Conductor ; and John W. Mitchell, I. G.
At the first meeting ten others joined, and the member- bership has constantly and steadily increased. The meet- ings have been well sustained, and in all respects the lodge has been very prosperous. The highest membership was reached in July of the present year, when the lodge numbered eighty-two members. The present membership is seventy- nine. The meetings are held in a rented hall, which is nicely furnished and fitted up with careful taste. Steps have been taken to secure a building spot on which to erect a new hall. The value of the lodge furniture and fixtures is about $425.
The present officers are George HI. Hodges, N. G .; Joel S. Tuller, V. G. ; Charles P. Cronkhite, Rec. Sec. ; Albert Densmore, Per. See. ; George Spaulding, Warden ; Daniel W. Lovell, Cond .; Nathan W. Burdick, I. and O. G .; Charles W. Spaulding, Chap .; James B. Smith, P. G .; John T. Daniels, R. S. N. G. ; Samuel Kilmer, L. S. N. G .; William W. Wing, R. S. V. G .; Thomas Webb, L. S. V. G .; Joseph Waring, R. S. S. ; James Newell, L. S. S.
Connected with the lodge is also a Rebecca Degree lodge called " Desdemona" Lodge. Its charter was granted in March, 1875, upon the petition of nine ladies and ten gentlemen. It now has a membership of forty-two, and is in a prosperous condition.
X .- PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST.
Lake Desolation, as its name indicates, is a wild, weird mountain lake. It is the only body of water of any size in the town. It lies on the top of the Kayadrossera range of mountains on the western border, and lies partly in Providence. Along the eastern bank of this lake lay an old Indian trail, along which the Indians and Tories passed at the time of their descent upon the settlers of Ballston, in 1780, and which was also the line of their retreat.
Along the old Indian trail that ran near Lake Desolation also passed the several French and Indian expeditions from Canada to the Mohawk country. Along near it passed the Jesuit father, Isaac Jogues, the discoverer of Lake George, while on his way to his mission, St. Mary of the Martyrs, on the banks of the Mohawk, in 1642. Near this lake passed Courcelle and Tracy and their army, on their way to the Mohawk country, in 1666.
About two miles northeast of Greenfield Centre, and one mile north of the Cronkhite school-house, on the top of the Palmertown mountain, is a curious freak of nature, and one to which is attached considerable historic interest. It is on the Beach lot, on the farm owned by George H. Hodges. On the top of this hill the sandstone rock crops out in several ledges; and on the northeast face of one of them is a narrow shelf, in which is a perpendic- ular hole about a foot in diameter and a little over two feet in depth, with a rounded bottom similar to a mortar. It is locally known as the "samp-mortar," and derives its name from the fact that it was formerly nsed by the In- dians and afterwards by the first white settlers as a mortar in which to pound their corn. It is supposed to have been hollowed out by the action of water at some pre-historie period of time ; but from the fact of its being now at such an elevation its origin is the more mysterious. The hole was about three feet in depth until within a few years, during which time some reckless iconoclast has broken off some of the rock near the top, reducing it to its present depth. A thick growth of timber now surrounds this interesting relie of a former age.
XI .- INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS.
Greenfield is principally an agricultural town. Along the sunny southern slopes of its hills, which stretch be- tween the two mountain ranges, lie many fine farms, many of whose early occupants have been spoken of in the pre- ceding pages. The soil is mostly of a better quality than that of some of the adjoining towns. The farmers find a ready market for their produce at the village of Saratoga Springs near by.
MANUFACTURES.
The manufacturing interests of Greenfield have never been very extensive. Saw-mills and grist-mills have run a brief existence, gone to ruin, and been replaced by others. The carding-mill and woolen-mill heretofore mentioned shared the general fate of decay and extinction. We shall mention but a few of the past and present enterprises.
The first distillery in town was one owned by Asahel Porter at Porter's Corners, date not known. He also built quite an extensive tannery, which passed through several hands and then burned down. It was finally rebuilt by Esek Angell, and recently it was again burned.
The water-power at Middle Grove was first fully utilized about 1836, by John W. James, a son of Jesse James, who lived on the mountain northwest of the village. Johu W. James first embarked upon the sea of active business life at Greenfield Centre. From there he went to New York and aceumulated some wealth, with which he returned to Jamesville (named in honor of him) in 1836, to create a manufacturing town. He built a dam across the Kay- adrossera creek and erected a paper-mill there. This was the first mill built in Saratoga County for the manufacture of paper by machinery. He also built several houses, and purchased a large tract of land, on which the village was built. After the lapse of some twenty years he failed in business and returned to New York. The mill was burned, and rebuilt by other parties. Burned a second time, the vacant power was purchased by West & Brown, who built
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the present mills in 1870. These mills were run by West & Brown until 1874, when Geo. West & Son beeame, and still remain, the owners. They contain six thirty-inch en- gines for grinding the material and one fifty-inch machine for making the paper.
The power is furnished by three turbine water-wheels of the Leffell and the Reynolds patterns, and one thirty-horse power steam-engine. The mills consume from forty to fifty hundred-weight of jute butts and gunny saeking per day, and turn out about nine tons per week of number two manilla paper, used for making grocery bags. The con- sumption of fuel is abont twelve hundred cords per year. Some twenty hands are steadily employed, and under the superintendence of Mr. West's nephew, Thomas W. Brown, the mills are doing a very successful business.
There are several saw-mills and grist-mills scattered throughout the town, but they are mostly devoted to doing custom work. Some lumbering is done on the mountains, in the neighborhood of Lake Desolation.
About the year 1850 a glass-factory was started on the mountains in the northwest part of the town. A little vil- lage of about one hundred inhabitants sprang up around it. It was named Mount Pleasant. Some years ago the factory was removed to Saratoga Springs, and the village followed it to its new location.
XII .- MILITARY.
WAR OF 1861-65.
Seneca Ackley, priv., Co. C, 115tl N. Y. Inf .; enl. Ang. 8, 1862; disch. July 7, 1865; living at Middle Grove.
Ilenry Allen, priv., Co. C, 1530 N. Y. Inf .; enl. April 5, 1865.
James Armstrong, priv., Co. 1, 78th N. V. Inf. ; enl. March 25, 1865.
Lewis S. Bailey, corp., Co. F, 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Ang. 8, 1862; pro. to 2d lient. ; disch. with the regiment.
Charles N. Baker, priv., Co. (, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 8, 1862 ; wounded And taken prisoner nt Olustee, Fla., Feb. 20, 1864; exchanged, Feb. 20, 1865; disch. June 20, 1865 ; living at Middle Grove.
Ilenry Baker.
Isaac Baker, priv., Co. C, 115th N. Y. Inf. ; ent. Ang. 11, 1862; disch. for dis- ability, Feh. 13, 1863; living in Greenfield.
Stephen F. Baker.
Lester D. Bardwell, 30th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. spring of 1861 ; re-enl. in 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav .; disch, with regiment, Nov. 8, 1865.
William Bartman, priv., Co. G, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Nov. 21, 18G1 ; disch. for disability ; re-enl. priv., Co. E, 25th N. Y. Cav., April, 1864.
William Beard-ley, priv., Co. C, 25th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. March, 1864.
Charles Bemas, priv., Co. G, 115th N. Y. Juf. ; enl. Ang. 12, 1862; slightly wounded at Olustee and at Bermuda Hundred; disch. for disability, May 27, 1865 ; living At Mosherville.
Alfred Bender, priv., Co. D, 54th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. March 10, 1865.
Oliver Bennett, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Feb. 25, 1862; disch. for dis- ability, Dec. 27, 1862.
James Benson, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; eul. Feb. 16, 1862; disch. for dis- ability, Ang. 15, 1862.
George C. Bentley, priv., Co. II, 153d N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept 4, 1862; died uf diph- theria, at Alexandria, Va., Feb. 7, 1863, Imried at Greenfield Centre.
Henry Bentley, priv., Co. II, 153d N. Y. Inf .; eul. Sept. 6, 18G2; disch. Sept. 17, 1865; living at Greenfield Centre.
Washington P. Bentley, priv., Co. E, 25th N. Y. Cav. ; ent. April, 1864 ; disch. at close of war; living at Middle Grove.
Andrew Benton, bugler, 11th Ind. Battery, N. Y. Light Art. ; enl. Dec. 2, 18G1; disch. with the battery, Dec. 3, 1864; living at Northville, Fulton Co.
George Bisliop, corp., Co. K, 153d N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 6, 1862; disch. for dis- ability, Feb. 20, 1863; living in Greenfield.
Silas E. Blowers, priv., Co. G, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 1862; disch, with the regiment, June 17, 1865; living in lladley.
Frank L. Brewster, seaman ; enl. Sept. 19, ISG#.
Charles Brown.
John Brown, priv., 78th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. May 5, 1861.
Willard Brown, scaman; ent. Sept. 17, 1861.
William J. Brown (colored), priv., 26th U. S Col. Troops; enl. March 11, 1865. Julın T. Bryant, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Oct. 10, 1861 ; pro. to corp. unul to seigt .; wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 10, ISGE; lisch. with regiment, Dec. 14, 1861; living at Saratoga Springs.
James H. Burdick, priv., Co. II, 153d N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 6, 1862; disch. Ort. 16, 1865; died, in Milton, since the war.
Lewis A. Burdick, priv., Co. F, 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 2, 1862; wounded at Olustce, Fla., Feh. 20, 1861; disch. Mty, 1863 ; living in Milton. Win. H. Burdick.
Jesse Burlingham, priv., Co. D, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Oct. 9, 18G1 ; taken pris- oner June 27, 1862; exchanged Oct. 2, 1862; disch. with regiment, Dec. 13, 1864.
Charles Burpee, priv., Co. D, 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Ang. 7, 1862; pro. to sergt .; disch, with regiment; living at Saratoga Springs.
Frank Cady, priv., Cu. D, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Nov. 21, 1861 ; trans. to Vel. Bat., 77th Regt .; wounded at Fredericksburg. June 3, 1863, and at Spottsyl- vania, June 8, 1864; disch. June 27, 1865; died since the war.
John Cady, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Feb. 14, 1862 ; desorted at War- renton, Va., Nov. 6, 1863.
Oscar Cady, priv., Cu. E, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Nov. 21, 1861 ; living in Green- field.
Alex. Campbell, priv., Co. C, 180th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. April 6, 1864.
Henry C. Campbell, priv., Co. F, 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 11, 1862.
Albert Carp, priv., Co. D, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1862 ; trans. to Vet. Bat., 77th Regt. ; disch. June 16, 1865; living in Greenfield.
Truman Carpenter, priv., Co. F, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 8, 1862; trans. to Bat. B, Ist U. S. Lt Art .; disch. June 13, 1865.
Joel Carr, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 27, 1861 ; died of fever at Washington, D. C., May 13, 1862.
Charles Chapman, priv , Co. G. 77th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Oct. 10, 1861 ; disch. Nov. 10, 1862 ; living in Saratoga County.
Morgan H. Chrysler, capt. Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. May 7, 1861 ; pro. to maj., March 11, 1862; to lient .- col., Sept. 20, 1862; mustered out with regiment, June 24, 1863; re-enl. as col. 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav .; severely wounded through the chest at Atchafalya Bayon, La., July 28, 1864 ; was breveted bør.g .- gen. ; mustered out Nov. 26, 1865; living at Kinder- hook, Columbia Co, N. Y.
Wilbur M. Clark.
Robert B. Conde, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. 1861.
John Conklin, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Oct. 10, 1861 ; disabled by sick- ness after May 4, 1864.
Otis Conklin, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Oct. 10, 1861 ; disch. for disabil- ity, Ang. 10, 1862; living at Saratoga Springs,
Joseph Conners, priv., 100th N. Y. Inf .; enl. March 29, 1864
John Connery, priv., Co. K, 153d N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1862 : disch. with regi- ment, Oct. 16, 1865; living in Greenfield,
Richard B. Contant, priv., Co. D, 25th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. March, 1864.
Zina Il. Cowles, priv., 7th N. Y, H. Art. ; enl. Aug. 10, 1863; wounded at Cold Harbor, Va., May 3, 1864, and died at Washington from effects of wounds.
Jeremiah Coy, priv., Co. C, 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 8, 1862; disch. from U S. hospital at Newtown, N. C., June 9, 1865 ; living in Minnesota.
Zera Coy, priv , Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Oct. 17, 1861 ; disch. for disability, May 28, 1862; living at Watertown.
Samuel 8. Craig, corp., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Nov. 1861 ; pro. to orderly- sergt .; trans. to Vet. Bat., 77th Regt., Co. E, and was killed at the battle of the Wilderness, May 4, 1864 ; buried on the battle-field.
Enos Crandall, priv., Co. G, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 1862; died of fever, in U. S. hospital near Washington, D. C., Dec. 18, 1864 ; buried in Milton. Joseph Crandall, Jr., priv., Co HI, 153d N. Y. Ini .; enl. Sept. 6, 1862 ; served through the war ; disch, with the regiment, and lives in Milton.
Paul D. Crandall, priv., Co. G, 115th N. Y. Inf ; enl. Aug. 1862; died of typhoid fever, at Hilton Head, S. C., July 6, 1863.
Commodore l'. Curtis, priv., Co. HI, 153d N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 6, 1862 ; disch. for disability, Feb. 26, 1863; living at Greenfield.
Winslow J. Dake, priv., U. S. Reg. Cav. ; enl. April, 18G1 ; killed at Wilson's Creek, Mo., Aug. 10, 1861 ; he was a student at Troy University, in his junior year, at the time of his enlistment.
Darins S. Davis, priv., Co. C, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Oct. 22, 1861.
Frederick O. Day, priv., 180th N. Y. Inf .; enl. March 28, 1864. Elijah Dean, Jr.
Sylvanus T. Densmore, corp., Co. G, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 11, 1862: pro. to vergt. ; captured ; died in Andersonville, Ga., of brain fever, July 22, 1865; buried there.
Dennis Desmond, priv., Co. D, 25th N. Y. Cav. : enl. March, 186-4.
Edwin B. Deuel, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Oct. 14, 1861; pro. to corp., Nov. 5, 1862; wounded May 3, 1863.
James C. Deyoe, priv., 192d N. Y. Inf. ; eul. March 21, 1865.
Andrew J. Dorman, priv., Co. HI, 153d N. Y. Inf .; enl. Ang. 30, 1862 ; pro. to corp .; disch. with regiment, Jan. G, 1865; living at Middle Grove.
James Dorley, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Oct. 27, 1861; trans. to Vet
Bat. 77th Regt., Jan. 1, 1864; killled at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 12, 1864.
Andrew J. Dowen, priv., Co. H, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Oct. 17, 1861 ; killed at Fort Stevens, July 12, 1864.
Ezra W. Drake, priv., Co. F, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 12, 1862; disch, June 17, 1865; living nt Saratoga Springs.
William II. Drake, priv., Co. HI, 153d N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 30, 1862; disch. at close of war; living at Galway.
Augustus Dunham, priv., Co. 11, 77th N. Y. Inf ; enl. Oct. 17, ISGI; disch. for di-ability, July 6, 1862; hving in Greenfield.
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Charles S. Dunham, priv., Co. H, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Oct. 17, 1861 ; disch. with the regiment, Dec. 13, 1864.
lloltum Dunham, priv., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf .; enl. May, 1861 ; taken pris- oner at Mattapony Run, Va., Oct. IG, 1862; pro. to corp .; disch. with regiment, June 18, 1863; re-enl., priv., Co. C, 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav., July 2, 1863; pro. to ord .- sergt. ; disch. ut the close of the war ; died since the war.
Thomas Dunn, scaman ; enl. Jan. 19, 1865.
Stephen Eddy, priv., Co. D, 25tb N. Y. Cav .; enl. March, 1864.
Henry Elliott, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 27, 1861 ; died, of fever, at Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 20, 1862.
James Emperor, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Oct. 17, 1861 ; killed in battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864.
George D. Ferris, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. March 3, 1862; trans, to Vet. Bat , 77th Regt., Dec. 1863.
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