History of Seneca Co., New York, with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, palatial residences, public building and important manufactories, Part 40

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Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts, Ensign & Everts
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Prior to 1795, there was neither grist-mill nor store. From County history is learned of the fine property held by the Bayard Company, and of the latter's timely collapse. The first saw-mill was erected about 1794, and run to furnish materials for the first grist-mill, which was begun by Mr. Mynderse, agent of the company, in 1795, and completed and in operation the next year. The company built on Lot 6, at the lower rapids, another mill in 1807; both mills were painted red, and known as the upper and the lower " Red Milla," and Seneca Falls took the name of Mynderse Mills. During the building of the upper mill, Myn- derse erected a double log house upon the hill by the dwelling occupied in 1858 by H. C. Silsby. Mynderse lived in one end, and kept the small primitive store of this place in the other. Mr. D. B. Lum has a map of the village, which was known in 1794 as Seneca Village, town of Washington, county of Cayuga, and embraced what is now the First Ward of Seneca Falls. A number of lots had been sold in 1796.


The first saw-mill was erected upon the site of the City Mills, now owned by J. T. Miller. That mill was the inception of local improvement, and directly accessory to the buildings erected from materials by it prepared. Its successor stood upon the site of the post-office block, and was taken down in 1830 to give place to the Old Stone Mill. In 1797 the advantages of roads were acknowledged by their being laid out, and the attention of settlers called to their construction .. Elkanah Watson and party, in 1791, had followed a path westward to Scanyes; six years later, and what was likely a trail made by Indians, was superseded by the permanent routes laid out by aid of the unerring compass. Settlers heretofore penetrated the forest, guided by blazed trees, to numbered lot corners marked upon adjacent trees. Miles apart they were found, with a log honse in a clearing sur -. rounded by charred stumps and girdled trees. In June of 1797, the road from the Falls to Scanyes was laid out by Mynderse, and on the 14th of the same month a portion of the road to Geneva. Charges were entered, in sterling money, for the service against Charles Williamson, I. Livermore and E. Brown were employed as chainmen two days, and received therefor one pound four shillings.


The portage grew to become a business of importance. The charge for carrying from one landing to another-a mile's distance-was six shillings for a load, and the same for a boat. Later, the boats were larger, were carried on trucks, hauled by several teams, and cost more. An account of boats passed at the Seneca Portage from March 13, 1801, to June 24, 1806, gives a total of three hundred and thirty-one boats, for which the portage was one thousand four hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-eight cents.


Education attracted attention, and on June 15, 1801, a log school-house was constructed upon the bank of the mill-race, near where later stood the residence of Mrs. Dey, now owned by H. C. Silsby. The first teacher installed in the completed building was Alexander Wilson. The school-house was tenanted for a few weeks in the fall of 1803, by Peter Miller and family, pending the completion of his tavern stand. Mynderse had kept a store in a block-house constructed of hewn logs, and which stood on the terrace near the present home of John A. Rumsey. This block-house was taken down, removed and rebuilt about 1807, upon the spot now owned and occupied by Jacob Shoemaker, on Cayuga Street, and used as a school aud meeting-house up to 1817. Prior to 1815, after Mr. Wilson, came Mr. St. John, Jonathan Metcalf, Benjamin and Anson Jones, and Lot Hamilton. Anson Jones arrived at the Falls on a Saturday of 1812 or 1813, and gave notice that he would open a school on Monday following, and he did. He had been a lawyer in Vermont, and is remembered as a popular and successful teacher, who taught several terms and disappeared. In 1840, his name was seen in a paper by Dr. M. B. Bellows as Governor of Texas. A letter was written to him, and duly acknowledged by the former schoolmaster at Seneca Falls. The school was moved in 1817 into a new building on the park, and continued as a district school, under many different teachers, till the organization of the present educational district. During 1812, Jonathan Metcalf was jocosely reported to have taught school to obtain exemption from a draft, which would have interfered with his paying court to Betsey Miller, whom he afterwards married. Lewis. Bixby kept the Franklin Institute, on Bridge Street, in 1830. The Academy was built by a company of gentlemen in 1830, and C. Crittenden was its first


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HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.


Principal. Among others were Professor Orrin Root, Rev. John M. Guion, and Gilbert C. Walker, ex-Governor of Virginia, and now a Representative.


The first Turnpike Bridge was commenced on October 2, 1802, and was built across the river where later the bridge crosses the foot of Fall Street. A second bridge, known as the Ovid Street Bridge, was built in 1810. In 1827, a third bridge was constructed, and referred to as the Upper Bridge. Handsome and durable iron bridges now connect the northern and southern parts of the village.


An old Burial- Ground was given by Van Cleef, and when the company.acquired title, they, through their agent, W. Mynderse, donated the same spot for village sepulture. Its site and boundaries are fully shown upon Geddes's map of the village, made in 1815. Lewis Kniffen was buried here on February 9, 1802, and J. Disbrow on August 26, 1803. In this old cemetery lie buried the remains of Mynderse, Van Cleef, Lum, Mumford, the Disbrows, Dorman, Smith, Kniffen, Jacks, Cole, and many another. For thirty years the resting-place of these pioneers was regarded, and finally, as private property, was sold at auction as a portion of the estate of the late Charles W. Dey.


STORES.


On August 20, 1803, Mynderse raised a store-house. It was ocenpied for storage and as a retail store till 1812, and later, constituted the lower half of the " Old Red Mill." On the removal of the block-house in 1807, Mynderse had taken his goods to this store, and moved his family to what he termed "the old still," which he converted into a roomy and stylish residence. It stood under the hill, nearly opposite the mill, with side to the street, and having a veranda along the front. . What was then a fine garden are now the improved grounds of Messrs. Silsby, Rumsey, and James H. Gould. Following up the record of stores in the village, we find Abijah Mann located in 1814 where now is the firm of Ridley & Story. Henry Kellogg, Esq., built and kept a third store, in 1815, upon Lot 11. His brother Eli clerked for him. The store building was of plank, and sided. In 1875 this house, together with others, was consumed by fire. A fourth store was erected on the site of Skidmore's Block by Dean Mumford, brother of Thomas Mumford, Esq., of East Cayuga. Mumford was polite, neat, and orderly ; he showed goods called for, and replaced them before taking down others. His resi- dence was on the site of the National Exchange Bank. He built the cottage on Bayard Street, corner of Washington. The next merchant was John Isaacs, who opened out in Kellogg's old store. In 1823 or 1824 Abram and Samuel Payne came in, and dealt in merchandise, with their brother, Joseph C., as clerk. Their first store was where are now Ridley & Story, but a house was erected, the same now occupied by Lewis Howell, and into it their stock of goods was removed. The Paynes were numerous and energetic; one of them, named Henry Payne, is now member of Congress from Cleveland, Ohio. Simon Chapman, clerk and partner to Mynderse, became his successor in the old first store. Chapman mar- ried Ann Matthews; a daughter, Cornelia, is the wife of William Arnett, of Chicago. He removed to Michigan about 1836 in company with David and Joseph Durand, Jabez Lindsley, John, Moses P., and Ira Crowell, Hiram Gardner, and the Badg- leys.


On May 13, 1806, the first fulling-mill, cloth-dressing, and wool-carding works in this region was raised. The mill was erected at the foot of Fall Street, below the old turnpike bridge, upon the locality of Hubbard's shop. A pair of card- ing-machines were put in by Jacob and Lewis Sherrill, of New Hartford. Myn- derse reserved the right to purchase the machines for nine hundred dollars at any time. Later, he became owner, and leased the works, at two hundred dollars a year, for three years, to William Bruce, a prominent man, and an early and suc- cessful keeper in the Auburn prison. In 1814, Harris Usher conducted the works, then Asael Fitch, who was succeeded by Henry and Ebenezer Ingalls. Henry died in 1820, and his brother carried on the business, in company with Franklin Long. W. J. Woodworth, from Tyre, in 1838 engaged in wool-carding, using the building of A. S. and C. W. Dey. Woodworth disposed of his interest to Smith & Son, by whom it was enlarged in 1848, and; known as a woolen-mill, became celebrated for the quality of its manufacture ; later, it was kept as a wool- carding-mill by William Braman, till, in 1875, it gave place to the malt-house of James Dalrymple. An oil-mill was erected, about 1817, where now stand Rumsey's Works. About 1815, Jenks Jenkins started a tan-yard, on ground now covered by " The Gould's Works," and obtained a right to draw two inches of water from the canal, the only privilege sold till the dissolution of the company in 1826. Asheries were built by Henry Kellogg; one near the site of Latham & Osborne's planing-mill, the other where stands J. T. Miller's brick block. Few frames were put up prior to 1816, at which date the number of every description, including barns, was but twenty-seven. Mechanics' Hall was commenced in 1816, and finished in the year following. Its builder was Abijah Mann. The building of the Presbyterian Society was completed in 1817, by Jabez Starks and Mr .. Hovey.


TOWN SETTLEMENTS.


Originally intending a record of ontside settlements, the earlier gathered village about Mynderse's Mills claimed priority in time, and has been seen struggling for existence and making some advances, which, in instances, have been traced at length. Meanwhile the pioneer farmers had been settling in the neighborhood, and some trade had been inaugurated at Bridgeport and the Kingdom, to which, and other localities, we direct our attention. Our information is derived from D. B. Lum, who came with his father, David Lum, from New Jersey, and settled on Lot 85, on the Spring Brook Road, known as the Mynderse farm. Lum reached this place in May, 1806, after a journey of thirty days, and temporarily occupied a log house near the head of Spring Brook, pending the erection of a house and the digging of a well upon the farm. Prior to 1810, the only houses and their occupants in the Spring Brook neighborhood were: on the east of the road, beginning at Nichols's Corners, coming south, Joel Scott, David Freeland, John Pierson (Josiah Crane and Edward Compsen at the brook), and Russell Disbrow. On the west were Timothy Morris at the brook, Ira Church, John Crowell, David Lum, and Mr. Willis. The Black Brook locality was first settled by Thaddeus Russell, who lived on land now occupied by Mr. Westbrook. Van Horne, Gardner, Henry I. Brink, Theophilus Cross, Enoch Hayt, Cyrenus Nor- ris, and Solomon P. Culver were the pioneers till 1816 and 1817, when a rush of population arrived, and settled thickly on the banks of the brook. These later settlers were mostly from New Jersey, and are recalled in the names of William Fox, Aaron Easton, Jesse Morehouse, Benoni, John, and Luther Ward, Darling and Paulus Beach, John and James Russell, the Kings, and Messrs. Royston and Taylor. Prior to 1819, this neighborhood reached the village at the falls through the woods, or around by Deacon Durand's and along the Spring Brook Road; then a road was cut through the timber and made from Russell's, south, to the pike. The low swamp ground was traversed upon a corduroy of logs laid at right angles to the line of road. On the State Road were Nicholas Thompson and Montgomery Freeland, east of Nichols's Corners; westward lived the Girald's family, five of the Whites, and those of Bennett, Southwell, and Decker. At the Kingdom lived a group of prominent citizens, among whom are enumerated John Knox, Pontius Hooper, Mr. Pixley, John Burton, Colonel Chamberlain, Lewis Birdsall, Stiles Stevens, and John B. Parkhurst. John Freeland and Nicholas Squires settled about 1802, where their children and grandchildren are still living, in the northeast part of the present town, where were the homes of Joseph Dumont and Thomas Sessions. Going south, we cross the river bridge, and, pass- ing the residence of Judge Lay, arrive at Bridgeport, or West Cayuga, which, till 1815, was quite a village and business place. Here was a store or two, a group of taverns, a toll-house, and a large bakery employed in making the " hard tack" for the soldiery of 1812. Here, with C. Baldy, J. L. Larzelere, H. Moses, and others of the tavern-keepers, the anniversaries of independence were enthusiasti- cally celebrated. The bridges, and those connected therewith, are elsewhere noted .. West of Bridgeport, on the hill by the turnpike, lived Colonel Daniel Sayer, in 1806, while four years earlier Nathaniel G. Potter had taken up a dwelling-place on the east side of the Big Hollow. He was succeeded by Henry Moses, in the same locality. Moses settled later at the lake, and engaged in tavern-keeping,. and now, at the age of ninety-three years, is living in Fayette with Peter Moses, his son. Stephen Crane lived in a log house which stood in what is now Restvale Cemetery; his daughter, Polly, the first wife of Deming Boardman, was born there in 1798, and there buried in 1870. In close proximity are the cradle and the grave. James Sylandt lived opposite Crane, and Dr. Reuben Long was a resi- dent, in 1808, of a spot near and somewhat west of the stone bridge. The King- dom was a half-way point between the village of Seneca Falls and Waterloo, where settlers procured their store goods and bartered their produce, until ahont 1816. Here Pontius Hooper kept tavern and welcomed the loungers from the adjacent localities. Lewis Birdsall was Postmaster for the old town of Junius, and kept. the office in his tavern, in the house, which refitted serves as the residence of James Lawrence, Esq. Opposite the mill of Colonel Chamberlain, in this noted spot, stood a custom mill, built by Devereaux, and later known as Brickley's Mill. Ananias Jenks had also a wool-carding and cloth-dressing-mill at that spot. The. entire property fell into the hands of John Babcock, who utilized it for various. purposes, till the State, raising the dam at Seneca Falls, destroyed the water-power and paid the proprietor fourteen thousand dollars damages.


BRIDGEPORT IN 1820.


Abram Failing came from Homer, New York, to Bridgeport with his father, Joseph Failing, in the year 1820, and speedily the father took part in the lucra- tive and thriving business of keeping a house of entertainment. The following is derived from the recollection of Mr. Abram Failing. The residents of Bridge- port, and on the lake road south of the town-line of Fayette, and north to what


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was called the Lower Bridge or State Road, at the time in question, were as fol- lows : There were in all six taverns kept, and all were doing considerable business ; their respective landlords were : Warren W. Chase, who kept a stand in the house since owned by Robert Gott; Henry Moses, yet living ; Theodore Chapin ; Judge Larzelere, and General Baldy, whose house stood just north of the toll-house. Many a night these taverns had more calls from regular travel than they could accommodate. A list of other residents gives us A. A. Baldwin, who in 1833 was Under-Sheriff and Jailer at Waterloo, E. Thompson, Michael and Thomas C. De- laney, John Metzger, George Giddings, William Anderson, Moses Goodrich, Cap- tain Russell Pratt, Colonel John Harris, Mrs. Oliver, Robert Scott, Jonathan Beadle, Alexander Wilson, James Bennett, William Henderson, whose widow is still a resident, Russell Griffin, and William P. Travis. On the road north lived William Willis, John Demont, and his brothers Abram and Joseph, and Josiah Crane. South of Bridgeport there lived Cornelius Peterson, Jerry Burroughs, Peter Bockoven, where his son George now lives, and William Larzelere, on the land now held and occupied by his son Jacob. . We pass to a log house inhabited by a man named Stiles, then on to the brick house built by Henry Hunter as his home, and at present occupied by Philip Sisson." His brother Thomas lived upon the farm on the hill, where George Powis subsequently passed his life. The next and last house was owned and dwelt in by Mr. Facer. Passing along the turn- pike, no house was reached till one came to the brow of the hill ; there there was one on each side of the road; one occupant was Abner Brown, the other is un- known. West was Thomas McCurdy's, where one could find refreshment and rest, for he too was a tavern-keeper. Bridgeport was visited by a menagerie in 1822, the proprietors selecting this point in preference to either Seneca Falls or Waterloo, and the resulting large attendance proved the shrewdness of their choice. Steamboat navigation was opened on July. 4, 1821 or 1822, between Bridgeport and Ithaca. The " Enterprise," commanded by Oliver Phelps, carried passengers and towed boats to and from those places. The citizens had reason to feel gratified when, at the same time, a line of stages began to run from Bridgeport to Buffalo, which connected by boat to Ithaca, and thence by stage to Newburgh, on the Hudson. The canal was finished, and the packets from Schenectady to Buffalo monopolized conveyance and caused the other route to be abandoned. A daily stage run by Sherwood often went empty. Packets ran in 1822 from Utica to Montezuma, whence travelers came to Bridgeport in row-boat or stage, whence they went by steamboat or stage. Cayuga Bridge was a source of wealth. .. Asa Sprague, a toll-gatherer, afterwards became superintendent of the Syracuse and Rochester Railroad, and later a bank president at Rochester. Provisions were cheap,-wheat, two shillings sixpence per bushel; beef and pork, five cents per pound; butter, six cents; eggs, three cents per dozen; potatoes and oats, fifteen cents per bushel, and peaches and apples for the picking. In 1821, David Beach built where Whitlock lives, and began to clear off the timber, for the tract had never been cultivated. Within a few years Elam Beach bought land which ad- joined David's on the west, built upon, and commenced its improvement. Alex- ander Wallace bought the tract now comprising the farm of Harvey Benham, and began clearing it up. A large farm-house erected by him bas been replaced by a brick. Here lived Elisha Morgan, father of John, a former Postmaster. In 1828, Stephen Stow became a resident, and lived upon the farm now the property of William G. Wayne. The months of August and September were marked by the prevalence of fevers. Ague waa common in spring; at other times the locality was healthy. The first physician was Dr. Whitney, who resided at East Cayuga .. Dr. Silas Keeler took up his residence at Bridgeport in 1823. He finally moved to Seneca Falls, practiced for many years, and died in 1867.


SENECA FALLS IN 1823.


In 1813, H. G. Spafford reports " Seneca Village, at the Falls of the Seneca River, is fast improving, and must become a brisk trading-place as the country populates. Here is a carrying-place, and Mynderse's Mills, with fifteen houses." Ten years elapse, and we traverse the streets of the village and note the villagers, their homes and business. There was no frame on the sonth side of the river that could be seen from the north side. There were there but a few log houses and a single framed house on a farm bought by Ebenezer Ingalls from Colonel Mynderse. . At the lower end of Fall Street, Ingalls & Long were running a wool-carding and cloth-dressing establishment. Next, west, was the flouring-mill of Mynderse, occupied in part by Simon Chapman as a store. In the east front room was the post-office, kept by Mynderse. Passing on, we see an ashery, the residences of S. Chapman, of Ebenezer Ingalls, and of Noah Morris, the present site of the National Bank. On the corner of Fall and Ovid Streets was Samuel Bradley. blacksmith. West, was the wagon-shop of Alfred Arnold, the shoe- shop and home of David Crowell, and Lake'a grocery. Then came Mechanics' Hall, of which we have spoken. Here were living Henry McKrum and Luther F. Stevens, Esq. In one room was the tailoring shop of Benjamin Kirkland, in


another, the office of Stevens, and in a third, the store of Dean Mumford. A tenant house stood on the site of the post-office, and down the bank was Hall & Center's saw-mill. Beyond the Grove House was a frame, standing just east of the gas-works. Farther west was the place of Shipley Wells. The first house east was the tavern of Peter Miller, which stood in the mouth of Mynderse Street, and whose well is now covered by the sidewalk. On the Savings Bank corner lived Amos Halsey ; in its rear was his cabinet-shop. Next came the place of Dr. M. B. Bellows, who became a resident in 1812, married Maria Finn, was a skillful physician, and died in 1853. James Bellows, his son, succeeded to his practice, was a well-read doctor, and was twice appointed surgeon in the army .. Next, east, we see the houses of Mrs. Lum, Franklin Long, and, on the present site of the National Exchange Bank, the place of Dean Mumford. Beyond was the tavern of Theodore Chapin, and on Hoskins's corner lived Samuel Bradley. Three fam- ilies lived in the house of Lambert Van Aelstyn; they were those of Royal Brown, Ira Crowell, and Stephen Burrett, and in the house adjoining lived Edward Lewis. Then we reach the residence of Colonel Mynderse, where, fifty- three years later, stands the fine mansion of H. C. Silsby. That Myoderse resi- dence was sold to Anthony Dey, and on December 18, 1830, burnt down, the family barely making their escape. We find but one church, the Presbyterian, although other denominations enjoyed services, sometimes in this church, at other times in the school-house. Rev. A. G. Orton, the pastor, lived in the house to be later occupied by R. E. Gay. The Paynes had not yet come to occupy Lake'a gro- cery and build the Howell Mill. Benjamin Bates, the cooper, made barrels for the milla. On the site of Gould's works was Willard'a tannery. In 1828 a Pres- byterian parsonage was built on the corner of State and North Park Streets, and later, improvements thickencd.


The Seneca Lock Navigation Company was incorporated in 1813, and completed their improvements for river navigation in 1816. The company had the use of their work for eleven years. The masonry was done by Benjamin Sayre. In 1827 the State assumed control. Andrew P. Tillman, contractor for the new locks, was a large dealer in leather manufacture in Seneca Falls, and at Geneva. He died at the home of Mrs. Caroline Laird, his daughter, in this village. In 1825, Messrs. Abram and Samuel Payne erected the flouring-mill, afterwards known as the Clinton Mill, and recently burned. This mill was the first improve- ment on what is called the upper level. Through the efforts of L. F. Stevens and G. V. Sackett, a bill was enacted by the State Legislature authorizing the Paynes to tap the level, hence the tail-race from Latham & Osborn'e lumber- yard to the City Mill. The use of this water-privilege was an auspicions event, which gave fresh impetus to business and excited high hope of future prosperity. The mill was a fine structure, supplied with four run of stone. Then followed the building of a saw-mill, by Judge Stevens; n cloth-dressing-, fulling-, and carding- mill, by Watson & Terrell; a custom-mill, by William Smith ; a saw-mill, by Hiram Larzelere; a distillery and oil-mill, by Isaac Smith, and a furnace and machine-shop, by George H. McClarey. In 1826, J. M. Coleman commenced the first brick building on the north side of the river, occupied by him, in 1859, as a residence and harness-shop. In 1827, Judge Sackett, Ansel Bascom, and Andrew P. Tillman made a large purchase of land on the south side of the river, and divided it into lots. From that date till 1832 the south side grew rapidly. The first house was built by Hiram Larzelere, on the west side of Bridge Street, in 1827. In 1829, Wetmore built a house, the second east from the Episcopal church, G. V. Sackett put up a brick block on the corner of Bridge and Bayard Streets, Jacob Young built the Franklin House, Dr. Gay, the house on the corner of Bayard and Centre, and other houses went up, built by Thomas Sullivan, Edwin Cook, Elijah Loper, and Chauncy Marshall. In 1829, the Baptist church was built by Henry Marcellus, and other improvements accompanied and followed.




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