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The Methodist Episcopal Church of the town is com- prised in three separate classes, located on Big Creek, in the southeast, on Briar IIill, in the west, and at Fremont Centre.
WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCHI.
The first meetings were held by Rev. Stephen D. Trembley, who organized a class in the Gulf school-house, in the south- east part of the town, in 1831. Jacob Winnie and wife, Jesse Bartholomew and wife, and John Pauling and wife were among the first members. The Haskinville eircuit was formed in 1855, by Rev. S. D. Trembley. A church was built by J. W. Farden, Geo. H. Sprague, and Isaac R. Rathbun, trustees, at an expense of $1000, and dedicated Dee. 23, 1876, by Rev. L. N. Stratton. List of pastors : 1855, S. D. Trembley ; 1858, C. C. Reynolds ; 1860, G. W. Seudder; 1861, M. Q. MeFarland ; 1862, G. L. Payne; 1867, P. S. Stratton ; 1868, Henry W. Bixby; 1873, John
John B. Cummins. Stephen B. Haskin.
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Daniel Wainright. Milo Canfield.
1868. Wm. B. Stephens.
1876. Teherick P. Vankeuren.
MRS. HENRY COTTON.
HENRY COTTON.
HENRY COTTON,
son of Silas and Elizabeth Cotton, was born in Hartford, Wash- ington Co., N. Y., June 20, 1798. His father was a native of Rhode Island, and settled in Washington County at a very early day. He was a farmer by occupation, and continued to reside in Hartford until his death. He reared a family of eleven chil- dren, of whom Henry was the fifth child. The grandfather of Henry was Samuel Cotton, a native of Rhode Island also, who settled in Hartford, Washington Co., about 1814, and remained until his death. Henry Cotton was reared on the farm, and has continued to follow the same until the present time. He has also been somewhat engaged as a dealer in cattle and sheep. He worked out by the month on a farm for two scasons before coming to Steuben County. He located on his present farm in November, 1819. He came here in company with Messrs. Barnard, Bray- ton, and William E. Congdon. He has made all the improve- ments on his present farm of one hundred and sixty-eight acres. Mr. Cotton is a substantial farmer and citizen, and to such men is due the credit of making Stenben County what it is to-day. He is highly spoken of by those who know him.
He married Almira, daughter of Daniel Martin, Dec. 28, 1820. She was born Oct. 6, 1802, in Hartford, Washington Co., N. Y. Of this union five children have been born, viz. : Silas, born June 7, 1822, married Miss Sally Ann Mack, Dec. 31, 1845, and had one son, George E .; Silas Cotton and wife
are dead ; Lydia Ann, born Nov. 8, 1827, married George Collins, Feb. 22, 1846, and has five children ; Samuel Cotton was born Sept. 20, 1831, married Sarah Carrington, April 17, 1850, and has two children ; Daniel Cotton was born Aug. 16, 1837, married Jane Tuller, Feb. 17, 1859, and has two children ; and Juliza Cotton was born Oct. 1, 1839, and married William H. Bowen, Feb. 17, 1859, and has nine children.
Mrs. Henry Cotton was a member of the Baptist Church, was a lady highly estecmed, and left a name which is cherished to-day by members of the family. She died March 6, 1857, and was buried in the Beachville Cemetery in Dansville.
Mr. Cotton married Miss Desdamona Phelps, a native of Vermont, but a resident of Steuben County after she was twelve years of age, Jan. 7, 1858. She was a member of the Universalist Church. She died Sept. 28, 1875. Mr. Cotton has been a Democrat the larger part of his life. He is now an old gentleman, hale and hearty, living on the same place he purchased in 1819. He is a member of the Baptist Church. He has a large and interesting family of children and grand- children, who love and respect their aged father and grandfather.
Out of five couple who were married within six weeks of one another, all are now dead save the subject of this sketch ; so, one by one, the old pioneers are joining the innumerable caravan who are marching to the pale realms of shade.
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TOWN OF FREMONT.
Randolf; 1874, J. W. Faneher ; 1878, J. H. Cook. Past elders, G. L. Payne, J. Bartholomew, Jacob Ward. Li- censed, Jacob McDowell.
Present officers, J. HI. Cook, Pastor ; George H. Sprague, Erastus Hard, Trustees ; Isaac R. Rathbun, Clerk and Class- Leader, Haskinville ; George Bardeau, Class-Leader at Big Creek school-house.
Present membership 76, some of whom live in adjoining towns.
EVANGELICAL CHURCHI.
The first meetings of this society were missionary meet- ings, held by German preachers from Pennsylvania, in the house of Jacob Conderman, in 1828. Meetings were held here, and also funerals, until the building of the church near by, in 1860. The trustees were Jaeob H. Conder- man, Andrew Helmer, and John Nipher.
Among the first members were Jacob Conderman and wife and Mrs. Polly IJelmer. The pastors were Revs. Jacob Rail, Henry Graves, Jacob Moose, Henry Curtiss, James F. Shults. Present Pastor, John H. Peters ; Clerk, Wm. R. Babeoek ; Steward, Adam Helmer. Present mem- bership, 40.
The church was dedieated in July, 1860, by the Rev. John Wagner.
THE FIRST ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF FREMONT.
In 1870, Rev. William A. Fenn, of Rochester, then an Advent preacher, came to Fremont in response to an invi- tation from some of the citizens, and pitched a tent on the flat south of the present Advent church, from which he commeneed to preach daily. Some thirty persons were converted to his doetrine during the two weeks he remained. Among the converts were Alvin Gates and wife, George W. Gates and wife, Hubbard Head and wife, Mrs. Ruth Ship- ham, Mrs. Celia Gates, Cassius Booth, Willard Westcott and wife, Mrs. Daniel Head, Ephraim Bentley and wife, John and Fanny Manhart, Isaae Masterman and wife, Burton Dart and wife, Fayette Robinson and wife, and M. Carrington. After the departure of Mr. Fenn, Rev. John W. Taylor filled his place. Syphonius Gates was chosen Elder ; Burton Dart and Isaae Masterman, Deacons. In 1871, a church was built and paid for, at an expense of $1600. The church was dedicated by Rev. William A. Fenn. Pastors: Revs. John W. Taylor, A. G. Briggs, O. Wendell, Seymour Moose, Henry Zeigufus. Present membership, 30. Deacons : John P. Oswald, William Roberts. Trustees : John P. Oswald, Fayette Robinson, Burton Dart, William Roberts.
At a meeting held at the house of Inerease Miller, in the east part of the town, in 1853, George Morris was ehosen Chairman, and Rev. A. S. Baker, Secretary ; Richard Maynard, Wm. Osborn, George Morris, Thomas Osborn, and David Dunham were chosen trustees, and a church was built soon after, on the land of Increase Miller, at an expense of $900. The first class-leader was David Dunham. Present officers: Luther M. Osborn, Clerk ; Russell White, Class-leader ; Russell White, Thomas Davis, John Kelly, Stewards. Present membership, 7.
A church was built at Fremont Centre by John M.
Kelly, Isaiah Ingals, and Samuel B. Hendee, Trustees, at an expense of $4000, and dedicated Oct. 8, 1874, by Rev. D. W. C. Huntington. The present officers are Russell C. White, Class-Leader ; Melvin L. Osborn, Clerk ; Caleb Bullock, Samuel B. Ilendee, John M. Kelly, Trustees. Present membership, 38.
MILITARY RECORD OF FREMONT.
Alexander Maynard, Co. F, I41st N. Y. Inf.
Charles Queisser, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.
Harrison Russell, private, Co. K, 107th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Ang. 13, 1862.
Samuel E. Rider, sergt., Co. F, 14Ist N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862.
James M. Kelly, corp., Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Amos D. Mason, corp., Co F, 141st Y. N. Inf ; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Eugene E. Abner, Co. 1, 141-t N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Harvey J. Bennett, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Warren Briggs, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Edgar W. Brown, Co. V, 141st N Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862.
Sweet B. Coburn, sergt., Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; en1. Aug. 11, 1862. Samuel A. II. Conderman, Co. F', 141st N. Y. Int .; enl. Aug. 11, 1862.
Daniel C. Cook, Co. F, 14Ist N. Y. Inf .; enl. Ang. 11, 1862. George Coburn, Co. F, I41st N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 11, 1862. Orrin Conderman, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Ang. 11, 1862. Russell B. Carrington, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 11, 1862. Warren A. L. Demery, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 11, 1862. Truman C. Gibbs, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf ; enl. Aug. 11, 1862. William HI. Harrison, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Ang. 11, 1862. Dexter V. B. Jolly, Co. F. 141st N. Y. Inf. ; ent. Aug. 11, 1862. Asnel Mead, Co. F, 14Ist N. Y. Inf .; enl. Ang. 11, 1862.
James H. Moore, corp., Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 11, 1862. Albert Manhart, Co. F, 141-t N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 11, 1862.
Thomas Robinson, Co. F, 14Ist N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Ang. 11, 1862.
Franklin M. Reynolds, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Ang. 11, 1862.
Daniel Wheeler, wagoner, Co. F, 141-t N. Y .; enl. Ang. 11, 1862. Edward Cole, Co. A, 25th Cav .; enl. Feb. 20, 1804.
Thomas W. Cotton, corp., Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.
Leonard N. Hengenir, Co. F, 141st N Y. Inf.
Orlando Pettis.
Harvey J. Bennett.
Benjamin S. Johnson, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.
Samuel A. Conderman.
Orrin Cunderman. ..
Charles F. Ilanlin, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.
Henry Tuttle, 189th N. Y. Inf.
Liscomb C. Robinson, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.
Melanchthon Barber, private, Co. D, 86th Regt. ; enl. Sept. 5, 1861.
Alonzo Davis, private, Co. D, 86th Regt .; enl. Sept. 5, 1861.
Jacob A. Dnel, private, Co. D. 86th Regt .; enl. Nov. 2, 1861.
John M. Kelly, Ist sergt., Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.
Thomas Robinson, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.
Abram Russell, Co. F, 14Ist N. Y. Int.
William E. Codington, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.
John Brown. Edward Brown. Steward Shineburger.
John Swain.
Duane Cook, 13th N. Y. Vol. Inf.
Hendrick Rathbun, 86th N. Y. Inf.
Samuel Smith, 86th N. Y. Inf.
Francis Hurlburt, 86th N. Y. Inf.
James R. Stephens, 104th N. Y. Inf.
William E. Travis, 104th N. Y. Inf.
Iloratio Allen, 104tl: N. Y. Inf.
Ira Allen, 104th N. Y. Inf.
Henry Head, 104th N. Y. Inf.
Sweet Brayton, 107th N. Y. Inf.
Clark Preston. 107th N. Y. Inf.
Renben Zimmerman, 107th N. Y. Inf.
Delos Brownell, Co. K, 107th N. Y. Inf.
John A. Brownell, Co. K, 107th N. Y. Inf.
The following men enlisted on the call of the President of Oct. 17, IS63 : James
D. Jolly, Benjamin Hulburt, Jacob G. Winnie, George M. Saxton, Isaac W. Trowbridge, Georgo HI. Vredenburg, Henry Barber, John Wisler, Warren Briggs, Joseph Reed, Henry Cohen, Charles F. Stephens, Francis Hurlburt, Silas Manning, Benjamin J. Miller, Monroe Betron, Jnmes F. Davis, Charles Maddison, Isaiah K. Martin.
The following men enlisted under the last call: James scott, George Mason, Robert D. Person, John Seaman, John S. Early, Edward Murphy, Peleg Decker, Amos HI. Ercubrack, Edward Forte, Merritt Stanton, William Gorman, Edward Quion, Daniel Wilcox, John Williams, Edward Willom, George Klemhany, James H. Stevens, Patrick McGuire, Thomas Crook- ·shank, Charles H. Bonnin, George B. McClosy, Joseph Lichield.
GREENWOOD.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
THE town of Greenwood was formed from Troupsburgh and Canisteo, Jan. 24, 1827. West Union was taken from it in 1845, and a part of Jasper was annexed in 1848. It lies upon the western border of the county, and is bounded north by Hartsville, east by Jasper, south by West Union, and west by the county line. Bennett's Creek runs through the east part of the town through a valley excavated from four to six hnudred feet below the hill-tops. The central and western part of the town is rolling upland of clayey loam, the valleys being loam mixed with gravel and shale.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
Alexander H. Stephens came up Bennett's Creek from Canisteo, in company with Anson Robinson, popularly known as " Robinson Crusoe," and commenced the first clearing in the town of Greenwood, a mile north of the present village, on the llovey Stephens place, in the spring of 1821. Ezra Cobey, a Prussian, had previously made a small clearing three miles down the creek, in Cauisteo. The road had been chopped up through the valley and south to the State line, by the land office, but was not cleared. They worked here during the summer and part of the winter, living in a log cabin and working on their mill, Mrs. John Stephens coming up occasionally to do their cooking. The family did not move into Greenwood until the mill was running. Ezra and John II. Stephens moved np the valley first, and Phineas came soon after. The mill, to which was soon added two "run" of stones, was built near the Brundage mill, and run by an undershot breast-wheel. The outlines of the old pond are still marked by willows. This was the first mill built in the town, and was operated by Uriah Stephens until 1825, when Colonel John Stephens moved into the town. At this time there was no mill in reach of the settlements down the creek nearer than at Wombough's, on the Tuscarora, and another north, on the Canisteo.
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Settlement along the creek was made very fast after the mill was built.
Deacon Jacob Manning, from New Hampshire, came in 1823, his family consisting of his wife and one son, Daniel Manning. Dennis Sanford settled back on the hill, to- wards Krusin's Corners, in 1824. Eleazer Woodward came in 1823, from New Hampshire, and opened a tannery on a small stream to the east, near the mill. Sebe Norton and Stephen Powell settled in the southwest part of the town, on the ridge, and Enoch Ordway and his two sons- in-law, " Hoose" Carr and Ezra Lovejoy, Hiram Putnam, John H. Hoyt, Joseph and Josephus Bachelor, and Jacob Manuing settled along and near the creek. Guy Wardwell lived on the strip of land annexed to Greenwood from Jas- per before any other settlement was made in the town.
Next to building a mill, the opening of a tavern and cross- roads was an alluring enterprise.
In the fall of 1824, Levi Davis, of Dryden, Tompkins Co., came and bought the site of the present village of Greenwood, built a log house, and in March, 1825, moved in and opened a tavern. In one corner of the room a bar was fenced off, in which he sold goods, which consisted mainly of tea, snuff, cotton cloth, tobacco, pork, and whisky (worth twenty cents a gallon at the still), oats, hay, and indigo for coloring cloth. This was the first tavern and store in the town. As business increased, he added a bed- room to the front stoop, and built a kitchen in the rear. Mr. Davis also commenced the manufacture of pot and pearl ashes, which he continued for thirty years. The farmers when clearing their land gathered and saved the ashes, which they boiled down in bad weather, selling the black ash at the store. Seven hundred bushels of ashes were re- quired for a ton of potash, which would be worth from $80 to $100. A man could make $10 a month by gathering his ashes and boiling down the proceeds. This was a cash business, the Liverpool market readily absorbing these chemicals. until the Russians entered into competition some years later. The first post-office in the town was at this store. Joshua L. Chapman, then a boy of fifteen, carried the mails on horseback through the dense forest from Hor- nellsville to Canisteo, passing through Greenwood, the jonr- ney taking him one day each way. This was in 1828-29. In 1826, Col. Ira Davenport, father of Hon. Ira Davenport, the present State senator, became Mr. Davis' partner. David Foote and Wm. Ferguson, who bought two village lots of Redmond Davis, a short distance above the store, and opened a coffin and furniture manufactory in 1830, were the next settlers in the future village. Some of their heavy carved work is still treasured by Mr. Davis, as specimens of artistic skill.
In 1830, Benjamin F. Brundage moved from Bath, and erected a carding and cloth-dressing factory in Greenwood, in which he did a successful business until its destruction by fire in 1846, when it was replaced by the present flouring- mill. Mr. Brundage has been a prominent citizen. Of his seven sons, Robert L. and Benjamin C. are prominent lawyers ; Israel M. a successful farmer,-he has for several years been supervisor of the town; and John M. Brundage has been justice of sessions.
Daniel McCormick came from the county of Antrim in 1832, and built a grist-mill at Rough and Ready. In 1834 his brother James came, bringing his wife and two little children, arriving in the winter at New York City, where he bought a one-horse wagon, and started up the North River on his overland journey to his new home, which he reached about the middle of January, after twenty-four days
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of almost insufferable hardship, arrived at his destination, and purchasing an improvement, made that summer the first three firkins of butter for market which were shipped from the town. He soon increased his dairy to 30 cows, and built him a house, three stories in height, on the point of a high hill overlooking the village, from which he took the name of " High Jimmy" McCormick, as he is popu- larly known throughout the surrounding country.
Among the earlier settlers are also Henry Young, who came from Tompkins County in 1826, and settled where his son William now lives. George Updike came from Seneca County in 1828 ; Benjamin Edwards from Newfield, Tompkins Co., in 1830 ; Win. Atkins from Enfield in 1832; Abram Williamson and Daniel Richey from Ulysses in 1827, settling in the west part of the town. John J. Dutcher settled near Krusen's in 1826. John Rogers, from Lansing, Cayuga Co., settled in the south part of the town, near the old Catholic church, in 1832. Hiram Bur- ger, who lives near Greenwood village, came with his father, Ezekiel Burger, from Troupsburgh, where he was born, in 1815. Enos Smith came from Seneca County in 1828, and settled on the hill west of the village. Homer Mallory, supervisor of Greenwood for the past six years, is a son of Samuel Mallory, who came from Connecticut. and settled near Krusen's Corners in 1838. John Balsby settled in the northwest corner of the town in 1828.
Charles C., son of Ezra Stephens, was the first white child born in the town, his birth occurring in 1824. The first marriages were, on Christmas, 1828, Hiram Putnam to Lucinda, daughter of Ezra Stephens; and, June 14, 1829, Redmond Davis, son of Levi Davis, to Jane, daugh- ter of Nathaniel Porter. The first school was tanght by Sarah Carr.
When the first settlements were made, the valley was filled with a heavy growth of nutritious herbage, upon which cattle were driven up from the river to fatten. The first settlement south was Mr. Olmstead's, now Rexville.
Richard Krusen came from Dryden in 1825, and opened the cross-roads, four miles west of Davis' store, towards Andover, where he kept a tavern until the country had become well settled, and railroads changed the routes of travel. Acting as a sub-agent for the land-office at Bath, he did much towards attracting a good class of settlers from his native country.
In 1828, the first clearing west of Greenwood was that of Joseph Crossing, and just beyond, on the Ridge road, lived Randal Pease and Daniel Richey, who came in 1827. The next place west, on the hill, was Aden Lewis, Williani Brown, and Timothy Terpeting. Then, nearly opposite each other, were James and William Bess; and back some distance from the road was John Potter. Timothy LIol- loway from Dutchess County, on the right, was the next settler, and half a mile through the dark woods was the little clearing of Elisha Sanford. Joining the Sanford place was Anson Cook, Esq. Robert Richards lived where Alva Richards, who came in 1834, now lives. Nathaniel Richards, their father, came in 1828.
Enos Mead, from Newfield, Tompkins Co., made the first clearing west of Krusen's Corners, in 1827. His son, Alvin Mead, who came a few months later, brought the
first wagon into that part of the town, his brothers chop- ping the road ahead for him to drive through. Mr. Mead contracted for 1050 acres of land, and brought several families of his relatives. The Mead settlement became a centre of improvement, and a post-office was established there in 1842, with Alvin Mead postmaster. The post- office was discontinued on the opening of another at Rex- ville, in the north part of West Union.
William Burrows was an early settler still west, near the county line, and built a saw-mill in 1830. Joshua Gold- smith, a son-in-law of Derrick Krusen, the school-teacher, lived near him. Half a mile north of Krusen's Corners was the log school-house where Sophie Phelps taught school. There were many small clearings in that part of the town as early as 1830.
A spring of salt water was discovered by Ezekiel Burger, a native of Delaware County, while hunting, before the set- tlement of the town. This spring was a resort for deer and elk, and was well known by the Indians, who watched for them as they came to drink its waters. Mr. Burger and a Mr. Mathews had built a couple of cabins at the spring, one roofed with elm-bark, and the other with what was called a " stake and ridered roof;" that is, built in at the top, and the rough-split shingles laid in courses and held in place.by logs laid over each course and held in place by stakes or wooden pins. The spring was close to the creek, but a drill had been erected and a well sunk sixty-four feet by hand, when the drill was broken off in the well. Boiling was carried on in kettles until Mr. Davis bought the land, and Mr. Mathews died, when the enterprise was abandoned.
After the well had been abandoned for a few days the settlers would come and pump out the water and boil down a sack of salt in Burger's kettles until they were taken away. Salt was hard to get in those days, and the well was much frequented. Afterwards, when roads were opened, salt was imported so cheaply that the well was abandoned. In 1870 a well was drilled at this place for oil to a depth of 600 feet, resulting in gas, which would burn freely for several minutes, and salt water in small quantities, with some indications of oil. The well was abandoned when the contract under which it was drilled had expired. The north part of the town, west of Bennett's Creek, is quite broken, and its settlement is comparatively recent. The western and central part, which has the appearance of high rolling prarie, is well cultivated, and the view from almost any point is magnificent. Descending into the deep, narrow valley of Bennett's Creek, in the north part of the town, the change is very abrupt. The hills on either side of the deep, narrow valley are cleared and cultivated, and a con- tinuous row of farm-houses extends along the left bank of the stream to the village, some three miles south. Follow- ing the hill on the right bank of the stream is the partially- completed grade of the Rochester, Hornellsville and Pine Creek Railroad, which was abandoned in 1875, and which has made the town of Greenwood famous for its refusal to pay its assessment of tax upon bonds issued for its con- struction.
One of the principal citizens of the town, Alexander HI. Stephens, the first settler, is a son of Col. John Stephens, one of the earliest settlers of the county, and Olive Frank-
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lin, daughter of Capt. John Franklin, the hero of the Wyoming massacre. Uriah F., Phineas, Elias, John II., Alexander II., and Franklin Stephens are the members of the family. Alexander HI. Stephens, who was born in 1801, has been a leading spirit in the affairs of his town, from its erection to the present time. Mr. Stephens is a man of high literary attainments, and one of the most in- fluential citizens of the town. He was a member of the State Legislature in 1848, and ably represented its interests while there. ITis wife, Mary M. Davis, was a daughter of Levi Davis, the first merchant, and for years the leading business man of the town. James H. Stephens, son of Phineas Stephens, and Redmond Davis and John Davis, both sons of Levi Davis, have also been sent to the State Legislature from Greenwood.
The village of Greenwood contains nine stores ; harness-, cabinet-, wagon-, shoe-, and blacksmith-shops ; a large steam saw-mill and fouring-mill ; the " Stage House" and Green- wood Ilotel, a large three-story building; two churches, a fine two-story school-house, and an unusual number of fine residences. Elias V. Davis has conducted a jewelry estab- lishment here since 1841, at which date there was but one store in the place. The village extends along both sides of a single street filling the space between the hills and the creek, and a street starting from the central part of the village and continuing west, and contains about 200 inhabitants. There is a flouring-mill at Rough and Ready, a mill settle- ment in the south part of the town, where was onee a post- office, named from the Rough and Ready Presidential candi- date; and north of the village are two flouring-mills and a saw-mill.
ORGANIZATION.
The first town election of the town of Greenwood was held at the house of Levi Davis, March 6, 1827, when the following officers were elected : Levi Davis, Supervisor ; Anson Cook, Town Clerk ; David Murray, Randall Pease, Uriah F. Stephens, Assessors; Richard Krusen, Uriah Ingley, Aden Lewis, Commissioners of Highways; Jacob Manning, James Bess, Overseers of the Poor ; Abram V. Olmstead, Joseph Batchelor, Thomas Johnson, Commis- sioners of Common Schools ; Francis Strang, Josiah Hay- wood, Moses Clauson, Inspectors of Common Schools ; John H. Stephens, Collector ; John H. Stephens, Ira S. Mills, Constables. John J. Holt, John Stephens, Amos Lewis, Jr., Linden Lewis, Francis Pilgrim, Amos Labar, Enos Mead, John Krusen, Wm. Brown, Wm. M. Blair, Sylvanus Strang, Wm. Crampton, Joseph Davenport, Seba Norton, John Matteson, and A. V. Olmstead were made pathmasters.
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