History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 130

Author: Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.) cn; Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Ensign
Number of Pages: 1112

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EMOLUMENTS OF THE CHURCH.

" At the regular Town-Meeting, held in 1818, it was voted that the whole amount of the money belonging to the ' Gospel aud School lot' be applied for the benefit of common schools, except sic cents, and that to be paid when called for, for the support of the Gospel."

DRYDEN

is an incorporated village of about 800 inhabitants, and is pleasantly located on the south branch of Fall Creek, in the east part of the town. It is also a station on the Southern Central Railroad, 36 miles south of Auburn, 32 miles north of Owego, 10 miles from Cortland, and 12 miles from Ithaca.

Lying in the midst of one of the best agricultural dis- tricts of the State, its citizens are prosperous, and much refinement and wealth centres here. It was the house of Hon. Milo Goodrich when he represented his district in the United States House of Representatives, in 1871 and 1872, as it is also the home of Hon. Jeremiah W. Dwight, the present member of Congress from this district.

The village contains two churches ( Presbyterian and Methodist), one academy, one tannery, one grist-mill, one woolen-factory, a printing-office, two hotels, three dry-goods stores, two drug-stores, one hardware-store, two grocery- stores, two boot and shoc stores, the Snyder marble-works,

1872. George E. Goodrich.

1873. John W. Webster. Warren C. Ellis.

1874. John Snyder.

. 1843. S. S. Barger.

1844. Abraham Tanner.

1870. Wmn. W. Snyder.

1837. Henry B. Weaver. Moses C. Brown.

1848. Abraham Tanner. Walker Marsh.

1848-49. Walker Marsh. 1850. Nelson Givens.

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a town hall, one livery-stable, two carriage-shops, one den- tist, four medical offices, two law offices, four millinery es- tablishments ; besides other carriage, harness, blacksmith, and shoe shops.

The land on which the village is built was owned origi- nally, in most part, by Benjamin Lacy, Edward Griswold, and Nathaniel Shelden. Amos Sweet built the first house here, but we believe that he was only a squatter. For the first fifteen or twenty years it was a question which should be the village of the town, Willow Glen or Dryden. So much interested did Edward Griswold become in the mat- ter towards establishing business here that he gave a blacksmith forty acres of land to locate his shop here. Hc also established a storc, directed by Whitmore, which, to- gether with the building of the Presbyterian church in 1821, gave the supremacy to Dryden village. Its growth has been slow, but steadfast. We find that among the in- habitants who resided here in 1816 were Hooker Ballard; the tavern-keeper; Dr. John Taylor, physician ; James H. Hurd, cabinet-maker. David Foote, farmer, lived half a mile east of the village. Nehemiah Tucker, farmer ; Abra- ham Griswold, farmer ; Ruluff Whitney, saw-mill ; Thomas L. Bishop, saw-mill; Jesse B. Bartholomew, distiller ; Benjamin, Richard, and James Lacy, brothers, farmers. Deacon Whecler, farmer, lived half a mile northwest of the village. Timothy Stove, cabinet-maker; Edward Gris- wold, farmer, half a mile north of the village. Ebenezer Tuttle, carpenter and builder ; Danicl Z. Vleit, farmer ; Joshua Holt, groceries ; Parley Whitmore, merchant and postmaster ; Michael Thomas, half a mile south of village. Dr. John Phillips, physician ; Nathan Goddard, farmer ; Jedediah Phelps, brickmaker, and David J. Baker. Sclden Marvin lived one mile north of the village.

PROCEEDINGS OF INCORPORATION.

In May, 1857, proceedings were commenced by many citizens of the village, then containing about 400 inhabi- tants, for its incorporation, and upon the petition signed by Thomas J. McElheny, I. P. Ferguson, George Schenck, Lewis Barton, Freeman Stebbins, H. W. Sears, W. W. Tanner, David J. Baker, N. L. Bates, Abraham Tanner, J. W. Dwight, and fifty-eight others being presented to Hon. S. P. Wisner, County Judge of Tompkins County, he did, on the 2d day of June, 1857, accept the same, all the requirements having been complied with, and ordered that all such territory described in said petition, and said to contain 9994 acres, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, an incorporated village by the name of Dryden village, if the electors thereof shall assent, in the manner made and provided. And it was further ordered that Edwin Fitts, John B. Sweetland, and S. D. Hamblin, of said town, act as inspectors, with power to order an election.

A meeting of the electors residing within the territory proposed to be incorporated was held on the 7th day of July, 1857. The whole number of votes cast was 112, of which 78 had the word yes thereon, and 34 had the word no thereon.

This result having been duly certified to by the inspec- tors as correct, and by the county judge as legal, the same was duly recorded.

FIRST ELECTION OF VILLAGE OFFICERS.

At an election held in the village of Dryden on the 15th day of August, 1857, pursuant to a call published in the Dryden News, the following-named persons were duly elected as officers of the village: David P. Goodhue, Ro- chester Marsh, William W. Tanner, John B. Sweetland, and Isaac Ford, Trustees ; Augustus H. Phillips, Orrin W. Wheeler, John C. Lacy, Assessors; Godfrey Sharp, Collec- tor ; Horace G. Fitts, Treasurer ; Thomas J. McElheny, Clerk ; Godfrey Sharp, Poundmaster.

At the first meeting of the officers of the corporation David P. Goodhue was elected president of the village.

The presidents and clerks of the village from the time of its incorporation to the present time have been as follows:

PRESIDENTS.

1857-58. David P. Goodhue.

1868. D. Bartholomew.

1859. Freeman Stebbins. 1869. George H. Washhurn.

1860. Lewis Barton. 1870. Alvin Cole.

1861. Freeman Stebbins. 1871-1872. John Kennedy.

1862. John C. Lacy. 1873. Rochester Marsh.

1863. John Perrigo. 1874-75. G. H. Sperry.

1864. John W. Phillips. 1876. Harrison Marvin.

1865-66. Rochester Marsh. 1877. George E. Goodrich.

1867. Eli A. Spear. 1878. John E. McElheny.

CLERKS.

1857. Thomas J. MeElheny

1866. William H. Sears.

1858. M. Van Valkenburgh. 1867. Silas S. Montgomery.

1859. H. Marvin. 1868. C. D. Bouton.

1860. William Sears. 1869-70. Silas S. Montgomery.

1861. Isaae P. Ferguson.

1871-72. George E. Goodrich.

1862. M. L. Spear.

1873-75. William E. Osmun.

1863-64. William H. Sears.

1876. George E. Goodrich.

1865. Clinton D. Bouton.

1877-78. Wm. H. Goodwin, Jr.

M. Van Valkenburgh.

OFFICERS OF THE VILLAGE FOR 1878.

President, John E. McElheny ; Trustees, Erastus H. Lord, Barnum S. Tanner, John H. Pratt, David E. Bower, George M. Rockwell, John J. Montgomery ; Assessor, Alanson Burlingame ; Treasurer, William H. Sears ; Clerk, William H. Goodwin, Jr.

MANUFACTURING.

The Dryden Woolen-Mills of Messrs. E. S. Rockwell & Bro. are situated on the western outskirts of the village. The building occupied is of stone, built in the form of an L. The productions are staple and fancy cassimeres. About 60,000 yards are manufactured per year, the patterns all designed by the senior of the firm. The latest improve- ments in machinery are used, and forty persons are em- ployed on full time.

The Leather Manufactory of Messrs. John H. & William W. Kennedy was established by their father in 1835. The business was transferred to the sons in 1867, and the firm is now known as Kennedy Brothers. They manufacture 20,000 sides of leather per year, and use 1000 cords of hemlock-bark annually. The manufactures consist of upper- and harness-leather, kip- and calf-skins. Their business is wholesale, and they give steady employment to 12 men.

The Dryden Marble- Works of C. D. Bouton arc in suc- cessful operation, and employ 8 mcn.

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MERCANTILE BUSINESS.

The dry-goods house of Messrs. Sears & Baneas carry a stock of $20,000. They purchase 75,000 pounds of wool per year, and paek 1000 barrels of pork annually.

Messrs. Bower & Miller, and the firm of Bartholomew & Hill, also earry about the same amount of stock and do a good business.

OTHER BUSINESS INTERESTS.

Mr. C. M. Perrigo, at the depot, does business for the railroad-, express-, and telegraph-offices to the amount of $36,000 per year.

Messrs. Ferguson & Montgomery sell 700 tons of coal per year.

MEDICAL.

Drs. Win. Fitch, J. J. Montgomery, Israel S. Briggs, and D. K. Allen cure the sick and lical the wounded.

NEWSPAPERS.

Rumsey's Companion was started in Dryden village in 1856, by Henry D. Rumscy. It was soon after changed to The Fireside Companion, and again in a few months to The Dryden News. In 1857 it was sold to G. Z. House, and changed to The New York Confederacy, and soon after discontinued. In 1858 it was resuscitated, as The Dryden Weekly News, by Asahcl Clapp, and, after some years, finally merged into The Ithaean, at Ithaca.

The Dryden Herald was first issued in 1871 by William Smith ; a few months later he sold out to Osborn & Clark. They sold to Ford & Strowbridge in 1876. Strowbridge subsequently sold out to Mr. A. M. Ford, who controls it at the present time. It has a weekly circulation of 620 copies.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

The apparatus of the Fire Department consists of an en- gine and hose company. Its officers are George E. Good- rich, President ; J. C. Loomer, Vice-President ; and Wm. W. Kennedy, Chief Engineer.

The officers of the Resolute Engine Company are Wmn. HI. Goodwin, Jr., Foreman ; W. J. Lumbard, First Assist- ant; D. L. Pierce, Second Assistant ; G. M. Rockwell, Sceretary.

The officers of the Neptune Hose Company are Lee Bartholomew, Foreman; William L. French, Assistant Foreman ; Ferd. Houpt, Treasurer ; Charles Phillips, Sce- retary.

SOCIETIES.

Dryden Lodge, No. 472, F. and A. M., was organized March 20, 1859. It has 99 members. Regular commu- nications are held every Wednesday evening. The present officers are J. H. Kennedy, W. M .; Wm. Parks, S. W .; Jerome Howard, J. W .; I. P. Ferguson, Treas. ; Yates Weidman, Sec .; Daniel R. Montgomery, S. D .; Wmn. J. Lumbard ; J. D. ; Frank Hill, Tyler; Rev. David Keppel, Chap.

Dryden Lodge, No. 390, I. O. O. F., was organized May 15, 1875. It has 51 members. Its officers are H. A. Webster, N. G .; Theron Ilonpt, V. G .; II. F. Pratt, Treas .; A. M. Clark, See. ; D. L. Pierce, Perm. Sce.

Dryden Temperunee Union has a membership of 900,

and a pleasant, well-furnished, free reading-room, open day and evening. Its officers are Mrs. Charles Cady, Pres. ; George M. Rockwell, Sec .; C. D. Bouton, Treas.

The Good Templars and Greenbaek League also have associations here.

THE DRYDEN SPRINGS SANITARIUM

is a popular resort for many invalids during the summer months. The building is large and convenient, its ap- pointments good, and the grounds surrounding it tastefully laid out and ornamented. The waters have valuable medi- cinal properties,-magnesia and sulphur combined. The institution is in charge of Miss S. S. Nivison, M.D.

ETNA VILLAGE,

on Fall Creek, a little west of the centre of the town, is pleasantly located. It is a station on the line of the Utica, Ithaca and Elmira Railroad, and contains two churches (Methodist and Baptist), two hotels, one iron-foundry and machine-shop, one grist-mill, one saw-mill, one store, a trotting-park, one liquor-store, besides blacksmith, shoe, wagon, and other small shops, and a population of 200 in- habitants. It was first known as " Miller's Settlement," from William Miller, who settled here first about 1800. After- wards it was called "Columbia," which name it retained until the post-office was established.

VARNA,

on Fall Creek, near the west border of the town, is also a station on the Utica, Ithaca and Elmira Railroad. It con- tains one church (Methodist) and one hotel, one store, two wagon-shops, one blacksmith-shop, two shoe-shops, and about 175 inhabitants.

FREEVILLE,

on Fall Creek, northwest of the centre of the town, is the point of intersection for the Southern Central, Utica, Ithaca and Elmira, and Midland Railroads. It contains one church (Methodist), two hotels, one grist-mill, three stores, several small shops, and about 200 inhabitants.

WEST DRYDEN, in the northwest part; MALLORYVILLE, in the northeast part, on Fall Creek ; WILLOW GLEN, one and a half miles west of Dryden village, and CALIFORNIA, south of the centre, are hamlets.

SCHOOLS .*

The Dryden union graded school has three departments, presided over by Prof. Francis J. Cheney and three assist- ants. It has an academic class in charge of the Regents of the University. The building now in use was erected by Prof. Graves in 1862, and is inclosed by about three acres of land. It is a neat-looking and commodions frame structure of two stories and basement, and is situated in the southeast part of the village. As the Dryden Acad- emy, under the management of Prof. Graves, it was for ten years a successful institution of learning. It was pur- chased by the Dryden Board of Education, we believe, in 1872. The old district school-house, which stood on the

# The last report ineludes the union graded school of Drydeu village.

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grounds now oeeupied by the residence of Daniel Bartholo- mew, has been moved down near the depot, and is now used for storage or manufacturing purposes.

The present Board of Education is composed of Dr. William Fiteh, President ; Rochester Marsh, Barnum S. Tanner, George E. Goodrich, Isaac P. Ferguson, and John Miller, Secretary.

At a special town-meeting, held on the 9th day of July, 1814, for the election of the first board of school commis- sioners, Joshua Phillips, Peleg Ellis, and John Ellis were chosen. They met Sept. 24, 1814, and established four- teen school districts.

Their report of moneys received and disbursed for the year ending April 20, 1815, was as follows :

Total amount received. $193.90

PAYMENTS.

To Dist. No. 2 by the hand of Jonathan Hamilton. $22.41

John Mineah. 15.39

Lewis Bartholomew.

20.52

Reuben Brown

19.98

Joseph Coon.

13.77

Hugh Thompson. 4.32

Part of Dryden annexed to No. 1, town of Virgil, by the hand of John Hutchins .. 4.32

$192.47

Ruloff, the murderer, one of the most consummate vil- lains that the world has yet produced, taught school here at an early period of his life; but, for the good of the pupils and people, his relations to them in that capacity were of short duration.

In comparison with the foregoing report, we take from the report of the county school commissioner the following statisties for the year ending Sept. 30, 1877 :

Whole number of school districts

Number of districts having school-houses in the

town

Number of districts not having school-houses in the

town ..

Number of teachers employed during the year, males ... 64 females ...

1299

children of school age residing in the town children attending school during the year Average daily attendance .

1114

559

Nuu ber of volumes in school libraries =

66 brick

Value of school libraries. $343

school houses and sites. $25,540

Assessed valuation of taxable property in town .... $1,062,255

RECEIPTS.

Amount on hand Oct 1, 1876 $203.55

apportioned to districts by State. 3340.65

of proceeds of gospel and school lands .. 671.43

raised by tax

4296.18

received from other sources.

1304.78

Total

$9816.59

PAYMENTS.

For teachers' wages

$7596.91

libraries ..

5.58

school apparatus 12.03

school-houses, repairs, etc.

1150.37

incidental expenses ...

775.01

Total $9539.90

RELIGIOUS.

THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DRYDEN.

This society was organized Feb. 29, 1804, at a meet- ing held at the house of William Miller, in the village of

Etna. This locality was then known as " Miller's Settle- ment." The meeting was opened with singing, and prayer by Mr. Miller. At the same meeting Samuel Hemingway was elected deacon, and John Wickham clerk of the society. Among the original members were Francis Miller, Elijah Dimmick, Silas Brown, Ebenezer Brown, Nathaniel Lu- ther, Job Carr, Ziba Randall, Timothy Owens, Jonathan Dunham, Henry Dunham, Joshua Jay, Abraham Woodeock, Nathan Dunham, Joel Whipple, Samuel Skillinger, Morris Bailey, Orpha Luther, Asher Wickham, Mehitable Carr, Betsy Brown, Abigail Dimmick, Mary Owens, Lucy Dun- ham, and Katie Woodeoek. The church edifice occupied by the Baptist Society was erected as a union church in 1832, and has sittings for about 300 persons. Present membership, 68 ; number of scholars in Sunday-school, 40; George Baily, Superintendent.

Rev. Mr. Shedd was the first regularly ordained pastor. Rev. S. C. Ainsworth present pastor.

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DRYDEN VILLAGE.

This society was formed by Rev. Jabez Chadwick, as- sisted by Ebenezer Brown, a ruling elder, Feb. 17, 1808. The names of the corporate members were James Wood, Ste- phen Myreh, Benjamin Simons, Deriek Sutfin, Abraham Griswold, Juliana Turpening, Aseneth Griswold, Isabell Simons, Rebecca Myreh, Sarah Wood, Elizabeth Tappen, Jerusha Taylor. The child of James Simons was bap- tized at the same ineeting. For the first nine years there was no pastor or stated supply. The pulpit was filled by ministers in the neighborhood, or by missionaries sent out from New England. In 1816, Rev. Jeremiah Osborn be- eame the first regular pastor. The first meetings were held in Thomas Southworth's barn at Willow Glen, and in Elias W. Cady's barn in 1818. The church edifiee was begun in 1821, and upon its completion Rev. Reuben Hurd was installed pastor, and about the same time the society decided to change from the Congregational to the Presby- terian form of government.

The pastors of the society since 1816 have succeeded each other as follows: Revs. Jeremiah Osborn, Reuben Hurd, Samuel Robertson, Luther Clark, G. W. Prudden, Hiram P. Crozier, Russell S. Eggleston, Francis Hendricks, A. V. H. Powell, W. G. Hubbard, Archibald McDougal, J. V. C. Nellis, George R. Smith, Anson G. Chester, and E. W. Root, present pastor. The society numbers at the present time 138; number of scholars in Sunday-school classes, 125; Superintendent of Sunday-school, John Miller. The church, whose tower is ornamented with the old town-elock, will seat about 500 people. Benjamin Simons and Seymour O. Clark have been deacons of the church for fifty-six years.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF DRYDEN VILLAGE.

In the year 1816 a young itinerant, then traveling on the Cayuga cireuit, in passing through the village of Dry- den, felt strongly moved to dismount and pass from house to house, praying and exhorting the people to turn to God. He was urged to preach at the school-house that evening. The request was complied with and auother appointment left. Thus began Methodism in this village, and the

Josiah Granger. 23.18

Henry Snyder. 21.06

Thomas Lewis. 17.55

66 William Crary.

29,97

at the same time .... ...

895

frame school-houses ..

HON. MILO GOODRICH.

The subject of this sketeli is a lawyer, lately lo- cated at Dryden, in Tompkins County, now in the city of Auburn, in the adjoining county of Cayuga, N. Y., and is well known throughout these and the counties adjoining, partienlarly in the southern and eastern parts of the State.

He is a native of Homer, in Cortland County, where, showing an carly fondness for books, his humble but respectable parents were able to give him an education at the local, well-known " Homer Academy," an education which was further perfected by a partial course of study at the Oberlin Institute, Ohio.

His study of the law was with the late Judge Barton, of Worcester, Mass., where he was admitted to practice in 1840, and soon after returned to his native State and commenced business in Dryden, a small town, twelve miles distant from Ithaca, the connty-seat of Tompkins County. It is there that he, starting poor and without prestige, yet, through untiring industry and perseverance, has gradually won his way from the lowest to the higher, if not the highest, grades of his profession, both in the local and the Federal courts of the State.

Both as a lawyer and as a man, he is a character wholly after his own type. Abstracted and thought- ful, yet he is most common and sociable as a man. As a lawyer, a skillful tactician, devoting uncommon attention to the preparation of his cases for trial. Though not the most scholarlike and accomplished, still often most persuasive and effective as an advo- cate before juries ; his many triumphs in which latter department of his professional career, at the circuits in Tompkins and the surrounding counties, will still be well remembered by many.

The subject of this notice is an example for the encouragement of young members of the bar who are determined on success, and who are willing to spare no pains necessary to its attainment, not to de- spair of reaching it whatever the obstacles that oppose.

And among his advices to this class of the profes- sion, which those who are familiar with him well remember to have heard him often repeat, are, "always to settle the case of a client when you are unable to persuade yourself that he is right ; never to advance to a jury what you don't yourself believe; never to cross-examine a witness without a well-con- sidered purpose, resting on actual, reliable informa- tion as to how he must answer; and when an adverse witness of manifest hostile inclinations is produced, and you are satisfied that your client is in the right, never ply him with questions that are in any degree leading, but always to the reverse; because then nothing but the witness' own memory of facts can possibly serve to guide him in his testimony ; and the facts ever tend to establish the right of every case."

Mr. Goodrich, like too many lawyers, perhaps, has been tempted to yield to the allurements of po- litical life. He was elected member of the House of Representatives of the Forty-second Congress, for the district of which Tompkins County (wherein, at Dryden, he was then residing) was a part, and was also elected, from the Senatorial district of which that county was a part, delegate to the late Convention of New York for the revision of its constitution. In the latter body he was a member of the judiciary committee, and as such, against the concurrence of + all its other members, embracing men of the most distinguished rank, he submitted a minority report in favor of continuing an elective judiciary with a term of fourteen years for its judges, instead of changing back to an appointed judiciary for life; and his report, substantially, is the one which, by its adoption by the Convention, now regulates the judici- ary of his State.

Mr. Goodrich, returning from the limited political digression in which he has indulged, is now in active practice, as a lawyer, in Auburn, to which city he removed some three years ago.

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youthful itinerant, Rev. Alvin Torrey, soon saw his labors blessed and succeeded in organizing a class. Henceforth the itinerant preached here regularly, sometimes in the sehool-house, sometimes in eapacious barns, and very often in the woods.

Selden Marvin and Edward Hunting were among the original members. Abraham Tanner, who joined soon after, is the only living inember of his class. The class was soon too large, and another was organized. The Tay- lorites, led by Dr. John Taylor, a strange and peculiar sect, made up of different denominations, occasionally made some trouble. The Conference of 1831 organized a new eireuit from the Cayuga, Caroline, and Berkshire eireuits, and called it Dryden eircuit, Rev. Mr. Colbourn and Rev. M. Adams being appointed preachers. Their labors were greatly blessed, and a revival of such power was enjoyed and the society so largely inereased in numbers that they were enabled to erect a house of worship in 1832. The next Conference made the appointment into a station, and Rev. J. T. Peck beeamne the first pastor in charge. His ministry has been followed in their order by Revs. William Bailey, M. Westeott, P. R. Kinne, M. Adams, W. W. Rundell, C. W. Harris, W. H. Pearne, H. E. Luther, D. Lamkins, George Parsons, W. W. Rundell, A. Cross, - Hagar, William N. Cobb, C. W. Harris, O. M. MeDowell, S. B. Porter, O. Hesler, E. Owen, L. D. Tryon, S. Minier, M. M. Tooke, E. C. Curtis, T. D. Wire, J. H. Barnard, E. Owen, B. Shove, L. Hartsough, A. L. York, Selah Stoek- ing, II. Mecker, David Kippel, I. Harris, James Gutsell, W. H. Goodwin, LL.D., M. S. Wells, and David Kippel, who is the present pastor in charge. The church ereeted in 1832 was burned Dee. 22, 1873, and the year following the present church edifiee was completed at a cost of $11,000. It has sittings for about 700 people. Present number of members, 90; number of seholars in Sunday- school elasses, 85 ; F. J. Cheney, Superintendent Sunday- school.

THE FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHI OF ETNA.

This society was organized April 13, 1835, and their meetings were held in the village sehool-house at Etna until 1837, when their present church edifiee was erected at a cost of about $2000. It will seat two hundred persons. The first trustees were James Freeman, Alvah Carr, Michael Vanderhoof, Richard Bryant, Thomas J. Watkins, Oliver Baker, and John H. Porter. Dr. Harris was also a promi- nent member in its early history. This church is in the Varna charge, Rev. R. L. Stillwell, pastor, and has a mem- bership of twenty-three. Number of scholars in Sunday- school, forty-five ; Mrs. A. D. Simonds, Superintendent of Sunday-school.

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History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 130

Author: Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.) cn; Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Ensign Number of Pages: 1112

Author: Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.) cn; Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Ensign
Number of Pages: 1112