History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 16

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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April 2, 1865, the color-sergent, Charles E. Hogan, was shot dead while planting the regimental eolors upon the rebel Fort Mahone.

The 179th was to a great extent a continuation of the 23d Regiment, many of its offieers and men having served two years with that command. The list of casualties in the 179th was very heavy, particularly in wounded, in the latter regard suffering as severely as any regiment in the. serviee. Its losses by death, eaused by disease and bullet, are shown in the appended " roll of honor ;" but the vast array of wounded it is impossible now to obtain, although some idea of their extent may be gathered from the roster of the companies of this regiment given with the soldiers' record of the town of Elmira.

The regiment was paid off and discharged June 23, 1865.

The following is a list of the killed, and of those who died of disease or wounds, in the 179th Regiment New York Volunteers, taken from the muster-out rolls in the office of the Adjutant-General at Albany :

Field and Staff.

Lieutenant-Colonel Franklin B. Doty, died of wounds, April 5, 1865.

Major Barnet Sloan, killed June 17, 1864.

Major John Barton, died of wounds, July 31, 1864.

Company A.

Marshall N. Phillips, died of wounds, June 20, 1864. Edwin Fowler, died of wounds, June 17, 1864.

Henry Kingsley, died June 24, 1864.

Stephen De Kay, died of wounds, July 29, 1864. Jacob Brown, died July 26, 1864. Charles A. Gallup, died July 29, 1864.

David Leonard, died of wounds, July, 1864. John Slocum, died July 22, 1864. Gottlob Stein, killed June 30, 1864. Jacob Leonard, died September 16, 1864.

William T. Wise, died Oct. 9, 1864. David H. Sheppard, died Nov. 14, 1864.

Timothy W. Buekland, died while a prisoner of war ; date not known.

Henry A. Corter, died Mareh 29, 1865.

Anthony Tobias, died while a prisoner of war ; date not known.

Hiram H. Sturdevant, died of wounds, April 22, 1865.

Daniel J. Owen, died Dee. 31, 1864.

Moses Brown, died Jan. 19, 1865.

Ward Burdick, died April 5, 1865.

Company B.

Second Lieutenant James B. Bowker, died of wounds, Oet. 17, 1864.

Charles Siekler, killed June 17, 1864.

Daniel O. Ormsley, died of wounds, June 24, 1864.

George W. Jonier, died Aug. 23, 1864.

Paulding Vineent, died Aug. 4, 1864.

James H. Brown, died of wounds, June 29, 1864.

Samuel Hemingway, died of wounds, July 17, 1864.

Israel R. Graves, died of wounds, Aug. 27, 1864.

William T. Clark, died Aug. 18, 1864.

Henry Chubb, died Sept. 7, 1864.

Henry Soles, died Aug. 18, 1864. Peter O. Freer, died June 22, 1864.

Daniel J. Kenney, died Jan. 2, 1865.

Homer D. Alcott, died Sept. 4, 1864.

Smith Q. McMaster, killed April 2, 1865.

Thomas C. Chapman, died Jan. 12, 1865.

Samuel H. Dane, died Feb. 1, 1865.

David H. Jime, died March 17, 1865.

Company C.

George H. Hickey, died July 24, 1864.

Asahal Tobias, died of wounds April 2, 1865.

Martin Van Buren, died July 13, 1864.

Ezra Lee Edmonds, killed June 17, 1864.

Edwin M. Livermore, killed June 17, 1864. John MeManus, died of wounds, June 19, 1864.

William Doharty, died July 29, 1864.

John Brown, died of wounds, Aug. 7, 1864. Silas W. Spraker, died July 12, 1864. Clark Lord, died Nov. 7, 1864.

Clarenee Ames, killed April 2, 1865.

Daniel Rowley, killed July 30, 1864.

Emmons Morgan, died Sept. 2, 1864.

Daniel C. Smith, executed for desertion, Dec. 10, 1864. Edward Roe, executed for desertion, Dec. 10, 1864.

Company D.

First Lieutenant Baker L. Saxton, killed July 30, 1864.

Oscar Fisk, killed July 2, 1864.

Lucius J. Kinnon, died June 25, 1864.

Filmore Horth, died, date not known.

George M. Gregory, died Oet. 31, 1864.

Edwin J. Williamson, died Dee. 5, 1864.

Alexander MeEekin, died Dee. 21, 1864. Darius Bryant, died Aug. 1, 1864.

Edson A. Andrews, died while a prisoner of war ; date not known.

Howland Washburn, died while a prisoner of war ; date not known.

William Halliday, killed April 2, 1865.

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Franklin M. Wilkins, died of wounds, April 13, 1865. Daniel Gaff, died of wounds, April 11, 1865.

Company E.

John D. Arnold, died May 10, 1865. Patrick Breen (2d), killed June 17, 1864. Charles Clements, killed Nov. 16, 1864. Nathaniel Chaffee, died Jan. 24, 1865. John Haneoek, killed June 17, 1864. Charles E. Hogan, killed April 2, 1865. Stephen W. Lee, died Sept. 16, 1864.

George L. Madison, died Feb. 16, 1865.

George F. Morgan, killed June 17, 1864. Abraham Vallenschamp, died Nov. 12, 1864. Isaiah Wiley, killed June 17, 1864. Thomas L. Thomas, killed June 17, 1864.

Captain Daniel Blachford, killed June 17, 1864.

Company F.

John II. Carley, died of wounds, June 17, 1864. George Green, died ; date not known. Francis M. Canfield, died Aug. 3, 1864. Tuthle Denee, died ; date not known. Thomas Dannaby, died ; date not known.

Abraham O. Gray, died Aug. 15, 1864.

Andrew Hurd. died of wounds, Aug. 14, 1864.

Charles E. Releyea, died Oct. 15, 1864.

Michael Shanahan, died ; date not known. Timothy Shaw, died March 22, 1864.

Robert Thompson, died Sept. 24, 1864.

George B. White, died; date not known.

Frederiek Winangle, died ; date not known.

Captain T. Farwell, killed July 30, 1864.

Company G.

John Bailey, died of wounds, Aug. 24, 1864. Parmer R. Avery, died Sept. 12, 1864. Adam Beeker, died Oet. 6, 1864. Henry Hanson, died Dee. 16, 1864.

Solomon Leonard, Jr., died of wounds, Aug. 24, 1864. James Lundy, died Sept. 11, 1864.

Henry Miller, died Dee. 8, 1864.

Company H.

George W. Burlew, died Nov. 24, 1864. Edgar Cornell, died Nov. 5, 1864. George Proper, died of wounds, April 2, 1865. Collins S. Twichell, died Nov. 26, 1864.

Company I.

John Patterson, died Oet. 24, 1864.

Charles S. Baker, died Oet. 31, 1864.

Oliver Bradley, died Nov. 10, 1864. Jaeob M. Owens, died of wounds, Nov. 4, 1864.

Christopher P. Pratt, Jr., died Nov. 24, 1864. George H. Parsons, died Dee. 1, 1864. Alonzo Pettiss, died Dee. 10, 1864. Hurlburt Reed, died while a prisoner of war, Feb. 1, 1865.

Alfred Worder, died while a prisoner of war, Dee. 30, 1864.

Bradford C. Hallett, died while a prisoner of war, Jan. 11, 1865.

John F. Drake, died while a prisoner of war, Jan. 5, 1865.

Aaron Mosher, killed Sept. 30, 1864.

Ira Stoddard, died while a prisoner of war, Dee. 18, 1864.

William Ostrander, died April 24, 1865.

Daniel B. Carson, died of wounds, April 13, 1865.

Ira Evans, killed April 2, 1865.

Charles J. Vorhis, killed April 2, 1865.

Henry Clay, died May 19, 1865.

Company K.

Isaae Foster, died Oet. 11, 1864.

John B. Fisher, died of wounds, Nov. 3, 1864.

George Dinehart, died Nov. 25, 1864.

Abner D. Weleh, died Dee. 15, 1864.

Charles R. Cook, died March 26, 1865.

Benjamin F. Bailey, killed April 2, 1865.

Leonard Demorest, died of wounds, April 20, 1865.

THE THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT

was organized at East New York to serve for two years.

The companies of which it was composed were raised in the counties of Fulton, Montgomery, New York, Tompkins, and Westehester. It was mustered into the service of the United States May 31, 1861, and mustered out .June 9, 1863.

This regiment saw severe serviee, and participated in many of the most terrible eontests of the Rebellion, viz., West Point, Gaines' Mills, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, Crampton Gap, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. Jerome Rowe eom- manded a company from Tompkins.

THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT.

This regiment was organized at Montieello, N. Y., to serve for three years. It had two companies from Tomp- kins County, commanded by Captains Harrison Marvin and John Higgins. It was mustered into the service October 9, 1862, and mustered out July 20, 1865.

Its roll of honor bears the following inseription : Nan- semond, Wauhatchie, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Resaea, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Culpepper Farm, Peach-Tree Ridge, Atlanta, and Savannah. This regiment has an honorable record, and received many eom- pliments from time to time for its soldierly eonduet.

The following is a list of the killed, and also of those who died of disease or wounds, in Companies D and I, 143d New York Volunteers :

Company D.

Luther G. Bunnell, died of wounds, June 26, 1864.

John B. Gardner, died Jan. 25, 1863.

Charles W. Geust, died Jan. 30, 1863.

William Holmes, died July 16, 1863.

Jehial Carr, died ; no date given.

Jefferson Horgin, died July 27, 1863.

Amon Loomis, died of wounds, Sept. 3, 1864. Edward Morrison, died Nov. 1, 1863.

Edmund Murphy, died, railroad aeeident ; no date given.

HISTORY OF TIOGA, CHEMUNG, TOMPKINS,

Henry Mix, died July 14, 1864. John P. Peck, died Nov. 20, 1863. Dewitt Quick, died Nov. 28, 1864. Samuel M. Reynolds, dicd Oct. 24, 1863.

Company I.

Edward Bloomfield, died Feb. 14, 1864. Peter Bessey, died Feb. 27, 1864. Harrison Conklin, died of wounds, May 19, 1864. Enis Cook, died Dec. 18, 1863. James M. Duel, died March 25, 1863. Rufus Decker, died Aug. 14, 1864. Henry W. Fitts, died Jan. 11, 1864. Thomas Hortrough, died Dec. 6, 1863. George Harned, died Sept. 28, 1863. Orlando Hemmingway, died Oct. 15, 1863. Albert Kizer, died of wounds, Sept. 1, 1864. Philip Mosher, died Jan. 11, 1863. William A. Morey, died June 25, 1864. Isaac Ovcracker, died April 4, 1864. Flavell Pattengill, died Dec. 5, 1862. William R. Sherwood, died Nov. 4, 1863. Morgan Sherwood, died Nov. 15, 1863. Lawrenee D. Smith, killed July 30, 1864. Socrates Scutt, died April 6, 1863.

THE SIXTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.

This regiment (formerly the 64th Militia) was rcorgan- ized as a volunteer regiment at Elmira, to serve three years. The companies of which it was composed were raised in the counties of Alleghany, Cattaragus, Chautauqua, Tioga, and Tompkins. It was mustered into the service of the United States from September 7 to December 10, 1861. On the expiration of its term of service the original mem- bers-except veterans-were mustered out, and the regi- ment, composed of veterans and recruits, retained in service until July 14, 1865, when it was mustered out in accord- ance with orders from the War Department.

The regiment was actively engaged, as shown by the fol- lowing battle-roll : Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Gaines' Mills, Savage Station, Peach Orchard, White Oak Swamp, Glen- dale, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellor- ville, Gettysburg, Bristoc Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, Po River, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, Reams' Station.

THE EIGHTY-SIXTH REGIMENT

was organized at Elmira, to serve three years. The compa- nies of which it was composed were raised in the counties of Steuben, Chemung, and Onondaga. It was mustered into the United States service from September 5 to Nov. 25, 1861. On the expiration of its term of service the original members-except veterans-were mustcred out, and the regiment, composed of veterans and reeruits, retained in service until Jan. 27, 1865, when it was mustered out in accordance with orders from the War Department.

It participated in the following battles : Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Deep Bottom, Boydton Road.

THE EIGHTY-NINTH REGIMENT.

There were a few men in this regiment from Schuyler County. It was mustered into the service Dec. 6, 1861, and at the expiration of its term of service the original members-except veterans-were mustered out, and the balance were retained in service until Aug. 3, 1865, when they were mustered out in accordance with orders from the War Department.

The regiment was in the following battles : Suffolk, Camden, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg.

A COMPANY FOR THE SIXTEENTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY, RAISED AT ITHACA ; SCATTERED AT YORKTOWN.

It is now our lot to record the misfortunes of a large company of men, who went out from Tompkins and Tioga Counties to the battle-field, to contests not only with rebels in front, but red-tape in the rear. The former were suc- cessfully met, but by the latter and General Butler were denicd the officers of their choice, the privilege of fighting, suffering, dying, or returning side by side. Their history is of interest, and we give it as succinctly as possible.

Just after the outbreak of the Rebellion, in 1861, Asa Priest removed with his family from Auburn to Ithaca, and engaged in business. Unable to withstand longer the call of his country or restrain his own desires, he joined with Captain David A. Signor, October, 1863, in the re- cruiting of a company of eavalry for the 21st Regiment, New York Volunteers, in which he was to have a lieu- tenancy. The high bounties being offered at this time made the work of recruiting a rapid one, and yielding to the pressing desires of his friends, he withdrew from Sig- nor's cavalry company, and Dec. 21, 1863, began in Ithaca the enlistment of a company for the 16th Foster (Heavy) Artillery, New York Volunteers, Colonel J. J. Morrison commanding. This was a regiment which had been raised in New York City, but by the fate of war had its ranks decimated severely.

Hence its lieutenant-colonel, John H. Ammon, was made Government recruiting officer at Auburn, for the purpose of swelling its skeleton numbers.

It was by the desire, authority, and order of the latter offieer that the raising of the ill-fated band of which we write was initiated in Ithaca. As fast as men were enlisted they were sent to Owego for examination, and from thence to the rendezvous at Elmira for muster, and from thence, in squads, to Yorktown, Pa., to join their regiment.

Having obtained his eomplement of men, Captain Pricst obtained a certificate of this faet from Provost Marshal A. C. Kattell, of Owego, and Major A. S. Diven, of Elmira, superintendent of the volunteer recruiting serviee, went to Albany, and upon examination of his papers by Governor Seymour, he directed the immediate issuance of an order for the muster-in of officers, as follows : Asa Priest, as cap- tain ; Sextus B. Landon as first, and William J. Carns as second lieutenants. Hastening to Elmira, and presenting his order to Captain L. L. Livingston (3d Artillery, U. S. A.), mustering and disbursing officer, with the indorsement of Major Diven, asking immediate compliance, Captain Livingston peremptorily declined to make the muster,

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claiming its impossibility, as nine-tenths of the men, to- gether with Landen and Carns, were at Yorktown. With a muster "in the field" as the only resource, he started ; left Elmira for the " front" March 4, 1864, with the last squad of his own men, and in command of 800 recruits for other regiments. Upon his arrival at Gloucester Point, Va., on the 20th, and delivering his large consignment of soldier material as instructed, he turned his attention to his own company. He found the 16th Regiment long before filled to replction : his own recruits a heterodox portion of the thousands of the surplus recruits awaiting assignment, who, uncared for, were being lodged like swine, fed like cattle, and dying daily upon the river-doeks of smallpox, dysen- tery, home-sickness, and melancholy.

The men rejoiced at the arrival, for they were despon- dent and unable to comprehend their situation, as, forsooth, were their superiors.

Finding the upbraidal of Colonel Morrison unavailing for excessive zeal in causing the gathering of double the number of recruits available, the eaptain next endeavored to secure their assignment and muster complete into some one of the other regiments; but while they had suffered depletion, and men were needed in most of them, yet he found it impossible to obtain any consolidation of skeleton companies, so as to make room for his own as a whole com- pany. Officers were abundant, and their influence at Washington and field-headquarters older and stronger.

Then it was that he determined, as his men were gradu- ally being drawn by handfuls, with others of the surplus ones, into old organizations, to endeavor to secure full as- signments to the 111th Regiment of Infantry through the influenec of Colonel C. D. MacDougall, an old friend, who had great influenee with Secretary Seward. General Butler, learning of this attempt to withdraw troops from his divi- sion, resented it, and made overtures towards incarcerating Captain Priest in Fortress Monroe, upon a frivolous pre- text ; but the latter, learning his danger, made his way from Butler's headquarters to Washington, although in uni- form and without the pass which had been so arrogantly denied him. He stole his passage on a boat loaded with rebel prisoners as one of the officers in charge, and without deteetion reached the capital intent upon his mission.

He combined the friendly and powerful influenec of officers and civilians to accomplish his ends at the War Department. But they stormed to no effect. Repulse met every approach, and, finally, convinced that General Butler ruled both his military and the War Department with a hand of iron, after wecks of effort and the exhaustion of every device and argument known to them, they retired from the uneven struggle with red tape and eircumlocution set up as barriers, behind which to conceal the dictum of the

hero of New Orleans. Captain Priest, defeated at every point, finally returned, armed with passes, to the front, to find his men scattered like leaves ; some singly, others, more fortu- nate, in groups. He found them in the hospitals at Worces- ter, Va., and in eook-houses at Harper's Ferry. Landon and Carns, long since dispirited, had returned to their homes at Slaterville, N. Y., and still live there. Captain Priest removed, in 1868, from Ithaea to Auburn, N. Y., where he still resides.

It is impossible to glean from the records the organi- zations to which all the men were finally transferred, or which of them laid down their lives that their country might exist. Let us hope and believe that the majority of them are now enjoying the fruits of the pcaee, which they essaycd to aid in winning, in the stores and workshops and on the waving lands of bountiful Tompkins and Tioga.

There were also a few men from Schuyler in the 3d, 5th, and 15th Infantry, 14th Artillery, and 21st and 19th Cavalry. From Chemung in the 3d and 15th Infantry, 1st, 5th, 14th, and 16th Artillery. From Tioga in the 3d, 5th, 15th, 26th Infantry, 14th Artillery, and 1st Cavalry. From Tompkins in the 9th, 6th, 3d, and 16th Artillery, and 15th and 21st Cavalry.

Our military history is elosed. We have faithfully traeed the history of the various regiments, and it has been our honest endeavor to place before the people of Tioga, Che- mung, Tompkins, and Schuyler Counties a truthful reeord "of their gallant sons who risked their lives in defense of their country. We have sought to deal justly with all, and give deserved credit to each and every regiment. While the history is a record of many of the severest battles of the war, it is not in any particular overdrawn ; it is "a plain, unvarnished tale." It has been impossible to sketch many individual acts of heroism, but these were not wanting.

Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, and Schuyler may justly point with pride to the record of their soldiery, as no sec- tion of our country acted a more prominent or honorable rôle in the great tragedy.

Thirteen years have now elapsed since the close of the Rebellion, and we find our country a united and prosperous people. Sectional strife is rapidly passing away, and the same hand strews flowers alike on the graves of the Blue and the Gray.

"No more shall the war-ery sever, Or the winding rivers be red ; They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead !

" Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment-day ;

Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray."

TIOGA COUNTY.

CHAPTER XIV.

SETTLEMENT AND PROGRESS.

Pre-Revolutionary Settlement-Pioneers-Population by Lustrums -Log Cabins of the Past, and Palatial Dwellings of the Present- Clearings of 1785, and Farms of 1875-Saw- and Samp-Mills of the Wilderness, and Steam Manufactories of the Town-Culture of the Silk-Worm, and the Morus Multicanlis Bubble.

SETTLEMENT AND PROGRESS.

THE permanent settlement of Tioga County dates from 1785, but from extraets taken from the journals of General Clinton's command during its march down the Susque- hanna, in 1779, to effect a junction with General Sullivan's army, it would appear that a settlement was made in the territory now included in the towns of Nichols or Tioga prior to the last-named date. The extracts referred to are as follows : Lieutenant Van Hovenburg, in his journal, men- tions that " the division marched ten miles, from Owego

down the river, and encamped on Fitz Gerrel's farm." Daniel Livermore, another officer, in his journal has the following entry : "Saturday, Aug. 21 .- This morning the troops marched early, made but few halts during the day ; at five P.M. encamped on the banks of the - River, - opposite - farm, about seventeen miles from Owego." Another journal describes it as " an abandoned plantation."

The first permanent settlement above referred to was made by Amos Draper, in the year stated, on the site of the present village of Owego. Settlements were subsequently made in the several towns of the present county as follows : Tioga and Nichols, 1787 ; Barton, Berkshire, and Newark Valley, 1791 ; Candor, 1793; Speneer, 1794; and in Rich- ford, 1809. The details of these settlements will be found in the respective town histories.

The progress in settlement in the several towns of the county is shown by the following table of population, com- piled from the official censuses of the nation and State :

1800.

1810.

1820.

1825.

1830.

. 1835.

1840.

1845.

1850.

1855.

1860.

1865.

1870.

1875.

Owego.

1,083

1,741

2,260

3,076

4,089

6,104

7,159

8,328

8,930

8,865

9,442

9,715

Tioga

500

1,810

991

1,411

1,987

2,778

2,839

3,027

3,202

3,094

3,272

3,162

Spencer

3,128#

1,252

975

1,278

1,407

1,682

1,782

1,805

1,881

1,757

1,863

1,884

Berkshire.

1,105

1,502

1,404

1,711

964

878

1,049

1,068

1,151

1,073

1,240

1,304

Candor

1,655

2,021

2,656

2,710

3,422

3,433

3,894

3,840

4,103

4,250

4,208

Newark Valley.

801

1,027

1,385

1.728

1,983

1,945

2,169

2,133

2,321

2.371

Barton

585

972

1,469

2.847

3,522

3,842

1,234

4,077

5,087

5,944

Nichols

951

1,284

1,641

1,924

1,905

1,871

1,932

1,778

1,663

1,687

Richford ..

8 82

1,093

1,208

1,182

1,404

1,283

1,434

1,451

The County

6,862

7,899

14,716

19,95L

27,690

33,999

20,527

22,456

24,880

26,962

28,748

30,572

33,178

32,915

The first house erected for a habitation for white men, as permanent settlers, was the log eabin of Amos Draper, in the year 1785, on the site of the present village of Owego. The census of 1875 gives the following statistics concerning the dwellings of the people in the county : total number of dwellings, 7116, of which 6908 were frames, 134 brick, 3 stone, and 71 logs,-all valued at $8,403,362; 94 were valued at less than $50, and 58 at $10,000 and upwards, the average value being $1180.91. 6982 of these dwellings were occupied by 7438 families, the latter averaging 4-27 To6 persons each. The county has an area of 542 square miles, and had a population, in 1875, of 58,58 To 6 persons to the square mile, and 13,72, families to the same area. The average acreage to each person was 100 acres. The average value of inhabited houses to each family was $1109.67.

The first farming operations begun in the county were those of James McMasters and his bound boy, William Taylor, in Owego, in 1785. They cleared that season some ten or fifteen acres, and planted it to corn and raised

the crop. The Indians watched and cared for its growth during the season, and received a share for their labor in the harvesting.t

The census of 1875 gives the following agricultural sta- tisties of Tioga County :

Improved lands in farms, 199,920 acres ; unimproved woodland, 74,907 acres; other lands, 21,427 acres. Value of farms, $13,348,830 ; value of farm buildings other than dwellings, $1,360,443; value of live-stock, $1,706,720; value of tools and implements, $474,920. Cost of fertil- izers bought in 1874, $6663. Gross sales from farms in 1874, $1,225,400. Area plowed in 1874, 46,824 aeres ; 1875, 47,299 acres. Grass lands : area in pasture 1874, 73,610 acres; 1875, 73,302 acres; area mown in 1874, 60,485 acres ; 1875, 60,712 acres. Hay produeed, 1874, 64,433 tons. Grass-seed, 1874, 615 bushels. Products of cereals : barley, 1874, 163 acres, 3438 bushels ; acres sown in 1875, 166; buckwheat, 1874, 8751 acres, 143,943 bushels; 1875, 4964 aeres; corn, 1874, 8409 acres, 279,095 bushels; 1875, 8935 acres; oats, 1874, 20,589

# Includes Candor, Caroline, and Danby.

+ Barber's Hist. N. Y. 1846.

TIOGA, CHEMUNG, TOMPKINS, AND SCHUYLER COUNTIES, NEW YORK.

acres, 606,003 bushels ; 1875, 22,187 aercs; rye, 1874, 305 acres, 3065 bushels ; 1875, 293 aeres; spring wheat, 1874, 786 acres, 8125 bushels; 1875, 503 aeres; winter wheat, 1874, 6105 acres, 89,734 bushels; 1875, 6956 aeres ; eorn sown for fodder, 1874, 690 aeres; 1875, 704 acres; beans, 1874, 47 aeres, 597 bushels ; 1875, 37 aeres ; peas, 1874, 13 acres, 161 bushels ; 1875, 21 aeres ; hops, 1874, 1 aere, 580 pounds ; 1875, 5 aeres ; potatoes, 1874, 3666 aeres, 425,696 bushels ; 1875, 4306 aeres ; tobaeeo, 1874, 2130 aeres, 15,200 pounds; 1875, 2160 aeres ; apple-orehards, 149,056 trees; fruit in 1874, 204,650 bushels; eider made, 1874, 8374 barrels; grapes pro- dueed in 1874, 15,377 pounds, 378 gallons wine made; maple-sugar made, 1875, 25,516; syrup, 1389 gallons ; . honey collected in 1874, 30,054 pounds.

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History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 16

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