History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 164

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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THIE FREE CHURCH

was erected in 1859 by the citizens generally, as a place where all could worship, regardless of sectarian proclivities. Appointments are made by ministers of the various denom- inations, but all are free to attend the services. The build- ing will comfortably scat 250 persons, and cost, probably, $1500. The first trustees were Le Roy Wood, Zalmon F. Chase, and Samuel Brown. The present trustees are Samuel S. Brown, Jolın G. Reynolds, and John S. Rich- ards. The congregation averages in attendance about 75.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHI OF CAYUTA (CLOSE COMMUNION) was organized in June, 1877, with 23 members. The present church officers are Alexander Lawhead, Chauncey Kellogg, and George Dunbar, Deacons; Charles Smith, Clerk. Present membership, 25; pastor, Rev. Charles Berry ; place of worship, the Free Church.

CAYUTA RURAL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION

was incorporated Oct. 12, 1874, with seven trustees, namely, Charles R. Swartwood, John S. McDuffee, Ira B. Jaynes,

John G. Reynolds, Henry G. Smith, Samuel S. Brown, and John Boyer. The grounds inelude the old cemetery, and five-eighths of an aere was added at the time of incor- poration. They are located on lot No. 23, are tastefully laid out, and neatly kept. The monument erected to the memory of Le Roy Wood is an ornament to the cemetery and an honor to the relatives of the deceased who erected it. So, likewise, is that of Benjamin Brown. Many others of the monuments are ornamental and expensive, and the erection of them denotes a reverence to the mem- ory of those over whom they are placed.

EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL.

From the time when Robert Lockerby taught the first school in the rude log house erected for that purpose until the present time, a continual advancement has been made in educational matters. The humble log school-house has given place to the substantial frame structures, and the acquirements of the teachers are rigorously investigated before they are engaged to disseminate knowledge, and to discipline the minds of the youth for the great life strug- gle, the basis of which lies in the period of school-day life. It has been rightly elaimed that the public school is the sustaining power of the nation, and the basic fabric of in- dependence and liberty. By reference to the last annual report of Charles T. Andrews, Esq., County Superintend- ent of Schools, we glean the subjoined statisties of the public schools of the town :

State appropriation, $384.01; tax, $405.52; total, $795.27 ; number of districts, 15 ; number of children in districts, 143; teachers, 8,-3 males and 5 females ; schol- ars, 113; weeks taught, 120; 56 volumes in library, valued at $5 ; value of school-houses and sites, $2450.

THE POPULATION

of Cayuta for the lustrums from 1845 to 1875 inclusive has been as follows: in 1845, 1001; in 1850, 1035; in 1855, 615 *; in 1860, 708; in 1865, 636; in 1870, 641 ; in 1875, 669.

For information contained in the above history of Ca- yuta we are indebted to the following-named persons and authorities : William B. White, Mrs. Sarah Lockerby, of Catharine, Williamu Hammond, town clerk, Samuel S. Brown, C. R. Swartwood, and otliers; to French's State Gazetteer, and Hamilton Child's Historical Directory.

MILITARY RECORD.

James V. White, capt., Co. M, 311 N. Y. Art. ; enl. Sept. 17, 1861 ; resigued Oct. 1, 1862.

Freeman Warren, private ; enl. March 23, 1865,

William E. Wilkins, private ; enl. Jan. 9, 1864.

Emanuel Iloyt, private, Co. K, 5th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Sept. 5, 1861 ; disch. Nov. 30, 1864.

William HI. Hoyt, private, Co. I, 137th N. Y. Regt. ; enl. Ang. 14, 1865 ; disch, Aug. 14, 1865.

Isaac Howell.

Daniel Meraion, private, Co. I, 179th N. Y. Regt .; enl. Aug. 21, 1861 ; disch. Jan. 8, 1865.

George Meraion, private, Co. I, 137th N. Y. Regt .; enl. Ang. 23, 1862; disch. July 5, 1865.

Jerome N. Bateman, private, Co. I, 179th N. Y. Regt .; enl. Ang. 1861 ; disch. July 29, 1865.

Solomon Degraw, private, Co. A, 14th N. Y. Art .; eul. Jan. 6, 18GI ; re-enl. Ang. 1864, Co. Il, 15th N. Y. Inf.

* Divided and reorganized in 1854.

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Alfred Degraw, private, Co. D, 14th N. Y. Art .; enl. Jan. 1864; killed June 2, 1864.

John Ackerly, private, Co. Il, 107th N. Y. Regt .; enl. July 26, 1862; was in battle of Antictanı ; died at Hope Landing, Va.

Andrew Archibald, private, Co. B, 114th N. Y. Regt .; enl. Aug. 25, 1862 ; died at Chattanooga, Teun.

Edward Earsley, private; enl. March 23, 1865.

Edward 11. Ames, private; enl. Jan. 12, 1864.

Jolın O'Brien, private; enl. March 19, 1864.

Perry Powers, private; enl. 1864.

James Stark (2d), private, Co. I, 137th N. Y. Regt .; enl. Aug. 22, 1862; disch. Jan. 17, 1863.

George W. Seely, private, Co. A, 137thı N. Y. Regt .; enl. Aug. 13, 1862; died Sept. 7, 1862.

Abraham J. Seely, private, Co. A, 109th N. Y. Regt .; enl. Ang. 4, 1862; killed May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania.

Peter Seely, private, Co. I, 137th N. Y. Regt. ; enl. Ang. 15, 1862; disch. Jan. 13, 1865.

John A. Smith, private; enl. Jan. 13, 1864.

James P. Sinclair, private; enl. Jan. 13, 1864.

Mahlon Smith, private; enl. 1864.

William B. Stevans, private, 161st N. Y. Regt .; enl. 1864.

Charles Zimmer, private, Co. K ; enl. Sept. 15, 1864; dischi. April 8, 1865.

George N. Van Zoile, private, Co. I, 137th N. Y. Regt .; enl. Aug. 26, 1862.

Ezra C. Jayne, private, Co. M, 3d N. Y. Art .; in several battles.

Edwin McClary, private, Co. A, 141st N. Y. Regt. ; enl. Aug. 1862; wounded in the foot.

Edward McClary, private, Co. A, 141st N. Y. Regt .; enl. Aug. 11, 1862. Timothy B. McClary, private, Co. G, Ist N. Y. Art .; enl. Feb. 12, 1864.

Daniel L. McClary, private, Co. A, 141st N. Y. Regt .; enl. Aug. 8, 1862; died at Chattanooga.

William L. McClary, private, Co. E, 64th N. Y. Regt .; enl. Oct. 11, 1862; re-enl. private, Co. I, 15th N. Y. Cav., Jan. 5, 1862; in several battles.

Enos C. Ogden, private, Co. G, 5th N. Y. Art .; enl. Jan. 10, 1864; in several battles.

Delos W. Phillips, private; enl. March 23, 1864.

Joseph P. Aynders, private, Co. H, 15th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 29, 1864.

Albert P. Scott, private, Co. C, 61st N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 31, 1864 ; was taken prisoner.

Leroy W. Swartwood, muscian, Co. H, 107th N. Y. Inf .; enl. July 26, 1862; pro. to drum-major.

George W. Swartwood, private, Co. I, 137th N. Y. Regt .; enl. Aug. 20, 1862.

James W. Riley, private, Co. L, 50th N. Y. Art .; enl. Aug. 2, 1861 ; died at New- bern, N. C., March 29, 1865.

Martin W. Swartwood, private, Co. E, 64th N. Y. Inf. ; eul. Oct. 9, 1861; in sev- eral battles.

Wm.J. Rogers, private; enl. March 23, 1865.

Isaac Rought, private; enl. March 23, 1865.

Andrew II. Stump, private ; enl. Jan. 18, 1865.

Wiley Rogers, private; enl. 1864.

Chas. W. Hendershot, private, Co. G, 143d N. Y. Inf .; enl. Ang. 19, 1862.

Alva P. Bolyan, private, Co. D, 14th N. Y. Art .; enl. July 22, 1863; in several battles.

Clark V. Beckwith, private, Co. D, 14th N. Y. Art .; enl. July 22, 1863; taken prisoner, and died at Andersonville.

Wm. J. H. Tunis, private, Co. A, 107th N. Y. Regt .; enl. Jan. 30, 1862; was in battle of Antietam ; re-enl. Co. L, 9th N. Y. Art., Aug. 8, 1864.

John Lockerby, private, Co. B, 14th N. Y. Art .; enl. Aug. 20, 1862; in several battles.

Burr Lockerby, private, Co. C, 3d N. Y. Art .; enl. Sept. 15, 1864.

Judson A. Jayens, private ; enl. March 23, 1865.

Marvin A. Nash, private ; enl. March 23, 1865.

Silas Manning, private, Co. A, 89th N. Y. Regt .; enl. Feb. 20, 1864; wounded at Petersburg.

James E. A. Manning, private, Co. A, 89th Regt .; enl. Feb. 3, 1864; in several battIcs.

John B. Maxwell, private ; enl. Jan. 9, 1864.

Nathan Martin, private; enl. March 2, 1864.

Nelson Mayo, private; enl. 1864.

John 11. Jessup, private; enl. Jan. 18, 1865.

John Howard, enl. Jan. 9, 1864.

Frank Holican, enl. Jan. 9, 1864.

Wm. L. Pendleton, enl. 1864.

John Palmer, enl. 1864.

Eliakim Robinson, 161st N. Y. Regt. ; enl. 1864.

Edward Shaw, private, Co. H, 107th N. Y. Regt .; enl. July 26, 1862; died at Harper's Ferry, Va.

James A. Cooper, private, Co. C, 5th N. Y. Art .; enl. Sept. 1, 1864.

Alfred Van Dusen, private.

Harmon Sawyer, private, Co. M, 3d N. Y. Art .; enl. Sept. 17, 1861; died at Newbern, N. C.

David Ayers, private, 61th N. Y. Regt .; enl. Aug. 25, 1864.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

JOHN WOOD.

In the catalogue of those who, through their own indi- vidual efforts and personal virtues, acquired a proud and honorable position, that of John Wood occupies a con- spicuous place. No better example of what industry, enter- prise, and a determined will can accomplish need be offered as a criterion of success than the history of the public services of he of whom we write, who has within a few years passed away, leaving an untarnished reputation as the proudest legacy of a good man.

John Wood was born at Hector (then Tompkins County, now Schuyler Co., N. Y.), Nov. 27, 1822. While yet quite young his parents, Reuben and Frcelove Wood, re- moved to Cayuta, where he (John) attended the district school five terms, which constituted about all the educa- tional advantages he ever enjoyed. Self-study, deep thought, and a careful perusal of the newspapers were the channels through which he gained a good stock of practical knowl- edge, so that he became a well-informed and capable business man.

In 1838 he entered the mercantile business at Cayuta, commencing as a clerk in the store of his uncle, Le Roy Wood, also quite a prominent man in Cayuta during his lifetime. He continued to assist his uncle until 1848, when he was admitted as a partner in the business, finally succeeding to its entire control, and remaining as the prin- cipal merchant of his town until his death, which oc- curred Nov. 21, 1876. His name, from his first entry into business until his last transaction, continued a synonym for probity, and he enjoyed an unlimited credit.

On the 15th of October, 1848, he married Mary D., . daughter of Edward and Jane Doty. They had but one child, a son, Ed. L., who, with his mother, still continues the business with which the husband and father was con- nected for nearly forty years.

Mr. Wood enjoyed the confidence of the people of his town in a large degree. In the years 1858-60 and 1867 he served in the Board of Supervisors of Schuyler. In 1864 he was appointed revenue assessor of Schuyler County, and in 1875 was elected sheriff of the same, which latter position he occupied at the time of his death. He held an exalted place in the Masonic fraternity, having joined that honorable body at Havana in 1863, being at the time of his death a member of Myrtle Lodge, and also of the Ithaca Commandery.

CHAPTER LXXXVI.

DIX.

FEW white settlements in what now constitutes the town of Dix antedate the commencement of the present century. Less than fourscore years ago, and not a solitary white man had planted his rude habitation in this now thrifty and populous town. Many and wonderful are the changes

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eighty years have wrought. Then dense forests covered hill and valley ; now fertile fields and green meadows exist as monuments to the enterprise and industry of the pio- neers and of their descendants. The poet Gray has well portrayed the routine of the pioneers' life in the lines,

" Oft did the harvest to their siekle yield ;

Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How joeund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke !"

The town lies upon the west side of Catharine Creek, and extends from the head of Seneca Lake to the south line of the county. Its surface is chiefly a rolling and hilly upland, and the summits of the hills are from 400 feet to 700 feet above the lake. The soil is principally a fine quality of gravelly loam, naturally very fertile, and under the careful cultivation it generally receives, is rendered highly productive. The town is drained by Catharine and Glen Creeks, and numerous small streamus. It receives its name from Hon. John A. Dix.

THE SETTLEMENT

of the town was commenced about the close of the last cen- tury, first near the head of the lake, on the present site of the village of Watkins, and along the valley of Catharine Creek. In 1797-98, John Diven and William Baskin settled on the county-line road, about one mile west of the head of the lake. Mr. Baskin took up the premises known as the Alexander Ross place, and Mr. Diven the farın occupied by the Misses E. and C. Diven, descendants of his, just above the county-line cemetery. There were several children born of these families, and their uames have long been promineut in local and public quatters. John Diven had several sons and daughters, of whom the Hon. William Diven, late of the town of Reading, and General A. S. Diven, of Ehuira, have been the most con- spicuous before the public. William Diven was for many year's a justice of the peace in Reading, and in 1847 repre- sented the county of Steuben in the Legislature of the State. The character and services of General A. S. Diven are too well known to require particularization here. When Messrs. Baskin and Diven settled here the country was a wilderness, and they experienced the usual hardships inci- dent to pioneer life and the clearing up of a new country. For several years after their arrival their neighbors south and east were George Mills, at Catharine's Town (now Havana), and Judge Phineas Catlin, who resided between that place and the present village of Odessa.

About the year 1800, Jacob Mills and his son Jacob came in from Curuberland Co., Pa., and settled on the farm now owned and occupied by Vine C. Mills, a grandson of the former and a son of the latter. Jacob Mills, Jr., lived on the farm where he and his father settled seventy-six years, and died there in the spring of 1876, aged eighty-six years. Four of his sons survive, namely, John L. and Vine C., in Dix ; George, in Catharine; and Jacob J., in Reading. Also, three daughters, Marrila, Eliza, and Tempi,-the latter residing in Michigan.

Soon after the Mills family settled here, Mathias Miller, father of the present Mathias Miller, came in, and settled ou the farm where the latter has siuce resided. They came from Cumberland Co., Pa.

In 1810 the Cleveland family settled on the farm where E. K. Mandeville now lives. The family is numerously represented in this section of country.

Thomas L. Nichols, father of the medical gentleman of the same name, well known in this town, and grandfather to S. B. H. Nichols, M.D., came in from Saratoga County, immediately from Ontario Co., N. Y., in 1816. IIe settled on the farm now owned by William Colwell. Dr. S. B. H. Nichols is the only representative of the family now resid- ing in the town. About the same tirue Ebenezer Buck aud Obadiah Phinney arrived.

In 1818 the first settlement was made in the southwestern part of the town by Messrs. Haekett, Haskins, Palmer, and one Perry, the latter locating in the vicinity of Beaver Dams. Christian Crout, father of Abraham C. Crout, also settled here about the same time, probably a year or two earlier.

In 1820, Joseph Hitchcock, the father of George V. Hitchcock, of Watkins, took up the premises now oecu- pied by Mr. Piper. In 1822, William Lane, father of Frederick Lane, of Beaver Dams, located upon the hill-side west of the valley with his brother-in-law, a Mr. Easling, who were for some time the only occupants of that region. In 1823, George Frost came in from Hector, and settled at Beaver Dams. In 1824, John P. Cornell, father of John Cornell, came in from Ovid, and settled on the farm where the latter now resides, where he lived until his decease, except two years, during which he was canal commissioner, and resided at Havana. He was twelve consecutive years clerk of the town of Catlin, and two years immediately fol- lowing those twelve clerk of the new town of Dix, namely, 1836-37. He was also a justice of the peace. His pen- manship, as shown by the town records in his handwriting, was excellent, few, if any, of the modern clerks doing as well. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and a man generally respected. In 1825, George W. Brouson came in from the town of Hector, and settled at Beaver Dams. In the same year Amos Royce arrived from Cayuga County, and settled at Townsend.

In 1823, Judge John Crawford came in from Ulysses, Tompkins Co., whither he had come from Orange Co., N. Y., iu 1804. Ile located ou the farm now occupied by John H. Catlin, near Moreland, and the place received the uame of " Crawford's Settlement," by which uame it is still known to the old settlers. He married a daughter of Judge Phineas Catlin, who survives himu, and resides with her two sons, De Witt C. and Joseph S., near where the judge settled fifty-five years ago. Ile died April 12, 1874.

In 1823 the Townsend settlement received quite an influx of settlers. It was during that year that Claudius Townsend took up his permanent residence in the locality that has since borue his uame. He had previously settled at Watkins, where he acted as land-agent for John L. Clarkson, whose wife was the daughter of John Brazier, of New Jersey, who purchased of John W. Watkins a tract of land, including the present site of the village of Towns- end,-a portion of the old Watkins and Flint Patent. The same year (1823) Underhill Frost, father of George Frost, came in from the town of Hector, where lie settled in 1811. The same year John and Brewster Platt came iu

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from Guilford, Chenango Co., N. Y., and settled on 150 acres, now owned by the latter and Sanford Rich. John B. Platt moved to Illinois, where lie still resides.

In 1824, Colonel Green Bennett* arrived from Catha- rine (now Montour), where his father, Ephraim Bennett, had settled prior to 1800. Mr. Bennett located on the place where he lias resided for fifty-five years. He has one son, Charles, who lives with him on the old homestead, and one daughter, Emily, now the wife of Willard Morse. The same year Thomas Eddy removed from the town of Read- ing (where he had settled in 1816) and located on the farm where he now lives. The year following Amos Royce came in from Cayuga Co., N. Y., and settled where Miss Janett Freeman now resides. Following him, the next year, came Elish and G. W. Bronson, who settled on the place now occupied by John Anthony. Others doubtless came in between 1826 and 1830, but we obtained no data respect- ing them. In 1831, Hon. Simeon L. Rood arrived. He is a native of Vermont, and came to Townsend from Cayuga County, this State. In 1836 he was appointed associate judge, and in 1854 was elected county judge and surro- gate ex officio, being the first incumbent of that joint office in the new county of Schuyler; he held the position eight years. In 1840 he was elected county clerk of Chemung County, and re-elected for the following term. For many years he has been a justice of the peace in Dix, he having removed to Watkins in the spring of 1855.

In 1832, Bela Sanford came in from Connecticut, and settled near where Omar J. and Myra Sanford now reside. Ira Sanford, a brother, came in 1826; Lewis Sanford settled in Veteran in 1824; Cyrus located in Orange ; and Warren in Dix.

In 1835, Philip Gano, father of Levi M. Gano, present publisher of the Watkins Express, and of Jonas D. and Halsey Gano, came in and settled where he now resides.

Rev. John Gray, father of M. Henry Gray, came in, having been called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at Moreland. He permanently located on the farm now occupied by his son, the same year, 1836.

Daniel Tracy, father of Albert and Isaac Tracy, came in from Connecticut and settled on the farm now owned by Ebenezer Tracy, about one mile east of Townsend. Among those who came in subsequent to 1840 were William H. Smith, whose father had settled in Lansing, Tompkins Co., in 1820; David Pike, son of Sewell Pike, who had settled in Veteran, Chemung Co., about 1820; H. R. Lybolt, J. B. Coats, Daniel Hughicy, Nelson Lybolt, and James Wedgwood. The latter erected a depot on the Syracuse, Geneva and Corning Railroad in the spring of 1878, and now known as Wedgwood's Station.

CIVIL ORGANIZATION.

Dix was formed from Catlin, Chemung Co., April 17, 1835. The town records have been destroyed by fire, hence we are unable to give the lists of the principal town officers from its organization to the present time, but are compelled to omit all those prior to 1861. The names of the supervisors from 1861 to 1878, inclusive, are as follows :

Supervisors, William Roberts (2d), three years ; Anson N. Ackley, four years ; George Ward, Charles S. Frost, William Haring, two years; J. W. Thompson, three years ; S. B. H. Nichols, M.D., two years ; Levi M. Gano, Wm. V. Smith, present incumbent.

Town Clerks, Edwin W. Lewis, John Hollett, Charles Haring, George S. Ward, three years ; E. C. Robbins, six years ; A. T. Abbey, E. C. Robbins, two years ; J. Hobart Drake, A. N. Ackley, 1878.

Justices of the Peace, John Hollett, Samuel C. Swim (vacancy), Bela Sanford, Samuel C. Swim, Benoni Peck, A. S. Scobey (vacancy), David Jackson, Bela Sanford, A. S. Scobey, Benoni Peck, William Hause, Bela Sanford, A. S. Scobey, Benoni Peck, William Hause, Bela Sanford, Alexander C. Kingsbury, William S. Beers, H. A. Barrows, E. M. W. Nye (vacancy), John Clark.

The present town officers, other than those included in the above lists, are as follows, namely :

Assessors, M. Henry Gray, William Lybolt, and Geo. W. Miller ; Commissioner of Highways, John Ross; Collector, James H. Moore; Overseers of the Poor, George Frost and James Sherman; Inspectors of Election District No. 1, E. D. Thompson, William H. Hudson, and J. N. Perry ; Inspectors of Election District No. 2, William Labor, Jacob Miller, and William H. Shepard; Inspectors of Election District No. 3, Lysander Tracy, Wm. H. Gibbs, and Thomas Behan; Constables, Josephi Coleman, John F. Tracy, Alexander Craver, John A. Ogden, and John W. Bailey ; Auditors, William Newman, William Totten, and Albert T. Taylor; Game Constable, William Belcher; Ex- cise Commissioner, William H. Baldwin.

BEAVER DAMS

is a hamlet pleasantly situated on the Syracuse, Geneva and Corning Railroad, in the southwest corner of the town. It received its name from the fact that two beaver dams existed, one at and one in its vicinity. Among the first settlers hereabouts were Joseph Cole, Elijah Phelps, Eben- ezer Perry, Archibald Tilford, Edward Lee, Abraham P. Crout, and others. The first store was kept by Gardner Crum, probably about 1832. A. P. Crout had kept a few goods in his shoe-shop prior to the date above given.

The post-office was established at West Catlin, about 1830-31, and the first postmaster was David Davison. The name was changed to Beaver Dams about 1843. The present postmaster is H. D. Seaman, M.D., who is also the resident physician.

The place now contains one general and two grocery- stores, one blacksmithy and one wagon-shop, a tannery, a cooper-shop, a shoe-shop, one tailoring and two millinery establishments, two churches (one Methodist Episcopal and one Universalist), a public school, a depot and express and telegraph offices on the Syracuse, Geneva and Corning Railroad, one resident minister of the gospel, and one justice of the peace. The population of the place is estimated at 250.

MORELAND

is located about two miles northeast of Beaver Dams, in the south part of the town. It received its name from the old Moreland patent, of which General Harper and John

# See also mention in history of Ashland, in Chemung County.

COL. L.G. RENO

RESIDENCE OF COL. LAWRENCE G. RENO. DIX. SCHUYLER COUNTY, N. Y.

LITH. BY L. H. EVERTS. PHILA.

Bela Sanford

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UTH. BY L. H EVERTS, PHILADA.

RESIDENCE OF O. J. SANFORD, DIX , SCHUYLER CON. Y

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Carroll of Carrollton were the patentees. The first settlers were John Crout, Joshua Peirce, the Loomis family, Judge John Crawford, Colonel Green Bennett, and others. The post-office was established in 1826, and Judge John Craw- ford was appointed the first postmaster. The present in- cumbent is Dr. Purdy. The place now contains a general store, two blacksmithies, one wagon-shop, a grist-mill, two churches (onc Baptist and one Presbyterian), one resident ininister, a physician, and a depot on the Syracuse, Geneva and Corning Railroad. Its population is about 175.

TOWNSEND

was a name given to the tract of land purchased by Clau- dius Townsend, on which the present village was located. It was first settled by Jonas Blower, Dodo Benson, Clau- dius Townsend, Eleazer Cole, Ivory Bramhall, Consider B. Evans, Amos Royce, George Frost, George Bronson, Thomas Eddy, Nathan Miller, Judge S. L. Rood, Daniel Traey, and others. The post-office was established there about 1826, and Claudius Townsend was appointed first postmaster. The present appointee, William Neweomb.

The first store was kept by John W. Chapman and Daniel D. Giles, probably about 1825, and a tavern · was opened about the same time, or a year or two carlier, by Daniel H. Boalt. A cemetery was laid out in 1832; the first interment therein was that of John Griffin.

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History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 164

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