History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 29

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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Hugh T. Herrick served as president in 1869; A. W. Shipman in 1870; William E. Johnson in 1871-72; Levi Curtis, 1873; Alexander McDonald in 1874; William Polleys in 1875; George W. Orange in 1876, who served only until the 11th of April following his election, when the village became reincorporated under the provisions of the general law, made as amendatory to the special charter act. Henry C. Clapp was elected the first president under the new régime, in 1876; Levi Curtis in 1877. The pres- ent officers are James R. Stone, President; Abraham Fra- lick, Josiah T. Buck, James M. Weaver, and William B. Campbell, Trustees; Frederick N. Snook, Treasurer ; J. N. Dexter, Clerk ; Samuel B. Shoemaker, Collector ; IIorace Whitaker, Street Commissioner; Charles E. Brooks, Chief of Police.

THE WAVERLY INSTITUTE .¡

This establishment of learning was organized as the "Shepard Institute," so named in honor of Isaac Shepard, one of the originators of the movement that perfected its

formation. The gentleman to whose benevolence and gen- erosity the early existence of the institute owes more than to any other is Owen Spaulding, one of the pioneers of the place, who not only took one-half of the capital stock, but also donated the land upon which the building stands. The first board of trustees was elected Aug. 30, 1856, and consisted of Messrs. Owen Spaulding, Arthur Yates, Benj. G. Rice, F. II. Baldwin, Isaac Shepard, R. A. Elmer, Alva Jarvis, William Manners, G. H. Fairchild, and R. D. Van Duzer. The capital stock of the corporation was $4000, which was subsequently increased " to not less than $5000, nor more than $10,000." At a meeting of the trustees, held Dec. 1, 1856, Hon. Arthur Yates was elected President ; G. H. Fairchild, Secretary ; and R. D. Van Duzer, Treasurer. At a special meeting of the stock- holders, held Dec. 2, 1857, the name of the association was changed to "The Waverly Institute."

The institute was under the efficient care of Prof. An- drew J. Lang, from its opening in November, 1857, until Aug. 22, 1870. During the thirteen years of his manage- ment the establishment acquired an excellent reputation, Prof. Lang being one of the finest educators in the county, and naturally advanced the institute to an elevated position among the best educational institutions of the State. Prof. Lang died at the early age of thirty-nine, leaving behind him a name honored among prominent educators.

On the 15th day of April, 1871, the institute was merged in and became the academic department of the Union High School, under the visitation of the Regents of the University, and S. C. Hall became principal. The present management consists of H. H. Hutton, M.A., principal, to whom the school owes much of its present deserved popularity as a first-class academic institution. Prof. Hutton assumed the superintendency of the public schools of Waverly, Septem- ber, 1873, and has since retained the management of them in connection with the high school. His assistants in the high school are Misses Clara A. Barbour and F. Isabella Blackham ; in the grammar school, Misses Fannie Swart- wood, Elsie McDowell, C. E. Smith ; Lincoln Street school, Misses Carrie Tuthill, Mary Lewis, Jennie E. Lemon, Ida A. Clarke; Grove school, Miss Jennie E. Miller, Getae Butts; East Waverly school, Miss Mary E. Fairchild ; West End school, Misses Laura McDowell and Anna Sharpe ; Paper-Mill school, Miss S. Leonora Tuthill.

The number of scholars in the academic department, 116; value of buildings and sites, $32,793; value of library, $864; value of apparatus, $795.

VILLAGE SCHOOLS (INCLUDING HIGH SCHOOL).

Number of children of school age in district, 1003; average daily attendance, 529. Financial receipts : State appropriation, $2549 ; from all other sources, $6912; from taxation, $5592. Payments: teachers' wages, $6138 ; school houses and sites, $7056; for other incidentals, $863.

In 1877 there were eight scholars graduated, viz. : Fred. J. Shackleton, Louis J. Lang (son of the first able princi- pal), George L. Brown, Misses Mate L. White, Amanda J. Follett, Maria B. Curtis, Bella A. Phillips, and Ritée H. Riker. Present Board of Education : William H. Allen, President ; J. R. Rowland, Sec .; Leander Walker, J. B.

# See history of fire department for further particulars.

+ From Wm. F. Warner's Centennial Address.

Author yates

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JUDGE ARTHUR YATES was born in the town of Butter- nuts, Otsego Co., N. Y., Feb. 7, 1807.

His father, Dr. William Yates, was a native of Sapper- ton, near Burton-on-Trent, England. Born in 1767, emi- grated to America, where he arrived in Philadelphia, June, 1799. He was a great philanthropist, and was second cousin of John Howard, the philanthropist, and bore the same relationship in blood to the great statesman, Robert Peel.

Dr. Yates was the first man who introduced vaccination into America. His reputation as a medical man was very great, although he never practiced medicine as a profession, and seldom accepted a fee. He died in the town of But- ternuts, March 7, 1857. His mother, Hannah Palmer, was born at Brookfield, Conn., Jan. 18, 1781, and died at the same place as her husband, where she lived for eighty years, at the age of eighty-eight.

Of the children who reached maturity, there were Arthur, Thomas, William P., Trevor, George A., Horatio, and Octavius ; four living in 1878.

The eldest of these is the subject of this sketch, who spent his boyhood days between farm labor and attending the common school. For seven years after he was sixteen years of age he was a clerk in a general store at Unadilla, N. Y. In the year 1832 he came to Factoryville, now called East Waverly, where he engaged in the lumber and mercantile business, which he continued for nearly thirty years ; during that time, in 1834, crecting a steam saw-mill, -- the first built in this section of the county of old Tioga. He was also, during this time, interested in a sash-factory

and grist-mill. Since 1860, Mr. Yates has retired from the active business affairs of life, and resided in the village of Waverly. He has never been a professional politician, but ardently attached to the principles of the Democratic party. In the year 1836 he was appointed postmaster of Factoryville, which office he held for some fourteen years. About the year 1834 he was elected justice of the peace, which position he held for some six years. He was appointed judge of the county of Tioga by Governor Marcy, in the year 1838, April 18, associated with Stephen Strong, of Owego; Samuch Baragar, of Candor; Elisha P. Higbie, of Newark ; and Judge Shoemaker, of Nichols. When the Bank of Owego was first chartered, Judge Yates was one of the commissioners, with Daniel S. Dickinson and others, for the distribution of stock.

Judge Yates has been identified with school and church interests for many years, president of the Board of Edu- cation of Waverly for several years, and vestryman of Grace Church since its organization, and a liberal supporter of all interests tending to educate and elevate the rising generation.

In the year 1836, January, he married Jerusha, daugh- ter of Zeba Washbon, of Butternuts, Otsego Co., N. Y. She was born in 1808 and died 1853, leaving six children, -Mrs. J. R. Blackman, of Butternuts, William (deceased ), Arthur G., Frederick (deceased), Russel B., and Sarah J. (deceased).

For his second wife he married, in 1856, Elizabeth, widow of Colonel Noble, and daughter of Judge Page, of Unadilla, N. Y., with whom he now resides.

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Daniel bensley

DANIEL BENSLEY was born in Monroe Co., Pa., Deeem- ber 8, 1797. His father, William Bensley, was a native of Westchester Co., N. Y., born 1769, October 27; settled in the Susquehanna Valley, town of Old Tioga, now Barton, when it was a wilderness, and in the year 1803. He was a weaver by trade, and gave his attention to that generally. He was married to Mary Bunnell, of Monroe Co., Pa., she being born October 7, 1768. Their children were Gershorn, John, David, Henry, Mrs. Richard Shoemaker, Mrs. Charles Smith, Mrs. James Brink, Mrs. Daniel Vangorden; five of these are now (1878) living.

The father died at the age of eighty-three; the mother at the age of sixty.

Upon coming into the valley this family were in limited eircumstances, and first purchased one hundred and seventeen aeres of land, with only a small elearing and a log house by way of improvements, paying two hundred dollars in part payment.

They met the obstacles of pioneer life, its privations and hardships, and by that resolution and courage, industry and integrity that have characterized the children, cleared off the forest, and in time ereeted sehool-houses, churches, and made public improvements that will remain as monuments to their memory.

The subject of this narrative remained at home until he was twenty-two years of age, and then struek out in the world for himself; ran in debt for his first pieee of woodland, built a log house, and began what has terminated in a suceess- ful business life. About this time he married, July 1, 1820, Martha, daughter of Gershorn Bunnell, of Monroe Co., Pa. She was born October 23, 1797.

From their unostentatious beginning in the log house in the wilderness they lived to see the forest give way to cleared fields and fields of grain, the log houses of the pioneers sup- planted by residenees of grandeur, showing the industry and

thrift of that generation, and the valley of the Susquehanna increased in population from a few to many thousand, among whom Mr. Bensley has held a representative plaee, and done his part liberally in the edueation of the rising generation and the establishing of religious influences.

His life was spent as a lumberman and farmer until the year 1842, when he opened a general mereantile store at Barton, which he continued for some twenty years and until the death of his wife, Mareh 6, 1863, sinee which time, with little ex- eeption, he has partially retired from the aetive duties of life.

In the year 1865, March 27, he married Mary F. Todd (at the time of the marriage residing with Rev. C. W. Todd, Methodist Episcopal minister at Barton), daughter of Simon and Margaret Todd, of Illinois.

Mr. Bensley has never had any children of his own, but has shared his home with those in need, and sinee his first marriage has raised some eight children to manhood and womanhood, one of whom was adopted, Mrs. Wm. Cornell, now deceased. As early as thirteen years of age, Mr. Bensley united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has eon- tinued a steadfast member of that body to the present time. His assistanee has been given not only in the ereetion of church edifices for his own denomination, but for others about him. He has never taken an active part in polities, and never sought official notoriety, but preferred the quiet of a business career. Was formerly a member of the old Whig party, and upon the formation of the Republican party became an un- swerving supporter of its principles. Mr. Bensley is now in his eighty-first year, and able in mind to give many of the faets for this sketeh. He is one of the reserved monuments of the olden sehool, and when he passes to his rest the place he has oeeupied in society will hardly be filled. He has seeured a sufficient competence of this world's goods, and now, as through life, remembering the Giver, donates and has given largely to missionary and other kindred institutions.

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Floyd, J. H. Tozer, H. C. Merriam, A. S. Mott. Fred. E. Ryford, Treas. ; R. R. Shaw, Collector ; G. H. Harsh, Chief Janitor.

THIE FIRE DEPARTMENT

of Waverly is unusually well equipped and complete. The first company organized was the old " Neptune Engine Company, No. 1," May 24, 1855, of which J. E. Hallet was Foreman ; O. L. De Land and Tim Cassidy, Assistants ; E. W. Atwater, Secretary; and Wm. Peck, Treasurer. Of the old Hose Company, A. T. Little was Foreman, and W. A. Brooks, Assistant. They purchased a hand-engine the same ycar. After an existence of nearly twenty years, a new organization was effected, in 1873, and a second-class Silsby steam fire-engine was purchased for $5000 cash. April 15, 1875, the " Tioga Hose and Steamer Company, No. 1," was organized, and incorporated May 18, 1876. Its first officers were Fred. M. Snook, President ; Colonel Mullock, Secretary ; F. E. Lyford, Treasurer; R. J. Crans, Chief Engineer; J. K. Murdock, Foreman ; J. B. Bailey and J. F. Buck, Assistants. The present officers are R. A. Eliner, President; L. R. Manning, Secretary ; F. E. Lyford, Treasurer ; HI. J. Baldwin, Chief Engineer ; J. K. Murdock, Foreman ; J. T. Buck and J. W. Lemon, Assist- ants. The present membership of the company is 50, in- cluding the "'Tioga Hose Band," of 16 pieces. The equip- ments of the company are one Silsby steamer and 1500 feet of hose.

Waverly Hook-and-Ladder Company, No. 2, was or- ganized June 12, 1876, with C. J. Bergen as Foreman ; H. E. Robbins, First Assistant ; J. S. Cummings, Second Assistant; H. C. Mercereau, President ; George B. Van Velsor, Secretary ; D. J. McDonald, Treasurer. The pres- ent officers are C. H. Sliney, Foreman ; C. G. Hanna, First Assistant; B. F. Johnson, Second Assistant; H. E. Robbins, President; J. L. Richardson, Secretary ; Le Roy Edgcomb, Treasurer; and H. C. Mercereau, W. H. Jones, J. E. McDonald, Eugene Crawford, Trustees.

The Waverly Fire Police Force was organized May 20, 1877. Captain, Wm. F. Seeley ; First Sergeant, Frank P. Harkness ; Second Sergcant, George Case ; Third Sergeant, H. G. Pierce. The force numbers 20 men, who are equipped with a police uniform and baton, and 1000 feet of rope to inclose burning buildings and save property from the depredations of thieves.

THE WAVERLY GAS-LIGIIT COMPANY

was organized Jan. 7, 1873, with a capital of $50,000, and the works were completed August 15 of the same year. They were constructed by Deily & Fowler, engineers, of Philadelphia, and cost the company $50,000. The village was first lighted with gas July 24, 1873. The first officers were Win. F. Warner, President ; Frederick W. Warner, Secretary ; E. W. Warner, Treasurer. Present officers : W. F. Warner, President; Henry G. Merriam, Secretary and Treasurer. Made a total of 6,000,000 fect of gas.

MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.

Waverly proper contains but few manufacturing cstab- lishments, though its environs are largely supplied with

them, notably the " Waverly Paper Mills," located at East Waverly, on Cayuta Creek, owned by W. W. Shepard, and the " Cayuta Car-Wheel Works," located just over the line, in Pennsylvania. A peculiar fatality has hitherto at- tended the manufactories constructed in Waverly, as illus- trated in the destruction by fire of the fine steam grist-mill erected by Messrs. Van Duzer, Hallet & Marsh, as men- tioned elsewhere, followed by the burning of the planing- mill built by the two former of the gentlemen above named, and the burning also of the saw-mill constructed by them on Shepard Creck, involving, in all, a loss of $28,000.

At present the representative manufacturing establish- ments are : The planing-mill built by Van Duzer & Lyman in the fall of 1877, to succeed the one burned on the 30th of July, preceding, and the saw-mill rebuilt on the ruins of the one burned March 7, 1876, immediately subsequent to the calamity, by Van Duzer & Hallet, and now operated by the former, in conjunction with M. Lyman, Jr., to whom Mr. Hallet disposed of his interest.

The Wagon and Carriage-Factory established by Messrs. Mnllock & Sliter, in 1867. Capital invested, $6000; annual products, $3000 ; employ 10 men ; proprietors, G. L. Mul- lock & J. B. Sliter ; class of manufactured goods, carriages, spring- and platform-wagons.

The Bakery and Confectionery-Factory of Robert N. Manners & Co. was established in 1851, by William Man- ners, the senior member of the firm. Capital invested, $7000; annual products, $3000 ; men employed, 7.

The Waverly Furniture-Factory was established by H. G. Fessenden, June 1, 1875. Capital invested, $5000 ; number of hands employed, 5.

The Steam Grist- and Flouring-Mills of Weaver & Shear werc erected in 1875, and commenced running in August of that year. They have a capacity for 15,000 barrels of merchant, and for 300,000 bushels of custom work ; are supplied with the latest improved machinery ; have an 80 horse-power engine, and cost altogether almost $20,000; number of hands employed, 6.

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Waverly was organ- ized Feb. 13, 1864, with a capital of $50,000. Its first officers were R. D. Van Duzer, President; R. A. Elmer, Vice-President ; Howard Elmer, Cashier. The present officers are Howard Elmer, President ; C. H. Shepard, Vice-President ; R. A. Elmer, Cashier; F. E. Lyford, As- sistant Cashier. From the last official report. published at close of business, May 1, 1878, we glean the following financial statistics : capital, $50,000; surplus, $10,000; individual deposits, $123,008; national circulation, $45,- 000; Government securities, $49,000.

THE CITIZENS' BANK of Waverly was incorporated on the 18th of June, 1874, and commenced business on the 1st of July following. It has a capital of $50,000. The first officers were J. T. Sawyer, President ; M. Lyman, Jr., Cashier. Present officers : J. T. Sawyer, President; II. Hallett, Cashier; L. R. Manning, Assistant Cashier.

THE WAVERLY BANK was organized April 1, 1872, with H. T. Herrick as President ; George Herrick, Cashier ; H. T. Sawyer, Teller. After doing business a little more than a year it suspended permanently, in May, 1873.

THE NEW YORK, LAKE ERIE AND WESTERN RAIL?

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HISTORY OF TIOGA, CHEMUNG, TOMPKINS,

ROAD was constructed through Waverly in 1849, the original survey having been made several years prior to that time, by General Stewart. The growth and prosperity of the village dates from the completion of the railroad, and to it is attributable more of the present financial and commercial importance of the place than to any one, or all other interests combined. The following statistics for the month ending April 30, 1878, offer a fair criterion of the amount of business transacted in Waverly, and of the general value of the road to the village :

Freight received, 72,564,311 pounds ; freight forwarded, 7,422,436 pounds; amount realized from sale of tickets, $3150; amount of coal shipped from this point for use of company's locomotives, 22,978,699 pounds. Agent, G. W. Orange.

THE PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK CANAL AND RAILROAD COMPANY,

which connects with the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Pitts- ton, Pa., received from the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, in April, 1878, 112,156,000 pounds of freight, and shipped by the same 7,261,000 pounds. Amount received from the sale of tickets, $780. Coal shipped via Waverly, 10,145 tons of anthracite, and 11,857 tons of bituminous. These figures show an average falling off in the five months of 1878 past, from the corresponding period in 1877, of about twenty per cent., which is attrib- utable to the general depression in business and manufac- turing interests. Mr. Burt Hayden, agent, furnishes the above statistics from the books of the company.

THE TIOGA HOSE BAND

was organized March 20, 1876, partly of members of the old " Waverly Cornet Band." The subjoined are the names of the present members of the Tioga Hose Band: M. McGuffic, leader, C. L. Deitrick, H. B. Deckman, F. J. Campbell, John Daly, E. L. Tozer, D. Schutt, Myron Nelson, George Head, D. S. Morgan, F. Hewitt, W. E. Lagerman, W. M. Clark, N. Widmer, W. E. Morgan, and E. J. Eichenburg. In all sixteen pieces. The Tioga Hose Band is an organization of which the people of Waverly are, and have cause to be, proud.

RELIGIOUS.

BAPTIST CHURCH OF WAVERLY.

The first organization took place at Ulster, Bradford Co., Pa., June 24, 1824, at the house of Joseph Smith. Elder Levi Baldwin, from Smithfield, Deacon Asa Hacket, F. Perkins, Eliphalet Barden, and Selah Finch, from Che- mung Baptist Church, Tioga Co., N. Y., and Isaac Cooley, formed the council. Deacon Asa Hacket was chosen Mod- crator, and Levi Baldwin Clerk. The following-named persons, sixteen in number, composed the original organi- zation : Elder Thomas Bebe and Betsey Bebe, his wife, Joseph Smith and his wife, Euphenia Smith, Lock wood D. Smith, Alexander Hibbard and his wife, Polly Hibbard, Abel J. Gerold and Nancy Gerold, his wife, Cornelius Quick and his wife, Margaret, Sisters Simons, Holcomb, Weriot, and Lucretia Norton. It was first styled the " Athens and Ulster Baptist Church," and meetings were

held at Athens, Ulster, and Milltown. The name was changed, March 10, 1832, to the " Athens and Chemung Baptist Church," and again, on May 14, 1836, to " Factory- ville Baptist Church." Finally, in 1865, it was established at Waverly. The society have a neat and commodious church edifice, which will comfortably seat 500 persons. The present value of church property is $10,000; Trustees : B. B. Clark, A. Lamonte, J. H. Tozer, H. Shriver, J. Hungerford, H. Hallet; Pastor, Rev. B. G. Boardman ; membership, 340; number of teachers in Sunday-school, 21 ; number of scholars, 175 ; Superintendent, H. Hallet. The church and Sunday-school are in a flourishing condi- tion.

THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT WAVERLY

was first organized as a class at Factoryville, in 1828, with five members, - namely, Elisha Tozer (lcader), Rachel Tozer, Philena Tozer, Joshua Wilcox, and King Elwell. The first church edifice erected in Factoryville was in 1840, and dedicated the same year by Rev. Horace Agard, pastor. The trustecs were Jacob H. Russell, Alpheus H. Tozer, and Gilbert H. Hallet ; Presiding Elder, George Harmon. The society sold the church building to the Baptist Society of Waverly, who took it down and erected their present commodious house of worship. The Methodist Society removed to Waverly and built a frame church edifice, which was dedicated in March, 1864, by Bishop Janes. It was destroyed by fire in 1865. The present substantial and attractive brick building was erected and dedicated in 1867 by Rev. Hiram Mattison, D.D. It is 50 by 80 feet, and since its erection has been further improved and beautified by the addition of gas, stained-glass windows, frescoing, etc., at an expense approaching $3000. The present value of church property is $22,500 ; Pastor, Rev. George R. Hair ; Trustees, D. D. Harnden, A. H. Tozer, J. F. Shoe- maker, Leander Walker, John E. Pembleton, Alfred Ben- nett, Daniel A. Blizard, Charles De Forest, and Wesley Sweet. Membership of church, 432; of Sunday-school, 229 ; Superintendent, W. E. Knight. Both church and Sunday-school are flourishing.

THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WAVERLY

was organized with twenty-two members, June 8, 1847, by a committee of the Chemung Presbytery, consisting of Revs. Thurston, Carr, and Bacchus. The church edifice was erected in 1849, and enlarged and improved in 1860. It now has a comfortable seating capacity for four hundred persons. The present pastor is Rev. W. H. Bates ; mem- bership, 265 ; Elders, George F. Waldo, James I. Reeve, A. C. Tracy, James Riker, and M. Lyman, Jr. The board of trustees consists of R. D. Van Duzer, Chairman ; C. H. Sawyer, Levi Curtis, D. C. Atwater, A. K. Bunn, and Anthony Hemstreet ; Seely Kinner and E. C. Tracy, Secretary and Treasurer. The Superintendent of the Sun- day school is Rev. W. H. Bates ; number of teachers, 20; scholars, 165.

GRACE CHURCH OF WAVERLY (PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL) was organized Dec. 28, 1853, under the provisions of the statutes of the State. The certificate of organization is

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signed by Rev. George Watson, then reetor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Owego, Levi Gardner, Arthur Yates, Thomas Yates, and A. P. Spaulding. The society have a small, tasteful church edifice, erected about 1855, that will seat about two hundred and fifty persons. Rev. Horatio Gray was the rector. The present rector is Rev. James A. Brown. The congregation numbers 210, with 80 eommuni- cants ; Sunday-school scholars, 75 ; teachers, 9. Present war- dens and vestry are as follows : Wardens, William Manners and Wm. F. Warner; Vestry, Arthur Yates, J. T. Buck, Thomas Yates, George B. Morgan, Addison Watrous, Fred. R. Warner, L. Westfall, and Dr. E. Nelson.

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST AT WAVERLY

was organized July 8, 1877, with seven members, and a Sunday-school was started at the same time with 21 teachers and scholars. The latter now has a member- ship of 80 teachers and scholars. The Superintendent is J. O. Cutts, who also preaches for the society every Lord's- day and evening.

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CIIURCH AT WAVERLY

is of comparatively recent organization. They have a substantial frame church edifice, which will seat probably 1000. Frequent applications for further information were unsuccessful, hence the incompleteness of the history of this eliurch.

SECRET AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES.

Waverly Lodge, No. 407, F. & A. M., was granted a dispensation June 3, 1856, and worked under the same until the 9th of June following, when it was regularly chartered by the Grand Lodge. The first principal officers were George H. Fairchild, W. M. ; Franeis H. Baldwin, S. W .; Addison B. Phillips, J. W .; H. S. Davis, Sce .; and Amos P. Spaulding, Treas. The present chief officers are H. L. Stowell, W. M .; Henry Bogart, S. W .; C. E. Allyn, J. W .; W. H. Spaulding, Treas .; M. H. Mandeville, See. Present membership, 164. Regular communications at Masonie Hall first, third, and fifth Mondays in each month.

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History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 29

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