History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 52

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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Patrick McKona, private, 137th Inf., Co. H ; enl. Sept. 5, 1863, three years; disch. at close of the war.

James Markell, private, 109th Inf., Co. I ; enl. Aug. 27, 1862, three years; killed In front of Petersburg, Va.

George Maybee, private, 137th Inf., Co. D ; enl. Ang. 28, 1862, three years; killed at Gettysburg, Pa.

Phineas Nelson, private, 109th Inf., Co. I ; enl. Ang. 27. 1862, three years; disch. at closc of the war.

Edward News, private, 137th Inf., Co. II; ent. Sept. 25, 1862, three years ; disch. at close of the war.

Charles F. Odell, corp., 5th Art., Co. M; enl. Sept. 10, 1861, two years; died of disease at Roanoke Island.

Thomas L. Post, private, 137th Inf., Co. H; enl. Sept. 25, 1862, three years; disch. at close of the war.

George W. Pew, 2d sergt., 137th Inf., Co. H; enl. Aug. 25, 1862, three years ; disch. at close of the war.

Harmon W. Post, private, 14tli Rogt., Co. G; enl. Aug. 21, 1862, nine months ; disch. at expiration of term of service.

Theodore Quick, private, 109th Regt., Co. I; enl. Ang. 27, 1862, three years ; disch. at expiration of term of service.

George W. Randolph, corp., Gth H. Art., Co. B; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years ; disch. at expiration of terni of service.

Harrison Randolph, private, 126th Regt., Co. C; enl. Sept. 4, 1862, three years ; died of discase, April 22, 1864.

Charlos Randolph, corp., 143d Regt., Co. D; enl. Oct. 8, 1862, three years : dlsch. at close of the war.

Joseph Spaulding, private, 50th Regt., Co. D; onl. Jan. 10, 1864, three years ; died of disease after serving three months.

George A. Stearns, private, 14th Regt., Co. G ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, throe years ; disch. at close of the war.

Alfred D. Stillson, private, 137th Regt., Co. II ; enl. Sept. 25, 1862, three years ; died of disense at Washington ; served five months.

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Herman Stevens, sergt., 109th Regt., Co. I; enl. Aug. 27, 1862, three years; disch. at close of the war.

George A. Sabin, private, 26th Regt., Co. K ; cnl. May 14, 1861, two years; disch. at expiration of term of service.

Fred. M. Snook, 2d lieut., 109th Regt., Co. I ; enl. Ang. 27, 1862, three years; disch. June 17, 1865.

Cain B. Starks, private, 137th Regt., Co I; enl. Aug. 27, 1862, three years ; dischi. tor disability ; served six months.

Harrison Starks, private, 64th Regt., Co. H ; enl. Dec. 1, 1861, three years ; killed at Antietam.

Charles W. Spaulding, sergt., 109th Regt., Co. I ; enl. Aug. 27, 1862, three years ; disch. at end of the war.

Lewis B. Spaulding, private, 109tlı Regt., Co. I ; enl. Feb. 2, 1864, three years ; disch. at end of the war.

James B. Spaulding, private, 109th Regt., Co. I ; enl. Aug. 27, 1862, three years; disch. at end of the war.

Josephi Shaw, private, Ist Cav., Co. G; enl. Sept. 16, 1864, three years; disch. at end of the war.

Wm. Tueker, sergt., 137th Regt., Co. H ; enl. Sept. 1, 1862, three years ; diseh. at end of the war.

Luzerne Tyler, wagoner, 137th Regt., Co. H; enl. Sept. 25, 1862, three years ; disch. at end of the war.

Phineas Tallman, private, 109th Regt., Co. I; enl. Aug. 27, 1862, three years; died of disease, Sept. 12, 1864.

Lent H. Towner, private, 5th Cav., Co. K ; enl. Dec. 20, 1863, three years ; died at Andersonville, Ga., Ang. 1864.

John W. Vorhis, private, 109th Regt., Co. I; enl. Aug. 27, 1862, three years ; disch. at end of the war.

James Vandemark, private, 109th Regt., Co. I ; enl. March 20, 1864, three years; died of disease, April 22, 1864.

Daniel Vandemark, private, 1st Eng., Co. A ; enl. Oct. 6, 1862, three years; dischi. at end of the war.

Lewis M. Van Woert, private, Ist Cav., Co. G; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, three years; disch. at end of the war.

James N. Winchel, sergt., 5th Cav., Co. A ; enl. March 12, 1864, three years; disch. at end of the war; twice wounded.

Daniel H. Wallen, private, 109th Regt., Co. H; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years; died of disease at Alexandria, July 30, 1864.

Sewell White, private, 137th Regt., Co. H ; enl. Aug. 27, 1862, three years ; died of disease at Bolivar Heights, soon after mustering.

Luther B. Sabin, private, 109th Regt., Co. I; enl. Aug. 27, 1862, three years; was severely wounded ; disch. with regt.

David L. Snook, private, 76th Regt., Co. F; enl. Oet. 23, 1861, three years ; disch. for disability, Feh. 24, 1863.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

TIOGA .*

THIS town is an interior one in the county, lying upon the north bank of the Susquehanna River, which separates it from the town of Nichols, and on the east bank of Owego Creek, which separates it from the town of Owego.

The towns of Candor and Spencer are the northern and Barton the western boundary. It contains 35,907 acres, of which 24,137 acres are improved. Its surface is principally uplands, which terminate in bluffs along the river intervales. The soil is a fine dark loam in the valleys, and gravelly loam on the hills. The streams are the Cata- tonk and Pipe Creeks, and the smaller streams tributary to them and the Susquehanna. Catatonk Creek enters the town on the north from Candor, and flows in a southeast direction, forming a junction with Owego Creck near the centre of the east border. The north branch of Pipe Creek takes its rise in Candor, and enters the town at Strait's Corners. The south branch heads ncar Halsey Valley, and, uniting with the north branch at Beaver Mcadows, flows southeasterly, emptying into the Susque- hanna River at Tioga Centre.

The attention of the people is now mainly directed to lum-

bering and agricultural pursuits, the uplands being devoted to stock-raising and dairying, and the valleys to the culti- vation of the cereals and other productions.

EARLY SETTLEMENTS.

The territory now occupied by this town is in that tract of land known as the old town of Chemung, as surveyed and platted by Clinton, Cantine, and Hathorn. Certificates of location and of survey were granted in the present town of Tioga, as follows : To Isaac D. Fowler, Jacob Ford, Peter W. Yates, Josiah Richardson, and Thomas Klump, June 23, 1789, 8000 acres on the river-bank, and forming nearly a square now known as "Yates Location," Tioga Centre being in that tract ; Archibald Campbell, same date, 3000 acres, two islands included, lying north of " Yates Location" on the river-bank, and on Owego Creek to confluence of the Catatonk Creek ; Thomas Palmer, same date, 3000 acres, and 418 acres in the south part of the town, west of Smithboro'; Jonas Poirs and Benjamin Koles, Nov. 12, 1788, 540 acres where Smithboro' now is, and this was assigned to Jesse Smith, February, 1789; Abraham Banc- ker, Nov. 6, 1788, lot 188, 1000 acres, assigned to John Ransom, Feb. 28, 1792; James and Robert R. Burnett, Jan. 15, 1789, lot 204, 1360 acres; Amos Draper and Jonas Williams, Nov. 12, 1788, lot 160, 330 acres ; Jesse Miller, Thomas Thomas, and Enos Canfield, same date, 2765 acres ; Samuel Ransom, same date, lot 162, 410 acres ; Nathaniel Goodspeed, same date, lot 163, 430 acres ; Silas Taylor, same date, lot 164, 230 acres; Samuel Ransom, Ebenezer Taylor, Jr., Prince Alden, Jr., Andrew Alden, Christopher Schoonover, and Benjamin Bidlack, same date, lot 165, 1980 acres, assigned October, 1790, to Samuel Ransom ; Ebenezer Taylor, Jr., William Ransom, Abijah Marks, Samuel Van Garden, Benoni Taylor, and John Cortwright, Nov. 13, 1788, lot 166, 2400 acres ; James Clin- ton, George Denniston, Alex. Denniston, and others, Nov. 6, 1788, lot 167, 3000 acres, with all islands in Owego River opposite said lot ; and to James Clinton, James Humphrey, William Scott, and James Denniston, lot 168, 4000 acres ; Brinton Paine, Nov. 13, 1788, lot 169, 800 acres ; Peter A. Cuddeback, Peter Cantine, Peter Jansen, and Elisha Barber, Nov. 6, 1788, lot 172, 4000 acres; William and Egbert De Witt, March 4, 1791, a lot of land containing 1600 acres.

Soon after the Hartford Convention of 1786 had settled the lines of territory ceded to Massachusetts in this section, Samuel and William Ransom and Prince and Andrew Alden came up the Susquehanna River from Wyoming. William Ransom located at the mouth of Pipe Creek, and built a log house, with a cellar, the precisc locality of which is on the west bank of the creek, one hundred rods from its mouth. Andrew Alden lived with him, and on land after- wards known as lot No. 3, Yates Location. Samuel Ransom and Prince Alden located about two miles below Pipe Creek, on the bend of the Susquehanna. It was not until Oct. 24, 1797, that William Ransom received a deed for the property here, as at that time Jacob Ford, of Hillsdale, Co- lumbia Co., N. Y., deeded to him 563 acres of lot 10, Yates Location, for £168 18s. 5d., New York currency, being the property now mostly owned by J. Gilbert Smith, Colonel

* For origin of name, see chapter ix., "Civil History."

TROUT PONDS.

RESIDENCES OF IRA HOYTAND DR. C. E. HOLLENBECK, HALSEY VALLEY, TIOGA COUNTY, N. Y.

LITH. BY L. H. EVERTS, PHILADA.

LITH. BY L H. EVERTS, PHILADA

"SPAULDING HILL." RESIDENCE OF H.W. RUSSELL, TIOGA, TIOGA CO N. Y.

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William Ransom, and the Higbee estate. Samuel Ransom, father of Samuel and William Ransom, was originally from Connectieut, but had borne the heat and burden of the day as one of the early settlers in the valley of Wyoming. He was a captain in the Revolutionary army, and while at the head of his company heard of the approach of the Indians to his home, and immediately hastened there, and was killed in that ever-memorable massaere. Major Wm. Ransom, in 1792, married Rachel Brooks, a daughter of James Brooks, one of the pioneers, and died in 1822, aged fifty- two years. He was one of the foremost men in the settle- ment, and from 1792 until his death he built no less than three saw-mills and two grist-mills on Pipe Creek, some of them of considerable eapaeity. This ereek has been noted for the numerous* saw-mills that have oeeupied its banks for the distance of seven miles on both sides during the earlier and later days of the history of the town. The lumber made by these mills was earted to the mouth of the ereek, and in huge rafts floated on the flood-tides of the Susquehanna to Port Deposit, Harrisburg, and a market. t

Colonel William Ransom, son of Major William Ransom, was born in 1801, and after a long and aetive life is still immersed in the eares of a large business, with mental vigor unimpaired. His pioneer work was done on Pipe Creek and its tributaries, where he, like his father before him, has built several mills. Prentice Ransom, another son of the major, is in the office of his son, who is a leading lawyer in Iowa City, Iowa.

Mrs. Rachel Wallace, a daughter, is still living in this town. Samuel Ransom built a log tavern and a frame addi- tion afterwards, and kept it east of where the high bridge erosses the Erie Railroad until 1807, when he was drowned.

Andrew Alden emigrated to Ohio in 1808 or 1809. Prinee Alden died in about 1808. Lodowyek Light, Jesse, Ziba, and Amos Miller, and Enos Canfield emigrated from Bedford, Westchester Co., N. Y., in 1787, and bought afterwards what was called the "Light & Miller Traet." They made clearings and prepared homes, and in 1790 brought out their families. Mr. Light died August, 1830, aged seventy-eight, and his wife, Martha, in 1842, aged . eighty-six years, and were buried in the church cemetery on the hill. Enos Canfield was a leader in the Baptist denomination, was the father of Ezra and Amos Canfield, died in 1822, aged fifty-six years, and was buried in the Canfield Cemetery. Ezra Canfield bought a farm in Nichols, now known as Canfield Corners. Amos Canfield is still living on the old homestead in his eighty-first year. Jesse Miller died in 1812, aged sixty-four years.

Ezra Smith emigrated from Westchester County in 1791, and settled where Smithboro' now is, and from whom it takes its name. This land, on which he settled, was purchased from the State some years previous by Poirs & Koles, and was assigned to Jesse Smith, a brother of Ezra, and who eame here, but soon went west. A more detailed sketeh of him

will be found in the history of the town of Candor, as he moved there in 1809. He kept tavern for some time, and was succeeded by Isaac Boardman, where Walter Randall's store now stands. John Gee settled in a remote part of the town. He served in the army of General Clinton, at the time the latter descended the Susquehanna to join General Sullivan at Tioga Point, in 1779, and was at the decisive battle of Newtown, and the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Kobus Schoonover settled where Nicholas Schoonover now lives. In 1791, James Schoonover, down near where the Lyons Ferry erossed the river. Nathaniel Goodspeed, Franeis Gragg, and Moses Fountain abont the same time. James and Cornelius Brooks emigrated from Dublin with their father and mother. She died, and was buried at sea during the voyage. They settled first in New Jersey, and eame to this town in 1791. James Brooks settled on lot No. 2, Yates Location, now owned by the estate of Charles Ransom ; he died in 1810. Judge Moses Brooks, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is his grandson. Cornelius Brooks settled on the strip of land lying along the river, now owned by Colonel Ransom, and moved to Olean, where his son James was judge in 1814.

James Brooks, the oldest son of the first James, married Amy, a daughter of Lodowyek Light, who bore him three children,-Chloe, Benjamin Van Campen, and Patty. He was a soldier of the war of 1812, and died during the service. Benjamin V. Brooks, his son, was a leading and prominent citizen of the town for many years, was extensively engaged in farming and lumbering in his earlier days, and died in Owego, at his son Horaee Agard Brooks' house, Dee. 27, 1873. His children-Horace A., Mrs. E. A. B. Mitchell, and Chloe M. Brooks-are mentioned elsewhere, in other connections. Chloe Brooks, a sister of James Brooks, mar- ried John H. Yontz, also a prominent citizen of the county.

Josiah Cleveland settled at an early day near the river, on the Campbell Location, but removed with his son to Beaver meadows,¿ on Pike Creek. He was a soldier in the Revolu- tion, and gained his first laurels at the battle of Bunker Hill. "In June, 1843, he returned to the scene of his early heroism and joined in the celebration of the completion of the mon- ument which his grateful countrymen had reared, and within a few days after that event resigned his soul into the hands of Him who gave it, by a remarkable and impressive eoin- eidenee, at the foot of the storied hill upon which his fame so proudly rested. His remains repose in honorable burial at Mount Auburn."

This portion of the town of which we have been writing was settled mostly from Westchester County and Wyoming. Those who settled between Tioga Centre and Owego on the river were mostly from Massachusetts and Connecticut, and were connected with the Owego settlement. Colonel David Pixley and Abner Turner were pioneers of good re- pute, and who had been through this country previously on exploring and surveying expeditions. Colonel Pixley was one of the leading proprietors of the Boston Purchase, and one of the commissioners appointed by the Boston Con- pany to treat with the Indians on the east side of the Che- nango, two or three miles above Binghamton, in the winter

* As many as seventeen or eighteen mills were built on this ereck and its branches previous to 1830.

+ Colonel Ransom says he has seen as many as 2900 rafts, contain- ing 50,000 feet of lumber each, lying at Port Deposit at one time ; and that it was no uncommon thing to see 100 rafts per day going down the river during high water.

# So called from a beaver-dam and houses in the creek at that point.

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of 1787-88. He accepted and held a commission as colonel in the Colonial army July 1, 1775, by order of the United Colonies, and bearing the characteristic signature of John Hancock, President. He was at the battle of Quebec in 1775, under General Montgomery. He was a man of great enterprise, energy, and sterling worth, thoroughly conversant with the language of the Indians, and popular with the tribes that visited this locality. He came from Stockbridge, Mass., with his wife and three children ( David, Amos, and Mary), and settled in this town in 1791, about one mile from Owego, on the Campbell Location, where Ephraim Goodrich now lives. and a part of the old house is still standing. He sold the property in 1802 to Noah and Eli- akim Goodrich, removed to Owego, and there died, Aug. 25, 1807, sixty-seven years of age.

Dr. Samuel Tinkham settled about the same time, ad- joining Colonel Pixley, on the place now owned by Jack - son Goodrich. He was a physician of good repute, and married Polly Pixley, a sister of Colonel Pixley. Abner Turner came from New Hampshire, and settled near the east line of the town, upon the homestead where he lived and died. He opened a tavern and kept it many years.

Joel Farnham settled in 1794 or 1795 on the place where Frederick Farnham resides, on Catatonk Creek, about three- quarters of a mile up from its mouth. He was a very in- genious man, a good wheelwright, and set in operation a carding-machine.

Jeremiah White settled about 1794 on the place after- wards owned by Elizur Wright, Abel Stafford, and subse- quently by John Dubois. He was a good mechanic, and was the first husband of Mrs. Whitaker, who was taken captive at Wyoming in 1778, when twelve years of age, carried to Canada, kept two years, then released and sent home. He removed to Catatonk Creek, and died suddenly in 1805, from injuries received in a mill.

William Taylor accompanied James McMaster to Owego, in 1785, as a bound boy. After planting and securing a crop of corn, they returned to their headquarters on the Mohawk. Jacob Catlin, son of Nathaniel Catlin, says he used to hear Amos Draper tell of McMaster's raising corn and the Indians watching and caring for it in his absence, and who at the harvesting of the same received from him a share of the crop He cut dead pines on the bank of the creek, felled them into the water, bound them together with withes, forming a raft, on which he put his corn and floated it down the river to Wilkesbarre to mill. Mr. Taylor did not return to Owego until 1793, and soon after came to this town and occupied the farm Henry Young now owns. In 1800 he made arrangements to sell his property, and in 1801 removed to Candor, and died in 1849, at eighty- two years. Nathaniel came from Orange County in 1800, and decided to purchase the farm of William Taylor, and in 1801 brought his family, completed the purchase, and settled where Jacob Cathin now lives with his son-in-law, Henry Young.

He was in the Revolutionary war, and one of the sur- vivors of the disastrous battle on the bank of the Delaware River, which followed the destruction of Minisink. John Hill came from Berkshire County, Mass., was in the Revo- lutionary army, and settled in 1792 on what was afterwards

known as the " Deep Well" premises, now owned by Jack- son Goodrich. He was a carpenter, and had a fine orchard. On the side of the road he dug a well about sixty feet deep, which in the winter was frozen about twelve feet upwards from the bottom, very solidly, and could not be used. As late as July 4 ice has been drawn from it.

Daniel Mersereau emigrated from Staten Island in 1794, and settled where Brindley Wallace now lives. He was impressed by the English, taken on board a vessel, and kept several days, but by interference of friends was re- leased. He died in 1848, aged eighty-six years.

Cornelius Taylor settled here in 1794, and was from Plymouth, Wyoming,-sold part of his farm to Mersereau. He died in 1848, aged seventy-seven years.

John Smith settled on Pipe Creek at an early day. His son, J. Gilbert Smith, resides here, and is an active busi- ness man.

Noah and Eliakim Goodrich emigrated from Glastonbury, Conn., and purchased the property of Colonel David Pixley in 1802, and lived and died here, leaving many descendants. Judge Noah Goodrich died in 1834, aged ninety years, and Captain Eliakim Goodrich in 1825, aged sixty-three years. The house built by Captain Goodrich is still standing.

Jonathan Catlin, a brother of Nathaniel, settled on what is known as Catlin Hill, where he has many descendants. He died in 1833, aged eighty years. Caleb Leach was a native of Plymouth, Mass., and was a watchmaker. He made the first auger in the United States, and it is now in the museum at Plymouth. He removed to Philadelphia, and in 1779 was the superintendent in charge of the build- ing of the city water-works, commenced that year. After- wards managed the Mahattan Water-Works, in New York ; came to Owego in 1806, and purchased of Henry Stewart 100 acres of land on the Pixley Location for $600; also two acres of land on east side of Owego Creek, to secure water privilege, where Stephen Leach, his grandson, resides.

INITIAL EVENTS.

The first log house was built by Major Wm. Ransom, who also built the first saw-mill, about 1792, where B. B. Franklin's flouring-mill now stands.

Major Ransom set out the first apple-tree, bringing it with him in a boat from Wyoming. He set out the first orchard on the west bank of the creek, and had the first nursery. Geo. Tallcott, when on an exploring tour through the country, in 1790, says this was the first orchard he had seen between here and Albany.

Colonel David Pixley built the first grist-mill on Owego Creek, in what is called to this day Pixley's Channel, in or before 1793. Previous to this and until the erection of Fitch's mill, four miles above Binghamton, in 1790, the settlers in this locality were obliged to go to Wilkesbarre with their grain by means of canoes, on the Susquehanna, which usually occupied about two weeks. The Mattesons very soon after 1793 built a mill at Cannewanna.

The first tavern was built of logs, and was kept by Samuel Ransom. The first frame house was built by Prince Alden.

A Mr. Denio was the first blacksmith, and had a shop where French's shoe-shop now is, at Tioga Centre. John Hill was the first carpenter.

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Lodowyek Light built the first tannery, using dug-outs for vats, which was afterwards enlarged as a tannery and shoe-shop by his son, Henry Light, and stood in the White Oak Grove, on Henry Light's farmn.

Major Wm. Ransom and Rachel Brooks, in 1792, took upon themselves matrimonial vows, and no record ean be found earlier of marriages in the town.

The first recorded death is that of David Pixley, who died June 6, 1799, aged thirty-five years, and who was a son of Colonel Pixley. He was buried in the wilderness, and the Tioga Cemetery occupies the same locality.

The first cemetery was the one called the Canfield Com- etery, and is situated between the residence of Henry Light and that of Amos Canfield.

Rev. David Jayne was preaching here before 1796. The first camp-meeting was held on the hill on Lodowyck Light's farm, iu 1807, and this hill was afterwards called by the irreverent ones of Pipe Creek " Holy Hill." The first church was built on this place in 1812, and was a union church.

The first school-house was built on Samuel Ransom's farm before 1800.

The first store was kept by John Light and John Crise at Smithboro', where the Republican Hotel stands.

A post-office was first kept at Smithboro' by Isaac Board- man, in 1812, and by John Dubois, very soon after, at Tioga Centre. Stephen Leonard, of Owego, had the first mail contract through from Owego to Elmira, and a mail was de- livered once a week. Ebenezer Meckin drove the first mail- coach through for Leonard.

The first ferry that crossed the Susquehanna River in this town was owned by John Decker and Gideon Cort- wright, who lived on Coxe's Patent as early as 1800, near where Avery Horton now lives.

SCHOOLS.

The inhabitants were interested in education at an early day, and before 1800 the first school-house was built ; but at what time the town was organized under the State law ean- not be ascertained, as the records were burned at a fire in Owego in 1834. A union school was organized at Tioga in 1871, and in 1872 a neat, convenient, and commodious building was erected. The present Board of Education is J. Gilbert Smith, President ; George M. Chap- man, Secretary ; B. B. Franklin, Charles Van Osten, Thomas J. Winter, and Perry Ward. The town contains 19 frame school-houses, valued, with their sites, at $13.985. Ten male and 33 female teachers were employed during the year ending Sept. 30, 1877, who taught 576 weeks of school, which were attended by 820 scholars. There are 1068 children of the school age in the town. 1111 volumes in the school libraries of the town were valued at $483. The amount of money received from the State during the year was $2585.77 ; from taxes, $2041.77; from other sources, $204.54; amounting, with balance on hand Sept. 1, 1876, to $4856.39. Teachers' wages were paid amounting to $4280.79; apparatus and repairs, $150.27 ; incidentals, $375.65. Total, $4806.71.

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History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 52

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