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A FREE-WILL BAPTIST CHURCH
was organized here years ago, and a meeting-house was built on the property of Comfort Bennett, but is now disorgan- ized, and the building is used as a granary by Mr. Bennett.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
was organized about 1825, and the first deacons were Nathan Reynolds, Charles Frye, and Joseph Pound. A Sunday- school was held in Esquire Robert Miller's barn, across the street from the school-house. Seats were arranged on the barn floor, and about 100 children were gathered there. Revs. Rouce, Ford, and S. Jones preached before the church was built. The first settled pastor was the Rev. M. Harmon, and was succeeded by Revs. - Shaw, - Whiting, Sidney Mills, - Clark, T. Harrington, C. W. Higgins, E. S. Willson, Wm. Atwood, and S. D. Jewell, who is the present pastor. They have at present 61 members, and a Sunday-school of 75 members. S. T. Owen, Superinten- dent. The church was built on its present site in 1828-29, by Benjamin Farrell, Eleazar Owen, Nathan Reynolds, Robert Miller, Charles Frye, John Winters, Clark Winans, and David Reynolds, and dedicated January, 1830; Rev. David Harrower, an old Scotch covenanter, making the dedicatory prayer.
THE METHODISTS
in this section held meetings at an early day, and the Rev. Edward T. Gilbert was the pastor about the time the Pres- byterian Church was organized in 1825, but he soon after joined the Episcopal Church, and the society had a feeble existence, being supplied with circuit preachers until 1853,
when it was reorganized under Rev. John Nevin, presiding elder, with eight members. Rev. Isaac Ketchum was the first pastor, and he has been succeeded by Revs. F. Kent, George Wilkinson, W. E. Pindar, John Hutchins, William Walze- worth, Eli Brown, R. D. Munger, Harris Peck, W. Slother, A. T. West, G. J. Dubois, A. W. Staples, C. W. Winchester, A. S. Durling, J. Sackett, A. D. Edgar, S. S. Rhinevault, and G. E. Moxy, who is the present pastor. The church contains 90 members, including two appointments, Quacken- bush Hill and Sing Sing. The present church edifice was erected in 1865.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church was organized in 1830, and soon after a church-building was erected above the bridge by Mr. John Mineer; Captain George Gardner contrib- uting the land, and Trinity Church, of New York, $800. Rev. E. T. Gilbert was the first rector. In about 1842 or 1843, by removals and other causes, it was discontinued ; but services were held occasionally by Revs. Skinner, Bur- rows, and Lighborn, of Corning, and Hull, of Elmira. In 1859, Rev. Mr. Moody became their rector.
Oct. 24, 1861, Bishop De Lancey visited the society, and gave an order for incorporation, and L. A. Tuttle was chosen Senior Warden ; A. H. Gales, Junior Warden; Wil- liam Woodward, W. A. Tuttle, John Haggerty, A. J. Bennett, .A. D. Huey, O. T. Tuttle, Jedediah Stowe, and A. B. Steele, Vestrymen.
Application was made to Bishop De Lancey to appoint Rev. Henry M. Brown a missionary minister for this church aud Horseheads, which was granted ; and he was succeeded by Revs. Robert R. Goudy, John A. Bowman, and George W. G. Van Winkle. They have no pastor at present. Number of communicants, 16.
A church was erected (where it now stands) about 1831, at a cost of $6000, Lorain A. Tuttle contributing $3000.
In the Big Flats cemetery a plain, unpretending obelisk marks the last resting-place of William Mapes, a veteran of the Revolutionary war. At its dedication John L. Sex- ton, formerly a resident of this town, but now in the bureau of statistics at Harrisburg, Pa., delivered an address com- memorative of the old veteran and his long life, from which we compile the following sketch :
A VETERAN OF THE REVOLUTION.
" William Mapes was born Oct. 28, 1754, on the north branch of the Raritan River, New Jersey. He enlisted in the army of the United States, and soon afterwards was in the battle of Monmouth, and was borne from the field with right arm pierced with a bayonet, and left knee shattered with a bullet. After his recovery he went with General Sullivan, and assisted in destroying the Indian settlements and cornfields through this section. He was one of the heroic remnants of the Continental army, who were gath- ered together Oct. 19, 1781, to receive a formal discharge from Washington. He received his discharge from Wash- ington's own hand, and bore that chieftain's signature. On his way home to New Jersey, he witnessed the parting of Washington and his generals at New York.
" Half a century rolls by. The constitution of the United States had been made, Washington had been called from
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Prominent among the citizens of Big Flats-men who by business activity, fair dealing, and foresight conduced to the prosperity of the town and village-were the brothers, Lauren A. and William A. Tuttle. Lauren A., the elder, was born at Windham, Greene Co., N. Y., Dec. 1, 1803. With the learning obtained at the district school, at the age of sixteen he engaged as a clerk in the country store of his uncle, and at the age of twenty-one was taken into business with him as a partner. He remained there until July, 1837.
May 31, 1832, he married Miss Mary Ann Butler, of Greene County, N. Y.
Having accumulated a capital of $3000, Mr. Tuttle left Windham in 1837, and with his horse and carriage journeyed westward in search of a favorable location for his business.
After visiting several places in Western New York, he settled at Big Flats, and formed a copartnership with his brother, William A.
The firm soon became prosperous in trade with the settlers of the fertile valley and of the well-timbered country sur- rounding. By close attention to legitimate business they were saved from the snare which so frequently entraps men in pros- perity, that of entering into unwise and unprofitable specula- tion ; while their integrity and good faith made them shun debt, which, as a whirlpool, so frequently engulfs the incau- tious trader. They never were obliged to compromise with creditors by paying a percentage ; neither did they distress their debtors, or urge them to trade beyond their means.
Such characters seldom fail to win the respect and confidence of the people. Both brothers have held the office of supervisor of the town, William A. having been elected and re-elected several times, as also to the office of town clerk. For more than twenty years the post-office was kept at their store, onc or thic other brother holding the office of postmaster. No one wished for a change, and no petition was circulated for that purpose while the firm remained.
In every office duty was performed without blunder and without fraud.
Mrs. L. A. Tuttle died at Big Flats, February 8, 1838, leaving a child which survived her three months; her two children which were born at Windham died in infancy.
Mr. Tuttle did not marry again. Baptized at Windham, he continued a member of the Episcopal Church, was confirmed by Bishop De Lancey, continued a faithful communicant, and as a crowning act of a long and useful life he contributed the magnificent sum of three thousand dollars toward the erection of St. John's Church, Big Flats, a beautiful Gothie structure, both an ornament to the village and a memorial that, although he now rests from his labor, his work does follow him.
At the organization of the parish in 1861, Mr. L. A. Tuttle was elected senior warden, and continued in that offiee until his death, March 19, 1875, having worked no ill to his neigh- bors, but doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with his God.
WILLIAM A. TUTTLE was born at Windham, Greene Co., N. Y., Sept. 10, 1810. Was educated in the district school of that place, and like his brother, Lauren A., began life as a clerk in a country store.
About the year 1836 hc removed from Windham to Reading, Steuben, now Schuyler Co., N. Y. He began business there at first on his own account, and soon after- wards in partnership with his brother, Perez S. Tuttle. April 17, 1838, he married Miss Mary Ross, of Reading, and removed to Big Flats in the autumn, entering into business with his brother, Lauren A.
An unswerving Democrat, he always held office when his party was successful ; that of supervisor several times, and more than once was clected town clerk. When that party was in power he was postmaster, but if defeated the office passed over to his brother Lauren.
In his intercourse with his neighbors he was kind and helpful ; his counsel was sought in many cases of business embarrassment, or other trouble. His religious education was Episcopal. Baptized into the church at Trinity, Windham, yet circumstances prevented him from an active membership.
His life was without reproach. At his death he left to his family a pattern of domestic virtue worthy of imita- tion. He died April 4, 1864, leaving one daughter, Mrs. Margaret McNulty, of Big Flats, and two sons, William Edgar and Charles O. Tuttle, who with their mother reside in the village of Horseheads. Their brother, Henry L., died in 1862, at the age of fourteen.
The memory of Lauren A. and William A. Tuttle will not soon fade; their good deeds were not "interred with their bones," but will bless many generations of grateful citizens.
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his home at Mount Vernon by the unanimous suffrage of the people, to act as chief executive of the infant Republic, serving with equal fidelity and zeal in the high capacity of chief magistrate, as he had when in command of the Continental army. He had again retired to the peace- ful shade and walks of his loved Mount Vernon to enjoy domestic peace and tranquillity, and been succeeded by Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, J. Q. Adams, and the hero of New Orleans. A second war with Great Britain ensued, in which the rights of adopted citizens were more fully understood and defined, developing new powers, and bringing into publie notice new men and lucasures. The population of the country had increased from three to ten millions. The arts and sciences, agriculture and manufae- tures, were in a flourishing and prosperous condition. Steam had been used as a motive-power, internal commerce had been fostered ; the Erie Canal, uniting the great chain of inland seas with the ocean, had been completed ; new States had been admitted to the Union,-coequal sovereigns with the original thirteen. The new Republic of Texas had, by the inspiration and influence of our free institutions, been warmed into life, and was contending with Mexico for her independence. The corner-stone of Bunker Hill monument had been laid, and Webster had immortalized the fame of his countrymen ; the Star-spangled Banner was known upon every sea and respected in every country.
" General Williamson, with his party of English and German emigrants, had been condueted into the wilds of Southern and Western New York by Benjamin and Robert Patterson, two soldiers of the Revolution. Colonel John Hendy had settled upon the banks of the Chemung, near Ka-na-we-o-la. James Clinton, John Hathorn, and John Cantine, assisted by Moses De Witt, had surveyed this section of the State, and had opened up the former abode of the red man, and the axe of the daring and hardy pioneer had converted this region-the vast wilderness of 1779- into a country rich in agricultural productions. Thirty-five new counties had been organized west of Montgomery, the mother of counties ; hamlets, villages, towns, and cities had sprung up, as if by magie, over the entire region. Fifty years, I say, had passed away since the farewell of Wash- ington to his army on the banks of the Hudson, when an old man,-a veteran of the Revolution, his head silvered with the frost of more than eighty winters,-made his ap- pearanee in our midst ; fifty years before he had passed over this region in pursuit of the enemies of our country ; and took up his abode at Big Flats, and lived here for more than twenty years, and died April 1, 1856, aged one hundred and three years, and was buried in the cemetery at Big Flats."
CEMETERIES.
In the first laying out of this settlement, as they began to cluster together on and near where the village of Big Flats now stands, a tract of three-quarters of an aere was set apart by the proprietor of the land where the cem- ctery now is for cemetery and school purposes. July 24, 1845, an organization was perfected, and the Cemetery Association of Big Flats was incorporated, and new ground was purchased adjoining the old, and the whole contains about four aeres.
The first President was William A. Tuttle; John Hag- gerty, Vice-President ; William Woodward, Treasurer ; and John D. Williams, Secretary. The present officers are John Storms, President ; Dr. William Woodward, Treasurer ; and Dr. George A. Woodward, Secretary. There are no other associations in the town, but several smaller cemeteries, the oldest of which is near the old Baptist church above J. R. Lowes.
BIG FLATS
is situated near the west border of the town, and is a station on the Erie Road. It contains four churches (Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, and Presbyterian), hotel, dry-goods store, three groceries, blacksmith-shop, three carriage-shops, two tobacco-packing houses, a cigar-manufactory, school - house, post-office, steam-mill, town hall, millinery-store, and five physicians.
The Big Flats Steam-Mill was built by H. Voorhess in 1869, as a grist-mill, with three run of stone. In 1872 a saw-mill was attached, with a capacity of cutting 750,000 feet of lumber per annum. It is operated by an engine of 60 horse-power, and is now owned by Voorhess & Rhine- hardt.
Big Flats Grist-Mill is situated about three-quarters of a mile from the village, and on Sing-Sing Creek, and is where William Miller built the first saw- and grist-mill in town, and was built by S. S. Stevens, who still owns it. It is run by water and has three run of stone.
Quackenbush & Co. manufacture about 60,000 cigars a month, and employ 10 hands. They commenced business in 1876.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
The canal which passes through this town from west to east is termed the Chemung Caual Feeder, and was con- structed at the same time the other portion was, which ex- tends from the Chemung River at Elmira to the head of Seneca Lake.
At one period the feeder conveyed a larger portion of freight than the direct canal, and about 1850 one-eighth of the tonnage ariving at Albany passed through this branch, consisting principally of coal and lumber. The Erie Rail- road passes through the town, having a depot at Big Flats.
There are two bridges crossing the river in the town,- one, a suspension-bridge, built about 1870 by the town at a cost of $15,000 ; the other is incorporated as the Lumber- man's Bridge, and erosses at the southeast corner of the town.
The members of the Assembly who have represented this district from this town are Colonel George Gardner, Samuel Mineer, and John Haggerty.
CIVIL IHISTORY.
The territory of which this town was formed was taken from Elmira, while that town was in Tioga County, April 16, 1822, and takes its name from the broad flats that extend through the town.
No records can be found of thic officers of the town from its organization till 1830.
The following is the list of the supervisors, town elerks, and justices of the peace, as accurately as they can be ascertaincd :
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HISTORY OF TIOGA, CHEMUNG, TOMPKINS,
SUPERVISORS.
1830-32. George Shriver.
1858-60. W. A. Tuttle.
1833-37. Samuel Mineer.
1861. W. H. Palner.
1838-10. C. L. Gardner.
1862-63. W. A. Tuttle.
1841-42. W. A. Tuttle.
1864. John A. Stewart.
1843-46. T. N. Bennett.
1865. Henry Mineer.
1847. J. M. Park.
1866-67. Lorenzo D. Hughson.
1848. Samuel Mineer.
1868-69. Samuel Mineer.
1849. J. N. Park.
1870. Judah Shriver.
1850. James llughson.
1871. Samuel Mineer.
1851. J. N. Park.
1872-73. Thomas Cuddebach.
1852-53. Paul W. Breed.
1874. Cephas Breed.
1854. John Haggerty.
1875. Stephen T. Owen.
1855. II. Mineer.
1876. Cephas Breed.
1856. W. A. Tuttle.
1877. John R. Mineer.
1857. John Haggerty.
1878. James Tarr.
TOWN CLERKS.
1824. John Miller.
1850-51. J. M. Brown.
1825-28. T. Brooks.
1852. W. T. Overhiser.
1829-31. Robert Miller.
1853-55. John M. Brown.
1832. T. Brooks. 1856-61. William Woodward.
1833-35. W. Wyatt.
1862-63. G. M. Norman.
1836-38. Edmund T. Gilbert.
1864-65. William Woodward.
1839-40. W. A. Tuttle.
1866-69. W. E. Tuttle.
1841. D. B. Brown.
1870. N. E. Munson. 1871. T. W. Reed.
1842. B. A. Rose.
1843. D. B. Brown.
1872. Willis M. Ililton.
1844. W. A. Tuttle.
1873-74. J. R. Mineer.
1845. II. D. Lovell.
1875. George W. Woodward.
1846. Horace Miller.
1876. Abram B. Mineer.
1847. W. A. Tuttle.
1877. William Woodward.
1848. Lorenzo Brown.
1878. Huldah L. Storms.
1849. Horace Miller.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Abel Rogers.
Reuben Lovell.
Abel Crofut.
Henry Mincer.
George A. Gardner.
A. S. Tuller.
J. L. Sexton.
Cephas Breed.
J. C. Seofield.
J. L. Sexton.
S. K. Wolleott.
Henry Wood.
M. J. Wheeler.
L. A. Tuttle.
Nelson Hotchkiss.
W. A. Seely.
Andrew W. Gilbert.
G. W. Haines.
J. D. Williams.
Elmer Gilbert.
John Rockwell.
John Campbell.
Aaron Whitney.
James E. Tarr.
John A. Stewart.
S. H. Smith, Jr.
William Clark.
J. R. Lowe.
George W. Menthan.
George S. Voorhess.
Henry Mineer.
Credit is due to Dr. William Woodward, Dr. C. E. Peebles, John Mineer, John L. Sexton, J. R. Lowe, John E. Tarr, Rev. S. D. Jewell, Dr. T. Reed, and others, for information that has been valuable in the compilation of the history of. this town.
MILITARY RECORD.
John D. Seaman, private; enl. Dec. 21, 1863.
Wm. Carley, private, 6th N. Y. Art .: enl. Dec. 22, 1863, three years.
Judson Smith, private; must. Dec. 14, 1863. Jerome Conklin, private, 16th N. Y. Art. ; must. Dec. 22, 1863, three years. James Arnold, private, 16th N. Y. H. Art. ; must. Dec. 23, 1863, three years. Ira Carley, corporal, 16th N. Y. H. Art. ; must. Dec. 23, 1863, three years. Jonathan Downing, private; must. Dec. 23, 1863.
Geo. W. Collins, private, 1st N. Y. Vet. Cav .; must. Dec. 21, 1863, three years; killed at Piedmont, June 5, 1864.
Eleazer Hoganeamp, private, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. I; must. Dec. 26, 1863, three years; engaged in battles of Resaca, Dallas, Atlanta, Black Oak Swamp, Peach-Tree Creek, and through with Sherman on the March to the Sea ; diseh. at Ogdensburg in Aug. 1865.
Hiram T. Foster, private; must. Jan. 2, 1865.
John Vanderacker, private, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Dec. 9, 1863, three years ; disch. Jan. 30, 1864, on account of hernia.
Chas. Quackenbush, private, 5th N. Y. H. Art .; enl. Dec. 18, 1863, three years. Chas. Slater, private ; must. Elmira.
Jolin White, Jr., private, 5th Il. Art., Co. D; enl. Dee. 1863, three years. John D. Humphrey, private ; must. Dre. 26, 1863.
Sylvester A. Weaver, private, 16th N. Y. Il. Art .; must. Dec 14, 1863, three years.
Geo. Cragin, private; must. Dee. 23, 1863,
Geo. W. Brant, private, 10th Inf., Co. C; must. Dec. 26, 1863.
James Iloffmaffan, private, 16th N. Y. H. Art., Co. Il ; enl. Dec. 29, 1863, three years ; wounded in foot before Petersburg.
Geo. Daily, private, IGth N. Y. Il. Art., Co. E; enl. Dec. 28, 1863, three years. Erastus Stonemets, private, 5th N. Y. Il. Art .; enl. Dec. 1863, three years; wounded slightly in left foot at Piedmont.
Eleazer Downing, private, 16th N. Y. H. Art., Co. H; enl. Dec. 23, 1863, three years.
Geo. Teeter, private ; must. Dee. 26, 1863.
John B. Casterline, private, 5th N. Y. H. Art., Co. C; enl. Dec. 23, 1863, Three years; on gnard duty at Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg; no bartles; in hospital at Frederick City ; diseh. Sept. 23, 1864 ; general debility and disability.
John Price, private, 50th N. Y. Eng., C'o. G; enl. Dee. 31, 1863, three years ; built corduroy-roads and pontons in and about Petersburg; diseh. June 28, 1865.
Wni. II. Potter, private, Ist Vet. Cav., Co. A ; enl. Dee. 22, 1863, three years; in battles of Martinsburg, Bolivar Heights, Winchester, Plattsburg, and Cedar Creek ; disch. July 20, 1865.
Ethan A. Edwards, private; enl. Dec. 29, 1863.
George Elis, private; must. Jan. 2, 1863.
William Sanford Owen, private, 50th N. Y. Eng .; must. Dec. 25, 1863. James A. James.
John B. Rowley, private, 179th N. Y. Inf., Co. B; enl. Mar. 21, 1863, three years; in the battle of Petersburg ; disch. June 8, 1865, at Alexandria.
James B. Bowker, private, 179th N. Y. Inf; must. Mar. 28, 1863, three years. Orlando V. Cians, carpenter, 179th N. Y. Inf. ; must. Feb. 20, 1863, three years. William Z mmer.
Charles Griggs, private, 179th N. Y. Inf. ; mnst. Feb. 24, 1863, three years. George B. Wellington, private, 9th N. Y. Cav. ; must. Feb. 20, 1863, three years. Luke Masterson, private, 9th N. Y. Cav .; must. Feb. 19, 1863, three years. Jacob Leonard, private, 179th Inf .; must. Feb. 22, 1863, three years. Wm. Jackson.
Jesse Cornell. Win. A. Hlenth, 50th Eng.
Jolm A. M.ller, private, 5th N. Y. HI. Art., Co. A ; enl. Feb. 13, 1862, three years ; at llarper's Ferry, Piedmont, Lynchburg; re-enlisted Feb. 23, 1864. John M. Davis.
Win. Collins, private, 97th N. Y. Vol. ; enl. Fel. 4, 1865, one year. David O. Keefe, 1st corporal ; enl. Feb. 7, 1865, three years. Benjamin West, 1st N. Y. Dragoons; enl. Feb. 7, 1865, three years. Iliram D. Olcott.
George Le Clare, private, 1st N. Y. Dragoons; enl. Feb. 7, 1865, one year. James Howard, private, 1st N. Y. Dragoons; enl. Feb. 7, 1865, three years. James O. Brien, private, 91st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Feb. 10, 1665, three years. Martin Cowan, private, 91>t N. Y. Inf .; eul. Feb. 10, 1865, three years. John Bmike, private, 91st N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Feb. 10, 1865, three years. Frederick Teuscher, private, 1st Army Corps; enl. Feb. 11, 1865, three years. Levi Baxter Sliekerman, private, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. K ; enl. Feb. 14, 1865, three years.
Charles Kingsley, private, 176th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Feh. 17, 1865, one year. Joseph Davis, private, 24th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Feb. 17, 1865, one year. Patrick Ryan, private, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Feb, 14, 1865, one year. William Moore, private, 194th N. Y. Int. ; enl. Feb. 17, 1865, one year. John Evans, private; must. Dec. 26, 1865.
Frederick Shoak, private, 194th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Feb. 14, 1865, one year. Abraham Van Orten, private, 194th N. Y. Iuf .; enl. Feb. 14, 1865, one year. Jefferson J. Stephens, private, 1st N. Y. Dragoons: enl Feb. 28, 1865, one year. Charles F. Cook, private, Ist Army Corps ; enl. March 9, 1865, three years. John J. Jordan, private, 194th N. Y. Inf .; enl. March 13, 1865, one year. Daniel Dowings, private, 5th N. Y. Il. Art., Co. A ; enl. Feb. 13, 1862, three years; at battles of Piedmont, Winchester, and Lynchburg. George B. Toby, private, 194th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Fel. 23, 1865, one year. Orlando Groom, private, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. H; enl. Ang. 30, 1862 ; in battles of Fredericksburg, Rappahannock Station, Petersburg, and Hatcher's Run. Frederick Westerle, private; enl. Feb. 7, 1865.
Nathaniel W. Campbell, private, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. C; enl. July 15, 1862, three years ; at battles of Chancellorsville, Antietam, and Gettysburg.
Archelist Campbell, private, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. C; enl. July 18, 1865, three years; at battles of Chaneellorsville, Antietam, and Gettysburg ; wounded in thigh at Chancellorsville ; died of chronic dysentery at Atlanta.
Alfred C. Dates, private, 141st N. Y. Inf., Co. K ; enl. Aug. 29, 1862, three years; wounded in finger at Dallas, Ga. William Kellogg, private, 5th N. Y. Vet. Cav. ; mmst. Nov. 5, 1863. William Johnson, private; enl. Aug. 30, 1864 ; three years. John Edwards, private, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; eul. Sept. 1, 1864, one year. Edmund Dan, private, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Ang. 30, 1864, one year. Morris Mannix, private ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, two years.
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LITH. BY L. H. EVERTS, PHILADELPHIA.
RESIDENCE OF GEO. E. HARRIS, BIG FLATS , NEW YORK .
المشاركة
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VARNUM MCDOWELL.
DAVID J. PARK.
VARNUM McDOWELL,
the subject of this sketch, was born Nov. 18, 1795, in the town of Dracut, Middlesex Co., Mass., near the city of Lowell. While he was quite young his parents moved to Charlestown, N. H., where he obtained a liberal education. During the war of 1812 he served in Captain Warner's company, and went to Claremont to oppose the British, but hearing that the enemy had passed down the St. Lawrence the troops were dismissed. In 1814 he was drafted to serve as a drummer, but failed to get into active service. In 1816 he started with a horse and wagon, containing a chest of tools, to find his two brothers, who had previously cmigrated to New York State. He arrived in the town of Chemung (now Erin) Jan. 1, 1817, where his brothers had located. He then commenced to clear away the timber and crect a house of pine logs on the farm which he still owns. He married Elizabeth Jay in 1823, a union which has been blessed by six children, all living, except one who died in the West at the age of twenty-two.
Mr. McDowell was the first collector in the town, and for sixteen subsequent years held some local office, when his failing eyesight compelled him to decline further honors. He then turned his attention to the improvement of his farm. Politically he was an old-line Whig until 1856, when he joined the Democratic party, the principles of which he has since advocated. In 1865, at the age of seventy years, he retired from his farm, and, with his wife, located in the city of Elmira, there to spend the remainder of an industrious and honorable life. Of a social and generous disposition, he gave with a liberal hand from the plenty with which he was blessed, and always sought to promote the best interests of his town and county. Of the strictest honesty and integrity, both himself and companion are loved and honored by their many acquaintances.
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