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THE TOWN OF OSSINING DURING THE CIVIL WAR .- Our town during the War of the Rebellion was intensely loyal. Almost immediately after the fall of Fort Sumter, a company of ninety men was organized, and placed under the command of Captain Franklin J. Davis, Most of the men were residents of Sing Sing, a few were from North Salem, and other places in the county. This company was incorpo- rated into the Seventeenth Regiment of New York State Volunteers as Company F., and went to Wash- ington in June, 1861. Soon after the first battle of Bull Run, Captain Davis resigned, and was succeeded by Captain John Vickers, a resident of Port Chester,
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who was a veteran of the Mexican War, and a brave and efficient officer. He held his position until the company was disbanded. Captain Davis joined the cavalry regiment, known as Scott's Nine-Hundred; he died some years after from the effects of his service while in the army. The Seventeenth Regiment New York Volunteers was subsequently attached to General Butterfield's Brigade, in General Fitz John Porter's Division, afterwards the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac. It went with General McClel- lan to Fortress Monroe, and participated in the siege of Yorktown, and the battle of Hanover Court House. The night before the battle of Mechanicsville, the regiment was ordered to leave the Fifth Corps, and proceed, under General Stoneman, to resist the ad- vance of General Stonewall Jackson, down the valley. They were defeated by the Confederate Gen- eral, and compelled to take boat down the Chicka- hominy River. Rejoining the Army of the Potomac at Harrison's Landing, after the Seven Days Battle had been fought, they vacated the Peninsula. They were engaged in the second battle at Bull Run, under the command of General Fitz John Porter, and lost one hundred and twenty men out of their regiment. They then were taken to Washington to aid in the defense of the capital, afterwards went to Sharpsburg, and took part in the battle of Antietam, and were present in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancel- lorsville. The company had enlisted for two years, and their time had expired previous to the battle of Chancellorsville, but they took part in that great en- gagement at their own request.
The company arrived in Sing Sing on the 21st of May, 1863, and were received with the greatest hon- ors, being escorted from the boat on which they ar- rived from New York City by a procession of citi- zens.
In the fall of the year 1862 the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Regiment New York State Volunteers was raised, being composed mainly of soldiers from West- chester County. Company "I" of this regiment was formed in Sing Sing, and a large proportion of its members were residents of the town of Ossining. The officers of the company were as follows: Captain, Clark Peck; First Lieutenant, Charles C. Hyatt ; Second Lieutenant, J. H. Ashton. The period of their enlistment was three years. The regiment left Yonkers September 2, 1862. In October following, the title of the regiment was changed, and it became the Sixth New York Heavy Artillery. It was at- tached to the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the battles fought with the Second, Third, Fifth and Sixth Corps of that army. In August, 1864, the regiment was ordered to Washington for garrison duty, and were stationed there five weeks, this being the only duty of the kind in which they were engaged during the war. They were then placed under Gen- eral Sheridan's command, and participated in the fierce fights of the Shenandoah Valley campaign.
Company "I" was mustered out with the rest of the regiment June 27, 1865, and arrived in Sing Sing July 3, 1865. The following day being the celebra- tion of American Independence, a procession and for- mal welcome to the veterans constituted an interest- ing and important portion of the proceedings of the day.
During the summer of 1864 nine residents of Sing Sing entered the naval service and were stationed on the gunboat "Nyack." They were Dennis Norton, G. W. Romaine, Curtis Delanoy, Charles E. Lewis, Daniel G. Clark, Sylvester Flewellyn, Samuel Patte- son, Robert McCaskey and W. A. McKain. They, were honorably discharged from the service May 29, 1865. W. A. McKain died at Wilmington, N. C. The party were in engagements on board the "Nyack" at Fort Fisher, Fort Anderson and one or two other placcs.
The names of our forty-two officers and soldiers who lost their lives to sustain the Union are in- scribed on the Soldiers' Monument, and will be found in the section of this sketch which is devoted to that memento of the War of the Rebellion. Several other soldiers of our town have since died, from the effects of diseases which were contracted during the war.
A "LADIES' UNION RELIEF ASSOCIATION " was formed in Sing Sing almost as soon as the war began. Mrs. C. F. Maurice was elected first directress; Mrs. William A. Pentz, second directress ; and Mrs. C. E. Van Cortlandt, secretary. This association did a large amount of very excellent and valuable work during the whole period of the war. It was an aux- iliary branch of that great national benevolent and humane organization, the United States Sanitary Commission.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC .- A Post of the Grand Army of the Republic was instituted at Sing Sing in the year 1866, under the designation of Powell Post, No. 51. The name was selected in honor of the two brothers, Bartow W. Powell, Jr., and George W. Powell, both former residents of this vil- lage. Bartow, who enlisted in Company C, Fifth New York Volunteers, was killed at the second battle of Bull Run; and George, who had enlisted in the Sixth New York Heavy Artillery, died miserably in the Andersonville Prison. They were both privates. This Post was dissolved in 1868, and was succeeded by an independent Veteran Association, which formed a Monumental Dramatic Association, in 1872, through tlie instrumentality of which the Soldiers' Monument, in Main Street, was erected. The present Post, known as Powell Post, No. 117, Grand Army of the Republic, was organized as a provisional Post, Sep- tember 5, 1879, with Gilbert H. Dearing as Com- mander. In 1884 it had sixty-five active members.
Morell Post, No. 144, Grand Army of the Republic is an offshoot from Powell Post, and was organized December 18, 1883, with Joseph B. Eaton as Com-
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mander. It was named in honor of our distinguished citizen of Scarborough, the late Major-General George W. Morell, who commanded the Fifth Corps, under General Fitz-John Porter. The Post had but seven- teen members at the time of its organization.
Powell Post, No. 24, Sons of Veterans was organ- ized, December 15, 1883, with Joseph R. Swain as Commander. It began with eleven members; within six months it increased to twenty-five.
THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT .- Shortly after the close of the War of the Rebellion a Ladies' Monu- ment Association was formed by a number of the ladies of Sing Sing, for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of the soldiers who had gone forth from the village and fallen in the struggle. About $350 were raised by solicitation. The corner- stone of the monument was laid with great ceremony on the Fourth of July, 1872. The sum obtained not being sufficient to erect a suitable monument, a meet- ing of veterans of the war was called in the year 1872, and the Monumental Dramatic Association was formed, for the purpose of raising funds for the completion of the monument. The first entertainment was the performance of a play called " The Scout of Tennes- see; or, the Battle of Chattanooga," and was received with much favor. Although the society met with a check by the burning of their scenery and stage par- aphernalia iu Olive Hall, in 1874, which occasioned a loss of about $400, they still prosecuted their plan, and by 1879 had accumulated about $1200.
The monument was completed in that year, its cost being about $1550, which sum was entirely made up from the funds of the Ladies' Monument Association and the Monumental Dramatic Association. The monument was dedicated on Decoration Day, 1879, with imposing ceremonies. There was a procession, in which the veterans of the war, the militia com- pany, the police, the firemen and the Mt. Pleasant Cadets participated. Speeches were delivered from a grand stand, which had been erected opposite the monument, by Gilbert Il. Dearing, Commauder of Powell Post 51, G. A. R., of Sing Sing and Hon. Benj. A. Willis, after which the Free-Masons took charge of the ceremonies, and M. W. Ellwood E. Thorne, Past Grand Master of Masons of the State of New York, made an address. The monument was then unveiled amid great applanse.
The Soldiers' Monument stands in a conspicuous position on Main Street, in the centre of the village, and forms an ornament to the place. It is built in three sections, which stand on a base of two massive blocks of granite, and are surmounted by the figure of a kneeling angel. The superstructure is cast in white bronze. On the north panels are a group of flags, drums, cannons and balls, and a medallion of Lincoln, with the well-known lines below, "With malice toward none, with charity for all." Below are the words, " One country, one flag, one destiny."
On the west side is a bas-relief portrait of an Amer-
ican soldier, with the following inscription below : " They died for their country."
On the east side is a bas-relief of a stack of arms. Bencath are inscribed the following names :
OFFICERS.
Ist Lient. F. J. Davis, Scott's 900, L. S. Cav.
Master's Mate Chas. S. Livingston, U. S. guuboat " Richmond."
Lieut. William Mattocks, Co. F, 17th N. Y. Vols.
Sergt. Leonard Cronk, Co. F, 17th N. Y. Vols.
Sergt. Ward B. Ilyatt, 6th N. Y. 11. Art.
Sergt. Elijah Lamareaux, Co. F, 17th N. Y. Vols.
PRIVATES.
John Acker, Co. I, 95th N. Y. Vols.
John Baxter, musiciau, Duryea's Zouaves.
Cassius Bishop, 7th N. Y. Il. Art.
Oscar Chapmau, Co. C, 6th N. Y. HI. Art.
Henry Crofnt, Co. F, 17th N. Y. Vols.
Eugene Cypher, Morrison's Battery. John W. Dunne, 17th N. Y. Vols.
William A. Frisbie, 6th N. Y. II. Art.
Ezra M. Griffin, Co. HI, 320 N. Y. Vols.
Richard Hale, Co. F, 17th N. Y. Vols.
Robert Herrick, 4th U. S. Art.
Martin Hyland, Co. A, 5Ist N. Y. Vols.
Jonathan Knight, 6th N. Y. H. Art.
James W. Lent, 6th N. Y. HI. Art.
James McGinn, 6th N. Y. Il. Art.
Beneath the names is the inscription : " Erected ... D. 1879."
On the south side are the same emblems as on the east, and underneath the following names :
PRIVATES.
Charles McCord, 6th N. Y. H. Art.
Engene Marshall, 6th N. Y. H. Art.
Joseph McCormick, 63d N. Y. Vols.
Jesse A. Many, Co. I, 65th N. Y. Vols.
William A. Mckain, U. S. gunboat "Nyark."
James Mulkern, Co. F, 17th N. Y. Vols.
Harvey Nuskey, 6th N. Y. Il. Art.
Andrew J. Orser, Co. E, 51st N. Y. Vols.
Bartow W. Powell, Jr., Co. C, 5th N. Y. Vols.
George l'owell, 6th N. Y. II. Art.
Thomas Reily, Co. B, 40th N. Y. Vols.
Lewis B. Reynolds, Co. F, 17th N. Y. Vols.
Augustus M. Schaffer, Co. F. Ist N. Y. Vols.
Jolin Scully, 6th N. Y. HI. Art.
James E. Slater, Co. C, 6th N. Y. 11. Art.
William Thorne, Co. F, 17th N. Y. Vols.
Harvey J. Weeks, Co. F, Ilth Ct. Vols. Robert Westcott, Co. C, 321 N. Y. Vols.
Sanford Williams, 121st N. Y. Vols.
Michael Williamson, Co. E, 6th N. Y. Vols.
Beneath these names is the inscription, " In Memory of our Brave Soldiers."
BANKS OF SING SING .- The first banking iustiti- tion in this village was organized under the old State banking laws, at a meeting of citizens, held Decem - ber 4, 1852. It was styled " The Bank of Sing Sing." It had a nominal capital of one hundred thousand dollars, and was presided over by the late Dr. Benja- min Brandreth. After an existence of eight years, it made a disastrous failure; its affairs are not yet en- tirely settled.
A private banking-house was started in February. 1860, under the title of "Banking Office of C. F. Maurice & Co." This was continued prosperously
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until April, 1864, when it was transferred into the " First National Bank of Sing Sing."
" The First National Bank" was organized, at the tinie above stated, with a capital of one hundred thous- and dollars, under the presidency of Mr. Charles F. Maurice. This gentleman held the office of president for many years, after which he resigned, to be suc- ceeded by Major W. W. Benjamin, who in less than two years was removed by death, the position having been since held by the Hon. Heury C. Nelson. The bank, in addition to its capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, now has a surplus of thirty-five thousand dollars, and deposits amounting to about one-third of a milliou of dollars. It owns and occupies a fine marble building, which stands in a conspicuous position at the angle made by Highland and Croton Avenues.
Isaac B. Noxon, the cashier of the First National Bank, is descended from Dutch ancestry, who settled in Dutchess County, N. Y., at an early date ; his father, James Noxon, who resided in the town of Le Grange, married Ann, daughter of Elijah Farrington, and their son, Isaac B., was born June 24, 1837. At the age of seven years he removed with his parents to Tompkins County, and remained with them on a farm, and when seventeen he attended for several terms the Cortlandtville Academy, with the intention of pre- paring for college. He taught a district school a por- tion of the time and for a while had charge of the primary department of the academy. Circumstances compelling him to relinquish the intention of attend- ing college, he removed to Sing Sing and entered the old Bank of Sing Sing as book-keeper. After the fail- ure of that institution he entered the banking office of C. F. Maurice & Co., and remaincd four years ; this company was, in 1864, merged iuto the First National Bank, of which he has been cashier up to the present time. For twenty years he has been the secretary of the Sing Sing Savings Bank, and its ac- ting cashier.
When Mr. Noxon first became. connected with this institution the deposits were ouly about fifty thousand dollars; the amount now exceeds one million two hundred thousand dollars. Since being a resident of the village he has been closely iden- tified with its various public improvements, aud has been treasurer of the village for four years, pres- ident for six successive years and trustee for sev- eral terms. Interested in the meutal and moral wel- fare of the place, he has been influential in organ- izing courses of lectures which for many years have been of great advantage to the community, and many of the most celebrated lecturers of the day have been engaged in them.
Mr. Noxon is a prominent member of the Masonic order and has been Master of the Westchester Lodge, District Deputy Grand Master of the Ninth Masonic District of this State, High Priest of Buckingham Chapter of R. A. M., Emiuent Commander of West- chester Commandery of Knights Templar, Thrice Il-
lustrious Master of Sing Sing Council of Royal and Select Masters. He has been for some years treasurer of the public school of the village and is one of the in- corporators and officers of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals. In politics he has always been connected with the Democratic party, but has never been a secker for official honors and has con- fined himself closely to business and the local affairs of the village, and there are few improvements of a local nature with which he has not been closely iden- tified. He married Estelle, daughter of Herbert Hall, of New York, and has one child, Grace P.
Mr. Noxon is a member of the Baptist Church, au- active supporter of that denomination and was one of the building committee who erected the church edi- fice.1
The Sing Sing Savings' Bank was incorporated in March, 1854, with Dr. Benjamin Brandreth as presi- dent. The business of this bank is transacted separately, though in the same building with the First National Bank. In 1860 its deposits amounted to only $45,000; by the last report its deposits by three thousand depositors, reached the very re- spectable sum of $1,184,979.97. James Williamson is uow the president of this institution.
THE DEVICES RESORTED TO IN TIMES OF WAR TO MAKE SUBSTITUTES FOR FRACTIONAL CURRENCY .- During and subsequent to the War of Independence, as was the casc at the time of the War of the Rebel- lion, and for many years afterwards, specie payments were suspended. Merchants and trades-people, as well as corporations, were obliged to resort to various de- vices to furnish substitutes for gold, silver and even copper currency. Hence, an endless number of " shinplasters " and private bills, for fractional parts of a dollar were put in circulation. The writer has in his collection small bills of this kind which were issued by " the corporation of the city of Albany," payable to the bearer on demand, for three, six, and niue cents, dated January 10, 1815. Also similar bills of the corporation of " the Stanford Manufacturing Company," of Dutchess County, N. Y., dated " 2d mo. 4th, 1815." He has also a series of bills, four and one- quarter inches loug by two inches in width, of three, twelve and one-half, twenty-five, and fifty cents, which were issued " by order of the corporation of Sing Sing, Westchester County," which promised to pay to the bearer, on demand, the sums specified, in current bank-notes, January 20, 1816 ; signed George Karr. They were printed by " J. A. Cameron, print., Sing Sing," on one side ouly.
During the War of the Rebellion several of our business men issued small bills for five, ten, twenty- five, and fifty cents, which were made payable at the banking office of C. F. Maurice & Co. The collection referred to contains series of these handsomely en- graved bills of various dates in July, 1862, signed by
1 This sketch of Mr. Noxon was contributed by the Editor.
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F. C. Burrhus, others by William E. Ryder, and some by Barlow Brothers. These were all five by two and three-quarter inches, printed on one side only. The banking office of C. F. Maurice & Co. issued a series of the same denominations, September 30, 1862, which were signed by I. B. Noxon ; size, three and one-quarter by two inches. None of the copper tokens, medals or other substitutes for coins, which were at the same time used as advertising cards, so common during the Civil War, and so nni- versally made in all parts of the country, were ever issued by any of our merchants.
INDUSTRIES OF SING SING.
In addition to the several industries which are mentioned more in detail below, there are three sash, blind and door factories, one machine works, one piekle house, a manufactory of patent wrenches, six carriage factories, a shirt factory, a grist mill, a soda- water and bottling factory and a marble yard. At the State Prison there is a large shoe manufactory, an extensive laundry and an immense stove foundry, all of which are operated by convict labor on the contraet system.
THE MANUFACTURE OF FILES .- The oldest exist- ing file manufactory in the country is the famous Ar- cade File Works, situated on Mill Street. The fac- tory takes its name from the large arch of the Croton Aqueduct, which is situated near it. It was started in 1848. It has passed through numerous changes of proprietors and is at present operated by a stock company. The Areade Works consume over two hundred and fifty tons of steel per annum, chiefly of American make.
THE CROTON FILE COMPANY, composed of James Horner & Co., with offices at 25 Cliff Street, New York, started a file works on Quimby Street, facing the railroad, in 1854. John Russell was superin- tendent. Charles Spruce, who had started a file works beside it, on Quimby Street, in 1860, because possessor of the Croton File Company's building in 1862. In 1863 the Van Anden File Company succeeded this company. It was a stock company, and was organized to manufacture files under a method of entting invented by a Mr. Van Anden, of Poughkeepsie. The enterprise was not successful, and the building passed into the hands of the firm manufacturing cotton-gins, by whom it is utilized as a store-house.
Charles Spruce has continued to manufacture files on Quimby Street since 1860. Thomas Leary was a partner from 1862 to 1882. It is operated under the name of Charles Spruce & Co. A number of years ago files of all sorts were made in large quantities, by conviet labor, at the State Prison in this place. Now none are made there.
THE E. G. BLAKSLEE MANUFACTURING COM- PANY was organized in 1882. The foundry known as the Monitor Iron Works had been carried on under
different firm-names since 1863, at the place ou Water Street, which, many years ago, was the Vre- denburgh Stove Works. This company makes a specialty of the manufacture of plumbers' castings of all kinds,-plain, galvanized and enameled ; also sinks and movable Waterback ranges, street lamp-posts, etc. It runs two furnaces, melts twenty-four tons of iron daily and employs about one hundred and fifty men.
Ebenezer G. Blakslee, whose name is so intimately connected with the iron manufacturing interests of the conuty, is descended from an English family who settled at Waterbury, Conu. His grandfather, Asa Blakslee, was in the royal service during the Revolu- tion, and at the close of the war removed with his regiment to New Brunswick, British America, aud remained there during his life.
His son Asa, who succeeded him, died in 1879, at the advanced age of ninety years, leaving among other children a son, Ebenezer G. Blakslee, who was born at St. Johns, June 28, 1820. His early life was spent in his native place, and for a few years he was connected with a gentlemen's furnishing store.
In 1843 he went to Scotland, and again iu 1845, and traveled extensively in that country, visiting many of the famous iron-works. In 1849 he came to this country and remained for a while at Albany and subsequently went to Newark, N. J., where he was for some time book-keeper in a stove store ; from that place he removed to New York and from there to Port Chester, where he became book-keeper in the iron foundry of Abendroth Bros.
In 1863 he removed to Sing Sing and established the foundries and manufactory of iron castings and plumbers' goods with which he has been connected to the present time. In 1864 Charles Bunting became a partner in the firm, and the business, which was commenced on a small seale and employiug a few men, has ever been constantly increasing until it reached its present proportions.
Mr. Bunting died in 1880, and in 1882 astock com- pany was formed, of which Mr. Blakslee is president and superintendent, the firm-name being "The E. G. Blakslee Manufacturing Co." In September, 1869, the foundry and buiklings then in use were destroyed by fire. Mr. Blakslee immediately leased a foundry and by this prompt energy the work was recommeneed within ten days.
New buildings were at onee erected from plans made by Mr. Blakslee and under his direct supervision, and the new works furnished largely increased facili- ties for business. The buildings now cover a lot of ninety by two hundred and four feet, and in the two cupola furnaces attached twenty-two tons of iron are daily melted.
In addition to the foundries at Sing Sing the firm has extensive warehouses at 80 Centre Street, New York City. From this establishment plumbers' goods of every description are shipped to all parts of the United States and Canada,
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By a careful selection of materials and the use of the most improved methods of manufacture, the goods made in this establishment have gained a high and well-deserved reputation, and the works furnish con- stant employment for one hundred and forty men.
Mr. Blakslee has the satisfaction of seeing the busi- ness which he founded yearly increasing in extent, and the success which has attended it is the result of the most constant care and assiduous attention.
Mr. Blakslee married Mary Annie Brayley, and they are the parents of six children - Annie S. Amanda (wife of Iliram H. Post, of St. Louis), Bertha, Theodore, William A. and Edith M. Theo- dore, the elder son, is book-keeper and assistant superintendent of the manufactory, while a ne- phew, Fred. M. Barnes, is shipping elerk.
Without taking an ae- tive part in politics, Mr. Blakslee is a supporter of the Republican party and was for several years one of the trustees of Sing Sing, of which he was elected president April, 1885. He feels a lively interest in all public im- provements, and has done much to increase the pros- perity of the place.
His business is one of the most important enter- prises of the village and he is justly numbered among its foremost citi- zens.
HALL IMPROVED SELF- FEEDING COTTON - GIN MAN- UTFACTU . RING CO. was com- menced by Hall, Washburne & Co., in 1869, Mr. Hall, Isaac T. Washburne and Samuel E. Tompkins com- posing the firm. Mr. Tompkins afterwards withdrew. In 1873 the Hall Self-Feeding Cotton-Gin Company was incorporated. Isaac T. Washburne is president ; P. L. Washburne, vice-president ; Oscar Washburne, secretary ; and I. T. Washburne, treasurer.
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