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On the 31st of March, 1859, James H. Gibson started a newspaper here, called the Arcade Enterprise, which afterward went into the hands of Charles Young. It was published by successive proprietors, with indifferent success for several years, and gave way to the Arcade Times, which was pub- lished here by S. Wilson Wade three or four years, and then removed to Warsaw, taking the name of the Wyoming County Times, where it is still published.
The Arcade Leader was commenced in January, 1875, by Wallace W. Wade, and published by him until October 1st, 1879, when he was succeeded by I. Allen Cornwell, who is its present editor and proprietor.
There is at present only one drug store in the place. It is under the management of A. B. Bishop, a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.
About 1828 the site and water privilege for the grist-mill, tannery and saw-mill were deeded by Deacon Walter Hinck- ley to Harry Jackson, a son of Salah Jackson. The water was taken out of Clear creek by a head race, commencing on the farm of Captain Barrows, now owned by Martin J. Stearns, on the west side of Clear creek. This has proved
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to be a very valuable water power. The grist-mill was built about 1828 by Harry Jackson; the next year he built a saw- mill. In 1852 the brothers Asahel and John Jackson built a tannery on the same water power. This property is now all owned by Silas F. Clough. The grist-mill and tannery seem to be in a flourishing condition, but the saw-mill has been on the retired list for some time.
There is a small grist-mill on the Cattaraugus creek, about two miles above the village, which is now owned and opera- ted by A. D. Hedges, Esq. This mill has been in use prob- ably for twenty years or more, and still cioes quite a respect- able business.
C. A. Clough owns and operates a saw-mill in the west part of Arcade village, and is doing a respectable busi- ness for a section of country like this, nearly destitute of timber.
A cheese box factory, situated in the west part of the vil- lage and operated by C. A. Clough and J. H. Howard, is doing a fine business, and employs six or seven hands about eight or nine months in the year.
The planing-mill, together with a sash, door and blind factory, is situated on Clear creek, near its confluence with the Cattaraugus. It is owned and operated by J. S. Bushnell, who employs four or five hands the year round, doing a good business on a small scale in the way of planing, matching, manufacturing siding, brackets, mould- ings, etc.
Samuel Upham built the first cloth-dressing and wool- carding factory in 1819. He operated and owned it till 1834, when his son -in-law, H. N. Waldo, became the owner. In 1837 the building was enlarged and machinery introduced for the manufacture of cloth, on a small scale. He kept on enlarging and introducing machinery till 1863, when it had a capacity of turning out from seventy-five to one hundred yards of flannels and cassimeres per day. A partnership was organized about this time, under the firm name of Waldo, Steele & Co., who soon afterward pulled down the old building and erected a new one, thirty by eighty teet, with an "L" thirty by fifty feet, with all the modern ma- chinery for spinning, weaving and finishing cloth. The fac- tory now had a capacity for two hundred yards per day, em- ployed about twenty-five hands and was run up to its full capacity till October 30th, 1868, when it was destroyed by fire. The last month was the best month of its existence. It was rebuilt by Waldo & Son in 1871, fifty by eighty feet, of brick, with stone basement, and is now owned and oper- ated by Smith & Wilson as a yarn factory. Under the present management it employs fourteen hands and manu- factures about two hundred pounds of yarn per day, worth on an average $1.50 per pound. It is run nine or ten months in the year. The annual income is about $35,000.
Hurty & Chamberlain established a bank here July Ist, 1867, in Carter's building, east of the Clear creek bridge, which was conducted by Mr. Hurty. In 1873 in was reor- ganized, passing into the hands of the firm of B. F. Hurty & Co., composed of B. F. Hurty, D. C. Beebe and A. Knight. In 1874 the banking company built the three- story brick block known as the Keystone Block, in the up- `per story of which is Keystone Hall. The east side of the lower story is used as a bank. It is finished in modern style, with a vault of great security.
There are two regular dry goods stores in the village-the
old and well known store of D. C. Beebe, who has been successfully engaged in the business here and in the towns adjoining for twenty years; and that kept by Silas F. Mann, who has followed the business toward twenty years with good success.
Whitney & Guild, Jared F. Smith and Joshua D. Nichols sell groceries and provisions, glassware and notions. W. W. Davis also deals in groceries, provisions, feed, salt, lime, coal, seeds and fruits, etc.
James Perkins & Son, M. T. C. Perkins, manufacture and sell everything in the line of carriages and sleighs but lumber wagons. They have a paint and blacksmith shop connected with their establishment, and turn out a large quantity of work for a town like this. Charles Witherell has a carriage shop on Liberty street.
Louis H. Johnson manufactures gravestones and monu- ments.
Of resident cheese buyers there are S. Wade, H. D. Barnes, A. S. Moulton, H. M. Holmes, Hiram Steele, Wel- lington Beebe, V. C. Beebe and L. L. Horton.
The livery business is probably not quite as good as it was fifteen or twenty years ago, but supports three stables in the village, viz .: those of Herbert Allen (the old stable of Spen- cer & Davis); Judson Bostwick, who occupies the barn of A. A. Spencer, near the Arcade Hotel; and George Green.
There are at least a half dozen blacksmith shops in the village, where horseshoeing, carriage ironing and all kinds of general blacksmithing are carried on. Among the workmen are William McKenow, Henry Kilton, James Mulvey, A. D. Dennison, Mr. Upham and Horatio Hodge.
The only hardware store in Arcade is now kept by Gilbert & Foote, two young men who embarked in the trade within the last six months, by buying out the stock of E. W. Wilcox. They keep everything usually kept in hardware stores except stoves. A. F. Skinner and Chauncey make and sell tin- ware, and deal in stoves.
English & Carter keep a general assortment of watches, clocks, silverware, cutlery and notions for sale at their store, and repair clocks, watches, etc.
This store and shop was first owned and carried on by E. P. Carter, but two or three years ago passed into the hands of the present proprietors.
There are three hotels within the limits of the corporation of the village. The Arcade Hotel is owned by Levi B. Calk- ins, and for many years was the only one in the village or in the town. It has had many proprietors, and is now under the superintendence of Mace Lord, a landlord of much ex- perience. Three or four years ago it was thoroughly re- paired, and a third story added to the front, making it one of the finest and best managed hotel buildings in the county.
The United States Hotel was founded and has always been kept by Z. Foote, who in 1871 bought out what had been used for a store and dwelling house, and converted it into this hotel. He also built a capacious barn in the rear, and otherwise improved the property.
About 1874 Hyder Barnes built a hotel at the railroad station. It was immediately bought and is now kept by R. H. McReady.
There are two boot and shoe shops, carried on by C. H. Beardsly and H. S. Hubbard.
H. J. Beardsley carries on business as a merchant tailor; is doing quite an extensive business in the clothing trade.
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There is at present but one meat market in the village, kept by George W. Jones and E. C. Rogers.
Mrs. John Syke and the Misses Fuller are the milliners of the place, and Mrs. Shalies does an extensive business in dress making.
SCHOOLS.
In 1839 Professor Samuel Sedgwick opened a select school in the basement of the old Congregational church. In 1844 he built Sedgwick Seminary. He was succeeded by D. G. Calkins and others. This building was afterward sold, and made over into a Methodist church.
The original subscription for establishing the Arcade academy was dated October Ist, 1861. The charter was granted in February, 1862, and the school opened in April, 1863, with J. W. Earle as principal. During the eight years of its existence as the Arcade Academy the principals were J. W. Earle, W. M. Benson, Mr. Huzzy, J. W. Snow and E. H. Latimer.
In April, 1870, it was sold to school district No. 1, which includes the whole village of Arcade, and the Arcade Academy and Union School was established under the gene- ral law of the State. Since the change the principals have been D. H. Burke, three terms; Miss Mary Wright, three terms; G. M. Forbes, three terms; R. W. Whelan, three terms; G. M. Forbes. again, three terms; A. M. Moss, two terms; J. H. Gibson, seven terms; and A. L. Eastman, who is the present principal. Three assistants are usually em- ployed, and the average attendance is about one hundred and sixty pupils.
ARCADE LODGE, NO. 419, F. & A. M.
was constituted May 19th, 1856 (date of warrant June 16th, 1857), with Ezra Farrington, W. M .; Heman Wilson, S. W .; and Philander Cook, J. W. The charter members were: Ezra Farrington, Heman Wilson, Philander Cook, A. B. Botsford, Silas Parker, Ira Rowley, S. Guild, .E. Holmes, John Wade, H. Smith, J. G. Wood and J. S. Colby.
Since its organization the following have been W. M .: Ezra Farrington, Heman Wilson, Reyben Ball, Gideon Bent- ley, Hiram Smith, David Sill, I. Samuel Johnson, D. J. Woodworth, W. W. Wade and M. T. C. Perkins.
Meetings are held the first and third Fridays of each month. The membership is 94.
Officers for 1879: M. T. C. Perkins, W. M .; I. A. Corn- well, S. W .; Lucius Peck, J. W,: R. Ball, treasurer; J. H. Howard, secretary; A. F. Skinner, S. D .; William C. Ladd, J. D .; H. T. Wade, S. M. C .; J. S. Bushnell, J. M. C .; G. G. Williams, tyler.
FIRES AND FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The first fire of any note was that which destroyed the Arcade Woolen Mills October 30th, 1868. This was a three- story building, and there was not a ladder in town by which the roof could be reached.
December 16th, 1871, a hook and ladder company was organized, with the following officers: J. S. Bushnell, fore- man; T. J. Cornwell, assistant foreman; Charles T. Waldo, secretary; other members-George S. Guild, W. B. Perry, J. H. Beardsly, V. C. Beebe, H. E. Kilton, George Green, W. H. Pugh, John Haskell, H. W. Jones, D. Dennison, I. A.
Cornwell, L. H. Johnson, Butler Wood, Clark Beardsly and H. S. Mosher.
The present officers are: A. H.Carter, foreman; J. M. With- erell, assistant foreman; and B. F. Hurty, secretary and treasurer.
The Chemical Fire Engine Company was organized April 7th, 187-, with the following officers, viz .: B. F. Lewis, fore- man; J. S. Bushnell, assistant foreman; Fremont Knight, secretary: M. A. Hyland, treasurer. At a special meeting called for that purpose the corporation voted $1,000 for the purchase of a Babcock chemical engine.
The present officers are: F. M. Foote, foreman; L. A. Davis, assistant foreman; F. A. Seaman, secretary; and James Crawford, treasurer; other members -F. C. Knight, W. S. Stearns, W. I. Mastin, J. W. Blakely, E. C. Wade, M. A. Hyland, C. A. Moon, H. S. Hubbard, H. O. Shedd, C. H. St. John, A. A. House, S. T. Gilbert, C. H. Beardsly, Allen W. Peck, Chauncey White and Millard Holmes.
The village consists largely of wooden buildings, which in many places stand very compact, and it is remarkable that it has thus far escaped disastrous fires.
CHURCH HISTORY.
Congregational .- The first Congregational church of Ar- cade was organized on Saturday, July 24th, 1813, at a meeting held in the school-house. Rev. John Spencer was moderator of the meeting, and the original members were Walter Hinckley, Azubah Kibbe and Peggy Dutton. Arti- . cles of faith and covenant were adopted, and Walter Hinck- ley was chosen deacon of the church, also moderator and clerk for future meetings. He was the only deacon until 1832, when two more were chosen to assist him, and he held the office of clerk until 1836. He was also the originator and superintendent of the Sunday-school.
The Lord's Supper was administered the Sunday follow- ing the organization, by the Rev. John Spencer, who also served the church more or less regularly for the first ten years of its history, when he was succeeded by the Rev. Ed- mund Ingalls, who labored in the field successfully another ten years or more.
Revs. Solomon Stevens, Calvin Grey, Caleb E. Fisher, Henry Snyder, Timothy Stow, Ovid Miner, Lewis P. Frost, John Dodd (who died in the pastorate in 1864), William Dewey, W. H. Thomas, Charles Strong and Eugene F. At- wood served the church for a longer or shorter time. The present pastor, Rev. Newton H. Bell, began his ministry with this church in 1877.
Although this church was Congregational in its polity from the beginning, it was connected with the presbytery until 1858, and sent its delegate annually to that body. In 1858 it voted to unite with the Wyoming County Conference of Congregational Churches. April 2nd, 1854, a colony of members was dismissed for the purpose of organizing a church at Currier's Corners, in Java.
During its early history the church enjoyed an unusual degree of prosperity. and hundreds were added by letter and profession of faith; but owing to many causes it became so reduced in strength that in 1879 it had only thirty resi- dent members, and its utter extinction seemed imminent, but since that time a large congregation has been gathered, and its membership more than doubled.
A flourishing Sunday-school of more than a hundred
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scholars, with an average attendance of seventy-five, is under the efficient management of Mr. L. A. Davis and a good corps of teachers.
The first house of worship was built and dedicated in 1834. It was valued at about $2,500, and the sale of pews fully covered the amount. In 1877 the property was put into the hands of a committee, consisting of Messrs. B. F. Hurty, William W. Davis and Smith Lyon, and they were authorized to erect a new building for the use of the church. The work was finished with such dispatch that on the 5th of December of the same year a beautiful structure, cost- ing about $6,000, was dedicated, free of debt. It is built of wood. The style is gothic. The audience room has a seating capacity of three hundred, and is connected in the rear with a large lecture room, Bible class-room and library. The old bell rings in the new belfry. The whole is taste- fully finished and furnished, and is an ornament as well as credit to the village.
Baptist .- Among the early settlers of the town were a few Baptists, who previous to 1816 held meetings, generally in private houses, under the lead of Deacon Caleb Calkins, Deacon John Colby and Stephen Pratt, of Sardinia. After that date Rev. Elias Harmon, who settled in Aurora, Rev. William Merrick, then of Sheldon, and others preached for them occasionally. The first Baptist church was organized October 13th, 1820, and recognized by a council in February, 1821, as a branch of the China and Concord church. In No- vember, 1825, this body assumed the name of the China and Freedom church. Deacon Caleb Calkins, Deacon Samuel Up- ham and Dr. S. W. Pattison were active members of this body.
In 1825 Rev. Whitman Metcalf settled in Sardinia, and was soon engaged to preach in Arcade one-fourth of the time, and this church became connected as a branch with that of Sardinia, under the name of the Sardinia and China church. Meetings were held in the school-house, which was also oc- cupied by the other denominations. Rev. Clark Carr, a missionary of the Holland Purchase Baptist Association, which had been organized in 1811, preached sometimes in 1831, as did also Rev. E. Loomis, then pastor of Boston and Springville. Rev. Alfred Handy, who succeeded Elder Met- calf at Sardinia in 1833, also preached till 1836.
The church was organized as a separate and distinct church, by the name of the Baptist Church of Christ in Ar- cade, August 8th, 1835. The constituted members were: L. D. Davis, James Steele, Calvin R. Davis, Eliakim How, Sim- uel Upham, Ira Rowley, Lester Withey, Sylvia Withey, Han- nah How, Polly Upham, Lucy Upham, Ira Shedd, Hiram Bartow, Hugh Steele, A. D. Warren, Abigail Warren, Francis Eaton, Lyman Carpenter, Chester A. Calkins, Milan Jones, G. Knight, Diana Smith, Maria Nourse, Alzina Gillett, Eu- rilla Bartow, Lucinda Steele, Susan Warren, Phoebe Warren, Emily Eaton, Susan Rowley, Julia Ann Shedd, Sophronia Crary, Miranda Steele, Mary A. Steele, Pomel Beckwith, Erville Pickard, Harriet Beckwith; six of these now belong to the church.
October 7th, 1835, a council met at the Congregational meeting-house in Arcade, at which the Rev. Elisha Tucker was moderator, and publicly recognized this body as a regu- lar gospel church. Dr. Ira Shedd was the. first clerk, and served from that time till he removed to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1872. He was succeeded by A. J. Knight, the present incumbent.
The first deacons were James Steele, I .. D. Davis and Ira Shedd. They have been succeeded by Samuel Upham, Daniel Woodworth and Abel Clough. The present dea- cons are Chester A. Calkins and Heman Wilson.
Rev. Alfred Handy preached till 1836; Rev. A. Miner, of Rushford, and Rev. Silas Tucker, then a student at Ham- ilton, in 1836 and 1837; Rev. Sheldon N. Smith and Rev. Steadman Searle, in 1837 and 1838, and Re". Whitman Met- calf, from 1838 to 1840. Their first resident pastor, Rev. J. M. Purrington, was with them from 1840 to 1845.
In 1839 they commenced building their first house of worship. It was a substantial frame building, forty by fifty feet, cost $2,400, and was dedicated in January. 1841. In 1844 they built a parsonage, at a cost of about $400.
Rev. David Searles was pastor in 1845 and 1846.
The pulpit was supplied for about one year by Rev. S. Tucker, Rev. Z. Smith and others. Rev. E. W. Clark was pastor from 1847 to 1853; Rev. E. W. Bliss from 1853 to 1855; Rev. R. Morey in 1856 and 1857: Rev. A. G. Bowles from 1858 to 1860; Rev. Franklin Kidder from 1860 to to 1866; Rev. L. S. Stowell, 1866 and 1867; Rev. Abner Morrill, 1868 to 1874; Rev. A. D. Bush has been pastor since 1874.
In 1874 the church rebuilt and enlarged the parsonage, at a cost of about $800, and in 1875 rebuilt, enlarged and re- furnished the meeting-house, at a cost of about $6,400. The present number of members is one hundred and eigh- teen. Since the erection of the meeting-house in 1840, the members have maintained an efficient Sunday-school. L. Spring was its first superintendent. A. J. Knight is now superintendent. The school has fourteen officers and one hundred and forty pupils, and about one hundred and fifty library books.
Methodist Episcopal .- It has been difficult to obtain in- formation of the early Methodists in the town, but it ap- pears that they began to have preaching here about 1830. They had no house of worship, but held their services, which were at irregular intervals, in the Congregational and Baptist churches. About 1850 they bought of one Sedg- wick a building then used as a seminary, and in 1856 re- paired it extensively, giving it a much more churchlike ap- pearance.
The church thus repaired was dedicated July 31st, 1856. In 1878 the house was entirely rebuilt, in modern style, with the addition of a lecture-room, and furnace in the base- ment. The audience room has a seating capacity of three hundred. The society is now in a flourishing condition, the accessions within the last year having been at least one- half of their present membership, which is about seventy. The Sabbath-school numbers about fifty pupils, and is super- intended by A. F. Skinner.
The present pastor is Rev. J. A. Smith.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
JESSE AMES was born in Orwell, Vt., in 1814. He was a son of Jacob Ames, also a native of Vermont, who died in Arcade in 1864. Mr. Ames married Jane R. Jackson, of Cherry Valley, Otsego county, in 1844. He came to Arcade in 1845, having lived in Colchester and South Dansville previously. The father of Mrs. Ames was born in Hartford, Conn., and coming to Arcade in 1819, was one of the early settlers of the town.
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, TOWN OF ARCADE.
CHARLES W. ARNOLD was born in China (now Arcade) in 1816. He bas been a life-long resident of the town. which be bas served as clerk. In 1848 be was married to Dolly Foster Runnells, niece of Silas Meach, prominent in pioneer days. Mr. Arnold contributed liberally to the prosecution of the late war.
GIDEON ARNOLD, deceased, was born July 8th, 1789, at Hampton, Conn., and came to Arcade in 1811. Returning to his native place in 1815. be mar- ried Lovina Williams August 20th, and came back and settled on the farm now owned by his son, Harvey Arnold, who was born September 12th, 1826. and married to Susan, daughter of Phineas Stearns, of Arcade, October 19th, 1402. He has served as assessor, and is president of the board of education of Arcade union sobool.
HYDER BARNES WAS born at Rutland, Vt., September 11th, 1804, and died December 13th, 1579. He married Daphne B. Palmer, of Orwell, Vt., Octo- ber 19th, 1828, and resided at Addison, Vt .. until be came to Arcade, in 1862. He was active in business, and beid local omoes. His sons, H. Dana and Gustavus A. Barnes, the former an extensive dealer in butter and cheese, the latter a lawyer, are well known in the town.
D. C. BEEBE was born at Freedom, Cattaraugus county, October 2nd, 1880, and married Azelia A., daughter of Philander Cook, October 18th. 1868. Mr. Beebe, who is a merchant and banker, is a son of Charles Beebe, a set- tier from Vermont, who came into Arcade in 1815.
V. C. BEzaz. son of Charles Beebe, was born at Freedom, N. Y., February 4th. 1661, and is unmarried. He was educated at the district school and at Arosde Academy. He began his business career as a clerk and salesman at the age of eighteen, and a few years later became a member of the firm of Horton & Beebe in the wholesale' cheese and butter trade ; and, though young, has an enviable reputation among the dairymen of western New York.
JUDSON BOSTWICK, liveryman, was born in Pike, March 19th, 1880, and was married February 28d. 1864, to Lovina Smith, daughter of William Smith, of Castile .. Mr. Bostwick enlisted in September, 1861. in Company F, Stb N. Y. cavalry. He was disabled at Annapolis and discharged in 1863. He lived nine years in Michigan, and located in Arcade in 1878.
REV. NEWTON H. BELL, pastor of the Congregational church of Arcade, is a man of exceptional classical, literary and theological erudition. He was born at Kossuth, Iowa, April Send. 1841, and married Emma H., daughter of Rer. Erastus Curties, of North New Balem, Maes., August 11th, 1868. He is a graduate of Denmark Academy, of Iowa, Amberst College and Prince- ton and Bangor theological seminaries. and has traveled extensively on both hemispheres, having presobed at Stafford Springs, Conn., and Owatanna, Minn., and been a missionary at Mardin, in Turkey. He assumed charge of the Arcade church in November, 1877.
WILLIAM BIXBY was born in 1824. at Freedom, N. Y. He married Salome L. Clongh, in 1850. Mr. Bixby's father, Barnes Bixby, was born in Hillsboro county, N. H., in 1786, and was a settler in Arcade in 1817. He died in his ninetieth year.
LEVI B. CALKINS was born October 18th, 1830, at St. Albans, Vt., and re- moved with bis mother to Aurora, Erie county, In 1883. October 18th, 1840, he was married to Matilda, daughter of Seth Willery, of Cambridge, Vt .. and March 12th, 1801, to Emily Farrington Reed, of Olean, N. Y. He has followed the milling business twenty years, been a farmer three years, and bas bad much experience as a hotel proprietor : In Lockport three years and sixteen years in Arcade.
EGBERT P. CARTER, jeweler and dealer in clocks, watches and silverware, is a son of Miles Carter, and was born in Ontario county, April 21st, 18%. He married Eliza Ann, daughter of Walter Brooks, of Yorkshire, N. Y., In 1848. He has a store in Eldred, Pa.
CHANCEY A. CLOUGH, son of Abel Clough, was born April 6th, 1841, in Fabius. Onondaga county. He married Abbie Webber, daughter of Levi Webber, of Farmersville, N. Y., October 14th, 1802. Mr. Clough is a saw and planing-mill proprietor and a leading lumberman and manu- facturer.
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