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FLORENCE CLARKE, daughter of William Covell, of Middlebury, was born in Pavilion, Genesee county, March 26th, 1849. Her father and Miss Eliza Tufts were married in 1847. Mr. Covell was born in Chautauqua county in 1818 ; Mrs. Covell in 1821. Before her marriage Mrs. Clarke was a successful teacher. She married Henry C., son of Joseph Clarke, a settler in Covington in 1887, October 23d, 1870. Mra. Clarke is a Baptist.
MRS. JOEL C. CLARKE WAS born in Covington February 20th, 1818. In 1810 she married Joel C. Clarke, and resides in Covington, where her father, Dan- iel Howard, was an early settier, first locating at La Grange, and two years later removing to the Howard homestead, where his widow, whose maiden name was Pattie Sherman, is now living.
JOSEPH CLARKE was born' in South Hadley, Mass., in 1815. He lived in Pittsfield four years, at Perry ten years, and came to Covington in 1892. He has served the town as assessor. In 1837 he was married to Esther Harvey, of Herkimer county. He gave liberally toward the suppression of the Re- bellion. His father, Joel Clarke, was born in Massachusetts in 1774. He wes of English descent. He was three times married, and he died in Covington April 15th, 1961. Mr. Clarke's grandfather was one of the earliest settlers in Wyoming county.
THOMAS W. COPELAND was born in Covington October 28th, 1840, and has been a resident of the town since, except during three years spent in Call- fornia and in the army. He was with the 83d N. Y. infantry, and partici- pated in all its battles from Bull Run to Chancellorsville, both inclusive. He married Maggie E. Dow in 1878. Mr. Copeland's father, James Copeland, was born in Antrim, Ireland, in 1801, and came from his native country to the town of York, Livingston county, and from York to Covington. His wife was Margaret Johnson, of Antrim, Ireland. Jobn Dow, Mrs. Copeland's father, is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and at the age of eleven removed to York, Livingtson county, where he now resides. He married Mary Wooster in 1812.
EMERSON CORNWELL was born in Mt. Morris, Livingston county, in 1834, and moved from there to Perry with his parents when two months old. He resided on the old Cronkhite farm until he was twenty-two, when be came to Covington, where he owns a farm of one hundred and eighty-two acres. He gave largely of his means to ald the Northern cause during the Rebellion. In 1865 he married Mary, daughter of Lester and Mary Rude. Mr. Cornwell's father was born in Kings county in 1772, removed to Dutchees county. thence to Cayuga county, thence to Livingston county and thence to Coving- ton. He married Margaret Hunt in 1806.
SAMUEL P. COVERT, blacksmith, was born in Newburgh, N. Y., in 1814. In 1886 he married Eliza A. Hallett, and in 1861 Doroas Doane. He came from Newburgh to La Grange in 1811. James Covert, son of Samuel P. Covert, served during the Rebellion in the 9th N. Y. cavalry until discharged on ao- count of sickness. Mr. Covert's father was born in White Plains, N. Y., ia 1781, and removed from there to Newburgh, where he died in 1866. The pres- ent Mrs. Covert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. (formerly Abigail Bristol) Jabes Ball, was born in Perry in 1886; her mother at New Marlborough, Mass., in 1791.
EDGAR E. CRONERITE, farmer, was born at Hooslo, Rensselaer county, in 1861, and was married in 1872 to Ellen Fancher, daughter of Rufus and Lucy Fanober, of La Grange. Tunis Cronkhite, his father, was born at Hooslo, and moved from there to Washington county, and from there to Covington, where be lived until his death in 1877. He was three times married, the last time in 1878, to Estber Tripp, whose father, Anthony Tripp, was born in New Bedford, in 1786, and was married in 1886 to Polly Sprague, daughter of Benjamin Sprague.
Lewis, son of Charles and Polly CRONKHITE, was born in Covington Tob- ruary 7th, 1860, and was married in 1876 to Haidee M. Wheeldon, of Beliss, Central America. Polly Cronkhite, who is still living, was born in Bene- solser county in 1818. She was married in 1885 to Charles Cronkhite, who died in 1878.
WILLIAM CROSMAN was born in Pavilion in 1883, and came to Covington in 1864. He has been engaged in business as a farmer and railler, and bas served the town as tax collector and highway commissioner for some years. He married Della Shepard in 1805. Mr. Crosman contributed to the prose- cution of the late war. He and his brother and an employee were all drafted at the same time. His father, Peter Crosman, was born in 1780, and married Hannah Bowen, of Saratoga. He served in the war of 1813-14, and Mrs. Crosman is the recipient of a pension on account of maid service.
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, TOWN OF COVINGTON.
C. T. DETO was born in Columbia in 1817. In 1844 be married Diantha Palmer, who died in 1800. In 1883 be married Matilda Meserve. He removed from his native piace to Prattsville, Greene county, and from there to Cov- ington in 1843. He is the owner of one hundred and three sores of land. His father, Richard Deyo, served in the war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Deyo are earnest workers in the Baptist church, Mr. Deyo having given much time and attention to the duties of a colporteur.
W. L. FARE was born in Le Roy, Genesee county, in 1844, and married Sarah Freeman. of Wyoming village, in 1896. In 1867 be came to Covington, where be is a farmer. Mr. Farr's father, Chauncey Farr, was born in New York, and lived in Genesee and Orleans counties. His wife was Mary Ann Gray, of Pavilion. Mr. Farr is pathmester, and also holds the ofce of trustee of the Baptist church, of which he and Mrs. Farr are members.
THOMAS FISHER, fariner, was born in Covington, December 4th, 1856, and was married in 1875 to Imogene Avery. His father, Noah J. Fisher, was born in Covington in 1828, and has since resided there. In 1849 be married Philena E. Keith, daughter of Daniel Keith, of Wyoming. Both are members of the Presbyterian church.
JOHN H. GORTON was born in 1827, has lived one year in California, and has been a resident of Covington forty-eight years. His father is Samuel Gorton. His mother was formerly Betsey Hamilton. Both were born in Edinburgh, Saratoga county, the former in 1786. Mr. Gorton has held the offices of assessor and justice of the peace. Mr. Hamilton, Mrs. Gorton's father, was prominent in Saratoga county, holding the offices of supervisor, justice of the peace and member of the Legislature. After their marriage they removed to Onondaga county, and ten years later to Covington.
FRANKLIN GRIFFITH was born in Pike in 1886, and married Mary Barlow, of Covington, in 1868. His father, Amos Grimth, was born in Vermont about 1789.and removed to Washington county, N.Y .. and from there to Plice, where he died in 1845. Mrs. Griffith's father was born in Vermont; at the age of twelve removed to Washington county, N. Y., and in 1887 to Covington, wbere be lived until about three months prior to his death. He died at the residence of his daughter in Batavia, at the age of seventy-three.
JONATHAN HOWARD, farmer, was born in Covington in 1824, and in 1860 married Harriett E. Mendell. Mr. Howard's mother was Pattie Sherman, who was born in New Haven, Vt., in 1791, lived later in Essex county, N. Y., and came to Covington in 1814, and whose father. A mass Sberman, married Hannah Douglas. Daniel Howard was born in 1789. and was an early settler . in the Genesee country.
MORTIMER E. JUDSON was born in Friendship, Allegany county, in 1837. In 1855 be married Sabra A. Moore, of Batavia, by whom he has had two children, one of whom is living. He came from his native place to Pavilion with his father. Monsieur D. Judson, who was born in Sunderland, Benning- ton county, Vt .; married Phebe Calkins, by whom he had two children, of whom Mortimer E. is the only one living; was, with his wife, a member of the Methodist church ; moved to Covington in 1880, and held the omces of highway commissioner and overseer of the poor many years. Mr. Judeon was not liable to duty in the late war, but was liberal with his time and means in securing volunteers. He has been excise commissioner five years. Mrs. Judson is a member of the Methodist church.
AUSTIN LANE Was born in Cayuga county in 1815, and was married in 1845 to Lucinda Witter, who was born in 1828. He went from Cayuga county to Oswego county, and from there to Covington, where he has lived for the past fifty years. He has been a member of the Baptist church at La Grange thirty-six years.Sunday-school superintendent twenty-four years and secre- tary of the Baptist society twenty-one years. His father, Lusman Lane. was born in Connecticut in 1771, and married Sarah Austin, of Hartford, Conn. They were pioneers in several different sections successively.
WINDSOR LAPHAM was born in Solpio, Cayuga county, in 1800. In 1834 be married Elmima Dunham. At the age of twenty-seven be removed to Chau- tauqua county, and from there to Covington. Mr. Lapham's parents were both natives of Rhode Island. 'His mother's maiden name was Thankful Smith. His father was born in 1760; his mother four years later. They re- moved to Cayuga county, and from there to the locality of their present residence.
JORK C. LawIs was born at Brinkworth, Wiltshire. England, in 1886. In 1875 he married Wealthy, daughter of Joseph and Rosetta Billings. After his arrival in America he worked by the month for a time, and later pur- chased his present farm. Mrs. Lewis's brother, Ezra Billings, served until discharged in the 104th regiment, and subsequently re-enlisted and was in active service until the close of the Rebellion. Another brother enlisted in the regular army.
MORGAN L. MATHEW was born in Washington county in 1880, and after living in Onondaga and Cayuga counties came to Covington thirty-two years ago, where be is known as a carpenter and farmer. In 1802 he enlisted in the 186th N. Y. volunteers, and was wounded at Gettysburg. From that time until the close of the war he was in detached service. He married Elisa Noonan, of Wyoming county, in 1832, and Mrs. Pbebe A. Doan, widow of John Doan and daughter of Samuel Covert, at a later date. Gilbert B. Maybew was born in Dutchess county in 1786, and while a resident there married Phobe Holmes.
EDWARD J. MURRAY was born September 22nd, 1821, in Ludbury, Rutland county, Vt. June 11th, 1845, he married Mary E. Beebe. He lived in Boston, Lockport, Niagara county, and Middlebury, and came to Covington in 1868. For twelve years be was in the mercantile business at Wyoming. wbere be was postmaster. He has been town clerk. His grandfather fought in the Revolutionary war, and until his death received a pension of $12 per month. His father, Ebor R. Murray, was born in 1796 and died in 1841. Mra. Murray's father, John Beebe, was born September 4th, 1794, at Litchfield, N. Y., and married Aurilia Paddock April 2nd, 1819. At the age of thirty-one be came to Covington, where he died November 17th, 1845.
BENJAMIN SQUIRES was born in She@feld, Mass., in 1818. He settied first in Middlebury. In 1886 be moved to his present farm. His father, Manasseh Squires, was born in Connecticut (as was also his grandfather), and removed to Massachusetts. He was killed by a falling tree. Mr. Squires married Olive Robins January 81st, 1888. She died in 1896. January 31st, 1572, he married Electa A. Miller, daughter of Dewey Miller, an carly comer in Genesee county.
WILLIAM A. THAYER was born in Gainesville in 1818, and was married in 1864 to Mary E. Brownell. He removed from his native place to Warsaw in 1806, and to Covington in 1868, and purchased the farm of ninety acres where be has since lived. Willard Thayer, his father, came from Lima, Livingston county, in 1812, and was a pioneer there. Gideon Thayer, brother of the latter, served in the war of 1812-14.
MARK N. VELEY was born in Covington November 15th, 1825. At the age of twenty-two be removed to Perry,remained there twenty years and re- turned to Covington, where be has a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres. While in Perry be was assessor and beld other ofces. His father, Jobn Velzy, was born in Stephentown, Westchester county ; resided in Bar- atoga county, and removed to Covington in 1814; thence to Perry with his son, and died there in January, 1868. Mr. Velzy's grandfather, who died in 1818, at the age of seventy-three, served during the Revolutionary war, and was at one time a prisoner-of-war in New York. Mr. Velzy married Rivira Barlow May 18th, 1847. She died in 1868, and October Sith, 1859, be married Catharine E. Boyce, of Saratoga county.
J. 8. WALKER, farmer, was born January 9th, 1809, at Rutland, Vt., and came to Covington from that piace in 1815. He has served for thirty-two years either as assessor, highway commissioner or superintendent of the poor. He beld the office of notary public, and since the organization of the company has been commissioner of the State Line railroad. January 20th, 1838, be married Sophia. M. Tilletson, of Berkshire county, Mass. Jedediah Tilletson, Mrs. Walker's father, was born in Rehoboth, R. I., in 1762. He fought in the Revolution, in Captain Amidown's company from Rehoboth. Mr. and Mrs. Walker are members of the Pavilion Baptist church.
LORENZO WYLIE was born in Covington June 10th, 1817. He is a farmer and surveyor. For forty-three years he has been a member of the Method- ist church. Until the abolition of that office in 1866 he was town superin- tendent; was town oleriz 1857-89; was elected supervisor in 1889, and served dix terms, and for the past nine years he has held the office of justice of the peace.
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THE TOWN OF EAGLE.
AGLE was formed from Pike, January 21st, 1823. It lies on the summit of western New York. Its watercourses are tributary to streams which reach Lakes Ontario and Erie and the Gulf of Mexico. The brooks in the town were at an early day filled with trout. Timothy Buckland often put a grain bag into one of the streams at the head of Spring glen and caught half a bushel at once ..
No relics of forts or battle fields of the aborigines are to be found in Eagle. Near the center of the town, a short distance east of what is now Bliss station on the Rochester & State Line Railroad, was one of their camping grounds. The last time they were here in any great numbers was about 1842, on the occasion of vast numbers of pigeons nesting here. The woods on both sides of the valley were filled with pigeons raising their young, and the Indians from all quar- ters gathered here to get the young pigeons or squabs. A great many came from the Cattaraugus and Tonawanda reservations and camped here during the stay of the pigeons, catching and smoking the squabs, tons of which were taken away by them.
DEALINGS WITH THE HOLLAND COMPANY.
Eagle is a part of the Holland Purchase, and was under the control of a Mr. Devereau as agent for the company, with his office for many years at Batavia, Genesee county. Having disposed of a good share of this part of the tract he removed to Ellicottville, Cattaraugus county, where for many years the people of this section had to go yearly to make the payments upon their farms, often having nothing to pay with, and hard and perhaps vain work to raise the interest. But they would go to Ellicottville, talk the matter over, and come home well pleased that the company would allow the interest to run a while longer. This of course made the matter still worse the next year, and so it went from year to year, until either some other person bought the place from under them, or they would be obliged to give it up to the company, or sell their improvements for a trifle and-start again. None of the land was deeded until paid for, every one holding his land by a written article guaranteeing a deed when paid in full. A large share of the lands were bought by speculators, and sold out as they could find purchasers; consequently it is hard to tell who the first settler was on each lot. The following, from the books of the Holland Company, will give the names of early buyers, and show what purchases they made:
Chauncey Loomis. 1807, lots 28, 36 and 40; Chauncey and Justin Loomis, 1807, lots 80 and 36: Justin Loomis, 1808, lots 6, 81 and 69 ; Chauncey Loomis, 1808, lot 57 ; Siles Hudges, 1814, part of lot 8 : Amos Smith, 1816, part of lot
7 ; Seneca Baker, 1816, part of lot 7; Silas Hodges. 1818, part of lot 8; Dan Beach, 1818, part of lot 45; David Sturges, 1826, part of lot 26: Phineas Graves, 1829, part of lot 25; Ambrose Clark, 1829, part of lot 26 ; Anson Hinman, 1881, part of lot 14 ; William Van Dyke, 1882, part of lot 18: Jacob Newman, 1888, part of lot 50 ; Timothy Buckland, 1882, part of lot 59 ; Josiah Sanford. 1832, part of lot 2; Moses Smith, 1884, 61, 62 and part of 4 ; Barzilla Huriburt, 1834, part of lot 14; William Van Dyke, 1884. part of lot 18: Justus Lyon. 1884. lot 22 ; David Dane, 1884 ; part of lot 59; Chandius Randall, 1884. part of lot 59 : Nicbolas Devereux and others, 1886, parts of lots 4. 9, 11, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 24. 29, 33, 84. 41. 48, 48, 48, 52, 58, 54, 56, 57, 58, 00, 68 and lots 38. 61, 62 and 63: Smith Lyon, 1886, part of lot 14 ; Cyrus Brooks, 1886, part of lot 14; Seneca Baker, 1886, part of lot 15; Amos Otis, 1886, part of lot 16; Jethro Grover. 1886, part of lot 16; Jonathan and Stephen Wyley, 1886, part of lot 17: Milo Metcalf, 1886, part of lot 19; William Watkins, 1885, parts of st and 50 ; Gid- con H. Austin, 1886, part of 44; Anson Hills, 1886, part of 44: Aaron Van Cleve, lot 28; Joseph Badgebar, 1881, part of lots 9, 41, 42, 50 and 58; these lands were sold from under settlers who failed in their payments; also most of those taken by Devereux and others.
Elias Loomis, James J. Jackson, Kilborn D. Smith, Isaac Hunt and Abraham Ward were among the early set- tlers on the west town line, on lots 62, 63 and 64.
SETTLEMENT AND EARLY EVENTS.
The first settlers in the town were William and Silas Hodges. William ran away from his home in Massachusetts when nineteen years of age; Silas bought his time. Both went to Herkimer county, N. Y. William was married to Miss Abigail Howard, of that county, on the last day of Feb- ruary, 1808." Soon afterward William and Silas came to this town and took up a quarter section of land designated as lot 8, range 2, township 7 Holland Company's land; built a log house, and had some timber felled by a man named Smith, who came with them-the first trees cut by a white man in the town. Both returned to Herkimer county, and in April, 1809, Silas, with an ox-team, and William, hiring his brother-in-law to move him and his effects with his horse team, returned. They fell in on the route with a company going to Ischua, Cattaraugus county, and traveled with them for a number of days. When they left for the east for their effects they closed their house and covered the chimney. When they returned in the spring they found that the house had been occupied by the Indians, who, not understanding chimneys, did not take the cover off the top, and the house was thoroughly smoked. In a few days all was made right, and the brothers went to work clearing for a spring crop. The roof of the house was made of bark; the floors and doors of split basswood logs. In 1817 William planted an orchard of fifty apple trees, over half of which are now standing. On their arrival in the spring of 1809 they planted some apple seeds, from which they raised a few trees, three of which are still standing and bearing.
Dan Beach, of Montgomery county, N. Y., hired two teams to move him, and settled on lot 45 in August, 1810;
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SETTLERS OF THE TOWN OF EAGLE.
his brother-in-law, Seth Wetmore, on lot 52 in 1811; De- markus Rathbone on the northwest part of lot 45 in 1811.
Nathaniel Hills and his brother, A. Hills, came in from Montgomery county in the spring of 1810. Both families lived in one room. When Dan Beach came, in the fall, he stopped with the Hillses a few days-three families in one room. During the first week following these three men erected a log house for A. Hills. The next week they built one for Beach. A portion of this was covered with bark, the remainder open for the smoke to escape, as the fire was built on the ground. Elm logs were split and laid side by side for the floor. Hemlock boughs on the floor formed the bedstead. Beach's was the fifth family in the town. The Hodges and Hills families preceded him. The outside door of Beach's house at first was a bed quilt. The opening in the roof and the spaces between the logs gave sufficient light for the room without windows. These settlers were at first without roads or teams, twelve miles from a mill where lum- ber could be got, and thirty-one miles from Geneseo, the nearest point where other building material could be obtain- ed. On arriving at this desolate spot, and paying the men who had brought him and his, Mr. Beach had $104, a hoe, an ax and a shovel, unfamiliar implements, as he was not a farmer but a saddler by trade. In eight years he had paid for his farm, and was in possession of a comfortable home.
Simeon Baker came in 1815 with a yoke of oxen, and set- tled on lot 7. Amos Smith settled on lot 7 in 1814. A Mr. Foster, from Vermont, located in 1815 on lot 12. Peter Keyes came from Vermont in 1816, with a yoke of cattle and a horse hitched forward of them, and settled on lot 16. Joseph Barnhart in 1819 bought Eber Benton's farm on lot 24, for a yoke of oxen and a rifle, Benton having been on the place since 1816. Jethro Grover, from Vermont, in 1820 settled on lot 7. Robert Hamilton came west from Ver- mont in 1820 with a horse team, and located on lot 32. The winter of 1820 and 1821 was very severe. The snow was two feet deep in April, fodder all used up, and the settlers were obliged to cut browse for their stock. Maple and bass- wood timber appeared to relish with the cattle, and they thrived very well on the boughs of those trees. In May of that year there was a hard snow storm, lasting three days, after the settlers had made up their minds that winter was over and all was coming out right. Early herbs and leeks were up enough to have helped the cattle; but this snow covered everything green, and cattle could get nothing to eat. The writer has heard Timothy Buckland often tell that he fed out the straw from his straw beds, and when the last bed was emptied he lay all day between two feather beds, in order not to hear the bawling of his cows.
Philip Baker came from Vermont late in March, 1821, and settled on lot 7. He was accompanied by his brother Elisha. They together had a horse team. Elisha staid until the roads became settled, when he moved on to Chau- tauqua county. Ebenezer Dutton also came in 1821 from Vermont with a horse team, and settled on lot 24. The Bakers, Grovers, Duttons and Hamiltons were all connected by marriage. Nicholas Severance, from Vermont, settled on lot 15 in 1817, built a log house and barn, cleared a number of acres of land, dwelt there a number of years and removed to Castile, where he kept tavern for a long time. His only child was born in this town. She became the wife of Wil- liam S. Agett.
Barzilla Bedee settled on lot 15 in 1815. A Mr. Foster came in from Vermont in 1815 with an ox-team, and settled on lot 16. Elijah Poole in April, 1821, settled on lot 8. Urocalton Geary in 1822 settled on lot 31. Joseph Crocker, from Vermont, settled on lot 23 in 1822. He built the first hewed log house in town, and taught a singing-school. Jed- ediah Dutton, another Vermonter, in 1831 settled on lot 15. Joseph Rawson was an early settler on lot 32.
William Hodges built the first framed barn in the town in 1817, and first framed house on the North road in 1823. William and Silas Hodges sowed the first wheat in the town, procuring the seed in the town of Gainesville. They worked together for a number of years.
In 1816 a log school-house was built on the North road. Mrs. Arnold (a widow) was the first teacher. Mrs. Gage, Mrs. Stevens, Cyrus Beeman, Simeon Hodges and John Hodges are surviving pupils of that school.
Among the early settlers in the south part of the town, on Wing street, were Jonathan Wing, Jonathan, William and David Van Dyke, John Allen, John Davis, Abraham Wade, Ralph Graves, Wooster Randal, a Mr. Wilcox, Ebenezer Pitty and Ira Millin. .
In the west part of the town Elijah Hodges settled in 1818; Stephen Jones in 1820, and Timothy Buckland in 1822, all on lot 59. Other settlers thereabouts were Ezekiel Randal, George W. Knapp, George Galey, Dr. Hewit, Benja- min F. Tiffany. Ardon Tabor and a Mr. Olds.
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