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The first school house in the town was erected on the present Pulteneyville square in 1808 and Mr. Morrison was the first teacher therein. It was burned in 1816 and a larger building erected on the site.
Major William Rogers, Abraham Gallup and John Holcomb were the first on the site of the village of Williamson. Rogers kept a tavern, and was the first postmaster. The first regular store was opened by Alfred J. Deming in 1815. The State Bank of Williamson was organized in the year 1893; H. V. Pearsall is president.
Pulteneyville, named for Sir William Pulteney, was the scene of some military action during the War of 1812, described else- where. J. W. Hallett, Samuel Throop and Samuel Ledyard were the first settlers about 1806.
The village of East Williamson was settled at an early date by Hollanders.
The First Presbyterian Church of Williamson was organized November 21, 1816, by Rev. Allen C. Collins, a missionary. The
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First Baptist Church of Williamson was established December 12, 1826. The Second Methodist Episcopal Church of Williamson was incorporated March 26, 1828. The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Pulteneyville came into existence in the early thirties. The Reformed Church at Pulteneyville started in 1850.
The town of Ontario was set off from the town of Williamson March 27, 1807, and was first called Freetown; the name was changed to the present form February 12, 1808. It originally included the present Walworth, which was set off April 20, 1829. The first town meeting after the latter date was held at Culver's Tavern in the village of Ontario in April, 1830, when Henry S. Gilbert was elected supervisor. The first settler in the town was Freeman Hopkins, who came from Rhode Island and settled on the lake shore in 1806; he was a Quaker. Peter Thatcher, Daniel Inman and James Lavens came in 1807, and in 1808 Jonas Davis, Noah Fuller, Major Inglesby, and Messrs, Fifer and Kilburn arrived. Like many other towns, Williamson received few set- tlers during the years of the war, but afterward the tide of immi- gration increased.
The first school in the town was started on the lake road about 1816.
Daniel Inman first settled on the site of the village of Ontario, and there built a sawmill and tavern. The State Bank of On- tario, located here, was established in 1914.
The dates of the formation of the principal religious societies in the town are: Baptist Church of Ontario, July 3, 1817; First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Ontario, March, 1857; St. Mary's of the Lake Roman Catholic Church of Ontario, August, 1869; Free Advent Christian Church, December, 1874; Presbyterian Church of Ontario Center, 1832; First Methodist Episcopal Church of Ontario, 1812; Second Methodist Episcopal Church of Webster, 1838; First Free Methodist Church of Ontario, Decem- ber 9, 1866.
The town of Macedon was formed from the town of Palmyra January 29, 1823. The house of Lydia Porter was the place of the first town meeting, February 11, 1823; Abraham Spear headed the list of town officers as supervisor. The earliest settlements of this town were made in the neighborhood of the village of Macedon, along the Palmyra-Pittsford Road. The first settler was Webb Harwood, who came from Massachusetts in 1789, and
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in the same year Ebenezer Reed came. Israel Delano arrived in 1790, and Darius Comstock came about the same time. Abraham Spear arrived in 1791, and others were Jonathan Warner, Abner Hill, Constant Southard, Barnabas Brown, Jacob Gannett, and David White. William Porter was the first tavern keeper. John Lapham, John Bradish, Bartimeus, Cyrus and John Packard, David Warner, Noah Porter, Bernard Bates, Barnett and Stephen Peters, Thomas Bussey, Abraham Lapham, Benjamin and Jona- than Wood, Deacon Palmer, George Crane, Bartlett Robinson, Brice Aldrich and Ethan Lapham were also settlers before and during 1800. Schools were started in the town before the new century, the first having been established in the village of Mace- don. The village was incorporated in November, 1856. The original proprietors of the land were Enoch Gannett and Abiatha Powers, who paid a little over 18 cents an acre for it. The Baptist Church of Macedon was organized in 1800; St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church of Macedon in 1856; Universalist Church of Macedon in 1874; Methodist Episcopal of Macedon Center, 1812; Society of Friends of Macedon Center, about 1800.
The town of Savannah was formed from Galen November 24, 1825. The first town meeting was held at the Crusoe House in April, 1825; David Cushman was elected the first supervisor. Elias Converse and Joseph Mosher were the first settlers in 1812, according to some authorities, but it is known that Eli Wheeler, Stephen Titus, Noah Starr, Ephraim Burch, Silas Winans and Prentice Palmer were living in the town before that date. Settle- ment was slow in the town of Savannah; unlike many other towns of the county, it did not have the later advantage of the Erie Canal. The first school house in the town was erected on the site of the Evans Cemetery in 1816, and Loren Brown was the first teacher. The village of Savannah was incorporated in 1867; until the building of the railroad in 1854 it was of very little im- portance. The Presbyterian Church of Savannah was formed in 1864, the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1867, and St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in the early seventies.
The town of Arcadia was erected from the western part of Lyons February 15, 1825, and originally comprised a portion of the old Sodus district, from which Lyons was formed March 1, 1811. The first town meeting was held at William Popple's coffee
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house in Newark April 5, 1825; James P. Bartle was elected su- pervisor. The first settlers were Joseph Winters and Benjamin Franklin, who settled near Ganargwa Creek in 1791. Arnold Franklin came soon after, also George Culver. Samuel Soverhill arrived in 1799. In 1806 the first school was built at Jessup's Corners, and there Mr. Olmsted, Martin Root, Jonathan Scott and Eliza Romeyn were teachers. The village of Newark in this town was formed by a consolidation of Miller's Basin and Lock- ville. The site was originally owned by Jacob, Isaac and Philip Lusk. John Spoor and Nicholas Stansell; Lewis J. Benton, Rod- erick Price and John Drum were early settlers. Vincent G. Bar- ney was the first tavern keeper. The village was incorporated July 21, 1853.
The First National Bank of Newark was originally the Bank of Newark, which was first the Palmyra Bank. Fletcher Wil- liams brought it to Newark, and when it was organized as the First National in March, 1864, he was the first president. The Arcadia National Bank of Newark originated as the Vary & Sleight private bank in 1887.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Arcadia was formed in 1806; the First Presbyterian Church of Newark was estab- lished in 1825; the Christian Church of Newark in 1834; the Baptist Church of East Newark in 1834; the Universalist Society of Newark in 1837; the Reformed Dutch Church of East Newark in 1844; the German Evangelical Association of Newark in 1845; St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church of Newark in 1851; First Baptist Church of Newark in 1864; and the Roman Catholic Church of Newark in 1855.
The town of Marion was formed from Williamson April 18, 1825, and originally was called Winchester, which was changed to Marion April 15, 1826. The first town meeting was held at the house of Daniel Wilcox April 14, 1826; Seth Eddy was made supervisor. The first settlement in the town was made by Henry Lovell in 1795. Daniel Powell came in 1795, also David Sweezey; Robert Springer came in 1796, and William B. Cogswell was another early arrival. Before the opening of the new century, Luke Phelps, David and William Harding, Mica- jah Harding, Seth, William and David Eddy, John Harkness, Zadoc Huggins, Seth Harris, John Case, Jesse Harding, David
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Mason, Gideon Sherman, Zebina Crane and Judge Marvin Rich had settled in Marion. The first log school house stood in the village of Marion, where James Rogers taught; the old Marion academy was established in 1839, and the Marion Collegiate Institute in 1855. The village of Marion is made up of two community centers, known in the early days as the "upper" and "lower" corners. At the latter place the first landed proprietors were Daniel Lovell and Timothy Smith; this was the more important point, and around it the village grew. The First National Bank of Marion was organized in 1914. The First Baptist Church of Marion was organized as the same First Bap- tist Church of Williamson in 1804; the Presbyterian Church of Marion was organized as the Congregational Church of William- son in 1808. The Christian Church of Marion was established in 1820, and called the Church of God. The First Methodist Epis- copal Church of Marion was started in 1845, and the Reformed Church in 1860.
The town of Walworth was erected from the town of Ontario April 20, 1829. The first settlements were made in the south- east part of the town, near the site of Walworth village. Andrew, John, Samuel and Daniel Millett, brothers, came with their families in 1799. Another brother, Alexander, came soon after. Stephen and Daniel Douglass arrived in 1801. Captain Gilbert Hinckley settled in the eastern part of the town in 1803, and in 1804 there arrived Gideon Hackett, Jonathan and James Hill, John David and Jerry Chamberlain, Joseph Howe, Nathan- iel Holmes, Ira Howard, Jonathan Miller, Sylvester and Harvey Lee. The first school building was erected in the village of Walworth in 1804. Louis McLouth was an early teacher. The Walworth Academy was incorporated in 1841. Until 1825 the name of the village of Walworth was Douglass Corners, for the Douglass brothers, who were among the first settlers on the site. The postoffice at this point was established in 1823, with Henry Moore postmaster. The site of the village of West Walworth was originally settled by Joseph Howe in 1805. N. F. Strickland was the first settler at Lincoln in 1853. The First Methodist Epis- copal Church of Walworth, organized in the early years of the century, was the first church in the town. The Second Baptist Church of Walworth was organized in 1832, and the First Bap-
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tist Church of West Walworth in 1815. The Evangelical Asso- ciation (German Lutheran) started in 1857, and the Free Will Baptist Church of Walworth, located at Lincoln in 1816.
The town of Rose was organized from the old town of Wolcott February 5, 1826, and the first town meeting was held at the house of Charles Thomas in Rose Valley in April, 1826; Peter Valentine was chosen supervisor. The first settlements in Rose were made by Alpheus Harmon, Lott Stewart, and Caleb Melvin, in 1805. Alpheus Collins, Thaddeus Collins, Jr., Captain John Sherman, Elijah How, Alfred, Lyman, Joel and John Lee, and Robert Jeffers were others. The village of Rose Valley was first settled in 1811, by Captain John Sherman and the Collins fam- ily, the former having kept the first tavern. The postoffice was established in 1827 as Valentine's with Dr. Peter Valentine post- master; the name was afterward changed to Albion, then Rose, and in 1834 to Rose Valley. North Rose village was originally Lamb's Corners, named for the family which settled there among the first. The First National Bank of this village was founded in 1911. The Baptist Church of Rose was started at Rose Val- ley as the Second Baptist Church of Wolcott, in 1820, and the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Rose Valley was organized in 1827. The First Presbyterian Church of Rose Valley was established in 1825, the Free Methodist Church in 1861.
The town of Huron was organized as the town of Port Bay from the old town of Wolcott February 25, 1826. The present. name was adopted March 17, 1834. The first town meeting occurred at the tavern of Josiah Upson near South Huron April 4, 1826; Norman Sheldon was elected supervisor. Captain Wil- liam Helms was the first settler in the town. He came from Virginia and settled on the site of Port Glasgow in 1796. It is said that he brought about seventy slaves with him. Helms had been a man of some consequence back East, but became dis- solute and, with his common-law wife, was forced to move to the western settlements; he and his outfit were the only settlers: in the town until about 1807. He was cruel and an altogether undesirable neighbor, at his death the slaves were freed. Ezra. Knapp, Jarvis Mudge, Nathaniel Hale, John Hyde and Adoni- jah Church, Josiah Upson, Roger Sheldon, and Messers. Knox and Chapin were other arrivals about 1807.
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The first school in the town was taught by Paulina M. Fuller in 1809, in one of the old slave cabins on the Helms property. The village of North Huron had as its first settlers Elihu Spen- cer, who erected the first grist and sawmills in the town. Josiah Upson was the first at South Huron. At Port Glasgow Dr. Zenas Hyde is said to have opened the first tavern in the town, about 1810.
The Presbyterian Church of Huron was begun in 1813, the Methodist Episcopal Church of North Huron in 1817, and the Methodist Protestant society of the same place in 1840.
The town of Butler was taken from the town of Wolcott February 26, 1826. The first town meeting was held at the house of Jacob S. Viele April 4, 1826; Thomas Armstrong was the first supervisor. Captain Peter Mills, who settled in the town about 1803, is supposed to have been the first settler. He had a bounty of 500 acres for having been a soldier in the Revolution. Seth Crane, Noah Starr, Seth Winans, Paul Well- man, Eli Wheeler, Daniel Roe, Roger Olmsted, Major William Moulton, Horace and Noah Peck, Abner Bivins, James Bivins, Joshua, Elias, Stephen and Peter Hall were others. The first school in the town was taught in the summer of 1811 by Mary Woodruff north of West Butler. The village of South Butler was known as Harrington's Corners before 1839. Butler Cen- ter had its start in the sawmill of Jacob S. Viele in 1819. West Butler was originally Murray's Corners, and is sometimes called Cider Hill. A Baptist Church was organized in this town as early as 1824. The Presbyterian Church of Butler was started in 1831, and the Disciples Church of South Butler about 1831. The Second Advent Church at South Butler was formed in 1861; the Methodist Protestant Church in 1879. The Methodist Epis- copal Church at Butler Center was established about 1836.
The first court in the county of Wayne was that of the com- mon pleas. John W. Hallett was the first judge after the organ- ization of the county, followed by Alexander R. Tiffany, William Sisson, Hiram K. Jerome, Oliver H. Palmer and William H. Adams. The office was made elective in 1846 and the first judge under this arrangement was George H. Middleton. John S. Tall- madge was the first surrogate of Wayne County in 1823. The first district attorney was William H. Adams. When the courts
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of Wayne County were organized, the resident attorneys of the county who were admitted to practice were: William H. Adams, Graham H. Chapin, Frederick Smith, Orville L. Holley, Hiram K. Jerome, William J. Hough, Joseph S. Colt, John Fleming, Jr., Hugh Jameson, William Wells, Thomas P. Baldwin, Alexander R. Tiffany, Charles F. Smith and Edward M. Coe. Lyons had been named as the county seat, but had no court house, of course, when the first court convened on the fourth Tuesday of May, 1823. Accordingly, the Presbyterian Church was rearranged to accommodate the session. The first grand jurors empaneled in the county were: John Adams, Abner F. Lakey, William D. Wiley, John Baber, Jr., Lemuel Spear, David Warner, Ephraim Green, William Voorhies, James Mason, Abel Wyman, David Russell, Cephas Moody, Stephen Sherman, William Wilson, Wil- liam Plank, Alexander Beard, Jacob Butterfield, Daniel Chap- man, Jeremiah B. Pierce, Freeman Rogers, Newell Taft, Pliny Foster and Joseph Lane. The first court house at Lyons was built of brick, and stood in the center of the public park; it was burned in 1856. The old court house had long been inadequate for the needs of the county, and arrangements were made for the construction of a new building without delay. A new clerk's office. was built in 1874.
In 1856 there were thirty-six lawyers in Wayne County. At Clyde there were George W. Cowles, L. S. Ketchum, C. D. Law- ton, William S. Stow, Joseph Welling, and J. Van Denburgh; at Lyons there were William H. Adams, G. H. Arnold, R. W. Ashley, G. W. Benton, William Clark, F. E. Cornwell, D. H. Devoe, E. A. Griswold, John T. Mackenzie, D. W. Parshall, Lyman Sherwood, William Sisson, William Van Marter, and John N. York; at Newark there were Stephen Culver, G. W. Middleton, L. N. Norton, S. K. Williams; at Palmyra there were W. F. Aldrich, Ornon Archer, Joseph W. Corning, James Peddie, S. B. McIntyre, J. F. Harrison, G. W. Cuyler, and Frederick Smith; at Red Creek, J. B. Decker; at Sodus, C. C. Teal; at South Butler, A. S. Wood; and at Wolcott, Chauncey F. Clark. The Wayne County Bar Association was organized November 10, 1890, with S. B. McIntyre as the first president.
In the Presbyterian Church at Lyons, June 2, 1823, there. occurred a meeting of the physicians and surgeons of the county ..
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for the purpose of organizing a county society. At this meeting the following professional men were enrolled as eligible practi- tioners: Seth Tucker, C. S. Button, Samuel Moore, Abraham L. Beaumont, Robert W. Ashley, Daniel Chapman, William White, Joseph P. Roberts, Henry Hyde, Elisha Mather, Levi Gaylord, Gain Robinson, Durfee Chase, Allen H. Howland, John Lewis, William A. Gilbert, J. B. Pierce, Henry C. Hickox, Jonathan Corwin, Morris T. Jewell, Timothy Johnson, and John R. Tain- tor. Dr. Gain Robinson was elected first president of the society. As early as 1864 a society of the homeopathic physicians of the county was formed, with Dr. Durfee Chase as first president.
Dr. Zenas Hyde was the first physician in Wolcott when it was a part of Huron. He settled there in 1808. Dr. Artemas W. Hyde settled early in Arcadia. The first physician in Lyons was Doctor Prescott, about 1800; Dr. William Ambler was also among the first. Dr. Richard P. Williams was an early physi- cian at Newark. Dr. William N. Lummis, who came to Sodus Point in 1804, was among the first in the county. Dr. Thomas G. Lawson also came early to the Point, as did Doctors Coon, Gibbs and Johnson. Dr. William Greenwood settled at Ontario village in 1811. Doctor Bigelow came to Williamson prior to 1815. Dr. Gain Robinson was practicing in Palmyra before 1812, and had the first drug store in the village. Dr. L. Cowen was also an early comer. Dr. Peter Valentine settled in Rose about 1819. Dr. Hurlburt Crittenden was the first physician in Walworth about 1810. Dr. Seth Tucker was the pioneer in Marion.
It is impossible within the scope of this work to present a history of all the newspapers of Wayne County which have lived their day and gone. There have been many of them, and each had a purpose, even though the existence of some of them was brief.
The first newspaper in the county was The Palmyra Register, founded November 26, 1817, by Timothy C. Strong. It was con- tinued under various owners until 1860. The Lyons Republican was founded August 3, 1821, by George Lewis. He conducted the paper until February, 1822, and was followed by D. D. Stephen- son, and he by Jonathan A. Hadley. The latter changed the name to the Lyons Countryman; in 1831 it became The Lyons Country-
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man and Anti-Masonic Recorder. Myron J. Holley was associated in the business, and finally took complete control. He then changed the name of the paper to The Lyons American. Next. William N. Cole had the paper, and he changed the name to The Wayne County Whig, in the '40s. In 1852 Rodney L. Adams bought the paper and three years later changed the name back to. The Lyons Republican. William T. Tinsley bought the paper in. 1859, and continued it until 1889, when William G. David became. the owner. Within a year he sold out to Mr. Tinsley and Clement. R. Sherwood; Tinsley remained inactive until the time of his. death, then Mr. Sherwood published the paper until August 31, 1897, when it was sold to Charles H. Betts. The office of the paper has had a number of different locations in the village, all of them within a stone's throw of the original office.
The Wayne Democratic Press, of Lyons, was first issued in. May, 1822, when Hiram T. Day established The Lyons Adver- tiser. In 1828 Day sold out to E. J. Whitney, who changed the name to the Wayne County Patriot, and later had a partner, W. W. Whitney. The firm of Barber & Chapman took over the paper- in 1830 and the paper was renamed The Western Argus, and became anti-Masonic in character. Barber soon sold his interest. to G. H. Chapin. In 1835 W. F. Ashley & Company bought the. paper, but sold out in 1838 to Ezra Jewell. The latter died the. next year and the publication passed to Marsh & Poucher. In. 1841 Marsh retired, and in September following, William Van Camp bought the business. In 1843 he transferred it to Charles. Poucher, and in 1849 S. W. Russell bought the paper and changed the name to The Lyons Gazette. He continued until 1852, when William Van Camp again became proprietor. In June, 1856, the. latter bought from Pomeroy Tucker, of Palmyra, a new plant, from which had been issued five numbers of The Wayne Demo- cratic Press. Van Camp consolidated the two papers under the present name. From 1884 to 1890 the paper was conducted by William and H. T. Van Camp, sons of William, Sr., and in 1890 William Van Camp again assumed control. The paper is now published by Harry T. Van Camp.
The Palmyra Courier was established in 1838 by Frederick Morley, who continued it until 1852, when it was sold to J. C. Benedict. B. C. Beebe bought the paper in 1853, and changed the:
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name to The Palmyra Democrat, and a few months later again changed it to The Palmyra American. E. S. Averill bought the business in August, 1856, and restored the name to The Palmyra Courier, and made it a Republican paper. Mr. Averill conducted the paper for nearly a half century. James J. Hennessey is the editor at this writing.
The Wayne County Journal was established at Palmyra on the first Thursday in July, 1871, by Anson B. Clemons and his son, Fred W. Clemons. This was the first printing office in the county to install steam power. As a Republican organ the paper was immediately successful. The elder Clemons died in 1873, and his son conducted the paper, except for one year, when it was in charge of Miles Davis, until 1883, when fire destroyed the plant. The paper was discontinued for a time, but later resumed publica- tion and is now in editorial charge of John H. Tucker.
The Clyde Times was established in February, 1850, as a re- vival of the old Eagle (also called the Telegraph). The firm of Payne & Smith started the new sheet as the Clyde Industrial Times. Joseph A. Payne soon bought his partner's interest and changed the name to the Clyde Weekly Times. James M. Scarritt was the next owner and he shortened the title to the Clyde Times. The paper has retained this title, with various editors, to the present day. Charles Odell is the present editor.
The Clyde Herald was established as The Clyde Democrat July 4, 1885, by W. E. Churchill, who retained the paper until December 1, 1887, when he sold out to Albert C. Lux, the present editor; the name was changed by him to the Democratic Herald.
The Newark Courier, edited by Allyn T. Gilbert, was estab- lished in 1838 by Daniel M. Keeler as the Wayne Standard, a Whig organ. During its existence this paper has had many owners and names.
The Newark Union-Gazette, John E. Du Bois, editor, reached back to 1872, when The Newark Union was established as a Greeley campaign sheet by James Jones. The Gazette was estab- lished in 1887.
The Marion Enterprise was founded by E. Curtis in 1880. John E. Du Bois is the editor of the sheet today.
The Wayne County Mail, of Ontario, now under the editor- ship of W. H. Vaughn, was established in the year 1901.
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The Red Creek Herald was established March 15, 1894, by W. G. Phippin, the present editor.
The Sodus Record, now under the editorship of C. W. Mills, has been published since 1897.
The Williamson Sentinel was begun as the Williamson Banner in 1884 by G. W. Tummonds, by whom the plant was removed from Ontario. The name was changed in 1885.
The Wolcott Lake Shore News was founded October 8, 1874, by William H. Thomas. Roe L. Hendrick is now editor.
Immediately after Lincoln had issued his call for volunteers in April, 1861, recruiting started in Wayne County, and before the end of May Company I, which became a part of the Seven- teenth Regiment, had been raised chiefly in Newark. Andrew Wilson was captain. Company B of the Twenty-seventh Regi- ment, recruited mainly in Lyons about the same time, was com- manded by Captain Alexander D. Adams. The Thirty-third Regiment contained one company from Wayne County ; a number of local men joined the Forty-fourth Regiment. Near the end of 1861 an attempt was made to raise a full regiment in the county, but, after 400 men had been enlisted, orders were received to con- solidate with seven other companies from Franklin County to form the Ninety-eighth Regiment, the Wayne County men having made three companies. The One Hundred Eleventh Regiment was recruited in the summer of 1862 in Wayne and Cayuga coun- ties. Five companies were local. Six Wayne County companies were recruited for the One Hundred Thirty-eighth Regiment, which was organized soon after. Wayne and Cayuga counties also supplied the men for the One Hundred Sixtieth Regiment in 1862. The First Regiment of Veteran Cavalry also contained a number of men from the county, also the Eighth Cavalry and the Twenty-second Cavalry.
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