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ished a few years but fell into a decline and the building was sold in 1838 and converted into a shop and the organization ceased.
A second society formed in Egypt about the same time, a church was built and maintained for more than half a century. That, too, has ceased to exist. In 1837 the denomination formed a society in the southeast part of the town and erected the church known as the South Perinton church. The society has been prosperous, possesses to-day a good property, is well supported, and is active and earnest in its work. Within a few years another society has been formed in Fairport, a fine brick church built and a liberal and increasing support drawn to it. Rev. F. C. Thompson is the pastor.
The Congregational society was formed in 1824. It is said the Rev. Mr. Crane preached the first sermon, probably earlier than this, in the house of Jesse Perrin. In 1832 a legal organization was effected and a church built. Two years later a larger one was erected, and in 1868-9 the present brick edifice was built at a cost of $18,000. The society also owns a fine parsonage and in late years has added to the capacity ot the church. Its property represents an expenditure of at least $25,- 000. The pastors of this church have been : Revs. Morgan, D. Wash- burn, D. Johnson. A. W. Brooks, G. Freeman, S. Kellogg, W. Gilliam, Billington, Gilbert, Francis, W. H. Platt, N. Bosworth, J. Butler, G. H. Bailey, E. T. Gardner, R. R. Davies and G. F. Waters, the present pastor. The present board of trustees are Dr. E. B. Pratt, J. H. Snow, E. L. Dudley, Dr. W. F. Clapp and N. A. Rightmire ; church clerk, H. A Howard; deacons, Harvey Wygant, B. Wygant, D. J. Howard, W. H. Dobbin and C. D. Case. It is worthy of record that Harvey Wygant has served the church as deacon continuously for sixty years. The present membership is over 220 and the attendance at the Sabbath school more than 200.
The earliest organization of the First Baptist church was prior to 1820. Services were held in school houses and Revs. Spencer and Noyce were among the pastors. The society was disbanded in 1838. But it was not dead ; only sleeping. January 8, 1842, at a meeting held in the Joy school house articles of faith and and a church covenant were adopted. On the 30th of that month, midwinter, the first candidates for baptism were immersed in the running stream by the Rev. Franklin
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Woodward. They were Joel De Land, Lucinda De Land, Bleeker Webb, and Louisa Smith. February 2, the church was organized with twenty- eight members and in May the first pastor, Rev. Franklin Woodward, began his labors. The succeeding pastors have been : Revs. Mr. Gris- wold, Charles De Land, H. Stanwood, O. D. Taylor, J. Williams, J. Fargo, M. Forbes, B. P. Russell, E. L. Littel, D. McFarland, R. E. Burton, B. S. Terrey. The present pastor, Rev. H. H. Hunt, began his ministration in 1885. The present deacons are Nathan Case, H. A. De Land, William Newman, Burton Howe, Martin Austin, C., G. De- witt and Charles Sammons ; church clerk, William Newman; trustees, C. C. Moore, Will O. Greene, George G. Bown, J. W. Morey, B. Howe, G. F. Wilcox, J. Y. Parce, George Case and L. J. De Land. The present church membership is 440 and the attendance at the Sabbath school averages about 500. The first church building was constructed in 1843. Additions and repairs were made at times and in 1876-7 the present brick edifice was built at a cost of more than $30,000. The society has expended more than $10,000 on its parsonage and church furnishings and its present property is valued at over $40,000. It is free from debt.
The Free Baptist church of Fairport was organized in Egypt in 1840 by Rev. D. G. Holmes, and in 1847 removed to its present location and joining with a branch of the Walworth church in the northern part of the town effected the present organization. Among the early members and trustees were Benjamin Slocum, Nathan Case, Milton Budlong, Darius Talman and D. B. Conant. In 1848 a church edifice was built at a cost of $3,000. The pastors have been : Revs. D. G. Holmes, F. W. Straight, E. P. Talman, D. M. L. Rollin, H. S. Limbocker, A. Brown, R. Cameron, J. M. Brewster, W. H. Waldron, W. Taylor, R. H. Tozer, R. L. Howard, L. A. Crandall, T. H. Stacey, E. Brockway, W. C. Burns. The present pastor is L. W. Raymond. The present board of trustees is C. L. Peacock, William B. Bly, O. C. Adams, Frank Bown, Jason C. Spear, A. H. Knapp and George Luetweiler. The membership of the church is 167 and of the Sunday school 235. One of the prettiest and most complete village churches in Western New New York has just been finished by this society. It was dedicated Feb- ruary 7, 1895. It is built of Warsaw sandstone. The credit of its de- sign and fine construction belongs to the present pastor. A new and
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ample parsonage also stands on the large church lot. The church property represents an outlay of over $20,000.
The Church of the Assumption stands on a spacious and beautiful lot in the northern part of the village. The present brick church was ded- icated in 1883. In points of size and architecture it is conspicuous and is highly creditable to the society which erected it. A large and hand- some parsonage stands on the same lot. The first Catholic church of Fairport was built in 1856. The first pastor was Rev. William Casey. Succeeding pastors have been Revs. Louis Miller, P. C. McGrath. The present pastor, Rev. J. L. Codyre, has been the incumbent for many years and the present church property has been acquired under his ministration. Its value is over $20,000. The society is large and prosperous.
Two newspapers are published in Fairport, and receive a liberal pat- ronage. The Fairport Herald was started in 1873, by G. C. Taylor. J. Newman and George T. Frost purchased the Journal, and the latter soon became sole proprietor. In 1876 the present owner and editor, A. J. Deal, bought the paper and has since conducted it with ability and profit. The politics of the Herald is Republican, but local news is made the leading feature.
The Monroe County Mail was founded in 1881, by S. D. Palmer, and run as a radical prohibition paper. In 1886 the present proprietor, Will O. Green, bought it, changed its platform to that of entire inde- pendence on political and social questions, giving much space to local news, and has been prosperous in his enterprise. Mr. Green owns a fine building 22 feet by 80, fitted with facilities for doing promptly fine job work.
Of the present commercial enterprises of the village the most impor- tant, on account of age, continuous prosperity, wide and solid reputation and volume of business, is the De Land and Co. Fairport Chemical Works, which manufacture soda, saleratus, baking powder and sal soda. The business was begun in 1852 by D. B. De Land, in a small building then standing on the site of the present extensive works. Immediate and continuous success attended the enterprise. The business rapidly expanded until the goods were sold in most of the States and territories in the west and south. Shipments are made to foreign countries. . A
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large working force is employed in the factory, and a small army of agents kept in the field. The founder, Judge De Land, died in 1872, but his family continued the business with increasing success, the manage- ment now being in the hands of his two sons, L. J. and W. M. De Land. This firm also owns and operates the village electric light plant. Feb- ruary 4, 1893, the works were entirely destroyed by fire, but were rebuilt the same year with better facilities and greater capacity. Fair- port is very largely indebted to the influence of this firm for its pros- perity, its numerous fine residences, the thrift of many citizens and its public improvements. Their money has been liberally expended in their own locality.
There are two large canning factories in Fairport. The one first established, now belonging to the estate of A. H. Cobb, put up over 1,500,000 cans in 1894. They used the product of 700 acres of corn and peas, 7,500 bushels of pears, 40,000 bushels of apples, and large quantities of strawberries, cherries, plums and quinces. The firm employs several hundred people for many months in the year.
The other factory is owned and operated by Mr. Howard Thomas, and much attention is paid to the canning of small fruits. The average quantities of products used yearly are as follows : strawberries, 100,000 quarts ; cherries, 70,000 pounds ; raspberries, 100,000 quarts ; tomatoes, 300 tons ; plums, 4,300 bushels ; pears, 5,000 bushels ; quinces, 3,300 bushels; apples, 25,000 bushels. Several hundred hands are also employed in this factory in the season.
The Fairport Vinegar Works is another enterprise of value to the town and to producers. It was established in 1893, by P. V. Vielie. The manager is William A. Salisbury. In 1894 40,000 bushels of apples were used and 3,330 barrels of cider for vinegar made. The storage capacity is 5,000 barrels. Twenty-seven tons of evaporated apples were produced.
Near the railroad depot stands a fine looking building, which is the factory of William Newman and Son, manufacturers of and dealers in baking powder, spices, extracts, soda, saleratus, &c. An experience of more than twenty years enables the firm to turn out high quality goods which are sold by agents throughout several States.
Brevities .- Residents of the town of Perinton who have been elected
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to the legislature to represent the first assembly district are as follows : Enoch Strong, Jeremiah Baker, G. L. G. Seeley, Walter S. Hubbell, L. J. De Land and F. A. Defendorf.
The soldiers of the war of 1812 from Perinton were Nathan M. Nor- ton, James Hannan, Isaac Arnold, Darius Arnold, Walter Graham, Andrew Graham, Manton Graham, Ira Palmer, Larry Wilcox, Andrew Northrup. Adolphus Aldrich, Olney Staples, Roswell Everetts, Noah Ramsdell, Bennett Joy, Philip Piester.
Perinton sent 265 men to the Union army in the civil war. A mon- ument costing $2,000 is erected to the memory of the fallen in the Mt. Pleasant cemetery. A complete record appears in another part of this book.
The present members of the Board of Education of Fairport are Burton Howe, E B. Pratt, A. E. Hazen, Mrs. Truman Butts, J. H. Snow, Mrs. A. Higbie and H. H. Howell.
Shipments of farm produce from Fairport by rail for the year 1894 were as follows : Cabbage, 9,383,800 pounds; apples, 535,895 pounds ; potatoes, 9,588,680 pounds ; canned fruit, 6,167,604 pounds ; onions, 1,888, 170 pounds ; dried fruit, 285 200 pounds ; beans, 23,325 pounds ; quinces, 3,200 pounds ; grapes, 15, 155 pounds ; pears, 162,570 pounds ; cherries, 1,760 pounds ; berries, 31,200 pounds ; plums, 184,000 pounds. Total, 28,270,558 pounds. Equivalent to 1,178 car loads.
The census of population of Perinton is as follows : 1814, 821 ; 1820, 1,664 ; 1825, 2,190 ; 1830, 2,183 ; 1835, 2,030; 1840, 2,513; 1845, 2,636 ; 1850, 2,891 ; 1855, 3,175 ; 1860, 3,015 ; 1865, 3,219; 1870, 3.261 ; 1875, 3,868 ; 1880, 4,030; 1890, 4,450; 1892, 4,658. The years ending with 'o' are the dates of the U. S. census; the others of the State census.
The present officers of the Village Board are : President, Joseph Duncan; trustees, E. C. Wood, George Burlingame, A. D. Smith, C. C. Pike, N. S. Perkins, George Cobb, clerk, H. Mellen. Police Justice, O. P. Simmons; treasurer, G. L. G. Seeley.
Twenty-one passenger railway trains daily stop at Fairport at one station, twelve westward bound and nine eastward. It is ten miles to Rochester.
The town officials for the current year are : supervisor, Egbert L.
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Hodskin ; town clerk, Arthur Newman; overseer of the poor, T. R. Pritchard ; road commissioner, D. B. Fuller; justices, H. A. Walker, O. P. Simmons, P. Doyle, Josiah Aldrich ; assessors, T. G. Jones, Charles Westerman, G. F. Wilcox.
The present leading produce buyers, warehouse men, coal dealers, are A. M. Loomis, A. W. Palmer, Charles Effner & Co., A. Van Nor- man, Luther Talman and Frank Howard. Other transient buyers are always in the market.
The lumber yard of Dobbin & Moore is well equipped with stock, a large steam mill and extensive wood working machinery, enabling them to turn out fine work in this line. The W. A. Trescott Manu- facturing Co. also carries a stock of lumber and is engaged in building furnaces, fruit evaporators, bleachers, etc.
Several pleasure steam and naphtha launches are owned by citizens of Fairport, and steam freight boats ply regularly between the village and Rochester and Syracuse.
George G. Bown & Sons and J. T. Merkie are manufacturers of, and dealers in all kinds of wheeled vehicles and sleighs, and are ready for any job in the line of blacksmithing.
Some of the present merchants of the town, dealing in dry goods and groceries are Howe & Kellogg, Blood & Peters, J. W. Morey, Snow, Parce & Snow Co., A. C. Hooker, George S. Filkins, McBride & Stillwell, O. Scribner; druggists, Hodskin & Peacock, R. L. Estes, C. R. Cramer, E. B. Pratt ; hardware, F. F. Shumers, W. T. Warsop, C. E. Williams; millinery, Miss Aggie Sproul, Mrs. W. E. Bown, C. A. Phillips. G. C. Taylor is a manufacturer of patent medicines, extracts, condition powders, etc., whose trade is large and extends over a wide territory ; D. C. Becker conducts the only banking house in town. The leading hotels are the Cottage Hotel, Fairport Hotel, Osburn House and Windsor Hotel. E. C. Woods steam mill does a large local trade in grain, flour and feed.
The present faculty of the Union school are, principal, Elmer G. Frail, A. M .; preceptress, L. Belle Sage; assistants, Mary E. Steele, Ella Zeilbeer, E. M. Howes, Fanny L. Avery, Edith Bronson. Kate L. Turner, Sarah M. Peters, Edith Turner, Adelaide E. Archer, L. Vina Mullie, Alida Hitchings, Florence M. Thayer.
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The following are the only statistics of farm production for the town of Perinton which the editor has been able to find as they appear in the State census reports :
Products.
1840
1845
1855
1865
1875
No. of Horses,
747
1,229
1,000
986
885
Cattle,
2,239
3,487
2,524
1,719
1,713
Sheep,
6,208
7,799
5,008
7,829
1,650
Swine,
2,933
2,144
1,676
2,628
479
Bushels of Wheat,
63,489
48,586
44,662
25,782
30,295
Barley,
4,127
3,615
8,525
7,789
Oats,
31,773
30, 105
48,728
30,236
62,233
Rye,
130
23
28I
1,095
1,827
Buckwheat,
1,37I
ยท 1,748
1,591
3,324
960
Corn,
24, 1 12
29,428
42,190
50,73I
37,34I
Pounds of Wool,
14,450
18,968
Bushels of Potatoes,
43,564
26,507
62,150
105,752
220,08 I
Tons of Hay,
2,738
3,062
3,782
Pounds of Sugar,
8,46I
Hops,
1,800
8,000
4,700
CHAPTER XIV.
THE TOWN OF PITTSFORD.
About the time of the completion of the Erie canal, a writer of local history said of the town of Pittsford, that it was " a post-township of Monroe county, containing twenty-two square miles. It has Ironde- quoit creek in the southeast corner, and Noyes creek in the northwest, but is poorly supplied with mill seats. If the soil is as good as has been represented, its population increases rather slowly. The Erie canal holds a very devious course across this town, from the northeast corner by and almost around Pittsford village and bearing southeast to the southeast part of the Great Embankment over Irondequoit creek, where
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it enters Perinton. Pittsford is a good township, but owes much of its prospects to the canal."
There was much truth in these words of the early writer of Pittsford history, for the settlement of the town was in fact slow, and the con- struction of the canal was an important factor in the development of local interests. The canal as originally built did have an exceedingly devious course through the town, and even the straightening and en- larging process of 1835 and the years following did not have the effect to entirely remove the objections alluded to by the author quoted. Notwithstanding, however, the apparent slow growth of Pittsford in its early history, it was one of the first settled regions in the Genesee coun- try. And we may also add that the soil is as " good as has been rep- resented," for then the town had only 6, 112 acres of improved land, whereas now nearly all of its 14,596 acres are in state of cultivation or valu- able for domestic purposes ; and could the historian of 1820 to-day see the annual potato crops, several hundred car loads, shipped to market he indeed would feel justified in his old observation that " Pittsford is a good township."
The town, under its present name was formed from "Smallwood," March 25, 1814, and included all that is now Pittsford and Henrietta. The latter town was set off March 27, 1818. As is well understood the lands of Pittsford formed exceedingly small part of the vast so-called . Phelps and Gorham Purchase, and by those proprietors was sold, or at least a large portion thereof, to Israel and Simon Stone and Seth Dodge. Their tract comprised 13,300 acres; nearly all that is now Pittsford, for which they were to pay eighteen pence per acre. However, within a very short time after making this purchase the lands of this region in- creased rapidly, seeing which, Phelps and Gorham sought to regain this tract, and they agreed with Stones and Dodge to give them one-half of the tract without further payment if the latter would relinquish their claim to the other half. This was done, and by it the Stones became absolute owners of nearly one-half the lands of this town for the mere nominal consideration of about thirty dollars.
Israel and Simon Stone at once began preparations for the sale and settlement of their splendid tract. They came here in 1789, cleared a few acres, sowed it with wheat, then returned east for the winter.
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Simon Stone's first log house stood a short distance south of Pittsford village, while the abode of his brother was built near a spring on the village site. Israel Stone died in his old home in 1880, and in after years a serious annoyance was caused the settlers by reason of the de- mands made by his widow. She unexpectedly came forward and claimed her dower right, she claiming not to have signed the deeds exe- cuted by her husband and his brother.
To Israel and Simon Stone has always been accorded the honor of being the first permanent settlers in this town, but it is a fact well known that at least two years before the Stones came here John Lusk and his son, Stephen, had a squatter's residence near the head of Iron- dequoit bay. They had cleared twelve acres and sowed it with wheat. Lusk had in fact purchased from the Indians 1,500 acres, but as his title was of course worthless, he was afterward compelled to repurchase from the proper owners; this he did in 1791, taking 1,000 acres at twenty- five cents an acre.
Through the influence of the Stones the actual settlement of the town was begun in 1791, in which year came from the east the families of Josiah Farr, Silas Nye and his sons, Nathan, Silas, jr., and Caleb, Thomas Clennand, Major Ezra Patterson and Josiah Girninson. Clennand was an old Revolutionary soldier. Farr planted the first orchard. Dr. John Ray settled in the town in 1792. Noah Norton came in 1794, built the first frame house in 1795. Simon Stone built the first saw mill, and as he was a nail maker he proved a useful man in the new settle- ment. In 1792 the settlers were Caleb Hopkins, William Acker, Israel Canfield and Benjamin Miller. Other pioneers who came about the same time were Dr. Daniel Rood, Jonas Sawens, Elihu Doud, Abner Stone, Amos Stone, Daniel Perrin, Glover Perrin, John Acer, and others ; and previous to 1800 there had come to the town that pioneer preacher, Thomas Billinghurst, and also Richard Welch, William Agate, Robert and Simon Holland, Jared Barker, Henry Bailey, and others.
Among the other early settlers of the town whose names are worthy of at least a passing mention were Giles Blodgett, Nathan Calhoun, Richard Savage, Henry Bailey, William Griffin, Thomas Kempshall, George Parrott, Horace Converse, Alexander Chubb, Joseph Chubb, Paul Richardson. In the same connection may also be mentioned the
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" English colony," who came to Pittsford in 1804. The party consisted of Richard Priestly, and his family and descendants, numbering nineteen persons in all, and each of whom lived to an advanced age.
Among the early settlers of Pittsford were several men who had served in the American army during the Revolutionary war. They were Ebenezer Graves, Captain Henry Gale, Captain Silas Nye, Deacon Samuel Stone, Thomas Cleeland, and others, perhaps, whose names have been forgotten.
The town also furnished a number of officers and men for service in the war of 1812, while the whole number of able-bodied men in the vicinity were in the enrolled militia and subject to military duty. Caleb Hopkins was on the frontier, colonel of the fifty-second regiment and took from the town several young men. William Jones was killed. A. M. Gallagher wore shoulder straps. Ammon Dunn was killed and scalped by the Indians. Joel Dunn was captured and held to the end of the war. James Merrill was also in the service. Candius Boughton mustered a company of cavalry during the war and the men were en- camped in the village several weeks.
Although the early settlement of Pittsford may have been slow during the first twenty years of its history, the charactor of its population was firm to a degree somewhat greater than many of the eastern towns could boast. Previous to 1796 little civil jurisdiction had been exercised over the region although as early as 1789 the seven towns of Pittsford, Per- inton, Penfield, Webster, Brighton, Irondequoit, Henrietta, together with all that part of Rochester east of the river, constituted " the dis- trict of Northfield," a civil division of Ontario county. This district, however, had no special organization previous to 1796, in which year town officers were first elected. They were Silas Nye, supervisor ; John Ray, town clerk; Noah Norton, Caleb Hopkins, Glover Perrin, assessors. A full board of town officers was chosen, but so few of them were in fact residents in Pittsford that the subject has little local importance. Later subdivisions of this large territory were made soon after 1800, but not until March 25, 1814, was the town of Pittsford created under the original name of Smallwood. Then the town included all that is now Pittsford and Henrietta. The latter was separated March 27, 1818.
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The first officers for the town of Pittsford were as follows : Ezra Pat- terson, supervisor ; John Ray, town clerk ; Nathan Nye, William Grif- fin, and Stephen Lusk, assessors ; Henry Bailey, Hutchinson Patterson, and James Sperry, commissioners of highway ; Glover Perrin and Jonas Sawens, overseers of the poor ; Nathan Kingsley, collector; Ebenezer Gooding, Nathan Kingsley and Calvin Kingsley, constables.
In this connection it is interesting to note the succession of super- visors of Pittsford ; and inasmuch as the succession is complete from the organization of Northfield in 1796, the entire list may be given, viz., Silas Nye, 1796-97 ; Noah Norton, 1798 ; Silas Nye, 1799; Ezra Pat- terson, 1800-1804; also 1806, 1807, 1811 and 1813 ; Augustus Gris- wold, 1805 ; William Mckinstry, 1808 ; Caleb Hopkins, 1809; Stephen Lusk, 1810; Samuel Spafford, 1812-13 ; Ezra Patterson, 1814; Nathan Nye, 1815-16 ; Samuel Fell, 1817 ; Samuel Stone 2d, 1818-25 ; Stephen Lusk, 1826-28 ; Nathan Calhoun, 1829-32 ; also 1834, 1838-39 ; John Armstrong, 1833; Ephraim Goss, 1835-36, 1847-48, 1855 ; Solomon Stone, 1837, 1843-45, 1856 ; Marvin Hopkins, 1840, 1842, 1846, 1850, 1862; Ira Bellows, 1841 ; Wales M. Huntington, 1849; Elias Mathews, 1851; Horace Wheeler, 1852-53 ; William C. Rowley, 1854; Thomas Wilcox, 1857 ; Isaac Sutherland, 1858 ; Daniel Kingsley, 1859-60, and 1863 ; Jarvis - Lord, 1861 ; Nathan R Welch, 1864; Patrick Malone, 1865-72; Francis A. Shearer, 1873-74 ; George A. Goss, 1875-77 ; Samuel H. Stone, 1878 ; Patrick Malone, 1879; George A. Goss, 1880; J. M. Wiltsie, 1881-83 ; Samuel H. Stone, 1884-85 ; Thomas Spiegel, 1886-87; George A. Goss, 1888-95.
The officers of the town of Pittsford for the year 1895 are as follows : George B. Goss, supervisor; Charles Zarnow, Charles H. True, Samuel H. Stone and George Morse, justices of the peace ; George Thomas, town clerk; Samuel H. Stone, Edward W. Giskin and Charles R. Tobey, assessors ; Jeffrey M. Birdsall, collector ; Charles B. Emmons, overseer of the poor ; William Ascomb, highway commissioner; Will- iam Alms, William Supner and Charles Lexman, excise commissioners ; George R. Hicks and N. C. Steele, constables. The old records of Pittsford furnish some rather interesting reminiscences of early times, and through them we learn that early in the century some of the wealthy families owned and kept slaves. While quite an unusual cir-
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