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Timothy C. Strong was born in Massachusetts in 1790. At the age of sixteen he became a printer. At the age of twenty-one was mar- ried to Amelia Goodell, of Litchfield, Conn. In 1825 came to Albion (then Newport) and purchased from Mr. Cowdry the Newport Patriot. He published this paper under different names till 1844. Was chosen county clerk in 1834, and held the office by re-election three terms. He died in 1844.
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Ambrose Wood was born in Saratoga county, New York, in 1803. In 1825 removed to Albion and engaged in shoemaking. After a few years became a grocer's clerk, and later engaged in the grocery busi- ness. In 1846, in partnership with J. H. Hollenbeck, he engaged in the hardware business. He held the office of county treasurer from 1850 to 1857; retired from active business in 1863, and died in 1881. He was a prominent member of the Baptist Church. In 1838 he mar- ried Mary C. Reynolds, of Albion. They reared four daughters and a son, Frank Wood, now of Albion.
Andrew Wall was born in London, England, November 22, 1811. In March, 1833, he left his native country and came to America, landing in New York city April 23, and arriving in Albion May 3. He went to work in David Swan's bakery, whose business he purchased two months later, and eventually established a large trade. At a point east of the bridge on the tow-path of the canal he built an oven and ice house, and about 1850 a candle factory, all of which he was obliged to abandon when the canal was enlarged, and from there he moved "up town" and established a similar business. For about forty years he was vestryman or warden of Christ Episcopal Church. He was a man widely known and greatly respected. He died November 21, 1882.
Joseph Woolford, who was born in Bath, England, October 26, 1808, is said to have been the first English settler in Albion, whither he came in 1830. A baker by trade, he was a brother-in-law of Andrew Wall, with whom he was associated in business. He died here March 23, 1886.
William Gere was born in Galway, Saratoga county, in February, 1799, being one of ten children born to Hon. Isaac Gere, at one time State senator. William married in Galway Miss Fanny Swan, moved to Albion at an early day, and was long a prominent merchant. For a time, and at his death, he was associated in the business with his son Isaac and his son-in-law, J. N. Proctor, who continued it after his de- mise. Their store was on Main street near the canal. His only son, Isaac Gere, died here about 1866.
Thomas S. Foster, son of John, was born in Herkimer county, N. Y., August 27, 1806. In 1810 he moved with his parents to near Penn Yan and in 1814 to Palmyra, where he married Hannah D. Alexander on January 29, 1826. He was a blacksmith by trade, but during the
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construction of the Erie Canal was a foreman of excavation, and during his active life was always engaged in canaling in various capacities. In 1837 he came to Rochester, where he was a station keeper, one of the appraisers of horses, and superintendent of horses between Albany and Buffalo four years. He moved to Fairport, and thence in 1852 to Clar- endon. after which he was appointed superintendent of the canal be- tween Brockport and Sulphur Springs, a position he held four years. In 1866 he removed to Albion, where he has since resided. He retains a memory rich in personal reminiscence. His daughter, who resides with him, was long a teacher in the Albion High School, and for some time has had a private school of her own.
Rice Warner, son of Lewis, was born in Conway, Mass., in 1797. With his father's family he removed to Phelps, Ontario county, where in 1818 he married Rebecca Scott Carson. In 1831 they came to Or- leans county and located in Albion village, where they remained till the death of Mr. Warner in 1885. For many years he worked at the business of tanning, currying and shoemaking, in partnership with his brother Lewis. Their tannery was where the gas works are now lo- cated. In the later years of his life he engaged in lighter work, and he was for many years an overseer of the poor. He was noted for the cheerfulness and kindness of his nature. He died in 1885, his wife in 1879. They reared eight children, of whom Mrs. Edward Baker and Mrs. I. M. Thompson reside in Albion. Lewis Warner, a brother of Rice Warner, was born in 1803. He came to Albion in 1829. In the latter years of his life he was not engaged in active business. He died in 1887. He was twice married. His first wife died early, and his sec- ond wife died in 1873. He died some years ago.
Leonard Wainer, a cousin of Rice, Lewis and De Witt C. Warner, was born in Orleans county, N. Y., in 1801. His wife was Lavina Thur- ston. They came to Albion in 1825 and settled on lot 25, a mile and a half from Eagle Harbor. Otter Creek passed through his farm, and he and his brother Houghton built on that stream a saw mill which they operated many years. He died on the farm where he settled in 1848. His wife died in 1883. They had seven children. Houghton Warner was born in Ontario county, N. Y., in 1808. He was married in 1831 to Mary Frary, and in the same year they removed to Albion and set- tled on lot 25. There Mrs. Warner died in 1854, and he in 1859.
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Elihu Mosher, a brother of Harvey Mosher, came to Albion about 1827, and settled on lot 34, some two miles south of Eagle Harbor. His son, William Mosher, died May 17. 1894.
Noah Davis was a native of Connecticut. In his youth he removed to Massachusetts, and while there he was married to Mrs. Freelove Barber, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., a daughter of Dr. Arnold, of that place. In 1826 they came to Albion, where he established a drug, grocery and dry goods store. His store was burned after a few years, and he never resumed the business. He was for many years a constable and the collector of the town. He died in 1858. His children were : Judge Noah Davis, born in Massachusetts, Naman, Freelove, Ellen, Sarah and Lorenzo, born in Albion.
Spafford Field was born in Vermont in 1779. At the age of seven - teen he became an apprentice to a tanner and shoemaker, named Col- lins. In 1811 he married Sarah, the daughter of Mr. Collins, and re- mained with his father in law till 1822, when he removed to Weeds- port, N. Y., and there worked at shoemaking. In 1828 he came to Albion, and engaged in the marble business. While a resident of Ver- mont he had been incidentally connected with the production of con- mercial marble, and one of his sons, Ben Field, had learned the business of marble cutting. He continued in this business till 1860, when he re- tired. He died in 1869; his wife died in 1875. Of their children, Loraine, Jane, Ben, Norman S. and Huldah, were born in Vermont ; Sarah in Weedsport, and Allen and Agnes in Albion. Loraine became the wife of Elizur Hart, and Jane married Henry A. King. Ben Field continued in the marble business till 1838, after which he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He never engaged in the active practice of his profession, but became a prominent and influential poli- tician. He served one term as State senator, and was for many years an active member and secretary of the New York State Republican Committee. He died in 1879 at the age of sixty-three. He was not married. Norman S. Field was also engaged in the marble business many years at Albion and Lockport, and for three years was a hard- ware merchant. He retired from active business in 1878.
Orrin D. Crane was born in Canandaigua, N. Y., in 1798. In 1830 he removed to Orleans county and settled in Albion on lot 9, opposite
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the county almhouse, where he died in 1878. In 1826 he married Sarah Warner, who died in 1882. They reared three daughters : Mary A. (Mrs. George Mather), Caroline A., deceased, and Charlotte E., now Mrs. D. Brockway Day.
Mark H. Beecher was born in Connecticut in 1807. He entered the United States Navy in 1841, and was in active service during the Mexi- can war. In 1848 he became professor of mathematics, with the rank of captain in the Naval Academy at Newport, R. I., and was afterward on duty at the observatory in Washington, D. C. At the age of sixty- two he was retired from active duty and made his residence in Albion till his death in 1882.
Elsewhere in this volume will be found many other biographical notices of early settlers and prominent citizens of the town and village of Albion, and among them may be noted here the names of Dr. Or- son Nichoson, Hon. Henry R. Curtis, Alexis Ward, Judge Noah Davis, Hon. Sanford E. Church, Judge Arad Thomas, Hiram S Goff, Benja- min L. Bessac, Hon. Gideon Hard, Hons. A. Hyde and Dan H. Cole, Rev. Solomon Hartwell, Orra Clark, Aaron Phipps, Samuel Wright, Enos Rice, Jervis M. Skinner, Jeremiah Bailey, Ezekiel Root, Joseph A. Lattin, Cyrus Jaquith, Samuel Williams, and Harvey Mosher.
In the early settlement of this town almost the only method by which the pioneers could get money to pay their taxes, or to make the necessary payments on their lands, was by burning the timber and con- verting the ashes into black salts or potash, which was drawn to the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek, and shipped thence to Montreal. Trans- portation by land was slow and arduous, and only ceased upon the com- pletion of the Erie Canal, which gave a decided impetus to all agri- cultural and business interests. New markets were opened up to the struggling inhabitants, and better communication with the outside world was henceforth enjoyed. The long strings of wagons and the old stage coaches then became things of the past, and villages sprung up and created new avenues of industry. Gradually the wilderness was trans- formed into beautiful homes and re- echoed with the civilizing influences of a new era. The final spoke in the wheel of commerce came in the form of the railroad, which afforded still greater facilities for general traffic, and which materially hastened a development of the town's re-
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sources, whose birth was contemporaneous with the construction of the canal.
The first highway in the town was the Oak Orchard road, which runs north and south through Albion village, where it is known as Main street. Intersecting this, near what is now the line between Barre and Albion, is the Salt Works road, which was opened by the Hol- land Land Company at a very early day to the salt works north of Medina. This highway has long since been discontinued.
The town of Albion has been the home of and still contains the dust of a goodly number of honored Revolutionary soldiers, the names of many of whom are mentioned in the foregoing pages of this chapter. During the War of 1812 the few inhabitants here courageously went to the front at the call of duty, and many more who served in that struggle afterward became citizens. In the great Rebellion large numbers of men gallantly volunteered and served with distinction on the field of battle. The ladies were equally as patriotic, and did all in their power to provide the comforts and even the necessaries of life for those at the front. The first public meeting in Albion to take action on the war assembled April 18, 1861, when flags were unfurled on several build- ings in the village. On May 13, the first company of infantry-Captain Hardie's-left and was followed on the 20th by another. The town always responded promptly to calls for troops and invariably filled her quota. The first draft came July 15, 1863, and Barre (including also what is now Albion) was given a quota of 197 men. With the end of the war came a sense of relief and the surrender of Lee was signalized here by an appropriate celebration. The town of Albion then formed a part of Barre, and in separating the names in the single list compiled for that township under State authority, it is quite possible that mistakes have been made, notwithstanding the care which has characterized the work. The soldiers who went out from what is now Albion were as follows :
William H. Allard, 17th Bat. H. L. Achilles, 105th Iuf.
H. L. Achilles, jr., 27th Inf. George Ambler, 17th Bat. Oliver C. Benton, 17th Bat. Jonathan Broit, 17th Bat.
Edwin Brumfield, 151st Inf. Henry B. Barnard, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Joel P. Barnes, 151st Inf.
Joel P. Barnes, jr., 4th HI. Art.
Albert L. Barnes, 8th Cav. William H. Barnes, 4th H. Art.
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Addison G. Bessac, 17th Bat. Clark R. Baker, 6th Sharpshooters. Frederick Butler, 9th H. Art. Frederick H. Baker, 8th Cav. John Bradley, 4th H. Ait. Charles Benham, 8th H. Art.
Henry C. Beach, 8th H. Art.
Lewis M. Blackwell, 8th H. Art. George W. Blackwell, 27th Inf. Cassius Blanchard, Orrin L. Blanchard, 8th H. Art.
Lyman P. Blanchard, 8th H. Art.
George D Blanchard, Ist Art. Daniel D. Blanchard, 8th H. Art.
Charles H. Beach, 8th Cav. Hiram J. Buck, 17th Bat. Frederick P. Buck, 151st Inf. Thomas Bell, jr., 8th Cav.
Charles Carpenter, 151st Inf.
Hiram H. Bidwell, 17th Bat.
Horace W. Curtiss, 9th H. Art.
William N. Crann, 27th Inf.
Henry B. Cleveland, 17th Bat. Thomas Carruthers, 2d Mounted Rifles. Lewis M. Clifford, 27th Inf. William Collins, 16th Cav. Julius Connor, 8th H. Art. George D. Curtiss, 8th Cav. John H. Cole, 8th H. Art. Daniel T. Deveraux, 8th H. Art.
William H. Dorrance, 27th Inf.
Henry J. Danforth, 8th H. Art. Orson P. Derby, 151st Inf. Lucian Dean, 8th H. Art. William Emerson, 151st Inf.
Charles D. Elliott, 17th Bat.
William H. Elliott, 8th H. Art.
Charles W. Few, 151st Inf. Stephen C. Gifford, 8th H. Art. Lewis Gallarangh, 8th Cav. George S. Gaskill, 27th Inf. David Hardie, 28th Inf. Isaac Halleck, 151st Inf.
George Harvey, 17th Bat. 32
Thomas Hales, 17th Bat. William W. Hunt, 151st Inf. George J. Holems, 58th Eng. Henry Harrington, 27th Inf. Charles B. Howard, 27th Inf. George S. Hunt, 17th Bat. William H. June, 8th H. Art. Marcus M. June, 17th Bat. Truman M. Jones, 151st Inf. Samuel B. Joslyn, 33d Inf. Sylvester King, 151st Inf.
Charles Albert King, 151st Inf.
John Kirby, 8th Cav. Amasa Kellogg, 8th Cav.
George W. King, 151st Inf. Stephen Lane, 28th Inf., 16th Cav. Abel C. Lane, 26th Inf. John J. Larwood, 8th H. Art.
James H. T. Lowry, 8th H. Art.
Henry Myers, 8th H. Art.
John Moye, 8th H. Art. William C. Moore, 8th H. Art. John Henry McCarthy, 8th H. Art. William Henry Nichols, 17th Bat.
Jerry O'Brien, 8th H. Art. George W. Pier, 28th Inf.
Joel Green Phillips, 8th H. Art. Charles Phillips, 8th Cav. William B. Redfield, 33d Inf. Charles Willard Sickles, 27th Inf.
Charles H. Spencer, 17th Bat. Robert Safford, 8th Cav.
Manly Safford, 8th Cav. William Safford, 22d Cav. George H. Stockton, 8th H. Art.
George H. Stone, 8th H. Art. Warren Stone, 17th Bat.
Cyrus Eli Snyder, 8th Cav. John Smith, 104th Inf. Irving M. Thompson, 17th Bat. Charles Henry Tucker, 27th Inf. Henry V. Van Dusen, 11th Inf. A. N. Van Antwerp. Charles W. Wall, 151st Inf.
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James Wilson, 8th Cav. Martin G. Wood, 27th Inf.
George W. Wilson, 8th Cav.
George W. Whitney, 22d Cav. Hobert Williams, 151st Inf. Charles M. Wright, 8th H. Art.
In 1890 the town of Albion, outside of the village, contained a popu- lation of 1,304. In 1893 it had a total assessed valuation on real estate, including the village, of $2,682,952 (equalized $3,057,426), and on per- sonal property of $561,100. The total tax on roll aggregated $24 .- 191.72, which was apportioned as follows: State schools, $3,038.68 ; State care of insane, $1,033.57 ; general purposes and canals, $3,927.54 ; county audits and appropriations, $7,379.62 ; town audits, $4,023.68 ; roads and bridges, $2,231.87 ; support of poor, $1,000 ; incidentals, $1,547.06. The rate per cent. was .00737939. 'The corporations owning real estate in the village or town were assessed in 1893 as fol- lows : Albion Gas Light Company, $6,000 ; Albion Electric Com- pany, $13,000 ; Albion Water Works Company, $22,000; Albion Stone Company, $12,000 ; Albion Loan Association, $1, 100 ; Blanchard Vine- gar Company, $8,000 and personal property, $5,000 ; Bell Telephone Company, $4,500 ; Curtis Manufacturing Company, $8,000; Mutual Life Insurance Company, $1,100; New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, $335,000 ; Postal Telegraph Company,$3,500; Rochester Medina Sandstone' Company, $2,700; Western Union Tele- graph Company, $9,000. The town officers for 1894 are: Coley P. Wright, supervisor ; William G. Taylor, town clerk ; Justus W. Wright, C. M. Church, W. C. Ramsdale, R. L. Thatcher, justices of the peace ; William E. Frank, collector; George S. Clark, commissioner of high- ways; Alexander Cary, Spencer N. Tanner, Washington Simmonds, assessors ; George Edmunds, overseer of the poor.
EAGLE HARBOR-This village had no existence prior to the con- struction of the Erie Canal. A Mr. Richardson, the contractor, who built the culvert and embankment over Otter Creek, established a store for the convenience of his employees, and that was the nucleus of the present village. An extended account of Eagle Harbor appears in the chapter devoted to the town of Gaines.
Eagle Harbor Station is a station on the New York Central railroad, west of Albion and south of Eagle Harbor village.
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RICH'S CORNERS-This place was named from five brothers: Jona- than, Joseph, Calvin, Arad, and Joshua Rich. Jonathan came in 1815 and the others at different times soon afterward. They remained till about 1830, when they removed to Cattaraugus county.
The hamlet contains a post- office and a small cluster of houses. Here was organized the first Methodist Episcopal society in the present town of Albion. In 1818 a young clergyman, Rev. Joseph Sheppard, came to Rich's Corners and stopped at the house of Joshua Rich, who was at that time an exhorter. There was no school house there then and religious services were held in the dwelling of Mr. Rich, and a society was organized. It has been related that the clergyman's horse was fed, on the night of his arrival, with straw taken from a bed, and the next morning on browse. When he departed he crossed the run north from the corners on a foot- bridge, which was made for him, while his horse was led through the mud.
The First Christian church of Barre (now Albion) was formed about 1820. Among the constituent members were Jotham Morse, Jonathan Ferris, Mr. Cook (a deaf mute), Mr. Bonner, Dr. Willard, Eaton, Mr. Wetherell, and their wives. Rev. Jotham Morse, a very excellent man, was the first pastor. Services were first held in school houses and barns, but a church edifice was erected about 1830, where it still stands, a mile west from Porter's Corners.
The society has always pursued a very liberal policy, and has exerted a good influence.
ALBION VILLAGE.
The village of Albion, after which the town was named, lies mainly in the town of Albion and partly in the town of Gaines. It is in latitude 43º 41' north and longitude 1º 18' west from Washington. By rail it is distant thirty-one miles west from Rochester and fifty-one miles east from Buffalo. The village was first named Newport, after Newport, R. I. There was another post-office of the same name in the State, and the trouble and confusion in receiving mail induced the inhabitants to change the name at the time the village was incorporated. By the people in Gaines it was derisively termed Mudport, because of the condition of its streets in wet weather.
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By reference to the record of sales by the Holland Land Company in Albion it will be seen that lot 34, a portion of which lies in the southern part of the corporation, and lot 35, the whole of which the village includes, were taken up, the former by Joseph Hart on Novem- ber II and the latter by William McAllister on December 11, 1811. Mr. McAllister, it has been stated, articled 100 acres of lot 26, town 15, range I, December 21, 1810, but whether he ever settled on that pur- chase, or ever made any improvements on it, cannot be determined. It is quite certain, however, that he became a permanent settler in Albion in 1811, and was the first in the village as well as in the town, clearing the first land and erecting the first house. His primitive log cabin stood where the county clerk and surrogate's office now stands, and in it, as previously mentioned, his wife died in 1812, which was the first death of a white person in the village or town. Her funeral was attended by her sorrowing husband and three men, who then comprised all the in- habitants for many miles around. Shortly afterward Mr. McAllister sold his land to William Bradner, who soon cleared that portion on the east side of Main street north of the canal. Mr. Bradner sold 92 acres of the south part of his purchase to his brother, Joel, and both received deeds for their land from the Holland Company. Joel Bradner first built his log cabin just south from where the railroad now is. William sold 100 acres of the northwest part of his tract to Nehemiah Ingersoll and others. That portion of this purchase which bordered Main street and the canal was laid out in village lots, and Mr. Ingersoll, who had purchased the interest of his partner, and had employed Orange Risden to make a survey, opened streets and sold these lots to settlers in the village.
In 1815 Jesse Bumpus took up the land on the west side of Main street between Park street and the north bounds of the town, and in the same year built his cabin and commenced clearing his land. He after- ward sold a large portion of his tract to Roswell Burrows, the father of Roswell S. and Lorenzo Burrows. He laid off and sold lots to meet the wants of purchasers and not according to any general plan. In 1812 Elijah Darrow took up 200 acres on the west side of Main street, south from the tract purchased by Mr. Bumpus. The north half of this Mr. Darrow sold to John Holtzbarger. and the south half to Hor- ace Bishop.
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During the construction of the Erie Canal a small village (then New- port) sprung up here, but it was insignificant compared to the village of Gaines, near the junction of the two great thoroughfares-the Ridge and the Oak Orchard roads. This latter place, as has been stated, was the first village of importance in Orleans county, and until the comple- tion of the canal it continued to attract the principal business of this whole section. In the days of teaming and stage coaches it was espe- cially favored, but as soon as these began to disappear it rapidly lost its prestige. Albion was nearer the geographical center of the county, and from all appearances, it promised greater facilities in the way of transportation and communication with the outside world. The rail- road was not then thought of, but a canal in those days was even more coveted than is the steam locomotive now. The people of Gaines did their best to retain their commercial importance, and when the county was organized they put forth every effort to secure the county seat. The canal, however, may be said to have decided the questions then agi- tated. Enterprising men saw the advantages offered by their village over those of the older town, and they eagerly availed themselves of valuable opportunities by selecting locations here. When the great ditch was completed the future of Albion was assured. It gave the embryo village a new and permanent impetus, and developed it steadily into one of the principal points between Rochester and Niagara Falls. It opened an immense trade in lumber, which consisted largely of white- wood, and the canal warehouse and store soon became important fac- tors in the business community.
The land on which the village stands was originally very swampy. Over what is now Main street from Canal street north to the corpora- tion limits a causeway of logs was laid at an early day for the conven- ience of travel, and even in later times large portions of the present Main street (then the Oak Orchard road) were made passable with cor- duroy. Subsequently stone was used to fill in the wet places. This condition early gave the place the derisive name of Mudport.
The first court in the county was held at Gaines in June, 1825, but in that year the county seat was located in Albion, and this, together with the completion of the canal, gave the village an assured importance it has ever since maintained. They brought hither a large influx of set-
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tlers and opened up new avenues of industry. Warehouses sprang up along the south bank of the canal, and stores soon became numerous. The village then was largely confined to Main street, and the buildings were mostly wooden structures. The only brick building was the north end of the Burrows block, which was two stories high exclusive of the basement. The first warehouse stood about twenty rods east of Main street, and was built by Jeremiah Ingersoll. The next was erected by Carey & Tilden west of Main street. In 1826, according to the pub- ished recollections of an early resident, south of the Burrows block "was a row of wooden tenements several feet below the sidewalk. One of the occupants in this row was a shoemaker named John Green. The west side consisted of a warehouse on the dock, which was afterward burned, and one or two brick stores, extending as far as Beaver alley, on the corner of which Harvey Goodrich kept a hat store. The Albion Hotel stood on the lot where now is the store of Sickels, Day & Col- lins, and a frame store was on the side of Swan's block. Opposite stood a large frame dwelling and next to it the harness shop of Hugh McCurdy. Robert Shadders had a cabinet shop, in which McCurdy, who was postmaster, attended to the duties of his office. Across the street was Butts' tavern, and on the hill stood the old Eagle tavern."
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