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water main extended ; stone crusher purchased. 1893-Estimated budget, $2,300.
The boards of trustees of Albion village, and the presidents of the same, have been as follows :
1829 -- Alexis Ward, president ; Orson Nichoson, William Bradner, Freeman Clarke, Franklin Fenton.
1830-Alexis Ward, president ; William Bradner, Franklin Fenton, Hugh McCurdy, Harry Gilmore.
1831 -- Henry R. Curtis, president ; Hugh McCurdy, Lewis Warner, Franklin Fenton, Philip Nichols.
1832-Henry R. Curtis, president; Hugh McCurdy, Lewis Warner, Isaac F. Bene- dict, Roswell Clark.
1833 -- Harvey Goodrich, president; John Hubbard, Freeman Clarke, Hugh Mc- Curdy, Abraham B. Mills.
1834-Harvey Goodrich, president; John Hubbard, Hugh McCardy, Rodney A. Torry, Alderman Butts.
1835 -- Harvey Goodrich, president; Hugh McCurdy, John Chamberlain, Hiram Cowles, John B. Lee.
1836-Harvey Goodrich, president; John B. Lee, Benjamin L. Bessac, Franklin Fen- ton, Coddington W. Swan.
1837 -- Benjamin L. Bessac, president ; John B. Lee, Abraham Cantine, Henry R. Curtis, Orson Nichoson.
1838-Jonathan Elkins, president; Benjamin L. Bessac, John Boardman, Gideon Hard. Truxton Burrell.
1839 -- Benjamin L, Bessac, president ; Abraham Cantine, Jonathan Kingsley, Calvin Church, Alderman Butts.
1840 -- Arad Thomas, president; Jonathan Kingsley, Coddington W. Swan, David Holt, jr., Elijah Dana.
1841-Arad Thomas, president; Elijah Dana, Roswell Clark, Aruna Smith, Hiram Baker.
1842-Arad Thomas, president; Roswell Clark, Jonathan Kingsley, Asher Flint, jr., Abner Sheldon.
1843 -- Henry A. King, president; Charles Baker, John B. Lee, Lorenzo Burrows, John Boardman.
1844-Henry A. King, president; Lorenzo Burrows, Henry J. Van Deusen, Abra- ham B. Mills, William V. N. Barlow.
1845-Henry A. King, president; Zephaniah Clark, Abraham B. Mills, Jonathan Edgcomb, Asher Flint, Jr.
1846-Henry A. King, president ; George H. Stone, Lewis Warner, Robert Lewis, Lorenzo Burrows.
1847-George H. Stone, president; Seth L. King, Roswell Clark, William G. Gard- ner, Aruna Smith.
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1848-George H. Stone, president ; Benjamin L. Bessac, Aruna Smith, William But- ler, Seth L. King.
1849-Joseph M. Cornell, president ; Lewis Pullman, Roswell Clark, Charles H. Moore, Zerah Webb.
1850-Charles H. Moore, president ; William K. McAllister, Erastus Root, A. R. Quimby, Horace Washburn.
1851-Henry J. Sickels, president ; Roswell Clark, David Bettis, John B. Lee, Charles Baker.
1852-Joseph M. Cornell, president ; Charles Baker, Henry A. King, Roswell Clark, Lewis Pullman.
1853-Joseph M. Cornell, president ; Henry A. King, Aruna Smith, Roswell Clark, Charles Baker.
1854-John H. White, president; Aruna Smith, Henry A. King, Charles Baker, Roswell Clark.
1855 -- John H. White, president; Henry Sears, Harvey Goodrich, Harlow W. Lee, David Smith.
1856-Henry L. Achilles, president; Henry Sears, Nelson W. Butts, Waldo Joslyn, Andrew J. Chester.
1857-Henry Sears, president ; N. W. Butts, Jerome Lee, Waldo Joslyn, F. A. Day. 1858-Arad Thomas, president ; P. W. Collins, Robert P. Bordwell, Willard F. War- ren, Jerome Lee.
1859-Henry J. Sickels, president ; R. P. Bordwell, Howard Abeel, Hiram W. Lewis, Calvin G. Beach.
1860-Walker Mattinson, president; A. F. R. Braley, Dan H. Cole, H. J. Sickels, R. P. Bordwell.
1861-Roswell Clark, president; John Smith, Isaac Lee, George L. Burrows, Jona- than Blott.
1862 -- Henry A. King, president; Nelson W. Butts, Howard Abeel, Simon Adler, John N. Proctor.
1863-Henry A. King, president; Andrew J. Chester, Alexander Stewart, Jeremiah Smith, Cornelius Ward.
1864-John N. Proctor, president; Walker Mattinson, Simon Adler, Seth L. King, Jerome Lee.
1865-H. J. Van Deusen, president; H. A. King, George S. Hutchinson, A. B. Bailey, Merritt Brooks.
1866 -- H. J. Van Deusen, president ; H. A. King, G. S. Hutchinson, A. B. Bailey, Henry J. Danforth.
1867 -- Charles H. Moore, president; Ferdinand A. Day, A. J. Chester, Jesse l'. Bum- pus, Patrick Glenn.
1868 -- Edwin Porter, president ; Simon Adler, Thomas S. Porter, Jesse P. Bumpus, G. W. Ough.
1869-Seth L. King, president; G. S. Hutchinson, George W. Wilcox, Martin E. Rawson, Edwin R. Tanner.
1870-H. A. King, president; Howard Abeel, J. N. Proctor, Owen McCarthy, Isaac Gould.
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1871 -- J. N. Proctor, president ; H. A. King, Howard Abeel, Horatio A. Ball, E. Kirke Hart.
1872 -- John Bidleman, president; G. W. Ough, Isaac Gould, John A. Higgerson, Charles Vandekar.
1873 -- John H. White, president; Simon Adler, Lewis M. Loss, George L. Baker, H. J. Reynolds.
1874 -- John H. White, president ; Simon Adler, L. M. Loss, G. W. Ough, G. M. Waterman.
1875 -- George S. Hutchinson, president; Nelson Warner, H. W. Preston, E. R. Tan- ner, Thomas Hales.
1876 -- George M. Waterman, president; William S. Pierson, William B. Dye, John Bidleman, Thomas Hales.
1877-H. J. Danforth, president ; John Bidleman, G. M. Waterman, David Hardie, L. D. Mitchell.
1878-David Young, president ; Simon Adler, Ashley Blake, G. M. Waterman, Mor- ris Landauer.
1879-(Under the new charter the president is elected for three years and the trust- ees for four years each) J. N. Proctor, president; E, K. Hart, four years; J. E. Bar- rett, three years ; P. Gallarneau, two years; Hiram W. Preston, one year.
1880 -- J. N. Proctor, president; E. K. Hart, J. E. Barrett, P. Gallarneau, Edward C. Cole.
1881 -- J. N. Proctor, president ; E. K Hart, J. E. Barrett, George W. Barrell, Edward C. Cole.
1882 -- William B. Dye, elected president ; E. K. Hart, George W. Barrell, George B. Church, Edward C. Cole.
)883 -- W. B. Dye, president; George W. Barrell, George B. Church, E. K. Hart. Edward C. Cole.
1884 -- William B. Dye, president; George W. Barrell, W. S. Danolds, George B. Church, E. K. Hart.
1885 -- William B. Dye, re-elected president ; Charles Diem, E. K. Hart, W. S, Danolds, George B. Church.
1886 -- William B Dye, president ; George B. Church, E. K. Hart, W. S. Danolds, Charles Diem.
1887 -- William B. Dye, president ; W. S. Danolds, Charles Diem, H. Eugene English, George B. Church.
1888 -- William B. Dye, re-elected president ; H. Eugene English, George B. Church, Robert W. Van Stone, Charles Diem.
1889 -- William B. Dye, president; H. Eugene English, Robert W. Van Stone, Lorenzo D. Leonard, George B. Church.
1890-William B. Dye, president; R. W. Van Stone, L. D. Leonard, H. Eugene English, G. L. Merrill.
1891 -- H. Eugene English, elected president ; R. W. Van Stone, G. L. Merrill, Patrick Maloney, L. D. Leonard.
1892-H. Eugene English, president; John W. Hart, G. L. Merrill, Charles C. Downs, Patrick Maloney.
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1893 -- H. Eugene English, president ; John W. Hart, C. C. Downs, George H. Wil- son, appointed in place of L. D. Leonard, deceased ; Patrick Maloney.
1894 -- H Eugene English, re-elected president ; John Beyhan, C. C. Downs, John W. Hart, Patrick Maloney.
The other village officers for 1894 are :
Thomas A. Kirby, police justice ; James E. Barrett, Ozro H. Bates, Ashley Blake, assessors; George S. Hutchinson, treasurer ; W. C. Ramsdale, clerk ; Richard Dumphy, street commissioner ; Henry Brink, collector; Adam Shoemaker, James A. Kennedy, John Cain, fire wardens ; Sylvester King, Arthur Harris, Dwight M. Brush, Board of Health; Dr. Daniel H. Brennan, health physician.
Budget for 1894: For improvement of streets, $3,500 ; water rent- als, $3,550 ; police justice's salary, $480 ; contingent expenses, $5.470; fire department, $1,000 ; schools, $9,000 ; total tax. $23,000. Assessed valuation of real and personal estate $2,214,965 ; population about 5,000.
In 1829 the Board of Trustees of Albion village adopted an ordinance defining the powers and duties of the fire wardens, and prescribing regu- lations to be observed by the inhabitants. The only means for extin- guishing fires then were the leather fire buckets, which each householder was required to keep in case of fire. In 1831 Champion Engine Com- pany, was organized. The first engine with which this body was pro- vided was what was called, from the shape of the spout or pipe on the top of it, a goose neck engine. Subsequently an engine of more modern construction was purchased from Button & Co., of Waterford, N. Y. With this machine the first hose cart was procured. In 1838 the trust- ees voted $2,000 to build an engine house. Spartan Hook and Ladder Company was organized in 1843. Subsequently several of what were known as Babcock fire extinguishers were purchased for the use of the hook and ladder companies. A chemical engine was afterward procured and it is still in use. In 1879 a steam fire engine was bought and remained in use till the water works were completed, since which time suitable hose has been sufficient. The hose and hook and ladder com- panies were then made more efficient and now constitute one of the best volunteer fire departments in western New York. These companies are : Young America Hook and Ladder Company No. I, George Whelan, foreman ; C. D. Knapp Hose Company No. 2, Lewis Gallar- neau, foreman ; Hose Company No. 3, Hart Protectives, Conrad Rem-
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inger, foreman ; Warner Chemical Company No. 4, Philip Stock, cap. tain ; Dye Hose Company No. 5, George Lee, foreman ; Sandstone Hose Company No. 6, John Cuddy, foreman. The chief engineers of the department since 188 t have been : Albert Achilles, 1882; George Waterman, 1883-84; George N. Taylor, 1885 ; Harry Hendricks, 1886-87 ; James Bailey, 1888-89; Frank O'Brien, 1890-91 ; Ward S. Buell, 1892-93 ; Frank P. Maloney, 1894.
In 1873 a lot was purchased on the northwest corner of Bank and Platt streets, and a tasteful and capacious brick building erected upon it for a village hall, which opened November 14, 1874. In the second story is a large auditorium for meetings and entertainments. The ground floor is used for village offices, a public reading room, and for the storage of the fire apparutus.
The Albion Water Works Company was organized in 1887. A con- tract was made with the corporation for a supply of water fire pro- tection and street and sewer flushing, and the company bound itself to supply pure water for domestic and sanitary purposes. These works were completed in the autumn of 1888. The supply of water is ob- tained from a gang of twelve wells north from the canal, and a mile west from the village. Here is a pumping station with two engines, each having a daily capacity of one million gallons. A street water tower, seventy five feet in height, and having a capacity of 250,000 gallons, was built near the south bounds of the corporation and a few rods west from Main street The top of this tower is 160 feet above the level of Bank street, giving a pressure of sixty- five pounds to the square inch. Ten miles of cast iron water mains have been laid, lead- ing from this tower to all parts of the village, and 101 hydrants have been set, each with two outlets capable of throwing inch streams to a height of 100 feet. There are now 540 private consumers. The stock of the company is $100,000, and the value of the plant is $105,000. It was placed in operation by Messrs. Bassett Brothers, of Buffalo. The treasurer is George B. Bassett, of Buffalo, and the local superintendent is Oscar D. Eddy.
In 1856 the Albion Gas Light Company was incorporated with a capital of $30 000, which was subsequently increased to $40,000, Ros- well Clark was president and V. V. Bullock superintendent. A plant
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was established in an old tannery building, near the foot of Ingersoll street, and mains were laid so that gas was first distributed November 25, 1858. At first the length of the mains aggregated no more than a mile and a half, and gas was furnished at $5.00 per 1,000 meters. From a few street lamps the number increased to about sixty when electric lights were introduced, and the annual consumption aggregated 2,000,- 000 feet. The original building occupied by the plant was replaced by the present brick structure in 1870. In June, 1894, a majority of the stock passed into the control of New York parties. The new president is Andrew L. Fennessy, of New York city, and the local superinten- dent is William R. Curry. The works have a capacity of about 16,000 cubic feet of gas every 24 hours. There are about five miles of mains and some 200 consumers.
August 37, 1888, Philip K. Stern proposed to put into operation five arc and eighty-two incandescent electric lamps, with sufficient power to run them, the former twenty nights each month, and the latter every night, for $2,000 per year, but his proposition was not accepted. It opened an animated agitation of the question, however, and in the sum- mer of 1889 active steps were taken to organize a company. Early in the year 1890 the Albion Electric Light Company was incorporated with the following officers and stockholders: William G. Swan, presi- dent ; E. K. Hart, treasurer ; and G. W. Barrell, secretary. The works were immediately erected on the south side of the canal, and are equipped with two Westinghouse compound condensing engines of forty- five horse power each, two boilers of 210 horse power, one 750 and one 500 light incandescent dynamos, one sixty arc lamp, 2,000 candle power alternating current dynamo, and other apparatus. There are now fifty arc street lamps and 2,346 incandescent lamps in opera- tion, supplying 120 patrons. There are twelve miles of incandescent, and thirteen and one-half of arc wire. The capital is about $45,000, owned by William G. Swan, president; G. T. S. Foote, secretary, and Charles E. Hart, treasurer. The superintendent is J. Herbert Rollins.
In the summer of 1890 the authorities ordered a survey of the village for a system of sewers. This was made and the maps and plans were approved by the State Board of Health, but so far the system has not been put in operation.
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It is not known when the first school district in the village of Albion was organized. A record now in existence shows that in 1826 school district No. I of the town of Barre had within its limits 105 children of school age. The public schools of the village continued under the common school system without special registration or change till 1876. A more complete sketch of the educational institutions of Albion ap- pears in a previous chapter.
Initiatory steps were taken November 27, 1871, towards establishing a public library, and in December it was suggested that the school library be added. During the year 1872 entertainments were given for the purpose of raising funds and on March 24, 1873, the Albion Library Association was incorporated, the first trustees being E. K. Hart, John A. Straight, F. D. Ingersoll, A. B. Bailey, C. A. King, J. V. Lewis, and G. F. Sawyer. Five hundred shares of stock of $10 each were issued and taken, and by July of that year the association had over 1,000 volumes. The library was opened to the public in rooms in the Hemlock Sickels block on Main street on August 6, 1873. This library was afterward burned with the block. A village library now occupies quarters in the Union Free School building in connection with the regular school library, which contains 4,000 volumes. The public library comprises 2,500 volumes, and both are under the supervision of the Board of Education. A portion of this library was purchased with insurance money from the old library. In 1892 a charter was granted under the laws of the State to J. H. White, George W. Ough, Charles H. Moore, I. M. Thompson, John Cunneen, E. T. Coann, E. K. Hart, O. H. Taylor, and Isaac S. Signor, members of the Board of Educa- tion, and their successors in office, and the library is now a village library under the State law, subject to the rules and regulations of the Regents of the University.
The Albion Historical Society was instituted in 1871 chiefly through the active instrumentality of Rev. Dr. Walsworth, then pastor of the Presbyterian church. At the meetings of this society papers and essays were presented and oral discussions were had on historical and literary topics, and these exercises were so fruitful in good results that the society soon came to number more than a hundred members, too many for the greatest mutual profit that might be derived from such an
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association. It was therefore deemed proper to divide the society, and to limit the membership to fifty. Accordingly, in 1876,
The Albion Historical Conversation Club was formed, and both societies have since been highly prosperous, and they are exceedingly popular among the most highly cultivated gentlemen and ladies of the place. The last named limits its exercises, as indicated, by its name, to conversations on and oral discussions of such topics as are deemed of historical, literary, or scientific interest The first president of the original society was Rev. Dr. Walsworth, followed by George H. Sickels, Irving M. Thompson, and Freeman A. Greene, who now occupies the position at present. E. T. Coann has been president of the Conversa- tion Club from its organization.
MOUNT ALBION CEMETERY .- During more than thirty years after the first settlement in Albion interments were made in the different burial places that were established in the vicinity, in accordance with the custom of those times. The people of this village buried their dead in the old graveyard near the stone mill ; but as time went on the un- suitableness as well as the narrow limits of this burial place became evi- dent. At that time, too, people were coming more than ever before awake to the propriety of selecting for places of sepulture localities, the natural beauty of which rendered them desirable for this purpose, and of establishing cemetery associations on a financial basis that would render certain the proper care of these cemeteries in future time. The project of starting such a cemetery here was for some time talked of, but no definite action was taken till early in 1842, when a meeting was held and a committee consisting of Arad Thomas and Lorenzo Burrows was appointed to formulate such amendments to the village charter as would authorize the trustees to purchase land without the limits of the corporation for cemetery purposes. Instead of proposing amendments the committee drew up an entire new charter, which was passed by the Legislature April 1, 1842. Soon afterward, at another meeting of the citizens, Alexis Ward and Lorenzo Burrows were appointed a com- mittee to select a locality for the proposed cemetery. After the lapse of nearly a year they decided to recommend the ground since occu- pied, some two miles east and south from the village. They learned the terms on which the property could be purchased, and at a meeting
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called for the purpose made their report, and recommended an im- mediate purchase. The meeting almost unanimously adopted the re- port and passed a resolution authorizing the trustees to make the pur- chase, which they did in May, 1843. The ground included twenty-five acres, and was purchased of Jacob Annis and Lyman O. Patterson at forty dollars per acre. It consisted of sand hills and glens, and a por- tion of it had never been improved. A more beautiful locality for a cemetery could not be found in this region. The cemetery was laid out and was dedicated on the 7th of September, 1843. Lots were at once sold, and the sales aggregated an amount nearly equal to the cost of the tract. The first lot graded and occupied was prepared for the burial of Coddington W. Swan, esq., in October, 1843. During the first nineteen years the cemetery was in charge of the trustees of the village. The grounds were enclosed, but the improvements in the way of grading and ornamentation of lots was done by the owners of such lots, without supervision, and what little was done was not in accord- ance with any regular plan. A receiving vault was built, and also a keeper's house.
The necessity for a reform in the administration of the affairs of the cemetery became apparent, and in 1862 an amendment to the charter was procured authorizing the appointment by the trustees of three commissioners to manage these affairs, and defining their powers and duties. These commissioners are appointed one each year, and each holds office during three years. The first commissioners were : Lem- uel C. Paine, for one year ; Lorenzo Burrows, two years; and Henry J. Sickels, three years. These have been succeeded as vacancies have occurred by death or otherwise, by Charles H. Moore, Hon. E. Kirke Hart, William Hallock and others. The present commissioners are : William Hallock, president; William G. Swan, treasurer; and C. M. C. Reynolds. The secretary is W. C. Ramsdale.
The first act of the commissioners was the appointment of Michael Hanley as superintendent of the grounds. Under an arrangement with the trustees he had previously occupied this position, and was recently succeeded in it by John Bidelman. In 1874 fifteen acres were added on the west side of the original purchase, and in 1884 thirty acres lying west from that were purchased, making a total of seventy acres. The
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grounds are beautifully laid out and ornamented, and are traversed in all directions by walks and drives. A chapel has been built for burial services, and in the rear of this, and opening into it, is a capacious re- ceiving vault. An acre of land on the opposite side of the road from the cemetery has been purchased, and on it a house and barn have been erected, and the house on the cemetery land, which the sexton previ- ously occupied, has been removed. This cemetery is the place of burial, not only for the people of Albion, but for those of a large region adja- cent. Many costly and imposing monuments have been erected by surviving friends in honor of those interred here, and on the highest ground in the cemetery stands a turreted monument eighty- five feet in height, erected in honor of the soldiers and sailors of the county who were killed or died in service. "This was erected in 1874-76. An association was formed for the purpose in 1864 and an attempt was made to raise the necessary funds for its erection. It was slow work, and the amount raised was small. Finally an organization, which in 1868 was incorporated as the ' Orleans County Monument Association,' was formed. The corporators were: E. T. Coann, H. J. Vandusen, E. K. Hart, J. M. Cornell, C. G. Beach, J. N. Proctor, C. A. Harrington, J. H. White, Walker Mattison, S. S. Spencer, H. A. King, H. E. Sickels. The work was commenced in 1874, the association then hav- ing on hand about $3,000, which amount was supplemented by $2,000 from the Cemetery Association. The monument was dedicated in the spring of 1876. From its top, which is reached by spiral stairs inside, and at an altitude of 400 feet above the waters of Lake Ontario, may be seen the shores of Canada on the north, the villages of Le Roy and Batavia on the south, Holley and Brockport on the east, and the mists of Niagara on the west. On tablets on the inner walls of the monument are inscribed the names of the soldier dead of Orleans county."
The Ladies' Union Charitable Society was organized September 9, 1864, to aid in contributing relief to soldiers' families in the village and vicinity. The first officers were Mrs. Julia A. Smith, president ; Mrs. Spencer, first vice-president; Mrs. Charles Harrington, second vice- president; Mrs William G. Swan, treasurer, and Miss Lena Graves, secretary. The first Board of Managers consisted of Mrs. Lorenzo
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Burrows, Mrs. Roswell S. Burrows, Mrs. J. Roraback, Mrs. Graves, Mrs. A. J. Grover, Mrs. William Beckwith and Mrs. H. W. Preston. Dur- ing the first year it aided thirty-five families, and so important a factor did it become as a charitable institution that it continued its operations after the war closed, and on April 19, 1883, was incorporated under the laws of the State of New York. Since then the society has received two legacies-one of $50 from Abram H. Goodman and another of $100 from Mrs. Julia Smith. The present membership is about forty, and from twenty five to forty families are aided each year. Mrs. Will- iam G. Swan served as treasurer from the organization till 1887, since which time she has been the secretary. Mrs. G. H. Sickels, sr, the present president, succeeded Mrs. S. P. Morehouse in that position in 1883. The other officers are Mrs. H. W. Preston, first vice president ; Mrs. Charles E. Millspaugh, second vice president.
The Bank of Orleans was incorporated April 30, 1834, with a capital stock of $300,000. It was the first banking institution in Orleans county, and was established by Roswell S. and Lorenzo Burrows under the so-called safety fund system. Its place of business was in a build- ing on the present site of the Orleans County National bank, and it con- tinued in operation until it suspended in 1857.
The Bank of Albion, organized and incorporated under the general banking law, commenced business July 15, 1839, and, according to its charter, was to continue operations until January 1, 2039. December 23, 1863, however, it was reorganized and incorporated as the First Na- tional Bank of Albion, with a capital of $100,000, which was the first national bank formed in Orleans county. Of both these banks Roswell S. Burrows owned a majority of the stock, and of the latter he was president until his death in 1879, when Alexander Stewart succeeded to the position. He died in 1884, and Albert S. Warner became presi- dent. The bank failed in 1884.
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