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Allen Breed was born in Stonington, Conn., in 1793. In 1817 he married Betsey Lincoln, also a native of Connecticut, and in the same year they removed to Chenango county, N. Y. In 1827 they came to Parma, Monroe county, and thence, in 1834, to Ridgeway. He pur- chased an article for a portion of lot 15, on the Ridge, a mile west from Ridgeway Corners. In 1834 he died, and the land was deeded to his widow. They had six children, whom she reared to maturity, and two of those are David A. Breed, the eldest, and Mrs. Marietta French.
Levi L. Childs, a native of New Hampshire, was born in 1812, and there learned the trade of a blacksmith, removed to Wyoming county, N. Y., thence, about 1834, to Carlton, in Orleans county. He died in Gaines in 1857. His wife was Ann M. Wright, a native of Vermont, born in 1803. She died in Buffalo in 1887. Their children were:
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Louisa F., who married Calvin P. Hazard, of Buffalo; Hon. Henry A., of Medina, now a judge of the Supreme Court ; and Mary, now de- ceased, who married Edwin Wilson.
Moses M. Nash, a descendant of Thomas Nash, who settled in New Haven in 1640, was born in Madison county, N. Y., in 1815 ; was mar- ried in 1836 to Esther E. Porter, and in the same year settled in Yates. In 1847 he removed to Ridgeway. He filled various town offices, and was for some time postmaster at Ridgeway Corners.
George Kennan, the celebrated Siberian traveler, lecturer and writer, spent a number of his earlier years in Medina, where he held the posi- tion of cashier of the Union Bank at a period when his brother, John M., was president of that institution. Mr. Kennan was born in Nor- walk, O., February 16, 1845. His father was a lawyer ; his mother was the daughter of a Connecticut clergyman and a relative of Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse. In 1879 he married here Miss Emeline Rathbone Weld, a daughter of an eminent citizen of Medina.
Numerous other biographical sketches of early settlers and promi- nent citizens of Ridgeway and Medina appear on other pages of this volume, and among these will be found the names of Hon. Henry A. Childs, Edmund Fuller and Edmund Fuller, jr., Arthur W. Newell and his son, George A., Dr. Christopher Whaley, Thomas and Andrew Weld, the Parker family, John Levalley, and many others.
The town of Ridgeway, according to the census of 1890, contained a population, exclusive of Medina village, of 2,902. The total assessed valuation of real estate in 1893 was $2,997,468 (equalized $3, 127,312), and of personal property $406,025. The total tax on roll aggregated $20,902.14, which was distributed as follows: State : Schools, $2,- 907, 16 ; State care of insane, $1,009 24 ; general purposes and canals, $3,835.10 ; county audits and appropriations, $7,205.94 ; town audits, $4,097.67 ; roads and bridges, $1,132.74; other purposes, $684.29. The corporations doing business in the town are assessed on real estate as follows: Postal Telegraph Company, $6,370 ; Bell Telephone Com- pany, $10,458 ; Western Union Telegraph Company, $4,940; Union Bank of Medina, $2,000, and personal property, $48,000; New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, $20,500 ; Niagara Grape Company, $5,700 ; Bignall Manufacturing Company, $15,000, and per-
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sonal property, $15,000; Medina Gas and Electric Light Company, $17,000 ; Medina Water Works Company, $25,000.
As early as 1805 the salt springs on lot 3, north from Medina, were operated by the Holland Land Company, but without great success. It is elsewhere noted that roads, called salt spring roads, were opened by the company to these springs from different directions. From 1818 to 1823 Isaac Bennett conducted these works and furnished most of the salt used in the northern part of the Holland Purchase. He sunk a well 150 feet, and obtained brine of greater strength than had ap- peared at the surface. He contracted with Israel and Seymour B. Murdock to furnish him sixty-four kettles by a certain date. They pur- chased the kettles at Utica, and sent them by lake to the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek, where they arrived only the day before the time stipu- lated for delivery. The Messrs. Murdock hired a sufficient number of teams to bring the kettles to the works at one trip, and thus fulfilled their contract and received their pay in gold. In 1823 Mr. Bennett sold the works to Henry Boardman, but they were abandoned on the completion of the Erie Canal, by which salt from Salina (now Syracuse) could be more cheaply brought here. A salt spring was early dis- covered near where Oak Orchard Creek crosses the Ridge, and salt was manufactured there by Mr. Bennett in 1813, but the enterprise was not successful.
The first highway through the town was the famous Ridge road, from which the Holland Land Company cut a thoroughfare south to their salt works in 1805. In 1813 $250 were voted for roads and bridges. The first public conveyance run through this locality was owned and operated by a Mr. Hildreth, who also carried the mail be- tween Lewiston and Rochester. In 1816 he had four four-horse coaches in daily use. In 1873 the town constructed an arched stone bridge across the Oak Orchard Creek at Medina at a cost of $4,000, and in 1876 an iron bridge was erected at Oak Orchard on the Ridge road at an expense of $1,000. Since then a large number of substan- tial iron bridges have been built in various parts of the town. The Ridgeway, Medina and Alabama plank road was chartered in 1850. For a few years this road proved a failure, but that portion (three miles) between Medina and Ridgeway Corners was purchased by William
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Pells, who covered it with stone, earth and gravel, and continued its operation as a toll road until the expiration of its charter in 1880. He made it one of the best roads in town.
In the great War of the Rebellion the town of Ridgeway contributed a large number of brave volunteers to fight the nation's battles, and to each call for troops nobly and promptly responded with a full quota. The amount of money expended by the town for war purposes aggre- gated $95, 125 The following is the list of soldiers from Ridgeway and Medina :
Elon L. Andrews, 151st Inf.
John Baker, 14th Art.
Oliver M. Allen, 151st Inf.
A. Erwin Bowen, 151st Inf.
Alfred Achilles, 151st Inf.
Dennis Bowden, 28th Inf.
Sylvester T. Axtell, 151st Inf.
Frederick Boyne, 14th Art. Robert Boyne. 14th Art.
Arnold Axtell, 151st Inf.
Frank R. Axtell, 17th Bat.
James Burns, 14th Art. Michael Burns, 14th Art.
Reuben Andrews, 17th Bat
Wallace Aldridge, 8th H. Art.
Nathaniel Briggs, 17th Bat.
George R. Achilles, 8th Cav.
George H. Boyne, 8th H. Art.
William Andrews, 17th Bat.
Frank Bennett, 17th Bat,
Peter Allen, 3d Cav.
William Becks, 8th Cav. Warren Bent, 31st Inf,
Robert A. Allen, 14th Art.
James Arnold, 14th Art.
James Baker, 8th H. Art.
Nicholas Albro, 14th Art.
John Bucknell, 164th Inf.
Peter Arnold, 14th Art.
William Barton, 164th Inf. Philo Burch, 8th Cav. Hezekiah Bowen, 151st Inf.
Edward S. Aiken, 17th Bat. George E. Allen, 17th Bat. John P. Andrews, 2d Bat.
H. C. Boyne, 8th H. Art.
Charles Andrews, U. S. Navy.
Edwin T. Brown, 8th H. Art.
John F. Andrews, U. S. Navy.
Lucas William Berry, 8th H. Art.
Anson Ackley, U. S. Navy.
Charles Beales, 3d Cav.
Samuel Ames, 17th Bat.
John Bolster, 17th Bat.
Miles B. Ameden, 149th Inf.
Charles Bogardus 151st Inf.
Albert Angevine, 28th Inf.
Albert Benjamin, 151st Inf.
George T. Anthony, 17th Bat.
Lineus T. Alford, 19th Inf.
Thaddeus Antis, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Alexander Antis, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Hurlbert Bowen, 8th H. Art.
Martin Bookner.
Tabor Benjamin, 151st Inf. Roman Barnes, 151st Inf. Eugene Barnes, 151st Inf. James Ballyman, 151st Inf. John Brown, 8th Cav. James Burrill, 8th H. Art.
Ira Breighton, 8th H. Art.
Almon Breighton, 8th H. Art. - Braddock, 8th H. Art.
John Boothraid, 25th Cav. Lewis Burch, 8th Cav. John Bolt, 3d Cav.
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Peter Bradt. Seth Beman, 151st Inf.
Henry R. Bliss. Arba Bridgeman, 90th Inf.
Travatt Bayne, 9th Inf.
Franklin Bowen, 90th Inf. James Ballard, 90th Inf. Josiah Brown. Seymour Burton, 90th Inf. James S. Bayn, 157th Inf. William O. Barrett, 65th Inf. Abbott Bent, 3d Cav.
George Bacon, 17th Bat. James C. Brown.
Leander Bacon, 49th Inf.
Henry Bennett, 26th Inf.
Edward A. Bowen, 28th Inf.
Rich Bark. 8th Pa. Col. Inf.
Ovid Barry. Alle H. Braddock, 8th Cav. Peter Brackett.
Ezedor Bass. William H. Brown.
Byron G. Bartlett. Thomas H. Brickford.
Peter Brice. William Breen. John Bates.
Richard Butler.
Robert Barclay Aseph Brown.
Edwin F. Brown, 18th Art.
Philo N. Barnes, 17th Bat.
Franklin Bennett, 17th Bat.
Owen Boyland, 4th Art. Charles E. Bentley, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Charles V. Brown, 8th H. Art. Charles Bland, 17th Bat. Edwin F. Brown, 28th Inf.
William L. Bathgate, 25th Inf. Linn Barker, 3d Cav.
Charles W. Boyce, 28th Inf.
Thomas Collins, 14th Art. Charles E. Clark, 17th Bat.
Lewis J. Chase, 17th Bat.
Michael Collins, 17th Bat. Thomas Collins, 14th Art. Charles E. Clark, 17th Bat. Henry G. Chamberlain, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Thomas Carroll, 90th Inf. Henry G. Clemmons, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Lyman A. Cook, 151st Inf. Milo M. Conklin, 151st Inf.
Job Croos, 129th Inf. Cornelius Collins, 17th Bat.
James Clark, 151st Inf.
George C. Cook, 17th Bat.
Samuel Coleman, 17th Bat.
John Conham, 9th Art.
Elijah Cooper.
John F. Cole, 151st Inf.
Patrick Connor, 14th Art.
Erwin J. Cook, 14th Art.
John Connell, 14th Art. Charles Clark, 8th H. Art. James Collins, 14th H. Art.
Henry B. Cleveland, 17th Bat.
Truman J. Cook, 17th Bat.
Patrick Carey, 14th H. Art.
James B. Coleman, 3d Cav.
Amasa Cops, 151st Inf.
Edson Clark.
Albert Chichester, 20th Inf. John Cox.
John Coleman.
Henry Cox. Cornelius R. Case, 90th Inf.
Marcus Caswell, 65th Inf.
William J. Cooper, 90th Inf.
Robert Canham, 90th Inf. Henry Culver, 90th Inf. John Crout, 90th Inf.
Felix Caten. Charles Church.
John Cleary. John Copeland. William Carr. John Craft.
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William Cobb. Edgar Demary, 151st Inf. Edwin B. Dewey, 14th H. Art. Edwin O. Draper, 17th Bat. John Davis, 8th H. Art. Faber Davis, 8th H. Art. George Dykeman, 151st Inf.
William H. Davis, 151st Inf.
William E. Donaldson, 151st Inf. Proctor Davis, 2d Mounted Rifles.
William F. Deline, 2d Mounted Rifles. William Davis, 8th H. Art.
Mark Downing, 8th H. Art. Abram Dorrey.
John W. Deitz, 90th Inf. George Douglass, 90th Inf. Morris Davis. 160th Inf. Albert Demary. George W. Davis. Denison Dolly, 2d Mounted Rifles. James Duffy. Rev. George De La Matyr, 8th H. Art.
Byron A. Davey, 17th Bat. Jacob William Delong.
Samuel Demming. George Davis, 28th Inf. George S. Douglass. Michael Dockery. John Doyle. Patrick Donohue.
William Emperor, 124th Inf.
Thomas Elliott, 94th Inf.
Thomas Englesby, 29th Inf. James W. Elwood, 29th Inf.
Elon M. Elmer, 151st Inf.
Charles Eaton, 23d Cav.
Joseph Enhorn. Thomas F. Enterta, 25tb Bat. George G. Ellicott, 17th Bat. John Fifer, 14th Bat. John Fifer, jr., 11th Inf.
Francis H. Finch, 1st Art.
Henry C. Fuller, 17th Bat. Thomas Ferguson, 17th Bat.
Henry J. Fuller, 17th Bat. John C. Flanders, 25th Inf. Thomas Flaherty, 151st Inf. Patrick Flaherty, 8th H. Art. Otis Fuller, 8th H. Art. John Ferrule, 25th Bat. H. J. Fox, 25th Bat. James Fitzgerald, 151st Inf.
Johnson Flattery, 94th Inf.
David M. Frazier, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Judson P. Fret, 21st Cav. John Furnace, 8th H. Art. James Furnace, 12th Inf.
Welcome Fish, 7th Cav.
Winifield Fuller, 2d Mounted Rifles.
William Fuller.
Brian Finney, 17th Bat
William Felsted, 14th H. Art.
Eugene French, 3d Cav.
George H. Fox.
James Fanning. George W. Fish.
James Ford, 17th Bat.
John Flattery, 94th Inf.
John W. Foot, 8th H. Art.
George Forbes, 151st Inf.
John Fifer, 90th Inf.
James Fitzpatrick.
Patrick Fallen. John Ferarkie.
Elmore Gage, 151st Inf.
Nathaniel Gillott, 22d Cav.
Egbert B. Goodwin, 8th H. Art.
Walter Gray, 127th Inf.
Edwin G. Gillen, 3d Cav.
Edward M. Gillott, 3d Cav.
John W. Grow, 25th Bat.
Benjamin Grimes.
William H. Graham.
Simon Graham. Jacob Gallus.
Oliver M. Goold, 17th Bat.
Daniel Goos, 8th H. Art.
Delos A. Graves, 17th Bat.
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George Goold, 151st Inf. Eugene A. Gulham, 13th Inf.
Dyer Gillott, 103d Ohio Inf. Jerome Gorra. George Gage, 14th H. Art. Patrick Gulbra.
Lewis Grampner.
James Graham.
John Geary, 17th Bat.
Patrick Geary. Robert Geary, 90th Inf.
George Genan, 8th H. Art.
Jesse Genan, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Monroe R. Grammon, 19th Inf.
Samuel Gott, 17th Bat. William T. Healy, 21st Cav.
Allen D. Hevenor, 17th Bat.
Thomas Hart, 21st Cav.
Daniel C. Haines, 17th Bat.
Henry C. Hill, 8th H. Art.
Harron P. Hurst, 17th Bat. Levi Hurst.
Edwin A. Hewes, 3d Cav.
Charles C. Holden, 90th Inf.
Charles K. Hawkins, 3d Cav.
Isaac S. Hawkins, 54th Inf.
Edward Hartford.
Patrick Hamilton.
Mortimer Hanson. Charles Harkneth.
Horace Harrington, 8th H. Art.
Franklin H. Hunt, 8th H. Art.
Ruel Hawley, 151st Inf.
Robert Haywood, 8th H. Art.
James Hart, 164th Inf.
Edward Horan, 17th Bat.
James Hanlon, 17th Bat. Samuel Hood, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Silas M. Hood, 3d Cav.
George M. House, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Charles H. Hulbert, 2d Mounted Rifles. Sabina Hun, 8th H. Art.
Willis Herman, 8th Cav.
George W. Hinds, 14th H. Art.
Thomas Hart, 21st Cav. William Heath. Ezra Howell, Ist Bat. Silas S. Hill, 8th Cav. Thomas Heath, 90th Inf. James Hastings, 90th Inf.
Thomas Hudson, 9th Art.
William Heth, 9th Art.
Minot Hill, 192d Inf.
Andrew Harper, Mich. Regt.
Frank S. Haddin, 29thı Inf.
William G. Hunt.
James Ireland, 2d Mounted Rifles.
H. M. Johnson, Bat. M.
Peter Johnson.
William Johnson.
Thomas Jackson,
George Jackson, 8th H. Art.
Edwin W. Johnson, 151st Inf.
Daniel Johnson, 3d Cav.
Peter Johnson, 2d Mounted Rifles.
William Johnson, 2d Mounted Rifles. Thomas P. James, 2d Inf.
John C. James, 155th Inf.
William J. Jeffers, 3d Cav.
Henry Johnson, 17th Bat.
James A. Johnson, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Quintow Jackson, 8th H. Art.
John Kennedy, 17th Bat.
Henry Ketchum.
Charles Kate, 17th Bat.
Morris B. Kenyon, 8th H. Art.
Dewitt C. Keeler, 28th Inf.
James Kelley, 8th H. Art.
Peter Kelly, 8th Cav.
J. B. Keeler. 21st Bat.
Patrick Kirby, 14th Art.
William Kinney.
Edward Kinna.
Robert Kirby.
John Kelley.
Peter Kelley, 8th Cav.
Charles Koykendall, 8th II. Art.
Henry J. Knapp, 151st Inf.
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Martin Kerwin, 17th Bat. John Keeler, 28th Inf. William Lewis, jr., 17th Bat. John Lake, 151st Inf. George Laphlen, 102d Inf. William Lewis, 28th Inf. James Lewis, 17th Bat.
James O'Maley, 2d Mounted Rifles. William O'Brien, 16th Cav. James Oaks, 90th Inf. William Onderdonk.
Edwin A. Olds, 17th Bat.
Charles Oecobock, 3d Cav.
Patrick O'Maley, 66th Inf.
Silas W. Pitts, 17th Bat.
Hugh Lyon, 90th Inf.
Charles Pine, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Patrick Laneton, 8th H. Art.
Winslow W. Paddock, 8th H. Art.
Napoleon Lockhart, 90th Inf.
John Paul, 17th Bat. David Parks, 25th Art.
Frank Laywut, 5th Inf. James Lyon, 6th Inf. John Lettes, 164th Inf.
Eugene Perkins, 9th Inf.
William M. Park, 8th H. Art.
Alexander Parnell, 17th Bat.
Charles Pitts.
William Lozier, 17th Bat.
Henry Palmer.
Matthew H. Paupen.
Henry Peckham, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Orrin Parker, 8th H. Art.
James Pepper, 17th Bat.
Thomas Purcell, 28th Inf. Archibald O. Paul, 17th Bat.
John Pettengill, 3d Cav.
Lyman R. Patterson, 17th Bat.
Patrick Pendergast, 90th Inf. Elisha W. Pratt, 19th Inf.
Henry Perry, 8th H. Art.
Burns Parkhurst, 14th Inf.
Patrick Murphy, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Charles Peas, Ist Bat.
Charles Pentany.
John Rose. William J. Rubedaux, 17th Bat.
Mason Raymond, 8th H. Art.
James Roach 164th Inf.
Jerry Reed, 31st Inf.
Samuel Root, 94th Inf.
Martin Maloney, 28th Inf.
William H. Reily, 151st Inf.
Patrick McCarin, 17th Bat.
David Rose, 151st Inf.
Michael McBride, 14th H. Art. James McBride, 3d Cav.
Henry H. Martin, 90th Inf.
Daniel O. Sullivan, 17th Bat. Thomas Oderkirk, 3d Cav. 13
Guy C. Rix, 8th H. Art. David W. Reno, 17th Bat.
Peter Russell, 2d Mounted Rifles. Charles Reghnaldt, 8th H. Ar . Godfrey Reghnaldt, 8th H. Art.
Philip McGrath, 164th Inf. James Maloney, 17th Bat.
Henry J. Merwin, 17th Bat.
Robert Montgomery, 17th Bat.
Wesley McIntyre. William McIntyre. John McDonald, 17th Bat.
Horatio H. McGowen, 17th Bat. Edwin Morton, 17th Bat. Angervine Marshall, 15th Inf. John Murphy, 14th H. Art.
Milton H. Merrill, 151st Inf. John McCarty, 17th Bat. James McQueny, 14th H. Art.
John McGurn, 8th H. Art. James McGurn, 14th Art. Edwin E. Miles, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Patrick Lavin, 28th Inf.
Harmon H. Lozier, 17th Bat.
Michael Leahy, 17th Bat.
William Lott, 90th Inf.
Daniel Lyon, 90th Inf.
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William Rowley, 151st Inf. Albert Rukman, 24tlı Cav.
Michael Ryan, 14th H. Art.
Joseph J. Rogers, 2d Mounted Rifles. Josiah A. Roght, 8th H. Art. George Reed. James P. Robinson.
Preston Ryan, 151st Inf.
Charles W. Riley, 114th Inf.
Charles Starks, 8th H. Art. John W. Shelly, 8th H. Art. William A. Shepard, 17th Bat. Morris Sullivan, 164th Inf. Henry D. Smith, 17th Bat. John Steele, 151st Inf. John Simnons, 17th Bat.
Matthew Stillwell, 151st Inf.
Christopher Spaulding, 151st Inf.
Solomon S. Story, 151st Inf.
James Small, 151st Inf. John Stevens, 151st Inf.
James Spaulding, 8th H. Art. Frank Seywick, 14th H. Art Thomas Shorton, 28th Inf.
Daniel Stockwell, 28th Inf.
Eugene Sheppard 28th Inf.
Whiton Southworth, 8th Cav.
Zachariah Smith, 8th Cav. Alexander Swenson, 8th Cav.
Charles Smith. Charles Stone. Charles Scraggs. George W. Smith.
John Stuart, 90th Inf.
George Swan, 90th Inf.
George Stratton, 90th Inf.
Thomas Simons, 90th Inf. Mortimer Spaulding, 8th Cav. John Smith, 2d Mounted Rifles. James Swartout, 14 h H. Art. Joseph Spoor, 90th Inf.
Moses Strickland, 90th Inf. William Shaver, 90th Inf. Jonathan Salisbury, 14th Il. Ar .
David Spaulding, 90tlı Inf. John A. Soper 90th Inf. Albert Saber. Henry Shelton.
Joseph Smith. John B. Stren. Martin Stanley, 36th Inf.
John J. Serviss, 90th Inf. Cyrenus Snell, 97th Iuf.
William H. Salisbury, 151st Inf.
William Simpson, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Henry M. Starr, 8th H. Art.
Michael Slack, 17th Bat. Linns G. Sutler, 17th Bat.
David Shanley, 17th Bat.
Charles Stratton, 17th Bat.
Hiram E. Sickles, 17th Bat.
William Sterry.
Charles H. Stocking, 17th Bat.
Hiram D. Smith, 17th Bat.
Henry Smith, 151st Inf.
Orin Smith, 8th Cav. John O. Swan, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Lorenzo Smith, 17th Bat.
Michael Smith, 94th Inf.
Bartley Salmond, 28th Inf.
George A. Smith, 3d Cav. John Slade, 79th Inf.
Hiram Slack, 14th Art. Erwin Starr, 3d Cav. Jonathan Storks, 14th Art.
Charles H. Temple, 50th Cav.
William Taylor, 8th H. Art.
Benjamin B. Tanner, 151st Inf.
John C. Temple, 8th H. Art.
Frank Ticknor, 17th Bat.
James Ticknor, 90th Inf. Samuel S. Thorn, 151st Inf. Andrew H. Todd. Henry Turner, 93d Inf.
William Trow, 151st Inf.
James E. Tompkins,
James P. Thorn, 8th Cav. Jacob Tilliah.
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Abraham Thomas.
Charles S. Williams, 90th Inf.
Richard Taylor.
Charles Ward, 90th Inf.
Peter Vandyke, 8th H. Art.
John Wells, 2d Mounted Rifles.
James Valentine, 75th Inf.
James Walworth, 14th H. Art.
Robert Vorhess, 14th H. Art.
V. Wilson, 151st Inf.
James Vaugn, 154th Inf.
Henry Walters, jr., 151st Inf.
William E. Wilson, 151st Inf.
John S. Vosburgh, 17th Bat. Richard Vedder, 3d Cav.
Willard Waldron, 2d Mounted Rifles.
George A. Weldon, 31st Inf.
Alden H. Warren, 151st Inf.
John Wilson, 8th H. Art.
Napoleon Webber, 2d Mounted Rifles.
Christopher Waterbury, 125th Inf. Christopher Wireman, 129th Inf.
George Warner, 17th Bat.
James Wiggins, 129th Inf.
Luke Waldron, 17th Bat.
H. H. Whiting, 25th Bat.
Calvin Warner, 8th H. Art.
Reuben F. Wickham, 90th Inf.
John Welsh, 28th Inf. Henry Wariand, 9th Inf.
Henry Whipple, 17th Bat.
George Ward, 100th Inf.
George Weldon, 116th Inf.
Asahel P. Weld.
Robert Watkins, 8th Cav.
Mortimer Wilson, 3d Cav.
Joseph Welch, 90th Inf.
James Westbrook.
William Wanorke, 151st Inf.
Charles West, 8th H. Art.
David L. Waring.
Ralph Wood, 90th Inf.
William Walsh.
Henry A. Williams, 90th Inf. William Ward, 90th Inf.
Alonzo P. Wilson.
Knowlesville took its name from the pioneer settler and founder of the place, William Knowles, of whose life a full sketch is given in the preceding pages. In 1825 he built the first warehouse in the place, and in it the first store was kept by William Van Dorn. In the same year Nathan S. Wood and O. H. Gardner opened other stores there. In 1825 Moses Huxley kept a small grocery store on the bank of the canal, and in 1840 he opened another of the same kind. In 1830 Andrew Betts was engaged in tanning and shoemaking here. Black- smithing was carried on by Daniel Batty, and the carpenter and joiner trade by Henry Ryan. Mr. Knowles built an ashery in 1816, and for about four years manufactured potash solely for black salts. In 1827 he shipped the first boat load of wheat from Orleans county. The first school house at this place was built in 1817. It was a log building and stood a short distance north from where the brick school house was
Jeremiah Wait, 17th Inf.
George N. Wilkinson, 90th Inf.
Joseph Woodroe, 151st Inf.
Gilbert Woodhall, 151st Inf.
F. M. Walworth, 17th Inf.
George Warland, 9th Cav.
Wallace Weld.
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built, on the west side of the street, north of the canal. The post- office was established in 1826, and was called Portville, but the name was soon changed to Knowlesville. The village now contains three stores, three churches, one blacksmith shop, a cooperage, an evaporator and feed mill, a steam saw and planing mill, two warehouses, one hotel, and other business establishments usually carried on in villages of its size. It has a union school, and three teachers are employed during each term.
Jeddo is a small village located on the Ridge road, where that high- way passes between lots 40 and 41, in the west part of Ridgeway. The original grantees of lot 40 were Seymour Murdock, James Sheldon, and Samuel P. Judson. Zephaniah Judson in 1811, Amos Spencer in 1812, and William McCormick in 1821 were original purchasers of land on lot 41. Jeremiah Brown, Daniel Miller, Joseph Wheeler, James Salisbury, and James Edwards afterward received deeds for the land on these lots. In 1827 Orlando Bates built a grist mill at this place, with two runs of stones. The building was of stone, and is still standing, having been several times repaired. It has now two runs of stone for grinding feed and rollers for the manufacture of flour. It is considered one of the best mills in the county. A saw mill was built here at about the same time, and there is now one on the same site. An evaporator has recently been established near this saw mill. The water which runs these mills was obtained by cutting a ditch across the Ridge at this place and draining the large swamp that lay on the south side of it, thus utilizing the water and at the same time reclaiming hundreds of acres that has since become some of the best farming land in the county. Formerly a portion of the water of this swamp ran through Oak Orchard Creek. The fall here is a little more than ten feet, furnishing ample power for the mills. This village was first known as Batesville. When a post- office was talked of a meeting of the citizens was held to decide on a name for the office. Several names were proposed, but none were unanimously agreed on until a school boy named Warren proposed that of Jeddo. As a joke the name was adopted by the crowd and the meeting dispersed, no one thinking that this would be the name ; but soon afterward Zechariah Haskins received a commission as postmaster at Jeddo, which settled the question.
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Ridgeway (locally known as Ridgeway Corners) .- The first pur- chaser of land at Ridgeway Corners was Eli Moor, who received an article for 189 acres on the north side of the Ridge in 1811. Subse- quently Joseph L. Perry became the owner of 22 acres of this. A year later Abel P. Sheldon took up 184 acres lying next west from Mr. Moore's tract, and in 1819 it was deeded to Elijah Hawley. The land on the south side of the Ridge, lot 5, was taken up by Jonathan Brown in the spring of 1814. Of this 144 acres were afterward deeded to Julia Ann Perry and to Joseph L. Perry. The first house was built by Eli Moore, where the east wing of the hotel now stands, and was used for a tavern and store. Previous to 1820 the village contained a tavern, currier, blacksmith, and boot and shoe shops, doctor's and lawyer's offices, and a few other buildings. At present there is a church, a school house, a store, two blacksmith shops, a post-office, and about thirty other buildings. The first post-office in the town of Ridgeway was established here October 22, 1816, under the name of Oak Orchard, with Elijah Hawley as postmaster. William J. Babbitt had been appointed postmaster at Gaines the July previous. These two were the first post-offices in what is now Orleans county. Previous to this the settlers went to Batavia for their mail.
Oak Orchard .- By reference to the account of original sales of land in Ridgeway it will be seen that the land on the south side of the Ridge at Oak Orchard was taken up by Artemas Houghton in 1811, and by Aaron Adams in 1812 ; and that on the north side by John G. Brown in 1811. The latter became the property of Gilbert Howell in 1815. The east part of that on the south side was deeded to Isaac Bennett in 1820, and the west part was transferred successively to Milo Bennett, Warren Thompson and De Witt C. Warner. For more than a decade after its first settlement this was the business place of the town. Here were a tannery, a distillery, a grist mill, a saw mill, an ashery, three taverns and three stores; and here, in 1813, was held the first town meeting for Ridgeway, which at that time included all of Orleans county west of the east Transit line. At Colonel Howell's tavern in this place Capt. Wilber Stewart quartered his men over night while on his way to the Niagara frontier in 1812. Here the Presbyterian So- ciety of Knowlesville was organized and its " gospel lot " was located
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