Landmarks of Orleans County, New York, Part 40

Author: Signor, Isaac S., ed
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Syracuse : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1084

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Amos M. Rowley was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1805. At the age of seven he was left an orphan, and when quite a young man came to Sweden and lived with an uncle. In 1826 he was married to Clarissa Preston, of Clarendon. In 1835 they removed to Murray and settled near the southwest corner of the town, where they remained till their death. He died in 1871, she in 1814. Their only daughter, Mrs. Lucinda Whitbeck, afterwards resided on their old homestead.

Daniel B. Baldwin was born in Dutchess county, N. Y., in 1796. When a young man he married Susannah Hall, a native of that county, born in 1803. They removed to Wayne county, thence to Monroe county, and in 1840 to Murray, locating in the southwest corner of the town, where he died in 1855 and she in 1884. They had three sons.

Nathan Birdsey was a native of Connecticut. At early day he re- moved to Oneida, county, N. Y., thence in 1840 to Oswego county and in 1844 to Murray, and located on the Ridge, three-fourths of a mile east from Sandy Creek. He died there in 1872 at the age of seventy-six. His wife, Irene Parmelee, was born in Oneida county in 1800. She died in 1882. They had four children, of whom the only only survivor is Noah P. Birdsey who owns the farm which his father purchased in 1844.

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Biographical notices of many other early settlers and prominent citizens of the town appear on succeeding pages of this volume, and among those may be mentioned here Alanson Mansfield, Daniel and Daniel W. Reed, Harrison Hatch, Aretas Pierce, Aaron and Aaron Warren, jr., Medard Ferry, Hiram Frisbie, George Squire, Jacob Hinds, Daniel Young, Nathaniel Rhodes, Col. John Berry, the Potter family, Samuel Copeland and many others. A Dr. Hill came from Vermont in 1817 and settled on lot 245, where he erected a distillery, which was the first one built in town. The first house was Epaphras Mattison's log cabin, which he opened as a tavern. Solomon C. Wright and Tryphena Farnsworth were the first couple married; the second was Zimri Perrigo and Lucetta Spofford, whose wedding oc- curred January 17, 1815. Mrs. Daniel Reed died in 1814, which was the first death in town. The first birth was that of Betsey Mattison. Aaron Baldwin erected the first tannery in 1817.

Thr advent of the Erie Canal, the actual development of the town's valuable resources, and the beginning of the present village of Holley may be considered as cotemporaneous. Transportation, until then con- ducted by slow moving wagons, was quickened, and settlers seeking homes were not slow in taking advantage of the many opportunities this beautiful section afforded. The pioneers, like those of other towns, were a hardy, resolute class of men and women, many of them of New England birth or parentage, who imparted to their children and grand- children sterling traits of character and habits of thrift and industry. The fruits of their labors are seen on every hand-in the well-tilled fields, the luxurious homes and the pretty villages of the present gen- eration. About a quarter of a century after the canal came the rail- road, and the two have ever since afforded the inhabitants of Murray fine transportation privileges.

All through the dark years of the Rebellion large numbers of brave volunteers from this town fought and bled on Southern battlefields. Some were starved to death in Confederate prisons, some were killed or maimed for life in the fierce conflict, and others have died since the closing scenes of 1865, but a few still remain, honored and respected, to tell the story. Murray sent her quota to the front, a list of which is as follows :

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Robert Aggas, 8th H. Art. Michael Anderson, 8th H. Art. John Anderson. Robert Alongton. Samuel Anderson.

James A. Austin, 8th H. Art. Christian Burger. 8th H. Art. Henry Briggs.

Lewis N. Blanchard, 8th H. Art.

Orrin L. Blanchard, 8th H. Art.

George Bradley, 151st Inf.

Cary Brace, 105th Inf.

William S. Ball, 4th H. Art. James H. Bushnell, 105th Inf.

Daniel M. Burnett, 151st Inf.

Francis Balcom, 151st Inf.

Henry Bidwell, 97th Inf.

Henry B. Bacon, 8th H. Art.

Elisha D. Bronson, 151st Inf.

George Blym, 151st Inf.

George Blyth, 1st Mounted Rifles. Michael Calligan. John Corbett. Edward Coleman.

Henry Carter. Joye H. Clark.

Charles D. Cornell, 8th H. Art.

George F. Clark, 14th Inf

Daniel Caton, 8th H. Art.

William H. Chapman, 151st Inf.

Orrin B. Coville, 4th H. Art.

George F. Copeland, 8th H. Art.

Michael Collins, 105th Inf.

Hiram J. Cady, 105th Inf.

Nathaniel Conner, 105th Inf. William Davis. Charles Deleman. William Dailey. James Droyer. William Dreary. Joseph Doyen. James Dalton, 151st Inf. Ira G. Davis, Ind. Sharpshooters. William Dewolf, 151st Inf.

Joseph Dows, 105th Inf. Judson Downs, 3d Cav. Charles Delow, 8th H. Art. Jeremiah Enright. Thomas Enright, 151st Inf.

William Ely, 94th Inf.

Alexander Falkner, 22d Cav.

O'Neil Flanders, 22d Cav. Samuel C. Francis, 151st Inf.

Bruce Fortinance, 151st Inf.

Lyman J. Glazyer, 105th Inf.

John Gwynne, 151st Inf.

Patrick Glancy.

John Gibson.

Myron S. Hooker, 8th H. Art. William Harden. J. B. Hutchinson. William Holmes.

George House.

Leonard Henry, 8th H. Art.

Reuben Harrington, 105th Inf.

Wallace B. Hard, 8th H. Art. John W. Hulbert, 22d Cav.

Alexander Hosbury, 28th Inf.

Edwin S. Housington, 105th Inf. George E. Harwood, 151st Inf.

George Haggard, 151st Inf.

Lyman Howe, 8th H. Art.

Joseph Jerol, 105th Inf.

Martin Knight, 8th H. Art.

John Kelly, 112th Inf.

Patrick Kelly. Patrick Kinney.

Ezra Keyoy, 105th Inf.

John Kelly, 151st Inf.

Cyrus M. Knight, 17th Bat.

Darwin S. Littlefield, 151st Inf.

Nelson Lee. Albert Lanfield, 7th Inf.

John Longhney, 151st Inf.

Levi M. Lawrence, 151st Inf. Hosea Lawrence, 151st Inf. Orrin Mansfield, 8th H. Art. James McNinney, 3d Art.

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Sabastain Stearns, 105th Inf.

Robert Spamsburg, 8th Cav.

Thomas Strogan, 8th H. Art. Lowell Snyder, 2d Mounted Rifles.

Elijah Smith, 105th Inf. Henry E. Snyder, 2d Mounted Rifles.

Arrill H. Snyder. 8th H. Art.

Henry Smith, 105th Inf.

Peter Shipp, 97th Inf. Henry Shipp, 2d Mounted Rifles.

George H. Snow, Ist Bat.

Henry E. Smith, 105th Inf.

Franklin M. Stone, 8th H. Art.

George E. Ostrander, 14th H. Art.

Alonzo Stedman, 105th Inf.

James B. Pratt, 8th H. Art.

James F. Trumble, 22d Cav.

Reed A. Pierce, 8th H. Art.

Daniel K. Trumble, 22d Cav.

Charles E. Roake.

William Thompson.

Daniel Ram. James Rodney.

Wellington Tibbitts, 151st Inf.

Samuel Reed, 105th Inf.

Lyman A. Reed, 105th Inf.

Lewis Rice, 105th Inf.

John H. Reigar, 151st Inf.

Michael Welch.

William Ryan, 22d Cav.

William Warren.

Michael Ryan, 22d Cav.

Andrew Willson.

Edgar J. Wiat, 105th Inf.

Edward Reed, 8th Art. John A. Ross, 151st Inf. Walter B. Rhodes, 151st Inf.

Mark Ward, 14th Inf.

William Wood, 8th H. Art.

William Smith. Samuel Smith.

Joseph White, 8th H. Art.

Francis Murphy. James Morrison. Peter Meyer. John Mahon. John Murphy.

William E. McGuire, Ist Art. William Miller, 105th Inf. William H. Mason, 151st Inf. Benjamin F. Miller, 151st Inf. John Niston. Thomas Nolan. Benjamin F. Nichols, 8th H. Art. Michael O'Brien.

Edward T. Vallance, 151st Inf. Charles S. Wood, 8th H. Art.

John Welch.

Joshua Wood.

The town of Murray, including the village of Holley, had a popula- tion in 1890 of 3,465, an increase since 1880 of 653. Its real estate in 1893 was assessed at $1,868,337 (equalized to $1,592,562) and its per- sonal property at $159,025. The taxes aggregated $11,601.72 ; the rate per cent. that year was .0054216. . The following incorporated companies doing business in town were assessed on real estate: Bell Telephone Company, $1,770; N. Y. Life Insurance Company, $3,- 725 · N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Co., $226,000; Postal Telegraph Com- pany, $3, 120 ; Western Union Telegraph Company, $2,280 ; Brock- port Loan Association, $750 ; Holley Electric Company, $3,500 ; Hol- ley Water Works Company, $4,000; Rochester Milling Company,

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$6,000 ; Genesee Fruit Company, $12,000. The town audit for 1893 amounted to $2,067.29, of which $2,009.14 was allowed.

The town officers for 1894 are : Nervill E. Cole, supervisor ; Jay D. Burns, town clerk; Danly S. Webster, George W. Arnold, L. G. Burns, James H. Rowe, justices of the peace ; L. J. Whitney, collector ; Frank D. Petrie, commissioner of highways; Charles A. Tillman, overseer of the poor ; Delos Smith, Huffman Ruger, Lott Farnsworth, assessors.

SANDY CREEK .- This village is located at the confluence of the east and west branches of Sandy Creek, from which streams the place re- ceived its designation. The name of the post-office here is Murray, but the original name of the village still clings to it. As early as 1815, prior to any other hamlet in the town, it began to assume the appear- ance of a village, and it was for a time the principal business place in this region. In 1815 Isaac Leach erected and opened a store here, which was the first in the town. and soon afterward Orlando Keys en- gaged in mercantile business. In 1816 Robert Perry and Henry Mc- Call built a grist mill, but it was soon afterward abandoned. Ephraim Rose erected another in 1828, and it was in use till about 1850. In 1836 Southworth, Frisbie & Adams erected the present mill, which is now conducted by S. B Pike. McCall & Perry, at an early day, built a saw mill and a distillery and operated both for a time. The first saw mill in the town was built here by Simeon Daggett in 1811. A cloth- iery was erected here about 1819 by Wyman & Clark, which was the first of the kind in town, but with the decline of domestic manufactures it ceased operations. The first hotel was built and kept by Elijah and Eli Root. It stood on the site of the present one. In 1818 Dr. Wood- worth built another. Hotel keeping was then a brisk business. A plank school house was built here about 1817, and among the first teachers in it was Benjamin Allen.

Sandy Creek was at first a very unhealthy place. Judge Thomas says: " Mr. Andrew H. Green, of Byron, Genesee county, relates that several families were settled at Sandy Creek in 1811. In the fall of that year set- tlers in Byron heard that these people in Sandy Creek were nearly all sick and in great suffering, and they made up a company of six or eight and went over to help them, carrying a load of necessaries. They found them the most helpless company they ever saw." Again he says :

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" In 1817 some fifteen or twenty families had located at Sandy Creek, and in that year Henry McCall and Robert Ferry built mills on the creek, raising the water so as to overflow eighteen or twenty acres, then covered with heavy trees which were left standing. The water killed the timber, and as a result a terrible sickness followed among the inhabitants, about one quarter of whom died in one season. The well persons were not numerous enough to take care of the sick and bury the dead, and settlers from other neighborhoods came and helped the needy ones. The mill dam was taken down and the sickness disap- peared," But for several years it was regarded as a very unhealthy locality. The first physician in town was Dr. Eri Wood, who came to Sandy Creek in the fall of 1816, and the first post-office was established here under the name of Murray, which designation it has always re- tained. The present postmaster is A. H. Dusett, who has held the office since 1864. The village now has a Baptist church, a store, one hotel, two blacksmith shops, a grist mill, and some thirty houses. The store kept by George Arnold was burned in 1880. It was a stone building, and was replaced by a wooden structure, which was also burned in 1888. The present frame store was erected on the same site.

HOLLEY .- The village of Holley is conveniently located on the Erie Canal and on the Niagara Falls branch of the New York Central Rail- road, nine miles east from Albion and four miles west from Brockport, Monroe county. It stands mostly on lots 52, 53, 72 and 73. The east branch of Sandy Creek runs through a portion of the village and its water power was utilized at a very early date. Judge Thomas says that the site of the village was originally covered with a heavy growth of hemlock timber, most of which was standing when the route for the canal was surveyed. The first settlers here were Stephen Lewis on lot 72, and William Rice on lot 73, born in the spring of 1812.

Prior to the commencement of work on the canal settlement here had not been rapid, for in the spring 1822 there were only two framed resi- dences and four log houses. The salt springs, which existed on lot 52, near where the railroad crosses the creek, were thought to be valuable, and the land was for a time withheld from market by the State of Con- necticut, and when it was sold all minerals, mines and salt springs were reserved. By an arrangement with that State, under which he was to

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share half the avails, John Reed, in 1814, commenced the manu- facture of salt here, and at one time he had sixteen kettles in use. The works were continued till the opening of canal navigation, when they were abandoned. Though much salt was made from the comparatively weak brine which this spring afforded, the business was never profitable. Erastus Cone, several years later, bored for stronger brine to a depth of about 100 feet, but his effort proved futile. The sulphur springs were never developed. In 1827 Areovester Hamlin purchased this lot con- taining 100 acres, and in the same year built a framed house and an ashery and opened a store. In 1822 he employed Elisha Johnson, a surveyor of Rochester, to lay out a village. He erected a warehouse on the canal, and procured the establishment of a post-office, in which he was the first postmaster. "He was an enterprising, active business man, but he attempted to do more business than his means would per- mit and failed."

In 1828 Hiram Frisbie and James Seymour purchased what then remained unsold of Mr. Hamlin's real estate, and Mr. Frisbie afterward purchased the interest of Mr. Seymour, and continued to sell village lots during many years. He commenced the mercantile business here on his removal to this place from Clarendon in 1828, and continued in . trade most of the time till his death. John W. Strong became a mer- chant here soon after Mr. Hamlin, and failed at about the same time. Major William Allis was a clerk in the store of Mr. Strong. After the failure of the latter Mr. Allis became a produce dealer, and was after- ward sheriff of Orleans county. Mower & Wardwell, and Selby & Newell were also early merchants here. Samuel Cone and his brother erected a brick building which they opened as a tavern in 1823; then a Mr. Barr built and kept another at about the same time. Both these hotels were established prior to the opening of canal navigation. Al- vah Hamlin, George A. Porter, S. Stedman and E. Taylor were among the first carpenters and joiners. John Avery and his brother were the first blacksmiths, and John Onderdonk was the first tailor. Reuben Bryant was the first lawyer, and Dr. McClough was the first physician.

In the spring of 1824 Harley N. Bushnell built a saw mill, and in 1825 he and Samuel Clark erected a carding and cloth-dressing mill. The first grist mill was built about 1836 by Jonathan Waddams, who

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carried on distilling in the same building. A few years later David Morris succeeded Mr. Waddams and used the mill as a distillery exclu- sively. About 1846 it became the property of Thomas Rutherford, who converted it into a tannery and used it as such till about 1853. Like other tanneries in this region it ceased operations when the supply of bark failed.

Prior to the commencement of work on the canal there was no ap- pearance of a village here. A great embankment, the highest on the line of the canal, was required over Sandy Creek, and Col. Ezra Brain- ard was the contractor. Many men were required to do this work, and while it was in progress many settlers established themselves here. The nucleus which was then formed has expanded till the present beau- tiful and thriving village occupies the site where seventy five years since the wind sighed through the branches of the giant hemlocks that shaded the soil. The first warehouse was built by Areovister Hamlin at an early date. It was owned by various parties and was burned in 1866. The second was built by Darwin Hill soon after the erection of the first. This was burned in the great fire that destroyed the south part of the village. In 1836 another was built which was also burned in the same fire. A warehouse was erected early on the point between the slip and the old canal. After a few years it was converted into a canal grocery and was burned in the great fire. After the conflagra- tion of 1866 Simon and Jeffrey A. Harwood built what is known as the stone warehouse at the junction of the old and new canals. Two warehouses were erected about 1850, one by H. H. Goff and the other by Augustus Southworth. About 1862 John Berry and D. H. Part- ridge erected a fruit warehouse and excavated a basin with about 250 feet of dockage. In 1890 it was converted into a cheese factory.

In 1834 Hiram Frisbie and Augustus Southworth built a flouring mill on the east side of Sandy Creek, just north from the present line of the railroad. At first it had three runs of stone, to which another was soon added. Messrs. Frisbie and Southworth conducted this mill about ten years. Mr. Frisbie then purchased the interest of Mr. South- worth and carried on the mill till 1853, when it was purchased by Edward Farrell, Colonel John Berry and others under the firm name of Farwell, Berry & Co. Four years later Mr. Farwell purchased the

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interest of his partners, and a few years afterward he sold the property to Charles Pratt and Byron Gilbert. Mr. Pratt afterward became sole proprietor, and in 1869 he sold to Elijah Drake, W. H. Bull, and W. K. Moore. In 1870 Mr. Moore sold his interest to Drake & Bull, who conducted it till 1885, when the Rochester Milling Company purchased the property, and they still own it.

In 1867 Luther Gordon, of Brockport, established a lumber and coal yard in Holley, and in 1879 erected a planing mill and grist mill. He died in 1881, and his son, George C. Gordon, succeeded him as pro- prietor. Edwin Bliss has been the manager of these mills since their establishment.

Holley has suffered much from the ravages of fire. October 25, 1866, nearly all the business places on the southeast corner of the pub- lic square, together with a warehouse in the rear of these buildings, were burned. These places were speedily rebuilt. In 1871 all the business buildings at the south end of the square were destroyed. July 23, 1874, nearly the same territory was burned over, and again in 1885 the buildings on the same ground were a third time destroyed. In 1888 a block at the south end of the east side of the square was burned.

At an early day a very rude fire engine was purchased, and this was the only apparatus here for protection against fire during many years. A second hand engine, with a hose cart and a quantity of partially worn hose were purchased in Rochester, and this, with the old machine, was the only apparatus till 1887, when a Remington horse-power engine and 100 feet of hose were purchased by subscription and the use of these was tendered to the village. In 1888 a fire organization was completed and the corporation purchased two hose carts and the neces- sary apparatus for a hook and ladder company, which, as well as two hose companies, was then formed. These have since been superseded by the present system of water works, which require only suitable hose, and which have sufficient pressure to throw a stream of water above any building in the village.

The Exchange bank of Holley was established as a private banking institution by C. W. Gibson and George N. Bowman in January, 1868. A year later G. W. Stoddard took the place in the bank of Mr. Gib-

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son, and in 1873 L. W. Hurd succeeded Mr. Stoddard. In 1882 John Downs and O. A. Eddy purchased the interest of Mr. Hurd, and on the death of Mr. Eddy, in May, 1884, Mr. Downs purchased from his estate his interest, and the firm has since been Downs & Bowman. They transact a general banking and insurance business. The capital aggregates $150,000. The bank has occupied its present quarters since 1868.

In 1889 the corporation entered into a contract with the Holley Water Works Company, which was organized for the purpose of sup- plying the village with water. This company made an arrangement with the Brockport Water Works Company whereby the villages were to be supplied from the same source. A supply of water was found in the town of Clarendon, about a mile south from Holley, where two wells were sunk. In 1890 the company converted an old mill on the bank of Sandy Creek into a pumping station, and erected a wrought steel water tower on a height of 100 feet above the village. This tower has a capacity of 190,000 gallons, and at a height of seventy-five feet a similar tower was erected near Brockport. Connected with the pumping station and water tower a system of cast iron mains and pipes was laid in 1890, and thirty hydrants were set in various parts of the village, each capable of throwing two one-inch streams to a height of 100 feet. In March, 1894, the entire plant of Holley became the prop- erty of the Rochester Consolidated Water Supply Company, of which William F. Ross is president and general manager. The local superin- tendent is J. F. Bradt. Two new wells were sunk in the fall of 1893. There are now about five miles of mains and some 250 patrons. The station equipment consists of two pumps aggregating 150 horse-power which are driven by steam from two boilers having the same capacity.

The Holley Electric Company was incorporated April 27, 1889, with a capital stock of $7,500, and with Harry O. Jones, John Downs, George N. Bowman, Edwin Bliss, John H. Taylor, Charles W. Blod- gett, E. R. Armstrong, John D. Arnold and Burton Keys as directors. The executive officers were H. O. Jones, president ; John Downs, vice- president ; C. W. Blodgett, secretary, and G. N. Bowman, treasurer. The plant was placed in operation that year at a cost of $8,500. The Western electric direct current was used until the spring of 1893, when

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a Westinghouse alternating system was substituted at a cost of over $5,000. Only the incandescent series is employed with eight miles of wire and more than 700 lamps. The equipment consists of one 850 light dynamo, a seventy-five horse power engine, and a 100 horse power boiler. The present general manager, Henry J. Buell, was ap- pointed in November, 1892. The directors are : Edwin Bliss, John Downs, Walter T. Pettengill, Ely H. Cook, Henry H. Sawyer, James P. O'Brien, Harry O. Jones, Henry J. Buell, and George N. Bowman. The officers are : Edwin Bliss, president ; E. H. Cook, vice-president ; H. J. Buell, secretary, and G. N. Bowman, treasurer.

The cider and vinegar factory and evaporator of Miller & Pettengill was first started at Clarendon in 1874. In 1886 a branch of this was established in Holley, on the railroad, a short distance west from the station. The business here was increased till the branch has become larger than the parent trunk. The latest improved machinery has been in- troduced in all the departments, the annual output aggregates several hundred thousand gallons of cider and vinegar and in the neighborhood of 300 tons of dried fruit, furnishing employment to a large force of operatives In the fall of 1890 the plant became the property of the Genesee Fruit Company.

About 1815 a log school house was erected near where is now the railroad station. It had neither chimney nor fire place, and during several years school was kept in it only in the summer. Miss Lydia Thomas, afterward Mrs. Henry Hill, was the first teacher in the build- ing. A stone school house was built on the corner of Albion and North streets in 1840, and during ten years it was used for school purposes. In the autumn of 1846 Worden Reynolds opened a select school in a building that had been used as a hotel, near the northwest corner of the public square. He and his cousin, Hascall Reynolds, continued this school about two years. The facilities thus afforded for a higher grade of education brought about the establishment of the Holley Academy in 1847. This institution flourished until 1868, when it was combined with the public school under the name Holley Union School and Academy. A more detailed account of the educational in - terests of the village appears in a previous chapter.

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At an early date there was a burial place on a knoll twelve or fifteen feet in height, a short distance northeast from the railroad station in Holley. There were but few graves here, and when the railroad was constructed the knoll was removed to make a part of the embankment through the valley of Sandy Creek. A second burial ground was located on the east side of the Clarendon road on the line between Clarendon and Murray. Though burials commenced here at an early day the ground was not formally set apart for cemetery purposes till 1844, when William Hatch and wife for an expressed consideration of $100, deeded one acre and seven hundredths of land to Silas Day, Lewis K. Churchill, Alva Morgan, Moses N. Stoddard, George W. Dutcher and Justin Day, trustees, of the first Presbyterian Society of Murray for burial purposes. It was used as a cemetery for many years, but no interments have been made there since 1867. December II, 1866, the Holley Cemetery Association was incorporated. The first Board of Trustees consisted of John Berry, S. Ensign, S. Harwood, E. H Cook, N. E. Darrow, N. Hatch, H. Ruggles, S. Spurr, and O. A. Eddy. In 1867 eight acres of land adjoining the corporation on the south were purchased and about one- half of this tract was at once laid out, graded and prepared for use as a cemetery. On the 16th of Au- gust in that year the grounds were formally dedicated and the place was named "Hillside Cemetery." The balance of the tract was afterward laid out and tastefully terraced and ornamented. Many rich, stately and beautiful monuments have been erected. A fountain, which is fed from pure springs, has been placed near the main entrance, and the grounds present a neat and tasty appearance. In 1885 six acres on the west side of the road which passes southward on the west side of the cemetery, was purchased. A portion of this has been graded and the whole is held in reserve for future needs. In 1888 an additional tract of eleven acres was purchased. The total cost of these grounds and the improvements amounts to more than $10,000. Col. John Berry was president of the association from its organization until his death in 1892 and had the immediate supervision of the grounds. He was suc- ceeded by Edwin Bliss. The.present officers are : Edwin Bliss, Isaac S. Bennett, Ely H. Cook, Francis D. Cogswell, Harrison E. Kibling, Ber- ton Keys, Alfred Millard, David H. Partridge, and James B. Pratt,

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Landmarks of Orleans County, New York, Part 40

Author: Signor, Isaac S., ed Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Syracuse : D. Mason Number of Pages: 1084

Author: Signor, Isaac S., ed
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Syracuse : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1084