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May 11, 1882, James Lewis Beers, Freeville; born in Danby; University Medical College, New York city, February 26, 1882.
July 3, 1882, Jacob Cristman, Freeville; born in Herkimer county, N. Y,; Eclectic Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., January 26, 1857.
July 13, 1883, Eugene Baker, Dryden; born in Fulton county, N. Y .; University of Michigan, June 29, 1882.
August 28, 1882, George W. Davis, West Danby; born in Trenton, Wis .; The University of Buffalo, February 21, 1882.
August 28, 1882, Edward B. Wiley, Varna; born in Mifflin, Juniata county, Pa, Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, March 14, 1882.
September 20, 1882, M. H. Smith, Danby; born in Trumansburgh; the United States Medical College at New York city, March 4, 1880.
April 7, 1883, Lysander T. White, Enfield Contre; born in Cayutaville, Schuyler county, N. Y. ; University of Buffalo, February, 1869.
April 11, 1883, Bina A. Potter, Ithaca; born in Danby; Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, February 27, 1883.
April 24, 1883, Michael P. Conway, Ithaca: born in Ithaca; College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, March 1, 1883.
July 9, 1883, Chester L. Skinner, Freeville; born in Auburn; College of Homeop. athy, March 15, 1883.
September 20, 1883, Mary A. Allen, Slaterville; born in Delta, O., University of Michigan, March 24, 1875.
September 10, 1883, Chilton B. Allen, Slaterville; born in New Foundland; The University of the City of New York, March, 1881.
September 20, 1883, George L. Rood, Etna; born in Centre Lisle, Broome county; Eclectic Institute, Cincinnati, O., June 5, 1883.
January 24, 1884, Emory A. Eakin, Buffalo; born in Gallipolis, O .; Miami Medi- cal College, Cincinnati, O. Endorsed by Medical Faculty of Niagara University of Buffalo, March 2, 1869.
April 11, 1884. Homer Genung, Brookton; born in Brookton; Homeopathic Hospi- ial College of Cleveland, O., March 15, 1884.
June 2, 1884, M. J. Jackson, New York city; born in Prussia; Eclectic Medical College of New York, March 1, 1884.
November 14, 1884, Edgar Randolph Osterhout, Trumbull's Corners; born at Jack- son Corners, Monroe county, Pa .; Bellevue Hospital Medical College of the City of New York, March 13, 1884.
November 24, 1884, Edward Hitchcock, jr., Ithaca; born at Stratford, Connecticut ; Dartmouth Medical College, June 30, 1881.
December 8, 1884, Franklin B. Smith, Buffalo; born in Hillsdale, Mich .; Hahnc- mann Medical College, Chicago, Ill., February 26, 1879.
March 27, 1885, James S. Carman, Jacksonville; born in Jacksonville; Medical Department of Howard University, Washington, D. C., March 9, 1885.
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June 6, 1885, Will De Lano, Ithaca; born at Groton; Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, O., June 2, 1885.
June 20, 1885, Charles Lewis Tisdale, Brookton; born in Auburn; Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, Ill., March 22, 1878.
August 31, 1885, Edward B. Lighthill, Syracuse; born in Germany; Eclectic Med- ical College of the City of New York, March 1, 1882.
November 18, 1885, Richard E. Cross, Utica; born at Lancaster, N. H., Faculty of Norwich University, Vermont, September 29, 1852.
November 15, 1885, Addison L. Low, Watertown, Jefferson county; born in Will- iamston, Oswego county; New York University Medical College, February 18, 1874.
May 13, 1886, George Fiske, Chicago, Ill. ; born in Madison county; Yale Medical School, June, 1883.
July 14, 1886, Horace W. Nash, Ithaca; born in Trumansburgh; New York Home- opathic Medical College, March 13, 1884.
July 21, 1886, David P. Terry, Trumansburgh; born in town of Ulysses; Homeo- pathic Hospital College, Cleveland, O., March 19, 1884.
January 10, 1887, Loretta Abel, Ulysses; born in Ulysses; Homeopathic College for Women of the City of New York, April 1, 1885.
March 29, 1887, Albina Hunter, Ithaca; born at Cato, Cayuga county; Michigan University, June 24, 1883.
April 9, 1887, B. L. Robinson, McLean; born at South Cortland, N. Y .; Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, April 5, 1887.
April 9, 1887, William F. Seaman, Newfield; born at Almond, Allegany county, N. Y .; Eclectic Medical College, New York City, March 6, 1882.
April 26, 1887, R. F. Gates, North Lansing; born at Maine, Broome county, N. Y; Geneva Medical College, January 27, 1867.
June 24, 1887, Thomas Turnbull, jr., Ithaca; born at Brooklyn; University of Pennsylvania, May 2, 1887.
September 19, 1887, Andrew S. Blair, Ithaca; born at Conesville, N. Y .; Univer- sity Medical College of the City of New York, March 2, 1882.
July 2, 1888, Joseph R. Broome, Trumansburgh; born at Utica, N. Y .; Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, June 5, 1888.
August 7, 1888, William C. Freeman, Elmira; born at Branford, Ontario, Can. ; Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 24, 1853, and endorsed by Medical Department of Niagara University, Buffalo, N. Y., June 14, 1888.
January 14, 1889, S. Fayette Stagg, Elmira; born at Panton, Vt .; Howard Medi- cal College of Washington, D. C., and endorsed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York, March 8, 1878.
April 2, 1889, Julia S. Baright, Ithaca; born at Bedford, Calhoun county, Mich .; the Faculty of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago, Ill., Feb- ruary. 21, 1889.
April 6, 1889, Emmett D. Page, Brooklyn; born at Triangle, Broome county ; Long Island College Hospital, June 17, 1882.
April 17, 1889, Marian A. Townley, Lansing; born at Lansing; Medical University of Buffalo, March 26, 1889.
June 29, 1889, John L. Babcock, Ithaca; born at Oswego; University of the City of New York, March 6, 1886.
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August 14, 1889, F. Dela Claire Balcolm, Syracuse; born at Ransomville; The Physio-Medical Institute, Marion, Ind., March 14, 1889.
August 14, 1889, William Ryder, Syracuse; born at Little Falls, N. Y. ; The Curtis Physio-Medical Institute, Marion, Ind., March 14, 1889,
November 6, 1889, Elma Griggs, Ithaca: born at Limestone, N. Y .; the Hahne- mann Medical College, Chicago, Ill., February 14, 1887.
November 13, 1889, Charles F. Griswold, Groton; born at Owego; University of Vermont, July 15, 1889.
November 22, 1889, Franklin D. Pierce, Union Springs; born at Venango county, Pa. ; University of the City of New York, March 19, 1878.
May 22, 1890, De Forest A. Reid, Brookton; born at Caroline, Tompkins county, N. Y .; Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland, O., March 26, 1890.
June 10, 1890, Edward Meany, Ithaca; born at Enfield; the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, March 1, 1887.
June 16, 1890, Matthew Joseph O'Connell, Covert, Seneca county; born at Tru- mansburgh; the Niagara University of the State of New York, April 15, 1890.
July 30, 1890, I. N. Willard, Ithaca; born at Fairfield, N. Y .; Bellevue Medical College, February 26, 1875.
November. 13, 1890, John C. Beebe, Buffalo; born at Oyster Bay, Long Island; Toledo Medical College of Toledo, O., March 7, 1888.
March 27, 1891, William T. Jones, Enfield; born at Ulysses; Buffalo Medical Uni- versity, at Buffalo, N. Y., March 24, 1891.
April 1, 1891, Jeanette M. Potter, Ithaca; born at Ithaca; the Buffalo Medical University, March 25, 1890.
April 3, 1891, John E. McTaggart, Auburn; born at Ontario, Canada; the Buffalo Medical University, February 20, 1871.
April 7, 1891, James P. Fahy, Ithaca; born at Ithaca; the Medical University of Buffalo, March 24, 1891.
May 6, 1891, Channing A. Holt, Albany; born at Hartford, Conn .; University of the City of New York, February 17, 1877.
August 3, 1891, Howard B. Besemer, Ithaca; born at Dryden; Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, March 24, 1891.
August 17, 1891, William H. Longhead, jr., Elmira; born at Elmira; Medical De- partment of the University of Buffalo, March 24, 1891.
August 31, 1891, William B. Christopher, Speedsville; born at Galena, Ill .; Syra- cuse Medical College, June 11, 1891.
April 11, 1892, Ben W. Genung, West Danby; born at Caroline; Cleveland Med- ical College, Cleveland, O., March 23, 1892.
July 1, 1892, George B. Lewis, Ithaca; born at Owego; Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, March 6, 1886.
July 25, 1892, Charles D. Vernooy, Enfield; born at Accord, Ulster county; Syr- racuse University College of Medicine, June 9, 1892.
November 21, 1892, Newton D. Chapman, Ludlowville; born at Groton; Medical Department of the University of New York, April 4, 1892.
December 28, 1892, Robertune L. Smith, Richford, Tioga county; born at Rich- ford; Medical Department University of New York City, April 4, 1892.
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May 8, 1893, Wilbur G. Fish, Ithaca; born at Lansing; Cleveland Medical College of Cleveland, O., and endorsed by the University of the State of New York, March, 22, 1893.
March 30, 1882, Charles P. Beaman, Stamford, Conn .; born at Philadelphia, Pa .; The New York Homeopathic College of the City of New York, March 16, 1882.
June 14, 1893, Arthur D. White, Ithaca; born at Ithaca; University of the State of New York, May 27, 1893.
July 15, 1893, James Allen Blair, Trumbull's Corners; born in Scotland; The Uni- versity of the State of New York, July 15, 1893.
September 22, 1893, Frank L. Washburn, Ludlowville; born at Dryden; Long Isl- and College Hospital, March 22, 1893.
September 22, 1893, Charles P. Beaman, Ithaca; born at Philadelphia; University of the State of New York, March 16, 1882.
October 19, 1893, Joe Van Vranken Lewis, Ludlowville; born at Prattsburg, Steu- ben county; University of the State of New York, July 17, 1893.
CHAPTER XII.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND VILLAGE OF ITHACA.1
WHILE it is true that the town of Ithaca is of comparatively recent formation, settlements within its present limits began very carly- about a quarter of a century before Tompkins county was formed- and when all other sections of the present county were a wilderness, untrodden except by the Indians and the few white men who had been sent out to drive them from their ancestral homes.
The town of Ithaca as a separate organization has come down from the original town of Ulysses, through the following changes: Ithaca was formed from Ulysses, which was erected as one of the original towns of Onondaga county, March 5, 1794. Its history is traced as Ulysses, Onondaga county, from March 5, 1794; as Ulysses, Cayuga county, from March 8, 1799; as Ulysses, Seneca county, from March 29, 1804; as Ulysses, Tompkins county, from April 12, 1817; and as Ithaca, Tompkins county, from March 16, 1821.
It is the central town of the county and contains thirty-six square miles of territory, of which nearly eight-tenths is under cultivation,
1On account of the very early settlement of the site of Ithaca and its present im- portance in the county, it is thought best to depart from the chronological order of town formation and place it first.
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the remainder being woodland. The population, according to the census of 1890, is 12,343. Cayuga Lake reaches southward into the town about two miles, and its deep valley continues on two miles further, with a width of about one and one-half miles. Towards the great trough there is a general rolling and undulating descent from the outer borders of the town, until within about a mile of the lower plane, where the descent becomes very stecp and continues to the bot- tom of the valley. In Chapter II the reader will find detailed de- scription of the picturesque scenery produced by the peculiar land and water formations in this town, especially in the near vicinity of Ithaca city. No other locality in the State of New York, and few in the country, are more worthy of admiration from the lovers of nature in her most attractive moods, or of visits from the gifted artist. Nestled in the deep vale near the head of the lake, at the foot of the majestic eastern and western hills, the village gracefully lay through its many years of early growth, while in the last quarter century it has reached out upon the hillsides, where hundreds of beautiful residences adorn spacious and well kept grounds.
The soil of the town is chicfly a gravelly or sandy loam upon the high lands, excepting in the southern part, where it is in many places shallow and constituted of disintegrated shale or slate. The soil on the flats is a rich alluvium. Grain and stock growing has been the princi- pal occupation in the agricultural districts, while on the slopes of the hills near Ithaca, peaches, grapes and other fruits are raised success- fully.
The first settlers in this town found several clearings in the valley which had been made by the Indians, who had cut away the low hazel and thorn bushes and planted corn.
In another and earlier chapter of this work mention has been made of the eleven men who came on here from Kingston in April, 1788, with two Delaware Indians for guides; also the return in April of the following year of three of their number, Jacob Yaple, Isaac Dumond, and Peter Hinepaw, who made the first settlement in the town, on a four hundred acre lot, of which the west line of the present Tioga street in Ithaca formed the western limit. These pioneers planted corn on the Indian clearings, 1 left their crops with John Yaple, a younger
1 It is reported that these Indian clearings served the settlers in common for sev- eral years for corn grounds, while they stored their gathered crops in cribs on the hillside. The first settler, it is said, did not think they could raise corn on the hills.
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brother of Jacob, and returned to Kingston for their families. They came back to their new homes in September, bringing a few farming tools, a little household furniture, and a number of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs.
The three families numbered twenty persons: Jacob Yaple, his wife and three children (Philip, Mary and Peter, and John Yaple, the brother, who was then twenty-four years of age); Isaac Dumond, his wife and three children (Peter, Abram and Jenny), and John Dumond and his wife, then lately married; Peter Hinepaw, his wife and five children (whose names we cannot give, the eldest of whom was about twelve years of age).
The three families soon had built log cabins for each, situated as described in Chapter III, and began their toil in the wilderness. They encountered the usual hardships, as well as some that were not so common. Rattlesnakes abounded, for one thing, and the tale has come down that about thirty were killed in a day where Hinepaw's cabin stood, near the site of the Cascadilla Mills, and that a populous den of the dangerous reptiles was discovered and cleared out. The few Indians remaining here were friendly and aided the pioncers to some extent. In the summer they occupied the hillsides, but when cold weather approached they pitched their wigwams in the gorge of Six Mile Creek. But the larger portion left this section the second year after the coming of the settlers. The preparation of the food supply, too, was accomplished with great difficulty. The first crop of corn, with twenty-four bushels of wheat brought by one of the pioneers from a settlement on the Upper Nanticoke, had to be carried to Wilkes- barre to be ground. That was the nearest mill until the second year, when Jacob Yaple built a small mill ncar Hinepaw's cabin on the Cas- cadilla, capable of grinding perhaps twenty-five bushels in a day. 1
It is, perhaps, more probable that they did not at first use the hillsides, because they were not cleared.
1 To obtain potatoes to plant, John Yaple traveled on foot one hundred and sixty iniles to a point on the Delaware River, where he obtained three pecks of the precious seed and carried them in a sack all the way back to the settlement.
Mr. King says that it had been claimed that the Indians had raised potatoes at Taughanic a few years previous to the coming of the white settlers; but this seems quite doubtful, for there is not the slightest reason for believing that the Indians would not have shared with their neighbors in anything so desirable and so difficult to obtain. Moreover, the Indians, as far as known, cared little for the potato.
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Until the building of Yaple's little mill much of the corn was pounded in the top of a fire-hollowed stump. The mill was called "the little pepper mill," and served the needs of many settlers for a number of years. Mr. King states that when a man took a grist of two or three bushels from a considerable distance to be ground he often had to stay all night to get it. The mill stones, as well as the rest of the structure, were made by Mr. Yaple himself, the stones being roughly formed from granite boulders. There was no bolting cloth and the bran was partially separated from the wheat flour with a sieve. As the settlers increased in numbers, considerable grain was taken to other towns, even long distances, to Owego and elsewhere, to be ground.
That other family necessity, salt, was easily obtained from the In- dians, and it was universally believed in early times that there was a source of surface supply near at hand. But, if so, it has never been discovered by white persons. There are legends and stories innumer- able of Indians going northward at various times and soon returning with a supply of salt; and one member of the Sager family has stated that brine itself was brought by Indians near to his home and there boiled. As far as the writer is personally concerned, there is one great weakness in these tales, i. e., Why did not the whites learn the where- abouts of the source of supply from the last of the Indians just before they left the locality for good ? A few trifling gifts at such a time would surely have caused the valuable secret (valuable no longer to the Indians) to be divulged. And there is another element of improb- ability in the matter scarcely less noteworthy; that is the fact that no white man watched the Indian or squaw when going for salt. Certainly no scruple of conscience could have prevented, and it would seem to have been a comparatively easy task, if, as represented, the salt spring was near at hand. And moreover, if there ever was a salt spring here, where was it? Is it not more probable that the salt came from the Onondaga Springs, either brought from there by the Indians who left the head of the lake for it, or obtained it between here and there from other Indians?1 The recent discovery of salt in the town of Lansing may possibly have some bearing upon this question.
1 Between 1817 and 1820, Mr. Torry, father of Elijah B. Torry, having faith in the traditions concerning salt in this valley, sunk two shafts to a considerable depth, at a spot just south of the present corporation, near the Spencer road; but instead of salt water, he tapped perennial veins of fresh. Portions of the old curbing were still to be seen but a few years since. Again, in 1864 an attempt to obtain salt by boring
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The families of Yaples, Dumond and Hinepaw lost the land they had located here, through nonpayment of taxes at Albany by their agent, and the first two removed in 1795 to the northern part of Danby, while Hinepaw located near the site of Aurora. They were men of solid and respectable character and reared families of children. (Further allusion is made to them in the history of Danby.)
In the month of September, 1786, Robert McDowell, Ira Stevens and Jonathan Woodworth moved with their families from Kingston, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., to Tioga Point and Chemung. The next summer Robert McDowell, Nehemiah and Charles Woodworth (sons of Jona- than), Abram Smith, Joseph Smith and Richard Loomis came from Chemung, by way of Catharine, to the head of Cayuga Lake, and there cut and put up a quantity of marsh hay, and then returned to Chemung. The ensuing fall Abram Smith and the two Woodworths again visited the lake flats, this time bringing cattle to winter them on the hay al- ready prepared. In the spring of 1788 they went back to Chemung, when Mr. McDowell, accompanied by Jane, his eldest daughter, then about seven years, and two boys-one a negro-returned to the rude farm at the head of the lake, where Ithaca now stands, and planted a quantity of corn and sowed some spring wheat, and followed up this enterprise in the fall of the same year by bringing in his entire family, composed of himself, wife, and five children-Jane, Hannah, Euphius, John and Daniel.
Mr. McDowell was the first settler on the Abraham Bloodgood tract of 1,400 acres; since known as all that part of the corporation of Ithaca lying west of Tioga street. He put up his cabin somewhere near what is now the junction of Seneca and Cayuga streets, about where stands the fine residence of Samuel H. Winton. Upon this spot, until 1874, stood a wooden building erected by Mr. Henry Ackley (father of Mrs. Winton) in the year 1812 or 1813.
very deep was made; but the company, formed for the purpose, died of too much management.
As a matter of historic interest in this connection, we cannot withhold this further quotation from the Journal of De Witt Clinton, dated Ithaca, August 11, 1810: " It is said that there are salt lakes [licks?] in this country, and one near this place, formerly much frequented by deer, which were in great plenty when the country was first settled, and on being pursued by dogs immediately took to the lakes, in which they were easily shot. . . This is probably a link in the chain of fossil salt, extending from Salina to Louisiana, like the main range of the Alleghany Mountains." -- Campbell's Life of De Witt Clinton, p. 163.
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The descendants and near relatives of McDowell have been prom- inent in many ways in Tompkins county. He was a son of John Mc- Dowell, a Scotch immigrant. One daughter of Robert married Nicoll ยท Halsey and became the mother of ten children, several of whom were leading citizens.
Nehemiah Woodworth related that in June, 1788, Captain Jonathan Woodworth and his two sons, with five others, followed Sullivan's trail to Peach Orchard, then passed down Halsey's Creek to the Cayuga Lake, and encamped on the north side of Goodwin's Point, and on the following day went up to the head of the lake. In July the same party of six named in Mr. Halsey's account (except that David Smith is sub- stituted for Abram) made hay on the lake flats, where they were joined by Peter Hinepaw and Isaac Dimond. The Woodworth party brought provisions and two cows; and that fall drove in all their stock, about seventy head of cattle and horses. During the winter, Abram Smith and a man named Stevens (Ira ?) had trouble with wolves, one of which they killed. They killed also a large bear on the lake, near Salmon Creek. The account further says that the Woodworth family "moved in, in the spring of 1789, and remained until 1793;" that they had a mortar made from a large stump standing "near the present court-house," and that Nehemiah assisted in bringing in the mill-stones on an ox sled. On the farm of the late Dr. J. F. Burdiek, in Lansing, within the memory of many residents of that town, one of these tree mills for grinding corn was still to be seen.
This is the only record we have concerning the settlement of the Woodworth family at Ithaca. The mill-stones alluded to were prob- ably the first that were brought in-not the first used.
In 1791 John Dumond, the pioneer, who had been married just be- forc leaving his former home, became the father of the first white child born within the limits of what is now Tompkins county. The child was a daughter, was named Sally, and became the wife of Benjamin Skeels, of Danby, who removed to Indiana in 1846.
William Van Orman came in about the time under consideration, the precise date being unknown. He first settled on two hundred aeres, a part of military lot number eighty-two, where he lived about twelve years, but was one of the many unfortunate ones who lost his property through defective title. Walter Wood succeeded him on the farm. Mr. Van Orman then took a farm on lot eighty-threc, then owned by George Sager, who had purchased from a Mr. Pangborn, who received
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it for military service. In 1824 Mr. Van Orman built his substantial brick house near Buttermilk Falls. He was of considerable prom- inence and was assessor of Ulysses town in 1795.
George Sager settled about 1793 on the tract he bought of Pangborn (above noticed). He brought with him his mother and younger brother, Simon. George was unmarried and about thirty years old. He after- wards married Charity, daughter of Bezal Halley, and later settled in that vicinity and built a double log cabin and a frame barn, one of the first. This barn was afterwards used for Methodist meetings under Rev. Dr. Baker.
In 1823 Mr. Sager built a stone house, where he passed the remain- der of his life.
Of course, there was a woeful scarcity of "store goods" in those early days, and it was several years before a merchant was established; but a very enterprising man named Lightfoot brought a load of goods up the lake in the year 1791, and began trade in a shanty which he built near the site of the steamboat landing. He had tea, coffee, a little crockery, small stock of dry goods, a little hardware, and gun- powder and lead, a barrel or two of whisky.
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