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Joseph Hart, from New Jersey, settled near Judge Ellis's in 1805. His father was a Revolutionary soldier.
Thomas Southworth, with his son John, then ten years old, came from Herkimer county, N. Y., and settled at Willow Glen in 1806. The father was a man of enterprise, bought a small farm, established an early tannery, and kept a tavern. He lived to ninety-four years. John Southworth married a daughter of Judge Ellis, and became a large landholder and one of the wealthiest men in this section. He died at the age of eighty-two. (See biography.)
It is, of course, impossible to follow all the later settlements in this town to later times. Those already mentioned were not only the earli- est pioneers, but many of them and their descendants have been among the most prominent citizens of the town and contributed largely to its growth and prosperity. Many others are mentioned in the personal sketches relating to the town. Between 1800 and 1810 settlement was rapid, more so than in some of the other localities, and among other names which appear in records during the period mentioned are the following: William Garrison, Lewis Fortner, Wm. Harned, Joseph Schofield, Jacob Snyder, Samuel Hemingway, Amos Lewis, Isaiah Giles, David Lewis, Benjamin Jennings, Obadiah Brown, John Conk- lin, Samuel Clark, Wm. Smith, Job Carr, Peleg Carr, Caleb Carr, Na- than Legg, James McElheny, Daniel Ogden, Israel Southwick, Morris Bailey, Peter Bush, Nathaniel Luther, Enoch Pixley, Ichabod Barnes, Israel Brown, John Waldron, John Wickham, Richard White, Jonathan Luce, Asahel Bouton, Obadiah Brown, jr., Joel George, John Cornelius, Henry Teeter, Benjamin Genung, Ichabod Parmeter, Samuel Girvin, Zephaniah Brown, Geo. Gray, Stephen and James Yeomans, Nicholas Hile, Abraham Hoagland, Benjamin Fulkerson, John Mineah, John Horner, Luther Weeks, Abner Carpenter, Aaron Case, Wm. Miller, Ithamar Whipple, Elijah Dimmick, Timothy Owens, Abraham Wood- cock, and others, many of whom are mentioned in Part III of this work. Most of these were in the town prior to 1807-8.
The war of 1812 caused a slight check in immigration, but succeed- ing that event the influx of population continued unabated.
John Hiles, from New Jersey, came to the town in 1814, settled on Fall Creek, but afterwards located at the foot of Dryden Lake, where he built and operated one of the largest saw mills in this section. He was father of Andrew Hiles, and died in 1865. David J. Baker came from Homer, Cortland county, and located at Dryden village in 1816,
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and became somewhat conspicuous. Rice Weed, from Connecticut, settled in Chenango county, but removed to Etna in 1816 where he was postmaster and justice of the peace.
Elias W. Cady came in from Columbia county, N. Y., in 1816 and settled on the farm where he lived many years. He was of English ancestry. Mr. Cady became one of the most successful farmers in this county and owned about 700 acres. He was also prominent in all pub- lic affairs, was supervisor two terms, served in the State Legislature in 1850 and 1857.
Paul Ewers, a Revolutionary soldier, came to Dryden from Cayuga county in 1813 and settled where members of his family lived in recent years. He was father of Paul, jr., who spent a long life in the town. Other later settlers were Jacob Lumbard, 1822; William Hanford, 1823; Captain John Gardner, 1823; Jacob Stickles, 1833; George B. Guinnip, James W. Montgomery, Jeremiah W. Dwight and others.
Isaac and John Teers, brothers, settled carly in that part of Dryden called "Irish Settlement." Isaac was the father of Henry Tecrs, a blacksmith at Mott's Corners, and at one time supervisor of Caroline. He went to Michigan and died there, John Teers eventually moved to near Ithaca, where he died. He was father of William Teers.
About the year 1832-3 two brothers named Elliot (one of them being Henry) settled in Dryden, and in the spring of 1835 Horton Hunt settled in the same locality. Michael Overacker was about the first settler in that neighborhood, and all of these were from Rensselaer county. There were only two or three cleared fields in that section when Mr. Hunt came in.
John McGraw was born in Dryden May 22, 1815, and in early life entered into business connection with his brother and John Southworth. It has been written of him that he was distinguished for his rare busi- ness qualities and his comprehensive grasp of large and complicated enterprises. Careful in planning, the most minute details were not overlooked in his estimates, and when he once formed his plan no ordinary obstacle could thwart him in its execution. As a merchant he was a success; as an extensive land owner and operator he had no rival. Early engaging, in connection with his father-in-law, John Southworth, in the lumber business, he cstablished extensive mills, and they became the owners of a large tract of pine timber lands in Allegany county, N. Y., from which they accumulated a very satis- factory estate for ordinary business men, but John McGraw's resistless
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and untiring energy kept pace with his increasing financial prosperity and he invested and handled hundreds of thousands of dollars up to millions with the ease and sagacity and with less fret and wear to his evenly poised and balanced mind than usually attends the investment of a few thousand dollars by other men. He seldom became excited or hurried. He kept his business always in hand, and controlled and directed the largest operations with but slight friction. In a word, John McGraw was, in military parlance, a financial general, and having formed his plan of battle he moved his troops with the skill of a field marshal, and usually to a successful victory over every obstacle inter- cepting his line of march. Discomfitures which would have disheart- ened other men did not seem to divert him or retard his more resolute action in his onward advance.
His marked characteristics were not demonstrative. He was kind, affable, bold, resolute, but cautious, of great force and sagacity, and with it all his heart was as sympathetic and tender as a woman's. Honest, prompt in decision and action, his presence inspired hope. He made few professions, but his fidelity to a friend was the test of a char- acter anchored in truth and honor.
His large investments in Western lands and productive property left an estate at his death (which occurred at Ithaca, May 4, 1877, at the age of sixty-two) of over two millions of dollars. But no tribute to his memory can add to the monument his munificent gifts to Cornell University erected on the campus-the McGraw Building, at an ex- pense of $250,000. So long as a student attends the university, as the long roll of honor receives new accessions, each will bear to his dis- tant home, with fondest recollections of his alma mater, the cherished name and memory of John McGraw, the donor of that grand library building, within whose alcoves shall be accumulated the best literature of the world, and the fountain from which shall flow the grand streams of knowledge and the highest culture of the land.
Mr. McGraw married Miss Rhoda Southworth, eldest daughter of John Southworth, a lady of most amiable character, brilliant endow- ments of intellect, refinement and culture. She died in 1847, leaving an only daughter surviving her, Miss Jennie McGraw, the inheritor of the peculiar amiability, generous impulses, and intellectual graces of her mother. Miss McGraw became, at the death of her father, John McGraw, the sole heiress of a princely fortune, which, during her life, she dispensed in most munificent charities. Of a most delicate and
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frail constitution, she sought health by foreign travel, and for several years spent a great portion of her time in England and on the con- tinent in pursuit of health, but in all her protracted suffering the warmth of her heart never cooled, nor did she forget her home or the host of friends she left behind her. On her last visit abroad she was married to Professer Willard Fiskc, of Cornell University, and after spending a year abroad she returned home. It was hoped that her native air would restore her to health, but the fondest wishes of those who knew her best and loved her most were doomed to disappointment, and she died surrounded by the friends of her youth and in the midst of the scenes and associations where in life she most loved to dwell. Her remains repose beside the ashes of her father in Ithaca's sacred keeping.
The munificent gifts of the father and daughter to Cornell University and other charitable bequests will be a grander memorial than marble sculptured shaft or monumental urn. No words can add to their memory, while on their forehead has fallen the golden dawning of a grander day, and though friendship, when it recalls their names, gets no answer from the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead, yet faith sees their risen star, and listening love, standing by their graves, shall hear the flutter of a wing above their silent and honored dust.
In closing this hasty review, we will not omit the name of Hon. J. W. Dwight, another of the prominent citizens who, for many years, was one of the most prosperous and sagacious business men, conduct- ing for years an extensive store and business with success, wielding a large and influential power in the prosperity of the town. Commencing his political life as supervisor of his town, he represented the county in the State Legislature in 1860 and 1861, and the twenty-eighth district in the forty-fifth Congress-1877 to 1879-and was returned to the forty- sixth Congress. He was elected for a third term to the forty-seventh Congress by a largely increased majority. (See biography).
Biographical and personal sketches of a great number of the prom- inent dwellers in this town, both living and dead, will be found in the second and third part of this work.
In comparatively recent times the town of Dryden has been one of the most progressive in this county. Its agricultural communities have been prosperous and quick to adopt improvements and advanced meth- ods, while its business men have been generally conservative and sic- cessful. The opening of the Southern Central Railroad conferred upon
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the people as a whole large benefit, giving the producers easier access to markets and better facilities to business men for importing their wares. Educational and religious institutions have been established to meet the enlightened sentiments of the people.
In the war of the Rebellion this town was behind no other in its spirit of patriotism and its activity in response to the calls of the imperiled government for volunteers. One hundred and forty-nine brave men went forward to do battle for the Union, many of whom gave up their lives for the cause. The town paid about $90,000 in bounties.
The first town meeting was held at the house of George Robertson, March 1, 1803, where the following officers were elected: Supervisor, George Robertson; town clerk, Joel Hull; assessors, John Ellis, Joel Hull, Peleg Ellis; constable and collector, Daniel Lacy; poormasters, William Garrison, Philip S. Robertson; commissioners of highways, Lewis Fortner, Ezekiel Sandford, William Harned; fence viewers and overseers of highways, Amnah Peet, Ebenezer Clauson, David Foot, Joseph Schofield; poundmaster, John Montgomery.
Following is a list of supervisors of the town from its organization to the present, as far as they can be obtained. The town records were burned in 1877, and the list had, therefore, to be made up partly from other sources :
1803. George Robertson.
1849. Hiram Snyder.
1804. John Ellis.
1850. Charles Givens.
1805. William Miller.
1851-53. Smith Robertson.
1806-12. John Ellis.
1854-56. Hiram Snyder.
1813. Jesse Stout.
1857-58. Jeremiah W. Dwight.
1814. John Ellis.
1815. Parley Whitmore.
1862. Caleb Bartholomew.
1816. John Ellis.
1863-65. Luther Griswold.
1817. Parley Whitmore.
1866-71. John M. Smith.
1818-34. John Ellis.
1872-73. James H. George.
1835-37. Joshua Phillips.
1874. E. R. Wade.
1838. John Ellis.
1875-79. Harrison Marvin.
1839. Joshua Phillips.
1880-81. James H. George.
1840-41. Elias W. Cady.
1882-83. George M. Rockwell.
1842-43. Henry B. Weaver.
1884-85. James H. George.
1844. Jeremiah Synder.
1886-87. George M. Rockwell.
1845-47. Wessels S. Middaugh.
1888-94. John H. Kennedy.
1848. Albert J. Twogood.
1859-61. Lemi Grover.
Following are the officers of the town for 1894: John H. Kennedy, supervisor, Dryden; John M. Ellis, town clerk, Dryden; Everett F.
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Weaver, collector, Etna; George E. Underwood, justice of the peace, Varna; James C. Lormor, constable, Dryden; Everett F. Weaver, constable, Etna; Francis E. Ellis, constable, Varna; Alonzo Hart, constable, West Dryden; Herman A. Strong, constable, Freeville.
STATISTICS .- The supervisors' report for 1893 gives the number of acres in this town as 58,192; assessed value of real estate, including village property and real estate of corporations, $1,051,895; total as- sessed value of personal property, $75,054; amount of town taxes, $4,394.12; amount of county taxes, $4,272.92; aggregate taxation, $12,948.80; rate of tax on $1 valuation, .0113. Corporations-Southern Central Division Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, assessed value of real estate, $41,270; amount of tax, $466.35. E., C. & N. Railroad Company, $55,250; amount of tax, $624.33. D., L. & W. Railroad Company, $1,980; amount of tax, $22.38. American Telegraph and Telephone Company, $2,550; amount of tax, $28.82. W. U. Telegraph Company, $660; amount of tax, $7.46. N. Y. & P. Telegraph and Telephone Company, $450; amount of tax, $5.08. Barnard Washing Machine Company, $500; amount of tax, $5.65. Farmers' Dairy Dispatch, $300; amount of tax, $3.39. Dryden Opera House Com- pany, $100; amount of tax, $1.13.
DRYDEN VILLAGE.
The researches of Charles F. Mulks (now of Ithaca) give us the fol- lowing memoranda of the four lots which included the site of Dryden village. They were lots 38, 39, and 48 and 49.
Lot 38 was drawn by Andrew Fink, captain in the First Regiment, and was claimed by him without contest.
No. 39 was drawn by Bartholomew Van Denburgh, ensign in the Second Regiment. Fifty acres were sold by the surveyor-general to William Gilliland and elaimed by him and John Dickinson. Fifty acres sold by the surveyor-general to Robert McClallan. The title is de- duced by patent from the surveyor-general to William Gilliland and John Dickinson for fifty acres on southeast corner of this lot.
Lot 48, drawn by Walter Brooker, Second Regiment; claimed by John Lawrence; certificate of patent for 600 acres. Deed from Walter Brooker to Alexander McDougal (major-general), November 24, 1785, recorded in secretary's office. Same title deduced to John Lawrence and awarded to him.
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Lot 49, drawn by Elias Larraby, Second Regiment; claimed by Samuel Dexter, jr. One hundred acres sold by the surveyor-general to James Fairlie, of Kinderhook. He sold his land to Stephen Hoge- boom the year after the war for eight pounds. Certificate of patent 9th of July, 1790, 500 acres. There was litigation over this claim by Larraby. Deed of 500 acres from Jeremiah Van Rensselaer and Abra- ham Ten Eyck to Samuel Dexter, jr., 10th December, 1799. Deed for 500 acres from Elias Larraby to Edward Cumpton, December, 23, 1783, proved by Rymer Vischer, who knew the grantor. Award not noted.
Lot No. 63 was drawn as a gospel and school lot. At the annual town meeting in 1818 it was voted that the whole amount of money belonging to this lot be applied to the common schools, except six cents, and that be paid when called for the support of- the gospel.
The pleasant and enterprising village of Dryden is situated on the south branch of Fall Creek in the eastern part of the town and the Owego and Auburn branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The village has always been prosperous, considering its size, and has been the home of several of the most distinguished citizens of Tompkins county. The site of the village was originally mostly owned by Ben- jamin Lacy, Edward Griswold and Nathaniel Shelden, whose settle- ments here have been described. Amos Sweet built the first dwelling on the village site.
In the early years there was considerable strife as to whether this point or Willow Glen should be the site of the principal village of the town. Quite a number of prominent and enterprising settlers had located at the latter point, and it was, of course, important to them to build up the nucleus of a village there. To this end Joel Hull opened a store there in 1802, which was the first one in the town. He was a practical surveyor and a man of considerable influence in early years. By the energy and activity of the settlers on the site of the present village, shops, stores and taverns were established and the tide of settlement turned this way. So deeply interested in this matter was Edward Griswold that it is said that he gave a blacksmith forty acres of land to locate his shop here. Mr. Griswold was also instrumental in establishing a store which was managed for a time by Parley Whit- more. The other early settlers before mentioned were equally zealous in efforts to bring business and population to this point. These im- provements and the building of the Presbyterian church in 1821 settled
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the fate of Willow Glen. A school was opened in Amos Sweet's dwell- ing in 1802, and the Baptist religious society was organized in 1804. Nathaniel Shelden was a physician, the first one to locate here, and Dr. John Taylor came soon afterward. The first marriage is believed to have been that of Ruloff Whitney to Susan Glenny, of Virgil, in 1800.
The growth of the young village was of course slow, but it was steady and encouraging. Ruloff Whitney had a saw mill in operation early, and Hooker Ballard was keeping the tavern in 1816. Among others who had become resident in the village by the year 1816 were James H. Hurd, cabinetmaker; Dr. John Taylor, David Foote, farmer, half a mile east of the village. Nehemiah Tucker, farmer; Abraham Griswold, farmer; Ruloff Whitney, saw mill; Thomas L. Bishop, saw mill; Jesse B. Bartholomew, distiller; Benjamin, Richard and James Lacy, brothers, farmers. Deacon Wheeler, farmer, lived half a mile northwest of the village. Timothy Stove, cabinetmaker; Edward Griswold, farmer, half a mile north of the village. Ebenezer Tuttle, carpenter and builder; Daniel Z. Vleit, farmer; Joshua Holt, groceries; Parley Whitmore, merchant and postmaster; Michael Thomas, half a mile south of the village. Dr. John Phillips; Nathan Goddard, farmer; Jedediah Phelps, brickmaker, and David J. Baker. Selden Marvin lived one mile north of the village.
Besides the numerous saw mills that were early established in the town, other manufactures were begun. The father of John H. and William Kennedy established a large tannery in 1835, which has con- tinued in operation ever since, being now conducted under the firm name of Kennedy Brothers, with John H. Kennedy as surviving partner. The tannery was transferred from the father to the sons in 1867.
A woolen mill was started in the village at an early day, and was re- established in 1862 by Erastus Rockwell. This mill long had an ex- tended reputation for the production of fine cloths, and turned out 60,000 yards annually. E. S. Rockwell and George M. Rockwell are sons of Erastus, and the mill passed to their control in 1870, under the firm name of E. S. Rockwell & Brother. The senior of the firm pur- chased a large mill at Tiffin, O., in 1883, and the business in Dryden continued under the style of G. M. Rockwell & Co. (E. S. Rockwell constituting the company) until 1891, when the Dryden Woolen Com- pany was incorporated; capital, $50,000. In December, 1892, the 33
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business failed, owing to the depressed and uncertain condition of the trade.
Mercantile operations had meanwhile been extended in the village to meet the needs of the surrounding country. The reader will find among the personal sketches pertaining to this town, in another part of this work, the names of many past and present merchants who have carried on business with success in Dryden, and some of whom were well known throughout Central New York.
The post-office at Dryden was established about the year 1815, and in 1817 the mail was carried through from Oxford, Chenango county, over the Chaplin turnpike to Ithaca by a footman. The first stage began running between Homer and Ithaca, passing through Dryden, about the year 1824. The present postmaster is W. H. Sandwick.
In 1857, when the population of the village had reached about 400, measures were inaugurated for its incorporation. A petition signed by Thomas J. McElheny, I. P. Ferguson, George Schenck, Lewis Barton, Freeman Stebbins, H. W. Sears, W. W. Tanner, David J. Baker, N. L. Bates, Abraham Tanner, J. W. Dwight, and fifty-eight others, was presented to Hon. S. P. Wisner, then county judge of Tompkins coun- ty, and on the 3d of June, 1857, he issued an order that all the territory described in the petition (said to embrace 99914 acres) be declared an incorporated village called Dryden village, if the electors should assent thereto. It was also ordered that Edwin Fitts, John B. Sweetland and S. D. Hamblin should be authorized to call an election and act as in- spectors. The election was held July 7, 1857, and the whole number of votes cast was 112, of which seventy-eight were in favor of incorpo- ration. The first election of village officers was held on August 15, when the following persons were chosen : David P. Goodhue, Rochester Marsh, William W. Tanner, John B. Sweetland and Isaac Ford, trus- tees; Augustus H. Phillips, Orrin W. Wheeler, John C. Lacy, assessors; Godfrey Sharp, collector; Horace G. Fitts, treasurer; Thomas J. Mc- Elheny, clerk; Godfrey Sharp, poundmaster.
David P. Goodhuc was elected the first president of the village.
The charter of 1857 remained in force until 1865, when a reincorpora- tion took place under a special act of the Legislature. (See Session Laws of that year, chapter 302).
The officers of the village at the present time are: President, George E. Goodrich ; trustees, Frank D. Hill, C. D. Hill, E. Davis Allen, George Cole, Charles B. Tanner, George H. Hart; assessor, J. E. Mc-
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Elheny ; treasurer, J. H. Pratt; clerk, D. T. Wheeler; water commis- sioners, J. H. Kennedy, George E. Monroe, A. M. Clark.
Following is a list of the presidents of the village from 1857 to the present time :
1857-58. David P. Goodhne.
1859. Freeman Stebbins.
1843. Rochester Marsh. 1874-75. G. H. Sperry.
1860. Lewis Barton.
1876. Harrison Marvin.
1861. Freeman Stebbins.
1877. George E. Goodrich.
1862. John C. Lacy.
1878. John E. McElheny.
1863. John Perrigo.
1879-80. John H. Pratt.
1864. John W. Phillips.
1881. John H. Kennedy.
1865-66. Rochester Marsh.
1882-83. Erastus H. Lord.
1867. Eli A. Spear.
1884-85. Daniel R. Montgomery.
1868. D. Bartholomew.
1886. Albert J. Baker.
1869. George H. Washburn.
1887-88. John H. Kennedy.
1870. Alvin Cole.
1889-90. Daniel R. Montgomery.
1871-72. John Kennedy.
1891-94. George E. Goodrich.
The first newspaper published in Dryden was called Rumsey's Companion, and was started in 1856 by Henry D. Rumsey ; this paper and its successors is described in an earlier chapter of this work.
For many years the educational facilities of the village were limited to the common schools. The town at large was divided into fourteen school districts by the school commissioners on September 24, 1814. These commissioners were Joshua Phillips, Peleg Ellis and John Ellis. In all of the present school districts of the town there are comfortable school houses. In 1862 a building was erected by Profes- sor Graves in the southeast part of the village, wherein the " Dryden Academy " was conducted with good success for about ten years. After the introduction of the Union Free School system in 1871, the building was purchased by the Board of Education. The Union School and academy are now under the principalship of Prof. M. J. Fletcher, who has supplied the following brief comparative statistics for the years 1888-89 and 1893-94: The population of the district during this period has remained about stationary, and the school attendance in the lower grades has been generally uniform. In the academic department the fall term of 1888 opened with 23 pupils and without an academic assist- ant; the fall term of 1893 opened with 53 pupils, a teachers' training class and two academic assistants. The total number of pupils enrolled during the first two terms of 1888-89 was 35, of whom 13 were non- resident; total number enrolled the first two terms of 1893-94 was 15,
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of whom 41 were non-resident. Total non-resident attendance in whole school during first two terms of 1888-89 was 17; total during same time in 1893-94 was 50. The total of tuition bills for first two terms of 1888-89 from non-resident pupils was $208; during the same time 1894, $458. To this must be added an income of $190 for teach- ers' training class, while the Regents' literature fund has increased from $141 in 1888, to $232 in 1893. The number of students graduated during the six years from 1883 to 1888 was 13; the number during the six years from 1888 to 1894 inclusive was 27 (counting five graduates for present year-1894).
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