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CHAPTER XXII.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MACEDON.
Macedon, the southwest corner town in Wayne county, was formed from the western part of Palmyra on the 29th of January, 1823. It has an area of 23,040 acres, and is divided into seventy-two parallelogram lots containing 320 acres each. The surface, which is rolling and irregular, is drained by Ganargwa (Mud) and Spring Creeks, the former flowing easterly through the southeast part of Macedon and the village corporation, and affording excellent mill sites. Spring Creek also flows easterly through the north part of the town, and both streams pass into the town of Palmyra north of Palmyra village. West of Macedon village, extending to the county line, is an extensive swamp covering 560 acres, some of which has been reclaimed into comparatively good farming land.
The soil is generally well adapted to agricultural purposes. North of the Erie Canal it is principally a gravelly and clayey loam, while south of that waterway it is largely a sandy formation. Fertile and generally
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susceptible of easy cultivation, it produces abundant crops of grain, potatoes, hay, and fruit, which constitute the chief products. In late years fruit-growing has received considerable attention and proves fairly successful. Peppermint is also grown in considerable quantities.
The town was originally covered with a heavy growth of timber, con- sisting of beech, oak, whitewood, and maple, nearly all of which has been cut down and converted into lumber and firewood. The lumber business, while it continued, supplied work for several local saw mills, but these have all either gone down or been removed. As an example of the great height attained by some of the trees of this section, it is remembered that a stately maple, long since leveled by the wind, once towered erect on the summit of Ramsdell hill and from many miles around was distinctly visible, a beacon for the pioneer.
The first town meeting for the town of Macedon convened at the house of Lydia Porter on February 11, 1823, at which the following officers were chosen: Abraham Spear, supervisor; John Lapham, town clerk; Asa B. Smith, William B. Capron, Calvin Bradish, assessors; George Crane, Ira Lapham, Isaac Durfee, highway commissioners; Isaac Durfee and George Crane, overseers of the poor; Stephen Spear, collector; Jonathan Ramsdell, Charles Bradish, Thomas C. Hance, . commissioners of common schools; William P. Richardson, Bernard Beal, Alexis Packard, inspectors of common schools; Otis Southworth, Bernard Cook, Ira Hill, constables. It was voted that "three per cent. be paid for collecting taxes." At the annual town meeting held at the dwelling of Abner Hill on the first Tuesday in April following, these same officers were regularly elected.
The supervisors of this town have been as follows:
Abraham Spear, 1823-25, Charles Bradish, 1826, A. Spear, 1827-28, George Crane, 1829 -31, A. Spear, 1832-33, John Lapham, 1834, Charles Bradish, 1835, Isaac Durfee, 1836 37, C. Bradish, 1838 40, Thomas Barnes, 18:41- 43, Allen C. Purdy, 1814 15, J. Lapham, 1816 47, . Abial D. Gage, 1818, Samuel Everett, 1849,
Nathan Lapham, 1850, Evert Bogardus, 1851-52, A tie vote in 1853, and A. P. Ran- dall was appointed and served until 1854, Stephen L: Ramsdell, 1855, G. C. Everett was chosen at a special town meeting in 1856, and at a regular meeting Pur- dy M. Willitts, Lemuel Durfee, 1857, Joab S. Biddlecom, 1858 60, Thomas W. Mead, 1861-63, Robert H. Jones, 1864-65,
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Marvin A. Eddy, 1866,
Charles B. Herendeen, 1877-79,
Walter W. Brace, 1867,
Iliram C. Durfee, 1880-81,
II. H. Hoag, 1868-69,
Daniel S. Shourds, 1882,
Lyman Bickford, 1870-72,
George W. Kirkpatrick, 1883-84,
W. W. Mumford, 1873.
Isaac Dean, 1885-87,
L. Bickford, 1874,
Henry J. Breese, 1888-89,
W. W. Mumford, 1875, Jeremiah Thistlethwaite, 1876,
William B. Billings, 1890-93, Frank W. Hawes, 1894.
The town officers for 1894 are: Frank W. Hawes, supervisor; George Boughton, town clerk; Charles T. Jennings, W. F. Woods, Albert II. Breese, J. E. Baker, justices of the peace; Charles R. Whitehead. as- sessor ; George Krauss, collector ; Isaac R. Hoag, highway commissioner : Edson J. Corser, overseer of the poor.
In 1858 there were in Macedon 18, 674 acres improved land 1, 249 male and 1,185 female inhabitants, 453 dwellings, 493 families, 366 free- holders, 14 school districts, 815 school children, 909 horses, 1,329 work - ing oxen and calves, 953 cows, 10,288 sheep, and 1,924 swine. The as- sessed valuation of real estate was $951, 179, and of personal property $121,640. During that year there were produced 25, 787 bushels win- ter and 110,900 bushels spring wheat, 3,163 tons hay, 16,777 bushels potatoes, 27, 949 bushels apples, 77,662 pounds butter, 9,900 pounds cheese, and 32 yards domestic cloths.
In 1890 the town had a population of 2,564 or 307 less than in 1880. In 1893 its real estate was assessed at $1,044,134 (equalized $990,308); personal property, $148, 125; village and mill property, $215, 280 (equalized $206, 121); railroads and telegraphs, $584,504 (equalized $517. 112). Total assessed valuation, $1,992,048 (equalized $1,891, 696). Schedule of taxes, 1893: Contingent fund, $1,015.71; town poor fund, $400; special tax, $25; school tax, $1, 630.78; county tax, $4, 141.09; State tax, $2, 281.97; State insane tax, $588, 70; dog tax, $249. Total tax levied, $10,839.19; rate per cent., .00544124. The town has two election districts and in 1893 polled 416 votes.
The earliest settlements in this town were made in the vicinity of Macedon village along the Palmyra-Pittsford road, the pioneers being principally from New England. Practically the town's development dates from the commencement of the Erie Canal, which traverses Macedon from east to west through nearly its central part. New comers after the completion of that great waterway in 1825 thence- forward came in easier and more rapidly. The construction of the main line of the New York Central Railroad, running almost parallel
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with the canal, lent a new impetus to the town's business interests and ever afterwards assured it a commercial importance that has been steadly maintained and improved. A third commercial improvement was inaugurated in 1883 in the construction of the West Shore Rail- road, which in 1885 passed under control of the first named corpora- tion as lessees. Both of these railroads run through the central part of the town just north of Macedon village.
The first settler in Macedon was Webb Harwood, who came with his family from Massachusetts in 1789, making the journey with an ox team and wagon in forty-six days. He settled in the east part of the town, cleared a small plat, built a rude log cabin, and lived there many years. Mr. Harwood died in 1824, and the family finally went west. Ebenezer Reed, also from Massachusetts, probably arrived in the same year, and lived neighbor to Harwood.
Israel Delano was a settler of 1790; he located in the south part of the town and soon afterward died, and is said to have been the first white man to die in Macedon. Darius Comstock reared a family here and subsequently went to Michigan. His daughter Hannah was born in 1793, and was the first female white child born in town. Paul Reed was another pioneer of about this period.
Abraham Spear settled with his family in Macedon in 1791, purchas- ing 500 acres of land in the cast part of the town. He died soon after- ward, and his farm passed to his sons, Abraham, jr., Ebenezer and Isaac. The first of these three became the first supervisor of the town and was otherwise prominent in local affairs. Jonathan Warner, Abner Hill, Constant Southard, Barnabas Brown, Jacob Gannett, and David White were also early settlers. Mr. Gannett, in 1801, built the first grist mill in town on Ganargwa Creek. A son was born to him in 1791, who was the first white child born in Macedon.
William Porter, who settled in the west part of the town on a farm subsequently owned by Hon. John Lapham, owned the first tavern in Macedon prior to 1810, and continued as its landlord until his death in 1825. This was a two-story frame structure and in a remodeled form was long used as a residence. In 1812 Ebenezer Spear, above men- tioned, opened a second hotel, but a few years later it was changed to a dwelling and is still used for that purpose.
Hon. John Lapham came to Palmyra with his father in 1796; after his marriage in 1818 to Saloma, daughter of William and Lydia Porter, he removed to Macedon, and lived here until his death July 4, 1867.
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He was several times elected supervisor and in 1847 was chosen mem- ber of Assembly from Wayne county. He had nine children, of whom Stephen W. still resides in town. Mrs. Lapham died in Macedon vil- lage several years ago. Two other settlers of this period were Ber- nard Beal, one of the first school inspectors, and Henry Wilber. Mr. Beal was the father of Ira and De Witt Beal, who lived on the home- stead. Emery Beal still lives in the town.
Among the new comers of 1792 were John Bradish and his family, consisting of his wife and sons Calvin, Luther and Charles. Luther was elected lieutenant-governor of this State, and died in New York city; Charles and Calvin moved to Michigan and died there.
Bartimeus, Cyrus, and John Packard, three brothers, after a journey of six weeks with ox teams, arrived here February 22, 1992. Barnabas Packard, their father, had preceded them and bought 640 acres of land upon which the sons located, paying 183/4 cents per acre. Cyrus died in Perinton. Bartimeus died September 10, 1854, on the homestead now occupied by his grandson. John died in Michigan. F. C. John- son, great-grandson of the latter, is ex-postmaster and a merchant in Macedon village.
In 1793 David Warner came to Macedon, returned east to winter, came again the next spring, and soon afterward married. Nahum Warner, his son, died here a few years since. Deacon Noah Porter settled on a part of the farm recently occupied by ex-Sheriff William P. Nottingham. Other settlers of about this time were Bernard Bates, and Barnett and Stephen Peters. Thomas Bussey settled east of Macedon Center in 1994. Of his large family Mrs. Perry (afterwards Mrs. Gannett) and Mrs. Lapham died in town some years since.
An early and perhaps the earliest physician was Dr. Gain Robinson, who settled near the east line of the town on the farm now owned by a son of David Aldrich. In 1821 Dr. Plunkett Richardson located on the Durfee farm and practiced medicine until his death in 1833. In 1826 Dr. Benjamin W. Dean became a physician at the Center.
Abraham Lapham came to this town with his family in 1795, and settled on the farm lately owned by Zachariah Van Duzer. The first person baptized in Macedon was the wife of Joseph Finkham, a pioneer, the ceremony being performed in 1797 by an Irish missionary. Mr. Finkham paid two shillings an aere for fifty acres, on which farm he died. .
Among the early settlers of 1795 were Benjamin and Jonathan Wood,
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Nathan and John Comstock, the father of Hector Turner, and N. Dick- inson. William F. Dickinson, a son of the latter, died in Macedon vil- lage several years ago.
In 1796 Deacon Palmer settled on a large farm in the northeast part of the town and died there. A son now resides in the town. Ephraim Green located where his son Almon afterwards lived. A son of the latter was a clerk in the State Legislature several years, and another is now station agent at West Walworth.
George Crane, Bartlett Robinson (a mechanic and pioneer builder), Brice Aldrich, and Ethan Lapham were settlers of 1800. Lewis and Morgan Robinson, sons of Bartlett, also settled permanently in town, and Mrs. Arnold Bristol, a daughter of Brice Aldrich, is still living here. . Robert Teadman came from Rhode Island in 1810 and bought 140 acres now owned by Mrs. George Frey.
The first blacksmith in town was Walter Walker, who opened a shop about 1805, on or near the place now owned by the heirs of Abel Run- yan. Mr. Walker was soon succeeded by Daniel Kimball.
One of the pioneer orchards was set out about 1795 by Abraham Lapham; another covering seven acres was set at an early day by Nathan Comstock, on the farm now owned by Martin Weedrick. This latter orchard during many years bore the only grafted fruit in the town. Mr. Lapham built the first frame house in Macedon prior to 1800. It was repaired, removed, and again repaired and now stands on John HI. Murphy's farm.
Prominent among other early comers are the names of Ebenezer Still (a Revolutionary soldier), Asa Aldridge, Alexander Purdy, Dur- fee Osband, Walter Lawrence (whose son Walter resides on the home- stead), William Willits, Nathaniel Brailey, Artemas Ward, and Levi Camborn.
Thomas C. Hance came to Macedon from Maryland in 1817, and in the same year opened the first store in town. He continued business until 1825, when he purchased a farm near the Center, where he lived until his death, April 19, 1888, at the great age of 106 years. During the latter part of his life he resided with his son Abraham. Another pioneer merchant was Israel Richardson.
Among the oldest frame dwellings now tenanted are those occupied by the families of J. W. Arnold, Bartimeus Packard, and Israel Delano. On the exterior these residences have never been changed. The house of Monroe Carman is another old remodeled structure, as is also the
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one occupied by James Duggan, wherein occurred the death of Jona- than Ramsdell, the "Quaker preacher." Probably the oldest barn in the town is the one standing on the Bartimeus Packard place, which was erected in 1799.
In Part II of this work mention is made of many other pioneers and prominent citizens of the town; to these may be added the following names of others who are more or less conspicuous in later generations: William and Cyrus Packard, sons of Philander Packard; John G. Mead, son of Richard; B. S. Durfee, son of the late Stephen Durfee; William B. Billings, ex-supervisor; Charles T. Jennings, justice of the peace; Frank B. Hicks, ex-postmaster and merchant at the Center; George Marshall, son of John C. ; the Hance brothers, sons of Abraham, who died in December, 1893; Gideon Baker, a typical representative of the olden time; A. II. Briggs, justice of the peace; James Harbou, Joseph W. Bentley, De Witt C. Lapham, Thomas Bussey, Thomas Blaker, and Isaac Tallman, son of Darius, a true descendant of pioneer days.
The Durfee family was prominent in the early settlement of this town and among its representatives is Hiram C. Durfee. Charles B. Heren- deen, ex-supervisor, is a son of Charles B., sr., and grandson of Durfee Herendeen, whose father, Welcome, purchased 160 acres of land in Macedon in 1811, and died thereon in 1837. Welcome Herendeen mar- ried adaughter of Gideon Durfee. George Everett resided on the farm settled by his father, and died in Palmyra a few years since. Other prominent men who have long made this town their home are Joab Biddlecom, Silas N. Gallup, Lyman Bickford, Samuel Everett, Z. A. Van Duzer, Menzo and Samuel Smith, Gideon Smith, Daniel S. Shourds (nurserymen), David Cramer, Edwin Robinson, John Lane, Gilbert Budd, the Downing brothers (maltsters in Palmyra), Thomas Lampson, and Frank Allyn. These men, each in his own way, have contributed materially to the growth and welfare of the town.
The volunteers from the town of Macedon who participated in the war of the Rebellion numbered 167. Each and every one did valiant ser- vice in that sanguinary conflict, and the present generations proudly hon- ors their deeds of heroism. But few of the old veterans still remain among us, death having claimed many of their number smee their terms of active service expired.
Deacon Noah Porter, as early 1800, donated to the town the first plat for a burial place, situated about one mile east of Macedon Center, on land now owned by Edwin Robinson. It contains the undisturbed re-
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mains of many of the earlier pioneers and for ten years or more was the principal cemetery in Macedon. The Friends' burying ground at Macedon was opened prior to 1820, and is still in use.
The progress of education within the limits of this town is doubtless the best evidence of the unusual intelligence and refinement manifested by the present generation of inhabitants. It was prior to 1800 that the first school house was erected, a frame structure half a mile below the west lock, on the north side of the canal, in the corporation of Macedon village. Soon afterward it was removed by Deacon Noah Porter and made over into a residence.
In 1803 another frame school building was erected on property now owned by David Glossenger, but after a usefulness of three decades, it was torn down. John Brandish was the first teacher in that house.
In 1871 a graded school was established in Macedon village under the principalship of Prof. William Goodenough, in a building erected for a Union Free School. The present Union school house was built of brick in 1887-88, at a cost of $8,000. It is of one story and the school main- tains an academic department. The present Board of Education (1894) consists of Eli H. Gallup, president; William S. Eddy, secretary; Ira L. Purdy, Isaac Dean, and Carl C. Herendeen. George W. Boughton is treasurer. Four teachers are employed and George H. Cullings is principal. . The school district is free from debt.
On the northwest corner of Macedon Center there stood in early days a small public hostelry known as the Hollister House, a name sub- sequently changed to the Macedon Center House. After the opening of the canal this tavern was no longer prosperous, but it continued to entertain travelers and dispense liquor for several years afterward. William Barker about this time formed a plan to open a Friends' boarding school, but did not carry them out; yet the suggestion developed into the purchase on April 24, 1841, of John Gidersleeve of the old tavern property at a cost of $1, 150, the purchasers being Jonathan Ramsdell, Daniel T. Burton, and Durfee Osband. On the 11th of April, 1842, through Durfee, Osband, then member of Assembly, the Macedon Acad- emy was legally incorporated, and on September 13, Messrs. Ramsdell, Burton, and Osband deeded the property to the following trustees named in the charter: Thomas C. Hance, Thomas Barnes, Philander Packard, Ira Odell, William C. Johnston, Evert Bogardus, Henry Tillou, John Johnston, James Cunningham, Israel Woolsey, Joshua Delong, John C. Marshall, John Van Vliet, Walter Johnson, and Caleb Van Duzer. On
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May 24, 1843, a strip of land two rods wide, west of the tavern lot, was bought by James T. Hoag, but afterwads a part of this was sold. In 1841, school was first opened in the old tavern with Eaton B. North- rop, principal, and Stephen Ramsdell and Austin Mandeville, assistants. Mr. Northrop died October 17, 1843, aged twenty-eight years. Sep- tember 14, 1842, it was resolved to build an extension for the academy proper, and use the old tavern for a boarding house. The contract was let to Evert Bogardus. The present building was erected in 1853, and
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the first session opened in it November ?, of that year, with 160 students. In 1859 the old academy was sold to Dr. Esten, removed to the site of William Barker's residence, and burned September 6, of the same year. In 1863 a commercial department was established in the academy. The boarding house (the old tavern) was destroyed by fire the next morning after the close of the fall term in November, 1873. The academy was founded by adherents of the doctrine of the Society of Friends, and for more than half a century has wielded a powerful influence in guiding the morals and elevating the standard of education in this section of Western New York. Plain and unpretentious in its outward appear- ance, its curriculum governed by strict rules sometimes locally termed "blue laws," fostered by the Board of Regents of the State, it has ever maintained an enviable prestige and flourished while many similar
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institutions succumbed to the changing status of state and society. The presidents of the Board of Trustees have been as follows:
Ira . Odell, 1842, J. M. Howland, 1852, A. 1 .. Hance, 1872,
Durfee Osband, 1845, T. J. Mead, 1856,
Philander Packard, 1846,
1. Whitcomb, 1857,
J. G. Mead, 1815, Isaac Baker, 1876,
Thomas Barnes, 1848, William Bloodgood, 1863, H. H. Hoag, 1883,
J. C. Marshall, 1849, Stephen Durfee, 1864, Burton S. Durfee, 1888-94.
Principals of the academy :
1841-42, Eaton B. Northrup,
1842-43, Eaton B. Northrup,
1843-44, Stephen Wood,
1870-71, George S. Andrews, 1871-72, Richard H. Dennis,
1844-45, Stephen Wood,
1872-73, Henrietta W. Downing,
1845-46, Stephen Wood, 1846-47, John W. Stebbins,
1847-48, John W. Stebbins,
1848-49, Hiram Wheeler, 1849-50, Samuel Centre,
1878-74, Andrew J. Nellis, 1814-75, J. Edmund Massee, 1875-76, J. Edmund Massee, 1876-77, V. A. Crandall,
1850-51, Samuel Centre,
1877-78, Byron C. Mathews, 1878-79, 1. D. Van Allen,
1851-52, Samuel Centre, 1852-53, Samuel Centre, 1853-54, William M. MeLaughlin,
1879-80, Frederick A. Hyde, 1880-81, Charles H. Boynton,
1854-55, Willism M. MeLaughlin,
1855-56, William M. MeLaughlin,
1856-57, Charles S. Halsey,
1857-58, Thomas McC. Ballantine,
1883-84, Margaret Jagger, 1884-85, Lewis HI. Clark, 1885-86, Lewis HI. Clark, 1886-87, Lewis II. Clark, 1887-88, Lewis H. Clark, 1888 89, Lewis H. Clark,
1861 62, Edwin B, Harvey,
1862 63, Charles S. Halsey, 1863-61, Charles S. Halsey,
1889 90, Lewis H. Clark, 1890-91, Lewis N. Clark, jr.,
1891-92, Cyrus S. Palmer.
1861 65, Charles S. Halsey, 1865-66, Gardner Fuller, 1866- 67, Gardner Fuller, 1867-68, James S. Lemon,
1892 93, Edwin W. Stevens, 1893-94, J. Carson Benedict.
The Board of Trustees for 1894-95 are:
Joseph W. Bentley, Darwin Eldridge,
Wilham B. Billings, Frank B. Hicks (secretary),
Benjamin C. Blaker, James Harbou,
Thomas R. Blaker, Myron L. Hoag,
Burton S. Durfee (president), Charles T. Jennings (treas- urer),
Dewitt C. Lapham, George Mansfield, Cyrus Packard, Isaac R. Hoag,
Charles II. Parker.
Honorary Members: Humphrey HI, Hoag, Gurdon T. Smith. Executive Commitee: Burton S. Durfee, Frank B. Hicks, Myron L. Hoag.
1881-82, Charles II. Boynton, 1882-83, Fred A. White,
1858-59, George H. Whitney, 1859 60, Brainerd Kellogg, 1860-61, Edwin B. Harvey,
1868-69, 11. George Miller, 1869-70, II. George Miller,
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Faculty: J. Carson Benedict, principal, Latin, psychology, mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Francis May Matteson, preceptress, German, drawing, ancient history, and higher English. Nellie V. Blaker, assistant, physiology, history, English, and civies, Mrs. Frances K. Mandeville, music.
Alumni Association (organized in 1884): Beal M. Smith, president; Lizzie J. Blaker, vice-president; Mina C. Packard, secretary ; Beal M. Smith, Lizzie J. Blaker, Charles B. Herendeen, Mina C. Packard, executive committee.
The town of Macedon has thirteen school districts, attended during the year 1892-93 by 595 children, and taught by fifteen teachers. The valuation of school buildings and sites aggregates $16,250; assessed valuation of the districts $1, 945,000; public money received from the State $1,934.02; amount raised by local tax $2, 423.40.
The Macedon Historical and Geographical Society was organized at the house of William C. Packard on February 1, 1894, with about twen- ty-five members, and with the following officers: Frank B. Hicks, pres- ident; Miss Ada E. Hance, vice-president; Miss Mina C. Packard, sec- retary ; Charles B. Herendeen, treasurer; Miss Nellie V. Blaker, libra- rian. Its object is to collect and preserve local history.
The first grist mill in town was built by Jacob Gannett in 1801, on his premises on Ganargwa Creek half a mile west of Macedon village. It had one run of stone. The mill race was constructed about 1825 as a feeder for the canal, and a few years later, about 1832, a Mr. Patter- son obtained the right of use of this raceway and bought and removed the Gannett mill to its present site in the village. Subsequent proprie- tors were Allen Purdy and John Willits, Ese Wilber, George Wilber, Russell Allen, Caldron White, and Mr. Allen again. In 1877 J. S. Biddlecom purchased the property and later transferred a one-half in- terest to his grandson, Bayard Biddlecom, making the firm J. S. Biddle- com & Co., who are the present proprietors. The building has been materially repaired, a full roller process substituted for the stones, and a saw mill added about 1878.
The frame grist mill near the Walworth town line, north of Walworth Station, is owned by the widow of John Craggs. It is operated by both steam and water power.
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