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The German Evangelical Association Church of Newark was organ- ized with twenty-seven members in 1845 by Rev. Philip Miller. Their house of worship was erected on Miller street in 1864 and consecrated by Rev. M. Fitzinger. The first pastor was Rev. M. Miller, and among his earlier successors were Revs. Jacob Siegrist, Jacob L. Jacoby, M. Lane, August Holzworth, and Charles Wissman. The present pastor is Rev. Fred Lahmeyer and the society's membership numbers about 100.
St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church of Newark was legally organized at the house of Esbon Blackmar on July 22, 1851, by Rev. Dr. Bissell, of Geneva. The first officers were Thomas Davis and Ebe-
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nezer Cressy, wardens; Esbon Blackmar, Fletcher Williams, George Perkins, David Mandeville, John Daggett, Clark Mason, A. W. Marsh, and Joel H. Prescott, vestrymen. Episcopal services had been held in Newark as early as 1830 by Rev. T. F. Wardwell, of Lyons, and the organization was made possible by the confirmation of a class by Bishop De Lancey in the old M. E. Church. August 15, 1851, a contract was let to George Perkins for a church edifice to cost $1, 725, exclusive of the spire, which was to be built by Fletcher Williams for $200. The building and lot cost $3, 174.27, the bell $300, and the organ, the gift of the Ladies' Society, $450. The church was consecrated by Bishop De Lancey on December 28, 1852; the building committee consisted of Esbon Blackmar, Fletcher Williams, and Joel H. Prescott. Rev. Charles W. Hayes was installed the first rector September 19, 1852, organized a Sunday school October 3, with Joel H. Prescott as super- intendent, and continued in charge until 1854, when Rev. Charles W. Homer assumed charge. Under him the first Christmas tree in Newark was uncovered at the rectory in 1855. Among his successors were Revs. William O. Gorham, John H. Rowling, P. T. Babbitt, W. J. Pigott, and John Leach. In 1876 a rectory was purchased for $3, 000. The parish has about eighty members with Rev. L. D. Van Dyke, D. D., as rector.
The Roman Catholic Church of Newark was established with about forty members in 1855, mainly through the efforts of Rev. Father Pur- cell, who was followed by Fathers Clark, Lee, Charles, S. M. Rimmels, and others. A frame edifice was built in 1855. The present pastor is Rev. D. W. Kavanaugh, of Lyons.
The First Baptist Church of Newark was first a removal and after- ward a reorganization of the society of this denomination in East Newark, previously detailed. The removal occurred in 1864, and in 1865 a church edifice was built at a cost of several thousand dollars. It ' stands on the south side of Miller street and was originally designated "Hope Chapel." In December, 1874, the society was reorganized under its present name, the first officers being Josiah Failing, Clark Phillips, Marvin I. Greenwood, Jesse G. Pitts, William Fisk, and T. Hunt, trustees; Clark Phillips, president; M. I. Greenwood, secretary; William Fisk, treasurer.' A parsonage was purchased for $1,700, and the pastor at the time of reorganization was Rev. V. Wilson. The society has about 190 members under the pastoral charge of Rev. F. W. Kneeland.
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The German Lutheran Church of East Newark was organized March 27, 1872. The original membership numbered twenty-seven; and the first meetings were held in the Baptist Church by Rev. C. C. Manz, a missionary, once in two weeks. The society has thirty five or forty members with Rev. Robert T. Vosberg as pastor. The Sunday school has an average attendance of forty scholars.
The Presbyterian Church of Fairville was constituted with eighteen persons March 31, 1860. Rev. Mr. Cushing, of Newark, had preached here in the school house and later in the M. E. Church, and was fol- lowed in 1859 by Rev. Mr. Holcomb. July 20, 1860, John Aiken ex- ecuted a deed of the present lot to Elon St. John, John Bockoven, William H. Van Inwagen, Franklin Koffman, and Charles E. Crandall, trustees, for $200. The building committee consisted of Elon St. John, John Bockoven, Marvin Lee, William H. Van Inwagen, and Charles E. Crandall. The contract was let August 24, 1861, to Elon St. John, for $2,500, and the corner stone was laid by Rev. Mr. Holcomb on October 2, 1861. The edifice was dedicated October 16, 1862, by Rev. Charles Hawley, of Auburn. January 1, 1866, the church was legally oganized by the Presbytery of Lyons with eighteen members, and with William II. Smith and Henry West as ruling elders. The first pastor was Rev. Mr. Young, the present incumbent being Rev. J. W. Low- den. The society has about seventy members.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Fairville was organized at a comparatively early date, and a house of worship erected in 1857. The society has about seventy-five members and a Sunday school with an average attendance of fifty scholars. . The pastor is Rev. Joseph Max- well.
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CHAPTER XXV.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MARION.
This town was formed from Williamson on the 18th of April, 1825, and originally was called "Winchester," which name was changed to Marion April 15, 1826. An interior township, nearly square, it lies west from the center of Wayne county, and is bounded on the north by Williamson, on the east by Sodus and Arcadia, on the south by Pal- myra, and on the west by Walworth. Its area embraces 17,391 acres.
Marion is one of the best farming towns in Wayne county. The sur- face is broken into a succession of drift hills and ridges, intervened with fruitful valleys, the whole being well adapted to agriculture. The soil is a gravelly loam and drift, and in the northern part is largely under- laid with a limestone formation. Drainage is afforded almost entirely by Red Creek, which has its source near the north boundary, flows southerly a little east of the center of the town, and passes into Pal- myra, emptying in the Ganargwa near East Palmyra village. This stream affords some good mill sites and has a number of small tributaries. Near the village of Marion is a sulphur spring, which produces a con- stant supply of water possessing valuable medicinal properties, but it has never been much utilized for medical treatment.
In common with adjacent divisions of Wayne county this town was originally covered with heavy timber which long gave profitable em- ployment to the early settlers. Much of it was burned for the ashes, but a considerable portion was converted into lumber, which brought into existence a number of saw mills. All of these long ago disappeared. The pioneers, as soon as land was cleared, devoted their efforts to raising wheat and other grain, and until late years this branch of farming pre- dominated. The growing of fruit, especially of apples, was also given carly attention, and during the last decade the culture of raspberries has been extensively developed. A large number of the farms of the present day support substantial dry-houses or evaporators.
The primitive log cabins of the first settlers were long since super- seded by modern dwellings, which the present generation surround
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with the comforts and luxuries of this age. Some of these are still oc- cupied as homesteads, but the inevitable changes of time have placed many in the hands of later comers. The older settlers, with few excep- tions, have passed away; but scattered here and there over the town are worthy descendants of those sturdy pioneers who endured the hard- ships of frontier life, subdued the wilderness, established homes, churches, and schools, and reared large families in the observances of the laws of modern civilization.
Tradition says that early settlers here sought the hills in preference to the more fertile valleys, and in consequence the first roads ran from summit to summit without any definite course, except to avoid as far as possible the wet low lands. The first highway through the town was the old Geneva and Canandaigua road, which passed through Palmyra and Marion to the upper corners; this was what is now the thoroughfare that runs northeasterly to East Williamson. The second road was an enlargement of the Indian trail, or the " old post route," leading from Canandaigua to Pultneyville, and continued northward from the Sodus road from Marion upper corners. The Sodus road was laid out by Capt. Charles Williamson in 1794. Considerable labor was expended in im- proving these and other early highways, and in this direction the town has constantly kept pace with the advancement in road making.
The town has never enjoyed the privileges of a railroad within its borders. Its inhabitants have always depended upon the more primi- tive means of transportation by teams, yet its productive soil, excellent educational facilities and many natural advantages have placed it in the front rank of interior civil divisions of the Empire State. Mails, passengers, freight, etc., are still conveyed by stage, principally be- tween Marion village and Palmyra. The nearest railroad stations are East Palmyra on the New York Central on the south and Williamstown on the R. W. and O. on the north.
The first annual town meeting of the town of Marion (then Winches- ter) was held, pursuant to an act passed by the Legislature in 1824, at the house of Daniel Wilcox, April 14, 1826, and the following officers were elected: Seth Eddy, supervisor; Samuel Moore, town clerk : Isaac R. Sanford, David Eddy, Thomas Lakey, assessors: Samuel Ball, collector; Samuel Dellano and Joseph Caldwell, overseers of the poor; Reuben Adams, jr., Peter Eddy, Benjamin Mason, highway commis- sioners; Samuel Ball and Jeremiah Angell, constables; Joseph Cald- well, Thomas Lakey, Samuel Moore, commissioners of common schools ;
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Jesse Mason, Homer Adams, James Smith, inspectors of public schools; Gideon Sherman, poundkeeper. The town then had thirty-five road districts and a pathmaster was subsequently appointed for each. Sam- uel Moore was town clerk until 1832, when he was succeeded by Elisha R. Wright. In 1850 a bounty of one shilling each was offered for all crows killed in town. The supervisors of Marion have been as fol- lows:
Seth Eddy, 1826,
Pardon Durfee, 1860-61, Ira Lakey, 1862-63,
Jesse Mason, 1827,
Isaac R. Sanford, 1828,
Orville Lewis, 1864-65,
Elias Durfee, 1829-33,
Nelson D. Young, 1866-69,
William R. Sanford, 1834,
Dwight Smith, 1870-72,
Elias Durfee, 1835,
Charles Tremain, 1873,
Marvin Rich, 1836,
Dwight Smith, 1874-75,
Elias Durfee, 1837-38,
Nelson D. Young, 1876-78,
Seth Eddy, 1839-40,
Henry R. Taber, 1879,
Ornon Archer, 1841-45,
Chester F. Sweezy, 1880-82,
Peter Boyce. 1846-47,
Henry R. Taber, 1883-86,
Nelson D. Young, 1848-49,
Seth B. Dean, 1887-88,
Oscar Howell, 1850-51,
Henry R. Taber, 1889-92,
Nelson D. Young, 1852-53,
Henry C. Allen, 1893,
Isaac A. Clark, 1851, Elias Durfee, 1855 59,
Henry R. Taber, 1894.
The town officers for 1894 are as follows: Henry R. Taber, super- visor; Richard B. McOmber, town clerk ; Myron J. Mersen, J. Smith Crane, Jefferson Sherman, Harmon S. Potter, justices of the peace; Sidney F. Durfee, Charles S. Pratt, George HI. Lookup, Charles L. Tas- sell, overseers of the poor; Isaac A. Johnson, commissioner of high- Ways; Horace A. Warner, collector.
The first settlement in this town was commenced' by Henry Lovell in 1795. He located on a farm now the south and west portions of Marion village, and his log house stood on the lot more recently owned by Buckley Newton. Mr. Lovell was a typical hunter and is said to have killed thirty deer in one day. A child born to him in 1795 lived but a few weeks; this was the first birth and the first death in town, and his only neighbors at the time were Daniel Powell and wife, who buried the babe on a knoll back of Lovell's house. Betsey Lovell, a daughter of Henry, was the second white child born in the town. Mr. Lovell finally removed to the west.
Daniel Powell, wife and eight children, came to Palmyra from Mass- achusetts in 1794 and removed to Marion in 1795. He was a wealthy
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man for those days, endowed with extraordinary strength and endu- rance, and eventually cleared over 500 acres in this town and William- son. In Marion he took up a farm of 126 acres, which he partially cleared, and sold it in 1816 to David Harding.
In 1795 David Sweezey came here with his family from New Jersey, making the entire trip in light boats, which were carried from stream to stream where necessary. He settled on a large farm in the south part of the town, upon which he lived until his death. After being owned by his heirs and others it ultimately came into the possession of D. F. Luce. Another settler of this year was Samuel C. Caldwell, also from New Jersey, who came hither by ox team and wagon. At his death a son succeeded him on the homestead.
Elizabeth Howell and David Sherman were married in the winter of 1794-95, and this was the first marriage celebrated in the town. Miss Howell came to Marion in the family of David Sweezey. Mr. Sher- man, a native of Rhode Island, came from Washington county, N. Y., to East Palmyra in 1791, but in the fall of that year returned east on foot. The next winter he moved to. East Palmyra with two yoke of oxen, and early in 1796 came thence to this town, settling on 100 acres of the Caldwell farm. This he soon sold to Samuel O. Caldwell. He purchased and cleared another farm, upon which he died and upon which he was succeeded by his son, Zepheniah, and the father of Jefferson Sherman.
Samuel O. Caldwell is reputed to have drawn the first load of goods from Canandaigua to Pultneyville for Capt. Charles Williamson, to whom he was introduced as "a man who could drive two yoke of oxen and a sled over logs two feet high." The trip was made in August in six days, with the above named outfit. In 1795 nearly every settler in this region was down with the fever and ague, and it is stated that Mr. Caldwell went to mill near Geneva for them all. He subsequently moved thither two families from Rhode Island and another from New Jersey with his ox teams.
Deacon Joseph Caldwell was born in Marion September 24, 1799, and died August 31, 1875. In 1829 he married Sarah Smith and had born to him three children, of whom the only son, Samuel G., was a graduate of Union College and of the Albany Law School, and became a banker in Omaha, Neb. Amanda M., one of the daughters, married John S. Rich, who settled in Marion village in 1851. Mr. Rich was assistant census marshal in 1860, deputy marshal for the northern district of New
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·York for several years, a special agent of the treasury department, and a life long Democrat. Deacon Caldwell was a graduate of the Univer- sity of North Carolina, deacon in the Congregational church over fifty years, a Republican in politics, and a leading agriculturist of the town and county.
Robert Springer, a Rhode Islander, came to this town about 1796, cleared a small plot, returned East, and the next year brought his family to his frontier home. His sons were Isaac, Richard, Robert, jr., Samuel, and Israel,
William B. Cogswell, another Rhode Islander, settled early in Marion and few years later took up a farm subsequently occupied by his son. Reuben Adams and son, Reuben, were also settlers of this period.
Among the comers during the years 1797, 1798, 1799, and later, were Luke Phelps and Harris Cooley, from Massachusetts; David and Will- iam Harding, from Rhode Island; Micajah Harding, Seth, William and David Eddy, John Harkness, from Massachusetts; Zadoc Huggins, Seth Harris, from Rhode Island; John Case, Jesse Harding, David Mason, Gideon Sherman, Zebina Crane, and Judge Marvin Rich. Luke Phelps was the first supervisor of the town of Williamson, and his sons, Jared and Ezra, became prominent in local affairs. Ezra was a surveyor and ran many of the original lot lines, laid out most of the early roads, and was for some time highway commissioner. His son, Deacon Ezra Phelps, succeeded him on the homestead. David and William Harding both died in town. Micajah Harding, prominent in civil and religious affairs, raised a company of sharpshooters and served in the war of 1812. The three Eddy's settled on what is called the Eddy ridge. Seth Eddy was the first supervisor of Marion, the first deacon of the Baptist church, and captain of a company of drafted men in the war of 1812. David Eddy became side judge. The children of John Hark- ness were: Seth E., Roswell, Leverett, William, and Mrs. S. Miller. Zadoc Huggins taught the first singing school, and John Case, a Methodist, was the first preacher in town. Seth Harris met his death by drowning in the lake. David Mason had three sons, John, Benja- min, and Jesse. The latter was endowed with exceptional ability. Zebina Crane, the father of Mrs. Daniel Dean, and the grandfather of Zebina Crane, died here in 1820. Judge Marvin Rich was a very prominent citizen and subsequently moved to Rochester.
Prior to 1812 the following, among others, settled in Marion : Stephen Sanford, from Rhode Island; Harvey Riley, father of Peleg, Hiram,
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and Rescom Riley, and Mrs. Van Ostram; William and Thomas Corry, Rhode Islanders, from whom Corry Corners was named, where both of them died; Stephen Vaughn, Julius Hutchinson, Joel Hall, William Hadsell, and Abraham and Darius Pratt. Joel Hall and his sons, Joel, jr., and Amasa, at that time married men, were the first comers to the Hall settlement. Joel Hall, sr., was endowed with unusual strength and performed feats almost marvelous. He was the grandfather of Warren, Joseph, Amasa, jr., and Lead Hall, residents of Marion, Wal- worth, and Williamson.
In the winter of 1825 Richard Sweet built a canal boat at Marion village, and in the spring drew it on ox sleds to Palmyra and launched it ; the trip occupied two days.
Among other early settlers of Marion were Eliphalet Dean, father of Daniel; Elias Durfee, who built and operated a furnace for several years; Eponitas Ketchum, Thomas Clark, who died on his homestead; John Smith, from New Jersey; James Center, who sold his farm to M. L. Rogers in 1835; Philip Potter, a Rhode Islander, who died here aged 92; and Thomas Young, who was succeeded on the homestead by his son, Nelson D.
Marion Heslor, a native of this town and long a prominent business man here, died in February, 1888. Delos Hutchins, equally as well known, died in April following. James McDowell, also a prominent citizen, died in September, 1892, aged forty-eight years. Earl Wilcox was the eldest son of William and Ruth Wilcox, and was born in Pal- myra March 30, 1494. He settled in Marion in 1827 and died here in March, 1874, being at that time the oldest native of the town of Pal- myra. He married Jane Stewart and had ten children, five of whom survive him.
Hon. Jefferson Sherman was born in this town October 20, 1835, and died on the homestead August 31, 1894. He was a very prominent man, held several local offices of responsibility, and represented the Second Assembly District of Wayne county in the State Legislature of 1879 and 1880.
Prominent among other citizens, sons of whom are descendants of the pioneers already mentioned, are recalled the names of Dwight Smith, Peter Boyce, Chester F. Sweezey, Henry R. Tabor (present supervisor), Henry C. Allen, Seth B. Dean, Ira Lakey, Orville Lewis, Buckley Newton, Allen Knapp, Daniel F. Luce, W. Cogswell, J. A. Shaw, John Copping, Z. Howell, A. Turner, W. Lookup, T. M. Clark
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(ex-county sheriff), Abel Clark (son of F. M.), Philo D. Green, Jere- miah Angell, Isaac A. Clark, B. B. Adams, Henry Butler, L. Milliman, Amasa Stanton, Everard White, C. H. Curtis, James Tassell, Sidney Durfee, John and Jeremiah Clark (brothers of T. M.), R. K. Warner, John and William Smith, Thomas S., jr., and Emery Potter, A. B Short, Horace M. Winslow, William C. Austin, II. R. Taber, D. Henry Crane, Stephen Reeves, Charles Tremain, Salem W. Sweezey, Conway W. Young, Charles N. Stearns, Eugene H. Brewster, and Jacob Baker. Numerous others are mentioned further on and in Part II of this volume.
The first physician in town, and for many years the only practitioner here was Dr. Seth Tucker, who located first a little northeast of the upper corners in Marion village. He later moved to the farm upon which C. H. Curtis subsequently settled.
The pioneer tavern was opened by a Widow Styles as early as 1800; it stood on the lot in Marion village owned by Amasa Stanton. The first grist mill was erected by Isaac Phillips in 1807, and Enoch Turner opened the first store. The first blacksmith was Harkness Gifford.
From the first call of troops in the War of the Rebellion to the close of that sanguinary conflict the town of Marion promptly and gen- erously responded with many of her ablest citizens. A total of 186 men went from within her borders to fight the nation's battles. Out of the depleted number that returned but few remain, and this little band of heroic veterans is becoming smaller and smaller as death claims them for the muster roll of eternity.
As previously noted, the first burial was made on the farm of Daniel Powell. The second death was that of William Powell in 1800, the third that of Anna Powell, and the fourth that of Mrs.' Daniel Powell; all were interred in the same plot. The second burying ground was opened at the upper corners in 1804; and the third was the present cemetery in Marion village, the first person buried therein being Mrs. Perry Davis. In 1853 the Marion Cemetery Association was incor- porated and this plat was placed under the charge of that organization. Five acres of land were subsequently purchased of William F. Burbank and added, and about 1889 three and one-half acres were bought of William C. Austin. A project is now (1894) on foot to erect a suitable soldiers' monument on a lot in the cemetery set aside for the purpose. The present (1894) officers are: John S. Rich, president; David Lown, secretary ; William G. Austin, treasurer; John S. Rich, David Lown,
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William C. Austin, and William W. Burbank, executive committee ; Presson Peer, Stephen Reeves, Washington Hathaway, Charles San- ford, Allen Knapp, and the officers previously named, trustees.
The first school house in town was a. log dwelling which stood in Marion village on or near the lot now owned by C. C. Potter; the first teacher in it was James Rogers, who was succeeded by Ebenezer Ketchum. Then came Asahel Powers, the father of Daniel Powers, of Rochester. The first school house erected for the purpose stood on the Robinson farm, and was burned in 1811. Morrison Huggins opened a select school about 1838, in the upper part of an old stone school house in the village.
March 27, 1839, the old Marion Academy was incorporated and the same year a building was erected for its use. The first principal was Ornon Archer, who made it a success, but after his retirement the school died out and the charter was abandoned in 1851.
The Marion Collegiate Institute was incorporated July 6, 1855, and school opened that year with about ninety students in a room fitted up over a hardware store. In 1856 the present commodious brick building was erected by subscription. It is forty-four feet square and three stories high, and is supplied with a library and scientific apparatus. The first board of trustees consisted of fourteen members, of whom Rev. J. W. Osburn was president; Nelson D. Young, treasurer; and A. II. Dow, secretary.
The presidents of the board have been :
Rev. J. W. Osburn, 1855, Rev. Amasa Stanton, 1855,
Nelson D. Young, 1973, Seth B. Dean, 1891, Williame Austin, 1591. Charles Tremaine, 1872,
The principals have been as follows;
I. N. Sawyer, 1855, S. P. Holt, 1857, C. H. Dann, Ishi, Rev. P. J. Williams, 1559,
A. S. Russell, M. D., 1861.
R. T. Spencer, 1862. .
A S. Russell, M. D., 1863, G. 11. Miner, 1863, Thomas B. Lovell, 1861, Rev. E. G. Cheeseman, 1810. W. T. Mills, 1879.
Rev. W. H. Sloan, 1878, J. Burns Frazer, 1871, Edson Plaisted, 1511, Congden, 1877, D. Van Cruyningham, 1978, Charles E. Allen, 1879. Herbert E. Mills, Ph. D., 1853,
F. W. Colgrove, 1: D., 1881. Merritt I. Richmond, 1859, Elmer G. Frail, 1890. Fenton C. Rowell, 1893. W. C. Tillt, A. M., 1591. 5.
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The Board of Trustees for 1894-94 consists of William C. Austin, Marion, president; Stephen Reeves, Marion, recording secretary; Rev. Samuel P. Merrill, Rochester, corresponding secretary; Horace M. Winslow, Marion, treasurer; Salem W. Sweezey, Marion; Myron H. Adams, M. D., Rochester; Eugene A. Brewster, Palmyra; Melville M. Eddy, Williamson; D. Henry Crane, Marion; Rev. Cyrus W. Mer- Till, Johnstown; Charles N. Stearns, Marion; Charles Tremaine, Marion; Conway W. Young, Marion. Executive Committee, Eugene H. Brewster, Seth B. Dean, and Conway W. Young.
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