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& Smith, Philander Smith, Trippett & Curtis, J. B. Sweet, a Mr. Sykes and Milton W. Chapin. Among former postmasters were Lyman Pratt, Harrison Parker, Warren K. Barrows, Joseph D. Caskey and Harrison Parker, incumbent.
Succeeding Dr. William Hill, before mentioned, Dr. William H. Pratt practiced at the village nearly forty years. Dr. George H. Lithrop studied with Dr. Pratt and practiced to near his death. Dr. Horton Morris and Dr. Caryl, and Dr. Mahlon B. Shaw followed in later years, and Dr. James Cherry.
There are now in the village 4 general stores, 1 drug store, 2 hotels, 1 canning factory, 1 cooperage, 1 hardware store, 1 washing machine factory, 1 wagon shop, 3 blacksmiths, 1 furniture store, a Union school and 4 churches. The Union school was long kept as a graded school with two teachers, later with three and still later with four. The Union school was organized in 1895 with four teachers and four de- partments, and was placed under the Regents in 1896. In 1897 the school house was rebuilt. Louis E. Boutwell, principal since 1895.
East Eden, a small hamlet in the east part of the town, where German settlers were numerous. Small business interests came into existence there, among them George M. Keller's store, and another by. William Mumbach, who is the present postmaster. There are also a few shops, and two churches, noticed further on.
Eden Valley, a mere hamlet and station on the railroad in the north part of the town. The original mill here, built by Elisha Welch, passed to A. R. Welch, then to A. E. Richardson and to Richardson Brothers, who also operated a box factory. John G. Youngs was a former merchant and later Joseph Webster. Austin J. Horton opened a store in 1880; he is the present postmaster. There are at present two stores in the place, a cigar factory, the mills and the usual shops.
Clarksburg, a hamlet in the southeast part of the town on a branch of Eighteen-mile Creek. The first settler here was Nathan Grover; Simeon Clark settled in the Hollow, as it was formerly called, about 1820; he built the grist mill now owned by Heman A. and Herman Wrightman; he also built a saw mill and a shop for making spinning wheels. Jacob Henry Hyer was formerly a merchant and tanner there. The post-office with the present name was opened in 1842. Daniel Wrightman established a box factory and planing mill, which were burned in 1881.
The so-called Kroner Mills are situated about two miles east of
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Eden; they were erected in 1848 by Alexander Kroner; he died in 1882, and the property passed to his sons. Daniel Swigert carried on a brewery several years about three miles northeast of Eden Center.
The Baptists in this town organized the "Baptist Church of Christ in Eden" in 1816; and at once entered upon a period of growth. The society received half of the gospel lot from the Holland Land Com- pany, the other half going to the Congregationalists. In 1821 a house of worship was begun at Eden Valley, but it was not finished. In 1848 the old church property was sold and the academy at Eden Center was purchased and rebuilt for a church. This was finally sold to S. J. Ryther, who converted it into a dwelling, and the society erected the present church in 1895.
The Congregational church was organized in January, 1817, with eight members; ten years later there was a membership of sixty-three. A house of worship was erected in 1828 at Eden Center; this was con- verted into a town hall in 1889, largely through the liberality of Michael Hutchinson, and the society disbanded.
The Methodists of the vicinity met in February, 1830, and took steps towards building their church. They had long held religious services, and a society was organized in the month above named. The edifice was erected the same year. In 1855 it was demolished and a brick building erected; this was remodeled in April, 1894.
The Eden Evangelical Association was formed in 1865, and in the next year they erected a church. The Evangelical Lutheran church was organized in 1866, and the house of worship was erected the same year.
A Roman Catholic church was established at East Eden soon after the place was thickly settled. A number of Germans in that region organized also St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church; these organ- izations united in 1838 in building a house of worship. Dissension subsequently arose, a dissolution followed and separate churches were erected.
The first town meeting in Eden was held in 1813, and the following officers elected :
John C. Twining, supervisor; John March, town clerk; Amos Smith, David Cor- bin and John Hill, assessors; Charles Johnson, Calvin Doolittle and Richard Berry, jr., commissioners of highways; Lemuel Parmely, collector; John Conant and Silas Estee, constables; John Welch and Asa Cary, poormasters.
Quite a number of these officials resided outside of the present town.
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The following is a list of the supervisors of the town of Eden from its organization to the present time with their years of service:
John C. Twining, 1813; Lemuel Parmely, 1814-16; Silas Estee, 1817; John March, 1818-19; James Aldrich, 1820; James Green, 1821-23; Asa Warren, 1824; James Green, 1825; Asa Warren, 1826; Levi Bunting, 1827-31 ; James Green, 1832; Harvey Caryl, 1833-34: Daniel Webster, 1835; Harvey Caryl, 1836-37; Levi Bunting, 1838- 40; William H. Pratt, 1841; James Tefft, 1842; Harvey Caryl, 1843; Willlam H. Pratt, 1844-46: Pardon Tefft, 1847; Daniel Webster, 1848; Pardon Tefft, 1849; Nel- son Welch, 1850-52; Pardon Tefft, 1853-54; J. Redfield, 1855; Nelson Welch, 1856-58; Lyman Pratt, 1859; Azel Austin, 1860; Lyman Pratt, 1861-62; Azel Austin, 1863; Nelson Welch, 1864-67; James Schweckhart, 1868; C. S. Rathburn, 1869-70; Fred- erick Keller, 1871; Nelson Welch, 1872; L. D. Wood, 1873; James H. Lord, 1874-78; Franklin Dole, 1879-80; James H. Lord, 1881-83; J. W. Carter, 1884-85; Merrill C. Redfield, 1886; J. W. Carter, 1887-92; Orrin A. Trevallee,1 1893-94; Albert H. Gress- man, 1895-97.
TOWN OF ELMA.
This town is situated a little northeast of the center of the county with Lancaster on the north, Marilla on the east, Aurora on the south, and West Seneca and East Hamburg on the west. Elma was formed December 4, 1857, from a tract of six miles square which was taken from Lancaster and Aurora; it was the last town erected in Erie coun- ty. Had it been included in the Holland Company's survey, it would have been township 10, range 6; but its territory was all embraced in the Buffalo Creek Indian Reservation.
The surface of this town is gently rolling, the summits of the eleva- tions being from fifty to one hundred feet above the valleys. Big Buf- falo Creek and Cazenove Creek flow across the town, the latter in the southwestern part and the former in the northeastern. The soil is clayey loam in the north part and gravelly loam in the south part. The farmers of the town are principally engaged in mixed agriculture and raising garden products for the Buffalo market.
Among the early settlers in the territory of Elma were Lyman Chandler (1829,) Willard Fairbanks (1830), Wilder Hatch, Hiram Pettingill, Taber Earl, Martin Taber and Luther Adams (1834). Joseph Briggs settled in the town in 1829, Thad- deus Hurd in 1832, Ichabod Griggs in 1833, Epsom Woodard in 1834, Lewis Wilson in 1835, John Schmalz in 1837, Jacob Young in 1842, Jacob Jergee and Thomas E. Wier in 1848, Otis A. Hall in 1850. Other settlers and residents were John Quincy Adams, Silas H. Arnold, Eleazer Bancroft, Frank G. Bullis, James J. Grace, Joseph Grace, Albert Davis, James C. Davis, John W. Griffin, Michael Grise, Cyrus Hurd, James Tillou and Horace Kyser.
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In 1827 Taber Earl built a tavern on the road from Aurora to Buf- falo; it soon passed to Samuel Harris, who kept it until his death, when it was used for a dwelling. About 1821 Martin Taber built a second hotel on the opposite side of the road from the first; it is still standing and was long known as the North Star House.
About 1832 a Mr. Estabrook built a saw mill, the first one in the town, on the site of the later Bullis mill. In 1835 or 1836 Lemuel Hatch and Robert Mckean arranged with Seneca White, an Indian chief, for the privilege of building a saw mill on Buffalo Creek, on the site of East Elma. Mckean's interest in the project was transferred to Joseph Riley and he and Mr. Hatch built the mill in 1836. Riley sold out to Hatch, who died in 1842, and Zina Hemstreet took the prop- erty and operated the mill twenty-five years.
In 1840 Zabina Lee took up his residence, with consent of the In- dians, on the farm now occupied by O. J. Wannemacher, on the site of Spring Brook village. In May, 1842, the last of the reservation was sold to the Ogden Company, and the region was soon subdivided and settled.
Lewis Northrup located on the site of Spring Brook in 1843 and built a saw mill the next year. A Mr. Flannigan had, with consent of the Indians, kept a tavern in a log house on the hill at the north end of the Spring Brook site. Another log tavern was built by David J. Mor- ris in 1844, in which year Horace Kyser, Joseph Tillou (before men- tioned) and Zenas Cobb settled there. Alfred Marvel settled in the town in 1848 and opened a road from Spring Brook to his well known farm. James Davis lived a mile south, and Chester Adams a mile north of Mr. Marvel. James H. Ward settled at Spring Brook in 1849 and was justice of the peace about twenty-five years.
The northwest part of Elma was chiefly settled by members of the Ebenezer Society, which has been sufficiently described in an earlier chapter. In the mean time the saw mills of the vicinity were rapidly converting the forests into lumber and excellent farms were brought under cultivation. The building of the Buffalo and Aurora plank road in 1848 was of considerable benefit to Elma, making it possible to haul the large quantities of wood and lumber to market with greater facility. The construction of what is now the Western New York & Pennsyl- vania Railroad across the town in 1867 still further improved communi- cation with markets and gave the town a marked impetus.
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where the first house was built in 1845 by Joseph Peck; in the follow- ing year a few neighbors had gathered around him, and they joined in the erection of a school house wherein a school was taught in the suc- ceeding winter. The hamlet of Elma Center is a station on the rail- road. A hotel was built there by C. W. Hurd in 1847 and in 1850 he built a store there. Henry Wright was also a former merchant there. At the present time there is one store and a tavern.
The first saw mill at the village was built in 1845 by Eleazer Ban- croft and was in operation to 1880. Healso built a chair factory, which was subsequently removed to Aurora. Another saw mill was built in 1846 by C. W. Hurd and Joseph B. Briggs, who afterwards added a grist mill, planing mill and lath mill; these mills are still in operation. A steam saw mill was erected in 1850 by Elam Clark and Warren Jack- man and abandoned many years ago. The first store was built by Warren Jackman in 1852, and business was conducted by a Mr. Ives, who was the first postmaster. Other merchants there were James Clark and Erastus Markham, who is still in trade and is postmaster. William H. Bancroft built the first blacksmith shop in 1847. At the present time there are a store, a cider mill, a carriage factory and a Methodist church in the village.
Spring Brook .- This is the largest village in the town and is situated in the western part on the old plank road. The first house here, ex- cepting the log tavern on the hill, before mentioned, was built by Lewis Northrup in 1843. He erected a saw mill in 1844 and a grist mill about ten years later, all of which passed to Eli B. Northrup and are still in operation. A log tavern was built in 1843 by David J. Mor- ris; both this and the earlier one on the hill were abandoned as public houses within a few years and a frame tavern was erected which was conducted many years.
The first store was opened in 1830 by E. G. Kent, who was succeeded by Samuel Hoyt, and he in 1875 by John Collins; later the business passed to Charles H. Sweet. Stephen Northrup built a store in 1856 which was burned in 1872 and a brick building was erected on the site. John G. Fisher opened a store there in 1877; his successors were Henry Kihm and Richard T. Barnett. The first postmaster in the village was David J. Morris, and his successors were Stephen Northrup, John G. Fisher, William Cole, Harrison Tillou and Richard T. Barnett.
The first steam saw mill there was built in 1848 by Horace Kyser. William English, a later owner, connected a grist mill with it and both
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were burned in 1860. Mr. Kyser built a new grist mill in 1863, which was burned in 1872. A grist and saw mill were built on the site, which in 1882 passed to Briggs & Sweet; these mills were also burned and not rebuilt.
A cheese factory was formerly operated here, but is now not in use. The village has three hotels, two of which have been noticed; the third was built in 1894 by Louis Leger. Spring Brook railroad station is about a mile north of the village.
East Elma, a hamlet south of the eastern part of the town, where Leonard Hatch and Joseph Riley built a saw mill in 1836. When this property passed to Zina A. Hemstreet and a little hamlet gathered about it became known as Hemstreet's Mills. A grist mill was built in 1856, but it remained idle a number of years, and the saw mill was carried away by a flood in 1859, and subsequently rebuilt. In 1866 Dayid, Ellery S. and Anthony L. Allen, brothers, bought the property and remodeled the grist mill into a woolen factory. The business was conducted a number of years, and then given up and the machinery taken out and carried away. The saw mill is also idle. Isaac Gale opened the first store there about 1856, which was burned in 1878. George W. Hatch built the store, in which trade is still conducted, in 1868. Z. A. Hemstreet and the Allen brothers were also former mer- chants. The railroad station for this vicinity is Jamison Road, about one and a half miles west of East Elma. A store has long been kept there by Ernest Bleeck, who is also landlord of the only tavern; one other general store is kept and there is a carriage shop there.
Blossom -This is a small hamlet in the northwest corner of Elma and partly in West Seneca. It was this region that was formerly inhabited by the Ebenezer Society. About 1856 Charles Reichert purchased the store which had been conducted by the society; other merchants were Gasper Bauer, Frederick Thram and Mrs. D. Kleeburg. A grist mill built many years ago by the Ebenezer Society is still in operation. A hotel has been kept there for many years.
The first church organized at Spring Brook was the Congregational- ist, which organization built a church edifice in 1853 and called Rev. Nehemiah Cobb as pastor. The society became embarrassed and the land reverted to its former owner, David J. Morris. In 1868 a Union society was organized which acquired the church property and held it for the use of all denominations; the Methodists have, however, been the principal occupants. The German Methodists built a house of
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worship there in 1872 and it is still used for services in that faith. There was a Methodist church organized at Elma village in 1850. The present frame church was erected in 1859 and dedicated by the well known preacher, Rev. Glezen Fillmore.
A German Lutheran church was organized at Blossom in 1862, and a house of worship was soon erected; it was burned and the present structure built in 1872. The German Methodist society at that place purchased a house of worship of the Ebenezer Society in 1861; this was used until 1880, when the present church was built.
The first town meeting in Elma was held March 19, 1857, at the house of C. W. Hurd, and the following officers elected:
Paul B. Lathrop, supervisor; Warren Jackman, town clerk; Addison Armstrong, Thomas Aldrich and Nathan W. Stowell, justices of the peace; Asa J. W. Palmer, collector; Zenas M. Cobb, Horace Blood and Theron Stowell, assessors; Whipple Spooner and Benjamin Lougee, commissioners of highways; William Standard, overseer of the poor; Asa J. W. Palmer, Aaron Hitchcock, Isaac Freeman, Franklin Mitchell and William Jackman, constables; William H. Bancroft, John W. Cole and John Small, inspectors of election; Elbridge G. Kent, town sealer.
The following is a list of the supervisors of the town of Elma from its organization to the present time:
Paul B. Lathrop, 1857-59; Zina A. Hemstreet, 1860-61; Christopher Peek, 1862-63; Lewis M. Bullis, 1864-65; Paul B. Lathrop, 1866; Alfred Marvel, 1867-68; Hiram Harris, 1869-70; Alfred Marvel, 1871-73; William Winspear, 1874-76; Eli B. Northrup, 1877-80; Alfred Marvel, 1881-82; James Tillou, 1883-84; Cyrus Hurd, 1885; Myron H. Clark, 1886-87; Timothy Clifford, 1888; Eli B. Northrup, 1889-90; Charles H. Sweet, 1891-92; R. T. Barnett, 1893-94; John Luders, 1895-97.
TOWN OF EVANS.
Evans is situated in the southwest part of Erie county and is bounded on the northeast by Hamburg; on the east by Eden; on the south by ยท Brant and northwest by Lake Erie. Its territory is nearly all in town- ship 8, range 9 of the Holland Company's survey, and includes about forty square miles, or 25,481 acres. The surface is level and slightly undulating and the soil is a sandy and gravelly loam intermixed with clay. The pricipal stream is Big Sister Creek, which flows northwest- wardly across the town. Eighteen-mile Creek drains the northeast cor- ner and other streams are Little Sister, Delaware, Pike and Muddy Creeks; all of these flow into Lake Erie.
Evans was formed March 23, 1821. A small tract was taken from Hamburg in 1826 and annexed to Evans, and a part of Brant was taken off in 1839.
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The first settlement was made in the territory of Evans in 1804 by Joel Harvey, who located near the mouth of Eighteen-mile Creek. Within a few succeeding years a number of settlers located either near Harvey or farther up the lake, but they moved away and their names are not known. In 1806 Harvey opened the first tavern in the town. In 1808 Ebenezer Ingersoll settled in the town.
The next permanent settlement was made in 1809 by Aaron Salis- bury, who located three miles southwest of Harvey and later became a prominent citizen. Aaron Cash settled near the site of North Evans. In the next year Anderson Taylor settled on the site of Evans Center, and David Cash, Elijah Gates, Nathaniel Lay, John Barker, and Seth and Martin Sprague settled along near the lake shore. In 1810-11 Gideon Dudley settled at Evans Center; David Corbin and Timothy Dustin near that section; a Mr. Pike on Pike's Creek and Job South- worth came in. Ira Ayer and his parents, James and Sarah, settled in 1811. About this time Job Palmer took Harvey's place as tavern- keeper at the mouth of Eighteen-mile Creek. Other settlers of 1811 were James Ayer, with his seven children, and Hezekiah Dibble. William Cook became a resident in 1812.
After the war immigration to the town was rapid. A saw mill and grist mill were built on the site of Evans Center in 1815-16 and a ham- let gathered around which was called Wright's Mills. About 1818 a post-office was opened on the lake shore with the name of Eden, in which town what is now Evans was then included; James W. Peters was the first postmaster. In 1820 Deacon Joseph Bennet made his ad- vent into the town with his parents. In 1821 Dr. George Sweetland settled at the site of East Evans, as the first physician in the town. He was father of George Sweetland, jr., who was born there in .1823. Other settlers and residents who have been more or less prominent in . the town were:
Irad Raymond, 1825; Sheldon Hurd, 1832; William A. Ryneck, 1820; John Reeve. J. R. Newton, 1831; Nathaniel Smith, 1835, and Henry Bundy, Orlin C. Brown, Roselle U. Blackney, Sidney P. Imus, Mark Trumbull, Orange J. Dibble, Ira Ayer, James Ayer, Peter Barker, William Van Duzer, Edmund Z. Southwick, H. N. Can- dee and Lyman Oatman.
Farming methods in Evans have greatly changed in recent years, as they have elsewhere in Erie county. Dairying and truck farming for canning factories have largely superseded the old crops. There are four cheese factories in this town, but they are not all in operation.
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The natural beauty of the region along the lake shore and the health- fulness of the locality have in recent years attracted many sum- mer visitors, and several popular resorts have come into existence. Among these are Highland-on-the-Lake at the mouth of Eighteen-mile Creek, Hotel Mortimer, Wahaka Beach, Angola Camp Ground, Gaoseha Beach, etc.
In February, 1852, the Buffalo & State Line Railroad (now a part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern road) was opened for traffic through this town. As the road passed about a mile east of Evans Center, a village sprang up near where the line crosses Big Sister Creek to which was given the name, Angola. Through the influence of the railroad, trade was diverted from the older place and during many past years Angola has been the business center of the town. Another line of railroad was built through the town in 1881-2, but as it runs nearly parallel with the former road, it has not had marked local influence.
Dr. George Sweetland, before mentioned, practiced in Evans from 1821 to 1882, when he died. Other physicians of the town have been Drs. Marvin, Aldrich, Nelson Sweetland (nephew of Dr. George), Armstrong, Beckwith (died in 1870), Powers (at Angola in 1858 as the first one in the village), Curtis, Owen, William Danforth, J. G. Thomp- son and E. R. Raymond.
Evans Center .- This is a small village situated west of the center of the town. After the settlement of Anderson Taylor in 1810, Henry Tuttle and William Wright located there and built a saw mill in 1815 and in the following year a grist mill. Both of these finally passed to possession of Orson Earl. Anderson Taylor built a hotel on the hill which he conducted several years. The post-office, which was first opened on the lake shore, was removed to Evans Center, from which time the place bore that name, instead of Wright's Mills, as before ; this was done about 1821. Among former postmasters there were William Van Duzer, E. B. Hard, William Carrier, Thomas I. Brownell, Fillmore H. West, Josiah C. Hamilton and Emil Bock, incumbent.
Evans Center soon became an active business place and so continued more than thirty years. Among former merchants were Cutter Trask, Hard & Carrier, Thomas I. Brownell, Warren K. Russell, Riley A. Russell, John Mosher and William E. Bolton. There are now two stores in the village.
A tannery was built many years ago by James Black and operated successively by Black & Brodie, James Brodie, and Benjamin Brodie ;
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it was recently demolished. Evans Center has one of the oldest graded schools in Erie county, the building for which was erected in 1857. The school has now two departments and two teachers.
Angola .- George Wilcox settled at this place in 1854 and opened a shoe shop; he is still living. At that time Harvey Barrell, P. H. Car- rier and Philip Clark were the heads of the only families in that vicin- ity, their farm lands including the village site. Soon afterwards a sa- loon was opened on the site of the present Angola House. In the same year Bundy & Hard built and opened a general store on the site of the Farmers' Hotel; the business was sold to Lyman Oatman, who was succeeded by his son, David C. Oatman. The village when first laid out was called Evans Station, but in 1854-5, when the post-office was established, the name was changed to Angola. John H. Adams was the first postmaster. Among merchants of former years were:
Chauncey T. Carrier, Elijah Tifft, John H. Andrus, Seeley and R. U. Blackney, George Wilcox, Le Roy S. Oatman, William H. Ryneck, Stephen Landon, H. S. Landon, Mrs. I. F. Thompson, Mrs. L. E. Huntley, Dr. Lyman R. Raymond, John H. Southworth, Henry J. Penfold, Brown & Wood, Henry C. Schlender and Charles A. Kinsley.
The Angola House, before mentioned, was moved from Evans Cen- ter, and rebuilt in 1860 by John H. Andrus; he was succeeded by Alva Montgomery, and he by Sydney P. Imus. The Union Hotel was built by George Caskey in 1871, who was succeeded in 1877 by Elijah P. Smith; now kept by A. J. Watt.
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