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800
R. P. Day
4 60
2,000
Joab Gillett
92
400
P. G. Childs
3 50
1,500
1 Resigned June 5, 1896, and P. H. Donnelly appointed to fill vacancy.
2 August 13, 1841, Benjamin T. Clarke was appointed clerk vice C. Carpenter removed. No- vember 8, 1841, C. Carpenter was restored to the position.
3 L. Wolters Ledyard was elected clerk February 13, 1861, vice Charles Stebbins, jr., resigned. 4 April 3, 1873, George A. Spear was elected clerk vice J. W. Howson, resigned February 11, 1873.
5 May 6, 1875, Irving C. Forte was appointed clerk vice J. C. Fowler, resigned,
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Tax.
Valuation.
Samuel Thomas
3 22
1,400
David B. Johnson
1 84
800
Jeremiah B. Pierce
2 30
1,000
Alfred Hitchcock
2 30
1,000
Isaac Lyman
2 50
1,000
William Whipple
2 76
1,200
Jesse Kilborn
1 84
800
Uriah Aldrich
1 84
800
Vebber Crocker
1 61
700
James Moore.
2 30
1,000
Fay & Richardson, mills and dwelling
house
4 60
2,000
Selah Munson
4 14
1,800
Eli F. Hill
1 15
500
Matthew Chandler
1 15
500
Orrin Chandler
46
200
Ami Crocker
92
400
Noble S. Johnson
2 30
1,000
Widow Chloe Andrews
1 15
500
John Townsend
46
200
Richard French
44
200
John Francis
1 25
500
John B. Seely
92
400
Hezekiah Bowen
46
200
John Locke
12
50
Nathan Williams
38
150
Otis Ormsbee
92
400
Orin E. Baker
1 38
600
Horace Bills
23
100
William Wells
46
200
Samuel Dutton
46
200
Brevoort & Allis
9%
400
Amos Parmely
23
100
Timothy Foster
69
300
Nehemiah White
23
100
Andrew Russell
69
300
Edward S. Stewart
46
200
John Lyon
23
100
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Tax.
Valuation.
Calvin Elmore
23
100
John Kelly
69
300
Richard Button
23
100
Rinaloo Webber
1 15
500
Zadock Sweetland
50
David Dearborn
75
David Kern
58
250
John Anderson
69
300
John Lewis
23
100
Ebenezer Brown
23
100
Ebenezer Johnson
46
200
Manassett Prentice
23
100
Obadiah Seely
46
200
John Lincklaen
4 60
2,000
Murray B. Lester
50
Caleb Ledyard
75
Total tax,
$150
Total valuation,
$63.550
Mercantile operations in the village following those first established and before mentioned in these pages: William M. and Joseph Burr, brothers, opened a store in 1811, coming from Hartford, Conn .; their store was on the site of the present Burr block. Benjamin T. Clarke, long an enterprising merchant, had his store on the southeast corner of Albany and Mill streets. Mr. Clarke was born in 1797 and died in 1875. John Williams was a merchant and manufacturer here from 1815 to 1847 and a very estimable citizen. He sold his store in 1847 to Henry Nichols and Samuel D. Clark, who continued a few years. Thomas P. Bishop, who was member of assembly in 1857, was in busi- ness about forty years, and sold in 1866 to John Richard Watts and Rollin Knox Blair, who continued together about six years, when Watts bought his partner's interest and soon afterwards took Eber Peet as partner. After 1878 the firm was Watts & Cobb, through association in the business of Peter P. Cobb; the firm sold to Bernard Vollmer.
From about 1834 to 1840 E. B. and E. D. Litchfield were prominent merchants in the village; they removed to New York. William Green- land and his son, William S., came from New York in 1834 and estab- lished a merchant tailoring business which continued until the death of
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the father in 1866; the son still continues in trade. About 1835 Burton & Perkins began dealing in stoves and tin ware and about ten years later sold to George C. Brown, whose brother Charles joined him in 1848. The former died in 1871 and Charles continued, He sold to the present firm of Driscoll & Marshall. ยป
In 1834 William Mills, Charles Crandall and Frank Moseley, under the firm name of Mills, Crandall & Moseley, opened a bookstore and en- gaged in the publication of school books This business was success- fully carried on until about 1860, when it was sold by Mr. Crandall, who had become sole proprietor a little earlier, to Chester L. Chappell & Son. Three years later John Annas purchased an interest, but re- tired within year. In 1866 William W. Watkins bought an interest and within a year purchased the whole from Chappell & Son and is still in the business.
John C. Reymon, now of Syracuse, carried on the clothing business in the village more than forty years from 1841. L. G. Wells settled with his parents in the village in 1830 and in 1842 began the furniture and undertaking business, which he transferred to his sons, Dwight W. and Edward G., in 1878. Henry Groff was a general merchant in com- pany with Arnold Woodward for a number of years after 1844. John Hobbie, who came to the village in 1840 and served as a clerk five years with different firms, formed a partnership with Benjamin T. Clarke, the style being Clark & Hobbie, and the business was continued by them six years. At that time Samuel D. Clarke, son of Benjamin, pur- chased his father's interest. In 1856 Benjamin T. Clarke and George L. Rouse purchased Samuel D. Clarke's interest and the business con - tinued under the firm name of Hobbie, Rouse & Co. About 1867 George L. Rouse purchased Clarke's interest, the firm name becoming Hobbie & Rouse, and the business continued until 1892, when the firm dissolved. The store was discontinued a few years later by E. C. Rouse.
Other merchants of Cazenovia, some of whom still continue in busi- ness, were George Morse, who has been in the drug business since 1847. Andrew Dardis, an immigrant from Ireland to Cazenovia in 1853, dealer in boots and shoes a number of years from 1855. Ebenezer B. Knowl- ton, a native Cazenovian, began the jewelry business about 1848 and continued many years. T. S. Whitnall was an early harness and trunk dealer and sold to E. A. Blair in 1863, who still continues.
Bowman H. Stanley began grocery business in 1863 with his brother,
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Benjamin F. ; later he was associated with his son, C. M. Stanley, who afterwards conducted a bakery, now in the hands of F. E. Wilson. Til- lotson & Nichols (L. B. Tillotson and E. R. Nichols) general merchants, succeeded the business of J. D. Beach established about 1861. David P. Dean in company with his brother, James C., bought in 1869 the grocery and millinery business of Jesse W. Hall and carried it on a number of years. The millinery business of the village is now con- ducted by Mrs. M. L. White and Mrs. F. D. Holdridge, established in 1895. Will H. Cruttenden began the jewelry business in 1870 and did a successful trade many years. Jesse W. Hall began as a jeweler in 1878, buying out John Greenland, who was in the business twenty years. Mr. Hall is still in trade. Harry N. Clark began a jewelry business in 1898.
Henry A. Johnson, H. H. Hannum and Henry H. Colton as the firm of Colton, Johnson & Co., had an early hardware business in which they were succeeded in 1877 by Colton & Webber; the business is now car- ried on by Mr. Colton. Driscoll & Marshall (M. Driscoll and F. F. Marshall) have been in hardware trade since 1895, succeeding Collins & Driscoll. Another hardware business is conducted by Marshall & Bumpus, which was commenced by A. E. Marshall in 1895; Mr. Bumpus came into the business in April, 1897.
Nichols & Covell began the clothing trade in 1871; this business is now conducted by Charles W. Covell & Son. R. A. Niles & Co., cloth- ing dealers, succeeded by C. P. Remore in 1895; Mr. Remore was pre- ceded by Eben Bentley.
John Aldrich Wells and his brother W. De Los removed to Cazenovia with their parents from Nelson, and began business as general mer- chants in 1872 under the firm name of Wells Brothers, succeeding D. N. Pulford, and are still in trade. Nichols & Loomis (S. C. Nichols, G. E. Loomis), general merchants, succeeded the firm of Davis & Nichols in 1889, who had succeeded Tillotson Brothers; the firm is now Geo. E. Loomis & Co. B. Vollmer, general merchant, commenced trade in 1881 in company with P. P. Cobb, who retired in 1883. The firm of Cobb & Vollmer succeeded Watts & Cobb, who were preceded by John R. Watts. F. C. Phelps began business as a general merchant in 1893. Clark & Mulligan (F. G. Clark and P. E. Mulligan) began trade as general merchants in 1896, succeeding S. B. Groff.
Rice & Co. (J.W. T. and William W. Rice) began business as druggists in 1873 ; the store is now conducted by the latter. Henry A. Rouse settled
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in Cazenovia in 1836 and began a general mercantile business in 1876, which he continued until his death; the business is now managed by C. H. Rouse. Samuel T. Jackson and his cousin, Frank E. Jackson, were dealers in hats and caps, boots and shoes, either as partners or separate, a number of years from 1877. Isaac L. De Clercq began grocery trade in 1878 by the purchase of the store established a little earlier by W. B. Noxon. John Keeler began trade in musical merchandise in 1874. William Donnelly was a grocer some years from 1878. H. M. Cush- ing, druggist, started soon after 1870, and in 1879 sold out to Severe Dorion. E. C. Hackley and C. M. Stanley were confectioners about 1880. Other merchants of the present are noticed in the later Gazetteer of Towns.
This comprehensive account of mercantile operations in Cazenovia denotes that the village in past years was a trade center of much im- portance. This condition was fostered by the early establishment of various manufacturing industries which depended largely on the splen- did water power of Chittenango Creek. The selection of Cazenovia as the county seat in 1810 and its continuance as such during seven years, doubtless also contributed in some degree to the business importance of the village in early years. The census of 1810 gave the village a popu- lation of 500, with sixty-nine houses, five stores, one grist mill, one saw mill, two cloth-dressing establishments, two carding machines, two trip-hammers, two potasheries, two tanneries, one brewery and distill- ery, and a post-office. A printing office should be added to this list, as The Pilot was founded in the village in 1808 by Oran E. Baker. In the pages of its early numbers, through the medium of advertise- ments, something additional is learned of the industries of the place. The woolen factory of Elisha Starr & Co. had been recently pur- chased by Matthew Chandler. The new tannery of Thomas Chandler & Son was noticed. A hat factory was operated by John Brevoort and Jere Allis. A. Hitchcock announced the addition to his stock of goods of a new line of drugs and medicines. S. Forman had opened a book store, and J. Gillett advertised his ability to repair clocks and watches. J. Kilbourn was the village tailor, and W. Brown a painter and glazier. A Mr. White's chair factory is noticed and the trip- hammers of Luther Bunnell also.
From that far time until the financial disaster of 1836-38 swept over the country, Cazenovia prospered, like most other well located villages in Central New York where good water power was avail-
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able; and much of that prosperity was due to the efforts of the energetic men who established manufactories. The early chair fact- tory of Nehemiah White, above mentioned, was purchased by Eben- ezer Knowlton, who built also an oil mill about 1815; both of these industries were carried on by Mr. Knowlton many years. In 1813 John Lincklaen and Elisha Starr built a woolen mill which is be- lieved to have been the first one in Madison county. It passed to Matthew Chandler & Son. About 1810 Thomas Williams and his son John, from New Hartford, Oneida county, established a tannery, which they sold in 1815 to R. & R. G. Allen. Orrin Chandler suc- ceeded his father in the Lincklaen & Starr woolen mill and sold it in 1829 to John Williams. It was burned May 1, 1834, and at once rebuilt and Mr. Williams operated it until his death in 1853; he was the first to introduce power looms in this town. The old woolen factory building is now occupied by J. H. O'Neil as a carriage shop.
Leonard Williams, son of John, was interested in the woolen mill, formed a partnership in 1847 with George S. Ledyard and John Steb- bins (Williams, Ledyard & Stebbins), and the firm purchased of Mr. Williams twenty-four acres of land, including the Chittenango water power, one and a quarter miles below the village, and the saw mill and fulling mill; the saw mill was built by David B. Johnson, and the full- ing mill by Sidney Roberts, of whom John Williams purchased it. The firm demolished the fulling mill and in 1848 erected the Shelter Valley Woolen Mill; this was burned in 1869 and rebuilt in 1871 by Williams & Stebbins, Mr. Ledyard having in the mean time retired. In March, 1879, Williams sold his interest to Mr. Stebbins. The busi- ness was substantially closed on account of the unsatisfactory condition of the trade; but the mill is now operated in a small way by the Caz- enovia Wool and Felt Company.
The saw mill above mentioned was operated about five years more and was then demolished. John Williams carried on the fulling busi- ness in connection with tanning leather from 1840 to 1850 in the old Elisha Farnham tannery building, which now is occupied as a black- smith shop.
The Cazenovia paper mill was built in 1810 by Zadock Sweetland and was for many years a very important industry for this region. He operated it successfully and gradually increased its capacity, until a few years previous to his death in 1855; he was then succeeded by his sons under the name of Sweetland Brothers, who still further increased
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the product. The mill was burned in 1859 and at once rebuilt. In 1865 a great freshet carried away the dam and did a large amount of other damage along the creek. Henry Munroe bought the property, rebuilt the dam and started the mill. It was again partially burned, was rebuilt and then wholly burned. The property passed to Joseph H. Crawford, of mower and reaper connection, who rebuilt the last mill; after his failure it was acquired by Lewison Fairchild, who sold it to Eben Bentley. After being occupied a short time with the unfor- tunate shoe manufactory, it was left vacant.
The Cedar Grove Woolen Mill was built about 1837 by E. S. Jackson & Son, and was purchased in 1850 by Henry Ten Eyck. It was a large mill, had five sets of machinery, was in good order and successful oper- ation when, in 1852, it was burned, causing heavy loss. E. Swan after- wards during the Civil war, carried on the making of binders' boards on the site of this mill.
The Allen tannery, before mentioned, was operated between 1869 and 1874 by Dardis & Flanagan, and by Andrew Dardis and his son John A. for two years longer. The American Lock Manufacturing Company, incorporated in 1875, with a capital of $25,000, purchased the business in that year of the American Lock Company, which had for several years manufactured a lock of new design in a machine shop near the Albany street bridge. In the same year a building occupied by Stephen Chaphe as a machine shop was purchased by the new com- pany and fitted up for their business. In April, 1878, the business was sold to the Yale Lock Company and removed to Stamford, Conn.
What was known as the Fern Dell Mills were built in 1848 by Led- yard Lincklaen for a woolen mill, but were never used for that purpose. About 1850 O. W. Sage, Newton Ames, and Charles Ames began there the manufacture of sash, doors and blinds, continuing until about 1877 when Newton Ames sold his interest to O. W. Sage, and a year later the latter bought also the interest of Charles Ames. About the year 1872 Carlos Nichols acquired an interest which he soon relinquished. In 1874 T. W. Thayer bought a third of the business and the next year Ambrose Ames purchased a like share. In 1878 Mr. Sage sold out to Ames & Thayer. A large business was done and the works are now operated by T. W. Thayer & Co.
In 1871 Joseph H. Crawford established the manufacture of a mower and reaper in Ilion and five years later removed his business to Caze- novia, at the same time purchasing the Onondaga Chief works at Man-
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lius which he merged with his former interest. He occupied the old Cazenovia foundry, a little below the village, which was established in 1825 by the Shapley Brothers (N. W. & J. S.), on the site of the old building of the lock company. In 1875 he erected the stone building which was also occupied by him. In the spring of 1876 a stock com- pany was formed under the name of J. F. Crawford & Co., with a capi- tal of $200,000. This company was dissolved and in February, 1878, transferred its property to the firm of J. F. Crawford & Co. The busi- ness for a time seemed to have a prosperous future, but active compe- tition elsewhere caused its ultimate failure.
What was known as the Eagle Foundry, situated on Albany street, was built by Elisha Allis about 1842; it was later removed up the stream and passed through various proprietors' hands. A morocco factory was established by a Mr. Phinney, east of the village, about 1851 and was operated a number of years. The Bingley Mills are situ- athd about two miles from the village on Chittenango Creek; they were established at a very early date and were operated from 1831 to the present time by William Atkinson. A saw mill was also built near by and a few dwellings were gathered about.
The Lake Mills in the village were built in early years by Jonas Fay and in 1850 passed to Reuben Parsons from William Burton. They had other owners and operators and in 1895 were burned and rebuilt. They are now operated by Albert Chaphe. The foundry and machine shop near the bridge on Albany street was built for an oil mill by Ed- mond Knowlton who occupied it as such until about 1864, when it was purchased of Chester Bates by the firm of Stone, Marshall & Card (John J. Stone, Justice W. Marshall, and Milton E. Card), who con- verted it into its present use. The firm is now Marshall & Card. Mr. Marshall is one of the oldest and best known mechanics in this section. He settled in Cazenovia in 1844 and learned his trade with the Shapley Brothers. Later he purchased the machine shop of A. W. Van Riper who was for many years a manufacturer of town clocks.
The well known Chaphe planing and saw mill was built early in the century as it originally stood. S. F. Chaphe and Reuben Parsons pur- chased the property, including the grist mill at that point, of William and James Burton in 1850, and a few years later divided, Parsons tak- ing the grist mill and Chaphe the saw mill. In 1874 Mr. Chaphe en- larged his mill, put in a planing machine and added steam power. The mill was partially burned since that time and rebuilt.
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In 1878 M. E. Card and Will H. Cruttenden began the manufacture of a glass-ball trap invented by Mr. Card, the work being carried on in the foundry of Stone, Marshall & Card. It proved a popular device for gunners and large numbers were sold in various countries. Com- petition of other kinds of traps ultimately caused a cessation of the manufacture.
M. J. Trowbridge carried on the manufacture of cabinet ware here from 1864, when he purchased of Leonard White the building erected by John Williams for a woolen mill in 1834. The business failed about twenty years later.
In the year 1895 a Camden turbine water wheel was installed in the stream at the foot of Albany street, the power of which is used by Marshall & Card for their machine shop. This firm has also a five-year contract with the village corporation for pumping water for the auxil- iary water supply, the water being taken from a driven well near by.
George Witherell established a foundry business in 1890 in the old furnace building, but it was soon discontinued.
The few foregoing pages inform the reader that in past years Caze- novia village possessed far greater importance as a manufacturing cen- ter than it does at the present time. Active competition at points more favorably situated for shipment and the general trend of manufacturing operations towards large corporations, with other causes, have wrought a great change in this and many other villages where the water power of streams gave in early years sufficient stimulus to effect the founding of many industries. The industries of Cazenovia at the present time consist mainly of the grist mills, Marshall & Card's machine shop, J. H. O'Neil's and P. H. Calhoun's wagon and blacksmith shops; Charles Bordwell, blacksmith, who succeeded his father, Peter Bordwell, who began business in 1842; Martin McCabe, blacksmith, where his father, John McCabe, carried on business more than fifty years; that shop is one of the oldest buildings in the village. Barney Riley, a blacksmith during more than twenty-five years; and the Brooklyn Creamery, in which are manufactured butter, cheese, ice cream, etc., in charge of Ludum Blodgett.
For the financial accommodation of these various business and manu- facturing interests the Madison County Bank was organized under the safety fund act, March 14, 1831, with a capital of $100,000. Lemuel White, Jacob Ten Eyck, Justin Dwinelle, Bennett Bicknell, John Knowles, Sylvester Beecher, Elias P. Benjamin, Jonathan D. Ledyard
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and Samuel Thomas were the commissioners appointed to receive sub- scriptions. The first directors of the bank were Perry G. Childs, Jacob Ten Eyck, John Hearsey, Jesse Kilborn, H. H. Cobb, Rufus Allen, William M. Burr, Arnold Ballou, Bennett Bicknell, John Williams, Lemuel White, J. D. Ledyard and Sylvester Beecher. Mr. Childs was chosen the first president of the institution and the bank opened for business on January 1, 1832, and was a source of great benefit to the town and county. Dividends of ten per cent. annually were paid many years and at the expiration of the charter $1.25 on the dollar was re- turned to stockholders.
The Bank of Cazenovia was incorporated February 21, 1856, with a capital of $120,000, and the following first board of directors: Charles Stebbins, Ledyard Lincklaen, Benjamin F. Jarvis, John Hobbie, David M. Pulford, Austin Van Riper, Lewis Raynor, Reuben Parsons and E. M. Holmes. Charles Stebbins was chosen the first president of the bank and B. F. Jarvis the first cashier. In 1865 the bank passed under the national system, becoming the National Bank of Cazenovia, and the capital was increased to $150,000. Twenty years later, in 1876, this bank failed, and was succeeded during four years by the private banking establishment of E. S. Card & Co., who failed in 1880. Soon afterward a private banking house was opened by J. H. Ten Eyck Burr, which he still conducts.
The Pilot, the first newspaper in this village, which has been men- tioned as starting in 1808, the same year in which the Madison Free- holder was established in Peterboro, continued its existence until Au- gust, 1823. In that year the Republican Monitor was founded by L. L Rice. From April, 1825, to January, 1832, it was published by John F. Fairchild; by J. F. Fairchild & Son until July, 1840, and by J. F. Fairchild until March 4, 1841, when it was discontinued.
The Madison County Eagle was established in February, 1840, by Cyrus O. Poole. He was succeeded the next year by Thomas S. Myrick, and W. H. Phillips, the former of whom withdrew in 1842; in May, 1845, the name was changed to Madison County Whig, and the paper vigorously and ably supported the principles of that party. In August, 1848, H. A. Cooledge succeeded Mr. Phillips and changed the name of the paper to The Madison County News in October, 1853. In May, 1854, it was again changed to The Madison County Whig. Three years later, in January, 1857, the paper was discontinued. The next paper in the village was the Cazenovia Gazette, which was published by Baker
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& Debnam from October, 1851, to May, 1852. The Progressive Chris- tian was published two years from April, 1853, by A. Pryne. What became the Manlius Monitor was started in Cazenovia in November, 1878, by Henry C. Hammond and E. S. Vanvalen. On March 1, 1879, Mr. Hammond became sole proprietor and a few months later removed it to Manlius.
The Cazenovia Republican was established in 1854 by W. H. Phillips and Seneca Lake. A few weeks afterwards Mr. Phillips retired and Mr. Lake continued the publication until September, 1862, having en- listed in Co. K of the 114th Regiment, wherein he served with credit throughout the war. He was an able writer and made the Republican an influential newspaper. He was succeeded by Crandall Brothers (F. A. and E. Bowen Crandall), who were followed in March, 1863, by Francis A. Crandall. In October of the same year E. Bowen Crandall became proprietor and was succeeded in September, 1864, by Irving C. Forte; he was followed by Forte Brothers, then by Irving C. Forte, and he in June, 1875, by the former proprietor, E. Bowen Crandall. In May, 1877, Mr. Crandall was succeeded by F. M. Taylor, who ably conducted the paper until October, 1889, when he was succeeded by George H. Witherhead. He remained proprietor until February 20, 1890, when J. A. Loyster purchased and took charge of the establish- ment and has since filled the editorial chair with signal ability. The Republican has always earnestly supported the party from which it is named. It is somewhat remarkable that since its establishment nearly half a century ago, the Republican has never missed an issue. It is now an eight-page weekly and is wholly printed in its own office.
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