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The First National Bank of Morrisville was established December 26, 1863, with a paid up capital of $65,000; this was increased to $100,000. The first officers were Daniel Stewart, president; Sidney T. Holmes, vice-president; Lorenzo D. Dana, cashier. The present of- ficers are Alexander M. Holmes, president; H. P. Mead, vice-presi- dent; B. Tompkins, cashier. The directors are H. E. Aton, F. S. Harwood, C. M. Seymour, W. E. Brown. The capital was reduced to $50,000 in 1897.
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The Madison County Leader is an enterprising modern country newspaper, which was established as an exponent of Republican prin- ciples in 1885, by Stillman & Spooner (W. E. Stillman and F. S. Spooner). This partnership continued two years, when Mr. Stillman became sole proprietor and so continued until 1890, when F. W. Nash purchased a half interest, Mr. Stillman having received the appoint- ment of clerk in the New York sub-treasury. In the fall of 1890 John H. Broad bought a one-fourth interest of Nash and the firm was during one year, Stillman, Nash & Broad. Mr. Broad then purchased Nash's remaining interest and a year later bought also Stillman's interest and since has conducted the business alone. In July, 1896, the Leader ab- sorbed the old Observer, established in 1821. The Leader is a progres- sive, vigorously edited journal, and is welcomed in many homes.
The village has an excellent system of gravity water supply, the source being from pure springs and stored in a reservoir situated a fourth of a mile southwest of the corporation. The capacity of the reservoir is 7,000,000 gallons, and the pressure about eighty pounds. Twenty-seven hydrants are employed for fire extinguishment. The construction of the works was begun in the fall of 1894 and completed in the next year. Bonds to the amount of $15,000 were issued to pay for the system, which is under charge of a board of three commission- ers; they are Dr. H. N. Aldrich, L. W. Burroughs, and David D. Jones.
The fire department as at present organized comprises the Morrisville Hook and Ladder Company of twenty-two members, equipped with a Rumsey truck. The old Croton Fire Company was disbanded after the water works were established.
An electric lighting system was put in operation in the village in 1897, previous to which several attempts had been made to properly light the streets, but generally without success. The present plant is owned by the D. A. Schuyler estate. The village pays $500 annually for public lightning. Families are also provided with light and a sta- tion is maintained at the hamlet of Pierceville, a mile below Morris- ville.
Eaton Village .- This beautifully situated and attractive village is situated five miles south of Morrisville in the midst of a fertile and prosperous agricultural district, on the old Skaneateles turnpike, with a nearby station on the New York, Ontario and Western railroad. The village was known many years as Log City. It was early and rapidly
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settled as a result of the efforts of Joshua Leland and his immediate followers, and the water power of Eaton brook.
The water power on the brook and several buildings used in past years for manufacturing purposes have recently been acquired by E. Tupper, who now operates a planing mill and conducts a cheese factory. A. D. Norton is a manufacturer of furniture, using both water and steam power and employing several hands. For many years the chief manufacturing industry was the extensive steam engine works of Wood, Tabor & Morse. This establishment originated in 1848, when Enos and Allen Wood began making machinery for woolen and cotton mills, which continued about ten years, when the business was removed to Utica. In 1859 A. N. Wood returned to Eaton and the firm of Wood, Tabor & Morse was at once organized and a very large business was soon built up in the manufacture of portable steam engines. The in- dustry closed in 1890, though the buildings are standing and the ma- chinery is still in place.
Joseph Morse was the founder of Eaton village and the first to utilize the power of Eaton brook. He built the old mill in 1800 and about 1812 Ellis Morse erected a distillery near by, which was operated until 1857. A small tannery was built in the village in 1807 by B. Carter, which was in existence fifty years. Cast iron plows were made many years ago by Alpheus and Ellis Morse. A small powder mill was built in 1806 and the Eaton Woolen Manufacturing Company, Dr. James Pratt and Joseph Morse at its head, built a mill in 1817. It was afterwards changed to a cotton mill and was burned in 1845.
The present merchants of Eaton are Morse Brothers, who established a general store in 1871, succeeding C. N. Burritt; E. B. Robie, drugs, groceries, etc., succeeded Charles T. Hamlin in 1895; H. R. Hamilton, groceries, established 1896; Thompson & Barber (L. C. Thompson, G. A. Barber), general store, succeeding Arnst & Thompson, who began in 1894; John Heron, shoes; Andrew Pettit, harness shop. There are two hotels in the village; the Exchange Hotel was kept by G. D. Rich- ardson for a time, who was succeeded by Byron Wilbur, John Richard- son, Sidney Curtis and others; the Eaton House has been long kept by Norman Hunt.
There is a milk station at the railroad depot and the Madison County Poor Farm, elsewhere described, is situated a little south of the village. The post-office here was established in very early years, with Dr. Charles Hall postmaster. His successors have been John G. Curtis,
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Sylvester Thayer, Calvin Morse (two or three terms), Alpheus Morse, John Whitney, Charles Burritt, Frank Morse, Col. S. White, Frank Morse, E. A. Richardson, and Frank Morse again, the present official.
The Baptist Church of Eaton village was organized in 1816, services being held in the brick school house until 1820 when the house of wor- ship was finished; it has been greatly improved at various times. Rev. J. W. Thorn is the present pastor.
The Congregational Church was partially organized November 22, 1831, with eight members. On the 27th of the following month it was reorganized with its present name. The church edifice was built in 1832. Rev. John Bamford is the present pastor.
The Methodist Episcopal Church in Eaton was organized in 1856 and the meeting house was erected in the same year. Rev. S. S. Pratt is the present pastor.
West Eaton .- This is a small village situated two and a half miles west of Eaton village. As far as its business interests are concerned it is a place of comparatively modern growth. The post-office was es- tablished in 1852 and has had the following postmasters: Joseph Dar- row, Isaac Hopkins, Erastus Wellington, Marion Beebe, Albert Tayn- tor, Harvey Miller, L. L. Palmer and others; C. D. Tracy is the present incumbent.
The village was many years ago a manufacturing point of impor- tance, but in late years its industries have declined. A grist will was built and in operation here before 1808 and a distillery in 1815. In 1830 John Brown began manufacturing augurs. A clothing or cloth works was established before 1820 by Abner Isbell, who sold in 1840 to A. Y. Smith & Son, who enlarged the works. They were burned in 1852, but were rebuilt. After various changes the property was bought in 1879 by H. I. Howe.
The Eureka woolen mills originated in a carding mill built about 1845. The property passed through various changes in ownership, as elsewhere detailed, and is now operated on a large scale by a company in which Richard and Thomas Jones, Wallace Frasier and Edward Peno are interested. A saw mill is operated by Philip Walden and there are two grist mills, one of which is situated half a mile east of the village and the other a mile west. The only hotel in the village is conducted by Everett Mack, who succeeded his brother, Edward Mack. There are two general stores, one conducted by Arthur Howe, who succeeded B. Davis, and the other by Clarence Omans.
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The Baptist Church of West Eaton was organized in 1820 and reor- ganized in 1853, and a house of worship erected in the same year.
The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1841 and a small meeting house erected in 1843. This was superseded in 1869 by the existing handsome edifice. The society is prosperous.
A Catholic Church was organized in 1879 as a branch of the Hamilton Church, and a house of worship was erected in 1880-81.
School district No. 3, which includes the village, was organized as a union school in 1874 and a convenient school house built at a cost of $3,600.
Eaton Center (Eagleville) is a small settlement near the center of the town, where it was hoped by the pioneers the business and manufac- turing industries would mainly be located. One of the first woolen mills in the county was established here by Perley Ayer, which was afterwards operated by Clarke Tillinghast. The dam was ultimately destroyed. A machine shop was opened many years ago and in 1879 Dwight Graham & Co., its proprietors, began manufacturing an agri- cultural steam engine. The business was subsequently given up.
Pierceville. - A small hamlet named from J. O. Pierce, who in 1844 formed a company and purchased a tract of land and erected a woolen manufactory, which was prosperously operated until 1850. The finan- cial stringency of 1857 caused the business to fail. A cotton mill also was operated here previous to 1844, and a planing mill was a later in- dustry. A hotel was built by Samuel Chubbuck previous to 1825. The old cotton mill is now owned by Le Roy Cook and is in use as a cider mill; he also has a carding mill in operation. Healy Brown runs the saw mill and John Copley a planing mill. There is also a grist mill.
Pratt's Hollow .- This is a hamlet and post-office in the northeastern corner of the town which, in early years, was a place of considerable business importance. Here John and James Pratt made their settle- ment, built a grist mill, saw mill, distillery, woolen mill, etc., and opened a store. J. F. Chamberlain built another woolen mill as early as 1809 and in 1824 a large cotton factory was established, as described in earlier chapters. All of these industries passed away in course of time. A general store is now kept by W. W. Lewis, and a hotel by Adelbert Cole. A milk station is located half a mile away on the rail- road, the station bearing the name of Pratt's. A mile distant on the railroad is a station called White's Corners, where a saw mill is oper- ated by Amos Avery.
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A Methodist class was formed at Pratt's Hollow in 1808 and a society was organized a few years later. The church building was erected in 1838.
Pine Woods is the name of a post-office and a little settlement at the junction of the Cherry Valley Turnpike and the Munnsville road in the eastern part of the town. It takes its name from the pine forests that originally crowned the nearby hills. A tavern was built here in 1834 by James Madison. A public house is still kept, and a general store is conducted by E. P. Embury. Benjamin Knoff has been postmaster many years.
At Morrisville Station is a post-office bearing that name, with Z. A. Todd, postmaster, who also has a small store and a lumber business.
The Town of Fenner.
This town was not organized until April 22, 1823, lies northwest of the center of the county and is bounded north by Lincoln and Sullivan, east by Smithfield, south by Nelson, and west by Cazenovia. Its sur- face is rolling upland, which includes the most elevated parts of the ridge which divides the waters of the county. A branch of Chittenango Creek, which forms a large part of the western boundary, rises in the eastern part, and the headwaters of Canaseraga Creek and a minor branch of Cowasselon Creek are in the northern part. Perryville Falls, on the Canaseraga, are somewhat remarkable, the water having a descent of about 150 feet, into a large basin hollowed from the rock.
The underlying rock of the town is mostly of the Hamilton group and the limestone crops out in the north and northwest parts; this stone has been quarried to some extent. Marl deposits are found in the north- west part from which lime is made. The soil is gravelly loam and well adapted to mixed farming.
Fenner was first settled about 1793, in the west part, but not per- manently until two years later, when the New Petersburgh Tract had been leased to Peter Smith. Among the families who came into the town in the closing years of the last century were those of Jonathan and James Munger, Alpheus Twist, John Needham, Thomas Cushing, Davis Cook, Lt. David Hutchinson, Seneca Robinson and John Barber. Other pioneers of a little later date were Enos Wells, William, Arnold and George Ballou, James Cameron, John Douglass, John Robertson, Robert Stewart, Guy Hatch, Gideon Parsons, Joel Downer, Hezekiah Hyatt, David Baldwin, J. D. Turner, Martin and Daniel M. Gillet,
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Thomas Wilson, Wallace Woodworth, Benjamin Woodworth, Col. Elisha Farnham, Ithuriel Flower, Amos Webster, Samuel and Zattu Payne, Timothy Foster, Drake Sellick, Russell Ransom, Asa Dana, and others noticed more fully in an earlier chapter.
The first town meeting was held in the school house near David Cook, jr's, May 6, 1823, and the following named officers were elected: Daniel M. Gillet, supervisor; Sardis Dana, clerk; John Needham, William Esselstyne and Ralph J. Gates, assessors; John F. Hicks, collector; John Needham and Samuel Nichols, overseers of the poor; Samuel Ives, Amasa Ives, jr., and Noah Blakeslee, commissioners of highways; John F. Hicks and William Nichols, constables; Sardis Dana, William Doolittle and Daniel Pratt, commissioners of common schools; John Needham, jr., Federal Dana and Erastus E. Park, inspectors of com- mon schools; David Cook, poundmaster.
Following is a list of the supervisors of the town of Fenner from its formation to the present time:
1823, Daniel M. Gillet; 1824-26, Czar Dykeman; 1827, Nathaniel Hazelton ; 1828-31, Daniel M. Gillet; 1832-3, Nathaniel Hazelton ; 1834, Asa Blakeslee; 1835-6, John Needham; 1837-9, Sardis Dana; 1840, Charles G. Dibble; 1841-2, Walter Clough; 1843-8, Robert G. Stewart; 1849, David Hess; 1850, Sergeant Britt; 1851, R. G. Stewart; 1852, Jesse Watson; 1853, D. Miner Gillet; 1854, John Hill; 1855, Harvey W. Kendall; 1856, Thomas Marshall; 1857-8, Asa R. Maine; 1859, Asahel A. Annas; 1860-1, James Monroe Lownsbery; 1862-3, L. Van- der C. Hess; 1864-6, Orra B. Hamblin; 1867, L. Vander C. Hess; 1868, John Woodcock; 1869, Theodore Meade; 1870, John Wilson; 1871, John Woodcock; 1872-3, J. Somers Hill; 1874-5, Norman B. Hill; 1876-7, Charles W. Barrett; 1878-81, Andrew Whipple; 1882-86, Paul S. Maine; 1887, Andrew Whipple; 1888-91, Paul S. Maine; 1892-93, R. Duncan Robertson; 1894-97, Paul S. Maine.
Following is a statement of the population of the town since 1835 as shown by the census of various decades and semi-decades :
1835
1840
1845
1850
1855
1860
1865
1870
1875
1880 1890 1892
1,972
1,997
1,833
1,690
1,622
1,649 1,387 1,381
1,265 1,272 1,040 999
The decrease in population in this town is seen to be as great, or a little greater, than that of any other town in the county. The causes are the same as have been mentioned elsewhere, and need not be fur- ther noticed.
There are only two post-offices in this town; one at Perryville and the
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other at Fenner Corners, with the name of Fenner. Perryville is the most important village and lies partly in three towns-Fenner, Sullivan, and Lincoln. The post-office was established probably in 1816, with Oren S. Avery, postmaster. He held the office until he died, in 1836. His successors have been as follows: Silas Judd, to about 1845; Leonard Gough, Ira Bates, Mr. Judd, again, O. J. Woodworth, Joseph V. Wells, Webster C. Hill, H. L. Keeler, John Hill, Paul S. Maine, Leon Berson, Duane Chapman, Paul S. Maine, James Wells, and again Paul S. Maine.
Among the early merchants here were Tyre & Cole, about 1811; the Weeks Brothers, about 1812; William Doolittle, about 1820; Samuel Hill and a Mr. Stillson, succeeding Doolittle; Leonard Gough, 1835-50; John Hill, 1839-59 (also a tavern keeper and distiller); Webster C. Hill, son of John; H. L. Keeler, 1864, sold to Paul S. Maine in 1876, who is still in trade.
The Perryville House was built about 1825 by Simeon Jenkins. It has had a number of proprietors and is now kept by F. F. Hamilton.
The early physicians of the village and town were Dr. John Didama, Dr. N. C. Powers, Dr. Powers R. Mead, Dr. Theodore Mead, and at later dates Drs. John H. Ramsey, Sylvanus Guernsey, George B. Munger, Benjamin R. Mead, George W. Miles, and M. R. Joy. The present physician of Perryville is Dr. Nelson O. Brooks.
The first church in Perryville was St. Stephen's, formed in September, 1816. It passed out of existence many years ago. The Methodist Church was organized in 1831, and the edifice was built in 1839.
There are eleven school districts in this town, and in 1897 the Union School District of Perryville was incorporated. This school occupies the old Episcopal church building.
Fenner Corners is a hamlet in the central part of the town, where Martin and Daniel M. Gillet opened the first store. Other early mer- chants were Charles F. Kellogg, Hiram Preston, Martin Woodworth, Perry Tibbits, and Augustus Daniels. Benjamin Pearlman is the pres- ent merchant. The post-office was established some time between 1820 and 1825, with Ebenezer Dunton, postmaster. The Fenner Baptist Church was organized here in 1801.
A part of the hamlet of Chittenango Falls is in the western part of the town, and has been sufficiently described in an earlier chapter.
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The Town of Georgetown.
Georgetown was set off from De Ruyter April 7, 1815, and lies west of the center of the south line of the county. It is bounded north by Nelson, east by Lebanon, south by Chenango county, and west by De Ruyter. It was named at the suggestion of the Legislature, instead of being called Washington, which was the preference of the inhabitants. The surface of the town is mainly hilly upland. The valley of Otselic Creek extends across it from north to south in the eastern part, break- ing the surface into two ridges which rise from 400 to 500 feet above the valley bottom. Otselic Creek is the principal stream and its many small tributaries drain most of the town. The headwaters of the Tioughnioga touch the northwest corner. The soil is a yellow loam on the hills and and a gravelly alluvium in the valley. The Syracuse and Chenango Valley branch of the West Shore Railroad crosses the northeast part, with a station three miles east of Georgetown village. The principal industries of the town are dairying and hop growing; the latter has lost its pre-eminence in comparatively recent years. Mixed farming is also carried on to a sufficient extent for home consumption and in recent years potatoes have been marketed to a considerable extent. There are two cheese factories in the town, one of which is situated at George- town village, operated by C. Stevens, and the other two miles south of the village, by E. W. Brown & Co. The lumber industry still continues important in this town and large quantities have been shipped away in comparatively recent years. A steam saw mill is operated by E. W. Pease a half mile south of Georgetown village; another one in the southern part by Van Ness Baldwin, and another near the Otselic town line by M. C. Aiken. There are also three water power mills, one of which is at the railroad station, owned by E. E. Collins; one by E. C. Hart and one by W. & E. V. Brown.
The first settlement in Georgetown was made in 1804 by William Sexton, who located on lot 58. Others who came in that year were John C. Payne, on lot 115; Elijah Olmstead, who soon sold to Josiah Purdy, a blacksmith; Apollos Drake, father of a large family; Joseph Bishop, and Eleazer Hunt, on the site of the village; Bethel Hurd, on lot 69; Olmstead Brown, on lot 115: In 1805 there came into the town Mitchell Atwood, who settled two and a half miles from the village; Matthew Hollenbeck, in the north part of the town; Bailey Carter, ad- joining the John C. Payne farm; William Payne, on lot 45; Joseph P.
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Harrison, in the north part; Calvin Cross, in the northwest part; Capt. Samuel White (settled about this year) also in the northwest part. Weston H. Payne, son of William Payne, was the first white child born in the town, his birth being in 1805.
Other early settlers, most of whom came in at a little later date, were Elijah Brown, Ebenezer Hall, Jesse Jerrold, Zadock Hawks, John Gib- son, Charles Belden, David Parker, Philetus Stewart, Benjamin Bonney, Reuben Buckingham, James McElwain, Asa West and a few others. The settlement here for a few years of the French refugee, who called himself Louis A. Muller, has been described in an earlier chapter.
The first town meeting for Georgetown was held at the house of John Holmes on March 5, 1816, the proceedings of which and the officers elected will be found in Chapter IX. Following is a list of the super- visors of the town from its formation to the present time, with the dates of their election: 1816-23, William Payne; 1824-25, E. Whit- more; 1826, Daniel Alvord; 1827, S. B. Hoffman; 1828, Hanford Nichols; 1829-30, William Payne; 1831-34, Peter Nichols; 1835-37, W. F. Bostwick; 1838-40, Horace Hawks; 1841, Elijah Brown; 1842, Tru- man Amsbry; 1843, Truman Amsbry; 1844, Samuel Wickwire; 1845, Elijah Brown; 1846-47, Samuel Wickwire; 1848-49, Zinah J. Moseley ; 1850, Truman Amsbry; 1851-52, Enoch L. Savage; 1853-54, Zinah J. Moseley; 1855-56, W. P. Bonney; 1857-58, Robert Utter; 1859-60, Elijah W. Brown; 1861-62, C. M. Amsbry; 1863-65, Alfred A. Brown ; 1866-67, John W. Northrop; 1868-69, Elijah W. Brown; 1870-71, John W. Dryer; 1872-73, 1876, Elijah W. Brown; 1874-75, Andrew McCoy; 1877, Asa Pritchard; 1878, Alfred A. Brown; 1879, Elijah W. Brown; 1880-81, Russell Whitmore; 1882-83, Charles C. Wagner; 1884-89, W. Albert Hare; 1890-91, Albert A. Stoddard; 1892-93, Eugene M. Perry; 1894-97, Joel J. Parker.
Georgetown Village .- This is the only village in the town and is pleasantly situated in the Otselic valley a little southeast of the center, and nearly three miles from the station of the same name on the rail- road.
For many years the village bore the local name of Slab City, which even yet still clings to it; this rather belittling title is said to have been suggested by Apollos Drake when he and his neighbors were raising the frame of the first saw mill in the town. Messrs. Bemiss and Dudley were the first merchants of the village and left the business some time before 1817. In that year John F. Fairchild opened a store and also
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kept a tavern many years. Other early merchants were Ira B. Howard, Albert C. Stanton, James Wesson, Samuel and Charles Wickwire, Zinah J. Moseley, who was a partner with Samuel Wickwire, Samuel Ballard, Elnathan Ellis, Nelson Parmelee, Enoch L. Savage, John Clough, Jerome A. Norton, John Northrop, Northrup & Way, Northrop & Priest, Northrop & Henry, Zinah N. Dutton and S. C. Whitmore. Merchants now engaged in trade are J. F. Stoddard, opened a general store in 1884; H. J. Evans, hardware, established in 1884; Floyd Cur- rier, opened a general store in 1892, and also succeeded to the under- taking business of J. Q. Hawks in 1897; J. J. Parker & Co., formed a partnership in 1893, succeeding W. A. Hare; Noel E. Jackson, general store; George M. Griffith, flour and feed, and insurance, established in 1861 with S. M. Faulkner, who retired in 1872; S. G. Holmes, flour and feed; Mrs. C. H. Rice, dry goods and millinery ; E. D. Halbert, meat market; formerly with E. C. Hart and later with Van Ness Peck- ham; L. Edgerton is a blacksmith, and C. R. Rice carries on a livery business.
The first postmaster in Georgetown was probably John F. Fairchild, who was succeeded by David Parker, Alexander McElwain. Dr. Whit- more, who held the office ninteen years, Zinah J. Moseley, William W. Hare, James Hare, William H. Johnson, Harvey Robie, William Way, W. A. Hare, A. A. Stoddard, W. A. Hare again, Leslie Hare, A. A. Stoddard, and W. A. Hare, who again has the office.
Physicians of past years were Dr. Epaphroditus Whitmore, settled in 1810, also taught the first winter school; Drs. Guthrie, Blakeslee, Truman, and Elliott Stewart, each practiced here only a short time; Dr. Babcock; Dr. Reynolds, a short time in company with Dr. George W. Harris, who continued here until his death; Dr. Benjamin Franklin, practiced until his death; Albright Dunham, here a short time and re- moved to West Eaton; Charles M. White, in practice here since 1844, and Dr. E. F. Lamb.
A tannery was established many years ago which passed to posses- sion of Christian Hartgen in 1875, and upon his death in 1879, was operated by his widow a short time when the business was abandoned; the building is now in use as a barn. It was built about 1859.
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