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mill is now operated by George W. Berry. On the same dam was a saw mill which was owned by various persons and was finally demol- ished.
A tannery was built in 1831 by Loomis, Lowd & Co., which, after various changes, passed to Henry Berry in 1855; the building is now in use as a cold storage warehouse by George W. and Frank O. Berry, sons of Henry.
Enos Wood established a machine shop in 1830, which was removed to Pierceville in 1835.
A milk station is located at the railroad under control of the Empire State Dairy Company, with H. J. Spencer, local manager. About 8,000 pounds of milk are taken daily.
A hotel was built in 1832 by Samuel Pool, which was burned in 1879. F. H. Kinney built another on the same site which also burned. The present hotel was built in 1884-85 by Dr. C. D. Green and is now con- ducted by his widow. The Railroad Hotel was built in 1868 by An- drew Forbes. It had several different proprietors, and was burned April 27, 1898.
The Methodist Church of Poolville was organized between 1850 and 1860, and the house of worship was built soon after. The building was repaired in 1869 and again in recent years. The present pastor is Rev. Mr. Knapp, who also has charge of the church at East Hamilton. A Universalist society at Poolville was organized by the members of the church at Hubbardsville, with Rev. Mr. Ballou as first pastor. The meeting house was erected in 1886.
One of the first merchants here succeeding Mr. Eaton, before men- tioned, was George E. Nash, who began in 1860, in company with H. H. Kinney, whose interest he purchased two years later. Mr. Nash is still in business and for many years past has been postmaster.
Cook & Dunham keep a general store, succeeding J. M. Jennings; he was preceded by D. W. Hyland, who began trade in 1885. There are the usual small shops in the village.
Hubbardsville. - This is a small village situated on the Chenango in the northeast part of the town and is a post-office and station on the D., L. & W. Railroad. It derives its name from Calvin Hubbard, who settled there about 1813. He operated an early tannery and distillery and died at an advanced age. The first merchant here was Ephraim Chamberlain, who was in trade before 1825; other early merchants were Sherebiah S. Hunt and Elias K. Hart, Charles Green, Gideon Manches-
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ter, Nathan Peck, Clark R. Nash, William T. Manchester, Dr. Julius Nye, Francis G. Shepardson, C. D. Nash, Nathan Brownell and his son, Nicanor, John O. Wallace and others. There are at the present time two general stores, one of which is conducted by D. D. Livermore and the other by Wilmer Rhodes. H. J. Kinney sells meat and Ells- worth Dart has a blacksmith shop.
The Dunbar Mills were built in 1850 by James H. Dunbar and Charles Blanchard, on the site of an earlier mill. They are now oper- ated by W. M. Jennings. A hotel is kept at the station by John Green. The post-office here was established in 1849 by removal from East Hamilton, and retained that name until 1856, when it was changed to Hubbard's Corners. William T. Manchester was the first postmaster and William T. Rhodes is the present incumbent.
The first Universalist Church at Hubbardsville was organized in 1808 and built their meeting house in 1833-34.
East Hamilton .- A small settlement which was known many years as Colchester Settlement, is situated about a mile south of Hubbardsville, on the east side of the river. It was one of the points at which it was proposed in the first decade of the century as the site of the county seat. There was at that time considerable business carried on here, which has mostly passed away. A general store is kept by Chauncey Mun- son, a hotel by Frank Kinney, a restaurant by Frank Cummings, and there are two blacksmiths, Elliott Fitch and Stephen Underdown.
South Hamilton is a settlement in the southeast part, where there is a post-office with Samuel B. Munson postmaster, a grist mill, a saw mill and a few shops.
The vicinity of the center of the town, which has been known as Hamilton Center, has no business interests, but was chosen in early years, according to the prevailing custom, as the site of the First Con- gregational Church, which was built here in 1800. The society was incorporated as the Second Congregational Society of Hamilton in 1798. The building was removed to Poolville about 1842 and finally was transformed into dwellings.
The Second Baptist Church of Hamilton was organized in 1819 and the meeting house erected a mile southeast of Poolville. The meeting house was built in 1835.
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The Town of Lebanon.
This town was formed from Hamilton on February 6, 1807, and is one of the five towns of the county erected in that year. It is the center town on the south border of the county, bounded north by Eaton, east by Hamilton, south by Chenango county, and west by Georgetown. It contains a little more than 26,000 acres, about four- fifths of which is improved. The surface is hilly and lies mostly be- tween the valleys of the Chenango and the Otselic; the first of these streams flows through the eastern part of the town, its valley compris- ing a fertile and beautiful region, expanding to nearly a mile in width and bordered by the steep slopes of the hills, which rise 500 to 800 feet above the valley bottom. The town is underlaid mostly by the Ham- ilton group and some good stone has been quarried for building pur- poses. The soil on the hills is gravelly loam underlaid with hardpan, and in the valleys alluvium. It is almost exclusively an agricultural district, dairying being extensively followed, with hop growing to a limited extent. The New York, Ontario and Western Railroad crosses the town along its east border in the Chenango valley, connecting at Smith's Valley with the Utica, Clinton and Binghamton road, and at Earlville with the Syracuse and Chenango branch of the West Shore road.
Lebanon was one of the six towns originally patented to Col William S. Smith, who soon transferred the most of it to Sir William Pultney, reserving a tract on the Chenango River. Settlement began under the auspices of those men through the direct agency of Justus B. Smith, brother of Colonel Smith and others. Joshua Smith was sent in to the town in 1791 to prospect, built a log house near the Smith's Valley set- tlement, returned to report to his principal, but subsequently came back to Lebanon and settled here permanently. Justus B. Smith, the agent, also settled with his brothers, John and James, and five sisters. Jonathan Bates, Enoch Stowell, and John and James Salisbury came on in the fall of 1792, the Salisburys settling in Eaton, and Bates and Stowell in Lebanon; during that fall they cleared twenty acres of land. In the spring of 1794 David Hartshorn and Samuel Felt, with his brother David, became settlers. Lent Bradley and Solomon Jones set- tled as early as 1797, John W. Bulkley about the same time and David and Dunham Shapley and Arunah Moseley as early as 1798.
As early as 1800 nine separate families of Campbells came into the
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town, locating at Campbell's Settlement in the north part. Daniel and Elisha Wheeler settled about 1798 and soon built the first grist and saw mills in the town on the Chenango. Settlers at about the beginning of the century were Malatiah Hatch, Dane Ballard, Elihu Bosworth, Jabin Armstrong, Thomas Buell, and Abraham Webster. Silas Seymour, a Revolutionary soldier, settled in the town in 1800, Rev. Matthias Cazier in 1803, and Orsamus Gilbert and Francis Whitmore in 1805. Other pioneers were Ephraim Gray, Benjamin Hewes, Thomas Hueston, Daniel Stowell, Deacon Asa Tenney, Capt. Roderick Moore, Philip Kibbie, Captain Truman and Jabez Billings, John Sheldon, Giles Collins, and Richard Taylor, all of whom have been noticed more in detail in an earlier chapter.
The first town meeting for Lebanon was held on March 3, 1807, in the red school house and the following officers elected: John W. Bulk- ley, supervisor; Silas Seymour, clerk ; Giles Collins, Josiah Lasel and Jacob Kennedy, assessors; Malatiah Hatch and Roderick Moore, over- seers of the poor; Jacob Kennedy, Daniel Clark and Roderick Moore, commissioners of highways; David Hartshorn and Joseph Hitchcock, constables; Joseph Hitchcock, collector; George Morey, Walter Baker, Clark "Willcocks," Stephen James, Orsamus Gilbert, Samuel Lewis, Abraham Webster, Jacob Hartshorn, Justus B. Smith, Ezra Gates, John W. Bulkley, Elisha Wheeler, Darius Sperry, Sheldon Smith, Gardner Salsbury, Moses Pomeroy, William Taggart, James Dorrance, Roder- ick Moore, Archibald Campbell, David B. Hitchcock, Aaron Davies, Giles Collins and William Sloan, overseers of highways and fence- view- ers; Charles S. Campbell, poundkeeper.
A special town meeting was held November 23, 1807, at which John W. Bulkley, Constant Merrick, Jacob Kennedy, Moses Wylie and Rod- erick Moore were appointed a committee to select the place for "cen- tering the town," as it was expressed. A little later steps were taken to raise funds by subscription with which to build a town house; this purpose was never carried out.
Following is a list of the supervisors of this town from its formation to the present time, with the years of their service: 1807-9, John W. Bulkley ; 1810-11, James Campbell; 1812-14, Francis Whitmore ; 1815-19, Amos Crocker; 1820-21, Francis Whitmore; 1822-28, Daniel Clark; 1829-30, Josiah Lasell; 1831-34, Francis Whitmore; 1835-36, Jacob Hartshorn; 1837, Erastus B. Burroughs; 1838-40, Curtis Hoppin ; 1841-42, Jeremiah Ballard; 1843-44, David Clark; 1845-46, Curtis
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Hoppin; 1847, Joseph A. Norton; 1848-49, David Clark; 1850, Joseph A. Norton; 1851-52, David Clark; 1853-55, Jason Owen; 1856-58, David Clark; 1859, Aylmer Ballard; 1860-61, John C. Head; 1862-65, E. M. Lamb; 1866-67, George W. Baker; 1868-69, Henry Seymour; 1870, Albert O. Pierce; 1871, Edwin M. Lamb; 1872-75, Ephraim Fisk; 1876-77, Ladurna Ballard; 1878, John S. Ross; 1879-80, Sidney D. Smith; 1881, Herman Snell; 1882-83, Edwin M. Lamb; 1884-85, Morris N. Campbell; 1886-88, Stephen R. Campbell; 1889-95, De For- est A. Wilcox; 1896-99, Stephen R. Campbell.
There are only two post villages in Lebanon-the village of Lebanon, which is the largest, and Smith's Valley, the post-office here bearing the name of Randallsville. Lebanon was locally known in past years as " Toad Hollow;" it is situated about a mile west of the center of the town and is a station on the railroad. Justus B. Smith was the first to sell goods here, keeping a small stock in the basement of his house. The first merchant to trade in a regular store building was Jonathan Thayer, jr., who continued until his death in 1830. Other early mer- chants were Orson and William L. Sheldon, who traded in the Gilbert store; after a year or two William withdrew; Curtis Hoppin, who bought out Orson Sheldon; Joseph A. Norton, Edwin M. Lamb, Joseph D. Avery, Fisk & Gilbert, Pike & Seymour, Abraham Martin, and a few others. The present merchants are S. W. Seymour, succeeded Pike & Sey- mour, general store; J. H. Poole, boots and shoes; Irving Collins, es- tablished flour and feed store in 1889 and afterwards added a general stock; W. S. Niles, boots and shoes and hardware, succeeded Niles Brothers in May, 1898; their general stock was taken by Frank D. Lyon who conducts a store. C. M. Henry has a blacksmith shop.
Horace A. Campbell built the upright part of the original hotel about 1834 for a store and a little later converted it into a hotel, which he kept until about 1853; the house afterwards had several proprietors and is now called the Currier House, and kept by George M. Currier.
The old saw mill built many years ago at Lebanon still stands, but is now in use only as a storehouse by L. Ballard; the dam is gone. A tannery was established here in 1838 by Thomas Bright and passed through several hands until 1884 when it was burned. It was rebuilt the next year and is now owned by S. B. David and T. A. Beach; it was used for a time as a saw and grist mill, but is now idle.
The first physician here was Joseph Stowell, who came from Stowell, Mass., and about 1799 settled on the southeast corner lot in this town,
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near Earlville, and there practiced until his death in 1831 or 1832. His son, Kittridge, succeeded to the homstead. Dr. Constant Merrick from Lanesboro, Mass., settled about 1802 about two miles southeast of Lebanon, and about 1806 removed to the village and practiced until his death in 1828. Other former physicians were Drs. John Clarke, Eras- tus B. Burroughs, Lyman O. Horton, John Baker and his brother Cyrus, homoeopathicts, Frank D. Beebe, Elam Root, and the late James Mott Throop. The physician now in practice is Dr. M. D. French.
The first postmaster at Lebanon was Jonathan Thayer, appointed about 1814 and held the office until his death in 1830. His son Sylves- ter succeeded him until 1833, when Orrin Thayer, another son of Jona- than, was appointed. He was followed about 1836 by Horace A. Camp- bell. Orrin Gilbert was the next incumbent for a short period and was succeeded by William L. Sheldon who continued until near his death in 1847. H. A. Campbell was the successor and was followed in 1853 by Edwin M. Lamb. About 1858 Reuben S Hall was appointed and was succeeded by Joseph D. Avery in 1861, and he by Milton E. Danforth in 1865. Charles W. Brasse was appointed about 1870 and in 1873 was succeeded by John D. Gilbert. He held the office until 1876, when he was succeeded by Silas W. Seymour, who has held the office in all Re- publican administrations since, while James Mosher has been the in- cumbent in Democratic administrations.
The Congregational Church at Lebanon was organized October 2, 1802, as the Third Congregational Church of Christ in the town of Ham- ilton, with fifteen members. The first settled pastor was probably not ordained until 1825, when Rev. S. Scott was called. The meeting house was built in 1825 a mile north of the Center and in 1839 was re- moved to its present site, where it has been greatly improved according to modern ideas. The society is now prospering under the ministrations of Rev. Hugh Ivey.
Steps were taken early in the century that resulted in the organization of a Baptist Church in June, 1816. In November, 1819, it was agreed to build a house of worship 24 by 23, feet in size. The site was a little south of the site of the second edifice, which was finished in 1835 and was there occupied until 1889, when it was removed to its present site in the village and remodeled and substantially rebuilt. The society is now in an active and prosperous condition and the pulpit is supplied chiefly from Colgate University.
A Universalist society had a brief existence many years ago and
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erected a church about a mile east of the village; the church long ago passed out of existence and the building is now in use as a store- house.
South Lebanon .- This is a small hamlet a mile and a half south of Lebanon village, containing a school house, a blacksmith shop by Cor- nelius Downey; a steam saw mill operated by Charles Bills; a paint shop by Samuel Benedict, and a general store by Sidney Catlin. There is not and never has been a post-office here. The first store at this point was opened by W. H. Williamson, a native of Lebanon, who re- moved from Hamilton about 1871; he sold out to Lewis H. Wedge in 1876, who continued the business a number of years. The main part of the saw mill was built about 1860 by Sidney Bills for a carriage shop and was used for that purpose until 1871, when it was converted to its present use. An addition containing a feed grinding mill, was built in 1858 for a cider mill and was removed to the side of the main building when that was erected.
Smith's Valley (Randallsville P. O.) .- This is a hamlet in the east part of the town, the southern terminus of the Utica, Clinton & Bing- hamton Railroad and a station on the New York, Ontario & Western. It was once a place of considerable business importance, as the reader has learned in an earlier chapter; but trade and industry were attracted elsewhere in the natural course of development and the little village settled down into rural quite until reawakened by the incoming rail- roads. Here was established the first store in the town by the Smith family of pioneers, and near by were built mills and shops of various kinds. The first merchant here under the second stage of business ac- tivity was J. Dayton F. Smith, who began trade in 1870, was associated with his son, Adon N., from 1873, and sold out in the next year to Charles E. Montgomery. A year and a half later he sold to Sidney D. Smith, who continued several years. The present merchants are George Waite and Riley Arnst. Peter L. Beers was appointed postmaster just previous to the opening of the railroad and was succeeded by Henry T. Robinson, J. D. F. Smith, C. Montgomery Smith, Sidney D. Smith, and Mary C. Hutchings, who has been in charge about ten years.
About a mile and a quarter east of Lebanon is a grist and saw mill, operated by water, built many years ago and now operated by George W. Phillips. The grist mill has existed since about 1810. About a mile southwest of Smith's Valley is a saw and planing mill and cheese box factory, built by Erastus Clark about 1860 and still operated by
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him. In the north part of the town, a mile from Smith's Valley, a saw mill was built many years ago which has gone to decay. About a mile and a half west of Lebanon were two saw mills, one of which was last operated by Clinton Stowell; in the same vicinity is a carding machine, which is now operated by Mr. Stowell, who has also a large cold stor- age business. Another small saw mill a mile above South Lebanon, and still another a mile below that place, the latter built about 1887 by Marvin Torrey, have both fallen into decay.
Lebanon was early divided into school districts and the first commis- sioners, chosen in 1813, were Constant Merrick, Amos Crocker, and Moses Wylie; the school inspectors were James Campbell, Curtis Hop- pin, and Francis Whitmore. This town now forms a part of the First Commissioner District of the county, and has twelve districts with school houses, employing in 1897 twelve teachers. The number of pupils attending in that year was 251.
The Old Town of Lenox and Its Subdivisions.
The old town of Lenox was formed from Sullivan March 3, 1809, and at the time of its formation contained 54, 500 acres of land. About 5,000 acres were taken off and added to Stockbridge in 1836. In 1896 the old Lenox was divided into three towns, named Lenox, Lincoln and Oneida. This division is fully treated in an earlier chapter and for gazetteer pur- poses the three new towns will be described as a whole. The old Lenox was bounded on the north by Oneida Lake, east by Oneida Creek, south by Stockbridge, and west by Sullivan. The surface is level in the northern part and moderately hilly in the southern part, which now constitutes the town of Lincoln. The soil in the northern part is allu. vium throughout the great swamp in that region, and gravelly and clayey loam in the southern part.
Settlement in Lenox began in 1792, with the arrival of the Klock family on the site of Clockville. To the same locality came the Snyder, Moot, Forbes, Tuttle, Bruyea, Kilt and Betsinger families at an early day. Early settlers on Quality Hill were Sylvanus Smalley, Dr. Asahel Prior, David Barnard, Aaron Francis, Abiel Fuller, David Barnard, jr., Dea. Ebenezer Cadwell, Isaac Senate, Samuel Louder, Nehemiah Smalley, Selah Hills, Job Lockwood, Nash Mitchell, Ichabod Buell, and a few others, all of whom had located prior to 1802. Other early settlers were Jason Powell, Joseph Phelps, Joseph Bruce, Col. Zebulon Douglass, Reuben Hale, Gen. Ichabod S. Spencer, Col. Thomas W.
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Phelps, Harvey G. Morse, Edward Lewis, William I. Hopkins, Thomas Spencer, Walter, Hezekiah and Linus Beecher, John Hall, Nathaniel Hall, Everard Van Epps, John and Gift Hills, Martin Vrooman, Will- ard Cotton, Benjamin Smith, Capt. William Jennings, and others to be mentioned.
The early records of this town were destroyed in the great Canastota fire in 1873, and it is impossible to give proceedings of town meetings. A complete list of the supervisors has been compiled from the records of the county clerk's office and is as follows:
1810, Joseph Palmer; 1811-12, Walter Beecher; 1813, William Hallock ; 1814, Asa Dana; 1815-16, William Hallock; 1817, Sylvester Beecher; 1818-19, William Hallock; 1820-22, John Whitman; 1823-27, Pardon Barnard; 1828, John Whitman; 1829, Samuel Hitchcock; 1830, John Whitman; 1831-32, William Hallock; 1833-34, Sylvester Beecher ; 1835, Nathan T. Cady; 1836, William Spencer; 1837-39, Giles Whitman; 1840-41, Martin Lamb; 1842, Ambrose Hill; 1843-44, Joshua Duncan ; 1845, Charles Stroud; 1846-47, Gideon Raymond ; 1848-49, J. N. Whit- man; 1850-51, N. S. Cady; 1852-53, Lucius Brooks; 1854, E. R. White; 1855, John Montrose; 1856, Duncan McDougall; 1857, Sanford P. Chap- man ; 1858, Ralph H. Avery; 1859-60, Duncan McDougall; 1861, R. H. Avery ; 1862, D. W. C. Stevens; 1863, Perkins Clark; 1864, J. A. Ben- nett; 1865, Duncan McDougall; 1866, J. A. Bennett; 1867-69, D. Mc- Dougall; 1870, George B. Cady ; 1871, George Berry; 1872, G. B. Cady ; 1873-74, George Berry ; 1875, Fred C. Fiske; 1876, B. F. Chapman ; 1877, H. L. Rockwell; 1878-79, Walter E. Northrup; 1880, Loring Munroe; 1881-84, Walter E. Northrup; 1885-87, Fred C. Fiske; 1888, Charles E. Remick; 1889, E. Emmons Coe; 1890, Charles E. Remick; 1891, Fred C. Fiske; 1892-95, Francis Stafford ; 1896-97, Francis W. Doolittle.
Canastota .- This is a thriving and active village on the line of the New York Central railroad, and within the boundaries of the new town of Lenox. It was first incorporated in April, 1835, and again reorgan- ized on April 12, 1870, under the general law. The first election was held on the first Tuesday of May, 1835. Among the early merchants of the place were James Graham, who kept a grocery on the canal bank in 1817. Reuben Hawley and his brother John kept a store soon after- ward. Frost & Kibbe, the Crouse Brothers, and others followed. Lead- ing merchants of the present are the Farr Brothers, hardware, started in 1879; J. E. Warrick, furniture; H. C. Brown's Sons, general stock; P. T. Weaver, crockery; J. W. Wilson, drugs; C. F. McConnell, drugs, and C. A. Jones, in the same business.
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The Canastota National Bank was established in 1856, and went into voluntary liquidation in 1890. The present First National Bank was established in September, 1890, with capital of $50,000. The State Bank of Canastota succeeds the private banking business established by Milton De Lano in 1876.
Within comparatively recent years the village has become an impor- tant manufacturing center, the leading establishments being the Can- astota Glass Company, organized in 1881; the wheel rake manufactory of Patten & Stafford, brought from Clockville in 1882; the Smith & Ellis Company, makers of desks, book cases, etc .; the Watson Wagon Company; the cider and vinegar works of Harrison & Co .; the Lee Chair Company, and the canning factory of Fred F. Hubbard.
The post-office was established in 1829, with Ichabod S. Spencer, postmaster. The Canastota Herald was started in 1865 and is now con- ducted by the Bee Publishing Company, in connection with the Bee, with which paper it was consolidated. The Canastota Journal was started as the Canastota News in 1881. It is successfully conducted by P. F. Milmoe. The principal hotels are the Twogood House and the Lewis House.
Canastota has a good fire department, an excellent water supply, and electric light service. The churches of the village are the Baptist, or- ganized about 1819; the Episcopal, organized in 1883; the Reformed Protestant, organized 1833, which became the Presbyterian; a second Baptist church, organized in 1868, and the Catholic society.
Oneida .- This thriving and enterprising village in the new town of the same name, which was set off from the old town of Lenox in 1896, is situated on the Central railroad, in the eastern part of the town. Its early business interests were established as a result of the open ing of the railroad, trade in that vicinity having previous to that time been mainly centered at Oneida Castle and at Durhamville. Sands Higinbotham was one of the most prominent of the early settlers on the village site, where he was a large landowner, as before described. He built the Railroad House and sold lands to settlers on such terms as to attract residents and develop the place. John B. Cole built the first store, which was opened by Amos Story. George Hamilton, Newman Scofield, Stoddard & Lype, Lyman Morse, S. H. Goodwin & Co., Ambrose Hill, and others were among the early merchants in the village.
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