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The post-office was established in 1841, with Erasmus Stone, post-
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master, whose successors have been Asa Smith, I. N. Messinger, Ephraim Beck, John Crawford, Watson A. Stone, Walter E. Northrup, John J. Hodge, Richard M. Baker, and again John J. Hodge.
The first resident attorney in the village was Isaac Newton Mes- singer, who died here in 1895. The first physician was Dr. Earl Loomis. The later and present professional men are noticed in the preceding chapters on the bar and the medical societies.
Until comparatively recent years manufacturing in Oneida was not extensive, but at the present time such important industries as the National Casket Company, the Oneida Iron Works, the Westcott Chuck Company, the Oneida National Chuck Company, the Oneida Silver Ware Manufacturing Company, and many less important establishments con- tribute materially to the growth and activity of the place. The mer- cantile interests are also extensive and prosperous, as elsewhere shown.
The Oneida Valley Bank was incorporated in 1851 and in 1865 be- came the Oneida Valley National Bank, as at present; capital $105,000. The First National Bank of Oneida was incorporated October 1, 1865, with capital of $125,000. It went into liquidation January 1, 1874, and was succeeded by what is now the National State Bank of Oneida, with capital of $60,000. The Farmers and Merchants State Bank was organ- ized June 3, 1892, with capital of $50,000. The Oneida Savings Bank is a very prosperous institution, which was incorporated February 19, 1866. The Central Bank is a private institution which was established in 1870, with William E. Northrup, president.
The first school in Oneida was opened in 1841, and from that small beginning and through much opposition, the present splendid educational system of the village has been developed. There are now a well con- ducted High school, a Union school district, established in 1882, and adequate buildings for the large attendance of pupils. In the old town of Lenox, previous to the division, there were twenty-four school dis- tricts with school houses, and-the report of 1895 shows an attendance of 2,700 pupils. The report of 1898 shows attendance in the new Lenox of 910; in Lincoln, 193, and in Oneida 1,498. The value of school buildings and sites in the old town was $63,864; in the new Lenox, ac- cording to the report of 1898, the value was $32,588; in Lincoln, $2, 850; in Oneida, $34,039.
Oneida village has a sewer system which is now well advanced to- wards completion, and several of the principal streets are well paved. Gas and electric light is supplied and a street railway runs from the
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village to near Oneida Castle; this was constructed in 1885. A public water supply was installed in 1883, by private enterprise and the works were purchased by the village in 1895. The efficient fire department has grown from the usual small beginning, and since the establishment of the water works has consisted chiefly of hose companies and adequate equipment, and a hook and ladder company with truck, etc. The prin- cipal hotels are the Allen House, which is the same as the old Railroad House, built by Sands Higinbotham many years ago; the Madison House, the Brunswick, and a few smaller houses.
The Oneida Dispatch is a flourishing weekly newspaper, which is the descendent of the Oneida Telegraph, established in 1851. It is now published by the Dispatch Company, with Charles E. Roberts, editor and manager. The Democratic Union is published by Baker & Maxon, and is now one of the best weekly newspapers in the State. It was started in Hamilton in 1856, but was removed in 1863 by W. H. Baker to Oneida. The Oneida Post is published every Saturday, by Hugh Parker. It was founded in 1883 by the Post Publishing Company.
St. John's Episcopal Church was organized in May, 1843, and the present edifice was erected in 1895. The Oneida Presbyterian Church was formed in 1844, and a house of worship was built in 1845; it was superseded by the one now in use. The Baptist Society was organized in 1842 at Oneida Castle, and took up its existence in the village of Oneida in 1848. This present edifice superseded the first one in 1888. The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in November, 1850, and soon afterward the first meeting house was erected, which was super- seded by the present edifice. St. Joseph's Catholic Church was erected in 1893 and a school building in 1898. St. Patrick's Catholic Church was formed in 1843 and a small meeting house built. The old St. Pat- rick's church was built in 1851 and the present beautiful edifice in 1888-89. St. Paul's Evangelical Church was organized in 1890 and the meeting house was dedicated in 1891. A Free Methodist Society was formed about 1875.
Clockville. - This is a mere hamlet about two miles south of Canas- tota, and now in the new town of Lincoln. The post-office was opened many years ago, with Peleg Card postmaster. There was formerly considerable manufacturing and mercantile business here, as before described, but most of it has disappeared. The grist mill was burned in 1896, and an old saw mill, with a cheese box factory and a cider mill in connection are still in operation. There is one hotel kept by Charles Suits, and Frank Clow and John Ritter are merchants.
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The Methodist Church at Clockville was organized in 1848 and the present meeting house was erected in 1894. The Baptist Church was organized in 1847 and long ago passed out of existence.
Wampsville is a hamlet and post-office on the Central Railroad in the southeastern part of the town of Lenox. There is at the present time only one store kept by A. A. Loucks. The Wampsville Presbyterian Society was organized in 1828; the first meeting house was built in 1832 and was remodeled in its present condition in 1872.
Other hamlets in the new town of Lenox are Oneida Valley, in the extreme notheastern part, with post-office in which Fred C. Parker is postmaster, and a store and hotel; the Presbyterian Church here was organized in 1847; and Oneida Lake, in the northwestern part of the town.
The Town of Madison.
Madison was set off from Hamilton on February 6, 1807, and is one of five towns erected in the year following the formation of the county. It lies on the east border of the county south of the center and corre- sponds with No. 3 of the Twenty Townships. Its surface consists chiefly of a rolling upland, with intervening valleys along the course of a branch of the Chenango River and a branch of Oriskany Creek, which are the principal streams; the former flows south and the latter north. The town is abundantly watered with small brooks and springs. There are several small ponds, the principal body of water now being the Madison Brook Reservoir, in the south part, which covers 235 acres, and was connected with the Chenango Canal by a feeder. The ponds in the north part of the town have largely filled with marl, but the sur- roundings are such that it could not be recovered for lime economically. The soil is gravelly loam on the hills and clayey loam in the valleys and is rich and productive as a rule. The rocks of the Hamilton group underlie the whole town, but are so deeply covered with drift that they are not quarried for building purposes. The Utica, Clinton and Bing- hamton Railroad runs diagonally across the town from northeast to southwest closely following the line of the abandoned Chenango Canal, and has stations at Solsville and Bouckville. According to the census of 1892 the town has a population of 2,251.
The territory of Madison forms part of the great tract in which Sir William Pultney had an interest, and through his agents the early settlements were promoted. Prospectors came in in 1791 and the next
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year the first permanent settlement was made by Daniel Perkins, who took up two lots near the site of Madison village, parts of which he afterwards sold to other poineers. Jesse Maynard also settled in that year, and his brothers, Amos and Moses, somewhat later. John Berry came about the same time. Gen. Erastus Cleveland, who was for many years the leading citizen of the town, came in 1792, built mills near the site of Solsville, a woolen factory at that point, and other mills on the Oriskany, and engaged in potash making, store keeping, and in many ways advanced the welfare of the growing community, as elsewhere explained. Settlers of 1793 included Col. Samuel Clemens, Thomas McMullen, Stephen F. Blackstone, Russell Barker, Warham Williams, William and David Blair, James Collister, Henry W. and Israel Bond, Elijah Blodgett, Joel Crawford, John Niles, Francis Clemens and Seth Snow.
In 1794 settlement was begun by a colony from Rhode Island in the southwest quarter of the town, among whom were Charles and George Peckham, Samuel Coe, Joseph Manchester, Samuel Brownell and the Simmons families. Nicanor Brown and Samuel Rowe were settlers of about that year. In 1795 Abial Hatch, Elijah Thompson, Israel Rice, James and Alexander White, Abizar and David Richmond, and William McClenathan came into the town, and were followed in the next year by Dr. Jonathan Pratt and his brothers, James and Daniel, and Nathan- iel Johnson ; at about that period also came in Gideon Lowell, William Sanford, Judson W. Lewis, Nehemiah Thompson, Peter Tyler and Thomas Dick. Other pioneers who came to the town mostly before the erection of the county were Capt. Seth Blair, Joseph Head, Samuel Collister, Joseph Curtis, Deacon Prince Spooner, Robert, Samuel and Timothy Curtis, Reuben Brigham, Agur Gilbert, Joseph and Job Manchester, Abijah Parker, Paul Hazard, Jared and Samuel Wickwire, Nehemiah Fairchild, Paul Greenwood, Jonas Banton, John Edgarton, Eli Bancroft, Abner Burnham, Luther Rice, Dr. Samuel McClure, David Peebles, James D. Coolidg, Solomon Root, Capt. Gilbert Tomp- kins, Ralph Tanner, an early tavern keeper at Madison village, Samuel Goodwin, early stage proprietor, Solomon Alcott, Daniel Holbrook and perhaps a few others, all of whom have been noticed more in detail in earlier chapters.
The town of Madison is one of the foremost in the great hop growing industry of this county, and James D. Coolidg and Solomon Root, above mentioned, were the first in the business in this section.
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The first town meeting for Madison was held March 3, 1807, and the officers elected whose names have already been given. Following is a list of the supervisors of the town from its formation to the present time:
1807-8, Erastus Cleveland; 1809-11, Seth Blair; 1812-18, Levi Mor- ton ; 1819, William Manchester; 1820-21, Edward Rogers; 1822-24, Rutherford Barker; 1825-27, Samuel Goodwin; 1828, Levi Morton; 1829-40, William Manchester; 1841, Samuel White; 1842-43, Samuel White, 2d; 1844, Samuel White; 1845-46, Samuel White, 2d; 1847, Hiram L. Root; 1848, Samuel White, 2d; 1849, William Manchester; 1850-55, Samuel White, 2d; 1856-58, Gilbert Tompkins; 1859-61, Allen Curtis; 1862-77, John W. Lippett; 1878-83, David Z. Brockett; 1884, Joseph W. Forward; 1886-87, Albert R. Nicholson; 1888-97, Samuel R. Mott.
The population of Madison on the dates when the census has been taken is shown in the following figures :
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1855 1860 1865
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1890 1892
3655 2344 2313
2405
2483
2457
2414
2402
2434 2474
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2251
It will be seen that the number of inhabitants in Madison has fluctu- ated and declined less than in most other towns of the county. In a general way this may be taken as an evidence of prosperity and con- tentment among the people.
There are three post-offices in Madison-Madison village with the same name, Solsville and Bouckville. The largest village is Madison which was incorporated April 17, 1816. The first trustees were Samuel Goodwin, Trumam Stafford, Alfred Wells, Edward Rogers, and Adin Howard. The first merchant in the place was John Lucas, who began business before 1800 at the " Opening " and moved it to the site of the village about 1807, when the Cherry Valley turnpike was constructed. Other early merchants were Alanson B. Coe, a partner with Lucas, Rob- ert B. Lane, H. C. & O. C. Bicknell, Truman Stafford, Gen. Erastus Cleveland, Benjamin F. Cleveland, E. F. Gaylord, Lyman Root and Henry Lewis, partners, James D. and Robert W. Lane, and Horace C. Bailey (firm of Lane, Bailey & Co.), A. S. Ackerman, Henry Hull, Adin Howard, John Morgan and others. The present merchants are: F. H. Bicknell, who in 1896 succeeded O. C. Bicknell, successor of H. C. & O. C. Bicknell; Louis Fuess, successor of Davis & Fuess, who fol- lowed Harry Morgan; George H. Root, successor of Cushman & Root; D. E. Smith, E. B. Wells, drugs and medicines, established in 1888; I.
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L. Dunster & Son, groceries, traded since 1896; Thomas Terry and H. Morgan (Terry & Morgan), meat market; Thomas A. Ferguson, shoe shop; John Bensted, harness shop; John Salisbury and F. Collister, blacksmiths.
The present hotel is the Madison House, kept by F. B. Howard. At Madison Lake, a quarter of a mile from the village and near the line of the Ontario and Western railroad, are two summer hotels kept by D. W. Leland and White & Lewis respectively. This beautiful spot has many attractions for those seeking rest and recreation and is attaining considerable popularity.
The post-office was established at the "Opening " at an early date, but it is not known just when. Dr. Asa B. Sizer was the first post- master, and was succeeded by Ralph Tanner, the early tavern keeper. He had the position until about 1840, when he was succeeded both as postmaster and tavern keeper by Isaac Curtis, who filled both positions to about 1861. James Brown was then postmaster until his death in 1874, and was succeeded by A. J. Cushman; the officials since have been O. C. Bicknell, G. C. White, both of whom again alternated in the office.
The first physician was Dr. Jonathan Pratt, whose early settlement has been noticed; others have been Drs. Zadock Parker, Daniel Barker. Asa B. Sizer, John Putnam, Marcus H. Sutcliffe, Elisha B. Hopkins, still in practice, B. R. Gifford, and Dr. Hammond. There is no lawyer in the town.
Union Free School District No. 1 of Madison was formed December 7, 1878. The faculty is now headed by William D. Miller, and about 129 students are enrolled in the various departments. A library of about 400 volumes is connected with the school. The present Board of Education is composed of Louis Fuess, president; G. H. Barker, clerk ; O. C. Bicknell, A. J. Cushman, and F. S. Collister.
There are four churches in the village-the Congregational, organized in 1796, and the First Baptist, organized in 1798; both are now in a prosperous condition. A Universalist Church was formed here in July, 1828, with Rev. Nathaniel Stacy, the first pastor. The society was not formally organized until 1852, and was reorganized and incorporated in 1866. The meeting house was built in 1821 and is still standing, but services are not now held. The Wesleyan Chapel (Methodist) was or- ganized about 1833 with a class of nine members, and meetings were held in the small chapel in the east edge of Eaton about a mile west of
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Bouckville for a few years when the church in Madison was built; it was remodeled and improved about 1871. In 1888 the name of the church was changed to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Madison; it is a very prosperous organization.
Bouckville .- This is a small village near the western border of the town on the line of the Utica, Clinton and Binghamton Railroad. The first settler on its site was John Edgarton, and the first merchant was Dr. Samuel McClure; other early traders were Ira Burhans, his son, Lindorf, William Coolidg, and Lewis E. Coe. With the opening of the Chenango Canal this place assumed considerable mercantile and manu- facturing importance, but in recent years both of these branches have declined. H. I. and E. L. Peet as a firm, established the extensive manufacture of cider about 1860, in a storehouse built by Moses May- nard; they also operated a saw mill and cheese box factory. Samuel R. Mott also engaged in the manufacture of cider before 1870. This business and also that of Peet Brothers was taken by J. C. Mott, son of Samuel, and carried on for a time. In 1890 the Genesee Fruit Com- pany took the business, which is conducted during the apple season on a large scale; they also manufacture cider and whiskey barrels. The mercantile business established in 1876 by Lewis E. Coe is now con- ducted by his wife in company with H. D. Brockett, under the firm name of Coe & Brockett.
The post-office at this place was opened about 1837, with Moses May- nard, postmaster; he was then keeping the tavern which he built about that date. William Coolidg held the office from about 1861 until his death in 1875, when Lewis E. Coe took it. Several years later he was succeeded by Isaac Forward, A. J. Wiltse, and F. Parker, the incum- bent.
The Methodist Church here was organized in 1853 and the meeting house was erected in the same year. There is only one hotel, called the White House, kept by D. T. Livermore. A steam saw mill and cheese box factory is operated by Leo Phelps.
Solsville. - This is a hamlet in the northwest part of the town two miles below Bouckville, on the railroad and formerly on the canal. It is in the deep valley of the Oriskany about three-quarters of a mile north of Madison village. The excellent water power, as has been shown, has been used for various manufactures. The abandonment of the canal and opening of the railroad seriously affected its prospects. Nathaniel S. Howard, who formerly owned the mill property, had also a
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small store in company with his brother Ambrose, from about 1831 to 1839. Other former merchants were Abel and Thompson Curtis, Mars- den Kershaw, Benjamin S. Bridge, Augustus N. Peckham, John Har- ris, and Warren H. Benjamin & Sons (Frank H. and Will H.), who began in 1875 and still continue.
The first postmaster here was Albert Hall; others have been Mars- den Kershaw, Agur Gilbert, Isaac Phelps, W. H Benjamin, Rodney Bridge, W. L. D. Lewis, and George R. Smith.
The old grist mill built by Gen. Erastus Cleveland, as before de- scribed, with the improvements subsequently made, is now operated by Smith & Spooner. Another grist mill is in operation a mile below the village by F. M. Fisher L. D. Lewis has a general store; T. B. Man- chester a blacksmith shop, and the hotel conducted by Newton Liver- more. A milk station is located at the railroad depot which is con- ducted by the Mutual Milk and Cream Company, with A. D. Eames local manager. About 1,000 pounds of milk are taken in daily and con- siderable cheese is made.
Pecksport is a flag station on the railroad in the west part of the town, which was formerly an important shipping point for the town of Eaton.
The Town of Nelson.
This is one of the five towns in Madison county that were formed in the year following its organization. It was set off from Cazenovia on the 13th of March, 1807, and received its name in honor of Lord Nel- son, the great English admiral. It is number one of the Chenango Twenty Townships, is situated southwest of the center of the county, and is bounded on the north by Fenner and Smithfield, on the east by Eaton, on the south by Georgetown, and on the west by Cazenovia. The town has a population of 1,350 according to the United States cen- sus of 1890, and 1,339 by the State census 1892. This is a considerable decrease from the number in 1880, which was 1,649. Nelson is divided into fourteen school districts that have a school house in each, in which were employed in 1897 fifteen teachers. The value of the school build- ings is about $5,000.
The surface of this town consists chiefly of a hilly upland, broken by ridges having a general north and south direction. It occupies part of the elevated watershed between streams flowing north into Oneida Lake and south into the Susquehanna. The principal stream is the Chitten
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ango Creek, two branches of which join near the west line of the town. The northern and larger branch rises in the town of Fenner, enters Nel- son near the center of the north boundary and flows across the north- west part in a southwesterly direction. The smaller branch rises in the south central part and flows in a northwesterly direction to its union with the main stream; this, with a more northerly tributary, flowing from the east forms the Erieville reservoir, constructed in 1850, to feed the Erie Canal; it covers 340 acres, and cost $36.837.03. The Eaton reservoir, constructed for a feeder for the abandoned Chenango Canal, is partly in this town. The old canal touched the south west part of the town.
Nearly the whole area of Nelson is underlaid with the Tully lime- stone, the Genesee slate, and the Ithaca group. The Hamilton group shows at the surface in a small part of the northeast and south west cor- ners of the town. Quarries have been opened, but no stone suitable for building purposes is obtainable. The soil is a gravelly loam, well adapted to grazing, and dairying is extensively carried on.
The territory of the town of Nelson was patented to Alexander Web- ster on June 4, 1793, and was purchased in the same year by Col. John Lincklaen. In that year Jedediah Jackson and Joseph Yaw bought land in the north part of the town in the interest of a Vermont company and during the succeeding two years twenty-six families, coming mostly from Pownal, Vt., settled on that purchase and in other parts of the town. The names of the heads of those families were as follows: Jed- ediah and Asahel Jackson, Joseph Yaw, Ebenezer Lyon, Daniel Adams, Sylvanus Sayles, Oliver Alger, Daniel and Isaac Coolidge, Levi Neil, Thomas Swift, Roger Brooks, Ethan Howard, Robert and Solomon Brown, Thomas and Jesse Tuttle, Luther Doolittle, Joseph Cary, Jesse Clark, James Green, Eliphalet Jackson, John Everton, Amos Rathbone, David Nichols, and Rufus Weaver. Other early settlers were James Annas, Levi Brown, Richard Karley, John Hamilton, sr., Moses Smith, Enos Chapin, Erastus Grover, Richard Wilber, Ezra and Isaac Love- joy, Asa Carey, Haven White, and the Richardson and Wells families; these came about 1796 and were mostly from Massachusetts. David Wellington, Simeon Haskell, Jesse, Abner and Seth Bumpus, Aaron Lindsley, Moses and Solomon Clark, Paul Griffiths, Isaiah and Ezra Booth, Joseph, Chauncey and David Case, William Knox, David Ham- ilton, Jeremiah Clark (who built the first saw mill in the town), Will- iam and Jeremiah Whipple, Thomas Ackley, Benjamin Hatch, Dyer
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Matteson, Jesse Carpenter, Robert Hazard, all of whom settled prior to the town organization in 1807. These and many others are mentioned more in detail in earlier chapters and in Part III of this volume.
The first town meeting in Nelson was held at the house of Rufus Weaver, April 7, 1807. The first town officers elected were as follows: Ebenezer Lyon, supervisor; John Rice, clerk; Jeremiah Clark, Simeon Marshall, and Thaddeus Hazleton, assessors; Thomas Holdridge, Moses Boardman and John Knox, commissioners of highways; Day Fay and Moses Boardman, overseers of the poor; Eri Richardson, Asahel Wood, Alvan Henry, and Benjamin Bumpus, constables; Alvan Henry, col- lector; James Bacon and John Jackson, poundkeepers; Elijah Daniels, Daniel Butler, Silas Reeves, Joseph Sims, Rufus Weaver, James Annas, Benjamin Turner, Uriah Annas, Robert Hazard, George Tibbits, Eldad Richardson, Jonathan Wellington, David Smith, Abraham Parker, Ephraim Cone, David Nichols, Daniel Coolidge, Richard Green, John Rice, Stephen Kingsley, Dyer Matteson, Francis Wood, John Knox and Warham Chapman, overseers of highways and fenceviewers.
Following is a list of the supervisors of the town from its organization to the present time: Ebenezer Lyon, 1807-10; John Rice, 1811-12; Ebenezer Lyon, 1813-17; Jabez Wright, 1818; Jeremiah Whipple, 1819; Ebenezer Lyon, 1820; Edward Hudson, 1821-22; Eri Richardson, 1823- 26; Oliver Pool, 1827-32; Daniel Lobdell, 1833-35; Benjamin Turner, 1836-38; George Rich, 1839-41; Asa Richardson, 1842; Oliver Pool, 1843; Jeremiah Blair, 1844; John Donaldson, 1845; Oliver Pool, 1846- 48; Alfred Medbury, 1849; G. D. Richardson, 1850-51; Palmer Bald- win, 1852; Jonathan Wells, 1853-54; George Irish, 1855; David A. Ham- ilton, 1856; G. D. Richardson, 1857; Artecas L. Sims, 1858-60; Nelson Richardson, 1861; S. Perry Smith, 1862-66; Charles K. Knox, 1867; Levi P. Greenwood, 1870; Isaac A. Blair, 1871-73; Merritt L. Lyon, 1874; Isaac A. Blair, 1875; George E. Gaige, 1876-78; Peter R. Duffy, 1879-86; Jeremiah Blair, 1887; Peter R. Duffy, 1888; Horace K. Smith, 1889-97.
Following is a statement of the population of Nelson as shown by the census of various decades and semi-decades :
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