Our county and its people : a descriptive work on Erie County, New York, Volume I, Part 65

Author: White, Truman C
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: [Boston] : Boston History Co.
Number of Pages: 1014


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The first town meeting was held at the house of Niles Carpenter, March 7, 1854, and the following officers elected :


Jesse Bartoo, supervisor; Daniel A. Smith, town clerk; Timothy G. Grannis, Royal R. Barron and Seth P. Tabor, justices of the peace; Thomas Miller, superin- tendent of schools; Julius P. Wilder, commissioner of highways; James P. Flood, assessor; John R. Wilder, collector; Erasmus R. Adams, overseer of the poor; John R. Wilder, La Fayette Lamb, Levi T. Ball and Sylvester R. Hall, constables; Abner S. Adams, Peter Ostrander and Jacob Hart, inspectors of election ; Jeremiah Carpen- ter, town sealer.


The supervisors of Marilla, with their years of service, have been as follows:


Jesse Bartoo, 1854; Seth P. Tabor, 1855; Niles Carpenter, 1856; Joseph P. Flood (to fill vacancy), 1856; Peter Ostrander, 1857; Sylvester Franklin, 1858; Jonathan Stedman, 1859; Harrison T. Foster, 1860-64; Samuel S. Adams, 1865; Harrison T. Foster, 1866; Benjamin Fones, 1867-69 (died in 1869); Whitford Harrington, elected to fill vacancy, 1869, and re-elected in 1870; Henry D. Harrington, 1871-72; Robert H. Miller, 1873; Russell D. Smith, 1874-78; Erasmus R. Adams, 1879-80; Harrison T. Foster, 1881-85; James Willis, 1886; Asa B. Smith, 1887; James Willis, 1888; Harrison T. Foster, 1889; Erasmus R. Adams, 1890-94; John R. Veeder, 1895-97.


The few Methodists in this town previous to 1850 worshiped in an old building half a mile east of Marilla village. It was owned by the Wesleyan Methodists and used by other denominations. After its abandonment in 1850 the Methodists met in Sons of Temperance hall until 1854, when they erected the present church.


The Disciples church was organized in 1856 and built a house of worship in 1858. The society was formerly much more numerous than at present.


The Free Baptist church of Marilla was organized in 1874, and its house of worship was erected in the next year.


The Roman Catholic church was erected in 1854, under direction of a priest from Buffalo.


The United Brethren society built a church at Williston in 1873.


TOWN OF NEWSTEAD.


This town was formed from Clarence on the 27th of March, 1823, with the name Erie, which was changed to Newstead1 in April, 1831.


1 So named by Hon. Millard Fillmore, then representative from Erie county in the State As- sembly; Mrs. Fillmore happened to be reading Byron at the time, and suggested the name of his ancient home, Newstead Abbey, for this town.


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It includes township 12, range 5, and a part of township 13, range 5, of the Holland Company's survey, and embraces about 30,708 acres and also a small part of the Tonawanda Indian Reservation, lying in the northeast corner, over which the town has a nominal jurisdiction. Newstead lies in the northeast corner of Erie county, and is bounded on the north by Niagara county, on the east by Genesee county, on the south by Alden, and on the west by Clarence. Tonawanda Creek forms the northern boundary, and into it flows Murder Creek, which the Indians called See-un-gut, signifying "roar of distant waters." The south part is drained by the headwaters of Ellicott Creek. A limestone ledge, containing hydraulic limestone, crosses the center of the town; on the north the surface is level with a soil of clayey loam, marl and sand, while on the south it is gently undulating, the soil be- ing a clayey loam underlaid with limestone. The principal occupation of the inhabitants outside of Akron is general farming.


The first town meeting in Erie (now Newstead) was held in May, 1823, but on account of the destruction of the early records by fire it is impossible to give the first officers, etc. The following is as complete a list of the supervisors of the town as can be ascertained:


John Boyer, 1825, 1831-32; William Jackson, 1833; Cyrus Hopkins, 1835 and 1837; John Rogers, 1838; Hezekiah Cummings, 1839-40; Almon Ford, 1842; Marcus Mc- Neal, 1843-45; John Boyers, 1846-47; Henry S. Hawkins, 1848-50; Lorenzo D. Covey, 1851; Edward Long, 1852-53; Henry S. Hawkins, 1854; B. K. Adams, 1855; Lorenzo D. Covey, 1856; E. J. Newman, 1857-58; Ezra P. Goslin, 1859-61; Henry Atwood, 1862; Ezra P. Goslin, 1863-65; Marcus Lusk, 1866-72; William T. Magoffin, 1873; D. B. Howe, 1874; H. H. Newton, 1875; William T. Magoffin, 1876; Timothy W. Jackson, 1877-84; William T. Magoffin, 1885-86; William M. Cummings, 1887-94; Henry L. Steiner, 1895-97.


That portion of the original Tonawanda Indian Reservation lying in Newstead comprised about thirteen square miles and included the site of Akron village. In August, 1826, the Ogden Land Company pur- chased about 7,000 acres of this tract and opened it to settlers, leaving the reservation with its present area of about 2,000 acres. In 1798 Joseph Ellicott caused the main trail of the Six Nations to be cut out from Batavia to Buffalo; it ran westward through Akron and Clarence Hollow, and was the first wagon track in Erie county. What is known as the Buffalo road was opened about a year later. In 1800 Timothy S. Hopkins and Otis Ingalls raised the first piece of wheat on the Hol- land Purchase, in the Vandeventer neighborhood. They soon became permanent residents of Amherst and Clarence respectively.


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The first land sold in Newstead was lot 10, section 8, which Asa Chapman "articled " on November 3, 1801, for $2.75 an acre; soon af- terward he was living near Buffalo and probably never settled on this tract. Other purchasers of 1801 were Peter Vandeventer (four lots in sections 8 and 9), Timothy Jayne, David Cully and Orlando Hopkins.


David Cully remained a permanent resident; in 1802 Peter Vande- venter settled on the Buffalo road, in the west part of the town, and opened a log tavern, which was probably the first building in Newstead. The same year William Deshay, John Hill and Samuel Hill, jr., pur- chased land. The first town meeting of any kind on the Holland Pur- chase was held at Vandeventer's tavern March 1, 1803, when Peter Vandeventer was elected supervisor of the new town of Batavia; David Cully was chosen town clerk. The first State election on the Purchase was also held at this tavern in April, 1803.


According to the records of the Holland Company Samuel Beard, William Chapin, Jacob Dunham, Samuel Edsall and Asahel Powers purchased land in 1803, and Charles Bennett, John Felton, Silas and Thomas Hill, and Cyrus Hopkins were purchasers in 1804. About this time Charles Barney, Aaron Beard, T. Cole, Robert Dunham and Samuel Miles became settlers. The town meetings of 1804 and 1805 were held at Vandeventer's tavern and he was elected supervisor; the meeting of 1805 was the first one in the new town of Willink, which was about eighteen miles wide and extended from Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario. John Beamer, Aaron Dolph, Eli Hammond, Henry Russell and George and Samuel Spaulding purchased land in Newstead in 1805, and about 1806 Archibald S. Clarke opened the first store in Erie county outside of Buffalo, near the Vandeventer tavern. Early in 1807 Charles Knight and Lemuel Osborne arrived, and in July of that year the first Methodist church or class in the county was organized at Mr. Knight's house, he being the class leader. The same year the first school was taught by a Mr. Keith. Archibald S, Clarke was the first member of assembly from the old county of Niagara, being elected in 1808, 1809 and 1810; about 1811 he became the first postmaster in all this terri- tory, having the office-named Clarence-at his store; in 1812 he was elected the first State senator from Erie county.


Before 1812 the following had settled in this town along the Buffalo road :


Samuel Anderson, John S. Ball, Joseph and Luther Barney, Samuel Bates, John Boyer, James H. Case, Archibald S. Clarke, James Cronk, a Mr. Chamberlain, Isaac


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Denio, William Hall, Charles Knight, Martin Lewis, William Mills, Stephen Osborne, Jacob Pratt, Joel Parmeley, Samuel Strickland and Peter Vandeventer.


About 1816 the Clarence post-office was removed, and soon after 1823 another was established with the name of Erie, the postmaster being John S. Ball, who had succeeded Mr. Clarke as a merchant. The office was changed about 1831 to Newstead and discontinued soon after 1837.


The following were among later settlers of the town:


Hezekiah Cummings (in 1828), Robert Benedict, Nathan L. Barney, Jonathan Russell, James McMullen, Marcus McNeal, Lorenzo D. Covey, Ezra P. Goslin, Al- pheus Prince, C. B. Rich, Wilber N. Hoag, William Davis, Edwin Hawkins, Asher Moon, Clark Pardee, Asher Wheeler, Charles Ainsworth, Marcius E. King, William Jackson, Benjamin Johnson, John and Lewis Seaton, Silas Saxton, Elbridge Little, William Strickland, William Whitley, Moses Nash, A. K. Hubbard, William Cofran, Calvin C. Kingsley, Thomas Downey, Jonathan Delano, James Harrington.


The first railroad in the county (except one three miles long, from Buffalo to Black Rock) was built from Medina to Akron, Fallkirk and Richville, Genesee county, about twenty miles, in 1835. It had wooden rails, and one passenger and one freight car, drawn by two horses, one ahead of the other; the fare from Akron to Medina was sixty-four cents. The road proved unprofitable, and after two or three years was abandoned.


Akron Village had its inception in 1826, when Jonathan Russell pur- chased lot 26, built a frame house, and opened part of it as a store; this building is now a part of Charles F. Berghorn's drug store. About the same time a Mr. Whicher erected a grist mill and Elisha Hill put up a saw mill. The latter was afterward owned by F. E. Dunham & Co. These and other enterprises soon diminished the importance of the Vandeventer settlement as a business center, and before 1840 the latter had become scarcely more than a rural hamlet. In 1831 Spen- cer S. Harrington opened a tavern and Mitchell Osborne a grocery; the latter continued in business over fifty years. . About 1832 Elisha M. Adams, Harrison Osborne and John Wainwright engaged in mercantile business, and "Squire " Huntley built a fulling and carding mill, which soon passed to Hezekiah Cummings. After 1850 Harlow Cummings occupied the mill building as a hub factory.


The first physician in Akron was Dr. Isaac Parcell, who came in 1831; following him were Dr. Wright, Dr. F. Norton, Dr. L. P. L. Parker, Dr. O. P. Crane, Dr. L. D. Crane and Dr. S. W. Hurd.


Among the later merchants are the following :


Adams & Baker, B. K. Adams & Knight, Adams & Newton, Harvey H. Newton,


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H. H. Newton & Sons, Abram Post, Maj. William T. Magoffin, William M. Cum- mings, Charles D. Smith, Wilson P. Hoag, Frank Magoffin, Charles F. Berghorn, Berghorn & Roach, Frederick W. Powell, Mrs Emma Pennell, Dr. Ezra Pennell, David Munter, Kopelowich & Smith, John W. Tuttle, Henry P. Eagan, Morrill T. Dailey, Thomas Brothers, William R. Burns, George B. Garnham, John A. Ander- son, Edward W. Buckley, Mrs. J. Krohn, Lorenzo D. Covey, Dunnett & Co., James Mossman, Mr. Douglass, R. S. Mills, Parker & Harrington.


The Akron House was built by John Baird and first kept by S. S. Harrington in 1831; later landlords were Harrington & Stewart, George Brown, N. B. Wickwire, George Shannon, Thomas Black- more and Smith & Wells. Another hotel was erected about 1860 by A. B. Wheeler, the American House in 1872, the Altenburg House about 1883, and the Union Hotel about 1886.


The village was originally called "The Corporation," and about 1836 had the appearance of a log-yard, being strewn with logs from the adjacent forests. About that time the Akron post-office was es- tablished with Elisha M. Adams as postmaster; he was succeeded by Sylvester Goff, Lorenzo D. Covey, H. H. Newton, William L. Paxon, William T. Magoffin (thirteen years), William M. Cummings, James E. Paxon and J. Crawford Hoag.


The discovery in 1839 of hydraulic or water limestone at what became Fallkirk, on Murder Creek, by Jonathan Delano, led to the establish- ment of one of the leading industries of the town. In 1840 he built a small kiln, capable of manufacturing about 300 tons of water lime per year. This was on land owned by Daniel Fisher. In 1843 the prop- erty was sold to James M. Souverhill, who conveyed it to James Mont- gomery, who enlarged the works and also manufactured land plaster from gypsum discovered on the Indian Reservation, Enos Newman became his partner and afterward the sole owner, and in 1852 sold the concern to his brothers, Edward J. and Leroy Newman, who built a three-story stone flouring mill; in 1858 they built a " perpetual burner" and in 1859 a second lime kiln and a separate cement mill at the lower falls. About 1852 Enos Newman, with his son Amos, established a cement mill on the south side of the creek; this was sold in 1864 to E. J. & Leroy Newman, which firm then became E. J. Newman & Co. Their large cement mill was burned in 1870 and a new steam mill erected, and about the same time a new method of quarrying limestone by tunneling was inaugurated, which reduced the cost of manufacture one-half. The capacity of their works was increased to about 600 barrels of cement per day, and in 1878 a new flouring mill, with a daily capac-


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ity of 150 barrels, was erected. The property is now operated by Henry L. and William C. Newman.


Hezekiah Cummings & Sons started another cement mill on Murder Creek in 1854; in 1865 it was abandaned and a new one erected nearer the quarries by Homer H., Palmer and Uriah Cummings, sons of Hez- ekiah. This establishment was sold in 1869 to the Akron Cement Works, the officers of which were Hon. D. N. Lockwood, president, and Frank S. Coit, treasurer. In 1870-71 still another cement manu- factory was established west of Akron by Homer H., Palmer and Uriah Cummings, who were succeeded by the Cummings Akron Cement Works.


The discovery of water lime gave existence to the hamlet of Fallkirk, where J. D. Jackson erected a large brick block in 1843, and H. D. Jackson established a tannery. The place, though now a part of Ak- ron village, contains two hotels and the barrel factory of Timothy McCarthy and Albert J. Flynn.


Akron village was incorporated in June 1847, but the destruction of the early village records by fire in 1871 preclude the mention of its first officers. In 1850 it had a population of 453; in 1870, 444; in 1880, 1,036; in 1890, 1,492. The corporate limits have been nearly doubled, taking in Fallkirk, and now equal about one square mile. In 1849-50 Hezekiah Cummings erected a stone grist-mill at the foot of Main street; this was subsequently operated by John Wilder and now by H. H. Croop. For many years fire protection was afforded by a bucket brigade, which was succeeded by a chemical engine, which gave place to two hand en- gines; in 1896 a fire department, consisting of two hose companies and one hook and ladder company, was organized. In 1896 a water supply was established by the village, which was bonded for $30,000. About 1887 natural gas was discovered on the Wilder farm, and on November 1, 1896, the Akron Light, Fuel and Power Company was incorporated with Richard H. Bell, president; Irving D. Eckerson, secretary, for the purpose of supplying natural gas to the village.


The first banking business done in Akron was by Wickwire & Co., who started a private bank about 1882, and who were succeeded by N. B. Wickwire in 1886. The private bank of Tabor & Wiltsie was started by them in March, 1887.


The Akron Breeze, the first newspaper, was started in September, 1878, by Frank G. Smith; later publishers were King & Murray, John H. Meahl, and, since 1889, Edwin M. Read. The Akron Record was


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published a short time by Covey & Wheeler; it was absorbed by the Breeze. The Akron Herald was established May 28, 1896, by John C. Murray.


The Akron Union High School was organized December 18, 1883, the first principal being F. W. Lindsley, who was succeeded by George W. Watt, and he by Orson Warren. A brick school house was erected in 1890, and in 1893 an addition was built on the site of the old build- ing, which had burned.


From the Methodist class organized in 1807, with Charles Knight as leader, was formed the Methodist Episcopal Church of Akron, which erected a log meeting house in 1820 on land donated by Lemuel Os- borne. In 1836 another edifice was built of stone on a site given by Jonathan Russell; it was dedicated in 1840 and enlarged about 1865. A Baptist church flourished in the Vanderventer neighborhood for many years. In 1837 it was succeeded by the Baptist church of Akron, which built an edifice in 1838; this was followed by the present struc- ture, built in 1873, at a cost of $12,000. The Presbyterian church of Clarence was organized about 1820, erected a building on the Buffalo road in Newstead, and in 1839 was divided, the Newstead church hav. ing fifty-one members. They erected a church in Akron in 1852. The German Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1867, and in 1868 purchased the Catholic edifice. The first mass of the Roman Catholic church was celebrated at the house of Thomas Downey in 1847; a church was built in 1854 and in 1868 sold to the German Methodists, and a new edifice erected in 1883. A Free Methodist church was built about 1885 and a German Lutheran church in 1896.


The village of Akron now has an estimated population of 1,800, about 20 stores of various kinds, 2 private banks, 2 weekly newspapers and printing offices, 5 hotels, a theater, 2 cigar factories, a heading and stave mill, a creamery, a fine public park, 2 flouring mills, 1 foundry, a bottling establishment, 2 public schools and 7 churches. There are also numerous shops, coal and lumber yards, markets, cider mills, etc. It is one of the largest cement manufacturing centers in the world, the annual output being about 500,000 barrels. There are also three large mushroom plants, the most extensive one covering about three acres, being owned by Eckerson, Harrington & Bell. This industry was started about 1890.


South Newstead is a small hamlet in the south part of the town. It contains a German Lutheran church and the store of George W. Schworm, who is also postmaster.


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Hawkins's Corners, about one mile south of Akron, contains a Ger- man church and a few houses.


Swift's Mills, situated on Murder Creek in the north part of the town, was settled by Julius Swift, who purchased 500 acres of land and built a saw mill and grist mill and opened a store there-all about 1840. The property subsequently passed to his sons, Julius, James and Luman P. Swift. After the construction of the Niagara Falls and Canandaigua Railroad through the town in 1854 the importance of Swift's Mills as a business center diminished. The saw mill has been been abandoned; the grist mill is now owned by Luman P. Swift and the store by E. J. Snell.


TOWN OF NORTH COLLINS.


North Collins is situated in the southern part of the county a little west of the center, with Eden on the north, Concord on the east, Col- lins on the south and Brant on the west. It comprises township 7, range 7, of the Holland Company survey, excepting the northernmost lot in each of those tiers; it contains an area of forty-three square miles. The surface is undulating in the west part, rising to a broad, level up- land which includes most of the eastern part. The west branch of Eighteen-mile Creek flows across the northeastern part of the town, and 1 Big Sister Creek rises in the northwestern corner. The soil is gener- ally a gravelly loam.


The first settlement in the territory of North Collins was made by Nathaniel Sisson in 1809, who was soon followed by Abram Tucker. In the same year Sylvanus Hussey, Isaac Hathaway and Thomas Bills purchased land in the western part. Settlers of 1810 were Samuel Tucker (brother of Abram), Henry Tucker, Enos Southwick. In that year George Tucker, son of Abram, was born in the town, the first birth of a white child.


In 1811 Benjamin Sisson, father of the pioneer, and two brothers of Nathaniel named William and Stephen, located in the town and were soon followed by Lemuel Sisson, another brother. In that year also settled George Southwick, father of Enos, George Southwick, jr., Jona- than Southwick and Job Southwick. The Southwicks and Sissons were from Warren county, N. Y., and with the Tuckers were members of the Society of Friends and made quite a Quaker settlement in the town. The first settler not a Quaker was John Stanclift, who located in 1811; he had four sons who were citizens of the town. In 1811 and


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1812 there was considerable immigration, among the settlers being Levi Woodward, Gideon Lapham, Abraham Lapham, Ira Lapham, Benjamin Leggett, Stephen White, Stephen Twining, Noah Tripp, Abraham Gifford, Orrin Brayman, Hugh McMillan and Lilly Stafford. In 1813 the Quakers built a log meeting house.


After the close of the war immigration, which had been almost wholly checked, revived, among the newcomers being Humphrey Smith and John Lawton. The first mill in the town was built in 1818 by Willard Stanclift, north of the site of North Collins village; several other small mills were soon built, but the water power of the town was insufficient for large mills.


Other prominent settlers and residents were Thomas Scoville Hib- bard (father of Enos S.), Silas C. Kirby (1829); Joseph Palmer (1827); William Pickens (father of Joshua, 1815); Reuben C. Sherman (born in the town in 1826); William R. Willett (1821); Mordecai E. Smith (1835); and Charles Wood (about 1815).


These pioneers and their successors cleared the lands, built their homes, and made this town an excellent agricultural region. Dairying has been introduced in recent years and there are at the present time five cheese factories in operation; at the same time mixed farming, stock raising and fruit growing claim a share of the energies of the farmers. An unsuccessful attempt was made in the summer of 1897 to find oil or gas at New Oregon, a well having been bored to a depth of 2,500 feet.


In March, 1821, the town of Collins was formed, including the terri- tory of North Collins; at that time there was no post-office in the whole large town, but in the next year a mail route was established from Hamburg south and about 1882 a post-office was opened named Collins at what is now the village of North Collins. A tavern was kept there and soon afterwards Chester Rose opened a small store; the hamlet that gathered around was for a time called Rose's Corners. When a change in merchants took place the name also changed to Kerr's Corners. About 1825 the Quakers built a meeting house, which is still known as the "orthodox meeting house," a little more than a mile south of North Collins. In 1828 those who adhered to the Hick- site belief withdrew and built a house of their own.


North Collins .- The merchants who gave their names to this village after Chester Rose, were Alexander Kerr and John Kerr who were in business many years. In 1829 John Sherman and his brother opened


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another store; the brothers withdrew in 1833, and later Edwin W. Godfrey became a partner with the senior of the firm. About 1861 the latter withdrew and Mr. Godfrey continued with various partners until 1872, when David Sherman and Herman Blaisdell took the business. Among other former merchants were George H. Smith, Reuben Pot- ter, Shipman & Southwick, Southwick & Smith, Sherman & Knight, D. C. Brown (hardware and still in trade), Martin Foose, Partridge & Son, F. L. Southwick, Jacob Bangert. The hotel kept by John G. Haberer was burned and rebuilt in 1895; the other hotel, formerly kept by Michael Hunter, and later by his son Millard, is now con- ducted by Andrew Smith. John Kopf was a former blacksmith and was succeeded by his son. Herman Miller was a former shoemaker.


In 1873 Egbert Foster and John Stanclift built a steam saw mill and feed mill in the village; after many years of successful business it was abandoned and the mill demolished. In 1883 George W. Belknap es- tablished a handle factory and turning lathe, which subsequently became the basket factory of William P. Sherman. The Western New York Preserving Company established a canning factory here in 1881, in which a large business was carried on until recently. Charles and Henry Colvin built a steam planing mill in 1895, which was burned in 1896. Another planing mill was established by Frederick J. Lindow. A flour and feed mill is operated by Joseph Thiel.


The Bank of North Collins was established and began business Sep- tember 3, 1895, with cash capital of $25,000. The principal officers are :


W. S. Lawton, president; E. G. Fenton, vice-president; C. A. Twichell, cashier ; W. S. Lawton, S. Ballard, E. G. Fenton, N. A. Chaffee, George Lehley, S. D. Vance, Eugene Willett, H. G. Parker, W. M. Ward, directors.


The first resident physician at North Collins was Dr. Morgan, who soon removed West. Dr. Samuel Noyes settled there about 1827; with him were subsequently associated Drs. Fritz and Adams. Dr. John D. Arnold was also in company with him a short time. Dr. S. H. Shaw and Dr. Stewart were later practitioners.




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