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derdraining and grading the grounds, and the buildings are so con- structed as to guarantee the best sanitary conditions possible to the in- mates.
When the roads and walks are all laid out and properly worked, through the native groves, and additional shrubbery grown around the groups, they will provide many sheltered as well as sunny courts and pleasant resorts for the patients, as well as their friends who may visit them in years to come. Wide and extensive driveways with boulevards are now being worked from the asylum grounds to the highway, which are to connect with a similar road now being worked into the city, and when completed will give the citizens a very pleasant driving course.
Friends from abroad and pleasure seekers who may visit Ogdensburg with a view of going to the asylum grounds, can take the overland route, either by stage, street car or private conveyance, or may take the little steamer which, in the summer season, plies between the city and the grounds at stated hours. By either conveyance the pleasure seeker Inay take an airing and visit one of the most beautiful and comfortable hospitals that is to be found in the United States, or even in the world.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.
In accordance with an act of April 7, 1819, for encouraging and pro- moting agriculture and domestic manufacturers, a St. Lawrence County Society was formed in 1822 and received from the State $100. The election of officers was to be held on the fourth Tuesday of February of each year, and the fairs held on the third Tuesdays and Wednesdays of October in each year. The membership fee was fifty cents annually. The fair was to be held at Canton, Potsdam and Madrid alternately. The society was abandoned the second year.
A second society was formed at Ogdensburg February 4, 1834, with the title of St. Lawrence County Agricultural Society. Not less than two fairs were to be held annually at Ogdensburg ; membership fee, $I annually. Its first officers were : George Parish, president ; H. Van Rensselaer, Silas Wright, jr., and J. C. Clarkson, vice. presidents ; Smith Stilwell, secretary. At the first fair $227 were distributed among
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thirty-seven competitors, principally on stock. This society also ex- isted about two years.
The general law of May 5, 1841, allowed the county $170 annually for five years, and led to the formation of a third society, of which R. N. Harrison was president, and a vice-president was appointed from each town. The first fair held at Cantonn in October of that year dis- tributed $361 in sixty- six premiums. At the second year's fair $171 were paid to fifty-eight competitors, when the society disbanded.
In 1851 a resolution was passed by the Board of Supervisors strongly favoring another attempt to organize a county agricultural society, and several meetings were held, when, on April 3, 1852, Henry Van Rens- selaer was chosen president; H. Orvis, Jonah Sanford, and Hiram Johnson, vice-presidents ; and Henry G. Foot, secretary ; membership fee, $I annually. The first fair of this society was held at Canton, September 16 and 17, 1852, in the lower part of the village, on grounds leased for five years, and enclosed by a high board fence. There were 396 entries for premiums, very many of which were highly creditable to the county. The receipts were $1,274.81, and the premiums paid were $299. In 1856 additional grounds were leased and the track ex- tended. In 1858 the leased grounds, containing thirty-eight acres, were purchased for the society, on which permanent buildings have been erected, consisting of floral, dining, vegetable and mechanical halls, with sheds for stock, and a grand stand with a seating capacity of about 4,000 persons, at a cost of about $15,000.
The St. Lawrence County Agricultural Society has continued to hold fairs from three to four days in the month of September for the past forty-two years, and the exhibitions have been a credit to the farms of the county.
The early success of this society stimulated farmers in other parts of the county to organize similar societies to encourage and develop stock raising and agricultural products.
The Gouverneur Agricultural Society was organized in the year 1859, and held its first fair in September of that year. The first grounds were leased from the Averills for a term of five years. At the expiration of their lease the society purchased of Benjamin Smith twenty acres of land near the northern extremity of the village at a cost of $3,500. A half
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mile trotting course was made, which is one of the best of its kind ; also, suitable buildings were erected, sheds, etc., for the accommodation of exhibitors, and a large grand stand which will accommodate about 3,000 persons, all being enclosed with a high board fence. The cost of the grounds and buildings is about $10,000. The yearly attendance has always been large, and the premium lists have been open to all, far and near. No effort has been spared by the officers to make the fairs at- tractive, interesting and profitable to all.
The Raquette Valley and St. Regis Agricultural Society was organ- ized at Potsdam in the year 1870. Its operations are not restricted to any particular town, but it receives its principal support from Potsdam and the adjoining towns east and south. Its grounds, which are just outside of the village, comprise about twenty acres of land. The trot- ting course, the buildings and other improvements appertaining to mod- ern fair grounds are said to have cost about $22,000. The association pays annually upwards of $4,000 in premiums. The yearly attendance at the fairs during the past twenty-three years has been as large or larger than at any others in the county.
An agricultural fair and cattle show society was organized at Ham- mond about the year 1870. There being no railroad reaching the place at the time, the fair was poorly patronized. and the society was given up shortly after. An agricultural society was also organized about the same time at Waddington, but for the same reasons as in Hammond the society survived but a short time.
The International Agricultural and Mechanical Association was or- ganized in 1856, with A. P. Morse, of Hammond, president ; Charles Shepard, of Ogdensburg, secretary ; and George N. Seymour, of Og- densburg, treasurer. They negotiated with the Averills for the pur- chase of one hundred acres of land on the east bank of the Oswegatchie River, about one mile south of Ogdensburg, by private subscription. The grounds were rough and stumpy, but the tract was largely cleared and leveled by " bees," or volunteer labor of farmers. Suitable build- ings were erected, including a grand stand, and a trotting course was made. Annual fairs were held with good results until 1860, when the association, feeling the payments of interest and principal too much of a burden, relinquished the grounds and dissolved the organization.
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AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.
On the dissolution of the International Association The Oswegatchie Fair Ground Company was organized and incorporated April 12, 1860, with a capital stock of $8,000, divided into 1,600 shares of $5 each, with the privilege of increasing it to $15,000. The first directors were George D. V. Seymour, William J. Averill, Peter McGregor, Chester Dyke, and Charles G. Myers. The society after a few years was dis- solved.
The Oswegatchie Agricultural Society was organized June 10, 1871, and that year the Legislature constituted Messrs. D. C. Judson, A. B. James, Z. B. Bridges, J. C. Houghton, and John Pickens superinten- dents of fair grounds, and authorized them to issue bonds of the town of Oswegatchie to the amount of $15,000, and to apply the proceeds to the purchase of grounds and the erection of buildings. In 1872 the amount of town bonds was increased to $20,000, which were negotiated at par. Twenty-seven acres of land, lying on the east side of the Os- wegatchie, in the south part of the city, and partly within the corpora- tion, were purchased for the sum of $7,500. The grounds were in- closed with a high board fence, and a half mile track was built, inclosing a center which was leveled for a ball ground. The buildings erected on the grounds consist of the agricultural hall, 62 by 32 feet ; a mechanics' hall, 100 by 40 feet; dairy hall, 65 by 32 feet ; floral hall, octagon shape, 75 feet in diameter, with a gallery 18 feet in width ; a dining hall, under the grand stand, 45 by 100 feet ; a kitchen, 18 by 36 feet ; two cattle sheds, each 300 feet in length ; a horse barn, 30 by 50 feet ; office, 16 by 18 feet ; sheds, 26 by 50 feet ; wing, 26 by 36 feet ; sev- eral open pens for sheep and swine ; and a small dwelling for a janitor. The expense of the buildings, improvements of the grounds and super- intending the same, consumed the balance of the money raised on the bonds. The grounds are held in trust for the town by the superinten- dents, who rent them to the agricultural society, which was formed in 1871. The first officers of the society were : A. B. James, president ; J. D. Judson, treasurer ; A. E. Smith, secretary ; J. C. Houghton, superintendent ; and T. N. Derby, marshal. The annual exhibitions have been well patronized, and apparently the receipts would amply pay expenses ; yet for the first seven years a deficiency was reported of nearly $4,500, which was made up by contributions and assessments on
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HISTORY OF ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY.
the life members. In 1890 the society went down, and the fairs have been continued by private individuals, the town having voted the sum of $500 to repair the buildings on several occasions since.
The St Lawrence County Dairymen's Association was organized Jan- uary 9, 1872, by the dairymen of the county, for the purpose of promot- ing the dairying interest. The first officers elected were : E. H. South- worth, president ; J. H. Cook, treasurer ; A. T. Martin, secretary. There was also named one person in each town as vice-president. Meetings were held in some of the towns on the first Tuesday of each month, and a general annual convention on the first Tuesday of Jan- uary, at which papers were read and addresses made on the general dairying interest of the farmer. The membership reached at one time one hundred and fifty, and after a few years the association was super- seded by a State organization of a similar kind.
The St. Lawrence County Dairymen's Board of Trade was the out- growth of the Dairymen's Association, and is designed to be mutual in its tendency, co-operative in its workings, and beneficial in its results by producing a system by which each individual shall receive the benefits of the combined whole. A meeting was held in the court-house at Canton, November 9, 1875, when the subject of holding market days was discussed, which resulted in the appointment of a committee, con- sisting of M. D. Packard, C. H. Brown, John May, Andrew Tuck, Hon. G. M. Gleason, Lucius Crampton, Gen. N. M. Curtis, Marvin Holt and H. L. Sweet, to make arrangements for the same. On January 5, 1876, the committee reported to an adjourned meeting, and recommended the establishment of a Board of Trade in the county. The following were the officers elected : Hon. G. M. Gleason, president ; H. W. Hale, vice- president ; A. Langdon, treasurer; and M. R. Wait, secretary. The directors were L. Crampton, H. O. Sweet, O. H. Hale, O. C. Gillson, T. Mayne, J. Thompson, and George H. Rowland.
A constitution and code of by-laws were adopted, locating the market place at Canton ; the market was to be held on Fridays of each week between the second Friday of May and the first in December of each year thereafter. The membership fee was placed at one dollar per an- num, and non-members are admitted to the privileges of the salesroom for a single day for fifty cents. Butter and cheese factories are admitted
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BOARD OF TRADE.
to the privileges of the board and of the salesroom at five dollars per annum. The sales of butter and cheese on this board have averaged about three-fourths of a million dollars per annum up to the present time.
The Ogdensburg Dairymen's Board of Trade was organized April 10, 1880, with a constitution and by-laws similar to those of the county board just described. A register is kept and a bulletin board arranged in a conspicuous place in the room, upon which is posted all telegrams and other information of interest received from the various market places. Members have also the privilege of posting upon the register a notice of all dairy and other produce which they may have for sale. There are also posted the quantities of cheese and butter offered by the factories and creameries represented on this board. The first officers of the board were : Charles Wooster, of Hammond, president ; Charles Ashley, of Ogdensburg, treasurer ; W. B. Hutchinson, of Oswegatchie, secretary. C. B. Herriman, of Ogdensburg, has held the office of presi- dent nearly every year since the first. It was through his suggestion that a resolution was passed by the board, calling the attention of the State Legislature to the necessity of a State Dairymen's Association, which was organized soon after and took the place of the county or- ganization. Cheese is the principal product disposed of on this board, the sales amounting to about $350,000 per year.
Gouverneur Dairymen's Board of Trade was organized in 1878. H. B. Keene was elected president, and held the office twelve years in succession, with the exception of one year when absent, Hon. Geo. M. Gleason was president. In 1882 efforts were made to establish a County Board of Trade, to meet at Dekalb Junction when it was accomplished, and meetings were held there about one year. After this proving a failure, the Gouverneur board met at its old quarters in the village. The board has been continued for the sale of both butter and cheese, having similar rules and regulations as that of the county board. The sales have been large, amounting in the aggregate to nearly half a million dollars per year.
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HISTORY OF ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY.
COUNTY
CLERKS.
Louis Hasbrouck March 1802
George S. Winslow
Nov. 1849
Alexander Richards, June 7, 1811
Benjamin G. Baldwin.
1855
Louis Hasbrouck . March 3, 1813
Mark W. Spaulding
1858
Myrtle B. Hitchcock. March 4, 1817
James F. Pierce
1861
Joseph York. . July 6, 1819
Moses Rich. 1864
Mytle B. Hitchcock. Feb. 24, 1821
John Miller .
1867
Myrtle B. Hitchcock. Nov. 1822
Tiras H. Ferris.
16
1870
James G. Hopkins 1825
Murray N. Ralph
1876
William A. Root
1831
Alanson A. Matteson.
1879
Alvin C. Low June 14, 1832
William R. Remington
1882
John Leslie Russell. July 8, 1843
Thomas M. Wells.
.Jan. 1, 1889
COUNTY TREASURERS.
John N. Russell Nov. 1848 Milton D. Packard .. Nov. 1875
Barzillai Hodskin.
66
1854
Arnold E. Smith
1884
Harvey N. Redway
1858 M. F. Sackett 66 1894
MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY.
Only one in Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence.
Henry Coffeen. Jan. 28, 1806 Moses Kent.
Jan. 27, 1807
Louis Graves, Jan. 28, 1808.
In St. Lawrence.
Alexander Richards Jan. 17, 1809
David E. Judson . Jan. 27, 1818
Roswell Hopkins. 30, 1810
Joseph York.
5, 1819
Roswell Hopkins. 29, 1811
Joseph York .. 4, 1820
Roswell Hopkins. 27, 1812 Joseph York. . 9,1821
Roswell Hopkins. 12, 1813
William H. Vining. 1,1822
Louis Hasbrouck 66
25, 1814
Nathaniel F. Winslow 1, 1823
David A. Ogden.
31, 1815
Nathaniel F. Winslow 66 6, 1824
William W. Bowen 66 30, 1816
Jacob A. Vanden Heuvel. 4, 1825
William W. Bowen.
14, 1817
Baron Steuben Doty
3. 1826
St. Lawrence has two representatives.
Baron Steuben Doty Jan. 2, 1827
Preston King Jan. 6, 1835
Sylvester Gilbert
6
William S. Paddock
Moses Rowley ..
1, 1828
Preston King.
5, 1836
Jabez Willis. 66
William S. Paddock. 66
Preston King 3, 1837
Harvey D. Smith Jonah Sanford.
66
William S. Paddock.
Preston King. 2, 1838
Asa Sprague, jr
66
4,1831
Myron G. Peck
1,1839
Asa Sprague, jr
William Allen 3, 1832
Zenas Clark ..
7,1840
Edward Dodge 66
Asa Sprague
William Allen .
1, 1833
Zenas Clark 3, 1841
Sylvester Butrick 66
Solomon Pratt. 66
Sylvester Butrick. 66
7, 1834
Calvin T. Hulburd
4, 1842
Jabez Willis 66 66 George Redington
66
5,1830
66
Myron G. Peck 66
Joseph Freeman
יו
Asa Sprague. 66
Jonah Sanford. 6,1829
66
Martin Thatcher. Nov. 1843
221
CIVIL LIST.
Calvin T. Hulburd
Jan. 3, 1843
Asa L. Hazelton
Jan. 7, 1845 66
George Redington.
John L. Russell
Calvin T. Hulburd 66 2, 1844 Asa L. Hazelton 66
6, 1846
George Redington.
Bishop Perkins.
66
Three representatives :
Phineas Atwater Jan. 5,1847
James Redington Jan. 6, 1863
Henry Barber
66
16
George Parker
66
5, 1864
Charles G. Myers. 66 4, 1848
James Redington 6
John S. Chipman.
Abraham X. Parker. 66
Benjamin Holmes
George Parker
3,1865
Harlow Godard .
2, 1849
James Redington
Justus B. Pickit.
66 "
Daniel Shaw
Noble S. Elderkin
66
George M. Gleason . 2,1866
Harlow Godard. 66
1. 1850
William R. Chamberlain. 66 66 66
John Horton ..
16
66
Daniel Shaw .
Noble S. Elderkin
66
66
George M. Gleason 16
1, 1867 66
John Horton .. 66
Richard Bicknell
66
7, 1868
Smith Stillwell. 66 6,1852
Julius M. Palmer
66
Benjamin Smith
16
66
George M. Gleason
Barnabas Hall
4,1853
Julius M. Palmer.
Parker W. Rose.
66
George M. Gleason
66
3,1870
Barnabas Hall.
3, 1854
Julius M. Palmer.
Silas Baldwin
66
66
George Parker
2,1871
Asaph Green
2, 1855
Dolphus S. Lynde. 66
66
Levi Miller.
Darius A. Moore.
יו
2, 1872 ¥
Emory W. Abbott
1, 1856
Dolphus S. Lynde.
66
Daniel P. Rose, jr
66
Darius A. Moore. :6
7, 1873
Emory W. Abbott
66
6, 1857
Dolphus S. Lynde.
66
Benjamin Squire.
66
66
Seth G. Pope.
6, 1874
Harlow Godard
66
5, 1858
Dolphus S. Lynde
William Briggs
66
66
Seth G. Pope
5, 1875
Harlow Godard
66
5, 1859
A. Barton Hepburn
William Briggs
Jonah Sanford
66
Oscar F. Shepard 66
66
3, 1860
A. Barton Hepburn
66
66 66
Edwin A. Merritt.
Lewis C. Lang.
66
Clark S. Chittenden.
66
66 66
David McFalls.
2, 1877
Charles Richardson
66 1, 1861 66
Lewis C. Lang
Clark S. Chittenden
66 66 George F. Rowland
1, 1878
Elias P. Townsley .
66
7,1862
A. Barton Hepburn
James Redington
66
66
Daniel Peck.
7, 1879
Elias P. Townsley
66 6, 1863
A. Barton Hepburn. 60
66
Noble S. Elderkin
66
George M. Gleason
Alexander HI. Andrews
5, 1869 66 66
Benjamin Smith 66
66
Alexander H. Andrews
William Bradford. 66
Silas Baldwin
66
William Bradford
Benjamin Squire.
66
Parker W. Rose
66
Parker W. Rose.
60
Erasmus D. Brooks .
Jonah Sanford.
60
Oscar F. Shepard.
66
David McFalls.
4, 1876
Charles Richardson
A. Barton Hepburn
Edwin A. Merritt.
66
56
66
6.
66
Smith Stilwell
66 7,1851 .. ..
William R. Chamberlain 66
Parker W. Rose
66 66
16
66 66 Abraham X. Parker
Bishop Perkins.
66 66
Rufus S. Palmer 66
Calvin T. Hulburd
Levi Miller
222
HISTORY OF ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY.
Rufus S. Palmer Jan. 7, 1879
N. Martin Curtis
.Jan. 5, 1886
Daniel Peck.
16 6,1880
Andrew Tuck
66
Worth Chamberlin יו
George Z. Erwin
Ebenezer S. Crapser .
N. M. Curtis.
1887 66
Daniel Peck. 66
4, 1881
William H. Kimbal
Worth Chamberlin
66
M. H. Flaherety
Ebenezer Crapser
N. M. Curtis
1888
Abel Godard.
3,1882
William H. Kimbal. 66
66
George Z. Erwin 66
N. M. Curtis
66
1889
Abel Godard 2,1883
William H. Kimbal
Morrell D. Beckwith 66
.4
William Bradford 66
George Z. Erwin
66
George R. Maltby יו
1,1890
N. Martin Curtis. 1, 1884
John C. Keeler. 66
.. .
Morrell D. Beckwith.
William Bradford. 66
George Z. Erwin.
N. Martin Curtis
6, 1885
John C. Keeler
Andrew Tuck .
Lewis C. Lang. 66
66 66
One representative :
George R. Maltby Jan. 1, 1892 George R. Maltby Jan. 1, 1893
The population of the State of New York in 1880 was 5,082,871; in 1890 it was 5,997,853, an increase of 914,982. The population of St. Lawrence county in 1880 was 85,997 ; in 1890 it was 85,048, a loss in ten years of 949. In 1890 there were in the county 42,476 males, and 42,582 females. Of these 35,648 males were American born, and 6,818 males foreign born ; also 35,497 females American born, and 7,085 females foreign born. Colored males, 60; colored females, 40.
Of school age, 5 to 20: American born males, 12,674 ; females, 12,383. Of foreign born males, 810 ; females, 835. Of colored males, 18; females, 20.
Of native males, white, between the ages of 18 and 44 14,272
Of foreign 66 66 6 66
6. 2,860
Of colored males
66 66
66 30
Of native males 21 years and over, 18,819
Of foreign born males, 21 years and over. 5,896
Of colored males, 21 years and over 32
66
Worth Chamberlin 66
M. H. Flaherety
George R. Maltby 66
1,1891
George Z. Erwin
66
Population of the several towns in the county, as shown by the censuses from 1810 to 1890 :
1810
1820
1825
1830
1835
1840
1845
1850
1855
1860
1865
1870
1875
1880
1890
Brasher
401
828
939
2,118 2,218 2,548
2,668
3,377
3,348
3,342
3,486
3,578
2,910
Canton
699 1,337
1,898
2,440
2,412 3,465 4,035 4,685
4,995
6,379
5,964
6,014
6,018
6,275
6,096
Clare. ..
281
Clifton .
22]
85
71
342
Colton
466
506
1,040
1,400
1,481
1,719
1,586
1,974
1,843
Dekalb ..
541
709
766
1,060 1,200 1,531
1,723 2,389
2,676
3,182
3,102
3,116
3,044
3,027
2,840
Depeyster
787
814
788 1,074 1,138
906
1,163
1,249
1,187
1,138
1,221
1,194
947
Edwards.
633
739
956 1,064 1,023
1,180
1,287
1,180
1,076
1,094
1,082
1,267
Fine. .
243
293
316
519
487
603
760
893
1,207
Fowler
605 1,671 1,447 1,571 1,752 1,840 1,813
1,620
1,808
1,748
1,785
1,633
1,590
1,592
Gouverneur.
227
765 1,267 1,552 1,796 2,538| 2,600 2,783
2,856
3,201
2,915
3,539
3,830
4,165
5,851
Hammond
767
1,327 1,845 1,911 1,819
1,875
1,968
1,819
1,757
1,815
1,86€
1,774
Hermon. .
688
870 1,271 1,580 1,690
1,648
1,690
1,667
1,792
1,806
1,634
1,521
Hopkinton.
372
581
884
827
910. 1,147 1,435 1,470
1,554
1,990
1,941
1,907
1,956
1,922
1,832
Lawrence.
1,097 1,241; 1.845 2,055 2,209
2,365
2,828
2,719
2,577
2,641
2,483
2,037
Lisbon
820
930 1,474 1,891 2,411 3,508 4,376 5,209
Louisville.
831
864 1,076
1,315 1,693
1,970 2,057
2,120 1,466
1,816
1,788
1,673
1,760
1,731
1,415
Madrid
1,420 1,930 2,639 3,459 4,069 4,511
4,376 4,856
4,862
1,978
2,109
2,071
1,968
2,145
1,969
Massena .. .
955
944 1,701 2,070 2,288 2,726 2,798 2,915
2,701
2,925
2,741
2,560
2,709
2,739
2,740
Morristown ...
837 1,723 1,618 2,339 2,809 2,328 2,274
2,111
2,284
1,881
1,954
1,849
2,186
1,966
Norfolk.
665
1,039 1,373 1,728 1,544 1,753
1,804
2,329
1,876
2,441
2,476
2,471
2,024
Oswegatchie. Parishville .
594
959
1,479
1,657|2,250 2,090
2,131|
2,114
2,296
2,319
3,241
2,043
2,384
2,272
Pierrepont ..
235
558
749
922
1,450
1,459
1,834
2,267
2,423
2,391
2,310
2 494
1,954
Pitcairn .
928 1,911 3,112 3,650
3,810
4,473
4,856 5,349
6,631
6,737
6,441
7,744
7,417
7,610
8,939
Rossie
869 1,074
650
655 1,553
1,386 1,471
1.480
1,609
1,836
1,661
1,765
1,709
1,493
Russell . .
394
486
480
659
722 1,373 1,499 1,808
2,108
2,380
2,625
2,688
2,417
2,403
2,132
Stockholm .
307
822 1,449 1,944 2,047 2,995 3,293 3,661
3,790
4,074
3,770
3,819
3,550
3,441
2,999
Waddington .
2,768
2.663
2.599
2.516
2,608
2.209
5,109
5,640
5,078
4,475
4,211
4,297
3,809
1,676
Macomb.
1,245| 1,661 3,133 3,924
4,656 5,719 6.414
7,756 10.060
10,821
11,091
13,094; 13.204
13.222
15,008
1,430 396
553
503
531
577
558
667
868]
790
1,103
Potsdam
1,113 1,197
2,310
2,237
2,132
2,039
2.019
POPULATION.
223
224
HISTORY OF ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY.
Populations of the city and villages in St. Lawrence County :
1880
1890
Brasher Falls, village
513
570
Canton,
2,049
2,580
Colton,
606
635
Richville,
(Dekalb)
339
336
Gouverneur,
2,071
3,458
Hermon,
522
473
Madrid,
66
761
605
Massena,
66
397
472
Ogdensburg.
10,341
11,662
1st Ward, in 1890
2,721
2d Ward,
3,324
3d Ward,
2,295
4th Ward,
3,322
Parishville, village
496
578
Potsdam,
2,762
3,961
Norwood,
66
1,221
1,463
Waddington,
977
900
CHAPTER XVII.
CLOSE COMMUNION, OR SECRET SOCIETIES.
Lodges of Free and Accepted Masons -- Royal Arch Masonry -- Knights Templar -- Scottish Rite-Order of the Eastern Star -- Odd Fellowship -- Grand Army of the Republic-Benevolent Organizations -- Knights of Labor -- Grangers.
To tell our own secrets is often folly ; to communicate those of others is treachery.
T T
HE word " secret " is subject to various meanings, and is often ap- plied to organizations whose doors are closed to outsiders. A society that does not conceal its name, time and place of meeting, its membership, aim and objects, should not be classed with such as hide these facts from the public and are only known to exist by some overt act of their own.
The oldest and perhaps the most numerous and widespread of these societies is the Masonic Order, which is too well known to require de-
66
1,049
Morristown,
225
MASONIC.
scription here. further then to give the dates and places of meeting of each lodge in the county. The date of the origin of this order is un- known, but is considered to have existed from time immemorial. The Grand Lodge of the State of New York was organized A. D. 1781, A. L. 5781.
New Oswegatchie Lodge, F. and A. M., No. 520, English register, was organized at "Fort la Presentation " (French Barracks), now Og- densburg, in 1787, while in possession of the British troops. The char- ter was granted to the officers who were stationed at that post at that time to form a (military) lodge under the usual restrictions. Sergeant Richard Porter was the officer in charge when the British evacuated the fort, June 1, 1796, and no doubt was master of the lodge at the time and carried the charter away with him.1
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