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Macomb Post-office is a small hamlet on the State road in the eastern part of the town. A small store is now kept here by Fred. Sterling, who is also postmaster. A steam saw mill with a capacity of 5,000 feet per day was operated here a number of years. It was burned in 1889.
Brasie Corners is a hamlet and post office in the western part of the town, which takes its name from the Brasie family, who settled there. The present postmaster is N. H. Parker, and stores are kept by Brasie Brothers and Jacob Thomas. John Charter is proprietor of a public house.
A post-office was opened in this town in 1888, and was named " Hickory." Vilas Ingraham is postmaster and keeps a store.
As before stated, considerable effort and large sums of money have been expended in Macomb in attempts to develop a successful mining industry. About the year 1836, a vein of lead, zinc, blende and cal- careous spar was discovered near the shore of Black Lake, at a place since named Mineral Point, and somewhat extensive mining operations were commenced.
The " Mineral Point Lead Manufacturing Company " was organized February 25, 1839, with a capital of $96,000, in 384 shares, of $250 each. The affairs of the company were to be managed by five trustees. The first trustees elected were Silvester Gilbert, James Averill, David C. Judson, Lewis Moss and John W. Grant. The business of the com- pany was to be carried on in Morristown and Brownville.
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A company styled the " Morris Mining Company " was incorporated May 1, 1839, with James Averill, David C. Judson, Silvester Gilbert, John W. Grant, Lewis Moss, Thomas L. Knapp and Edwin Dodge, trustees, for the purpose of mining in Morristown and Oswegatchie, to continue twenty-five years ; capital, $50,000. 500 shares of $100 each, and to be managed by seven directors.
About the year 1836 a vein containing galena was discovered on the land of Robert Wilson, near the old State road ; a company was formed and a shaft was sunk to the depth of about sixty feet. A few years after lead ore was discovered on the same range, near the road leading from Washburn Settlement to Gouverneur; and in 1850 small mining operations had been commenced. In 1851 a right was purchased by parties in New York, and a company formed, styled the " St. Lawrence Mining Company," which became incorporated under the general min- ing law of February 17, 1848. The articles of association were filed September 16, 1851, in the clerk's office, and Thomas Addis Ement, Stephen Crocker and John L. Gratacal were elected trustees ; capital $72,000, in shares of $200 each ; duration limited to fifty years. At a meeting of the stockholders in New York, May 17, 1852, the capital of the company was increased to $360,000.
In 1852 a vein of lead ore was discovered between the Clute and the Macomb mines, which was opened and worked quite extensively by private parties. John Canfield of Morristown, who was present at the time of the discovery, removed with a pick nearly fourteen hundred pounds of pure galena.
Shortly after this the mines were purchased by R. P. Remington, who organized a company for the purpose of working them. Work was carried on for about five years under the supervision of an experienced miner. Nothing has been done at the mines since they were abandoned by the Remington company. It may be safely stated that $100,000 has been expended for machinery and improvements at each of the mines which have been worked in the town.
It has been the history of these mines that when first discovered upon the surface they presented an inviting appearance, the veins being in some instances several feet in width. Upon leaving the surface, how- ever, they were found to become narrower, until, at the depth of a few
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feet, they were nearly lost. A smelting furnace was built at an early day, and considerable ore was smelted and the product marketed while the mines were operated, but without remunerative profit.
Slight shocks of earthquake in this locality are of frequent occurrence. One occurred in the fall of 1860, more severe than usual. A well, twenty feet deep, on Timothy Pope's farm at the mills, affording abun- dance of water was dry the next morning after the shock. He dug a new well a short distance from the former one and obtained water only after passing several feet below the bottom of the first well. A similar incident occurred on the farm of Edwin Dodge about two miles and a half north of Pope's Mills. Water from a flowing spring was carried several rods in pump logs to the dwelling house and barns. On the morning of the earthquake of November 4, 1887, the water-works failed. On investigation it was found that the spring was dry and a new one was flowing about one hundred feet from the original one.
Since the period of the civil war, during which the people of this town showed a commendable patriotism in furnishing men and money in support of the Union, the population of the community has increased, and the prosperity of the people from an agricultural point of view has improved. Dairying. and especially the manufacture of cheese, has largely superseded grain raising, and there are now four factories in operation in the town.
Following are names of supervisors of the town with years of service :
1841-2, David Day, 2d; 1843, John Parker ; 1844-6, Enoch Taylor; 1847-50, Will. ian Houghton ; 1851-3, David Day, 2d; 1854, Timothy Pope; 1855, Joshua F. Hough- ton ; 1856-7, John S. Snider ; 1858, David Day, 2d; 1859, John S. Snider; 1860-1, John Whitney ; 1862-4, David B. Woodworth; 1865-8, David Day, 2d; 1869-71, Horace L. Woodworth; 1872-6, E. R. Turner; 1877-81, Harren Hastings ; 1882-5, John H. Graves ; 1886-88, Fred S. Coa's ; 1889-90, Elisha R. Turner; 1891, John W. Manson ; 1892-4, John V. Clark.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
For a number of years previous to the organization of the town, meetings were held at various places, both in school houses and dwell- ings, by Congregationalists, Lutherans, Universalists, Mormons and Methodists. A Methodist Episcopal church was organized at Macomb with five members, in 1841, by Rev. D. Ferguson, who was its first
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pastor. The church, which is still in use, was built in 1870, and has a seating capacity of 300 and cost $3,000. Rev. C. A. Miller is the pres- ent pastor, and also serves a small church at Brasie Corners.
The First Wesleyan Methodist church of Macomb, located at Pope's Mills, was organized with nine members June 9, 1857, by Rev. R. E. Johnson, its first pastor, Previous to 1872 the meetings were held in the school house; but in that year a neat church, costing $1,200, was built, having a seating capacity of 300. It was extensively repaired and improved in 1891, at an expense of $600. The present pastor is Rev. C. E. Hill.
CHAPTER XLVII.
THE TOWN OF COLTON-ORGANIZED IN 1843.
T HIS was the twenty- seventh town erected by an act of the Legis- lature passed April 12, 1843, formerly under the jurisdiction of Parishville, and embraces Matildaville, Granshue, Harewood and Sher- wood townships, the territory extending from the southern line of the county with unvarying width to the Parishville line. In November, 1851, that part of Parishville known as Mile Squares 1, 6, and 12, was taken from that town and annexed to Colton ; and in February, 1876, townships of Hollywood, Jamestown and Oakham were taken from the town of Hopkinton and annexed to Colton, making it the largest town in the county and embracing 220,084 acres. The first town meeting was directed to be held at the tavern nearest the post-office in Matilda- vill, which act was to take effect February 1, 1844, and Paine Converse was appointed to preside at the said meeting where the following officers were elected : Supervisor, Paine Converse; town clerk, James H. Bridge ; justices, Zina Hepburn, Silas Hawley, Hiram Pierce ; inspec- tors of election, S. Hawley, J. C. Higley ; assessors, J. C. Higley, J. S. Ellis, C. D. Norris; superintendent of schools, J. C. Higley ; commis- sioners of highways, Israel C. Draper, Pliney Hepburn, H. Gibbins ; overseers of poor, Zina Hepburn, Hiram Pierce; constable and col- lector, Hiram Leonard; sealer of weights and measures, Wait Perry.
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In the southern part of the town lies Cranberry Lake, into and out of which flows the Oswegatchie River. Around and near this body of water considerable improvements have been made with a view of rendering it a popular summer resort, as before explained. The Ra- quette River flows across the eastern part of the town. While the northern part of the town is quite well adapted to grazing, by far the largest portion is sandy, hilly and rocky, much of it covered with forest, and very sparsely settled. Abel Brown and his son James were the first settlers in the town, coming in from Parishville in March, 1824; they located in the township of Matildaville about a mile above what is now the village of Colton, on the west side of the Raquette River. Asahel Lyman, from Vermont, came soon afterward and settled on the east side of the river. A little later William Bullard came in from Potsdam. Pliny Hepburn settled in the town in April, 1825, and his brother, Zina, came about the same time and located near by. He was the father of Hon. A. B Hepburn and Hawley S. Hepburn, prominent citizens of the town. Jesse Colton Higley was another pioneer of 1824 and another was Abial Smith. Hiram Pierce came in 1826 and became prominent in the town. Paine Converse was another early settler who was prominent. Silas Hawley settled here in 1832, as a blacksmith. He was a magistrate for a number of years, supervisor and a charter member of the lodge and was buried with Masonic honors when he died, being in his ninetieth year. Ezekiel French was a pioneer at South Colton, locating on Cold Brook in 1836, Silas Wait, R. C. Miles, Simon D. Butler and Hiram Leonard were all comparatively early settlers and leaders in the affairs of the town.
The principal industries of the town at the present time are lumber- ing and dairying. There is one cheese and one butter factory now in operation. Other industries of the past are noticed further on.
Following is a list of the supervisors of the town from the first with the years of their service :
Paine Converse, 1844; James S. Ellis, 1845, '46, '47; James H. Bridge, 1848-49; Silas Hawley, 1850-51; L. Chamberlain, 1852-53; H. Averell, 1854-55; M. F. Collins, 1856; J. F. Bugbee, 1857, '58, '59; E. H. Butler, 1860-6]; George T. Stuart, 1862, '63, '64, '65; William N. Jaquis, 1866-67 ; E. H. Butler, 1868, '69, '70; Silas Hawley, 1871-72 ; C. B. Fisher, 1873-76. 1877-82, Morell D. Beckwith; 1883-84, Joseph A. Ayres; 1885-86, James Spears ; 1887-88, Frank F. Flint ; 1889-93, Morris B. Hawley ; 1893-94, C. T. Ferris.
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Colton Village .- This thriving little place is situated on the Raquette River ten miles south of Potsdam, in the northwest corner of the town, in which vicinity many of the early settlers mentioned located. The river has a fall of about sixty feet at this point in forty rods and is said to have 200 feet within a mile, supplying excellent water power. James Brown built the first frame house here at the west end of the bridge ; Hiram Pierce built the second one on the opposite side of the river. In 1825 Horace Garfield, from Potsdam, purchased the land at the Falls on the west side of the river, laid it out into lots and built a saw mill. In 1828 Jonathan Culver erected the first grist mill, which long ago disappeared. Samuel Partridge, also from Potsdam, built a forge at the head of the falls in 1828, with two fires. Hiram Pierce purchased it in 1829, and it was operated until 1840, chiefly in the production of bar iron from magnetic ore. In 1844. Mr. Pierce started the first potato starch factory in the State, which he operated a few years, producing about thirty tons annually. Another factory was started about 1875 by non-residents. The business has been abandoned. With the opening of the Northern Railroad active development of the lumber interest be- gan. In 1850 a gang mill with seventy saws was built on the east bank of the river, and two years later a similar one was started on the west side ; the latter was burned and the former long ago stopped. In 1852 a gang mill was built two miles above the village; this is also abandoned. The lumbering business finally decreased largely on ac- count of the long distance which the manufactured lumber had to be hauled. A large tanning interest was established by Col.
- - Hall, who built one of the largest tanneries then in the State, with a capacity of 40,000 hides of sole leather per year. It was successfully carried on for some years, but finally passed into the hands of a receiver for the benefit of creditors. The second grist mill erected has been operated by D. J. Richards, and burned in the winter of 1892-93. It is to be rebuilt. A veneer mill has been in operation some ten years and is now in the hands of Mrs. S. D. Goodwin. In the spring of the present year (1893) the Raquette River Pulp Company started a pulp mill with a capacity of thirty tons daily, which promises to add materially to the productions of the town. M. B. Hawley carries on the manufacture of furniture, which he has done for the past thirty years. He was a super-
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visor of the town and a son of one of the early settlers. George Bick- nell operates a saw mill on the west side of the river.
There has always been considerable mercantile business done at Colton and many different persons have been engaged in the business. At the present time E. H. Harvey, S. J. Hosley, Spears Bros., Freder- ick Wilson, L. S. Currier, Frank Potter, William Eacutt, Olmstead & Co., and M. B. Hawley sell the various kinds of goods and provisions needed. Pliny V. Hepburn is postmaster.
South Colton .- This is a hamlet situated about five miles above Col- ton village on the Raquette River. The village site was first purchased by Christopher Ripley. In 1837 Edward Crary, from Pierrepont, built the first saw mill. Nelson Gurley was the first school teacher about 1841, and J. C. & J. Irish built and kept the first store, in which was located the post-office, with Thomas Magary as postmaster. Scott S. Irish is the present postmaster, and also keeps one of the stores. Other stores are conducted by Henry Close, L. L. Robinson, W. J. Horton, L. L. Mattie, and George Snell. There are now two saw mills at South Colton, one on each side of the river, Irish Delosh operating the one on the west side, and Lindsay & Young on the east side. Another mill about three miles above is operated by J. W. Bruce.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
The first religious meetings held in town is said to be by the " Chris- tian " sect at the house of Ashel Lyman. At an early day a Mormon missionary held meetings in the town and baptized several converts.
The first church organized at Colton was a Universalist, in Decem- ber, 1851, with Alonzo Squires, E. H. Butler, and J. S. Ellis, trustees. In 1852 the society built a church, but its numbers decreased and ser- vices were discontinued and the building sold.
About the year 1852 a Methodist society was formed, and in that year a house of worship was erected, costing about $2,000, in connec- tion with the Parishville circuit. In July, 1856, the two separated, when the membership was about seventy, Rev. Alfred E. Page is the present pastor. The membership is 116. A Methodist society was or- ganized some years ago at South Colton, and a building was erected as a Union church. Services are now held there by Mr. Page.
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The Baptist church at Colton was organized in February, 1860, with J. H. Dorothy, Abel Turney, and J. Reynolds, jr., trustees, and fifteen members. A church edifice was built in 1870 at a cost of $2,500. The society is practically out of existence.
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church was organized with 144 mem- bers in October, 1864. The society purchased the church of the Uni- versalists, and since that time has grown in prosperity. The present priest in charge is Father Plunkett.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
THE TOWN OF FINE-ORGANIZED IN 1849.
T T HIS was the twenty-eighth town erected by an Act of the Legis - lature passed March 27, 1849. " This territory was formerly under the jurisdiction of Russell and Pierrepont, and embraced No. 14, or Bloomfield ; No. 12, or Scriba, ; and the south half of No. 9, or Sarahs- burgh, in the former town ; and No. 15, of Emilyville, of the latter. The town was named in honor of John Fine, of Ogdensburg, who was interested in an extensive tract in the town, and under whom the first settlement was begun. The first town meeting held at school-house No. 20 on June 18 of the same year, and the following officers elected : Supervisor, Joseph A. I. Brown; town clerk, J. M. Beckwith ; asses- sors, J. M. Beckwith, James Marsh, Elijah C. Hill; collector, John K. Ward ; commissioners of highways, John Marsh, George Young, and William H. Perkins ; justices, A. I. Brown, J. M. Beckwith, and Elijah C. Hill.
The first settlement was begun by Elias Teall, who made a contract on the 24th of October, 1823, with the proprietors of the east half of Scriba, and undertook to secure settlers on the tract. He built a mill on a branch of the Oswegatchie and made some small improvements ; but his undertaking failed. September 6, 1828, James C. Haile made a contract with the proprietors, and built a saw mill and a small grist
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mill on the Oswegatchie; he induced other settlers to come in. In May, 1833, he also left the town, his settlers having abandoned him. In February, 1834, Amasa I. Brown contracted with the owners for the Haile improvements and an additional tract of land, and in March of that year moved his family in ; his nearest neighbors were ten miles away. A few others soon joined him, and in 1843 there were forty- three or forty-four voters. Among those who lived in the town in 1858, chiefly along the Oswegatchie River, were the following: S. Maltby, M. Rose, A. Guiles, R. Finley, E. Guiles, N. H. Jones, W. E. and E. Jones. Farther eastward were : G. Titus, W. P. Smith, M. O. Carr, A. Hazleton, W. F. Haskell, B. Marble, O. Hutchins, F. Austin, R. Scott, C. Scott, W. Cochrane, H. B. Fairman, J. Fairman, W. Kerr, A. H. Knapp, N. I. Morse, S. Stowell, E. C. Hill, J. and C. Marsh, A. Cleve- land, C. A. Scott, J. I. Lansing, R. Durham, E. Churchman. Farther south were : B. Brown, W. Miller, G. W. Evans, D. Briggs, E. Vilas, D. Kilburn, B. Bebee. Others have come in later.
The little village of Fine is on the Oswegatchie River about five miles southeasterly from South Edwards. It has been locally known as " Smithville " from William P. Smith, who was an early resident there. The first improvement here was the building of a saw mill by William Horsford. In 1853 it was purchased by William P. Smith, who also opened a store, and here the post-office was established in 1853, with Mr. Smith as postmaster. The present postmaster is Charles Ayres. Marcus O. Carr built the first dwelling in the village in 1855, who came from Russell as agent for Spalding & Butterfield, proprietors of a large tract of land in the town. A saw mill and oar factory was started in 1858 by Spencer, Anderson & Co., who built four dwellings in connec- tion. A grist mill was built about 1858 by Henry Rushton, which was afterwards sold to Zacheus Ladd, and burned in 1875. In 1871 Rice, Emery & Co., of Boston, purchased from Joseph Anderson twenty-six acres of land in the eastern part of the village tract, with a saw mill, butter tub and last factory. In 1872 they demolished all but the saw mill and built an extensive tannery, where 50,000 sides of sole leather were turned out annually. This tannery is still in operation. A pub- lic house was opened and kept by Charles Scott, and after him by various others. George Hatch is the present landlord. A shingle mill
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is operated by Joseph Anderson, and a saw and feed mill by George Cardiff & Son. Dowling Brothers, Charles Ayres, T. F. Conboy, J. N. McLeod, are merchants in Fine ; and Thomas Miller deals in furni- ture.
A considerable village has sprung up since the opening of the Carthage and Adirondack Railroad at its terminus, and is called Oswegatchie. A post-office was established here and it has become important as a gate- way into the wilderness from that direction. G. H. Newcomb is post- master and has a store; and Colton & Son, A. D. Fie, and A. L. Greenfield are other merchants. Joseph Hulbert keeps a public house, and at Starr Lake, a short distance beyond, Lyman & Foley keep a summer hotel. A pulp mill was established by the Standard Pulp Com- pany in 1893 ; John Irving runs a saw mill ; W. S. Coffin & Son a saw mill and tub factory, and the Northside Lumber Company has a steam saw mill of large capacity.
The town has settled slowly, yet public improvements are being made, and with the many good roads and the opening of the Carthage and Adirondack Railroad through the town a good degree of prosperity is enjoyed by the inhabitants.
Jayville is a hamlet and post- office on the railroad, a few miles west of Oswegatchie, where there has been a large lumber business carried on. Thomas Richardson is postmaster and has a store, and there are now two saw mills in operation.
The supervisors of the town with the years of their service have been as follows :
Amasa I. Brown, 1844-45; Daniel Truax, 1846-48; Amasa I. Brown, 1849-50; Daniel Truax, 1851-53 ; Michael Griffin, 1854; Wm. P. Smith, 1855-60; Joseph An- derson, 1861-67 ; H. E. Anderson, 1868-69; F. L. Whittier, 1870-72; Archibald Muir, 1872-77 ; Joseph Anderson, 1878-79 ; Archibald Muir, 1880-81; E. H. Dowling, 1882- 1893 ; George Hatch, 1894.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
A Methodist class was organized at Fine about 1845, and for many years services were held in school houses. A neat church was erected a few years ago.
A Baptist society was organized at Fine in October, 1874, under Rev. C. H. Dike. Services are now held by Rev. Clemmons Shaw,
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who also preaches to the Union organization in Oswegatchie, which built a church three years ago costing about $2,000.
The Catholics have a church also at Fine.
CHAPTER XLIX,
THE TOWN OF WADDINGTON-ORGANIZED IN 1859.
T HIS town was taken from Madrid by consent of the people (see page 398, Madrid), and authorized by an act of the Board of Supervisors of the county, November 22, 1859, being the twenty- ninth town erected. This new town embraces about half of the territory of the northwestern portion of the original township No. 4, Madrid, lying on the St. Lawrence, and includes Ogden's Island. There are many things, such as soil, timber, etc., of the early history of Madrid (see Chapter XXIII), which will apply to this part of the territory, and which is unnecesary to repeat, only so far as certain incidents call for. The new town was fully organized in March, 1860, and the following officers elected : Supervisor, Walter Wilson ; town clerk, Thomas Pea- cock, jr. ; assessors Charles D. Bartholomew and Joseph Dalzell ; jus- tices, Robert Martin, C. C. Montgomery, and Isaac Bartholomew ; over- seer of the poor, Robert Dezell; collector, Charles McRostie; con- stables, Gideon Rutherford, Charles McRostie, Richard Dalton, and Wm. H. N. Lewis; inspectors of election, George Oliver, Andrew Dal- zell, and Henry W. Pratt.
The first permanent settlement in the territory of this part of the town was made by Samuel Allen in March, 1797, (see page 392), though he is said to have found a Dutch family occupying a hut on the site of the village, all dressed in skins. On the 14th of November of that year a son was born to Mr. Allen and named William L. Allen, who was the first white child born in that section. While it is probable a few others came into the town in 1797, no lands were sold until the next year.
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The title of Waddington, excepting the islands (which were purchased by D A: and G. Ogden in 1823), with the remainder of the survey township of Madrid (see land titles in an early chapter), became vested about 1798 in David A. and Thomas S. Ogden, of New York city. The principal island, " Isle au rapide plat " (now Ogden's Island), lying for three miles along the river, was fronting Waddington. The narrow part of the river flowing between Ogden's Island and the southern shore, op- posite Waddington village, drops some eight feet in a distance of about fifty rods, which was called by the French " Le petit saut," meaning the little jump.
This point where the village of Waddington, formerly called " Hamil- ton," now stands was early an attractive one to settlers, chiefly perhaps on account of its water power, that was expected to be utilized, is evi- denced by the fact that about a dozen families had settled here in 1798, as shown by records of a celebration of the Fourth of July in that year, held at the extreme end of Point Iroquois. Jacob Redington read the Declaration of Independence, made an address, and the day was made jubilant by the firing of muskets and closing with a ball.
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